Hey Discos, need a little more disgrace land in your life?

Just a touch to get you through?

Yeah, me too.

This is the podcast that comes after the podcast.

Welcome to Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party.

This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one

full episode of disgrace land to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. On this episode,

we're talking about Merle Haggard, my country music gateway drug, more British post-punk,

and of course your voicemails, text, DMs, and more, and as always,

a whole lot of rosy. All right, discos, let's get into it.

All right, we are here.

We are together.

We are communing in disgrace land.

It is Merle Haggard Week.

Merle Haggard is, of course, the subject of our latest full episode of Disgraceland.

And in the mini bonus up leading up to the full up on Merle, I discuss a bit about Merle's background and his crimes and his stint in prison and

Folson Prison, even his relation to the high character, H.I. from Raising Arizona. So,

if you're interested in all that, there is a lot for you to sink your teeth into in that mini episode,

also in the full episode. But what I want to talk more about here in the bonus episode

is Merle Haggard's music, and even more generally about country music, about classic

country music. How many of you are into country music are into classic country music like

Merle Haggard? I get it. I get it if you're not. You're into punk rock, you're into hip-hop,

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