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This one's for the girls! Comedian Allison O'Conor (@allisonoconor, Allison and Garrett's Big Night) joins Danny and Tyler to discuss country traditionalist/country pop superstar Martina McBride. Specifically, they dig into her hit "My Baby Loves Me," and its message of unconditional love. Danny, Tyler, and Allison also discuss Martina's longtime friendship with Garth...

NOTE: This is LESS THAN HALF of a special episode, but you can hear the FULL THING right now by subscribing to our new PATREON! Just go to patreon.com/takethispod and become a patron at the tier that works best for you! This is the first episode that Danny and Tyler recorded together in person since starting the podcast states apart, and it's a lot of fun! If you'd like to listen to full...

After adding 20 songs to our Ultimate Country Playlist , we are back with a  new Catch-Up and Mustard! This episode is business in the front, party in the back! First of all, we now have a Patreon! You can subscribe to our Patreon and regularly get bonus Take This Pod and Shove It content by going to patreon.com/takethispod ! We are really excited to finally launch this, and we hope you'll co...

You can now support us on Patreon! This week Danny and Tyler discuss the phenomenal songwriting and gut-busting honky tonk sound of Sarah Shook & The Disarmers. The North Carolina five-piece band is still a relatively new presence in the country music/alt country scene, but we think if you like barn burners you're gonna like 'em. We especially think you'll enjoy our song of the...

You can now support us on Patreon! At long last, the boys cover Hank Williams Sr., the "Hillbilly Shakespeare" himself. This week Danny and Tyler are joined by Greg Hess (@heygreghess, MEGA Podcast, Live from Here, Improvised Shakespeare) to discuss Hank Williams' final recorded song before his untimely passing. Is "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" dark comedy...

This week finally covers one of the Kings of Country Music, the Man in Black himself: Johnny Cash. It was not an easy task narrowing down which of Cash's many excellent songs would be the first of his to add to our Ultimate Country Music Playlist (TM), but we decided to go with his recording of "Folsom Prison Blues" from his legendary live album, At Folsom Prison . We  discuss how &...

You can now support us on PATREON! This week we discuss the short and elusive career of Michael David Fuller aka Depty Dawg aka DAWG aka The Duct Tape Messiah aka Blaze Foley aka BLAZE. Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian Shane Torres (@shanetorres, Conan, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central) to talk Blaze’s small but mighty catalog of songs (including "Clay Pigeons"),...

This week Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian and musician Dylan Adler (@dylanadler_, The Late Late Show) to discuss the "First Lady of Country Music," Tammy Wynette! The song we focus on is "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad," one of Wynette's earliest and most boot-stompin'-est hits.  Tyler, Danny, and Dylan discuss what separates "Your Good Girl's Gon...

This week Danny and Tyler discuss the father of Outlaw Country, Waylon Jennings, and his boot-stompin' hit "Good Hearted Woman" (featuring Willie Nelson, who also earned a writing credit)! If you're a fan of Sturgill Simpson, southern rock, or rowdy live concerts, you're gonna like Waylon--if you don't already! The boys dig into Waylon's humble beginnings, his li...

This week the boys sit down with comedian Megan Gailey (@bettermegangailey, Comedy Central, I Love A Lifetime Movie, Megan Fun of Sports, Pause with Sam Jay) to discuss Kacey Musgraves! The song of the week is Kacey's first top ten hit, "Follow Your Arrow," the pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-doing-what-ya-gotta-do rug cutter off her debut album. In addition to talking the quality and inspir...

This episode's artist is Yola, potentially a new name to many. Yola would probably not be considered a typical country singer by most: she's black, she's British, and seems to effortlessly glide between R&B, soul, Americana, and blues. Though she considers herself "genre-fluid" (a term she coined), when she makes a country song, she knocks it out of the park. And this...

This week Danny and Tyler chat about country-rock pioneers, The Flying Burrito Brothers with standup, author, and drummer, Sam Tallent! (@SamTallent, Running the Light, Chubby Behemoth Podcast) Sam talks to the boys about the lyrical versatility of “Sin City”, FBB’s traceable influence on artists like The Eagles, Orville Peck, and The Flaming Lips, and why he should have played football for Harvar...

We'll admit: including this song on our podcast and playlist is almost TOO obvious. But we'd be remiss not to include this timeless crossover hit from the singular and phenomenal Patsy Cline, so "Crazy" is the song of the week! You've almost certainly heard this song before, but it's such a *classic* that one might forget that it is in fact a *country* song. Danny and...

We're taking a one week break from our normal format to put out this double-stuffed special episode we are calling Catchup and Mustard! (We'll have another regular episode next week) Now that ten song episodes have been released, we wanted to something we've been meaning to do, which is chat about WHY people hate or used to hate country music. Via Twitter and Instagram we asked, and...

This week Danny and Tyler discuss one of their very favorite country artists of past or present: Sturgill Simpson. And they’re joined by fellow comedian, banjo player, and Sturgill fan, Eli Coyote Mandel (@elicoyote, SNL, Search Party)! Eli breaks down the Pete Seeger to John Prine to Sturgill Simpson pipeline, and how he went from hating country to loving it. The boys talk about Sturgill’s excell...

Johnny Cash once said, "When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'" This week Danny and Tyler discuss the legendary George Jones, often considered to have the greatest voice in all of country music. And while there are over a dozen #1 country hits to choose from in Jones’ catalog, the song of the week is “Finally Friday,” the l...

This week spotlights Loretta Lynn’s 1975 crossover hit, “The Pill,” one of the most controversial country singles of all time. To discuss Loretta, birth control, and the normalizing of sexual health education, Danny and Tyler are joined by the brilliant and hilarious Alex Kumin (@alexkumin, Comedy Central, Comedians You Should Know).  Everyone from Owen Bradley to Reba McEntire to Jack White says...

On this week’s episode Danny and Tyler take it way, way, waaaaay back to the year 2020 and discuss the clever, catchy, and all-too-relatable “Vaping on the Job” by Dougie Poole. Poole is a singer-songwriter living in Brooklyn who approaches country as an experimental music form, often incorporating drum machines and synthesizers into his music. He sings about the financial struggles of young creat...

Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian and Reba expert Ali Clayton (@acountryclayton, Y'all Gay Podcast - follow at @yallgaypod)! We dig into the origins of the Southern Gothic classic "Fancy," admire Reba's impressive, multifaceted career, and hear some truly wild stories from Ali's life growing up in the South. This is a real fun episode you wont want to miss! Follow the...

Willie Nelson once said Ray Charles did more for country music than any single artist has ever done. On this week’s episode, comedian David Gborie (@coolguyjokes87, Comedy Central, All Fantasy Everything) joins Danny and Tyler to explore Ray Charles’ tremendous impact on country music, and the largely overlooked and unsung early black influence on the genre.  Ray Charles and Willie Nelson are both...

This week Danny and Tyler cover Dolly Parton's most-covered song: "Jolene," from the 1974 album of the same name. One can't overstate Dolly's importance to country music, but we do our best to cram as much gushing as we can into an hour. And along the way we talk about Dolly Parton's Stampede, Dolly's famous origin story, and the enduring legacy of other hits lik...

This episode is rated: Cowboy! This week Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian, writer, and The Chicks expert Caleb Hearon (@calebsaysthings, Keeping Records Podcast). Together they discuss The Chicks’ humble origin as a bluegrass quartet, the group's various controversies, “Truck Stop" and "Blue Collar" comedy, the Bush years (uh oh!), and how the song “Goodbye Earl” is the m...

It's a Christmas miracle! Danny and Tyler are joined by one of their favorite comics, and a host of the Stand By Your Band podcast, Tommy McNamara! (@TommyMcNam) Tommy has written an EP of Christmas music, stars in and produces his own annual Christmas comedy show in Brooklyn, and is a country music fan, making him the perfect guest for today's topic: excellent country songs fit for our...

If you don't know Buck Owens, one of your favorite musicians is almost certainly influenced by him (or influenced by someone who was  influenced by him, etc.). On this episode Danny and Tyler discuss Buck's wild success, his hilarious band (The Buckaroos), the megahit "Act Naturally," and how rebelling against the Nashville Sound can be even more rock 'n' roll than ro...

On the debut episode of Take This Pod and Shove It, Danny and Tyler discuss one of their mutual favorites: the great John Prine! Often considered "Music/songwriting's Mark Twain," John Prine is funny, heartbreaking, charming, understated, dry, and brilliant. Danny and Tyler discuss the rollicking and decidedly-country "Please Don't Bury Me," and also explore Prine&apo...