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Dolly Parton: Universally Loved In Life & In Passing · Papa Gut

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  All right, guys, sadly Dolly Parton passed away and so did
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  Tim Curry, which is crazy. So I don't know how things are
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  crazy. Both 80 lived a long life, you
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  know, but today we're going to focus on Dolly Parton.
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  I found a really interesting video here here it's called yes,
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  she really was that great. I'm curious about it because I
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  just knew that she was pretty cool and she did country music
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  and you've I've never heard a bad thing about her.
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  So interesting. So I want to look into her life
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  a little bit. Before that, though, let's watch
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  a message from the family of Dolly Parton.
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  Let's take a look. Hey everyone.
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  Hi, my name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I'm
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  representing the Parton and Owen's family today announcing
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  the passing of my aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean Sister.
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  I know her name is Rebecca. Sis, Aunt, Granny to one
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  generation and Gigi to the next. This video announcement is
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  something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorb
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  it as a future reality. As her head of security for more
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  than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I
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  have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven't truly
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  felt it until now. It is an honor.
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  An honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great
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  sadness. But sadness lies with us, not
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  with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and
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  is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and
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  countless others who have watched her and longed for her
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  to meet them in the heavens. I first went on the road with
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  Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early
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  1980s. Dolly opened doors not just for
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  me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't
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  even know was possible. Dolly also opened doors for
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  generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and
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  dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.
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  Yeah, my understanding, my biggest understanding is that
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  like Dolly could have been like a billionaire, but said she
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  donated tremendous amounts of money and she did like a book
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  program. I remember we were talking about
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  it, my wife and I, because we're having a baby.
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  We're talking about like signing up for her book program and
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  everything so we can start getting books for our daughter.
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  So you know. By her example, we believe that
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  anything was possible. She never saw a door she
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  couldn't open, and the door she opened made and changed history.
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  My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories
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  with Dolly, but so have you. She has always been on your
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  television, your record player, your CD.
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  CDs are so old. Sorry, I just remember stuff in
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  the whole CD player into my pocket in my big old jeans on my
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  way to school and walking home from school.
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  And on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of
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  your family, whether you liked it or not.
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  Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will
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  work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us
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  forever. Dolly was a farmer, just like
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  her daddy. He farmed the soil, She farmed
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  songs and happiness. Dolly called me and said she
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  wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a
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  life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be
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  comfortable and have some rest. Rest in peace Aunt Dolly, Aunt
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  Granny Gigi, May God bless Dolly Parton and May God bless you
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  all. She will always love you.
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  That was sweet, especially at the end where he started to tear
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  up a little bit. Well that said, damn, it looks
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  like they cut funding for her her.
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  So apparently the book program, that's just like a 5050 thing,
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  like she does 5050 and then the state will do another, the other
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  50% obviously, like she'll raise money and and I guess use her
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  own money and stuff. And they already cut it from
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  6,000,000 to $2,000,000 if I'm reading this correctly.
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  Damn. Well that's unfortunate.
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  I think books are really important.
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  Reading is important to your kids.
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  I don't know. I've been reading to my daughter
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  in her in the womb every night since 12 weeks.
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  We've been reading the book a night.
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  So it's really sad stuff, sad stuff.
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  It's such a sad thing. But like we just set our date
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  that we're going to have our baby today.
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  So it's like it's a it's a good day and like a bad day at the
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  same time, you know, sad stuff. Anyway, let's watch this video.
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  Yeah, she really was that great. It looks really good.
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  I I'm again, I'm not super educated on on Dolly Parton.
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  I just know that she's seem to be a good person that did great
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  things and avoided being a billionaire so that she could
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  raise money for people. So let's watch this.
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  Let's just get it going, man. I'm not going to do anything
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  cheeky today for the plug. You guys know I have plugs for
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  like memberships. I, you know, again, I'm having a
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  baby, so I have to do the memberships even if it feels
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  yucky sometimes. But yeah, man, there's two.
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  There's a small guy and a medium guy.
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  A small guy gives you full Discord access.
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  Medium gives you access to that, plus a bunch of backlog videos.
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  You can do it on Patreon or YouTube.
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  I obviously really appreciate it's a great way to support.
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  There's a body catching all my life and I sell cigarettes.
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  Everything's in the description. So let's not linger too heavily
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  on those plugs. But again, I got to do them, so
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  get it going. Oh, yeah.
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  This video is by Lindsay Ells Ellis.
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  Yes, Julie was that great? Let's watch.
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  Let's watch. So I'm filming this on Tuesday
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  morning. Just learned about the passing
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  of Dolly Parton a couple hours ago.
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  To say I'm like both shocked and devastated is kind of an
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  understatement. This video was conceived and
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  produced as a Nebula original. It was really.
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  Oh interesting. I know that's like an
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  alternative platform people use. I've seen like, who is it?
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  Big Joel will do that. Oh yeah, that's terrible.
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  Apparently like right after she passed away, people went on to
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  Wikipedia and vandalized her Wikipedia page.
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  They replaced her profile picture with a Nazi swastika,
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  changed her name to an offensive slur, and added references to a
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  mass shooter. The hateful edits appeared to be
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  referenced her long standing friendship with her former
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  Jewish manager. But I guess apparently they got
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  to it really quickly. That's so that's terrible
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  though. Like Jesus Christ, man.
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  Released on Friday and it was actually the first two parter I
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  had made for Nebula. The second part is scheduled to
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  come out this coming Friday and normally we wouldn't do this.
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  Like basically this means you're about to get 3 full length
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  videos in very rapid succession on this channel.
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  Don't get used to it. But given the strange, sad
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  timing of the whole thing and, you know, the emotionality of
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  the subject, we decided to put this video on YouTube for a
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  limited time, you know, for our international friends, this will
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  help explain why everyone in America right now is just
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  devastated, you know, left, right, center, everybody.
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  Because Dolly did explicitly say it's what she would have wanted.
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  We are also using this as an opportunity to fundraise for
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  Dolly's Imagination Library. OK.
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  Well, I guess I'll have to take a look at that after this to
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  throw some. They raised 47,000 out of
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  100,000 OK. I talked a fair good bit in the
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  video about Imagination library and what it is and why it is
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  such a valuable resource. So I mean.
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  It helps people. It helps people get books for
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  their kids. I think it's a beautiful thing.
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  Using the YouTube giving feature and also there's a link in the
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  description for people who cannot access the giving
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  feature. And the Adsense revenue that I
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  get from this video will also go to the imagination library.
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  We also made the decision not to change anything in the video.
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  Obviously, if I had known this was a possibility, I probably
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  would have phrased some things differently.
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  I definitely would not have begun the video the way that I
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  do. Age like milk, as they say.
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  But on the whole, given the question of like is Dolly
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  Parton, was Dolly Parton that great?
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  And given that in the inevitable answer, is this extremely rare?
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  Yes. You know, we wouldn't
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  necessarily have come to different conclusions.
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  We're not doing the performative crying YouTube thing.
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  But you know, this, this one hurts.
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  This hurts man. I won't say enjoy the video
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  cause enjoy is not the right word but well here is the video
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  all. Right.
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  The world is kind of jacked right now.
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  The dumbest war in the long dumb history of wars.
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  New famines as a result of said wars.
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  Economy is in the toy. And how about those gas prices?
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  Am I right guys? Jesus.
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  Will it? Gas prices are high.
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  Graham Plattner, another Toy Story movie.
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  You're not even listening to me. No, I would listening.
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  This one kind of makes sense to me because they got that weird
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  little little screen because that kind of makes sense.
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  As long as they kind of explore, like, being addicted to your
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  screens, I think that could be pretty good.
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  Yeah. Isn't it crazy?
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  That's, like, so many Americans don't really give a fuck that
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  we, like, bombed to school in Iran, but they're just like,
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  those gas prices are high as fuck, man.
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  It's like, that's the only way you could appeal to some people.
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  You know, usually, unfortunately, the Christians,
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  they know, the ones that are supposed to care about kids.
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  It's like, well, things happen in war, but I can't afford $5 a
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  gallon. You know what?
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  I. Mean always listening.
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  Shut up. Oh my God, I don't care.
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  I asked myself how could it get worse?
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  Truly, things cannot be more depressing.
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  You probably heard that I've been dealing with a few health
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  challenges this fall, and my doctors told me to take it easy
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  for just a little while. Darling, that's rough.
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  We are not doing this right now. You know what's really
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  interesting? It's that, you know, they say
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  they think things come in threes.
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  And the first person to pass unfortunately was Dolly Parton,
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  Rest in peace. And the second person in the
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  past was Tim Curry, also rest in peace.
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  And I just, I just wonder if there's another 80 year old
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  famous person out there that's not necessarily famous for the
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  right reasons that might be next.
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  And it's just like, you know, I would never wish that on
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  anybody, but I wonder. So I was one of the few, the
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  proud that actually had tickets to Dolly Parton's residency in
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  Vegas, which was supposed to be last year.
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  Yeah, I think she cancelled it very quickly because she got
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  sick. Then it got pushed to September
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  26th before being cancelled altogether owing to nebulous
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  health issues. And the Internet is not taking
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  it well. I've had a few little health
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  issues and we're taking good care of them.
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  I just kind of got wore down and wore out.
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  Of course, there's a certain sense of sadness when you find
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  out any celebrity's I'll even what.
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  It depends on the celebrity, you know what I mean?
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  You guys remember what Chris Brown did?
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  I wouldn't be upset if he got ill.
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  May not have loved but for Dolly it's different.
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  Dolly is beloved in a way that it's hard to find a comparison
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  for as far as living artists go, or non living ones for that
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  matter. Julie, Julie.
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  Julie. Julie.
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  That's actually a really good point because like you look back
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  at a lot of other artists and you're like, wow, you know what,
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  for the time, maybe people were accepting of what that person
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  did, but now it's horrible. Like didn't Elvis Presley like
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  sleep with a child? You know, it's like, wow, you
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  know, maybe it wasn't illegal or something, I guess.
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  But Jesus Christ, you know, like that's that.
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  There's no way that it was ever like that OK to do, you know,
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  that's pretty fucked. Michael Jackson did some stuff
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  with kids, so that's pretty fucked.
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  So can you please don't go take? As the New York Times put it in
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  2019, she is the rare celebrity who is able to get her victory
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  lap while she's still around to bask in the glory.
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  And that universally beloved Ness is becoming a very rare
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  beast. Your fundamentalist aunt loves
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  her. Your Mid-Atlantic cousins watch
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  her sing Jolene with Miley Cyrus on NBC.
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  Your queer friends have a Dolly tattoo.
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  So the question is, how? How is she doing this?
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  Because it's actually kind of hard to think of many
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  celebrities who occupy this basically universally beloved
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  tear. Maybe Mr. Rogers, though, even
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  he. He's cool.
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  He. Has been posthumously culture
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  ward for the radical proposition that children have feelings and
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  you should, you know, be nice to them.
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  That's true, but I don't think anybody faults Mr. Rogers.
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  I think it's more that people be like, hey, Mr. Rogers was always
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  for, you know, marginalized groups and acceptance.
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  And then, you know, Trump or MAGA, people just, like, have a
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  meltdown and they can't comprehend that idea of that
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  Mister Rogers message was you're special because you do.
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  He didn't say, if you want to be special, you're going to have to
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  work hard. And now all these kids are grown
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  up and they're realizing, hey, wait a minute, Mr. Rogers lied
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  to me. I'm not special.
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  Oh yeah, I'm sure it's Mr. Rogers is the reason why kids
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  are going up feeling all fucked up.
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  Yeah, true. I just feel like that's kind of
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  a preposterous thing to me 'cause like, how many old people
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  think that they're special for the virtue of their existence?
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  Like, this is not, this is not a single generational problem,
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  right? Like you have old people, like
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  young people be like, oh man, it's really expensive to like,
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  live. We can't even leave the house
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  'cause like you can't afford to live on minimum wage anymore.
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  And these old people are like, well, yeah.
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  Well, I worked really hard and got where I did because of my
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  hard work. It's like, yeah, hard work plus,
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  you know, the system was just better and worked for you.
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  But they think that they're so special.
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  Like they it's just like, or I guess they think that they're
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  like, I don't know, not special. I don't really get it.
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  I don't really understand it. They just don't, they don't put
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  two and two together. You know, I I don't, I guess
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  maybe that's the problem is that they think that they're not
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  special. Like that was just the average
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  way everything was, so you should be able to do it too.
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  It's just like, it's fucking preposterous.
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  Not for Dolly. If anything, Fox News seems
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  weirdly defensive of Dolly. I think I paid all those people
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  to say all those nice things about me to get you down to
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  Dollywood. Always a great sense of humor
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  and always so fun. And that's really what Dollywood
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  is about. There was Fox likes you.
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  Usually you're doing something wrong, but in this case I don't
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  know. One Vox article that was a
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  mostly positive. She's just, she's just got that
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  aura. Positive profile on how she
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  became so beloved with spots that were lightly critical of
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  her wishy washy politics. And the Fox News cavalry did, in
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  fact, ride at dawn. The left wing news outlet Vox is
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  attacking one of America's most beloved icons, Dolly Parton.
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  They have to go after one of the most.
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  What the fuck? Sorry I just looked up at the
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  screen. This guy looks like he's got
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  like a handlebar mustache. You know he wants some dude to
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  fucking grab onto and ride his face with.
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  Like what the hell? Your hearted, positive, loving
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  people in all of America. Dolly Parton for things she
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  didn't say. The worst I could.
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  I mean, I'm assuming the article was something along the lines of
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  like, oh, she doesn't take like a really harsh stance against
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  the political this that and other thing, which might be
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  true. I don't really care.
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  I don't think everybody has to. But I feel like at the very
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  least, like why wouldn't Vox have the optics to understand
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  that it's probably not intelligent to go after somebody
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  so beloved like that? I don't really, but OK.
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  I could find of the mainstream right wing coming for Dolly was
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  this article in The Federalist, which got such a huge backlash
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  from their extremely conservative readership that the
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  author later retracted it, saying I regret using Dolly as
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  the example for the point I was making.
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  So it's hard to find a comparison of a celebrity so
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  universally beloved not just for their artistry and fame, but for
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  their humanitarian work and philanthropy.
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  Most of you are probably familiar with Dolly Parton, but
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  to some pardon is more than a country music *.
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  Everywhere I go, the kids call me the book Lady.
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  That's cute, though. That's a fun.
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  Like that's, that's a good thing to be, to be known as.
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  Like for me, wherever I go, people just call me a big fat
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  fucking asshole. So it's just like, you know,
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  imagine being known as the book lady.
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  That's generational, man. I think that's a beautiful
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  thing. It's so interesting because I
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  think when I turn the stream on, somebody said who's Dolly
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  Parton? I'm like, damn.
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  But I really haven't seen that much of that sentiment.
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  I saw more of that sentiment with like Mel Gibson, 'cause we
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  were going to watch a Mel Gibson thing yesterday.
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  But it's nice. Like she went from like, you
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  know, for a lot of people, she's like a famous singer.
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  And then for a lot of other people, like young kids, she's
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  the book lady. I think that's such a beautiful
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  way to kind of like move her, you know, just to be, I guess
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  stay relevant, but just kind of like move herself
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  generationally. That's what a wonderful, that's
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  just a wonderful thing to be known as.
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  Let's do the girl, the lady that gives us free books.
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  That's so sweet. You know, maybe that maybe
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  that's hitting me harder than other people 'cause like I could
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  cry right now, but like, because I'm having a daughter, like I
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  could, did you imagine that like just like a simple, innocent
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  little kid, that's just like, oh, that's the book lady.
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  That's the lady that gives us nice books for my mom and dad to
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  read me. What a what a sweet, wonderful
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  thing. You know, it's just like, I
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  don't know, I'm probably just hitting me because I'm fucking
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  my wife's right. I mean, I gotta say I'm
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  pregnant, but I'm fat enough to be but that's just wonderful.
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  That's so nice. You know she wants.
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  To. Read it the book lady.
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  It's not surprising to these. Children, there might be a
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  comparison to be drawn with people like Oprah or Tyler
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  Perry, but those? I don't know.
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  Tyler Perry has some allegations against him, doesn't.
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  He guys are nothing if not controversial, but by that same
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  token they are all swimming in the same lake of mega
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  capitalism. Oprah and Perry are both
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  billionaires where Dolly is not. But then again, Oprah and Tyler
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  Perry don't have theme parks named after them.
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  Welcome to Dollywood, the heart of the Smokies.
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  Oprah and Tyler Perry don't have Lost Cause revisionism dinner
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  theaters with their name on it. Don't be late for supper.
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  Yet Dolly is unique. We're not only are her wealth
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  sins sidelined, people get angry when she is criticized at all.
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  It's like their own family matriarch is under attack.
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  Well, that's the interesting thing, though, right?
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  It's like Dolly Parton could have been a billionaire if she
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  had just changed her strategy and said she wanted to give
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  people books and like, a theme park, which, by the way, like in
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  the like, capitalism can sometimes be good.
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  Like that creates jobs and and creates a reason to go to
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  certain states. Like, hey, pretend like, hey,
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  let's go to Tennessee because Dollywood's there.
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  It brings people to the local infrastructure.
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  That's not a bad thing. You know, like you can do it the
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  right way. Like like Dolly Parton did.
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  She donated a lot of her money. She did the right philanthropy.
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  I think that giving kids books to be able to read is amazing.
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  It sets you up really well for the future.
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  That's such a beautiful thing. But if instead you like, fuck
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  around and you act like an asshole and you do all the
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  bullshit politician stuff where you, like, you don't pay
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  yourself, and then you give a bunch of money to lobbyists so
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  that they'll, like, make laws in your favor of screwing over the
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  little person, you know, yeah, you can become a billionaire.
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  So I think that's one of the things that's so amazing about
• 17:47
  Dolly Parton is that, like, she decided that she was something
• 17:49
  that could have become a billionaire Leech, and she
• 17:51
  decided not to because she wanted to help kids.
• 17:54
  And I think that that's something that's really, I think
• 17:56
  it's a beautiful thing. It's very important.
• 17:58
  But is that fair? Is she really that great or
• 18:01
  unique? Because obviously this is not
• 18:02
  organic. There is a very sophisticated PR
• 18:05
  machine at play. Who?
• 18:06
  Dolly Parton. Well, of course there's always
• 18:09
  going to be APR machine machine on hand, so.
• 18:13
  I don't know. Dolly Parton's a whole lot of
• 18:15
  things. I'd like to think that I'm a
• 18:17
  good friend, a good daughter, a good aunt, a good sister, and I
• 18:22
  love my fans so. I like that as I like her
• 18:25
  priorities, you know what I mean?
• 18:27
  Like those are that's, I think those are such wonderful
• 18:29
  priorities. You know, I'm good, I'm good
• 18:31
  with my family. My family likes me a lot, which
• 18:34
  I can appreciate now that I get older because I think for a
• 18:36
  while maybe my family didn't like me a whole lot.
• 18:38
  But you know, I met my wife and I became a better person.
• 18:40
  And as I think so I don't know a lot of people like me more even
• 18:44
  myself. So that's cool.
• 18:45
  So I'm just all kinds of things. I'm a girl of many colors.
• 18:49
  So let's break this down. How much of this is
• 18:52
  sophisticated PR and how much is legitimately earned?
• 18:57
  I think it's probably earned plus PR.
• 19:02
  Operating word #1 is charisma. I tumble out Roger Ebert wrote a
• 19:14
  profile on Dolly in 1980, and in reflecting on that profile in
• 19:18
  2008, he wrote about remembering her presence even in her early
• 19:21
  30s, saying that it enveloped him.
• 19:24
  It had nothing to do with sex appeal, he said.
• 19:26
  Instead, it was as if I were being mesmerized by a benevolent
• 19:29
  power. I left the room in a cloud of
• 19:31
  good feeling jeans. That's nice, Siskel added.
• 19:35
  You know what's crazy? I had?
• 19:36
  I got AI got a fortune cookie that said some shit like it said
• 19:41
  something about it said something about I can't even
• 19:46
  look at it anymore. It said something about how
• 19:48
  music is like can can speak words that words can't speak.
• 19:55
  Does that help? Does that sound good, guys?
• 19:57
  It said something like that and it's like, wow, you know, it's
• 19:59
  kind of it. It feels like that's it.
• 20:01
  That feels so relevant right now.
• 20:03
  You know what I mean? I think that's a beautiful
• 20:05
  thing. It also said something about
• 20:06
  something hard happening on Mondays.
• 20:09
  So I'm just hoping that that was last Monday.
• 20:12
  When this you know, baby shower grabs me the Dick.
• 20:15
  This will sound crazy, but when I was interviewing Dolly Parton
• 20:18
  I almost felt like she had healing powers.
• 20:20
  So it isn't just a carefully cultivated image created for
• 20:23
  mass media. She clearly has this ability to
• 20:25
  entrance people on both a macro and a micro scale.
• 20:34
  Wow, Jimmy's one of the jimmies. On a related note, operating
• 20:39
  word 2 is image. Dolly has this rare distinction
• 20:43
  of being just as talented at the showmanship aspect as she is at
• 20:46
  the songwriting and singing aspect, and that seems to be
• 20:49
  kind of hard to square for people.
• 20:52
  You know, the hair, the wigs, the rhinestones, the.
• 20:55
  Wigs, What the hell? Tiggle biddies, they are all
• 20:57
  just as much. OK, but when I say it, people
• 20:59
  yell at me, OK? Of her brand as her music, but
• 21:02
  this disconnect between. I guess 'cause I'm a gross guy.
• 21:04
  I don't know. How she looks and how smart and
• 21:06
  strategic she is. It's part of why she's hard to
• 21:09
  fit into any simple political or cultural bucket.
• 21:11
  She is the rare artist where not only is the caricature and the
• 21:15
  reality are both true at once, she is able to convincingly sell
• 21:18
  that. Well, that's all right.
• 21:20
  I have fun with them too. I'm shocked.
• 21:24
  Why not? Operating Word 3 is artistry.
• 21:35
  again. What often gets missed in the
• 21:37
  mythos of Dolly is that Dolly Parton is incredibly prolific
• 21:41
  musically. If she had been born in a
• 21:43
  different era, she she's Mozart. She was touched by something.
• 21:50
  I don't think they let women do stuff back then, right?
• 21:52
  Am I crazy about that? I understand the general
• 21:54
  sentiment. According to Miss Dolly herself,
• 21:56
  she has written or Co written over 3000 songs during her
• 21:59
  career. What the hell is she lying?
• 22:02
  What the fuck? You have written more than 3000
• 22:05
  songs. Oh, at least, well, I write all
• 22:07
  the time, and I've been writing since I was just a little kid.
• 22:10
  I started playing. Oh, maybe she's just talking
• 22:11
  about, like, just songs in general, not necessarily like
• 22:14
  ones that made it mainstream. OK, I could believe that.
• 22:16
  I could believe that. Guitar when I was 7 years old
• 22:19
  and I've been writing serious songs ever since.
• 22:21
  On the charts, she has had 25 #1 songs on the Billboard Hot
• 22:24
  Country chart, more than any other female.
• 22:26
  See 25 out of 3000. What is that like a less than
• 22:30
  1/10 of a percent? I don't even know my math. 3330
• 22:34
  1%, like a little less than 1%. There you go guys.
• 22:37
  Your success rate will be less than 1%.
• 22:40
  Keep on plugging along. Artist.
• 22:42
  She's released at least one album in each of the last 7
• 22:44
  decades. She's had 44 top 10 country
• 22:47
  albums, a record for any artist, and also the distinction of
• 22:50
  writing one of the top selling singles of all time, which hit
• 22:53
  #1 twice I. Her career started to take off
• 23:18
  in 1967 when the. I thought it was AI, thought it
• 23:21
  was a black woman. 20 year old Dolly joined the Porter Wagoner
• 23:25
  Show which was syndicated to hundreds of stations across the
• 23:28
  country. And I looked at a long time and
• 23:31
  thought of many, many folks that we all liked and thought that
• 23:34
  you would like. And here's a little gal that I
• 23:36
  know you're going to really learn to love.
• 23:38
  She was the girl singer on his show.
• 23:40
  They toured together extensively.
• 23:42
  They had a sort of Johnny Cash June Carter thing going on,
• 23:45
  although they were both married to other people.
• 23:47
  But by 1974, she. Did they do sex with each other?
• 23:49
  You realized she was ready to move on and decided to leave
• 23:52
  both the show and the partnership.
• 23:53
  Sorry, was that like inappropriate?
• 23:55
  Right before she told him that the.
• 23:56
  Answer is yeah. If I have to ask, it's probably
• 23:57
  yes. She was planning to leave the
• 23:59
  show, she writes I will always love you in like 20 minutes.
• 24:03
  So it's a breakup song, but it's not romantic.
• 24:06
  It's about leaving someone that you have outgrown and the
• 24:09
  bittersweetness of that. Imagine they did a little affair
• 24:12
  on the side and that's we just thought it was, it wasn't
• 24:15
  romantic because we like her so much and.
• 24:18
  I wish you joy Order Wagoner responded to this.
• 24:35
  Gorgeous. Sorry.
• 24:36
  Let's do sex with each other. Is that crazy?
• 24:39
  I'm sorry guys. Just song this generational
• 24:42
  piece of pop art having this piece of history written for him
• 24:46
  by suing her for breach of contract a suit.
• 24:48
  Damn, that's not good for your optics, dude.
• 24:50
  Especially look at this guy. He's just kind of like a cute
• 24:52
  tip. You can't be fucking doing that.
• 24:54
  I'm just like a like that. Which Jolly ultimately settled
• 24:57
  and in her words it took me a while to pay it off, but he got
• 25:00
  the 1st $1,000,000 I ever made. Jesus Christ, what the fuck?
• 25:04
  And so. That's fucking preposterous.
• 25:08
  He sued me. Wow, Dolly decided to settle.
• 25:12
  I didn't have $1,000,000. Took me years to pay him back.
• 25:15
  Wow. He just did that out of anger
• 25:17
  though I think. So.
• 25:19
  I'd be, I'd be a little frustrated if somebody out of
• 25:22
  angered $1,000,000 me. Although I did pay off my extra
• 25:24
  student loans because I cosigned them and that was like probably
• 25:27
  a total of like $70,000. That was fucking terrible.
• 25:32
  Not quite a million, but probably it's a lot.
• 25:36
  That's a lot of fucking insane amount of money.
• 25:39
  Oh. Porter Wagoner sucks, sucked,
• 25:42
  but that said, what happened next is also kind of a testament
• 25:46
  to Dolly's character. Dolly pays him the $1,000,000
• 25:49
  over time. Then in 1981 Porter gets dropped
• 25:53
  from his label RCA and then Dolly hears that he's made some
• 25:56
  bad investments and the IRS has come after him.
• 25:59
  What a stupid asshole saying that he owes him half
• 26:02
  $1,000,000. He.
• 26:03
  Did fall on hard times and he needed the money and but at that
• 26:06
  time I had money. I thought, well, a good way for
• 26:09
  me to do that is just to to buy the publishing company.
• 26:15
  So I bought it. Oh OK, at least I thought she
• 26:17
  was just going to give him a half $1,000,000 but at least she
• 26:22
  bought something with. It and then I just gave it back
• 26:25
  to him because I wanted his kids to have it.
• 26:27
  That's sweet. What the hell, I didn't want it.
• 26:31
  Porter Wagner died on October 28th, 2007 in a Hospice facility
• 26:36
  in Nashville. And I do know for a fact, and
• 26:39
  this tells it all right here, I guess I had a really complicated
• 26:42
  relationship, huh? That one of the last people he
• 26:45
  saw on this earth was a girl named Dolly.
• 26:48
  And she was there, holding his hand by his bed and, you know,
• 26:51
  giving him water. Operating word for is Dollywood.
• 26:56
  Your trip to the Smokies really isn't complete unless you visit
• 27:00
  Dollywood and share a family tree.
• 27:02
  People are. It's so interesting because
• 27:04
  like, you'd think in, in, in, in general, you'd look at that and
• 27:09
  go like, that's kind of like full of yourself to have a whole
• 27:11
  Dollywood. But it really seems like, I
• 27:15
  don't know, she did it nicely. I guess we don't say that about
• 27:17
  like Walt Disney. I wonder if that was just a
• 27:19
  thing back in the time. You know, nowadays if somebody
• 27:22
  opened up, like if I opened up like a Papa Gutland, everybody
• 27:24
  would tell me I was a big fucking asshole.
• 27:26
  So which is true. So I guess that's why they'd say
• 27:29
  it. Often surprised to learn she has
• 27:32
  a theme park. Not just that she has a theme
• 27:34
  park, but the theme park is almost as old as I am.
• 27:37
  Don't let this youthful visage fool you, I am quite old.
• 27:41
  And then? Almost as old.
• 27:42
  How old are you? What the fuck?
• 27:43
  I thought she was in her, like 30s.
• 27:45
  I'm like, shit. Oh my God.
• 27:47
  That's all right, dude. That's all right, dude.
• 27:49
  There's people out there that like to eat shit.
• 27:55
  Which is true, even if it was strange to say.
• 27:58
  In my mouth, Out of my mouth. I don't like to eat shit.
• 28:00
  That's not what I'm trying to communicate to you guys.
• 28:02
  But anyway, let's move. On 1960s there was a Civil War
• 28:04
  themed tour stopped near the entrance to the Smoky Mountain
• 28:07
  National Park called Rebel Railroad.
• 28:09
  It was in Severe County, Tennessee, where Dolly is from,
• 28:11
  and like much of Appalachia, was deeply impoverished.
• 28:14
  In 1986, Dolly bought a steak in what was then known as Silver
• 28:19
  Dollar City, Tennessee, a branch of the famous Branson, MO park
• 28:22
  and lo. Dollywood was born.
• 28:25
  The largest theme park in the region, the most popular
• 28:28
  ticketed attraction in the state of Tennessee, and basically the
• 28:31
  only theme park worth mentioning until you get to like Carowinds
• 28:33
  in Charlotte or Six Flags in Atlanta.
• 28:35
  Dollywood welcomes 3 to 4 million guests annually and
• 28:39
  employs. I mean, that's really good, man.
• 28:40
  Thousands of people in the region when I was growing.
• 28:43
  Yeah, like I said, you know, it's it's an especially for a
• 28:46
  poor town to bring infrastructure like that to an
• 28:48
  area. It really is.
• 28:50
  It's a beautiful thing. I mean, that is a massive
• 28:52
  tourist spot. There's going to be people that
• 28:53
  go there. That's a tremendous amount of
• 28:55
  jobs. And what did she do with all
• 28:56
  that money? She gave it back to somebody who
• 28:58
  sued her for $1,000,000 and started an amazing book program
• 29:02
  that was really beneficial. It still is for a lot of people.
• 29:05
  You know, like I said, like reading, getting getting reading
• 29:09
  early is good. You should be doing it to your
• 29:12
  baby in the womb. They like sounds so yeah, I
• 29:19
  think it's a wonderful thing that she did that honestly like
• 29:21
  this. That's that's capitalism done
• 29:23
  right. Am I right guys?
• 29:24
  Going up Dollywood was the closest theme park to our town.
• 29:26
  And yeah, it was fine. No one was going to say no to
• 29:30
  Dollywood. But, you know, it was more like
• 29:32
  for field trips for us anyway. It was more there for like a
• 29:36
  cultural education theme park than a, you know, look at these
• 29:40
  roller coasters. Well, it's so funny 'cause
• 29:41
  that's what theme parks kind of used to.
• 29:43
  That's what they used to be, right?
• 29:45
  Like back in the day, like even like Disneyland or Disney World
• 29:48
  or whatever, it has a lot of like, I guess you'd say
• 29:51
  educational elements to it. But nowadays is really they
• 29:54
  don't do that as much anymore. That's why when they opened up
• 29:57
  some fucking, I'm going to be nerd out a little bit.
• 29:59
  That's why when they opened up this like Moana attraction in
• 30:02
  Epcot in Florida was really nice because it's a little bit more
• 30:05
  educational. It was about like, you know,
• 30:08
  well, education. So it was a cute walkthrough.
• 30:11
  So I mean, I, I always appreciate those types of
• 30:13
  things. Like I like things like liquor,
• 30:15
  living on the land, stuff like that.
• 30:17
  I don't know, I just like them. I think it's nice.
• 30:19
  It's nice to, it's nice to not just get like a bunch of thrills
• 30:24
  when you go to a good amusement park sometimes.
• 30:26
  It's nice to get like a little bit of an education on different
• 30:29
  things in a way that's like kind of fun because it's being
• 30:33
  digested differently, really. Theme park.
• 30:36
  It wasn't like a Carowinds or a Kings Island or a six flag or
• 30:39
  especially a Disney World. Could you imagine getting on an
• 30:43
  airplane to go on vacation? What does your family have a
• 30:45
  Butler too. But in the last.
• 30:47
  Like, oh, true. 8 plus years since I last visited.
• 30:50
  A Butler. I do have a story reading, boys,
• 30:52
  yeah. Dollywood has apparently stepped
• 30:55
  its game up. As of 2026, the National
• 30:58
  Amusement Park Historical Association named Dollywood the
• 31:00
  best theme park in the country for the 4th consecutive year.
• 31:03
  Oh yeah, I did hear about that. I think it's based on like
• 31:06
  happiness ratings. We should go there instead of
• 31:08
  Disney Life. Ahead of Disneyland Park in
• 31:12
  Anaheim, which has ranked #2 and into.
• 31:15
  How the fuck is Disneyland #2 what the fuck is Disney World is
• 31:19
  massive. I don't know what is.
• 31:20
  Am I going to the wrong Disney? I mean I am because Florida is
• 31:23
  doing like a no vaccine thing or not.
• 31:25
  They don't have to make a mandate right now, so go there
• 31:27
  for a while, especially since we're having a daughter, but. 23
• 31:30
  even got a Golden ticket award for the best theme park in the
• 31:34
  world. What?
• 31:37
  Growing up, I remember the park. What about Beastland?
• 31:40
  Being full of like, you know, bluegrass and such you could pan
• 31:43
  for gems. I, I think the blowing glass was
• 31:47
  there back then, but it was not a theme park about Dolly Parton,
• 31:50
  but more like a folksy regional Appalachian themed theme park.
• 31:54
  The only specifically Dolly related things there were a
• 31:57
  little bit of merch and the recreation of her childhood home
• 32:01
  that she shared with her parents and eleven siblings, which is
• 32:04
  still there. Her brother actually built the
• 32:07
  recreation. Well, that's like really cute
• 32:08
  actually. I like that it's not too focused
• 32:10
  on her. It's not, it's not like, you
• 32:11
  know, she's not blown smoke up her own ass.
• 32:12
  That's nice. And the original house?
• 32:15
  Apparently, he's still standing out there in the hills a few
• 32:18
  miles away from Dollywood. Now Dollywood is chock full of
• 32:22
  Dolly. OK, Dolly signs off on
• 32:24
  everything. She is also a major part of the
• 32:26
  nightly fireworks and drone show, which is.
• 32:29
  I'm assuming that that's actually crazy that this drone
• 32:31
  show, I'm assuming that other people kind of took it over and
• 32:34
  they were like, hey, this is, you know what people want, so
• 32:37
  let's give them what they want, you know?
• 32:39
  There's a thing now. I know she signs off on it, but
• 32:44
  I imagine that that's kind of the way it is that the apparatus
• 32:46
  is running. Where's your fireworks and drone
• 32:53
  show? Europa Park.
• 32:54
  And then there is the Dolly Parton experience.
• 32:59
  So this is the Dolly Parton experience, a new thing at
• 33:03
  Dollywood, by which I mean it is like one or two years old.
• 33:07
  So this is all quite new, relatively speaking, because
• 33:10
  when I was growing up, this was not like the Dolly Parton theme
• 33:13
  park. This was like the.
• 33:14
  How much did it take toss to go in and do they have is it less
• 33:17
  money for residents of the state?
• 33:18
  Theme park that Dolly Parton happened to own.
• 33:21
  Dollywood is 40 years old, so that is very.
• 33:25
  Fascinating. I'm fucking 36 Jesus Christ.
• 33:32
  Dolly Parton Theme Park has only just gotten around to having a
• 33:35
  Dolly Parton section of its theme park.
• 33:38
  Dolly is also way more heavily featured in the merch than she
• 33:41
  was 20 years ago. Hey, they got some gay lounge
• 33:44
  flies. I like that.
• 33:45
  We're trying to get rid of lounge flies, but you know, we
• 33:47
  bought too many. But you'd see a lot of Dollywood
• 33:50
  stuff in much the same way you see a lot of Disneyland stuff
• 33:53
  when you go to Disneyland. But you don't see a lot of Walt
• 33:57
  merch at Disneyland, you know? That's true.
• 34:00
  They and they, and to be clear, they do try to push it.
• 34:02
  But people aren't really shitting their pants about
• 34:05
  fucking Walt Disney very much, you know?
• 34:08
  Smattering, but not much. They love stitch too much
• 34:11
  though. I'm fucking you know.
• 34:13
  Stitch is fine but like give me a break.
• 34:16
  Here was the merch situation 20 years ago.
• 34:19
  When was the last time I went to Dollywood?
• 34:21
  I collect Christmas ornaments and this here.
• 34:24
  Dude, I love Christmas ornaments, honestly.
• 34:26
  Is fat pee? I mean, what is there to say
• 34:28
  about fat pee? It's, it's fat pee.
• 34:32
  So I saw fat pee on my way out of Dollywood last time I was
• 34:36
  there. And of course I was, I was
• 34:38
  immediately obsessed. I had to have fat pee.
• 34:43
  You know, I, we respect fat pee in this house.
• 34:46
  Is it? Supposed to be like a penis
• 34:48
  thing, Like fat pee, like a Wiener.
• 34:49
  What is it? I don't get it.
• 34:51
  But why is fat pee at Dollywood? Sadly, fat pee is is no longer
• 34:57
  an item you can you can buy in the Dollywood Emporium.
• 35:01
  But if there is a Dolly artifact you want in your life, you can
• 35:05
  find it at Dollywood Casing. $9095 for a day ticket?
• 35:11
  That's not bad. What about for residents?
• 35:12
  Point can't really see my lounge fly there.
• 35:14
  Here's the Dolly Lounge fly. Your lounge fly, sister.
• 35:19
  I got a fucking room full of them.
• 35:21
  It's actually, I look at, I look at stuff now and I go, that was
• 35:25
  money. You know what I mean?
• 35:27
  That used to be money. That used to be money.
• 35:30
  It's not money anymore. It's just taking up space.
• 35:34
  Why it's one of several You can buy a Dollywood.
• 35:37
  That's wonderful. I love that.
• 35:39
  Freaks that collect these. The merch even goes so far as to
• 35:42
  have y'all need Dolly or Dolly is my home girl.
• 35:47
  So if you don't know the context here y'all need Jesus is a
• 35:51
  phrase you will hear a lot in Appalachia.
• 35:54
  And of course, Jesus is my homeboy, which is.
• 35:56
  Appalachia. That sounds familiar.
• 35:57
  There's some weird TikTok guy that sings songs about
• 35:59
  Appalachia. More like a it's like.
• 36:00
  Hey girl, come to Appalachia. Something about how he wants to
• 36:04
  grab ya. It's fucking incredible.
• 36:06
  But you know, why do I know that?
• 36:07
  Who knows? Widespread.
• 36:09
  It's a cutesy evangelical catch phrase.
• 36:11
  These are kind of pop holiness signifiers evoking the shorthand
• 36:16
  of our Lord and Savior Dolly Parton.
• 36:19
  Which I think is interesting because the only people who
• 36:22
  would buy these objects are the very Christians who, if it were
• 36:25
  anyone else, would probably be offended by them.
• 36:28
  True. I guess Dolly take the wheel
• 36:30
  would be a bridge too far inside the Dolly Parton experience.
• 36:33
  Yeah, well, it's because she's a woman.
• 36:34
  It's a little sexism joke for you guys.
• 36:36
  Variance. You can walk through a lot of
• 36:38
  very Instagram moments, dedications to her movies, and
• 36:42
  then you get to the portion of the exhibit called Songteller,
• 36:45
  which the kids really like. That's fun.
• 36:58
  There is a dedication to the Imagination Library which shows
• 37:01
  how many books they've donated so. 318 million, That's fucking
• 37:05
  crazy. Far we'll get to that.
• 37:11
  There's an exhibit called Behind the Scenes which talks about her
• 37:14
  fashion. My teenage camera person really
• 37:18
  enjoyed that. OK, it's good.
• 37:22
  I mean, why? Who's the who's the camera
• 37:23
  person? I'm just curious.
• 37:25
  Why is why is she a teenager? Is that like your, your, your
• 37:29
  fucking niece or something? I'm gonna have a heart.
• 37:31
  Attack. And it even has a little like
• 37:34
  magnetized dress up Dolly that was a big hit with the kids.
• 37:38
  You can even walk through her tour bus that she used
• 37:40
  throughout the 90s and 2000s, which for some reason was closed
• 37:45
  when we tried to access it. Boo.
• 37:48
  There's a lot to say about Dollywood.
• 37:50
  I have a lot more to say about Dollywood.
• 37:52
  So I have another video about Dollywood coming out in a few
• 37:55
  days operating Word 5 philanthropy.
• 37:58
  Who taught you about generosity? I just always had a a giving
• 38:02
  spirit the same as my mom and my dad were just good hearted
• 38:06
  country people. If you, I guess you kind of do,
• 38:08
  if you've got like 40 siblings, 40,000 siblings, you know, kind
• 38:12
  of got a kind of get used to giving stuff.
• 38:14
  Up whip out Jolene or 9:00 to 5:00 at karaoke.
• 38:17
  It will probably slay, but that is not the main reason people
• 38:21
  will die for Dolly these days. In recent years, her
• 38:24
  philanthropy has become a huge part of her legend as well,
• 38:27
  which is interesting because for the longest time it was an
• 38:29
  aspect of her image that kind of sat quietly in the corner.
• 38:33
  I'm a. Chemo Hero.
• 38:34
  Yeah, yeah. Because I'm fighting back, yeah.
• 38:38
  Yeah, right. That one was a little attitude.
• 38:40
  OK, Not that I could do any better.
• 38:41
  Shadowed by the boob jokes of it all, Dolly is tricked out in
• 38:44
  humanitarian awards. Here she is accepting a special
• 38:47
  Oscar for humanitarian work. But my mom and daddy showed me
• 38:51
  by example that the more you give, the more blessings come
• 38:55
  your way. The long arm of.
• 38:57
  That's nice, I like that. I try to be a little giving.
• 39:00
  Giving my wife a headache. Baby showers giving us a fucking
• 39:04
  headache. Dolly even reached into the
• 39:06
  COVID pandemic with her foundation, giving $1 million to
• 39:09
  Vanderbilt University for early research into the Moderna
• 39:12
  vaccine. Wow, thank you, Dolly.
• 39:14
  That's so nice of you. But you're supposed as a
• 39:15
  business owner, you're supposed to take money.
• 39:17
  You're supposed to get like PPP loans and then complain about
• 39:21
  how people are taking advantage of money.
• 39:23
  Like Daily Wire tonight. You know, we're all hoping these
• 39:25
  vaccines work. And who donated $1,000,000
• 39:28
  toward researching them? Dolly Parton.
• 39:31
  Dolly saying today, hey, that's our new talking point.
• 39:33
  Hey, oh, you don't believe the vaccine was real?
• 39:35
  Then how come Dolly Parton donated $1,000,000?
• 39:38
  Idiot. That'll I think that'll actually
• 39:40
  win some conservatives over. When I donated the money to the
• 39:42
  COVID fund, I just wanted it to do good.
• 39:45
  Evidently it is. She even got on camera to show
• 39:48
  herself getting the thing, but only after turning down the
• 39:50
  opportunity to skip the line and get hers early.
• 39:53
  Well, I just want to say to all of you cowards out there, don't
• 39:57
  be such a chicken squat. Get out there, get shot.
• 40:01
  She then. Whoa, what the fuck?
• 40:04
  Wait, this didn't go? This should have been more
• 40:06
  viral. Dude, we actually might have.
• 40:08
  Dolly Parton could have potentially fucking saved the
• 40:10
  United States from COVID being as bad as it was.
• 40:13
  If we just somehow got conservatives to watch her say
• 40:16
  that, I would've been fucking incredible.
• 40:18
  Gave another million to Vanderbilt for post pandemic
• 40:21
  pediatric infectious disease research.
• 40:23
  There was a time when people were even happy about that.
• 40:26
  And yet now. On a related note, Operating
• 40:29
  words 5 1/2 The Imagination library.
• 40:32
  I am as proud of the Imagination library as I ever will be.
• 40:36
  Anything I ever do. I first heard about this when my
• 40:39
  cousin had his first baby 15 years ago.
• 40:42
  Jesus. And I remember talking to him on
• 40:44
  the phone and he was so excited because there was this program
• 40:49
  in the state of Tennessee. And I remember him telling me
• 40:52
  that if you signed up for this program, Dolly Parton will send
• 40:55
  you a book every month for the first five years of the child's
• 41:01
  life. So 60 books in total.
• 41:03
  That's fun. There's no like income
• 41:06
  requirement, anyone can access it.
• 41:08
  This is actually. I don't think I'm going to do it
• 41:10
  only because like, we don't really need the money.
• 41:12
  And I don't know if my wife wants to do, I guess we could,
• 41:15
  but we don't really need the the money, you know, And we have
• 41:18
  people giving us books for a baby shower.
• 41:23
  So like we're going to have a ton of books, you know, it's
• 41:25
  going to be nice. And we could always buy them
• 41:26
  ourselves if I'll probably donate after the stream is over
• 41:29
  to this video. So.
• 41:31
  More to benefit poor kids than rich kids, because income
• 41:34
  requirements actually have a pretty severe dampening effect
• 41:38
  to this sort of thing. There is a lot of shame attached
• 41:41
  to being so poor that you can't afford children's books.
• 41:44
  The program became available statewide in 2004 when the
• 41:47
  Dollywood Foundation partnered with then Governor Phil
• 41:50
  Bredesen, a Democrat can. You imagine.
• 41:54
  To make the program available statewide, it is now available
• 41:58
  throughout the country, though not in every zip code.
• 42:01
  You have to go to the website and check your zip code to see
• 42:04
  if your child is eligible. But even if you don't sign up
• 42:07
  when they're born, you can sign up at any point before they turn
• 42:09
  5 by the metrics touted on its own website.
• 42:12
  Do what you will with that after 10 free books, children enrolled
• 42:16
  in the program were four times more likely to demonstrate
• 42:19
  stronger emerging literacy skills.
• 42:21
  I mean, that makes sense. If you're reading to your kids
• 42:23
  or your kids are reading, they're going to be smarter.
• 42:26
  You got to activate their brains early.
• 42:27
  It's all about patterns. I mean, you really just have to
• 42:29
  kind of like reinforce these patterns over and over and over
• 42:33
  and over again. That's why they just have them
• 42:35
  read the same book to them, you know, over and over again,
• 42:39
  sparks the brain. They start understanding things
• 42:41
  differently, which I think even as adults we all do, right?
• 42:45
  Like you'll hear a bit of information, then maybe if you
• 42:48
  like a week later, you'll hear the same information and like
• 42:49
  maybe you'll absorb different aspects of it or different
• 42:51
  understandings of it because you've already kind of like, let
• 42:54
  it settle in your brain. The kids are doing that at times
• 42:56
  like 1000, you know? Like vocabulary and phonological
• 43:00
  awareness than peers who were not enrolled, they were also 11
• 43:03
  times more likely to be interested in books, 9 times
• 43:06
  more likely to initiate shared reading experiences.
• 43:09
  There are even studies that show that the program has nudged
• 43:12
  literacy levels across five countries, which considering we
• 43:16
  are presently pushing against the greatest worldwide literacy
• 43:19
  crisis since they started measuring this sort of thing a
• 43:22
  sense. Of American adults can't read,
• 43:24
  or at least at a basic level, a lack of being able to read basic
• 43:27
  things, you know, whether it's street signs or job applications
• 43:30
  or that's actually fucking crazy or you know, you know, lunch
• 43:34
  menu, I mean dinner menu. You know, we'll take what wins
• 43:37
  we can get. And it's even gone
• 43:39
  international. Some states have full coverage
• 43:41
  for all children who apply to the program, others have partial
• 43:44
  coverage, and still others fund it through private investment.
• 43:48
  Although in this current environment, things are getting
• 43:51
  shaky in some state. Missouri, for instance, hit the
• 43:54
  proud milestone of being the first state to slash funding for
• 43:58
  the Imagination Library and is no longer accepting new children
• 44:01
  and will end it in a few years. Wow.
• 44:03
  That's fucking awful. Jesus Christ.
• 44:06
  State is not showing the money to Dolly Parton Missouri
• 44:09
  lawmakers are making drastic cuts to funding for the Country
• 44:12
  Music Stars Imagination Library program.
• 44:16
  These funding cuts come at a time when advocates say we are
• 44:19
  in a literary A literacy crisis. A little a little ironic there,
• 44:26
  huh? That's funny.
• 44:27
  In our state, and it's heartbreaking to see cuts to
• 44:30
  that program that helps kids succeed.
• 44:32
  The Imagination Library is also very heavily promoted throughout
• 44:35
  Dollywood. I mean, it sounds like a great
• 44:37
  program because, you know, for the homeschoolers, but like the
• 44:40
  moms that are against kids getting an actual education.
• 44:42
  It it's like, oh, I can have, I can have the book at home to
• 44:45
  read to my kids. So it doesn't, I want to
• 44:47
  ostracize those people and then to everybody else, it's like,
• 44:50
  oh, I have a home, I have a book to read at home for my kids, you
• 44:53
  know. So it's like really just kind of
• 44:54
  a universally great program that helps anybody regardless of how
• 44:57
  dumb of a decision they decide to make or what dumb decision
• 44:59
  they decide to make. I don't really understand why
• 45:01
  you would cut this program. Plus it has like parents teach
• 45:04
  self teaching to their kids. So I don't really get the issue
• 45:06
  with it. There's a theater where they put
• 45:08
  on adaptations of popular books from the Imagination Library.
• 45:12
  The only licensed costume characters in the park are from
• 45:15
  children's books right now. You can meet Llama Llama, Red
• 45:18
  Pajama and Peter Rabbit. Huge hit.
• 45:20
  Llama llama. I've never heard of that before
• 45:22
  in my fucking life. I've heard of Peter Rabbit.
• 45:25
  Is Peter Rabbit the one that was in Disney either?
• 45:29
  No, I'm thinking of a Briar Rabbit.
• 45:31
  I remember Peter Rabbit. I think I had some books from
• 45:33
  Peter Rabbit when I was a kid thinking of Briar Rabbit.
• 45:36
  They got rid of that ride. They replaced it with Tiana's
• 45:38
  Bayou because it was kind of incredibly racist.
• 45:40
  But they did remove the racist parts from it, but they also
• 45:43
  replaced it with like, like the Tiana Red.
• 45:46
  Like, I like that movie. It's great, but their eye kind
• 45:49
  of sucks. If you've ever been on it, the
• 45:50
  animatronics are fucking like they broke down almost
• 45:52
  immediately. It's kind of lame.
• 45:54
  It's going to be honest with you, especially since they do
• 45:56
  some stupid shit with the animatronics where they have the
• 46:00
  face of a screen that's like, just get back to the old way,
• 46:03
  you know? It's much better.
• 46:05
  I'm complaining too much. It's Needless to say they read
• 46:11
  Imagination Library books as bedtime stories at the Dollywood
• 46:14
  resorts. One of the unique and honestly
• 46:17
  kind of brilliant things about Dollywood is that it highlights
• 46:20
  how Appalachian culture and literacy are not in conflict
• 46:24
  with each other, as the stereotype often suggests.
• 46:28
  Quite the opposite. Storytelling as a concept, as an
• 46:31
  art form, is deeply ingrained in Appalachian culture.
• 46:34
  Jonesboro has the well. Isn't it ingrained like
• 46:37
  everybody's culture? Storytelling.
• 46:40
  Is that OK? Every year East Tennessee State
• 46:42
  University, where both my parents went, has the
• 46:44
  distinction of having the only accredited program in the
• 46:46
  country where you can get a master's degree in storytelling.
• 46:50
  And oral storytelling is a huge bridge to literacy.
• 46:53
  This is why you're supposed to read to your baby every night,
• 46:56
  even though they don't correlate letter with phoneme yet.
• 47:00
  This is why there's such a robust correlation between
• 47:02
  consistent exposure to storytelling and adult literacy.
• 47:07
  But overwhelmingly, the most recurring theme in these books
• 47:10
  is about feelings, especially for the first few years.
• 47:14
  This one, Dolly wrote herself. Well that's fun, Dolly.
• 47:17
  Pardon, I am a rainbow. That sounds like some pro LGBTQ
• 47:21
  shit to me, you know what I'm saying?
• 47:22
  And that's a good thing, I think.
• 47:24
  It's about feelings. See, he's red means mad, as you
• 47:31
  can see by the and. They do a movie like that.
• 47:34
  Tapedness of it all. This one was a was very well
• 47:37
  loved for a minute. This is the current favorite.
• 47:40
  Also about feelings Llama Llama red pajama which this is the
• 47:45
  imagination library version. I like the two My two favorite
• 47:48
  books that I read my my daughter in the womb right now are well,
• 47:53
  OK, so my favorite, I don't know what it is, but I really like
• 47:55
  reading her chicka chicka boom boom.
• 47:57
  I don't know why that's my favorite.
• 48:02
  That 1 was great. I think I think my daughter's
• 48:07
  favorite is there's one called like like like a book for the
• 48:12
  bump. I think my mom got it for us.
• 48:14
  I don't really remember. Maybe my wife did, but we read
• 48:17
  her too yesterday because I didn't read her one the night
• 48:19
  before I fell asleep. So we read her the two and then
• 48:21
  I was like tomorrow, do you want to read this book again or this
• 48:24
  book again? And she kicked what we said.
• 48:26
  We said the the baby bunk book and we actually asked her.
• 48:29
  I was like, Are you sure you want to do this one?
• 48:30
  And so this one. And she kicked again.
• 48:31
  So it was funny. I was actually, I think that my
• 48:34
  baby's gonna be smart as fuck, dude.
• 48:35
  My baby's smart as hell. I think that she already
• 48:37
  understands, unless it's a coincidence.
• 48:39
  But I did it three times and she kept kicking.
• 48:41
  So, you know, fuck you guys. My daughter's smart as hell, so
• 48:47
  fuck you. We have the hardcover version,
• 48:50
  so that's why this one isn't so well loved as the others.
• 48:53
  This was also a favorite for a little while.
• 48:56
  It's about a little boy who loves ice cream, but I guess
• 49:00
  this one's kind of newer so you probably didn't grow up with it
• 49:03
  if you're not familiar. Yeah, for my like for us, we're
• 49:06
  going to try not to do like too much ice cream.
• 49:08
  We're going to try to do like veg fruits being a dessert
• 49:11
  because they're sugary. But also what I really want to
• 49:14
  do is dessert. And I want to reinforce this to
• 49:15
  her is fucking is fucking cereal, bro.
• 49:18
  I'm not kidding. Cereal is not is not a breakfast
• 49:22
  food, OK? It is full of sugar.
• 49:26
  So we really want to reinforce to our daughter like, hey, this
• 49:28
  is this is dessert because I have I'll have some cereal for
• 49:30
  dessert sometimes, you know, bucket.
• 49:34
  Why not? Man, cereal's good.
• 49:36
  I like it. Extremely popular, the
• 49:40
  collection is also surprisingly diverse.
• 49:43
  I haven't done like a scientific study, but about half of the
• 49:46
  books we've gotten either feature or were authored by
• 49:49
  people of color, which, you know, they do not have to do.
• 49:52
  In fact, doing so largely invites you know this is also.
• 49:57
  Racist. Or occurring theme.
• 49:59
  With I don't think that she's racist, I think that she's
• 50:02
  saying it's a good thing that they do that.
• 50:03
  Dolly the Stealth progressivism. You know, that might be
• 50:07
  overstating it, that Vox's article did gently criticize her
• 50:11
  for not being as outspoken as she could be.
• 50:14
  Well, it doesn't sound like she is very outspoken.
• 50:15
  It sounds like she's like intentionally not outspoken and
• 50:18
  she's just trying to, she's just really more interested in the
• 50:21
  message, the positive message instead of the criticism
• 50:24
  message, if that makes any sense, Which again, I think is
• 50:26
  fine. I mean, OK.
• 50:28
  But it's not like she never says anything.
• 50:30
  You know, Libby Dolly has had the occasional iffy take.
• 50:35
  She has come out saying she dislikes cancel culture and.
• 50:38
  Well, I mean, I guess same. Some context.
• 50:41
  This would be totally understandable, but this was in
• 50:43
  the context of defending her collaboration with noted Gas
• 50:47
  Huffer and not Super Bowl headliner Kid Rock.
• 50:51
  OK, true. And also, of all people, why Kid
• 50:54
  Rock? I used to like Kid Rock.
• 50:57
  I'm going to keep it a stack with you, so with that as you
• 51:01
  will. Now that said for.
• 51:07
  Did you say let's go Brandon? What a fucking loser.
• 51:13
  I thought he was that bad. I just remember he had a
• 51:15
  meltdown because Budweiser was like, hey, we don't hate gay
• 51:18
  people. He had a meltdown about that.
• 51:21
  Someone so beloved by Republicans, Dolly has a
• 51:23
  remarkably consistent record of saying things that, on paper,
• 51:26
  should make them very mad. I.
• 51:27
  Mean you can't tell me that people are anyway other than
• 51:32
  what they're supposed to be. I don't think gay people are
• 51:34
  trying to just be different just to make other people miserable.
• 51:39
  I. Don't think so either.
• 51:40
  That would be kind of weird because a lot of people don't
• 51:41
  like gay people, especially nowadays, so I don't know who
• 51:44
  wants to be different. Unliked.
• 51:46
  It seems a little strange to me. I.
• 51:47
  Think people are being who they are, and I think they are.
• 51:50
  They should be who they are. And I think we should be a
• 51:53
  little more tolerant, a little more accepting and
• 51:55
  understanding. And not just the gays, but other
• 51:57
  people, minorities. We just don't have enough love.
• 52:00
  The gays love Dolly. Both.
• 52:02
  I love that. Whoa, that looks like Dolly
• 52:03
  Parton. What is her name?
• 52:05
  Both of us think that we're Dolly Parton, by the way,
• 52:06
  especially during Christmas. But always Everybody gay is
• 52:10
  Dolly Parton, girl. Everybody gay is Dolly.
• 52:12
  Parton I mean, there is no country artist with a career as
• 52:14
  long as hers who has been so embraced by the LGBTQ community,
• 52:18
  who has also embraced them back like there is no competition.
• 52:22
  Do any of the faith-based communities that deeply believe
• 52:26
  the other way take Gumbridge with you?
• 52:28
  Oh, absolutely. They did?
• 52:30
  Oh. Yes, I get it all the time.
• 52:31
  I keep saying, well, if you're the fine Christian that you're
• 52:34
  you think you are, why are you judging people?
• 52:37
  Dolly has had plenty. It's for God to do, you know
• 52:39
  what I'm saying? We have time to, it would be so
• 52:41
  wonderful if she was spearheading like a religious
• 52:43
  movement. Because I'll tell you right now,
• 52:44
  like one of the biggest things that put people off religion,
• 52:46
  myself included, because I grew up Roman Catholic, is like
• 52:49
  really bad people, the religious people.
• 52:51
  Like the, the, the front and center perspective on religion
• 52:56
  or the front and center representation of religion is
• 52:59
  like really horrific mean pieces of shit who like want to oppress
• 53:03
  other people. And that's what pushes people
• 53:06
  away from Christianity more than anything else is that it's not
• 53:09
  very accepting. You know, like, I remember like
• 53:13
  I went to a wedding recently, not recently, like last year.
• 53:16
  And you know, the guy, the guy had like a gave my gay cousin
• 53:21
  like stank face and was like a marriage between a man and a
• 53:23
  woman when he was doing some kind of reading.
• 53:25
  And it's like, OK, you know, that's very off putting for
• 53:27
  people. You know, you don't want to go
• 53:28
  to church. And it's, it's interesting
• 53:30
  because every time I go to a church, I'll usually like, I
• 53:33
  start feeling some type of way. It's actually very strange.
• 53:35
  Like my wife had a friend's husband passed away.
• 53:39
  So we went to like a service and I always feel some type of way
• 53:43
  when I go there, you know, But, you know, between, I don't know,
• 53:48
  some of the hatefulness and how fucking boring it it.
• 53:50
  No, but you get my you don't understand the point that I'm
• 53:53
  making. It's just, I feel like the
• 53:55
  hatefulness has become like the front and center perspective for
• 53:57
  religion, at least recently. And until that changes, you're
• 54:00
  going to see people gravitate away from religion.
• 54:02
  And it's really like that's that's what it is.
• 54:04
  So yeah, if you take an issue with that, I would criticize bad
• 54:08
  religious people more because I don't see enough criticism of
• 54:10
  bad religious people from good religious people either.
• 54:12
  They get more offended when somebody like me calls out like
• 54:15
  hey this is like pushing people away or like I criticize
• 54:18
  religion because of how hateful the representation is.
• 54:20
  They get more upset with me instead of like, you know, the
• 54:22
  people pushing the mean stuff Also call out mega churches like
• 54:26
  that's fucking crazy. To do a heel turn like Nikki,
• 54:29
  you think it's? Going to take for us to finally
• 54:30
  get a gay rapper like what is going to happen?
• 54:32
  I am a gay rapper. You got 1.
• 54:37
  Maybe she was talking about her brother and, and, and husband
• 54:40
  and he meant a gay rapper, a rapist, because they're, I don't
• 54:43
  know if they're gay, but they're, I think, I believe they
• 54:45
  both raped somebody. Isn't that crazy?
• 54:48
  For lot. For boys, boys.
• 54:52
  Again, there you go. Be.
• 54:53
  Boys. Amen.
• 54:54
  Be boys. It's OK.
• 54:56
  She has said. Boys just be boys, it's OK, Boys
• 55:00
  just be boys. I always find that so silly,
• 55:02
  Like boys should be boys or whatever, because that's what's
• 55:04
  making people fucking trans, right?
• 55:07
  You know, I mean, I don't know if that's what's making people
• 55:09
  trans, but I'm oh, here's, here's, here's what I'm trying
• 55:12
  to say, right? You know, let's say you're
• 55:15
  growing up and you're a kid and you're kind of gay.
• 55:17
  You're a gay kid. Like my cousin and my
• 55:19
  brother-in-law and everybody else said, I know that's gay as
• 55:21
  fuck. And let's say you're being told
• 55:25
  like, hey, yo, that's gay. Like you be a man, be a man.
• 55:27
  What you're doing is girl shit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 55:30
  All of a sudden you're like, oh, I guess maybe I am.
• 55:32
  Maybe I'm really a girl and you start questioning if you're
• 55:35
  actually a boy and then all of a sudden you want to be a trans
• 55:37
  girl because you're being told like your behavior is girl
• 55:39
  behavior instead of just do like, hey, do you?
• 55:41
  As long as you're happy and healthy and not doing any weird,
• 55:45
  you know, you can do weird shit, but not doing anything illegal
• 55:46
  or wrong, you know, do whatever you want to do.
• 55:50
  But instead it's just like, no, that's girl stuff.
• 55:52
  So now you're like, oh, maybe I'm a girl and now you're
• 55:54
  fucking, you're trying to transition to become a girl and
• 55:57
  you'll be like, no, don't do that.
• 55:58
  It's like, well, what the fuck are you supposed to do?
• 56:00
  What are you supposed to do? Like what every other
• 56:02
  conservative does, which is just go to the Home Depot bathroom
• 56:04
  and suck a fucking Dick in the bathroom stall and then pretend
• 56:06
  that gay people are wrong. You know, I'm just saying I feel
• 56:12
  like you guys transphobes are making more trans people because
• 56:16
  then also if you make it tell trans people they can't
• 56:18
  transition, then they start having sex with each other and
• 56:20
  stuff and they make a babies and stuff.
• 56:22
  It's just going to be more I imagine make more trans guys.
• 56:24
  I don't know. I mean, I'm fat as hell with a
• 56:25
  big fat fucking head and so is my mom.
• 56:28
  So I imagine if gay and trans people make babies and stuff,
• 56:32
  they're going to be gay and trans and stuff, man, It's
• 56:35
  whatever. It's all good, you know?
• 56:37
  I don't care. I'm chilly gay and trans people.
• 56:40
  I'm just saying. Said explicitly that she
• 56:43
  supports same sex marriage. I think everyone should be
• 56:45
  allowed to be who they are and to love who they love.
• 56:48
  That's a direct quote from a 2014 Billboard interview where
• 56:51
  she also criticizes Christians who use religion to persecute
• 56:54
  gay people. True.
• 56:55
  There was a controversy at Dollywood's Splash Country a few
• 56:58
  years ago where a lesbian wearing a shirt that said
• 57:01
  marriage is so gay was asked to turn it inside out because it
• 57:04
  violated the parks. Like no marriage is so gay.
• 57:07
  It's just so stupid. Expensive clothes rule or
• 57:10
  whatever. And that actually netted A
• 57:13
  retraction from the park and a personal apology from Dolly
• 57:16
  herself, stating I am truly sorry for the hurt or
• 57:20
  embarrassment regarding that gay and lesbian T-shirt incident at
• 57:23
  Dollywood School I. Wonder how she'd feel about the
• 57:25
  shirt that I just recently purchased.
• 57:28
  Maybe I'll go get it for you guys.
• 57:29
  It says, it says my Wiener isn't 12 inches, but it smells like a
• 57:36
  foot. So I wonder if Dolly would.
• 57:45
  I wonder if Dolly would kick me out off the park for having a
• 57:49
  shirt like that. What do you think?
• 57:51
  What do you think? I think it's pretty good.
• 57:54
  And what we call this shirt is straight pride.
• 57:57
  OK? It's just a straight pride shirt
• 58:00
  because straight men do be struggling to wash their bodies
• 58:04
  correctly. That's why you need to exfoliate
• 58:07
  more and this could have been an excellent plug for a certain
• 58:11
  soap brand that I liked I enjoy using.
• 58:13
  I thought you guys fucked up. Oh fuck you all.
• 58:17
  Right Splash country recently. Everyone knows of my personal
• 58:21
  support of the gay and lesbian community.
• 58:23
  Dollywood is a family park and all families are welcome.
• 58:26
  I'm very sorry it happened at all.
• 58:29
  I grew up like 30 miles from where she did and I still can't
• 58:31
  do her accent so she has been when she watched.
• 58:34
  I can't do it. She on some topics, but not on
• 58:36
  this. Girl, I will always love you.
• 58:38
  Well, I hear you, squirrel friend.
• 58:40
  What? The fuck?
• 58:42
  It can be exhausting being so nice all the time.
• 58:46
  I'm so nice. I agreed to do this video.
• 58:48
  She appeared on Ru Paul's Drag Race during the pandemic and is
• 58:51
  regularly referenced on the show.
• 58:53
  Get a load of those Smoky Mountains.
• 58:55
  In one episode, even getting a look alike challenge, there's an
• 58:59
  entire cottage industry of drag Queens whose whole brand is What
• 59:03
  if Dolly, but more including arguably the most famous drag
• 59:06
  queen in the world after RuPaul. I love Dolly Parton.
• 59:09
  I do. I yes, I know you.
• 59:11
  I can plan this. This is just an outfit for me.
• 59:13
  Dolly voice support you. Didn't even say their name.
• 59:15
  I know that my wife likes them. I like them too, they're fun so.
• 59:18
  For Black Lives Matter in 2020. I say they because I think when
• 59:22
  you're in the drag, you're a girl.
• 59:23
  They, they call themselves girls.
• 59:24
  And then when you're in the not in the drag, they call
• 59:27
  themselves boys. I'm just sitting here dragging
• 59:29
  my nuts across my fucking my thighs and sitting on them on
• 59:32
  accident. So.
• 59:33
  And of course, black lives matter.
• 59:35
  What do we think? Our little black the only ones
• 59:38
  that matter. What's she saying?
• 59:41
  Oh she said ass. I was like, did she just say the
• 59:43
  N word? I was like, is she allowed to?
• 59:44
  Like, but, you know, carefully, in a way her conservative fans
• 59:47
  wouldn't get mad at, like Kid Rock doing this.
• 59:49
  I don't. See Color Black Lives Matter No.
• 59:54
  Shit, motherfucker. Like she is, that is him.
• 59:56
  Is that a positive message? Is that a Was he doing a
• 1:00:00
  positive message or? Phrased it in a way that could
• 1:00:02
  easily be interpreted as support for the concept, not the
• 1:00:05
  movement. She also allowed changes to her
• 1:00:08
  dinner theatre, which used to be called Dixie Stampede.
• 1:00:12
  All right, but Dixie Normas. Have you ever been to medieval
• 1:00:18
  times? You know what's so funny?
• 1:00:20
  I was supposed to go to Medieval Times for my birthday before
• 1:00:23
  COVID happened and we never did. And we saw like a voucher for
• 1:00:26
  several tickets and we haven't used.
• 1:00:28
  So what do you think about that? Them apples.
• 1:00:31
  A Dixie Stampede dinner and show.
• 1:00:33
  Well, Dixie Stampede was medieval times, only instead of
• 1:00:37
  like the Red Night and the Blue Night, we are on opposing sides
• 1:00:41
  of the Civil War. Then came Charlottesville, and.
• 1:00:44
  That's a little rough, I'll tell you that.
• 1:00:45
  And Dolly scrubbed out the Dixie part and the Civil War theming.
• 1:00:48
  I would say you would be shocked how ingrained and normalized
• 1:00:51
  Lost Cause revisionism is in our part of the world.
• 1:00:53
  No you wouldn't. I'll save that.
• 1:00:55
  What the hell is Lost Cause revisionism?
• 1:00:57
  I ran for the second video. East Tennessee is Union
• 1:00:59
  territory. We.
• 1:01:01
  Cultural historical myth that emerged out of the American
• 1:01:03
  Civil War refrains the Confederacy defeat as a noble,
• 1:01:05
  heroic struggle for states rights rather than a treasonous
• 1:01:07
  war. That's crazy.
• 1:01:09
  That's fucking insane, OK? One, why are you siding with the
• 1:01:13
  losers? It's like those freaks in
• 1:01:15
  upstate New York with Confederate flags.
• 1:01:17
  I mean, we know why, but Dolly even.
• 1:01:19
  Because they're racist, you know?
• 1:01:20
  And came out swinging against the bathroom laws in her
• 1:01:22
  fashion, saying. I try not to get too caught up
• 1:01:25
  in all the controversy of things.
• 1:01:27
  I hope that everybody gets a chance to be who and what they
• 1:01:30
  are. I just know if I have to pee,
• 1:01:32
  I'm going to pee. I don't care where it's going to
• 1:01:34
  be. So celebrity face as hell.
• 1:01:36
  But maybe she's not. Maybe she's just referencing the
• 1:01:38
  fact that girls bathrooms are lines are so fucking long
• 1:01:40
  because girls have been taking a long time.
• 1:01:42
  That's why we need to give girls she wheeze all the time.
• 1:01:44
  You know the thing that you just put up against your vagina Then
• 1:01:46
  you could piss like a boy. I think that would actually
• 1:01:47
  solve a lot of problems. We don't really do that.
• 1:01:49
  Instead we take boys penis steps away when they're born and we
• 1:01:52
  call it healthcare. So that's crazy.
• 1:01:58
  Everybody's doing stuff like this.
• 1:01:59
  It's not remarkable, but what is remarkable is how the Ben
• 1:02:02
  Shapiros of the world don't lose their fucking minds every time.
• 1:02:05
  The most you get are these smaller cottage right wing
• 1:02:08
  sausage mills taking small shots at her, and they never land,
• 1:02:11
  never in the way you see it. Like Kathy Griffin or Lizzo or
• 1:02:14
  Pedro Pascal or anyone who dips a toe and standing affirmatively
• 1:02:18
  with the LGBTQ community. Dolly Parton is not some
• 1:02:21
  firebrand. I'm not being political.
• 1:02:24
  I don't do politics. I'm not getting into any of that
• 1:02:26
  because I have a lot of fans out there and I don't want to offend
• 1:02:28
  anybody. It's.
• 1:02:29
  Kind of interesting because she does kind of get political, like
• 1:02:31
  a lot, but it's interesting the way that people look at
• 1:02:34
  politics. Like if you like it's, I don't
• 1:02:36
  know, it's very strange. Like people think not
• 1:02:38
  everything's political, but it's like, yeah, man, like gay rights
• 1:02:40
  and trans rights is political, but people don't see it like
• 1:02:43
  that sometimes, which is the strange part.
• 1:02:45
  And I think that maybe that's what it is, is that she doesn't
• 1:02:48
  get into the politics of it all, but she gets into the political
• 1:02:51
  messaging, if that makes any sense.
• 1:02:53
  She says all the time she's not a political person, she's never
• 1:02:56
  gone on the record to shit on Trump and instead does the whole
• 1:02:59
  all politicians are bad thing. Where?
• 1:03:01
  Where do you stand? On this election.
• 1:03:03
  Right now I just, I just don't know.
• 1:03:06
  I don't know where we're going to land, but I think they're
• 1:03:08
  both nuts. And she's similarly, oh crazy.
• 1:03:10
  Also done the whole I'm not a feminist because of the I like
• 1:03:13
  men rationale. Do you think of yourself as a
• 1:03:16
  feminist? Yeah, Dolly, do you?
• 1:03:18
  No, I do not. I think of myself as a woman in
• 1:03:22
  business. I love men.
• 1:03:24
  I fucking hate men. And I I really, because I have a
• 1:03:27
  dad, have all those brothers. I don't have a dad so maybe
• 1:03:30
  that's why I hate men. There's all my uncles I love, my
• 1:03:33
  grandfathers I love and I relate to them.
• 1:03:36
  Yeah, I don't know, man. For me personally, you know, I,
• 1:03:39
  you know, first of all, I will say I hold men to higher
• 1:03:41
  standard than women because I'm a man obviously.
• 1:03:43
  And also, you know, men, women are kind of like they can't even
• 1:03:46
  drive, you know, But then all jokes aside, I'm having a
• 1:03:50
  fucking daughter, dude. It's kind of hard not to hate
• 1:03:51
  men when you're having a daughter because you kind of
• 1:03:53
  realize like, oh, everything that I need to teach my child
• 1:03:55
  against is going to be the harm of a man.
• 1:04:00
  Doesn't matter if I, I could say like a harm of a bad man, true,
• 1:04:03
  but it's like the harm of a man. And unfortunately, a lot of men,
• 1:04:05
  at least it's what they call themselves, voted in at the rape
• 1:04:08
  guy, the guy that rapes people literally and then also
• 1:04:12
  figuratively through taxes and gas and stuff.
• 1:04:14
  So, you know, it's kind of tough, man.
• 1:04:16
  Come to the realization, I'm going to have a fucking
• 1:04:18
  daughter. It's kind of hard.
• 1:04:19
  I mean, I wouldn't call myself a Fenomist because that's just gay
• 1:04:21
  of man being a feminist, but I definitely don't really like men
• 1:04:24
  very much. I just just fucking that pissed
• 1:04:30
  me off. I don't know.
• 1:04:31
  She told. So that's it, man.
• 1:04:33
  You're a man. It's different, dude.
• 1:04:35
  It's you're one of the good ones.
• 1:04:36
  Don't worry about it. The Guardian and 20.
• 1:04:38
  Nine once you once I get to know you, you're not like a man
• 1:04:40
  necessarily like you're a man plus the person you know what I
• 1:04:44
  mean so it's like I'll overlook the fact that you're a man don't
• 1:04:47
  worry about. It 18 I've got as many
• 1:04:49
  Republican friends as I've got Democrat friends and I don't
• 1:04:52
  like voicing my opinion on things.
• 1:04:54
  I've seen things before, like the Dixie Chicks.
• 1:04:56
  You can ruin a career for speaking out, but.
• 1:04:58
  That sounds like she's more interested in preservation, but
• 1:05:01
  again, she seems like it's whatever it is, what it is.
• 1:05:03
  It's just like, I guess, a little disappointing, but she's
• 1:05:05
  in a lot of good, so it really doesn't matter.
• 1:05:07
  You argue. She would been able to do that
• 1:05:08
  good if she was more politically outspoken.
• 1:05:10
  But like her right wing audience, liberals and leftoids
• 1:05:13
  seem reticent to rake her across the ideological calls for not
• 1:05:17
  doing more. It does happen, but not often.
• 1:05:20
  But by that same token, she's also put on this pedestal where
• 1:05:24
  she's this wise sage, half Johnny Cash and half Dalai Lama.
• 1:05:29
  I think a big reason for this is because there's no desire in the
• 1:05:31
  mainstream media to see her torn down.
• 1:05:33
  She is saturated but not oversaturated, and she's
• 1:05:37
  constantly walking a fine line to keep it that way.
• 1:05:39
  She is aware that oversaturation can be just as dangerous as
• 1:05:43
  controversy. In some ways, Dolly is more
• 1:05:46
  ubiquitous now than she ever was.
• 1:05:48
  But growing up in my neck of the woods, she was everywhere,
• 1:05:51
  particularly in the form of her theme park, Dollywood.
• 1:05:54
  Years upon years of Dolly on the local TV ads.
• 1:05:57
  It's a big slice of Smoky Mountain fun.
• 1:06:00
  In the 90s she was focusing less on films and music and more on
• 1:06:04
  philanthropy and Dollywood and growing her businesses.
• 1:06:06
  So by that point she was more of a caricature and that's how she
• 1:06:10
  was treated in the media. I'm your biggest fan.
• 1:06:13
  What do you say to? That like as a joke, like a
• 1:06:15
  caricature. I'd say pure.
• 1:06:17
  Is that Animaniacs? What?
• 1:06:18
  He was inordinately kind to you. That's fucking crazy.
• 1:06:21
  That's what an interesting way to phrase that.
• 1:06:24
  Dolly famously based her look on the town.
• 1:06:26
  Trollope. The Sevierville Trollope I
• 1:06:29
  guess. Because when I was little, I
• 1:06:31
  patterned my look after the town Trollope I patterned.
• 1:06:34
  The Trollope like a hooker. My look after the town tramp and
• 1:06:39
  that. Yeah, right.
• 1:06:40
  That's crazy. That's.
• 1:06:41
  The truth and she. And dude, Fresh and Fit would be
• 1:06:43
  fucking enraged right now, dude. For the makeup, red nails, red
• 1:06:47
  high heels, tight clothes, I just thought she was the
• 1:06:50
  prettiest thing I've ever seen. Everyone disrespected this lady,
• 1:06:53
  but Dolly looked at her as a child and thought, but I think
• 1:06:56
  she's pretty. This is very like.
• 1:06:57
  That's very nice of her. Likely apocryphal, but that's
• 1:07:00
  also a part of the charm, having these big grand stories to back
• 1:07:03
  up your image that are possibly partially at least, untrue.
• 1:07:08
  My read on the Dolly. Hey, hey, don't be too mean to.
• 1:07:10
  Relax Dolly character is that it is authentic, but it's also a
• 1:07:14
  show. Kind of like the guys blowing
• 1:07:17
  glass in Dollywood, they are actually doing it in the old
• 1:07:20
  fashioned way, but it is a theme park.
• 1:07:23
  Yeah, they're also putting on a little pizzazz.
• 1:07:25
  Little pizzazz. Take that accent for example.
• 1:07:28
  It almost feels cartoonish at times and when we contrast it to
• 1:07:32
  her sister's accent, who is roughly her age and grew up with
• 1:07:35
  her. Memories of well we always were
• 1:07:38
  cooking of breakfast, lunch and and dinner.
• 1:07:44
  OK, interesting. I just love cooking.
• 1:07:50
  I love being in the kitchen. Yeah, I think it's.
• 1:07:53
  I fucking hate it. Safe to say that it is
• 1:07:55
  deliberately exaggerated, Like probably the fact that she says
• 1:07:58
  a going instead of going or node instead of new.
• 1:08:02
  This isn't her feigning like bad grammar.
• 1:08:05
  This is absolutely a dialect in East Tennessee and is a remnant
• 1:08:09
  from like the 18th century when the Scots Irish first settled
• 1:08:13
  the region. Getting killed and throwed in
• 1:08:21
  the Knoxville River. So this is how people from the
• 1:08:23
  haulers talk. They say node instead of new.
• 1:08:26
  They say throat instead of through.
• 1:08:28
  But she has not lived there for a very long time.
• 1:08:31
  And yeah, I absolutely do know people who talk like that, but
• 1:08:35
  they live in Carter County. They do not live in Nashville,
• 1:08:38
  people. Probably just kept the accent,
• 1:08:39
  you know, people's accents change when they move.
• 1:08:41
  But if she's actively trying to maintain it, I mean, hey, fuck
• 1:08:43
  it, you know? They're always shocked to learn
• 1:08:45
  that like, I too grew up in the haulers.
• 1:08:47
  Like, why don't you have an accent?
• 1:08:49
  And it's like, because I have not lived there for a very long
• 1:08:52
  time and I never had a strong one to begin with.
• 1:08:55
  My parents didn't want me talking like I was from the
• 1:08:57
  haulers. Like I still struggle with.
• 1:08:59
  It's pronounced Maryville, not Maryville.
• 1:09:02
  It's Knoxville, not Knoxville. It's severable, not the variable
• 1:09:06
  like Johnny Knoxville says I'm Johnny Knoxville.
• 1:09:08
  I just say Knoxville. So the.
• 1:09:10
  I'm so fucking confused right now you're you're throwing me
• 1:09:13
  for a loop. I don't really understand the
• 1:09:14
  point that you're making. Let me keep it a buck with you
• 1:09:16
  the. Accent is a part of the
• 1:09:17
  character and probably not how she talks in the office, but
• 1:09:20
  it's also not inauthentic. No, I would.
• 1:09:22
  I think that's probably how she talks in the office.
• 1:09:24
  I think that's how she talks all the time.
• 1:09:26
  I doubt that she's putting on a fake thing.
• 1:09:27
  She probably just like forces herself to use that accent like
• 1:09:29
  at all times. I don't think it's like a
• 1:09:32
  complete performance. It's it's just like she's just
• 1:09:34
  trying to cling to her. I think that she's just trying
• 1:09:39
  to cling to her accent. She's also one of the extremely
• 1:09:42
  rare female celebrities who is actually honest about the whole
• 1:09:45
  plastic surgery thing, so I. Well, it's hard not to be.
• 1:09:47
  You can kind of tell she looks nice, but you know.
• 1:09:49
  Try to do just little bits at a time.
• 1:09:52
  I, I don't do like, you know, really big stuff.
• 1:09:55
  And then I, I do a lot of, I do fillers, Botox and Juvederm or
• 1:09:59
  whatever. And even though that's always
• 1:10:01
  been the case, it's also absolutely shaped how people
• 1:10:03
  talk about her early in her solo career, especially when she was
• 1:10:06
  beginning to crossover into the mainstream.
• 1:10:08
  She got a lot of dumb blonde country hit coverage, more about
• 1:10:12
  the boobs and the wigs than the catalog.
• 1:10:15
  Even Barbara Walters was famously giving her shit on
• 1:10:17
  national TV. You don't have to look like
• 1:10:19
  this. You're very beautiful.
• 1:10:21
  You don't have to wear the blonde wigs.
• 1:10:23
  You don't have to wear the extreme clothes, right?
• 1:10:26
  No, it's it's certainly a choice.
• 1:10:28
  I don't like to be like everybody else.
• 1:10:30
  I've often made this statement that I would never stoop so low
• 1:10:33
  as to be fashionable. That's the easiest thing in the
• 1:10:35
  world to do. I think I get it.
• 1:10:36
  I think I'm understanding why gay people like her so much.
• 1:10:39
  I mean, part of it's obviously because she's very gay,
• 1:10:40
  affirmative, but I think part of it's because that she's like
• 1:10:42
  always in some kind of drag. Like she's a woman that's in
• 1:10:46
  drag for women, you know what I mean?
• 1:10:48
  Like, it's fun. I think that that's a big part
• 1:10:51
  of it, honestly. Sisterhood through the 80s and
• 1:10:54
  90s there was relentless derision about her plastic
• 1:10:56
  surgery and tabloids and late night jokes.
• 1:10:59
  I'm the queen of the sleazy tabloids.
• 1:11:02
  I rule the trashy king. I always I hate, I hate Jay Leno
• 1:11:05
  dude, ever since he took his show back from Conan.
• 1:11:07
  Fuck that guy. Fuck him, dude.
• 1:11:09
  Black lady died. I'm reporters stop me from the
• 1:11:19
  shadows, making sure to keep my royal assets on the throat.
• 1:11:26
  Now, in the era of relentless Instagram surgery, face the same
• 1:11:29
  choices are read as some sort of iconic brand consistency.
• 1:11:32
  I've had plastic surgery, yes, I will have it again when I need
• 1:11:36
  it, if I need a little nip or tuck or something here and
• 1:11:39
  there. But for the most part now, after
• 1:11:41
  you get that stuff about as done as they can do you, then you use
• 1:11:46
  the Botox and you use the collagen.
• 1:11:47
  The Internet reaction has more or less shifted from fake troll
• 1:11:51
  up to you go plastic surgery auntie.
• 1:11:53
  In preparation for this video, I saw dozens of influencers going
• 1:11:57
  to Dollywood, and of course they all talked about Dolly, but not
• 1:12:01
  a single one of them said anything about her looks in the
• 1:12:05
  90s. Well, I feel like it's generally
• 1:12:07
  supposed to be rude to talk about somebody's looks,
• 1:12:09
  especially nowadays, you know, we get some plastic surgery.
• 1:12:11
  It's much more normalized but not supposed to be mean about
• 1:12:14
  somebody's looks. But also, I mean, it seems like
• 1:12:16
  you get cancelled if you criticize her, so that might be
• 1:12:19
  another reason why people are staying away from that.
• 1:12:20
  Would have been unimaginable. Because people are always asking
• 1:12:24
  if they're real and. Oh, I no, I would never.
• 1:12:27
  I would never. You see?
• 1:12:28
  No, you don't have to. I would not.
• 1:12:29
  I'll tell you what, these are my I have certain guidelines on.
• 1:12:34
  So what changed? First, Elder statesman status.
• 1:12:39
  The hindsight of time is almost always kind of celebrity,
• 1:12:42
  whether they deserve it or not Hence Elvis or Dear God.
• 1:12:45
  Please don't get me started and how we're in active
• 1:12:48
  rehabilitation mode with Michael Jackson.
• 1:12:50
  Bro, what did I say? I called it earlier, you know
• 1:12:52
  what I mean? I brought both of those literal
• 1:12:54
  people up and people were even coping in the comments or the
• 1:12:57
  the stream. They're like, no, Michael
• 1:12:58
  Jackson's isn't probably not. I don't think that there's every
• 1:13:01
  context where you can you can sleep in a bedroom with children
• 1:13:04
  and it's like, OK, OK, let's just keep it a buck here.
• 1:13:07
  He's probably did some fucked up shit, All right?
• 1:13:10
  I don't know. Just I'm just saying, I think a
• 1:13:12
  lot of you guys are coping, but what are you going to do, right?
• 1:13:16
  Just letting you know that though, so yeah, sorry.
• 1:13:21
  But when you make it to 80 and spend the decades following your
• 1:13:23
  heyday relegating yourself to acts of service and being Dolly
• 1:13:26
  Parton, people tend to be kinder.
• 1:13:29
  Even George W Bush is getting a sort of rehabilitation right
• 1:13:33
  now. That's kind of true.
• 1:13:34
  Well, I mean, if you look what's going on now with the fucking,
• 1:13:36
  you know, our fucking idiot in chief, I mean, it's kind of hard
• 1:13:38
  not to be like, hey, you know, he wasn't so bad compared to him
• 1:13:41
  comparatively. Now he has a whole art
• 1:13:43
  exhibition at Disney World. He wasn't raised right.
• 1:13:45
  That's treasure. But yeah, I mean, I'm sure
• 1:13:46
  that's true. But I mean, like, all pedophiles
• 1:13:48
  weren't raised right, right? I think we all know that there's
• 1:13:55
  only so much of an excuse you can really give somebody, huh?
• 1:13:58
  It's at the American Experience at Epcot.
• 1:14:00
  It's paintings of men he sent into the meat grinder and a
• 1:14:04
  couple women. You can go see it right now.
• 1:14:07
  Fact that we are a an amazing country to produce people like
• 1:14:13
  this, people who knew the dangers and were willing to
• 1:14:16
  volunteer to face them. Dolly hit her fame peak in the
• 1:14:19
  80s between her music career and Hollywood career, hitting their
• 1:14:22
  collective apex with Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel
• 1:14:25
  Magnolias, and of course, 9:00 to 5:00.
• 1:14:28
  Well, I say we hire a couple of wranglers to go upstairs and
• 1:14:30
  beat the shit out of him. And that also seems to have been
• 1:14:33
  the era where the target on her back was the largest.
• 1:14:36
  Like, people were cruel about her image, but in a sort of
• 1:14:38
  like, oh, she can take it sort of way.
• 1:14:41
  Like my memory of her, despite going to Dollywood for a field
• 1:14:44
  trip a lot, was that she's the boob lady I remember one of my
• 1:14:48
  friends making like a boob joke. Hey from boob lady to book lady,
• 1:14:52
  am I right guys? Joke like I'm Dolly Parton on
• 1:14:55
  our 4th grade field trip to Dollywood.
• 1:14:57
  A nine year old but in. That kind of nine year olds are
• 1:15:01
  dumb as shit so it makes sense to.
• 1:15:02
  Me In general, when you pass from active cultural force to
• 1:15:05
  legacy act, people are less threatened by you.
• 1:15:08
  Next, humility. How did you get this?
• 1:15:11
  How should I say outrageous sense of humor?
• 1:15:15
  Well, now, a good sense of humor, I have to say, comes from
• 1:15:18
  both sides of my family. I think that's how country
• 1:15:21
  people, poor people get by. It's either laugh or cry, and I
• 1:15:25
  prefer to laugh. And this may be tied into the
• 1:15:27
  image of Smoky Mountain charm and her lifetime of my whole
• 1:15:30
  deal is paying homage to the town home wrecker everyone else
• 1:15:34
  hated, but whom I saw myself in narrative.
• 1:15:36
  But she's also person. Wasn't the Jolene thing about
• 1:15:42
  home wreckers right? Received as being humble, and
• 1:15:45
  part of that is because a big part of her humor is self
• 1:15:48
  deprecation. What what is your pre show
• 1:15:50
  ritual? Well I I pray and pee in that
• 1:15:54
  order. Love that me.
• 1:15:57
  Too you prays and pee that's funny praise and then pees
• 1:16:00
  that's funny on. That Conan O'Brien is a good
• 1:16:03
  example of a very confident person who has mastered the art
• 1:16:06
  of self deprecation. Wow.
• 1:16:09
  I love Conan. I haven't felt one of these
• 1:16:12
  since summer camp. I don't know.
• 1:16:17
  A lot of people do. They're like, ha, ha, I suck
• 1:16:18
  thing. But like, you know, they kind of
• 1:16:20
  mean it. Dolly is not one of those
• 1:16:22
  people. In February of this year, Parton
• 1:16:25
  asked her home state of Tennessee not to erect a statue
• 1:16:27
  of her honor. Yeah, Jolene's a story about the
• 1:16:29
  girl who wants your boyfriend. Yeah, like Home Wrecker.
• 1:16:32
  That's what I'm talking about. Saying in a statement even all
• 1:16:34
  that's going on in the world, I don't think putting me on a
• 1:16:37
  pedestal is appropriate at this time.
• 1:16:39
  I hope, though, that somewhere down the road, several years
• 1:16:41
  from now, or perhaps after I'm gone, if you still feel that I
• 1:16:44
  deserve it, then I'm certain I will stand proud in our great
• 1:16:47
  state capital as a grateful Tennessean there.
• 1:16:50
  Well, you guys can put me on a pedestal if you want.
• 1:16:52
  Don't worry, OK? Haven't been big PR campaigns
• 1:16:56
  for things like when she quietly invested in black neighborhoods
• 1:16:59
  in Nashville with her Whitney Houston royalties in the 90s,
• 1:17:02
  Dolly spent $10 million to build offices in a black neighborhood
• 1:17:06
  in Nashville, according to Nashville historian Dave Ewing.
• 1:17:09
  Partons real estate investment revamped the neighborhood,
• 1:17:12
  telling Pink News Dolly Parton could have built and bought any
• 1:17:15
  piece of property in Nashville, but you would have had to gone
• 1:17:17
  out of your way to buy in the 12 S neighborhood because no
• 1:17:21
  realtor would have shown Dolly that lot to buy.
• 1:17:23
  And, you know, I think you kind of have to salute folks when
• 1:17:25
  they do things like that. And there's a bit of humbleness
• 1:17:28
  that comes with it. You know, I, I, I'm OK with not
• 1:17:31
  knowing every detail. I'm like, go ahead, Dolly.
• 1:17:33
  She also didn't mention this publicly.
• 1:17:35
  That's really nice of her. I mean, that sounds like the
• 1:17:37
  reparations that disenfranchised communities really need, huh?
• 1:17:41
  Until last about it, 30 years later.
• 1:17:43
  But in all those in praise of Dolly, Instagram posts and
• 1:17:46
  Reddit threads, the most referenced reason for her
• 1:17:49
  greatness is her philanthropy. While her philanthropy has
• 1:17:52
  become global, it at first prioritized the population of
• 1:17:55
  her home region. This began in earnest with
• 1:17:57
  Dollywood. Well, again, I think that, you
• 1:17:58
  know, Dollywood is part of the philanthropy.
• 1:18:00
  Yeah. Which she put near her hometown
• 1:18:02
  in the middle of nowhere to help bring jobs to the region.
• 1:18:05
  She founded the Dollywood Foundation two years after the
• 1:18:07
  Park so, which focuses primarily on childhood literacy.
• 1:18:11
  She pulled and she tugged. I think I can.
• 1:18:14
  I think I can. I think I can, she said.
• 1:18:17
  Why don't you help me? All of you help.
• 1:18:19
  After the Gatlinburg wildfires of 2016, she created the My
• 1:18:22
  People Fund, giving $1000 a month to families whose homes
• 1:18:26
  were destroyed or uninhabitable for months following the
• 1:18:28
  disaster. That's really nice of her.
• 1:18:30
  Nice Ubi. An act which would be kind
• 1:18:32
  Rewind described as soft launching socialism in
• 1:18:35
  Tennessee. Oh, why not for all these people
• 1:18:41
  that need it so badly, appreciate.
• 1:18:43
  It at least I could do. I'm a smoky.
• 1:18:45
  Mountain Girl, the foundation's first major initiative, was a
• 1:18:47
  buddy program, which encouraged 7th and 8th graders to pair up
• 1:18:50
  in basically a Rising Tides Lifts All Ship scenario where if
• 1:18:54
  you both graduate high school and successfully complete the
• 1:18:57
  program, you're each awarded a $500 scholarship.
• 1:19:01
  And that would have been like a full semester at UT in 1991.
• 1:19:05
  Jesus after these initiatives were adopted.
• 1:19:07
  That's a nice initiative. It keeps you both accountable
• 1:19:09
  and makes you feel guilty if you don't try your hardest.
• 1:19:11
  I actually kind of like that, a little bit of like a team player
• 1:19:13
  type of thing. It's interesting.
• 1:19:14
  Did severe counties drop out? She gets stuck with an asshole
• 1:19:17
  but. Rate dropped from over 30% to
• 1:19:19
  about 6%. And in just this year, she
• 1:19:22
  worked with the East Tennessee Children's Hospital to rebrand
• 1:19:24
  as the Dolly Parton's Children's Hospital, a 152 bed stand alone
• 1:19:28
  pediatric hospital with a focus on helping children from
• 1:19:31
  underserved rural communities in the area.
• 1:19:34
  So she has put a tremendous amount of good into the universe
• 1:19:37
  with the money she does have. And it's the easy to understand
• 1:19:41
  kind you can point to books for children good.
• 1:19:46
  We like children reading. But even true and then she's not
• 1:19:51
  unique. The celebrity philanthropist is
• 1:19:54
  a cliche again. Well, yeah, but we also, I feel
• 1:19:56
  like most other celebrities doing philanthropy, it's because
• 1:19:59
  they're trying to just do something.
• 1:20:02
  They can do some kind of like tax benefit too.
• 1:20:04
  So any type of charity for most of them are pieces of shit.
• 1:20:07
  But when you see that or hear that Dolly Parton invested a
• 1:20:09
  bunch of money into like an impoverished black community,
• 1:20:11
  which didn't really have a massive ROI, it sounds like
• 1:20:14
  she's trying to do the right thing when she's raising money
• 1:20:16
  and giving people $1000 a month because they're they lost their
• 1:20:18
  house and home to a tragedy. That's not looking for some kind
• 1:20:21
  of an ROI, you know, not that she never is, but like when
• 1:20:24
  you're doing a book club for kids to have, you know, books,
• 1:20:28
  you're not really looking for a Roy.
• 1:20:29
  That's financial. You're looking for, you know, a
• 1:20:31
  positive impact. If you consider the positive
• 1:20:34
  impact in investment, then you're good.
• 1:20:35
  But most of these people don't. They'll usually do it just to do
• 1:20:38
  some kind of like, you know, I don't know, tax evasion under
• 1:20:41
  some bullshit, you know, 'cause she could have been a
• 1:20:44
  billionaire and she decided not to be so.
• 1:20:46
  And Oprah. So what makes Dolly unique?
• 1:20:50
  Is she even all that unique? Let's do a comparison to Joanne
• 1:20:55
  Coan Rowling, the Anti. Whoa, that her real name?
• 1:20:58
  Joanne Coanne. I knew it, Dolly.
• 1:21:00
  Although she is presently history's greatest monster, at a
• 1:21:02
  point in history, Joanne and Dolly had much in common because
• 1:21:06
  Joanne did build a huge brand around philanthropy, created her
• 1:21:09
  own charity, and donated large portions of her considerable
• 1:21:13
  wealth. Also large portions of her
• 1:21:15
  considerable wealth are from theme parks, and I think there
• 1:21:18
  was some stuff about childhood literacy in there too.
• 1:21:21
  Kids are not playing PlayStation Now, they are reading.
• 1:21:24
  They have read one book. Pretty hard to make that
• 1:21:27
  unwholesome and aspirational. Oh wait.
• 1:21:29
  And This is why you should not spend any money on Harry Potter
• 1:21:32
  stuff. Go to the parks or watch the
• 1:21:33
  fucking HBO show. Like this is not a complex no
• 1:21:36
  ethical consumption under capitalism situation.
• 1:21:39
  This is honestly pretty unique there.
• 1:21:41
  I guess so. Driving I feel like Harry
• 1:21:44
  Potter's super gay. Like J Rowling hates like gay
• 1:21:46
  people and trans people. But like the patronuses are
• 1:21:49
  basically like some pronouns, right?
• 1:21:54
  Direct your dollars to her hate crimes pipeline.
• 1:21:58
  But before Joanne turned into Dark Dolly, the way they both
• 1:22:01
  leveraged their fame and wealth towards charitable works was
• 1:22:04
  pretty similar. In fact, they have a lot of
• 1:22:06
  similarities. They both have somewhat similar
• 1:22:09
  tragic backstories. Both grew up in poverty, with JK
• 1:22:12
  Rowling famously writing the first.
• 1:22:15
  She looks kind of like Hermione Granger, dude.
• 1:22:17
  Harry Potter book while on him. I wonder if she modeled it after
• 1:22:21
  herself. Employed and on benefits, both
• 1:22:24
  were physically abused by men dollied by her father and
• 1:22:26
  grandfather, and Joanne by her ex-husband.
• 1:22:29
  Both later defined themselves by philanthropy.
• 1:22:32
  Both founded charities with huge bankrolls aimed at improving the
• 1:22:35
  lives of children. Joanne's Lumos Foundation aims
• 1:22:38
  at reducing the number of children being raised in
• 1:22:40
  institutions and ending family separation.
• 1:22:43
  Because. Because Harry Potter was an
• 1:22:44
  orphan, see, I guess. We partner with governments to
• 1:22:47
  reform care systems. We build expertise and capacity
• 1:22:51
  in communities to care for children and help them thrive.
• 1:22:54
  And Dolly at Improving Childhood Literacy with Imagination
• 1:22:58
  Library, inspired by her own father who never learned to read
• 1:23:01
  or write. I created the Imagination
• 1:23:03
  Library as a tribute to my daddy.
• 1:23:05
  His inability to read probably kept him from seeing all his
• 1:23:09
  dreams come true. But where Joanne used.
• 1:23:11
  Well that's nice if her dad abused her though, damn.
• 1:23:14
  To put her money into that sort of thing, she never learned to
• 1:23:17
  take criticism well. Or is she talking about the
• 1:23:19
  other one? I guess they've strongly scolded
• 1:23:23
  and admonished her for being her bold clothing.
• 1:23:26
  OK, she specifically identified her grandfather as the one who
• 1:23:30
  physically punished her with a whipping hurt.
• 1:23:34
  Jesus Christ. Probably a belt.
• 1:23:35
  That's fucking crazy. Yes, that is an
• 1:23:37
  oversimplification, but I really do think that is what caused it
• 1:23:43
  into that sort of thing. She never learned to take
• 1:23:46
  criticism well. Yes, that is an
• 1:23:48
  oversimplification, but I really do think that is what caused it.
• 1:23:53
  Joanne's grievance politics arose as a direct result of her.
• 1:23:57
  Is her fucking name really Joanne?
• 1:23:58
  Now you're throwing me off. Feeling attacked and so more and
• 1:24:01
  more of her charity money, if you want to call it that, went
• 1:24:04
  into like, oh. Joanne Rolling.
• 1:24:06
  What's the fucking K then? Oh, it must be a middle name.
• 1:24:08
  Kathleen. Oh, she added herself.
• 1:24:13
  What the fuck? Her name is just Joanne Rolling,
• 1:24:15
  she added. The K.
• 1:24:18
  Kathleen. It was her paternal grandmother.
• 1:24:23
  Interesting. Her publishers asked her to use
• 1:24:26
  the initials instead of her full name.
• 1:24:27
  They worried the young boys would not want to read her book
• 1:24:29
  because it's just a woman. Interesting.
• 1:24:32
  Interesting. Interesting.
• 1:24:33
  OK. OK.
• 1:24:34
  I see. Like protecting women's rights.
• 1:24:38
  My personal favorite example. In 2025, Joanne announced the JK
• 1:24:42
  Rowling Women's Fund using her personal fortune, which offers
• 1:24:46
  legal funding support to individuals and organizations
• 1:24:49
  fighting to retain women's sex based rights in the workplace,
• 1:24:53
  in public life and in protected female spaces.
• 1:24:57
  Damn, she really likes females specifically.
• 1:25:01
  Don't want Harry Potter? There is a certain personality
• 1:25:04
  type that when threatened goes into defensive mode.
• 1:25:07
  In fact, one could argue that this is most people.
• 1:25:10
  This seems to have been Joanne's methodology despite her wealth
• 1:25:13
  and insulation. That when pushed on her
• 1:25:15
  reactionary tendencies she double S down.
• 1:25:18
  That when she perceives she is being ridiculed she turns into
• 1:25:22
  the biggest cry bully on the planet.
• 1:25:24
  And yet, for someone who has been as ridiculed as Dolly
• 1:25:27
  Parton has in her life, she is never pivoted to Dark Dolly.
• 1:25:30
  You know, like giving her money to trad film people who like
• 1:25:34
  tiggle biddies. I don't know when most people
• 1:25:36
  are the target of ridicule for long enough.
• 1:25:38
  Well, I mean, I feel like Dolly would understand like trans
• 1:25:40
  people more because she's doing something, I don't know, I
• 1:25:45
  wouldn't say crazy, but she's dressed as like, well, very
• 1:25:47
  provocatively or just like uniquely, I don't know, in a way
• 1:25:51
  that makes her feel like she's expressing herself.
• 1:25:53
  So she can probably fundamentalize that, lots of
• 1:25:56
  trans people and stuff, so which I think is great.
• 1:25:58
  Deserved or no, while also having lots of money and power,
• 1:26:02
  they will probably go on a crusade of grievance eventually.
• 1:26:07
  Another point of comparison is. Taylor Swift.
• 1:26:09
  Taylor Swift. To No has not gone dark Dolly
• 1:26:12
  yet. Although she is no stranger to
• 1:26:15
  grievance crusade, Taylor also donates a lot.
• 1:26:17
  She also just donated $2,000,000 as a wedding present to Dolly's
• 1:26:22
  Imagination Library, which Dolly posted about.
• 1:26:25
  That's nice. Taylor and Travis is Dolly and I
• 1:26:28
  was just told that you 2 are making a donation of $2,000,000
• 1:26:33
  to my Imagination library. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 1:26:36
  But in terms of wealth versus money given, Dolly is the
• 1:26:40
  winner. And I mean in absolute terms,
• 1:26:42
  not even. Like the amount of comparatively
• 1:26:45
  to what she's earned, is that what we're talking?
• 1:26:46
  About In relative terms, Dolly is worth hundreds of 1,000,000,
• 1:26:49
  but Taylor Swift is worth billions so if you compare their
• 1:26:52
  giving as a proportion of their wealth, Dolly is even higher.
• 1:26:56
  Dolly's giving is substantial enough to have lowered her net
• 1:26:59
  worth over the years compared to what it could have been.
• 1:27:02
  Swift tends to donate selectively, strategically, and
• 1:27:05
  very publicly. A hymn enews has learned ahead
• 1:27:08
  of the couple's rumor July 3rd wedding at Madison Square Garden
• 1:27:11
  in New York City. Taylor and Travis prove they
• 1:27:14
  keep their side of the street more than clean by donating A
• 1:27:16
  whopping $26 million to various US charitable organizations.
• 1:27:21
  Well, they're billionaires. So fucked up so.
• 1:27:23
  So philanthropy doesn't really reduce her wealth.
• 1:27:26
  Most of her earnings turn into investments.
• 1:27:28
  And while this is nice and good for her, let's be real,
• 1:27:31
  $2,000,000 isn't even what Taylor Swift earns an interest
• 1:27:34
  in a day. Swift is a billionaire, but she
• 1:27:37
  does not have to be. Nobody has to be.
• 1:27:39
  True, Dolly Parton probably would be if she had invested her
• 1:27:42
  money like Taylor Swift does. Yeah.
• 1:27:44
  That's true. The Dollywood Plex.
• 1:27:46
  Like a demon that avoids taxes. It's a loan, which is, unlike
• 1:27:50
  Disneyland, privately held, so we don't actually know how much
• 1:27:52
  money they make, is estimated to be worth over a billion dollars,
• 1:27:56
  and she owns about half of that. So while yes, she is extremely
• 1:27:59
  wealthy, she is nowhere as wealthy as she could be.
• 1:28:02
  And. Damn, that's fucking crazy.
• 1:28:03
  Extremely wealthy. She is nowhere as wealthy as she
• 1:28:05
  could be, and this is something people can point to.
• 1:28:08
  So is Dolly all that unique? Yes, yes, she is a unique
• 1:28:14
  generational confluence of talent, showmanship, shrewd
• 1:28:18
  instincts and a genuine desire to do good in the world.
• 1:28:21
  But she has also benefited tremendously in the last quarter
• 1:28:24
  century, both from a shift in the culture away from the Jay
• 1:28:28
  Leno misogyny of the 90s, as well as the rise of.
• 1:28:32
  We could never have too much Shay Leno hate.
• 1:28:34
  That's what I say. Meme culture.
• 1:28:36
  She has also made some very savvy PR hires.
• 1:28:39
  In 2004, she hired Danny Nozell as a new management who
• 1:28:42
  strategically charted a new generation of Dolly fans through
• 1:28:45
  a combination of targeted touring, TV marketing and heavy
• 1:28:49
  viral advertising. Just a couple of years after she
• 1:28:51
  hired him, she was selling out tours again and by the 2010 S
• 1:28:54
  she was doing stadium tours and in 2014 she headlined the
• 1:28:58
  Glastonbury Festival, the largest outdoor music festival
• 1:29:01
  in the world. But good PR can only take you so
• 1:29:04
  far. Most of the goodwill you see
• 1:29:05
  towards Dolly online is organic and you cannot buy that sort of
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  thing. I do think there is something to
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  be said about the idea of authenticity and Dolly Parton,
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  especially when most rising celebrities today seem to have
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  been test focused into homogeneity, that she still
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  feels unique. And honestly, I think that even
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  most people with really strong political conventions on one
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  side of the aisle or other actually kind of like that she
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  goes out of her way not to offend.
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  We're talking about Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede.
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  Probably, yeah. Politics are very polarizing and
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  people don't really want to hear about them from their favorite
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  person. I mean, like, realistically, if
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  I stopped talking about politics, I'd probably be much
• 1:29:43
  more popular. It's kind of true.
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  I mean, I have no real interest in that because I just, I can't
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  do that. I'm too much of a fucking
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  loudmouth. But you know, some of the stuff
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  that goes viral in like my shorter form content is non
• 1:29:57
  political. And then I get like a lot of
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  people who are more, you know, right leaning following me
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  because of that, you know, so I can't tone it down.
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  I probably will tone it down. Not like just in the sense of
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  like when to elaborate. I don't necessarily always have
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  to go into a whole entire place with this video.
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  I don't really think I went into like this really long tangented
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  political spiel, you know what I mean?
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  Spiel. You know what I'm saying?
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  So that's probably what I'm going to do a little more, but
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  part of me is just getting burnt out, so that's probably the
• 1:30:28
  reason for that. Parton announced the show is
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  dropping the word Dixie from its name and will now go by Dolly
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  Parton's Stampede of Dixie. Stampede in 2020, she told
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  Billboard. When they said Dixie was an
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  offensive word, I thought, well, I don't want to offend anybody.
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  This is a business. We'll just call it the Stampede.
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  And as soon as you realize that something is a problem, you
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  should fix it. Don't be a dumbass.
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  That's where my. Heart you think on the Dolly
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  Parton YouTube. Thank you.
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  I appreciate that so much. Heart is I would never dream of
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  hurting anybody on purpose. In 2017, she was at the Emmys,
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  uncomfortably pivoting when her Nine to Five Co star Lily Tomlin
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  went after Trump. And in 2017 we still refused to
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  be controlled by a sexist Eva testers go lying hypocritical.
• 1:31:14
  Bigot quoting. True base as hell dude.
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  A right wing blog post from a blog called Saving Country Music
• 1:31:20
  from a few days later. What we are Saving Country Music
• 1:31:23
  from? Don't actually answer that.
• 1:31:25
  I don't want to know. I guess some wanted her to spit
• 1:31:27
  in Lily Tomlin's face for disrespect.
• 1:31:29
  But guess what? That's not Dolly's style.
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  Surprise that Dolly Parton is hanging out with rank and file
• 1:31:34
  liberals. Well guess what folks, She did a
• 1:31:36
  movie with Hanoi Jane back in 1980.
• 1:31:38
  It was called 9:00 to 5:00. That's the reason Dolly was on
• 1:31:41
  the Emmys. Well, that and her Coat of Many
• 1:31:43
  Colors TV movie was also nominated.
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  But with so few authentic heroes and role models left, how about
• 1:31:49
  we celebrate those among us who have exhibited in?
• 1:31:51
  Among us. Of the human spirit for
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  countless. That wasn't even funny.
• 1:31:55
  I don't know why I did that, sorry.
• 1:31:56
  Tears across generation as opposed to running them down and
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  overlooking their legacy just because of some perceived slide
• 1:32:03
  against our sensibilities, especially in such a politically
• 1:32:06
  charged environment. This Trumper is essentially
• 1:32:09
  saying leave Dolly alone. It's good, actually, that she
• 1:32:13
  can tolerate the libs. Maybe you could learn a little
• 1:32:16
  something. Nice.
• 1:32:17
  That's a good, that's an amazing message, Yes.
• 1:32:19
  So there's an irony here. A huge reason why she is still
• 1:32:22
  so beloved is because she doesn't get involved in
• 1:32:25
  politically contentious issues very often.
• 1:32:27
  Because maybe, deep down, she is the human embodiment of the hope
• 1:32:31
  that maybe we might reconcile with our estranged family
• 1:32:35
  members. I have a theory that one of the
• 1:32:37
  reasons that you can have the crazy broad appeal that you have
• 1:32:43
  into so many different communities that normally hate
• 1:32:45
  each other is it is because of those acts of forgiveness.
• 1:32:51
  Does that vibe with you? Yeah, that I forgiveness.
• 1:32:55
  Forgiveness is all there is. One final thing that I think
• 1:32:58
  wins her points across most of the spectrum, not the psycho
• 1:33:02
  spectrum, is her genuine dedication to.
• 1:33:05
  Christianity, the autism spectrum, or.
• 1:33:06
  Christianity. But for me, faith has just been
• 1:33:09
  the key to everything I do. And that kind of keeps me strong
• 1:33:13
  when I'm weak, that keeps me going when I feel like sitting
• 1:33:16
  down. I can always pull on that extra,
• 1:33:19
  extra stuff that comes from God, you know, to me.
• 1:33:22
  Like the accent feels performative, the look feels
• 1:33:25
  performative, but the invocation of her.
• 1:33:27
  Why do you think that the accent looks feels performative?
• 1:33:30
  It doesn't or accent doesn't feel performative.
• 1:33:32
  Not in like I just I don't I don't really know how to explain
• 1:33:36
  it again, I mean, anybody could have any accent, but the fact
• 1:33:39
  that she's maintaining an accent and maybe even judging it up a
• 1:33:41
  little bit doesn't necessarily make it performative.
• 1:33:43
  I don't know if I can communicate this like
• 1:33:45
  particularly well, but she's just like, it was just her
• 1:33:48
  accent, you know, It's like when I pretend to be like really dumb
• 1:33:51
  sometimes, you know what I mean? That's just like doing, I think
• 1:33:52
  it's funny. Like I just like, I do it in
• 1:33:55
  like everyday life. I just pretend to be like
• 1:33:57
  incredibly dumb sometimes. I know I can't be actually dumb,
• 1:33:59
  but sometimes I just pretend to be dumb because I think it's
• 1:34:03
  funny and then I'll like, and then I'll make people
• 1:34:05
  uncomfortable with it because I'll make like weird jokes and
• 1:34:07
  people won't get it because like I'm the only one who gets a
• 1:34:09
  joke, right. I I feel like it's something
• 1:34:11
  like that, if that makes sense, except nice.
• 1:34:14
  I don't know if this makes any sense, but I think you
• 1:34:15
  understand what I'm trying to say.
• 1:34:16
  I don't think that she's performative.
• 1:34:17
  I don't think, I don't think that anything about Dolly Parton
• 1:34:19
  feels performative. I think it just feels extra.
• 1:34:22
  Like I said, I think that she's like a female drag queen.
• 1:34:26
  Like that's it, you know, That's, that's what I look at.
• 1:34:29
  Faith doesn't feel performative in the same way does, like when
• 1:34:33
  Obama does it. Christian faith, then, has been
• 1:34:36
  a sustaining force for me over these last few years.
• 1:34:41
  Why does this feel performative? Sure.
• 1:34:45
  When I was looking her up on YouTube Music, in the top five
• 1:34:47
  songs was a song from just a couple of years ago there.
• 1:34:51
  Was So there are two major my. Favorite Jewish wizard?
• 1:35:03
  Yes. They're strains of contemporary
• 1:35:05
  Christian grievance. Christian, you know what I mean
• 1:35:09
  And. Like manga pieces of shit, is
• 1:35:11
  that what you mean? And everything else the Hooray
• 1:35:13
  for Jesus stuff. And Dolly only partakes in the
• 1:35:16
  latter. Well, I'm happy that I'm, I
• 1:35:19
  became successful. I'm happy that I was in a
• 1:35:22
  position to be able to help. I think when you get in a
• 1:35:25
  position to help, you should help.
• 1:35:26
  It's important to do things that are personal and important that
• 1:35:29
  you can take pride in and take joy in doing them.
• 1:35:32
  But I think we should all give. I grew up with that giving
• 1:35:36
  scripture. You know about being better to
• 1:35:39
  give than to receive. And The thing is, the vast, vast
• 1:35:41
  majority of. Well, it's nice that she got the
• 1:35:43
  positive messages from religion instead of the negative ones.
• 1:35:46
  Non believers. Contrary to what these people
• 1:35:48
  think, they do not actually begrudge Christians.
• 1:35:51
  We would genuinely celebrate it if they would actually walk the
• 1:35:54
  walk, and Dolly Parton is one of a vanishingly small number of
• 1:35:59
  Christians that actually do. And just because I'm blunt,
• 1:36:03
  don't believe I'm dumb because this.
• 1:36:08
  As I've said many times before, fame and power doesn't corrupt.
• 1:36:12
  It reveals like we saw with Joke and Rope and rolling
• 1:36:16
  radicalizing in real time based on her Twitter likes, which she
• 1:36:19
  initially denied until leaning all the way into pure evil.
• 1:36:22
  Damn is that what happened? Is that she?
• 1:36:24
  She liked stuff on Twitter and didn't realize it was public and
• 1:36:27
  then she fucking doubled down until like a demon monster.
• 1:36:32
  That's fucking crazy dude. What a dumbass.
• 1:36:34
  Holy bazookers bro. And it's an evil that so many
• 1:36:37
  activist celebrities fall into when they start to define
• 1:36:40
  themselves in opposition to groups of people.
• 1:36:42
  It's impossible to deport an adequate number of invaders.
• 1:36:46
  What we're talking. Whoa, is this Ted Nugent?
• 1:36:48
  What a loser. Invaders.
• 1:36:50
  Bro, stop it. Those are the people who do my
• 1:36:51
  lawn. Leave them alone.
• 1:36:53
  Why? People suck at everything.
• 1:36:57
  Actually. They're fucking tired.
• 1:36:58
  Well, they're really good at bombing brown countries.
• 1:37:01
  Actually. We're fucking awesome at that.
• 1:37:02
  I don't know if it's a good thing, but we're really good at
• 1:37:04
  it. And justifying the behavior as
• 1:37:06
  well while pretending that we actually are pro-life.
• 1:37:09
  So big YW on that one. But yeah, for real.
• 1:37:13
  Like knock knock at all. People are trying to come here
• 1:37:15
  for a better life, you know, to call them invaders.
• 1:37:17
  I understand that we can't like let them all in, but like, you
• 1:37:19
  don't have to be immunize them. They're fucking people, man.
• 1:37:21
  Not very Christian of you, not very religious of you.
• 1:37:24
  Talking about Holman is the guy. Donald Trump obviously is the
• 1:37:27
  guy. Christy Noem, he's the rape guy,
• 1:37:29
  the greatest governor of America now.
• 1:37:31
  Even if that opposition was initially righteous, which in
• 1:37:35
  the case of Joanne, let's be clear, it was not, Charlie is
• 1:37:39
  beloved because she positions herself against societal ills
• 1:37:42
  rather than people. Is that Hillary Clinton?
• 1:37:45
  Things like illiteracy and disease.
• 1:37:47
  Reading between the lines with those Instagram posts and the
• 1:37:51
  long stretch of postponing shows before cancelling them, I
• 1:37:54
  assumed that she was doing chemo or some sort of cancer
• 1:37:58
  treatment. But the scuttlebutt around the
• 1:38:00
  Dollywood resorts was that it was some kidney problems.
• 1:38:03
  Like I heard kidney stones. Either way, according to crew
• 1:38:06
  members I talked to, she I don't.
• 1:38:08
  Know kidney stones are really bad.
• 1:38:09
  My wife my my mom said that the kidney stone that she had was
• 1:38:13
  worse than giving birth to me, which is interesting because I
• 1:38:17
  my head was larger than my shoulders so that's fucking
• 1:38:22
  crazy. She wasn't at the resort or the
• 1:38:25
  parks as often as she usually is, like only about once in the
• 1:38:28
  last year or so. But the people who've worked
• 1:38:30
  there for a while all claimed to have met her.
• 1:38:33
  They've claimed we've gotten pictures, and they say she's all
• 1:38:36
  of the healing powered goddess that Gene Siskel once claimed.
• 1:38:40
  But despite all of this, she does not seem to be slowing
• 1:38:43
  down. Well, hey, there is Dolly.
• 1:38:44
  Well, and I've made it. I'm 80 years old.
• 1:38:49
  Can you believe that? She just announced a Broadway
• 1:38:52
  musical. I can officially announce that
• 1:38:56
  Dolly, a true original musical, is coming to Broadway.
• 1:39:01
  That's fucking rough man. And she passes away.
• 1:39:03
  And you're invited. Which has had test.
• 1:39:06
  That's fucking terrible. I'm not laughing, it's actually
• 1:39:08
  funny. I'm just like damn, that's
• 1:39:09
  fucking brutal. Ones in Nashville that I have
• 1:39:11
  heard very mixed things about. But you know, whatever.
• 1:39:15
  We're rooting for you, Dolly. I got, I got.
• 1:39:19
  I don't think it's any coincidence that Dolly Parton
• 1:39:21
  went from like a popular person to a very popular person to
• 1:39:26
  borderline St., correlating with the political divide in our
• 1:39:30
  country and in the world in general becoming ever and ever
• 1:39:33
  wider. People on both sides of the
• 1:39:36
  aisle are mad, but they also cling to Dolly because deep
• 1:39:40
  down, most people hope that there is a way that this divide
• 1:39:45
  can be bridged. After all, at least we all agree
• 1:39:49
  on one thing. That cigarettes are better than
• 1:39:54
  vapes. Terrible stuff, dude, terrible
• 1:40:09
  stuff. God bless.
• 1:40:12
  That's all I have to say.