By July of 1994, the American people had experienced, in back-to-back weeks, two

separate but equally important vehicular incidents that would set the

American cultural zeitgeist ablaze and change the course of popular sports and

judicial history. Both involved jealous marriages, rife with adultery, betrayal,

and intrigued. Both involved the titillating possibility, if not

probability of dirty, dirty cops. Both, unfortunately, involved death, mayhem,

and national tragedy. But both, luckily, created videos we can use as reference

points, not only to a place in time but a place in our lives. Not only where

you were, but who you were on those fateful American days that they

happened back-to-back, is it fate, is it happenstance, or is it simply a

coincidence, and expected occurrence in an internal scope of possibilities while

we float on this blue marble two spaces removed from a dying star. By the time

Orrenthal James Simpson stopped that white Bronco, gave his hair samples and

was officially arrested. One, Joe Logan Diffie was setting the charts ablaze with

the song, so intriguing, so in-depth, so quintessentially nine-beast country that

I sometimes find it harder to believe that it exists than I do the outcome of

O.J.'s trial. Third rock from the Sun is arguably the greatest country story

song of all time and is undoubtedly the best music video in the genre by a

country mile. In fact, before we get started, go take a second and watch it and

come back to us. Because today on Bubba Shot The Podcast, we are doing Joe Diffie's

masterpiece. Third rock from the Sun. Thank you for joining us.

Yeah, I was gonna say, we just, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched the video for

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