It's a very famous protest song against the Vietnam war, taking the form of a true story about how the singer got arrested for dumping garbage when he was a teenager, and later found out that made him ineligible for the draft.

It's poignant and really funny, I'd definitely recommend having a listen sometime. It is like, 15 minutes long, though.

What's your issue with it?

Not sure I'd say that's a hidden message as much as it's just the exact content of the song.

The 'message,' as Arlo tells it, is a sort of celebration of stupidity. Let's all be thankful that the assholes running our world are morons too, or there'd have been a lot more folks shipped out to Vietnam.

I listened to that shit in my dad's car all throughout my teenage years and loved it. They'll come around lol.

How many times has someone made a joke about having 'another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat?'