wellRED podcast - wellRED Presents: Bubba Shot the Podcast - Country Club

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

Travis Tritt is in the news, taking advantage of a horrible situation in a bold face attempt to capitalize on the death and fear American is suffering, by using the tragedy of the pandemic in order to gain views and and a modicum of relevancy. How should the Bubba Boyz respond, but to in kind use him to do the same now? It's Travis Tritt week on Twitter, why not make it be thus here? We are diving in on "Country Club," and we are having a fine time doing it. 

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Well, that's a bunch of horse shit. A lot of people think that he's actually doing it because he's not selling any tickets, and this is a convenient way for him to get out of those contracts while also stirring up quite the storm on social media, putting his name in the news, and remaining something adjacent to relevant. And I want to shit on Travis Tritt,

because this is dumb, and it sounds like he's dumb, and anyone who thinks this is good PR is dumb. But at the same time, I got to acknowledge that it's very, very consistent. Going all the way back to the beginning of this man's career, the literal first single he ever put out is a song called Country Club that is all about not letting people in

if they're not a member. And I know that's not the same as vaccines, but I am trying to make a humorous, if tenuous, comparison, draw a point across what, three decades, that Travis Tritt is against not letting people in the door for any reason. So much so that he released a song called Country Club all about how he might not be able to get into the country club where the golfers are to buy this woman he met on the Interstate, yes, literally on the interstate, a drink, but she can come to his country club because he's a member of any honky tonk roadside pub.

This is Bubba Shot the podcast. Let's get into it. Bubba shot the podcast, and that's right, a show about country at a time. This is Bubba Shot the podcast, the 90s country story podcast, hosted by me, Drew Drew Dollars, Corey Forrester, Trey Crowder, featuring the Indian Outlaw himself, Tushar Singh. Boys, today we are members of the country club. Before we get started, let's do the stats. and if you're listening, go watch the video.

If you can find that, if you're in a place where you can watch it, at the very least, listen to the song. Country Club is a song written by C-A-T-E-S-B-Y-Jones, Kate's B-Jones, and Dennis. That's a great name. It is a great name. Dennis Lord is the co-writer that is not Dennis Lindy. It's a different Dennis with an L.

It was actually released, not in the 90s. It was released at the end of 89, but it was the, title track from a 1990 album, Country Club, by Travis Tritt. Travis Tritt is obviously the singer. This was his debut album. This was his debut song. This was his introduction to the world.

The video also came out in 1990. So we are counting it. Its peak position was number nine on the billboard charts. And, you know, Travis Tritt's got a lot of bangers. But this one I've always associated with him because I remember the video, boys. Yeah, I love this song.

I also until just now I didn't realize that it was his debut song and I don't know why it just doesn't like in the chronological me hearing Travis Trit songs I don't think this was the first one that I ever heard I agree completely for some reason I thought country club was a mid Trit Uffois jam somewhere right there in the middle I'm surprised to hear that it barely even slips in under the wire for being a 90s country that's crazy very shocking to me I cannot prove this because I cannot find an If you've already gone and looked for the video, and again, I encourage all the listeners to do so, because we are going to discuss it as well as the song. These are all bootleg copies. There's no like official Vimeo put out by, you know, Atlantic Records or whatever it may be. I'm saying that because I don't know when the video was made. I agree with you, fellas. And my theory is he made a video for this a little later in his career.

And I don't know if that makes sense chronologically. I'm wondering, do y'all know when CMT got started? No, I don't, but I could see that being a thing. No. What? Y'all think he, eight years later, just decided to make a video for a... I could see that when he made it, it was, like, making videos wasn't that big of a deal, and then he put out a greatest hits album.

No, no, no, no, no. Videos were hugely a thing before we were born, dude. Video started popping hard in the 80s. Okay, but I'm saying, like, he might not... Just because this was his debut, like, he might not have come out straight, hitting. Like they could have debuted the song and then he started hitting and like they never, because you don't just always, everybody didn't always do a video. Okay. I'll grant you that, but that would happen a matter of months away, not years. He's not

going to have a hit and then seven years later be like, let's circle back and make that video. No, I was going to suggest that the song that didn't necessarily hit at first, because like I said, it wasn't the first one I ever heard. Like he could have debuted. didn't really do much and then something else popped. That was sort of my theory, but CMT was founded in 83. I bet that they put money behind him because he had a lot of hits on that record. So I'm sure it came out

soon there after. Hold on. I'm trying to side with you. Jesus Christ, that's such a Trey mode. I'm trying to say, I think Trey's right because he had hits on that. Listen to this. I don't think you can trust this. You know how the internet is. The music video premiered on Monday, May 7th

of August, 1989 on YouTube. So I don't think that's trustworthy. Uh-oh. We may be breaking our own rules here. Sounds like a 1989 situation. Well, the album came out in 1990. We're going by...

Well, the video came out before the album even came out. We're going by album when it suits our needs. And then if it ever suits our needs for it to be the other way to make something... Like if something was in 2000, but the song was written in 99, we'll do that. We'll count that. But you said earlier this is the debut song. It's like how an ace is a one or a high card. It's also like how Travis Tritt just will bend rules for his own convenience.

Currently, he's in the media. He's not selling tickets and he's canceling shows and acting like it's because of vaccine mandates. But Twitter's eating him alive because you can see that there's like 80% unsold. Yeah, like the same one that we can go see. Is that what's happening? Yeah. I've seen all the headlines. He's been going on Fox News talking about it and stuff.

Well, not that I'm surprised by any of that, but it is kind of funny to me. but I didn't know that he just wasn't selling tickets. Somebody pointed out, somebody pointed out. I ain't, buddy, I ain't going to talk too much shit about it. No, me either. They went to, uh, somebody went to his, it was his show in making Georgia, which like, he's a Georgia boy. And they went to ticket master just like you can do for our shows. And they saw like how many empty seats there were.

And they posted it along with a link to him being on Fox. And they were like, their PR people literally think that we can't just see this. Like now, I also. here's the deal. I believe that Travis Tritt believes what he's saying. You know what I'm saying? I think two things can be true. It was hard for me to believe because I saw one thing I cannot stand is when somebody posts something like, you know, country singer Travis Tritt cancel shows over mask mandate and then someone will put who, you know, and it's like, dude, let's not act like Travis Tritt wasn't a big deal and can't sing it. They're like, nobody gives a shit to see Travis Tritt sing

anyways. It's like, yes, they do. He was good. Like, we don't have to do that bullshit. I would totally go to a trash concert concert, dude. Somebody coming on me and they were like, great time, I promised you. Yeah, so we would want to see him anyways. I was like, me, I would love to see that show. That's what I was going to say. I'll go a step further. The who thing bothers me. It bothers me when people say someone's unfunny or untalented or whatever. If you want to hear my opinions on the Dave Chappelle special, I say it on

into the Abisket this week. I go full bore. I'm not defending Dave Chappelle, you can go listen to that. I go on him hard, but I cannot stand. He's not even funny. Right. Brough, Dave Chappelle ain't funny. And also, who does it serve when you say, like, Travis Tritt ain't even good anyways? Like, what are you even doing? Like, you're acting like that, look, here's the, I don't, we don't live in a world where only the talentless have shitty ideas and opinions. You know what I'm saying? Like, he, dude, I love. It's probably the yard guys that are outside my guess house. I love Travis Trit when I was a kid,

and not many people could sing a country song quite like Travis Trit did. Also, fast forward, he's a dipshit. Did you hear what I just said? No. And it is true, but it's like, it ain't the way that it's, I was like, yeah, you guys probably hear the yard guys outside my guest house right now.

Yeah. It's just, you know, makes the time. He's a member of the country club. Well, you brought it up before the show, before we even started recording to defend yourself a little bit. Yeah, I know. Drew forgot. Yeah.

I think I have a staggering. Drew then here's the thing I warned him in my hair and in his head. He was like, oh, shit, it's a ghost. Well, it went. It is October and he does live with Andy. You know what I mean? He's married to a hippie witch lady and it's the month of October. So you can see why he would be here and ghost in his house right now.

It sounded like this. It went, oh, my end. All right. I think I can segue us back to this fucking country song. First of all, Trey's clearly a member of the country club with his guest house and his health out there making noise.

Won't you close to make this stop? Second of all, this whole thing with this song is about Travis Trip, not being able to get into places, and it not being fair. I mean, you know, he's consistent with his mandates. Yes. I didn't know what you were saying at first, but I get it now.

He is consistent. Yeah. He don't like people not being able to be in something just because they're poor or stupid. Did, uh, do you, did you, are you going to show any pictures of Travis Tritt in any point? Oh, yeah. I got some. Just do it when you were planning on doing it. But yeah, I just want to make sure because he's, I appreciate the way he looks.

I, well, Cho looks like Travis Tritt. I know you wouldn't think that because Travis Tritt's known for, very long flowing locks. Yeah. And shows known. Thank you. For the ball B. Yep.

Everyone knew, but you said it anyways. Joe, B. Forrester. And I never would have thought it either until two things. You sent us when that face swap app was hugely popular. You swapped your own face with Travis Tritt.

And I literally couldn't tell a difference between the two pictures. I couldn't either. And then I was like, God damn, what the fuck. And then you did that parody Travis Tritt song sometime around the same time. And like, You look like a bald Travis Tritt.

I know. A younger hitting bald Travis Tritt. Thank you for that. Because we'll see later. Travis Tritt, he don't hit right now. No, dude. He looks like a mannequin. He does.

He looks like a corpse, dude. It looks like a corpse at a funeral, you know, like in the sound specifically. I'm sure he's had work done. All right. I've got Cho's video pulled up, too. That is one of the things I wanted to get to. Try, why don't you just. You can mute yourself when you're not talking.

God damn, it's like I'm doing a podcast from my brother's kids. Y'all told me earlier you couldn't hear none of it. We couldn't. Because we could. It sounded to me as it sounds now. We've been doing to me the same to same to say. And y'all couldn't hear it before. So how am I supposed to know when you can hear it other than when you admonish me for not mute myself?

God. I didn't, I didn't admonish you. I just said, hey, Trey, how about you mute yourself? And then you don't know how you said it. You don't have to mute both of you. I don't have to. We'll go back and look. I've muted both of you.

Corey, I think you said Monish instead of admonish, and that really hit for me. I'm not Monish and you. I'm going to unmute Corey. Tramily be muted until we need you to respond. Let me read these fucking lyrics. We still haven't even gotten to the actual fucking song. Wait, don't we need Toochar?

We're going to bring Tooshar in just a second. How about you let me run it? God damn it. Well. We good? Yeah. I thought that he was always here when we did the lyrics. You can monish me if you want.

All right, I'll bring him in. I said ad monish. All right, well, now we're going to add Moni. Welcome to Sharr, everybody. That was the inside joke. You guys, you white men need to just get along, all right? Scale it back. It don't hit for the world when white men get along, dude.

No, it doesn't. That's when stuff gets took over. People get subjugated. It wants to be monished by you. Yeah, that's why we haven't taken over anything. We just can't seem to get along us three. That's what it is. carry on in your discourse all right uh let's do the lyrics for the for at least the first verse first

chorus i i took a double take out on the interstate when i saw her making eyes at me so i followed her down the clubhouse drive past the pool and the 18th green and in the parking lot i said it's mighty hot maybe i could buy you a beer she said i'm glad you asked but i'll have to pass because only members are allowed in here. And I said, I'm a member of a country club. Country music is what I love. I drive an old Ford pickup truck. I do my drinking from a Dixie Cup.

Hey, I'm a bona fide dancing fool. I shoot a mighty mean game of pool. And at any honky tonk roadside pub, I'm a member of the country club. The son of a bitch, it says, and at any. I get how that works. my whole life, I thought he said, it ain't any honky tonk roadside pub. I also thought that.

Don't diminish my establishment by assuming it's any old honky tonk roadside pub because it's not, God damn it, I'm a member of a country club. That's what I thought he said. I think I added that and in there, just reading it, and I think I was doing what I used to do when I was little. And the actual lyrics are at any honky tonk. roadside pub, I'm a member of a country club.

I always said of the. That also makes sense. I get how that makes sense. I just, I'd heard it the other way my whole life. Never realized that's what it said. Well, Tushar, let's get right into it with you, buddy. You can give us your first impressions. I want to just say off the bat that

to me this song was when it was popular, when it was on CMT, I very much remember being young and being like, yeah, yeah, rich people, we're cool too. Oh, I didn't mute you, Cheshire. You muted yourself now. Don't blame the white man.

Go ahead. My bad. Stop muting me! I loved, when I watched the video was amazing in the sense of like just knowing what that guy looks like. And he's a full-on mullet. It's what I would, if I would draw a cartoon of a country boy, boy, a mullet would be part of the deal. So that was off the bat, an amazing element of him.

I don't know. If he always had a mullet? He's always had that. I wouldn't, I don't know that that's even a mullet. No, it looks like how women's hair used to look when they had their glamour shots. Exactly. It's just like a woman's beautiful hair. Yeah.

Yeah. It's just luscious. Look at that. Yeah. Like, it's not, because it's not cut short on top. That looks like honestly. About to take a load to the face. He looks Korean in that one.

A little bit. Hey, finally, no one says it. We have pictures of Corey that we think look kind of Korean too. Why do you think we call him Cho? He's doing his real squid. He looks Korean. It looks real squid game right now. I can't, your face is smaller right now, and you're all smiling and stuff,

and I can't not say you as Korean. Okay, when you leaned in, it took it away some, but when you were sitting back, this is cracker me up. I love this song because it's about it while I pulled something up that I didn't think to pull up until you all made fun of. It's fine because Tushar said it, right? Yeah, it's totally. It's totally true. Also, I don't even know what it means.

It's not bad to look Korean. That's fine. Of course. It's great to look Korean. I wish I looked Korean. and it's not like you do Drew if we're going to keep this format can you move

the banner at the bottom or something? Yeah I can't. You're silencing too shard. Yeah. Oh, guys. Keep silencing too shard. Look at him. There we go.

I don't know how to make it go away entirely, but that'll be. All right. Let me do one more real quick. You guys keep talking about how you don't look Korean, Corey. That'll really be a nice segue to what I'm about to pull up.

Well, I mean, I'm just with you, Tray, like, like, again, I was making a joke earlier about how Travis Tritt looked like my buddy's mama, but that's true. And I always thought that even when we were kids, like I was always like, Miss Anita looks like Travis Trit, but not like she was a very pretty woman. You know what I'm saying? Like, it wasn't no offense to her, but like, he, he does have the teased back kind of hair. Yeah. You honestly, as the only Asian in this group, you rook or riddle Korean. God damn it. That's fine. Hey, that's fine. I've seen that picture so many times. And I've never thought that Cho.

Again, his name is Cho. I have never thought that he looked Korean until this moment. Are you serious? Dude, I think it every time. You've thought that I look Korean a lot? Yeah. Hey, here's the thing.

I have for years been like, God damn it, I wish I looked more Korean. I've said it. So like, this is fine. I have. This is news to me.

I never thought this. It's been pointed out that it's funny that his name is Joe, which stands for Chief Hitting Officer, but it's also like a very common Asian name, and that's kind of funny or whatever when he's eating, you know, noodles noodles or something. Now, look, which I do.

Noodles. He does a lot. But I've never thought he looked at all Korean or Asian or whatever. Well, dude, South. You too. Right. North, Frank, there ain't no fat North Korea. Get done.

Yeah, Kim John. You're not the king of North Korea. I'm doing better. You aren't doing better. In three months, that fucking joke ain't going to play, Traleen. That's why I'm getting it out now, God damn it. North Korea is in three months. In three months, you're still going to be infinitely fatter than every North Korean who isn't Kim John.

That's true for all of us. They are malnourished people. Yeah, it does not hit. North Korea does not hit. North Korea does not hit. No, it doesn't hit. There's a video that went viral this week. one of them trying to escape the army.

Yeah. He's driving a fucking car and they're shooting at him. It's wild. Yeah, it was wild. That video's like 10 years. It's not, I don't know about 10 years. That video is old. Is it?

Yeah. I don't know why, like, every now and then, I guess it's the hit in this video they've got of somebody defecting. Yeah. He made it. I think it's like every five to seven years, the kids find the coolest videos and they're just freaking out about them as we did, you know? Right.

Because I saw some vines recently on. TikTok that I remembered. I was like, oh yeah, Bo Bynum did hit it that too. All right. Too short. This first verse, I mean, I listened to it first and then I watched the video, but it paints such an interesting picture. Like this guy picks up, he's so full of himself in a good way, I think, for the video, that he picks up a girl off the interstate and then takes her to parking lot. But when she first said, because only members are allowed in here, I thought she was like, I'm a prostitute. And this is a paper entrance situation. Every single country song is about a horse.

It's about prostitute. Every single kind of. He's like, and I was wondering what this whore was going to do. Yeah, we do love whores. You know, we've got some horror songs. Tushar, when you were younger, was Best Little Whorehouse in Texas the only country music thing you saw? No, but I don't know. I got a hoarse sense from her.

I got a hoar sense from this character. But I didn't put it together that they pulled up to court clubhouse drive. And that happened. I didn't get the whatever he was trying to do with. You're not a member of either country club. The Travis Schitt or the golf version. So you weren't picking up what he was putting down. Right, right.

But what is that? The Travis Strip version is I'm a country club. I like a honky talk. I live country. He just means like I'm a, I'm a member of a club. I'm a member of a collection of country people. Country individuals. Country individuals who hang out.

No, I'm in a country club. Here's how you know. I love country music. I drive a truck. I drink from a Dixie Cup. I dance. These are things that country people do. Me and my country dipship buddies do it together.

That makes us a club. Thus, we are in a country club. So that's why. this is a kind of a poor versus rich thing going on. Right. I'm in a country club, but there's no membership here. I'm just saying, right. And she's saying, well, no, black.

You pulled up, you know. I didn't say it. And only people who look Korean. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's just a joke. My internet's breaking up and it keeps coming back in racism. It's very funny. It's just like silence and then something Korean.

Um, she, and I think you picked up on this. That sounds like a movie that won Canes. Canes. Did you say that wrong or you may get that. Cans, you're right. Cains is the chicken place. Cains is how they punish people in North Korea. Yeah.

Oh, God damn. Yeah. I love it. Man, I'm just so stupid this week. I love that idea. Ushaar, did you pick up? The chicken joint. The horror comments aside,

Did you pick up on, though, that she has pulled up to a country club, like a golf course where you have to be a member to go in? I didn't put that together at the beginning from the lyrics. So you didn't even pick that up from the video. Okay. Until the video, I mean. Until the video, would you watch in Toshar? I'm sorry. I mean to say until the video, Corey, my bad.

Yeah. So one thing I wanted to say about the video, let me finish these lyrics. It's a short song. Second verse, Lord, you look so inviting. I thought it might be exciting for a woman with a limousine to go bouncing around in a beat-up truck with a man in wore out jeans. It's 5 o'clock for Friday night. Here's where the fun begins.

So don't worry about your reputation because you can tell all your friends that I'm a member of the country club. Country music is what I love. I drive an old Ford pickup truck. I do my drinking from a Dixie Cup. Hey, I'm a bona fide dancing fool. I shoot a mighty mean game of pool at any honky tonk roadside pub. well, I'm a member of the country club. He's really bringing it home here.

He's basically saying, hey, you can come slumming with me, and I know you want to. You need some excitement in your life because you've been hanging out on the golf course with all those ass hats, but it's not going to hurt your reputation because I'm a member of the country club. I don't know why. Sorry, I don't know why in the video he ends up leaving with her in the limo. She should have left in the truck, not to be able to be.

He wanted to hang out. Yeah. He got in there. I like that. He took her for a ride in the shark. You are right. You are right to, Shard, because I was going to say, this is a trope that I appreciate. It's always like some rich well-to-do girl.

Yeah. But they just love slumming it, dude. Like Titanic. I was about to say, they're on a fancy boat. They've got to make their way down to steerage where all the trash is dancing on tables and shit while covered in dirt. And they're like, oh, yeah. They love slumming it, dogs. All them poor boys got a curvy dick.

Yeah. Conway-Witty had a couple songs like this. Yeah, it's definitely, it's like a universal thing. I feel like it doesn't, isn't it always that way? Like, no. There's many guys who rescue Borrell. Cinderella. It's literally what Cinderella is, yeah.

Yeah, but I feel like the reverse is a little more common, personally. Like the way it's portrayed in movies, and music. The notebook. The reverse. It sounds fancy lady with a trash boy, you know. Well, the reverse is easier to portray or I guess paints a better story often because usually

the man, the rich man, just wants a hot, poor girl. And then often, and you guys touched on it with, like, culture comes from the bottom up. The women like going down and dancing on tables and learning about shooting pool and all that shit. Whereas the dude just wants a hot.

Well, all jokes aside, like, Like, dude, back, like, four years and years and years, it was mainly men that were allowed to write shit, like, that got stuff out. You know what I'm saying? Like, in Hollywood and, like, a dirtbag writer, that's the fantasy. You know what I'm saying? That's what they've always thought. Like, oh, if these rich women, if these well-to-do people would just actually meet me, I would

hit. Well, dude, I used to have, when we first started touring, I had a whole bit about that where I was, where I was one of those trash boys who was, you know, started dating a rich girl. But I'm saying, I think women are attracted to people who are interesting, and oftentimes rich men just want the hottest check. Yeah, they want to marry the rich guy, but fuck the, you know, curvy dick dirtbag. Kirby Dick Dirtbag and his band of heathens. Yeah.

Kirby Dick Korean. All right. It's fine when he says it with name. I was going to say in the video, Travis Tritt, I think, has a lot of, like, Korean. charisma. Mm-hmm. I think I can see this, like, I can see what they saw in this young guy, you know, with this.

Well, buddy, he was one of the tippy top dudes in the 90s country, which is a genre we love and appreciate. But, I mean, it didn't get very much bigger than Travis Tritt in the 90s, dude. And there's a fucking reason for that. No, I mean, dude, like so many, so many bangers. Like, it was kind of hard for us to, like, choose which, you know, like, but like, oh, we're going to do Travis Tritt, like so many great songs. Well, what's kind of funny about that is we were having this conversation yesterday

about which one to do. And we were like, well, the obvious choice is it's a great day to be alive. Right. And Corey was like, oh, I looked it up. It didn't come out until 2000, unfortunately. So we were like, oh, well, that don't count. And it's funny that the one we picked, Country Club came out in 1989. Yeah.

But I never even questioned. But it's on the record in 1990, which counts. sure yeah he's right enough okay we make the rules on Wikipedia it says it was released August 7th 1989 but y'all are arguing with that because they used to put it released as a single in advance of the album and the album didn't come out until 199 yeah fine yeah okay that counts we didn't we literally run into the same issue with goodbye earl last week

it came out in 2000 yeah right but the but we did the reverse the single came out. Yeah, that's what I told you. It's like the ace. It's whichever you want it to be, high or low. It's definitely not something we should have spent this much time talking about.

Here, Oh, sorry. Too sorry, I wanted you to see this. So, this was the tip-top guy, charismatic young man, and this is, so there's some controversy about this. The picture on the right was said to have been put out

by Travis Tritt and his people and then Travis Tritt put out what I'm showing you right now, the side by side saying, quote, this is what the left has done to me. They will go to no ends. Like they're trying to embarrass me. But the person who first put it out was claiming that Travis had had the photo doctored himself.

I never looked into what the truth was because I wanted to believe Travis's people did it. That picture on the right is, we don't serve your kind in here, boy, George. I didn't know where you were going with that, but it ended up it and took a while. Wow. Because, yeah, you called him earlier.

You said he looks like Aunt Don Neda or whatever. And he's got to, again, this is what I was saying earlier. Like, he looked. First of all, I didn't know about the controversy or if I did, I had forgotten. I'm a little disappointed right now. Because I'd never seen the picture on the left, I don't think. Or again, if I had I forgotten it. I thought that.

You only saw the geisha version of it? Yeah. Yeah. But he looks like a corpse. Like he looked, you know. open casket corpse in a small town funeral with all the makeup. But you knew, you had to have known, or maybe you're saying you thought he had that much work done. I was going to say the picture on the left exists in both those worlds.

Like Travis Trick could have put out the picture on the right because he had someone airbrushed the picture on the way. Yeah, yeah, no, no. And I also hope that that is what happened because that's way funnier. Way funnier. I'm saying until this moment, unless I've blocked it out of my memory because it don't hit for me, I had never seen the picture on the left. I had only seen the picture on the right. So that's all I mean.

I want to remind everyone if you're listening to this podcast, we put it out on Trey's YouTube page. And obviously this and frankly every episode, better as a visual, this one, you're going to get a lot out of it. I promise you. And speaking of, do you think we will get copyright infringement from Corey

because it's automatic if I play your video? What? I'm going to try it. You know what? Oh, the parody that he did? That isn't a... It's the music, isn't it? But it's not the actual music from the song.

Matt Coon did some different stuff to it. It was like a karaoke version or something. So like, it might be all right. All right. We're going to do our best. I got to find... I put it on YouTube, I think, and didn't get pulled down. Can you see it?

Yeah. Now let's see if you can hear it. star in the 90s, but since that's done, I'll just hang around on Twitter making friends with Q&N. Well, I don't care much for progressives and what they stand for. If you like Black Lives,

then I'll just show you that door. Well, you just got me in L-O-C-K-D. Tell me why in the world will you like me in a democracy. Hey, you're He must have a little B-R-D Well, you just got me a L-O-C-D So

I think you made him look like he hits too hard Now that we've been looking at pictures of him He looked more like, he looked more stapletonee than what Travis Tritt actually looked than somebody's middle-aged lesbian aunt, which is what Travis Tritt actually looks like. No, I agree with you. that, yeah, the wig that I had for that was just way too flowing.

And, yeah, and, you know, me, I hit. Right. Yeah. You do it. When did you make that? Around this time last year. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You good? I don't think we're hitting on his end. Okay. Because everything looks fine to me. Yeah, too sharp. It was around this time last. year he went on some big

tirade about how he was blocking everybody and he was like bragging about it he was like I fuck I blocked so many people on the road I blocked this gun I blocked that guy and then you know immediately it was B-L-O-C-K-A-D popped in my brain I've told this story before I just still think this is kind of

wild like two days or three days tops before all that happened and Corey got the inspiration to make that video I woke up to pee in the middle of the night also inspired because I woke up thinking in my head it would really hit if Corey did a parody of the Travis Tritt song Tell Me, Tell Me, I Was Dreaming, where he, and at this point, Travis Tripp wasn't in the news and hadn't been in the news for 20 years. You know, it was just a random thing. I was like, Corey should do a Travis Tripp parody where he puts himself in a wheelchair and falls off a boat dock or whatever, but change it to where it's tell me I was meaming where he wakes. up after a drunken night on Twitter where he said a bunch of regrettable stuff and that's the

premise of the parody. But there's another Travis Tritt song called Tell Me I was dreaming that every girl cried about in the 90s because he has a pregnant wife and he's crippled and she dies or some shit. I don't remember. But anyway, boy, that's so, Raven. I woke up out of nowhere thinking about that. And then like right after that, Travis Tritt popped up out of nowhere again and Corey was impersonating him on the internet and stuff. That's the quickest turnaround. I've ever had on something. Like, I swear to God, I saw that motherfucker. He popped up.

That song came in my mind. I wrote that shit in five minutes called Coon. He laid down that track or whatever the fuck. And then it was out. Had to wig perfection. So I'm saying I'm not having a little bit of the shining chow. I think you do. Yeah.

The Brinan. Let's talk a little bit about this music video. And Corey, I think you did a great job. And you do look a little more stable. Your hair is prettier. than his was as a mullet. Without question. In the video, I like when he gets into the golf course.

It has nothing to do with the song. The song he's inviting her to his country club, but in the video, he ends up playing golf in snake skin boots and skin tie acid-washed jeans, which is very funny because of the lyric, I've got wore-out jeans, and he's wearing what is at that time expensive, very, very hip, acid-wash jeans,

which, you know, it's like we get mad at today's country stars for being fake and, you know, pretending to like trucks, but they're wearing their Yeezys and their Teslas. But it's like, it's kind of always been the case, I guess. I like the guy. I mean, this song to me is the, it's like the epitome of just how great it is to be a white man. Not that. Like, right? It doesn't.

We always belong. You always belong. It's about beer, bitches, my truck. And then you add a layer of golf on it. And you're just like, wow, this is the American dream. Like, his struggle is what? It's not money. It's not this.

It's just trying to get a girl out of his league pretty much. And it's like the word country club itself is almost synonymous with white man, where he's like, I'm a member of a white man's club. Like it's like, that's what I was listening to me almost. and yeah as i said earlier both versions of country club no blacks uh yeah very much white man's game country club and and as usual it's very rapperesque yeah like i came in here i dominated and this is i you know i'm fly to the level of of pulling this off um but the video does add a few take a few liberties with like letting him play golf and stuff like that and leaving in the limo which i guess

makes sense for that but well he shoots pool playing golf and when i was at or whatever. I thought that was the coolest thing that had ever been done by anybody because I hadn't seen a rap music video yet. That's so funny because it just like occurred to me, one of the kind of parallels but also kind of differences between rap and country is that like you'll see a rapper at the very start of their career and you know like they haven't gotten any money yet,

but they're rapping about how rich they are even though you know they're not. And then country stars a lot of times will sing about how poor they are even though you know they're not. You know what I'm saying? Like it goes the complete opposite. Well, it's the way to be the underdog. I was thinking about something similar and you're completely right. When Tuchar was saying, you know, his lens of this is, this is the whole song is, I'm in the white man's club.

But the lens that Travis Tritt and the songwriters were going for and how I perceived it as a young man was kind of the opposite of like, there's a club I'm not in. But I don't give a shit. I don't get it right. That's definitely. And that's why I love this song. is. I'm not saying that two shards wrong. It is, this is all very white. Sure. Both versions of country club, very white, either iteration of it. But what you just said, Drew, is, like, definitely the intention of Trit and the songwriters, like, for sure. How many times while we've been on tour have we just, like, kind of lived out the scenarios, like, of these songs? Like, I think of, like, you know, we're in West Palm Beach and we went to that, like, French restaurant or whatever. And, like, you know,

know they were looking down their nose on us because we had our shirts and like this song will like just pop into my mind at times like that's like you know what you're god damn right people don't want us at these fucking fancy places but like i'd rather be at a tailgate with my drunk buddies watching football anyways y'all can kiss my ass okay and keep in mind what corey just said okay every word of it as i read you some of 50 cents lyrics from the seminal classic how we do. Okay. Let me say here.

It just occurred to me that John Anderson has Seminole classics. Yeah, there you go. Anyway, they call me new money, say I have no class. I'm from no bottom. I came up too fast. The hell if I care, I'm just here to get my cash, boozy-ass bitches, you can kiss my

ass. That's pretty much exactly what Corey just said. Yep. So I'm saying, you know, there's a lot of overlap there. Yeah. Cori put me in mine a 50 cent. often does. 50 cent was the two quarters that Travis Trich gave someone to call

someone they cared. Boom, it sucks. Thank you. That's another song, too sharp. Yeah. I'll pitch that one. I said yes to that. I'm not, I'm not, it hits for me that we're doing country club. I'm just

saying, yeah, there's another one too sharp. Here's a quarter call someone who cares. We'll end up getting to it. I want to tell just since it's been brought up the story that I've told Corey and before about my buddy Thompson on that same note. He was playing quarters, Tushar, and Kobe's garage once with some other friends. And not the version where you bounce a quarter into a shot glass and then drink it.

The version where everybody throws quarters at a wall and whoever parks a quarter closest to the wall without touching it gets all the quarters, right? So we were playing that version. And it came there was a tie, like a bed. even two dead even quarters between thompson and our other buddy, Beasley, and they had to re-throw. And Beasley went first. And it was like that far away from the wall without touching it. So Beasley's like, yeah, what now?

Motherfucker? Fuck you. You know, beat that shit or whatever. So Thompson just doesn't say anything, steps up and just, you know, pauses, takes a breath, and throws it. And it's like a millimetre, a cunt hair, as they say, away from the wall. just, you know, he takes the victory. Everybody starts freaking out. Oh, shit, oh shit.

Keep in mind, this is like 2013, okay, when this happens. Everybody's like, oh, shit, oh shit. Thompson runs up there, grabs Beasley's quarter that he had thrown, picks it up, walks over to him, gets right in his face, and goes, why don't you take this shit and call yo mama motherfucker and threw it in his face and started seawking? When he started seawking, he spilled beef. out of his bottle, slipped into bear, fell into a shelf full of Kobe's memorabilia, and

knocked it off to the floor. So that all happened. Great step piece. That's great. Great set piece. But I always thought that that, why don't you take this shit talking about a quarter and call your mama, as in to come pick you up, was a great off-the-cuff thing to throw out right there if we had been living 20 years earlier. Do you know what I mean? Because like no one was using.

I told Paige the next to my sister that that had happened. And she was like, what? And I said, you know, take the quarter. Like Travis Tritt style, you take the quarter and you call. You call your, I had to explain the whole thing because she didn't get it. But I got it and I thought it was awesome. Yeah, it's one of my favorite things. Yeah.

I wish y'all could have seen it. I wish I had it on camera because, again, the whole set, him going straight into sea walking. I forgot how much it keeps getting funnier. Yeah, I know. He goes straight into Seawking and Thompson could dance too. So he's Seawking good. He's hitting real hard at this point.

But then he sloshes some beer out while Seawalking slips in it, falls in the shelf, breaks a bunch of shit. That's a classic me move. I was sitting on the floor crying, laughing. It fucking killed me. Anyway, thank you for allowing that back to Travis Tritt. Do you just like it a Korean face or we just Is there a

Is there a, do Koreans have a specific face? No, I didn't know. No, they don't. No, they don't. I was just talking around. I was just like, sir. I'm just doing my job. I want to know, uh, I want to know what your thoughts in general are on, uh,

Travis Trit as you've, uh, you know, as you've now interpreted him. And also, were you familiar? Have you seen the stuff on the internet and know that he's going viral this week for mask mandate, you know, stemming up for people's rights? I am thankfully very disconnected to anything pop-culturally. So I hear it. I heard it now just now. I can see him to, I guess, go down that route, especially after hearing about him.

I don't know. I guess that none of that shit really surprises me. but I like the movie, I like the song a lot. It felt like a song that you could, like a generation of men could really laugh, you know, it's such a, it's such a soulful song in terms of what it does for, it's like such a dude song, I guess what I'm trying to say. It's such a working, you know, blue call, like, you know, everyday guy who can, he's like speaking for them.

So I can see how he, and I heard him. his name growing up all throughout, but I never knew what his actual music was. It's a great name. I got questions for Trey and Corey and Tuchar, you could answer this if this reference means anything to you, and it might, because this guy's really famous. I don't know anything about the story. I don't know why he didn't put it out, but I know that Alan Jackson was the first artist who cut the song. How would it have been different? What do you guys think about that? Well, man.

We might not ever have had Travis Tritt, you know, if Allen Jackson. Well, Trouble was on that same album, but maybe you're right. Oh, yeah. That would have been a shame. I mean, here's the deal. Like, I think that Travis Tritt has a more, like, stereotypical country voice, that twang. He has it more so than Alan Jackson. I personally like Alan Jackson more, but I would.

I think it's almost an arguable that Alan Jackson is, it's arguable whether or not he's better, a more successful. He's definitely more successful. Alan Jackson is on the, he's on the Mount Rushmore probably of like 90s and 2000. Country, yeah, at least like in our,

like, I mean, you know, you have to put Kenny Chesney on there, but it's like, Alan Jackson is definitely one of those. Um, is,

does that version exist? Like, you can hear that? Well, he cut it. So I don't know if we can hear it, but it was made. Well,

I'm for that. I mean, you really excited me. Like, I hope I can go find that because that feels I saw that earlier, too, I was also very surprised because, I mean, they're contemporaries, you know. Like, it's, yeah. I feel like that's a little weirder than if, you know, Alan Jackson had cut it 12 years prior or something.

Right. Yeah, a lot of Alan Jackson's. The song had originally been cut by Alan Jackson. That's all it says. A lot of Alan Jackson's early songs were love songs. I think his first hit was here in the real world, which is about heartbreaks. And so he had a lot of. heart, you know, heart broke, hell, Billy.

I love that line. God damn. I do agree with you, Corey, that this being a little bit more, frankly, aggressive, confident. And as Tushar was saying, for the boys, is a little less Alan Jackson. So I'll actually, I want to hear it, but I'm glad Travis Trick cut it instead. Yeah, Alan Jackson is more, again, successful and I like him more, but like he wouldn't have done the video the same way. He's not really that kind of guy, you know. Him and George Strader kind of like just stand up behind the mic and sing, which I like.

I got a question. First of all, I'm looking at the Country Club Wikipedia, and it says T-R-O-U-B-L-E was two albums later and also was the name of that album, Drew, so I maintain. Oh, I must have seen a list of his album titles. Although, listen to what else was on his debut album, Country Club. Help Me Hold on. That was a banger. Hell yeah. I'm going to be somebody.

That was. Oh, my God. That's huge. Yeah. Which that's the jukebox hero of country, by the way. It is. It's the same exact song. Same exact song.

You're 100% correct. I also was looking up when Gone Country by Island Jackson came out, and that was 1994. I feel like they share some elements. Yeah, we should do. We should do that song. Some hits. Also, Gone Country by Alan Jackson is kind of about that.

bet of Drew's. Yeah, sure is. They've been, they've been stealing our, stealing our shine for years now, too sure. Alan Jackson stole my bit in 1994. Yeah, you'll have that.

Did try, so this is one of his earliest works, Travis Tritz's earliest. Very first song. How did he, how is he just knowing, since I don't know much about him, but like has his body of work changed? Has he been, like,

how has he grown through? that now I'm a famous dude. He has a same channel, but all his Fox News shit, but he ain't much for personal growth. I don't think. Hold on. Now, to be fair, though,

if you're just talking about this song, he don't know the other songs like we know boys. From the jump, he had more serious songs that had more to say. It's just that he has it evolved from that. But some of the songs, Trajus referenced on that first record,

you know, were pretty intense songs. and did he he didn't write any of his own I mean I don't know that he didn't he did he wrote some of his own so he wrote he co-wrote

um helped me hold on which was his first I would say his first song that was like serious you know yeah

yeah yeah but no he like a lot of 90s country people I think like he had a he had his thing and it fucking worked and he hit it that real hard in the 90s. And then as pop country music evolved,

he did not evolve with it, but that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. It is. It only devolved for my personal taste, at least. It just got shittier and shittier. So I'm glad Travis Tritt didn't go along with it, you know. That would not have been a good look. Well, also, like, I don't know that that's even true.

what I just said. Travis Tripp may have albums from the past two years where he's doing the most fucking sorry-ass pandering fucking modern sounding radio country bullshit you can imagine and it's fucking terrible. I don't know if that exists or not. It just wouldn't surprise me. I mean, I know that's what Alabama

has tried to do and not your home state too sharp, but the fucking band. So it wouldn't surprise me if that's the case. But he's never been relevant with anything except his 90s stuff. but he had a whole bunch of 90s stuff though.

Here's his latest, his latest album just came out this year. I'll read you the track list and stand your ground. Here we go. Here we go. Ghost Town Nation. Leave this world better off dead. Open line way down in Georgia,

set in stone, smoking a bar and they don't make them like that anymore. Oh, and of course, Southern Man and Ain't Who I was. All of those could possibly hit, but I have an idea what most of them are about. I bet at least a couple of them really don't hit. Yeah, for sure. Stand your ground. I just don't see any way that that song hits.

I should look up the lyrics. You should look up the lyrics. It's funny, I've never really thought about this because I feel like it just don't work this way. This just ain't how it ever goes. But the idea of, like, people like Travis Tritt and some of these other artists we've covered, if they were still making albums, for me, least, that sounded pretty much like their old albums.

I would love that. Me too. Midland kind of sounds 90s. In the 90s country coming out now. I know that court. Midland kind of does that. I'm talking about the actual OGs who were doing it then. Like if they were still doing it now,

if they just refused to ever change at all and were making the exact same kind of music that didn't hit for anybody on a mainstream level, it would hit for me, I think. The only way that's possible is. Really, at least a couple of them are. I bet.

I'm going to look into this. I'm going to say what fucking Clint Black's been up to the past few years. Staying your ground is not, it's not satisfying. I think that Brooks, one of them from Brooks and Dunn. He's remade a lot of their songs with newer artists. And most of those newer artists have some mediocre.

They're like Eric Church. They have some terrible ones, but they have some good ones, some throwbacky ones, Trey. uh we got to cover brooks and done at some point oh yeah i'm having a hard time i mean that's i was about say they've got too many them motherfucker they was duo of the year for they were they were like the braves in the 90s of like the duo of the year where it's like yeah i know they're going to

win the pennant you know what i mean like it's a guarantee yeah well dude who hell i mean for duo well i know well montgomery gentry yeah but brooks and done hit way harder well hell the judge the judge yeah Yeah. We got to do the judge. I'm ready. I think we're, I think we're tritted out. We're tapped out on Travis. I personally feel I'm the member of the country club. Sorry, I don't remember her name. I only met her one time, but our buddy Earl Brown, beloved character actor, we did a table read at his house once, and there was a lovely lady

there, I believe it was from the south, or it was just a country music fan. I was wearing a Joe Diffy shirt and really hip for her, and she told me that she had a Travis Trit shirt that she had made herself that said, show us your tritties on it, which I was like it. So I just wanted to throw that out there before we got done talking about Travis Tripp. I'm glad you did. A titty joke.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Let's rate it. No, it did hit for me. Did it for me? I said, I'm glad you did. I literally said, I'm glad you did. You cut me off mid-sentence and made a titty joke, and I said it hit for me,

and then now you're playing the victim. Tushar, would you like to start us with the, The rating? What's the rating out of again? Three. But you can do fractions if you want. Yeah. It's out of three.

Yeah. I'll give this one. I'll give this one two and a half. He's my favorite Korean country music. Yeah. Yeah, I'm two and three-fifths. Iron hearts for me. I enjoy it.

I was going to give it. I wanted to give it a threes. But I wish I did that. That is. Something else. Huh? I'm just doing it. You said I could do for actions.

So. What's three-fifths of three? I do. I was going to say, I was going to say three out of three because I almost say, I almost feel three out of three for every single 90s country.

I love them, but I'm going to have to get real. I'm going to say, so yeah, not quite three, but close. I'm going to go with a two point, one five. I think this is a great song. It's not even my favorite Travis Trit song. I do like the theme

a lot. Tushar made me look at it different, which I appreciate, and it made me mad at the same time. Because I was like, this is a song for the underdog. And Tushar was like, there's no such thing as an underdog in any of these scenarios. I'm going, I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to. Two point two five. Two point two. I'd love to. Like a set of tritties. Yep. All right. I'll tell you. Thanks, everyone. Thanks, y'all. I don't expect no shit from

2005 overshot the podcast, and that's right.