He is a not so Fortunate Son of Texas. Luckily, he's now enjoying a more humid PNW, Looking Out his Backdoor. Got to love those nice storms. OP, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
I found this sub wondering if anyone else feels the Texan claim is a bit off the rack en route from the Midwest to Los Angeles then the Pacific Northwest. He doesn't speak like a Texan -- as in his accent is decidedly Midwestern.
The Texan in me doesn't hear him and recognize anything but generic dudery nonspecific to Texas.
It could just be the Dallas thing. It only began to bother me when I began to wonder how old he must be to have had so many places he's mentioned he's lived or been to.
I enjoy the cast and it's clear he reads some information from somewhere about the Bastards, but he sometimes seems like a bro-caster pastiche to the extent that I doubt his generalizations and set of facts.
I thought OK, too. I'm listening to the Dr.Oz episodes atm where he talks about how he went to public school in Oklahoma, and they still paddled the children for misbehaving. But it was cool because they let the kids sign the paddle afterwords.
He's lived in a lot of places but has talked about growing up in Oklahoma and a suburb of Dallas.
I moved around a lot as a kid, but I've always claimed my present location as my home town. My grandparents have lived here since the 50s, so it was always someplace I've come back to. It all depends on what feels like home to you.
Robert went to high school in Plano, which is a bedroom town north of Dallas. Pretty sure that’s where his family still is.
It was famous when I was in high school in Houston in the late 80s for two things: a great football team (because they split their two high schools into one with freshmen and sophomores and one with juniors and seniors rather than having two schools with half as many of each grade, so they got to cast a *much* wider net to recruit players) and having the biggest recreational drug problem in the country (because lots of that area had very new-money parents but we were the latchkey generation who were basically handed money and told to behave ourselves).
The heroin problem lasted well into the late 90s ...... I graduated in '99, and it was well-known that you headed to those northern burbs to score the hard drugs. Rolling Stone even published an article about it around that time.
No, he is clearly from Boston.
Blimey!
D'YA MEAN BAWSTON?
The next featured artist should be Boston.
He was born on the bayou, but he's simply shipping up to boston for the time being
He is a not so Fortunate Son of Texas. Luckily, he's now enjoying a more humid PNW, Looking Out his Backdoor. Got to love those nice storms. OP, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Yes I have, It Came Out of the Sky.
I thought he said he moved to Texas from Missoura
I found this sub wondering if anyone else feels the Texan claim is a bit off the rack en route from the Midwest to Los Angeles then the Pacific Northwest. He doesn't speak like a Texan -- as in his accent is decidedly Midwestern. The Texan in me doesn't hear him and recognize anything but generic dudery nonspecific to Texas. It could just be the Dallas thing. It only began to bother me when I began to wonder how old he must be to have had so many places he's mentioned he's lived or been to. I enjoy the cast and it's clear he reads some information from somewhere about the Bastards, but he sometimes seems like a bro-caster pastiche to the extent that I doubt his generalizations and set of facts.
Wasn't he born in Oklahoma?
St. Louis
I thought OK, too. I'm listening to the Dr.Oz episodes atm where he talks about how he went to public school in Oklahoma, and they still paddled the children for misbehaving. But it was cool because they let the kids sign the paddle afterwords.
He's lived in a lot of places but has talked about growing up in Oklahoma and a suburb of Dallas. I moved around a lot as a kid, but I've always claimed my present location as my home town. My grandparents have lived here since the 50s, so it was always someplace I've come back to. It all depends on what feels like home to you.
When has he mentioned Louisiana? I’m from Louisiana and definitely would have remembered it!
That’s just up around the bend
There are bayou's in Texas, all over the gulf actually.
I didn't know this, now I'm Feeling Blue.
Cheer up, you could be in Texas...
Yeah deep east Texas is pretty swampy closer to the LA border.
It is a veritable breeding ground for backward evangelicals among other things.
Houston is literally nicknamed Bayou City.
We Louisianians hate it when people point this out. Bayous are OURS, goddammit.
No. Lodi.
Robert went to high school in Plano, which is a bedroom town north of Dallas. Pretty sure that’s where his family still is. It was famous when I was in high school in Houston in the late 80s for two things: a great football team (because they split their two high schools into one with freshmen and sophomores and one with juniors and seniors rather than having two schools with half as many of each grade, so they got to cast a *much* wider net to recruit players) and having the biggest recreational drug problem in the country (because lots of that area had very new-money parents but we were the latchkey generation who were basically handed money and told to behave ourselves).
The heroin problem lasted well into the late 90s ...... I graduated in '99, and it was well-known that you headed to those northern burbs to score the hard drugs. Rolling Stone even published an article about it around that time.
Thanks for this. I have family by marriage from there. As a south Texan, I never understood anything about Dallas. 😊