wellRED podcast - BUBBA SHOT 4 WEEKS STRAIT: "I Can Still Make Cheyenne"

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

oday's episode starts off with an exciting bow on a 6 year argument over what is the best George Strait song (and perhaps Rodeo city) of all time - Cheyenne or Amirillo. Covering a great cowboy song always reminds us of life on the road as a comedian. Past loves, lives, and losses are always remembered when we sing along with the plight of rodeo men. There are perhaps some equals but none better at this sub genre of song than Mr. Strait. Today's episode is a good one.  

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Bubba shot the podcast and that's right. A show about country at a time. Welcome to Bubba Shot the podcast. Gentlemen, first, the facts. I can still make Chey Ann is a song performed by America. American country music artist, George Strait. It is three weeks straight here on Bubba Shot the podcast. And we are going with what is arguably his best song.

It's not. It was released in 1996 as the third single from his album, Blue Clear Sky, an album we have already addressed. I mean, this is a banger of an album. It also appeared on 50 number ones. It was a number one song. It can also be heard on his album for the last time live from the Astrodome, which is a DVD and concert documentary that you'll be surprised to hear

was not the last time that he went live. The song is, of course, about a rodeo cowboy. We will get into it. Its peak position in Canada was number two. It went number one on the U.S. country billboards and stayed at number four for many weeks. I don't know why I dropped. I don't know what happened in 96.

We could look it up. It was written by Aaron Barker and Irv Woolsey. I could not think much about, I could not find much about Irv. We will get into Mr. Barker later. But for now, let's dive right in. I'm going to throw it right now to either Corey or Trey. I'm 99% sure both of you think that this is either his best or your favorite or both. Yeah.

We've absolutely, the three of us have had this drunken argument before because I believe me and Corey both feel that this is his best song. and you don't. And before you even say it, and it's funny, I swear I didn't think about this. I'm wearing the Garth Brooks at the Ryman t-shirt that I got when we were at that show

because I know you're going to bring it up and I'm wearing the goddamn shirt anyway, although it wasn't planned. At this show, Garth Brooks on say, allow me to set the move. Agreed with you about what the best George Strait song was. So I knew this is going to happen.

The first time Garth Brooks got to play the rhyman, because the rhyman had shut him out because once upon a time, believe it or not, Garth Brooks was considered too much of a bad boy in industry contrarian to play the rhymin and the powers that be had iced him out. And then he got so big, he was like, well, fuck y'all,

you wouldn't let me do it on the way up. I'm not doing it now. Well, anyway, he makes up with him. We get to go because of our serious satellite XM radio show. Great night. I spilled wine on Corey. That hit.

But the best thing was we'd been having that fight for years over I can still make Cheyenne and Amarillo by morning, which we can't do on Bubba shut the podcast because it was written and put out in 1988 and Garth Brooks did agree with me. Did not mean to take your thunder, but, you know, I feel like you were trying to put your worst fact forward like they do in trials. That's what I was learning in trial.

You always, you don't let the prosecutor say your worst fact. You say it so you can set the terms. I'm just doing a bee rabbit, you know, just trying to be a rabbit. I knew that I knew that that was going to come up. I don't know what to say in response to that. I don't give a fuck what Garth Brooks thinks.

That's what I'll say. Okay. Go ahead, Joe. I mean, I wouldn't either if he had made me, you know, wrong. Yeah, I'm just saying, first off, a little bit about how the sausages made, just so everybody, that they wouldn't have known this. We're recording a couple episodes today, and because of that, I listened to all the George straight songs we were supposed to, which just got me on a George Strait playlist, which

means that at 3.30 Eastern time, I was an emotional fucking wreck just listening to George Strait, listening to this song in particular, because this song, and the reason it is, you know, obviously you can argue the best, but you can't argue about what's my favorite. It is my favorite. And it's because, like a lot of rodeo cowboy songs, it just, I mean, you just go in there and take the word rodeo and put comedy club and put cowboy and put comedian. And and the song's 100% I identify with it. That's not the case with every country song because I'm not really like I live in the country,

but I don't fucking farm and shit. But this song right here is exactly about my life and can 100% make me reflect on past relationships that failed, times I've wronged my wife and look forward to the future of doing it again. So, yeah, it's great. Yeah, I agree with all that. I blew my load on this one. I don't think we were,

10 minutes into the first George Strait episode before I brought this song up on that episode and said all that same shit about how like it's like there's songs that's like truck drivers and cowboys right but a lot of times those songs also apply to stand-up comedians so they just and this is also my personal favorite and for the same reason I used always think if there was some like uh indie movie about some road dog comic I was thinking this before Sam Talon ever wrote his incredible book running the light, but like a dude like that from

that book, everybody should check that book out, particularly the audio book, one of which the chapters read by your boy. Anyway, just road dog beat up comic, like if there was a movie about a character like that, it would be a cool scene for him to like karaoke this song

at one point or something. You know, forlornly. Or just here driving down the road and have a fucking mental breakdown. Yeah. Yeah, whatever. Because it's not in any way about comedy, but like Corey said, it's 100% could be. So it's my favorite too. And I'm sure that's definitely why. Amarillo by morning, I guess, is.

It's the same. I was about to say. It's a circle back. It is the same. Shut the fuck up. It's my turn to talk. God damn it. Well, talk, motherfucker.

I'm about to. Let's fuck up. Amarillo by morning is my favorite. It is absolutely the same theme. It's a slightly different perspective. where he has a little slightly different attitude on it. It's a little bit more, I guess. Helpful.

It is, but it's only because it's focused on Amarillo. He's already lost the girl in it. It's not in the middle of a breakup. He's just recounting all the women that he's lost. I just wanted to make the note that I too feel that way about both the songs. We can circle back to the argument later when we get into the lyrics if we want to. Tushar, is this. the first time you heard

this song? Yep. Now, being as how we had had so many 90s country George Strait songs, this one is a bit of a, at this time in his career, I'd have to call it a throwback to his early rodeo days because he had gone, he had become

sort of a love song singer, kind of a Conway Twitty for our generation's grandmas in the 90s. He had before that been almost entirely a rodeo cowboy type act did this change anything for you as far as your view of George Strait? It seemed, I mean, part of this is that the fact that he is not,

he didn't write this song, once again, I always bring that up. I don't think he's written, but a couple in his career. Right, right. But this seemed to be a lot more, like, I was surprised that there was no video for this because it was so vividly kind of laid out as a as a video. I almost wanted that, but it's kind of nice that there wasn't one. But in terms of what I did it change, like the last one left my view of old George Strait a little bit kind of,

some of these songs are so fucking simple that it's almost annoying. And this one's almost a little bit more complex. Like this storytelling is bizarre. We'll get into the lyrics line by line, but you're almost like, wait, who's talking and what is being defended here? Like it's almost like it's a lot more complex from a lyrical perspective.

Well, let's get into the lyrics then. Let's go with this first verse. And I will acknowledge that this opening line is the best George Strait opening line. It is a phenomenal opening line. Her telephone rang about a quarter to nine. She heard his voice on the other end. into the line. She wondered what was wrong this time. She never knew what his calls might bring.

With a cowboy like him, it could be anything. And she always expected the worst in the back of her mind. That is me and my wife when I call from L.A. and we've just had a pitch meeting. She's always expecting the worst. Always. Yeah. And she never knows what, she never knows who she's getting on the other end of that goddamn line. I'll tell you that much. I think it's what, I don't mean this the way it's going to sound. But I feel like I read into this, she don't, she don't ever hear nothing from him except bad shit. Right. Which is, uh, that's what like, I called Corey the other day and he literally picked up the phone in a friend in like a panic.

Like what, what's wrong? Is everything okay? Because I don't. And Katie would do that. My wife would be the same way. I don't call her either. I take, I don't call nobody. So like if I called Katie, she would immediately be like, is everything all right?

Or did you do something or something wrong? because you just don't, you know, do this. The other thing, go ahead. Yeah, I just feel like it's, you know, she wondered what was wrong. It just implies that the only time she ever hears from him at all is when something's wrong. Wire me some damn money.

Yeah. I'll add to that. You guys are talking about the money type thing. And obviously as we get into the song, we'll hear that he's struggling. He's not the top rodeo guy, clearly. I'll add to that there is a physical component to the rodeo.

I would imagine he has called a few times from a hospital. I would imagine he's called a few times to report broken ribs or that he needs money for a hospital visit or he's got a cast on or whatever else's situation that's a bit different from the comedy life and truck driver life. You know, pain, like physical pain is also a potential thing that he's calling with. I actually like that about the line where he's basically like, could be anything and i thought it was what you just said i thought it was like physical stuff from being a rodeo person not like i'm about to break up with you or i cheated on you or any of that

stuff it felt more like she was concerned for his health well and i think the in the back of her mind she always expects the worst i've connected that with physical pain every time i've heard the song because to a lot and a lot of relationships especially if you're in one like this where someone's in danger that, you know, like a military wife or whatever, it's like, that is the worst. I'm broke again. Well, you've heard that a million times, but I broke my neck and I can't walk, you know, that. Right.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you hear stories about these gals all the time, you know, just they live in a state of constant fear that, you know, like in the, you know, in the movie Cinderella man, Renee Zellwiger was always worried whenever he would leave the house because she's like, he's going to get his ass who up. Like, I don't know if he's coming home. Like, I never know. Right.

And there's very few jobs like that. I mean, I think it's, you know, military, rodeo fan, crab fisherman. Crab fisherman. Professional athlete, yeah. Cops pretend like that's their life. Yeah. African American trying to get groceries.

Yeah, that's a big one. Well, African American parents, you know. Yeah. No, yeah, for sure, man. Chinese American woman in New York. It's just going to get darker, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

Let's go on with the lyrics. He said, it's cold out here, and I'm all alone. Didn't make the short go again, and I'm coming home. I know I've been away too long. I never got a chance to ride or call. And I know this rodeo has been hard on us all, but I'll be home soon, and honey, is there something wrong? Right. So again, everything you and Tuchar said about, like, him being hurt and her being worried and all that, I agree with all that. I think it also, as this part of the verse sort of reaffirms, is a matter of she don't ever hear shit from him unless it is a bad thing.

He, in addition to the risk and all that, he don't call and check in or just to say hi or what he don't ever do none of that shit. Why don't he? I mean, it's not like, phone calls don't hit. Listen, again. And back then, you got to understand. He had to get a quarter. He had to go to, you know, call somebody who cares. You had to have a quarter.

Everybody knows that. Well, he didn't hit. He was broke. No, I don't. This is from a whole different generation than we're from. And I know not everybody's as extreme about this as me. But I just, I hate a damn phone call and always have. I'll text with somebody.

all goddamn day, but I can't stand being on the phone with people. And so like, you know, again, I'm always texting Katie. But if you literally didn't know what was happening at your house, you would call. But if you literally did not know what had or had not been happening at your house, for some extent that amount of time, you would call to find out. If I was doing comedy in the 90s and I was married to Katie and we had kids and whatnot, yes, I would be calling, I think, in that scenario. At least once a weekend.

You could send pictures and shit pictures of your dick, hell, do whatever. you know, like you can keep in touch now. It's not the same thing as it was with this dude. But he's just, he's distant, you know. He ain't got one love and it's the rodeo, baby. That's what this whole song is. His heart belongs to the rodeo. Well, let's get it, let's get it going right now.

If I was a comedian in the 90s, I'd be drunk. Oh, okay. Yeah. And we'll bring up those lyrics in a few, but I think I'm married to the game by Too Short is definitely where we're at. what were you saying about being a comedian in the 90s, Corey? I was just saying I know for a fact I would be drunkenly calling Amber at 3 o'clock in the morning trying to get her to fax me some titties.

I'm not going to say my honest reaction to that. But I think that you would be in Coke. I will say that in the 90s. Yeah. For sure. What was I going to say? I know this rodeo's been hard on us all. That's another line that says a lot to me, and I really love that line where he's very much still trying to imply that we are in this together.

Yeah, right. And I feel like he knows, like the, and maybe there's something wrong. I think he knows what's coming. You know, I think he partially made that phone call to make sure he could come home. Yeah. I got a, I got a question, a general question about the rodeo. Is the rodeo like the circus, it travels? or is the rodeo like a comedy club?

No, they tour. They tour. Yeah. Okay. And they, well, now I don't know how it works as far as like, different places just have their rodeos and all the rodeo people go to the different places versus like,

it's like the PG. They definitely have a PGA tour version of rodeo shit at the highest level. I'm saying like, we used to have like, yeah, PBR, we used to have a, the rodeo would come through salina. And like,

I don't know how. that level of rodeo and works. Like it's a line of people. So it's like an organization, like a, like a wrestling outfit, just a smaller level of it. It'd be like an indie show. I mean, like they've got the Yates rodeo right up the road here. And like, yeah, there are dudes from here who I guess are like your local comics

who hop on every show who like they're riding. But also like, you know, dudes from states around will be like, hey, there's a chance. And Yates, I can go enter and, you know, make a little money and then hit the next town. I know. But what I'm asking is. Yates there, so that's near you, Yates Rodeo, and they put on a rodeo near you.

Yeah. But do they put on rodeos other places? They, no, they themselves don't. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know if there's like a circuit, you know. Yeah. There's very, there are various circuits

because even what you're talking about, Yates would be part of a circuit. So if you're an indie guy and you're not in the PBR yet, you go from Yates to maybe whatever the one by Salina was. Right. Then, you know, you get to go to Florida. Obviously, there's a lot in Texas.

And then you also got to think about there's different types of rodeo events. So there's big events like the Texas State Fair and Oklahoma State Fair rodeos where they have everything. I think we are to assume this guy is a bull rider. Sure. But there are many other types of rodeo. And some events have it all, but some don't. So a place like Yates might have a bull riding event this week and then a roping event,

next week and a barrel riding event the next week, or they might have them all together. I think it just depends. So if you're one type of guy or gal, you know, you've got to chase it. So if you're not in the professional board rider circuit, you've got to play all those indies. For the record, they're a good goddamn time, too.

Yeah, I always like them to the rodeo and Solano. Every time I've gone, I'm like, why don't I do this more? And then five years later, I'll be like, oh, right. You never been to a rodeo? No. Oh, they're fun. I've always, I mean, is it like,

I think there's a different, you know, full rodeo and then one with like a specialization. Yeah. What is that? What is that? The main specialization ones are bull riding because it's the main event. And it's the main event for every reason if something is a human main event. Someone could die. Barrel racing.

In the big ones, like they'll have barrel racing and cow tying. What's that called? I don't. Roping. They got goat roping, calf roping. Yeah, calf roping, thank you. Calfroping, yeah. And they'll have those in between events and stuff.

And those have, you know, those are getting competitive too. And people can make good money with those. And they have sponsors and endorsements in the cowboy culture, too. But Bull riding and bronch riding are the. The barrel racing for the college football. Yeah. Yeah. Then the one in Salina, again, we didn't have no rodeo company in Salina.

This had to be some kind of outfit that did travel around or something. It had to be. Because I know it wasn't headquartered in Salina. but I don't know the backstory of it. But they ain't shit in Salina, but our rodeo that we would have every year had all of the different events. And yeah,

bull riding was always the main event, but it was always all of them. And, yeah, we had the clowns and shit. How do you think you end up with that gig, boy? You fail at this one? You think that's what,

you think there's some failed stand-ups in barrels out there waiting to get run over by stuff fucking bulls? I would say they'd tell bull riders. Yeah, yeah, either failed bull riders, but I definitely would,

I would think that in a, state like Texas if you were like grew up me like I want to be a stand up comedian your entree into show business could have been being a clown in a fucking barrel. I remember the rodeo clowns always hit for me. They'd do stuff like they'd eat they ass

whipped. They'd eat some beans and get in a barrel and then like smoke would come out like they were farting smoke in the barrel or whatever like they do you know fart bits and stuff. Like they had bits and shit they didn't just run from you know bulls

and try not to get gored to death. They did that too. But they had whole little routines and shit they would do. You guys know a comic by the name of Clayton English? Yeah, of course. He's obviously one of the best. Yeah, I love Clayton. He did the, I think for like eight years when he was coming up,

he did the Black Circus. He entertained the Black Circus. He was like the opening act. And that's why he's so goddamn good. As a clown? No, no, no. As a comedian. The opening act was him as a stand-up at the black circus.

He did warm up pretty much for the black circus, whatever that means. I didn't know that there was a black circus, but I would love to go to that shit. Clayton English is so fucking funny. He was just in Hawkeye. He was in Hawkeye, and I was super pumped to see him. Yeah, I love Clayton. He's a great dude. He rules, and I didn't realize he had done that.

That's awesome about the Black Circus. I was going to say there is radio, rodeo. school. And a big part of it is you learn it's a half clown school, like genuine clown school, like serious business. They teach you how to be a clown. And then half bullfighting. You learn bullfighting techniques so that you can actually- That is a hell of a double major, dude. Yeah, it is. You got like water balloons in the morning and staying alive in the afternoon. Imagine minoring and clown. or being there for the clown and having to go ride a bull.

I know. Just to get your credit. I got to get a bull credit. We couldn't graduate with my bull credit. So I just guess I learned to fight a bull. Yeah. That's fucking wild, man. There will be a movie on that shit.

There should be. They exported a little bit in baskets. I was about to say Gallupinacus made a rodeo clown show. It became very much about the characters as any show that lasts that long does. Oh, shit. That's about rodeo clown. clowns? Well, early on it's about how he's a failed clown and his mom buys a rodeo. So he decides to be the rodeo clown. There you go. But he thinks he's above it. It's actually, you know,

it's pretty good. It's a little bit like liberal elite versus rednecks, but it's clowns. Yeah, hits. Yeah. But like I said, that's only like the first season. They really get into that. After that, it's just kind of a backdrop. So hold on. Okay. Are you saying, Drew, that if you go to formal rodeo school, which I'm not surprised exist. But if you go to rodeo school at all, you must take clown. You have to. That's like part of the curriculum at rodeo school is clown.

Well, I can't tell you that I know that. Specifically, what I can tell you is that when like the Sankey Rodeo school, just as an example in New County, Texas is one of the ones I looked up. and like part of their curriculum is bullfighting and part of their curriculum is things like acrobatics and like you know things that you would take in clown school so do they require you to well i don't know but why they have it if they don't well you know i feel like because you could you could go to rodeo school to be a clown or you can go to rodeo school to be a bullman and i'm sure the clown students don't have for the bullman students you know i see what you mean i don't think

I think it's a whole rodeo college and you made, I major in bulls. He majors in clown. You know, and I didn't think. She majors in barrels. We all play hacky sack and boots and it's fun. We all get drunk together. Yeah, right.

I didn't know. I didn't process this that you could major in bull, uh, bull riding. That like in my mind it's like school. So now ride these bulls so I don't have to go to fucking school. Yeah. In my mind,

The rodeo school was just to teach you to be a rodeo clown, but that makes no sense. Your way makes way more sense. So I hadn't even processed it that way. It's funny to think about the clicks at rodeo college, you know? Yeah. There should be a show or something about this. I'm not a fucking rodeo college show.

Is there a body type for, like a good, you know, like an equestrians, like 92 pounds? You got to be able to fit in a barrel. I know that. We're talking about clowns? We're talking about clowns. Chow would crush. He would be a real... Shoulders are fit in the barrel, heads almost as wide.

Yeah. Yeah, his head poking out a barrel with some clown makeup on. Yeah. Bull rushing at it? I don't know the answer to your question. I will say that it appears to me most successful bull riders are short and very stocky. And I feel like the short has to do with tighter center of gravity when they're being flung. But it might be that anybody that...

strong and bigger than that plays for the Oklahoma Sooners and goes to the NFL. The ones who hit really, really hard, though, they, I mean, they do pretty well, don't they? Like that one that was married to Jewel. Ty Herndon, son. Yeah. Hitting this bull rider of all time or whatever. He surely made some. He would say his buddy Lance was a hit in us of all time, but he's dead.

Rest in peace. So I've heard. Lane, yeah, not Lance. Yeah, I've heard people say, like about, like in Texas, like the Houston, in Texan Stadium. I've heard people say it's like, that's not, that's not a football stadium.

That's a rodeo stadium where football games are played is what that is. Like, you know, implying how big of a fucking deal it is in a lot of places. So I'm sure you can make, I'm sure you can make a shitload of money if you actually hit at it. I don't know what the clowns are getting at the, not enough at the big dance,

you know, but they're selling merch afterwards. Mediums are any indication as far as comparing to actors and athletes. It's not good. Yeah, no. There's probably some. Kevin Hart of rodeo clowns. Yeah, there's a huge.

There's a, uh, there's a Tupac of rodeo. There's probably a whole history there that we don't know of. Is there, are there any famous rodeo people? Like, famous radio people or clowns? Not clowns, but like, Calvin. Yeah, we just, Lane Frost was,

Lane Frost, Ty Herndon, Chris Laudeau was a very famous one. He became a singer too. Blue Stone. Blue Stone, which I've been to his rodeo in Ogden, Utah, and it's one of the big ones, and boy, man, you talk about a whole goddamn production. It whoop Yates' ass in production.

It was fucking, it was something else. Yeah, that's good stuff. And then there's famous bulls. Bodacious comes to mind who I think maybe... He's famous for killing a bunch of people. He killed a bunch of people. He killed a bunch of people. There was one bull... He came lying, didn't he? I think so. There was one bull that had never been ridden

and then got ridden and it was a big deal, but then, like, he got ridden a lot after that. It just turns out he was old, you know what I mean? But anyway, yeah. By the way, when Drew says never been ridden, he mains for eight seconds. Oh, right, yeah. You got to ride the bull for eight seconds or it doesn't count at all. Yeah.

I love that. I love riding the bowl, the bar, the whole bar thing, and you get the fat dude and the hot girl and the drunk. Like, it's such a fun thing that is only found in America, I feel. My favorite is the skinny, cowboy who worked there with his t-shirt tucked in who can surf the motherfucker.

I'm going to go into Married to the Game lyrics real quick just because Tupac just got brought back up. I don't want to get too far away because we haven't even finished our lyrics for our song, but there's some that I just think I really

like. Curiosity. This is too short, Married to the Game, which we think, or I think, is the equivalent of I can still make Cheyenne. Curiosity killed your cat, kick back, and listened to a real one rap. I'm spitting this game, girl, you feeling that, open them thighs, let me peel it back. Bitch you so professional, can't hold you back. Baby, let it go.

You want to see why I test a hoe, send her to the track. Let her flip your role. She said, too short, baby, don't be that way. I've been loving you ever since back of the day. Now you want to break me and take my cash, make me get naked and shake me ass. Shake my ass. Bitch, you got that right. You better do it all day and don't stop at night. Don't make me hurt your

ass. I forgot how dark you got. You can give me those gifts. Who short? Ain't no stopping that. I'm right down the street with a top in the back. When I was young, I swear I'd never change because I'm all about that money and I'm married to the game.

Hard to argue. Can't yet. My man's married to the game. Let's get back to George Strait. She said don't bother coming home. By the time you get here, I'll be long gone. This is the chorus. There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man. He said, I'm sorry. It's come down to this.

There's so much about you that I'm going to miss. But it's all right, baby. If I hurry, I can still make Cheyenne. Got to go now, baby. If I hurry, I can still make Cheyenne. There's something cold in a hitting way. It's about responding like that. It's almost the non-cometic version of I'm going to miss her.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Braden Paisley, where it's not funny, but you definitely, I think the first time I heard this, was not expecting it to go there. Like, you're probably expecting more of a get on your knees and beg type thing. And it's just like, no, in that moment, he remembers that he, much like too short before him, is married to the game.

Yeah, right. Yeah, this is the one love married to the game, you know, part of the song. It's just like this is the whole reason they're here in the first place and she's leaving and everything. thing is because she's always going to be number two. And even in this moment, he's like, just reaffirming that because that's just who he is. That's, you know, that's his heart.

That's all it is. He just did it. Did it surprise you? As I said this at the beginning, you know, the first, the first block is like you're almost worried for him. You're like, man, you know, he's calling. She's worried about him because she doesn't know what to get. The second stanza is more about like, oh, the dude is like, I'm sorry.

Oh, shit, something's wrong. And now this is like, she's leaving him. So the point of view isn't consistent. And that's kind of interesting from a lyrical point of view because you would think it would be consistent from one person's point of view. But it kind of switches, which is really cool. The storyteller is neither character. Right, right, right. And that's, that doesn't happen that often.

And maybe, yeah, that just seemed kind of like. a cool lyrical thing. But then also I'm like, man, fuck you, girl. You found some girl who's not, ain't no rodeo man? That's the lyric I wanted to bring back up that like, that's just, that's the dagger

too. It's like, not only am I with another man. I'll tell you what, he hits. You know what I mean? I'll tell you what he ain't. You got a real job. Yeah, he ain't one of you. Because like, that's never been necessarily said to my face. But I guarantee you there's a lot of girls who, once they broke up

me the first thing they did was turning their friend and go i'll tell you what i never date another goddamn comedian well and i've known i've known a bunch of guys um over the years who like quit doing stand-up because their old lady told them to her like this shit happens all the time like i bet they don't resent each other i wouldn't be able to do you know i know i know i hear you but i mean i wouldn't be sitting here right now if katy wasn't cool with it obviously so i've never personally dealt with it but like it happens out people think that like And I mean, I guess in a way I don't really blame people, but like you get into a relationship with somebody and you think that it's like a dalliance or a hobby. Do you know what I mean?

And you're like, now, you know, it'll run its course or something or it's like it's just like a side thing that they do. But I like this person. And you're not really signing up for that whole life. And for the record, if you go 15 years and you're still broke and you ain't making it, you weren't quit. Like you won't be doing it. We don't know how long this guy's been out of. No, true. We don't know how Brokey is either.

Right. Yeah. But yeah, it, you know, I sympathize when that happens, but I also at the same time, you are to know what you're getting into, I guess. For sure. 100%. You know. Also, he's a rodeo man now. You got, you're going to be with a rodeo man.

There's going to be some rodeo stuff. Yeah. To be slightly contrary in order to raise a point of question, wouldn't it be worse, though, if she had left him for another rodeo man? Absolutely. 100%. It was you. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. Definitely. Well, when it gets down into, you know, after that, there's so much about you that I'm going to miss.

I love that line because it is an acknowledgment of, I mean, yeah, I called you because I wanted to come home. You know, you're my girl. Yeah. Yeah. But, but. But, it's all right. Baby. I got to go.

Right. Like, I can't. I have, like, I have to leave now. It's not 109. and there's no like plane. Yeah, he's like at the Greyhound station. Yeah, for sure. And the court turning out.

He's like, oh, shit. I got to change his ticket real quick. Instead of going to see her ass, I'm going to go to Cheyenne instead. If the movie eight seconds is to be believed, he has like a 1970 Lincoln Continental right around the corner from the pay phone that he sleeps in the back of. And, you know, he's better to take off in that, you know. But yeah, no, it's sort of like, it's also sort of like,

the now very famous because of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 song, Brandy, you know, the dude in Brandy was like, what a lovely wife you would be, but my life, my lover, my lady is the sea.

It's the seed. That's just for this dude, it's the bull, you know. Only woman for me is this bull that I ride every night. That's just the way it's going to be, you know, sorry.

Dick, bull, John. Nothing anybody can do about that, you know. Ain't no set of tities pull me away from this bull. ever. For any significant amount of time,

that'd be a great shirt. Hey, B-O-E, Bulls over everything. Now, I feel like at this point in the song, we've heard most of the story. Yeah. You know, I mean, that's one thing that this song, you can call it a positive or a negative,

I guess, depending on what you want in a song. But, like, I mean, it's a long verse. To be fair, the first verse is really two verses with no chorus in the middle. But it's like you fucking know. Like we're technically through the first course, technically through the first verse. Again, it's really more like two verses. And we know, we know everything there is that we need to know about this man. I mean, that's one thing I like about this character.

He's complicated but simple. He's complicated in that. I'm sure it's complicated to be with someone like this. But he's simple in that like, look, this is how it is. take it or leave it. You took it for a little while. Now you've decided to leave it. All right, we're all grownups.

I got to go, though. I can still make Cheyam. And I feel like what's great about him saying that line to her is it probably validated her decision and hurt her again. She wanted him to grovel a little bit. Probably, but it also was like, yeah, I made the right fucking call. This dude won't even hear a breakup. He's got to go.

Yeah, I mean, dude, if I, I would never, but if I decided to leave Amber and I told her and she was just like, okay, deuses, I'd be like, now, hold on now. But of course, she'd already had her a man, you know, so. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, it seems like the proper response for him, if he gave a shit about her, would be like, uh, who's that?

Who is it? Who, who are you fucking? Yeah. But that didn't come up. He's just like, I can still make the gig. Well, he's got to go. Time is a factor here, Toshar. He said that already.

He ain't got to go to this cheating whore. Which one? That's a great point, though, because let's make some assumptions here. They're from the same town. They know many of the same people. There's an outside chance he knows the guy or knows some people who knows the guy. For sure. And he is so not in her life in his spirit.

Yeah. in his brain. That he don't even, like, like nothing about that town. Like, yeah, yeah, I was going to come back for you, but, you know, my mom and dad are going to die soon. Anyway, I'm a rodeo man. I got to get the shine.

Like, almost as if that, like, she is just one gig, another gig on the map. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah, well, I think it's like, to this dude, it's like, you know, hell.

It hits having a bed to put your boots under. You know what I mean? And she's a, she's a sweetheart. She's a good old gal, makes an all right casserole, whatever. Like, you know, she don't not hit for him. But like, she ain't this bull. No, she ain't that bull. B-O-E.

Bull, B-O-E, baby. Like, you know, she hits for him while she's there. But if she don't not be there, he's still got the bull. It's kind of like genuine, genuine pony a little bit. I'm just a bachelor. Yeah. Looking for a partner.

Pony's different than bulls, too, shard. I know that you guys have weird stuff about cows, but ponies ain't bulls. That's true. Oh, yeah, I guess rodeo really, really super down here for y'all, huh? I mean, when I first saw the calf, when you kind of broke the calf, they put them through it. And it's just like, to what end? Why are you guys doing this?

These poor animals. It's so fun. Y'all's sacred, literal sacred cows. We ate them with their ass. Yeah, just fist out of it around. Bend them over. Make a clown chase them.

That's y'all God. It's so disrespectful, dude. And it doesn't make sense. You're doing it just. No, hell no. I think it makes sense. What do you mean? The Eden Park makes sense for sure.

All the circus acts that we do with them are pretty frivolous. I mean, I haven't even ever tried to explain what a rodeo is to my family in India. I've never ever thought about it. Because, you know, I'm ethnocentric. But that is fucking hilarious to think about it. From India's perspective, the entire country. The rodeo is some shit, buddy. Well, two things about India.

I don't accept frivolity as an argument, though, coming from your people, frankly. Like, I've seen pictures of the weddings. Like, y'all got a lot of shit. on that ain't necessary. 100%. That's fair. That's fair. I'm not going to...

But it hits. Riding a bull hits. I mean, riding an elephant as a groom at a wedding, I'm sure it hits too. Not that I've been through that, but that's...

Y'all be riding. Y'all be riding elephants. Hell yeah. They love elephants, dogs. I know. I know. I didn't know that they used

them as a fucking Tahoe at their goddamn wet. It's like, shit, buddy. Yeah. Dumbo the Tahoe. No, but, you know, you in a lot in most states in india even hitting a cow on the street like let's say this

there's a cow sitting on your car you can't kind of even make a motion to hit it because if you get reported for abuse of that cow you will be put in jail and fly fine and all that stuff meanwhile here was that happen us would be like hell you got a furry cow but too char can you or can you not just like fucking slaughter an elephant in the street you can i mean no you

can't, it's not like a savage, like, only rule. But at the same time, India is the number two exporter of beef in the world. Because y'all just are lousy with cows. You're like, well, we got to get rid of some of them. We got too many of them, buddy. Yeah.

Wait a minute. It's because there's a couple of states in India that are Christian. Okay. Thanks. Do they steal y'all's cows? Because we'd be doing that, Christian. And they're beef, they're beef eating. They can eat beef.

It's like, not a national mandate, but most states, most Hindu states, which is most of them, cows sacred. But for those other states, like, they're kind of just part of the commerce. So it's like here where it's like weed, you just got, oh, we can't get weed here,

but across the border, I can run over and eat me a cow. You definitely answered my question about the cows, but I still had a question about the elven thing. I was just joking around about like, I was like, okay, but my point was, and I'm curious about this, it's just cows, though, right?

Like, y'all don't generally treat animals necessarily any better than the rest of the world or do you is that like a big thing because of the religion i think cow is the only thing that's directly tied to the religion in general hindus are vegetarian so no okay you know you they don't eat meat in general so like because i can get chicken at an indian restaurant i did not know that that's how ethnocitric i am i just didn't know the hindus were vegetarian i just thought y'all just didn't eat beef main vegetarian diets yeah i mean it's uh it's funny to me to think about i bet you You know how back in like the Wild West days, there was like wild bills traveling road show.

Madison show, yeah. Like they do that type of thing. I bet at least once when England was still over doing England shit or whatever, there was something like, I bet some enterprise and some bitch took like a, like a cowboy show to India at some point. You know what I mean? Just like taking it around seeing what happened. And it did not go over.

because all this cow stuff and I would that's just it's funny to think about yeah also over your TV show we definitely need to go to India and you pitch shows to their networks and see what happened with a rodeo show

yeah that is the show is a reality show in which we do that yeah and just look at their faces as we start you know rodeo school about all the different shit we're going to to cows. We're going to whip this and ass and eat that and it's going to be a whole day. Buy this and up.

Have you guys ever considered making your cricket gloves out of cow? Yeah. A lot of stuff you can do with cows. Don't hit for them, but very versatile animal. Don't hit for them. All right, let's get to this last verse. He left that phone dangling off the hook, then slowly turned around and gave it one last look. Then he just walked away.

He aimed his truck towards that. that Wyoming line. With a little luck, he could still get there in time. And in that Cheyenne wind, he could still hear her say. She said, don't bother coming home. By the time you get here, I'll be long gone. There's somebody new, and he sure ain't no rodeo man. He said, I'm sorry, it's come down to this. There's so much about you that I'm going to miss, but it's all right, baby, if I hurry, I can still make Cheyenne. Got to go now, baby. If I hurry, I can still make Cheyenne. She never knew what his calls might bring, with a cowboy like him, it could be anything.

She always expected the worst in the back of her mind. This is a negative-ass bitch. I've been hanging around, I gosh, a little too much, but this is a negative-ass bitch. Is that one of his phrases? Yeah, something like that. I bet if you talk to him like that, they're all pretty much about attitude. No, but it just seems like her negativity ended something that could have been, you know, at least nice for both. I disagree.

I was about to say, I disagree too. And like, there's a lot obviously in this song that's not said, but I think there's enough said to where I can be like, look, man, this, like, yeah, you can be like, damn, girl, you should have been more supportive. But, like, he clearly is just barely even a person in her. her life. She does not. He is not entitled to a woman just sitting there with a hot dinner waiting on a some bitch to come home that never does. By the way, six, seven years ago, Corey would probably be like, no, fuck her. But like, you know, I get it, you know, but good for him.

That he can just be like, all right, you know what? I'll just move on and bang me a barrel racer. See, I think they should have tried something a little different, something a little a little contemporary. He should have just been like, look, when I'm gone, you do whatever you want, girl. And then I'll call you and you got about 12 hours to get him out to house. Get Randy gone. Or, you know, get a hotel.

You got the money. You know, spend Randy's credit card on us a hotel. But, you know, they weren't ready for that in Wyoming in 1994. Poor kid. Well. Well, do we want to talk about that last first at all? I mean, you know, Shire in Wyoming, I think we all. knew he was talking about that. I saw some stuff on the

internet where people were like, there's more than one Cheyenne. And then, of course, people were like, well, he says Wyoming in the last fucking person. It's fucking, if you're doing rodeo stuff, it's Chey in Wyoming for the love of God. I mean, again, he literally says both. Right. Even if he didn't, though, I mean, yeah. Well, the only reason I bring

it up is, a punk first listen to this song, if you don't know a lot about the radio, there might be some like what's in Cheyenne in you. If you don't know a lot about the rodeo and it's like, if I make it I can still go to Cheyenne, but then he talks about start time and all that, and it's very clear he's trying to make an event.

There's something interesting about that with rodeo culture, too, where, like, you don't have to sign up in advance. Like, it's not, I'm sure it is now. I guess this is a 90's thing. I never thought about that. Can you make it? Yeah, right. Yeah, there are.

Can you make it in time? Yeah, I think they've got their big wig sometimes that are already like, this guy's going to appear like he's a, you know, hitting her dude. But like, I've been to a couple with my buddy Jesse. And like, there was just kind of like, an open mic sign up sheet. You know what I mean? Like there was these spaces and like,

hey man, if you fucking, because I about did it one night. I was about to say how many drunken 24 year olds have broke their fucking face. So many. So many.

And one were almost me. And I was, I was 21. But yeah, I very nearly about did it. And I'm so glad that I did not. This kid I went to college with. I had a writing class with him

Hell, Trey, you know him. It's Chad. Chad wrote a poem in the writing class about being a bull rider and chicks liked it. And since Chicks liked it, he decided he was a bull rider. Are you coming a HUD? HUD got his face fucked up that summer because he had decided he was a cowboy

just over one summer. Yeah, that sounds by right. Sounds like Hood, don't it? Many got his face fucked up. Yeah, I seen him get the back of his head fucked up one time. You don't say. Well, actually, he got both.

the front of his head and the back of his head fucked up at the same time. I bet that was by a man over a woman. It was yeah. The dude fucked up the front of his head which pushed the back of his head into the ground and the ground fucked up to back his head. I've had that happen. It'd be like that sometimes.

He is someone that entertains me and is my buddy and he did it right in front of me to be a dick so he wasn't trying to start a fight but he literally moments after I asked Andy to propose or people found out that I asked Andy to to marry me at homecoming at Marable, said to her in front of me,

well, this is your last chance, girl. So yeah, I could see that he's got his mouth mashed a lot when he says that to people who don't know him. He and him was, you know, he's always hit for me too. I stayed at his place and shit after I moved away from Cookville and whatnot. Just telling everybody who this dude is, really, not that I've mentioned where he lives. He's got a restaurant. He's got a restaurant down there.

restaurant you now literally everyone knows who we're talking about listening in the Cookville area but no he's fucking cool dude no he is cool he is for me he always hit for me yeah he just got his you know his face work a bit it don't work out sometimes when you ride bulls and hit on chicks that's right any last thoughts before we give her a rating fellas you don't know what i'm gonna say yeah me too i will say before we do the rating um this song said everything that needed to be said pretty quickly.

Now, you can take that as a positive or a negative. I think it's effective. I think it's an incredible story. So I don't want to necessarily knock it. But, I mean, it's quick. I mean, and going back to the Amaril about Morning argument, I looked up those lyrics, they're even more sparse. I mean, there's something about these rodeo songs where it's like,

yeah, we're just going to repeat what we already said because we done said it. Yeah. What more needs to be said. Yeah. Well, Tushar, you're the only mystery in my mind. as far as the rating goes. So I'll start with you, buddy. I'm going to go, and this is not good for the month of George Strait,

but I'm going to go 2.33333333. Two and one-third Earnhardt. Two and one-third. There's something that really annoys me about how much neither of these people seem to care about each other ever. That's part to hit. But then what the fuck are you even starting to race? Like, who gives a shit?

Who gives a shit? There's like, he's like, ah, could have been good, whatever. And she's like, I found someone better. It was so dismissive. Yeah. I thought they were leaving all the heartbreak in the words unsaid,

but that is a fine assessment, Trey. I mean, I agree. I definitely think she cared. She's just reached her breaking point. And I think the whole point of this guy's character is that it, B-O-E. You know, we already just, that's just who he is. Over everything.

He's married to the game. So it's just, it is what it is. I mean, yeah, but me and Corey already said, how can this be your favorite, your personal favorite George Strait song and not have it be a three. So I give it a perfect three out of three Earnhardt's. It remains to this day, my favorite King George song for all the reasons we've already outlined. Yeah, baby, I ain't got nothing else to say, but three out of three,

it's a goddamn perfect one. I about cried earlier listening to it. it and once we stop recording, I'm probably going to go listen to it again and fight the urge to to drink everything in my refrigerator. I'm going to go with three. I've waffled between a two and two-thirds Earnhardt and a three while I was thinking about the song. The only negatives I could say about it, this is kind of similar to what Two Shard said,

but the songwriter chose to tell us one thing and one thing only about this man. I would be curious to. hear how B-O-E became, you know, or how it turns out? Like, how's that going to go for you, buddy? But the more I know. Not well, I bet. No. That's not interesting.

What's interesting is this songwriter took a single five-second phone call between him and his lover and told me everything I need to know about this guy. Right. For that reason and the fact that melotically, is that, did I say that word correctly? Melodically, melodically, this song really hits for me. Yeah. So I'm going with a three. I almost went, I mean, it was close,

but I think this is a three, three Earnhardt. What you say about that, Toshar, you dumb fuck? Fine, fine. No, don't you change it. No, no, no. The Indian outlaw, not the Indian in-law. He didn't get married to be an in-law, and we know you won't do that.

Take it for me. Don't do it. That would be a way funnier song, by the way. The Indian-in-law. Some old boy just like, she did it. God damn it. Yeah. We could call him to out being in-law.

Oh, that ain't it. Um, I can hurry at my papa. Yeah. Yeah. I can be inclosive. Yeah.

Family's just getting along, you know. Oh, by the way, when I was listening to this, I thought the Bollywood remand of it would be I can still make it to

I can still make Chennai okay is that really I assume that's a place it's a major it's a dish you remembered the ingredients for it's a small Indian city 28 million people whatever it's not a big deal oh yeah no wonder I haven't heard of it

it it's 28 before the conversions really about a million man I did want to give a shout out and I'm fucking up. Maybe I can find their name and do it on another episode. But one Bubba fan reached out to tell me that, and this is bringing up the old King George versus King Garth debate, that the movie, Pure Country, which a few people said we didn't mention, and we did. We didn't say the title of it. But Corey mentioned that in the debate of George Strait

versus Garth Brooks, George Strait had a movie that worked and Garth Brooks had one that failed. So it did come up. We just didn't say the name Pure Country. Some fan, postulated or claimed they claimed it as fact. I don't know if this is true. That Pure Country is essentially a comment on these bullshit-ass kids running around shaking their butts in blue

the Dwight Yocams and the Garth Brooks of the world trying to be stars and rock and roller type. I can see that. When you're supposed to just stand up here and pretend to play the goddamn guitar. I can see that because that's kind of Kyle Chandler's whole character when he steps in for George Strait, you know, and

basically just I mean, that movie's wild. It wouldn't play today because the whole thing was that, like, yeah, Kyle Chandler would just stand up there and there'd be enough smoke that people couldn't tell that it wasn't George Strait or Dusty or whatever's name was. I don't think you could do that now with everybody on their fucking phones all the time. But, like, yeah, he ends up getting on him because he was just all show and no, you know, actual country.

So maybe. Yeah, I mean, that was the claim. One thing that would go with that is the whole music video thing, is if George is George straight's like that's how I feel about it Pure Country's a movie I'm making about it and I'm not doing no goddamn music videos unless I have to yeah I was about to say that's I don't know what my theory on this is but like George so many of these George straight songs came out at the time when music country music videos were hot and happened and he just don't

have them in my only theory is that he's just like do I have to and they were like well I mean no and he's like all right then I'm fishing yeah no it is weird It's very weird to me that so many of his big hits don't have videos. That's a king move to be like, I'm not fucking doing it. But it's also a king about to be replaced move when you go see the future and you've been poisoned by somebody. Yeah. Now, granted, you know, he has had a career that stood the test of time and he just decided that was his thing. But like, it just blows my mind that he doesn't have any.

Well, we'll talk about it more on next week with the last installment of four weeks straight on Bubbleshot the podcast. Thank you, boys. skew. Thank you. Thank you. Bubby shout the podcast, and that's right. A show about country at a tide. Don't expect no shit from 2005.

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