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In Honor of Travis Trittā€™s 54th Birthday Today, Weā€™re Throwing It Back to a Video Breakdown of the Greatest Song About Pocket Change in Country Music History

Happy 54th birthday to the man, the myth, the legend . . . Travis Tritt. The double-Grammy winner was born in Marietta, Ga., on Feb. 9, 1963. In honor of Travisā€™ b-day, weā€™re throwing it back to a video breakdown of ā€œHereā€™s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares).ā€

Todayā€™s installment features the video to Travisā€™ 1991 Billboard No. 2 hit, ā€œHereā€™s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares),ā€ complete with timely notes to help you further appreciate the nuances of Travisā€™ irresistible manliness.

Letā€™s get started.

ā€œHereā€™s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)ā€


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This is our first clear look at Travis, with his beautiful mane of hair bobbing in the breeze as he exits his bus. Notice Travisā€™s casual bus attire: Harley-Davidson wolf t-shirt, skintight jeans and a belt with triple conchos. Classy. Youā€™ll also notice Travis has something in his left hand.

Yeah, itā€™s a quarter . . . because he canā€™t fit it in the pocket of his skintight jeans.


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A slight continuity problem as Travisā€™ truck keys magically appear in hand. Thereā€™s no way he got those out of his pocket. Nonetheless, we move on.


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We get a close-up of Travisā€™ love interest, who, for some reason, ā€œwants to come backā€ to him.

SIDEBAR The actress playing the love interest, Leighanne Wallace, later married Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys.


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Unmoved by his former loverā€™s plea, Travis flips her a quarter, because in 1991, thatā€™s how much it cost to use a pay phone.

Nowadays, the song would be titled, ā€œHereā€™s a Cell Phone (Call Someone Who Cares).ā€


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Now we cut to a live performance shot of Travis singing ā€œHereā€™s a Quarter.ā€ Travis has decided to sport a puffy pirate shirt and black vest for this showcase, and man, does he pull it off in style.


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We get our first glimpse of Travisā€™ girl having a ā€œsordid affair.ā€

Itā€™s hurts, Travis, it hurts.

She also cats around at 1:04, 1:28, 1:31, 1:37, 1:57 and 2:21.


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Cut to Travis in a diner reading a newspaper. The headline: ā€œDonald Gives Ivanna a QUARTER of a Billion.ā€ The ā€œDonald,ā€ of course, is Donald Trump.

This eerie precursor to the present day is our first hint that Travis may, in fact, be Nostradamus.


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Travis breaks the fourth wall by making eye contact with the camera. Heā€™s allowed to do this because heā€™s a badass.


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Cut to a yard sale with Travis donning a Hawaiian shirt, white pants and sunglasses. Being a cuckold never looked so comfortable.


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Weā€™re back to Travisā€™ live performance of the song, and now heā€™s flipping a quarter behind his back and catching it. Impressive on all accounts.


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Back at the yard sale, Travisā€™s ex drives by in a convertible. It was ā€™91, so convertibles were super-cool. Weā€™re lucky it wasnā€™t a three-wheeled ATV. Travis lowers his shades to show her exactly whatā€™s she lost, seemingly saying, ā€œThis guy, right here.ā€


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Still at the yard sale, a kid with an ice cream cone gives the trampy woman a quarter for a stuffed bunny. This pleases Travis, very much, as evidenced by what we imagine to be a very guttural laugh.


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Through the magic of 1991 cinematography, a quarterā€”which, I forgot to mention, was flying mid-air throughout the video after Travis flipped it at the :26 markā€”lands in the pay phone slot.

Bullā€™s-eye, baby.


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Travis gets in his truck and leaves. End scene. End awesomeness.

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