wellRED podcast - BUBBA SHOT: The Final Ep of FOUR WEEKS STRAIT

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

Our Love for George Strait is a "Love Without End, Amen." What better way to end our iconic 4 weeks Strait series than with the troubadours ode to the eternal love of fathers. So trot out those daddy issues, check how much child support you owe, and kiss your little ones on the forehead, we got a real tear jerker today.

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bubble shot the podcast and that's right a show about country at a time welcome to bubble shot the podcast first the facts love without end amen is a song from George Strait, the last one of our internationally recognized and awarded series four weeks straight on Bubba Shot, the podcast. It was released in April of 1990, just barely getting into eligibility for this podcast. It was written by Aaron Barker. It was the lead single off of his album, Living It Up, and it became George Strait's biggest hit of all time. Really?

Really. Number one on Canada. tracks, Hot Country Singles, Billboard, U.S. Country Billboard, and even crossed over to enter the Billboard Hot 200. I'm stunned. Me too. I mean, not

that this isn't a great song, it's just like, I wouldn't have it. It was number one. No. I think that you've got to consider that those things are, it's radio play in the 90s. So is this his

most popular song with it? If of every person across the board? Well, there's no way to measure that, especially when you don't personally download or play the song on Spotify back then. So back then it had to be based on radio plays. Well, dude, as we're going to get into the content, what could be more of a radio hit

than something as sweet as this song? And catchy, but also slightly different from his love songs that, you know, in other words, you're a radio DJ in 1990, and you've got all these songs and your fans, they don't want to hear anything controversial, they don't want to hear anything different, they don't want to hear anything new. Here you've got a song that they'll be okay with, but it is kind of different. Yeah, and Barry Churchy.

Yeah, so this, we said the name of the song already, right? Also, there's a gnat buzzing around my face and shit repeatedly. So if you said me looking like, you know, chasing a sky taco with my eyes like that one gift, it's a fucking gnat that won't leave me alone. but we said the song, right? We've established the song. Love without end, amen. I don't know how this episode is been to go for me, because I don't know.

You forgot about that last first, didn't you? No, well, no, there's so many different things about this song that conflict for me personally. So, number one, love George Strait, love 90s country. As a kid, I never gave a fuck about this song. But like, I just didn't, okay? Why was that, Trey? I was raised.

Me too, by the way. I was raised by a single father, right? But my dad hated 90s country music with a passion. 90s country music was entirely the province of my mama and the other people in my life. My dad hated this shit. And my dad's dead now. So shit about dads and dead dads will fuck me up for sure. But this song don't because if my dad knew I was like,

listening to a song like this and thinking about him, he would just turn over in his grave. God damn, you can't play cats in the cradle. Jesus Christ, what is this bullshit? You know, like,

it would not hit for him. So this song don't do that to me, right? But on the other hand, I'm the only one of the four of us who has my own sons now, and I'm a huge pussy about all of that. Like,

I'm very, very sensitive. like any kind of fucking father-son, treakily saccharine shit. It don't matter however the top it is can just really get to me very quickly and unabashedly. So like this on do that,

but then I hate the Lord. And you get to the third verse of it. You get to the third verse of it and it becomes about the Lord. And now I'm back to it not. So I'm just, I'm all over. fucking bored with this particular George straight song. I don't know how I feel about it.

Well, when we get to that third verse, I'm going to try to make you feel better about the Lord part. I want to say that as one of your sons, it hits for me. It hits for me that this song, well, fuck it. We need to get into lyrics, I think, because we're talking about it in the macro. and, you know, we get a lot of listeners who,

they don't be listening to these songs. They don't know about them. I got sent home from school one day with a Shiner on my eye. Fighting was against the rules, and it didn't matter why. When Dad got home, I told that story, just like I'd rehearsed, then stood there on those trembling knees and waiting for the worst. And he said, Let me tell you a secret about a father's love.

A secret that my daddy said was just between us. He said, daddies don't just love their children every now and then. It's a love without end. Amen. It's a love without end. Amen. I do like that we start with a story. This is a very cheesy saccharine course, which is what we're used to from George Strait. At this point, obviously, his fans love it.

I love it when it's done well. But I love the specificity of that first verse. Right. Yeah, it's something that most people, especially of like, I guess not now anymore, most kids probably can't, I would imagine. But back in the day, something everybody could relate to, like, you know, he'd think he about to get his ass whooped. Right, right.

With a belt, like, you know, he's like worried. Like, I don't want to tell my dad what I did because I'm going to get my ass whipped, you know. But then it goes the other way. But that used to be something that was universally relatable, I think. My dad was so different in that regard in that I got in a fight in second grade, sort of where this kid was above me on the bleachers and we got into it somehow and he just kicked me in the head twice and then the teacher came here and broke it up and I had marks under my eyes. And when I got home, my dad said he was going to wop my ass if I didn't beat the kid up when I got to school the next day if I didn't punch him in the mouth. And then when I was on my way to school the next day, very nervous about getting in trouble more so than the fight.

My mother told me I did not have to do that, that she had talked to dad or whatever. And she told him he's an insane person. Yeah, my mom and dad both was always just like, as long as you didn't start it, you better have defended yourself. Don't lay there and get your ass whoop. But if we find out that you was the one poking the bear, you're in trouble. But as long as you didn't start it, you're going to get in trouble at school, but you won't be in trouble at home.

Yeah, no, y'all are both right. I was focusing on the part of the kid thinks he's in trouble with his dad. right right like for fucking up it but you're both right that like it is definitely divisive the idea that fighting being against the rules for some southern country daddy no matter what it's a little hard for me to believe now that we all mention it and we're talking about it yeah that's a little that's a little different but I guess when you sew down with Christ you know I don't know how Jesus but I mean Drew's dad turn the other cheek is What, Jesus.

You're supposed to turn it. Dad wasn't preaching in second grade yet. He was probably hung over on the couch when he told me I had to whip that kid's ass. Go on there and whip that seven-year-old's ass or don't show your face around here. Or I'm whipping you. Like until mom told me I didn't have to, I was like, well, I'm going to do it because getting a whipping from my father will be worse than this kid and or the school. And he was saying like I had to defend myself.

And I was like, okay, but like I didn't run away. It just got broke up. What was I supposed to do, dad? fight the teacher too, you know. God damn right. Yeah, goddamn right. Tushar, I want to hear, you know, your perspective. Remind me when you moved to Alabama. 89. I was eight.

Eight. Okay. And was fighting, you know, did you have to fight? Were you picked on? I was only, I was picked on by a couple of, like, classic, like, white baseball player jock guys, but they would just say some stuff that would be like, kind of making fun of me for being fat. They weren't racist yet. They weren't racist yet.

Yeah. They were so much. That came naturally. But the two times I did get in fight, like physical fights was more that I got straight up beat up and there were black kids. And did your dad... Oh, pretty good. Dad, we don't know what to say about that.

Did your dad have a... We're all white guys. Well, I was going to say, did your dad have any thoughts? And you can share the racist. if you want. What was your dad's feelings on fighting at school? I mean, he would, I never got back to him that I fought physically with him,

but, um, you didn't get a note. I mean, dad was, I mean, dad was, he died, you know, so I can tell you stories that he,

but man, this guy was the most anti-Muslim, racist, blatantly, like village, from a village perspective. You got any quotes? He would break it down.

He would, uh, if, if, I remember we, would be, I remember one time we were out in public. And he started, he was so friendly. He would talk to anybody, right? He would just in public. A lot of racist be that way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he would be kind of Paul Dane's whole career. Yeah. He would be solely, uh, cordial and like,

genuinely interested in people. So he would never treat any individual, like, poorly. But he would, like, he would meet a couple of like black people from like in the neighborhood. And then he'd come back and just naturally be like, they're from Africa. They're kind of, you know, they're in, word damn like whoa damn he would say

he would beat your ass for getting beat up by an inferior kid but that's what they that's what he would be like that's their inferior so you have to stay away from them like he would be

it's I'm a reason why he would say something wild like their brains are from the violence too sharp that's what you get for being yeah yeah but on that note too sharp we've talked on the other podcast for and I'm not trying to derail this completely

but like most of the world just be crazy racist right most most most of the whole world is just so wild racist so you've made the argument before that it's possible america is the least racist place on earth for sure i mean crazy to think about it's very racist boy it's way easier to be racist in a vacuum which is most of the country the world is in their own vacuum right yeah um absolutely Absolutely. But it was, yeah, if it's a black vacuum, sure. Who else? Who else didn't hit for your dad?

Buddy, you name it. What about whites? Did White's hit for him? He was, he was like, why he saw it. Had to give it up for us. He read an article once in the Huntsville Times that a guy who lived close to us murdered some white psychotic white guy murdered someone put their body parts in his in his fridge and the police found body parts from a murder that happened a while back and he told us that

as if every single white man commits that crime once a year yeah like it is i can see that and it was just his fear like you're just scared you're just an immigrant everyone kind of scares you so you know but he was also very well read so all of his stuff was backed up like kind of like uh like a bookish KKK person. Oh, Ben Shapiro. Yeah, very, like, backed up with, like, facts. Ben Jabi Shapiro. I get it.

But at the same time, he would literally, his, he had friends and he worked with people who were across all, like, he worked in research. So, like, that was any, anyone that in the academic world has nothing to do with race. So, like, on the one hand, he was very much open with working. And then the other hand, his, like, biases would take over his, like, logical thought.

It's very strange to observe because he was very smart. So you would think he'd be open-minded. But no, not at all. And that's, he has created a monster. Well, anyway, how did he feel about violence? Oh, no. He, I mean, violence. You would have gotten in trouble for fighting.

I would have gotten in a lot of trouble. And he never, at one point I got much bigger than him. Like, he was five foot eight. I'm six three. At some point in high school, I dwarfed his size. Yeah. And then you can give a fuck. still fat. And I was still fat. Yeah, all through high school.

But this song is kind of like, I agree with a lot of stuff that Trey said, where it's like, it turns very like amen ceremony, kind of like, this is my duty to love you. But then also my first thought was like, oh, this is like a prequel to like an active school shooter. Like you are letting this kid be a piece of shit and you love him. Like, you should be asking what he did.

What did you do, man? You're sure. The judge is victim blaming and creating a whole series. Yeah, like, all that. I'll tell you what, one thing the school shooters have in common, they were loved too much as kids. They were loved too much as parents. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you're right, too, Schar. The kid with the black eye gets home and it should be blamed for it. That's a good way to prevent a school shooter. No, no, no, no. But he just said, like, you know, I know, like,

the scene that you paint in the first. the first lyrics is kind of, it's, uh, it's very sweet, a scared kid about to get hit and he's scared that he's going to get hit again. And then he's told he's loved. Like, it's a very nice thing. But I don't know. I guess I'm a piece of shit. I look at that. That's not right. Also, like, I feel like I didn't say the things that you just implied I say. It's like Tray said. You're like, I don't agree with a lot of what Tray said. And by that, I mean, this is clearly a prequel to a school shooting.

What Tray said. Yeah. You guys remember a minute ago where Tuchar was like, yeah, our dad, he taught us wild shit. I didn't believe any of it. But, you know, just like every white man commits a hate crime. And it's like two seconds later, he's like, yeah, this kid's going to be a school shooter, just like my dad taught me. He wasn't even around. Dad wasn't around during the active shooter phase of America.

Yeah, but I bet every time it came in the news. It's not a phase anymore, I don't think. Your dad was fucking right. It isn't every one of them. I mean, we do be like that. Of course. Not all white people be like that, but all people to be like that is white people. So what are you going to do?

Your dad was on to something with the whites. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. Nobody but us chop people up and put them in the freezer. They can turn them into soup and lamps and shit. That's exclusively some us shit right there. What sounds like your dad's good at is not identifying the cause of a particular racist problems, but pointing out a particular racist issues in the world for sure.

It sounds like he was reading crime statistics and being like, blacks are violent and whites are psychopaths. Anyway, guys, don't go outside tonight. And that's why you got fat. All right, moving on. No argument here, buddy. When I became a father in the spring of 81, there was no doubt that stubborn boy. Just was just, when I became a father in the spring of 81,

there was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son. And when I thought my patients had been testing to the end, I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him. And I said, let me tell you a secret about our father's book. About a father's love. A secret that my daddy said was just between us. The frog thing you're doing is hitting for me. Now, daddies don't just love this.

children every now and then. It's a love without end. Amen. Oh, thank you. Kermit. Yeah. Waka, Waka. Tom Petty's got a little bit of a Kermit the Frog thing on some of the song. He does. Anyway, this verse reveals less. Like, I love the specificity of the first verse.

And this one is just like, and then I had a kid and he was a lot like me. A little piece of shit, too. He also didn't hit. Yeah. This is where the song loses a lot of points for me more than the third verse. And I'll get into Y in a minute. but I didn't like this one as much. See, like, this verse,

not because of even what it says in it, but just because of what it's about, this verse is, this verse in the following version of the chorus is one of the only reasons that this song like, does hit for me now, just because it's about, because you got chairans.

Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah, right. That's what it makes sense. If I never had my own sons, I don't think I would give even the very first fuck about this. song. But again, acknowledging it's well made and all that musically, but you know what I'm saying. But I do have kids. So it's like, that's why I mean. I'm sort of, I keep waffling. The rap version of the Lord. Is it dear mama? No, I was going to say just the two of us by Big Willie.

There you go. Yeah. There you go. I like it. Yeah. He even says, makes me laugh because you've got your daddy's ears. So, you know, that little boy was just like my father's son, yeah. Yeah, you got it. Nailed it. Good job. Made a hit. I ain't many rap songs about, you know. I mean, you know, Chris Rock had that whole bit about that. They ain't too many songs about nobody give a fuck about daddy. Not many daddy songs out there, period. So that's a good pull.

That second verse, the comment I made, I didn't realize that now until I read these lyrics in preparation for this episode. You know what I mean? Like, I never had the thought in the past. You know, that second verse is weak. But it's like, lay it out in front of me, and it was like, man, it's just, holding up to that first one. Specificity does it for me. It's one of my favorite things about country music is the ability to be universally relatable but with specific stories. And then that second verse is just kind of like, eh. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like if you, it's,

it is very general, but it also is something that like, that's, that's the whole deal. Yeah, right. have kids is no is like seeing yourself in them and they drive you fucking crazy sometimes but you know how it is and you know why they be the way they be and you think about your parents or your dad now he wasn't just that whole dynamic that's what this verse is about i mean you're right the first verse does that but in a like by using a specific anecdote that sort of gets all that across whereas this verse just kind of just says all that stuff you know uh so that does make it different But, like, if you've had that experience, you definitely connect to it, you know.

Yeah, your oldest stands and walks like you, or at least used to stand and walk like you. It's been almost 25% of his life since I've seen him. That's why. Used to, he stands and walks like you in a way that, like, I have not seen very often as far as physicality. You know, you say, oh, you got his eyes. Oh, you got his nose. It's like, you move the same. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I mean, you, you know. They come from your balls, dog. Me and my dad have the same exact stand, but not walk. And by stand, I mean, our bellies poke out the same. Both look like Ethiopian children. That's what my mama used to say. Is it racist probably? Yeah, but in that cute way, you know.

Right. Yeah, you know that cute way where you compare your son to a starving child with a swollen belly? I don't think the race has anything to do with it, though. you know. That's true. It's not racist. It's just really, really, really mean. Sad. Sad. Mean and sad. More so than racist. Yeah. All right. Let's get to that last. Or as Trey called it, cute. I meant his mama saying a racist thing is the cute version of it. You know how they be.

Yeah. Hell yeah. Precious racism. You said it earlier in this episode. I wrote it down because I'm going to add it to my bit about how I'm not nice. I'm good. but racists are real friendly. Of course. They have to be. Corey and Tusha. Corey and Tushar, do you have any thoughts about the second verse before we move on?

No, I agree with all that other shit. Yeah. Before we do move on to the third verse, let me say, yet again, no official video. This is becoming a theme for four weeks straight. George Strait, don't give a fuck about videos. Which is admirable, kind of. Yeah. Well, all right, let's move on to the third verse.

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates. When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake. If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in. Somewhere from the other side, I heard those words again. Where did that even come from? He said God, the father. So he's talked about him being a father and his own father, and now he's moved on to God. Don't hit for me neither, Tashar.

No, it don't hit. Can I just be, let me just say one thing that hits about it for me. Obviously, this is a Christian reference, Pearly Gates. Yeah. But arguably, this is a very unchristian sentiment that he's making here. Okay. Especially in the South and this, at that time and now and probably forever and always, unfortunately. Which is, according to common Southern Christian tradition, it absolutely matters what you do.

You don't fucking get to be in there. You fucking go to hell if you don't act right. Well, but in the Baptist faith, it's the once saved, or Southern Baptist at least, it's once saved, always saved. So if you at one point have accepted the Lord. You can fall from grace if you're in like at least 50% of other churches in the South. You can, but you don't, you wouldn't have had to have lived a perfect life. Like, because Drew, we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

We all fall short of the glory of God. Amen, brother Corey. Amen. Amen. Amen. And so, like, yeah, there's a, you know, plenty of dudes in the pulpit who have had a sordid past, but it doesn't matter because they gave their life to God now. God forgave them.

Hell, that's why Jesus died on the cross. It was not in vain. It was. But that part of the story is truly beautiful. That part of the faith that they don't focus on. Yeah, right. It's actually quite beautiful. So as far as this part of the song goes, again, Pearly Gates, we know that he's talking about a Christian tradition.

but the notion of the song, I mean, if we go back, they don't love their children every now and then. It's a love without end. Amen. Just when I thought my patience had been tested to the end, the point I'm trying to make is that he's essentially saying that God loves his children no matter what. And that's not a very common culturally Christian thing to say in the South at that time period. I mean, dude, I'll have to take y'all's word for it on that part. It just, uh, it just, no, you don't because, I mean, think about why you said, fuck all that.

Because your fucking uncle was going to hell automatically. Yeah, but I, but I also, and look, we all know, I'm Bible dumber than shit, okay? But like, I thought, I'm talking about the Bible. I'm talking about culture. I thought that also part of it, which I feel like is what Corey was just alluding to, was the idea that like, whatever your transgressions, you can, we can work it out, you know, the Lord will be there. for you or whatever, which I thought is like what this verse is trying, is supposed to be saying. It's like, no, God loves all his children, even the black ones and all that stuff.

You know, he loves them all. Red and yellow, black and white. They are precious stand aside. It is absolutely trying to say that. Sure. You are completely correct. But I'm saying that in the context of this song, it seems to me that the whole notion of is that a father will love you no matter what you do.

And then he's at heaven about to be let in. So it's not just like God will love you no matter what you. There's a sort of an implication. And because he loves you, no matter what you do, he will let you into heaven. And that culture isn't how it's supposed to work. Right. It's not how it works. What you think about this Jesus stuff, Toshar?

I mean, it's just as confusing as the other stuff. All Greek to you. I thought Hindu. Where's your dad out on the Greeks? These are just mythological creatures. No. I have a this last

like I don't understand where it fits within the larger song I know I said that earlier I mean I do it ties it all together yeah

so it doesn't it's like your son my son's a piece of shit he got in the fight no no no I'm a piece of shit

he is the first the boy in the first one is him it's him it's the voice of the narrator of the song then that guy

becomes a father later and in the second verse he's saying about that and he's saying now I get it and then the third verse is talking about God. It all comes from God. And his unconditional love for his children. And it's all it's just unconditional fatherly love from God above on down to his fucking daddy when he was a piece of shit. I understand why Tray don't like that on principle or whatever. But Tushar's saying he doesn't get it.

Like, it's a pretty tight song. Like, there's a, no, I mean, I don't. Yeah, I definitely get it. Okay, no, I get it now. Honestly, I'm a little. She's her hit play on this song and it was like, being a dad, fuck dad, I don't get it. No, that actually helps a lot. Thanks, Tray.

But that being said, I don't like this, like, the love is almost like you're, you're submitting yourself to God. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. And with that comes you. I presume you said all your sorries and you made all your, you know, whatever rules you broke, you said sorry and you asked for forgiveness and this now you're in.

And that's the thing I hate the most about Christianity. Sure. It is my least favorite thing that there's an out. There's an out clause where you can just say these magic words and you'll be free of all sins. Like, fuck you, dude. I mean, I hear you, but if you're in a religion, that's the best part of it. Right. You know what I mean?

But yeah, I agree with you because the people that just live their lives based on that, they're like, I can just do whatever and then bip-a-boop-de-pop, you know. But now, I'm sure there's other examples, but this is definitely like a trope. I mean, I can think of one other example for sure, a song that actually really hits for me a lot, a whole lot, that follows a very similar structure now that I think about it, is the Eric Church song, Senters Like Me, you know, that song, right? It's like the court, I come from a long, line of sinners like me and he's talking about him and his daddy and his granddaddy are all they all

drink and party and hit and stuff and all that's the whole point of the song and i come from a long line of drunks too so that song really hits for me but then at the end of it he pivots into i know when i die i'm gonna stay i'm gonna go up up to the pearly gates or whatever and i'll stand in a long line of sinners like me waiting to get into the kingdom of heaven and i fucking love that song but that part, I'd always back, God, why'd this part got to be here? So funny, how many third verses in country just ruin it for you. Yes, that's what I'm saying, because

it is a trope. They bring it back to the Lord all the time. This song, yeah, this song is brought to you by Manifest Destiny. I can understand too why like some Southern Baptist Christians, it's kind of bucking up against their whole fucking system, because it's really socialist when you think about it.

It's, you could work your whole life and be the best person ever, not sin, be a, you know, a pillar of the community. And you and the dude who at 85 years old, who's been a truck driving, whore banging son of a bitch his whole life, but on his deathbed gave his life to God,

y'all have, y'all go to the same place. Yeah, it's almost as if their entire worldview is convoluted and they don't understand their own fucking religion, isn't it? Yeah, for sure. And by the way,

my papal was quite literally that guy. I think he was 84 when he professed to. There he was. God, I just bear it. Yeah, my holy spirit. My uncle, when he professed his love for the Lord,

he died like three years later. My Uncle Gordon. What a way to go out. My uncle Gordon at 92 years old, stopped drinking and smoking and turn his life to the Lord and died three years later. Bro, that's the way to do it. Of course.

Hell, if I've lived that long, I might do that. I tell you, it's like making Holliday sauce, though. You got a time at shit just right. That's the whole gamble right there. playing the cards right like you got to know when to hold them when to fold them yeah when it comes to professing your love for the lord but yeah if you've made it to 90 and you you know like dime would hit anyway which i imagine it's true for everybody who's 90

oh yeah like just why not just roll the dice on that lord you know Pascal's wager they call it fucking roll the dice on the Lord here's the way to do Pascal's wager um earlier and let's make a lot of money. So let's get into the songwriter. His name is Aaron Barker. He also wrote last week's song. I promised to talk about him this week. He co-wrote last week's song,

I can still make Shyam. Aaron Barker's a singer and a songwriter. He's been in Nashville for a while. He's had some sort of hits of his own, like, you know, number 80 on the Billboard charts. But he has a few number ones, most of which are with George Strait. I think he's got one with Clay.

Walker. But he's also written the book and not a memoir, not like a novel. He wrote a novel, a full on novel called A Love Without End, Amen. It is based upon, you know, a scenario with a father and his son who is sick. And I have no idea. The son is sick? Yeah. Get that shit out of here. I don't want no part of that. I have no idea how or why it's very, religiousy. I have no idea double-fucker. I have no idea how or why this has not been made into one of those super Christian movies. That's been

you know, it's now. Yeah, Firehouse or whatever. I feel like it's the easy. You've already got the book. You've got the fucking song. Everybody would want to do it because it would make a million fucking dollars. Well, why have they not done it? Well, you're right about having the existing IP as far as the book and the song. That's a good point. But that's like a whole goddamn subgenre for them motherfuckers is killing a kid off. I walk to remember.

A little little angel, angel wings. Angel Wings. Why have they not made that? I hate that shit. I think what Tracy is they probably have and we just ain't seen it. I feel like it would reference it though. I studied this guy.

What about that? What about that Greg Kinnear movie where his kid about dies and sees the Lord or something? But what I'm saying is why have they literally not made a book, a movie based on this literal book with this guy and had George Strait put the song at the beginning and the end, and he played the dad or an uncle, and everyone made a billion fucking dollar. Now, that actually is kind of mind-blowing, because, like, you don't even, you could get almost any dumb motherfucker to write that shit, that screenplay.

That's true. I'm sure this motherfucker would happily write that screenplay. Right, for sure. Oh, I'm saying, by the way, I'm not calling this guy dumb motherfucker. So the Pascal's Wager for your soul and for your career is to just write this fucking movie. when all other bets are off and somehow get it to George Strait. Buy a boat.

You can name the boat titties. That's true. All right, one more thing about Aaron Barker that is going to connect to Cho. By the way, I want to say real quick, the name of his song that he got personally on the Top 100 Billboard was called The Taste of Freedom in 1992.

Right as we were going into Iraq. Does it taste like an ice cold beer? An ice cold beer on a pussy hole. Now that's Wheeler Walker. This dude with 92 was talking probably about a cold glass of sweet tea on the way to church. The fucking body of the lamb or whatever y'all call it. Them crackers. Y'all, whatever you all.

What? Whatever y'all call it. It's where y'all call it. I was formed Lord Cookies. Yeah. Lord Cookies. That is what we... Unleavened bread.

It don't hit. We got Lord Cookies light too because all the ladies are on a diet. All right. Aaron Barker, this is going to connect to Cho. Also wrote and performed the jingle for Bluebell Ice Cream. A jingle in which, Corey, as I recall, the first closer I ever saw you do, or it was close to the end. It might have been over. I might be misremembering. Yeah. One of Corey's

early jokes I remember was specifically about that jingle. Yeah, it was, uh, it went. I was like, man, you know, uh, I remember it. Dagum, man, you know, you're driving down the road. These, these commercials, like, they're getting pretty good, man, you know, you've been driving down the road and you think you're hearing a song and all the sudden, it turns out it's a commercial. Like, I was driving around. I heard this one. It started

out awful normal. It was a, I hate illegals and the gays. Bluebell tastes just like. You talk about fucking leveling the comedy catch on Brainerd Road That one. I see it. Yeah. I synced it many times.

Well, you were doing the ditty of the man who wrote A Love Without an Amen. And your favorite George straight song, I could still make Cheyenne. I will be. How about that? How about it, son?

Yeah. Hey, y'all just did, so have we talked about, surely at some point, we've talked about L-I-B before, right? L-I-B. Yeah. M-R-P. And the Arkansas reading test that went around and went viral.

So, Tushar, do you know, you ever heard of that? Okay. I'm going to pull it up and try to share it. All right. But, yeah, the one I saw was Pigs, which makes sense if it's Arkansas rating test. But I feel like I've heard other versions of it. I'm sure in Arkansas, they probably got a Tennessee rating test or something. and I don't know what ours would be.

I feel like usually everybody just goes, Alabama, let's just do that. And then Alabama does Mississippi. And then Mississippi's too fucking stupid to come up with one. Yeah, Mississippi just, somebody got to be the bottom dumb. At some point, somebody got to be the bottom dumb. Thank God for Mississippi. Thank God. That's what, that's the unofficial slogan of the rest of the South for sure.

Thank God for Mississippi. Mississippi, parentheses. Somebody got to be the bottom dumb. It's fucking funny and so fucking true. So true. I mean, I love Mississippi. I just fucking love Mississippi. But hey, as you said.

And ironically, when we defend the South and we bring up all of the artists and impressive people, in arguably two of the most impressive on an intellectual level or a fame level come from Mississippi being William Faulkner and Oprah. But you are still correct. They are the bottom dumb. Yeah. Mark Twyne almost explicitly. Go Bowlies. Tushar, please tell me if you can pass this 12th grade state of Arkansas reading test.

You can start from the beginning and just work your way down to each column. Wait, what is the test? It's a reading test. Can you read these words? You start with the first column and go down and then you go over to the second. Mr. Mice, Mr. Not, Osar. You're already filing it, buddy. Well, I failed.

It's so bad. You want me do it for you? Yeah. Yeah. Corey, let's do it back and forth. M.R. M.R. M. R not. O S-A-R.

C-M-E-D-D-F feet? L-I-B. M-R-M-I-S. That's it. L-I-B. Buddy, if you think that this didn't make church ladies laugh in about... It's funny. I mean, yeah, it is funny.

And you could see... Look at the farmer one. That's... They throw some shade on farmers here halfway through the test. Too sure. Try the farmer one. That's funny. M.R. Farmers.

Emer not. O-S-A-R. C-M-E-M-T-Pocket. L-I-B. He don't do it. M-R farmers. I don't know how you guys conquer. the world, honestly.

Well, we didn't. We didn't. Our version of white, hey, what I just say, somebody got to be the bottom dumb, okay? And in terms of the white world, we're the least in one. We are absolutely the bottom dumb.

We got Irish and Scottish blood coursing through our veins. There are people hitting the hills. Nobody. Now, I do want Corey to open up a restaurant called C.M. Langs. It would hit. That would hit.

C.M. Wings. well you guys want to do a rating yeah yeah let's get back to it what is your rating for love without end amen mr corey ryan one earnhart fuck this song yeah yeah i was going to go we can't we have to do thirds i want to do so i guess one third of an earnhardt no one and a third because again like i said there's I have sons. I feel like I can't entirely hate it because it's so pandering to the father's son relationship.

But like I said, it don't make me think of my own dad dad at all because he absolutely hated this song. And then you get the Lord turn at the end. Really, the Lord's peppered throughout, but the Lord really comes in strong at the end. And I just can't cut into that, of course. So one in a third is what I'll give it.

Did I mistakenly hear you earlier? Has it the second verse made you emotion? before? No, I didn't say that about this song. Oh, my bad. Okay, okay. One in a third and one, two, shard. What do you got, buddy? I'm going to go a third. There you go. I'm going

the lowest number of Earnhardt's, a fraction of one Earnhardt, because this guy, first of all, I didn't really get the song for some reason. And that's my bad. See, this is what I don't get about you. Like, I get it. I get the goddamn song. Just don't hit.

I just don't, like, it's got too Jesusy for me, and I think it promotes violence in its own way. It's very anti-B-L-M-B-L-M, you know? His kid's going to be a skull shooter out there. Something bad is going to happen with this kid, and he's going to ask for forgiveness at 50. After his own little genocide. I feel like Tushar said, one-third, one-three, 13, number of abortions I've paid for. I'm going to go with two.

I'm rating it from the perspective of how good of a song it is or is not. It's not the best one we've heard. I'll go one in two thirds. I do think it is other than Amy's back in Austin, probably the worst song we've done, just in a vacuum, but it's still a fucking short straight hit. I mean, people love it, you know?

It's well done. I'll go one and two thirds. We landed on Amy's back at Austin just don't hit at all. No, I don't. It surprised me too. I think I gave it a two. I'm about I say, I don't think I, I think my thoughts on it was, yeah, now that we're really breaking it down, it don't hit. But at the same time, I love it, we'll always love it.

And, you know. Right. I disagree. Y'all were so intent that that man was a fucking idiot and nothing. Yeah, but that ain't got to do with a song. It's got a little bit. I know, but I'm pretty sure y'all ended up giving it like a one and a half. This was before we did the two-thirds.

I don't know. Maybe. You might be right. I've listened to a song since. I like, so whatever I said doesn't reflect how I currently feel now. That's all, that's the general rule of thumb with the show right there. Yeah, without a doubt. Don't, don't get too wrapped up in what I said.

That I say, yeah. What I say ain't it. Well, what a, I'm glad I picked this one for the last week of four weeks straight. I should have, uh, should have probably went with a better one. No, that's good. No, I mean, it's literally his number one hit of all time. So it needed to be covered, I would argue. So.

Yeah. And that's where I go back to, now I'm waffling back towards the two. Either way, it doesn't matter because we made all this up and nothing matter. It's real. Yeah. I want to thank George Strait for his contributions. I got to say that while I like George Strait, I'm glad we're done with him. And I don't feel that.

Right. But I'm over it. I don't think I would have felt that way if we picked four random 90s Garth Brooks song. So I'm ready to crown Garth Brooks King myself. But we'll get back to that at a later date, I'm sure. Mm-hmm. Okay. There you go.

I guess we got better do a woman next week. We will. I guess. I'll. All right. Bubby shout the podcast and that's right. A show about country at it's high. Don't expect no shit from 2005.

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