{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblack-lincoln-collective-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fmake-way-for-dolly-_pGaVH1c","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Make Way for Dolly!","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/33e4d2b2-268b-4171-9074-83f57801d15e/bc7769de-d89f-4ea4-a14d-0b80c8e4dae2/dolly_sq.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"In “Make Room for Dolly” | Episode 253 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, Parker, Fred, and Allan open with “words,” questionable international logic, Spanish-fly energy, fake accents, and the usual signs that the show has technically begun. The newly updated website gets a quick shoutout before the episode takes a darker turn into celebrity passings, name mispronunciations, and the strange local detail that one of the celebrity deaths discussed happened close to home.\n\nThe first major section centers on Dolly Parton, who the crew treats with rare and mostly sincere respect. They talk about her as more than a singer: a cultural icon, a Southern legend, a personality who could joke about her own image, and someone who did real good through things like Dollywood and her book-giving program. The guys decide Dolly deserves her own day, joke about making 9/25 Dolly Parton Day because of “9 to 5,” and officially put her into the BLC Hall of Fame. She becomes the first Hall of Famer to get a show holiday, which may be the highest honor this podcast can legally provide.\n\nFrom there, the “deaths come in threes” segment keeps going. The crew talks about Tim Curry, runs through his massive resume from Rocky Horror to Home Alone 2 to Legend, and then spirals into a mini in-memoriam for celebrities and semi-celebrities who did not get enough attention. It becomes a strangely specific roll call of actors, musicians, TV personalities, Sega hardware people, and performers the guys half-remember, fully mispronounce, or unexpectedly care about.\n\nAfter the break, the episode gets lighter and much crunchier with Food News. Fred tries matzo for the first time, hoping for a salty cracker and instead discovering what the crew describes as a giant piece of edible cardboard. The guys compare it to backsplash tile, suggest turning it into “the talking matzo,” debate whether it needs cheese, tea, peanut butter, jelly, jam, or a complete personality transplant, and eventually take a hard stance: BLC is pro-jelly and anti-jam.\n\nThe food segment then shifts into Coca-Cola controversy, with Parker explaining that some people were angry because Coca-Cola’s customizable bottles allegedly blocked “I love Jesus” while rumors claimed Satan-related phrases were allowed. The guys talk about boycotts, glitches, religious phrases, Coke vs. Pepsi, and whether “I love his shoes” is the workaround America needs.\n\nThe last stretch goes deep into meat. The crew discusses questionable imported beef, screw worm fears, beef supply problems, fast food suspicion, whether mystery meat could end up in burgers, and the unsettling possibility that nobody wants to tell consumers where certain meat is coming from. Then they pivot to a new everything bagel-seasoned thick-cut bacon, which leads to one clear BLC position: bacon is already good, so stop messing with it.\n\nThe episode closes with QT food deals, Upside app betrayal, gas station loyalty, expensive hot dogs, pizza-and-drink combos, tariff money jokes, and the realization that somehow Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, matzo, Jesus Coke, screw worms, and bacon all belonged in the same hour. That’s either range or a medical condition. Either way, it’s BLC."}