Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Parish Circuit. We're back. We took a little break because we had to travel. We had to travel the world for a little season there. But now we're back again, and there's so many things happening in Opelousis for us to discuss. I'm Stuart Amidan. With me is David Riley. We're here to discuss the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of opelousas as we try to figure out how to do those things.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: Absolutely.
Welcome to another episode. Today we're talking about Lil Boosie Day. David, who's Lil Boosie?
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Stuart, I have heard some things, and that's all I know.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: Okay, so full disclosure here. David and I are very white, and we don't know who Lil Boosie is. And our friends had to tell us. Actually, our friends had to instruct us as to what he was.
But what initially was so interesting to me is like, I see, guys, we're gonna have Lil Boosie Day. It's popping up on the. On the news around. It was gonna replace Mother's Day this year, apparently, May 10th. And here at St. Lichester's parish.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: Look, I'm guessing that whenever they decided that date that everyone realized everyone forgot that it was mother's Day, I just see that as, like, a really funny accident.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, so. But it was some of my friends who were like, I can't believe we're exalte Lil Boosie. And I was like, who's Lil Boosie? I don't what's happening. And they said, oh, he's wrote such songs as F the cops and other comparable works. And I was like, oh, good. And this is who. This is who we're gonna give a commemorative day.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: I'm surprised you hadn't heard of him yet, Stuart. That sounds like the music you do listen to all the time.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Well, it's like, okay, so it's obviously some type of music. You can go google the lyrics for yourself if you've never listened to it before. And so we are exalting this guy Lil Boosie. Whereas meanwhile, it was only a few months before this point, the primary complaint coming out of the parish president's office in Saint Landry parish was, we don't have enough places to put juvenile criminals.
And then. Right.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Lil Boosie will help.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: We said, let's exalt this. This guy. Now, I will say this is a little easier of a role model to reject than, like, I don't know, Taylor Swift being your role Model. Like, neither of these people should be role models of our children in our community because for their own distinct, unique reasons.
But Lil Boosie seems real obvious to not give a day to, given the problems that we have here in St. Landry Parish. And wouldn't you know it, that as soon as we exalted Lil Boosie, I feel like I'm, you know, I feel like I'm making a little Sebastian reference every time I say his name. For those of you who watch Parks and Rec, thank you.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Thank you, David.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Anytime.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Every time I say that, I, I'm.
Anyway, I'm shocked because this happened all on May 10, and then immediately following, we had not one, but two separate shooting incidents in St. Landrieu Parish in public places. One of them at the Yam Center. Right. Wasn't at the Yam Center.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Yep, yep. Or right near it. Behind it.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like. What was it? It was one of the trail rides. Is that what happened?
[00:03:32] Speaker B: You know, I'd have to look it up. I know the trail rides were referenced and they have been shut down because of the fear of danger connected with them. But I don't know if this was. It was at like 1:43am or that's when the calls came in. So I don't know if it was directly connected to that or the fact that it happened where the rides take place. They just decided to shut things down, so.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Oh, wow, that's fascinating.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah. So we had that happen and then we had the Walmart shooting recently that just happened this past Saturday.
And to which I would say, you get what you want, you get as a community, what you exalt as a community. Now, obviously everybody knows the play that's going on here whenever we give Lil Boosie a day in Saint Legraw Parish.
It's a play for votes. Right.
I'm making a move to make some people happy with me so that I can get some more votes on the next election whenever it comes down the pipe. Come on. Everybody knows that folks who are doing it know that whose ever idea it was.
I hope they realize what they've done.
Like, I hope they look around, they're like, oh, wait, maybe this was a bad idea.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: Yep.
Yeah, yeah. You. You become. You become what you worship you.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. And if you worship and exalt f the cops, it's not going to be a shock whenever you shoot at each other, try to kill each other.
That's a strange situation to find yourself in.
So, yeah, Little Boosie day. St. Leger Parish had some Ramifications.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Yeah. So I think what you described is there's something just normal and natural in our world today, our culture, especially in politics, to look for an opportunity to associate yourself with somebody famous, put your arm around him in a picture and, you know, get your. Your thing. So that's like. That doesn't surprise us. And it shouldn't.
And that's not always even bad, whatever, you know.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: And apparently he's famous. Apparently he has a big following.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: Right, right.
Which is you.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: And I don't know.
[00:05:46] Speaker B: Look, my family. My family knew who he was, you know, like I, you know.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Your family knew?
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: That's amazing. Okay, so.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: So yeah, apparently he's kind of a big deal.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Well, wow.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: But, yeah, but what people. The disconnect here is that people refuse to believe or just have simply not been told or thought about the fact that what you listen to, what you ingest, affects your thinking, affects what you do, affects your culture. It's culture building.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: You are a whole person.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: The art, if we can even call it that, whatever you consume, let's just say it that way, be it junk food or good things, affect how you act and behave. It affects the way that you live and the world around you. It affects your whole community. Absolutely it does.
If all you listen to all day long, go back to the Taylor Swift references, is Taylor Swift songs, then you're like, you're prone, which hopefully no one is doing this, but now you're prone to become more self obsessed because what's the theme in all of her tunes? It's self obsession. They're. They're all songs about her. Right. They're reflecting upon her and the story that she's telling. And it's an interesting dynamic to see that play out in a different type of music, obviously.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Right, right. Yeah.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: We could talk same principle.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Look, I've. Again, we could pick on any genre, probably. I've seen it recently, strangely, with like K pop.
What I've seen, I've. I've seen people on my socials like, adopt the Persona of K pop.
It is not doing their lives any favor.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Something you should. You ought not exalt this. It's gonna turn you into something. When my wife and I, my family and I were recently in Memphis for a period of months. And one of the things that we saw whenever we were there, I went into a. It was basically a gas station with no gas.
So all the food stuff that a gas station has, but no gas and sitting inside of it, there was some folks eating, you know, Had a little gas station restaurant, like most gas stations do.
There was some folks sitting down, eating lunch, and one of them was dressed like Bowser. These are grown adults, by the way. Like Bowser from Mario.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Oh, dear.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: One of them was dressed like Bowser and the other one was dressed like Princess Peach. And this was real life. And there was. They were. No one was looking ironic.
No one was, like, making jokes about it. They were just dressed that way, sitting down, having lunch, trying to live out the thing that they ingest.
This is a fact that what you do affects you. What you take in changes who you are. And the same thing applies here.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, man. There's so much we could talk about here. And we might stray a little far from St. Andrew, Paris, a little busy day. Yeah. I was gonna say.
I mentioned K Pop. Obviously, there's. There's a different outplaying of what that looks like.
The K Pop is more just like surface level romanticized fluff, which is not as directly connected to, let's say, violence and effing the cops.
But it's still something, when taken too far, has its negative impact, I think.
But yeah, no, we live in a world where reality is questioned, where people are often. You can live your whole life behind a screen.
Not, as the kids would say these days.
They're not getting out to touch grass.
And you could adopt any Persona you want and think that that is real and significant, like dressing up as Bowser and Peach or whatever it might be. But it's.
[00:09:39] Speaker A: Except here in Saint Legra Parish, we actually have the problem with people pretending to be gangsters until they aren't pretending anymore and they're actually trying to kill each other. Yep, that's a real thing that plays out in our area. And so if we're saying, let's exalt f the cops, let's give f the cops Mother's Day, let's give them a Memorial Day, then that does something to a culture. Like, whenever I was young, we had the idea of role models. I mean, I'm sure that you guys did, too.
And the people that they would bring in as guest speakers to my school whenever I was a kid, they were. I mean, I'm sure they weren't perfect, but they were at least people who had. Who had done cool things and had done great things and were aspiring to continue to build and do great things like. And that has an effect on the culture and on people.
But to exalt this particular thing as a great thing.
A little boosie, Little Sebastian Boosie.
I Think that we're gonna obviously reap the reward from that. And that is shocker. Another great return on investment of multiple shootings happening within a couple weeks time after the actual commemorative day happens.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Yep. The game we get to play, you know, I live in the middle of Opelousa, so the game we get to play on a semi regular basis is gunshots or fireworks.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I used to play that game right over on Azalea Street. I remember that. Laying out there, laying in the bed with my wife, being like, no, honey, it's okay. That's fireworks.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: That's all right. So that game might be, you know, hopefully it doesn't become more common. It might, it might. And while we. Yeah, while there's some. I think there's some good reasons to mock Little Boosie Day.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: So many good reasons, you know.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: Yeah, there's lots of the. The reason we would do that is because I want my neighborhood to be safer. We. Yes, we're serious. That like, yeah, we're making some jokes here in Lil Boosie Day on Mother's Day and all. It's hilarious. Absolutely terribly mockable. But you don't need to make satire here.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Satire writes itself.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: But. But at the same time, like, the concern is real.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: People are dying. People are getting shot. And that's not. Oh, gosh. Well, we hear that, that phrase maybe from various political outlets. People are dying when they're not actually dying. No, no, here. Except here, here, when we say that like, no, we don't want.
[00:12:04] Speaker A: We actually don't want people to get shot.
[00:12:06] Speaker B: We don't want this to be part of Opelousis and St. Landry Parish.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: But I think.
And you know, there are going to be some people who listen to this who are upset that we're mocking something to which I would say mockery is a very Christian thing to do. God mocks foolish things and we should, as his people, feel free to do that as well. Like whenever something is this ridiculous, I think the proper response is to mock it. There's the self serious people who would never employ such a tactic, who would say, oh, no, that's inappropriate because people's lives are at stake. To which I would say, I agree.
People's lives are at stake. It's very serious. But Lil Boosie on Mother's Day, I mean, come on, man, this is satire in and of itself.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: That's real.
There's a good place for some good satire.
[00:13:00] Speaker A: I know, I know. And so it ought to be mocked. It's so ridiculous that it ought to be mocked, and therefore I have no problem participating in the mockery.
Any closing thoughts, Dave, before we wrap this episode up, man?
[00:13:14] Speaker B: No, I think we covered that pretty well.
[00:13:17] Speaker A: What should we do from here? Like, what do we do? What do people do whenever their government does something like this?
[00:13:24] Speaker B: We definitely should be listening to more Lil Boosie. I think that's what they want us to do.
That's what they'd like us to do.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: I gotta go find that track f the Cops. And we'll just add that onto the back. That's our new intro outro track. It's the F the Cops.
Oh, my gosh.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Add it to the family playlist on Spotify.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: Well, guys, thank you all so much for listening to another episode of the Paris Circuit. You can visit our website or find us on social media. If you got something that you'd like us to discuss or some breaking news topics that you'd like to have released through our platforms, you can reach out to us online through socials or through the website. Thank you all so much. We'll see you next time.
