Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 148 | Laughing with Trey + Katie Kennedy

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Today we interviewed the hilarious social media sensation Trey Kennedy and his wife, Katie! Trey has nearly 12.5 million followers who have been following his journey from the previous social media app Vine until now, where he’s gotten so popular he has his own comedy tour! We’re big fans of Trey’s videos and he’s always cracking us up on social media so we’ve been wanting to have him as a guest on our podcast for so long! There’s a good chance you’ve seen some of his hilarious videos but check out the links below to learn more about him! Treys’ YouTube Channel ▶ https://www.youtube.com/c/treykennedy Trey’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/treynkennedy/?hl=en Check Out Trey on Tour! ▶ https://treykennedy.com/tour/ Check out his podcast here ▶ https://treykennedy.com/podcast/ Love, Shawn and Andrew  Follow My Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Conjuring, last rights. Only in theater September 5th. What's up everybody? Welcome back to Couple Things. Who was Sean and Andrew? A podcast all about couples. And the things they go through. Today we have an awesome couple, but more than that, I think we have Andrew's mann crush. That's right. I like comedy. I like laugh. Do you like laughing? I love laughing. Do you like laughing? This guy's good at making people laugh. It's Trey Kennedy and his wife, Katie. They're fantastic. They have a podcast of their own is called Correct

Opinions. But we brought them on because they have some exciting news. They're kind of branching into this whole new like family content they're growing their family as they've documented their engagement their wedding and now uh their first baby that's right it's a wild ride i think you'll love these two you probably are familiar with these two uh tray has videos all over the internet and uh he's always good for a good giggle so if you don't know him check him out but uh he's also going on tour in 2023 this summer it's called the grow up tour you could find tickets online uh we'll link information for that down below and their podcast down below congratulations trey and katy thanks for joining us and i hope you enjoy this one with tray and katy kennedy

trey thank you so much for joining us today uh we were just talking about our first interaction you and i tray was uh probably not not one that i'm proud of not one that you're proud of john no but i tend to do this i have a habit of awkward first impressions and i certainly hit that bar with you i saw you ubering or sorry birding around on a scooter in Nashville and I just honked the horn, just gave you an awkward wave. You had no idea. I can't believe you actually remember this. I'm shocked at that. Yeah, yeah. You made an impression, are they good or bad? Last thing? Yeah, right? It was a memorable one. I was, I was out, run around with, uh, but John Christ and it was, I think we were shooting a video. This is a few

years ago. And I think you were shirtless, like on a bird scooter. He just went, yo, it just went by and I was kind of like, he was like, he was like, I actually, I. He's like, that was so and so. I was like, oh is that who that was and that was in there so here we are the amount yeah the unfortunate like amount of first impression stories I've heard like that from people about me about you yes chuck wicks John Chris Trey Kennedy there's like countless football players your first impressions are memorable thank you so much yeah but the show is not about me and you guys know that so uh

I'm curious how you two met, Trey and Katie. Oh, sure. We met on Instagram. We sure did. Let's go. I saw, there was a photo of her shirtless on a bird scooter. There are no photos of me like that on there. No, I, uh, yeah, I don't know.

I was, um, you know, I was just came across her. It was very by happenstance and random, just like kind of a simple like, oh, she's cute. I'll follow her. I didn't know who. he was. Okay, she likes that detail. I like to stay. I did not follow him. I didn't know who he was. Wow. This was like five, almost five years ago now. Yeah, almost. Oh my goodness. But yeah, and just kind of like chat, you know, the simple like chat, a little DMs, but then it quickly was like, oh wait, I think you kind of have a lot in common. And she was, I was, she was in Atlanta. I was in Kansas

city and I was in Atlanta took her out and we just like one of those just like hit it off immediately stayed up until two in the morning talking and so that pretty quickly turned into like let's do this long distance thing and so we long distance for a good year plus yeah and she moved here so wow Katie what was it about true was it like the you know the manly beard just the pure testosterone-infused pheromones or was it like the beanie what did it for you yeah it was the videos where he dresses up like girls yeah it worked for me yeah that's great where are you guys originally from i'm from Atlanta Georgia yeah that was born and raised in Oklahoma you into Oklahoma ohs you right I went to Oklahoma State that's right that's a big gymnastics

oh yes huge gymnastics mediocre sized gymnastics they're like decent of gymnastics no they're not great at gymnastics we don't need to lie on the show what did you go talk at length about Oklahoma State gymnastics wow wait they're like the because we've I'm sure you all watch this right the cheer on Netflix yes oh man we we got fired up on that so I the whole scene and so like yeah be real with me is it is the show the show makes it makes you believe you know this school is the destination for like I guess college level gymnasts is that true like college is the destination no okal mistake or like if you're if you're going to obviously like olympics would be

better than college we know it we get it wait hold up I'm I'm having like a total brain fart right now and that's why I'm so my palms are actually sweating because it's I'm going to make myself a like a fool here like the uh the show the juco like if you're a gymnast wanting to go do like collegiate Egypt competitive cheer is choice number one that those Jukos in Texas or no yes for cheer it is it really is okay absolutely but then for gymnastics I have to ask this question you guys are probably gonna be like this ridiculous Oklahoma State or is that different than Oklahoma yeah yeah yeah it is definitely I'm an idiot that's why I'm having a break yeah Oklahoma gymnastics Oklahoma State cheer yeah those are different

think. Do you guys do a lot of interviews together? Yeah, I mean, she's like a decorated Olympian and I was like, you do cheer, right? It's like the meanest things that have ever said. I watched you growing up. So this is like a cool moment. So we'll talk about great first impressions, Trey. Wait, hold on.

I had to like dig myself out of this real quick. So the reason I ask is because Oklahoma University is like the number one college to go to for gymnastics. He went to Oklahoma State. I know. That's why my palms are sweating because I'm like, oh, my God, I can't remember it's OSU or if it's OU as the really good gymnastics team.

So I'm sitting here saying like, yeah, I went to OSU, we hate OU, so we've both like greatly offended each other. Yeah, so I'm going to say OSU is not the greatest at gymnastics. Apologies. Okay. With Amex Platinum,

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slash Yannex. Katie, do you do a lot of interviews with Trey together? Um, not a tiny, a few. Do you enjoy this scene? Yeah, it was fun just watching him train wreck that one. I just was like, this is, like, this is. doesn't really make sense but it didn't make sense on my side either so like we're both trained next there um wait i was about to say because it this is one of the great it's it used to be

one of the greatest stressors is like you know sean and i have this show together that you know she would like kind of go off on a tangent that's just the wrong way is she's saying the wrong things and i used to like try to steer back but i'm like you know what babe just go ahead and let a rip. It's amazing. Sounds like a really good husband. Maybe he's going to bring it back here. I don't know. She's just watching me drown.

He's just, I'll jump in the water. Okay. I'm going to go back to you guys. Hold up. Hold up. Okay. So you guys met on NCR. Were you both still in college?

No, no. This was. We were both out of college a couple years. Yeah. A few years out of college. And you're both. You're living in Kansas City, Atlanta. You did the long distance saying how long into the dating did you guys, like, move to the same place?

A little over a year of dating. I moved here. And that was for each other? Mm-hmm. Wow. Yeah. She had to do a whole, she did a career shift, too. She gave up a lot to come here.

So she was modeling in Atlanta, you know, there's only, you know, not all the big modeling scene in the Midwest, but. But I think she was like, we made the decision, I'd say we, I think we did, but it was like, it made sense. And she was wanting to maybe pivot to more of a, using more of like her degree type of job. And so she did come here. But yeah, new place, new friends, new job. Yeah, I was like, let's just do it all at the same time. That sounds great, right? So a question there.

Katie, I feel like you and I are similar. I did the same exact thing for this fool. I literally like up and left everything. I quit my job, moved to Nashville, didn't know anybody, moved into the same apartment complex, like, went all in. And to a certain extent, it's absolutely terrifying because if it doesn't work out, you're kind of like, you're in it. Yeah. What did those conversations look like? Because the conversations with us, it'd be like one day I'd be so into it.

And the next day, I'd be like, I'm not moving to Nashville for you. Like, I have my own friends and my own life because I was terrified that things would go wrong. and I did it impulsively. What were the conversations like? And did you ever have doubts there? I feel like we talked about it together so much, yeah, leading up to it that I'm just like a very logical person. And we had like stated all the facts and just gotten to the point of like, this is what

logically makes sense. So I mean, I feel like once I got past that of like this just makes sense for us, I don't feel like I, you know, I was just like, oh, this is going to be all fun. And I'm going to move here. It's going to be so fun. fun. And then it wasn't until I actually got here that I was like, wait, this is really hard. I don't know anyone. I have to find a job. Like, you know, and that's when I was all of a sudden like, okay, this is not just all fun in games. And this is real life. Um, so. Yeah, that was

tough. She, the job, anyone job hunting can relate. It was, we just assumed like, oh, she has this, she has a good degree and resume, like, easy. But, you know, a few months go by. She can't get a job. you know we want to find her like a good job right not just something and i remember the day of our engagement party you got a voicemail like a job offer and it was like i mean we're this close to being like dude what what did we do she can't it's like a smaller market here right it's not that easy and but because that was that was a good day you had a job in alina i was modeling full time so i did thankfully like once i moved here i went back a couple times and worked with clients that I had worked with before.

So I wasn't just like totally stranded, but it wasn't ideal. Were you guys engaged when you moved? No. Had the whole engagement thing work out? Not work out. Like, how'd you propose? Yeah. We're married now.

Yeah, it worked out. That was, I was, I think we always felt confident in our relationship, which made it, that took stress off. I don't think at least. To my knowledge, you weren't like, I should bail on this guy. So we felt good in that, but we got, you'd probably live there for like six months or so. So like, probably we'd be dating a couple of years almost when I proposed. And so I was exciting and started to, then I think you'd got the job and kind of make us a friend. So that was an exciting time.

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Yeah, the whole thing. Yeah, we did. It was great. Are you willing to share the story? Sure, yeah. We had gone to Portland with a friend group to see an OSU game and just kind of like. Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State game.

Thank you. To go to Willamette Valley and just like have fun. And so behind my back, he had changed my flight or booked me a new one and canceled my old one. to stay an extra day. So the funny part of that is we woke up and he had like turned my alarm off everything and I woke up just in pure panic. Everyone's left. We're going to miss our flight. We have to leave right now.

Get up, get up. And he was like, no, we're staying. And so at that moment I was like okay. Wow. Good. Oh, it's like I think we're supposed to have some 7 a.m. flight And neither of us are morning people. So I kind of, it was kind of a funny start because she's like waking me up at 5.45 in the morning. I'm like, come on. I was like, we're actually not leaving. Just like half awake. And she, who's usually like, don't talk to me in the morning.

I was like, oh, really? And I was like, all right. Yeah, let's go back to sleep for a couple hours. I did. I don't know how much you did. Yeah. He had a full day planned. We went hiking. He had just kind of hiked all day. Yeah. Proposed at Golden Hour. Yeah. He had a He picked out a dress and bought a dress for me to wear. Whoa, bro. Come on. Oh, come on. Don't slow play this, bro.

You crushed the game. What? He did. He literally got me. I might have to like to note or something. Some people were like, where did you get that dress? I am very curious when guys do this. Like, Katie, was it your style?

Yeah, I mean. I always like the idea of like, oh, and you're buying me a dress and it's on the box on the bed. But then I'm like, no, do not buy me clothes. I think it was cute, cute enough and did its job. But yeah, I don't know if she necessarily would have picked it out for her vibe. But you wore it a few. Oh, you wore it recently because, oh, she's pregnant, which we just announced, which is very exciting. Let's go.

I don't miss that. Yeah. It was just the other day. So I think you pulled it out because it's loose fitting. And you're like, look, I'm wearing it. I'm like, well, you're running out of option. in wardrobe, though. Thanks so much.

Congrats. I would say, wait, I miss this. So, huge congratulations. Thank you. Wow. Yeah, we just, no, you're fine. We literally post about it. It's like a couple days ago, yeah.

Jeez. I don't know what this is coming out, but she's, we're doing February. Mm-hmm. So, wow, because you all have, you all have two or three? Yeah. We have two. Yeah. Yeah.

So here's the thing. Trey, your content, I remember you did your video on the game. and like the walk through the woods with the signs it's like but you also just did one on the the pregnancy announcements like part one two three four like whatever the whole you did the video sequence on that it's funny because we we like you know that's kind of our that's videos we share is like hey pregnancy announcement and you know to a large extent you're making fun of our style of the stuff but you i love i love your approach where it's like this is you're kind of tracking your life moments and making the comedy around that,

which is like same subject matter, completely different way to attack it. It's awesome. Sure. Yeah. Thanks, man. I appreciate. Yeah.

I'm glad you enjoy it because, yeah, we certainly don't want to like tick any people off, but it's a fun picking fun. And I've made fun of all these gin reveals or doing all this, but you know, she had me out, you know,

downtown with some photographer taking pregnancy announcement photos. And I was just like, oh my god we're all doing it you have to do it bro we're all doing it I will say you'll look back on those pictures and they're pretty exciting

yes I literally said that I said and now I'm getting reprimated by someone else's wife 20 years or whatever you will be like I'm going to be so glad I have these so wow and I will say too I was adamant

I would never do it because I get very very embarrassed with photo shoots I am not a photo shoot person but I just have to check off the box I will recommend you should definitely do a maternity shoot because having like one picture in time of like that phase.

You just did that right? No, when I'm actually really showing. You have a lot of photo shoots to come. A lot. A lot. I am curious though, we have a clip somewhere. I don't know where it came from but you were quoted saying you were the shy guy.

You feel like you're the shy guy that likes to post videos. And I feel like that's a really interesting dynamic and something we had to deal with within our relationship is it's almost like a split personality to a certain extent you become this shy person in the outside world behind like off camera but then on camera you're someone else do you guys ever find that difficult within your relationship to turn on and turn off as far as like acting in your career goes usually no there have been like a few times where I kind of yeah make it a joke and be like

you're not on the stage anymore. But. I'm just getting ripped a new one. No, no, yeah. That didn't come to my mind. I was like, yeah, I grew up innately, very shy and reserved. And I've obviously gained confidence in, like, over time, getting on stage and doing this. And so, yeah, I'm definitely the big personality, and she's very patient and kind.

And so around close friends, I've been like, hey, let me know if I'm, You know, I don't, I don't want to be annoying. I'd make fun of annoying people. I was like, I can't be annoyed. So there's been a couple times she's like, you're, you know, this isn't a performance, which is helpful. But there's other times too. When we, around strangers, I can be very reserved. Like, we've been going to the doctor, obviously, to her checkups.

I think one of the nurses is a fan of mine, I guess, to Katie. She's like, he's very different in person. Because I'm just sitting there quietly. I don't know if I'm supposed to like dance around the holes of the doctor's office of the OBGYN. It's, yeah, for the most part, it's a great balance. She helps me kind of smooth out some of my edges and calm down some nervous energy. And I like to think I bring her some confidence and assertiveness and just some fun to be around. that too you said you're fun to be around yeah yeah i'm fun to be around man yeah dude yeah i'm saying

yeah also amazing uh going one step further though within your guys's content that you do post you guys blur a boundary or like you blur that line of you you do share each other you share your stories and comedic ways where are your boundaries within your relationship as it pertains to your career what are you allowed to poke fun at and talk about and like what are those distinctions we luckily i'll say katie is a great sport i mean that's why a big part of why we're together is she is a great sense of humor and loves and can like take all all the punches in the world and i you know i'll go on stage and do a bit where i'm kind of like making fun of us or her and she's just like that was great there's so that's

super helpful that she's all for in a good sport. That's good to just laugh at yourself. Yeah. There's definitely been a couple instances where she was like, let's not do that again. But for the most part, I try to keep the podcast a little different. It feels like a more intimate space and we talk about stuff. But in the general content that, you know, 90% of people know me for, I try not to get too personal.

Like, you know, we, we announced the pregnancy and that's fun. but it's more just lighthearted, fun stuff that hopefully doesn't offend many people, including my own wife. I'm curious, what is, like, from a comedian standpoint, there's got to be some unique hurdles relationally, where it's like either the expectations of the other person or, like, your natural habits of, like, always trying to be funny and not being able to, like, have, you know not feeling comfortable having the deeper conversations are there any that come to mind

of like wow you know it's a weird question asked but like blind spots of like this is actually tough as a comedian when I'm building relationships it's a great question yeah you have something yeah I don't think like in our relationship specifically he's good I mean he's a very down to earth person and so I don't think that that comedy or like being so goofy like overshadows his seriousness like between our relationship

but I do think maybe in other relationships yeah it does it's a great question what comes to mind is I just try to be careful because I'm you know for a living and I'm getting rewarded for kind of just like making fun of everyone yeah including myself

but sometimes I've got to watch how much that trickles over into just like normal if i you know not everyone wants to like have their first conversation with you and just get roasted like some people love that like my best friends and i just make fun of each other constantly and and even like you know katy and i tees each other um some you know the my buddies wives we all just make fun of each other but to make sure i can't just be like katy i think there's i can't think even instance but there's been times where maybe she's like you know you kind of pelt fun at that person and they that hurt

their feelings. I'll just be like, they can't take a joke. I don't want to be around them. She's like, well, they're still like human beings. You're right. I can't. It's easy to default to the comedian's rule of like everyone should be okay with what I'm saying, which I don't necessarily agree with. What made you guys want to start the podcast together? We, my podcast is like taking on different forms. So I've actually been doing correct opinions podcast for like three, maybe four years. crazy and it started as just like a fun attempt I was a solo show just kind of riffing and just kind of like a fun little side thing that I thought would be fun and that developed a little

more and I brought on the co-host Jake who's hilarious and helps me with stuff and then Katie would join intermittently and now she's kind of we got this new studio and this new setup and Katie's been on kind of a full host for a while now so it's taken on a different forms and I think people have just loved having her on just because obviously she's my wife and we have a good banter but um the obviously we have a lot of female listeners so it gets a fun female energy when uh if me and jake start getting off the rail she can be like you know easy boys i feel like i'm just kind of voicing what the female audience is probably like wants to say to them yeah which is usually probably a lot yeah uh i'm curious

talking about baby and pregnancy as far as it goes between you guys who are now mom and dad how does how has that changed your dynamic um i'm even more wrong i'm kidding it's it's we're starting to get into it right so she's like halfway through almost half yeah right that's awesome and so just the other day she's sitting there like which I'm just racking my brain. I don't know which color stroller to get. I'm like, I don't even, I don't know, what is that for? Like how, do we use it at the beginning?

Yeah. So it's, we're in that state kind of where she's like the where should the bassinet. Good job. Good job. To be next should it be the side of the bed or in front of it? I'm like, I. We still have a lot of learning to do. And, but I think, I mean,

It's been a really cool experience, as everyone knows, who has had kids, just, you know, the bonding of we're going to be parents together, and this is going to be our baby. And, yeah, that's been cool. Wait, I didn't get charged for my donut. It was free with this Tim's rewards points. I think I just stole it. I'm a donut stealer. Ooh. Earn points so fast, it'll seem too good to be true.

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It didn't. sound it didn't sound great coming out um we actually have had another guy on this show the uh dudes guide what dad's dude's guide to dad life whatever dude dad yeah he wrote a whole book his book is awesome for dads when it comes to go when your wife is going through pregnancy i would he's a buddy mine he's actually sent me that book so i've started it hasn't read it clearly it's actually great it's so good oh it's hilarious a great idea what yeah it'll be like your baby's the size of them beer can great

oh he's awesome anyways tangent I know he's they're about to have their fourth or whatever he actually he texts me congrats and like

like yeah thanks man I don't know if we're gonna have four but we got one on the way you never know let's hash that out

yeah what are you all gonna have do you know I'm the I'm the middle of five kids Sean is a only child do you guys have siblings? I'm one of five also. Let's go. Where you fall? Your oldest child, I could tell.

He's two. Number two, but I'm the only girl. Oh, I got you. Mature. Responsible. What about you, Trey? I just have one little sister. So I'm ready for like five kids. Never. Never. We're just going to have triplets and then call it a day. I'm good. I'm potentially good with two. I could maybe be convinced to go one more. but that's where we're at we only have two right now i know i could be convinced to be done anyway you heard it here first she's done whatever are you guys like uh freaked out like what are the thoughts right now you're just like you're in the figured out mode what are you're expecting you know traveling people always are like ah i think we're gonna that part of our life is going to get overshadowed what no i'm just curious like where are they at just mentally

Yeah, I mean, we currently think that we're just going to keep going. I'm buying all the travel things and, you know, obviously we know it's going to change. He's planning on going on tour next year a few months after the baby's born and that will obviously look very different than it did last time. But I'm hoping to not let it overshadow too much, but just no realistic. that's just how it goes sometimes. I think she, obviously it's, it'll be tougher, tougher for, obviously the, the mom has to really be there a lot more at the beginning. I've learned these things. I didn't, I didn't even know how they were fed to me.

I didn't know that. But, like, yeah, I'm going to obviously take a few months off, go back on tour. And I think she's a little more like, yeah, I'm going to, she's talking the other day. She's like, I'm going to bring the baby. I'm going to be there to a lot of them. Like, maybe a couple, but I feel like you're going to be not there for a lot. I mean, that's why I'm doing less. Yeah.

We kind of strategically plan the next one. We're obviously naive and we're going to see how all of it goes, but still very surreal. Yeah. Well. I just have little moments like watching, I'll just watch football with my buddies for like 15 hours in a day and be like, I probably won't be able to do this set off than you or. Just little things like that. Yeah. Yeah.

No, no. I will say he has a different opinion, but I totally agree that you can continue traveling and you could make the entire tour. It's just a difference of like how you want baby life to look. But it's totally manageable. Yeah. You watch 15 hours of football? Oh my gosh. Stop.

Bro. Yeah, so football games. Yeah. on your guys's social media and in regards to how you script your content and publish it to the world a lot of your private life is very very private you keep your guys's relationship pretty under wraps you keep that kind of on the other side as far as baby is concerned and going into the next phase of your life as far as like growing a family will it stay like that will it be stricter have you guys had those conversations to be honest as good as anybody i've seen you've

separated your content with your life. So kudos to you. Appreciate it. Yeah, I kind of made that decision a while back. I think when we first started dating, it was kind of like this weird. Obviously, every normal person, you date someone, the big first post is a big deal.

And we had talked about that, obviously, where I'm sure she was a little bit like, why am I the secret? And I kind of explained, I don't know. I just, so when we got engaged, or we got a little bickering because we got engaged I was even kind of like

I don't need to do like a whole post but she was kind of like you're going to post that yeah that's probably a thing that's sort of the pregnancy deal I'm like do I need to

I'll just keep making funny videos I'm like well she'd be walk around obviously pregnant eventually and yeah I think something that's fine but I wanted to I just worry

sometimes I love y'all's opinion on this of I'm very content and it's more me right I just want to make people laugh I don't want to divert into this type of influencerness that isn't me more like the lifestyle family stuff that y'all do so well I just don't think for me and so just trying to keep it then we talked to the other day about our future kids how you know I don't plan I think I'll just keep them off entirely we can talk about them or obviously like I'm sure the content will allude to it and you know my experience just you know being a new dad and stuff but yeah what

what are y'all's experiences with being a little bit more in the in the forefront of like our content is relationships and our marriage and our family how do y'all balance all that we tried to go to the comedy route but uh oh my gosh just didn't have it like you did so so then we just made the pivot we said all right well um It is weird. Like, so I know you got your MBA, right? Yeah. I didn't think I was going to be freaking making YouTube videos for a living.

Sure. I thought I was like doing civil engineering and, you know, got picked up by the chiefs, thought I'd be playing football. And then I thought I'd be doing comedy. But none of those three things worked out. So now we've just done this. But I, the weird thing is social media is what, like 10 years old? like nobody's really done this right like exactly we talked to drew and ellie holcomb and they

they mentioned how just in general like the human heart is not made for fame or like you know these millions of opinions like really he's like you're supposed to just have input from a handful of people not so many um so we're just trying to figure it out as well as anybody else is um i don't know if we're doing it right though i would say navigating family though for us it was always a question we started out saying we didn't really want to share our kids and every day it just kind of became a different conversation honestly it becomes so all-encompassing that it's kind of the only thing you talk about so being a parent yeah so it became like a natural thing for us to talk about and in regards to our family and how we navigate it we just try to have an open

conversation every single day of kind of like the boundaries I was asking you guys about they move every day based off of how we're feeling if we can make fun of each other if we can't if we're overtired um if we're going to show our kid today but not tomorrow like it's just we have to we we give each other the ability to turn it off every single day and say i don't i don't feel comfortable today with it and it's just kind of how you have to operate which is hard with a business but it becomes such a priority your family that it makes it easy yeah i think y'all are crushing it, I think I have it easy sometimes. It's like a comedian

it's kind of like, oh, this guy, he's just joking. You know, if someone doesn't like it, I'm just like, you can't take a joke. And I kind of move on. Whereas people in y'all's position, it's a little more like, you know, yeah, like you said,

opinions, like you're parenting this way or choosing this or you posted, you're Christians and you said this. And I have the out of just like, that was joking. it's like there's a little bit of that obviously there's a to a degree but yeah i'm sure it's it's tough and so we'll we'll have to now eat that yeah i was talking with my friends the other day of we're discussing our college degrees you said MBA engineering we're like so many of our degrees we got 10 years ago now were like the jobs we have now didn't exist when i was

enrolling in college so it's the world's moving that fast and it's like i would I'm trying to, like, hire people. I'm like, what do I, what do you pay a part-time editor of clips for TikTok? You're making stuff up over here. So it's a weird world, but it's fun. But it's, we're very much, all of us are just kind of winging it as best we can. Katie, are you still working a job? I'm not.

I quit the job that I got here. I'm an engineer, too. I did biomedical engineering. Whoa. That's next level. Civil engineering is entry level Biomatical is advanced I don't know about that

No, a little bit about a lot of engineering I used to, not anymore So I was working in medical devices And when the tour started This time last year I quit that job so that I could go on tour with him Which I'm very glad I did Because it's just a really cool experience

To do together in our second year of marriage and live on the tour bus together and, you know, all that stuff. So since the tour has ended, just kind of helping out Trey with stuff, then we are renovating some houses that will hopefully be Airbnbs and just things like that. Modeling gig here and there. Yeah, still modeling a little bit. But pregnant models, hit us up. Yeah, I need any.

If you need one, it's coming. Yeah. Look at this. Yeah, we toured like a bit while she said. had her job and like she would fly out Friday after work to like not even see the Friday show and get there late and then see the Saturday show and fly home Sunday and we're like I don't think she's able to quit let's we try to prioritize you know that experience as well as the marriage of like I'm going to hardly see you this is and it's going to you're going to be exhausted

let's so yeah we're grateful for that choice yeah you enjoy to her life Katie I did. I mean, it was a bunch of guys on a bus and me. We eventually got a girl merch person. But it was really fun and it was way more tiring than I thought. I wasn't performing. I was just sitting backstage every day, but I was exhausted just from sleeping on a bus and being in a new city every day. So it was a fun experience. Actually, just this weekend when we were in Huntsville, I was like, oh, I kind of missed the tour life. That was fun. You could kind of forget about all your other responsibilities.

It was like, yeah, it's kind of like a fantasy world. Yeah. You're in this vortex of just like planes and buses and venues. But yeah, we would talk about all of us performing. You kind of get that, like you guys have both performed in various stages. You get that rush and she wasn't receiving that kind of boost of. So I would argue it was like more tiring for her to just be there and support behind the scenes Where I'd get off stage be like, hey, let's go out on the town, man, let's stay up till

And she'd be like, let's So, but we had a blast and the crew all got along great. It was we had great people as fun Summer's here and you can now get almost anything you need for your sunny days delivered with Uber Eats What do we mean by almost? Well, you can't get a well-groom lawn delivered but you can get a chicken parmesan delivered A cabana? That's a no, but a banana That's a yes. A nice tan. Sorry.

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Order now. Alcohol and select markets. Product availability may vary by Regency app for details. I was going to ask, Katie. I don't mean this in an insensitive way. I just know, like, with us, we've had to play those roles back and forth. Playing the supporting role sometimes can be very exhausting. And it can sometimes.

mess with identity, especially trade two with you going on tour and being off tour and then potentially taking a break. As far as your guys is kind of like behind the scenes life goes, do you ever find that you struggle with like maintaining your identity when all the cameras are turned off? I definitely after quitting my full-time job and being on tour, it took like probably a few months in tour after kind of the like wow factor wore off. And I was kind of all of a sudden like wait what like you know there is a little bit of that identity of I don't have this like quote unquote job title anymore um that I can kind of be like this is what I do or you know and so it was definitely a lesson I'm sure a lot of people go through in like various ways I think a lot of

women go through it when they decide to stay home or you know there's it happens in a bunch of stages but it was a good um it was a good way for me to kind of like reach like what is my identity in and you know what are you know what am i doing this for and stuff so it but it was harder than i thought honestly yeah i mean she's she's done a great job i get it's hard and she's yeah it's a very she's been unbelievably supportive because i've had my own issues of me just this past week i did shows uh in alabama like three nights it was like night one felt great. Wow, I'm just killing it. And then like the night two, I tried some new stuff and the crowd wasn't as fun. And then I come off stage and I'm just to her. I'm like, am I, am I even

that funny? And so you go with these crazy swings doing what we do of like this content performs well or this joke does well or this one doesn't. And she's hugely supportive when I just have to be honest and be like these last handful of videos didn't do what I thought. And so you're going to get a job again I don't think that's going to happen but I think that way I'm sure we all do and so we support each other that way I was going to say and I have to add tray like was so good at just like making it feel like a team effort that like everything we do you know for his tour just it's all like for us as a family and a team effort and he does a good job with that do you are you Like, you mentioned your Christians.

Is that, has that, I was just, we were at this YouTube conference this past week with like, you know, I don't know how the heck we ended up there, but it was supposedly 100 of the top YouTubers. And there was all these people that said, oh, yeah, we used to like be Christians and then, you know, move out to L.A. and now we're not anymore. Has that been jaded? Has, you know, you've now been exposed to so many people. what has that trajectory been like the evolution of that especially as a comedian too it's kind of a tough spot you know uh to be right that brand you know yeah i think it's yeah i think a lot of people

know i'm a christian and um yeah i think a lot of them like like all of us you know like growing up i would idolize people even more if they're christian because you're like we're we're on the same team i'll get you fired up and yeah yeah as a comedian because you know like i said your whole it's just poking fun at things and some people take jokes better than others and uh i i i felt pretty i feel very confident now and kind of i guess where the line is or where where that blurred line is of um hopefully i think people understand i'm trying to be funny sometimes i might rub your wrong way or um but i think i'm fortunate that i've over 10 years of doing this found kind of the right formula for like making fun of things where people feel loved by the being

made fun of and not like um angry by it but it can be tricky and especially um being someone who's known the whole brand is like take nothing seriously goof off and then christianity is obviously a very deeply personal and intimate thing to like throw that out there every now and then just feels like a crazy change in content right so just trying to try to do what I feel like I'm called to do the best I can it can't be tricky but it is a shame I you mentioned all these people who used to be questions they aren't now it feels like that's happening more and more but I feel very stronger and stronger in my faith and very great grateful, you know, I grew up in like a bubble and the Bible Belt of Oklahoma.

And now I've, I've been to, you know, all across the country, met all sorts of people. And I think that's just helped me gain news perspectives and appreciate more opinions. And I don't know. It's a good question, though. Kind of rambling. How does that approach of take nothing seriously goof off? Does that, like, how do you guys do conflict? Is it like that where you're like,

ah, freaking, no big deal. That's kind of honestly how we are where I'm like, yo, not a big deal. And then she's like, it's a big deal. Don't compare yourself to a comedian. I am. You're not a comedian. You're not.

He's like, yeah, you and me, man. No, don't give it that. I like that. Yeah, I mean, that definitely happened. maybe sometimes um but i mean i feel like that's also maybe just like having a male female like let's not worry about it you know and the girl's like no we need to talk about this now you're getting trouble by my wife yeah no i mean there's definitely some uh one of my favorite things to do is try to make her laugh when she's clearly angry which is so that has to go well yeah yeah

she's like laughing but still furious and like i know i'm laughing but i'm even madder now but no I like to we've I think we're very pleased with our marriage thus far and obviously have worked on it and working on it but Katie is a great job of very communicating very patiently where I like you said want me to do the it's not a big deal we're good I just honestly don't want to you can't say there's been several times we're like let's just sleep this one off she's just like wake up we're not going to bed I'm like, ah, Katie, that's me too. I'm like, don't you dare close your eyes.

Uh-uh. I'm like, we are not going to be angry. We are going to talk this out. Yeah. It's a bad idea, I feel like. It doesn't work for us. It doesn't work for you. Anyway.

Last question. I want to talk about your tour. I rub this up. But I am curious from you, from both of you guys, individual perspectives, just having experience to this lifestyle on separate sides. what's the biggest lesson you've learned about mass recognition, whether it be like a pro or con to your relationship? And I, to like add a little bit to that, the reason I ask is try hearing you talk about how sometimes you have a good night or a bad night when it comes to being on stage. I feel like it can be really hard and we struggle with that too.

We live to indulge the rest of the world and our days can be drastically affected based off of how many, likes or how many views or how many laughs, how does that recognition play a factor into your guys' dynamic? I feel very lucky. You know, everyone's always surprised that I don't live in L.A., right, or Nashville or these, and no real reason. I think COVID obviously, like, cemented the fact that you can kind of be everywhere. And I just are, we have really, both of us come from great families. And we have such a great group of friends and each other that as much as those kind of feelings flowed in of, you know, I just, I don't have it anymore. Finally, you know, the imposter syndrome I always hear of. I've finally gotten figured out. I'm not actually funny. Here it all comes crashing down.

You know, bits of those thoughts. And I just think I have great support in that, like, and Katie always say to me, like, hey, Maybe you're, maybe people don't think you're funny and that's okay, which initially I'm like, well, that did really help, but, but I love that she says that because she's just getting at it's like, that's not really the whole mission here. I mean, it is right now and it's clearly a place God's put, like, led me to and I'm going to do it as long as I can. But if next week, everything disappears for whatever reason, you know, I have people that actually know me, um, love me and support me. me and vice versa. And I try to remember that too. I think people in our position get in this headspace of like we owe our fans things or like they just have been so good to us. And at the end of the day is they don't know us personally and we don't know them personally. And like we can provide a product that's beneficial. But it is people aren't follow me because they just feel like they want to help out this guy. They like think I'm funny. And so if I'm not

funny, they're done following me. So to remember there is still kind of this product customer relationship has helped me. I'm obviously grateful for them and enjoy connecting with them personally a little bit in person and stuff. But those are all my big mindset shifts that have helped me not lose my mind. Yeah. Yeah. And you do a, I mean, I'm a worse, yeah, that was, that's my worst case scenario. I like to play worst case scenario. I like to play worst case scenario of like all this is gone tomorrow so so what thank god for the engineering degree yeah yeah if it all goes yeah if it all goes to crap i'll just kind of retire and she has to work it's not the worst um but i mean i tray handles you know because when we started dating and you know

it's kind of progressed as our relationship has and not being married um he's done a good job just kind of like leading the way just like you know he interacts with people who come up to him you know very well and is very kind and um things like that so he's been a good job with that for some reason when when we were talking about this interview I thought I thought it was going to be like you're going to come on be super high energy but this has been pretty chill it's been a chill conversation I like it and I got to get a beanie like that when two comedians get the same We just kind of just vibe. I'm going to hear this for the rest of the day.

He's going to think he's so funny. Do you hear what he just said? He goes, I got to get a beanie like that. He's going to walk around like he's you. Oh, my. Beanie. Beanie weather. It's definitely too early for that, though.

It's like 80 degrees out down here. Oh, not in Kansas City. We're up north a little bit. I woke up to a crisp 55. Wow. Oh, good old Midwest. I do miss the Midwest. All right, so real quick, tell us about your help me help you tour.

Thanks, yeah. All the good stuff. Help me help you tour. We're all the info is on my website, trachecena.com, working on new material. So it's super fun, kind of intimate, like I'm actively trying new jokes. They've been funny, so I'm not funny. That's the beauty of it, you know. Just go out there and it is really fun.

And we've done a few of those stops so far. It's been great. Gearing up trying to get the hour all put together to tour big time after the kids born. So we did that. And so, yeah, between that, our podcast and my special from the first tour, we've been actively working on, go back and forth. And we finally decided on we'll be releasing that. I'm not sure where this will come out, but it's going to be out. October 18th, my first ever special.

That's awesome. On where? It'll be on, it'll be like on Moment House. So it's like a, none of the streamers won it in on the Christian influencer guy. Huge miss, bro. Honestly,

huge freaking miss on their part. So we're just putting it to the people. It's going to be, yeah, like just pay to play type of thing. We'll probably put it out on YouTube for everyone to see eventually. but I'm really excited to just do it with the people yeah it's been a cool like gone to this point the whole time just with me and the people following me so we're going to keep it

that way what isn't didn't uh like Andrew Callahan really suspicious like people crush Andrew Schultz thank you thank you I don't know correct so it's that it's that thing yeah similar he kind of uh his was different you know he's really like a edgy and so I guess some streamers he's comedian where they wanted him to remove a couple jokes that might upset people and he was kind of like I'm just going to put this out myself so I can own it and do what I want with it and that's kind of what we're doing too so that's awesome congratulations do you have do you feel the need to preface the tour with like trying out new jokes is that a thing like a trip like a prep tour before the big tour or like that is actually yeah that's so you'll notice most comedians will they'll kind of branded as working out

material so it's uh lowers expectations i mean it's still like to think people were laughing yeah it was a good show it's not like but um and it's to help the audience to you know if if you've been maybe you drove a few hours to nashville and now i'm coming to your town in alabama just so you know it is new stuff than what you saw you know so we hoping to brain it that way so people sometimes people get confused i feel like someone will come to this, you know, we do the are you for real tour that the special's

coming out and someone will be like, I just went to this show two weeks ago. And I'll say to them like, you, okay, you did realize it'd be kind of the same, right? Oh yeah, I just want to see it again. Like, okay, good. Every now that someone's like, you told all the same jokes. Like, yeah, I'm not writing a new one, new show every day.

Wow. It's amazing. You do put out a lot of content. If you want to learn more about Trey and Katie, we'll link their information down below. Congratulations on the baby. My gosh. Thanks. Thank you. I'm putting out the special.

She's going to put out a son. Do we know the gym? A lot cooking. We know the gender. Oh, yeah. We did. You have a little boy? That wasn't exclusive.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we're having a little boy. Congratulations. Wow. Thanks. And you all have a boy and a girl? A boy and a girl. Boys are wild.

Bro, boys are wild. Wild. I know. You're ready. I have a couple buddies with like two girls and a buddy with two boys. And, yeah, I feel like my friend, he's like, I spent three hours lifting him up to dunk yesterday. Literally, we do that. Yes.

I will say, though. I feel like my soul, dude. That's what I do with my little dude. This is my little preaching advice, and I apologize. But I feel like in the phase that you guys are in, where you're, like, halfway through it. And, like, young married couple, there's so many people that like to feed you this thought of, oh, like, your social life is over. You can't travel. Things are going to change.

just a different phase and it is so enjoy it while it last i'm kidding i am kidding funny bro i'm a what do you want from me i just telling it um this is right now and if you look at it that way yes it could happen but it is honestly it's the greatest thing to ever happen and things only change because you want them to like you can continue doing whatever you want um but it it's truly the coolest phase of life it's so much fun you're just you're getting katie fired up right now She'll send me stuff. Preach it. She'll send me like in some blogger post of like they have their toddler in a high chair in Pasitano.

She's like, see? I said, can't wait to be here next year. Oh, we've been to, we've been to Turks. We've been all over the country. Yeah, we've done it all with like infants. All right. Thanks a lot. Now we have to go to Italy.

Yes, absolutely. Honestly, thank you both for, for the great content. Big fan, personal. and we'll have to follow up when the baby's born a couple months after to see what exactly changed but you guys need yeah we'll have to have you on the pod here we'll talk to and we'll I'm sure we'll be in Nashville some point I guess we're going all over with the baby so we'll see you yeah we'll babysit for you while you guys can go gallivancher on Nashville awesome oh wow I that is very kind that's good appreciate y'all thanks for the time yeah so great to meet you

and talk to you talk to all soon