BONUS: Welcome to Squid Country
The Bitter Southerner Podcast
GPB Digital
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for GPB comes from the Galloway School where students ages 3 through grade 12 are part of a community where learning is joyful, individuals are valued, and self-discovery is encouraged. |
| 0:11.0 | Openhouse is December 3rd. |
| 0:12.6 | More info at Galloway School.org. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hey y'all! It's Chuck Rees here from the Bitter Southerner Podcast. Now we know many of you |
| 0:28.1 | are hankering for season two of our show. We're putting it all together right now and we feel really enthusiastic about it |
| 0:35.6 | because in season two we're going to dig even deeper into some specific parts of the culture of the American South and you'll hear |
| 0:46.2 | season two very soon but we wanted to bring you a special bonus episode |
| 0:51.8 | something to wet your appetite. |
| 0:54.8 | And it's a chat with three of the creative forces behind a TV show on the Cartoon Network |
| 1:00.6 | called Squid Billies. If you're unaware, |
| 1:05.0 | if you're unaware, |
| 1:07.0 | if you're unaware, the Cartoon Network has a sort of late night mini network called Adult Swim, |
| 1:22.0 | and Squidbillies is one of Adult Swim's longest running shows. |
| 1:27.0 | The church should be taught in the schools and the schools should be part of the damn church. |
| 1:32.0 | Now you might say, Biggie, hey, you quit school. the school should be part of the damn church. |
| 1:32.8 | Now you might say big e, hey you quit schooling in the second grade. |
| 1:36.2 | That's right. |
| 1:37.2 | That was the voice of Early Collar, the granddaddy in a family of what they call |
| 1:41.6 | Anthropomorphic mud squids who live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of |
| 1:46.3 | North Georgia exactly where I grew up. |
| 1:50.3 | Now, I'd never once thought of my home folks as mud squids. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm not sure how I could have, but I have to say that this strange little cartoon show somehow nails the hard-headed stubbornness of Southern Mountain folks like me, |
| 2:06.0 | but it never really flips my angry switch by making fun of us. |
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