{"id":32904,"date":"2024-07-19T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32904"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:48:44","slug":"about-the-old-men-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/19\/about-the-old-men-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Old Men Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We watched a bit of the RNC last night, hoping to catch Donald Trump&#8217;s talk, and I couldn&#8217;t help note that the entertainers who took the stage were all old.  I mean, my boys didn&#8217;t even know who Hulk Hogan was (&#8220;He&#8217;s our generation&#8217;s John Cena,&#8221; I said, but he&#8217;s more likely between John Cena and The Rock.  I told them I watched the cartoon in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZ3lCUixbvE?si=5BJH6M6RCSLo3A8o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Lee Greenwood&#8217;s &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; is forty years old this year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KoXt9pZLGM?si=GKWz5mcOyAGtROe8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing him perform that song at Savvis Center in the St. Louis Blues home opener in 2001, the first game since the attacks (somehow I managed to be at Busch Stadium when <em>it<\/em> reopened in 2001, but all we got was Jack Buck reading a poem).  That was twenty-three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And my beautiful wife was surprised that Kid Rock was a rapper.  She was not familiar with his 1990s work.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><center>&#8220;Bawitdaba&#8221;<\/center><\/td>\n<td><center>&#8220;Cowboy&#8221;<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OrNS2zbTZg?si=00I_QE08IiwaMM2T\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glb2U6y-GdU?si=XOQnTQTEfAsaEL-e\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re more familiar with &#8216;Picture&#8217;,&#8221; I said, knowing that his 21st century work, the hits that have crossed over onto the country charts\/radio stations, are more sung songs.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><center>&#8220;Picture&#8221; (2002)<\/center><\/td>\n<td><center>&#8220;All Summer Long&#8221; (2008)<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKFx0MMqb48?si=2dQGOTK864LLdxEN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glb2U6y-GdU?si=XOQnTQTEfAsaEL-e\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSkFygPCTwE?si=pjVdPqlfQBcM5sle\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sweet Christmas, &#8220;All Summer Long&#8221; was <em>sixteen years ago<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But my wife was not actually familiar with Kid Rock&#8217;s oevre at all.  Which is to say she hasn&#8217;t listened to the radio in a long, long time.  &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; and &#8220;Bawitdaba&#8221; make appearances on classic rock stations, and &#8220;Picture&#8221; and &#8220;All Summer Long&#8221; were all over <em>The Greatest Hits of the 80s, 90s, and Today<\/em> stations and country stations back when they were fresh (but I don&#8217;t hear them much anywhere now).<\/p>\n<p>Still, they are all old.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched a bit of the RNC last night, hoping to catch Donald Trump&#8217;s talk, and I couldn&#8217;t help note that the entertainers who took the stage were all old. 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