wellRED podcast - wellRED Presents: Bubba Shot the Podcast - "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawerence

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

Look, time don't hit. It's confusing, scary, and inevitable. You never have enough of it. You got in on your hands but never on your side. It's mysterious, annoying, and seemingly never ending. It being the New Year and all, we figured we'd offer up 90's country's best attempt at capturing this via the life of one very messed up family in Tracy Lawrence's 1996 hit "Time Marches On." Written by the indomitable Bobby Braddock, this song, and episode, are amazing. Enjoy it. 

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E equals MC squared. You've heard it your whole life and you have no fucking idea what it means. Essentially it means the energy and mass interchangeable because they are equal. What does that mean? I don't know. I'm a podcast. host who makes videos with his shirt off in his living room and often has a hard time with anger and other emotions. I don't understand the theory of relativity. All that I know about it is that

Einstein had figured out the time seemed to move differently the closer you got to the center of a black hole or any massive thing that had a lot of gravitational force. This led him to postulate that time was a fourth dimension. And it has been confirmed. founding and confusing us ever since. You cannot turn back time. You cannot slow it down unless, of course, you are close to a black hole. Like I said, and this certainly explains why conversations with boring people seem to take forever, but it does not explain why some days are longer than others and why overall time just don't hit.

We can't even really define time. If you look up synonyms for time, you're going to get measurements. Eons, hours, ages. The only real synonym for time is calling it the fourth dimension, which is what Einstein was trying to do. The only thing I can tell you for sure about time other than it don't hit and it freaks me the fuck out is that it marches on. It never stops.

It won't stop for you. It won't stop for me. It won't stop for whatever God you're praying to. And it won't stop just because your husband's cheating on you with a woman in another town. This is Bubba Shot the podcast. We're doing Tracy Lawrence today, and I am so excited. Gentlemen, first, the facts.

Time March is On was a song recorded by Tracy Lawrence. It was released in March, 1996. It was the second single and title track from his album, Tom Marches on. It was his 15th chart single of his career. three weeks, number one on the billboard in mid-1996. It received single of the year nomination from the Country Music Association in 96, as well as song of the year nomination for both 96 and 97. I don't know how that works.

Maybe they were like, we got this wrong the first time. Let's do a recount bitches. Hangin' chads. I don't know what went down with that. But it is a rad song. I thought for our first official episode of the New Year, the time theme was appropriate. it. And boys, you know, ironically or maybe not ironically at all, this song gives me a lot of

nostalgia. I remember the summer it came out what I was doing. I'll get into it in a minute. I love this song. How do y'all feel about it? Yeah, I mean, it's always, when I was a kid, it was always one of my favorites just from a, it sounds good and is a good song in that way, Reno, Regards. So I always liked it. I always knew that it was like, I could always tell that it was deeper than all the other shit I was listening to, but it had been around my whole life, so I kind of took it for granted. But like, yeah, in my more adult years, looking back at this song, I'm like, my God, man, Tracy Lawrence is really doing something with this. It's a very cinematic song. Yeah, that's a good way to describe it. There's a reason for that that I'm going to get into.

I don't know if y'all researched it. I'm saving a hit for you guys, and I want to talk to Tooshar about something deep within our culture. Tuchar, what do you think of the song? I mean, this song is about one of my favorite subjects, Passage of Time and You're Gonna Die. It's great. I love it. It's the thing to be the saddest about. And it's so simple.

It's such as like, I pulled up the lyrics and I was like, this is a short, very simple song, but it packs in literally a lifetime, four lifetime specifically. Yeah, it's a whole family. I mean, it's a godfather-esque situation. Trey? Is one of my sleeves longer than the other?

And it looks like you're sweating because of the microphone shadow. I'm like, you're in better shape than you've been in probably since I've known you, at least since then a while. And you look like shit right now. But buddy, time marches on. You know, what are you going to do? Today's episode is sponsored by Cuts clothing. I'm kidding. I don't know who is.

Yes. This is a cut shirt and fucking don't hit apparently. I don't know what the hell is going on with this sleeve of it. I can't, I keep pulling it down. It won't go down. Maybe you're right. It's a problem with your arms. Maybe your right.

Is your right titty bigger than your left titty? I don't think so. Okay. That great layer of the cable guy, she came in first and third in the wet t-shirt content. I tend to think that is a layer. I'm not kidding. I know, I know it is.

Oh, I thought you said that would be a good Larry the cable guy, Joe. I know it is, son. Oh, yeah. She actually had one teddy bigger another. Came in first and third in a wet t-shirt contest. Oh, fuck. Yeah, song hits, you know. Does hit.

Yeah. Like Corey said, I'm very sorry to do this, but I can hear myself from one of y'all. It might be me. I could. Just barely. I heard a little bit of echo. Anyway, I remember as a kid liking this song, but like kind of even thinking to myself, like, I don't think I know what this song's about.

Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I like it. Yeah, I didn't like wearing beads. You would have been six, right? When it came out, like Corey said, songs like this, they came out and they just stayed out. Yeah, right. Like that some of them didn't go away and this is one of them. And yeah, it's like I felt like as a kid listening to it.

Like, I feel like I know that this is about something, but I don't know what. But I like it, though. Yeah. Well, let's get into the lyrics then because I identified. And obviously, I was two years older than y'all. So the summer it came out, I spent like 10 days right after it came out. in Sweetwater, Tennessee, my cousin Chris is, and my cousin Chase came too. And then this girl, Megan, was hanging out with my cousin Sarah, who also lived down there.

So the five of us were like 12, and we would go to the pool every day. And I was one of those kids in the summer. We didn't have a pool that, like, I could go spend time with my family, but I'd never been just dropped off and left somewhere. You know, because my mama loved me. And so, all right, see you later, Corey. And I'm going to do that because it looks better until he gets back. Anyway, we were down there. Megan had a crush on me.

I had a crush on her. This song was the summer jam. We were riding around in the back of Chris's older friends' trucks, just being wild. I think I might have had some beer. So it's got a very nostalgia feeling for me for that summer and time marching on, you know, within that feeling. Well, I don't know if Corey's coming back or not.

Fuck out, let's do the lyrics. Yeah. He knows the song. There's no, there's no video, like official video for this song, right? Dude. I could have sworn

that there was a video, but I, you know, I looked it up. I know oftentimes I don't even try to watch the video, but this way I actually did try to watch the video. And all I could find was him playing it live, you know, or like he's on like a stage playing it, but it pops up the little, it looked, you know how at the beginning of a music video,

it'll pop up the artist. and title and album and all that shit. It did that, so it looked like it was supposed to be the video, but it wasn't, but I could, like, I would have, I would have bet a lot of money that there was a video to this song. I thought the same thing. I could have sworn I remember a black and white. Yeah, me too, but I couldn't find it.

A subpoia toned thing, like kids playing in a yard and everybody's swinging. And, like, just like shots of the shit that's in the song. I felt like I remembered that, but I don't know why it wouldn't exist anymore if it ever did exist. You know what I think that is? I think his Paint Me a Birmingham video is shot like that. You might be right. Yeah. It is.

It's a mandela effect thing going on. It should have a goddamn music video. No, I feel like I remember. I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves, but I feel like I remember daddy being beneath the maple tree as a shot. Is it possible that that's how good the song is that we did it in our mind? We all just saw it in our heads. Yeah.

All right, let's get into it then. Sister cries out from her baby bed. Brother runs in, feathers on his head. Mama's in her room, learning how to sew, daddy's drinking beer, listening to the radio. Now, according to the lyrics I'm reading, the official lyric is Hank Williams sings Collijah and Dear John, and Time March is on. The reason I paused for that is there is no Hank Williams song called Colaja. But the one where you go there is. Collijah

Yeah It's K It's spelled with a K K-A-W-Dash It was an Indian Not like too sharp Yeah Yeah

It was a song about One of our Indians over here Because you know They had for people But Okay Does he also have a song named Elijah?

I don't know Not that I know of What I'm thinking about that Well It's not spelled with a K here So I typed it in And it didn't up so I guess whatever I have is the wrong lyric

so I alright perfect we're already being corrected yeah it's K-A-W call L-I-J-A okay L-I-G-A what's the significance of those songs I've never heard those songs is that like a thing they're just really super

yeah I mean it's well at first it's a time stamp for the for the song I can't quit staring at my own sleeve fuck this shirt I'll be right back down right Tracy's gonna go change shirt crazy all right we're gonna keep going because time marches on. Real quick, real quick. The feathers on his head is, that's an Indian.

A little boy playing cowboy in Indian. Which makes sense. And then he, and his daddy's listening to a song about an Indian. So like, yeah. But yeah, I mean, it's just, you know, Hank Williams, this is a time stamp of like, this is what, you know, the period of time when I, you know, when Hank Williams is on the radio and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which, you know, if you're any, anybody that's redneck as hell during the Hank Williams time, by God, they was listening to him on. the radio. There is no song called Colaja. I could have swore that that was a big topic of conversation for us back in the day when his song came out, but I'm misremembering. That's how time works. You just misremember stuff. All right. Yeah, it's called Elijah the wooden Indian. Yeah, that now is ringing the bell, but I thought there was also a different song. It doesn't matter. So the scene is set, you've got a young family, and I really love the line learning how to sew, because you've got a young wife, innocent, already you're setting us up,

that she's doing her best already for her family while dad drinks beer. Right. And listens to the radio by himself. Yeah, they're really, they're really, I swear to God. Look at that other sleeve. I swear to God, look at it. It's your arms. My arms just always been like, it's the angle of something.

Did you ever break your collarbone? No, I broke this arm. Oh. Well, there you. No. Oh, they're fine now. It's literally the way I was sitting. That's what it was.

Yeah, like this. No, I, no, I had my, I had my chair turned cock-eyed for some reason. Tracy and I didn't even realize it. What's wrong with it? Yeah. You know how my eyes don't hit? Yeah. That's what I'm a blaming on.

You were like, why wouldn't my arm sit and not a hit either, I guess? He's got Dwayne arms to go with his Dwayne eyes. Quick question. That was real. I would like to formally apologize to cut. This also is a cut shirt. I like cut stuff. I ain't sponsoring this podcast, but I sponsor our other ones.

So, you know, and their stuff does hit for me. I'm sorry, I blamed you for my own dip shittery cuts. That wasn't cool anyway. Back to the song. He's painting a picture of a sister, brother, mom, and dad. That's called a family. When I... When I...

Where's bucket? Yeah. When I... Yeah, we're slave. When I was, is this, is this from his perspective where he is the middle child or something? I just felt like he was just an omniscient narrator. Okay. I think so.

I mean, that's what I think. Yeah, I think so too. And I think he's just telling a story of a family. Cool. Trey, I think while you were gone, we talked about this. Mama's learning how to sew. That's my favorite part of the first verse, because it shows that the, The family's young.

Mama's new to some stuff. And she's trying while Daddy's drinking beer. Yeah, it's funny. Go ahead. I was going to say it's funny because depending on who listens to this lyric, like a male listening to this, it goes, hell yeah, Daddy's drinking beer, listen to the radio. And then a woman listen to this goes, yeah, that sounds about right.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I also think it's foreshadowing. So, you know what I mean? Oh, for sure. Oh, it's great foreshadowing. And I think that one reason I connected with the song, well, we'll get into it later. All right.

You guys want to move on to the next one? I was just going to say that, like, maybe you might have said this while I was gone being stupid, but each of these verses takes place in like a very distinct time period in America, right? Right, yeah. Clues that are given in there. It's like it's not just a general passage of time for, you know, a made-up family.

Right. It's like, it's specific. Like this. Big changes in culture. Like late 40s, early 50s. Yeah. This is right after the Depression. Well,

you're making a good point too. I would say to learn how to sew. I could see people going, back in the day, I thought all women knew how to sew. I bet she's learning how to use a sewing machine. Machine. Yeah.

Yep. Which is definitely a post-war 50s, America's situation, uh, 40s or 50s. So also, let's just look it up when Collagen, Dear John came out. Let me look that up real quick. I did earlier.

K-A-W-L-I-G-A. That's the third time, I believe. 52. Ending his name. That came out in 52. And Dear John came out in, oh, that's also a movie and a million other things, of course. Yeah, yeah. probably a letter to someone who don't hit.

51. So this is at least 52 or later. Right, right, right. Yeah, so like you said, it's set in the time period of the scene. He does that with every couplet. This one is obviously pretty positive. You know, like I said, you could probably read some tension into Daddy Drinking Beer. But if you've never heard the song, it's the first time you're listening.

This is a very happy situation. Simple life, you know, they're having a good time. Clearly white. Clearly white. And if you weren't sure about that, you'll probably get it from the next one. Yeah. Maybe not. Maybe not.

All right, let's get into it. I don't want to just blow through the song, but I do want to get to the end of this one and then pause for a bit and talk about some things. Sisters using rouge and clear complexion soap. Brothers wearing beads and he smokes a lot of dope. Mama is depressed, barely makes a sound. Daddy's got a girlfriend in another town. Bob Dylan sings like a rolling stone.

And time marches on. Time marches on. Confession, when I was a kid, because I heard this song probably before I ever heard a Bob Dylan song. Well, that's not true. But like, I didn't know a lot about Bob Dylan when I was a kid, but I knew him a lot from this song. And I always used to think, before I started listening to Bob Dylan,

that he was describing how Bob Dylan sounded. You know what I'm saying? Bob Dylan sings like a rolling sound. In the way that a rolling stone would sing. Yeah, yeah, right. He seems too much the way that stones don't. Yeah, yeah, right. But until I grew up and listened to Bob Dylan and was like,

oh, he sings a song called Like a Rowling Stone, I was like, I thought Tracy Lawrence was just describing how he sang. That's funny because I had a different but similar thing where I had heard of Bob Dylan, knew that he was saying that he had a song called that, and I was like, so Bob Dylan just ripped off the Rolling Stones. So he just was out here making songs up,

just stealing people's bits or whatever. And it's like, probably reversed. I have no idea if the Rollins. I think it is. Well, first is. It came out in 65. It's a lot diversion like a Rolling Stone that originates with Bob Dylan.

I'm asking you by now. I think that's an older saying. I think that's, I think, right. And Papa was a Rolling Stone is an old blues line that I would imagine is actually where the Rolling Stones. But I do think the same thing that all those things come from, that is what the Rolling Stones, the band. Right. Yeah, they were very in the blues.

It's all from the same well, so to speak, I think, without knowing the specifics of it. It's something like that. Yeah, no, I think that well is American black people who got no credit for any of that. Sure. that's most of our whales really yeah yeah we're in a lot of the whales yeah yeah yeah all right a few things that I love about this this couplet and then we're going to talk about something specific which is first of all sisters using rouge and clear complexion soap ruge been around forever sure clear complexion soap I'm sure in some version has been around

forever but I know from Americana not the genre like you know, being into American history and American pop culture, with advertisements at that time, what we now know as the teenage girl market happened in the 60s. Very much. In the 50s, you know, you're 14-year-old. You wouldn't buying her shit. Hell no.

You know, her collection. Don't get her a goddamn thing. Marry her. When she's 13, get her married and then he can buy her. Give that dude. some land or something if it'll entice him to marry her whatever you got to do to get her ass out of here at an early time frame but yeah but no you don't spend shit on them go in the wash tub and keep them in a room that's what happened that's right that's right but the 60s man

i mean like a roly stone comes out in 65 i mean a lot is changing obviously that next line brother's a hippie that's what he's trying to establish there but but he does it in the first line though really, you know, when you think about the clear complexion, so you've got a teenage girl trying to be, what's the right word? Yeah. There it is. I was going to say a free woman, not necessarily a feminist.

Which is a good synonym for. It's very, uh, it's very Gen A from Forrest Gump. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, for sure. For sure, she's got AIDS. You're right. So in the right there.

that first couplet, you know, we've established the era. And then we're going back to mom and dad. And where that foreshadowing was earlier, now it's right in the nose. Mama's depressed, barely makes it sound. Daddy's got a girlfriend in another town. I remember the song came out. I was 12. I had just like, so a little bit about my fam.

My grandma lived with me at the time. She had just gotten Alzheimer's, et cetera, et cetera. Her man, my grandfather, who I don't like, took off. like when she got Alzheimer's he was like I'm out and he had a new woman like immediately and I remember saying to my mom like damn that was quick and she said honey he's always had a girlfriend in another town right it's just this was the one he moved on to

so I heard this song and I was like was that a thing and it was for sure in the 50 60 70s yeah before I mean you could do it before Facebook and shit for sure my pill billy mama once told me while all you know, fucked up and mad about stuff. So it's hard for me to really dial in exactly the incident. It could have been any number of them. She was mad and ranting and she, you know,

and this ain't cool. And also I don't know if this is true. But she told me while pissed and ranting because I was close to my dad's dad, my grandfather, and looked up to him and shit. And she, like, in a tirade, told me once that he had all these. other women and other, like always, you know.

Yeah. Like basically just be like, you know, you think he was something, but he wasn't shit in either type of thing. My papal is that was very possibly not true. I damn sure I never asked me all about it, you know. Oh, that side. Yeah. Yeah.

No, my dad's not her dad. Yeah, she was talking shit on account of that. She was talking shit. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Probably shouldn't even say what I just said just now, really. Page, at least, we'll hear about it. be the whole thing.

I'm going to say something I shouldn't say to not change the subject, but to tack it on. I've told this on the well-read podcast, some version of it, but at my wedding, one of my aunts, whose name I won't say, and one of Andy's cousins was there together and it had come to pass. He was the potato chip man. His name was Punkin, and she worked at a grocery store,

and they had had an affair, and she had ended up divorced and all that. You know, she was all in, and he would never leave his woman but we come to find out, Punkin the potato chip man, he had a girlfriend in almost every grocery store that he was a potato chip man for. That was his move.

Can't hold a tater chip down, man down. He was him for a while until they demanded he leave his wife, and then he would dump him. And that's all well and good till they both are at my wedding because Punkin is Andy's cousin. So Punkin and his family are at my wedding, and my aunt are at my wedding, and she's furious.

I'm like, what's wrong with Aunt Barb? Mom's like, oh, she's mad because Punkin's here. And I'm like, that's pumpkin? And he did look like a pumpkin. I don't know how he, you know, pulled all that off. I'm getting a checker man. Had a chip man, man. God damn, son.

I mean, dude. Depending on the exact hookup, somebody could get me access to, like, the fresh off the line still warm, like Cheetos or Doritos. I probably suck their dick, you know. Absolutely. There was a time I was saying you imagine.

Because you can't just get that. No. Those pickled Doritos, I couldn't find them for two years. It took me two years to find those motherfuckers. Now, I read on the, internet once and I immediately wished I hadn't read it. I think we talked about it on the World Red podcast.

This dude was on there and he worked at like a Frito Life Factory or whatever. And he was talking about how hard it hits to get like a Cheeto. Yeah, like off the line. Oh my God. I still hot from being cooked. And everybody was like, how do I do that? Can I pay money to take a tour to do that or whatever? He was like, no, they don't do that.

That's not a thing. You can't just do that. And ever since it's like quay ludes from the 80s. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? You can get them in Mexico. The whole of things I can't. I know I can't.

A treasure I could never possess. But we, I mean, we hit. Fresh Cheetos and Qualo. We could get Mexican qualo. I know you're kidding a little bit about sucking their dick,

but I genuinely, if someone, I know, I'm just saying, I'm not, I'm not kidding. I mean, I am trying to be funny,

but it's for real. If someone came up to me in there, like, hey man, I, all you have to do is suck my dick once a week. But what you, But what you get is

Butterfinger B-Bs legit old recipe, like I can get them for you and Waffle Crisp because you can't, those don't even exist anymore. If I get Butterfinger BBs and Woffel. He said once a week. He didn't even start out in the negotiation process with like once a year.

Yeah. It just restrict a weekly. I'd suck. Corey's like, I know what I said. Every time you bring them. I will suck a weekly dick to have these items back in my life. As long as I have unlimited access,

not have to, like, suck the dick and then be like, okay, where's my rations? Like, I can just keep accessing all these things, as long as once a week I check in. And then maybe he won't want,

won't you just suck his dick anymore. That'd be a wild thing. Like, you've got to lose weight for unless you suck my dick. And I'm like, well, maybe, you know,

quit giving me butterfinger beas all the time. Yeah. He's like, you've gotten too fat. I don't even, yeah. I don't even want this anymore. I wonder if that's actually how pumpkin dumped them.

I experienced by the, way that would mean I could suck dick better so. Practice, practice. So if I like it. It didn't do that way. All right, two things. First of all, we can get to pay with it to Mexico. We ought to do that.

Second of all, Trey, do you think one of them people from that Reddit thread who was like independently wealthy or living with their mama went and got a job? at Frito Lay just to experience that and then quit? Because that would be awesome. I would. I don't know. Maybe.

Wouldn't surprise me. You know, that would hit. Would it? That'd be worth it. So, but yeah, I think, you know, that, that burr bit, you know, he's like, where are those angels? And those, those women are just, you just take your day out on. You know, just, you know, just, you burnt the shit out of it.

Yeah. Just, you know, door mass. right? Is that what mama is? We don't need to go back to that. But yeah, but I'm saying there was like, there was just a real, real long time and it still like exists to some degree.

They became memos. It was like you sat, you know, she sat in there quietly learning how to sew while he didn't do a goddamn thing except for pay all the fucking bills. Yeah. Yes, but to be fair, the house cost $1,000.

Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah, no. he was a fucking turd farmer or whatever. And he could, you could have a third farmer back then could have a three-car garage. We all know it. But anyway, turd market ain't hit in a while.

But I'm saying, just that dynamic of, so the kids have gotten older, they're doing whenever the fuck they won't, because nobody really cares anymore. Or you know what I mean? Like, they're just kind of running wild

in a way that don't hit for either one of these parents. I'm sure the marriage has been loveless. they probably never really cared all that much for each other, got married when they were 17 and 18 or whatever, that type of thing, you know, and she just, she just been in there,

she just been in there getting frumpier every goddamn day. And he's in, and he's, he ain't hitting neither, not a lick. No. They don't have for each other. So,

you know, but that she wouldn't generally go and fuck around. Whereas, of course, he would. He stayed doing that. Yeah. And,

uh, you know, And that'll just, that'll eat away at your heart and soul after, you know, a few years of that type of lifestyle. And that's what you got going on here. Thank you, Tracy Lawrence. I don't mean to, I'm really still bad about even saying what I said earlier. I don't want to, I don't want to impart that my made mom pa's marriage was anything like that. Because I think my mama was just being sorry.

That's way more likely than, so yeah, I just don't want to. And on the other hand, you and this song have just described to a T, my mama's parents. I mean, especially when we get in this next verse, which we will in a few minutes. But damn, son, you was just laying it out. That was R.L and flow right there. And when she finally decided to stop being a fucking dormant, God gave her Alzheimer's. What a world. That's classic God, dude.

That is a classic God. All right. Before we move on in the song, this is something I've been saving a little bit. I have not mentioned who the songwriter is. That is a little bit on purpose because I didn't want it to get a sidetracked in the beginning. And now we're about to do a nice detour. This song was written by the incomparable, in my opinion, Robert Valentine Braddock, Bobby Braddock, who I think probably the greatest or definitely top three American country songwriters and producers. He's in the Hall of Fame.

He's in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has had some hits across 40. years and I think five decades because he started at the end of one and went all the way to the beginning of another but let me check to make sure at 67 Yeah, if you listen to Cocaine and Rhinestones Bobby Braddock is a constant

no matter what season or what episode or whatever you're listening to and if that's the case then you know someone's head to toe fucking legit. Well let's go through it just a little bit. His first big song was with the Statler Brothers in 67 and went to number 10 it was called Ruthless but he had already

had some lesser known hit as a member of Marty Robbins band. He was a piano player and one of Marty Robbins songwriter. His last hit was People Are Crazy with Billy Currington in 2009. Damn. Before that, he did, I want to talk about me with Toby Keith in 2001. He's still alive. He's 81 years old.

As far as I know, he is retired. He's from Lakeland, Florida. So that's one thing I wanted to ask you all about. This dude's a rad country piano player. He's got a good voice. Do you think in the 60s, if you weren't from the South and you had all this talent, they were like, well, you're a songwriter. We can't put you on the front, son.

You ain't from Texas or Kentucky. Or am I just reading too into it? He's from Lakeland, Florida. Yeah, but back then, man, if you think about the old school stars, none of them were from Iowa. I mean, Jerry Jeff Walker, I think, pretended to be from somewhere else. He was from Buffalo, New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He just sort of like adapted the, you. the Texas kind of lifestyle. And then, like, that became, like, yeah, quasi character. It's like, that's who Jerry Jeff is, but that doesn't make sense from a guy from Buffalo. So, by God, he's from, you know, New York. But, yeah, I mean. I mean, I'm not saying I know that. That's just a little theory I had.

And restate what you said exactly again. I wonder if you come to Nashville in the 60s. Yeah. Or in 70s and 50s. And you are talented and you have a good voice and you can play piano like this dude. I mean, he was good enough to be a Marty Robbins band when he, got there. Right. And they were like, you got good songs, but we're going to give you a publishing deal instead of a record deal because you can't be from Florida and sell records to my,

you know, to our fan base. Either that or he had, he just had no interest in that lifestyle. You know, I could see some. But he did put out his own records is why I'm not sure if that's true. But maybe. Yeah. I'm just saying I could see him being like, I don't really want to be the star. I want to be. Because like, you know, there's some, some of them writers type, it's like, I want to do everything but have to deal with the public and share. you know so I just would rather I mean I don't know I mean there could be a myriad of reasons but yeah I mean there's probably definitely what you just said has happened several times this motherfucker wrote he stopped loving her today well I was yeah I was saving that one yeah that's that's the penultimate I wanted to ask Tushar are you familiar with that song Tushar he stopped loving her today nope so it is argued by most people to be the greatest country in Western song of all times by George Jones was released in 1980 I'm so glad we get to talk about it and George and all the stuff.

Okay, so you don't know that song. What, what, Trey? That, so George, George Jones, you know, he used to fuck up a lot. He stayed drunk. Yeah, he couldn't get drunk and, you know, in his own way,

but which didn't hit for the world around him, generally speaking. It hit for, yeah, the world, just not the direct world around him. Yeah, like. people had to deal with him and stuff. Yes. But I don't remember exactly, he went through some shit at one point in his career.

He'd already been George Jones been hitting. And then it might have been when he fucking got arrested on that tractor or what something. One of the things happened with him and he went through some shit and was not in a good place. And his career was fucked up or whatnot for a little bit. And then he came back and his comeback, his lead comeback single was fucking. was fucking he stopped loving her today. And it's just, you just can't keep some of them down, God damn. Like coming back with that to just cement your, arguably the greatest song ever written is just,

I had also, I'm not to say. I think, Drew, you may can correct me, but I'm pretty sure that Tyler last week on cocaine and rindonesones was alluding to the fact that when he stopped loving her today, until they arranged it differently, it was almost like supposed to be a comedy of some kind. I didn't listen last week and I don't know that story, but I could see it. Yeah, yeah, like a dark comedy. Like it was never supposed to be like the most. Yeah, it is gut-wrenching and a little tragic comedy. Too short, I was planning to do this and I have some things for us to talk about while you do it.

And I want you to go listen to He Stop Loving Her Today in its entirety really quickly because, I want to take advantage of the opportunity to in real time get someone who's never heard that song as far as we know reaction to it and pull up the lyrics as you listen so that you can keep up with the story more easily and you don't have to do it separately because I want you to really experience what it is you can mute us or whatever you want to do I'll leave Sammy Kirshall did a tribute of it to it in the 90s if y'all want to just cheat and do a goddamn episode about sammy kershaw's version of he stopped loving her to today, you know, I'm for it. It feels wrong. It feels so wrong. You're trying to get in on that reaction video money.

Yeah, that's what so. I'm going to go. I'm going to go listen to it. All right. Should I take you off screen? Nah, he's on screen. We can watch his face. It doesn't mean, wow.

If he starts crying, that'll be great. Yeah. Wait, he can still hear us, though. That's the only thing I'm worried about. Oh, yeah, that don't hit. I don't know what to do about that. I removed him from the stream, stream four now.

All right. I'll come back and he's just like, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, it's fine. Oh, yeah. So he was sad. What a pathetic guy. I look so fucking pale and stupid and my lips are so goddamn red. Well, just so you know,

his arms ain't right. And for some reason, when I go this mode, my whole head and a screen. Yeah, and it's true. It is. That's why making show head looks small. What I wanted to talk to, size of Joe.

That ain't never happened. What I wanted to talk to you all about, or we can just talk about our heads if you want. What is Bobby Braddock still has a publishing deal. They say he's still working. He's 81. So he probably does a lot of co-writes. What does he do?

I bet that he goes in, and if he's still got the publishing deal, I bet he probably finishes a bunch of stuff or gives a lot of songs a once over. Like when some kid's stuck, he'll come in there and be like, hey, change this word to that word, you dumb. I mean, I'm making this up, but that's probably a lot of what a type of dude does. Yeah, I have no idea how none of that works.

Well, one thing I wanted to bring up, I don't want to take anything away from the man. He had to hit no one and it hit no nine, but he definitely slowed down. And obviously because he got old, obviously he got old, but I kind of wonder, this is maybe me wanting it to be true, that whole every generation, thinks the new country's garbage. Maybe the industry got so shitty that they ain't no room for somebody as good as him anymore. You know what I'm trying to say?

Yeah. Or in his one specific instance, it could just be. I mean, you know, you go on streaks where it's just... Yeah, my man didn't have streaks. No, no, no. I had hits every year almost. I know. I'm just saying, though, it's not like...

But my point is it's not like... That doesn't mean that guy couldn't have gone through a couple years where he was blocked and then was just like, well, gives a fuck, I've got plenty of money. Maybe. In my mind, it's either he just got old or the industry got so shitty he didn't want. It's both. Yeah, right, but then he said

he came back and did the Toby Keith fucking shit, so it's not like he was incapable. Yeah. Okay. And he didn't have another one for eight years. I just don't think is that weird that dude that got into his 70s, why, and country music is changing as much as we? Yeah, right. No, I'm with you. Like, he's like, fuck it, I don't have to do this.

That he wasn't, you know, the same thing he used to be after that happened. Like, I felt like that that all checks out, you know, and there's nothing really that weird about that. But it might not have been them being like, we're not fucking with Bobby Braddock, his stuff's not doing it right now. Instead of, it might have just been him being like,

I got plenty of money and I don't want to write for these fucking dips sheds. That's kind of what I meant. I didn't really mean them saying you're out old man. I meant like, and again, I'm maybe stretching because I hate current country music. I meant like, country music sucks

so bad, you know, that a guy like this, he can't write, he don't want to write hunky tonk, but don't. Yeah. Also, that's probably around the time he had grandkids too. You know. That's true. He might just be like, I miss my kid's birth because I was hitting too hard.

So maybe I'll be here for the... People are crazy. Did Go number one. I want to talk about me. He did go number one. Time Marches-on did go number one. Texas Tornado by Tracy Lawrence did go number one. He did get to leave on four straight number ones.

He may have been like, you know what. Yeah, it's good enough. Tishar, what's up, buddy? You back? Holy shit, that song's crazy. I tell you. It's rough, isn't it? The first girl that I ever told that I love her, she was, it was post-college.

Gay! My man's already, he's a nostalgia. Talking about a girl who broke his heart. Country music's doing it to the Indian outlaw. Man, I said, I said that to her. I was like, I finally said, you know, I love you. and she was kind of with another guy,

but I knew that. And I was like, I love you. And I told her that I would, I'll wait for her. And she was like, no, you won't.

And it just moved on. Are you saying, and you did? Because you are the single motherfucker I've ever known. I'm still waiting. This song made you think about that, girl?

Yeah. Some unrequited. Damn. Did you show an Indian girl? Indian girl. She has kids now. Get your parents to arrange a marriage. Yeah, yeah.

That's what you do. Yeah. Then they have to say yes. I'm pretty sure. Upgraded model. Yeah. Well, what do you think of us? He stopped loving her today.

What do you think of Bobby Braddock now? I mean, that's just a, uh... It's not my else. That's a deeply, deeply sad song. And, um, it's everything. I mean, it's about. you know, bitches, you know, fundamentally. One dish. Hey, I'm still

listening, but I'm gonna pay in this can. Thanks, I do, dude. Yeah, that's also a song about bitches by a Gypsy Speedboat. I'm still listening, but I'm gonna pay in this can. That's in the key of dick. All right, let's get back to the lyrics. I didn't put it together that she's like,

oh, that's, he did love her till he died, and then he stopped love her. All right. Finish peeing in the can before you start insulting me for being dumb. That's a good point, too, Shars making. All right, we get right, we're back and we're right into the bridge, as it were. The south moves north, north moves south.

The star is born, a star burns out. The only thing that stays the same is everything changes. There it is. Get it, Corey. Everything changes. You got a Tracy Lawrence thing where it's like a lot of it's up here. It's nasal. so deep.

It's, yeah. Tracy Lawrence was actually, when I was kid, he was the first dude. I realized that I could kind of like imitate, you know, and it was like, and it was kind of the same as doing like Willie Nelson, but you do get a little bit more, yeah, deep. So, yeah, yeah. I do Willie. On the road again.

I just can't wait to get on the road again. That's really good. You should be doing that instead of Travis Tripp from time to time, in my opinion. Thank you. Willie Wigg. But yeah, he's, Tracy Lawrence is very much in my register, which is the high nasally Alabama register.

Is he from Alabama? I don't know, but he just seems like it from. He's from Atlanta, Texas. Nice. Atlanta, Texas grew up in Arkansas, moved to Nashville when he was like 20 or 22 or something like that. Oh, hey.

Does he just know that? Fun fact. Fun fact. I clicked around on his Wikipedia earlier, but that's really all. that I know, Atlanta, Texas is closer to Atlanta, Georgia than it is to Dallas, Texas. That is a fun fact. I'd never even heard of Atlanta, Texas.

I was like, well, of course there's in Atlanta, Texas, you know, but I don't know anything about it. Yep. I thought that was a real fun fact. How? That's wild. Yeah, because Atlanta and Dallas are all the way on the other side from each other, and it's just... Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Dallas, it ain't over there by El Paso and shit. I don't know.

And obviously, Georgia's to the east of Texas. Don't call him out, dude. He had a fun fact. For the record, I didn't make it up. I didn't make it up. If it's wrong, it's because I heard a wrong thing. I bet it's El Paso. It may be El Paso, Texas.

I bet it is. Okay, right. The Dallas part might not be right. Yeah. There's a place in Texas that Atlanta, Texas is closer to Atlanta, Georgia than it is to that place in Texas. If this goes for three more paragraphs, he'll be furious. He's handling it pretty well right now. He started getting a little defensive, but yeah, I think it wouldn't be too far.

No, once I realized what you were, I thought you were just trying to, I thought at first you were saying the entire notion of what you're saying is bullshit, but you weren't. You were just disputing the Dallas part, and I was like, oh, right, I'm actually not 100% sure about the Dallas part. You know what I just threw Dallas out there thinking that's what I heard. But yeah, yeah, no, I'm maturing, God damn it. I'm the churned, God damn it.

Fucking piece of shit, yeah. All right, let's discuss this bridge before we burn to. South moves north, north moves south. Is that just an upside down, downside up thing? Or do you think that's a culture comment? Am I reading too much into that? No, I don't think you read too much into it at all. I mean, I do think it's a little bit of both,

but I mean, that literally was happening all that. I've got on both sides of my family, both of which, you know, originated in the upper Cumberland there, But on both sides of my family, I have great aunts and uncles and cousins and shit like that who are up in Indiana and stuff, who I barely know. Because they all moved. They all moved up there at the same time for work. Work. Back in, they moved to Detroit to work on cars back in that, you know, then.

Yeah, right. So that was a huge thing that was happening. And also North moves out of carpet beggars, you know. And when they retired. So like, yeah, coming down to be racist. They come down, you know, I was like, oh, you know what the good racism is at down there. I got to head down there before I die, get my racism in. That's what it was.

I'm tired of Detroit in the south. They don't let them have hammers. Yeah, I'm trying. I was meaning, though, culturally, your way makes way more sense. I thought maybe this was a commentary a little bit on like gone country, the Alan Jackson song. We're like Braddock is noticing that people in Indiana have rebel flags now, as we've seen. Yeah, right. And people in Nashville were probably starting to sag their pants in the 90s and listen to Nirvana or whatever.

Yeah. You're saying it's a melting my thing. I definitely always thought it was like, you know, people from the South moving up north into Detroit specifically, like to work on cars. And then like, I didn't even, it's funny because I didn't even think about the carpet bagger aspect. But of course, that's true. Mine was just like everybody from the North, when they retire, they move South. You know what I'm saying? They are, but I'm saying like, not everybody that moves south is strictly to, like,

rape the land. Sometimes it's just to buy a condominium. And be racist. And be racist. Of course, of course. Well, some of them are Jews. I don't think that they come down here just to be racist. Maybe.

Okay, but the Jews. Listen, let's talk about the Jews. Okay. Light it up. The Jews that come down here, you know, here in air quotes, they are going to Florida. I know. And their car broke down. They're going to the southern part of Florida.

They're a big part of the reason why the southern part of Florida ain't really the south. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Them and the Cubans. Keep going. Let's see where they're going.

Yeah, they're going to blame either one of them for that. Tried out and claim the Jews or the Cubans. I was just about saying, and I'm not sitting here saying, we shouldn't claim the Jews. That ain't what I mean. The Jubins. I did the Jubins down there in South Florida. It's not what I'm saying.

I don't really know what I'm trying to say. I get it. The Jews are not. It's why there's not really a southern culture there because it's not people that were, yeah, it's people that move there. And the Yankees and the other Yankees and other corporate backers or stuff to come to the other states,

I don't think they're generally, I'm not saying none of them are Jews. Yeah, some of them are Jews. That ain't where the Jews go. Yeah. I have lived in South Florida. I think you're completely right. I will only note that in the rural parts of South Florida,

there's a lot of farmland and rodeo type shit. But it's honestly more akin to Texas than it is the South. And I think it's because of Mexicans that have moved there since the 1960s and 70s. It has nothing to do with anything from before that, I think. There you go. Do you guys know any kind of redneck juice? We've met a couple, but I don't know them personally at our shows. Now, our buddy, Ban,

Yeah, I was going to say Wheeler. He's from Kentucky and is Jewish. He's not like super, he's not super rednecky dude, but he's, you know, pretty Kentucky. He's good at it, though. He's Wheeler Walker Jr., Tushar, if you're familiar with that gentleman's work. Oh, my God, am I going to have to make you listen to another song in the middle of this?

Yeah, leave and go listen to a fuck you bitch and come back. You will love, Tuchar, you will love Wheeler Walker, Jr. so much. We'll do that later, but do it. Don't leave. I can't believe. I mean, I can believe, but I'm excited that you're just now going to hear. Me too. I'm about to send you the best one.

You are going to absolutely. This is like a master class. Master class. Tim Blake, you know Tim Blake Nelson is too sure, the actor? Uh-huh. You definitely do if you see him, if you don't know, just by the name. He's a redneck Jew. He's from Oklahoma.

And his family is Jewish. There's quite a few Jews in Alabama. and we've met some of our shows. We met one in New York who grew up in Alabama. Remember, he rolled tight at us and said, he said, I'm an Alabama Jew. Yeah. All right. Well, anyway, the only thing that stays the same is everything changes.

Everything changes. I mean, that's obviously the thesis of the song. Time Marches on being the hook and everything changes being right here in the bridge. You know, I don't have to say it. It's great. It's phenomenal. Bobby Braddock, one of the greatest songwriters. all time. Bob Dylan, I ain't never

done nothing like this. Sorry. Agreed. Took your bitch, Joe. That's fine. All right. Last verse. Sister calls herself a sexy grandma. That's every one of my mom's sisters. Yeah, it's so great. Every single one of them. Brothers on a diet for high

cholesterol. Mama's out of touch with reality. Again, God gave Flo Alzheimer's. This song is my family. Daddy's in the ground beneath the maple tree. Only difference is we kicked him of the goddamn family. I don't know where he's buried

and I hope he's in hell. He's in hell, buddy. Don't worry. You said go, dog. He's in hell, dude. As the angels sang an old Hank William's song, I love that call. That's so great.

Tom Archon's on. Tom Marches on. So how old you think the kids are here? Because I know it's sexy grandma, but buddy, I knew a 37-year-old grandma and Salina. You know what I'm saying? Right.

I do. I did the high cholesterol part. I was just going to say 55, but I mean, you know. 55 and 60. Yeah. It's probably five years between them, maybe four. Yeah. Somewhere in the 50s, yeah.

And, yeah, I mean, yeah, well, it doesn't really say when the dad died. Is that present day in time march is on? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, up until when this song. Then it was 60s. So in the 60s, they're probably around 16 and 20 or something like that. And then now he's in present day, which is not. 1994, so it's 30 years later.

So she's 46 and he's 50. That's about what we're looking at. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Did the trash math. Which I mean, yeah, you plenty of people had to go on cholesterol medication earlier than 55 in the goddamn stuff. And of course, they become grandma's quicker because fucking, you know, because of how that goes.

Yeah. It's trash stuff. It works. Yeah. Yeah. Trash people, they get cholesterol goes shit early. Absolutely. It won't be long.

May neither, buddy. The other thing here that I wanted to point out, ain't it just the way that, inarguably, Mama still got the short end of the stick here? Yeah, yeah, of course. Daddy gets to be dead, and she has to be in her room.

Be there. Not knowing nothing. Yeah, just a fucking lunatic while her goddamn hippie son and whore daughter just run through the last of her $7 that she had. He still got feathers on her head on his head? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, man, don't hit. No mention of, of, well, no, never mind. I'm an idiot. Mama got to meet, I hope, her grandkids and great-grandkids. Maybe. Like, I hope that that brought Mama joy in between the depression and the Alzheimer's. She ain't been Alzheimer's up for 15 years or however long, you know, the daughter that has the baby that makes sister, the grandma.

I'm assuming she probably 15, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Team pregnancy, I'm keeping it trash. It was the 70s, dog. Absolutely. Yeah.

But either way, I'm saying the sister's child who now has a child, they've been around for at least 15, 16 years, maybe even more, not too much more. But anyway, my man had Alzheimer's for that damn long. No, it would kill you. Alzheimer's would have killed her by then anyway. And I agree. He probably got to make this no horror in the family. Yeah.

She takes after me. Well, all I'm saying is mama got to, I think, have some happiness between the depression and the Alzheimer's. I wouldn't go that far. That's a strong word. When she was literally making a sound. They do love kids. That's when she was having fun. Yeah.

Grandkids will do it. These dormats, as Trey named them, all of them, every one of them. Yeah, that was me. They definitely loved. It was, but. It was me. It was me. I did do that.

You were just saying you can't give yourself credit for the invention of the word doormat as it pertains to that way. Yeah, you brought it up today, but like, oh, hell, our daddy's called them doormats. Right. They did. Yeah. You know. Well, they love kids. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, they do. All right. Yeah. Yeah. formats. Is there a, you know, we got a Bollywood equivalent of time marching on here? You know, is there a Bollywood movie like The Godfather?

Because to me, this song is like the Godfather. It's spanning generations. There's not as much intrigue and death, but, you know. I can't think of something that, I mean, my knowledge of all of Bollywood, especially 90s Bollywood. All I know about y'all's stuff is the kind of like loud insane sci-fi stuff. I don't know any of y'all's like folky, more folky

music with like sitar's and stuff. I'm sure that would hit for me. I'm being, I know, no, with sitar's. How is it sci-fi? Yeah, what are you talking about sci-fi? Like, the Bollywood stuff that we see is always motherfuckers dancing on a ceiling

and stuff like that. I wouldn't call it sci-fi. I didn't mean sci-fi. You know what I mean? More futuristic stuff. Over-the-top insane shit. Yeah. You didn't want to say magic in-car.

Yes, yes. You know, I mean, everything I see is like, oh, this is like their pop. It's their pop shit. And shoot it at a castle and shit like that. Yeah, it's, right. But I don't know whatever y'all's version of fucking Bob Dylan is. I don't know who that guy is.

I do want to know who your version of Bob Dylan is. But first, Cho, I want to know if you were saying sci-fi to be polite, or if you think Indians dancing on the ceiling is a sci-fi. No. No, it's like literally I just meant like, Fancy and wild And like futuristic type Yes, yes, yes, yes

And sci-fi just can't, yeah, that's just what came out Shit that cannot happen in reality Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So there's a genre, a subgenre of music And not Bollywood, but just Indian music called guzzles And they are That sounds like a drink in Star Wars Guzzle you will

Is that Bucket's favorite genre? Yeah, but these are more. They're more like poetry, like they lean more on the poet poetry side that has these themes. But Bollywood is more, as I said, I've said before in an episode before. They're more tied to like Bollywood films. And Bollywood films, I mean, I'm sure I can ask my mom if there's something equivalent to like a life-encompassing thing. But there's certainly guzzle songs that aren't maybe as popular, but they addressed

something like this that is, but I don't, I mean, I've never done an analysis of any music on this level where I'm looking at this three part kind of full, as you say, Godfather thing. And it's, it's, I, I'm going to see if there's anything that I can throw out there and maybe bring it up when we post this, but like, I can't think of anything that, to answer your question, I can't think of it like this. But one thing I was thinking about during the analysis of this song is that it really is it's almost like the rise and fall of like the American

Empire maybe I'm looking too much into it but everyone on this like these people seem alone it's very sad this song is like we're trying like we're trying to find where the love is in between all this

because we have to presume there's some love happening but the daddy don't give a shit he started new families the brothers checked out I mean, it's just a... No, you're right about that. Like, again, it was ubiquitous when I was a kid. I knew I liked it for I felt like I even understood what the song was about.

Then, like, later, thinking back on it, I did not remember it as sad or depressing or hopeless or whatever you want to call it as it is. I just remember it's like, oh, yeah, it's like a nostalgic passing of time. You know, nothing we can do about it. the only thing that stays the same as everything changes, right? That was the whole thing with the song. I kind of forgot all the sort of, like, loveless. Death and lunacy, yeah. Futility of hope.

Yeah. And here is, you know, nothing, nothing seems to hit. Well, when you hear it as a young man, you're like, hell yeah, daddy, get it. You know what I mean? Drinking beer, fucking horrors, then I'm out. He smokes a lot. That sounds cool.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And only when you get a little bit older, you start seeing it from the woman's perspective. And you're like, oh, man. Yeah, yeah. This is going to be in a museum when China takes over. It's going to be like, look, American music. This is a reflection. So do you think this song's good enough to be in the Chinese Museum of American music?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. Bobby Braddock, dude. Exactly. And what rap song will they compare it to? I've thought about this quite a bit. Dear Mama, sort of. There's a song by Noss called Daughter.

that I had never heard before, but he talks about her posting pictures on Instagram. There's a whore element. His own daughter's kind of being a whore, but he has to deal with the fact that he used to be a whore. But it's tough. I couldn't find one that spanned many generations. And is indifferent to any one character.

Like, Dear Mama is about his mom and his relationship. And it's full of love. And as you pointed out, this one's full of sadness. Now, there's a lot of sadness in Dear Mama, but there's a lot of love. I've been sitting here trying to think of an exactly. for the past few minutes because I knew it would come up and I ain't got shit. What about life goes on by Tupac?

Or changes? That's about all his. I was sitting there thinking of changes and it's like, that's what I thought. But I was like, it's not as like obviously this isn't as intense, but like the whole theme of changes is that like it doesn't. It's right. Oh wait, I got one. I got one.

It's Tupac. Oh, here we go again. I ain't mad at you. And I ain't mad at you. It's about forgiveness. his young, he kills him, though. Right, yeah, that's true. And the last verse, he kills his friend because his friend's trying to mess with his drug game.

But it's all about growing up together. One goes to prison. The other is, like, it doesn't span generations, but it spans at least three decades. And it starts them as little kids and fucking each other's sisters and playing in the streets. Then their lives go separate ways. The way they're come back together is one's a drug dealer and the other one's a community leader now. And he kills the community leader because he's fucking up his drug game, which that's fucking dark. I don't know. Yeah, it's one of them.

Count it. I think that I think that daddy definitely woke up in the morning and asked himself if life was worth living or should he blast himself a couple times. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Looking at that shotgun. Yeah. Changes is so good. I can't

wait to do the hip-hop version of this podcast. I fucking totally do that. We can at least do like spin-off episodes and stuff for sure. All right. Let's give it a rating. I'll start with Trey because it's always annoying. It fucking is. Just on the note of the rap thing,

did you ever hear, Still a bitch by a little Troy? Still a bitch in my book? That was my brother's favorite song. That's like a 90s country song that was by rappers. That song is wild. Yeah. You know that song.

And you die a hole. You're right. Yeah. Still a bitch in my book. That's literally how they sing it. Okay. On future episode, we're at least going to start. We can do that.

We should cover that. Yeah. Because it, you know, it fucking works. It came out in the 90s. Anyway, I give this song a three. How about that? Yeah. We're doing thirds officially now, by the way, if you do fractions.

We're doing thirds officially because, you know, that makes sense. So it's either two, two and a third, two and two thirds, or three, lower, obviously, but that's not work. I don't think we're going to run any lower ones. Amy's backing off since probably the worst song. We might. Dude, eventually, yeah.

Well, because we're covering exclusively ones that we remember and like, we might get into it and be like, yeah, right. For me, it's a fucking three. Again, I know I'm that guy every week, but it's, it is. It just is. Like,

it just fucking is. It's great. I love this goddamn song. I've always been a sucker for very cinematic. I feel like I'm their songs. And like you said, I think that the fact that we all remember a music video for this, but there isn't one, is a testament to how good this goddamn song is.

Because I've seen it, and I bet you we've all seen the same thing. That's a really good point, Corey Forrester. That is six Earnhardt's, and I was going to go two and two-thirds until you made that point. I think I got to go three Earnhardt's. Thank you.

I'm going to go three. Two Earnharts. Twelve Earnharts. And what I loved about the song just acoustically is that it almost to me a country song is not a country song unless it has a weeping violin in there. If you're going to play in Texas, you have got to have a fiddle in the band. Thank you. That is what they say. That is a song also, Tushar, if you were wondering why he's screaming a. Tuchar, listen to the old violin by Johnny Pach. Oh my.

God, son. It might be sadder than he stopped loving her today. It goes too hard. It goes too hard. What's it called? Listen, that song drunk, you'll fall to pieces. Old violin. The old paycheck.

Dude, here's why it's sadder than he stopped loving her today because he stopped loving her today. I'm like, well, it's about a woman. You know what I'm saying? Get over it. And he chose. And he chose right. Old violin, man. Woo.

Yeah, do that. That's the greatest. Johnny paycheck is one of the greatest. names I've ever heard. Yeah. It's just ripping off John Cash, which is what's so funny. Yeah. Before I let you all go, here's a note from last week.

I wanted to, it's been more than a week. But the last episode, Strawberry Wine, I wanted to know on the podcast. In Florida, the age of consent is 18 years old. Okay. The space between two years. Hold on. The Romeo laws apply, but all the Romeo laws do is prevent you from having to register as a sex offender.

If you're 19 and she's 18, you can still, I'm sorry, 18 and 17, you can still get fucked. Let me very briefly note something too. Because I had some things I wanted to know about that episode, so since you've done it, what I never clearly said, because I was drinking,

but saying it now, we don't know where strawberry wine geographically takes place, correct? Okay, well, so my only point was I realized that in some places, the laws are different and it's illegal in some places. But in other places in the South, it's not illegal. We don't know where it takes place, so we don't have to assume that it's fucking rape.

We could just ignore that and move on. You did say that, but you also said, you don't know the laws. You don't know shit. That ain't true. Yeah, I just implied that. I said, anyway, yeah, okay, we're good. Hell, we're good. We got to go.

All right. We do got to go. Yeah, we got to get out of here. We got a thing. Seeing's next week, and we may have a special guest next week. Thanks to everybody. Publish out the podcast, and that's right. A show about country at a tight.

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