wellRED podcast - BUBBA SHOT THE PODCAST: "Friends In Low Places"

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

In 1990 Garth Brooks put out a mega-hit that would redefine American drinking songs and help launch him into super-duper stardom. But have we been misinterpreting the point of the song this whole time? Who is the hero of "Friends In Low Places"?

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slash well read and we thank them for sponsoring this episode of the podcast they're the podcast. Bubba shot the podcast and that's right a show about country at a time. This is Bubba shot the podcast first. The Facts. Friends in Low Places is a song recorded and released in 1990 as the lead single from Garst, I think second album, No Fences. It spent four weeks as number one on the Hot Country Songs and won the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association Awards for 1990 single of the year. It was written by Earl Bud Lee and Dwayne Blackwell. They gave the song to Brooks to record as a demo before he was ever anybody.

but then he signed his deal and this one almost didn't make it to a Brooks album and in fact was recorded by Mark Chesnut, the performer of the track we named this podcast after Bubba shot the jukebox. But Mark's version didn't

take off and Garth's did. That is country music history. Gentlemen, what a classic. What a day. I'm so excited. I hope you all are too. That's bananas to me because like I obviously

I know that like a performer has so much to do with how good a song is, but this is one of those songs to me that I would have thought anybody with any bit of talent, which clearly Mark Chestnut has, that it would have been a smash hit. You know what I mean? That's kind of wild to hear. I was going to, yeah, I've never heard that before. So Mark Chestnut recorded and released it and it just didn't play because I feel the exact same way

Corey feels. Hell, this song is mostly sung by the people listening to it. Right. It's such a, hold on. Seminole sing-along. I don't know if I misspoke or just like got our wires crossed here. He did record it. He did release it.

But he did it the same year. And now I don't know how that works in terms of how they pulled all this off. So the story goes that Blackwell, Dwayne Blackwell and Earl Lee Bud, which, dude, I mean, what? Any order of them names. his country gold. Early bud sounds like one of my one of Thompson's hippie dad's

homies. Yeah. It smokes in the morning mostly. Early bud and weed seed coming over to have a party later. Wheat seed was a real guy by the way, rest in peace.

Rest in peace. I did it backwards. It's Earl Bud Lee. I got it. See either way. Well, all right. So they meet

Garth Brooks out, you know, he's playing in Nashville. He's talking to them. And he's like, you know, I'm just in town. I'm trying to make it. I'm about to cut a demo. I got some people interested in me. Let me go find where I found this.

That was a thing that I wish was still something. Like you just like, like I'm headed to town. Like you hear those stories all the time back in the 80s and 90s of like someone just showing up to town just to make it and then it works out and shit. Yeah, but just show up with a fucking onion in their pocket. Yeah. Yeah. And at times or whatever.

Next thing you know, they're playing to rhyme. Yeah. I'm like, I've always been annoyed by that actually. Because it's not true for the most part. Because every time, every time you hear or read a version of that story, in my head,

I'm like, okay, but I know these parts missing right now. Yes, of course there is. And it's always told to you by, especially as entertainers ourselves, it's always told to you by someone that's like,

so why ain't, why ain't you done that? Like, why didn't you go to Nashville with onion in your pocket? you fucking moron. It's very much like an immigrant success story. Yeah. Showed up with nothing.

Yeah. All right. So I had the story not backwards, but I'd love some things out. But this one gets wilder. So they meet Brooks, both of them at a shoe store where Brooks is selling boots down on Broadway, right?

And he asked them what they do and they find out, he's like, oh, they're like, oh, we write songs. He's like, oh, I'm a musician. I'm trying to. you know, get work and trying to make it. And I'm struggling. And then they make him sing for them and he can sing. And they hire him to sing their demos.

Because in Nashville at that time, the way the businesses work is as a songwriter, you would want to send your songs out to people, but you wanted them to sound decent so that a less talented, you know, exec could hear, you know, you wouldn't have to leave much to their imagination. You know what I mean? So they hire Brooks, they go and record it, right, as a demo. It's the last demo. Brooks had done a lot of demo work.

This is the last one he did. Musicians on the demo were John Beelan of the Flying Burrito Brothers and some other sets of musicians from Nashville. I would love to hear this demo. So anyway, he thanks him, he moves on, tells him he likes the song, and blah, blah, blah. But they hired him. He's a struggling guy. They set up, he's going to record for him in like two months.

Then he signs a record deal. Only goes there to uphold his end of the bargain. No longer needs their money. No longer is a struggling musician. But when he signed, it was like, yeah, but they signed me and they gave me my songs already. Because the way country music worked at that time, it wasn't like Garth had a lot of control over what he was going to sing. By signing this new record, they basically had told him this is the artist you're going to be, at least at first, blah, blah, blah. So it doesn't make it under his first album.

So they give it or sell it, whatever, to Mark Chestnut. But Brooks claims that they told him it was held for him. Now, who did what, how the story goes. The only loser here is Mark Chestnut. Without question. Because if you're the songwriters, whatever the story is, two people recorded your song and one of them made it. Right. You've got two times the chance for it to hit that way.

Right. you're then, you know, two-pay checks, all that shit. You claim you were told the song was held for you. You let your minions, because now you're a buddy country's music star, secure the song, piss on whoever else has got it. Let's get it out as soon as we can. And if you're Mark, you probably don't know any of that's happening. So I don't know the exact date.

Things went out, blah, blah, blah. But my point is, they recorded it the same year, and Garth just pushed his out. first. So I think Corey, to your point, like, I can't believe in people wouldn't recognize this was a hit. I think Mark did, and I might be reading too much into it, I don't think he knew anybody had it. Right. So, okay, so Garth Brooks has just came out first is what happened. And it was a smash hit. So what Corey was saying is kind of is true. It was undeniable. His came out first, which buried Mark Chestnut. I wonder how I wonder. There's other examples.

I've never I never heard this story before about this song and I'm trying to happens in movies all the time I was I was about to bring that up in movies it's like the Timstone and Wyatt are on we're like yeah but the way that always works that magic one prestige in Armageddon the prestige in the illusionist yeah yeah but like the way that always works is two separate studios are working on a similar script and they want to get it out have a similar thing going at the same time then they find out about the other one then it's a fucking race to the finish line to see who can push theirs out first or whatever. So that's how that ends up

happening. It's not literally the same song. Yeah. It's right. It's not literally the same script that's getting made by two different studios or whatever. This is the same exact song. I bet that's happened other times too. I'd like to he beat him by last out more. My month?

That's rough. That is. I mean Mark, again, Mark Chessna, he went on to him. Yeah, he did. But literally. Now, granted, you can't, you can't just sit here and say, oh, well, you know, Garth Brooks wouldn't have hit had it not been for this. Like, you know, when you're a dude that sells out still to this day, three arenas in Dublin anytime you want,

obviously you had something that not a lot of people had, but what a goddamn start, you know, with one of the, like, this song is so, it's almost, it's like wagon wheelie in the sense that, like, you forget sometimes how real, how actually goddamn good it is because you're like, oh, this shit again, you know, because you've heard it so many times. but every now and then it's like 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. There's a reason you've heard this shit a lot. No, I was going to say like this song, I'm not saying like best or whatever,

but this has to be. To Mount Rushmore song. The biggest country songs of all time, right? In the 90s country, like what song is bigger than that? Not one. How many bars across the country has this been drunkenly scream, scream sang? and for the past 32 goddamn years. And into forever.

Carves, cars, drunken, every one of them. Everything. Dude, people that aren't country music fans know every word to this goddamn song. Well, on that note, too sure, you have heard this song, correct? Yeah, yeah. I haven't heard a lot of these songs, but I think, I mean, the second I heard Garth Brooks, it's like the, it's like, it's like Tupac. to me it's like

synonymous rap yes it's the Tupac of country almost because he is transcans everybody says Garbritz is Tupac of country music but he's a consummate like country singer it has like

a lot of elements of throughout the song that were like it has like a line dance vibe it has everyone sing along like chorus what just happened to your accent right there line bant line dance has the line dance vibe I got bit by a redneck over the weekend.

He called it. Yeah, your arm swells up and then you use it to slap your wife. Why? Did you say wives? I think, I have a lot of thoughts about this song, but I guess let's maybe go into the lyrics or the fact that there's no video. I know, Trey, you said that right before we got on. Like, that's wild to me. It seems like, yeah, what's up with that?

Does you mind know what's up with that? I feel like 93 or 92 is when it started in country music. I keep telling y'all that and y'all are like, we had BH1 in the 80s. I'm like, I know we did, but like I don't know when CMT came out, but I just don't think it was a big deal until like 93 or 94. That's my theory. What else could it be? And it was too late for this, you're saying. Well, yeah, because they ran new things, I guess.

I don't know. I just, that's like the label pays for the videos. So if you are on a label and you have a new album coming out in 92, which he would have, the dance in that music video, they wouldn't pay for an old one, I guess. Well, but see, I would think, and I guess they could just use like concert footage or something, and that's probably what they did.

But like CMT would want to have a version of Friends in Low Places to put in rotation, even if they didn't make a video at the time it came out because they didn't exist. They would still want to play that song. And they're a video media. Do you think the booze references turned them off? it's just wild

I don't think I don't my god they probably used I bet they used a live I bet they used like concert footage or something because those were a thing you know videos like that

I don't know why you can't find that though I see to say I would have thought you'd be able to find it all right here we go you can find a bunch of live performances of this song but I will now read the lyrics that I imagine nearly everyone listening knows

close to by heart but here we go. And let me just say the first two lines of this song there I say are the first the best two opening lines or the best opening line in 90s country.

There are songs that I think are better Queen of my double wide comes to mine but the first two lines of this blame it all on my roots. I showed up in boots. Boom, every dude their truck's going, wait a minute. That's me. And ruin your black.

tie affair. Now, we're already in the middle of a class war and a culture war. And we haven't gotten 15 seconds into this fucking song. It's funny. A stiff-ass silver spoon motherfuckers in here think they're better than me. I don't know shit. And I guarantee you kiss my ass motherfucker. That's what they, but we've already established all that.

And I gave a goddamn tea. You have to old boys listen to this. They're in an $85,000 truck wearing $1,000 boots. But they still in our hearts. They identify. as. Maybe, but it was plenty of motherfuckers like my uncle Jordan who was just like,

oh, crank this shit up, it's motherfucker spitting. You know what I mean? Oh, there's death with people on pills. Sure. Blame it all in my roots. I shut up in boots and ruined your black tie affair. The last one to know, the last one to show,

I was the last one you thought you'd see there. My God. And I saw the surprise and the fear in his eyes when I took his glass of champagne. And I toasted, you said, honey, we may be through, but you'll never hear me complain. Now, before we get into this awesome course, we have a whole backstory here.

Now that I'm older, this song means a little bit different to me because I'm like, dog, I didn't even want to go to my own goddamn wedding. You out here going to bitches weddings you hate, you know what I mean? Just a fucking stun on somebody. Like, what the fuck? I've never been certain it's a wedding. I'm glad you brought that up. I thought it was probably a wedding, but probably.

possibly just a date she's on with this guy that's a black tie affair. I always assumed it was a wedding. Well, even if it's just a party, I still feel the same way. She's with a bank man now. She gets married to a bank man. That's why it's fancy and everything's fancy and all his fancy shit's going on and whatever. That's how I always interpreted it. I'm with Corey about showing up at some other wedding.

You know, you're supposed to be just driving around your truck crying and listen to the songs about rain on the day your ex-girlfriend gets married. That's the general country truck. Yeah. I'm going to take. the other stance and say, I don't think it's a wedding. I think that she is in a different way of living now, and she's at some black tie event. It could be a fundraiser.

It could be, you know, it could be, you know, the gentry, the gentry be having black tie parties. He said the last one. Hold on. Let me ask you this. The whole thing about I was the last one to know. I was the last one to show. I was the last one you thought you'd see here.

That implies to me that, like, they've invited a whole bunch of people. Yeah. wasn't told about it. He found out the last second. People were hiding it from him. You're hiding from me. That just sounds like a wedding to me.

His ex-old lady's getting married to a rich motherfucker is what I think is happening. Yeah. And again, I definitely think that's possible. I just don't know why he would call it Black Tie Fair without go ahead and calling it a wedding.

Because it sounds better. For the record, even if it's not a wedding, my point still stands. Why go there? Why go? Like, yeah, I still feel the same way about any time.

Like, I would never want to go. I barely want to go to parties. That's what's what? Yeah, I guess that's true. And I have had a fair amount of tell that bitch what's what in me over the years. But I've just lived in a way that hit, you know, like I don't. It doesn't also make sense that he's showing up at this affair.

Basically, I mean, it's like a script. I mean, it reads like a script. These are the beats to like he's going to show up. He's going to probably, I'm presuming he's fucked up. He takes a glass. He ruins a toast, maybe. And then at the end, he's like, I'm not going to complain. Like, what are you doing?

You showing up is complaining. Yeah, you'll never hear me complain. No, we'll see it, though. You kind of did show up exclusively to complain. Yeah, it's right. He's definitely drunk. I think this is wrong, but if I'm honest with you when I was younger, I think my reading of this was like he happened to be at a plate.

Like, I guess because it is like a script, you know, like he's walking out of a bar where he was meeting with some old men and across the way is like the fundraiser dinner in the back of the restaurant. He's like, well, I guess this shit's about to happen. Well, that's what's beautiful. You can interpret it anywhere you want. It's a, yeah, too sure you're right. It's a little bit like, you know, people who don't give a shit.

They really want to tell you how much they don't give a shit, you know. Yeah. I don't fuck with you. That's what this. That's the rap song. That's it. You're a stupid-ass bitch. I fuck with you.

Yeah, it's not a fuck with it. The kids in low places. They end up to fucking with you. I don't give a fuck, bitch. I don't give a fuck. It's like, yeah, you do. You recorded. Make a bitch stand outside forever like the statue of liberty.

Actually, and also, you got to. Don't he talk about all the other people he could be hanging out with other than her? Probably, that's a rap standard. The other bitches. He's talking about how he's got other bitches. Of course, yeah. You got to talk about the other bitches you have. Like, that's, you have to do that.

What are other bitches, if not friends in low places? That's exactly right. All right, let's get to that. We haven't even got to the course. Because I've got friends in low places where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases, my blues away. And I'll be okay. Yeah, I'm not big on social races. Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.

Oh, I've got friends in low places. Now, this is where I get back to the Black Tye Fair versus he's, like, look, I don't have to be here. I'm going to go to the dive bar, you know. So wedding or not, it comes back to that class thing and I just, God, I fucking love it. Fuck you, I'm going to the oasis.

Yeah. Which might be why he lost her in the first place. It might have been like the 19th time he's told her that this year. That's also a trope in country music is sort of just like getting sick of some old lady's shit and going to the bar, you know? Yeah. Like drinking instead of being with a woman and how that hits.

Yeah. It does it. It does it. It's a time-hunter tradition. Do you guys? You guys. You guys every... Rugged old truck by Billy Joe Shaver?

That's one of my favorites in that vein, buddy. Do you ever get mad at Katie when that comes on, even though she ain't done nothing? Because I, like, that'll come on. And I'll get bad Andy about something. Yeah. I want Katie to start a fight with. If I listen to Ragged Old Truck, I'm like, I wish her ass would just... Dude, that's our, yeah, that's our version of, like, they have dreams and wake up mad at us.

If I hear Billy Joe Shaver, I'm like, that fucking bitch. I know. She ain't done it yet, but she's been, yeah. Yeah. I love this verse because, first of all, it's so recognizable. Like, as someone who doesn't know much about Crunchy, this is something that even I can sing along with, which is rare. And then also, it kind of, it kind of is just a funny, like, fuck you. I don't need you.

You think the, you're the last. bitch on earth, I'm going to go fucking tag team, you know, Pam Tillis with my buddies. Pam Tillis is our fall back to the Tuchar. She's still alive? Yes, and she's a good woman. Okay, sorry. Yeah, it's also the sing-along aspect. This is an Irish drinking song.

Yeah, 100%. that makes sense like a goddamn sea shanty or something man yeah you've got whiskey references like i almost feel like in the lyrics they should have spelled it the irish way without the e you know you've got the beer reference and then you've got a literal reference to drinking with those buddies like it is a drinking song it's almost like i wish so the national national has a soccer team now and in the soccer culture there's like there's a thing where every um club every football club has various songs they sing, like fight songs and drinking songs. I propose this be one of the Nashville football club's songs that they sang at the stadium.

Orby. So it would have. And they could call their fan, what is it? What is that? What am I? Not fan club. The hooligans? Yeah, like that.

What's that called? Their fan base. Yeah, I guess. They're pretty dead. They're dead. I'm dead. The world might never know. Oh, you're back now.

Oh shit, I didn't even cut out on my hand Sorry, fellas. Did I cut out for all of you? No, not me. I don't think. I was still hearing you talk about Hogan. Oh, but it was just made. Oh, okay. It was you. Um, well, anyway, you know, like, yeah, friends in low places, or be there.

What's the special section? What the fuck am I trying to think of? That fan, I mean, I think you might be thinking of a fan section, but proos don't have a student section, but the equipment, like the black hole for the Raiders. Yeah. They don't have a name for that? I don't know.

I don't know what you call that. Like with the writers, it's just the black hole. The divorce is. Well, this second is a black hole, but I got us into it. Well, all right. Anyway, what was I about to talk about? You just want to move on to the second verse. I'm a little all over the place.

Yeah. Whoever you do, buddy. You're holding this dog. We're just fucking its butt. Hell yeah. That's actually the fourth verse of this song. It's the secret one that nobody knows about. Well, there's a third.

a secret third one that most people know about, which we'll get into. Let's go ahead and do the second verse. Well, I guess I was wrong. I just don't belong. But then I've been here before. Been there before, excuse me. Everything's all right. I'll just say goodnight and I'll show myself to the door.

Hey, I didn't mean to cause a big scene. Just give me an hour then. I'll be as high as that ivory tower that you're living in. we're right back to class yeah it also has a tone it also has like it also has a tone of like scarface

that one scene when he's in the restaurant he's like you need a bad guy like me to fucking point your finger like it's almost like I'm the trash but I find it type of thing yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry guys I guess I was wrong it's like yeah you were wrong for sure 100% in front of everybody, stole our liquor, and then started berating me.

You stood up and you said, I heard you got a new man, I see you taking a pick, then you posted up thinking that it's making me sick. Yeah. It's almost line for line, that fucking song. Yeah. Yeah, you really nailed it with that one. Thank you. I've never even posited a guest yet so far on the show, so I'm happy to have nailed it so

early in the episode. He says, I'll be as high as that ivory tower. we all Pails. Right. There you go. Pills. Yeah.

I just thought, I always thought that was kind of wild, sort of, sort of. Because this was like, just because of how country music was in the night, like, drinking, drinking hits. And some people, old people and shit, I don't know, like, you can get high off of anything. Like, you get, you know what I mean? Just like being fucked up as being high. but of course most people don't think about it that way. So just an explicit reference to being high on anything. But you got to do it.

Yeah, it's kind of wild. Because ivory towers are high. Ivory towers ain't drunk. You can't be a drunk. You can't be a drunk. That would be funny, though. I'll be as drunk as that ivory tower. Or Tishar.

Too sure. Would you like it if you said I'll be as white as that ivory tower? White Tower. No, I thought it would be like, I thought it would be. God damn it. I thought it would be, I thought hi, my mind immediately goes to weed, but I guess pills was making. No, me too.

Pills does make, but that's kind of what we're saying, I think, is like, weed. You wasn't hearing no weed and no country songs. Yeah. Unless it was Oki from Escobie. Willie Nelson aside. I definitely think it was weed, though, because 90 is kind of pre-pills in terms of the granite. I mean, right, they weren't in everybody. Speed is about the only pills people took and, you know,

I don't think he saw him out that. I definitely think he just kind of means fucked up. He probably does just mean fucked up and it's like, look, this fits right here. High is that ivory tower? I'll be riding high, you know, having a good time because I'm so fucked up with my boys who hit. And unlike you, you dumb bitch is what he's like.

Yeah, I don't fuck with you. You've done things they have, bitch. I mean, or he's going to. also smoke a dobe at the oasis. But yeah, I mean, I think it's a general thing for sure. I also like, he's just like, I'll see myself out. I didn't mean to do this. I mean, we touched on it a little bit of a minute ago,

but there's just something very, uh, look, I'm not bothering anybody, you know? But yeah, you ruined the party. Yeah, but he also doesn't, like, it's so funny because the song's about basically, like, I'm here. You're not going to hear me complaining. I'm going to complain from one more verse.

And he's caused a big scene. And then give me an hour. I'll be so fucked up. I want to even remember this. That's what he said. It's like justifying alcoholism and just. Yeah. And being shitty.

Dude, it's like everybody that drinks and shit, like relates to this song because you've all like been that guy before. But like as just a song. I see why she left. A sober adult, listening to this song, you're like, I mean, this dude showed his ass. He did show his ass. He didn't, he didn't, like, lay it down really. Like, none of these rich motherfuckers at this wedding or whatever it is were sitting there going like, well, he showed us.

Like, they were all sitting there like, what a piece of fucking shit. No, no wonder she left him for the bike man. Yeah. That guy don't live, man. No, he don't. It's like that scene. It's like that scene in Jerry McGuire when he gets fired at the beginning. and just flips out and the offices just pause for a second and then they just move on the

second that he leaves it's like that yeah get the fight out here stop ruining our time it's a it's a huge deal to him but no everybody else is just like Jesus Christ can somebody get this grab guys let's make a video let's make the video for this yeah don't want a couple of thousand the narrator's name could also be jerry I mean that you know that's at least 50% chance of that that's a that's very funny comparison the whole song is a celebration of this guy but I do wonder now if it's meant to be a little ironic

or satirical satirical might be going a little too far but there's a lot of country songs where you look into the history of them and who wrote them and it's like yeah they were kind of being tongue and cheek but right then a lot of old boys were like this rules unironically right we just went okay okay from Mascoggi

honestly I have never ever thought about this song in that way until this conversation but like I mean I think there's something to that man like really thinking about this song again as an adult yeah I think maybe it is tongue in cheek

it's honestly the same straight up face value you know it's the same way as I think of like how do you like me now by Toby Keith now like I heard that song the other day and I'm like what a fucking asshole the guy in the song was like she like he wasn't showing anybody it was just a girl was like yeah whatever i'm not really into you mainly because you wrote my number on the 50 yard line and said call for a good time why the fuck

would i go out with you after that so but yeah i've never thought about it in this song it's like this guy's a fucking piece of shit he's not the hero no he's definitely not the hero i do think what tray said a minute ago about we've all been that guy is part of the appeal it's like anytime someone can make you feel a little bit better about the most embarrassing thing you've ever done. And in the Redneck culture, there is a whole lot of like, I ain't ashamed. Nah, fuck that, especially when it comes to being around rich people.

You know what I mean? Like, I never apologize or even let on like you were embarrassed. That's his whole deal in this song. Right. I don't give fuck it. All right. And he's almost, I'm just going to get drunk and not fuck. I don't give shit.

Cause my ass. I'll go to the Oasis. I bet Bill's there. He don't give a fuck by my boots. yeah he's like fulfilling the class issue that he's bringing up like he's claseless yeah right and he's showing those people truly are trash aren't they yeah yeah yeah classic those people yeah oh well damn i didn't know we were going there with him me neither i didn't either i'm a little sad oh i'm happy song still hits song definitely still hits but what is is it's definitely still hits

But what is it said? I've shown my ass before. I've been some fucking drunken trailer trash in public. Excuse. It happens. That's true. I've done it at weddings. I'm not sure anybody would write a song about you being afraid of the police, but yeah, you've done it.

I'm not, buddy. If you had to, uh, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no. I go, go ahead. I was saying, uh, there's not a culture of karaoke, right, in the, in the, in the, Yes. Is there one? Yeah, there's definitely...

I'd call it like a full-blown, like, it's not like a... Yeah, it's not like... People do it. There's definitely groups of people who I know who it's like, they're the karaoke crowd. And it happens in Nashville, right? Nashville, there's definitely a karaoke culture. It's huge in Nashville.

Everyone in Nashville is trying to get a deal. So like, you can't, like, you go to karaoke in Nashville and it's like, these people are like, they're, like, they've put on, the dudes, like, dudes have put on makeup. You know, they've got, like, their cards and shit. They're getting off afterwards. They're ready to go. Yeah.

Karaoke in Nashville is very different than karaoke and most other places because everybody's like a music. They're good. They're really good. So it's definitely a big thing in Nashville. But, um, but yeah, in the South in general, like in Knoxville, there was, I'm sure there was more place, but there was like one. Bull feathers. Bull feathers. And, yeah, we go there every now and then or whatever.

I mean, it's like, it's like, it's a thing. It was right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. God bless her. You all have heard Troy saying glycerine? No. Troy from side splinters? Yeah. Yeah, motherfucker takes his teeth out and bust out some bug fucking slaps. Take your teeth out and sing some bush for us, Troy.

That's only a sentence you'll hear. It's not at this fucking black tie bullshit, I guarantee that. Real quick. I don't know if Corey remembers this. And he probably wasn't on the same page with me because I was probably being an idiot. Me, Corey, and Katie went to karaoke after one barzany show. I was not this last time.

Before that, we were there. And I am convinced, or I was, because I was drunk as fuck. I got convinced that night that they were refusing to let me go on stage because I wanted to do getting jiggy with it. No, I'm with you. No, I believe you. I was on your team because you convinced me. I'm convinced that they were like,

we are not going to sully our karaoke experience because everybody else was going up there because it's Nashville. They're going up there and fucking hitting, but I would have smashed with that. Of course you would have. It would have been awesome. They were like all belting it out

and really getting into it and everything. I'm convinced they were like, we ain't letting your dips shit ass get up here and wrap. I'm pretty sure we confirmed it because they let me go twice. Yeah, I just remembered that I haven't told you all this. I sang Return to the Mac with Elizabeth Cook

at Santa's Pub. Yeah, they let Elizabeth Cook do whatever she wants. I'm sure. Anyway, but that's not a rap song. No, that's what I mean is because it's the song choice I had, I think, didn't hit for them. I think they were like, yeah, we're in about that. I'm convinced because I don't know. But that's always, that's always been my karaoke.

I got to, made to the finals of a goddamn karaoke competition off the back of Will Smith. Was it getting jiggy with it every time? No, actually, it was, the first round was. Getting jingy with it. And the second round was TikTok by Kesha. Hell yeah. So that was fun. And then I got destroyed in the championship by a lesbian who I did not have for at all.

Yeah, really? Yeah, she was like, she was like, it's a singing competition, not a rapping competition. And then when she won, she turned to me, grabbed her crotch and go, suck my dick, motherfucker. Which Katie Lang song did she sing? That's fucking rules. I don't remember, but she really threw a toe to my ass, that's for sure. Did she, can we get her on here? What did you sing?

What did you sing in the finals? Yeah, no, I'm leaving one out. They were all rap songs, and I didn't read any. My go-to rap one was always forgot about Dre, and I will blow motherfuckers mind. I think I did. I think I might have been nothing but a G thing. Oh, nice. As one of them.

TikTok was the last. one. That was the finals. Well, yeah, that's why you got put out. I do outcast. TikTok was huge at that time. I know, but you just, I know, but not from you. It was just saying it. I've never seen karaoke.

You've never seen, I can see that. Yeah. What's everybody's favorite before we do the last verse? What's everybody's favorite friends? Hold on. What's wrong with the choice of tick? top by Keshe. Because you've done,

because, this is not the karaoke podcast, but go ahead. Because you had come out with getting jiggy with it and then Snoop Dog and then it was just a lesser,

it was a lesser of the three. So like it was just a, it was a, and I think people like, people went into like, it was, it was at the time this happened. I know, I know.

Smash hit currently in that moment. Okay. And so think about what you're saying right now, Trey, you're literally saying it out loud. You did, you were doing classic hits.

That's what the people wanted to hear. And then, you came in with what was new today. That's why you fucking lost. You did fucking classics that everybody loves. And then you tried to do fucking TikTok. It was huge because everybody liked seeing a drunk,

blonde white lady do it. Not you. I was a drunk ill-billy. That don't hit for people. I got blown off the state. It did hit for people. How fat were you? I just got wrecked by that leg.

Chin-strap. Were you real fat? I think I did have the, I think the chin strap might still been playing. I was not fat. No, this was not fat. It would have been better if you were fat. This was hitting TikTok.

It would have been way better if you were fat. If you were fat and you did TikTok, I mean, dude, you could have been a little more, you know. Yeah, because you would have thought you were one. Did you love right? Yeah. Did you end up sucking that young lady's dick? I would not. Turn that off or down.

So you had no friends in low places that night. Anyway, you're right. We're sorry. No, it's okay. I mean, we had to fill the space with something. I'm about out of ideas. I did want to ask you guys what's your favorite if you can think of when Friends in Love Places Memory. And what I mean by that is this song is drunk at the bar, drunk in the car, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

Mine is college. My friend Nathan would play it drunkenly at our house parties. He was a really good singer. He could play guitar. And then he would sing the third verse. And it meant a lot to him that everybody knew that this is the unknown third verse. and at first I was like okay Nathan like it's just

saying it and you can change the words but then I would realize it would legitimately blow and this is why I wanted to do it it will legitimately blow 18 year old girls minds there's not a third verse I'll prove it to you when I'm done singing and then they would go to his room and look on his computer and hopefully he would make out with him so

that's my favorite friends in low places memory I don't have like a one particular one but I have a lot like a lot of them from the same place because whenever I used to sit in with my buddies band at North Shore every Thursday, basically it was their show. I still think you know how to play guitar. No. They do.

Why wouldn't I do it? It's Mandela for me. I've seen you do it. I've seen you play guitar. As I've told you, there are some people who have seen me play piano and said I can play piano. And I'm like, I cannot play piano. They're like, I've fucking seen you do it. So I think I just get blackout drunk.

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It's not for this. But anyways, anyways, yeah, this was, and so I'd go there every Thursday. And basically, as long as I sang at least three to four songs with them, the bartender considered me part of the band enough to where I drank for free all night. So I would always do at least four. But usually, depending on how early I got up there, I would just do the whole set with them. And this was always one that we sang. And it was the easy. We always did it towards the end of the night. And the reason we do it towards

the end of the night is because everybody that was been singing's throat was so sore. And you didn't really have to sing it. You know what I mean? Like you just kind of get it started. And then you can kind of drink beer while the whole crowd sings it. And even though it's not your song, that still looks fucking really cool. Like being up there and everybody else is doing it and you're just drinking. So I have great memories of just crowds screaming this at me while I was drinking free beer. I'm so glad I asked this question. That's so fucking rad.

I would say you also did it late because it's hard for a bar band to follow themselves. You can't follow. Yeah, that is an end of the night fucking song for sure. It's like we got we got nothing after this. And I want to say the place was Beeson Village Apartments at Marival was where Nathan would do that because you're right. It's really a place memory for me. Trey, go ahead. I mean, I can't follow that at all.

Like, I was going to say, I don't have a specific one either because it's just, I don't, I couldn't even, I would not even hazard a guess how many different times I have drunkenly sang this song along with my buddies in various venues. The number one was probably Spankies in Cookville. And it was always the end of the night thing like Corey was saying. And then maybe I, you know, probably did that, went and had a one night stand at least a time or two. So I guess that's a. but yeah I mean again they all run together

I don't have like a particularly singular magic magical one it was just whole fucking bunch of them what about you too Sharr you got any memories where you fuck the white girl

because she thought you looked like Tim McGraw have we gotten into that you gotta share that you gotta share that on the Bubba on the Twitter you got to share that on the Bubba Twitter the side by

I'd serve by I can see. It's so funny. I do remember this song. It's one of those songs that I don't really remember when I first heard it. But I remember. It's always been there. That's why. One of my high school, like a high school party that I went to and it was, I was the only

non-white dude there or right person there. This song would come on and people would just go apes shit. Like it would just rile everyone up to the point where they're going crazy. And I experienced the same thing with certain Bollywood songs where I didn't know the ball of song and this would happen with Indian people. But this kind of set people off in a way that was, it's like the ultimate, it's just the ultimate party drinking song.

So it's something with good vibes when it comes on. Although now that we analyze this song and looked under the little bit, I want to see a fucking trashy Indian show up to a Diwali party hammered and fuck the whole shit up. That would hit. Is it, was Dwally y'all? Yeah. Okay, okay.

We got Diwali and Holy. I was scared for a second. I was like, man, you were real confident saying that DeWali was them. And like, you don't know none of that shit. So you better, you know. Well, we always make you do the Bollywood comparison. And I keep meaning to stop. But you kind of brought it up.

And now I'm thinking about it. You've done all I want because whatever the song is, it's funny to think about how every culture has that. I mean, it kind of makes me think, Corey, of sweatpants. talking about when he was a DJ. I thought of the same shit, Bone Crusher. Too sure, they would tell him not to play Bone Crusher

because everybody would get in a fight and like he would be a DJ employed by a club and the club would be like, whatever you do. Don't fucking like. Well, we outside in the club. And he told us he's like, he's like, they would tell me that

and every fucking night at like 1.30, I'd just be like, well, click. And I was like, we were like, what happened? He goes, literal fist fight cops called every fucking time. So, and I swear to God, this is true. The night he told us that story, we were all hanging out at Corey's place after a comedy show we had done.

And he told us that story. And we all stayed up drinking and then at about, like, blasted music all time. And at about three in the morning, I went and got the iPod and I played Bone Crusher. And this dude we're talking about just started tearing Corey's house apart. Self-fulfile prophecy. Ripping shit off the wall, throwing shit around, whatever. get turned into the total. He literally...

He literally... Not limited to the chandelier. Yeah, he fucked up my granny's chandelier. And by the way, I know when you hear his granny's chandelier, it was very much a Sears type chandelier. But still, it was my grannies and she was dead. No, she wasn't dead at the time.

He went and fucking... He got all the chips out of the cabinet, poured him on the ground and smashed him with his bare feet. He also screamed hip-crushed. He was screaming... He was screaming fuck for his granny. And what was funny is like, after he...

did all that. He's like, I told you, man, bone crusher just does it to people. Yeah. Anyway, too sure. You ever had that? I, um, no, but I, this song doesn't do that to people. This song gets people, it's kind of, I mean, I guess, just again, after, it's a different vibe, but I just like, after analyzing it, I almost like it more because it's almost, it's, at least it's self-a, it's like self-aware, it's like self-reve. It's like, aware. Like, listen, honey, you all went off with this piece of shit. Go enjoy your money. I'm still a good time with my boys down at the bar. Does everyone know it's self-aware? Like, the people singing it, you know? I never did. Yeah, yeah. Too sure, though. So, is there a song that's like, when it comes on, every Indian in the place is like, oh, shit, y'all. Oh, yeah, yeah.

This is our jam. Durka, Durka. I bet it's got a sit-tar in it. I think the equivalent, so I've said this a few times, but Bollywood follows basically like if there is a big Bollywood film, whatever the biggest song that comes out of that for the next couple of years is the thing that gets people all tweaked up. But they're all legendary songs that are just like,

You put it on. And then there's some songs like the Delaire Mendi. It's like the Tuduk, Tuduk, Tuduk, Tuduk, do, Tudu, da, da, da. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I like that one. When Jay-Z does the Punjabi MC and the Indian beat hits, like, there's been a few crossovers. How does that one go with your tongue and mouth?

How do you do that one? I don't know. How does that one go? it's like the knight writer theme you know that song with jZ does the night writer and it turns into like the doublas i don't i can't really remember the lyrics but that

but um i asked my mom about this one because the last few times you've asked this question about what's the bollywood equivalent i'm just like dur i don't know so i sent her like you start making shit up no he had it the whole time but i uh yeah but i felt bad after last time because i had been kind of just pulling stuff on my mouth

was like mom what do you think of this song is like friends in low places And so an hour later, she texted me this YouTube video of a song called DOS DOS Naha Raha, which I was like, what is that about? And I've heard that song. It's basically like, you're not my friend anymore. And I think she interpreted this as I got friends in low places. My friends stole my girl. And that's what this song is. My friend took my girl.

Yeah, it was really cute. Well, she probably read the lyrics and, you know, there's a lot about him losing his woman too. Right, right. guy who's champagne he took so I could see that's that's adorable I miss her I love her I got yeah we got a we got all hang out again I got a I got a question about this is the first time we've done Garth Brooks right yeah yeah yeah like I it which is weird because he seems like the guy like the largest well we could do a whole two years we have nothing but George Shrek and Garth Brooks because you're correct he is the right Garth is the biggest superstar from

this era I was definitely saying in him and we have plenty of more songs. Oh, yeah. So what, I guess what is, what about him hit so hard? Was he just right time, right place? It was his first few. Obviously, that's true. It was a collaboration that really hit off for him.

Like, what happened? He was legitimately, I think for me, I would say, he was legitimately transcended in his talent and his band was too. I mean, the band that they put with him, I mean, they figured out what they had. he beat the machine or started to and then the machine broke to his will. And what I mean by that, Garth Brooks changed country music into arena rock. Every era of country music will go through these changes. And the type of industry that it is, it usually happens because the star makes it change a little bit.

So when we saw Garth Brooks play the rhyman, what, five, six years ago, it was the first time he got to play the rhyman. because when he first came out slinging all these songs. He hit too hard. The style of it was a little arena rocky. This one isn't an example of that. It's probably the next album when he went to that mode. And as he kind of infamously did, he wanted to be a rock star and had this Chris Gang character

that he was trying to make into a rock star. So he had a pop rock thing going on that was just, yeah, was it right time, right place, or was he smart enough to see it or just that great of an artist? I don't know. But he like, made it an arena thing. Yeah, and a lot of people kind of credit or

blame, depending on your perspective, Garf Brooks with the sort of like trajectory that country music took on after that. It's definitely his fault, but that doesn't mean he sucked. Right. Evermore like poppy and mainstreamy type shit. It's like kind of people pointed out like that kind of started with Garf Brooks. Real quick

though, I want to, Tishard, do you know about the Chris Gaines thing? We got to do a whole episode on that. I'd love to. Apparently, so Garf Brooks tried to rebrand at one point as Chris Gaines this like sort of emo wasn't a thing yet but he's like a god- He was doing it for a movie

by the way that never came out. That's what I was about to say. What people don't remember about that is that that was supposed to be a movie and this was like the accompanying soundtrack or whatever for the movie. He was going method play this character or whatever but the movie got next

and they still put the album out and nobody knew any of that shit about the movie and there was no internet So they thought he was just doing that And everybody was like, what the fuck is wrong with Garbrog? This shit is ridiculous. And but like there was this, I feel very important context.

Yeah. To all that, that was just left out entirely. But dude, I agree with you. But like in hindsight, if hypothetically, what had really happened was that he just decided, you know what I've been doing this country thing for a while? I want to do a completely different thing. Honestly, as much, I got respect for that. That would have been insane to be like, hey, I've already conquered this world.

As an artist, I want to do something completely different. He saw Jordan go to baseball and he was like, I can do that. Right, right, right, right. Him and Jordan were both like, well, that didn't hit. I did not hit. Yeah, but yes, you're right. That context, if the internet had been a thing back then, everyone would have already known. It would have been like, oh, Garth's doing this movie thing.

But like, because the internet didn't, wasn't a thing, he goes on Saturday Night Live. He hosted his Garth Brooks and did the musical guests. is Chris Gaines. And everybody just thought this motherfucker was losing his goddamn mind. Yeah, because that's the thing. I don't think that it would have like, I'm not saying it would have hit for, but that movie would have been god awful. Right.

But at least everybody didn't have known. But people thought he was losing it. Right. The way that did play out paper, like, he's fucking snapped. Well, he committed to. Yeah. I respect. I respect it.

All he had to say was this was for a movie, but he just, was like, no, we're going to, you know, play it like we were talking. He's a fucking maniac. So like, yeah. Speaking of, I mean, not really, but transition. We do have one more verse to do. Garth technically wrote this verse. It's really just the same verse with a slight twist at the end.

Now, he wrote this to perform live and to change up the live performances. And I know why he did, because everyone gets hopped up on, you know, having friends in low places. And this really brings it home. but if you interpret this as a full story, which we do here on Bubba Shot the podcast, this really, really does, in my opinion, add an element to what happened in that room after he raises the champagne and tells everyone, you know, fuck y'all. Here it is.

Well, I guess that was wrong. I just don't belong. But then I've been there before. And everything is all right. I'll just say goodnight and I'll show myself to the door. Hey, I didn't mean to cause a big scene. Just wait till I finish this glass. Then sweet little lady, I'll head back to the bar.

And you can kiss my ass. Now, live, the whole purpose of that is to get everybody, yeah. It's to get everyone to say, and you can kiss my ass. Because I got friends in. Now, as a song, that's the part that hits. That's the part that was brilliant on Gar's part. it does get everybody excited. Who don't want to tell a lady who's rich

and thinks she's better than you to kiss your ass? It's the best. But as a story, the line before, and you can kiss my ass, in the vein of what we've been discussing all day, is wildly interested to think about he's just going to go back to the fucking bar

at the wedding or the black tie vint. He's not even going to leave. He's going to sit there and drink their fucking booze all night. Yeah, I mean, why not? You know, if you're going to be a monkey, be a gorilla, as Trey always says. as Red Man always says. There you.

That's the most redneck shit in this song. Re-read that very last line again. I know we all know the lyrics. Hey, I didn't mean to cause a big scene. Just wait till I've finished this glass. Then sweet little lady I'll head back to the bar and you can kiss my ass. Okay, but the bar is the bar with his boys.

I always interpret it as the OASIS. Yeah, because earlier he talks about being at the OASIS. I don't think he means. the bar in the back of the room. I think he means I've been at the bar, hitting where you ain't at, bitch. As soon as I get done telling you how it is, I'm going straight back there, where I'll be hitting again.

So he's at the bar. This makes the story another dimension for me because what that means, I never thought about him being at the bar first. To me it's like he shows up here and he's like, and fuck y'all I'm going to the oasis. But what you're insinuating is that he's at

the oasis, which makes sense because them, him and his fucking low-life friend, They're like, go tell her. God damn plan. They're sitting there. Go over. Whoop his ass. Whoop his goddamn ass.

They don't hit. And they got hair on it. Go whoop his ass. The only part that's not believable in that scenario to me is they would have come. If one of you was going to your fucking old lady's wedding and you were leaving where I was at to do it and it was dribble, I'm fucking watching that shit. I'd have brought a whore at least. They might be standing in the back here. You know.

They could be there. I love it ends it with like, you know where to find me. In case you, in case you want more of this. Yeah. Just in case you weren't satisfied with the display. Yeah. Yeah. Again, like, when you, when we first started and we had that realization of like, oh, my God, this is, this might be satirical.

And this guy's not the fucking hero. And I've never thought about it like this. I was sort of expecting. I was like, oh, maybe when we get to the end, there's something that we also forgot where it's like, oh, no, he. But no, he, he don't hit. I mean, he'd be fun to hang out with, I'm sure. Yeah, he's, he's every conservative, old boy, we've ever known. Right.

But yeah, I just can't, I just, I can't see, I got, I got to be honest, the older I get, the more, the less I see myself in this fucking song. Which is a good thing, I think. Yeah, you turned out, like your life hit, you don't have to have friends in low places. You've got friends in better places. Yeah, like if Amber left me, the last thing I would do was go to some dumb fucking party. had or a wedding or some shit like that's not happening. Would you go to a

dive bar though? I would I would consider it. Yeah, I mean, I would definitely, you know, obviously the seven stages of grief being what they are or not, I'm certain that I would like, you know, go back to my ways and like I definitely prefer a dive bar to like an Applebee's, so sure, hell yeah.

It ain't a lot of Applebee's. No. In a dive bar. Of course not. When you've been left, that's what you're supposed to do. Of course, yeah. It's the show and us. and showing your ass part is that part is the part that don't hit that's the part that don't hit sure yeah i think i would set their car on fire without ever going in like they would just walk out in the limo they were supposed to leave it says just married you know what i mean it would be torched i'd just be

sitting in it with rope one way to go yeah just steal it i would just go with my friends and steal their fucking limo driving around a night let one of you puke in it that hit that would hit all right If we're talking about in reality, I would do everything in my power to not belie the fact that I actually cared at all. Of course. You know what I mean? Like, that's what I would really do. And you're smart enough inside, crying in a room by myself or whatever. But outwardly, I'm fine.

I don't get fuck her. And you're smart about to know that you put that off, not by showing up and yelling it. Right. Yeah, right. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. That is the reason why I would never go there. And I wouldn't fuck with the car.

fuck with nothing. I'd just be like, yeah, I'm good fuck when I really do. But, you know. And that's why you will never get left like this fucking asshole did. I was a believer anyway. I don't care. Let's not count them chickens, show. Oh, yeah. Let's do a rating. How about it? It's three. It's got to do. It's three. It's got to be three. I don't even feel bad about how many I'm going to give threes because they're just worse. many goddamn good country songs, but like if this isn't a three, then a three dozen. What is? Right.

Even if you do not like this song, I think it's one of them where like you, you could be like, I don't like this song, but you'd have to be like, but for the love of God, it's a fucking, it's a cultural phenomenon. It's going to be, as Trey said, this song has been sung drunkenly for the past 32 years. And I guarantee you in the next 32 years, that's not going nowhere, not nowhere. You're right. That's so wild to actually think about that. It's true, though.

It's not going nowhere. I'm saying, I would say every fucking night for 32 years. Yes. Of course. Of course. He's been drunk and like, that's wild to think about it. And again, like it might, dude, it may only grow, like you, you were talking about it being like an Irish drinking song.

Well, like, you know, there's still Irish drinking songs that we know today from the fucking 1600 just because they got passed down. Well, this one's actually recorded and shit. So like, and think about it. one day, 200 years from now, Garth Brooks is going to be a dead fucking folk hero to some people and shit. And like, dude, I mean, like, it's, you don't get a lot of those. Like, Queen of my double-eyed trailer is awesome, but it's not, it's not that, you know.

The only thing I would have liked to say, and we've said this a few times, is like, the, the opportunity for this song to have a killer hilarious music video, it's still there. Someone should do that. Yeah, we should do it. Yeah. Somebody with a lot of money pay us to make it.

Now that... Now that... Now that... Dude, now that B.J. Clued us in last week on, like, it's not as much money as you think to get the rights to cover something. For some of them.

I bet this song. Yeah. Yeah, that's... I mean, that's true. That's true. But I'm just saying, like, you know, one day it might be a worthy investment to cover this just to make the fucking video because that would hit.

Yeah. I agree. I think it's a bit funny like sketch, too. Yeah, that's true. Not music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You still use the lyrics, but I'm saying the guy comes in and just like, dude, that's the sketch.

The sketch is us showing everybody how it would actually, how it would actually play out. That's great. We can just do that. But you show how that would go in reality, and that's what the funny part is. Whenever this podcast really starts popping and we get a budget, we're doing that for so many of them.

Yeah, that'll hit. That will hit. That will hit. Just remake all the music videos. Too sure, you know how to edit, right? hell yeah yeah go dog uh i gave it a three two i'm gonna be honest i was entertaining earlier when we were talking about him not being the hero and i was like is the song self-aware did they mean it and then i was like it doesn't matter none of that fucking matters the song

it's just it's transcendent like i'm sorry but it is it's un fucking believable getting drunk with your friends and singing this song at a bar even if you don't even like them even if they're not your friends. People from work, it rules. They're your friend in that moment, for sure. Exactly. This song is like an abusive father. It slaps.

Yeah. And they do. If you get drunk, it hits. All right. Yeah, we're good. Let me last. See y'all. Appreciate it.

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