runs this place, as he has since 1963. and he makes the rules. how long has this been a business? william po monkey seaberry: i ve been in this place 58 years. i m 74. anthony: how did you get into this business? william po monkey seaberry: i just got into it. something i liked to do. and everybody come here enjoy theyself. no problem. anthony: please explain this policy. you know, no hats backwards and no pants hanging down. what is that? william po monkey seaberry: you re right, that s right. if you don t like my rules, don t come. anthony: what are the rules here? no rap music. william po monkey seaberry: no. nobody likes that bumpa bumpa bump . i don t like that. it gives me a headache in the brain. i love all blues. all of it s good to me as long as it s blues. anthony: good r&b? william po monkey seaberry: that s right, that s right. anthony: but no rap. william po monkey seaberry: no, no. anthony: never, even if i have kanye west want
man, that s good. and you re right about those shrimp, they are delicious. julia reed: the shrimp? anthony: yeah. julia reed: oh yeah. anthony: is there a dessert that i should be saving room for? julia reed: are you kiddin me? there is no dessert. it s pretty damn bare bones, my friend. if you ask for one, they ll give you a lollipop. with my hepatitis c, i felt i couldn t be at my best for my family. in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behind. i faced reminders of my hep c every day. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. even hanging with friends i worried about my hep c. but in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured. mavyret is the only 8-week cure for all common types of hep c. before starting mavyret your doctor will test if you ve had hepatitis b which may flare up
the system, such as it is, well, crazy. you eat right here in the kitchen. and the division of labor, the flow of work, well, i gave up trying to figure it out five minutes in and just figured i ll get loaded and eat all this delicious food. the salad thing is famous. hand-tossed in the same wooden bowl for decades. the hot tamales, same as they ever was. julia reed: and doe s tamales are just incredible because they re made with the steak drippings and stuff that you re getting ready to see, so it anthony: oh yeah. oh really. julia reed: greatly enhances the flavor. oh my god. john currence: i could eat em till i was sick. anthony: fries done in cast-iron pan on the stovetop. the famous shrimp. steaks on an old rollout broiler. drippings all over the top. julia reed: and, you know, you re not gonna get skinny or healthy eating the hot tamales and fried shrimp and steak at doe s. there s no question about it. anthony: oh that s good. happy. it s the grease that makes
and awesome, as well as staff writer for a game-changing animated series adventure time all works of which i am a huge fan. so he wrote right right on the wall. bill griffith: he just wrote on it. anthony: it s it s his man cave. bill griffith: yeah, it s his it s his version. he said that houses in mississippi who have a family business have one room dedicated to the family business and this family s business is writing. anthony: from as early as 1919 through the 60s, faulkner wrote extensively about the post-civil war south. he was the first author to do so at a time when most writers were writing about anything but. bill griffith: he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself. torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways, and modern development. he said he was gonna break the antebellum code. anthony: right. bill griffith: and he did. anthony: but bill griffith: he did, and yet he had those hobbies and interests that were de
william po monkey seaberry: i ll find somebody to get naked with you. anthony: uh-oh. john currence: there s a promise. william po monkey seaberry: okay, dj, you can kick it back off. dj: a bad girl. don t forget about it, come right here. anthony: thursday night is family night at po monkeys, mostly locals, a mixed bag. the music is classic r&b and pre-disco soul. the attitude loose. just familiarize yourself with those rules and there won t be a problem. in the cities of the north where i come from, in some ways, we ve been able to buy ourselves free from our past. new arrivals pour in with no memory of the ugly parts of our history. we can afford the luxury of the new. we can live in comfortable bubbles or apartments high in the sky.