And I'm proud to be ready ready

Hi John

Hi Merlin. How's it going? Oh great. Great. How are you? How are you?

I was hoisted on my own valor. Yes. Yes. Yes. I bid you good memorial day.

Good morrow and all the rest of the day to you. Hmm. Well, I guess that'll do it for this

week on Roderick Online. That's right. We we honored the fallen and then we got out.

I like that tune. I like that melody a lot. Well, it's it's it's it's um it's a good

piece of songwriting. It really lends itself well. Can we talk about this John? Hmm. How

the lead the song I don't know if Julie Greenwood wrote the song that made the whole

world cringe. But I think the I think that song is good at what it is. And I think I think the

chorus is unbelievably restrained. They didn't do a truck driver key change. They didn't do anything

cute. It's very restrained. Well, I was I was about to say that I think it did it worked very

well in its time, right? As as what it was intended to do. It's a it's a it's it's it's

pre-regum, though, right? I mean, it's I don't know. I don't know. I'm not applauding the lyrics.

Well, this is what I mean. It works great at at at at first level. And then it's you could not

write a song that works better at an ironic level, right? Like it also you we sing it all the time.

Almost like a parody like a sort of like a parody of a sort of like Frank Capra or I guess

famously I don't like when people knock on Norman Rockwell. But a kind of idyllic

yearning for a past that never existed at least for black people. It's a perfect song. It's

it's one of the songs or it's one of the culture items that that presaged the death of irony because

you couldn't parody it. It's already a perfect parody of itself. And and you'll know you know

this because now third generation parody, right? Like third wave third wave parody.

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