wellRED podcast - BUBBA SHOT: "That Ain't My Truck"

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

A simple and obvious observation - the truck I am observing is not mine - turns into a brilliant song about loss and perhaps a metaphor for the one thing you can't directly discuss in country music if your name isn't Conway Twitty (the nasty). Rhett Akins 1995 hit "That Ain't My Truck" is a simple but beautiful tale of a woman picking the other man. Heart breaking, funny, catchy - it's a great song y'all.  

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There's a song. co-written and recorded by Rhett Akins, or Rhett Ackons, depending on who you talk to, came out in May 1995, was on his debut album, it was the third single, but the first one that he had any success with.

On that same album, he also had, I had it pulled up a minute ago, two songs I actually like a lot. She said yes, which was his third single, which also did well. And,

well, I can't find it. Now, I break for brunette. which was his first single and did not do well, but I wanted to bring that up because I love that song. It's so goofy and a perfect 90s country song. The two short of the lyrics of that one are, I break for brunettes, blondes and corvettes, redheads,

I stop on a dime. They ain't made a bumper for my truck, a sticker for my bumper just yet, because, man, I break for brunettes. But that's not one song we're doing. We're still doing a song that alludes to driving vehicles. And that is, that ain't my truck. It went to number three.

in 95 and number seven in Canada. It was co-written by Tom Shapiro and Chris Waters, who we will get into. There's the show. You know, I've never heard. I don't think I've ever heard I break for Brunez. I don't think I have it either. Man, I remember those lyrics,

like, as good as I do, the lyrics to Jen and Juice. I know she said, yes. I know she said, yes. Better to, yeah. Yeah, it doesn't even have its own entry in Wikipedia, which is what took me a second to find it when I was looking for it just now. Like, it doesn't have its own Wikipedia. description of that song.

I guess it didn't chart. I have no idea. I think what happened was he got some popularity so they revisited his other singles. I'm not sure. But I like that break for brunettes. It's really silly. Well, yeah.

Hell yeah. Does that bring you like, if you see a brunette, you stop and, you know, upset her, ruin her day. Well, no,

remember those bumper stickers? It would be like, I break for deer. I break for birds. But what did that mean? I just, I don't run them over. No,

if I see one, I'm going to stop to observe it. And so it's a funny, it's not a real warning, but it's a warning to people behind you, just so you know, if we drive by any birds, I'm stopping to walk at them.

And he's like, if we drive by any dark-headed hoars, I'm going to stop. I'm in. And probably a cat collar and all that type of thing. you start to feel less bad about his woman cheating on him with another dude tushar well you know dude is a different time that's an interesting way to phrase that core cat calling hits back then you know everybody knew it too shard very quick sort of but not really

cat collin story that i've told repeatedly but never on here because it hits for me the three of us me cori and drew were in l.a once fucking traffic out the ass i think we were in beverly hills we were coming from like a lunch or something and so you know fancy shit everywhere we're at this big intersection. And the crosswalk had already turned to the hand. It had already turned to stop. But in the middle of it, sauntering through, taking her sweet-ass time was this knockout bombshell, you know, nine out of ten at least, Beverly Hills woman, just strutting

her shit through there, but obstructing traffic. Right. And so Drew, the windows are down because it's a nice day. and Drew goes like, he goes, hey sweetheart or something like that. You know, it sounds like the start of a key. He's like,

hey, like the start of a cat call. And then he goes, get the fuck out of the road. Which she deserved so much. So much. And it really hit for me. And I assume it hit for anybody else that happened to have their windows down and heard it at the time.

Do what? She got to fuck out the road. But yeah, that's my favorite. cat-calling story. I don't have a lot of them. I think that that's enough for this episode, fellas. That's pretty good.

All right, let's get right into the lyrics because Corey's already alluded to what I think the question of the day is as far as these people's relationship. Yeah, I was wrong. Let's get into it. The first line, she's been going out with him, she's been going out with me.

She said she'd let us know by tonight which one it would, be. So I waited by the phone, but she never called me up. Had to know what was going on. So I drove by her house and sure enough, that ain't my truck in her drive. Man, this ain't my day tonight. Looks like she's in love and I'm out of luck. That ain't my shadow on her wall. Lord, this don't look good at all. That's my girl, my whole world, but that ain't my truck. So funny. So funny. Just the idea that that is like, he had a,

like a moment where he had to realize. That ain't my truck. He's in his truck. He's in his truck. If I'm in my truck, how could that be my truck? The math is like,

okay, hold on. It's so funny. It's possible that this ain't your truck. It's such a funny way to phrase. You know, she's fucking a different dude. I love it.

I think it's great. Like, it's like, I feel like this is one of those, in my opinion, and it was co-written. So, but like, I can't remember what it was. Some song we were talking about previously where I said a similar thing. But I feel like the people wrote this song, whoever originally had the idea, I feel like when they had it, they had to go, oh, we're on to something there.

Right. I feel like, I feel like you just know immediately, like, this could work. For as a country song, I mean, because it's just like, I don't know, it just plays. It is silly. Like, what y'all just did, that's super hit for me. But, like, I just feel like it's a, it's like a perfect 90s country song, like a concept for one. What's the divorce song that has a similar concept?

I'm going through the big day and don't mean Dallas. No. I can't believe what the judge had to tell us. No, that's a great one. She got the palace. Oh, it's Toby Keith. It's Toby Keith. It's, uh, that's my, that's my, uh, those ain't my kids in my yard.

Who's this man? running my life. Yeah. There goes that man running my life or living my life. Living my life. Yeah. Toby Keith, somebody we will get into next week on Bubba. That one's a lot that one's a lot more hardcore. Oh, it's super sad. Yeah.

About saying like that like that song. This is just a, hey, think about going through that. No. Fuck. Because this is like, whatever. Fuck that. Yeah, look. We weren't. We weren't. We weren't. What is this about? That's okay. That's what I want to get into. Because she's not cheating.

There's only, right, it doesn't say she's cheating. There's only two options here. From this first two lines, she's been going out with him, she's been going out with me. But then you go down to the chorus. That's my girl, my whole world, but that ain't my truck. There's only two possibilities. And I think I know which one it is or definitely which one I think it is. You know, either, these are some very progressive dudes who are full on in love with this girl,

been dating her a while, and allow. her to have the time, or this is, these are both fairly new things, but this guy's the type of dude. We all know this type of dude who like three days in, you're my whole world. I don't know what I'm going to do.

I mean, yeah, I was going to... I definitely, yeah, I mean, it's the ladder too. I think he just fell harder for her because I mean, dude, you know, not to make myself sound like a huge pussy even though I will. Amber, Amber was my whole world long before I was even anything to her.

He started out a lot of, trucks. When did you start being anything to her? When I moved back from New York. Yeah. Now, more than a friend, you mean.

Like she, dude, one of the reasons I moved to New York is because she was my whole world and she didn't want to be with me. And I was like, fuck, man, I need a change of scenery.

So, I mean, I get, yeah, I get, this is just a dude who like, there's always, you know,

a reacher and a settler in every relationship. And this was the guy who really love, yeah. So I, I think it's the letter. Would it would have hit a few. you'd have said, well, I'm hoping for 20, 23. Maybe that'll be my ear.

Yeah, that would have been good. Yeah, everybody's been through some version of that. It was a reverse for me and Andy at first, where, like, you know, I meant a lot more to her than she did me. Then I came around, and she was like, it's too late. Yeah, right. So I did to Australia. Yeah, they always like you more when you don't like them.

Exactly. You have to fuck off to New York to get it. I was about to say I was dating another girl when I came back and she was just like, okay. Too sure. What's on your heart? The thing about this song, the fact that it's about trucks, you know, and it, the one thing I'm very familiar with growing up in Alabama is that trucks were such,

like all my friends worked all, like for years to lift their truck and get a bigger, bigger tire. It was so tied to their masculinity that it. It makes sense that being like, that's his dig. It's not my dick. I don't see my dick in the driveway. So it's like it's such a perfect metaphor for what's trying to do. Dude, I did not even think about truck in the driveway being the metaphor for

dick and a butt. Yeah. Yeah. That was my for old, but don't sponsor this show, but Blotchie, that was the song I did for them. That ain't my dick. But that ain't my dick. Yeah.

Let's talk briefly before we go further about the other two songwriters. Well, first. of all, Rhett is listed as one of the songwriters. I know too sure you always like that. I like that too. The co-writers are Tom Shapiro, who's a record producer and songwriter.

He was given songwriter of the decade award by the National Songwriters Association once upon a time. He has written more than 50 top 10 hits, including 26 number ones. How many of those were for George

Strait? According into what I've looked, I haven't read all of them, but that's not listed in his general biographies ever. I bet you some of them was. My favorite one, I think, from the ones I know about, are either I Miss My Friend by Darrell Worley, which is a fucking gut-wrenching song. And, um, there are Worley also. Ain't nothing about you by Brooks and Dunn. Go ahead, Joe. Darrell Worley also wrote him a 9-11 song, which, you know, with, you know, with

Oh, yeah, we're not on Toby Keith. My bad. We just, we just, either way, he did write a 9-11 song. Mr. if he was born,

he had a 9-11 song. The other gentleman, Chris Waters, his full name is Chris Waters done. He is Holly Dunn, who is a country singer's brother. He's written hits for Lone Star, Terry Clark,

Billy Dean. He is interesting because he has a master's in creative writing. He graduated top of his, class from the Culinary Institute as America and has had two careers as a food critic and writer and as a country music songwriter. I think it's pretty wild. Yeah, man, this guy's right up my alley. White rider. Chris Waters. Chris Waters is a white writer. Tom Shapiro, I think Jewish, but that counts as a white writer. Anyway, great, great pedigree from both those gentlemen.

You always wonder how it went down in the songwriting process when you got a an up-and-comer like Mr. Aitkins, did they fix a song he already had? Did he have a big enough, you know, Dick metaphorically at the time to just demand to be one of the songwriters? I always wonder about that. Or did he just like during the process,

realize like, oh, that don't fit. I'm going to add this in there and was like, well, technically, you know. Or you just do that just to make sure you get some of the money as a songwriter. Well, anyway, the video, let's talk about. about it. It's the only video that I've seen from this era that lists the director and the credits up front. I just wanted to note that. I don't know why they did. I searched that director. She only has one other credit, another music video for a pop group that I'd never heard of. So I don't know what her career otherwise was. Wait, there's a video video? Yep. And her name was Mary Newman said. Tush, are you good? I'm watching it now. Okay. Well, good, because I did want to talk about a few things in the video that I found funny.

First of all, I looked it up. It's shot in Arizona. I thought it was shot like at the Joshua Tree. I was like, they just got a production company out of California, and it was cheaper to fly the talent there or something. Because if you're trying to convince me, this is West Texas, I guess there's parts of West Texas with cactus that big, I'm sure. But, like, anyway, it was definitely Arizona, those rocks and all those mountains.

I thought that was funny that he was trying to pull 90s country, but he was clearly in, you know, Arizona or California. I'm not good at knowing stuff like that. Well, I was going to say it's because I travel a lot, but so do you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can always, I'm saying like the West Texas poor, like, oh, they don't have cactus that big in West Texas.

Like, I definitely know if I'm watching a show and they're trying to pass something off as the South and I'm like, there's a fucking palm tree right there. It ain't never green enough. Yeah, right. I'm just saying, like, I wouldn't know, like, no, West Texas is not known for having that large of cacti. Well, I could be wrong about that. That was one of the things was that giant cactus behind him. I was like, that looks like Joshua Tree or Arizona.

It was also those rocks behind the cactus. West Texas is flat. Yeah, right. There's no place with cactus that big and rocks that high other than Arizona, maybe Nevada and California. I'm cactus dumb, too. Yeah, that's how I meant. I'm married to a cactus queen. Plus, I've driven cross country a bunch.

You know. Too sure. There's a national park all about cactuses. How is that at? Arizona. I can't remember what it's called, but I found that. I thought that was wild. I was like,

Cactuses got their own national park, but they do. Too sure, you watch that video? Yeah, about two minutes in. What a missed opportunity to play out the scene that we opened with. I'm just like, skirt? Like, just that. I just love that. It opens with him playing football seemingly with both of them,

which that's quite a choice. He's throwing her a football, and then she goes and flirts with another man with that football in her hand. And I thought that was quite hilarious myself. Yeah, yeah. I like the shadows of him choke slamming her or looting to it. Okay, that was one of the things I want to talk about. We might as well bring it up now.

I want to show you all something. This really tickled me a lot. My man is getting undressed. Oh, yeah. He's behind her. And he's taking his shirt off, but he's still got his cowboy hat on. Yeah, I can relate to that.

I can relate to that. You don't take your hats off, Joe? No. I mean, now that I'm married, now that I'm married, yes, but like, no, dude, back in the day. That's out completely, but it's funny for me to, I never thought about that. Yeah.

No, dude, back in the day, I'd turn around backwards, you know what I mean? Because, like, for angles. We had a party at Wayland's house, and I had to pee, and I could hear some of our comedian friends going to town in the room that I had to walk through, but I had to pee so bad, and I was drunk. I just had to do it. So I walked through Wayland's basement, and I looked over, and a guy we know, we'll call him Beth, Beth, Jank.

I was going down. I know exactly who it is. Was going down on somebody and I just hadn't seen him without a hat yet. And in my life, like I hadn't known him about a year. I just hadn't seen him without a hat yet. And too sure he got like red hair and he's red bald and it's long. So he's got a skullet.

That was one of his bits about how he had a skullet. Dude, it was so goddamn funny that I just laughed the whole way to the bathroom. Look like Bozo, the clown ain't a cobbler. And that the Y? Yeah. Yeah, the Y, why. I accept both of those. I didn't hear what you're size are.

Bozo, the clown, eating a cobbler. Oh, all right. It was Mama's biggest dish, that cobbler. Anyway, this scene was one of the first ones that I picked out to talk to you guys about. It's just so funny that that actor was either instructed or on his own, took his shirt off before he took his hat off. I love it. Mm-hmm. The other thing, he's waiting on a phone call from her at a pay phone.

Yeah, what an idiot. You had to back then. That's true. What about how do you mean? He's homeless. Yeah. Yeah. You're right.

Why wasn't he at home? It's funny because like waiting by any phone, I don't even question it because it's just like, yeah, well, you all know how it used to be. Right. But a pay phone? No, you're right. Why you even call a pay phone? The number. They got numbers on them.

Do this? Yeah. Maybe that's why she didn't choose you, dude. You gave her a pay phone number. Yeah, right. Right. Another thing about the video, and this alludes to what we were talking about up top, Corey.

It showed him going on several dates with her. Or the longest date in the world where she changed clothes. So, like, what is 90s country world? how many, how long, how many dates can you take a woman on before you're like, wait a minute. Are we a thing or not? And realistically, like, that whole, I know that that's a thing where it's like, oh, yeah, we're, you know, we're talking. Yeah, we're talking or we're not exposed to.

I'm seeing other people, blah, blah, blah. I know that's a thing. But when I was like younger, that was not, like, maybe it's because rednecks are so goddamn territorial. Possessive. It's like, look, if you're going to be. be doing that you ain't going to be with me like i don't know any dude that would have been like now the dude of course could be fucking whoever he wanted but like i i i don't know any dude who if they were like yeah she we got we all got sometimes she goes out with this other guys like that would not

that would not i agree with you i always heard of i heard of that too like that being a thing and people do that but i've never actually experienced it not firsthand or i've never known of a buddy or anything in the south or period period but i mean i lived in the south my whole life until I was fucking married with kids. It's not like I'm really out and about in any kind of, you know, even dating adjacent situation. Yeah, if someone, I know everybody fucks everybody now.

They're all polyamish. There's all these kids out here. They all live together and smoke piles and their goddamn tents or whatever the hell. They're not working and take you that much. Anyway, when I lived in New York, I worked for a catering company. All of them kids would like be dating multiple people and the other and the other

people knew about it. And I don't mean Polly. I mean what you were talking about. Like, we've been on a few dates. Oh, it was awkward. This girl I fucked, I saw her with another dude. I wasn't raised right. That's why. Also, buddy, they were all from fucking Iowa and Missouri and Mississippi. They moved to New York to be that way. And you, and that's a big city thing. Like, in small towns, like, you just couldn't, you just couldn't do that. Like, the two dudes were going to know each other. Like, I'm not saying it didn't happen. But where I'm from, if someone in a relationship was also seeing someone else. One of the motherfuckers did not know about it.

Right. And it would be a fight. Absolutely. They found out. Ben a Bartle one. I agree with you. And so on that note, I may have seen it wrong. But does this video start with her like throwing a football with both of them?

See, that dude, that fucking. No. Never. That dude would get called the biggest bitch that ever lived by all of his boys for the rest of time in Memorial. Yeah, both them dudes were, yeah. I mean, that's like, hell. I mean, even me right now, I'm like, no, fuck that.

No, absolutely. Katie ever leave me and I get back in the dating game and it's like, I've just met a person, you know, we're taking our time and she's like, you know, I'm, I'm still on Tinder and I'm like, I am too. I can see myself maybe being okay with that, but I ain't going out with the other dude at the same time. He fuck that shit. That's a while.

That's what I'm saying. Anybody wants to do that can fuck smooth off because that ain't happening. And like, you know, we can be adults here or whatever, but I ain't trying to fucking throw the ball around with you and some other dude. These writers, you know, they were grown-ups in the 90s and, you know, a couple of them were older. I do feel like it used to be a little different. Ironically, like in a weird way, I've heard my mom talking about how my mom was a teacher. I remember my mom talking about how possessive high school kids were and it's shocking her or whatever. whatever.

Oh, they were in Salina, they were insane. I mean, I've talked, I've talked about it a lot and thought about it a lot as I've gotten older. And I was the same way. I got over it earlier than a lot of them did, but like, dude,

the culture of that in Salina was fucking intense. People are crazy, jealous and possessive there. And the guys and the girls both are, to an extent that's fucking wild. Like people, nobody trust anybody in relationships. They all, like,

they act like they're very controlling. They act like they own each other. You can't do shit. I knew so many people. It's like if you were with somebody, you weren't allowed to talk to a member of the opposite sex ever. Like crazy, crazy shit like that. My high school girlfriend was a sweetheart,

but that was like the one area where it was wild. And like you were talking about with the talking thing? You know, I'd be talking to other cheerleaders. You'd be like, what were y'all talking about? It's like, I don't fucking know. Too sure. what you got for me, baby. I know that you really didn't date in high school.

I got to go right now. Y'all keep going without me. Love you. Love you. Bye. Yeah, bud. I mean, being in New York, I remember I went, this is about four years ago,

I went out of a date with this one girl, tall, white, pretty. And we went on a few dates. Tall white, pretty. Tall white, pretty. and she was, you know, it was fun, but at some point I was like, no, or, you know, whatever. It kind of was like, we'll see. And we ended up at this, a bar, at the same bar, and I was there with another tall white.

And she, she walked in with a fucking replica of me. It was like the same dude. And it was just a hilarious. You guys, y'all should have gotten married right then. Yeah. to the other ones. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

All switches. Did you think it was as funny as you did? We both caught eyes. We never saw each other, talked again, whatever. It was like a blatant like, okay, whatever. We got replacements. But this idea of like, this was almost like the beginning of this video was almost like a game show. Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to pick. And, you know, The Bachelor, Bachelorette. It's like, you know, with the advent of those shows, what, toward the early, 2000s when that happened. I mean, those types of shows have been around since the 60s, though. My name's Brittany. I like big trucks, getting dick down

and pretending to like football. But yeah, that culture, I mean, especially to compare it to the Indian culture where everything is so, like, this is my parents generation where everything was so guarded and your parents were the broker and there would be

there would be like But did you guys not date before that? Like knowing that you couldn't get married, did you not like have people that you, you know, dated around, even your parents' generation? Like,

okay, my parents are going to decide that I'm going to marry this dude. But I mean, I'm going to go to the dance. Right, right. No, it was very much that was a process.

Your parents would decide. And the equivalent that would be your parents have two good candidates. and then you pick one of them and then you get to spend time, but the ultimate decision is up to the parents. Like a primary? Yeah, something like that. But growing up, you know, like in high school,

I wasn't dating much, but I did see this thing where a girl was a guy's on or off. There was no, like, unless she was a complete horror, and the guys were dating around, you know, so, like, there was a double standard there. But this song felt like a little bit of, like, borderline women empowerment or like this girl is in full power of the situation.

It's up to her. It's up to her. That's why I wanted to talk about it up front. It feels kind of progressive for 90s country. Right. I feel like a lot of times though it like usually is up to the girl. I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I don't know. Like, I mean, unless you're a super, super hot guy. Like if you're like if you're a good looking woman can kind of just be like if she wants a day to do, she probably can do that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, well, she can definitely get dick down.

She might not be able to get someone to commit. That's another way it's progressive is, you know, she makes your decision and fucks him that night. Yeah. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Let's do some more lyrics because we haven't gotten through all this. I pulled over by the curb.

I've been sitting here all night. Wondering what it was, I did so wrong, that he did so right. I thought of breaking down her door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all sitting in my place. That ain't my truck in her drive. Man, this ain't my day tonight. I love that line, by the way. That's great.

This ain't my day tonight. Looks like she's in love and I'm out of luck. That ain't my shadow on her wall. Lord, this don't look good at all. That's my girl in my whole world, but that ain't my truck. I think now that I'm older, the thing that he's wondering what he did so wrong that the other guy did so right is definitely eating pussy, probably.

You know what I mean? That and not having a phone at his house. Yeah, that's pretty, but yeah, Larry had a phone. Fuck. He's fucking Larry had a phone. I could get a hold of him, you know. Remember that time we didn't talk for 17 days because you don't have a phone? Because you couldn't just camp out by the fucking pay phone.

Like, she tried to call, but it was busy, so she just went with the other dude. It's all right. What are you going to do? I'm not going to not fuck tonight. I'll tell you that right now. Some drug dealer was on the fucking pay phone at the time, and it was a busy signal. She was like,

Larry. Yeah, a dude named Bug answered. What's up? You need mini-thens? What do we got here? Oh, many thans. Woo. I love it.

This is a shout-out to Chevy, too. Like, I got a Chevy. She didn't pick it, but I'm glad you brought that up, because I kind of wondered if that was also like, when I was little, Chevy and Ford was such a fake thing to care about. Like my uncle would be like Chevy, cracked head,

every vowel rattles oil leaks every time. Like that's what Chevrolet stood for according to him. We were a Ford family. My uncle's family who knew about cars were a Ford family. So I feel like when I was little, that was part of it. It was like, damn, she chose the Chevy.

No, that was a big culture war thing, dog. Like, that don't really go on as much anymore. But like, you were, it's like what's the fucking vampire movie uh oh my god what's that shit called with Edward and uh there was Edward team Edward team yeah

yeah whatever you but those but that type of shit it Twilight you were either you were either team Ford or you were team Chevy thank you too Char and I can't help but wonder if that's what gave Larry the ultimate advantage right and by the way

even if you weren't old enough to even drive you still just like, whatever your Papal drove, that's what, that was your family's crest. Right. I mean, you had to because Papal couldn't pretend like he made a bad decision or a random one. His manhood wouldn't allow for that. He chose that truck on purpose because this company was the best. Right. And I remember the people would argue, the old men would argue at the gas stations, you know,

and they would be like, well, the Chevy Camero and the Corvette are two of the best cars, and the Mustang couldn't hold a candle to the Corvette. And then the Ford people would be like, well, I am a farmer. And Ford trucks are the best fucking trucks that there's ever been. I don't give a shit about a Corvette because I ain't a purdy boy like you. And the implication towards everyone was, you know, that you're gay. Gay. Like, wherever you like, you like it because you're gay.

Yeah. Yeah. And every car company had an acronym. Ford was found on road dead. Ford was, I thought, fix or repair daily. That was another one. Ford, what's that band board? Found on road dead.

some of the rest of them you can't repeat there's definitely a racist yeah yeah explicitly um and it wasn't even a foreign car at Pontiac oh yeah yeah not good yeah not good at all but I did think Chevrolet was the most creative though it's because it's the longest word and it had to really um well anyway uh we we've burned through it oh I also wanted to talk about the disappearing woman in the video that just hit for me where she's laying in the back of the truck with him, and then she just disappears when that dog walks by. Only a memory.

Great camera work in 1990, whatever year I've already forgotten. Five. I like how, like, this seems like a younger man's tail. But they're straight mid-30s dudes battling over this girl, which is what it is. It seems high schooly. Yeah, it's very high schooly. Because if they're young, Red had just come out.

You know what I mean? He was born in 69. Nice. So, yeah, up top. So how old is he in 95? 26. 26. Yeah.

That's the other thing. He's 26 and 95. 26 now looks young. 26 and 95 did look 40. It sure did. Right, right, right, right. I guess their choice was to let him play the part and they wanted to because it was his first big single or they could have hired an actor. Now, another weird thing about Red.

I wanted to show you all this. This is interesting. I didn't know where to put it in, so we're just going to do it now. I just so love that moment. It's like, wait, hold on. That's not my true. Is that him on the left?

It's him on the left. On the right is a gentleman named who goes by Thomas Wrett. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was about to say. That's his son. I guess his full name is Thomas Red Aikens or Ackons. I think it's Aikins.

This is the father's son country music duo. They sang this song together at his concerts. I think Thomas Rett's bigger. I think he's a bigger star than it's. Yeah, I was about to say, I've definitely heard that name.

I'm not like, I don't participate in that world, but I've heard his name enough, which means he clearly has to be big for me to have even heard it. Yeah. I just think that's wild. I mean, obviously we've got the Judds, but they were a duo at first. And then obviously

we've got some people who's You know, you find out like the Carter family, but I can't think of another father-son duo that had country music careers as big as these two. Can you hear, Corey? No. I'm trying to. I mean, you could say Willie Nelson and Lucas, I guess. Yeah, Lucas is in country adjacent. But I think that's probably true.

That's the only one I can think of aside from the ones that you just already mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, Bobby Bear and Bobby Bear Jr., but Bobby Bear Jr. is not to either. Bobby Bear Jr. is awesome, but he's not, he didn't level up like these dudes did. Oh, wait, we're idiots.

Mel Tell us and Pam tell us. And also Hank Williams, Sr. Yeah, of course. Well, that's like such an exact one. Yeah, you forget about that one. Yeah, you do. You do forget about that. Rap song I'm going to go with,

it's technically an R&B, but there's a rap verse on the original. It's not a remix, which is, smell cologne. How'd you get it, damn? That's getting cheated on. It's a little bit of a stress. What's the name of that song? Where Mystical has that great verse. Don't, you hold me lying when you talk of the mystery.

Yeah, I can't remember that. I can't remember that song, but that's great. Mel Cologne, damn it strong. How'd you get it on? Tell me why. Is that the Isley brothers? No, it's, uh, Stutter.

Stutter. Stutter. Stutter. Stutter. I can tell you line because every time you're lying you stutter, stutter, stutter, stutter, stutter. It's by Joe, and that's the line.

He goes, don't be lying when you talk to Mr. Stutter and when you talk to Joe. It's so fucking hilarious that Mystical had a feature on that goddamn song and it went so hard. It's so good. True, true. True, true.

Dude, I love that fucking song. I really love that. Is Mystical's still with us? My heart? Yeah, no, I don't think you got. Yeah, it was by Joe. I'm trying to find the lyrics, though, because I want to remember what Mystical's verse was. Chris was from New Orleans, right?

I mean, look, probably. You know what, sure. I think he is. I loved how in this song, it goes straight to sulking and heartbreak rather than he's not angry he's not going to get out of the car and fucking beat the shit

out of the truck like there's no anger in him it's just like oh he considered breaking down he considered breaking down her door but there's nothing left to say I mean it really is a pretty progressive song would you like me to read the mystical lyrics for you please doing like an old timey

something quit quit quit quit quit you quit, quit, quit you lying, Heifer. Watch yourself. Yes, I'll give the whips, but leaving you out here by yourself. I'm keeping it gangster with all the tattoos and the platinum mouth. I was the rapper you heard about strapping up in the Waffle House. Right, right next to fellow brown-skinned gentleman,

when I be sparking them out and I'm way too cold for playing to let you come and dog me out. Should have known what you was up to when you got here. Get off my couch. Get! And I just can't change it. It's going to be good.

Get out on your route. My bad, Joe. I seen it coming with that nappy hair. She was running with docked out, wanting what you had. You let them set you up and you fell for it. Now it's, I, I, sorry, my ass. That's what you're paying for it.

You got the garbage. I got the trash can for it. The man ain't going to stand for it. You better respect my flow. Don't be stuttering when you're talking to Mystical or lying when you be talking to Jujo Joe. Good old is to Sir Cho and to Father Mystical. Fantastic. So good.

Great stuff. All right. I think we need to rate this song because we're not going to top this. I do like this song a lot. I'm going to give it two and... I'm going to give it... Fuck. I was going to say two and one-third.

I almost want to give it two-thirds just because of two-shar's sort of... Damn, that ain't my truck. That's so funny. And also, Corey, pointing out, I think it was Corey, that that's really a metaphor. Maybe it was you, Tushar.

The truck in the driveway is the dick in the butt. All right, fuck it. I'll give it two and two-thirds. I don't actually think it deserves it, but I'm in a good mood, and my man got his heartbroken. Yeah, so Trey, by the way, gave it two and one-thirds, earned hearts and added the addendum song hits, which it does. I am going to, if I'm going from a purely songwriting standpoint, I would lean towards giving it a two-and-one-third. But then if I'm going by just how much this song hits for me and how much I've always loved it, it's a three, so I'll meet in the middle with two-and-two-thirds. Okay.

Two and too sure. Two and two sure. I think the video had a few missed, like, big slip-ups. It gave away the whole thing at the beginning with the cheesy-ass football thing. The pulling up to the car, once again, it would have been so funny. A little too comedic, so probably obviously they couldn't do that. But the song itself is, like, really sweet and sad. I'll give it overall two-and-one-thirds.

There you go. We narrowly round out. What's the word? Average out at a two and a half. Before we got on the mics, Trey said he was going between a two and one-third and two-thirds, and then when he left, he left us a message that it was two and one-thirds.

I do wonder what it was that kind of brought it down for him. One thing I'll talk about, I've brought this up before. I don't want to be a broken record, but man, I really don't like two-verse songs. Some songs can overcome it. The song we're doing next week overcomes it

amazingly well. But I just, I don't know. There should have been a third verse where there's ass whipping. Yeah, yeah. Or he goes out and gets a new lady or a new phone line. Or maybe he runs into him at the grocery store. You know what I mean? Or, yeah, a couple weeks later,

him and this new girl, they have a wreck and they both die. And he drives by the crash scene and goes, hey, that ain't my. truck. That ain't my blood on the ground. Yeah. And was this song re, I guess not resampled, but redone a lot by a lot of other? Not that I've ever heard. Him and his son do it at his son's concerts now.

But other than that, now, his son made me redoing it. I don't know. That might be why they do it at concerts. Yeah, this seems like one of those, like if there was a redneck karaoke thing, this would be up there and what to sing. I don't know if all the songs we have done along on that list, but it seems like a really thing to sing. I would love for us all to do this at a live show

and too shard to just be going, that ain't my truck. All right. One thing that I'll reiterate next week, probably in the beginning, is that this is coming up on the end of season one of Bubba Shot the podcast. We're going on a hiatus. We will have a season two. you can still message us with requests or ideas for season two.

We're going to take some time. The boys are going to England. Tushar's got a lot of tall white women. He's got to have sex with. So I just want to let everybody know that. This is the pen ultimate episode of the first season. We have the ultimate episode coming up next week. And then we'll be off for a while.

We appreciate everyone, though, so much for rocking with us. And yeah, you know, It's been fun. It ain't my truck. That ain't my truck. Hell no. Two and a half. Pretty good score.

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