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Alright, so Marin Morris is acountry music star and has been
for going on probably close to10 years now.
Marin Morris has been verysuccessful.
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She has been on top of thebillboard charts, I think, at
least four times throughout hercareer as a country music artist
.
She has currently recently comeout and said that she is going
to be leaving country music.
Okay, so she will no longer beidentifying herself as a country
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music artist, which isperfectly fine by me, and I'm
sure it's perfectly fine byeverybody else in the world.
Quite frankly, marin Morris hasbeen outspoken in regards to
her political ideologies andbeliefs, particularly since 2020
, when everybody becamesupercharged in the way of
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politics and felt that it wasnecessary for everybody to hear
their political beliefs, and thetrend of being uncompromising
and very staunch in regards tohow one presents their political
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ideologies.
Marin Morris has been noexception to this.
She has made it a point to spewher woke Ideology and political
beliefs all over the place.
She was very critical of MorganWollin when he went through his
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situation in which they triedto cancel him for saying the n
word, and if you haven't seenthat video or heard the way that
it was used, I encourage you togo do so.
It's very obvious that MorganWollin was not utilizing the
word in a way that wasderogatory towards black people.
That's neither here nor there.
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Marin Morris would not let thatdie.
She utilized that situation asindication that Morgan Wollin is
racist, and so is all ofcountry music and the people who
run country music.
So recently she has said thatshe'll be leaving country music
and that she had thought aboutburning country music down, but
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it was doing so without her helpand I'm paraphrasing, but she
decided to go to the Los AngelesTimes to disclose this
information.
Apparently, she has justrecently released two songs, one
called the tree and one calledI think it's get the hell out of
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here, both apparently inspiredby her decision to leave country
music.
Okay, marin Morris, first andforemost, get over yourself.
I suspect that Marin Morrisleaving country music has more
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to do with her being ostracizeddue to her unwillingness to
compromise in the way of herpolitical beliefs as opposed to
Her being missed by the countrymusic community.
I do not believe that there arevery many people in the country
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music industry who are justbegging Marin Morris not to go.
Marin Morris is a prime exampleof someone who has been
indoctrinated and brainwashedwhen it comes to political
ideology.
She obviously has nounderstanding of economic
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markets or the way that marketswork, and it's very evident
through.
You know the words that sheuses to describe her stance.
One of her biggest grievanceswith country music is that it's
racist and it's homophobic andit's transphobic, and her
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evidence for this is that notvery many not enough queer
people of color, in her wordsare given an opportunity in the
country music industry.
She also says things such asI'm a white woman, so that so I
have a leg up in the countrymusic industry.
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She says things such as whitepeople are the gatekeepers of
country music, and again, I'mparaphrasing.
But she says all of thesedifferent things, really really
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trying to drive home the pointthat not enough people that
aren't white and male get anopportunity in country music.
That may be true, marin Morris,but my suspicion and my
assumption is that those peopledo not get a quote unquote
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opportunity in country music, orthey're just not as prevalent
in country music.
Because, number one, thedemographic of the listener in
country music does not typicallyalign with queer people of
color.
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Most of the people whotraditionally and historically
have listened to country musicand have been fans of country
music by and large, generallyspeaking, are white, blue collar
, evangelical Christians.
That is who country musictraditionally and historically
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has appealed to the most theworking man.
Marl Haggard said thatsomething to the effect that
country music is a is evidenceof a working man's dream.
Okay, the fan base and theartists who have appealed to the
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fan base have been white, bluecollar People, particularly
Christians.
But I mean, I would say it's,it's not even, it's not even
close Christians.
They make up the large swath ofthe country music fan base.
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Now, when you have a marketSuch as country music fans in
the country music industry, theway business works the people
who try to make the products andthe services to appease and
appeal to the customer base theyare going to present people and
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products and services thatalign with those people the most
.
That will entice those peopleto part ways with their
greenback dollars.
So they traditionally havepresented artists in country
music that appeal to the white,blue collar, evangelical fan
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base.
Now, has country music changedover the course of the year
since its inception?
Absolutely, have there beenpeople of color, women, gay
people, trans people?
I don't know of any transcountry music artists, but,
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whatever, I don't know very manytrans country music fans.
I don't know any trans countrymusic fans.
So her argument that thesepeople, these so called
marginalized people, not gettingan opportunity at success in
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the country music industry, myinitial argument and rebuttal to
that would be well, there's nota market for queer People of
color Artists in country music.
Are there a market for blackpeople to be artists?
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Absolutely, I think so.
I don't think it's even closeto the market that exists for
white artists in country musicand people.
Can you know?
If she were to be listening tothis right now, she would say
that the fact that you knowwe're talking about race is not
even relevant.
But the fact of the matter isthat race does matter to people
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whenever they spend money onthings.
You just you look at blackpeople supporting Dion Sanders.
There are many black peoplesupporting Dion Sanders, largely
because he's black, and that'sokay.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Black people are liking to seeA black man have success In a
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space that's been traditionallyfilled by white men, and there's
absolutely nothing wrong withthat.
The difference is Dion Sandersis actually good.
Dion Sanders is actually Alegitimate Option as a head
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football coach in collegefootball.
I'm not so sure that transcountry music artists are going
to have an outsized impact and along run of success in country
music, because there just aren'tthat many people who resonate
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with that lifestyle as countrymusic fans.
I don't think it's necessarilyindicative of people hating
trans people in country music asmuch as it is that people in
country music just do notresonate and relate to that way
of life as much as Marin Morriswould like them to.
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You can't force people to likeshit that they don't like.
You can't force people to dothings that they don't want to
do.
You can't force people toassociate with things that they
don't want to associate with.
I think it comes down toeconomics in the country music
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instance, more so than anything.
What makes the most moneyPutting somebody like Morgan
Wallen out there or putting aqueer person of color out there?
Which one's going to resonatewith more people?
The answer is obvious.
I don't think, and I have zeroexperience in country music
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inside the country musicindustry Zero.
But from the outside, lookingin, I'm sure people are glad
that Marin Morris is gone.
I'm sure people are relievedthat she is gone.
She has probably been ostracizedin the country music community,
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not because of the way shethinks, but her unwillingness to
compromise on some of herbeliefs.
Now look, if somebody believesin something and that's what
they believe to be right andthey want to stand on that, I'm
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all for it.
I'm all for people who want toexpress their beliefs and stand
up for what they believe to beright.
But what we have to recognizein America is that we can come
to a consensus.
We do not have to cater to asignificant minority's opinion,
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just so they won't have theirfeelings hurt.
She is part of that significantminority.
Many of the things that shebelieves are crazy.
Just reading the LA Timesinterview that she so
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elaborately did to signify thatshe was going to be leaving the
country music industry, leavingthe genre, just reading that
interview, I'm thinking tomyself this person has no.
This person has very littleself-awareness.
This person has very littleindependent thinking.
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She has signed up to all of thebuzzwords and the talking
points of the woke ideology,without any willingness,
apparently, to work with peoplewho think differently than her.
She wants country music toreflect her personal beliefs.
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She wants country music tocater to what she believes to be
right as an individual.
Well, the fact of the matter isthat's not the way the world is
supposed to work.
The world is not supposed tobow down to one person with one
ideology and do things the waythat that person believes that
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they should be done.
That's not the way the world issupposed to work.
It's very equivalent to a childtaking their ball, their
basketball, to a neighborhoodbasketball court.
Imagine this A child takestheir basketball.
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That's the only basketball thatday at the playground that that
child took.
None of the other children atthe park have a basketball and
the child who took thebasketball to the court wants to
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make the rules of the game.
Hey, we can use my basketball,but we have to play the game the
way I want it to be played,even though it's against the
rules of the way the game hastraditionally been played in the
world agrees that how the gamehas has been played and should
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continue to be played.
But this child who, becausethey have the basketball, they
want to make up their own rulesthat are not even close to the
rules in which the game, thegame, has been played by
historically.
So then the child takes thatbasketball and goes home and
says well, I'm leaving if y'allare not going to play the game.
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That everybody knows how itshould be played, but I want to
play it differently, so I'mgoing to take my ball and go
home.
That's what Marin Morris isdoing, as opposed to giving what
she can offer to country music.
And I'm not saying she's got acolor inside the lines, I'm just
saying to get upset that therearen't more queer people of
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color in country music.
I don't believe it's becausepeople are preventing queer
people of color in country musicfrom getting an opportunity.
I think people just recognizeit like hey, there's not a bunch
of queer people of color outhere listening to country music.
So we're not going to spend anoutsized amount of money on
promoting or developing a queerartist of color because we won't
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get the return on ourinvestment.
I don't think you're going tohave a lot of country music fans
signing up to support a queerperson of color artist.
That's not to say that there'sanything wrong inherently with
the queer person of color as acountry music artist.
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It just doesn't make a wholelot of sense.
I think the NFL learned thatwhen Michael Sam came through
and he was the first openly gayfootball player drafted or
whatever, he was the only one.
There have been a couple ofothers and rumors of stuff like
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there's just not a whole lot ofgay guys who make it to
professional football.
It's not that professionalfootball is saying hey, if
you're gay you can't come playprofessional football.
It's just an anomaly.
Like not a lot of gay guys arerunning around out here playing
fucking football, much less atthe level that it takes to make
it to the NFL.
So I don't think it's an efforton the part of the NFL to keep
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people away from the game asmuch as it is.
It's just, that type of persondoesn't participate in that
activity that much, especiallynot on the level.
I mean just from a numberstandpoint.
If anybody ever took statistics, you understand what I'm
talking about.
Like, there's the numbers, justdon't work out.
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Marin Morris also alludes to thefact that during the Trump
years.
She alludes to her belief thatduring the Trump years, country
music took a step back.
She, it is her belief thatbecause of Trump, people were
emboldened to truthfully expresstheir and her words biases in
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the way of race and the way ofgender and the way of sexual
identity and orientation.
She believes that Trump'sleadership emboldened artists
and executives in country musicto a truly express and freely
express how they feel, and sothat that movement then took
over the industry and made iteven more difficult for women,
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people of color and gay peopleand trans people to make headway
in the industry.
I think she is a perfectexample of someone who has
decided that, regardless of,regardless of any facts,
regardless of any dialogue, shehas decided that she is going to
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be on board with the wokeideology, no matter what, no
matter what she is going tostand on the side of of woke,
and I think she's gotten to apoint.
In Nashville it appears thatshe does not feel wanted.
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Got to me and myista, I wouldargue that she's probably not
wanted because of herunwillingness to at least just
recognize in some instances that, like not everybody's fucking
evil, not everybody has racistintentions or sexist or
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homophobic or transphobicintentions.
Sometimes in this world thingsare just how they are.
Sometimes things just are howthey are, and I know that it's
not a very academic and formalway to put it, it's very
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anecdotal.
But like to utilize the exampleof the demographic in country
music, the consumer in countrymusic, if most of your market is
evangelical, you're not goingto have a ton of support for
transgender people.
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Like transgender people ortransgender artists or whatever.
They need to align themselvesor target a group of people that
aligns with that way ofthinking and that way of life.
That's just how it works.
You can't force somebody to likesomething that they don't
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believe in or support Like you.
Just, you cannot do that.
And when I look at the thingsthat Mary Morris has said over
the course of her career,particularly as it pertains to
politics, that's the.
I just want to shake her and belike look, mary, you can't.
You can't make people believeand support shit that they don't
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want to, just because you as anindividual have decided that
that's your worldview and thatyou believe that's the way
things should be.
That doesn't mean thateverybody has to sign up with
that line of thinking and youcan't get mad at somebody and
take your ball and go home whenthey don't agree with you.
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The much more productive thingto do is to have a conversation
with that person or a group ofpeople with that line of
thinking and try to furtherunderstand, through dialogue and
educating yourself, why someonethinks the way that they do.
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Now, mary Morris is fromArlington, texas originally, and
she, if I had to guess,probably was not raised in the
woke ideology.
She probably was not preachedthat religion as a child.
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It's something I mean.
I know people personally whowere not raised in in that
environment.
They were not taught toresonate and support that line
of thinking.
This is something that peopleare exposed to in college.
This is something that peopleare exposed to in government and
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this is something that peopleare exposed to in media.
As I've mentioned before, theleft and the woke Marxist
ideology.
The people who haveorchestrated the infiltration of
that ideology into America'sinstitutions have done a
phenomenal job.
So if someone believes thegovernment, if someone believes
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the media, if someone believeswhat they're taught in a college
which, look, we should be weshould be able to trust these
institutions.
But the fact that matters thatwe cannot.
If someone believes one or allof the three institutions that
I've named, then they will havebeen exposed and indoctrinated.
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Exposed to and indoctrinated bythis cultural Marxist way of
thinking.
The media would like you tobelieve that the cultural
Marxist or the Marxist or wokeideology is not real in the way
that that many people in Americaare critiquing it.
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The media, the academia and thegovernment ideology is woke.
So people who are gullible,people who take the media, the
government, entertainment,academia at their word, they're
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going to believe this shit andthey're going to think that
that's the way that the worldshould work.
But the fact of the matter isthat success should be measured
based on merit.
If there is a queer person ofcolor that is just a bad ass
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country music star, if they arethat, they will have success in
America.
They will have success inAmerica if they resonate with
the demographic of the peoplethat they're targeting.
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Lil Nas X ain't about to come bea country music star.
Why, well, the obvious reasonis he doesn't sing country music
, although Old Town Road somepeople would argue that it is.
I mean, so many peoplesupported Old Town Road.
Now, many of them probablydidn't know that Lil Nas X is
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gay, black dude or whatever heis, but the song resonated, the
product resonated with a certaingroup of people.
Some of those people happenedto fall within the demographic
of country music fans.
But Lil Nas X isn't going tomake a country music album and
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deem himself to be country.
Why, well, the primary reasonis he doesn't make country music
, and number two is that's nothis market.
That's not his target market.
Lil Nas X is a Gen Z.
Most of the kids are thesupport Lil Nas X are of the
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woke ideology and unfortunatelythat mindset is very, very
popular and heavily followed inthe United States of America.
But Marin Morris is a assertionthat country music is inherently
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racist, homophobic, transphobic.
All of these different things,I think is more reflection of
her unwillingness to compromiseon some of her viewpoints or dig
deeper into these scenariosthat she's finding herself in.
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I mean all the different, justgo.
I encourage you to just go readup on this story because she
highlights she uses all thebuzzwords I mean she highlights
and is a perfect representationof someone who has been
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indoctrinated by the wokeideology.
If you want a case study on it,go look at Marin Morris.
I personally don't think countrymusic is racist, homophobic and
transphobic.
I just think most of theartists and most of the fans are
white, come from a blue collarbackground and they're Christian
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.
Most of them are from ruralsoutheastern United States or in
close proximity to and, as I'vesaid before, art is just a
reflection.
It's the truest reflection ofculture, the truest reflection
of culture, and so what comesout in the art is reflective of
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the people consuming it,obviously the people making it
to the people making it, orreflecting what, what they
believe is going on in the world, they're simply expressing
their viewpoint and then if itresonates well, then that tells
you duh.
A lot of people feel that way,and it's not just in country
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music.
That's true in all forms of artand all forms of music and all
in all genres.
People support what theyresonate with, what they can
relate to, and Mary Morris can'tcontrol that, no matter how
much she wants to.
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But that's indicative of thecultural Marxist ideology is
that if it's not their way,they'll take their ball and go
home.
And that's exactly what she'sdoing.
She's going, she's getting outof the country music genre, so
to speak.
I think she'll still be withColumbia records, but not in the
country music department.
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If you will, good luck to her.
Good luck to her.
I do have a conversation withMary Morris and, and you know,
pick her, pick her brain andreally understand her.
Try to understand her through aconversation, as opposed to
these blasphemous sound bitesand snippets that continue to
come out of Mary Morris's mouth.
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But I wish her nothing but thebest.
I just I encourage you toanalyze her speech, her language
and and people that use thesimilar tone and similar talking
points.
I encourage you to analyze thatand really pick it apart and
try to understand where they'recoming from, why they're viewing
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life that way, because it caninform just how crazy that line
of thinking is.
It can inform you in regards towhere they're going wrong when
it comes to them expressingtheir worldview and and look,
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I'm all four people expressingthemselves regardless of how
they feel about the world.
But there also has to come apoint where somebody checks
somebody else Like you can't.
People can't just say shitwithout being checked.
People can't say shit withoutbeing analyzed.
That that's essential in mediaand really just holding people
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accountable in general.
If you can just say somethingunchecked, then it's not as
productive as it could be.
If you can just say somethingunchecked without being
questioned, without beingcritiqued, particularly in a
conversational format, thenthose words are not being as
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productive as they could be.
That's why conversations are soimportant.
Long conversations are soimportant, so that people can
peel back the layers and trulytry to understand how a person
is viewing a situation, nottrying to tell them where they
are wrong, why they are wrong,but listen to them and try to
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dissect what it is they'resaying and really try to put
yourself in their shoes andunderstand better how they're
coming to the conclusions thatthey're coming to.
And I don't think Mary Morrishas done that with opposing
opinions or really just areality check.
I think it's more about her notunderstanding economics than it
is anything Like the problemwith country music, even if you
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want to call it a problem thelack of queer and trans and
colored and all these differentidentities that she wants to
bring up.
The lack of those people in thecountry music space is not
because people are holding themdown, it's because, number one,
there's not as many and numbertwo, there aren't as many people
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that in country music thatresonate with that lifestyle.
And that's okay, that'sperfectly fine, it's just again.
It's just the way, it is Allright.
College football is in fullswing.
We just finished week three andit's been wildly entertaining
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to me so far.
After the first week offootball, I had a friend
adamantly suggest that collegefootball is rigged, and you may
ask, rightfully so.
Why did this gentleman makethis assertion?
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He made this assertion inresponse to all of the coverage
that Deion and Colorado havebeen receiving since the
beginning of the season.
Deion and Colorado were like 20point underdogs at TCU.
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The opening week of the season,deion and TCU go to Dallas,
fort Worth, and they handlebusiness against TCU.
It was a very entertaining gameExcuse me, very entertaining
game and really placed thecrosshairs smack dab on the
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center of Boulder, colorado.
So then Deion and Colorado play.
They played last week.
I forget who they played inweek two, but they just played
Colorado State this past weekendand took care of them in two
over times.
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Okay, so the gist of thisconspiracy theory that college
football is rigged is based onthe idea that, prior to the
season, with all the realignmentnews, all of the realignment
developments, the Pac-12 iseventually is essentially going
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to dissolve after this seasonand you've got a multitude of
teams going to a variety ofdifferent conferences, leaving
the Pac-12 with only like two orthree teams Oregon State,
washington State, maybe one moreteams have left for the ACC,
they've left for the Big 10 andthey've left for the Big 12.
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So that leaves the Pac-12basically dissolved.
Now it's been no secret thatthe Pac-12 has not been very
strong in the footballdepartment, particularly
throughout the college footballplayoff era.
I'm not exactly sure how manytimes they've had a Pac-12 team
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in the final four.
I can't believe or make myselfbelieve.
It's been more than twice and Iwant to say that's Oregon both
times, which I'll check me onthat.
So the Pac-12 has not been verystrong.
They have not been verycompetitive at the highest level
in college football for sometime.
Couple this with the dissolvingof the league.
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They've still got a season toplay while they are the Pac-12,
that being this season.
They did not look promising forthe Pac-12 prior to this
college football season.
I mean, obviously people wereexcited for USC and people were
wanting, they were excited tosee what Dion would do at
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Colorado.
I mean, it was an interestingtalking point storyline, what
have you.
But overall the Pac-12 wasexpected to not be very good,
just to continue the level ofperformance they had exhibited
over the course of the past 10years.
Fast forward now to week three.
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As it stands, the Pac-12 hasthe most teams in the top 25
than any other conference in thecountry.
Now, the conspiracy theory thatcollege football is rigged is
rooted in the belief that ESPNrecognized prior to the season
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that the Pac-12 was going tosuck.
It's no secret that TV ratingsfor Pac-12 football are trash.
There are many differentreasons for that, but the
ratings are not very good.
Traditionally speaking.
Espn got the bright idea thatthey would rig college football
in a way that would allow forColorado's success.
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And you ask, why would they dothat?
To increase the ratings on theWest Coast.
If Colorado is good, then everygame they play will be must-see
TV.
Therefore, more people willstay up on the East Coast to
watch.
More people on the West Coastwill watch.
There will be more overallinterest as a whole throughout
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the season to get the most juiceout of the squeeze, so to speak
, from a rating standpoint, forthe 2023 season, to bridge the
gap between Pac-12 dissolvingand then all of those teams
landing in their ultimate newconferences.
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I called bullshit on it rightaway.
I was like this is outlandish.
There's no way that anorchestrated effort could be put
together to coerce everyone tomaking Colorado football the
best Pac-12 team, just to justto increase and inflate ratings
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Like that would be a massiveorchestrated effort and I just
do not believe that it'spossible.
That theory can now be debunkedbecause eight teams from the
Pac-12 are in the top 25 as wespeak, so they don't need
Colorado to make thingsinteresting.
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At least they haven't up untilthis point.
Now, has Colorado beeninteresting?
Absolutely they've beeninteresting.
They must see TV.
I mean, every time the camera'son Deion, every time the
camera's on Deion, people arewatching.
But that's not different.
Deion's been that way since hecame into the scene at Florida
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State out of high school.
I mean, deion has always beenthe center of attention.
He is a master marketer andthat's only been amplified
through the media efforts atColorado and Jackson State by
his son.
His son runs the social mediacontent and I think he runs the
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football programs media media,so to speak.
He heads up the football team'smedia efforts.
Colorado is good for collegefootball.
Deion is good for collegefootball.
Being a disruptor in the waythat he is and overhauling the
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roster.
I just believe that he isbringing to light a lot of ways
of doing things that can bebeneficial long term for college
football in the way of bringingmore parity to the game.
And that's what I'm all aboutNow.
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If you've listened to me talkabout college football, you know
that where I think you knowwhere I think this thing's
headed, I think we're headed toa split from the NCAA totally
abandoning the NCAA At least thePower Five schools, then your
Power Five schools.
I think there will be 40 or 50of those Power Five schools who
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ultimately break away and havetheir own league that will be
similar to the NFL in the way offormatting and they will fine
tune parity by the way of newrules and guidelines to model
after the NFL and ultimatelybecome what they already are as
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minor league NFL.
I do not think college footballis rigged?
I do not think they rigged itfor Deion Sanders to get all the
attention and boost ratings,anything like that.
But I think what Deion's doingis interesting and it's fun to
watch.
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I really do.
I think Deion does a very goodjob of being very flamboyant,
very charismatic, very confident, but also teaching
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accountability, accountability,discipline and structure.
I think he's doing a very goodjob of allowing the kids to have
fun but also teaching them whata work ethic is, what it should
look like, what accountabilityis, what discipline is.
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Now they've got Colorado's good.
I think Colorado wins seven oreight games.
Ultimately, I don't thinkColorado is about to go to the
national championship oranything.
They've got good players.
Edwards, the running back forColorado he is very fast.
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Shadour Sanders is composed,he's poised, he can spin it,
he's smart, he makes the rightdecisions.
And then they've got TravisHunter who's playing both ways
and he I mean he's a he's a dogon both sides of the ball Very
good player.
Colorado State.
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I watched that game last nightColorado and Colorado State.
You know much was made aboutMike Norvell, the head coach of
Colorado State, coming out andbasically ridiculing Dion for
not taking his hat andsunglasses off when he does
interviews.
Now I think that it wasprobably taken out of context
and Mike Norvell wasmisrepresented.
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But whatever, the media takesit and runs with it and you know
how that goes.
But number 14 for ColoradoState is a dog.
He's a wide receiver and he canfucking play.
He can play.
He will definitely be onsomebody's NFL roster in the
very near future.
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I can't remember the kid's name.
Number 14 for Colorado State isa very good wider saver.
He's long, he's got a big frame, he can move, he can run Decent
lateral quickness.
He could get himself, gethimself open.
He can make make shit happenafter the catch.
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So I enjoyed watching it.
It did come on at nine o'clock,but let's not mistake ourselves
.
Colorado's uniforms aretremendous.
I mean Dion's got him drippedup.
Dion is always going to beflashy.
He's always going to have goodfashion, look good, feel good,
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play good.
He does rub some people thewrong way, but I think Dion is
often like.
I think he is oftenmisinterpreted as well.
Yes, dion talks a lot of shit,but If you can, if you can back
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your shit talking up, I'm allfor it.
Like, talk that shit, talk thatshit, I'm all for it.
It'll be interesting to watchDion in Colorado as they go
through the season.
It'll be interesting tocontinue watching the recruiting
.
He had a huge boost onrecruiting because game day was
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in Colorado yesterday and it waselectric.
If you didn't watch it, it'sprobably.
It's probably my favorite gameday episode in a long time,
probably since, like the KatyPerry episode in Oxford, the
Rock was the special guestpicker.
They were in the mountains inBoulder.
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The weather looked amazing.
Dion gets up there with hiswhite cowboy hat and his
sunglasses.
Then he gives the Rock a pairof sunglasses as he comes up
onto the set.
So it was.
I mean it was very, veryinteresting, very entertaining.
Zero politics were involved inthat show, in that broadcast.
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I mean, reese Davis is great,herbie's great, corso's terrible
.
He needs to go and they'redoing everything they can to
memorialize him before he's dead, but he's basically dead on
stage.
It's terrible and I commendESPN for, I guess, doing what
they need, what they feel theyneed to do, in the way of giving
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Lee Corso a victory lap andcommemorating him for all of his
years of work with ESPN and allthat has come with that.
I mean, don't get me wrong,he's a great entertainer and his
heyday in his prime.
There was nobody better.
There was nobody moreentertaining, but it's
embarrassing To see that old manon stage not being able to make
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out a sentence.
Aside from that, game dayyesterday at Colorado was
amazing.
It was great.
I look forward to where they gonext.
I mean, as far as ESPN goes,that is their best show.
That's the only show I watch onESPN.
Quite frankly, only thing Iwatch on ESPN are live sports
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and game day, because thepolitics are so evident in their
production.
It's not sports, it's notsolely sports.
They always have to intertwinetheir political stance when
disseminating sports news, andso that's why I only watch game
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day, because game day has theleast amount of politics
involved in the production.
I don't have to listen to theMarin Morris woke ideology the
entire time.
I'm watching that productionand it's refreshing, but that's
like the only show on ESPNthat's that way.
Speaking of Dion Dion has avery, very good, very good.
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Speaking of Dion, dion has heis, he's probably has of all
entertainers, athletes, whathave you?
He has supreme self confidence.
Self confidence is somethingthat I have struggled with.
Didn't necessarily know that Istruggled with it until I've
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gotten into my elder years, upfor 20s, now 30 shout out to the
30s.
But one thing that I'veconcluded Thus far in life is
that if I don't believe inmyself, then nobody else will
either.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
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If I don't have self confidence, I am not allowing for the
environment to be conducive forother people to believe in me.
And some of you may say well,it doesn't matter if other
people believe in you, but itdoes.
It does matter if other peoplebelieve in you, because that is
positive reinforcement but thatyou can utilize as fuel to move
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forward and motivation.
But if you don't look atyourself in the mirror and say
look, motherfucker, I believe inyou, I believe that you are
going to do what it takes and Ibelieve that you can do what it
takes to do whatever it is thatyou want to do, then you are
blocking other people from beingable to believe in you.
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It's very easy to detect whensomeone is not genuine in their
self confidence.
Sometimes self confidence canbe a front For self
consciousness, for selfconsciousness or insecurity.
In many cases it is.
You often hear it said theloudest person in the room is
the most insecure, and thatoften is true.
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That often is true, but there'snothing wrong with having
genuine self confidence.
It turns a lot of people offbecause it's so rare.
It's so rare for someone to beself confident in themselves to
the point to where they arewilling to exhibit that to other
people.
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If you believe in your abilities, you have to not if you have to
believe whatever you're doing,you have to believe that you can
do it.
A before it can get done.
B before anybody else canbelieve you.
To reinforce the belief inyourself to continue, to provide
you with motivation to continueforward.
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You're disallowing yourself tohave fuel to move forward if you
don't believe in yourself,because people can recognize
confidence or lack thereof.
If I don't believe in myself,then nobody else will believe in
me, and I don't blame them.
It's first and foremost ourresponsibility to believe in our
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self and we can cultivate thatself confidence.
It will not happen overnight,but we can cultivate that, that
self confidence, and it's okayto exude self confidence.
Many times when people arerubbed the wrong way, when
someone is genuinely selfconfident, it's because they're
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insecure or they're jealous.
It's because they're insecureor they're jealous, period.
Very few people are genuinelytruthfully self confident in
their abilities.
Dion Sanders is one of thosepeople.
Now, what's unique about DionSanders is that he continues to
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deliver on things that he sayshe believes in, and that's what
makes his self confidence somuch, so powerful and his word
is so powerful.
The things that come out of hismouth are so powerful because
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it just seems that he's speakingthis shit into existence, as
opposed to taking the stance ofa traditional college football
coach.
Say, like Nick Saban would.
When asked, how do you feelabout your team, nick Saban is
likely going to err on the sideof humility, although Nick Saban
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could utilize self confidencethe way Dion does.
He just doesn't, and mostcoaches have not done that
traditionally.
But I think Dion's got just asmuch credibility to utilize his
self confidence and be selfconfident in himself and his
team as a Nick Saban does,because I believe they truly put
in the work and the attentionto detail that a Nick Saban does
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.
It's just a differentpresentation of the product is
simply all that it is, and Dionrecognizes, and has for a long
time recognized, how powerfulhis marketing of his self
confidence can be.
He's not blowing smoke.
Dion's a winner.
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Dion knows he's a winner.
So if he can go out here andsay, hey, this is what we've got
, this is what we've got in ourbuilding, we're going to do this
, that and the third.
And then he goes and does this,that and the third and starts
out three and oh, afterupsetting TCU in Dallas, fort
Worth, and now beating ColoradoState in a night game in Boulder
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, and two over times, I mean youcan't really say anything about
it.
It really should be admiredthat he's being as confident as
he is Now.
Will he fall on his face?
Yes, we all do.
We all do.
Nobody can be adamantly selfconfident, infinitely self
confident, and never stumble.
Nobody's perfect.
So there will be a come of time.
There will come a time whenDion has to eat his words.
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There will come a time whenDion and Colorado get their ass
beat and they'll have to gettheir ass beat.
And then Dion and Colorado gettheir ass beat and they'll have
to eat crow.
But the point is is that it'sokay to be self confident and
it's encouraged to be selfconfident Because it may rub
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people the wrong way,particularly like when someone
is is self confident in the eyeof the media, in front of the
media, like that's a differentball game than just you or I
having self confidence on apersonal level.
In our day to day lives, peopleare attracted to self confident,
to people who are selfconfident.
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People are attracted to and I'mnot just I'm not talking Romano
romantically, I'm not speakingjust in a romantic or sexual
sense, I'm also speaking from aleadership perspective Primarily
, primarily.
If a person is not selfconfident, people are not going
to follow them.
If a person is not selfconfident, they're not going to
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be enticed to have aconversation with them, to buy
from them.
If a person feels that who theyare talking to doesn't know
what they're talking about orthey're not confident in what
they are talking about, they'regoing to be less likely to
listen and act on what thatperson is talking about.
On the other hand, if they areself-confident, if they can
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prove that they can ensure theother person that not only are
they confident but they believein what it is that they're
saying, then they're going to bemore likely to be able to
persuade and incentivize thepeople they're talking to or
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speaking to to act how they wantthem to act.
That's just how people are.
People want leaders withself-confidence Women.
Want men with self-confidenceWomen most well?
I'm not so sure.
Most men want women withconfidence, because I think most
men lack confidence and they'reintimidated by women that are
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confident.
And I stand on that Closinghymn for the week County Line
congregation.
Rod Wave, one of my favoriteartists, just recently came out
with a new album and the firstsong on the album is called
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Nostalgia.
I encourage you to go to Apple,spotify, wherever you listen to
your music, and listen to thesong Nostalgia.
Rod Wave always his music,always is indicative and
reflective of his mental healthand I wouldn't necessarily call
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it a struggle for Rod Wave.
It sounds to me like Rod Waveis very self-aware.
He recognizes when he'sdepressed, when he has anxiety.
He's recognized that drugs caninfluence his mood, can enhance
his mood, can not so muchenhance his mood, but he comes
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through.
What is the name of this album?
I mean, I want to give Rod Wavea shout out.
So Nostalgia is the first songon the album.
I'm going to try to get youhold on.
I'm looking it up.
I'm going to get you the nameof the Rod Wave album Rod Wave.
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I want to go to Rod Wave andconcert.
I think he's coming to NewOrleans soon.
Shit, okay.
Rod Wave album is no, notbeautiful mind.
Beautiful mind was the one hereleased last year.
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Rod Wave released 2023.
Why is this for hard to find?
Rod Wave reveals artwork andrelease date for new album.
Well, if you just go type inRod Wave new album I mean it
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came out September 15th I thinkyou'll be able to find it.
What's your favorite?
Okay, so the name of the album?
It is Nostalgia.
So the title track sorry aboutthat was that took a long time.
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The title track and the firsttrack on Rod Wave's new album,
nostalgia, is titled Nostalgia.
The whole album is good.
It's 17, 18 tracks, somethinglike that.
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