#128 - Boosie, Anthropomorphism, Christmas

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?

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:20

County line congregation. We are back in the motherfucking house. Solo episode, november 13th 2023. Boy, do I have something special for y'all, so let's jump right into it.

Speaker 1: 0:33

First things first, if you do not know, if you're not aware, my favorite rapper of all time is a gentleman by the name of Torrance Hatch, also known as Lil Boosie, currently known as Boosie Motherfucking Badass. So I had my first encounter personally with Boosie yesterday. All right, I'm scrolling Instagram, and he has had trouble with Instagram, to say the least. He and Mark Zuckerberg are not on the best of terms. Reason being Boosie has had his account either deactivated, deleted or deemed inaccessible as a result of some of the content that he's put out throughout the years. So Boosie recently got a new Instagram account and this is probably, to my knowledge, probably his fourth or fifth account up to this point, maybe even more, but I was scrolling Instagram yesterday, sunday afternoon, not doing a whole lot. It was raining cold in Mississippi for relatively Mississippi terms at least, it was about 65, sun wasn't out. So, needless to say, I wasn't doing a whole lot, doing a little writing, watching a little football, and I had taken a break to scroll Instagram and I saw Boosie's post saying that he's open. He has an open date, november the 17th, which is this upcoming Friday, okay which so happens to be Boosie's birthday. And so Boosie was requesting someone get in touch with him about booking November the 17th for him to perform on his birthday.

Speaker 1: 2:23

And if you don't follow Boosie, you may not understand that his accounts are very personal and that he leaves emails, email addresses. He leaves phone numbers A lot of times indicating that it's another person, not him personally, that will be handling any communication via those email addresses or phone numbers. So he leaves an email address. I'm like, fuck it, I'm just going to take a shot, I'm going to see if I can just get somebody on the phone and just start a negotiation, just see if I can talk to somebody. I do this all the time on social media, when trying to book guests, when trying to get in contact with people about appearing on the podcast, whatever the case may be. So this is not an unusual act on my part.

Speaker 1: 3:12

So I called Boosie's email address that he leaves in the comments on Instagram and I hit send and I said something to the effect of actually, let me just pull it up, let me just pull up what I said so you can have the full context. I think I sent it from the County Line Podcast email account. Mind you, I was not expecting to get anything in response. Let's see. Let me get to the right email account. So yeah, I was just trying to get in contact with someone and try to spark up a conversation. I really just tried to find out information about what it would entail to get Boosie on the podcast on the County Line. As you all know, that's the number 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 the email that I sent to Boosie Fucking internet, reason 589, that it sucks to live in a small town because the internet is awful. I'm on my hot spot right now. Okay, so I sent it to Boosie Sunday afternoon, sunday morning, at 1008 am. I'm Lee Smith, host and producer of the County Line. What's the price tag for Boosie's birthday weekend? We're in Philadelphia, mississippi. And then I left my name, the County Line, and then my phone number, 601-663-648. Y'all hit me up if y'all are interested in talking to me.

Speaker 1: 4:56

Then I get a phone call about an hour later from a phone number that has a 504 address, 504 area code, that is New Orleans, louisiana's area code. I didn't even put two and two together. I didn't answer it. It's like this is fucking. I don't know who this is, and so I let it ring, I let it go to voicemail and ultimately, what ends up happening is I get a message from that number Immediately after I didn't answer it. It just said Boosie. I said, oh shit, this is, this is Boosie's party.

Speaker 1: 5:30

I knew at that point that there was somebody from Boosie's party that was trying to reach out about the email that I sent, so I immediately call it back A couple rings. Hey, dawg, this Boosie. And I knew I heard the voice, I knew it was him and I said what's up, boosie? I said this is Lee Carl with the County Line podcast. I'm trying to talk with somebody about getting you on. And he said how big the club, how big the club is. And I said well, I ain't got no club. I said but I got a podcast and I'm just trying to figure out what it's going to cost to get you come on the podcast for your birthday weekend.

Speaker 1: 6:08

I was not full disclosure. I was not prepared to have this conversation with Boosie. Not whatsoever, not from a thought about what I'm going to say standpoint, anything like that. I was not expecting to get a response. So, needless to say, I fumbled my way through the conversation with Boosie initially, and essentially, what I did was I told him that I was not looking for him to come play a gig, but I will consider paying him to make an appearance on the podcast, which he is known for doing. He's very popular on podcasts. He does does a good job. So I asked him what the price is. He tells me I say, ok, well, let me go back to my team myself and it's a foundation difference that's always been there for me. Allow us some time to see if we can get all our ducks in a row to have you here for said price at the end of the week, right? So five days Now, after he told me the price, I knew that I couldn't.

Speaker 1: 7:13

I couldn't swing it. So I was like, okay, well, what's my next option? So I started I mean, this is all within like five minutes after we. So we talked one time. I told him I'd call him back and then, five minutes later, I call him back. So I'm like boozy, I don't have the $20,000 that you want to come be on the podcast. But I have had Roy Jones Jr on the podcast before and I was like and I told him what Roy Jones Jr charged and I was like Roy Jones Jr didn't even charge $20,000. And he was like, man, ain't nobody try to hear about, no motherfucking Roy Jones Jr. He was like bro, that's the price, this is what it is. And then he just hung up and so I felt like the call went exactly like I would predict it if you'd given me those the circumstances.

Speaker 1: 8:04

Boosie, we still want to have you at the county line. I don't have the $20,000 right now I don't, and I know you don't want to hear that, but one day I will, I'll have it and as soon as I have that $20,000 to drop on an episode guest, I will gladly pay you $20,000. But then I got to thinking about it and I was like what if I did have a club for Boosie to go to? What if I did have a door, a door 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 for his show because I didn't ask him to do a show.

Speaker 1: 8:47

It was very spontaneous, it was very informal. You know, I did not expect it doesn't surprise me that Boosie was on the phone, but I didn't expect him to answer. I didn't expect him to call me. I didn't expect I expected that I may hear from someone in the Boosie camp, but I didn't expect for Boosie badass to call me on the phone. But it's very commendable that he did. He's still out there making moves on his own. He's running his own shit and that's encouraging to see. That's encouraging to see.

Speaker 1: 9:22

I wish I could call somebody and be like hey, dog, $20,000 and I'll come down and talk. I'll come sit down and talk with you for an hour. I asked him. I also asked him. I was like Boosie, you're going to charge me $20,000 to come on the podcast. I was like Roy Jones Jr didn't even 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 N word a couple of times, which you know, whatever I'm cool with.

Speaker 1: 9:52

Maybe he thought I was black. Maybe he thought I was black because I did kind of throw on my. You know what a boot, what a boot. Like I knew him and you know, maybe I have my black accent going on just a little bit I have had people from other parts of the country tell me before that white people from the South sometimes sound black. Like well, we, you know, we do live in the same place, so I could see how that may be the case. We share a lot of the same cultural norms, if you will.

Speaker 1: 10:31

But it was great. It was great. It was a great way to spend Sunday Rediculing myself for not making the most out of that encounter with Boosie. But you know what, at the end of the day, boosie's a hustler. If I'd have had the $20,000, boosie would be sitting down at the county line this upcoming November 17. So don't hate the player, hate the game. That's the way it goes. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Shout out Boosie, we love you. We hope that the fucking, the case is going good with the gun charges and shit in California. Shout out to the movie. Y'all go check out the movie at BoosieMoviecom. I give you a plug, man. I give you a plug. I know you wanted the $20,000 for the podcast but can't make it happen right now, but one day we will, and you can stamp that my brother All right.

Speaker 1: 11:20

Over the weekend I went to a Bobby Rush concert, fortunately in the town in which I reside, philadelphia, mississippi, at the Ellis Theater, marty Stewart's Congress of Country Music. Bobby Rush, for those of you that are not familiar is a blues man. He turned 90 years old on November, the 10th 2023. And us in Philadelphia, we were lucky enough to be blessed with his 90th birthday celebration, which did not disappoint. I went with my uncle. He was so kind enough Shout out Graham Carlton for getting us front row tickets to see one of the last original blues men in America, mr Bobby Rush. And let me tell you it was a party. It was a party.

Speaker 1: 12:12

I was expecting a decent performance from a 90 year old man. If I had to age, if somebody took me to that show and said I want you to name the age of this gentleman performing, I would have given him 60, 70 at the eldest. He's in great shape. It was a great performance. We went night fishing. We found out what the catfish love to bite. That is a playoff of one of Bobby Rush's most famous songs called Night Fishing. He did a great job, great crowd. It was the first time I'd sat on the front row at the LSDater. I thought it was fucking phenomenal. I thought it was great. I thought it was a great atmosphere. Can't say enough about it. We have an entire generation. I'd say most of the people who know Bobby Rush are probably over 50 years old. The majority of those people are probably black. That was reflected in the crowd that was at the show.

Speaker 1: 13:35

A lot of y'all may not know who Bobby Rush is, but if you don't, I encourage you to go do a deep dive into his music and his work. He is a very interesting individual and he leans into comedy just as much as he does music. And you can tell, you can pick up that vibe if you just go listen to his music but seeing it in action it really hit home on a different level because he was. I mean, it was almost as if we were getting a musical show from a musician, a musical performer, and in between songs we were getting stand-up comedy, which made for a very, very entertaining show.

Speaker 1: 14:23

He interacted with the crowd on a spectacular level. He was very engaging, very interactive with the crowd. He walked around, walked up and down the aisles of the LS Theater. There are aisles on either side of the middle section, much like many conventional theaters and he made his way off the stage, up the aisle, came back down the aisle, went across the front row, right in front of my face and went back up the other aisle. He's shaking hands, he's giving hugs. He was very gracious. There was one gentleman in the crowd that kept screaming that it was his birthday too and I'm like dude, shut the fuck up. Like you are not, bobby Rush, this is not your 90th birthday celebration.

Speaker 1: 15:11

You can tell that Bobby Rush is kind of like come on, man, are you serious? But he took it in stride as a professional and a very mature human being and did a great job. He did a great job handling it. You can tell that he's been doing that for 72 years is the 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 that amount of time, that is very, very impressive and I thought it was one of the best shows that I've seen at the Ellis.

Speaker 1: 15:46

And if you haven't been to the Ellis, I encourage you. Whether you're from Philadelphia, mississippi or not, if you're close, you need to go. There are a lot of good acts that are coming in. Just had Arden Barnett on from Ardenland Management Company, who is now doing the booking and management of the facility at the Ellis Theater in the Congress of Country Music had him on recently that episode will be coming out soon and he said he had known, he's known Bobby. I had Arden Barnett on the evening prior to Bobby Rush's concert and so we obviously talked about the anticipation leading up to Bobby Rush's 90th birthday celebration and how, what a momentous occasion it was going to be and ultimately turned out to be, and so we obviously talked about Arden's experience booking shows with Bobby Rush and their relationship and the nature of Bobby Rush, and everything that Arden Barnett laid out in regards to Bobby Rush and his way of performing turned out to be true.

Speaker 1: 16:54

Bobby Rush did not disappoint. He had the entire band. Some of the musicians that have come to Ellis Theater have been solo performances and even Bobby Rush has done more of those solo performances in recent history, for obvious reasons, but had the full band. He had his two dancers on his side that were amazing, two beautiful women that he had dancing to all of his songs, and he tied them into the theme of the concert and what have you. So it was very, very cool. It's very hard for us to smell the roses and smell the flowers while they're in our presence, and I encourage people to do that with the Ellis Theater.

Speaker 1: 17:42

Like I feel that we often get ahead of ourselves in projecting what impact the Ellis Theater can have in the future and we forget to pinch ourselves in the moment that it's really happening. That we're having Bobby Rush on Friday night in Philadelphia, mississippi, and then turn around on Sunday night of the same weekend and have Ashley McBride. That is fucking phenomenal, that is crazy and that is a blessing, to say the least. And so I know we all here in Philadelphia and in Shelby County and East Central Mississippi are looking forward to the ancillary byproducts that will present themselves as a result of the Ellis Theater and the Congress of Country Music. But, by God, the Ellis is rocking. It's here, it's operating. No other town in the state of Mississippi or in the nation has what we have, and I do feel like we've already started to take it for granted. But we have to remind ourselves not to. We have to remind ourselves not to, and enjoy the shit as it's happening, as difficult as it is for us human beings to do that. That's what we have to strive to do. We have to strive to do that.

Speaker 1: 19:00

It's so good to be back with the County Line on a solo episode. We've been blowing and going. We have been trying to interview and conversate with as many interesting people as possible. I'll take this time to say if there are suggestions on guests or content. I encourage you to drop those in the comments of any social media posts. Send me a DM, email me. I'm just as accessible as Boosie, believe it or not. Now we're nowhere near celebrity status, but very much accessible. And that's one of the trademarks of the County Line is that we are so accessible and that we engage and interact with the audience, which is what we love to do. We love to do, but without y'all we can't do it. So go engage right now somewhere. Go engage with the County Line, all right.

Speaker 1: 19:56

So the meat and potatoes of today's solo episode has to do with dating. Surprise, surprise. As you may know you may not I am a single man in a small town in rural Mississippi of about 7,500 people. The dating world is vastly different now than it was 20 years ago. The dating world is vastly different than it was 10 years ago. Thankfully, now we have dating apps that we can lean into and utilize, regardless of where we are, but particularly in rural areas, it is very, very helpful when it comes to finding potential dating partners.

Speaker 1: 20:38

Duh, but there's a huge stigma associated with dating apps and I'm not quite. I don't quite understand it. I understand some of the speculation as to why dating apps have a bad, bad rap. I guess you could say tender really started out giving it a bad rap because it became conventional wisdom that dating apps are only used for fucking, which that's not true. That's not true. Is there a lot of that that goes on? Sure, there's also a lot of that that goes on in real world dating right, the idea that someone may be on a dating app just to have sex. Well, there are people walking around in the real world all day, every day, who have that exact fucking motto. Okay, so it's not like that's a whole lot. It's not like that's crazy out of left field type behavior just because it's on a dating app, it does give guys easier access to attractive women and vice versa.

Speaker 1: 21:52

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 by saying most women are shitty. Okay, so it's not just us. We have a problem with people. People are shitty no matter of gender.

Speaker 1: 22:14

So women out there saying that they hate men and all men are pigs and all men suck, you're not far off base. You're not far off base. But the same can be said about your glorious gender, because y'all have a lot of emotional immaturity. Y'all have a lot of hyper-sexualized individuals. Y'all have a lot of false narratives about the opposite gender, the most common one being that every guy is a fucking narcissist, because I see so many women online and even in person. Their excuse for ending a relationship or breaking up with somebody is because he's a narcissist Newsflash bitch. Not every man is a narcissist, contrary to what you may hear on the internet. Sometimes you are just self-centered. Sometimes you are just self-centered enough to think that just because someone does not appease your every waking move or adhere to your every waking move, does not necessarily mean that that person is a narcissist, point being.

Speaker 1: 23:38

I understand that the pickings are slim on both sides of the fence for men and women and y'all are going to continue, y'all being everybody, y'all are going to continue to paint men as pigs and women as dumbasses, regardless of what I say. So allow me to move on and reveal one of my icks, if you will, which is a fucking terrible word, but it is a buzzword in today's dating scene. So an ick is something, essentially, that gets on your nerves, something that you cannot deal with, a non-negotiable when it comes to dating someone. This is a hot take and I don't think that it should be. I don't think that this should be a hot take.

Speaker 1: 24:36

I'm seriously worried about an entire generation of females, particularly lower millennials, higher gen Z's, who treat their dogs like humans. This is a very disturbing trend. Mary Ryan Brown, comedian from Hattiesburg, and I have talked about this and we will be discussing this coming up on her next episode that we're recording on the 20th of November. It'll probably be like three or four episodes from now, but there's this concept of anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism is when a human projects human characteristics on a non-human object. Women are doing this at alarming rates with dogs, particularly rescue dogs, and it's disturbing to me because these women are treating these dogs like humans. They're talking to them like humans, they're allowing them to take over the house as if they are a human, caring for them as a human.

Speaker 1: 25:50

Look, dogs, in my opinion, are supposed to be outside. They are outside animals. Now, have I had dogs in my house throughout my life? Yes, none of it. Well, one time I've had a dog inside of my house. As a result of my choice, that dog ended up jumping out of the truck when he was about three months old and he died. But he's a dog. Okay, was it upsetting? Yes, okay, we build relationships with these dogs. They're not called a man's best friend for no reason. However, the connotation of a man's best friend and now a woman's best friend is different.

Speaker 1: 26:44

A dog cared for in the house by a woman gets better treatment than a man. A woman is potentially prospecting. To date, I say this from personal experience on multiple different occasions this motherfucking dog can be running around the house tearing shit up, shitting on the floor, peeing on the wall, chewing up shoes, smelling like asshole, making the house atrocious, and still get a fucking treat. Still get a fucking treat. Let me try that. 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 all over the place, get my hair all over the clothes, not bathe, don't brush my teeth. Go outside, run around, roll around on the fucking dirt, then come inside and get up under the covers with her. I don't think she'd be having it. So why do they put up with it from the dog? Why do they put up with it from the dog? Because the dog can't talk back. The dog can't provide a negative response or won't provide a negative response.

Speaker 1: 28:24

I think this trend started when we started, as humans, utilizing dogs in emotional assistance situations or emotional assistance scenarios. What is it called A service dog and that for army veterans who've been to war, been shot at, probably broke their leg? Yeah, they probably need an emotional service dog, but you bitch that wears Lulu lemon and wants to go to brunch and get bottomless mimosas and bitch about having to pay your phone bill do not need an emotional service dog. I also think what has contributed to this trend is our parents entertained us with dogs. In many cases, my parents didn't personally, did we have dogs. Absolutely, we had dogs. We lived in the country for the most part and although we did have an inside dog, dogs lived outside. Dogs lived outside in the, in the rain and in the fucking weather. You know they are tough, they're dogs, they live outside their animals and they were treated as such. When they die, we dig a hole and we throw them in the ground and it's time to move on. It's a fucking dog, okay, but I think a lot of middle class to upper class parents got dogs to entertain their children, much like a TV screen or something like that, and so these children became became for an entire generation, attached to these dogs as opposed to their fucking human friends.

Speaker 1: 30:21

And now here we are. These these women have gotten of age of dating and they're too emotionally attached to their fucking dog to be able to have a new, brand new friendship with another human. It is atrocious. This is again. This has happened on multiple occasions. This is not just some scant individual field research. This has happened on three or four different occasions with three or four different female dating prospects. A couple of times in which we have ended up in the bed with one another and the dog tries to exist in the bed when I'm in the bed with her. No man, no man, turn off, turn off. Again, I'm not talking about just one female. This has happened on multiple occasions. Okay, I don't want the fucking dog in the bed with me. Not happening, Not happening.

Speaker 1: 31:33

I could see maybe if I was married or if I had a long time girlfriend and we got a dog together and there was some you know, whatever. Maybe sometimes the dog can get in the bed, but I just find it's very strange. I find it very strange and I know a lot of women are going to be like, well, if men weren't so shitty, then you know, if you start that, if you even start to say that, then you're admitting that dogs are replacing men. It's fucking crazy. It's crazy. We got an entire generation of people who lean on dogs for emotional security or an emotional relationship and it's like the dogs won't mind. It's like these women don't know how to train dogs and I'm like bitch, if you can't train a dog, what you gonna do with a kid? You gonna let the kid tear up the house. That's where my mind goes. That's where my mind goes. Like you gonna let the kid run the 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 to the bar or whatever. You know how people wanna take their fucking dogs and they have those trash bags. When they walk behind the dog they have these vests that they put on these dogs right so that they won't run away. But they also you see this a lot in bigger cities they also on the vests clip on shit bags that the owner picks up dog shit and throws it away in these little bags.

Speaker 1: 33:29

When I was in New Orleans, happy Davis, 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 in the evening, sometimes, whether happy work late or sometimes I would just take Chief instead of happy whatever. And I would see these people walking around the neighborhood in New Orleans and they would be doing this with these dogs and they'd be picking up dog shit and Chief liked to shit on the side of trees. And so, like I didn't have a vest on Chief, chief didn't even have a leash I didn't put Chief on the leash. That's how good a dog he was and Chief would take his. He would get hiked up on the side of a tree and he would take his shit and sometimes other dog owners would be around looking at me and they'd be looking at me like, oh, you're not going to pick that shit up. And I'm like, fuck, no, I'm not picking up dog shit. The only time I'm picking up dog shit is if I had a dog in my house and it's shit in my house. Otherwise I'm not picking up dog shit. You could cancel that.

Speaker 1: 34:55

Dog parks shit's weird. I mean, people go and have conversations about their dogs like they are human beings. Oh yeah, when she was three months she was such and such and such and such, but she grew out of that. That was just a phase. Like bitch, take that dog off a leash and let it run. Like it blows my mind how people will have Australian shepherds up in the house. I'm guilty of it. I did it. That's the one that died after three months or whatever, jumped out of the truck. Worst decision I could ever make is having a dog that wants to chase cows inside all the time, and this happens so often.

Speaker 1: 35:41

Really, what has happened is white girls have basically taken over the dog breeding industry and they figured out how to make like the perfect, almost human dog in a golden doodle. But trick is, you still have to train them. They'll listen. They're very smart dogs and they will listen. But you have to be an asshole to a dog sometimes, and these women aren't willing to do it and I think that's a bad sign when it comes to what's down the pike for our children. If you can't tell a dog no, how are you going to tell a child no? Sad Anthropomorphism. It's a red flag. It's a red flag because these people are living in a world that's not real.

Speaker 1: 36:31

I was listening to a gentleman speak the other day. I forget what he was talking about, but somehow another uh, the topic of white people's relationship with dogs came up. It's a black gentleman speaking. I think it was like a Malcolm X historian or some shit Pretty racist guy, but um, nonetheless, he was talking about his interpretation of white people's relationships with dogs and he was saying that it comes from people who lived in the caucus mountains and the caves built relationship with wolves to help them, I guess, protect themselves from danger or whatever.

Speaker 1: 37:13

Evolutionary speaking, from an evolutionary perspective, I can see how that may be logical. I don't know how much truth there 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. Like if we treated our human beings with his, with half as much of respect as white girls treat golden doodles, it'd be a better world. It would be a better fucking world.

Speaker 1: 37:44

But you know, they'll never admit it. They'll never admit it as a group, as a whole. The Lulu lemon dawning white girls will never admit that they treat their golden doodles with too much care than us as men. We just got to take it, you know, and it's a. It's a middle class, upper class phenomenon. Like you get a poor girl, she ain't worried about no doll, she's probably got a fucking pit bull out there at the tree, chained up, ready, ready for whatever, probably feeds him once a week. People with too much money and too much time treat dogs too well. I mean, that's just. That's that's where I am on the topic, you know.

Speaker 1: 38:34

I think people should take a serious look at themselves if, if they find themselves emotionally attached, particularly to an inside dog. But like where does this stem from? Where are we going wrong? Why is this such a phenomenon? Like? Why do people, why do dating age women, just go out and get a dog, sometimes three, sometimes three dogs in the house, 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 a problem, it's a red flag, if the you know, I think the biggest, one of the biggest turnoffs in this whole thing is, like when I've encountered women that have dogs inside or they have these weird relationships with dogs, it's almost like and the dog gets jealous. The dog gets jealous If I'm laying in a bed with a woman and the dog whines because he or she can't get in the bed. It's fucking weird, weird.

Speaker 1: 39:59

I think our generation men and women are afraid of encounter, afraid of confrontation, they're afraid of honesty, they're afraid of being vulnerable. And don't get me wrong, guys do this too. Right, guys build these weird relationships with dogs, particularly college age guys, like they're getting college, they feel like they got to have this dog to take it, which it does pick up women. But now women are starting to get 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 signals emotional immaturity and lots of room for growth. But I digress, women with dogs. Don't hate me, I'm just trying to start the conversation. I'm just trying to start the conversation. I mean, it's not a turn on when I go to a girl's house and she treats the dog with more respect than she does me, period. Okay.

Speaker 1: 41:22

So it's November, november 13th, and you all know what's coming up Thanksgiving, in about a week and a half, 10 days, it's on the 23rd this year and then Christmas and then New Year's. This time of year gives me depression and anxiety. Well, let me rephrase that it exacerbates my depression and anxiety. The holiday season exacerbates my depression and anxiety. You might ask why. I think number one is that there's a lot of time off in general throughout the holiday season and most people would say, well, that's great, that's great. I love taking time off, I love doing what I want to do, and I hear that.

Speaker 1: 42:12

I understand that my personality is not geared that way. I've not always been the best at making the best decisions with free time and there's a lot of free time during the holiday season. I am getting better, but, historic, I am getting better at utilizing my time constructively during the holidays or just whenever I have time off, but historically, I've not been the best at doing that, and so that now that I'm getting better at occupying my free time in a more constructive manner, the holidays are not as daunting for me. But there are other reasons why the holiday season is daunting to me, and another one is I feel obligated to give Like.

Speaker 1: 42:59

I don't like the obligatory generosity that comes with the season. I understand people will call me a Grinch, people will categorize me as being a Scrooge or whatever you want to say, but my belief is that we should be kind and we should be giving and we should be loving, regardless of the time of year. And so the holiday season irks me and strikes me as being superficial, because so many people put on such a front throughout this time of year that it rubs me the wrong way. Giving season is superficial for the most part. For the most part and I don't care if you call me a Grinch whatever Lack of routine, like waking up in the morning and not having a definite task at hand, not having a definite location to go to, that gives me anxiety.

Speaker 1: 44:07

Again, I'm getting better at that because I'm having to, I'm being forced to, but sometimes trial by fire is the best way. I think most cases trial by fire is the best way. Also, we start having really shitty weather in Mississippi in the middle of November. It gets gray, it gets wet, feels like it looks colder than it is, and then it stays that way until January and it gets cold as balls and then February sucks. So all those things coupled together, november is like the beginning month of the most depressed period of the year for me.

Speaker 1: 44:50

Ironically, because you'll hear so many oh, I hate Christmas music, hate Christmas music. It's fucking terrible. Like they already started playing Christmas music. They started playing Christmas music on November 1st on one of the radio stations that I listened to and I took it off of my presets. And because they obviously play it through Christmas, that's a month and a half. Every time I get in my vehicle and I press that preset, it's gonna be fucking Christmas music. I like Christmas music on Christmas Eve and Christmas day and then, like two o'clock Christmas day, I'm done. I'm done with Christmas, done with Christmas.

Speaker 1: 45:33

Christmas is such a commercial holiday. The hoopla over it is for economic reasons, largely so. People will buy a bunch of shit at the end of the year, and so there's that component too, and I'm not the best gift giver in that I don't like being told when to give a gift Like I try to do gift giving sporadically and spontaneously throughout the year. But I'm not big on gifts in general. I understand I appreciate them and I know this is a flaw of mine that I have to get better at. Like I have to become more tolerant of gift giving Because it does make people feel good. It does make, especially when the gift is thoughtful. Especially when the gift is thoughtful Like. I think dirty Santa is a good thing. I think dirty Santa is a fun way.

Speaker 1: 46:39

I think a lot of traditional ways of celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas, particularly in the south, is boring. I'd rather have a party than go to Grandma's house and sit there and twiddle our thumbs for a 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 my experience traditionally celebrating the holidays. I understand that I'm also a unique individual and most people probably do not see things the way I do, and that's okay. But I'm just not a huge fan of Christmas. She's not a huge fan and I'll be glad when it's over. Also, new Year's Eve is overrated, unless you pay the extra amount of money it takes to get VIP at the VIP New Year's Eve party. Otherwise, dealing with the parking, finding somewhere to stay, the lines, having to wait to piss, having to wait to drink, all that shit miss me with it.

Speaker 1: 48:00

When I lived in New Orleans, I stayed in on New Year's Eve. I cooked. I specifically remember cooking black eyed peas, cabbage, turnip greens, tenderloin and fried catfish, instead of doing anything in the city. Because I didn't have the money to pay for the VIP at the VIP and I wasn't going to pay $100 to go five miles in an Uber or two miles in an Uber. So I was like, fuck it, I'll go to the, I'll go to Robare's, to the grocery store, and I will get my good luck food and I will watch New Year's Day football, new Year's Eve football, and watch the shit on, watch the ball dropper, whatever, and just chill. I did it right by myself. It's a little depressing, but I was going to be depressed anyway, depressed anyway during the holiday season, you know. So it is what it is pimping County line congregation. Y'all are the best. A couple more solo episodes be coming up, so y'all stay tuned. I appreciate y'all, I love y'all. Don't forget to like, rate, review share all the bullshit, do all the things Until next time. Peace.