Well, howdy there, internet people, it's bow again.

People seem to enjoy using a song to get it a deeper meaning.

So tonight we're going to talk about a song that has a deeper meaning that people

have been talking about for 40 or 50 years trying to figure out the mystery of the

song what it means. the

the reason I think the reason I think people can't figure it out is

the reason I think people can't figure it out

is because the deeper meaning of the song is true.

So tonight we're going to talk about why Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

The name of the song is Ode to Billy Joe, written by Bobby Gentry, not Janice Joplin.

No, nor that song, what's it about? We don't know, right? It's a mystery. It's a

mystery because we don't know what they threw off the bridge.

It's driving the country crazy for 40 or 50 years now.

See, the thing is, it doesn't matter because that's not the point of the song.

There are theories about what was thrown off the bridge and they run wild.

Everything from a wedding ring to flowers to a rag doll to a baby.

The meaning of the song, I think, is even darker than any of that, any of it. The point of the song is not why Billy Joe jumped off the bridge. It's not.

It's an inciting incident, but that's not the plot.

It's not the plot. People talk about that missing fact. It's a negative fact. It's something you expect to be there.

It isn't, just like the Sherlock Holmes story. Sometimes that can point you to the right question. Sometimes it can give you the answer, but the answer

is only important if you're asking the right question. The question isn't what he

throw off the bridge. The question is why didn't the author include it? Because it's not important.

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