Episode 4 - Michael Dean Goodrich - Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show

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I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink of your whiskey. Better get out of here.

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My name is Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's under hole.
I know you don't agree, but I think he's the king of country. Get the fuck out of here.
Get out of my studio. No, hell no.
From the Ramona radio studios, it's the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show.

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Mr. Ross. Welcome to the Outlaw Country Show everybody. I'm Travis Billy Ross.
Welcome here and with me as always Sweet Curbs. And today we've got a special guest. We got Michael Dean Goodrichs hanging out with us.
What's up, my friend? Not a whole lot. I'm excited to be here. Hell yeah.
Sweet. So today's episode is brought to you by Outlaw BBQ because it's... go ahead and cue that.

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Whatever you need. Dean's got you covered. He's got you covered. Oh man, did you guys have that last Monday? Did you guys have it?
Oh yeah. I did. What'd you get? I had the bacon wrapped hot dog. Oh yeah. The hot dog or the churro?

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Churro. Chorizo one. No, just the hot dog. Oh, I had the bacon wrapped chorizo dog. It was good. Coleslaw. Oh yeah.
I had the smoked brisket. It was freaking amazing, man. Yeah. That guy. He does it right. He does it right.
Dude, for sure. All right, Michael Dean, Goodrich, we got some questions for you. All right. King of country. King of country. Don't you dare say it. Oh man.

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Don't you dare say George Strait. It's a trick question. You can say whatever you want, Michael. I listened to the first podcast and I think Eric and I had this conversation and I think it's, you know,
George Strait is by success wise, you know, over 60 chart topping hits and in measure of success and longevity. I think he's got it. I've always loved George Jones. And I think talking to Eric on a previous podcast that we did,

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Keith Whitley, I think would have been, could have been. I mean, he had just that amazing voice, that charisma. And I think, you know, there's a lot of could have, could have beens, but I mean, I gotta go with George Strait, man.
Damn it. Yeah. Texas, Texas guy. You know, he's, he's never, yeah, never lived in Tennessee. All right. I give him credit for that. All right. So that's the show y'all with Michael Dean, Goodrich.

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Thanks for coming. Don't let the door hit you with a good Lord split.
He does have a point though. I never thought about, I mean, we were just talking about number one songs and writing songs and, but longevity wise.
Yeah, I mean, over 60 chart top George Strait still tops the charts when he releases a single. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Respectable. All right. So Keith Whitley would be your, would be your second would by my second. I think. Yeah. I love his songs. I love his voice.

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What's, what's one of the best ones you like? I would say don't close your eyes. One of the favorites I enjoy doing. Yeah. It's an amazing song and never liked the rain is not never.
Yeah. I'm thinking Clint Black never liked the rain. The other one.

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Nothing at all.
Oh yeah, this is good stuff for her. That is a good song.
So what happened to Keith Whitley? He passed away pretty young. He passed away in 89. Yeah, he was drinking related alcohol related death. They attributed acute alcohol poisoning. Damn, I can relate. Yeah.

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You had those more. I guess I can relate to that. Damn it.
I think I looked it up here and I was born and he was young or in 54 he died in 89 was that somebody that that's a math all of 35.
He passed in 1989 born in 54.

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I mean he had so much of his career ahead of him. Yeah, he got to start with Ricky Skaggs actually. Oh yeah, with when they were young kids with the Stanley Brothers. I'm sure you've heard of them. Yeah, yeah.
Old Bluegrass and country stuff. Yeah, I love Keith Whitley's voice. Yeah. And that's, that's a shame. Actually he died at the age 34 but close enough in the time frame.

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Okay, 89. Sorry, I didn't know the day or the month. Yeah. Yeah, that's a shame man. Going out that early. Anyway. All right. I Keith Whitley's amazing. Yeah.
All right. So what's your, what's your favorite. Other than that, Keith Whitley. We got I know you like Randy Travis a lot. Yeah, he's he's someone that I really enjoyed from an early age I used to go hunting and fishing with my grandpa, when I lived in LA, as a kid, and grandpa would take me up to from LA up to Lake Emmett and Lake Skinner and we go fishing and hunting.

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Just him and I, you know, camping trips and stuff and Randy Travis you know 1983. Dang you're aging yourself bro.
And, you know that cassette tape came out and we wore that thing out going up, up and up to him it and back and listening to it the whole way and I was your cassettes really worn out and the tape stretches and the song slows down. Yeah, it gets like all yeah all warbled out.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yep, I remember the tapes man. Yeah. We're talking, we were talking about previous episode but, you know, recording your favorite songs off the radio. Yeah. Yeah, if you.
If you show a picture of a pencil and a tape deck. You absolutely know what that means right.
That's a meme starting remember remember having to rewind things. Yeah.

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Or feed the tape backing because it got pulled out. Yeah, spin your pencil. Yeah. Dean Rich Michael Dean, the rich. Yes, sir. Just did a show not too long ago.
Randy Travis tribute. Yeah, Randy Travis tribute on his birthday May 4 and I did 22 Randy Travis songs all 16 number ones yeah I had to learn a lot. Yeah, I had the iPad just because that's a lot of songs to learn and try and have them down.

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Yeah.
I don't want to mess them up in front of a crowd of people that love Randy Travis so yeah, I think I did pretty good though I got some good from what I saw you did great. Yeah, thank you. Now, you already have had a couple of Randy Travis songs in your.
I have about five or six that I do regularly. Now from doing this did you find like a new favorite or a song that you didn't necessarily. I think look hard no hands is one that I really like that I've never really learned before. Oh yeah, but you learned it just for the show.

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I did it for the show. That's cool. I heard Mark Torpey do it. Oh yeah, that song. And he did he does it so well. And just his own his own way and I love it.
Local Ramona artist, Mark Torpey. Love that guy man he's good. He does a lot of good James Taylor stuff. Yes, I really like James Taylor. Look hard no hands and another one honky tonk moon, Randy Travis kind of got that old kind of do what kind of feel to it.

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Well shoot, we've been talking a lot. Let's listen to a song what you want to hear Michael Dean. Let's do honky tonk moon if you can queue that up. Here we go. Get Chris rocky on the twilight.
The woods so cool and dark up ahead pale neon somewhere a dog barks honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me.

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Breaking up the pool balls chalking up the queues jukebox pumping softly lazy summer blues honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me.

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Through the blue smokey haze all through the day trouble seemed to melt away.
My heart's on a roll I'm easy in my soul there's no hurry no worry things are going my way. Arms around my baby shuffling on the floor cigarettes and sawdust squeaky old screen door honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me.

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Through the blue smokey haze all through the day trouble seemed to melt away.

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My heart's on a roll I'm easy in my soul there's no hurry no worry things are going my way.
Outside the dark it's falling stars are winking bright that old hoot owl is calling everything's alright honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me.

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Honky tonk moon keeps shining on my baby and me.
Oh yeah. If that's not country gold I don't know what it is. If that ain't country you can kiss my ass.

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That's great. So we were talking about Keith Whitley. Actually first, Randy Travis, something happened to him. He got sick or something.
Yeah, he had a stroke. I think he had the stroke when he was already in the hospital for some reason. I should have looked it up.

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But then he had a stroke and then he was given, I think I saw a special recently, like a 2% chance to live. And then once he made it through that he had some issues and developed aphasia, which limited his ability to speak at all.
And he's been recovering for years now. And I've seen him a lot more in the spotlight in recent years doing guest appearances for different artists, different country artists and stuff and he actually just came out with a new single with the help of AI.

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Oh wow. Yeah, pretty amazing song. Yeah, AI, man. Tell you what that technology today. I do believe it's going to kill us by the way.
Yeah.
You'll never gonna know what's real or what's not.
I saw a meme young John Connor, looking at all of us making friends with AI.

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Speaking of movies on our previous episodes, John Connor with it. Have you guys had a chance to listen to Randy's new single? No, let's check it out.
I'm going to put this one on my list too, for sure.

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She had eyes like diamonds, and they caught the light.
Oh, but they were dark and deeper than the night.
But when she'd smile,

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out came the sun, and there ain't no more where that came from.
She had a dress that swayed all around her knees,

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and a voice as soft as a summer breeze.
A touch that told me I was the one,
and there ain't no more where that came from.

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I must have said to myself, there might be somebody else out there, somewhere.
I must have said to myself, it's a great big world, girls are everywhere.

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Oh, but now I know, there was only one,
and there ain't no more where that came from.

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And it ain't like I ain't been trying to find someone.
There just ain't no more where that came from.

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Oh, where that came from.

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I hear people talking bad about the way they have to live here in this country.
Harping on the wars we fight, griping about the way things ought to be.
I don't mind them switching sides and standing up for things they believe in.

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When they're running down our country, man, they're walking on the fighting side of me.
They're walking on the fighting side of me.
Running down a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it, let this song that I'm singing be a warning.

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When you're running down our country, horse, you're walking on the fighting side of me.
I read about some squirty guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting.

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I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on being free.
They love our milk and honey, but they preach about some other way of living.
And when they're running down our country, man, they're walking on the fighting side of me.

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They're walking on the fighting side of me.
When you're running down our country, man, you're walking on the fighting side of me.

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You're walking on the fighting side of me.
When you're running down our country, horse, you're walking on the fighting side of me.

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When you're running down a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep.

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I'm about 17 years old and I lived in South Carolina and me and my buddy, we drove from South Carolina to Nashville, Tennessee.
We drove his mom's car and it was a Geo Metro with a three cylinder.
So we get up there and we were hanging around Tennessee.
My buddy's sister was going to college up there so we stayed up there with her.
Then we were on our way back and something happened with the front tie rod or whatever.

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Also we're on the highway dude and the thing starts just going crazy fish tailing.
It was pouring rain too so we thought it was because we hit the water.
We were like oh we're just hydroplaning but it did something to the car.
The front wheels were facing two opposite directions.

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That's a different kind of alignment.
We didn't know which way we were going left or right.
It was just going bad. It was bad.
Then I'm calling his mom. She's all pissed.
She's like what did you do? You guys were out there cutting donuts.
We're like no. Cutting donuts.
It was funny because that same friend, we were in his mom's other car.

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It was a Pontiac Sunbird and my other buddy lived in probably about a 100 acre plot in South Carolina.
The back of their property was a big junkyard and they had a bunch of junk cars
because his dad was a tow truck driver so he would pick up all the cars.
Anyway we get to their house and I'm in the back seat.
We had just gotten out of high school so I had a bunch of back.

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There was three backpacks back there in the back seat of the Sunbird.
I was in the back seat. A friend was driving and my other buddy was in the front seat.
He decided to just go and do something crazy and haul ass into the mud field and pull the E-brake,
and he's in the car and does one half of a spin, hits a rut and flips the car over.
I'm in the back seat. The car flips over and I'm like holy shit.

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All these backpacks are flying around.
Do you feel like Dora the Explorer?
Backpack, backpack.
I don't know if you've ever been in a car when it's upside down.
I'm sitting on the sunroof and I couldn't figure out how the hell to get out of it.
I'm in the back seat of the car and I'm like how do I get out of here?

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The two bucket seats were upside down so I ended up crawling through the back seat into the front seat
and the driver's side of the window was open.
I was sitting on my ass and I pulled myself through and there was mud everywhere.
I had mud all over my ass.
We're walking back and my buddy is like oh dude how am I going to explain this?

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My mom is never going to let us use another car.
It wasn't even worried about his mom, it was worried about his dad
because his dad recently had just done a lot of work to the car.
I dragged myself through the driver's side window and I got mud all over my butt.
As we're walking back they look at me and they say did Travis shit his pants?

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Let me be honest, if I flipped over in a car probably that would not be far off.
If you did that would have been a good way to hide it.
That's funny. What was the first car you ever owned of your own?
My first car? I had a 1973 Jeep.
Really?
Yeah, I bought it. I was 17 I think.
Yeah, I was 17 and I had my sister co-sign for me. God bless her.

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Thank you Tracey for that. Anyway she co-signed for me, it was $3,000.
So that was my first car. It was a funny ass thing.
This is an old ass Jeep and the person who had owned it before me,
whatever, they put a lift kit on it, which was not a proper lift kit.
The Jeep had leaf springs, front and back, leaf springs.

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There was no hydraulic shocks or anything like that, so leaf springs all the way around.
And you just had two by four blocks in there.
Yeah, so it had a three inch lift underneath the leaf springs.
Basically when you drive the thing it had 32 inch mud tires on it.
So when you drive the thing, it had no power steering.
The steering wheel was the size of a freaking 18 inch, or like a 24 inch steering wheel.

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It was huge. But the steering in this freaking thing, when I went to take it for a test drive,
I swear to God you could turn the wheel halfway and it wouldn't turn.
And I was like, oh shit. I'm like, how do you drive this? This is crazy.
It was a three speed manual transmission and then it had the four wheel drive.
And it had a V8 in it, a big old 304.

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It was the most difficult thing to drive ever.
I remember I took my sister, my sister, I was like, yeah, let's go for a ride.
So she's like, look at me. She's looking at me and she's like,
I'm struggling with the steering wheel.
And she's looking at me and she's like, are you like, is this thing hard to drive?
Am I safe in this car?
And no, she's like, this sucks. This is not a very comfortable ride.

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So then the motor ended up blowing out in that not too long after I got it.
And it was the craziest damn thing.
So me and my buddy were driving from Aiken, South Carolina to Augusta, Georgia.
And all of a sudden we're on the highway, the I-20, and the fucking steering wheel pops out.
Oh no.

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I swear to God, dude, the steering wheel pops off. And I'm like, holy shit, we don't have no steering.
So I'm like slamming brakes. It was like we finally stopped.
We got it stopped. We didn't crash into anything.
That's funny.
I worked at a body shop in South Carolina. So I had a buddy of mine, he drives tow trucks.

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So I told him, I was like, dude, you got to come pick my Jeep up, man. I can't drive it.
It doesn't have no steering wheel.
There's a guy in the Air Force I served with I still owe an apology for because I sold him my first car.
I have to tell you that story.
Yeah, poor guy. He had no idea what he was talking about.
He reminds me of Johnny Cash, One Pace at a Time.
I love that song.

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That's one of my favorite songs you do, actually.
Yeah, thank you. I really love that song.
But just real quick, back to Merle Haggard. What a great songwriter.
Just listen to a lot of his heartbreak songs.
Talk about Tearing Your Beer Country.
Hell yeah.
It's just some great songs.

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One of the other ones that I do is Today I Started Loving You Again.
That's a great breakup song. That'll get you thinking.
Oh, that's Tearing My Beer.
Hank Williams Jr. and Hank Williams. You know, a funny thing about this song,

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it was never really recorded by Hank Williams.
It was found in an attic somewhere where it was partially recorded,
and then Hank Williams Jr. got it and he collaborated with it.
So there is no version with just Hank Senior.
No kidding.
Oh, I'll be damned. That's kind of cool.
One of those closet finds.

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Yeah, it was in a box somewhere with all Hank Williams' stuff,
and Hank Jr. found it, I guess.
He's like, oh, we're going to finish this. So he finished it.
Have you ever seen the video to this song?
I haven't.
Oh, dude, it's killer. It's both of them together, singing together,
but it's superimposed or whatever.
Okay.
But anyway, let's do that Johnny Cash song,

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because we were speaking about broken freaking cars, man.
Man, I think everybody's had their first car where it was like...
I think everyone should.
They should.
Every teenager should have a beat-up old car that they can...
They've got to realize how it feels to be broke down on the side of the freaking road.
Absolutely.
No cell phones.
Go into a borrow pit, right?
With three wheels.

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Yeah.
Well, I left Kentucky back in 49 and went to Detroit working on assembly lines.
The first year they had me putting wheels on Cadillacs.
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by and sometimes I'd hang my head and cry,
because I always wanted to be one that was long and black.

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One day I devised myself a plan that should be the envy of most any man.
I'd sneak it out of there in the lunchbox in my hand.
Now getting caught meant getting fired, but I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired.
I'd have me a car worth at least 100 grand.
I'd get it one piece at a time and it wouldn't cost me a dime.

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You know it's me when I come through your town.
I'm gonna ride around in style.
I'm gonna drive everybody wild, cause I'll have the only one there is around.
So the very next day when I punched in with my big lunchbox with help from my friend,
I left that day with a lunchbox full of gears.

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I've never considered myself a thief, but GM wouldn't miss just one little piece,
especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump and the next day I got me an engine and a trunk,
then I got me a transmission and all the chrome.
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox like nuts and bolts and all four shocks,

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but the big stuff we snuck out my buddy's mobile home.
Now up to now my plan went all right till we tried to put it all together one night,
and that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.
The transmission was a 53 and the motor turned out to be a 73,
and when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

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So we drilled it out so that it would fit and with a little bit of help from an 8-adapter kit,
we had that engine running just like a song.
Now the headlights, there was another side. We had two on the left and one on the right,
but when we pulled out the switch all three of them come on.
The back end looked kind of funny too, but we put it together and when we got through,

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well that's when we noticed that we only had one tail fin.
About that time my wife walked out and I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts,
but she opened the door and said, honey, take me for a spin.
So we drove uptown just to get the tags and I headed to right on down main track.
I could hear everybody laughing for blocks around,

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but up there at the courthouse they didn't laugh cause to type it up it took the whole staff,
and when they got through the title weighed 60 pounds.
I got it one piece at a time and it didn't cost me a dime.
You'll know it's me when I come through your town.
I'm gonna ride around in style. I'm gonna drive everybody wild.

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Cause I'll have the only one there is around.
Yeah Red Ryder, this is the cotton mouth in the psychobillic Cadillac. Come on.
This is the cotton mouth and Negatory on the cost of this machine there Red Ryder.
You might say I went right up to the factory and picked it up. It's cheaper that way.

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What model is it?
Well it's a 49, 50, 50, 152, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 automobile.
It's a 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68.
My papi said son you're gonna drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.

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Have you heard the story of the hot rod race with the Fords and the Lincolns was setting the pace?
That story is true I'm here to say I was driving that Model A.
It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up. That Model A body makes it look like a pup.
It's got eight cylinders and uses them all. It's got overdrive, just won't stall.
With a four barrel carb and a dual exhaust with four rev'n gears you can really get lost.

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It's got safety tubes but I ain't scared the brakes are good, the tires fair.
Pulled out of San Pedro late one night the moon and the stars were shining bright.
We was driving up Grapevine Hill passing cars like they was standing still.

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All of a sudden in the wink of an eye a Cadillac sedan passed us by.
Said boys it's a mark from me by then the tail light was all you could see.
Now the fellas rid me for being behind so I thought I'd make the Lincoln unwind.
Took my foot off the gas and man live I shoved it on down into overdrive.
Rounded up to 110 my speedometer said that I hit top end.

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My foot was blue like lead to the floor that's all there is and there ain't no more.
Now the boys all thought I lost my sense and telephone poles looked like I'd pick a fence.
They said slow down I see spots the lines on the road just look like dots.
Took a corner, side swiped a truck, crossed my fingers just for luck.
My fenders was clicking the guardrail post the guy beside me was white as a ghost.

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Smoke was coming from out of the back when I started to gain on that Cadillac.
Knew I could catch him I thought I could pass don't you know by then we'd be low on gas.
They had flames coming from out of the side.
I could feel the tension man what a ride.
I said look out boys I got a license to fly and that caddy pulled over and let us by.
Now all of a sudden she started knocking him down in the gym.
She started to rock and I looked in the mirror red light was blinking.

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The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln.
They arrested me and they put me in jail and they called my pappy to throw my belt.
He said son you're going to drive me to drinking if you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.

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Oh man what a great song dude.
Oh yeah.
Alright so I guess the theme to this section of the show is the cars.
Right we were just playing two songs about cars Johnny Cash.
Well you're the one that told that you know we're doing it wrecking your car.
Michael Dean.
Yeah.
First car.
First car my twin brother and I inherited a Chevy Nova for my mom.

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I want to say it was early 80s.
Okay so it wasn't like the cool model.
No it was not cool at all.
The square box model.
So my grandpa was a mechanic and we lived with him in LA and then when we moved to Idaho we took the Chevy Nova.
He had had somebody work on the engine and the guy kind of messed it up.

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It was still running but we got it up to Idaho and then we found out that it was automatic but it wouldn't shift into gear unless you let off the gas.
So by the time my brother and I got it you'd go in first gear and go as fast as you could and let off the gas and then hit it real hard to get it into second.

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So you'd be jerking back and forth and we were driving to high school trying to do that.
And then to boot it had a plug that you screwed in for the muffler on the bottom.
I guess they put it on so you could clear out clean out the muffler on the bottom and that thing would come unscrewed and we had a wire set to it because we kept losing it.
And it sounded like a freight train going down the road when that thing would pop off. You'd be going right by the high school and that thing would pop off and be like, going 10 miles an hour.

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And I'd be shaking. Sound like you're going 110.
And then you got to let off the gas and hit second.
And then if that wasn't bad enough, the gas cap didn't have a release on it so you'd get to the gas station and when you're taking the gas cap off it would squeal like it was going to explode.

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A few times people were running away from the gas pumps.
Back in the day when you used to smoke cigarettes while pumping gas.
That reminds me of, don't you remember that scene in Zoolander and they're smoking the gas tanks all over.
Oh they're all being all dramatic.

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Yeah, spraying gas on each other not knowing that it's going to explode.
They all died.
I've had my share of beat up old cars. Yeah, I think after that we got an old Toyota Tercel from a friend of ours that my brother worked at Arby's and we were just out of high school.
And they had rolled it and they instead of fixing the front hood, they just kind of pounded it out with a hammer and then put a new windshield on it and then just like glued it on there.

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It ran well. I mean the right side alignment was a little crooked so it felt like a clown car.
You know like your experience where you're shaking sideways at 20 miles an hour.
I used to love going to the pick and pulls, you know the junkyards dude. That was the funnest shit to do.
That thing had a boom in stereo in it though.

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That was when big stereos. Had a $3,000 stereo on a $200 car.
Had two 12s in the back. Sirwin Vegas and the Pioneer with a thousand watt amplifier.
Nobody's still in the car. They're going after the radio.
That was a fun car though. Yeah.

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That's hilarious. Oh man.
Now my first car was a Hyundai Accel when Hyundai's first came out. These were like the Yugo's of the 90's.
Oh yeah.
I drove that thing all over. I was in the Air Force at the time and I was getting out of the Air Force.
Now about nine months before I got out, you know what a CV joint is? It's like the coupling that holds your tire on a front wheel drive car.

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They start to click. Thank you for explaining that to me the only girl here because I had no idea.
It's a little joint that holds the front wheel on a front wheel drive car.
In about six months before I got rid of it, it starts clicking.
That's when you know it's about ready to go bad and you're supposed to replace it. I didn't replace it.
No. The day before, about a week before I get out of the Air Force, I sell it to this brand new kid who just came in, sold to him.

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I think it was like 200 bucks. I literally sold it to him for like 200 bucks.
And I told him, I told him, I says you got to get that CV joint fixed. He goes okay.
About three days later, he was, this is no joke, sitting out in front of my house, getting ready to stuff, kind of packing up.
And him and his girlfriend come by and she's just waving. They're just happy.
And I hear this, he goes.

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Not 10 minutes later, he took a left turn and that right front wheel came right off.
Three days later, I was driving off of Edwards Air Force Base.
Three days later, I see that car sitting on the side of the road. It's probably still sitting there. I don't know.
Man, I'll tell you. So I had a Nissan Pathfinder when I first got back to California, somewhere around 1997.

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The Pathfinder was a 1988 Pathfinder. And I drove it around like crazy and the back brake started grinding.
And I was like, I don't really have the money to fix this. So I'm just going to just brake lightly, I guess.
So I'm cruising down the freeway 8 and getting off on 2nd Street in Oklahoma.

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Off the ramp. It literally had been grinding for days.
It was like coming up to a stop.
You just turned the radio up.
Yeah, I turned the radio up. I don't need to hear that sound. I don't need that negative energy in my life.
So I get off the freeway and I push the brake and all of a sudden it just goes all the way to the floor.

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And I'm like, oh, shit. I'm getting to the light. So I'm pulling the handbrake up.
And when you pull the handbrake, it just pulls the back wheels. It doesn't do the front.
So I'm just sliding, dude. Just like down to it. And I just barely stopped right there at the light.
And I was like, holy shit. And I'm like, what do I do?

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So I was like, OK, I'm just going to use the handbrake. Perfect. Problem solved.
Good for another six months. I still got brakes.
I don't need no stinking foot brake. I got a handbrake, right?
So I'm trying to pull over to get to a shop. And there was a car shop right off of 2nd Street in Oklahoma.
So I pull forward off the light. I'm going really slow, dude. And I'm just trying to be careful.

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I've got my hand on the brake. I'm like, and then we get to a light, the next light.
And I'm like, I pull the brake and it's just sliding.
I'm like, oh, God, please don't hit this car in front of me.
I get like two inches from it and it stops. I'm like, oh, thank God. OK.
And then I was like, OK, I really need to pull over here and get into this freaking auto shop right here.

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It was like a Midas or something like that. But I got it and there's nobody there.
It was like on Sunday or so. It was closed. So I parked it. I was like, oh, dang it.
So then back then I knew I have cell phones. I had to go find a pay phone. I call my pops, my dad.
I'm like, hey, is that what happened? I was like, I don't know.
The brakes kind of just went a little out of nowhere.
He's like, what do you mean? So so they finally get the the car to the shop, right?

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It was Monday and then they get the car into the shop and they they I get in there and they're showing me the back rotor.
It looked like a piece of paper. It was just like demolished.
And there was no brake pad at all. And it had worn down all the way to the brake piston and it popped the piston and all the brake fluid shot out of it.

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So that's what happened to it. But, you know, what are you going to do? I was freaking broke, man.
I want hearing your stories and then some of your son's stories. It's all it's all coming together.
And it all started with the rollover. You better get out of here. I know.
In the field, man, God, when they thought I crap myself and I didn't I didn't actually.

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I had to get new brakes right before Christmas. And I knew they were making noise, but I didn't realize how bad until I went to the mechanic to make the appointment.
To get my brakes changed. And the guy literally came to my window and was like, I sure hope you're here for those brakes.
I was like, oh, you can hear that. He's like, oh, yeah, I heard you all the way down the alley.

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Man, you hear it all the time. It's like when you're in traffic. I hear cars. The brakes are just like, I'm like, oh, bro, I feel so bad.
I know you probably don't have the money to fix it. And it sucks. But, you know, it's funny.
To be fair, I have the money, but I will own women. Don't get mad at me. I'm a girl. And it was making a weird noise for a long time.

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But it didn't start actually grinding for a significant amount of time after that. And it didn't do it consistently.
So I wasn't sure that it was my brakes. I just knew my car was making a noise, but it was still running.
Yeah. Oh, man. You ever have a problem happen with your car and then like it fixes itself somehow.
You're like, hey, that noise doesn't happen anymore. Right.

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That happened to me a couple of years ago on my truck. I drove a big F250, right. Going down Main Street here in Ramona. And I go to hit the brakes and pedal didn't move.
It was like something locked. Right. So I'm like, oh, man. And I take my foot and I move it down behind the brake pedal thinking something was blocking it or nothing.
And I'm like, starting to freak out. I throw a neutral and I hit the parking brake to start slowing the truck down.

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And then I managed to get over to a parking lot. Shut the trip. Hasn't done it since. Yeah. No shit. I have no idea what it was.
Fixed itself. See, sometimes problems fix themselves.
It's a good way to go through life. Just let the universe take care of it.
Yeah. Let the universe take care of it. Oh, man. All right. Well, speaking of cars, what's a good car song?

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The car is a Cadillac. Yeah. Cadillac. Yeah. Gotta do some Dwyer Yokem. Oh, yeah. Dedicating this to Thea the band.

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I bet the pie don't taste so sweet.
Now his guitar's a Cadillac. He'll build him music. It's the lonely, lonely streets that I call home.
Yeah, my guitar's a Cadillac. He'll build him music. It's the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

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There ain't no glamour in this tinsel land. Lost and wasted lives. Pain and scars are all that's left of me.
I'll just thank you, girl, for teaching me brand new ways to be cruel. If I can find my mind now, I guess I'll just leave.

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Yeah, his guitar's a Cadillac. He'll build him music. It's the lonely, lonely streets that I call home.

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Oh, his guitar's a Cadillac. He'll build him music. It's the lonely, lonely streets that I call home.

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Alright, that was Dwight Yoakam.
Alright, Michael Dean Goodrich, are you willing to partake in a game that we call, Name That Tune?
I am up for it.
Just so you know, Sweet Curbs is the undefeated champion.
Okay.
Here are the rules.
She's beaten my ass four times in a row, so...
Eric's gonna play a song. Whoever yells out, you can yell out the artist or the song. Either one that gives you the floor. Then you have five seconds to name the other part of the song.

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So you name the song and then the artist. If you name them both, you win two points.
So the goal is to dethrone the champion.
Yes. After five seconds, we can steal.
The ender.
Yeah. So whichever one of us names the song or the artist first.
Yeah.
Okay.
Then you've got five seconds to name the other part of the song or the artist.
Alright, I took it.
Alright, are you ready?

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Hold on, wait, I gotta get my beer. Hold on. Hold on, wait, let me fire this thing.
I got my root beer.
There you go. Everybody ready?
Yes.
Alright.
You ready, Michael?
Yes.
Alright, let's do this.
Here we go.
Amarillo by Mornin'. George Strait.
Ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha!
Alright.
That's two for Travis Billy.

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That song's on a set list.
TBR.
That's two.
That's back in the deck. That's fine.
Okay.
Ha ha ha ha.
Oh yeah, Cassie's not here to keep score. I don't know if I trust you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wait, I'm keeping score. It's okay.
Oh yeah, okay. Here we go.
I got it.
Oh my gosh.
Travis Tripp.

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Tied.
Travis Tripp.
Alright, Tied goes to the lady.
So what's the name of the song?
Whiskey ain't working.
No, you got five seconds for the name of the song.
Country Club.
Alright, you got two.
Man, we tied that one though. That's a bunch of...
Alright, ladies win the tie.

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Alright.
Okay, so we're two, two.
Michael Dean, you need to catch up.
Oh yeah.
Alright, here we go. Ready?
Yep.
I wish you'd steal a while.
You look so good, Lynn.
Go straight.
You look so good, mom.
God damn it.
I have a tongue tied.
I'm like, I can't...
Alright, MDG, Michael Dean, good riddance.
Two, two, two.

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You just got two.
Alright, we're all tied at two.
Damn it.
Come on.
Alright.
Oh, Randy Travis, Steeper Than the Color.
Oh, come on.
That's on my list, Michael Dean.
Alright.
Clint Black.
It's...
Why am I blanking?

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It's on my list.
Alright, five seconds are up.
Anybody else know the title?
The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore.
The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore?
No.
Damn it.
Kirby, got any guesses?
I'm gonna think, let me see.
Drink You Off My Mind?
Killing Time.
Killing Time.

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Alright, Michael Dean, you got one on that one.
Mike's in the lead.
I know.
Holy cow.
These Highway 40 Blues.
She does get Highway 40 Blues.
You got five seconds for the artist.

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Who do you think it is?
I can see right now.
Go ahead.
Anybody know?
I don't.
Millsap.
Damn it.
Ricky Skaggs.
Skaggs.
Ricky Skaggs.
Alright.
Oh my gosh.
Sounds so familiar.

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Cumberland Road.
I don't know.
Any guesses?
Shenandoah.
I did know that.
And the whole title is The Church on Cumberland Road.
That's a half point.
I think Shenandoah became Lone Star, right?

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I don't know.
Yeah.
I'm sure.
The voice sounds familiar.
Since we've been dealing with cars.
Alabama?
Damn it.
Yeah.
18 Wheeler?
18 Wheeler.
Alright.
You got two.
That was good.
Damn, Mike.
Mike might be throwing me.

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Now here's a country song that you wouldn't expect.
I'm playing this because I know you guys probably won't get it.
It was a big hit.
Oh, Alabama, Deep River Woman.
No?
It is Deep River Woman.
You get the point for that, but who's singing this?
Bellamy Brothers?
It's not the Eagles, is it?

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No.
God almighty.
I know Lionel Richie covered it.
That's a good one.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Lionel Richie covered it.
This is his version?
This is Lionel Richie.
That's Lionel Richie.
Deep River Woman.

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It doesn't sound like him.
That was on my list for a short while.
I was pretty impressed that you came up with that.
Wasn't it originally Alabama?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Or was it?
No.
It was one of the two.
I guess we'll never know.
Here's the next one.
We'll find out one day.
Just call me Angel Juice Newton.

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Wow.
Whoa.
We've got time for about two more.
Time to catch up.
Let's see what happens.
I think you're winning actually.
Michael Dean's winning.
He's kicking our ass.
I'm losing my ass.
I'm losing my ass.
I've only got two.
I better slow it down so someone doesn't get in trouble.
Maybe we don't invite guests to play with me.
It's all good fun.
It's all good fun.
Here we go.

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Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams Jr.
Whiskillam.
All the stations up here.
New York.
What is it?
All stations up here.
That's all.
Signs up.
With Whiskillam.
Anybody know the title?
Hold on.
Dixie on My Mind.
Dixie on My Mind.

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That's it.
Well done.
All right.
Let's see.
That's it?
Nope.
Got one more.
One more.
It's my mantra.
Kenny Rogers.
Damn it.
Ronnie Millsack.
That's what we need.

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It's not The Voice, is it?
The Voice?
No.
It's Burn Gotsam.
Burn Gotsam?
I have no idea.
Conway Twitty.
All right.
How about if I give you the artist?

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All right.
Then see if you can come up with a title.
Are you ready?
I don't think I've ever heard it.
Go ahead, Wesson.
Charlie Pride.
Charlie Pride.
Wow.
Nope.
No.
He literally just said the title.
Never Been So Alone.
Never Been So Alone.
I've never been so alone.
Okay.
Nobody gets that one.
All right.
One more.
One more?
All right.
We're going to do one more.

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Oh, one more. We got it. All right, we'll do one more.
Because no one got that one.
Africa.
George Drake.
George. Yeah.
Carrying your.
Oh, um, Troubadour. Troubadour.
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go.
Good job, Michael Dean.
He might have.
You did. Not might have.
He beat me. He's for sure.
Good job. Michael, take care of us.
Well, God dang it.
I got three. Sweet Curbs got two, three, four, five, six, seven.

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Michael Dean, you got two, four, six, eight, nine, ten.
Michael Dean wins it.
Do the guys get divided by two for fairness?
No.
No.
Well, you won fair and square.
The tie goes to the women.
So we didn't tie it all.
Michael Dean, good rich.
Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
Thanks for being out with us, buddy.
That was a lot of fun.
It was a great.

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Thanks, Michael.
Hope you come back again.
I look forward to it again.
Yeah.
You want to give a shout out to anybody?
I'm just honored to be here.
All the local musicians and friends,
I can truly call friends in this town,
have made this musical experience that have started to relive a really amazing experience.
And I appreciate all of you out there.

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So we appreciate you, buddy.
Thanks for coming.
Michael Dean, good rich, y'all.
Cool.
I'll put a little song on.
Take us out.
Thanks for coming, buddy.
I really appreciate it.
Great, great time.
Yeah.
I bet you never heard old Marcel Dylan say, Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away?

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Settling down, would you marry me?
If I ask you twice and beg you pretty please.
Deceit has said yes in a New York minute.
They never tied the knot.
His heart wasn't in it.
He just stole a kiss as he rode away.
He never hung his hat up at Kitty's place.

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I should have been a cowboy.
I should have learned to roll the ride.
Wearing my sex suit, riding my pony on a cattle drive.
Stealing a young girl's heart just like Jean and Roy.

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Singing those campfire songs.
Oh, I should have been a cowboy.
I might have had a sidekick with a funny name.
Running wild through the hills chasing the Dizzy James.
Ending up on a prank of danger.
Riding shotgun for the Texas Rangers.

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Go west young man, haven't you been told?
California's full of whiskey.
Women and ghosts sleeping out all night beneath the desert stars.
With a dream in my eye and a prayer in my heart.

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Yeah, I should have been a cowboy.

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Ever since the days of old, men would search for wealth untold.
They dig for silver and for gold and leave the empty holes.
And way down south in the Everglades, where the black water rolls and the sawgrass waves.

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The eagles fly and the otters play in the land of the seminal.
So blow, blow, seminal and blow like you're never gonna blow again.
I'm calling to you like a long lost friend, but I know who you are.

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And blow, blow from the old control bay, all the way up to Mecanope.
Blow across the home of the Seminoles, alligators in the garden.

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Progress came and took its toll and in the name of flood control.
They made their plans and they drained the land.
Now the glades are going dry.
And the last time I walked in the swamp, I sat up on a cypress stump.

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I listened close and I heard the ghost of Osceola cry.
So blow, blow, seminal and blow like you're never gonna blow again.
I'm calling to you like a long lost friend, but I know who you are.

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And blow, blow from the old control bay, all the way up to Mecanope.
Blow across the home of the Seminoles, alligators in the garden.

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Outlaw BBQ.

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Outlaw BBQ.

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Welcome back y'all.
I'm Travis Billy Ross.
This is the Outlaw Country Show only on Ramona Radio.
We just had Michael Dean Goodrich with us.
That was so fun.
Yeah, that was killer.
That was fun hanging out with him.
He's a freaking cool dude.
I didn't enjoy it as much.
He beat me.
I still love Michael.
It's all about having fun, sweet nerves.
Where's my little fiddle?
It's all about having fun.

(01:06:05):
Right.
Are you playing My Heart Bleeds for you over there?
This is, you see this in my hand?
This is the smallest violin playing It's Hard Out for you.
Alright, so, oh wait, let me grab a beer.
Hold on.
Go.
Alright, so we got Cassie Goforth back with us.
I'm sorry that I missed Michael Dean.
I can't wait to hear that first beat for the show.

(01:06:28):
It was fun.
That was a lot of fun.
Alright, Cassie, so we were talking earlier about songs about cars and then we got into
the topic of first car.
First car we ever had.
First car.
I had so many cars between the years I turned 16 and 18, I can barely keep them straight,
but I'm pretty sure it was a Datsun 310.

(01:06:49):
And then I had a 78 Volvo kind of around the same time frame.
So a Datsun, is that a truck?
No, my friend.
It was a little hatchback.
Yeah, a little hatchback.
Of course, everything was stick back then.
Let me tell you this.
My friend had a Datsun in high school and we called it the potato.
Just to give you an idea.
Was it the brown one?

(01:07:10):
Mine was like that yellowish gold.
Oh, that looked like baby diarrhea?
Yeah.
Alright, oh baby diarrhea.
And then I got the Volvo.
So I think the Datsun did come first.
Yes.
There was a lot of baby diarrhea cars on the road back then.
What was with that back then?
Well, it was between that and avocado, right?
Avocado.

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Which if you mash it up nicely, it looks like what we were just saying.
We had an avocado colored Volvo station wagon when I was growing up.
Yep, that was a thing back then.
Any fun, interesting events that might have happened to you?
It might have broke down?
I think my parents listened to this show.
No, I did.
I had to put water in it everywhere I went.

(01:07:53):
So I could go maybe five miles and the thing would overheat.
So steam.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, broke down on the 163 uphill in the middle of traffic.
That's when you just turn your heater on and you always had the heater on.
Yeah, just pull the heat off.
We used to have those stop leak beads that didn't hold for very long.
Silver stop leak stuff you poured the radiator.

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So my first car was a Jeep and then my second car was a 1986 Monte Carlo Super Sport.
And this is this freaking car, man.
It had a 305 V8.
You'd get to the gas station and you'd shut it off and it wouldn't shut off.
It would go click click click click click click click click click click click click.

(01:08:35):
I'm like, why won't it shut off?
I turned the key off and it's still going tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
tick.
The timing was so bad off it was like pre-debating.
Oh, the guy's like, oh, it's dieseling out.
It's dieseling out.
I'm like, what the hell does that just make it shut off?
It's dieseling.
What does that even mean?

(01:08:57):
It was a V8 gas powered motor, but it acted like a diesel.
It wouldn't shut off.
So how long did you have to wait to pump your gas?
At least 20, 30 seconds.
It was just like tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.
And the whole freaking car was shaking.
I'd be like, come on, shut off.
And then I'd get out of the car to open the door and get out and it's still doing it.

(01:09:19):
I'm like, OK, when is this thing going to stop?
Eventually it would stop.
So I get to the first bought the car.
And I go to the gas station.
So it was like that scene from that movie.
What was that vacation where the gas the gas nozzle was in the behind the license plate.
Right.
So I get the car and I go get gas.

(01:09:40):
And I'm like, I was just like, for freaking Clark Griswold.
Where do I put gas in this thing?
The person you bought it from didn't tell you?
You're circling the car.
No, dude, I was just like, I want to buy the car.
I love the car.
Still, to this day, I just love that car.
But yeah, I was like, where the fuck do I put the gas out?

(01:10:02):
I go on the driver's side of it.
No.
And I go to the passers.
I'm like, no.
To pop the hood.
I'm like, I did.
I pop the trunk.
I did everything.
I mean, where is the.
So all you do is grab the license plate and you fold it down and it's right behind the
license plate.
Did you figure that out on your own or did the like the gas station attendant have to

(01:10:23):
tell you?
I don't remember.
There's probably some of the pump going.
I'd like to say no.
I think what happened was I remember that movie.
What happened was vacation.
What it is, what happened was I think what it was is I remembered that movie Lampoon's
Vacation where it was behind the plate.
So I just was like, there's no way this is behind the plate.

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Folded it down.
Sure enough, there's a little nozzle.
I'm like, holy crap.
Right in the middle.
And it was actually pretty cool because you know how you get to a gas pump sometimes and
it's only the left side that are open.
I could park wherever I'm like, I don't care.
I can go on the right side.
Left side doesn't matter because it was right in the middle of the back.
There was a brilliance to that.
It was.
It made sense.
Yeah.

(01:11:07):
You see those videos of those, those people are those.
And then they do a circle thing.
You need to get a fix and you're like, no.
Oh yeah.
Still on the wrong side, lady.
Yes.
They do a 180.
It's on the other side.
Right.
The best part is if you watch any of those videos, they're absolutely flabbergasted that
they did not fix their problem.

(01:11:28):
Right.
They can't figure it out.
What happened?
Yeah.
Did you see that one where that lady was in a Tesla and she pulls up to the gas pump and
she's driving gas on an electric car?
Oh, I have not seen that one.
No.
Is that on the YouTube?
It's on the Tube of You.
Was she drunk?
I mean, a Tesla is a Tesla.
You would think if you drove a Tesla, you would know.
She probably borrowed it.

(01:11:48):
It was probably either rented or something.
Who knows?
If you rented a Tesla, I could give my eight-year-old nephew a Tesla and he'd be like, no, you don't
put gas in a Tesla.
Eight-year-olds are pretty smart these days, sweet curbs.
This lady was probably about 30 years old and I don't know, maybe she just borrowed
the car and she's like, oh, it's out of juice.

(01:12:08):
So she went to go fill it up.
Sounds to me like a...
Does this Tube of You stand out?
I don't know.
The guy behind her that was videoing the whole thing was just dying laughing, just hysterical.
And then he ended up actually going out there telling her, like, hey, this is not a gas
car.
You got to go plug in for the next eight hours.

(01:12:30):
Then you can go.
But you almost have to go back in time.
How does she not know?
Is that a rental car?
Did her friend just, hey, you can borrow my car?
I mean, if you go to Tesla to buy a car, it's pretty well known.
Right.
Okay, I'm sure we all have a friend.
I think it's part of their sales pitch.
We all have one of those.
You wouldn't let borrow a car.
And I'm pretty sure her friends all knew if she didn't know that a Tesla didn't take gas.

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She's the friend you don't let borrow a car.
I'm just seeing her friends go, watch this, this'll be funny.
Expensive, but funny.
You're running into the market.
No, it'd be like one of those jokes, you know, when you tell somebody to go into the auto
parts store and ask the guy for a blinker fluid.
Right.
Right.
They always come back out like you ass.

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Or winter air for your time.
I need winter air.
Winter air.
There's always those jokes, you know, like, I did a lot of construction work.
So there's always those jokes.
You always play on the new guy, you know, like, go to that, go to the truck and grab
the cable stretcher.
And they're back there for like 30 minutes.
What the hell is it?
What does it look like?

(01:13:38):
Looks like it stretches cables.
You know, it's crazy.
A tool in particular, they wouldn't know what to look for in the first place.
And it's not like everybody labels all of their tools, pliers, hammer.
Yeah.
Right.
So as he's walking to the truck, he's probably in his brain going, it's going to be obvious.
Yeah, it's a cable stretcher.
When I see it, I'll definitely know what a cable stretcher looks like.

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We did this one thing on this kid.
We were doing the construction work as we told him to go to the toolbox and grab some
elbow grease.
Was he too young to understand that?
He was right out of high school, dude.
He's pulling everything out of the toolbox.
We're all just over there looking at it like, oh, shit, elbow grease.
Come on.

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We need some elbow grease.
That was his last day.
And I quit.
Man, it was so much fun.
All right.
So what are some songs about like construction?
Construction songs.
That's a fun one.
Get into the construction world.
For all those blue collar folks out there like myself.

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Here's to all the blue collar.
Here's to all the blue collars out there that built America.
Well, it's not about construction, but Alabama has a song.
It's called 40 hour a week.
Oh, yeah.
We are weak.
That works.
Yeah, here we go.
Let's cue that up.
We'll find that one here.
Oh, yeah.
That's a good one, man.
I always like the songs about the working man, the working man blues.

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I love Alabama, that's one of my favorites, working man blues.
Yeah, Merle Haggard.
There are people in this country who work hard every day.
Not for fame or fortune do they strive.
But the fruits of their labor are worth more than their pay.
And it's time a few of them were recognized.

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Hello Detroit auto worker, let me thank you for your time.
You work a 40 hour a week for a living.
Just to send it on down the line.
This is for the one who swings the hammer.

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Driving home the nail.
For the one behind the counter.
Ringing up the cell.
For the one who fires the fire.

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The one who brings the mail
For everyone who works behind the scenes
You can see them every morning
In the factories and the fields
In the city streets and the quiet country towns
Working together like spokes inside a wheel

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They keep this country turning around
Hello Kansas, Wheatfield farmer
Let me thank you for your time
You work a forty hour week for a living
Just to send it all down the line
Hello West Virgin, you coal miner

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You work a forty hour week for a living
Just to send it all down the line
This is for the one who drives the big rig
Up and down the road
For the one out in the warehouse
Bringing in the load

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For the waitress, the mechanic, the policeman on patrol
For everyone who works behind the scenes
With a spirit you can't replace
With no machine
Hello America

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Oh man, what a great song. I love Alabama. Alabama right there.
You know what's another funny song about working?
Take this job and show me
I ain't working to hear no more
A woman done left, took all the reason
I wasn't working for

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You better not try to stand in my way
As I'm walking out the door
I've been working in this factory
For now fifteen years

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All this time I watched my woman
Drowning in a pool of tears
And I've seen a lot of good folk dying
Had a lot of bills to pay
I'd give the shirt right off of my back
If I had the guts to say

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Well that woman, she's a regular dog
The line boss, he's a fool
Got a brand new flat top haircut
The Lord thinks he's cool

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One of these days I'm gonna blow my top
And that sucker, he's gonna pay
Lord, I can't wait to see their faces
When I get the nerve to say

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...
Alright! Oh man, I love that song right there.
So that was Johnny Paycheck, right?
1977, 1978, David Allen co-did it.
And then in 1986, the Dead Kennedys did it.

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Isn't that crazy?
Dead Kennedys? It's like a punk band, that's funny.
That's kinda punk though, take this job and shove it.
Get it? Yeah.
I don't know how many times that song has gone through my head doing work sometimes.
I had a lady, I worked with her and she was retiring
and she sang that song at a company Christmas party.

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Oh that's funny. Cause she was retiring, yeah it was pretty funny.
Yeah that one also hit number one on the Hot Country Songs billboard.
Damn really? Yeah, back in 77, 78 when it came out.
Yeah, so in 1981 the movie?
Who was in that movie?
Take this job and shove it.
The only person I knew that Cassie said was Barbara Hershey.

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I didn't know any of the other names.
Barbara Hershey? Yeah.
Is she related to the chocolate people?
I don't think so.
Hershey?
It was 81, it was the one hit wonder year for...
One hit wonders for the 80s in music and in movies evidently.
She was in Beaches though.
Beaches? Yeah wasn't that Barbara Hershey and Barbara?

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Oh yeah. I think so.
I can't imagine myself ever watching Beaches.
You've never seen Beaches? No.
It's such a sad movie but it's so good.
I had three sisters growing up, I've seen the movie Beaches.
You've seen it? I wasn't a fan of it at all.
I can't believe you, now we're going to have to start you a list of movies that you must watch.
We gave Kirby a list.
It'd be a waste of list writing.

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Oh man, Jesus Lord.
Alright so, what's next? What's next on the topics?
You were talking about screwing around with new employees and stuff.
I had the funniest story.
I was in the Air Force.
I got to hear some of these.
The new guys that would come in, get to the base the first time, would be hazed I guess.

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Picked on, whatever.
And we actually, one time we told the new guy, we were securing the flight line up at the base.
The commander called and said, hey I need you to do me a favor.
The pilot dropped his keys to the airplane out on the ramp somewhere.
So he went looking and that kid found a set of keys.

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And ended up getting himself in a damn achievement medal.
What? Oh my gosh.
Let me guess, the medal was a set of keys.
Yeah, sure enough.
I have to tell you how I got hazed one of these days.
Has to do with B2 aircraft and condensation. It was a very weird, weird thing.
What's it like being a pilot dude?
Be flying up there by yourself and you don't, do you have a copilot or you fly those things by yourself?

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Usually I have a copilot, yeah.
What do they do? Just sit back and kick back?
They have to do the work.
They do all the stuff.
So they're like the...
They have to program the computer.
The stewardess?
Run the radio.
Or the flight attendant if you will.
Well, not for the passengers.
They're for me.
Oh, okay.
So I don't have to, they program the computer and they make all the radio calls.

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They have to do all the stuff.
They're the helper.
I just figure out what each cloud animal looks like.
I appreciate that though.
The person actually in control...
I want to get fully focused on flying through the sky.
I don't want you...
I know the autopilot takes care of that.
It's dangerous enough to sit on your phone and type something in and drive in an airplane and you're flying in an airplane.

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I'm going to watch this movie.
Oh my goodness.
I'm going to need you to go ahead and check the gauges.
You don't know how accurate that is.
We picked up our plane, it's a rental up here at the flight training center.
But we picked it up in Florida and flew it across the country.
Yeah, the autopilot flew the whole thing.

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We just sat back and watched movies the entire way across the country.
Of course, he made me run the radio.
How tempted are you to just go ahead and grab a Jack Daniels and just...
You can't do that, I don't think.
No, no, no.
No, unless you work for Boeing.
He can't.
No, it's actually pretty...

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You and your copilot have a discussion ahead of time.
Is it the same guy every time you fly or are you a different guy?
No, I'm a captain so I get set.
On any given day I can have somebody completely different.
They're all qualified in the aircraft.
Yeah, they're all qualified.
But personalities sometimes...
That's the hardest part of the job.

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Okay.
The hardest part is just you get a new personality, a new person.
Sometimes you get along, sometimes you don't.
It's how you communicate.
Yeah, you just have a job to do though.
Can you imagine, man, if you lived in the 1800s...
You know the most dangerous job in the world in the 1800s was the guy that would be the train breaker?
Oh, the brakeman.
Yeah, the brakeman.

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Before they had air brakes on trains, there was a guy literally standing on the top of the train.
To break the train, he'd have to jump from cart to cart and put this little wheel inside of a thing and spin it.
And it would break that part of it and then jump across.
And if the guy fell off the train, they'd need a new train breaker.
For some reason, I feel like you would have been the train breaker.

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You are the train breaker.
And there was no OSHA or anything back then.
Can you imagine that today?
No.
Have you seen those tanker trucks?
Well, also the average lifespan in the 1800s is like 25 to 30 years.
Not great.
Can you imagine?
Congratulations, half of us are dead.
Your job is kind of like a conductor, right?

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In the 1800s, you would have been considered the pilot, right?
Right.
Conductor, driving the train.
Conductor, engineer, I don't know what they call it now.
Now it's like you're like an Uber in the sky.
I'm just an Uber driver.
In the sky.
That's it.
I'm an Uber driver.
A bougie Uber driver.
A bougie Uber driver with a suit and tie on.

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And the little clips on your pilot wings.
Yeah, I'd literally get up in the morning, I'd check my app.
There's an app.
We look at it and go, oh, I guess I'm flying somewhere.
Oh yeah?
Does it give you like the rate and is there like tipping wise?
Can they tip an Uber driver?
Oh, I'd get tipped.
You really?

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No shit.
Not always.
It's not a requirement.
We don't expect it, but it's nice sometimes when you do get it.
So how do they tip you through like a...
That's cash.
Oh, cash.
Yeah, sorry IRS.
Sorry, IRS.
I mean, we only get, they usually give us a dollar.
Dollar 25.
They'll throw a quarter at you and try not to hit the windshield of the airplane.

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Here, let me toss a quarter at you.
So I was in North Dakota one time.
And this was years ago.
So I used to do this show with this company called Dealstar Productions.
And I was the singer for the show.
Dealstar?
Dealstar Productions.
Was it a pickle company?
No.
So the company, they did like dinner theater type things.

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And so the theater portion, it's like a mystery theater, right?
So it was a live show, but it was like audience participation type thing.
And one of the shows, so the theme behind the show, it was the Sopranos.
Remember that TV show?
Oh, yeah.
That was a great show.
So I had a part in that show was I was the singer and I was already the owner of the

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restaurant that they ate dinner at.
And so we did the show up in North Dakota.
So anyway, with the show, I would sing three songs during the dinner hour.
I did Mack the Knife.
I did The Wanderer and Runaway.
How fun is that?
Yeah.
So one of the shows we did was up in North Dakota.
And so we're all hanging out.

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We got done with the show.
We're all pretty pained because we're drinking the whole time during the show because everybody
drinks during these shows.
Can't imagine.
People get a little more relaxed and more friendly because you got to interact with
the guests, you know, the people who are eating the dinner and the people that paid the money
to go to the show.
And so we get done with the show and they're like, oh, they're like, let's go to the strip
club.

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And I'm like, all right, let's go.
All right.
So we go to the strip club.
What did you do, Travis?
I didn't do anything, sweet Curbs.
I got to get out of here.
So what are your interests in this story?
So one of the.
Welcome back, Kirby.
Stop throwing stuff at me.
All right.
You would hear it if I grew it.
Oh, there's birds in the studio again.
Man, we got birds flying around the studio.
So anyway, so we get to this strip club right in North Dakota.
Oh, man.
And it was not like your normal average strip club where you got the girl dancing on the

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pole and the ball.
You know, in the round stage, this lady was behind the bar, right?
Dancing behind the bar, up above the bar on the stage.
And like, she's just up there dancing and there's signs that say, do not do not.
So how you tip or you should throw a dollar bills, right?
But there were signs that said, please do not throw coins.

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What kind of place am I in right now?
The fact that they have to put that sign on.
Right.
Well, what really signs are there for a reason, you know, you don't want to throw coins at
them because potentially, you know, how do you think Cindy got her name?
Got an eye poked out.
And now we've got to mitigate that.

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And now we've got to put signs.
Now we've got to put signs that say, do not throw coins.
The stripper or the dancer.
This is like a Jeff Foxworthy moment right here.
Here's your side.
Here's your side.
So they put the sign up and I was like, everybody was laughing at the side because all the people
that I was with, there was like funny people, like comedians.

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Oh, my goodness.
So what I did, you know, in high school, we used to make a paper football like a dollar
and you flip it.
Of course, you did.
So that was my thing.
I just folded up a one dollar bill and flipped it.
Did you get it through the uprights?

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No.
So I flipped it at her, right?
And it landed.
Wait, was she upside down on the pole?
She had like a pasty on, right?
On her nips.
And it landed right underneath the pasty.
No.
I can't.
Okay.
I'm never going to erase the visual of this from my mind.
It really happened.

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She's like, oh.
And then I was like, how was that again?
I was looking at her.
I was like, oh, God, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to do it.
Did you point at the guy next to you?
I was just trying to flick you cash, lady.
Now there's a sign that says, do not flick money for balls.
Now there's a sign.
So I am the sponsor of the sign that says, do not make paper a dollar bill football and

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flick them at the stripper.
You know what?
On second thought, if you could just leave her tip in the envelope with the bartender
with her name on it.
Just slide it underneath the little screen window.
That'd be great.
That's preferred.
That'd be great.
We've now got cash boxes along the bar.
All the girls probably have Venmo QR codes tattooed on them now.
Oh my goodness.

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That was the funniest thing I ever happened in North Dakota.
That was a fun time.
All right.
Let's refill some drinks here.
All right, so songs about strippers.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm sure there's a few of those.
It's not about a stripper, but you can play fancy.
It's kind of heading that direction.
She's not a stripper, but she's head in the industry.

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Michael Goodrich was here a little earlier and he mentioned Boxcar Willie and I've been
like, wow, Boxcar Willie.
Let's get a little Boxcar going.
Yeah, let's do that.

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She rolled into Birmingham one cold December day.

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As she pulled into the station, you could hear all the people sing.
There's a gal out there from Texas.
She's long and she's tall.
She's the combination of the Wabash Cannonball.
Will you listen to the jingle around the land the roll?
As she glides along the woodland by the hills and by the shore,

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Hear the mighty rush of the Indian herd and lonesome hobo's call.
Traveling through to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Here's to Daddy Clark's and May's name wherever he stands,
And always be remembered throughout this great land.
His earthly race is over and we'll fare him to withdrawal,
And we'll carry him up to heaven on the Wabash Cannonball.
Will you listen to the jingle around the land the roll?

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As she glides along the woodland by the hills and by the shore,
Hear the mighty rush of the Indian herd and lonesome hobo's call.
Traveling through to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball.
We're riding through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball.

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Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold,
But they'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold.
Long star belt buckles and old faded Levi's,
And each night begins a new day.

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If you don't understand him, he don't die young,
And you'll probably just ride away.
Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let them pick guitars or drive them old trucks,

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Let them be doctors and lawyers and such.
They never stay home and they're always alone,
Even with someone they love.

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Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings,
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes won't know how to take it.

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He ain't wrong, he's just different, but his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right.
Don't let them pick guitars or drive them old trucks,

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Let them be doctors and lawyers and such.
They never stay home and they're always alone,
Even with someone they love.

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That is a hard job.
Have you ever followed any of those guys that do the rodeos?
When I was about 12 years old, I lived in Lakeside, down here in just a little south of Ramona.

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I used to volunteer at the Lakeside Rodeo when I was a kid.
I was that little kid in stands with a little bucket of ice cream.
I was the kid.
Oh, you were the one walking around.
It's such a, oh man, most embarrassing job I've ever done.
As a little kid walking through stands and getting in public like that.

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How were your sales?
Pretty good.
It was summertime on Lakeside.
I killed it, dude. It was summertime on Lakeside.
Give a little blink of those baby blues.
That is a sound bite.
You know what happened, right?
How I got talked into doing that shit.
Originally, I was just the kid that took, there were four little Snack Shacks.

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I was the kid that took the popcorns and stuff.
I would carry bags of popcorn to each of the Snack Shacks.
There's this girl. She was probably about 13.
I had a little crush on her.
She said, let's go to the stands and sell the ice creams.
I'm like, God, no, I don't want to do that.
There's a bunch of people that I went to elementary school with.

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She bats her eyes.
She'd be really fun to hang out with.
I don't even remember her name.
Did you even get to hang out with her?
I'm assuming you guys would be an oppo.
I was the guy carrying the bucket of ice cream.
She wanted him to carry it.
She wanted you to be her muscle.
Yes, and I felt really proud of that.
Well played, lady.
She's cute. Maybe she'll kiss me on the cheek later. I don't know.

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Did she ever? Or you just carried her shit?
I'm not going to tell you, sweet curbs, because it's none of your business.
You were 12.
I just want to find out if you actually got anything out of it.
I've got to get these birds out of the studio again.
Is this going to affect me later on this evening?
I don't know.
She did actually kiss me on the cheek one time.
You're sleeping on the couch.

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Birds flying around the studio again.
Anyway, birds. Talking about birds.
That's funny.
All right.
Being a cowboy is tough, though.
You've got to hang out with the rodeo.
Nobody said cowboy and it's easy.
I know. Humping them ice creams around.
Humping them around?

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Ladies and gentlemen, ice cream is TBR's cowboy story.
It was the most...
We had the ice cream sandwiches and we had the drumsticks.
They were the most pathetic freaking ice cream sandwiches because by the time we were selling them, they were just milk.

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Two cookies dipped in...
You have two soggy cookies.
They're like, here you go, sir, that's $2.
He grabs it and just turns it.
It felt like it was sitting in my pocket.
Let me just pour it in a cup for you.
Give me a straw. Here you go.
Good old Lakeside Rodeo. I'll tell you one fun thing that happened at the Lakeside Rodeo when I was a kid.

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We were taking the trash cans out.
They had all the recycling, all the beer cans.
My cousin at the time was working with me.
He was three years older than me.
He would sneak behind the concession stands as we were putting the popcorn in the thing.
He'd pocket beers, Budweiser's.

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We'd had Budweiser's, a bunch of them, in the bag of trash.
He threw a bunch of them in there.
We go behind the concession stand.
I'm a freaking dude. I'm literally 10, 11 years old.
My cousin's like, oh, dude, check it out, Travis.
I got these beers.
I was like, what? You got beer?

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I was like, all right, what do we do with these things?
What do we do with them?
Should we tell our parents?
Do we take them to mom?
He's like, no, dude, let's go over here.
We're going to go behind the concession stand.
I'm like, okay.
Dude, ended up drinking three of the beers.
Got hammered.
Then I couldn't even concentrate.

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Travis, go take these popcorn bags over to station number three.
I'm like, where the fuck is station number three?
How do I get there?
They're like, you've been working here all night.
No, it was like a three day weekend.
Was that like meat campings? Getting lost at the bathroom?
Yeah, just like that.
But I was like 11, 12 years old.

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Age doesn't matter.
So that was not the first time I ever got drunk.
When was the first time you ever got drunk, sweet curves?
I'm not going to tell you the first time I ever got drunk, but that was one of the first times.
I was definitely older than 10.
How old?
Probably 16.
16? Do you remember where you were?
What were you doing?

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I might have been younger than 16 because we lived in Poway.
What did you drink?
Because we lived in Poway.
Your mom's probably listening to this.
I know, you're aligning your age.
Well, she knows the story because this is how we got in trouble.
She caught you.
No, well, yes, but.
So my brother's three years older than me and it was Super Bowl Sunday and my parents had a Super Bowl party.

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And there was a bottle of Jack Daniels in our pantry.
You got drunk on whiskey the first time.
My brother took some.
So I'm like, he's like 13.
I'm like 10.
Pours it in the thing, puts some Coke in it, puts it back in the cabinet.
And I just take a couple sips of his.
I don't have one of my own.
I didn't get drunk.
But what happened was my brother kept drinking it and then realized, oh, there's like a dent in this bottle.

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This wasn't all me.
And someone's going to notice.
Let me guess.
She poured water in it.
Filled it with water.
And my dad was like, why does my Jack Daniels look like weak ice?
Right.
OK, well, all the things to pour water into.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, you probably send it out pretty good.
I mean, water and whiskey.
I didn't get drunk.

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I did drink it the first time I got like properly drunk.
I was probably like 16 or 17.
Properly drunk.
Yeah.
OK, 16.
I had a friend in high school that either her parents were completely oblivious or they didn't care.
They went to the desert every weekend and every weekend we'd have a party at her house.
Oh, yeah.
First time I ever got black out drunk, like black out drunk, I was 15.

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And so my brother-in-law, I lived in South Carolina.
So my brother-in-law, he worked for Applebee's.
He was like a general manager for Applebee's.
And he had gotten this.
They had opened up a new Applebee's in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
So he was out there for like three months.
And he had a hotel room paid for and everything.
So it was a weekend, you know.

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We had like a long weekend out of school.
And he's like, hey, dude, you want to come up to the beach?
You know, we've got the hotel room.
You can hang out and go to the beach.
And I was like, yeah, dude, 15.
I was 15 years old.
So I go out there and his roommate that he had working with him, roommate in the hotel room,
he had bought, he had a whole like 12-pack of Ice House beer.

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Oh, Ice House.
That's that 5.9 fricking high-powered beer.
There was Ice House and the Natty Ice came out.
Yeah, so and then he also had this bottle of gin.
It was dry gin.
So when I went to Myrtle Beach, I went to buy, I collected shot glasses.
I was 15 years old, collecting shot glasses.

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I get out there.
I find that gin inside of the little refrigerator.
I don't buy myself a note tower.
I'm doing shots like by myself.
I get hammered like blackout hammered.
I wake up throwing up all over the toilet.
Anyway, you didn't even mix it.
I get back.
No, I was doing a shot of a shot of gin and a shot of Sprite.
Oh, you're chasing with Sprite.

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Yes, balance.
Until this day, until this day, I have a hard time drinking Sprite.
But you're OK with gin.
Oh, gin.
I'm fine with gin now.
Yeah, I'm good with gin, but Sprite.
It was Sprite that killed me.
You know what's funny?
As you said, gin and it triggered.
First time I ever got drunk, I was probably three or four because.

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What?
Oh, Lord.
I'm calling DSS.
Because.
I had a cousin with a similar, I think, story.
My great grandmother, we called her granny.
My granny took care of all of us kids while our parents worked when I was little from like probably when I was one to like three or four.
All my cousins, all of us.

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Well, she lived next door to this real sweet couple.
Their names were Dorothy and Carl.
And Carl looked like Mr. Clean.
And I would sit out with Carl and feed the mockingbirds and hang out.
But Dorothy taught me how to play titilly winks and you got to like shoot this little thing into this frog's mouth.
But Dorothy also drank gin and tonics and she would let me like take drinks of them.

(01:47:48):
And then I just remember I'd go back to my granny's house and take a nap.
Maybe granny sent you over there on purpose.
Maybe I was the difficult one.
Kirby, go play next door.
Come back in its nap time.
All right, friends, we're getting to the end of our show already.
It's been two hours already.
About ten more minutes.
Time five when you're having fun.

(01:48:10):
I know what we have not done yet.
Well, you know what time it is.
All right.
We did it with Michael Dean Goodrich.
Michael kicked our asses.
It was bullshit.
You know what time it is.
All right.
So is this the one though that counts towards TBR's actual record?
This is between me and Sweet Curbs here.
Well, his actual record is zero.
All right, Kathy, are you keeping score on this one?

(01:48:32):
I am keeping the score.
All right, for those that are just joining us, this is our name that tune segment.
Name our tune.
Name that tune.
And let's just recap one more time how this works.
Okay.
So I'm going to play a song.
Okay.
You can name either the artist or the title.
Okay.
At that point, you have five seconds to name the other part.

(01:48:54):
Okay.
So if you name the artist, you get five seconds to name the title, vice versa.
Okay.
If you don't, then your opponent.
Then you're a loser.
We can steal it.
Your opponent can steal that bonus point, okay?
Okay.
All right.
Let's do it.
All right.
Okay.
So here we go.
I'm going to start off kind of easy, right?
All right.
All right.

(01:49:15):
Let's see.
Crazy, Patsy Klein.
All right.
That's two for me, right?
That is two for you.
Okay.
Kirby or Kelly?
You know.
Wait, hold on.
I think Sweet Curbs needs a drink.
You cannot see Sweet Curbs face with the mild mix.
Where's your whiskey at?
I'm fine.
All right.
Let's do a little clank.
Let's do a clank first.

(01:49:36):
I'm not clanking.
Come on.
It's positive clanking.
Positive clanking.
I'm going to clank you anyway.
Dang.
There we go.
I'm not sure if, you know.
All right.
Next one.
Here we go.
Trailers for Sailor Rant.
Mm-hmm.
Rumors.
King of the Road.
All right.
You've got five seconds to come up with the title.
No, the artist.

(01:49:57):
That's what I meant, the artist.
Three, two, one.
What do you think?
I have no idea.
I mean, I know the song.
I have no idea.
Oh, she can't even steal.
Roger Miller.
Roger freaking Miller.
Come on.
I'm going to go with the song.
Oh, you're going to go with the song.

(01:50:18):
Oh, you're going to go with the song.
Yeah.
I got it right.
Well, I get it right.
Curbs were at three, nothing.
Travis is ahead.
This is very depressing.
Doesn't mean anything.
She kicks my ass when I'm 12 ahead.
I know it's a girl.
Do you?
I don't think that counts.

(01:50:41):
It's a female singer.
And you were wrong.
Lineman? Lineman for the county.
No.
No?
I'm gonna have to take that back.
Then I don't know.
You don't know?
County Lineman?
You're stupid, that's what I just said.
Alright, we got negative points for guessing.
I don't like it.
Am I taking them away?
Wichita Lineman.
Wichita Lineman?

(01:51:01):
Okay, who was that?
Glenn Campbell.
Glenn Campbell, okay.
Alright.
Next, no.
You guys frustrated yet?
Yeah.
I know Eric's gonna make us really do some homework.
I know, I know.
It's been too easy.
Here we go, here's your next one, you ready?
Down in the wet, Marty Robbins.
Down in the west Texas town of El Paso.

(01:51:23):
Here we go.
You said El Paso, so I'll give it to you.
There you go.
El Paso.
How are we at five nothing TBR?
Well.
Because I'm good.
No.
You know what?
You did kind of say that last week,
and look where it got you.
We're still playing the game.
I know, I did it last week, it's bullshit.
We're still playing the game.
Let's do it.
Alright, here we go.
Here we go.
Black earthen.

(01:51:44):
Black earthen.
Black earthen.
Black earthen.
Black earthen.
Black earthen.
Oh, Nancy's.
The girl, fuck, what's her name?
Bobby Gentry.
Bobby Gentry.
Aw dang it.
Oh.
Oh, DeBilly Joe.
Alright.
And Kirby is on the board.
Bullshit.
Two to five.
Wow.
Let's see, that was all in the 60s.

(01:52:07):
60s to 97.
That wasn't so bad.
That wasn't so bad.
Do like, let's do old ones, like 50s.
You wanna do 50s?
Yeah.
Oh, we're gonna go way back?
Let's go way back.
Alright, where you at?
Oh my gosh.
Like, why stop at the 50s?
Hank Williams.
Cold, cold heart.
There we go.

(01:52:31):
See, there's so many birds flying around the studio
right now, sweet Crips, I'm sorry.
There's not one single bird.
Alright, let's see if we can get the next one.
You're ready.
Patsy Kline, After Midnight.
Oh my goodness, Crips.
Like, even I, who knows nothing,

(01:52:52):
almost chimed in on that.
Hey, sweet Crips, you know about the tattoo
that I have, right?
The special one?
You're an asshole.
He's got fuck you tattooed on his lips
and he just showed it to me.
Next time you see me in person,
ask me to show you my tattoo.

(01:53:13):
I can't say it on the air.
Alright, here we go.
Okay.
Some people say a man is made out of mud.
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood.
Oh come on.
I know the song.
Company soul.

(01:53:33):
Sold my soul to the company store.
Company store?
Another day older and deeper than that.
Son of a bitch.
Got all the lyrics, got all the lyrics.
He just lost all of his points.
Oh, I got negative points.
No, son of a bitch.
We might have to introduce that rule.
I have no idea.
No idea?
I know the song.
16 Tons.

(01:53:54):
16 Tons.
By who?
Tennessee, Ernie Ford.
Ernie Ford, okay.
Two to nine, folks, two to nine.
Oh.
Johnny Cash.
Wrong.
George Jones, White Lightning.
George Jones, yeah.

(01:54:14):
Damn it, you're right.
Sweet, sweet curves.
Good job, sweet curves.
That was pretty good.
Pretty hot?
That was pretty hot.
You're stupid.
Someone's trying to make a
previous incidence this evening.
Shooing the birds away, are we?

(01:54:43):
Jodie Messina.
Hedge Carolina.
Hedge Carolina.
Oh, I was gonna say that.
I have five seconds.
There's a bird.
Now there's birds flying around.
There's a bird.
There's a bird right there.
Whatever, sweet curves.
All right, yep, she got it in there.
So six to nine.
Martina McBride.

(01:55:05):
Oh, Trisha, you're right.
She's in Love with the Boy.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh, we're at a one point game here.
Kirby's got eight.
How many more songs are there?
What do we got, what's left?
We've only got about two more minutes.
Come on, here, play something good.
Are we done yet?
Are we at time?
Here we go, here we go, ready?

(01:55:26):
Toby Keith, Show Me the Cowboy.
Show Me the Cowboy.
Okay, I already fucking knew that, bullshit.
And she pulls ahead from behind again.
Whatever, every freaking time.
Again.
I'm gonna smoke my cigarettes.
That's the end of our show, folks.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, I'm gonna smoke my cigarettes.
We got time for one more.
All right, one more.
Okay, it's 10 to nine.
Kirby's in the lead.

(01:55:46):
All right.
Alabama?
Yeah.
That's five seconds, Kirby, you got it.
Don't count on me, you're done.
You got five seconds afterward.

(01:56:08):
Hold on, I do know what it is.
No, five seconds, gone.
You're gone.
No, you're done.
That's five seconds.
It's the song of the south.
Oh, you're out.
No, Born Country.
Oh, dang it, why I still won?
We officially have a tie.
Yeah.
It is 10 to 10.
Oh, shit, tie, we gotta do a freaking tie breaker.
We have to do a tie breaker.

(01:56:29):
All right, so, dang.
I hate tie breakers, man.
Why can't I just say I won?
That's the attitude we like.
Winning.
There's an air mattress in our guest bedroom
if you wanted to say you won.
All right, sweet curbs won.
No, we got one more.
We got one more, okay.
We're at a tie, it's 10 to 10.

(01:56:51):
Now, because I know this is a category
that neither one of you are really, really strong at,
but I know you've heard the songs,
so it's gonna take a little bit of thinking, all right?
Do we get like a category or a reference or no?
No.
Okay.
No.
Blind.
All right.
So here we go, I'm gonna find something
that's gonna take a little bit of thinking.

(01:57:12):
Baby, you're a song you make me want to roll my windows down.
Florida, Georgia line.
Cruise.
Cruise.
I say cruise.
Oh.
I say cruise.
Oh, that's true.
They were singing the song, yes.
Okay.
He did say cruise before she said cruise.
Does that mean they're tied again?
Yeah.
They're tied again, yes.
11, 11.
All right, but first of all, this is outlaw country.

(01:57:33):
That's shit, an outlaw country.
I just happen to know that one.
This particular segment has named that too.
I told you we were gonna, okay.
All right.
All right, here we go.
Another one, it's gonna take a little thinking.
Okay.
It's not, neither one of you are really strong
in this area, so.
It's not outlaw then.
Dammit.
Motorboat.
Pontoon, Little Big Town.
I said motorboat.

(01:57:54):
It's not called motorboat, it's called pontoon.
It is called pontoon.
Little Big Town.
Fuck.
It is, it is.
She's correct.
Lame, all right, whatever.
The queen reigns supreme.
Undefeated champions.
Curbs takes this one again.
13 to 11.
Game shall continue.
Bullshit.
I do have to say though, Michael beat me.

(01:58:16):
He did good.
Michael did great.
Michael did good.
I cannot wait to hear it because I missed that.
Michael cleaned house a little bit.
I missed that portion of the show.
Yeah.
All right, my friends, that's it.
We are out of time.
All right, y'all, thank you for tuning in.
I'm Travis Billy Ross, Outlaw Country Show,
and the show is brought to you by Outlaw Barbecue,
because nobody wants to party with salads.

(01:58:38):
They gotta have the meats and outlaw barbecues.
Got it.
Thank you, Sweet Curbs.
Thank you, Michael Dean Goodrich.
Thank you, Cassie Goforth and Eric Goforth.
And thank you, Ramona Radio.
And if you're listening to this on Monday morning,
drive safe.
God bless.
["Don't Speak To Me"]

(01:59:14):
You hear this time that I'm from,
but don't speak to me.
Wherever I run, it's gonna be my seat.
But yeah, this house that I live, yeah, I call it my home.

(01:59:37):
But another hotel room away from my son.
Not a thing I can do to a cynical you.
And not a thing I would give to be alone with you.

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