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Episode Date: December 10, 2021

This week we are discussing Little Texas' hit "Amy's Back In Austin" and Trae takes issue with the protagonist in this song. Is he lazy? Does he really care? WHAT KIND OF PLAN DID HE HAVE MOVING AMY INTO A ROACH APARTMENT?! Do you agree with Trae?

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We recorded this next episode when I was visiting the illustrious city of Austin, Texas. I wanted to do a song that matched the themes or the city that I was experiencing that week. barbecue, having breakfast tacos. I went and saw James McMurtry, who I think is probably the greatest living American songwriter. There's some debate on that. I chose a song with Austin in the name. As you will see, as this episode,

Progressives, I may not have chosen the best 90s country song. We had a lot of heated opinions about how this particular story. songwriter and or the protagonist of the song is, and I quote, a huge fucking pussy

or a huge fucking idiot. What are you going to do? This is Bubba Shot the podcast. We're doing Little Texas. Amy's back in Austin. But Drew's gone. Bubba shot the podcast, and that's right. A show about country.

Had it tight. Don't expect no shit. This is Bubba Shot the podcast. Hello, gentlemen. first the facts. Today, we are doing Amy's Back in Austin, a song recorded in 1994 by Little Texas. It was their second single from their third album, Kick a Little. That's also a great song. It was written by their frontman Brady Seals along with famous national songwriter Stephen Allen Davis. We'll get into that a little bit later. It was Little Texas's 11th entry on the Billboard charts. It went all the way to number four on Hot Country Songs.

and it went to number six in Canada. They always list that. There must be a big Canadian country fan base. Oh, there is. It was nominated for a Grammy at the 1996 Grammy Awards. I think it was because the song was released as a single in 95 and then was awarded the grant, excuse me, nominated for the Grammy in 1996 for Best Country Performance.

Hey, let's get into it. What's up, fellas? Hey, buddy. What's up? Can I tell you, can I tell you something, right? Well, two-shar sing. Huh? Can I tell you something, Raven?

Yeah. You know how, as people can see you here, if you're watching this? Trey's not here because we had maybe a little confusion in the group chat. I also was confused. I thought we were doing John Deere Green. I fucking, I must not have read that we were doing Amy's Back in Austin. And so I haven't watched the Amy's Back in Austin video. Would you like me to just, without us skipping a beat,

watch it while you and Tushar fucking talk because I can do that. That's fine. if that's how you want to do it. Well, I mean, I want to watch the video. Yeah, watch that video. Should I let you share screen and just let everybody watch it and see if YouTube catches us? I feel like they will. That's fine.

We can, I mean, you know, it's, it's, we've never tested them. Yeah, I'll monetize this one. We'll slap. Yeah, yeah, let me, let me share. Let me share the right to screen share. I look like a fucking one. I don't know what to do. Nothing popped up.

Try to screen share, Corey, and see what happens. Okay. Share. You're like a criminal who hasn't been caught yet. Don't show these goddamn tips again, I said. Sheriff's screen. Can you save me? No.

Hold up. Hold up. What about now? Boom. Oh, oh, Lord. Oh, Lord God. Okay.

Yeah, you're going to have to go to the, there we go. Okay. If you're listening at home, this would definitely be the way of the U.S. back in Austin video. It's on YouTube. It's a great video. video. Since it's up, it's directed by DJ Webster, and here we go. Do you have sound show? I do not. That does not hit for me. I don't know how to make it be sound. I can just put it from... Oh, I got it. Hold up. I got it.

Full screen it. That's a nice shot. Good mullet. It's a good mullet. That's a good mullet. Uh-huh. they really did stick out these two that guy's so goofy looking

yeah he looks like country Michael Bolton Michael Bolton yep I love the the artistic choices so they're dancing in front of an RV we'll get into the lyrics later

and how some of these really match and some of them don't because they're clearly just in West Texas this is shot in Austin now Now look at this. Lord keeps singing. Look at this lady fallen.

Joe, I'm going to put this in, so if you could. Oh, my bad. I wouldn't pay attention. That was our first black and white shot of her fallen as she's clearly in a restaurant situation. And that's the first choice here. Like I said, we'll get into the lyrics. But I really love that the director of this music video

has her in these black and white shots looking miserable at work. Yeah. She's like, now here she is dancing in front of the RV happy. It's like, look what she gave up. But the song is not about her being unhappy. It's about him being unhappy. Oh, look at him baptizing her in the name of the... Waterboard.

White waterboard. Yeah, the hymn bathing scene, you wouldn't think that's sexy, right? That's like a very sexy thing for a man to wash your hair. I guess, but like it was... Is it? He was doing it with that picture where I've only... seen like Pontius Pilate in the

Easter drama be done that way. Yeah, I think that this is my favorite part. Look at how miserable she is as she floats to this crowd. This looks like it almost like a David Lynch scene. Yeah. Oh my Lord. Look at that some bitch right there. Gee-wee!

Country music gets everything late. So this is an 80s looking band. I was about to say if you threw eyeliner on these some bitches, they could just go play in Cinderella. Look at her. And you know what I bet? It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these dudes,

because the time period would match up, if a lot of these dudes were in like hair metal bands, and then as Alan Jackson says, you know, they've gone country. Like that could be. Now look at that. That's this Jesus scene. Why is he in front of that? It looked like the cross.

Look at it. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ, literally. Dude, the imagery in this video is wild. That mullet is on fire. And they were throwing stuff at her. It looked like a wedding scene, but in reverse. Like when they throw rice at people.

It's like she was backing through the crowd. It was almost like they were taking their rice back. Dude, I got, I mean, I don't know if we're going to start ranking mullets on this fucking show, but so far, this is the number one mullet we've seen in a video. My God, look at all these. All these dudes look like either like,

they look like my aunt and my uncle from 1992. Yes, they do. This is a little Texas big hair. That was their rule. Yeah, man. Mullets were an 80s, right? And the 2020s. Now she's moving backwards again.

See, she's miserable. So what is that even on, what's that on her plate, just chips? Yeah, I think that was nachos. Yeah. That's not my move at a cafe nachos, to be honest with you. No. But usually the staff is Mexican. so it could be a good strategic bet.

Especially if it's in Austin, Texas and it's called, it's not Ponda Rosa. Zona Rosa. Zona Rosa. Does anybody too sharp? What's that mean? Zoneda Rosa? I think it's working at the Zona Rosa Cafe.

Yeah, but the Spanish for what? The Rosa, I think. Yeah, I'm not like, you know, I'm not Mexican or whatever. I know, but I thought you might know because you're smart. Well, all right. Watch the music. video, if you have it. Let's get it on these lyrics since we've already started it. My bad, by the way, everybody was screwing the format. That's all made.

I think that helps some people, probably. Yeah, maybe. Unless YouTube takes it down. I was 60 to say, the only reason we haven't done in the past is fear of being taken down. But other than that, I think that's a better way to do it. I think if we just played a video without talking over it, it's a problem. But we clearly ruined the video. All right. We left Texas. on a windy night and a beat-up Chevy van. We loaded it up with our innocent dreams and all the love we had.

What a great couple. We didn't know then how hard it was living on our own. I'd find her crying late at night talking to the folks back home. I wonder what went wrong and where she is now. I'd love to know. Now, obviously, we've said a story here. We've got a lot going on. They're leaving Texas.

We don't know yet where they're going. We know that they're leaving Texas. So we have to assume they're not going to a different. part of Texas. They're in a beat-up van, and it says we loaded it up with dream and love. That is the beautiful way of saying we were poor. You say that. I mean, they might drive for 10 hours and still be in goddamn Texas.

Yeah, but then they wouldn't say we left Texas. That's true. They'd say we left Austin. Yeah, that's true. You're right. That whiskey or grape juice? That is kombucha. Oh, okay.

That's the whiskey of grape juice. Yeah, that's what that is. Yep. We didn't know our to look. Simply come just for and put the podcast. Bubba drink to Butcha. I find her crying late at night talking to the folks back home. Now that's in young relationships, and too sure, I have to imagine that this is,

this crosses all the people to be about it. When he's talking to the folks back home, you really don't know. and it's very worrisome what's on the other side. It could be mama going, stick it through gal. It was hard on me and your dad, and we'll send you some money. Or it could be, well, baby, your bed's warm. We ain't changed your room at all. Is there, I mean, maybe in the arranged culture.

I mean, I've said this before on this podcast. Like the one form of abuse is like this type of running away, and still being in touch with your family thing. Usually when people run away, they run away. Right. But this was a little bit more of, she clearly left with dreams, and now is she calling home because her dreams are,

like what is she crying about? The next course, it's hard. But what's hard? But to live on your own, to be poor, to make a marriage or relationship work for the first time. But the question is, he doesn't know yet in the song, I think it's pretty clear later.

What went down, what kind of response she's getting. We welcome now, Tray Crowder, to bubble shot the podcast. Hello. Hey, buddy. Can't hear you. Huh? Can't hear me. Is that a delay for everybody else?

Yeah, there's a delay as the problem. You were sounding a little weird to me there for a second. Me? No, no, Drew. Oh, I guess it's mine or that. But you're also good on my end now, Trey. To catch you up, we watched the video because Corey thought we were doing John Deere Green, and we talked over it, so we're hoping that YouTube will make that cool.

And then we've just gone through the first verse, and we're saying it's clear they've left the state of Swinandar, yeah, somewhere. That becomes obvious, I think, later on. And it's clear to me that they're a little poor as they loaded up in old van, dreams, and love. She's calling back home, and I was saying that call back home when you're in a young relationship, you don't know if they're getting encouragement to stick it through on the other side. You know, hey, he's a good guy. You all figure it out, girl, blah, blah, blah. Or he was a piece of shit anyway, and we ain't changed your room at all.

Won't you come on back home? Yeah. Okay. A great yes and what next from Trey Crows. Yes. Yeah. This song really hits me. for me. I just want to say that.

Yeah. Well, we thank you for your contribution. Yeah. I like it. I think I'm going to hear. I think this is good. I'm going to make you talk about you know, when your old lady calls her mama, especially in a young relationship, you don't know

what's in her or her sister. That's something you dealt with without getting too far into the detail. Kind of in reverse, I think. You had to deal with Katie talking shit about her sister. But my point is, you don't know if somebody's shit talking you on the other side or telling her it'll get better. Yeah, I've always assumed when Katie's talking to another woman on the phone and the subject is me that it ain't good. It's about how much you don't hit.

Yeah, it's mostly centered around how much I don't hit. And presumably also how much the woman on the other end of the phone, how much her man also don't hit. Yeah. You know, it's just a down hit session. I don't know. I can tell you. I can sort of just, you know, like, they can have that. Yeah, it's lighthearted.

But what happens there, I think, is you're allowed to agree with your friend when your friend talks shit about her man. Of course. He's always, he don't work enough. Yeah, he don't work enough. But you can't go a step further. But I'm arguing, I think, in this song, when it's a younger girl, especially if it's her mama.

I mean, I think somebody was running covert operations against our man here. I think she was being told, you just need to come on back to Austin. I'll get you a job. Get your old job back. I got a room for you. Yeah, I mean, it's to me, you know, knowing my folks and knowing how a lot of Southern Mamas are, it's not many a mama who, if their daughter was living outside of their hometown, will be like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

you stay, don't come back. You know what I'm saying? Are they married? That's the only thing that matters. That's true. That's very true. Ain't she in like a damn van on a fucking, like on the coast while he's like,

busking for coins on the beach or whatever the hell's going on or something like that. It's unclear if they live in them. I know I was down with that shit. Hell, I wouldn't be down with that shit. I think it's unclear if they live in the man. You're touching on the music video a little bit, but the music video, they're in front of an air stream in what is clearly

West Texas, which is so funny they wouldn't fly to the coast to shoot three fucking shots. Yeah. All right. Well, let's get to the... Well, my favorite part of the... My favorite part of the first verse is... The first has a line

that is funny throughout the thing to me, which is, I wonder what went wrong. As in the guy's like, she's talking... I don't know. I can't talk to her. It's like, why didn't you just ask her a couple questions of what's up. The fact that she left very obviously

quickly, it's just hilarious to be like, dude, you're, you were probably fucked up all, you know, for five months. Yeah. I was about to say, you woke up and she was gone. Let's get into the course. You either, like, you either actually, dude, you know, you know exactly what it was.

Or if you don't, she's fucking someone else. That's the answer. You know what I mean? I feel like it's probably the not having any money for food and living in a goddamn van. He would know that. He would know that.

A thousand miles away from home or whatnot. It's like, it's not that, not some grand mystery, I don't think. Right. He doesn't feel, hold on. I don't feel ready to be. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I do not feel reconceive.

You broke bitch? In a van. I'm not ready to concede that they're living in a van. They left in a van, but like, where are we getting that they live in the van? Yeah, it's just the, the metaphorical van, you know. That's true.

That's the main metaphor. Give you that. Yeah. Well, let's get to the course. They're living in a beach hovel with bugs all in it and shit. Them beach bugs don't hit. No, beach bugs don't hit.

That's right. Fucking. I didn't get any of the surfers outside all the goddamn time. Like, you know, everything smells like fish, heroin addicts everywhere. Fucking, like, it's just, you know, that's not how she thought she saw her. life going. You know what I mean? But then he wants to go down there and sing George Jones on the street corner, whatever the fuck he's doing. And she's like, I'm not saying the upside to this man.

And he's like, where's this coming from? This is above a first. Trey Crowder has chosen the woman's side and is sticking to his guns and giving my man down the road. She left him in the middle of the night. She agreed to move out there, Trey. She agreed to go out there and support him and love him. He has dreams and they were supposed to be her dreams. And then this bitch wants to go on and work in a fucking restaurant. This bitch is too good for the cardboard shoes. I bought her. God damn. Yeah. She rolled with it for a while. He ordered started hitting. Yeah. There, look, I'm... That's like women work, man. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, dude. Amber told me, Amber, when me and Amber first started dating, I was not hitting, and she gave me the whole pitch of like,

oh, don't worry, I'll support you forever. And I just, as long as you make me laugh and cook, I'll be your woman. Now, lucky for her, I did start. hitting, you know, like pretty quickly. But like, dog, a year of me just at home making omelets, cracking jokes, that ain't it. Like, that wasn't going to fly. You know what I mean? Her ass would be gone. It would probably stop being funny at some point.

And to her. For sure. Not to anybody else. I'm not. Okay. I'm not saying she wouldn't have been within her rights to be like, you know what? Fuck you. You don't head.

Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I get it. Rats power. Back with Austin. All right. Let's get to the. the chorus. We still haven't read the chorus. I bet Amy's back in Austin, working at

the Lazzona Rosa Cafe. I remember the night we lost it and then she went away. Is it the angry words or did you miss her mama? I don't know, but it don't feel right. I bet Amy's back in Austin and I'm missing her tonight. Now, this is getting into what we were

talking about a little bit about why can't he talk to her from too short. But like, let's know. All right, but hold on. Let's break this stuff down. There was a night that something happened. He lost it. Now, the first time I read it, I was like, did they lose a child? But I don't think, I think that's, I think it just rhymed.

You know what I mean? Austin lost it. That was the best they could do. But then that was the night. And then the day she went away was a different day. And what do you guys think? Was the next day? Was two weeks later?

Like, I think that, like, you know, when he says, I remember the night we lost it, it's like, you know, I feel like anybody's had a relationship fall apart. You can, not always, but oftentimes you can point to one. moment. It was like that was the point of no return. That was the Rubicon for the relationship. And also, I feel like it's very, very often not the moment the relationship actually ends. You usually drag the corpse of the relationship along behind you for at least a few more weeks or days at least or something. And before you finally call it, and I feel like that's what this little section is about. He's like, I know it was over that night. I know it was.

But that's not the day she went away. But I remember. that day too and that also didn't hit. I completely, I completely agree. And I think that it makes Tushar's point even more jarring of like, so you knew it was ending. And you just

didn't, you didn't even talk to her about it. You didn't say, hey, like, I know you're going to leave. It's just out there staying in George Jones. It's, you're right, and it's funny to me that he don't bring that up. Like, that's not a possibility. It's like, you know, is it the angry

words like is it that I was mean to her or did you just miss her mama? Because it couldn't have been my myriad failure. I was, I bet if you was, I bet if you called her a bitch and a poor, she would have forgiven you. Right. Gypsy speedboat.

Yeah. Right. Like, dude, you can't be out there fucking busking with beach bugs and and talking shit. Right. Yeah, you can't talk shit unless you're hitting. You know, that's them's the rules.

Everybody knows it. Absolutely, dog. I know you being funny, but you being fucking for real, too. All right. I don't want to go too fast, but I want to get to the next verse because, Trey, from your purview, the next time, 10 hours in the West Coast Sun. Is he busking for 10 hours?

Oh, hang on. Let me look at it. I've got out of here, too. Well, I'll read it while you look. Work for the people at home. Work out of the people at home. Working 10 hours in a West Coast. son can make the day so long.

I'm watching the moon crash the other and a shirt sold. I remember how sweet it was. Where is she now? I need to know. What the fuck? Were they farmers? What the hell is going on? I was about to say I just assumed because it's a

song from a band that he was going out there to chase his dreams or whatever, but did they not even have a goddamn plan? Right. This is a Mexican. This is a Mexican immigrant story. Repurposed is some country thing.

The lyrics make more sense with the immigrant struggle. That's my two cents here. I agree with Tushar. What I actually do think is happening though is he wrote this with a very successful songwriter. It's that whole thing of we will allude to dreams but not get too specific so

that everybody can maximum reliability. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, again, what other dreams would be? Who can't relate to their, you know, old man being a dumb piece of shit. Well, Corey, me and you were talking about that recently, I think.

I can't remember if it was on any of our shows or anything. About my dad being a dumb piece of shit. Is that what you said? Well, you brought that up recently, yeah, but no. On everything we do. The people that, there are people who just, like, want to go to California or New York or whatever. They don't have a specific dream.

They're just like, that's where all the action is. It's like, what's the action means? Amber's got a really. good friend that did that. That's where it's at. Yeah, right. And I'm going to get me some of that. And like, people do that. It don't make no goddamn sense to me, but people do that. So, I don't know. They want to be around. There was a guy in New York I knew who did comedy, but he wasn't

pursuing it, like, didn't care. He was just go to my legs. And he was kind of trying to be like a foodie type guy, but he was just like, look, man, Ohio sucked. I date way hotter people, and all my friends are weirdos and cool. And I got that, but he was 24 and single. He wasn't trying to make a life. Was he from a tiny town in Ohio? I think it might have been close to Cleveland, dog. I was about to say, because, like, you could just go to any big city. If you're from a place that don't hit, you could just go to the next biggest city and it will hit harder.

But, you know, maybe he was from Cleveland, and Cleveland wasn't it for him. I doubt a guy looking around Ohio and being like, this ain't at. You know what I'm going to do? You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to make it eating. That's what I'm going to do. I'm a go pro. in the Aiton game.

Well, I do get, like, I'm going to go somewhere where getting laid and finding drugs and finding parties is easier. But that's not what's happening in this song. They're trying to, like, make it as a couple. And California ain't the place to do that. Mm-mm.

Hell now. There's a song, it wasn't a single, but by Chris Stapleton, it was on that big, that huge album of his traveler. And I fucking love it. And it's kind of the same premise, but it's called, but except it works out for them. Yeah. It's when the stars come out is the name of it, but it's all just about like, you know,

we just came out here running on nothing but fumes and a dream, baby, and you bet on me and all this shit, you know. And it worked out and I love you for it. And it's like a fair. But this, but I never, I, that song is hit for me since that album came out. because, you know, that's sort of what me. You get it, yeah. And I'm not busking with beach bugs, so it's a little different. But I'm saying I never, like, that song's always hit for me and it never occurred to me until this moment in this conversation,

that that song is kind of the flip side of Amy's back in Austin, which is sort of, sort of, which I feel like Amy's back in Austin is very much more the kind of standard for these situations. Absolutely. I'm a good 99 of 99. Yeah. It's like, the girl wakes up. day's like, what the fuck was I thinking? Or the guy. Nowadays, well, that much.

Yeah. The other part of the song, the other part of the song I like is the fact that this is all from the guy's perspective, right? So he's just presuming she's back in Austin and hating life. And the imagery is from him. Yeah, right.

But that could be here. Yeah, I watched the video, and I never got that from it. I always thought he was picturing her like, you know, being like I bet she's back in Austin just you know bad you're right for her I'm like I'm tore all the pieces if you think about it that way I want to get into this

hold on I want to get into this however you feel about the song and we'll help from everybody about whether the song saying she's back there hitting she's back there doing fine or she's back there struggling the video has made a clear choice and I almost feel like this director had one of them in his life but he did now

because like dude Trey, I know you said you hadn't watched it. It cuts to black and white and she's in the cafe, and she's moving slowly. She's literally floating through one scene with beers in her hand, like a fucking David Lynch nightmare, while dudes throw shit at her. I bet, yeah, yeah, it's really fucking funny.

Go dives. I bet it could be both, though, though. They could have been going for the whole, like, this is what he, the thing that he's saying is what he thinks, but then this is the reality. You know what I mean? like, he's like, I bet she's blah, blah, blah, blah, but actually she's miserable too, but now they're miserable in two different places.

You know what I'm saying? I just always, I never even really thought that deeply about this song, but I mean, I did have my assumptions about it. And I feel like when you, when you think wistfully about an ex who you feel like you fucked it up, you feel like you're the one who fucked it up or whatever, you run her off. Yeah, that's me with all by it. I feel like in your head, you're like, I bet she's hitting and things. and whatever else.

And of course, you're like, I hope she's fat and sad and nothing hits. That's what I hope. I hope everything terrible for her ass. But I bet it ain't. I bet her new man got a Porsche and I'm in this van and, you know, he's allowed to cover a big old dick, not covered in bugs or sand the way I am.

And like, you know, that's where your head goes. So I guess that's how I just always interpreted the song with, you know, Like, I never heard him as well. I bet she's back in Austin wishing she hadn't left me and knowing she fucked up. I never took it that way. That's how do you like me now?

That's a totally different song. That song's weird too. I think that. I think that you're right, Trey. I think that for me, that's what the song is about. And that this director is almost arguing with the song. And it's interesting. It's like what Corey said, it's almost like a, yeah, we all go through this.

We all assume that the one got away is. killing it. What y'all need to understand is, that bitch miserable too. Look at these guys throwing rice at her. That don't even make sense. It's kind of racist. Why are they throwing rice at her? Yeah, I remember when we talked about Fancy, the director of the Fancy video had made some choice. I mean, we assume as the director. Somebody involved with the video made some choices that I thought like kind of directly contradicted the song. So I guess they, you know, they'd be doing that sometimes. But yeah, that's... But I don't know.

Maybe they told... Maybe, you know, the songwriters, producers, the band, somebody, all of them, whatever, we're like, no, things don't hear for her. Just so everybody knows, things don't hear for her. So I have those eyes at her and shit. Well, going back to the not specifying your dreams and stuff, I'm saying that I think the song, the guy singing it does assume she's doing fine,

but it definitely doesn't say that. You can't say, in my opinion, that the director went against the song. He just shows her at the Ponderosa Cafe. I'm sorry, Zona Rosa Cafe. It just so happens that it sucks there for her real bad, which it's also funny because it's like, well, yeah, who the fuck wants to be a waitress? Yeah, right.

Well, it's better than doing 10 hours of backbreaking work, whatever the fuck they were doing in the field. That's true. Hugs and bugs. Yeah, right. Wasn't good enough for her. I'm on his team. My man's out here in the sun working 10.

hours and it ain't good enough for her and now dudes are throwing rice at her and she deserves it. Shucking bugs for 10 cents a goddamn hour and a hot Texas sun. Well, because how many bugs you get? You can get bug bonuses, Corey. He's got plans. If you meet your monthly quota, they let you eat. But I don't like, yeah, the more we talk about it, the more it's like, what was the plan here? Like, you know. Dreams and love.

You could work 10 hours in the sun and like afford to live if you ain't out here on the beach where dreams come true. Dreams don't come true in the fields, dog. Well, again, you are projecting the poverty upon them. They left in a beat up van, but there's nothing in the song to imply that when they got out to California, she couldn't eat. He might have had this bitch eating fucking, you know, not like super fancy. They didn't hear. Look, she, okay, we didn't know then how hard it was living on our own. Yeah, no.

I find her crying late at night. Fucking, dude, bitches that's tough. Grow up. Fish ain't crying themselves to sleep at night, you know what I mean? I mean, you still can, but I'm saying, like, for sure. That's what you're telling me. You're telling me, this man worked 10 hours a day, gets home, she's crying. What's she crying about?

She didn't work 10 hours a day. She'd been by herself for 10 hours. Now, that's true. That's another reason it's hard on your own for the first time is you're just alone. You don't have anybody, yeah. Dude, Andy worked part-time when we moved down to Miami and I was working full-time at the public defender. When I got home, she was so ready to talk to any human that don't hit.

That I had to start being like, listen, I get in the door, nothing for 30 minutes. For 30 minutes, don't talk to me. And then you can unload it all. But for 30 minutes, just let me eat with no talking. Dude, wait a minute. That's a Chris Rock bet. Yeah. I think it's where I got it.

The door steps his foot in. Yeah. I'm like, never, never, it's amazing out. He's like, I think that's where I got it.

I have been, me and Amber have been sharing a car for the past couple weeks. Ours is getting worked on. And so because of that, I've been like taking her to work and picking her up from work. And when I go pick her up from work, because she's just been in there with a bunch of kids all day, not being able to say none of her fucking Amber shit.

And buddy, I mean, from the second she gets in the car, the second we get home, I'm just, I'm just like, I'm just like, I mean,

it's whatever, but like, I could see how that wouldn't hit for some people. You know what I'm saying? For me, it hit. I love it. I love it. Oh, man. Trey, the other thing we've talked about a little bit out in the video, they take a lot of artistic, wow moves.

I already mentioned the black and white. They show our boy kind of on a cross. It's not on a cross, but it's got this tree behind him. And he's got, so I do feel like this director was like martyring the protagonist of the song a little bit. I think he saw himself in that young man. Yeah, that happens a lot, I'd say. In the bugs, my marks from the bug. All right, let's go back to the lyrics.

Obviously, we got the next chorus. It's identical. They don't change anything about the chorus. Third verse, which I appreciate. I've been whining about not getting a third verse, although really they just took a verse and split it in two. but could this desert wind carry me back again with my heart in my hand baby baby i'm missing not a lot yeah that's more that's like a bridge ain't it yeah i would call this a bridge as part of the song i don't know i'm music dumb but i don't know you're right okay you're

completely right do you think though that um to me he's it's like him considering going back yeah is that absolutely but he's going more evidence of he he has he has he's going to he ain't hitting out here. Yeah, he don't hit. No, he don't hit. He's a failed comic. Go back here. Yeah, it could be that.

Except ain't no failed comic ever fucking worked the fields for 10 hours all day or whatever. But like, also, you know, because that would be dumb. Like, fucking, you can't come out here. If your dreams ain't failed

related, I just don't. I don't understand what this guy's doing. I don't know what the plan was. And I feel like, you know, Amy sort of came around to that same line of thinking. Is there even a plan here? And you know, like y'all were saying, when I first got on here, when she calls her mama, and it's like, I don't think this dude's got a plan.

And mama's like, sorry, that ain't planned shit. Yeah, he don't hit. Come back home. Yeah, he just wanted to go somewhere else and not hit. He'd done all the not hitting he could do where he's from. He had to go somewhere else and not hit. This town ain't big enough for the both of us to not hit. But the song does make it feel like, oh, she could have been pregnant.

She left. Who knows, man? Where is she? There's no telling. Like, this could be a missing person. He doesn't even know where she's. Where is this girl? That is true.

That is true. I also never really thought about that either. I always just assumed that Amy wasn't backed back in Austin. Right. This is a murder mystery. He don't know. Like, she could be dead in the dead. She could have been human trafficked or whatever.

Yeah. He's like, oh, I bet I made her mad. That's what happened. Yeah. You missed her mom and never called me again, and that's not weird at all. Yeah. It ain't because I had to heat up dinty more on a cigarette lighter three nights in a goddamn row. Oh, yeah, she could be with some dude that does hit in, like, San Francisco or something.

You know, like, that's a possibility, too. it would be so funny if she just moved across town she's like no California is actually pretty cool and I don't mind the beach or the bugs you just suck yeah it turns out whereas Francisco he's got a big old dick um why didn't he call

why didn't he call the zone of Rosa cafe or her mama he couldn't afford a phone made some moves my motherfucker ain't got a quarter this song is about homeless people Corey has figured it out Gray actually started it.

They live in a van. She hitchhiked home and got murdered, though. I think... He keeps on saying he misses her. Right, but I don't know. Like, trying to answer this question sincerely, you know, we've all been there at one point or another, I think. Like, you don't...

It's the reason you don't go to the doctor when you think something's wrong because you don't want to be told. You don't want to know, really. Like, you sit around wondering and thinking the word, hoping to worst, and probably, you know, all this shit's going through your mind or whatever, but you don't often pick up the phone and actually check

unless you get drunk and then you do, and then that was a huge mistake that you ought not have done. God damn, man. I don't think it's that weird that he ain't like actually checked. I feel like a lot of people wouldn't. Of course, in this day and age, you just get on fucking Instagram or whatever and you know it's different. But back then you couldn't do that.

Text didn't really change the drunk dialing game and made it way, way, way lower stakes, but also like higher. rate of it happening. You know what I mean? Back in the, I mean, like, no, you're wrong. I drunk, dialed, I guess. But like, when text became a thing,

it's like, now you're doing it to everybody all the time making these of sexes. Back then, man, when you fucking, like, drunk, like, actual dialing, who boy, I'd love to hear some, like, answering tapes of people. But you can't. That's the thing.

That's the only way it's worse now is you text it. They take a screenshot. That's permanent, you know. Yeah, that don't. You guys have beepers? No, you fucking shit. We had add addictions. I know they give them to y'all at birth, I guess, but.

No. He had guns at eggs. We were on the way out when we were, like, getting of the age to get cell phones. Like, beepers were big when we were still kids. When we were, they were, but only two people had them. Doctors and drug dealers. There was no in between. Yeah, I mean, in my town, nobody had.

Everybody with drugs. The whole era of vapors passed Salina by, believe that or not. Right. But, yeah. Hey, let's get into the background a little bit because we sort of skipped it. I do want to talk about Brady Seals is the frontman of Little Texas. I like Little Texas. They have more hits than I remember.

They started in Nashville in the 80s. And a lot of their people are from Texas, but I do think it's interesting that Little Texas started in Nashville. although it might be one of those things where it's like existing in Nashville, but feeling like a Texas band, you know what I mean? But the front man is from Ohio. Now, I'm not like offended by the, you know, Cracker Bell cosplay, as I have coined it necessarily here. You're in Nashville.

You want to make it, whatever. But Texas bands are a thing. Always assume Little Texas was a Texas band. Ohio is Little Texas. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. I did not know that. Is that true?

Fuck no. He's fucking with me. But, dude. I mean, look, it's a lot of fucking trash in Ohio. Absolutely. I'm not mad about an Ohio man. There's Appalachian parts of Ohio and stuff, coal parts. I mean, there's a lot of trash up there.

I don't know which part this guy's from. It still ain't the same thing as Texas. Me and Little Texas is, yeah, that's a little bit weird. I agree. I definitely 100% always assume. that Little Texas was a Texas fan. Why would a Little Texas be an Ohio band? Did he get, like, found and put into, did they get assembled?

Yeah, I can't, I didn't find that they had, but, you know, that wasn't as, I guess, talked about back then, because it was kind of like everybody was assembled. Or you were a fucking band from Texas. I mean, that's the other thing. Texas had a reputation, the red dirt circuit had a reputation of fans coming out together. You know what I mean? They still, dude. There's still, like, there's a lot of acts, bands, guys, gals, songwriters, whatever,

who, like, kind of just make a whole entire career out of just Texas, you know? Like, that can, I found it. They can hit real hard in Texas, but not really go anywhere else. And also not need to. You kind of just stick around Texas and hit like a motherfucker. I can't really do that. This is great. So the name Little Texas, this is fucking tremendous,

the name Little Texas derived from the name of the street on which Warner Brothers producer Doug Grau, Grau, Growl lived in Nashville. The band members discovered that the street was named after a community south of Nashville that was famous for moonshine activity. Grau agreed that Little Texas would be a far better name than another the group was considering Possum Flat. Yeah, it's a good change.

It's a good change. I mean, I'd still rock with Possum Flat. Don't get me wrong. I don't not hit for me, but, yeah. That's from encyclopedia.com, by the way, to cite my source. Isn't that? There's a band or a song or something with Possum in it. What is it?

The Possum, oh my God. Well, George Jones is the plot. No, it's a rock song. It's a rock song. I know that. That isn't what I'm talking about. It's a rock song. Possum Kingdom.

Yeah, Possum Kingdom by the Toadies. By the Toadys. Oh, the Toys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I guess I'm conturi today, but I'm a little mad, Amy. And I think I like Glossom Flat. There also was a band called Possum Bixen. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I knew I'd heard of that. They were like weird. That sounds like the mayor that we would write in a,

TV show. Yeah, O possum Dixon. They were like an L.A. weird band who did like talking heads type shit or whatever,

which my dad was always into that type of stuff. And I agree that name don't sound like that band, but, um, all right. I knew that was something.

All right. Let's talk a little bit about the co-songwriter then. I'm sorry. I think I have a delay and I apologize everybody if I'm screwing it stuff up. Uh,

his name, as I mentioned before, is Stephen Allen Davis. Most of his songs are credited as Steve Davis. Steve Davis, he was from a musical family. His uncle, Harold Bradley, founded Music Row in Nashville, and he was a part of the studio called the Quantocet Hut,

which if you listen to Cocaine and Ryan Stones, there's a lot of records that came out of that. He was given the title, most recorded guitar player of all time. That's his uncle. So he comes into a musical family. He was a professional water skier from, outside of New Tennessee as a 17-year-old.

He's the professional water skiing world, but he recognizes that just means you get sponsors, but it's not like a career, and just decides to go into music and basically got a publishing deal a year later. Now, the way his bio reads, it's unclear he may have been playing music his whole life and have been writing songs or whatever.

He has now been recorded by Joe Cocker, Meatloaf, Tammy Wynette, Reba McIntyre, Barbara Mandrell, and put out four records of his own. His first son was reported as he got overshed by Percy Sledge, and it was called Take Time to Know Her. Take Time to Know Her was number six on the U.S. R&B chart and 11 on the pop chart in 68.

So he came out with the gay hidden. He never stopped. I'm kind of surprised we had to run into him before, but I think it's because he was so prolific that he wasn't just doing country in the 90s. He was doing all that stuff. Steve Allen Davis? Yeah, Stephen Allen Davis. Sad.

Oh, his initials. I thought you were about to tell something horrible. No, no, sad. It makes sense that a country, you know, impresario like this. They're working with the big sad. Get the big side in the studio. I get a tearjerker going. Publishing deals, as I understand them back in the day,

it was you would sign with a company and the songs you wrote while your time there, you had to give them a certain amount of songs per year, and then they would record them with any of their artists who were interested. Now, from a close friend of ours, who is name I won't mention, I understand that it can be so varied. One of our buddies, I'll tell you all who afterwards, got hired in one of those just to help out songs to make,

and I quote, be more authentic, he said, and then he laughed at the absurdity of that. I know you're talking about. That's an interesting I don't know what I'm trying to say The way the industry works where it's like Hey, this guy hits and we could put him on Or we could just make him

Write songs for other hitters Or make other hitters songs sound more authentic or whatever It evolves but it's always the same Of kind of like the pop country thing It's always been a little fake They can I feel like they can control Those other people better You know they're like more

their puppets. For sure. And they just, they just check more boxes and shit that they have on their list of like things that hit on CMT or country radio. You know what I mean? Your get print looks good in them jeans. Yeah, right.

That type of thing. And they just, they have to be in complete control. So why would you want a guy who like has actual authenticity and stuff to say and strong opinions about, you know, the direction of the art form and stuff like. that, like, that don't hit.

We don't want none of that. You could pay that guy to, like, make this guy sound like he don't not hit, but that's all pretty much that guy can be allowed to do. I totally get that. I totally get that. And I think that that explains what's going on with our buddy. But a guy, like, sad here, he was writing hits in very, like, he's a bit of mental to, you know, less artistry and more, well, money.

I mean, the dude was putting out hits and various. so it seems like he was bendable. Maybe he was ugly though. Maybe his dick print didn't have. Bet it didn't hit. That's why he was sad. He might not could have sang and shit either. Did that get covered?

I know he was a real good guitar player, but maybe he just wasn't a performer outside of like he could play the guitar, but, you know. He put out records, but that don't mean anything. Tushar, are there famous Bollywood composers or songwriters who aren't necessarily on screen, but they're known for their soundtracks or whatever? Surely, the people we say singing are not the ones who wrote it, right?

Right, but do those people get famous? Yeah, yeah. They'll be more important than the actual singer. Right? Like they are composing, they're running the show. The actor who's singing on screen is just the actor. He has his own world of acting. and you almost get a writer's credit in the movie.

You're a part of the fabric of the movie. So in the Bollywood world, that's how it kind of plays out where the singer, the songwriter's singer relationship is very much structured to be a part. It's obviously changing now because everyone can do everything now. So people are taking more of that. the era of like the 80s and 90s, you know, with very few exceptions. The singer might be the songwriter, but the person performing it and known for it is completely different.

That's the actor. Right. But you said they were very important. Did you just mean literally or, I mean, like culturally, do people give a shit? Are they famous? Are they studied? Yeah, no. We're talking about like the, like, for the longest time,

until once again pretty recently until the internet showed up the 90s for sure Bali was controlled by like five families like quite literally like so like if you're a made person and you are making cranking out songs for this four or five families you're part of the thing and you're pushed upon and you're you're well known just by design because you have access to to everyone and you're like a you're a household name or you're well known in that world yeah no no yeah you're part of the Oh, this is this person's song. Right, right, right, right. They have albums separate from the movie, and it's kind of, it operates.

Once again, everything Bollywood goes through Bollywood. It's not its own industry in terms of music. And I'm sure there was music happening that was so regional that it was never even recorded and stuff like that. I'm sure that must have happened. But in terms of like the big cultural stuff from the Indian perspective, like this conversation, it wouldn't happen like the same way. Right.

Well, there you go. I always do. I always do want to ask the question, what rap song is this most equivalent to, if anything? Hmm. Rapping about a woman leaving you ain't very common. No. I'll be missing you, Puffy?

Mona Lisa, my little line. That's about his boy. Right, right, right. Whatever Drake does. Normally, you know, when, what'd you say? Whatever Greg does. Oh, yeah. Jay Cole probably got some songs like this, I guess.

He probably does for sure. But yeah, it ain't very, it ain't very hard to talk about being brokenhearted over a woman leaving. That's why I said Mona Lisa by Lil Wayne. It was about leaving but not, you know, cheating. In Jay Coles, he would have made it. having a squad of hodes who help him commit crimes. Yeah, that's a wild-ass song. I was literally only thinking of it from,

I was only thinking of it from Kendrick's perspective in the song. Oh. And, and Andrew, or Kendrick verse where he's not Kendrick. Yeah, by what I said, as a different person rapping about someone cheating on that guy with Kendrick. Yeah, if in my version, Amy's back in Austin getting a fucking train ran on her ass. Yeah. And also.

helping to orchestrate, like, heist with game members and stuff. That's what Amy's doing back in Austin. Then, yes, Mona Lisa is very similar in that way. But we do not know that that's not true. That is true. It is open-to-ter interpretation. All we know is that this dude don't hit.

They don't win. I don't think we know that. I feel like he might hit. He does not hit. Drew, he don't hit. He might hit for you, but he does not hit. Okay, but all I'm saying is she don't hit either. What's this bitch have to offer?

I don't think she hit. I don't think she hit. I don't think she hit. I don't think she hit. I rent the fucking phone bill. Long distance was a thing back then, Corey. It's expensive to talk to fucking Texas. This bitch is sitting there while he's out 10 hours a goddamn day,

letting bugs bite him on his fucking legs. Then he gets home and she's like, oh, Miss Texville. Then go back, bitch. How about that? I think, see, you, you've got this binary way of thinking that if he don't hit, that means she must hit for me. She don't hit either.

I don't like her. No, they don't hit. But she went back to where she belongs. Yeah, exactly. At the Zona Rosa Cafe. Yeah, right. Because she knows, she's like, I'm not supposed to be out here trying to hit because I don't hit.

He thinks he hits, but he don't hit. She's self-aware or not hitting. That's a totally different type of not hitting, yeah, yeah. I can't be on her skinning bugs to make bug blankets with this motherfucker. I don't hit. You know what I mean? I agree with all that, actually. I just respect him more.

Yeah, he's a man. All right. Jay Cole makes this song, Trey. The only difference is he absolutely makes it by the end of the third verse, and it's all about how, yeah, I guess you missed out. It's basically how do you like me now? Yeah, I respect that about this song, that that don't really explicitly happen, frankly. Because I agree.

You feel like that's normally the shape of it. It's like I hit now. I feel like there's a little bit of an implication that he hits now because we're hearing the song on the radio. But it's like it ain't necessarily about the guy that sings the song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's covered. Right.

Right. So it still plays. Like John Prine was not an old woman, you know what I mean, even though he is in that song. Yes, but I still think that most, I mean, I already said, I just always kind of assumed he was out there busking, right? Yeah, right. But it don't say that. And in fact, it says he's working in the fields every goddamn day or whatever. So, like, you know, things you know.

You don't want to exercise. Sorry, Drew, I couldn't really hear you. I couldn't really hear you. But, you know, that one, at the end of the song, an exercise that would be funny to try, would be, you know, in the Matthew McConaughey A movie and Time to Kill where he's like, now imagine they're black. Yeah. Do that at the end of this song.

Does it change anything? I don't know. Our name would be Amy. Let's close out. Well, I would. probably have changed the way I talked about both of them throughout most course of this episode. Absolutely. I'd been like, hey, God, damn it, they're struggling, but it's all been set up against them.

What were they supposed to do? This was the 90s. Yeah, they've been systematically oppressed. They're just going for a better life. Rodney King had just happened. You know what I mean? Why does she want to go back to Texas? What's wrong with her?

Jesus Christ, man, that's the last place she should be. All right. and also all of our speculation would be wildly different. Let's give us a rating. I'm going to go with 2.69 Earnhardt's. I'll go 2.25 Earnhardt's. I really, really like this song a lot, but not in a like, it's not like momentous for me or anything.

It's very catchy. In my childhood. Yeah, right. It's very catchy. But once you break it all down, and it is like, yeah, it's a good story. But it's like, yeah, we've seen this template before. you know, I will go 2.3 Earnhardt Bubba's

Bubba's. I'm going to go I started this song with my usual open eyes to see like how let's let's see where this goes and I'm usually very positive but the more we studied this song and I watched the video

a bunch of times every single time I got more and more mad at this dude because he don't hit, she don't hit and then the mullets don't start not hitting. The mullets hit. Now, it got. And by the way, that was like a $90 mullet haircut. So clearly it ain't about that motherfucker. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And in 1994 money, that was like a $187. Yeah. For sure, dude. Yeah. Mullet inflation, we got degrees in. White perm. I'm going to give the...

Too sure, I have to say yet again, you have to stop saying white power on a podcast that is not just a video cast. I'm going to go, I'm going to give it 0.25. I'm going to give the guy forward. Damn. It's all time. He's homeless. I'm going to give a quarter.

A sub point, Bubba. God damn. I'm sorry. I'm going to lay the hammer down here. Jesus. Don't move Tushar's daughter out to fucking California without a plan. I'll say that right now. Uh-huh.

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