#118 - Maren Morris, Deion Sanders, Self-Confidence

Ever wondered why country music seems void of representation from queer people of color? Or why Maren Morris has decided to exit the country music scene?  

Unravel with us as we debunk the theory of ESPN rigging the Pac-12 for ratings. 

Now, let's turn the spotlight towards self-confidence. Ever wondered how Deion Sanders, the head football coach for the Colorado Buffaloes, exudes an aura of success? It's all about swagger and self-confidence, baby! We're dissecting the role of self-confidence in leadership and its magnetic pull in marketing and gathering followers. 

And while we're vibing on confidence, let's appreciate the tunes of Rod Wave, with a special shout-out to his new album, Nostalgia. 

Get ready to be enlightened, and remember, confidence is key. Tune in for a ride through the world of music, sports, and self-belief!

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Episode Timestamps

(00:24) Maren Morris is leaving country music. Who cares?

(21:19) Cultural Marxism and country music do not align

(35:34) Has ESPN intentionally propelled Deion Sanders to the top?

(53:10) The Power of Self-Confidence

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:24

County Line congregation. Welcome back to the County Line issue. Boy Lee call coming through solo episode this week and we got a lot on tap for you and I'm so excited to get into it with y'all. First things first subscribe, rate, review. Y'all know what it is. Don't be a bitch. Don't be a bitch. Don't come out here trying to get something for nothing. All you got to do is go, subscribe, rate and review, and it'll be greatly appreciated here at the County Line. So find yourself your pew of choice and get ready to get get the gospel given to you on this fine day. Wherever you are, wherever you may be listening, we are certainly glad to have you here with us and, without further ado, let's jump right into it.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Alright, so Marin Morris is a country music star and has been for going on probably close to 10 years now. Marin Morris has been very successful. She has been on top of the billboard charts, I think, at least four times throughout her career as a country music artist. She has currently recently come out and said that she is going to be leaving country music. Okay, so she will no longer be identifying herself as a country music artist, which is perfectly fine by me, and I'm sure it's perfectly fine by everybody else in the world. Quite frankly, marin Morris has been outspoken in regards to her political ideologies and beliefs, particularly since 2020, when everybody became supercharged in the way of politics and felt that it was necessary for everybody to hear their political beliefs, and the trend of being uncompromising and very staunch in regards to how one presents their political ideologies. Marin Morris has been no exception to this. She has made it a point to spew her woke Ideology and political beliefs all over the place. She was very critical of Morgan Wollin when he went through his situation in which they tried to cancel him for saying the n word, and if you haven't seen that video or heard the way that it was used, I encourage you to go do so. It's very obvious that Morgan Wollin was not utilizing the word in a way that was derogatory towards black people. That's neither here nor there. Marin Morris would not let that die. She utilized that situation as indication that Morgan Wollin is racist, and so is all of country music and the people who run country music.

Speaker 1: 3:30

So recently she has said that she'll be leaving country music and that she had thought about burning country music down, but it was doing so without her help and I'm paraphrasing, but she decided to go to the Los Angeles Times to disclose this information. Apparently, she has just recently released two songs, one called the tree and one called I think it's get the hell out of here, both apparently inspired by her decision to leave country music. Okay, marin Morris, first and foremost, get over yourself. I suspect that Marin Morris leaving country music has more to do with her being ostracized due to her unwillingness to compromise in the way of her political beliefs as opposed to Her being missed by the country music community. I do not believe that there are very many people in the country music industry who are just begging Marin Morris not to go.

Speaker 1: 4:51

Marin Morris is a prime example of someone who has been indoctrinated and brainwashed when it comes to political ideology. She obviously has no understanding of economic markets or the way that markets work, and it's very evident through. You know the words that she uses to describe her stance. One of her biggest grievances with country music is that it's racist and it's homophobic and it's transphobic, and her evidence for this is that not very many not enough queer people of color, in her words are given an opportunity in the country music industry. She also says things such as I'm a white woman, so that so I have a leg up in the country music industry. She says things such as white people are the gatekeepers of country music, and again, I'm paraphrasing. But she says all of these different things, really really trying to drive home the point that not enough people that aren't white and male get an opportunity in country music. That may be true, marin Morris, but my suspicion and my assumption is that those people do not get a quote unquote opportunity in country music, or they're just not as prevalent in country music. Because, number one, the demographic of the listener in country music does not typically align with queer people of color.

Speaker 1: 7:04

Most of the people who traditionally and historically have listened to country music and have been fans of country music by and large, generally speaking, are white, blue collar, evangelical Christians. That is who country music traditionally and historically has appealed to the most the working man. Marl Haggard said that something to the effect that country music is a is evidence of a working man's dream. Okay, the fan base and the artists who have appealed to the fan base have been white, blue collar 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 of the country music fan base. Now, when you have a market Such as country music fans in the country music industry, the way business works the people who try to make the products and the services to appease and appeal to the customer base they are going to present people and products and services that align with those people the most. That will entice those people to part ways with their greenback dollars. So they traditionally have presented artists in country music that appeal to the white, blue collar, evangelical fan base.

Speaker 1: 9:13

Now, has country music changed over the course of the year since its inception? Absolutely, have there been people of color, women, gay people, trans people? I don't know of any trans country music artists, but, whatever, I don't know very many trans country music fans. I don't know any trans country music fans. So her argument that these people, these so called marginalized people, not getting an opportunity at success in the country music industry, my initial argument and rebuttal to that would be well, there's not a market for queer People of color Artists in country music. Are there a market for black people to be artists? Absolutely, I think so. I don't think it's even close to the market that exists for white artists in country music and people. Can you know? If she were to be listening to this right now, she would say that the fact that you know we're talking about race is not even relevant. But the fact of the matter is that race does matter to people whenever they spend money on things. You just you look at black people supporting Dion Sanders. There are many black people supporting Dion Sanders, largely because he's black, and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. Black people are liking to see A black man have success In a space that's been traditionally filled by white men, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The difference is Dion Sanders is actually good. Dion Sanders is actually A legitimate Option as a head football coach in college football.

Speaker 1: 11:35

I'm not so sure that trans country music artists are going to have an outsized impact and a long run of success in country music, because there just aren't that many people who resonate with that lifestyle as country music fans. I don't think it's necessarily indicative of people hating trans people in country music as much as it is that people in country music just do not resonate and relate to that way of life as much as Marin Morris would like them to. You can't force people to like shit that they don't like. You can't force people to do things that they don't want to do. You can't force people to associate with things that they don't want to associate with. I think it comes down to economics in the country music instance, more so than anything. What makes the most money Putting somebody like Morgan Wallen out there or putting a queer person of color out there? Which one's going to resonate with more people? The answer is obvious. I don't think, and I have zero experience in country music inside the country music industry Zero. But from the outside, looking in, I'm sure people are glad that Marin Morris is gone. I'm sure people are relieved that she is gone.

Speaker 1: 13:19

She has probably been ostracized in the country music community, not because of the way she thinks, but her unwillingness to compromise on some of her beliefs. Now look, if somebody believes in something and that's what they believe to be right and they want to stand on that, I'm all for it. I'm all for people who want to express their beliefs and stand up for what they believe to be right. But what we have to recognize in America is that we can come to a consensus. We do not have to cater to a significant minority's opinion, just so they won't have their feelings hurt. She is part of that significant minority.

Speaker 1: 14:14

Many of the things that she believes are crazy. Just reading the LA Times interview that she so elaborately did to signify that she was going to be leaving the country music industry, leaving the genre, just reading that interview, I'm thinking to myself this person has no. This person has very little self-awareness. This person has very little independent thinking. She has signed up to all of the buzzwords and the talking points of the woke ideology, without any willingness, apparently, to work with people who think differently than her. She wants country music to reflect her personal beliefs. She wants country music to cater to what she believes to be right as an individual. Well, the fact of the matter is that's not the way the world is supposed to work. The world is not supposed to bow down to one person with one ideology and do things the way that that person believes that they should be done. That's not the way the world is supposed to work.

Speaker 1: 15:41

It's very equivalent to a child taking their ball, their basketball, to a neighborhood basketball court. Imagine this A child takes their basketball. That's the only basketball that day at the playground that that child took. None of the other children at the park have a basketball and the child who took the basketball to the court wants to 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 has traditionally been played in the world agrees that how the game has has been played and should continue to be played. But this child who, because they have the basketball, they want to make up their own rules that are not even close to the rules in which the game, the game, has been played by historically. So then the child takes that basketball and goes home and says well, I'm leaving if y'all are not going to play the game. That everybody knows how it should be played, but I want to play it differently, so I'm going to take my ball and go home.

Speaker 1: 17:07

That's what Marin Morris is doing, as opposed to giving what she can offer to country music. And I'm not saying she's got a color inside the lines, I'm just saying to get upset that there aren't more queer people of color in country music. I don't believe it's because people are preventing queer people of color in country music from getting an opportunity. I think people just recognize it like hey, there's not a bunch of queer people of color out here listening to country music. So we're not going to spend an outsized amount of money on promoting or developing a queer artist of color because we won't get the return on our investment. I don't think you're going to have a lot of country music fans signing up to support a queer person of color artist. That's not to say that there's anything wrong inherently with the queer person of color as a country music artist. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 1: 18:13

I think the NFL learned that when Michael Sam came through and he was the first openly gay football player drafted or whatever, he was the only one. There have been a couple of others and rumors of stuff like there's just not a whole lot of gay guys who make it to professional football. It's not that professional football is saying hey, if you're gay you can't come play professional football. It's just an anomaly. Like not a lot of gay guys are running around out here playing fucking football, much less at the level that it takes to make it to the NFL. So I don't think it's an effort on the part of the NFL to keep people away from the game as much as it is. It's just, that type of person doesn't participate in that activity that much, especially not on the level. I mean just from a number standpoint. If anybody ever took statistics, you understand what I'm talking about. Like, there's the numbers, just don't work out.

Speaker 1: 19:17

Marin Morris also alludes to the fact that during the Trump years. She alludes to her belief that during the Trump years, country music took a step back. She, it is her belief that because of Trump, people were emboldened to truthfully express their and her words biases in the way of race and the way of gender and the way of sexual identity and orientation. She believes that Trump's leadership emboldened artists and executives in country music to a truly express and freely express how they feel, and so that that movement then took over the industry and made it even more difficult for women, people of color and gay people and trans people to make headway in the industry. I think she is a perfect example of someone who has decided that, regardless of, regardless of any facts, regardless of any dialogue, she has decided that she is going to be on board with the woke ideology, no matter what, no matter what she is going to stand on the side of of woke, and I think she's gotten to a point. In Nashville it appears that she does not feel wanted. Got to me and myista, I would argue that she's probably not wanted because of her unwillingness to at least just recognize in some instances that, like not everybody's fucking evil, not everybody has racist intentions or sexist or homophobic or transphobic intentions.

Speaker 1: 21:19

Sometimes in this world things are just how they are. Sometimes things just are how they are, and I know that it's not a very academic and formal way to put it, it's very anecdotal. But like to utilize the example of the demographic in country music, the consumer in country music, if most of your market is evangelical, you're not going to have a ton of support for transgender people. Like transgender people or transgender artists or whatever. They need to align themselves or target a group of people that aligns with that way of thinking and that way of life. That's just how it works.

Speaker 1: 22:17

You can't force somebody to like something that they don't believe in or support Like you. Just, you cannot do that. And when I look at the things that 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 be like look, mary, you can't. You can't make people believe and support shit that they don't want to, just because you as an individual have decided that that's your worldview and that you believe that's the way things should be. That doesn't mean that everybody has to sign up with that line of thinking and you can't get mad at somebody and take your ball and go home when they don't agree with you. The much more productive thing to do is to have a conversation with that person or a group of people with that line of thinking and try to further understand, through dialogue and educating yourself, why someone thinks the way that they do.

Speaker 1: 23:26

Now, mary Morris is from Arlington, texas originally, and she, if I had to guess, probably was not raised in the woke ideology. She probably was not preached that religion as a child. It's something I mean. I know people personally who were not raised in in that environment. They were not taught to resonate and support that line of thinking. This is something that people are exposed to in college. This is something that people are exposed to in government and this is something that people are exposed to in media.

Speaker 1: 24:14

As I've mentioned before, the left and the woke Marxist ideology. The people who have orchestrated the infiltration of that ideology into America's institutions have done a phenomenal job. So if someone believes the government, if someone believes the media, if someone believes what they're taught in a college which, look, we should be we should be able to trust these institutions. But the fact that matters that we cannot. If someone believes one or all of the three institutions that I've named, then they will have been exposed and indoctrinated. Exposed to and indoctrinated by this cultural Marxist way of thinking. The media would like you to believe that the cultural Marxist or the Marxist or woke ideology is not real in the way that that many people in America are critiquing it. The media, the academia and the government ideology is woke. So people who are gullible, people who take the media, the government, entertainment, academia at their word, they're going to believe this shit and they're going to think that that's the way that the world should work. But the fact of the matter is that success should be measured based on merit. If there is a queer person of color that is just a bad ass country music star, if they are that, they will have success in America. They will have success in America if they resonate with the demographic of the people that they're targeting.

Speaker 1: 26:28

Lil Nas X ain't about to come be a country music star. Why, well, the obvious reason is he doesn't sing country music, although Old Town Road some people would argue that it is. I mean, so many people supported Old Town Road. Now, many of them probably didn't know that Lil Nas X is gay, black dude or whatever he is, but the song resonated, the product resonated with a certain group of people. Some of those people happened to fall within the demographic of country music fans. But Lil Nas X isn't going to make a country music album and deem himself to be country. Why, well, the primary reason is he doesn't make country music, and number two is that's not his market. That's not his target market. Lil Nas X is a Gen Z. Most of the kids are the support Lil Nas X are of the woke ideology and unfortunately that mindset is very, very popular and heavily followed in the United States of America.

Speaker 1: 27:51

But Marin Morris is a assertion that country music is inherently racist, homophobic, transphobic. All of these different things, I think is more reflection of her unwillingness to compromise on some of her viewpoints or dig deeper into these scenarios that she's finding herself in. I mean all the different, just go. I encourage you to just go read up on this story because she highlights she uses all the buzzwords I mean she highlights and is a perfect representation of someone who has been indoctrinated by the woke ideology. If you want a case study on it, go look at Marin Morris.

Speaker 1: 28:55

I personally don't think country music is racist, homophobic and transphobic. I just think most of the artists and most of the fans are white, come from a blue collar background and they're Christian. Most of them are from rural southeastern United States or in close proximity to and, as I've said before, art is just a reflection. It's the truest reflection of culture, the truest reflection of culture, and so what comes out in the art is reflective of the people consuming it, obviously the people making it to the people making it, or reflecting what, what they believe is going on in the world, they're simply expressing their viewpoint and then if it resonates well, then that tells you duh. A lot of people feel that way, and it's not just in country music. That's true in all forms of art and all forms of music and all in all genres. People support what they resonate with, what they can relate to, and Mary Morris can't control that, no matter how much she wants to. But that's indicative of the cultural Marxist ideology is that if it's not their way, they'll take their ball and go home. And that's exactly what she's doing. She's going, she's getting out of the country music genre, so to speak. I think she'll still be with Columbia records, but not in the country music department. If you will, good luck to her. Good luck to her.

Speaker 1: 30:42

I do have a conversation with Mary Morris and, and you know, pick her, pick her brain and really understand her. Try to understand her through a conversation, as opposed to these blasphemous sound bites and snippets that continue to come out of Mary Morris's mouth. But I wish her nothing but the best. I just I encourage you to analyze her speech, her language and and people that use the similar tone and similar talking points. I encourage you to analyze that and really pick it apart and try to understand where they're coming from, why they're viewing life that way, because it can inform just how crazy that line of thinking is. It can inform you in regards to where they're going wrong when it comes to them expressing their worldview and and look, I'm all four people expressing themselves regardless of how they feel about the world.

Speaker 1: 31:53

But there also has to come a point where somebody checks somebody else Like you can't. People can't just say shit without being checked. People can't say shit without being analyzed. That that's essential in media and really just holding people accountable in general. If you can just say something unchecked, then it's not as productive as it could be. If you can just say something unchecked without being questioned, without being critiqued, particularly in a conversational format, then those words are not being as productive as they could be. That's why conversations are so important. Long conversations are so important, so that people can peel back the layers and truly try to understand how a person is viewing a situation, not trying to tell them where they are wrong, why they are wrong, but listen to them and try to dissect what it is they're saying and really try to put yourself in their shoes and understand better how they're coming to the conclusions that they're coming to. And I don't think Mary Morris has done that with opposing opinions or really just a reality check. I think it's more about her not understanding economics than it is anything Like the problem with country music, even if you want to call it a problem the lack of queer and trans and colored and all these different identities that she wants to bring up. The lack of those people in the country music space is not because people are holding them down, it's because, number one, there's not as many and number two, there aren't as many people that in country music that resonate with that lifestyle. And that's okay, that's perfectly fine, it's just again. It's just the way, it is All right.

Speaker 1: 33:57

College football is in full swing. We just finished week three and it's been wildly entertaining to me so far. After the first week of football, I had a friend adamantly suggest that college football is rigged, and you may ask, rightfully so. Why did this gentleman make this assertion? He made this assertion in response to all of the coverage that Deion and Colorado have been receiving since the beginning of the season. Deion and Colorado were like 20 point underdogs at TCU. The opening week of the season, deion and TCU go to Dallas, fort Worth, and they handle business against TCU. It was a very entertaining game Excuse me, very entertaining game and really placed the crosshairs smack dab on the center of Boulder, colorado. So then Deion and Colorado play. They played last week. I forget who they played in week two, but they just played Colorado State this past weekend and took care of them in two over times.

Speaker 1: 35:34

Okay, so the gist of this conspiracy theory that college football is rigged is based on the idea that, prior to the season, with all the realignment news, all of the realignment developments, the Pac-12 is eventually is essentially going to dissolve after this season and you've got a multitude of teams going to a variety of different conferences, leaving the Pac-12 with only like two or three teams Oregon State, washington State, maybe one more teams have left for the ACC, they've left for the Big 10 and they've left for the Big 12. So that leaves the Pac-12 basically dissolved. Now it's been no secret that the Pac-12 has not been very strong in the football department, particularly throughout the college football playoff era. I'm not exactly sure how many times they've had a Pac-12 team in the final four. I can't believe or make myself believe. It's been more than twice and I want to say that's Oregon both times, which I'll check me on that. So the Pac-12 has not been very strong. They have not been very competitive at the highest level in college football for some time. Couple this with the dissolving of the league. They've still got a season to play while they are the Pac-12, that being this season. They did not look promising for the Pac-12 prior to this college football season. I mean, obviously people were excited for USC and people were wanting, they were excited to see what Dion would do at Colorado. I mean, it was an interesting talking point storyline, what have you. But overall the Pac-12 was expected to not be very good, just to continue the level of performance they had exhibited over the course of the past 10 years. Fast forward now to week three. As it stands, the Pac-12 has the most teams in the top 25 than any other conference in the country.

Speaker 1: 38:08

Now, the conspiracy theory that college football is rigged is rooted in the belief that ESPN recognized prior to the season that the Pac-12 was going to suck. It's no secret that TV ratings for Pac-12 football are trash. There are many different reasons for that, but the ratings are not very good. Traditionally speaking. Espn got the bright idea that they would rig college football in a way that would allow for Colorado's success. And you ask, why would they do that? To increase the ratings on the West Coast. If Colorado is good, then every game they play will be must-see TV. Therefore, more people will stay up on the East Coast to watch. More people on the West Coast will watch. There will be more overall interest as a whole throughout the season to get the most juice out of the squeeze, so to speak, from a rating standpoint, for the 2023 season, to bridge the gap between Pac-12 dissolving and then all of those teams landing in their ultimate new conferences.

Speaker 1: 39:26

I called bullshit on it right away. I was like this is outlandish. There's no way that an orchestrated effort could be put together to coerce everyone to making Colorado football the best Pac-12 team, just to just to increase and inflate ratings Like that would be a massive orchestrated effort and I just do not believe that it's possible. That theory can now be debunked because eight teams from the Pac-12 are in the top 25 as we speak, so they don't need Colorado to make things interesting. At least they haven't up until this point. Now, has Colorado been interesting? Absolutely they've been interesting. They must see TV.

Speaker 1: 40:18

I mean, every time the camera's on Deion, every time the camera's on Deion, people are watching. But that's not different. Deion's been that way since he came into the scene at Florida State out of high school. I mean, deion has always been the center of attention. He is a master marketer and that's only been amplified through the media efforts at Colorado and Jackson State by his son. His son runs the social media content and I think he runs the football programs media media, so to speak. He heads up the football team's media efforts.

Speaker 1: 41:05

Colorado is good for college football. Deion is good for college football. Being a disruptor in the way that he is and overhauling the roster. I just believe that he is bringing to light a lot of ways of doing things that can be beneficial long term for college football in the way of bringing more parity to the game. And that's what I'm all about Now.

Speaker 1: 41:36

If you've listened to me talk about college football, you know that where I think you know where I think this thing's headed, I think we're headed to a split from the NCAA totally abandoning the NCAA At least the Power Five schools, then your Power Five schools. I think there will be 40 or 50 of those Power Five schools who ultimately break away and have their own league that will be similar to the NFL in the way of formatting and they will fine tune parity by the way of new rules and guidelines to model after the NFL and ultimately become what they already are as minor league NFL. I do not think college football is rigged? I do not think they rigged it for Deion Sanders to get all the attention and boost ratings, anything like that. But I think what Deion's doing is interesting and it's fun to watch. I really do. I think Deion does a very good job of being very flamboyant, very charismatic, very confident, but also teaching accountability, accountability, discipline and structure. I think he's doing a very good job of allowing the kids to have fun but also teaching them what a work ethic is, what it should look like, what accountability is, what discipline is.

Speaker 1: 43:20

Now they've got Colorado's good. I think Colorado wins seven or eight games. Ultimately, I don't think Colorado is about to go to the national championship or anything. They've got good players. Edwards, the running back for Colorado he is very fast. Shadour Sanders is composed, he's poised, he can spin it, he's smart, he makes the right decisions. And then they've got Travis Hunter who's playing both ways and he I mean he's a he's a dog on both sides of the ball Very good player.

Speaker 1: 44:00

Colorado State. I watched that game last night Colorado and Colorado State. You know much was made about Mike Norvell, the head coach of Colorado State, coming out and basically ridiculing Dion for not taking his hat and sunglasses off when he does interviews. Now I think that it was probably taken out of context and Mike Norvell was misrepresented. But whatever, the media takes it and runs with it and you know how that goes. But number 14 for Colorado State is a dog. He's a wide receiver and he can fucking play. He can play. He will definitely be on somebody's NFL roster in the very near future. I can't remember the kid's name.

Speaker 1: 44:44

Number 14 for Colorado State is a 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, get himself open. He can make make shit happen after the catch. So I enjoyed watching it. It did come on at nine o'clock, but let's not mistake ourselves. Colorado's uniforms are tremendous. I mean Dion's got him dripped up.

Speaker 1: 45:20

Dion is always going to be flashy. He's always going to have good fashion, look good, feel good, play good. He does rub some people the wrong way, but I think Dion is often like. I think he is often misinterpreted as well. Yes, dion talks a lot of shit, but If you can, if you can back your shit talking up, I'm all for it. Like, talk that shit, talk that shit, I'm all for it. It'll be interesting to watch Dion in Colorado as they go through the season. It'll be interesting to continue watching the recruiting. He had a huge boost on recruiting because game day was in Colorado yesterday and it was electric. If you didn't watch it, it's probably.

Speaker 1: 46:17

It's probably my favorite game day episode in a long time, probably since, like the Katy Perry episode in Oxford, the Rock was the special guest picker. They were in the mountains in Boulder. The weather looked amazing. Dion gets up there with his white cowboy hat and his sunglasses. Then he gives the Rock a pair of sunglasses as he comes up onto the set. So it was. I mean it was very, very interesting, very entertaining.

Speaker 1: 46:47

Zero politics were involved in that show, in that broadcast. I mean, reese Davis is great, herbie's great, corso's terrible. He needs to go and they're doing everything they can to memorialize him before he's dead, but he's basically dead on stage. It's terrible and I commend ESPN for, I guess, doing what they need, what they feel they need to do, in the way of giving Lee Corso a victory lap and commemorating him for all of his years of work with ESPN and all that 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 more entertaining, but it's embarrassing To see that old man on stage not being able to make out a sentence. Aside from that, game day yesterday at Colorado was amazing. It was great. I look forward to where they go next.

Speaker 1: 47:48

I mean, as far as ESPN goes, that is their best show. That's the only show I watch on ESPN. Quite frankly, only thing I watch on ESPN are live sports and game day, because the politics are so evident in their production. It's not sports, it's not solely sports. They always have to intertwine their political stance when disseminating sports news, and so that's why I only watch game day, because game day has the least amount of politics involved in the production. I don't have to listen to the Marin Morris woke ideology the entire time. I'm watching that production and it's refreshing, but that's like the only show on ESPN that's that way. Speaking of Dion Dion has a very, very good, very good. Speaking of Dion, dion has he is, he's probably has of all entertainers, athletes, what have you? He has supreme self confidence.

Speaker 1: 49:07

Self confidence is something that I have struggled with. Didn't necessarily know that I struggled with it until I've gotten into my elder years, up for 20s, now 30 shout out to the 30s. But one thing that I've concluded Thus far in life is that if I don't believe in myself, then nobody else will either. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. If I don't have self confidence, I am not allowing for the environment to be conducive for other people to believe in me. And some of you may say well, it doesn't matter if other people believe in you, but it does. It does matter if other people believe in you, because that is positive reinforcement but that you can utilize as fuel to move forward and motivation. But if you don't look at yourself in the mirror and say look, motherfucker, I believe in you, I believe that you are going to do what it takes and I believe that you can do what it takes to do whatever it is that you want to do, then you are blocking other people from being able to believe in you.

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It's very easy to detect when someone is not genuine in their self confidence. Sometimes self confidence can be a front For self consciousness, for self consciousness or insecurity. In many cases it is. You often hear it said the loudest person in the room is the most insecure, and that often is true. That often is true, but there's nothing wrong with having genuine self confidence. It turns a lot of people off because it's so rare. It's so rare for someone to be self confident in themselves to the point to where they are willing 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 can believe you. To reinforce the belief in yourself to continue, to provide you with motivation to continue forward. You're disallowing yourself to have 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 our responsibility to believe in our self and we can cultivate that self confidence. It will not happen overnight, but we can cultivate that, that self confidence, and it's okay to exude self confidence.

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Many times when people are rubbed the wrong way, when someone is genuinely self confident, it's because they're insecure or they're jealous. It's because they're insecure or they're jealous, period. Very few people are genuinely truthfully self confident in their abilities. Dion Sanders is one of those people. Now, what's unique about Dion Sanders is that he continues to deliver on things that he says he believes in, and that's what makes his self confidence so much, so powerful and his word is so powerful. The things that come out of his mouth are so powerful because it just seems that he's speaking this shit into existence, as opposed to taking the stance of a traditional college football coach.

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Say, like Nick Saban would. When asked, how do you feel about your team, nick Saban is likely going to err on the side of humility, although Nick Saban could utilize self confidence the way Dion does. He just doesn't, and most coaches have not done that traditionally. But I think Dion's got just as much credibility to utilize his self confidence and be self confident in himself and his team as a Nick Saban does, because I believe they truly put in the work and the attention to detail that a Nick Saban does. It's just a different presentation of the product is simply all that it is, and Dion recognizes, and has for a long time recognized, how powerful his marketing of his self confidence can be.

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He's not blowing smoke. Dion's a winner. Dion knows he's a winner. So if he can go out here and say, hey, this is what we've got, this is what we've got in our building, 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, after upsetting TCU in Dallas, fort Worth, and now beating Colorado State in a night game in Boulder, and two over times, I mean you can't really say anything about it. It really should be admired that he's being as confident as he is Now.

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Will he fall on his face? Yes, we all do. We all do. Nobody can be adamantly self confident, infinitely self confident, and never stumble. Nobody's perfect. So there will be a come of time. There will come a time when Dion has to eat his words. There will come a time when Dion and Colorado get their ass beat and they'll have to get their ass beat. And then Dion and Colorado get their ass beat and they'll have to eat crow. But the point is is that it's okay to be self confident and it's encouraged to be self confident Because it may rub people the wrong way, particularly like when someone is is self confident in the eye of the media, in front of the media, like that's a different ball game than just you or I having self confidence on a personal level.

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In our day to day lives, people are attracted to self confident, to people who are self confident. People are attracted to and I'm not just I'm not talking Romano romantically, I'm not speaking just in a romantic or sexual sense, I'm also speaking from a leadership perspective Primarily, primarily. If a person is not self confident, people are not going to follow them. If a person is not self confident, they're not going to be enticed to have a conversation with them, to buy from them. If a person feels that who they are talking to doesn't know what they're talking about or they're not confident in what they are talking about, they're going to be less likely to listen and act on what that person is talking about. On the other hand, if they are self-confident, if they can prove that they can ensure the other person that not only are they confident but they believe in what it is that they're saying, then they're going to be more likely to be able to persuade and incentivize the people they're talking to or speaking to to act how they want them to act. That's just how people are. People want leaders with self-confidence Women. Want men with self-confidence Women most well? I'm not so sure. Most men want women with confidence, because I think most men lack confidence and they're intimidated by women that are confident. And I stand on that Closing hymn for the week County Line congregation.

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Rod Wave, one of my favorite artists, just recently came out with a new album and the first song on the album is called Nostalgia. I encourage you to go to Apple, spotify, wherever you listen to your music, and listen to the song Nostalgia. Rod Wave always his music, always is indicative and reflective of his mental health and I wouldn't necessarily call it a struggle for Rod Wave. It sounds to me like Rod Wave is very self-aware. He recognizes when he's depressed, when he has anxiety. He's recognized that drugs can influence his mood, can enhance his mood, can not so much enhance his mood, but he comes through.

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What is the name of this album? I mean, I want to give Rod Wave a shout out. So Nostalgia is the first song on the album. I'm going to try to get you hold on. I'm looking it up. I'm going to get you the name of the Rod Wave album Rod Wave. I want to go to Rod Wave and concert. I think he's coming to New Orleans soon. Shit, okay. Rod Wave album is no, not beautiful mind. Beautiful mind was the one he released last year.

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Rod Wave released 2023. Why is this for hard to find? Rod Wave reveals artwork and release date for new album. Well, if you just go type in Rod Wave new album I mean it came out September 15th I think you'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 about that was that took a long time. The title track and the first track on Rod Wave's new album, nostalgia, is titled Nostalgia. The whole album is good. It's 17, 18 tracks, something like that. But that's the closing hymn for the County line Subscribe.

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