The channel passed 500,000 subs last night! Thank all y’all for watching the videos and making all this possible. Wish I could give you all a hot Krispy Kreme donut but that’s impossible because I don’t share Krispy Kreme.
It's okay man. You deserve those Krispy Kreme donuts just for having Darth Mizz become a thing. Thank you, from the state that is basically like 5% southern.
Speaking of Dolly, if you have a kid, you absolutely need to sign them up for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. She started it to send free books to kids to encourage reading. Both of our kids used it, and they loved it when a new book showed up. That lady is a saint.
I tried signing my kid up for it, and discovered that Imagination Library doesn’t send books to my zip code (a well-populated area) because Imagination Library had a deal to send kids to check out the same books at the local libraries instead. I don’t mind driving those five minutes to get there. 😊
I tried signing my kids up for Dolly's book program. Nothing. Then I tried signing my grandkids up. Nothing. Oh well. I hope those that actually received them enjoyed them.
The Imagination Library has recently come to the New Orleans metro area. So if you're down here and you couldn't get signed up before, give it a try now. It's a great programme and books can change a kid's life for the better. All hail Queen Dolly.
Dolly Parton isn’t just great. She’s also humble. She politely turned down induction into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame because she hadn’t made a rock ‘n’ roll album. She then went and made a rock ‘n’ roll album so they could induct her.
I have a friend whose daughter was battling a childhood illness at Vanderbilt. His wife and daughter were in a waiting room to get a procedure done when who walks in but Miss Dolly. Dolly sat down and just had a talk with his daughter about what was going on in her treatment and all kind of other things. After a while, Dolly said “Well, honey, I have to go, but I’ll keep you in my prayers.” Five minutes later his wife was thinking “Did that really just happen?”
Well, unfortunately the south is filled with many foods that will make you chronically ill and obese. It's no wonder the rates of obesity are higher there.
My favorite Dolly move is that Dollywood might seem like an ego thing at first glance, but it's actually there to provide jobs in an area that doesn't have a lot. And it provides 100% tuition coverage. That woman's the real deal. (She played a concert where I live when I was a kid, and my step-dad won a local radio contest for a backstage meet-and-greet with her. He was the grumpiest SOB you've ever met, but in that picture he got with her, you could tell that he was as nervous as a teenager.)
In a recent popularity poll. Dolly Parton received a 78 % positive view from respondents. People had a more favorable opinion of her than the Dali Llama.
It never ceases to amaze me that in the mountains of upper east Tennessee you will have a trailer house with a stack of 3 cinder blocks at one end, but the other end has a stack of 30 just to level the thing.
Many many years ago when my Memaw and Pawpaw were moving, there was a stack of cinder blocks that had obviously been there for a while. My Pawpaw made sure we knew those needed to be loaded, my then wife asked my Pawpaw what he needed them for at his new house, his reply was "so I can stack em up there just like they are here." My grandparents have long since passed and that house was sold but I'd be willing to be those cinder blocks are still there.
It don’t matter what part of the South you’re from (Kentucky here, don’t come for me, we’re still part of the South), we all know, respect, and love Saint Dolly. You can’t convince me she’s not an actual angel walking among us. In fact, when I was a little girl, I was convinced she was my guardian angel - my mom had told me about guardian angels, and how they’re everywhere and they watch over you, and Dolly was on the radio, TV, magazines, everywhere I looked. So, she had to be my guardian angel. Still pretty dang sure she’s an angel on Earth.
Anyone who says Kentucky ain't Southern ain't been here 🤣 I just point to Loretta Lynn and the Everlys as proof. Wouldn't be country music without Bluegrass
“Every southerner has three or four cinder blocks right now at their house. We don’t know where they came from.” Yes! I have absolutely no idea where they came from! I predict a future when our civilization has died off, and archaeologists will not find our homes, our mega churches, or even our stadiums, but they will find these cinder blocks and wonder what on earth they were used for.
2:51 I grew up in Massachusetts, and later moved to Texas. One of the first places I went was Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor. I knew from the moment I walked in that it was going to be good - the seating arrangements were minimalist, and on the right hand wall sat hundreds of business cards, many of them discolored beyond recognition through the decades of smoke. This was a place that had been doing it for a long time, and must have focused purely on the food. We got the brisket, naturally. I took my first bite, and tasted it. Savored it. I sat there for a minute, maybe longer. I then turned to my brother and said "I understand why southerners are more religious."
Except for that stretch that is "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" somewhere along the way. You never know where it's being worked on, just that traffic will bottleneck somewhere on that highway!
And it's always the out of towners causing problems on Atlanta roads. It's really not that hard to realize the road will split off without having to back up traffic for not reason!! SMH.
my grandfather used cinderblocks and wood to make every bookshelf in his house. and believe me when i tell you there were a lot. we have to carry all of them individually to storage.
@@derekbrown2215 Did you pay attention to the video? Dolly Parton is *the* rags to riches story. From dirt floor in a little cabin in the woods to the Queen of Country. She could have went off to Cali or Nashville and forgot about her home, but instead she built charities and bought an amusement park to help the area she came from and others who were born into that same impoverished life she had as a child. Dolly Parton is a genuinely wonderful woman and the epitome of what everyone should aspire to be. She's quite possibly the best celebrity ever. I don't think she's ever even been in any real scandals at all.
@@Mr-Trox Right, and I don't care. I'm entitled to like who I want to like and you can't force me to conform to your opinion. I've never been a big fan of hers. If you want to like her then good by all means do as you wish. I'm sure I'm a fan of musicians that you don't care for.
Awesome as always, Matt! And I learned that I am indeed the flower of Southern womanhood: Krispy Light? CHECK Southern Stonhenge? CHECK Skeeter bites? CHECK (Apparently I'm sweeeeet.) Loop da' loops? CHECK (I've done the entire Atlanta loop in one trip. Not on purpose..) Clemscot? CHECK BQ? I'm a priestess! Bow down and taste this vinegar-based goodness.. yes, yes....North Carolina... Hail Mama Dolly! Alabama? I've been through there. BIG crickets.... No, not quietness.....Literally. Big. Crickets.😅
About a week ago, I read that Dollywood in Pigeon Forge TN, had beat out both Disneyland and Disney World, and the Universal theme parks, as THE top rated amusement park for 2023, even beating out competition from other countries as well. As for Dolly Parton herself, my grandfather would have said "Bless her heart, she never forgot where she came from".
@@tastycarI must have heard you thinking! 😄 I haven't been to Atlanta in a couple decades, but I was just thinking the other day about the KMart that used to be across the street and wondered myself if that big angular chicken building was still there. Heck, I wonder if the eyes still move!
Dolly - talent, perseverance, integrity, good sense of humor, a formidable businessman (why "businesswoman" as who the hell cares)...and just plain cute. What's not to revere.
I think I got 'em all covered: I grew up in Dolly-land (Tennessee) where I hold the world record for being skeeter-bit at Dollywood; now live in South Carolina, where I am a Gamecock Fan and despise the WTF is that Tiger Thing at Clemson 15 miles from me, and I have 5 lbs directly attributable to Krispy Kreme only 5 miles away, my hubs and I spent our first 3 married years in a "damn trailer" held up by cinder blocks, even tho we occasionally travel on the Highway to Hell in Atlanta to visit my bestie, but I sweet-talked Hubby out of the damn trailer, which is why we have spent the last 38 years in a real house, with more cinder blocks holding down tarps because we have chickens in the backyard because we live, of course, in the SOUTH.
I grew up in a gamecock family before I realized how sweltering hot and awful columbia was, and moved to clemson as a student. The tiger is cracked out for sure, but a chicken in a skirt dancing to techno in a go-go cage isn't anything to brag about either.
Love this. I am one of those Satan spawns who just don't get bitten. My momma was from Bayou country of Louisiana and I think there is some voodoo involved, but I am happy to be blessed with this genetic trait. Funny enough passed it on to my son, but not my poor baby girl, she is a pincushion for the skeeters. You are so right about Dolly! She is the very best of this nation, and that is a hill I too will die upon. Thanks for all the humor Matt. Massive fan of your content.
Lived there for 38 years. Never knew how long my drive would be so...go to the rest room, get snack, and at least half a tank of gas before I left the house!
I was a firefighter/paramedic stationed at the junction, Company 19. We had a museum of hood ornaments and unusual car parts like from Ferraris, etc collected from all the crashes we responded to.
If Matt ever wants to make a list of physical wonders, I would recommend: Bass Pro Pyramid (Memphis), Singing River Sculptures (Florence), Sloss Furnaces (Birmingham), Natchez Trace Parkway (TN to MS), any of the ocean forts like Fort Pickens (Pensacola), Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah), Coral Castle (Homestead), the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the whole of New Orleans, Abita Mystery House, and UFO Welcome Center (Bowman). More than 7, but it's hard to narrow them down and all very Southern.
I have a nice collection of cinder blocks that I use like legos to build all kinds of useful things. Temporary structures - rose beds, then the roses die. Raccoon proof cat feeders for when I’m out of town. Side tables to set my iced tea on. Climbing toys for the cats. Blockers for holes under the fence. Etc etc.
You're kidding yourself on coon proof with cinder blocks. I have 2 pet coons and tried using cinder blocks to keep them from dumping the half a barrel I use as a water trough over. The girls will work together to move one then the other and still dump it. They do it out of spite if somebody doesn't come out to talk and pet them at least 2 times a day.
@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority the walls are two cinder blocks deep, and I stack them 5 high. I have a camera out there and have seen those raccoons struggle. 😂
Oh great...I'm about to go to Atlanta alone for the first time this weekend. I'm from Houston...are you telling me the highways in Atlanta are worse?!?!
I have never been to Houston but you literally plan your trip around timing, time of day, and traffic in and around Atlanta. It has been that way my entire life and I am older.
You left off sweet tea, Chick-fil-A, Coca Cola, SEC football, my mama's peach cobbler, butter rolls,.... We may need an (at least) 50 wonders of the South.
Congrats on half a million subs and thank you for your kind words for Dolly. I've decided she's a little dynamo of love and goodwill on platform heels. She is a national treasure with an endless supply of kindness.
I grew up in a household/family of gamecock fans, and was a fan until I set foot on Clemson's campus for orientation. Likewise never heard the nickname, but I'm pretty sure in the early days of Facebook, Clemson students started a group about how the mascot looks like he just smoked crack.
As a native Atlantan, I can verify that the on/off ramps of the downtown connector (I-75/I-85) and the perimeter (I-285) were not designed. They EVOLVED into the hell mazes that we try to navigate. Sometimes, we actually get to where we want to go. Mostly, we just go where the ramps take us. Once, I entered an off ramp in downtown Atlanta and ended up in Savanah. Don't ask me how. I don't know. But it took hours to get back to Atlanta. I just went home, confused and embarrassed.
I'm in Dallas, GA and I have to go south to go north to visit my son and his family in Jasper. Confusing. Without Waze I'd never get there...and back home.
Ever since i could remember there was this big pile of cinder blocks stack on the edge of the yard. So it had to be sitting minimum 40 years. I forgot where my dad said it came from but it was just there. Than out of nowhere about 10 or so years ago my dad needed some money and somebody came down to the house and bought like over half of them. Due to the pile behind on the edge of the yard near the woods and after the brick pile was disturbed a tree started to grow in the holes of obe of the cinder blocks.
The first concert my MomCat ever took me to was a Kenny Rogers set. When Dolly Parton walked onstage, the crowd erupted in cheers louder than they had for Kenny. I didn't understand then, but I do now. She is one of the finest humans on the planet.
That kind didn't have a momma to raise them up right or did they just not know to leave Miss Dolly alone unless you are in awe of her like the rest of the human race is. Miss Dolly is the best meaning of class and kindness there is. GOD BLESS MISS DOLLY!!!! 🦋🦋
Takes a powerful lot of hate to be slamming on St. Dolly. So much hate in fact that I bet they even hate themselves, poor bastards. You can only pity people like that.
Because the Federalist actually cares about serious things. Besides this is a free country and people are allowed to have opinions, especially contrarian ones.
@@cindycchesney5716So she gets special treatment for what reason? She's not an angel, goddess, or an idol. She is a human being with a well crafted image.
He got me, right through the heart, with that comment about cinder blocks. And it's true. I don't have a clue as to when, how, what, where or who got them. All I know is it wasn't me!
Fox News literally attacked Dolly recently saying she had a washed up career, they celebrities they brought out to say that were Jon Voight, Scott Baio and Kevin Sorbo
They're just trying to echo that nutjob who attacked her in her blog post or whatever you want to call it. As for the folks they trotted out, none of them had half the career she did. Did Kevin Sorbo even have a career? I'm not sure that playing Hercules on a campy syndicated TV show counts. That's one of those things an aspiring actor does while waiting for their big break, and, if their break comes, they hope it's a role that people forget about.
@@derekbrown2215 she's 78 years old, and I'd wager her career began before most folks here were born. If you want to call her washed up, be my guest, but I doubt you're going to get much agreement.
Here in New Jersey, there's a small catering company by me that took four cinder blocks, stood them up on their sides and put wood beams in-between the openings to make a bench for the workers to sit under the trees.
Every year someone gives me a jar of Whitley's Virginia Boiled Peanuts for Christmas. I always give them to a coworker. I never cared much for them. Cajun boiled peanuts are actually pretty good, but I would have to make them myself.
There are many sayings about Atlanta. Such as "You can't get to Heaven or Hell without changing planes in Atlanta first." The problem is pretty much every major highway that runs from the Midwest toward Florida or from Texas to the East Coast all converge in Atlanta. Think of it like the Hub of a Hub and Spoke road system that covers half the country.
Clemson's Tiger looks Hollywood-quality compared to the Penn State Nittany Lion, which looks like someone's last-minute Halloween costume attempt using what they could find at Dollar General.
Yes on the cinder blocks. When we bought our house there they were in the back yard all neatly stacked. God bless those Southern Welcome Wagon folks :)) They came in real handy to fill the holes one of our dogs dug to get under the fence and into the neighbor's yard.
Sweet home brother. South Bama is home and I love it like no other place. My granddaughter will be the 8th generation to be on our family land. That’s a pretty good heritage
The interesting part of that to me is 3. I used to work in a lab that performed testing on the blocks either for the manufacturer or buyer. You need six blocks for a full test. 3 are for compression strength and get destroyed. The other three are for measurements and density testing. These remain in tact. So was there someone just passing blocks out all over the place after they were done with the three?
When he mentioned the part about the random cinder blocks at our house and them probably holding down a blue plastic tarp at some point... I felt that. 🙋♀
I live in SOUTHER California, and was born there (in a place almost as far south as Atlanta) and have a few cider block "just in case," and agree that Dolly is a saint.
The channel passed 500,000 subs last night! Thank all y’all for watching the videos and making all this possible. Wish I could give you all a hot Krispy Kreme donut but that’s impossible because I don’t share Krispy Kreme.
Congratulations, Matt. Your next 500,000 subscribers will take less than half the time. Good humor is contagious. Whoops, I hear music…
Congratulations!! You deserve so many more. Your videos always brighten my day.
Congratulations!
It's okay man. You deserve those Krispy Kreme donuts just for having Darth Mizz become a thing. Thank you, from the state that is basically like 5% southern.
I couldn't have done it without you! ❤😁😀🤘
WPS... GO HOGS! 73 more days to SEC football.
Speaking of Dolly, if you have a kid, you absolutely need to sign them up for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. She started it to send free books to kids to encourage reading. Both of our kids used it, and they loved it when a new book showed up.
That lady is a saint.
Is there anything good that she doesn't do?! No.
I tried signing my kid up for it, and discovered that Imagination Library doesn’t send books to my zip code (a well-populated area) because Imagination Library had a deal to send kids to check out the same books at the local libraries instead. I don’t mind driving those five minutes to get there. 😊
I tried signing my kids up for Dolly's book program. Nothing. Then I tried signing my grandkids up. Nothing. Oh well. I hope those that actually received them enjoyed them.
The Imagination Library has recently come to the New Orleans metro area. So if you're down here and you couldn't get signed up before, give it a try now. It's a great programme and books can change a kid's life for the better. All hail Queen Dolly.
That's a great thing she started.
Dolly Parton is a national treasure.
Dolly Parton isn’t just great. She’s also humble. She politely turned down induction into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame because she hadn’t made a rock ‘n’ roll album. She then went and made a rock ‘n’ roll album so they could induct her.
Yet she is BFF with Jane Fonda, and defends her.
@@john1701q Oh no, she has committed the sin of being friends with someone from the "other" side of the political spectrum. Gee, the horror.
@@john1701q 😂😂😂🤡
@@ChadRazorback If only Dolly was in Congress
@@donjackson5522 she's too young and in too good mental health for Congress. Maybe in 10 or 15 years she will qualify.
I have a friend whose daughter was battling a childhood illness at Vanderbilt. His wife and daughter were in a waiting room to get a procedure done when who walks in but Miss Dolly. Dolly sat down and just had a talk with his daughter about what was going on in her treatment and all kind of other things. After a while, Dolly said “Well, honey, I have to go, but I’ll keep you in my prayers.” Five minutes later his wife was thinking “Did that really just happen?”
Remarkable, like a touch by an angel episode. 🌟
And Dolly does that without any cameras rolling or a PR person directing her on what to say. She is a remarkable and caring woman. God bless her.
Was she just wandering the halls looking for sick people to talk to?😂 She's a doll.
Well, unfortunately the south is filled with many foods that will make you chronically ill and obese. It's no wonder the rates of obesity are higher there.
My favorite Dolly move is that Dollywood might seem like an ego thing at first glance, but it's actually there to provide jobs in an area that doesn't have a lot. And it provides 100% tuition coverage. That woman's the real deal.
(She played a concert where I live when I was a kid, and my step-dad won a local radio contest for a backstage meet-and-greet with her. He was the grumpiest SOB you've ever met, but in that picture he got with her, you could tell that he was as nervous as a teenager.)
The flashing of the "Hot Now" has beckoned many a southerner down the path of "diabeetus"....
Like my daddy, God Rest His Soul
Yep, now they got "the sugar."
Awww nawww🤣🤣🤣
In a recent popularity poll.
Dolly Parton received a 78 % positive view from respondents.
People had a more favorable opinion of her than the Dali Llama.
To be fair, she isn't trying to have yung bois suck on her tongue
It's hard not to love Dolly. The only black mark you could give her is assuming Dollywood is an ego thing, even if it's not.
Not that hard, the Dali llama asked a kid to suck his tongue on camera. Pretty difficult to be worse than that.
It never ceases to amaze me that in the mountains of upper east Tennessee you will have a trailer house with a stack of 3 cinder blocks at one end, but the other end has a stack of 30 just to level the thing.
That is the truth!!!
"holding down a big blue tarp" that was a sucker punch right there
Yeah, I feel like I need to find a cylinder head off an old engine to swap out the one holding my tarp.
😂😂🤣🤣
Many many years ago when my Memaw and Pawpaw were moving, there was a stack of cinder blocks that had obviously been there for a while. My Pawpaw made sure we knew those needed to be loaded, my then wife asked my Pawpaw what he needed them for at his new house, his reply was "so I can stack em up there just like they are here." My grandparents have long since passed and that house was sold but I'd be willing to be those cinder blocks are still there.
Pawpaw was a wise man
Dolly's Imagination Library sends a free book every month to 2 million children across 5 countries.
Our child loved those books
It don’t matter what part of the South you’re from (Kentucky here, don’t come for me, we’re still part of the South), we all know, respect, and love Saint Dolly. You can’t convince me she’s not an actual angel walking among us. In fact, when I was a little girl, I was convinced she was my guardian angel - my mom had told me about guardian angels, and how they’re everywhere and they watch over you, and Dolly was on the radio, TV, magazines, everywhere I looked. So, she had to be my guardian angel.
Still pretty dang sure she’s an angel on Earth.
Sweet
We don't all respect Dolly. She's a mediocre singer who is great at snoozing with the right people and has large fake breasts.
Anyone who says Kentucky ain't Southern ain't been here 🤣 I just point to Loretta Lynn and the Everlys as proof. Wouldn't be country music without Bluegrass
This Bama girl has been to Kentucky...yes, y'all are a part of our family ❤
@@moonkenzieOh yeah, the only areas of Kentucky that aren't southern are Covington and Louisville. Eastern Kentucky certainly is.
“Every southerner has three or four cinder blocks right now at their house. We don’t know where they came from.” Yes! I have absolutely no idea where they came from! I predict a future when our civilization has died off, and archaeologists will not find our homes, our mega churches, or even our stadiums, but they will find these cinder blocks and wonder what on earth they were used for.
The remains of worship towers to Dolly and Krispie Creme of course!
Dolly is one of the greatest artists and humanitarians today. God bless her
I'm pretty sure Dolly Parton being a wonderful human being is one of the few things this entire country can agree on.
2:51
I grew up in Massachusetts, and later moved to Texas. One of the first places I went was Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor. I knew from the moment I walked in that it was going to be good - the seating arrangements were minimalist, and on the right hand wall sat hundreds of business cards, many of them discolored beyond recognition through the decades of smoke. This was a place that had been doing it for a long time, and must have focused purely on the food. We got the brisket, naturally. I took my first bite, and tasted it. Savored it. I sat there for a minute, maybe longer. I then turned to my brother and said "I understand why southerners are more religious."
Don’t never go to the Blue Ridge in spring or fall, ‘cause you will full on believe.
Central Texas is the BBQ capital of the world! Even HEB has good BBQ!
Used to live in Texas and agree with you about Louie Miller's brisket.
The "Jolene" at the end got me!! 😂😂
1:45. As an ATLien, this is 100% correct. There is nothing worse than trying to go anywhere anytime other than 2am.
We took a Lyft back to our hotel the other week and we were stuck behind a line of dashers dropping food off at 2 am
And even when Southerners die, regardless of our final destination, we still have to go through Atlanta.
The Ms Jackson quote was perfect.
Cheers fellow Outkast fan
Gator belts & patty melts & Monte Carlos & El Dorados 🛠️
We don’t deserve Ms Dolly. But we are all thankful for her 👸🏼
PSA: If you are going to eat Scott's BBQ, do yourself a favor and go to the original location in Hemingway, SC. Go early, take cash and your appetite!
I've been there done that.
Their BBQ is so good that it should be illegal.
Get there early. They do sell out.
I did not care for it myself
Absolutely. I live in Florence!
Yeah. I'm a Gamecock. That freakin' tiger is frightening. And ugly.
No disrespect, but I prefer Big T’s in Gadsden, SC. Then again it’s probably because we have like 3 or 4 different styles of BBQ in SC.
The beacon of light that is the Krispy Kreme "Hot Now" sign is the South's guide straight to Heaven.
Whoever named every single road peachtree in Alabama needs to be institunialized
Alabama? .... Huh I was sure you were gonna say Atlanta because yeah....... so many Peachtree streets etc etc etc....
Yeah that threw me too 😂@@phlogistanjones2722
@@phlogistanjones2722 it definitely is Atlanta I was pretty high and got it mixed up
@@TechtonikizationAuto correct gotcha! That would be my excuse.
Roll Tide Roll!
God save Queen Dolly!
Don't forget The King Elvis 🧐
In Dolly we Trust
Dolly is a sellout. Renames Dixie Stampede due to wokeness.
@@JimNedCreek cry some more snowflake 😂
@@JimNedCreek: Gosh, who hurt you so bad you gotta hate on Dolly, Jimbo???
1. Dolly is my "don't touch my boats" line in the swamp; Dolly is an angel on Earth
2. Nice OutKast reference
ATL, seven lanes of stopped traffic....sigh.
Except for that stretch that is "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" somewhere along the way. You never know where it's being worked on, just that traffic will bottleneck somewhere on that highway!
All looking for the exit that takes you south to go north. Good God what a mess. Like a plate of spaghetti!
Everybody speeds because they're trying to get ahead of the inevitable accidents.
And it's always the out of towners causing problems on Atlanta roads. It's really not that hard to realize the road will split off without having to back up traffic for not reason!! SMH.
Dolly isn’t a Queen, She’s God’s Special Angel that he sent to watch over all Southerners! Love you Dolly!!!!!
Dolly is so good that she tries to watch over us all, even in my aging, Northern, Rust Belt metropolis. She is a blessing.
my grandfather used cinderblocks and wood to make every bookshelf in his house. and believe me when i tell you there were a lot. we have to carry all of them individually to storage.
Dolly is a treasure. The south is lucky to have her.
AMERICA is lucky to have her.
Why is she a treasure?
@@derekbrown2215 Did you pay attention to the video? Dolly Parton is *the* rags to riches story. From dirt floor in a little cabin in the woods to the Queen of Country.
She could have went off to Cali or Nashville and forgot about her home, but instead she built charities and bought an amusement park to help the area she came from and others who were born into that same impoverished life she had as a child.
Dolly Parton is a genuinely wonderful woman and the epitome of what everyone should aspire to be.
She's quite possibly the best celebrity ever. I don't think she's ever even been in any real scandals at all.
@@Mr-Trox Right, and I don't care. I'm entitled to like who I want to like and you can't force me to conform to your opinion. I've never been a big fan of hers. If you want to like her then good by all means do as you wish. I'm sure I'm a fan of musicians that you don't care for.
@@derekbrown2215 I was just answering your question and you're shoving a dictionary in my mouth over it, but sure go off.
Awesome as always, Matt! And I learned that I am indeed the flower of Southern womanhood:
Krispy Light? CHECK
Southern Stonhenge? CHECK
Skeeter bites? CHECK (Apparently I'm sweeeeet.)
Loop da' loops? CHECK (I've done the entire Atlanta loop in one trip. Not on purpose..)
Clemscot? CHECK
BQ? I'm a priestess! Bow down and taste this vinegar-based goodness.. yes, yes....North Carolina...
Hail Mama Dolly!
Alabama? I've been through there. BIG crickets.... No, not quietness.....Literally. Big. Crickets.😅
P.S. We have exactly one random cinder block in our yard. Whaaaaa? Where did it come from, Matt?
About a week ago, I read that Dollywood in Pigeon Forge TN, had beat out both Disneyland and Disney World, and the Universal theme parks, as THE top rated amusement park for 2023, even beating out competition from other countries as well.
As for Dolly Parton herself, my grandfather would have said "Bless her heart, she never forgot where she came from".
I love Dolly. Not even a country music fan.
You don't have to be a country fan to love Dolly.
I think people kinda universally like her even if they don't care for country. She got that Meemaw feel about her.
2 Matt videos in 1 week?! Yes, please!!
Right!? We have been blessed!
@cnsohm yes, we have. He's a blessing to watch.
The Big Chicken in Marietta, calling all fans of fried chicken, and a directional marker for millions, should replace skeeter-proof folks.
As a skeeter proof person, I agree
Thank you for saying that. I mentioned it the other day and wondered if it was still in existence and now I know
@@tastycarI must have heard you thinking! 😄 I haven't been to Atlanta in a couple decades, but I was just thinking the other day about the KMart that used to be across the street and wondered myself if that big angular chicken building was still there. Heck, I wonder if the eyes still move!
@@punchkitten874 One of us need to find out in person 😂
@@punchkitten874 The building underwent a pretty significant restoration a few years ago.
Dolly - talent, perseverance, integrity, good sense of humor, a formidable businessman (why "businesswoman" as who the hell cares)...and just plain cute. What's not to revere.
I LIKED at Dolly. You got that right. The great goddess of Appalachia and the South.
Right, she's greater than Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, or numerous presidents from the South.
Right, she's greater than Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, or numerous presidents from the South.
Every southerner needs those cinder blocks. Never know when you need to put that old car up on blocks in the yard.
Or fashion a make shift coffee table.
Even us in the Midwest understand the greatness of Dolly.
"Sorry MsJackson"😂
God save Dolly! All hail the Queen of the South!
I think I got 'em all covered: I grew up in Dolly-land (Tennessee) where I hold the world record for being skeeter-bit at Dollywood; now live in South Carolina, where I am a Gamecock Fan and despise the WTF is that Tiger Thing at Clemson 15 miles from me, and I have 5 lbs directly attributable to Krispy Kreme only 5 miles away, my hubs and I spent our first 3 married years in a "damn trailer" held up by cinder blocks, even tho we occasionally travel on the Highway to Hell in Atlanta to visit my bestie, but I sweet-talked Hubby out of the damn trailer, which is why we have spent the last 38 years in a real house, with more cinder blocks holding down tarps because we have chickens in the backyard because we live, of course, in the SOUTH.
I grew up in a gamecock family before I realized how sweltering hot and awful columbia was, and moved to clemson as a student. The tiger is cracked out for sure, but a chicken in a skirt dancing to techno in a go-go cage isn't anything to brag about either.
From Krispy Kreme to Dolly, life doesn't get much sweeter.
Sweet Tea
When I moved to my house in East Tennessee, it came with a stack of about a dozen cinder blocks in the back yard. Useful things.
Love this. I am one of those Satan spawns who just don't get bitten. My momma was from Bayou country of Louisiana and I think there is some voodoo involved, but I am happy to be blessed with this genetic trait. Funny enough passed it on to my son, but not my poor baby girl, she is a pincushion for the skeeters. You are so right about Dolly! She is the very best of this nation, and that is a hill I too will die upon. Thanks for all the humor Matt. Massive fan of your content.
How is Sweet Tea not in this list?
Because like BBQ, they don't know how to make it outside the Carolinas.
🙃
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@@taemien9219 Surely you're not considering North Carolina in that? 😛SC so serious about tea, only place in the US with an actual tea plantation!
As a Tennessean, lemme say that Dolly Parton is my favorite Tennessean 🌈🙏🏻💜💙💚
Dolly helps smooth over the Governors we get.
@@PatrickDaviswimiwamwamwazzle Move
Dolly is my favorite American, period. Hard to beat Dolly.
You're nailing it, keep the great work!
I've always wanted to make a pilgrimage to Dollywood (well and Graceland if I'm honest).
Spaghetti Junction is most definitely a curse from the pits of hell LOL
I travel it 3 times a day at least.
It sucks every time.
Lived there for 38 years. Never knew how long my drive would be so...go to the rest room, get snack, and at least half a tank of gas before I left the house!
And the fact that if you stay in the same lane for too long, you'll end up on an exit. Doesn't matter which lane or how far back.
I was a firefighter/paramedic stationed at the junction,
Company 19. We had a museum of hood ornaments and unusual car parts like from Ferraris, etc collected from all the crashes we responded to.
Ain’t getting rid of those cinder blocks, I’m gonna use em
... one day. =)
Said by every southern man I know
South is the best part of the world
All hail Queen Dolly! She's a deadgum saint.
“The only part of the world that matters.” Amen, brother.
Didn't mention the bass pro pyramid
If Matt ever wants to make a list of physical wonders, I would recommend: Bass Pro Pyramid (Memphis), Singing River Sculptures (Florence), Sloss Furnaces (Birmingham), Natchez Trace Parkway (TN to MS), any of the ocean forts like Fort Pickens (Pensacola), Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah), Coral Castle (Homestead), the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the whole of New Orleans, Abita Mystery House, and UFO Welcome Center (Bowman). More than 7, but it's hard to narrow them down and all very Southern.
@@johnbelt4966 Stone Mountain.
South of the Border, the single best source for fireworks in the EST time zone.
To be fair, people in alabama don't walk.
Dolly for the win! Do not mess with Dolly.
I have a nice collection of cinder blocks that I use like legos to build all kinds of useful things. Temporary structures - rose beds, then the roses die. Raccoon proof cat feeders for when I’m out of town. Side tables to set my iced tea on. Climbing toys for the cats. Blockers for holes under the fence. Etc etc.
You're kidding yourself on coon proof with cinder blocks. I have 2 pet coons and tried using cinder blocks to keep them from dumping the half a barrel I use as a water trough over. The girls will work together to move one then the other and still dump it.
They do it out of spite if somebody doesn't come out to talk and pet them at least 2 times a day.
your raccoons must have been on the special bus.. ours can get into anything.. I think they'd re-stack the cinder blocks too.
@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority the walls are two cinder blocks deep, and I stack them 5 high. I have a camera out there and have seen those raccoons struggle. 😂
Oh great...I'm about to go to Atlanta alone for the first time this weekend. I'm from Houston...are you telling me the highways in Atlanta are worse?!?!
The worse is being stuck in the line for valet
houston may suck, but atlanta is worse, don't worry
Well...I wouldn't take the Perimeter if your drafting skills aren't NASCAR standard...
I have never been to Houston but you literally plan your trip around timing, time of day, and traffic in and around Atlanta. It has been that way my entire life and I am older.
I would highly suggest practicing aggressive, merging before you start driving in Atlanta
You left off sweet tea, Chick-fil-A, Coca Cola, SEC football, my mama's peach cobbler, butter rolls,.... We may need an (at least) 50 wonders of the South.
Yeh, he should have included Chik Fil-A, that's one of the South's most famous exports!
He also forgot all of Texas and BUCCEES
@@SourVR-I was just told by GA Southerners that Texas is NOT southern but considers itself to be southwestern like Arizona and Utah. True? Not true?
@@SourVR-we're still debating if were truly the South or not. I always consider the South starting at the Louisiana border and going east.
@@Birdbike719 what else what we be considered? I feel like Texas is known across the us as a southern state, and we fit all of the criteria
Well Done! Dolly did amazing things for Gatlinburg residents affected in the 2016 fire. A Saint. Really.
If the powers that be are teaching the youth of South Carolina that their mascot represents a tiger, that would explain a lot!
COMPLETELY agree with you about Dolly. She is beyond wonderful!
I really think there was a Queen Duo in the US: Dolly & Betty. Now poor Dolly rules alone with Dick Van Dyke as her Prime Minister.
Congrats on half a million subs and thank you for your kind words for Dolly. I've decided she's a little dynamo of love and goodwill on platform heels. She is a national treasure with an endless supply of kindness.
As a Gamecock, I had never heard the term "Eight ball" used in that regard. Now, it's all I'm ever going to call it. Probably multiple times a game.
I grew up in a household/family of gamecock fans, and was a fan until I set foot on Clemson's campus for orientation. Likewise never heard the nickname, but I'm pretty sure in the early days of Facebook, Clemson students started a group about how the mascot looks like he just smoked crack.
As a native Atlantan, I can verify that the on/off ramps of the downtown connector (I-75/I-85) and the perimeter (I-285) were not designed. They EVOLVED into the hell mazes that we try to navigate. Sometimes, we actually get to where we want to go. Mostly, we just go where the ramps take us. Once, I entered an off ramp in downtown Atlanta and ended up in Savanah. Don't ask me how. I don't know. But it took hours to get back to Atlanta. I just went home, confused and embarrassed.
I'm in Dallas, GA and I have to go south to go north to visit my son and his family in Jasper. Confusing. Without Waze I'd never get there...and back home.
The food and the music are the main reasons we put up with the bugs and the heat & humidity.
God save Dolly.
Ever since i could remember there was this big pile of cinder blocks stack on the edge of the yard. So it had to be sitting minimum 40 years. I forgot where my dad said it came from but it was just there. Than out of nowhere about 10 or so years ago my dad needed some money and somebody came down to the house and bought like over half of them. Due to the pile behind on the edge of the yard near the woods and after the brick pile was disturbed a tree started to grow in the holes of obe of the cinder blocks.
The first concert my MomCat ever took me to was a Kenny Rogers set. When Dolly Parton walked onstage, the crowd erupted in cheers louder than they had for Kenny. I didn't understand then, but I do now. She is one of the finest humans on the planet.
God Bless Queen Dolly!
I still can't believe The Federalist had the gall to take a shot at Dolly.
That kind didn't have a momma to raise them up right or did they just not know to leave Miss Dolly alone unless you are in awe of her like the rest of the human race is. Miss Dolly is the best meaning of class and kindness there is. GOD BLESS MISS DOLLY!!!! 🦋🦋
I know! And they slammed her for loving everyone? huh....
Takes a powerful lot of hate to be slamming on St. Dolly. So much hate in fact that I bet they even hate themselves, poor bastards. You can only pity people like that.
Because the Federalist actually cares about serious things. Besides this is a free country and people are allowed to have opinions, especially contrarian ones.
@@cindycchesney5716So she gets special treatment for what reason? She's not an angel, goddess, or an idol. She is a human being with a well crafted image.
He got me, right through the heart, with that comment about cinder blocks. And it's true. I don't have a clue as to when, how, what, where or who got them. All I know is it wasn't me!
In Alabama for just under 2yrs, and I absolutely LOVE IT!!!
Queen Dolly 👑
God save Dolly indeed!!
Fox News literally attacked Dolly recently saying she had a washed up career, they celebrities they brought out to say that were Jon Voight, Scott Baio and Kevin Sorbo
Says a lot about Fox that they feel threatened by Dolly. None of it good, either.
They're just trying to echo that nutjob who attacked her in her blog post or whatever you want to call it.
As for the folks they trotted out, none of them had half the career she did. Did Kevin Sorbo even have a career? I'm not sure that playing Hercules on a campy syndicated TV show counts. That's one of those things an aspiring actor does while waiting for their big break, and, if their break comes, they hope it's a role that people forget about.
So I take it you lean left?
@@EastSider48215 Or she actually is washed up and is propped up by progressives.
@@derekbrown2215 she's 78 years old, and I'd wager her career began before most folks here were born. If you want to call her washed up, be my guest, but I doubt you're going to get much agreement.
Hello from just outside Winston-Salem. The lighthouse is a great and happy sight.
Born and raised in Winston-Salem. If it’s not Krispy Kreme it’s not fit to eat!
I love this list, especially Dolly. She is amazing. 💙💙💙
One of your best. Need Coca-Cola and peanuts
Here in New Jersey, there's a small catering company by me that took four cinder blocks, stood them up on their sides and put wood beams in-between the openings to make a bench for the workers to sit under the trees.
Patron Saint Dolly.
If you have an issue with that...
It's time to throw hands.....
LONG LIVE QUEEN DOLLY.
I am not a christian man, but God bless Dolly Parton. May she be the first and possibly only human to live forever.
God bless Dolly!❤
I can't believe you left out boiled peanuts.
I can
Because they're gross....
@@tacticalmattfoley you must be from New Jersey.
@@tacticalmattfoleyYay! I'm not the only southerner who doesn't like boiled peanuts! 😂
Every year someone gives me a jar of Whitley's Virginia Boiled Peanuts for Christmas. I always give them to a coworker. I never cared much for them. Cajun boiled peanuts are actually pretty good, but I would have to make them myself.
Talking about the mosquitoes, they love me. My son has a hate relationship with deer flies. They will find him but they don't bother me.
There are many sayings about Atlanta. Such as "You can't get to Heaven or Hell without changing planes in Atlanta first." The problem is pretty much every major highway that runs from the Midwest toward Florida or from Texas to the East Coast all converge in Atlanta. Think of it like the Hub of a Hub and Spoke road system that covers half the country.
Clemson's Tiger looks Hollywood-quality compared to the Penn State Nittany Lion, which looks like someone's last-minute Halloween costume attempt using what they could find at Dollar General.
Aaawww! Bless their Hearts!!!
Michigan state's mascot has fingernails
Yes on the cinder blocks. When we bought our house there they were in the back yard all neatly stacked. God bless those Southern Welcome Wagon folks :))
They came in real handy to fill the holes one of our dogs dug to get under the fence and into the neighbor's yard.
Sweet home brother. South Bama is home and I love it like no other place. My granddaughter will be the 8th generation to be on our family land. That’s a pretty good heritage
I don't live in the South but for some reason there are 3 cinder blocks by my house. No idea where they came from or why they're here
You've been blessed
The interesting part of that to me is 3. I used to work in a lab that performed testing on the blocks either for the manufacturer or buyer. You need six blocks for a full test. 3 are for compression strength and get destroyed. The other three are for measurements and density testing. These remain in tact. So was there someone just passing blocks out all over the place after they were done with the three?
They say the Mason Dixon line is moving and the south is expanding.❤️🤗🐝
"The only part of the world that matters, roll tide" LOL you sound like my Alabama mother.
Congratulations Matt! 🎊 🎉✨️🥳👍🏻 I love all your videos. Ty for the laughs and smiles. 💜🙏🏻
You broke me with the pun: The Colossus of Dumb Roads. I love a good pun.
God bless Miss Dolly!
God save Dolly!!!
"God Save Dolly" with a pic of her would be great on a Tshirt!!!!
When he mentioned the part about the random cinder blocks at our house and them probably holding down a blue plastic tarp at some point... I felt that. 🙋♀
I'm voting for Dolly ❤❤❤
All hail Queen Dolly!
Hearing my hometown Winston-Salem in your video was a blessing. I love my South of North Carolina and good ol Winston.
I live in SOUTHER California, and was born there (in a place almost as far south as Atlanta) and have a few cider block "just in case," and agree that Dolly is a saint.