wellRED podcast - wellRED presents: BUBBA Under a Neon Moon

Episode Date: December 17, 2021

This week we go hard on heartbreak under a Neon Moon with arguably the greatest duo in this history of country music, Brooks and Dunn. Will "Neon Moon" become just the second song in Bubba history to get a perfect score of 12 Earnhardts? Not if Trae has anything to say about it. But luckily we don't let him talk.

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Explorers have literally died trying to reach her. She moves oceans, defines futures, and reveals our past. Many worship her. When the first man to physically touch her did so, he got choked up with emotions. There are dances in her honor, both ritualistic and from hip-hop, countless songs, photographs, tattoos. In short, she is a staple in the religion, art, or lifestyle of every culture, era, and human being that has ever existed. So of course, 90's country is no different.

Well, we're a little different. Our moon is neon. Because there's only one moon on this planet. There are at least two cowboys with perfectly feathered hair and pointing black boots who sing a perfect song about her in 1992.

It's Brooks and Dunday on Bubba Shot the podcast. Thanks for being with us. This is Neon Moon. podcast and that's right a show about country at its high don't expect no shit This is Bubba Shot the podcast

First The Facts. Today we're doing Neon Moon A song written by one half of the tree of the duo, excuse me, Brooks and Dunn, Ronnie Dunn wrote this song It was the third single off their debut album February 1999. The album was brand new man.

It was their third consecutive number one single on the American country charts and obviously was part of introducing them as the superstars they would go on to become. Gentlemen, I'm excited for a variety of reasons. I don't want to spoil anything, but number one is probably that we get to introduce to Shard, not just to this song, but also to the way brus apparently feel about it. Am I frozen?

Or is everybody just staring at me like that? You were kind of patroning in and out for me. I don't understand. like my in-laws have the best internet you can get here, which I'm still sure is terrible internet. I mean, I pretty much heard everything you said in the end, I think what you were trying to convey,

were you referring to the TikTok thing? We'll get to it later. There's a few things. That's definitely one of them. Well, there's at least two things. I think there was more. But I may need to change something.

Man, I'm sorry. You seem fine now. You seem fine now. I'll say that and then it'll fuck up again, but you seem fine now. You say Marr right now. All right, cool.

Well, let's start with Indian Outlaw. Indian Outlaw, had you heard of Brooks and Dunn before? I've heard of Brooks and Dunn, but I got it, I had it confused with like, that's either a band, country music band or a weapons, like a gun manufacturer, or they make cigarettes. Some whiskey, you know, like is one of those like. Vincent Weston, Winston, Winston, Salon. Yeah, yeah.

I could see it being like, I. It sounds like a high-end clothing company, too. Like, there's a lot of Brooks and Dunn sounds like a bunch of different types of white people shit, just depending on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's definitely lawyers. Yeah, for sure. Golf clubs. Yeah.

Got the new Brooks and Dunniner and, like, it all, that seems to. But outside of that, I did, you know, once I thought about it, like, I'm familiar with how, I think how these guys sound in general, like this type of kind of valid. I don't know if all their music is like this, kind of in the same style, but the style seems... Mostly is, other than Bootscook Boogie, which Ronnie Dunn also wrote. Didn't they, like...

I mean, there's something else. It's like, it's hard to hit much harder than Bruce and Dunhead in the 90s. They, like, didn't they win the... Duo or the year, like... They were, like, the... Eight years in a row or something like that. They were like the Braves. They were like the Braves with the pennant in the 90s, where it was just like...

Yeah, you just kind of knew. And like, I think we talked about that before where it's like, well, yeah, I mean, there wasn't a lot of country. There was several country duos, I guess, and like, you know, they had Montgomery Gentry to go up against. But then this album, like, I heard the other day, you said this was on the same album as brand new man was on, which like my, I mean, I had no idea that these two songs were on their like first. That's buddy. That's crazy. It goes, it goes farther than that. Yeah.

Like, fucking lost and found, which I almost. song. Well, I almost suggested Lost and Fame when we were talking about Brooks and Dunb. I was like, neon moon hits too. And also in my head, I was like, Lost and Found is pretty similar to Amy's back in Austin. Thematically, I thought, but Neon Moon's got some of that too. But Lost and

Found's incredible. It's on there. And probably their biggest, like, hit, which is just, you know, their biggest pop country hit, but fucking Boots Scootin' Boots on this album, too. So, yeah. I heard as well as my next broken art. That's their debut out, and it's their debut album.

Like how much harder you hit out the gate that this album did, dude. I heard an interview the other day with, I think it was just, it was just Kicks Brooks, and he was talking about their debut album and how him and Ronnie had like just met. And they were both songwriters and they were kind of like, they weren't necessarily put together. They just met and then it's like, oh shit, we hit together. No, they were put together. Oh, word. Was that the situation?

I know that they got, I know, I know that they got like put in a room together. and Ronnie Dunn was like, hey, I've got this song, I'm born to love again. I'm a changed man. And Kicks Brooks said that his writer instinct started kicking in. He's like, I wanted to tell him brand new man would fit so much better, but I was afraid that he would kick the shit out of me. But I said it, and then boom, the rest is history,

which I thought was interesting. That is interesting. So I read up on some interviews that were put together. It was one of those situations where they were both solo artists. done had some hits-ish nothing major but like had a career or was starting to have a career I can't remember I think it was Sony was the first group that they were both signed with and an exec at Sony basically forced them to be together without forcing them to be together it was one of those conversations of like this is what I want y'all to do I can't make you do it

but without me helping you out what's really going to happen to you in this town you know so they were very much co-workers. And then there's been persistent rumors throughout the year that they don't get along, but they have said in interviews that we're like brothers. You know, we're co-workers and brothers, and this is our family,

and we go on vacation together and stuff. So, you know, we don't know where that came from. But obviously they figured it out. Now, one thing that's interesting about this album, Trey just listed all the hits, and I checked, and I'm not trying to besmircham, man. I was just curious. about jealousy in the group and whether or not all that stuff was, you know,

if they were being true or not, I checked their first four records. Brooks, as far as writing by himself, has never written a hit, at least in the first four records. Now, he's written them without Dunn with their producer, Cooks, but Dunn has written numerous hits, including Neon Moon by himself and Bootscoop. movie on this first album. I didn't know. I never even knew that it hits for me knowing that both of them are right.

Their own shit. And that at least half of, at least one half of Brooks and Dunn wrote Brooks and Dunn's songs. Because like that, you know, we've talked about that levels them up. For sure. I mean, they already hit super hard knowing that they were also writing the songs is huge to me because that was pretty rare in radio country as we've discussed before. So that's, I mean, that's fucking awesome.

I didn't even know that. Well, you don't misunderstand me. My apologies. Brooks wrote the songs, too. He just hadn't gotten a huge hit by himself. He's written huge hits with Dunn, and he's written huge hit with their producer without Dunn, whose last thing was, did I say, it's Cook, Don Cook.

And, you know, they kind of operated like a band, like the Beatles. Like, I mean, you know, not to make them country's Beatles. which is probably Garth Brooks, but they did operate that way. Different samuraiists, writing them together, writing them by themselves. And they had a little,

you know, they had a little John versus Paul thing going on. It's funny. You say that about Country's Beatles, and I'm sitting here thinking, I'm like, yeah, Garth Brooks would probably, I mean,

you know, the biggest one for sure changed the game. And it just kind of now occurred to me that like duos and solo stars are kind of the norm in country and like bands are not really I mean there are some like there's lone star and stuff but like I'm in Rio but like those are very much like there's not as many of them and usually one of the people breaks out or whatever but usually it's like George Strait George Jones like not a lot of country bands you know reason why I think is if you're great at music and you

go to Nashville you're going to start getting work pretty quickly it happened to my buddy He's a still pitto player and he was torn with Miranda Lambert three weeks after he got there. So don't go through the trenches as a band because you don't have to. They put a songwriter with a band and then he's the front man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny because that makes so much more sense than what I was about to say because I was going to be like, y'all think it's like some cowboy stuff, like the, you know, the lone cowboy, like, It goes back to just, you know, cowboy with a guitar by himself.

It's like, so it's just sort of evolved that way. That's the same thing in a certain way, because it's like, I want to be in a country band. Yeah. I'm from Oklahoma. I know one good guitar picker, but he moved last week. Where'd he go? Fucking Nashville.

Well, like, and back in the day, too, like, some of them didn't even play guitar, like, it wasn't even a pre-rector that you had to play guitar. Like, when you watch, like, old George Jones and Conway Twitty stuff, like, they just got one of them long, slender mics in their hand, and they may as well be fucking Tom Jones, but it's just their singing country. You know what I mean? Yeah. I had a question about, like, real quick, the, I didn't know where these guys are from, and if I, when I guessed where they're from, I don't know for some reason, maybe it's the album cover, but I thought it was Texas. I would be like, these guys from Texas. And when I looked

it up, they're actually from Tennessee, right? Or no. No, one is from Texas and one is from Louisiana. And the part of Louisiana that's supposed to Texas. But I guess the band is from Tennessee because they formed in Nashville. Right. That's like how,

that's how most of that goes with country music. But yeah. But I guess my larger question. To answer, to respond to both of y'all's points, Trey and two charers, Ronnie Dunn's got cowboy tattooed right there. That's.

Yeah. I felt like there's more of a cowboy vibe from these guys than the other. It's country and red. For sure. Western. Okay. Can I want of you to pull the lyric real quick? Because my

wife is singing and for some reason, knowing I'm doing a podcast, she's chosen to do it one room over. And I'm going to go tell her to please move. So if one of you would read the first verse and chorus, that would be dope. I'll do it. Thank you, Tray. I'll do it on my phone here.

Because I've got y'all When the sun goes down. Oh, look at that. Too sure, it doesn't do it. out of town. Keep going. Oh, that lonesome feeling comes to my door, and the whole world turns blue. Absolutely beautiful.

There's a rundown bar across the railroad tracks. I got a table for two way in the back where I sit along and think of losing you. Beautiful. So. The amount of self-loathing in country music. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, they're not allowed to talk to a therapist, so they just hate themselves in G, C, and D. You know what I mean? Out loud. Yeah, and it's a trope for us to blame ourselves. There's also a trope of blaming the woman. You know. And the bottle.

It's a trope. But also, she left me and it's my fault or because I'm worthless is another trope. And this one's really set in the scene for this. that for sure um my side of town do you think there's a little bit of you know she's from the better part of the tracks probably going on here yeah yep he was never good enough for her no he knows it yeah she's over on the north shore and i'm over here and you know he did not have her daddy at all no that's another that that that theme comes up a lot too is like someone just maybe they hit otherwise, but they don't hit for someone's daddy, and that's enough.

Yeah. No, dude, Tommy never hit for Katie's daddy at all. No. He was a haysead without a row to hoe, you know, so it's a dumb piece of shit. And then, and then, of course, Katie's mom was like, you're also a dumb piece of shit. What are you talking about? Yeah, but I stuck with you, and now we've got a dumb piece of shit daughter. It's going to make the same goddamn mistake.

Yeah, yeah. And so it goes. Dumb piece of shit jeans I hate that I missed that episode It's not true I forgot you weren't I wasn't even thinking about the fact that you weren't here for that But yeah

For Corey let's say that this is Tommy And Katie decided to leave him Yeah yeah Yeah all right Now that makes me sad I don't think about that Katie and Tommy made it man That's the thing that I always want to do

Is like I've always wanted to All those like country love songs I've always wanted like All right now write the 10 year later song about this same motherfucker. Did not make it. Now, she, they both thrice

divorced by now. Yeah, absolutely. But so on this first verse, fucking, I got a table for two way in the back where I sit alone and think of losing you. That's fucking

that's rock solid songwriting right there, but absolutely. You're great. Very evocative and, you know, efficient. Yeah, that's true, man. Like, this whole, like, this whole, the first three lines in here packed so fucking much. Like, it's so succinct.

It seems like, we're not an ounce of fat on that shit. Right. And it's like, a lot of times when we do this, it's the first time I've really analyzed, like, country lyrics. Because, like, these songs were huge when we were kids. I know every single word to this song. But I never really never, right.

Yeah, never really. And I know what generally the song is about, but I'm saying never really sat and looked at and you're right, like how much shit is packed in there, how much you can infer from a lot of this stuff. Like, there's a lot going on here, man. There's depth to this. Yeah. Genuinely.

It's pretty cool. Now, the music video, there's definitely depth to it. The music video, and I think, you know, who knows why they chose it. But I think it's interesting that it's just a shot of the band. It's just different shots of the band. They're not cutting away to the bar. They're not, it's like, well, the lyrics are good enough. You got your own bar in mind.

The bar in your town, where you drank, because she broke your heart, that's where we're at. And I'm not going to put that image in your head. And look, I'm sure it was because they had six hours to make the video between the story. But I'd like to believe it was an artistic choice. Yeah, it's like how Stan Lee said that the reason that they gave Spider-Man a mask, because it was one of their first actual masked heroes that said, the reason he gave Spider-Man a mask

is because he wanted every kid to be able to picture themselves as Spider-Man. Like, anybody could be in there. So I would like to think that creatively they were like, no, we don't need to, we need to be, we need to be. I believe that. This is an aside, obviously, but didn't they kind of do an homage to that in Spider-Verse? Isn't there like that scene in that store where they kind of allude to that sort of idea and it has to do with Stanley?

He's the guy. Yes, they did. Absolutely. I want to throw it to an Indian outlaw real quick. And what about these haircuts, specifically Ronnie Duns? Now, when you were watching this video, did that strike you? The mullet feather is back, so it might not be as jarring as it would have been six years ago. But this man had some hair.

Which one had Brooks always had the hat? That's kicks Brooks, yeah. Okay. Yeah, the hair, the last video's hair was the most startling. I've said this before, and it's going to come up a lot because we're doing a 90s country podcast, but people's hair back then was like our sweatpants nowadays in that both men and women wear the same ones. You know what I mean? Like an aunt and uncle could have the same barber back then.

It's a feathered mullet. You both look the same. You both look like you're on your way to Olin Mills to get that glamour shot. It's tremendous stuff. What's Theo's joke about it? I think he opened his last special with it. I don't think he called it genderless. I think he called it.

He didn't say trans. He may have said gender neutral. I don't remember. The mullet? His particular mullet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it is. Yeah, it's definitely an aunt and an uncle thing.

But also, I think Ronnie Dunn, he's got a little bit of that. Marty Stewart, a little bit of that. Yes. I would have went into rock and roll, but I grew up in Texas. Texas in him. His hair, you can tell you spend a lot of money on it. He wears makeup. His motherfucker's wearing an eyeliner.

You can tell he's wearing an eyeliner. I thought he was gay growing up and not like a... I was clear. I was like, oh, that dude's just not a lot of talk about it. Yeah, that's fine. How old were you when you thought this? I mean, probably 12. I probably didn't think of that.

That's hilarious. Which ones was... Some of these dudes absolutely was gay. For sure. I'm not... Statistically. 90s. Well,

I mean, Randy Travis, he was out there sucking truckers' dick, right? I don't think that was so much a gay thing

as it was a necessity thing. Because he had to suck a trucker's dick. I think he was, wasn't he doing, what is just he was doing drugs and he wanted more drugs?

Wasn't that the Randy Travis? Oh. Yeah, he was sucking trucker's dick for meth. I could be wrong. I thought he was doing it for love of the game.

He was also running around butt naked. Yeah, dude, Randy Travis, he went through some shit for sure. But I thought, running around

butt naked don't mean you suck dick. automatically, especially if you've got millions. That's true. I'm mostly just trying to head. The running around butt-necked was me saying, I think I'm not, I don't necessarily think he was just like,

I would like to suck your dick. It was just like I'm insane. And by the way, you don't have to be insane to suck a dick. You can, you know what I mean? Like that, I just couldn't believe he ran out of forever and ever amen money and had to put a dick in his mouth. That makes me good.

Yeah. Right. That's what I'm saying. So we, like, I'm not at, the last thing I would ever do is. Trey Fress to y'all. besmirch the good name of Randy Travis. What, am I here?

You're here. Okay, I thought Corey just asked if something fucked up. Was he not frozen to y'all that whole time? No. Talking about me? Yeah, I could see y'all moving and but Trey was like... Corey's... That right there.

Corey's got that filter on. His computer thought she was talking shit about Randy Trey. Anyway, I would never ever besmirks a good name of Randy Travis. I don't think that's what we were doing. What are we talking about him sucking dick. for math. That's fine to do. It is fine to do. It's a lifestyle choice for sure, but I just remember us having it first of all. Hey, Siri, did Randy Travis suck a trucker's dick for meth? I'll find out. I do want to finish this aside and make sure we end up on the right side of this here.

On a previous episode, I thought of Bubba, but maybe it was well read. I can't remember. What would she say? Would Siri turn up? The first thing was Morgan Wallin's N-word proves he's unworthy of praise. Like, I don't know why that was the first thing that it popped up, but that cracked me up. Head of the broker group says truckers can blame themselves. I don't know what series trying to get. That's hilarious. So on some not too long ago episode of something, I know we were talking about this because I remember Corey bringing up, he was like, he was like, buddy, imagine being a trucker at a truck.

Imagine being a gay trucker at a truck stop. Yep. And you get to fuck Randy Travellinger. Travis is, but it's like, it must be my birthday. God, that's going to by hitting the lottery, the parking lottery, dude. I know what it was. So, but isn't there something to that? It was this podcast inaugural episode when we introduced To Shard to various country stars via pictures,

and one of them was Randy Travis's mugshot in which we discussed how he was caught but naked amongst truckers who are known to frequent truck stops and fuck people by giving them money or drugs. So the conclusion that had been reached by a lot of America was that he was out there, you know, doing meth and having gay sex. And other people were like, well, no, he was just doing it for the drugs. And other people were like, he's got Randy Travis money. He was doing that for fun. Okay. But has it, was it confirmed?

I mean, he was negative. We got a confirmation on that? Okay. I'm reading an article right now. There's an article, and I read you one of the comments. Oh, so now all of a sudden Randy Travis is gay. He was on King of the Hill, for God's sake. And even if he was gay, who gives a shit?

He's a badass country music legend. How many other country stars have had personal troubles? That one is, you're not going to your dad talking about old wrestlers. rumors that they were gay you know but um it wasn't me and you were talking about we'd let fuck us in the butt and it didn't hit for him

literally like we were visualizing the rock and Eddie George having sex or whatever in front of your dad just to like upset him and you pointed out you were like yeah you were like yeah and a couple days after that he had a heart attack now we Bubba shot the podcast

has no official opinion on whether or not Randy Travis is gay. But I will say, if I was his wife's lawyer, I'd win that divorce settlement on the fact that we've got. We are very pro fucking butts on this show. For sure. We're not casting aspersions at all. I'm also not trying to spread, you know, untrue gossip. I just know that it had been purported at one point or another that Randy Travis is fucking butts. And that's fine, whether he is or not.

But I'm saying some of these dudes was absolutely fucking butts. Yeah. Absolutely. Drew thought you remember that Clay Aiken. those fucking butts. There's a real... Yeah. I mean...

Yeah, but he... That's like his whole thing. His whole deal. Wait, wait, wait. I didn't get my plays wrong. I did my plays wrong. What's the guy who does, uh... This guy who does beer goggles.

The song? Yeah. Uh, fucking deuce Bigelow's in the video. I don't know what you're talking about. Wear goggles. Clay Travis? Clay Travis. Neil McCoy.

Neil McCoy. Sports rider. Neil McCoy, yeah, I'd heard that. There's a rumor that... There's a rumor. There's a rumor, yeah. Yeah. I think there's a rumor with a lot of them.

The rumor that's a Murray Stewart and... Randy, Travis Tritt. Yeah, I just think that's a Corey rumor that his uncle told him, though. It is. Who's the first? Yeah, that is for sure. I've seen them. Is there a first country music artist who came out?

Well, you know what you mean? Like, Orbel Peck was... out from the beginning and does country music, but doesn't really do it via the Nashville industry. No, there's a few like Americana or whatever, you know, not mainstream.

You won't be surprised by this. The lesbians are a lot easier for the people to take than the game. Yeah. Katie Lang, that was fine, you know, right from the jump. Well, all right, let's get back in the neon. Wait, I just want to say one thing. One more thing about this first lyric. It's, it kind of,

it kind of it connects with in the way I guess all good songs do but I guess this country song where there's a guy the sun goes down and his sadness comes to his door which is like I mean it's kind of beautiful

and he's like personifying sadness which is just a it's hard to do to make you know to pull it off in a line and then the sun goes down he goes to some shitty bar gets a table to it's it's it's it's a lot. There's like a whole video in this one first part of it. So I don't know.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm also jealous because my sadness show up first thing in the morning. Uh-huh. It's not way to it. It stayed the night, huh? Absolutely. It only really starts to dissipate around about dusk for the most part, you know, if that even happens. But yeah. I like to, yeah, some piece of flip-flop. Some people, you know, it's one way or the other. I'm a, I'm a sadness at night guy. I'm both. That's the second show. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, encore. Sadness 24, seven, baby. Yeah. All right, we got three more. That's my sadness, right, at 11 o'clock. Yeah, don't forget the matinee.

Neon moon and neon rainbows have become sort of cliches or tropes in country music. Do you guys know or have any sense of, did Ronnie Dunn coin this phrase right here? Or had that been around the bar culture for a while? I don't know. I had no idea. Yeah, I mean, I don't... Yeah, for sure. And those are two of my all-time favorite country songs

as Neon Moon and chasing that neon rainbow, which put a pin in that, we got to do that fucking song. But yeah, I don't know. I don't really... Every time I hear it, this is what I think of. Me too. And, you know, as 90s country makes comeback, you know, we shared that article among ourselves

with the Gen Z or whatever. Neon Moon clothing, neon moon, like, hashtag Neon I mean, it's a big thing. This is the only thing that's coming to mind. It's not exactly the same thing, but it definitely predates both of these. As a unfortunate Raiders fan, I know that there's part of the Raiders' lores

that Kenny Stabler used to study his playbook by the light of the jukebox, they said, in the bar there or whatever. And that goes back to like the 70s. So my only point is, like, the idea of being of, the lighting and a bar being neon and, you know what I mean, and like seeing things or that light or whatever, I think has definitely been around for as long as neon has been in bars.

But, like, in terms of calling it the light of the neon moon or whatever, I don't know. That's probably from this song. I wouldn't be surprised if it's, yeah, this is the origin of it. Hopefully somebody lets us know. I just know in my heart that that Kenny Stabler story was, Kenny, what the hell was you doing in the last night of the bar? Told him a playbook coach.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, dude. You can't even see in there. You can see if you're seen over by the jukebox coach. Absolutely. I'm sure it was some shit like that. They also said, like, you know, some weeks he would even be sober by half now. Still hit like a motherfucker, though.

God, damn. Absolutely. They rule. All right. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah, let's get back into these lyrics. Did you guys go through the chorus now if you lose your one? We did not.

All right. I spend most every night beneath the light of a neon moon, which is kind of the end of every verse, and the chorus hit you. Now, if you lose your one and only, there's always room here for the lonely to watch your broken dreams dance in and out of the beams of a neon moon.

Dude, like on God, this is obviously something that we bring up all the time, and we'll continue because of the huge, as you say, drew barbecue flavored chip on our shoulder, but just the first verse, and that part of this right here is every fucking bit as

poetic as anything Bob Dylan ever did. And I love Bob Dylan. That is not shitting on them. I'm just saying any motherfucker out there who is trepidacious to say, oh yeah, country music is an art, fuck you, listen to that shit, put that on a goddamn t-shirt,

sell how many, see how many, See how many you fucking sell. That is unbelievable. People have been selling them a lot. A lot. Dion Moon is a whole thing. Like I said, it's a hashtag and all that. Now, to snowball off that and preach, we're raising an offering right here.

If we had a donate button, we'd bring it up. To Shar, I'm about to show you, you already talked about how you see these guys as Texan more than Tennesseean, and you were correct. And, you know, there's country music and there's. Western music. And I'm not smart or educated enough to really get into the real details, but I know the cowboy music. Oh, I do. I know. You know what you have to do to play it. In order to

play in Texas, you just got to have a fiddle in the bag. That's what they say. Mary Shaghan. But Swing, Texas Swing, is a style of music that was a little bit more upbeat. And we lost Corey for now, but hopefully we'll get them back in a

minute. This song has a lot that in it. And it's, even though it's a sad song, it's one of the more upbeat tempoed sad songs in the country music world that I've heard. I noticed that it was like, this is a sad ass song, and it's

about a singular subject, and yet you can dance to it. Like with the later. We're talking about the swing in this song and how unique that is in the country world to have a upbeat tempo, it's slightly, not real fast,

with the sad song, and I think it's rad and I'm not the only one. I want to show Tushar. One of my favorite videos. I'm going to have to screen share. I think I know what this. I don't know nothing about none of this shit either. We about to get into the kids.

It's great. I don't know anything about any of this. So I'm fascinated by it. All right. Let me share my screen and see if I can do a window. Can you guys see this? Yeah. It says click to exit full screen right now.

Oh, you can't see it where I went in the full screen? Do y'all? Can you see? Can you see that? Well, yeah. See the, yeah. We can see your entire window. Right.

Yeah. But when I click full screen, it says click to escape full screen? Yes, it doesn't actually show the video on our end for whatever reason. I guess just play it in this. Yeah, here we go. Fat Tony. That's fun. That's fun.

Different video that I didn't play because it wasn't as good of quality. Went viral, but Fat Tony doing that literally at a brunch, like at a pretty pack bar, but no one was there to see him. And as best I can tell, from going viral and having talent from his neon moon remix, Fat Tony now has a touring career.

At the beginning of this video, I didn't want to show too much of it than getting, trouble with our copyright people. He says, let's get back to our roots, back when Fat Tony didn't have nothing. And he hit him like a moon. And you watch all these 20-year-olds go fucking nuts over Neon Moon. It's pretty rad. Is Fat Tony just like a girl-talk situation?

I didn't look too far into it, but as best- Say, huh? Yeah, he's a... Is Fat Tony like a Girl-Talk situation? Meaning he mashes up existing zone. You don't know who Girl Talk is? Maybe I've heard you talk about it, but not like... I can't think of a, I don't think so.

I can't believe Cory Fortune. I know, me neither. Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold. When y'all were sending stuff in the thread a couple weeks back of like mash-up songs, was that Girl Talk? No, but it's kind of what he did. When Girl Talk got brought up in that, when that was happening for sure, because that's exactly what Girl Talk did.

He was huge for a while, but I mean, you know. You'd be surprised with how much I don't know. Well, I think, Trey, that he is like Girl Talk. I'm not super sure, but it really hits for me. I'm not 100% sure this is true, but in my mind, I have concocted that his mashup of Blow the Whistle and Neon Moon is what launched Fat Tony on the Internet. What's the deal with TikTok and Brooks and Dunn or whatever? We're about to get to that. I'm saving that one.

I mean, we can do it now. I was going to go back to the lyrics for a bit. but I guess I first wanted to just talk a little bit more about the music and that beat. I mean, again, a sad song with up to, I mean, you see it, you hear it in pop with like the slips or whatever. Pumped up kicks and, yeah. Yeah, but country music, it's like, don't, don't, and real slow, and then you sang about how sad you are. But they did it with this swing beat, and I'm really impressed by that, and I love it. Yeah, I too loved it.

You know, this is like, hey, yeah, but in. before Tushar asks his question later, I'm going to preemptively answer it. Hey, y'all is the neon moon of rap music. Just in that, it's about the dissolution of a relationship, and it's brutally sad, except it's upbeat and you can dance to it. So there you go, Tushar. Solved it all right.

Tuchar, you don't want to hear me. You just want to do racist jokes. Which one's Big Boy, which one's Andre 2000? Ronnie Dunn is definitely Andre 3000. Yeah, that's what I was going to. I said. He's flashy. He's weird.

Right. He is why the band stopped playing together. They didn't break up. They just didn't want to do it for a little while. He also just featuring on people's songs all the time now unexpectedly. And now with the benefit of hindsight, we realized that kicks Brooks hit harder than what we thought he did at the time. Yes.

Yeah, it was a nine versus a ten situation. And back then, you were like, you're not a ten. You don't hit. Exactly. But he was nine. Mm-hmm. All right. What's that?

More lyrics? Yeah, let's get to some lyrics. I missed whatever happened. I say something stupid. Two charts are a private. A private message. Yeah. And I'm out in them.

Yeah. What are you saying? Onside power. It's extra funny coming from Trey because Trey's he's always like, we've got to do an interview in the morning. You're a bad liar, Trey. You know what's super funny about that is he's done that twice, which is not one once, but...

That's not true. He's done that a lot. All right. Verse two. I think of two young lovers running wild and free. I close my eyes and sometimes see you in the shadows of this smoke-filled room. No telling how many tears I've sat here and cried, or how many lies that I've lied. Tell him my poor heart. she'll come back someday.

Oh, but I'll be all right. As long as there's light from a neon man. It's amazing. Bob Dylan's such a sack of shit when you think about it. You know what I mean? Why couldn't you make any of them goddamn sappy shit's dancing? Yeah, like them head. That's more impressive.

For sure. Yeah, you fucking sing to the heart of the working man or whatever. Yeah. everybody's it's easy to bum people out when you got a fucking out of tune guitar you know what I mean like i'm doing famously went electric at the newport folk festival and changed his whole thing and then went number one and didn't hit for it didn't hit for me yeah no you're right and i don't mean in my marriage trust me i'm not a bob Dylan fan compared to the people who consider themselves bob Dylan fan oh i love the guy i'm just saying brooks and done is objectively better

sure. I can do that. Yeah. It's so much harder. Too sure. How do you feel about that? Uh, oh, I just want to say like the, this, this video, I think the reason they made the video so straightforward of just a band playing in a cool room was that to paint the picture with video,

especially this verse, would be fascinating from an artistic perspective, but it'd be such a bummer. Yes. Like it would take away from like how. Like how fun them song is if they had to fill a smoke-filled room with a dude just staring at a neon, you know, like that would be- Probably right about that. Well, it's also like, I really like watching movies if I've read the book and they're both good. But I don't like watching the movie and then going back to the book. If that makes sense, because it's like-

Make sure God's how much the movie don't hit, yeah. Yeah, it's like, so I like both. I'm not one of those people who's like, you've got to read the book. But there is something special about reading the book first and your own brain. creating this picture from the writer. And I think I agree with you. We got that going on here from Sir Ronnie Dunn. He's been knighted.

I've decided. Has he real? Oh, shit. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need an equivalent of that. We have a colonel, but that's just Kentucky. Yeah, I'm one of them.

Yeah, Corey's one of them. You're sent us that. Is it real? That's real. Arnold? I just assumed you had to go to a thing to get it. Like, I didn't get that you would get one. I just was like, you didn't even have to show up.

No, but I have to. So I do have to, and I'm having an appointment. appointment set with the governor of Kentucky because only the governor of Kentucky is allowed to know and tell you why it is that you've been made a colonel. So like I have to do a thing. All right. Yeah, but I am one, but I have to like talk to him to find out exactly why it was that I hit for him so hard because he's the only one that can make you a colonel. Right. What's a colonel? And I presume it's spelled with a K. It's the highest, it's just the highest rank you can be in Kentucky as a civilian. That's hilarious. I just got that as

I was talking. He did not give a fuck what the answer was. He just wanted to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a state-appointed, uh, I have the highest rank a civilian can have in Kentucky. It's no big deal, but it is true. Now, you did make sure it didn't say fried chicken in the prime grant, right?

Yeah, because I wanted it to. I was fucking pissed off. I was like, oh, man, I thought I got a franchise. Lord, that would hit. So hard. Changes. Oh, my lord. You wouldn't even be here.

No, I wouldn't be here right now. They've got to 2 million a year every KFC in country at least. On a national level, we give out them medals and shit, but they don't come with titles, though. I mean, like a southern, there needs to be a southern knight. I guess they're. We wouldn't even get. No, that's a bad. God damn.

Southern nights. I don't. Yeah, I know. That's been tried before, in a matter of fact. It has been. It has been. But there needs to be a ceremony. Maybe some wizards.

Some wizards. Some wizards in the middle. Yeah. I hate to say it, but it's too easy. Night power. There you go. I don't even think we need to have an debate of what is the South. Like, would Texas be involved?

They'd be like, no, we want our own fucking thing for the 50th goddamn time in their existence. Yeah, right. All right. Let's lyric it up, I think. Now, again, we've talked about this before. It's been my main complaint. I prefer three verses. We got him from Ronnie.

Ronnie did not fail me. He completed the story. The Jew box plays on, drink by drink. And the words of every sad song seem to say what I think. And it hurts, and it's hurt inside of me,

ain't never going to end. But I'll be all right as long as there's light from a neon moon. I'm a big fan of sad songs referencing sad songs, whether it's specific ones

or general ones, I like that. You like sad songs like so much by Elton John? Yep. John does it. It's not really sad, though, but it's just literally a song

about what you just said, basically. That song kind of slaps, though. It sounds a banger. It's not sad at all. By Elton, John, I can't believe it. Well, I used to say, Elton and his writing partner, they were kind of known.

Barry Topping. Bernie Topman. Yeah, I thought it's Bernie. It's Bernie Topping, yeah. Bernie Topping. That's a guy whose name sounds like what he wants to do. Yeah. I mean, we knew the story in the first verse, right?

We knew what happened. I guess it was possible that this could go somewhere. It could be like that music video better off in a pine box where you end up at the wedding. But there's nothing like that here. It's just three straight verses. Yeah. She gone. She ain't getting her back.

I ain't getting her back. She ain't ever coming. And I'm just going to sit here forever and never stop hurting. What this song really does well is what Amy's back in Austin didn't do. Amy's back in Austin set up all these things of like, I don't know what she's doing. And it was tough, but I wasn't in her head. This was like, that bitch is gone.

I'm sad as hell. I hope she comes back. I'm back at the bar where we used to hang out a long time. There's no questioning what happened because he doesn't even bring it up. So I like that about this song. It's very relatable and most general way. No bullshit hope or nothing like that.

I know optimism. I agree with that. I'm going to drink myself to death, good night. I agree with that part of the assessment, but it does leave out what happened, which is fine with me. Yeah. I think it's just a better song.

What ended it? Yeah, there's as much mystery here as there was in Amy's back in Austin, boys. No, I don't think so. In Amy's back in Austin, they left Austin and things were hard, and she would call her mom, and he didn't know what the fuck was going on, and then she left one day. Like, there's all this, like, exposition that is laid out. This one is cut to the end. She's gone, I'm sad, and I hope she comes back, but probably not.

Less is more. That's a country music. Yeah, exactly. Less is more in this case. It also is sad enough to be like, this guy might turn pretty quickly, and this might be the last song before a mass shooting. Like, this is a, this is a, it's sad enough to be like a bottom. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. And I feel like these types of fellas mostly just wash their own mouth out with a revolver. You know, I stand that. People just listening don't know I had went and peed because no one. P's more than me. And as soon as I put my headphones on, I just hear, I don't know, I think each fellers just normally wash her mouth out with a revolver. So I know where y'all are at in the song, I think.

Well, Tuchel was saying he feels like he might be about to snap and shoot a bunch of people. And I was just saying, I thought mostly they just kill their cells. Yeah, usually. These types of sad fellers. Usually slowly with the. Or her. He's doing it. Yeah, right.

He's killing himself with the whole deal here. Yeah. This is a ballad for slow suicide. Yeah, absolutely. as a try an honored tradition in country music absolutely that could be a sub-genre honestly absolutely i would argue it is yeah right yeah for sure yeah half of country music is just really really long suicide notes yeah well it the other thing that this song does really well is paint and a lot i guess a lot of songs do this but paint a picture of what is the up like night church which is a bar that's smoke-filled and

full of potential and sadness and all this stuff, but it's like, this is their home. This guy's not sitting at home, the wall. Yeah. And it's, it's kind of the infrastructure of bars in America are,

I mean, I noticed it in Alabama, I was like, this is his own thing. It's his own environment. There's, this is part of people's home, I guess,

is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, it's a place where you can be alone, but together, you know, I mean, that's cliche, but like,

it's true. You definitely could stay at home drinking and it would be cheaper. But like you do like, you know, there's something to just like having some heartbeats around you to at least make you a little less lonely. I was down, slow down the suicide a little bit, make it more fun. I was in New Orleans last week at a bar, the bar of Corey you disappeared from and we thought you were going to die. What? I don't want to tell the whole story on here. Remember when you went off to those?

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Not this pastime in New Orleans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Me and Andy were playing pool, and it was a guy's birthday, and this one dude, they were all regulars, said something to him, and the bartender was like, don't be mean to him, it's his birthday.

And that guy was like, well, I was just trying, and she goes, no, you're not going to be mean to him on his birthday. You're always a dick, and he left. And I was like, damn, they're taking care of their regulars. This is kind of what you're talking about too short. Well, we left like 45 minutes later. That guy was just outside of the table. Like he was still going to sit there and drink all night.

He just, because he had upset the bartender, he was on timeout out there. That's great. Go get some fresh air, you idiot. So as any hardcore Brooks and Dunn fans or even minor country fans may know, one thing Brooks and Dunn did recently, they got back together and they put out an album of their old hits, but they had new stars sing on them. On Neon Moon, Casey Musgraves sings. I think she sings the chorus.

I can't remember. I listened to it yesterday, and I've forgotten. What? Yeah, it's pretty good people have. Like a greatest hits album that has new artists singing their hits with them? Basically, yeah. Wow, I might have to holler at that. I didn't even know about that.

I don't know. I don't like Kane Brown's music, but that voice that man's got. It's them. It's them types. It's them types. You mean new country artists, by the way, I think. Yeah. It's all, yeah, it's all.

What? What do you say? It's just funny, but on just a purely audio with your accent, you can't say, someone can't say Kane Brown and you can't go, oh, it's them times. You're right. I was just saving you. Thank you. Because I know what you meant.

Of course not, because you didn't mean it in a bad way. Right, but... You're sure we got blacks now. I don't know if you knew that about it. Yeah, Kane Brown is biracial, I think, or some kind of. So, yeah, I said, oh, it's them. That's not what I'm mad. That's another name.

But of course, of course it is. But that does make me way less interested, though. Because you said Casey Musgraves, and I know she's full of board pop now or whatever, but, you know, she really hits for me. But of course, it's like popular country artists. And now I'm back to not giving a shit. I don't really care nothing about that.

But it's Brooks the gun, but I don't give a fuck about hearing Cain Brown feature on the thing. He's got a great voice. That's why I brought him up. I hate Kane Brown, but that voice on a good one. I mean,

I don't hate him, but he's how, I hate the industry. He's how Marshmeller got to the top of the country charts. Yeah? Yeah, Marshmeller made a song with Kane Brown. Straight to the top of the charts.

Got a damn sentient confectionery, boys. I like that Kane Brown has brought from that side of his family, the feature, apparently. Yeah, right. Is Hootie considered anything country-related? Oh, yeah. I mean, now, yeah. He fully transitioned into like a country artist.

I mean, shit. Over 10 years ago now, I would say, or longer even. Darius Rucker is his country name or perhaps real name. I don't know, whatever. He ain't Hooty no more. He did a cover of Wagon Wheel, which is this huge, popular song by Old Crow Medicine Show. If you were in college in the South in the 2000s,

which I was, you probably heard Wagon Wheel played no less than 8,000 times. But then Darius Rucker covered it for like country radio. And that was also huge. And it's like always wild to me when that happens. There's a whole like slew of people who think or who consider Wagon Will to be a Darius Rucker song. Yeah, that's wild. that's so crazy to me because to me it was insanely huge before that.

The original wagon wheel was a phenomenon. You know what I mean? You couldn't go to a bar and have a two-man acoustic set without them doing that. And do you know he wrote half that song? Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan. It was. It was also.

It's not half the song, right? Isn't it literally just like rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel? He had an unfinished whole deal. I don't think it was. much longer than it. It was. It was. It was.

I think. Okay. Well, look it up. I think it was the chorus. Yeah, it was an unfinished song that, but anyway, what people always used to say, like Bob Dylan co-wrote that or whatever, but I thought the actual story was, it's an unfinished recording they heard. They lifted, like, admittedly, a very important part, brought me and mama like a wagon

wheel. But most of it was them. I think it's like that line and the next two, which is kind of the whole hook. I mean, and hooks are important. That's true. It was in a movie. I don't know if it was a documentary or what. I know they got it from a movie.

I assume Cho is looking that up. Yeah, yeah, it's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Yeah. It was a Chris Christoperson, Bob Dylan, James Corburn joint. That's wild. It is wild. And by the way, that Darius Rucker version of Wagon Wheel is almost itself 10 years old. Yeah.

Yeah. That's fucking insane. I can't believe these people think you can't transition from a man to a woman, but they're going to let Hooty become a fucking country star. Hey, he's from South Carolina. That's fair. Yeah. All right.

He hits harder for me than most of them out there. He hits. He's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I was mostly complaining about his fans, which is often what I'm doing, country music. So I brought up the Brooks and Dunn compilation thing.

I don't know timeline-wise how this all happened. Ronnie Dunn also has his own label now. He's on TikTok all the time asking for new artists. He's signed artists off TikTok. He's very into that whole side of the game. I don't know for sure if Fat Tony and that going viral started it all. I know that that probably led to, I'm making some assumptions what I'm about to show you all. This video I'm about to show you guys went mega viral when it hit the internet.

And it's so funny, I want to show it too short before I comment anymore. It's a very endearing sweet song, but the reason it went viral to me is kind of hilarious. Of course. Let me do my screen share. You're the Hispanic homie. You got a hype man. Yeah, you ain't going to have motherfuckers do that to blonde on blonde. You know what I mean?

Yes, I do know what you mean. Was that a carry? What was that? They just won their softball game, and they were celebrating afterwards, and so they had their speaker out, and somebody played that track, and they all knew it. And obviously it went viral because they're joyous, and they've got the baby. But it's also like, the whole point of being viral was, can you believe black people know this song? Yeah, for sure.

I mean, that video really is reflective of, I mean, say it a lot, but like it's a melting pot. eventually, you know, there's violence and there's this and that. But then there's that video, which is probably why it went viral, because it's like, we can get long on many levels. Well, that video went viral the same reason that, like, you know, we have individually gone viral for saying a liberal thing. You know what I mean? Because you just don't expect it.

And when you see it, like, of course, once you process it, you're like, well, of course that can be a thing. But it's like, it's not at the tip of your brain to expect it. I mean, even me. Like, I'm like, oh, wow, damn. Yeah, yeah, when I saw it, I was like, holy shit, especially their age, too, which gets back into the TikTok thing, all that. Now, obviously, there's Black Don't Crack. They might have been my age, but still, it's like, okay, so eight, ten when that song came out?

Right. Who had it on, dude? Right. Maybe Fat Tony introduced them to it, you know, and I don't mean they all know each other. I mean, the internet introduced them to it. I'm not sure, but I think it's, I mean, I still think it's cool, even though it's like a little bit like, so what, black people can't know country music? outside of their era, it's surprising. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, but it's interesting because when you, I mean, obviously I'm going to have a weird racial point of view on this, but there's... Not you. There's a... If a bunch of black folk are after a softball game listening to a very sad but jovial country music song, That's one thing.

But then I had people, I had like a whole crew of, in high school, like a whole crew of like white dudes who are straight up gangsters in their head. And they would sing the Tupac version. And that is almost like, ugh. Yeah, that don't hit near his heart. That don't hit. No. Yeah. But it's the same thing happening.

It's a crossbreeding music. It is, but one hits and one don't hit. Yes. Yeah, imagine that it's the black people that hit. I don't. A big part of that is that black people hit. But another thing is that, though, is the surprise. Because when, like, an old white man knows the lyrics to a Tupac song, it fucking rules. To see a papal rapping, dude, that's a 10 out of 10 every time.

For sure. So it's just like, it's not shocking that the guys you went to high school with were into Tupac. You know what I mean? Because it was like, it said bitches and was cool or whatever, you know? It did say bitch his name was cool. That is correct. That's a fair assessment of Tupac's music. There was this one kid in high school.

His name was Buzz. He was like the assistant coach's son. He'd drive around and just like whatever. And everyone, he self-enointed. He changed his name to be murder. Be murder. Watch out, Corey. Uh-oh.

Coming for your head. Corey's heads to be. One thing I've always respected begrudgingly about Corey. He's the only person I know who's been able to give himself a nickname and it not be lame. The bravery of a kid walking into school and being like, I'm Beamer now. Yeah, I'm Beemer now. Yeah, yeah. But he was a joke with everyone treated him like a joke.

Really? That's interesting. I would have thought, he was like, but other than that, B murder was like a pretty cool guy. Yeah. Captain Runez-Rexed to B-murder. Yeah. All right. Well, I don't have you guys got any last thoughts.

I just feel like, you know, Ronnie Dunn and Kicks-Brucks are going to save the world if we'll let them. We'll get out of their way. Yeah, man. I mean, as you pointed out earlier, we could about do an entire two or three-month run just on this goddamn album. Pretty spectacular stuff. Yeah, Brooks and Dunn hits. They do hit. Across decades, too.

This is a 90s podcast. If it was just country, we would literally do a full year on them. For sure. All right. It's time for the rating. I'll go first. I'm giving it three Earnhardt's. I think it's probably equal with every song we've done.

I can't say it's better than, you know, Queen of My Double I, but like, it's as good. I don't, I fucking love this song. Oh, no. This album being. just packed full of bangers the way that it is. I don't know that I like this song better than brand new man or lost and found. I mean, they're close. They're all three.

They're what? They're all threes. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, are you about to say I can't give this a three because then I don't, dude, sometimes you just got to fucking admit it. Like, this is a fucking three dog. This is a perfect apple. That's a perfect orange.

Yeah, man. I'll go next. I'll give it three. It's wonderfully sad. It's upbeat. I like the fact that the singers are the songwriters. It matters, obviously, a lot. And then I didn't think I'd like it as much until we did the analysis of the lyrics.

That's when it's like, oh, this is brilliantly written. And sounds good. good in my ears. Not to, uh, I don't start a whole, another debate with Cho at the end of a podcast again, but if three is the maximum and you agree that one song is, I'm not saying you agree with what I just said about those songs,

but if you're a person who thinks this song is better than this song and three is the maximum, then they can't both be threes. How do you figure? How does that work? Like if three, if three is as high as it goes and you're like, this one's better than this one,

there's plenty of movies that. get two thumbs up, but you like one more than you like the other. Okay, two thumbs up, but we can also, worry, we got a semantic thing. Is it like better? Hold on. Is it like better, Trey, or is better? Because I was interpreting you saying you like those other songs better, which is fair.

But if you're saying that are... I'm just saying, like, you can have two restaurants can both be five-star restaurants. And you can prefer one over the other because you like Italian, but objectively the Russian restaurant is also perfect. You just prefer Italian. Yeah.

So like... Because if you get into that, then we can only have one three star song ever that we pick. And then it's like, well, it can't... So like,

this is a three. It's a fucking three. Yeah, I mean, that's all sure. You guys are right about that. Uh... Crazy.

Gabe up. It's true. It's a good point. I just think I just want three. Three Earnhardt's like I just, you know, I feel like it's three every week. Oh,

no, it's not. No, No, it's not. Amy's back in Austin. We all gave like fucking twos. I gave a quarter. He gave a goddamn quarter. And I called somebody who cared.

I think we've only hit four threes on Queen of my double wide and maybe today. Trey, if you're working through some stuff, that's fine. But don't you dare do it during fucking Brooks and Dunn appreciation hour. Yeah, I'll tell you what, when Bubbles shot the podcast, he pissed my Cheerios too. Okay, three. I like sharing stuff. Let's see if we get Ronnie done and say fine, three. A three with an asteris.

It's a three for me as you. It would be so funny if I was like, two point five after all. We're going to say that it got an 11.9, nine, nine, nine, nine. We're going to have like a one, one thousandth of a point there. All right. We'll see y'all next. I'm on Bubba Shot the podcast.

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