Show Notes Episode 340: We’re Wall to Wall and Tree Top Tall

This week Host Dave Bledsoe is coming down out of Hog Town in a Thirteen Letter Shit Spreader hauling Go-Go Girls on the Dance Floor bound for Bingo Town, only to discover that no one has a single fucking clue what he is saying when he talks like that. (Not an uncommon event.) On the show this week, we climb into the cabs of our big rigs and take you back to the days when the Asphalt Cowboys captured America’s heart and everyone had a CB radio in their Pontiacs. 

Along the way we learn that Dave thought he would be a Big Rig Driver because he liked the hats, until he learned he would need to park the damn things. From there we dive right into the strange cultural moment in the 1970’s when everyone in America talked like a truck driver. (What a bunch of Bucket Mouths) We find out how a combination of gas prices and not being able to drive 55 made the men (and they were almost all men) on the road big damn heroes because of some commercials for white bread (Yeah, this story goes in some unexpected directions.)

Our Sponsor this week is Pappy’s Pep Pills, we swear they ain’t speed (wink wink) We open the show with NPR and close with Phil and Shawn talking about BJ and the Bear.

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Citations Needed:

When Truckers Shut Down America to Protest Oil Prices—and Became Folk Heroes

https://www.history.com/news/oil-crisis-1973-truck-strike

Trucking industry in American culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_American_culture

The 1970s Trucking Craze Can Be Traced Back to a Regional TV Commercial for Bread

https://www.thedrive.com/news/40634/the-1970s-trucking-craze-can-be-traced-back-to-a-regional-tv-commercial-for-bread

Uncited Additional Reading:  

https://apexcdl.com/blog/a-look-back-at-1960s-1970s-trucking/

https://www.vox.com/22397985/trucker-country-music-70s-fad

https://www.history.com/news/oil-crisis-1973-truck-strike

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/30/archives/truckers-plan-national-slowdown-to-protest-55mph-speed-limit.html

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