November 15, 2023 • 50 mins
Imagine getting the chance to negotiate with your all-time favorite rapper for an appearance on your podcast. Well, that's exactly what happened when I spotted Boosie Bad Azz, my musical idol, on Instagram and took the leap to invite him onto the County Line. An unexpected phone call later, we were discussing arrangements for the show. But this episode is not just about my first encounter with Boosie.
I provide a recap of Bobby Rush's 90th birthday concert at the Ellis Theater in Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was an incredible evening, brimming with nostalgia and community spirit. Bobby Rush is phenomenal, even-still at the ripe age of 90!
We delve into how our furry friends are more than just pets for many Millennials and Gen Zs. This raises some interesting questions about emotional reliance and future relationships. Moreover, we contemplate the trend of pet anthropomorphism and the implications it might indicate about setting boundaries and emotional maturity.
The holiday season means something different to everyone. For me, the holiday season has traditionally been the beginning of an annual depressive episode. You may be asking yourself, "What the hell is wrong with Lee?" I'll tell you if you just listen.
So get ready to shake hands with a rap legend, gain a novel perspective on pet anthropomorphism, and view the holidays in a depressing light!
Let's take a ride!
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(0:30) Personal encounter with Boosie
(4:30) Boosie e-mail and phone conversation
(11:20) Bobby Rush 90th Birthday
(20:00) Dating app stigmas
(24:00) Pet Anthropomorphism
(33:00) I'm not picking up dog shit
(44:00) Holiday season is depressing to me
(47:00) Is New Years Eve overrated?
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
County line congregation.
We are back in themotherfucking house.
Solo episode, november 13th2023.
Boy, do I have somethingspecial for y'all, so let's jump
right into it.
First things first, if you donot know, if you're not aware,
my favorite rapper of all timeis a gentleman by the name of
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Torrance Hatch, also known asLil Boosie, currently known as
Boosie Motherfucking Badass.
So I had my first encounterpersonally with Boosie yesterday
.
All right, I'm scrollingInstagram, and he has had
trouble with Instagram, to saythe least.
He and Mark Zuckerberg are noton the best of terms.
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Reason being Boosie has had hisaccount either deactivated,
deleted or deemed inaccessibleas a result of some of the
content that he's put outthroughout the years.
So Boosie recently got a newInstagram account and this is
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probably, to my knowledge,probably his fourth or fifth
account up to this point, maybeeven more, but I was scrolling
Instagram yesterday, sundayafternoon, not doing a whole lot
.
It was raining cold inMississippi for relatively
Mississippi terms at least, itwas about 65, sun wasn't out.
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So, needless to say, I wasn'tdoing a whole lot, doing a
little writing, watching alittle football, and I had taken
a break to scroll Instagram andI saw Boosie's post saying that
he's open.
He has an open date, novemberthe 17th, which is this upcoming
Friday, okay which so happensto be Boosie's birthday.
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And so Boosie was requestingsomeone get in touch with him
about booking November the 17thfor him to perform on his
birthday.
And if you don't follow Boosie,you may not understand that his
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accounts are very personal andthat he leaves emails, email
addresses.
He leaves phone numbers A lotof times indicating that it's
another person, not himpersonally, that will be
handling any communication viathose email addresses or phone
numbers.
So he leaves an email address.
I'm like, fuck it, I'm justgoing to take a shot, I'm going
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to see if I can just getsomebody on the phone and just
start a negotiation, just see ifI can talk to somebody.
I do this all the time onsocial media, when trying to
book guests, when trying to getin contact with people about
appearing on the podcast,whatever the case may be.
So this is not an unusual acton my part.
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So I called Boosie's emailaddress that he leaves in the
comments on Instagram and I hitsend and I said something to the
effect of actually, let me justpull it up, let me just pull up
what I said so you can have thefull context.
I think I sent it from theCounty Line Podcast email
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account.
Mind you, I was not expectingto get anything in response.
Let's see.
Let me get to the right emailaccount.
So yeah, I was just trying toget in contact with someone and
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try to spark up a conversation.
I really just tried to find outinformation about what it would
entail to get Boosie on thepodcast on the County Line.
As you all know, that's thenumber one most sought after
guest by yours truly, lee Carl,at the County Line Podcast.
All right, just pulling up.
So I'm going to read you theemail that I sent to Boosie
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Fucking internet, reason 589,that it sucks to live in a small
town because the internet isawful.
I'm on my hot spot right now.
Okay, so I sent it to BoosieSunday afternoon, sunday morning
, at 1008 am.
I'm Lee Smith, host andproducer of the County Line.
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What's the price tag forBoosie's birthday weekend?
We're in Philadelphia,mississippi.
And then I left my name, theCounty Line, and then my phone
number, 601-663-648.
Y'all hit me up if y'all areinterested in talking to me.
Then I get a phone call about anhour later from a phone number
that has a 504 address, 504 areacode, that is New Orleans,
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louisiana's area code.
I didn't even put two and twotogether.
I didn't answer it.
It's like this is fucking.
I don't know who this is, andso I let it ring, I let it go to
voicemail and ultimately, whatends up happening is I get a
message from that numberImmediately after I didn't
answer it.
It just said Boosie.
I said, oh shit, this is, thisis Boosie's party.
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I knew at that point that therewas somebody from Boosie's party
that was trying to reach outabout the email that I sent, so
I immediately call it back Acouple rings.
Hey, dawg, this Boosie.
And I knew I heard the voice, Iknew it was him and I said
what's up, boosie?
I said this is Lee Carl withthe County Line podcast.
I'm trying to talk withsomebody about getting you on.
And he said how big the club,how big the club is.
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And I said well, I ain't got noclub.
I said but I got a podcast andI'm just trying to figure out
what it's going to cost to getyou come on the podcast for your
birthday weekend.
I was not full disclosure.
I was not prepared to have thisconversation with Boosie.
Not whatsoever, not from athought about what I'm going to
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say standpoint, anything likethat.
I was not expecting to get aresponse.
So, needless to say, I fumbledmy way through the conversation
with Boosie initially, andessentially, what I did was I
told him that I was not lookingfor him to come play a gig, but
I will consider paying him tomake an appearance on the
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podcast, which he is known fordoing.
He's very popular on podcasts.
He does does a good job.
So I asked him what the priceis.
He tells me I say, ok, well,let me go back to my team myself
and it's a foundationdifference that's always been
there for me.
Allow us some time to see if wecan get all our ducks in a row
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to have you here for said priceat the end of the week, right?
So five days Now, after he toldme the price, I knew that I
couldn't.
I couldn't swing it.
So I was like, okay, well,what's my next option?
So I started I mean, this isall within like five minutes
after we.
So we talked one time.
I told him I'd call him backand then, five minutes later, I
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call him back.
So I'm like boozy, I don't havethe $20,000 that you want to
come be on the podcast.
But I have had Roy Jones Jr onthe podcast before and I was
like and I told him what RoyJones Jr charged and I was like
Roy Jones Jr didn't even charge$20,000.
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And he was like, man, ain'tnobody try to hear about, no
motherfucking Roy Jones Jr.
He was like bro, that's theprice, this is what it is.
And then he just hung up and soI felt like the call went
exactly like I would predict itif you'd given me those the
circumstances.
Boosie, we still want to haveyou at the county line.
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I don't have the $20,000 rightnow I don't, and I know you
don't want to hear that, but oneday I will, I'll have it and as
soon as I have that $20,000 todrop on an episode guest, I will
gladly pay you $20,000.
But then I got to thinkingabout it and I was like what if
I did have a club for Boosie togo to?
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What if I did have a door, adoor fee that I could depend on
to ultimately make the $20,000,all of the $20,000 that would be
needed?
He did not give me a price forhis show because I didn't ask
him to do a show.
It was very spontaneous, it wasvery informal.
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You know, I did not expect itdoesn't surprise me that Boosie
was on the phone, but I didn'texpect him to answer.
I didn't expect him to call me.
I didn't expect I expected thatI may hear from someone in the
Boosie camp, but I didn't expectfor Boosie badass to call me on
the phone.
But it's very commendable thathe did.
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He's still out there makingmoves on his own.
He's running his own shit andthat's encouraging to see.
That's encouraging to see.
I wish I could call somebody andbe like hey, dog, $20,000 and
I'll come down and talk.
I'll come sit down and talkwith you for an hour.
I asked him.
I also asked him.
I was like Boosie, you're goingto charge me $20,000 to come on
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the podcast.
I was like Roy Jones Jr didn'teven charge that man.
Ain't nobody trying to hear.
No, motherfucking Roy Jones Jr,I gave you my price and that's
what it is.
And he also called me the Nword a couple of times, which
you know, whatever I'm cool with.
Maybe he thought I was black.
Maybe he thought I was blackbecause I did kind of throw on
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my.
You know what a boot, what aboot.
Like I knew him and you know,maybe I have my black accent
going on just a little bit Ihave had people from other parts
of the country tell me beforethat white people from the South
sometimes sound black.
Like well, we, you know, we dolive in the same place, so I
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could see how that may be thecase.
We share a lot of the samecultural norms, if you will.
But it was great.
It was great.
It was a great way to spendSunday Rediculing myself for not
making the most out of thatencounter with Boosie.
But you know what, at the endof the day, boosie's a hustler.
If I'd have had the $20,000,boosie would be sitting down at
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the county line this upcomingNovember 17.
So don't hate the player, hatethe game.
That's the way it goes.
Don't hate the player, hate thegame.
Shout out Boosie, we love you.
We hope that the fucking, thecase is going good with the gun
charges and shit in California.
Shout out to the movie.
Y'all go check out the movie atBoosieMoviecom.
I give you a plug, man.
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I give you a plug.
I know you wanted the $20,000for the podcast but can't make
it happen right now, but one daywe will, and you can stamp that
my brother All right.
Over the weekend I went to aBobby Rush concert, fortunately
in the town in which I reside,philadelphia, mississippi, at
the Ellis Theater, martyStewart's Congress of Country
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Music.
Bobby Rush, for those of youthat are not familiar is a blues
man.
He turned 90 years old onNovember, the 10th 2023.
And us in Philadelphia, we werelucky enough to be blessed with
his 90th birthday celebration,which did not disappoint.
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I went with my uncle.
He was so kind enough Shout outGraham Carlton for getting us
front row tickets to see one ofthe last original blues men in
America, mr Bobby Rush.
And let me tell you it was aparty.
It was a party.
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I was expecting a decentperformance from a 90 year old
man.
If I had to age, if somebodytook me to that show and said I
want you to name the age of thisgentleman performing, I would
have given him 60, 70 at theeldest.
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He's in great shape.
It was a great performance.
We went night fishing.
We found out what the catfishlove to bite.
That is a playoff of one ofBobby Rush's most famous songs
called Night Fishing.
He did a great job, great crowd.
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It was the first time I'd saton the front row at the LSDater.
I thought it was fuckingphenomenal.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was a greatatmosphere.
Can't say enough about it.
We have an entire generation.
I'd say most of the people whoknow Bobby Rush are probably
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over 50 years old.
The majority of those peopleare probably black.
That was reflected in the crowdthat was at the show.
A lot of y'all may not know whoBobby Rush is, but if you don't,
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I encourage you to go do a deepdive into his music and his
work.
He is a very interestingindividual and he leans into
comedy just as much as he doesmusic.
And you can tell, you can pickup that vibe if you just go
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listen to his music but seeingit in action it really hit home
on a different level because hewas.
I mean, it was almost as if wewere getting a musical show from
a musician, a musical performer, and in between songs we were
getting stand-up comedy, whichmade for a very, very
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entertaining show.
He interacted with the crowd ona spectacular level.
He was very engaging, veryinteractive with the crowd.
He walked around, walked up anddown the aisles of the LS
Theater.
There are aisles on either sideof the middle section, much
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like many conventional theatersand he made his way off the
stage, up the aisle, came backdown the aisle, went across the
front row, right in front of myface and went back up the other
aisle.
He's shaking hands, he's givinghugs.
He was very gracious.
There was one gentleman in thecrowd that kept screaming that
it was his birthday too and I'mlike dude, shut the fuck up.
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Like you are not, bobby Rush,this is not your 90th birthday
celebration.
You can tell that Bobby Rush iskind of like come on, man, are
you serious?
But he took it in stride as aprofessional and a very mature
human being and did a great job.
He did a great job handling it.
You can tell that he's beendoing that for 72 years is the
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exact number that he gave us.
He had been recording, I guess,since he was 18, which is
amazing.
If you can do anything for thatamount of time, that is very,
very impressive and I thought itwas one of the best shows that
I've seen at the Ellis.
And if you haven't been to theEllis, I encourage you.
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Whether you're fromPhiladelphia, mississippi or not
, if you're close, you need togo.
There are a lot of good actsthat are coming in.
Just had Arden Barnett on fromArdenland Management Company,
who is now doing the booking andmanagement of the facility at
the Ellis Theater in theCongress of Country Music had
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him on recently that episodewill be coming out soon and he
said he had known, he's knownBobby.
I had Arden Barnett on theevening prior to Bobby Rush's
concert and so we obviouslytalked about the anticipation
leading up to Bobby Rush's 90thbirthday celebration and how,
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what a momentous occasion it wasgoing to be and ultimately
turned out to be, and so weobviously talked about Arden's
experience booking shows withBobby Rush and their
relationship and the nature ofBobby Rush, and everything that
Arden Barnett laid out inregards to Bobby Rush and his
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way of performing turned out tobe true.
Bobby Rush did not disappoint.
He had the entire band.
Some of the musicians that havecome to Ellis Theater have been
solo performances and evenBobby Rush has done more of
those solo performances inrecent history, for obvious
reasons, but had the full band.
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He had his two dancers on hisside that were amazing, two
beautiful women that he haddancing to all of his songs, and
he tied them into the theme ofthe concert and what have you.
So it was very, very cool.
It's very hard for us to smellthe roses and smell the flowers
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while they're in our presence,and I encourage people to do
that with the Ellis Theater.
Like I feel that we often getahead of ourselves in projecting
what impact the Ellis Theatercan have in the future and we
forget to pinch ourselves in themoment that it's really
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happening.
That we're having Bobby Rush onFriday night in Philadelphia,
mississippi, and then turnaround on Sunday night of the
same weekend and have AshleyMcBride.
That is fucking phenomenal,that is crazy and that is a
blessing, to say the least.
And so I know we all here inPhiladelphia and in Shelby
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County and East CentralMississippi are looking forward
to the ancillary byproducts thatwill present themselves as a
result of the Ellis Theater andthe Congress of Country Music.
But, by God, the Ellis isrocking.
It's here, it's operating.
No other town in the state ofMississippi or in the nation has
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what we have, and I do feellike we've already started to
take it for granted.
But we have to remind ourselvesnot to.
We have to remind ourselves notto, and enjoy the shit as it's
happening, as difficult as it isfor us human beings to do that.
That's what we have to striveto do.
We have to strive to do that.
It's so good to be back with theCounty Line on a solo episode.
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We've been blowing and going.
We have been trying tointerview and conversate with as
many interesting people aspossible.
I'll take this time to say ifthere are suggestions on guests
or content.
I encourage you to drop thosein the comments of any social
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media posts.
Send me a DM, email me.
I'm just as accessible asBoosie, believe it or not.
Now we're nowhere nearcelebrity status, but very much
accessible.
And that's one of thetrademarks of the County Line is
that we are so accessible andthat we engage and interact with
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the audience, which is what welove to do.
We love to do, but withouty'all we can't do it.
So go engage right nowsomewhere.
Go engage with the County Line,all right.
So the meat and potatoes oftoday's solo episode has to do
with dating.
Surprise, surprise.
As you may know you may not Iam a single man in a small town
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in rural Mississippi of about7,500 people.
The dating world is vastlydifferent now than it was 20
years ago.
The dating world is vastlydifferent than it was 10 years
ago.
Thankfully, now we have datingapps that we can lean into and
utilize, regardless of where weare, but particularly in rural
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areas, it is very, very helpfulwhen it comes to finding
potential dating partners.
Duh, but there's a huge stigmaassociated with dating apps and
I'm not quite.
I don't quite understand it.
I understand some of thespeculation as to why dating
apps have a bad, bad rap.
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I guess you could say tenderreally started out giving it a
bad rap because it becameconventional wisdom that dating
apps are only used for fucking,which that's not true.
That's not true.
Is there a lot of that thatgoes on?
Sure, there's also a lot ofthat that goes on in real world
dating right, the idea thatsomeone may be on a dating app
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just to have sex.
Well, there are people walkingaround in the real world all day
, every day, who have that exactfucking motto.
Okay, so it's not like that's awhole lot.
It's not like that's crazy outof left field type behavior just
because it's on a dating app,it does give guys easier access
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to attractive women and viceversa.
Do we, as guys, help our case?
Very often, no, we do not.
No, we do not.
Most guys are shitty.
But I will follow that up bysaying most women are shitty.
Okay, so it's not just us.
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We have a problem with people.
People are shitty no matter ofgender.
So women out there saying thatthey hate men and all men are
pigs and all men suck, you'renot far off base.
You're not far off base.
But the same can be said aboutyour glorious gender, because
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y'all have a lot of emotionalimmaturity.
Y'all have a lot ofhyper-sexualized individuals.
Y'all have a lot of falsenarratives about the opposite
gender, the most common onebeing that every guy is a
fucking narcissist, because Isee so many women online and
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even in person.
Their excuse for ending arelationship or breaking up with
somebody is because he's anarcissist Newsflash bitch.
Not every man is a narcissist,contrary to what you may hear on
the internet.
Sometimes you are justself-centered.
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Sometimes you are justself-centered enough to think
that just because someone doesnot appease your every waking
move or adhere to your everywaking move, does not
necessarily mean that thatperson is a narcissist, point
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being.
I understand that the pickingsare slim on both sides of the
fence for men and women andy'all are going to continue,
y'all being everybody, y'all aregoing to continue to paint men
as pigs and women as dumbasses,regardless of what I say.
So allow me to move on andreveal one of my icks, if you
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will, which is a fuckingterrible word, but it is a
buzzword in today's dating scene.
So an ick is something,essentially, that gets on your
nerves, something that youcannot deal with, a
non-negotiable when it comes todating someone.
This is a hot take and I don'tthink that it should be.
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I don't think that this shouldbe a hot take.
I'm seriously worried about anentire generation of females,
particularly lower millennials,higher gen Z's, who treat their
dogs like humans.
This is a very disturbing trend.
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Mary Ryan Brown, comedian fromHattiesburg, and I have talked
about this and we will bediscussing this coming up on her
next episode that we'rerecording on the 20th of
November.
It'll probably be like three orfour episodes from now, but
there's this concept ofanthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphism is when ahuman projects human
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characteristics on a non-humanobject.
Women are doing this atalarming rates with dogs,
particularly rescue dogs, andit's disturbing to me because
these women are treating thesedogs like humans.
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They're talking to them likehumans, they're allowing them to
take over the house as if theyare a human, caring for them as
a human.
Look, dogs, in my opinion, aresupposed to be outside.
They are outside animals.
Now, have I had dogs in myhouse throughout my life?
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Yes, none of it.
Well, one time I've had a doginside of my house.
As a result of my choice, thatdog ended up jumping out of the
truck when he was about threemonths old and he died.
But he's a dog.
Okay, was it upsetting?
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Yes, okay, we buildrelationships with these dogs.
They're not called a man's bestfriend for no reason.
However, the connotation of aman's best friend and now a
woman's best friend is different.
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A dog cared for in the house bya woman gets better treatment
than a man.
A woman is potentiallyprospecting.
To date, I say this frompersonal experience on multiple
different occasions thismotherfucking dog can be running
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around the house tearing shitup, shitting on the floor,
peeing on the wall, chewing upshoes, smelling like asshole,
making the house atrocious, andstill get a fucking treat.
Still get a fucking treat.
Let me try that.
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Let me try to go in the house,shit everywhere, piss everywhere
, chew up all of the clothes,Chew up toilet paper and get it
all over the house, shed allover the place, get my hair all
over the clothes, not bathe,don't brush my teeth.
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Go outside, run around, rollaround on the fucking dirt, then
come inside and get up underthe covers with her.
I don't think she'd be havingit.
So why do they put up with itfrom the dog?
Why do they put up with it fromthe dog?
Because the dog can't talk back.
The dog can't provide anegative response or won't
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provide a negative response.
I think this trend started whenwe started, as humans, utilizing
dogs in emotional assistancesituations or emotional
assistance scenarios.
What is it called A service dogand that for army veterans
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who've been to war, been shot at, probably broke their leg?
Yeah, they probably need anemotional service dog, but you
bitch that wears Lulu lemon andwants to go to brunch and get
bottomless mimosas and bitchabout having to pay your phone
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bill do not need an emotionalservice dog.
I also think what hascontributed to this trend is our
parents entertained us withdogs.
In many cases, my parentsdidn't personally, did we have
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dogs.
Absolutely, we had dogs.
We lived in the country for themost part and although we did
have an inside dog, dogs livedoutside.
Dogs lived outside in the, inthe rain and in the fucking
weather.
You know they are tough,they're dogs, they live outside
their animals and they weretreated as such.
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When they die, we dig a holeand we throw them in the ground
and it's time to move on.
It's a fucking dog, okay, but Ithink a lot of middle class to
upper class parents got dogs toentertain their children, much
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like a TV screen or somethinglike that, and so these children
became became for an entiregeneration, attached to these
dogs as opposed to their fuckinghuman friends.
And now here we are.
These these women have gottenof age of dating and they're too
emotionally attached to theirfucking dog to be able to have a
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new, brand new friendship withanother human.
It is atrocious.
This is again.
This has happened on multipleoccasions.
This is not just some scantindividual field research.
This has happened on three orfour different occasions with
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three or four different femaledating prospects.
A couple of times in which wehave ended up in the bed with
one another and the dog tries toexist in the bed when I'm in
the bed with her.
No man, no man, turn off, turnoff.
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Again, I'm not talking aboutjust one female.
This has happened on multipleoccasions.
Okay, I don't want the fuckingdog in the bed with me.
Not happening, Not happening.
I could see maybe if I wasmarried or if I had a long time
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girlfriend and we got a dogtogether and there was some you
know, whatever.
Maybe sometimes the dog can getin the bed, but I just find
it's very strange.
I find it very strange and Iknow a lot of women are going to
be like, well, if men weren'tso shitty, then you know, if you
start that, if you even startto say that, then you're
admitting that dogs arereplacing men.
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It's fucking crazy.
It's crazy.
We got an entire generation ofpeople who lean on dogs for
emotional security or anemotional relationship and it's
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like the dogs won't mind.
It's like these women don'tknow how to train dogs and I'm
like bitch, if you can't train adog, what you gonna do with a
kid?
You gonna let the kid tear upthe house.
That's where my mind goes.
That's where my mind goes.
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Like you gonna let the kid runthe house and then, like the dog
be jumping on people and shit,you take the dog out, say you
take the dog when y'all go tothe bar or whatever.
You know how people wanna taketheir fucking dogs and they have
those trash bags.
When they walk behind the dogthey have these vests that they
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put on these dogs right so thatthey won't run away.
But they also you see this alot in bigger cities they also
on the vests clip on shit bagsthat the owner picks up dog shit
and throws it away in theselittle bags.
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When I was in New Orleans, happyDavis, my roommate, had and has
a dog named Chief Yellow Lab,sweetest dog ever, smart, sweet,
all the good things.
Yellow Lab, you know Good dog.
I would take Chief for walks inthe evening, sometimes, whether
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happy work late or sometimes Iwould just take Chief instead of
happy whatever.
And I would see these peoplewalking around the neighborhood
in New Orleans and they would bedoing this with these dogs and
they'd be picking up dog shitand Chief liked to shit on the
side of trees.
And so, like I didn't have avest on Chief, chief didn't even
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have a leash I didn't put Chiefon the leash.
That's how good a dog he wasand Chief would take his.
He would get hiked up on theside of a tree and he would take
his shit and sometimes otherdog owners would be around
looking at me and they'd belooking at me like, oh, you're
not going to pick that shit up.
And I'm like, fuck, no, I'm notpicking up dog shit.
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The only time I'm picking updog shit is if I had a dog in my
house and it's shit in my house.
Otherwise I'm not picking updog shit.
You could cancel that.
Dog parks shit's weird.
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I mean, people go and haveconversations about their dogs
like they are human beings.
Oh yeah, when she was threemonths she was such and such and
such and such, but she grew outof that.
That was just a phase.
Like bitch, take that dog off aleash and let it run.
Like it blows my mind howpeople will have Australian
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shepherds up in the house.
I'm guilty of it.
I did it.
That's the one that died afterthree months or whatever, jumped
out of the truck.
Worst decision I could evermake is having a dog that wants
to chase cows inside all thetime, and this happens so often.
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Really, what has happened iswhite girls have basically taken
over the dog breeding industryand they figured out how to make
like the perfect, almost humandog in a golden doodle.
But trick is, you still have totrain them.
They'll listen.
They're very smart dogs andthey will listen.
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But you have to be an assholeto a dog sometimes, and these
women aren't willing to do itand I think that's a bad sign
when it comes to what's down thepike for our children.
If you can't tell a dog no, howare you going to tell a child
no?
Sad Anthropomorphism.
It's a red flag.
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It's a red flag because thesepeople are living in a world
that's not real.
I was listening to a gentlemanspeak the other day.
I forget what he was talkingabout, but somehow another uh,
the topic of white people'srelationship with dogs came up.
It's a black gentleman speaking.
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I think it was like a Malcolm Xhistorian or some shit Pretty
racist guy, but um, nonetheless,he was talking about his
interpretation of white people'srelationships with dogs and he
was saying that it comes frompeople who lived in the caucus
mountains and the caves builtrelationship with wolves to help
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them, I guess, protectthemselves from danger or
whatever.
Evolutionary speaking, from anevolutionary perspective, I can
see how that may be logical.
I don't know how much truththere is to that, but it got me
to thinking and I'm like yes,this relationship is getting way
out of hand.
Way out of hand.
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Like if we treated our humanbeings with his, with half as
much of respect as white girlstreat golden doodles, it'd be a
better world.
It would be a better fuckingworld.
But you know, they'll neveradmit it.
They'll never admit it as agroup, as a whole.
The Lulu lemon dawning whitegirls will never admit that they
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treat their golden doodles withtoo much care than us as men.
We just got to take it, youknow, and it's a.
It's a middle class, upperclass phenomenon.
Like you get a poor girl, sheain't worried about no doll,
she's probably got a fucking pitbull out there at the tree,
chained up, ready, ready forwhatever, probably feeds him
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once a week.
People with too much money andtoo much time treat dogs too
well.
I mean, that's just.
That's that's where I am on thetopic, you know.
I think people should take aserious look at themselves if,
if they find themselvesemotionally attached,
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particularly to an inside dog.
But like where does this stemfrom?
Where are we going wrong?
Why is this such a phenomenon?
Like?
Why do people, why do datingage women, just go out and get a
dog, sometimes three, sometimesthree dogs in the house,
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sometimes with cats.
That's really weird, like if I,if I meet a girl and she's got
more than one cat, it's aproblem, it's a red flag, if the
you know, I think the biggest,one of the biggest turnoffs in
this whole thing is, like whenI've encountered women that have
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dogs inside or they have theseweird relationships with dogs,
it's almost like and the doggets jealous.
The dog gets jealous If I'mlaying in a bed with a woman and
the dog whines because he orshe can't get in the bed.
It's fucking weird, weird.
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I think our generation men andwomen are afraid of encounter,
afraid of confrontation, they'reafraid of honesty, they're
afraid of being vulnerable.
And don't get me wrong, guys dothis too.
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Right, guys build these weirdrelationships with dogs,
particularly college age guys,like they're getting college,
they feel like they got to havethis dog to take it, which it
does pick up women.
But now women are starting toget their own dogs.
So like, where do we?
Where does that leave us?
Where does that leave us?
We're just out in the cold.
Nonetheless, I think it signalsemotional immaturity and lots
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of room for growth.
But I digress, women with dogs.
Don't hate me, I'm just tryingto start the conversation.
I'm just trying to start theconversation.
I mean, it's not a turn on whenI go to a girl's house and she
treats the dog with more respectthan she does me, period.
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Okay.
So it's November, november 13th,and you all know what's coming
up Thanksgiving, in about a weekand a half, 10 days, it's on
the 23rd this year and thenChristmas and then New Year's.
This time of year gives medepression and anxiety.
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Well, let me rephrase that itexacerbates my depression and
anxiety.
The holiday season exacerbatesmy depression and anxiety.
You might ask why.
I think number one is thatthere's a lot of time off in
general throughout the holidayseason and most people would say
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, well, that's great, that'sgreat.
I love taking time off, I lovedoing what I want to do, and I
hear that.
I understand that my personalityis not geared that way.
I've not always been the bestat making the best decisions
with free time and there's a lotof free time during the holiday
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season.
I am getting better, but,historic, I am getting better at
utilizing my timeconstructively during the
holidays or just whenever I havetime off, but historically,
I've not been the best at doingthat, and so that now that I'm
getting better at occupying myfree time in a more constructive
manner, the holidays are not asdaunting for me.
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But there are other reasons whythe holiday season is daunting
to me, and another one is I feelobligated to give Like.
I don't like the obligatorygenerosity that comes with the
season.
I understand people will callme a Grinch, people will
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categorize me as being a Scroogeor whatever you want to say,
but my belief is that we shouldbe kind and we should be giving
and we should be loving,regardless of the time of year.
And so the holiday season irksme and strikes me as being
superficial, because so manypeople put on such a front
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throughout this time of yearthat it rubs me the wrong way.
Giving season is superficialfor the most part.
For the most part and I don'tcare if you call me a Grinch
whatever Lack of routine, likewaking up in the morning and not
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having a definite task at hand,not having a definite location
to go to, that gives me anxiety.
Again, I'm getting better atthat because I'm having to, I'm
being forced to, but sometimestrial by fire is the best way.
I think most cases trial byfire is the best way.
Also, we start having reallyshitty weather in Mississippi in
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the middle of November.
It gets gray, it gets wet,feels like it looks colder than
it is, and then it stays thatway until January and it gets
cold as balls and then Februarysucks.
So all those things coupledtogether, november is like the
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beginning month of the mostdepressed period of the year for
me.
Ironically, because you'll hearso many oh, I hate Christmas
music, hate Christmas music.
It's fucking terrible.
Like they already startedplaying Christmas music.
They started playing Christmasmusic on November 1st on one of
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the radio stations that Ilistened to and I took it off of
my presets.
And because they obviously playit through Christmas, that's a
month and a half.
Every time I get in my vehicleand I press that preset, it's
gonna be fucking Christmas music.
I like Christmas music onChristmas Eve and Christmas day
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and then, like two o'clockChristmas day, I'm done.
I'm done with Christmas, donewith Christmas.
Christmas is such a commercialholiday.
The hoopla over it is foreconomic reasons, largely so.
People will buy a bunch of shitat the end of the year, and so
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there's that component too, andI'm not the best gift giver in
that I don't like being toldwhen to give a gift Like I try
to do gift giving sporadicallyand spontaneously throughout the
year.
But I'm not big on gifts ingeneral.
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I understand I appreciate themand I know this is a flaw of
mine that I have to get betterat.
Like I have to become moretolerant of gift giving Because
it does make people feel good.
It does make, especially whenthe gift is thoughtful.
Especially when the gift isthoughtful Like.
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I think dirty Santa is a goodthing.
I think dirty Santa is a funway.
I think a lot of traditionalways of celebrating Thanksgiving
and Christmas, particularly inthe south, is boring.
I'd rather have a party than goto Grandma's house and sit
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there and twiddle our thumbs fora couple of hours and, you know
, let's break out the eggnog,let's break out the soul music,
let's smoke something and dance.
You know, watch football.
But that hasn't been myexperience traditionally
celebrating the holidays.
I understand that I'm also aunique individual and most
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people probably do not seethings the way I do, and that's
okay.
But I'm just not a huge fan ofChristmas.
She's not a huge fan and I'llbe glad when it's over.
Also, new Year's Eve isoverrated, unless you pay the
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extra amount of money it takesto get VIP at the VIP New Year's
Eve party.
Otherwise, dealing with theparking, finding somewhere to
stay, the lines, having to waitto piss, having to wait to drink
, all that shit miss me with it.
When I lived in New Orleans, Istayed in on New Year's Eve.
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I cooked.
I specifically remember cookingblack eyed peas, cabbage,
turnip greens, tenderloin andfried catfish, instead of doing
anything in the city.
Because I didn't have the moneyto pay for the VIP at the VIP
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and I wasn't going to pay $100to go five miles in an Uber or
two miles in an Uber.
So I was like, fuck it, I'll goto the, I'll go to Robare's, to
the grocery store, and I willget my good luck food and I will
watch New Year's Day football,new Year's Eve football, and
watch the shit on, watch theball dropper, whatever, and just
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chill.
I did it right by myself.
It's a little depressing, but Iwas going to be depressed
anyway, depressed anyway duringthe holiday season, you know.
So it is what it is pimpingCounty line congregation.
Y'all are the best.
A couple more solo episodes becoming up, so y'all stay tuned.
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I appreciate y'all, I lovey'all.
Don't forget to like, rate,review share all the bullshit,
do all the things Until nexttime.
Peace.
County line congregation.
We are back in themotherfucking house.
Solo episode, november 13th2023.
Boy, do I have somethingspecial for y'all, so let's jump
right into it.
First things first, if you donot know, if you're not aware,
my favorite rapper of all timeis a gentleman by the name of
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Torrance Hatch, also known asLil Boosie, currently known as
Boosie Motherfucking Badass.
So I had my first encounterpersonally with Boosie yesterday
.
All right, I'm scrollingInstagram, and he has had
trouble with Instagram, to saythe least.
He and Mark Zuckerberg are noton the best of terms.
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Reason being Boosie has had hisaccount either deactivated,
deleted or deemed inaccessibleas a result of some of the
content that he's put outthroughout the years.
So Boosie recently got a newInstagram account and this is
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probably, to my knowledge,probably his fourth or fifth
account up to this point, maybeeven more, but I was scrolling
Instagram yesterday, sundayafternoon, not doing a whole lot
.
It was raining cold inMississippi for relatively
Mississippi terms at least, itwas about 65, sun wasn't out.
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So, needless to say, I wasn'tdoing a whole lot, doing a
little writing, watching alittle football, and I had taken
a break to scroll Instagram andI saw Boosie's post saying that
he's open.
He has an open date, novemberthe 17th, which is this upcoming
Friday, okay which so happensto be Boosie's birthday.
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And so Boosie was requestingsomeone get in touch with him
about booking November the 17thfor him to perform on his
birthday.
And if you don't follow Boosie,you may not understand that his
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accounts are very personal andthat he leaves emails, email
addresses.
He leaves phone numbers A lotof times indicating that it's
another person, not himpersonally, that will be
handling any communication viathose email addresses or phone
numbers.
So he leaves an email address.
I'm like, fuck it, I'm justgoing to take a shot, I'm going
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to see if I can just getsomebody on the phone and just
start a negotiation, just see ifI can talk to somebody.
I do this all the time onsocial media, when trying to
book guests, when trying to getin contact with people about
appearing on the podcast,whatever the case may be.
So this is not an unusual acton my part.
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So I called Boosie's emailaddress that he leaves in the
comments on Instagram and I hitsend and I said something to the
effect of actually, let me justpull it up, let me just pull up
what I said so you can have thefull context.
I think I sent it from theCounty Line Podcast email
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account.
Mind you, I was not expectingto get anything in response.
Let's see.
Let me get to the right emailaccount.
So yeah, I was just trying toget in contact with someone and
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try to spark up a conversation.
I really just tried to find outinformation about what it would
entail to get Boosie on thepodcast on the County Line.
As you all know, that's thenumber one most sought after
guest by yours truly, lee Carl,at the County Line Podcast.
All right, just pulling up.
So I'm going to read you theemail that I sent to Boosie
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Fucking internet, reason 589,that it sucks to live in a small
town because the internet isawful.
I'm on my hot spot right now.
Okay, so I sent it to BoosieSunday afternoon, sunday morning
, at 1008 am.
I'm Lee Smith, host andproducer of the County Line.
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What's the price tag forBoosie's birthday weekend?
We're in Philadelphia,mississippi.
And then I left my name, theCounty Line, and then my phone
number, 601-663-648.
Y'all hit me up if y'all areinterested in talking to me.
Then I get a phone call about anhour later from a phone number
that has a 504 address, 504 areacode, that is New Orleans,
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louisiana's area code.
I didn't even put two and twotogether.
I didn't answer it.
It's like this is fucking.
I don't know who this is, andso I let it ring, I let it go to
voicemail and ultimately, whatends up happening is I get a
message from that numberImmediately after I didn't
answer it.
It just said Boosie.
I said, oh shit, this is, thisis Boosie's party.
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I knew at that point that therewas somebody from Boosie's party
that was trying to reach outabout the email that I sent, so
I immediately call it back Acouple rings.
Hey, dawg, this Boosie.
And I knew I heard the voice, Iknew it was him and I said
what's up, boosie?
I said this is Lee Carl withthe County Line podcast.
I'm trying to talk withsomebody about getting you on.
And he said how big the club,how big the club is.
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And I said well, I ain't got noclub.
I said but I got a podcast andI'm just trying to figure out
what it's going to cost to getyou come on the podcast for your
birthday weekend.
I was not full disclosure.
I was not prepared to have thisconversation with Boosie.
Not whatsoever, not from athought about what I'm going to
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say standpoint, anything likethat.
I was not expecting to get aresponse.
So, needless to say, I fumbledmy way through the conversation
with Boosie initially, andessentially, what I did was I
told him that I was not lookingfor him to come play a gig, but
I will consider paying him tomake an appearance on the
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podcast, which he is known fordoing.
He's very popular on podcasts.
He does does a good job.
So I asked him what the priceis.
He tells me I say, ok, well,let me go back to my team myself
and it's a foundationdifference that's always been
there for me.
Allow us some time to see if wecan get all our ducks in a row
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to have you here for said priceat the end of the week, right?
So five days Now, after he toldme the price, I knew that I
couldn't.
I couldn't swing it.
So I was like, okay, well,what's my next option?
So I started I mean, this isall within like five minutes
after we.
So we talked one time.
I told him I'd call him backand then, five minutes later, I
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call him back.
So I'm like boozy, I don't havethe $20,000 that you want to
come be on the podcast.
But I have had Roy Jones Jr onthe podcast before and I was
like and I told him what RoyJones Jr charged and I was like
Roy Jones Jr didn't even charge$20,000.
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And he was like, man, ain'tnobody try to hear about, no
motherfucking Roy Jones Jr.
He was like bro, that's theprice, this is what it is.
And then he just hung up and soI felt like the call went
exactly like I would predict itif you'd given me those the
circumstances.
Boosie, we still want to haveyou at the county line.
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I don't have the $20,000 rightnow I don't, and I know you
don't want to hear that, but oneday I will, I'll have it and as
soon as I have that $20,000 todrop on an episode guest, I will
gladly pay you $20,000.
But then I got to thinkingabout it and I was like what if
I did have a club for Boosie togo to?
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What if I did have a door, adoor fee that I could depend on
to ultimately make the $20,000,all of the $20,000 that would be
needed?
He did not give me a price forhis show because I didn't ask
him to do a show.
It was very spontaneous, it wasvery informal.
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You know, I did not expect itdoesn't surprise me that Boosie
was on the phone, but I didn'texpect him to answer.
I didn't expect him to call me.
I didn't expect I expected thatI may hear from someone in the
Boosie camp, but I didn't expectfor Boosie badass to call me on
the phone.
But it's very commendable thathe did.
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He's still out there makingmoves on his own.
He's running his own shit andthat's encouraging to see.
That's encouraging to see.
I wish I could call somebody andbe like hey, dog, $20,000 and
I'll come down and talk.
I'll come sit down and talkwith you for an hour.
I asked him.
I also asked him.
I was like Boosie, you're goingto charge me $20,000 to come on
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the podcast.
I was like Roy Jones Jr didn'teven charge that man.
Ain't nobody trying to hear.
No, motherfucking Roy Jones Jr,I gave you my price and that's
what it is.
And he also called me the Nword a couple of times, which
you know, whatever I'm cool with.
Maybe he thought I was black.
Maybe he thought I was blackbecause I did kind of throw on
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my.
You know what a boot, what aboot.
Like I knew him and you know,maybe I have my black accent
going on just a little bit Ihave had people from other parts
of the country tell me beforethat white people from the South
sometimes sound black.
Like well, we, you know, we dolive in the same place, so I
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could see how that may be thecase.
We share a lot of the samecultural norms, if you will.
But it was great.
It was great.
It was a great way to spendSunday Rediculing myself for not
making the most out of thatencounter with Boosie.
But you know what, at the endof the day, boosie's a hustler.
If I'd have had the $20,000,boosie would be sitting down at
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the county line this upcomingNovember 17.
So don't hate the player, hatethe game.
That's the way it goes.
Don't hate the player, hate thegame.
Shout out Boosie, we love you.
We hope that the fucking, thecase is going good with the gun
charges and shit in California.
Shout out to the movie.
Y'all go check out the movie atBoosieMoviecom.
I give you a plug, man.
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I give you a plug.
I know you wanted the $20,000for the podcast but can't make
it happen right now, but one daywe will, and you can stamp that
my brother All right.
Over the weekend I went to aBobby Rush concert, fortunately
in the town in which I reside,philadelphia, mississippi, at
the Ellis Theater, martyStewart's Congress of Country
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Music.
Bobby Rush, for those of youthat are not familiar is a blues
man.
He turned 90 years old onNovember, the 10th 2023.
And us in Philadelphia, we werelucky enough to be blessed with
his 90th birthday celebration,which did not disappoint.
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I went with my uncle.
He was so kind enough Shout outGraham Carlton for getting us
front row tickets to see one ofthe last original blues men in
America, mr Bobby Rush.
And let me tell you it was aparty.
It was a party.
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I was expecting a decentperformance from a 90 year old
man.
If I had to age, if somebodytook me to that show and said I
want you to name the age of thisgentleman performing, I would
have given him 60, 70 at theeldest.
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He's in great shape.
It was a great performance.
We went night fishing.
We found out what the catfishlove to bite.
That is a playoff of one ofBobby Rush's most famous songs
called Night Fishing.
He did a great job, great crowd.
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It was the first time I'd saton the front row at the LSDater.
I thought it was fuckingphenomenal.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was a greatatmosphere.
Can't say enough about it.
We have an entire generation.
I'd say most of the people whoknow Bobby Rush are probably
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over 50 years old.
The majority of those peopleare probably black.
That was reflected in the crowdthat was at the show.
A lot of y'all may not know whoBobby Rush is, but if you don't,
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I encourage you to go do a deepdive into his music and his
work.
He is a very interestingindividual and he leans into
comedy just as much as he doesmusic.
And you can tell, you can pickup that vibe if you just go
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listen to his music but seeingit in action it really hit home
on a different level because hewas.
I mean, it was almost as if wewere getting a musical show from
a musician, a musical performer, and in between songs we were
getting stand-up comedy, whichmade for a very, very
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entertaining show.
He interacted with the crowd ona spectacular level.
He was very engaging, veryinteractive with the crowd.
He walked around, walked up anddown the aisles of the LS
Theater.
There are aisles on either sideof the middle section, much
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like many conventional theatersand he made his way off the
stage, up the aisle, came backdown the aisle, went across the
front row, right in front of myface and went back up the other
aisle.
He's shaking hands, he's givinghugs.
He was very gracious.
There was one gentleman in thecrowd that kept screaming that
it was his birthday too and I'mlike dude, shut the fuck up.
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Like you are not, bobby Rush,this is not your 90th birthday
celebration.
You can tell that Bobby Rush iskind of like come on, man, are
you serious?
But he took it in stride as aprofessional and a very mature
human being and did a great job.
He did a great job handling it.
You can tell that he's beendoing that for 72 years is the
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exact number that he gave us.
He had been recording, I guess,since he was 18, which is
amazing.
If you can do anything for thatamount of time, that is very,
very impressive and I thought itwas one of the best shows that
I've seen at the Ellis.
And if you haven't been to theEllis, I encourage you.
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Whether you're fromPhiladelphia, mississippi or not
, if you're close, you need togo.
There are a lot of good actsthat are coming in.
Just had Arden Barnett on fromArdenland Management Company,
who is now doing the booking andmanagement of the facility at
the Ellis Theater in theCongress of Country Music had
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him on recently that episodewill be coming out soon and he
said he had known, he's knownBobby.
I had Arden Barnett on theevening prior to Bobby Rush's
concert and so we obviouslytalked about the anticipation
leading up to Bobby Rush's 90thbirthday celebration and how,
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what a momentous occasion it wasgoing to be and ultimately
turned out to be, and so weobviously talked about Arden's
experience booking shows withBobby Rush and their
relationship and the nature ofBobby Rush, and everything that
Arden Barnett laid out inregards to Bobby Rush and his
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way of performing turned out tobe true.
Bobby Rush did not disappoint.
He had the entire band.
Some of the musicians that havecome to Ellis Theater have been
solo performances and evenBobby Rush has done more of
those solo performances inrecent history, for obvious
reasons, but had the full band.
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He had his two dancers on hisside that were amazing, two
beautiful women that he haddancing to all of his songs, and
he tied them into the theme ofthe concert and what have you.
So it was very, very cool.
It's very hard for us to smellthe roses and smell the flowers
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while they're in our presence,and I encourage people to do
that with the Ellis Theater.
Like I feel that we often getahead of ourselves in projecting
what impact the Ellis Theatercan have in the future and we
forget to pinch ourselves in themoment that it's really
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happening.
That we're having Bobby Rush onFriday night in Philadelphia,
mississippi, and then turnaround on Sunday night of the
same weekend and have AshleyMcBride.
That is fucking phenomenal,that is crazy and that is a
blessing, to say the least.
And so I know we all here inPhiladelphia and in Shelby
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County and East CentralMississippi are looking forward
to the ancillary byproducts thatwill present themselves as a
result of the Ellis Theater andthe Congress of Country Music.
But, by God, the Ellis isrocking.
It's here, it's operating.
No other town in the state ofMississippi or in the nation has
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what we have, and I do feellike we've already started to
take it for granted.
But we have to remind ourselvesnot to.
We have to remind ourselves notto, and enjoy the shit as it's
happening, as difficult as it isfor us human beings to do that.
That's what we have to striveto do.
We have to strive to do that.
It's so good to be back with theCounty Line on a solo episode.
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We've been blowing and going.
We have been trying tointerview and conversate with as
many interesting people aspossible.
I'll take this time to say ifthere are suggestions on guests
or content.
I encourage you to drop thosein the comments of any social
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media posts.
Send me a DM, email me.
I'm just as accessible asBoosie, believe it or not.
Now we're nowhere nearcelebrity status, but very much
accessible.
And that's one of thetrademarks of the County Line is
that we are so accessible andthat we engage and interact with
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the audience, which is what welove to do.
We love to do, but withouty'all we can't do it.
So go engage right nowsomewhere.
Go engage with the County Line,all right.
So the meat and potatoes oftoday's solo episode has to do
with dating.
Surprise, surprise.
As you may know you may not Iam a single man in a small town
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in rural Mississippi of about7,500 people.
The dating world is vastlydifferent now than it was 20
years ago.
The dating world is vastlydifferent than it was 10 years
ago.
Thankfully, now we have datingapps that we can lean into and
utilize, regardless of where weare, but particularly in rural
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areas, it is very, very helpfulwhen it comes to finding
potential dating partners.
Duh, but there's a huge stigmaassociated with dating apps and
I'm not quite.
I don't quite understand it.
I understand some of thespeculation as to why dating
apps have a bad, bad rap.
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I guess you could say tenderreally started out giving it a
bad rap because it becameconventional wisdom that dating
apps are only used for fucking,which that's not true.
That's not true.
Is there a lot of that thatgoes on?
Sure, there's also a lot ofthat that goes on in real world
dating right, the idea thatsomeone may be on a dating app
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just to have sex.
Well, there are people walkingaround in the real world all day
, every day, who have that exactfucking motto.
Okay, so it's not like that's awhole lot.
It's not like that's crazy outof left field type behavior just
because it's on a dating app,it does give guys easier access
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to attractive women and viceversa.
Do we, as guys, help our case?
Very often, no, we do not.
No, we do not.
Most guys are shitty.
But I will follow that up bysaying most women are shitty.
Okay, so it's not just us.
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We have a problem with people.
People are shitty no matter ofgender.
So women out there saying thatthey hate men and all men are
pigs and all men suck, you'renot far off base.
You're not far off base.
But the same can be said aboutyour glorious gender, because
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y'all have a lot of emotionalimmaturity.
Y'all have a lot ofhyper-sexualized individuals.
Y'all have a lot of falsenarratives about the opposite
gender, the most common onebeing that every guy is a
fucking narcissist, because Isee so many women online and
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even in person.
Their excuse for ending arelationship or breaking up with
somebody is because he's anarcissist Newsflash bitch.
Not every man is a narcissist,contrary to what you may hear on
the internet.
Sometimes you are justself-centered.
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Sometimes you are justself-centered enough to think
that just because someone doesnot appease your every waking
move or adhere to your everywaking move, does not
necessarily mean that thatperson is a narcissist, point
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being.
I understand that the pickingsare slim on both sides of the
fence for men and women andy'all are going to continue,
y'all being everybody, y'all aregoing to continue to paint men
as pigs and women as dumbasses,regardless of what I say.
So allow me to move on andreveal one of my icks, if you
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will, which is a fuckingterrible word, but it is a
buzzword in today's dating scene.
So an ick is something,essentially, that gets on your
nerves, something that youcannot deal with, a
non-negotiable when it comes todating someone.
This is a hot take and I don'tthink that it should be.
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I don't think that this shouldbe a hot take.
I'm seriously worried about anentire generation of females,
particularly lower millennials,higher gen Z's, who treat their
dogs like humans.
This is a very disturbing trend.
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Mary Ryan Brown, comedian fromHattiesburg, and I have talked
about this and we will bediscussing this coming up on her
next episode that we'rerecording on the 20th of
November.
It'll probably be like three orfour episodes from now, but
there's this concept ofanthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphism is when ahuman projects human
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characteristics on a non-humanobject.
Women are doing this atalarming rates with dogs,
particularly rescue dogs, andit's disturbing to me because
these women are treating thesedogs like humans.
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They're talking to them likehumans, they're allowing them to
take over the house as if theyare a human, caring for them as
a human.
Look, dogs, in my opinion, aresupposed to be outside.
They are outside animals.
Now, have I had dogs in myhouse throughout my life?
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Yes, none of it.
Well, one time I've had a doginside of my house.
As a result of my choice, thatdog ended up jumping out of the
truck when he was about threemonths old and he died.
But he's a dog.
Okay, was it upsetting?
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Yes, okay, we buildrelationships with these dogs.
They're not called a man's bestfriend for no reason.
However, the connotation of aman's best friend and now a
woman's best friend is different.
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A dog cared for in the house bya woman gets better treatment
than a man.
A woman is potentiallyprospecting.
To date, I say this frompersonal experience on multiple
different occasions thismotherfucking dog can be running
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around the house tearing shitup, shitting on the floor,
peeing on the wall, chewing upshoes, smelling like asshole,
making the house atrocious, andstill get a fucking treat.
Still get a fucking treat.
Let me try that.
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Let me try to go in the house,shit everywhere, piss everywhere
, chew up all of the clothes,Chew up toilet paper and get it
all over the house, shed allover the place, get my hair all
over the clothes, not bathe,don't brush my teeth.
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Go outside, run around, rollaround on the fucking dirt, then
come inside and get up underthe covers with her.
I don't think she'd be havingit.
So why do they put up with itfrom the dog?
Why do they put up with it fromthe dog?
Because the dog can't talk back.
The dog can't provide anegative response or won't
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provide a negative response.
I think this trend started whenwe started, as humans, utilizing
dogs in emotional assistancesituations or emotional
assistance scenarios.
What is it called A service dogand that for army veterans
(28:42):
who've been to war, been shot at, probably broke their leg?
Yeah, they probably need anemotional service dog, but you
bitch that wears Lulu lemon andwants to go to brunch and get
bottomless mimosas and bitchabout having to pay your phone
(29:04):
bill do not need an emotionalservice dog.
I also think what hascontributed to this trend is our
parents entertained us withdogs.
In many cases, my parentsdidn't personally, did we have
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dogs.
Absolutely, we had dogs.
We lived in the country for themost part and although we did
have an inside dog, dogs livedoutside.
Dogs lived outside in the, inthe rain and in the fucking
weather.
You know they are tough,they're dogs, they live outside
their animals and they weretreated as such.
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When they die, we dig a holeand we throw them in the ground
and it's time to move on.
It's a fucking dog, okay, but Ithink a lot of middle class to
upper class parents got dogs toentertain their children, much
(30:10):
like a TV screen or somethinglike that, and so these children
became became for an entiregeneration, attached to these
dogs as opposed to their fuckinghuman friends.
And now here we are.
These these women have gottenof age of dating and they're too
emotionally attached to theirfucking dog to be able to have a
(30:32):
new, brand new friendship withanother human.
It is atrocious.
This is again.
This has happened on multipleoccasions.
This is not just some scantindividual field research.
This has happened on three orfour different occasions with
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three or four different femaledating prospects.
A couple of times in which wehave ended up in the bed with
one another and the dog tries toexist in the bed when I'm in
the bed with her.
No man, no man, turn off, turnoff.
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Again, I'm not talking aboutjust one female.
This has happened on multipleoccasions.
Okay, I don't want the fuckingdog in the bed with me.
Not happening, Not happening.
I could see maybe if I wasmarried or if I had a long time
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girlfriend and we got a dogtogether and there was some you
know, whatever.
Maybe sometimes the dog can getin the bed, but I just find
it's very strange.
I find it very strange and Iknow a lot of women are going to
be like, well, if men weren'tso shitty, then you know, if you
start that, if you even startto say that, then you're
admitting that dogs arereplacing men.
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It's fucking crazy.
It's crazy.
We got an entire generation ofpeople who lean on dogs for
emotional security or anemotional relationship and it's
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like the dogs won't mind.
It's like these women don'tknow how to train dogs and I'm
like bitch, if you can't train adog, what you gonna do with a
kid?
You gonna let the kid tear upthe house.
That's where my mind goes.
That's where my mind goes.
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Like you gonna let the kid runthe house and then, like the dog
be jumping on people and shit,you take the dog out, say you
take the dog when y'all go tothe bar or whatever.
You know how people wanna taketheir fucking dogs and they have
those trash bags.
When they walk behind the dogthey have these vests that they
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put on these dogs right so thatthey won't run away.
But they also you see this alot in bigger cities they also
on the vests clip on shit bagsthat the owner picks up dog shit
and throws it away in theselittle bags.
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When I was in New Orleans, happyDavis, my roommate, had and has
a dog named Chief Yellow Lab,sweetest dog ever, smart, sweet,
all the good things.
Yellow Lab, you know Good dog.
I would take Chief for walks inthe evening, sometimes, whether
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happy work late or sometimes Iwould just take Chief instead of
happy whatever.
And I would see these peoplewalking around the neighborhood
in New Orleans and they would bedoing this with these dogs and
they'd be picking up dog shitand Chief liked to shit on the
side of trees.
And so, like I didn't have avest on Chief, chief didn't even
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have a leash I didn't put Chiefon the leash.
That's how good a dog he wasand Chief would take his.
He would get hiked up on theside of a tree and he would take
his shit and sometimes otherdog owners would be around
looking at me and they'd belooking at me like, oh, you're
not going to pick that shit up.
And I'm like, fuck, no, I'm notpicking up dog shit.
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The only time I'm picking updog shit is if I had a dog in my
house and it's shit in my house.
Otherwise I'm not picking updog shit.
You could cancel that.
Dog parks shit's weird.
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I mean, people go and haveconversations about their dogs
like they are human beings.
Oh yeah, when she was threemonths she was such and such and
such and such, but she grew outof that.
That was just a phase.
Like bitch, take that dog off aleash and let it run.
Like it blows my mind howpeople will have Australian
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shepherds up in the house.
I'm guilty of it.
I did it.
That's the one that died afterthree months or whatever, jumped
out of the truck.
Worst decision I could evermake is having a dog that wants
to chase cows inside all thetime, and this happens so often.
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Really, what has happened iswhite girls have basically taken
over the dog breeding industryand they figured out how to make
like the perfect, almost humandog in a golden doodle.
But trick is, you still have totrain them.
They'll listen.
They're very smart dogs andthey will listen.
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But you have to be an assholeto a dog sometimes, and these
women aren't willing to do itand I think that's a bad sign
when it comes to what's down thepike for our children.
If you can't tell a dog no, howare you going to tell a child
no?
Sad Anthropomorphism.
It's a red flag.
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It's a red flag because thesepeople are living in a world
that's not real.
I was listening to a gentlemanspeak the other day.
I forget what he was talkingabout, but somehow another uh,
the topic of white people'srelationship with dogs came up.
It's a black gentleman speaking.
(36:44):
I think it was like a Malcolm Xhistorian or some shit Pretty
racist guy, but um, nonetheless,he was talking about his
interpretation of white people'srelationships with dogs and he
was saying that it comes frompeople who lived in the caucus
mountains and the caves builtrelationship with wolves to help
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them, I guess, protectthemselves from danger or
whatever.
Evolutionary speaking, from anevolutionary perspective, I can
see how that may be logical.
I don't know how much truththere is to that, but it got me
to thinking and I'm like yes,this relationship is getting way
out of hand.
Way out of hand.
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Like if we treated our humanbeings with his, with half as
much of respect as white girlstreat golden doodles, it'd be a
better world.
It would be a better fuckingworld.
But you know, they'll neveradmit it.
They'll never admit it as agroup, as a whole.
The Lulu lemon dawning whitegirls will never admit that they
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treat their golden doodles withtoo much care than us as men.
We just got to take it, youknow, and it's a.
It's a middle class, upperclass phenomenon.
Like you get a poor girl, sheain't worried about no doll,
she's probably got a fucking pitbull out there at the tree,
chained up, ready, ready forwhatever, probably feeds him
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once a week.
People with too much money andtoo much time treat dogs too
well.
I mean, that's just.
That's that's where I am on thetopic, you know.
I think people should take aserious look at themselves if,
if they find themselvesemotionally attached,
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particularly to an inside dog.
But like where does this stemfrom?
Where are we going wrong?
Why is this such a phenomenon?
Like?
Why do people, why do datingage women, just go out and get a
dog, sometimes three, sometimesthree dogs in the house,
(39:02):
sometimes with cats.
That's really weird, like if I,if I meet a girl and she's got
more than one cat, it's aproblem, it's a red flag, if the
you know, I think the biggest,one of the biggest turnoffs in
this whole thing is, like whenI've encountered women that have
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dogs inside or they have theseweird relationships with dogs,
it's almost like and the doggets jealous.
The dog gets jealous If I'mlaying in a bed with a woman and
the dog whines because he orshe can't get in the bed.
It's fucking weird, weird.
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I think our generation men andwomen are afraid of encounter,
afraid of confrontation, they'reafraid of honesty, they're
afraid of being vulnerable.
And don't get me wrong, guys dothis too.
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Right, guys build these weirdrelationships with dogs,
particularly college age guys,like they're getting college,
they feel like they got to havethis dog to take it, which it
does pick up women.
But now women are starting toget their own dogs.
So like, where do we?
Where does that leave us?
Where does that leave us?
We're just out in the cold.
Nonetheless, I think it signalsemotional immaturity and lots
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of room for growth.
But I digress, women with dogs.
Don't hate me, I'm just tryingto start the conversation.
I'm just trying to start theconversation.
I mean, it's not a turn on whenI go to a girl's house and she
treats the dog with more respectthan she does me, period.
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Okay.
So it's November, november 13th,and you all know what's coming
up Thanksgiving, in about a weekand a half, 10 days, it's on
the 23rd this year and thenChristmas and then New Year's.
This time of year gives medepression and anxiety.
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Well, let me rephrase that itexacerbates my depression and
anxiety.
The holiday season exacerbatesmy depression and anxiety.
You might ask why.
I think number one is thatthere's a lot of time off in
general throughout the holidayseason and most people would say
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, well, that's great, that'sgreat.
I love taking time off, I lovedoing what I want to do, and I
hear that.
I understand that my personalityis not geared that way.
I've not always been the bestat making the best decisions
with free time and there's a lotof free time during the holiday
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season.
I am getting better, but,historic, I am getting better at
utilizing my timeconstructively during the
holidays or just whenever I havetime off, but historically,
I've not been the best at doingthat, and so that now that I'm
getting better at occupying myfree time in a more constructive
manner, the holidays are not asdaunting for me.
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But there are other reasons whythe holiday season is daunting
to me, and another one is I feelobligated to give Like.
I don't like the obligatorygenerosity that comes with the
season.
I understand people will callme a Grinch, people will
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categorize me as being a Scroogeor whatever you want to say,
but my belief is that we shouldbe kind and we should be giving
and we should be loving,regardless of the time of year.
And so the holiday season irksme and strikes me as being
superficial, because so manypeople put on such a front
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throughout this time of yearthat it rubs me the wrong way.
Giving season is superficialfor the most part.
For the most part and I don'tcare if you call me a Grinch
whatever Lack of routine, likewaking up in the morning and not
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having a definite task at hand,not having a definite location
to go to, that gives me anxiety.
Again, I'm getting better atthat because I'm having to, I'm
being forced to, but sometimestrial by fire is the best way.
I think most cases trial byfire is the best way.
Also, we start having reallyshitty weather in Mississippi in
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the middle of November.
It gets gray, it gets wet,feels like it looks colder than
it is, and then it stays thatway until January and it gets
cold as balls and then Februarysucks.
So all those things coupledtogether, november is like the
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beginning month of the mostdepressed period of the year for
me.
Ironically, because you'll hearso many oh, I hate Christmas
music, hate Christmas music.
It's fucking terrible.
Like they already startedplaying Christmas music.
They started playing Christmasmusic on November 1st on one of
(45:04):
the radio stations that Ilistened to and I took it off of
my presets.
And because they obviously playit through Christmas, that's a
month and a half.
Every time I get in my vehicleand I press that preset, it's
gonna be fucking Christmas music.
I like Christmas music onChristmas Eve and Christmas day
(45:26):
and then, like two o'clockChristmas day, I'm done.
I'm done with Christmas, donewith Christmas.
Christmas is such a commercialholiday.
The hoopla over it is foreconomic reasons, largely so.
People will buy a bunch of shitat the end of the year, and so
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there's that component too, andI'm not the best gift giver in
that I don't like being toldwhen to give a gift Like I try
to do gift giving sporadicallyand spontaneously throughout the
year.
But I'm not big on gifts ingeneral.
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I understand I appreciate themand I know this is a flaw of
mine that I have to get betterat.
Like I have to become moretolerant of gift giving Because
it does make people feel good.
It does make, especially whenthe gift is thoughtful.
Especially when the gift isthoughtful Like.
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I think dirty Santa is a goodthing.
I think dirty Santa is a funway.
I think a lot of traditionalways of celebrating Thanksgiving
and Christmas, particularly inthe south, is boring.
I'd rather have a party than goto Grandma's house and sit
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there and twiddle our thumbs fora couple of hours and, you know
, let's break out the eggnog,let's break out the soul music,
let's smoke something and dance.
You know, watch football.
But that hasn't been myexperience traditionally
celebrating the holidays.
I understand that I'm also aunique individual and most
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people probably do not seethings the way I do, and that's
okay.
But I'm just not a huge fan ofChristmas.
She's not a huge fan and I'llbe glad when it's over.
Also, new Year's Eve isoverrated, unless you pay the
(47:42):
extra amount of money it takesto get VIP at the VIP New Year's
Eve party.
Otherwise, dealing with theparking, finding somewhere to
stay, the lines, having to waitto piss, having to wait to drink
, all that shit miss me with it.
When I lived in New Orleans, Istayed in on New Year's Eve.
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I cooked.
I specifically remember cookingblack eyed peas, cabbage,
turnip greens, tenderloin andfried catfish, instead of doing
anything in the city.
Because I didn't have the moneyto pay for the VIP at the VIP
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and I wasn't going to pay $100to go five miles in an Uber or
two miles in an Uber.
So I was like, fuck it, I'll goto the, I'll go to Robare's, to
the grocery store, and I willget my good luck food and I will
watch New Year's Day football,new Year's Eve football, and
watch the shit on, watch theball dropper, whatever, and just
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chill.
I did it right by myself.
It's a little depressing, but Iwas going to be depressed
anyway, depressed anyway duringthe holiday season, you know.
So it is what it is pimpingCounty line congregation.
Y'all are the best.
A couple more solo episodes becoming up, so y'all stay tuned.
(49:07):
I appreciate y'all, I lovey'all.
Don't forget to like, rate,review share all the bullshit,
do all the things Until nexttime.
Peace.
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