"His stories of down-and-out Southern living - fast cars, cold beers, hard beats, harder drugs and the folks for whom those four things are the only reasons to live - ignore vague generalizations in favor of vivid scenes. "11:30 and I'm pullin' up dirty smoking babbage out the back of my buddy's Monte Carlo," he offered in a Southern sneer on "Pop the Trunk," one of a parade of highlights from Monday's show."