Old Gods of Appalachia - BONUS: Steve and Cam Interview Yuri Lowenthal and Corey Ryan Forrester

Episode Date: September 16, 2021

Steve and Cam join Yuri Lowenthal and The Buttercream Dream himself, Corey Ryan Forrester to talk about parts of season 2, experiencing the Old Gods while under the influence of the green, strip clubs, comedy clubs and invite you to join them at the cool cousins' table at this particular family reunion.CW: profanity, frank discussion of recreational drug use, discussion of sex work, discussion of the ground becoming snakes, discussion of food poisoning and scatalogical humor.LEARN MORE ABOUT OLD GODS OF APPALACHIA: www.oldgodsofappalachia.comCOMPLETE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA RITUAL:FacebookInstagramTwitterBlueskySUPPORT THE SHOW:Join us over at THE HOLLER to enjoy ad-free episodes, access exclusive storylines and more.Find t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and other Old Gods merch at www.teepublic.com/stores/oldgodsofappalachia.Old Gods of Appalachia is a production of DeepNerd Media and is distributed by Rusty Quill. All rights reserved.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/old-gods-of-appalachia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Right about now. Well, hey there, family. I told you we'd be back and I told you we would not be alone. But this time I have not only brought with me, the railroad man himself, Mr. Yuri Lowenthal, from actually in the temple of those who sleep beneath my co-heart, my Edgar Allan Ho, my absolute mistress of the darkness. We are joined by Cam Collins.

Cam, how are you? Doing good. Hello, family. And as if that weren't enough, as if that weren't enough old God's lusciousness, If that wasn't enough pudding in your cup, I have with me, Jerry Brotherton, the retired judge himself, Corey, the buttercream dream, Forrester. Corey, how are you doing today, brother? Well, Heidi, I'm very glad to be here. It's nice hearing this such a familiar voice actually introduced me.

I feel honored. I feel blessed. I feel humbled. I feel not worthy. Well, you are someone who knows something about pudding cups, so. Yes, I do. We told you. Oh, you listen to my album.

That's so sweet. I did. I did. I just now got that. I'm a little stoned. Hey, that's okay. There's no judgment. I understand, like, dealing with the old gods does require some substance sometimes. You have to kind of go into it. Family, if you have listened to Season 2, and this is your last chance to turn back right now,

we are going to be neck deep in Season 2 spoilers. We are holding nothing back. It's been since July that we dropped the finale. And this material you're getting between now and our new story, leases is pretty much spoiler zone. So if you have not listened to the siege of pleasant evenings, a bad night for hollow men, um, charcoal suit, not any of the railroad man and local magistrate arc, we're going to be talking about it like it's family history. So just be aware. You got about three, two, one, and we're in the spoiler zone now. So gentlemen, Corey, we talk to Yuri a little

bit so he can chill out for a second. His, and I would like to point out, if you are not seeing the video of this and patrons may be seeing the video of this, Corey and Yuri are both wearing the railroad man shirts designed by the railroad stand. Pose for me, boys. Let me get a screenshot of that, at least, if nothing else. Hang on. I would say give me a Youngbucks pose, but I'm not sure that you both know what that means.

Just get the art. All right, just flex. There we go. All right, hang on. And captured. Excellent. amazing, beautiful, wonderful. That shirt, of course, designed by the railroad stand,

available over at the Tea Public Store of Old Gods of Appalachia for a reasonable sum. Corey, how did you come to his family? I know Yuri crept up on us in the dark of night, and I didn't know who he was for the longest time, and I knew of you vaguely through Drew Morgan and through Trey Crowder. I was actually at a wedding with Drew Morgan, which he barely remembers. But how did you find your way? of the family.

Y'all are one of, there's been about five or six things over the past several years that I just get repeatedly mentioned in on Twitter, like I get tagged in shit, and for so long, oh, God's of Appalachia, oh, God's of Appalachia, old God's of Appalachia, and that appealed to me, but I was like, I wasn't super into podcasts at the time. I'm not even sure that we were doing one ourselves. We weren't yet told that comedians were legally. required to have a podcast. So before they put me in prison for that, you know.

But I just kept getting tagged in it. And I want to say that it was just one thing where I was like, yeah, okay, right on. Of course I'll check it out. And then Drew Morgan's wife, Andy, we were, I want to say we were in Denver hanging out, having a Denver time. And I heard it come out of her mouth. And I was like, oh, wait, you listen to that? And she's like, yeah.

I was like, okay. well, not that I don't trust the opinion of a random stranger on the internet. Sure, sure. But now that you said it and you're someone I love, I will check it out. And I can't tell you how many years ago that was, but it's just one of them things that, as far as Appalachian recommendations, it became one of those things that, well, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. You know. Well, I remember just one because we get, we need to turn our Twitter DMs off.

We've been talking about doing this forever. and just listing the email address. But you had sent us a Twitter DM, and I think you were pretty high when you sent it. I'm not sure. Oh, yeah. But you were just like, if y'all ever want any free voice work,

I like to get high and go in the woods and listen to your podcast and creep myself out. It was like just no, no filter, just like straight. I get high as shit and listen to your podcast. And I was like, okay. And I checked him like, oh, he's like with these guys. Okay. And I said, we'll keep that in mind.

And literally when I started putting together the cast for this, I'm like, I'm going to go check out Buttercream Dream and see, and that's when you had, like, two days before Leslie Jones had retweeted you into the stratosphere, and I'm like, hey, how about that free voice work now there?

How about that free voice work now, motherfucker? Now he's worth our time. No, I'm kidding. The price of the brick has increased. Unfortunately, for some people, I do, I tend to talk to everyone the same, whether you're the preacher or whether

you're my best friend of 30 years. So if what I want to say is, man, I'll get fucked up and listen to your shit in the woods. That's what I'm probably going to say. And we're for that. Yeah. And I could tell. See, that's the thing. That's how I knew you truly were family.

I was like, I can talk to this guy like this. You know, that's no problem. But yeah, man, I'm so glad that you hollered back because that was not only me loving your podcast. That's also me being. I'm not, that was pretty much the first, like, actual voice character work I've ever done. ever. I mean, I've done like, I've had to use my voice for certain things, but never like, oh, this is a completely different person. And so that was me just being like, I want to get into this. I don't know how. I like the stories they're telling. I could probably fit into

that world. I'm shooting my damn shot. No, absolutely. And I want to compliment you. Thank you. I want to compliment you. And I'll let Yuri say his piece about you here in a second. But like you, you follow in a tradition here at Old Gods. Betsy Puckett, who played Grady White and Build Mama Coffin, available exclusively on Patreon. dot com slash old gods of Appalachia. She is a known comedic actress in the Asheville, Western North Carolina area. If you ever rode the Lozum comedy bus

in this town and there was a crazy waitress lady screaming at you and putting you in your place, that's Betsy Puckett. And she was the leader of a comedy troupe called Lylas. It was an all-woman comedy troupe here in Asheville. It's very funny if you were from Asheville

kind of very Asheville-centric humor. Great, but a great friend of my my sister host of the Moth. You know, the yin to my yang, the drawl to my twang. I host one month, she hosts the other. And when she took on the role of, that was her first villain. And she did things with it that were absolutely unnatural. And I mean, she's terrifying.

You, my friend, took on a character who very easily, who in my head at first was kind of like a cocky, cock of the walk, you know, daddy's boy who, you know, could do no wrong. And you made him softer and vulnerable. and like you still hated him for his privilege but at the same time you couldn't blame him you felt bad well it's funny that you say that about being cocky cock of the walk like when I hear I don't know like I see that some people

when they read the descriptor of like oh he's got his daddy's money you know he maybe when he was 20 he was like that but I don't know man like I just was like I know this piece of shit you know what I mean I was like and so that his voice was like an amalgamation of three dudes that I know in my life who kind of fit this description, but like, I don't know, I think Jerry Brotherton probably thinks all the things that you just said about him, but I don't think that it comes out that way to anyone who knows shit. Yeah. I agree. I mean, you already won by, you know, haven't thought about it.

Honestly. Well, I was scared. You were on this show. I was like, I got to work. Oh, so, so I helped you get there. So, so, so, so, so you're welcome. Well, that, well, that goes both ways. Oh, well, because, because as soon as I heard that you were going to be on it, that's when I'm like, wait, I got to, I got to find out a little more more about this guy. And that's why I've listened to your record.

And that's what because, you know, it, uh, because you're great. Um, and that's when I, that's when I, that's when I start, you know, find your videos on Twitter and passing those around. And it, and it, and it, you know, it filled a, I don't know, it, it filled a, I don't know, I don't it, you know, I hope this doesn't come off the wrong, but fill the hole for me that I didn't know needed filling. So thanks for filling my hole, Corey. Cam, I know you've been hugely complimentary of your performance. Have you not there?

Oh, I have. You've done a fantastic job. I mean, yeah, you definitely, I agree, turned what, you know, was originally intended as more of sort of this, you know, cocky little asshole into, well, kind of the way we tend to view George W. Bush these days is a spoiled rich buggler. But without the genocide. Without the genocide. Right, right. Although, although Jerry Brothers and tried, you know, I mean. He tried. He's just even more incompetence. A lot of people buried in that mountain. Yeah.

This is so interesting me because, like, recently in my life, I've, you know, the past five years, at least, I've gotten to be friends with more actors. And I would talk to them about their craft. And they would talk about making choices. and all this stuff. They're like, oh, yeah, you know, when I was doing this, that was actually my idea. And I was always someone just from a, like a writing and performing background, was like, oh, yeah, whatever's on the page. That's what they do. So it's so interesting to now finally be a part of that where you're like,

actually, I wrote this and I didn't envision it like that at all, but that's how you interpreted it. And that's how you went with it. And now I'm super happy because you easily could have been like, yo, this ain't it. So that's so bizarre to me that, like, in your mind it was completely different. That's crazy. For me it wasn't radically different

But just like you just took him Like there's a moment I was I was actually talking to my wife About about this interview coming up And I'm like there's just this moment that Corey takes it When the railroad man comes back And you kind of see Even though he has been introspective

And understands like You know I can't do that awful Awful stuff my daddy had me doing for money or glory or whatever But like at least I you know Now I'm down here and in my little town. I'm not doing no harm whatsoever. And here still I managed to sell my soul.

And the moment you did the one line read, I don't know how many takes you got, because I only got one, when you said, so you're the devil then. And I was just like, this is how limited this little man's view is of just like, you know,

the world and God and everybody is just like, so he assumed, like, I've been bad enough that I done screwed up so hard that I done sold my soul to the devil. And well, Just that moment, I'm like, there's the performance right there. Well, thank you. But the dialogue ahead of that actually informed my decision to say it like that because, if I'm correct, right after I say that, the railroad man, Yuri, goes on this diatribe about how small-minded I am to think that the devil of the Bible would be doing all this shit.

And so I read that forward and I was like, okay, be stupid. Be even dumber. you know what I mean so yeah so so so points also for reading other people's dialogue a lot a lot of actors would have just gone to their line and read their dialogue

well I got to tell you if it's very possible that if someone had just asked me to do them a favor and this wasn't a show I cared about that I might have done that I would like to I would like to think that I wouldn't sure but I may have gotten in a hurry and been like

I got this or whatever yeah but like I know and respect so many people that listen to this podcast that I was like, no, dude, like, you know, this is something that you're not a professional at, so you're going to probably have to try even harder, but like, you know, leave it all out there and any cheat code you can think of, you know, try that. So if it means reading it backwards, do that, you know.

For the record, Yuri Lowenthal is the only professional voice actor to ever be on all gods of Appalachians. We're all professionals now. that's how good your writing is by the way because I would have never guessed that yeah especially with that those last couple episodes

last couple episodes where we worked our asses off on those it was so good Tim what did we come out to at one point like 900 9,999 and we're like okay

we can't we can't touch it then of course we had to so it was like that well but yeah we wanted it to be at that we're like yes this is perfect now Can I jump it real quick with the story about when I got high and listened to your show? Just for a second because I don't really get high because I, it's something that I, you know, I'll try every now and then and it never really quite works for me.

It's like I get all the all the stuff that I that I don't want. All the anxiety. I get all the anxiety. I get the dry mouth. I get the, my time gets all fucked up. Like every second seems like a year. which under certain circumstances would be great. But and so the last time that I tried this,

and this is an embarrassing story I've never told in public before, but I feel like I'm amongst family. So I was out in my office late one night, and I'm like, I'm just going to take some time myself. And I'm like, oh my God, my friend gave me some pot cookies that he baked a while ago. Oh, little like edibles too. Yeah, so edibles.

and I you know I just they were in the Ziploc bag and I had thrown them on my shelf for you know another another day and forgot about him and I'm like well he said they were really strong so I'm just gonna I'm just gonna have a little bit maybe I have like a third of this cookie and I ate it and I knew it was going to take a little while to to settle in so I was just I was just waiting just waiting and then it finally kicked in and then a second after the high kicked in the food poisoning kicked in because I had because those cookies were like two years old. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking eating two year old cookies off a bookshelf. Oh no. And so I'm like, oh no. Oh no. This is like the worst feeling in the world. And every second is lasting a year.

So I started to panic. Oh, no. And I'm like, you know what I need to do? I need to focus. I need to focus. And I'm just going to get through this. and I hate being punished for, you know, something that I wanted to do nice for myself, but I just got to get through this.

So I put on an episode of the show. And I'm just like, I'm just going to sit here on the couch and I'm just going to listen to the show. And I'm like, and the food poisoning got worse. And so I felt, I felt poisoned. And I felt like I had been listening to the show for six years. I'm like, how is it possible? I'm still in the same episode. Something's wrong.

And that's what I texted my wife in the house. And I'm like, hey, how's going? She's like, hey, I'm just about to go to sleep. And I'm like, yeah, so here's what I just did. She's like, honey, do you want me to come out there? I'm like, yes, please. Will you be my shepherd for the next however many hours it's going to take me to get through this? And I felt like such an asshole because every time I'm like, and the memory thing,

I lose my short term memory and I can't remember how long I'm, I've been like this. And all my friends who always want me to get high and watch a movie with them because I'm a cinephile, I finally had to stop doing that because I couldn't enjoy the movie because after a minute,

I couldn't remember what had happened a minute ago in the movie. And I enjoy movies too much. So I don't know. I just have to, I think I still have to dial it in, but I'm out of it for a little while. I fucked that one.

I'm good. For the record, aside from the food poisoning part, all that bullshit happens to me too. I've just finally found the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest dose that I can take to where it's going to be okay. But still, even that teeny, tiny dose on some days can still decide, hey, I'm going to ruin your entire life and you're going to be in the woods and it's going to kick in and you're going to be

listening to old gods and all of a sudden the ground's going to look like nothing but snakes because you're so paranoid that you're like, I know it snakes. It snakes everywhere. And I can't imagine coupling that with life-shattering diarrhea. and I also love that the first thing you thought of when all that was going on was like, this reminds me of old God's apple. I need to go. That'll get me through.

Yeah, that'll get me through. What was I thinking? Those snakes, you know, when you saw the ground turn to snakes, that probably was actually the show and not whatever you've just adjusted. That's a feature, not a bug. Yeah, pretty much. That's just, that's what's going on there. All right. So now that we've all outed our drug.

use, which, by the way, I don't use drugs. Thank you very much. I will kill, I will trade it. I should have done the exes on back of my arms. I enjoy. I almost had me a boojum brewery October fest in here. And Corey, I do fear for my life when you come to Asheville finally and the world's able to travel again because I've seen the pictures of you on tour and I think you may kill me if I come hang out. But it's, it's getting out of hand. I've got to, I've got to rain it back. I'm not going to lie. Okay. That's good. I had been doing so much better. in life during the pandemic of course I was just at my house all the time and then as soon

as we man just immediately back up to our not all our old tricks you know we're not we're still trying to stay away from most people but yeah you're yes I may kill you yeah well I'd like I'd like a ticket to that particular

batch of shenanigans someday I would all we so Bristol has a new comedy club that just opened and you need to come here now because Bristol has the primary benefit of being right off the interstate, so it's on the way to everywhere else. That's the only reason we get any new shows here. I just passed it. No, I just passed it yesterday. And actually, as a matter of fact, my manager

sent me a link to that. She's from California before, to inform what I'm about to say is only barely offensive. She said, she sent me a link to that new comedy club, and she goes, is fucking Bristol even anything worth something? And I was like, And she was meaning it sincerely like, hey, you're from running in parts, you know. You would know. I was like, absolutely, anywhere that is driving distance for me is I will do it. It's fantastic. And people are used to pull it off the interstate for races or strip clubs or whatever, you know,

whatever happens to be in Bristol. I did tell you that the gray ballet is returning. Oh, my Lord. The gray ballet is the, so in gray Tennessee, there was a strip club called the Mouse's Ear. Oh yeah Yeah I mean Really? Yeah

I mean I'm gonna tell you right now I am sex and kink positive I am I am But you were traumatized We were we were pro sex work We are pro

Yes The one and only strip club Uh story I ever I have My best friend at the time Got married And he was a big weightlifting UFC type guy

So his His non-hardcore band buddies all insisted we go to the strip club. Nobody informed us. It was full nude before we walked in. So like when you walk in and there's like full bits like right there like platform level, nobody's ready for that without anticipation. And I was like, what year was that?

It was like maybe 24, 25. Yeah, it was like what, 2003 maybe? Maybe. All the women were beautiful. The place was just a complete like sticky bottom of a of an unwashed glass. was kind of the sanitary nature of the place. But by sitting beside my best friend, it was just like, every lap dance he got, I sort of got by proxy.

And it was just like, and I just felt like a creep. Because I'm like, can I just write you a check? Like, you don't want me to touch you. Honey, I don't want to touch you. Like, you're beautiful. This is lovely. But like, I, this is not for me. And bless all the workers out there.

Bless all the dancers out there. You all are doing amazing work. You are artists. validate all the hell, but at that point of my life, I was just like, I feel like I'm doing somebody wrong by existing in this space. And the one girl who kept getting brought over to lap dance from my buddy Josh was just like discussing his wedding with him through the entire time. So what are your colors, you know, straddling his lap, you know, bending over? So where's your reception? You know, it was just like, it was polite and it was business-like

And it was hilarious because if you, you don't know my buddy, but him prison in that situation was like asking a deacon, not a deacon, because Josh is no deacon, but he was just tongue to like, I, oh, I, I, I, I guess it's blush and bashful. I don't know, you know, like that. There's a reference for you. But yeah. So, yeah, so Bristol is shit. We'll say that it is worth fucking with. And it's only an hour and a half for me, if that. So like, you know. Yeah, it's close. And it's. It's close. And it's. on the way to everywhere else. That's something to do, like, a side gig on your way into doing, like, one of your all's, like, multiple-out stands in Asheville or something. Yeah, for sure. Honestly, that's probably exactly how that'll end up being routed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And Asheville has the orange peel of which the well-read comics are kings, pretty much. Very familiar of the orange pill. Last time we did it, though, obviously pre all this mess. I remember they had just gotten, they were bragging to us about how they just got a air conditioner and a new one, you know, I assume they had, but they were like, yeah, you know, it's going to be better in here,

we got a new air conditioner, when we get there, and I go in to do the sound check, and it is one of the hot, it was in June, and it's so hot in there. Like, it's so hot. And I was like,

I thought y'all got a new air conditioner, and they're like, oh, we did, but we didn't, we just hadn't turned it on yet. And I was like, I was like, well, stop. I'm going to need you to do.

that shit. I need you do that right now. And they were like, all right, we'll get around to it. And then finally, before the show like it had, and I was like, are y'all going to turn that air conditioner on? They're like, oh, yeah, the boss ain't here, and he's the only one that can, you know, authorize that. And I go, I just told him, I said, dude, listen, here's the deal.

I love y'all. I love this place. I'm always going to come back. But either that air conditioner's getting turned on or I'm performing in my underwear. And I performed in my underwear. I did the whole show completely just in my underwear. But I loved it. It was a great time.

But, yes, Orange Pill, tremendous place. They now, I've been told, turn on the air conditioner. Yeah. In Newarkville, like, Rolling Stone called it one of the best rock clubs in the country. It's awesome.

Yeah. Like, that's why, if you're not playing the Civic Auditorium for, like, a big, or the U.S. cellular. Oh, no, I guess it's the Hanna's Casino Center, which is, like, the big concert venue for the city.

The Orange Pills, like, hold a thousand people. That's where, like, you know, like, if you want to see, it's where we see the Mountain Goats. I'm always named dropping John and the Mountain Goats. but uh and it's sad because the mountain good choose to play at the gray eagle which is a club that holds like 300 tops i think maybe if that and uh shows for bands you love there or comics you love there i thought todd berry there uh i bet that was awesome oh yeah no that was totally good that's where it was totally my joke that's where it was totally no i know that was totally he's like that was totally he's like that was totally he's like this seems like the kind of town where it'd be really easy to get laid if you're like a swami um like That is accurate. That is very accurate.

City of gurus. Yeah. But anyway, now that we've talked all kinds of trash about strip clubs, swamis, other comedians, and Corey in his underwear. I'm never talking trash about that. No, never. Never. It's a beautiful wave of white noise. Yeah.

So I guess we'll ask the question that I plan on asking at the end by my mind. want to ask it now. If we wanted to have you all back, would y'all come back? If not it's the same. Without question. Well, yeah, maybe even... I don't think Yuri can do a different character, frankly, but I think since Jerry Brotherton, I don't think we need to do a prequel of Jerry Brotherton, but I would love... Yeah, I actually, I told Drew Morgan a year ago I'd write something for him and I never have. That's okay. I'll do his thing. And I want to have Drew. I mean, like, yeah, because, you know, I love y'all and I love y'all's audience. that I would love to make my audience

and vice versa. But yeah, so I should just have it. I should just write a three stooges S storyline for you, Drew, and Trey just go on a spooky adventure and one by one get picked off by like a Swamp Witch or something. That would be so tremendous and we would definitely be in. And I know I'm playing Curly and fuck you for that. The Bellwitch.

It's got to be Bellwitch though. We actually all three do look exactly. I look like Curly, Trey, looks like Shimp or Mo and Drew has the Larry thing going on. Shut up.

Oh my gosh. That's that. Yeah. I mean redhead. No, I can't even see it. And Drew's starting to lose his hair, but he's keeping it on the side.

Just like, I'm telling you, dude. That's crazy. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. So let me ask you this. We'll have some fun here because I like to recommend things.

What is something? It doesn't have to be spooky or scary. I know our family loves good horror stuff. But, what is something that you're watching, reading, or have seen in the last little bit that you would recommend to somebody else? Well, I'll do a new thing that I'm watching

that's new to everyone and a thing that has, much like Old Gods of Appalachia, was recommending me for so long and for some reason I put it off and I feel like an idiot for doing so. The thing I'm currently watching, this almost goes without saying,

it's Ted Lasso, for God's sakes. Yeah, come on, though. It's so good. it's so it's the it's the most surprised i've ever been at a show because uh cynically i just see this and i'm like i knew that it was i'd seen the commercials and i'm like they're gonna wait hold on the commercials were one thing but a whole television show based on a dude who goes to coach soccer that's never coached soccer i'm like i know it's jason sedacus but even still then i watched the first episode realize oh wait bill

Lawrence did it no shit and it's just it's just so tremendous it's got when I when I first started hearing about oh a comedy yeah it's a comedy with heart that I used to always make me mad because I used always but no everything has to be always sunny there should be no love no point all deviousness all crackheads all you know and now I find myself like going am I am I crying at this comedy right now and I love it so much and the old thing that I've just recently discovered because now that this past couple years we've been spending a lot more time at home I've been like okay, finally the wire, but is justified, which I'm sure that everybody in your audience has listened to, but I just needed to apologize to everybody for being so late to the justified train.

It is absolutely amazing. I've never been more upset that I wasn't able to be a part of something. It just pisses me off. It's just tremendous. I will add on to your justified thing, though, because I just posted this song on our Twitter today, If you are into you'll never leave Harlan alive, ignore the Brad Paisley version, and go listen to the Daryl Scott version that I posted. Oh, the Daryl Scott, yeah.

Because he wrote it. I mean, it's his song, and he apparently fought long and hard to get the rights back for that song. And a lot of his song, he wrote, if you go listen to... So many Dixie Chick-Chicks songs, he wrote. Well, Travis Tritt. Travis Trit, Great Day to Be Alive. Yep. He has a verse that they took out of Travis Tritt's, the fourth verse, which I really like.

I love Daryl Scott. Yeah, Darryl Scott's an amazing. amazing singer-songwriter. And the version I tweeted of the Transatlantic sessions where they're doing Never Left Harlem Live with a squeeze box

and two gospel vote, two women gospel vocalists and just like everybody in that moment in that session is feeling that song. Yeah, that's that's that and Darrell Scott and John Charles Dwyer

who is from here in Nashville. Those have been my playlist for the past a little bit. But anyway, I'll get to my recommendations. Cam, you have something that you're watching and enjoying. Oh, well, I've been listening to

new, well, I don't know if it's new. Anyway, the pod, I think it's newer. One of there's the Wondry podcast suspect. Hmm, okay. Which is really, it's really interesting because a lot, if I love true crime stuff, and there was somebody I was, I can't, I'm so sorry if you're, if you are a listener and not a random person that I don't remember who it was. But somebody, you know, was tweeting about, you know, I really love true crime, but I really,

I want to find something that's not just cop worship, basically. And, you know, of course, you know, I was like, you should make that podcast. I would love that podcast and I would listen to it. And now I started listening to Suspect and Suspect is very much, it starts out just talking about this case where an actual pretty classic, kudunit, a girl was murdered after a party. And it was like an apartment complex, wide party. so tons of suspects, people in and out of each other's apartments all night long. But it actually talks about, for one, the problems with trace DNA, touch DNA, which is like the skin cells, skin cells and things like that, that can actually be really easily transferred.

They're not as conclusive as juries may sometimes be led to believe. and you all, like racism and classism also factor. The first suspect that they looked at who seemed a lot more likely, of course, you know, his family got him a lawyer, and suddenly they start looking at somebody else, which really seems like, oh, you're going for the low-hanging fruit. It's a poor black kid, only black man at the party, no lawyer. I mean, it's, it was, so it is, it's actually very critical of the, of the process,

even though they are, they're very polite. They actually managed to get the prosecutors and the police to talk to them and, you know, be in interviews, which is not always the case. If they think you're going to be critical, sometimes they are not willing. But, yeah, it's actually – Same with me on podcast interviews further I heard. So, yeah, it's been – it's been a really, really good show. All right. Yuri Lowenthal, what is something you're listening to watching and enjoying right now?

That's going to segue right really well into mine, which is – that new Steve Martin, Martin Short show only murders in the building. I've seen one episode and I'm in. It's so great. And it only gets better from the, like, I mean, it's a really interesting, like, I find it hard to think of any other show that's doing it

or has done exactly what they're doing. It's lovingly done. There is such, and I'm iffy on Martin Short. Martin Short did Jiminy Glick, that fat suit bullshit that she did in the late 90s and just grossed me out, Turn me off to you entirely.

When you put him and Steve Martin together because they're such good friends. And you take Steve Martin's something that he always brings to his projects, which is like this magical realism. Like every now and then something really weird happens, but it's just accepted as part of the world. And I think that's something that he's bringing to this. And it's working really well for me. And if you love true crime podcasts, it is. Yeah. Yeah.

It sounds really good. That and another Hulu show. I've been all over Hulu for some reason lately. Reservation Dogs is awesome. You just took one of my recommendations. Sorry. Yeah, I saw the pilot and I really enjoyed it. Reservation Dogs is one of the best things on television right now. Yeah.

My wife was trying to get me to watch it for a hot minute and I'm like, I'm not in the right mood, not the right space. Then I found out who the executive producers are. And I was just like, oh. Tyca, right? Yep. Yeah. What can he not do? really yeah yeah and and and uh yeah we're several several uh and there's some magical realism

that's happening yeah later in it and featuring tannis from letter keney uh forgive me for not knowing that actress's name um that's escaped me at the moment but um it is it is letter kettie yeah letter kini letter kini which had so much promise and then that's another one of those old god of apalachia things for me where and but i haven't i only watched the pilot and i did like it but like I cannot tell you the amount of times a day someone's like, have you seen Letterkenny? Have you seen Letterkenny? Yeah, have you seen Letterkenny?

I'm really interested in what happened with those dudes because they went from being like super left like calling out a lot of problematic shit in that style of sketch comedy to like almost inverting themselves by the last season. I haven't seen what. Yeah. Like the main character is arguing

why he should be able to use the word gay however he wants. and like they start taking like kind of snowball jabs at people. And I don't, and if it's supposed to be ironic, it was long, I stopped watching because honestly it became a lot of the same jokes just beaten. But the first three or four seasons are brilliant.

I mean, they're hilarious and whatever. I'm going to be boring and say that the current season of American horror story has an interesting premise. They're finally doing vampires. They had to get around to it. They had to. And so the concept is this.

Vampirism is caused by a drug. and it's a drug that boosts creativity, but only if you already have talent. If you don't have talent, you basically turn into like, you know, a soulless sort of monster vampire. But if you do, you still have to kill people and drink their blood and stuff.

You just, you know, are under control. So the Torridor or the Dominic clan is what you're telling me. Yes, the Toriador is the Dominic clan. But yeah, this whole, the whole concept of, you know, creatives as vampires is it's different. I mean, it's been pretty interesting.

I'm if you about to show. Sometimes there are seasons I have not loved. But so far I'm like, all right. And we all, true, the only creative vampires exist in Los Angeles. We all know this. This is like a thing. You know, we needed an additional form of representation

from our agency. So I texted our age. I'm like, hey, could you go, Could you go dig up like a literary vampire from the crypt for me to that I could talk to to to answer some questions? Yeah, just just pitch them on up. Bring, bring Pete. Oh, oh, season three of what we do in the shadows is out. Oh, yeah, just, yep. And also Wellington Paranormal, that's sort of the offspin or the offshoot on HBO Max.

Yeah, no, Wellington Paranormal is basically the movie world. It's not the same universe, but it's New Zealand movie world for what we do in the shadow and it's cops. Yeah. Like it's the show cause. And the two of the most lovely stupid human beings. And what's funny to me is that for us, the New Zealand accent is part of the joke, just the way they say things. So I'm just really curious how that show plays in New Zealand, because that's where it was imported from there. It came out after the movie came out.

But it's just like, you know, it's just, yeah, I mean, it's, it's really, again, Taka doing the wonderful, wonderful. He's doing, yeah, he's doing the Lord's work. No, yeah. I mean, yeah. And the fact that we're starting to see throwbacks to the movie on Wellington, aka Nick the Dushbag vampire, is truly, truly, truly magical as far as that goes. All right. So, family, we are going to wear near the end of our time. So before we go, though, do you all have anything you want to plug or upcoming dates? Yeah, I'd love to plug. I did a sci-fi. show a couple of years ago, I guess almost three years ago now, for legendary digital, they had a platform called Project Alpha, and they were looking for content, and we pitched them a show that was a sci-fi show, a weekly sci-fi show, but we perform it live every week,

you know, and all the special effects are live. The music was performed live by a band on the stage while we were doing the show. Like, it was the highest tightrope I'd ever walked in my life. And then to make it even more complicated, because it was a live show and it was on this sort of Twitch-type platform that Legendary was trying to do, people who are watching the show in real time could vote on ways the story would go. So we'd have to prepare branching storylines and sort of make up our mind on the fly. It was, I don't know why we did this way. What level, how, why? Why? Who said this was okay? Do you need a minder?

Yeah, no, I know. But the show is called Orbital Redux, and what we did is we took all the footage from those live shows and we cut together the episodes. We said, look, if these episodes stand on their own without the gimmick of it being live, we'll find a new home form. Because a lot of people didn't get to see the show

because of the platform that it was on, nobody knew about, and then it went away. And we did it, and the episodes turned out great. And so we found a home on Dust, which is for those who don't know Dust, and most people don't. It's a sci-fi, you know, aggregator site. It's sort of like what shutter is to horror.

Dust is, you know, you can download the app or you can go to their YouTube or you can just go to watchdust.tv. Look for the show Orbital Redux. It's eight episodes. You can binge it in two and a half hours or you can spread it out as you see fit. And all I ask is, as you're watching the show, just remember when we were first doing that, we were doing it live. But I'm so proud of it. Go watch Orbital Redux. Orbital Redux.

Cori, what about you? You know, I'm on tour. You can go to well-readcom. W-E-L-L-R-E-D Comedy.com. It's a pun. And we're going to be, I mean, you know, we're rounding out the year with my favorite show that I would really love to plug,

just because I assume you have a lot of family members here on the podcast in Nashville, Tennessee. December 16th or 19th, we do our special Christmas shows. They're the fun and shows. and I was also just informed yesterday that like three of the five shows for December are already almost sold out so get those tickets and other than that just I've got so I've got so many things that I can't wait in a month to talk to you about but I can't say them right now

so just if you follow me on Twitter you'll know about them I'm really having a great time doing a lot of different things writing some things saying some things into a camera that whole lot you know so yeah man you know just nothing nothing nothing to like and tell you in three months. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So we, we encourage our family to stay tuned. Old Gods has a ton of content coming very soon, hopefully, unless the world, the Lord comes, or the creek rises are both happening at once, which has been known to happen around these parts. So I appreciate y'all, Yuri, Corey, you all have made, you all made season two something beyond. You really did. Thank you so much for, like, being part of this.

Like, not just, it was a pleasure. I mean, it was a goddamn pleasure. Thank you all for having me. And Yuri, it was an honor. My goodness, I'm not worthy, as they say. That goes both ways. I'll take it just because I'm older than you, Corey, but that goes both ways. Well, like, not just y'all's audiences and the people y'all brought and helped expose us to. But, I mean, just, y'all killed it. Y'all came in, like, Corey, like you said, guest stars can come into a podcast and be a name and say some lines and be gone.

There are some podcasts out there that have done major, major Hollywood celebrities. And it sounds like they read the lines, all 20 of their lines on their lunch break in order with no direction. And both y'all worked with us and took direction for me, who's nobody, you know, outside of just narrating this podcast. So I appreciate both of you so much. I love you. And I know I'm so happy and proud to call you family. And we managed to get through this episode without once talking about the desirability of the railroad man. So I guess we'll have to do another episode.

Yeah, but yeah, so thank y'all for joining us, and we'll talk to you soon, family. Talk to you real soon.