wellRED podcast - #123 - The Boys Perform at a Bluegrass Festival!

Episode Date: June 26, 2019

This past weekend we had the INSANELY huge honor of performing at the legendary Telluride Bluegrass Festival. On this episode we recap our weekend, perform a seance, and on a much less fun note.. discuss the ICE camps at the border  wellredcomedy.com for ticketsbluechew.com (use promo code RED for your first shipment FREE)

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long time listeners uh this is a deep cut but i said deep listeners some of you are deep um we have a special guest with us on this episode but in order to have him we had to bring him back from the dead So let's go. Here is our Tell You Ride podcast. Skiy! Well, well. Okay, guys. All right.

Corey, dim the lights. Okay. We're going to light these candles real quick. Okay, we've got the table set. I spread the salt around the table. Salt around the table in a circle. Yeah. Okay.

All right, everybody, join hands. Please. Okay. All right, we go. Our beloved producer, Bryce, we bring you gifts from life unto death commune with us producer Bryce

and move among us our beloved producer Bryce we bring you gifts from life unto death commune with us producer Bryce and move among us do you guys hear that did you hear that?

I think I hear something I think I do too is that well here we are Bryce is back from the dead Man, we didn't even have to get out an LL bean t-shirt. We successfully brought Bryce back

That's my first seance, man. I'm pretty excited. Tray's going to turn to see how good I am even at this. That was tremendous. Anyway, how's it feel to be alive again? It's quite amazing. This whole town, though, and just brings it out in it, you know?

What town? Where are we at? Tell you ride Colorado. Yeah. What do you think about it? A lot of Subaru. A lot of Subaru's. Tell us about Subaru, brass. You're a fan, right? Subaru's a quality car. You know, I mean, you can't beat them. They run smooth. They run quiet.

It's just a good product. It's just a good quality product. I mean, if you need a starter car for your kid, you know, you get a brand new Subaru and then you have a young. And in here in 16 years, I guarantee you're still going to have that Subaru. Oh, yeah. 300 miles is getting started. Oh, yeah. Just breaking it in. Explain the afterlife to us. I mean, what's Jesus like? He's all right. It's my favorite Doobie Brothers song. Jesus is that the Doobie Brothers? Uh-huh. No, that's Michael McDonald, because he sound like a woman.

Wait, Joan Jett has a Jesus song too, and I get him confused. You get Joan Jett and the Doobie Brothers confused. Well, it's not Joan Jett. Who is it? I don't know. But calling Jesus on the phone? What if God was one of us? That's the song I'm talking about.

That is calling Jesus on the phone. That could not be more, not Joan Jett. That is, oh, God damn it. It's Joan, ain't it? I mean, it's more Joan Baez than it is Joan Jett, but it's neither one of them. That was like a one hit one. Well, it was one hit one of the last. Producer Bryce.

My God damn. What are you here for? We didn't bring you back from the dead to not look this shit up. Yeah, what if God was one of us? Look at us. I know it was on the, uh... It was a one hit wonder, right? It was a one hit wonder.

It was on the Bruce Almighty sound track. Just a sly black one of us. Just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way back home. Yeah. Who is it? Wait. Oh, we don't have good service here in Tell Your Odd, Colorado. I can't believe it.

Jesus Christ. Should have left you under the ground. You were better dead. Who? Hold on. Joan Osborne? Producer Scotty. Okay.

Producer Scottie, you found it. John Osborne. Secondly? Oh, because I said Joan. You said Joan Jet first. Well, I don't actually get those two songs confused. You get Joan Jett and Joan Osborne confused, I guess. I guess.

I mean, it's two Jones. Two Jones. Two Jones. Anyways, boys. So we've been in Tell You Right. Tell You Right, Colorado. This is the first time any of us have been here, right? Correct.

I feel like most people have heard of Tell You Right, probably. If you haven't, it's like an Aspen-type, like, rich white people ski resort town in the mountains of Colorado. And it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to be, which is to say, like, it hits. Otherworldly beautiful. Oh, insane. Just crazy, pretty and all that. But also very well. white like kind of humorously so every type of white person but poor right any type of white person

that has money is here they're staff you know what I mean I guess like oh right yeah you're right that's true that's true that's true you can be broke and get here that's true I did it so we're here before I've been broke that's true there's a huge difference we're here because I mean yeah likewise we're here because it's a tell you ride bluegrass festival which is one of the most storied and respected bluegrass festivals in the country. This is the 46th year of it. They've been doing this festival for 46 years

and we are the first ever stand-up comedy act they have ever booked on the Telly Ride Bluegrass Festival. So give it up for ourselves, boys. That's pretty awesome. That is pretty awesome. Now, it will stop being awesome if A, we don't get asked back next year and B, there's just no comedians at all.

They never do it. You know what I mean? Like, well, okay. There's part of it. Well, though. If that happens, it'll literally just be them being like, I'm glad we tried that. Sure. So on that note, I'll just be totally up front here. When it first came about, I was like, I was like, y'all, to you guys, I was like,

I get that it's cool. I get to tell you ride's a cool place. I get that the, I know about the festival. I know it's a big deal. I was like, but like, they don't do comedy there. I was like, not only do they not do comedy, it's also going to be on a stage outdoors in broad daylight. Like, no one's going to be, no one is going to be there to see comedy because they never have even had comedy before. I was like, I just, I just don't, I don't know that this is a good idea.

And you guys were basically like, look, we hear you. And you're right. It'll be very rad. So let's just do it anyway. And that's, so that's kind of how we felt about it. There's also another thing to add to that, which was, and this is a huge thing, the day that we were performing was already well and sold out before. we were added to the lineup and announced. So we actually had pretty much no chance.

Well, we'll have some people come in or whatever. It's like, no, they're already there and now they're getting comedy thrown at us. So and you guys were like, yeah, you're right, but it'll be a great time. And it's such an honor. It'll be a great time and it's such an honor or whatever. So we should do it. And so we're like, okay, we'll do it. So then we get here and we're here and like the day before our set and everything.

We're over there watching it. All these bands are up there crushing. And it's just this great atmosphere. And we were like, boy. we are going to be a let down son like when we get up you talk about a lull in the lineup yeah everybody take a shit before sam bush like we were just like they did they did we were just like this is not going to so and but then also on top of that though in addition to that when we first got we first walked in there was a guy standing at the gate who recognized me he's one of the guys that

runs the thing but not the main guy just one of the dudes that runs it he was like hey tray glad you're here man my name's eric yeah we're We're excited to have you. Really interested to see how this all goes, though. Yes. Okay. I was like, yeah, me too. Then.

There were only two people that did that. No, no, there were three people. Okay. And they were all, the other one was a journalist who's been here for 40 years, who interviewed me for the festival. A guy's here every single year. He came up and he didn't say just that. He was like, yeah, we're great, glad you're here.

He's like, you know, management, they've been freaking out about your guys's set. They're like, we don't know if this is. going to work. And I keep telling him, Trey's been there before he knows. And I'm sitting there like, no, I ain't. I've been here before. No comedian has. That's the whole thing. But I didn't say that. But he was just like, he was like, Trey knows what he's doing. It'll be fine. That's what I was telling them. But yeah, they're real worried. You know, that's what he said. We're just like laughing it off. Which is good because we were in a great head space. And then the guy that

runs it. Craig, he called me yesterday to ask about music. But he was also like, he's like, yeah, this is Craig. I'm the guy that asked you here. So I'm the lunat. you know like just multiple people kept echoing we don't know how this is going to work well then there were four but the other one i had i guess a different experience i walked up to i didn't talk to a single person who was like oh it's going to be great they're going to love it craig's college Craig's college roommate was side stage and that's how he told me that's who he was he thought i was somebody else so you came up to talking he was like Connor i'm like no but i mean i look like everybody here me and and have seen ourselves i've seen so many ewes and so many andes yeah

She told me to do a joke about losing her and finding fall in the wrong butt, and I forgot to. But he was talking to me, and I was telling him how nervous we were. And he was like, dude, this crowd is the nicest crowd you'll ever have. They're just so supportive. And like four other people said something similar to me, including Sam Bush, right before our set. And then his wife came in to meet us, Lynn, who's a sweetheart, but she goes, well, we'll see how this goes. Right. And I hadn't had the conversations you had had, so I said to her, well, thank you for being honest.

Because you're the first person who said that to me. She was like the fifth person that had said a version of that to me. And also before we went on, we were back in the green room and you said, you were like, look, here's what I think. I think because it's outdoors and it's, you know, spread out and it's fit, whatever. I think even if we're doing good, we won't be able to tell from the stage because we won't even be able to hear them. And I was like, I was like, I think you're exactly right. I think the exact same thing. I was like, we could be doing fine, and we won't even be able to tell because you won't be able to hear them laughing because it's this big field and whatever.

And so, like, that's where our heads were at. But then we went up there, though, and it was fucking awesome. You could hear them. They were laughing. They were clapping. They were wooing. Well, I will say, we were right after what they call the dinner break. They had the winner of the troubad.

They gave us a good spot. Yes. A really good spot, actually. I mean, we basically opened for Sam Bush. It's the king of this festival, which is fucking awesome. The two spots before us every day have sort of been considered the dinner spots. They had someone who won a Trubidor contest, like a singer-songwriter contest, play a 15-minute set. There was almost no one there for that because everyone went to eat dinner and it started raining.

And then Nome Polinky. Pickle-neigh, right? Pickle-ne. Came out after that. Thank you, producer, Ross. I want to say the mandolin player for the Punch Brothers. Yes. And Banjo player.

Oh, that's right. Mangel. Chris Taylor is a Mandelae is the man mandolin player. He in Green Sky and the Punch Brothers? No, he just came out. No, he was in Nickel Creek.

I know that. With the Punch Bros. Now, he came out and played with Green Sky. Oh, I thought Green Sky was his new band. No, no. Okay. He just hits that hard that. He does hit so hard.

He hits insanely hard. Anyway, he's great. But when he didn't get a big audience coming back because of the rain and the dinner hour, I was like, and of course, part of that was, he's playing with another band tomorrow

so a lot of people who like him were like, well, I'm going to see him anyway, I'll have my dinner. I was like nervous, well, it's going to stay empty, but a part of him was like, that's fine. It's fine if it's kind of empty. We didn't have even a six of the crowd Sam Bush had, but we did have some people who were trickling in. Like, I think you had

way more people than Corey, just because they were just showing up for Sam Bush. I walked through, because you have to walk through the crowd to get backstage, and I walked through an hour before we went on and I told you it was a ghost town there was nobody there and I didn't see the crowd again until I walked out there and so I was fucking very pleasantly surprised with the amount of people that were there when I walked out I mean like it was a lot of people and they listened

and the sound was perfect uh in terms of we asked them to turn the monitor off which I mean you know I'm sure people don't care about that but as a comic we hate monitors we don't want to hear ourselves it's weird it throws our time is the speaker on the stage that's pointed back at the stage and musicians need it because they need to be able to hear themselves and what they sound like. But comedians, it just sounds like an echo of yourselves coming back at your face and it can fuck you up. Another purpose of the monitor, which is super cool because I've seen it in action, is that the sound guy can talk to the band without the audience hearing him.

You know what I'm saying? They can be like, turn their shit. Is that good, Sam? Absolutely. Nobody fucking knows. But like, can you imagine doing your set and fucking a club owner just, hey, hey, man, can you, you know what I'm saying? Like that.

I'm glad they can't do that. Because, God damn it, they would every fucking time. Well, they did that, obviously. That's kind of a simple fix. But whether or not they can hear you in a situation like what we had yesterday and it not be so loud that it's like, I don't know, off-putting. What I'm saying is we sounded very clear to the audience. And it wasn't, it was easy.

It was the easiest outdoor spot I've ever done. I've probably only done eight. But they're mostly nightmares. They were all atrocious. Nightmares. Probably eight, and they've all been, like, I literally hated every single one of them except for that one. Every comedian knows doing how many outdoors is just a death sentence for the most part. Outdoors during the day.

The daylight, you know. Drew said right before we were going on, he was like, he was like, okay, this is about to be like that Earth Day thing we did in Knoxville. God, do you remember that? And I still bring it up to people sometimes they ask about hell gigs or whatever. I'll be at one time, me and Drew did an Earth Day festival in Knoxville, and it was in World's Fair Park. so it's this big auditorium that seats probably 800 people or something. And there was probably like 150 people there, but they weren't all at the front.

They were spread out. And who was in the front? Children's, ribbon dancing. Ribbon dancing kids. In front of the stage in like the middle, like noon. Noon. Noon in this sparsely populated amphitheater in World's Fair Park in Knoxville.

And it was a nightmare. He's a nightmare. And we did a sketch, which you don't remember. Andy's here, which I'm glad you just walked. in. Andy, was Trey in that sketch with us at World's Fair Park that we did? Who played, who was, was it Wayland? Was it Rick? Oh, God. Please tell me Rick was in a fucking sketch at World Day. It was Earth Day. It was Kevin. Oh, it was, it was, uh, McCluskey. Well, that checks out.

We're going to McClick. We're going to Asheville. Yeah, I can't wait. Got dates coming up. You guys get them tickets, well-read comedy.com. Anyway, we had the sketch. It's still a great fucking idea. I still stand by. It's one of the first ideas for a sketch ever had. And the idea was a guy just randomly breaks off into like a 50s movie monologue. Yeah. Like he just speaks real dramatically. Bessie, we got to get out of this town. See, me and you, we're going to take this train to our dreams. That's where we're going. But like everyone else around him is like, why is he talking like that? And then the hook is a girl gets really into it and starts talking back to him. We're doing that outdoors. Pretty high concept, very absurd. Can I make a prediction?

Didn't play. Did not play. them ribbon dancing childrens were like why is he talking like a chicken duck man chicken duck man that's hilarious but so drew said that for right before we went on i was like yeah you're right it is about to be that yeah right before we went on i said hey tray this is going suck like that one gig we had but we've been saying that the whole time sure which by the way i maintained was probably the best attitude to go into it was i agree dude we had such low expectations and ended up hitting like it did we were riding high afterwards like and so we get done and like Corey, the way, this is exactly what happened,

but Corey, like, put it into words right afterwards. He's like, it's like, I cannot believe we just hugged Sam Bush in the stairwell after our set. We're like, hey, man, it's a great crowd. Go, you know, go get them or whatever. Yeah, and he hugged us back. Yeah. We fucking met Dirk's Bentley backstage.

He was awesome. I walked up and started introducing myself. Like, hey, I'm trying. He was like, yeah, I know, man, you're hilarious. So you guys ignored my text, but the reason I sent it was very specific. You guys see my text that I could beat Dirk, Derk's Ben. in a race. Yes, we did ignore it.

We did ignore it. The reason I sent that is he has Tom Cruise vibes. That motherfucker could do anything. Dirk's Bentley. Yeah. Like, he's gorgeous. Included.

And he's like smooth. You know what I mean? Smoke your ass in a race. I'm going to race Dirk's Bentley tonight. Text him. We can actually set this up. Let's set it up. Fucking let's get, dude,

I mean, Dirk's Bentley ain't going to embarrass his self like that. Right. But not, but he wouldn't dain to smoke you. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Well, another thing about him, the other reason he put me in the, he's shorter than I expected. And like, people who are real good looking and famous, that happens, right? You know, where you mean, you're like, God damn, I thought you were five or six foot nine or whatever, you know. I'm neither real good looking or particularly famous. And I get told all the time that, well, actually the opposite. Yeah. You're a lot bigger than I thought you think. It's because you hold your phone up high on your portrait.

Yeah, right. That's not necessarily terrible, especially because with your head, if you did it the other way, you'd look real big-headed. Yeah, you hit. Oliver Platt, like I've been saying. So, Bryce, producer Bryce. Four or five times in the meet and greet line, someone, always a man has been like, man, I thought you were way taller. And I take that as a compliment. Like, I'm up on stage just screaming at people.

And then they come and they meet me. I got that small deck energy. And I'm 5'9 and three quarters. I don't have any energy at all. Producer Bryce this weekend and they run up two different times. First time, he was like, we had just, I just got here. He had been here. I went back stage for first time with him just hanging out, drinking and whatever.

And Bryce was like, is that, is that Dirk's Bentley over there? And I looked and I was like, dude, that guy looks exactly like Dirk's Bentley. And he was like, I think that. I was like, no, it ain't. I was like, if that was Dirk's Bentley, we'd know he was here. He just looks just like him. And then Bryce came in the next morning. He's like, dude, I saw that same dude again.

And I'm telling you, I think that's Dirk's Bentley. And I was like, no, it's not, Bryce. We'd know if he was here. By the way, Spott and Dirk's Bentley here at Tell Your Ride is like, where's Waldo? He's been back from the dead for two hours now that he just thinks everybody's famous. And then I walked backstage right after my set and they were just like, hey, this is Dirk's Bentley. And I was like, well, God damn. Yeah, he's a super rad guy.

We also, I don't think you were there for this. We apparently had a pretty long considering how young he is, conversation with his son. Yeah. He had a skateboard and he's got a mullet. And we were like, that's a rad skateboard, dude. We were just talking to him, you know, being nice to a kid. This Dirk's Bentley's kid. I saw the end of that.

And yeah, I had no idea it was his kid. but like he uh i was saying this last night like um and this is true it might sound like bullshit to people because like oh they met the guy and they like him or whatever but this is genuinely true like darts bentley was a pop it is a popular country artist without a doubt i sincerely always thought that he was you know one of the good ones like the whole time every i've always one of his first hits was a cover of george jones he's always hit for me like from the time he came out i was always like he's legit and there's no better way to solidify that theory than to find out that you hit for him right i knew it been saying i knew he's a queer

i mean he's a queer cori i agree with you and that did hit but found out that you hit for him at a bluegrass festival where he's he he clears this weekend he makes no money i mean he even told us he feels like insecure going on stage with Sam Bush. He played with Sam Bush last night. Well, he said for people that don't know, Dirk's Bentley also made a straight bluegrass album, which is my favorite thing he ever did. It's great. It's awesome.

And we were talking to him about that. And he was like, he was like, yeah, man, that was crazy. He's like, you know the thing about that album was? He was like, I was far and away the least talented dude on that album the whole time. He was like, the guys I had recording it with me and everything. He was like, I was the worst guy. in the room for every recording, you know. But then he was like, but you know,

that's how you make something great. Surround yourself with people that are better in your way. Isn't that kind of though, like how Nashville works though on regular Nashville records? Not to disparage, Dirk's Bentley or anyone who makes an album there, but the studio musicians in Nashville. I mean, Garth Brooks is otherworldly,

but his band is known to be the best band in Nashville. Yes, that's true. But I guess the difference would be He was making a bluegrass album, though. These dudes that Dirk's is doing it with, they are session musician talented, but they also have names. You know what I'm saying? Sure. They're session musicians that hit so hard at it that you, like, because, like, only in the...

Well, and I guess that's not always the rule, too. Like, Jason Isible is probably the best guitarist in his band. I don't want to disparage. Sadler. Here's some of the people that were on that album with him. Dale McCurry and his band, Alison Krauss, Chris Taley, and Miranda Lambert, just to name a couple we're all on that album with him.

I'm telling y'all. And I know y'all know. I'm telling people listening. That album is the shit, man. Well, he rattled all that off last night, and I told him, and I said, well, I hope you know I'm being sincere here. But when you just named all those people,

calling yourself the least talented person on that roster is not an insult, by any stretch. And, like, I mean, yeah, he's probably right, but, like, that don't mean shit. Speaking of Miranda Lambert, I think there's, like, a class, Miranda Lambert,

Dirk's Some of Keith Urban Eric Church Until he made that one song Homeboy And Brad Paisley I was about to say Brad Paisley

Where it's like For me Those are the Nashville staple Pop Country But I like most of what they do I like most of what they did

Yeah right I agree with you And they all Also Were part of like The last generation Before this current crop They were

That are terrible They were The Proceeding class. Another thing I told Dirkson, I meant it, he was the first country player to do Bonneroo. He did it right after that Bluegrass album. He brought Bush, Sam Bush, and people like that with him,

and he jammed out. We should have known by the... And I truly feel like country stayed at Bonarue because of how well he did that. Yeah. Because I remember, I mean, I remember even me being like, what the fuck? And then I looked at the time and I was like, all right, I'll go check it. And it was rad. It was fucking rad.

And then who've... I've seen Dwight Yoakam there since. The Grand Ole Opry is there. now every year. Sturgles played it. That's what we have in common with darts. We just break down barriers at festivals.

Yeah, yeah, we do. And, you know, we also have piercing blue eyes, I think, all of us. He was good goddamn looking. It was so... It was off putting.

Yeah, he's real good looking. Like, I backed up away from him. I knew he was. Like, I knew he was, but I'm used to... Woods. I knew he was. Were you glad he was short? I didn't even notice because he was...

Because he's so big otherwise? Bentley. And, yeah, when I saw, like, I'm used to seeing him. Yeah. like standing next to Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman and shit. And then when I saw him standing next to Trey, I was like, God, damn. Look at this appropriate amount of teeth having ass motherfucker.

What about, you know, who else was like that? That was Bingham. Ryan Bingham's an Adonis, man. People listen out there. My wife is walking around, I don't know, cleaning up the seance or something. And I just heard her say, he's so sexy. About Dirk's or Ryan Bingham, Andy? It's both.

It's both. Ryan Bingham, friend of the podcast. Sure. Dirk's is very sexy. They're both sexy. Sexy is subjective. When it comes to those two,

I'm objectively not sexy. They are objectively sexy. Who is sexier is a subjective question? Absolutely, yes. So I don't know if this is the right place to plug us in or not, but I'm just going to go ahead and do it. Another thing. Bluetooth.

So we did, we did great, had this awesome experience, whatever. Later on in the night, after we're done and everything else, I'm riding with Corey on it. So there's Tell You Ride, right, and then up the mountain, there's this other town called Mountain Village. And there's a gondola. It's like an enclosed chairlift situation that takes you between the two. That's free. Corey and Drew are staying at Mountain Village and I'm staying down here.

So me and Corey were down here and Taylor. And if you guys think that's because we don't hit. We're also staying in the same hotel as Brandy Carlisle. So actually me and Corey do it. The gondola is a subway for people who would never eat at Subway. That's how I describe it. So we go up to y'all's hotel and I'm with, it's me and Corey. Miss the best three songs of the night.

We didn't talk about that. So, so. We were so fucking high and so fucking cold. We'll come back to that. We'll come back to that. Okay. Because you're right. But so we'd left and me and Corey riding up to y'all's hotel in the gondola

and this other, this like middle age white couple got in with us. And as we're going up the mountain, they were like, where you guys from? Tennessee? Okay, cool. are you guys here for the festival yeah who'd you guys see today who'd you enjoy today and corey goes well you know sam bush obviously phenomenal uh yonder mountain was great um comedians fucking suck but Corey says that and they go they go yeah we skip them and we're kind of laughing to ourselves and in my head I was like that checks out but I also was like yeah you know they just

they're not they would eat dinner they're not standing there's not standing there's up fans. They went to eat dinner. It's a bluegrass festival. They weren't here for stand-up. So they didn't fuck with it. That's fine. It's funny, but that's fine.

It's all it is. And I thought it's over, right? It was not. So it's like a, they say, yeah, we skipped them. It's quiet for about 10 seconds maybe. And then the guy goes, yeah, we figured after what we saw on the internet that, uh, we'd seen all we need to see of that guy. Now, to which I replied, heard that.

Yeah. Now, I'm not mad at you, but I need to know. Is that how he talks? Was he an old boy? He was from Ohio. So he's like Midwestern. No, he didn't have that accent. It's just, that's the one you put on whatever.

But he was like, and so it's like, you know. All those guys are some version of our dads or uncles being disappointed in. So that's why we do that. It's always my uncle. Every single fucking time. It started just like, yeah, we skipped it because we don't really fuck we'll stand up and that's whatever. But then it's like, you know, just to be clear here, we know. who he is.

And we would have gone had it been literally anyone else. He does not hit. We learned enough about him to know we hate him, but not enough to recognize him when he's three feet from our faces. Not even three feet. I'm right beside the motherfuckers. It was dark and he was old. Yeah.

But you still sound like that. Old people, as I have gone on record, do not hit. Right. No. By the way, I saw something, and this might be a good premise for a joke. I saw this in an article. This is an interesting theory. The reason most old people are conservative is because all the liberal ones.

die. Like the rich people tend to get more and more conservative as they age and that's also who can stay alive. Right. So obviously not all old people are conservative, but it skews really, really. It's like 80%. And my thought was always just society gets more and more liberal as it progresses and it leaves the liberals behind.

Well, yeah, or there's a cliche that I've heard that the guy that ran the business school that I went to at Tennessee Tech. He was the first person I heard say it. But it's like if you're not a little bit, he said, if you're not a liberal. If you're not a liberal at 20, then you don't have a heart. If you're not a conservative at 50, then you don't have a brain. Well, which I don't agree with that. Didn't that get ascribe to Winston Churchill?

It sounds right. So what about this, though? What about this theory is that there's kind of a bill, it's kind of based on a bill burbitt, is that some of these conservative old people in their day were liberal. They haven't changed. Yeah, that's what I was just saying. That's what I've always thought it was. Right, right, right.

But this new theory is intriguing. The idea that, who makes it into their 70s? Who makes it into their 80s? Obviously, some people have good genetics. Some people get lucky. But if we're talking huge numbers, not like individual anecdotes about, my memo was poor whole wife, Nate Bacon every day, and she made it to 99.

That's my grandma. Everyone from her demographic, how many of them survived versus people who got money. It is absolutely true that the richer you get, you tend to get more conservative. Right. Which, I mean, honestly makes sense from a logical standpoint. And so the argument in this article was, essentially, and they survive, and the poor ones don't. And that's why old people hate Trey Crowder.

Right. Yeah, well, another thing he said, that same guy, so then the subject change was talking about whatever, you know, he said that, you know, where y'all from? Oh, we're from Ohio, Central Ohio. And I said, just trying to keep the subject changed from how much I don't hit. I was like, the only thing that hits less than you is Central Ohio. So I said, I was like, is that near Portsmouth? because, you know, producer Bryce and I work for the Department of Energy,

and there's an off, there's a site in Portsmouth, Ohio, that they send you to every now and then, just to show you how much they hate you and how much the job sucks. And so I've been there, and it is, I was like, is that near Portsmouth, Ohio? And they're like, ah, it's, you know, a couple hours south of us or whatever. Why? And I was like, I had my old job. I sent me there a couple times. And then he was like, yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know what's going on in Portsmouth nowadays.

It was probably a bunch of welfare, I would imagine. Like, you know. And imagine just being out in the world saying shit. By the way, not the- He should tell you ride Colorado, though. You know what I mean? Mike, he's surrounded by other rich white people. Not because that him shitting on welfare recipients is funny.

It's not. But the audacity plus what had just happened before, I'm, hey, I'm so glad that it was dark so they couldn't see the smile ear-to-ear that I had. I was having to hold my stomach to not fucking cackle like a guy. damn hyena laughing because Trace sitting there with his fucking hoodie up just like, please recognize me right now.

God, God, I wish to God I would have been there. I don't know what I would have done, but something, but I was pretty high, so maybe nothing. I might have just laughed with.

That was a huge problem for me. I was high. I wasn't there. Exactly. Now we can circle back. All right. So you guys, what did happen?

We were also very high. We got too high. Here's exactly what happened. Sam Bush was playing. I thought he went on at eight, or it was actually 815, right? But we got done at 715. I thought Sam went on at 8.

It was 815, whatever, close enough. Everybody's been playing by the hour, hour and a half. They gave us 45, good on them. But, you know, hour, hour and a half, I thought Sam got done at 9.30. And y'all had left your shit in our green room backstage and all this stuff. It's like 922. And I told, I told Corey, I was like, dude, I've got a piss so bad, man.

I was like, I can't wait. And he was like, I got a P2. And I was like, well, he's, He's about done. He's going to be finished in a minute. I was like, what we could do is go back to our green room, take a piss down there. And by the time we get done, he'll be about finished. So when they come off, we can say, hey, to everybody, and then we'll head out of here.

So that was the plan. So we went back there to the green room, pissed, but weren't there three minutes before this girl, like a stage manager, assistant, somebody's working at the festival, comes back there and goes, hey, guys, I'm really sorry, but I got to kick you out. And like we had been told, our time was up. We had been told there was a window of time that we had a dressing room for because, you know, there's a shitload of other acts, whatever. We knew that. So it's not like we weren't super pissed or nothing, but she was like, you know, I got to kick you out. I'm sorry.

And she was very nice about it. Yeah. And we were like, okay, that's fine. You know, don't worry about it. So then we left and we're still like, we were also freezing cold and very, very, just violently high. And as I've said, I can be. one or the other. If I'm super cold and I'm not high,

I can focus on, I'm gonna stay warm. If I'm super high and I feel good, whatever. But if I'm high and fucking cold, I can't concentrate on either one of them enough and I gotta get the fuck out. So at this point it's like,

928, 929. And I was like, I was like, okay, well, he's about to be done here in a minute. And I also thought all of us, our whole group was planning on leaving after his set was over.

So I was like, he's about to be done. Let's just have back, hit the food boost, and then, you know, we'll meet up with everybody here in a minute. Boy, did I ever hit the food booths. Because we thought it was over or was about to be over, and we left, but it wasn't at all over.

He played for another half an hour after that, which we didn't even know, but we ended up missing the whole thing, but it was genuinely us just being stupid and fat, done, don't hit, and high and cold and don't hit. But it was a genuine mistake on our part. While you guys were trapped in a New York City one bedroom apartment. But he played two and a half hours, and we saw two hours of it. It was awesome.

He was awesome. Like, we saw the majority of it. Boy, that's a tale as old as time, isn't it? You want to make it two and a half hours, but you only got two hours in you. You're just feeling old. You're feeling run down. You're just like, I can't do it like I used to do it. Well, that's because you don't have blue chew.

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co-producer Scotty. Yeah, you're right. They did of like a medley. Like they did both Cripple Creeks. Ten minute jam version of it and we were rocking out and there was some blonde woman standing beside Bryce

what was her name? Destiny. And yeah, it was our destiny. That's what I meant for Bryce, yeah. And she was talking about how Dirk's didn't hit for her or something and Bryce said something to she's like, why does you know

Dirk's and he goes, oh, you don't know. And then she wouldn't leave his side. You know how some women be. You tell her ass, Bryce. Yeah, she tried shit on Asheville. Anyway. Ashville?

Fuck her. She was one of those people whose personality was like, I'm too cool for stuff, which is fine if you're 23, but she was like 35. Yeah. Yeah, I hate people like that. Yeah, I mean, I know what you're doing, Corey.

But anyway, she was too cool for everything. But it was funny to me. Bryce was cracking me up. Then they started playing the Cripper Creek medley, and it was rad. Like, that's probably the most. fun. I enjoyed that more than anything at Bonaroo. Yeah. Like, it's my favorite music thing I've seen in a year. I mean, the two hours of Sam Bush I saw was the best thing I've seen here this weekend.

He was crushing. I thought he came out to gate. That's the thing. That's what I want to express about how good Sam Bush is. Because every single band that we have seen has been amazing. There's not been a bad performance. And I'm talking top tier, amazing. But when Sam Bush hit the first lick and when he hit the first note and when he like it was immediately like holy shit this is about to be the fucking best one i've seen and it fucking was like immediately and that's not to disparage anyone who's been up because everyone was great but it was just next level here's the note from producer scotty i'll get to a minute it's a good note by the way thank you producer scotter um so it's sunday it's last day of the festival and the lineup tonight to close it out is in my opinion just a

murderer's row it's punch brothers casey musgraves brandy carlyle in that order and it's going to be fucking rad. And so we were talking to the guy that runs the festival yesterday, backstage, about tonight. He was like, you guys are going to be here tomorrow? We're like, yeah, he's like, great, man. We got a great line. You know, we're like, yeah, we know. We're looking forward to it.

He starts talking about Casey Musgraves. And Drew tells him, he's like, yeah, Trey fucking worships her. She's like, he idolizes her, whatever. And I was like, yeah, dude, she's amazing. And he starts talking about Casey. And he's like, yeah, I'll introduce you to her if you're around. Have you told Katie? Yeah.

Actually, maybe I should. say that part first. So all white people know, all white people know there's this like thing about, you know, whatever, you've got like a celebrity hall pass thing. Katie's is Robert Downey Jr.

Mine is Casey Musgraves. They've been that for a minute before it got to a point where like, I could feasibly meet Casey Musgraves, right, which like changes the, it doesn't, but it does. When there's that,

Kowai Lener quote, people that are like, I ain't no regular dude. But anyway, like, so with that context, earlier in the year, when we first booked this, me and Katie were trying to plan our annual two-week summertime Tennessee trip. And I was like, what we could do is going late June. And in the middle of that, we could leave the boys at your mom's house. And you could come to Colorado with me to this bluegrass festival. And she's like, what is it?

And I was like, it's this very famous bluegrass festival and tell you ride Colorado. and she was just like, no. Not at all. She was like, no, thank you. And it also was the other option was, we live the boys at your mom's house and you come to New York with me. And she'd never been to New York. She was like, I'd rather go to New York to Colorado.

I was like, okay, that's fine. So we did that. She goes to New York. And then on that same trip when we're in Tennessee, somehow this weekend gets brought up. And I was like, yeah, I'm going to Colorado. She's like, what's to do with that again? It's like, that's at Bluegrass Festival, Yadi, or whatever.

And then somehow it gets brought up that Casey Musgraves is one of the headliners of it. And Katie, this is so ridiculous. But as soon as Katie hears that, she's like, what? It's like, well, I'm going then. And I was like, no, you're not. And she's like, we may know I'm not. And I was like, I don't give your ticket to producer Bryce. We're going to bring him back from the dead.

She was like, he's dead. How's that it works? How's that way? He goes, we're going to resurrect him. It was like, and like, it was like half joking or whatever. But it's, you know, she always called. Like, she'll send me pictures of Casey Musgraves. Sometimes I like the red carpet.

And she'll just be like, your girlfriend looked like shit tonight. This tacky bitch here. Dude. It's absurd. She's not even in my top four. And Andy loves music like that. Yeah. And swears up and down she's overrated.

And I know that the reason why, and she can probably hear me right now, is that she's beautiful. Yeah. So I'm like, she's screaming at me. Andy's outside on the back porch and Gorries home the door close. All right. Let her come in. Speak your pace. She's back there screaming.

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I think there's a lot of better musicians. All right. Gone on the throne. So anyway, we're backstage. Boo. You're talking that guy. Talking that guy. She's about to hurt you, dude.

Please don't hurt me. Please hurt him. Hold on. You bit my nipple one time and I didn't do shit to you braving. Kick him. How is that not fat? Ow, fuck you. I'll stop on your glasses.

I stole him from my heart. That was the most fucking. anything I've ever heard. Andy's been, side note, Andy's been walking around backstage this festival, just putting things in her purse.

Like, all the, like, the free shit that's back there, like snacks and drinks, like a meme all does with sweet and love. She's shoving them in her purse,

just the most white trash shit. They got good shit back there. It is good shit. You can't get this just anywhere. Well, and like, you're supposed to take it, but not five of each.

Yeah. So anyway, we're talking the guy that runs it. I'm telling him how much I love, Casey, whatever. And he's like, yeah,

I'll introduce you to her. And then he goes, he was like, hey, you like this. You know the, uh, he's like, you know the one like outstanding thing in her writer that she has? He's like the one like demand or whatever. For those of you that do not hit a writer is this thing that you get to put on stuff that you want in your green room. Like it's the famous green M&Ms thing. Yada yada.

And he said, he was like, he was like, it ain't no kind of like brown M&M's type thing either. And I was like, I have no idea, dude. What is it? And he goes, a puppy. and I was like, what? Like a live puppy? And he was like, yeah, a puppy. And I was like, does it matter what breed?

He was like, no, she didn't specify what breed. We got a nice little golden retriever, though. She's going to love it. Yeah. She has to have a puppy in her green room before the show or whatever just to just to hang out with. Keep her spirits up or whatever. We now know she's not your soulmate, right?

When he said that last night. Yeah, so. Puppies are fucking rad. As a human being, you've shown a lot of growth by saying that. But as a podcast, Carricature, no, keep hating her. Yeah, you don't have it. She said, I hate all of you.

Well, here's. So that's the, that was the note from Scotty was to bring that up, which was a good idea. Because that is, that is. Here's another thing that didn't happen, but it almost did. And I was so looking for it. So we were getting the ride to backstage from the Mountain Lodge. And the woman who was giving us ride was like, hey, someone just called and they want to ride. And I'm going to try to wait on them.

Do you guys mind waiting for Brandy Carlisle? And you want to talk about somebody on somebody. Also hits like a motherfucker, by the way. Andy would not just abandon me for Brandy Carlisle. I mean, she would abandon her own claim sexuality. Brandy Carlisle, she stands for Brandon. Yes, she would abandon her family. If Brandy Carlisle told her to become Republican, she would probably do that.

So Andy's freaking, she had on a Brandy Carlisle hat while we're waiting on Brandy Carlisle. I had just farted, like in a passenger van, like a hot, no air condition. And I know loyal listeners, you've heard us talk about how insane his butt is, but I'm telling you, y'all don't understand. But also, little listeners should know I was in the van, so he was never going to get blamed for that goddamn fart anyway. So I was so happy, because I'm about to meet Brandy Carlisle. Andy's about to run away with her, you know,

which would, you know, I'd get some material out of that. And she gets to thank Cory Farted. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Unfortunately. She didn't show up. Well, yeah, I think it was a situation where she was like, I didn't know the rhyme was going to be this quick. I don't know, you know.

You're talking about how much Andy loves her? The first time I ever saw Brandiq, I never heard anything of hers, and I was just watching the, like, continuous Bonaroo live stream from, like, three Bonaroos ago on my Xbox. And she was just up next. And I was digging the fuck out of it. But one of the first things I thought was, this is Andy's shit right here. Oh, yeah. I was like, Andy, if she don't already know, she will love this chick.

Like, it was the first thing that went through my head. But, I mean, I love her, too. She's awesome. I do like her way. better than Casey musically. And we saw her at Bonneroo. I didn't see the whole thing because I knew I was going to see her here. And at the time, I think I was coming down off something and I needed to go get some food.

But it was rad. Tanya Tucker came out with her at Bonaroo. She brought Tanya, she's producing her record, apparently. And Dirk said he's going to play with her tonight. So that's going to be rad. He did say that, yeah. Well, Red podcast fans, we're close. We could probably got to do one more topic.

I want to say, I realize sometimes we just get on here and we're just like, hey, here's what we did yesterday. day. I hope it hits for you guys. I hope you're enjoying hearing these exploits because, you know, I ain't bragging, but I was quoting Kanye West, which I don't usually do on the gondola the other day. Yeah, my life's dope and I do dope shit. It's been a very dope. It's been a great weekend.

It's been one of my favorite weekends. And as I said, I said it on Instagram live when me and you were doing our little split screen foolishness yesterday. Oh, yeah, I was super fucked up. But I mean it. The altitude here is very, that's a real thing. Oh, yeah, for sure. When they tell you that, it happens quick, too.

I've been doing stand-up now for 15 years. I've only been marginally successful for the past, you know, three and a half or whatever. And in the past three and a half years, we've got to do, obviously got to do some stuff that I've never been able to do before. Otherwise, like, you know, playing theaters, playing these cool festivals, yada, yada, yada. But it got to the point where it's like, all right, in 15 years, I've done, you know, I'm not going to feel a different thing when I do a show. Like, as far as shows go, like I might, you know, get a TV show. There might, there could be different things, but like, just, you know, I'm not going to be different things. but like just as far as performing on stage,

I've done it all, and it's either going to be a good show or a bad show. I'll never feel different. That's the most different I've ever. I got walked off stage and I was so happy because I feel different than I've ever felt. I just got to do stand-up staring at the face of God, which is the Rocky Mountains, and hugged Sam Bush afterwards.

It's like, it's like cool. I don't know that something cooler could happen in stand-up. You know, not that, you know, like, sure, other cool things and entertainment could happen. But as far as just a set and then walking. come back to the green room there's no fucking way that could be cooler it's a problem man i did bonneroo which it's not the same there's no comedy tent it's like different but i did bonnery last weekend we got to do this this weekend like i other than a set on tv i don't want anything else

and i want this to continue absolutely i'd look now you know again like you know the next time it won't be as cool because you'll be like yeah of course i'm gonna do a set look at the mountains and hug sam bush that's true but for a different experience it was it was quite remarkable and I will cherish it forever. And also my mom, I texted dad, a picture of me and Sam Bush, and my mom, my mom texted me back on a separate thread. Hey, don't tell your dad. I'm telling you this, but he's crying right now because my dad's not that guy. But he's a huge, like, you know, my dad was in a bluegrass band for like 20 years and he stopped because they weren't, you know, they weren't making a lot of money.

So once he had the two kids, he's just a huge Newgrass Survival friend, Sam Bush fans. Like, I kind of got to live out one of his fucking dreams, which is play and tell you ride. but I came at it from a very different approach, but it was cool. Fuck yeah. Yeah, we can't top that, dude. The San Juan Mountains? San Juan Mountains? Well, they're rockier to motherfucker.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, this is something that I've heard various ways, and let's clarify this. I think there's different mountain ranges inside what is known as the Rockies, I think, but I could be wrong. I mean, that's that way with every mountain range, right? I think so. Appalachians are the same way. It's like there's like the Blue Ridge and the whatever, you know. Adirondacks. The smoky's, blue ridge.

They're all Appalachian. Scotty's over there fucking. Scottie's over there. Scotty's over there looking at me going like, my bad dude. But like, it's rare that you might be right. You're just more, that's the more specific. But both are correct. It's also possible, though, that some of those mountain ranges aren't a part of the Rockies.

Because there are East Coast mountain ranges that are not a part of that. Well, I'm certain that I was just wrong. because I'm often wrong. You're in tell you right, Colorado. You looked around a snowback mountains and said it's the Rockies. I'll say this. I'll say this. I'll say this.

I'll say this. I'll say this. Except one of my best friends. On the way in, there's this peak that is the peak that's on the Coors Light can. Yeah. And there's, you know, motto is tap the rocket. There's no way a corporation has liked. Adolf Coors would never.

Never. All these years? Okay. So we were. We were actually talking about that yesterday. Me and Scotty were at this diner a couple days ago when we were coming into Telluride and I got, they were like, all the beers they had and they're like, we have Coors Banquet Beer.

And you don't see that a lot. And I always want to get one. On tap? Yeah. No, no, no. They had it in a can. It was in the can. But still, you don't see it a lot and I always have to get one.

And so they've redone the can. And on the side of the can, I'm certainly, it's been there before, but it says, founded by Adolf Coors. Now, I'm very aware that you can have the name Adolf. Right. And not be Adolf Hitler. But, guys, I know. I'm aware of that.

I've learned that. But listen. I went to school. But hear me out. But hear me out. Listen. Listen, I've done some work. And I now know that.

I've done I read on this. Okay. But you can. Okay. But listen to me. If you hear the name Adolf. Yeah. You are, no matter, even if you, when I'm reading on the side of can, I know they're

not talking about Adolf Hitler. But the first thing I think of is Adolf Hitler. And I just don't think that's as a company, you would want people thinking about Hitler every time you drank their goddamn beer. Like, if you're a Kentucky basketball fan, there's Adolf Rupp. I mean, hell, that's the name of their arena, and that's one of the biggest places for college basketball in the world, and they just roll with that. He's the exception to that rule, because you're completely right about every time I've ever seen Adolf, except Adolf Rupp, and I think it's because I heard that name before I ever heard of Hitler. Really?

But in the same context, like, we hate this guy. What a piece of shit. Right. Go balls. But, yeah, I mean, you knew that, right. Adolf Ruff, legendary Kentucky basketball coach is their arena's name after him. Right. Okay, still, I'm still not wrong.

Like, when you see Adolf, don't you can't just change a dude. I know that, but they don't have to put it on their fucking can, is what I'm saying. Just from a marketing standpoint. I know I'm talking about basketball and you're talking about a can. But I'm saying the basketball team, though, if you have a legendary coach who's like, you're Bear Bryant. That's different. You're not going to just take his name off because it's also. But it's not different, though, because it kind of is.

This is the guy that founded. I know. Budweiser doesn't have their founder on their can. I'm saying it's just, it's just unnecessary. Like, don't change it on the Wikipedia. I'm saying just don't put the word Adolf on your can. I keep thinking of fucking Michael Bolton and office space. He's the one who sucks.

You know. Okay. Which he don't suck. He has. Hear me out. Counter theory. I mean, an alt-right.

Nauseism is making a comeback. Of course. I'm so saying. Quartz may be going for the, you know, banquet beer ain't doing too good. I just personally feel out. The official beer of the alt-Rat. The Adolf. Sit in your mom's basement and call all women hoars.

Bankwit beer. There you go. That old boy. and he was probably the biggest racist and hated everybody and just the worst person ever lived also except for the other Adolf. But like... Second worst, Adolf of all time is what we're saying?

Probably. But like... And that's the best you can hope for. But like, if he did dad, he's their founder or whatever. Like, I just, I personally feel like you shouldn't have to... I'm not saying... I don't... I don't think that you should...

You're not... I'm not saying it's dumb. I'm saying, no, yeah, I'm not saying erase your history, take it off the website. I'm saying you don't have to put it on it. It's the only can I've ever seen that had the founder of the company on the can. I'm not saying erase history.

I'm saying maybe say founded by Papal Coors. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I'm not saying erase your history. He had nothing to do with Hitler. I know that. I'm literally coming at it from a marketing standpoint. The first thing I should think of when I see Adolf is Hitler.

Clearly it's second cores back a lot, putting it on their can. Well, wait, all right, smart ass. Make a PR argument as to why that's a good idea. I don't know, but I assume that they've included. included him and part of their thing like pretty much since they've started and some companies are like traditionalists like that and just don't want to much like the Nazis.

I just think that's ridiculous. The traditionalist worker party? I don't think you should erase it from history. I'm literally saying from a marketing standpoint, I wouldn't put the word Adolf on anything. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying go back and pretend that this guy didn't exist and change his fucking name.

But you just said a minute ago, you've never felt that way about Kentucky basketball and it's literally the exact same argument. No, because it's called Rup Arena. I've forgotten that his name was Adolf. It's called Rupp Arena. It's not Adolf Rupp Arena. And I do think that's on purpose. Of course it's on purpose. And, and, and... I feel like anybody knows anything about them on... That's not my point. Knows that his name is Adolf Rup. I hate them. But, but like, it is Rupperina, but you know that's the guy's name. Right. But all he's saying... But you're not seeing the word Adolf on a thing. All he's saying is, when you go to change your can, because it's new, And you're like, let's change it up. And someone goes, let's put the founder's name on there.

Someone should have said. Not Adolf. Maybe we shouldn't. And his question is, why did they land on, ah, fuck it. Because, like, why do it, you know? Because fuck that dude. I know that. I know that.

I agree with you. Morally, you're correct. I'm saying from a PR standpoint, I wouldn't put the word Adolf on anything, even if it wasn't Adolf Hitler. Because as soon as you see Adolf, you think of Hitler, that's not what I want you to think when you're having my product. I think I misunderstood you. Did you just say I wouldn't put the word Adolf on anything, even if it was Adolf Hitler.

No, no, no. If I did, I didn't mean to say it. That would be hilarious. That's hilarious. We got this new Hitler documentary, but let's call it Rainbow. If I did say that, that's not what I meant. I'm saying I wouldn't put the word, I know what I meant to say was I wouldn't put the word Adolf on anything, even if it was not about Hitler. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I know that it's not fucking Adolf Hitler. We all know that. But just reading the word Adolf, I immediately go, I know another guy named Adolf. and now I'm thinking about the goddamn concentration camps drinking my fucking beer. That's a goddamn downer. Yeah, it was, really. Actually, that was a huge downer. I don't know this, but I'm just assuming that they've had that on there in some variation for forever.

I've never said it on there. I've never noticed it either. And again, it clearly isn't really hurting on that. I know. Well, it is new, by the way, so they might take it off. Who knows, it's a very new can. Are you saying they just now for the first. It's a brand new beer.

It's a brand new beer. Have put Adolf's name on it. No, here's what I'm saying. No, here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is I drink banquet beer whenever I can. And this particular time I was drinking it and I noticed the word Adolf on it.

And up until this point, I've never noticed the word Adolf on it. It wasn't there. Okay. That's part of their new can thing. Now, it might be like a new campaign. It's the anniversary thing. It might be that. It's anniversary thing and you want to celebrate your founder and your founder's name is Adolf.

Okay. What are you supposed to do? Just not, just change his name? No, just don't put his fucking name on there. But I'm saying if you're, if you are specifically celebrating your founding as a company or whatever. Yeah. And you want to honor your founder. And his name was Adolf.

Yeah, I think he just got to not do that probably. What you really want is. By the way, I'm not being a PC here. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to do it. Here's what you're saying. You don't want to honor your family. Come on. These are, like the dude, the people who are related to him still.

have some kind of role there, but it's owned by MBEV. Cors is owned by MBEv. It's one of the biggest, true. But what they want... But companies do that type of shit all the time. But what they want is to sell beer. And what Corey is saying is, he's asking, is this really the best way to sell beer? I'm just coming at it from a PR standpoint, not a moral standpoint.

I don't think, like, I can't believe they've triggered me by putting Adolf. Of course you should be able to do that. I can't believe it's not Hitler. I can't, right, yeah, banquet bearer. I would just imagine, how could they've not had the conversation? They did. And they said, ah, fuck them. And the name is eight.

Adolf, they had to at least had the conversation. And I'm saying if they were like, you know what, fuck them. His name was Adolf. That's what his name was. I know that. Put it on there. I know that. That's fine with me. I hear you.

It's fine. Morally, it's fine with me. I'm not a PR guy. I'm saying I can't believe they did it. I don't give a fuck. I'm just saying when I saw Adolf made me think of Hitler. I think about Hitler all the time. Nothing new.

You know what I'm saying? That was fine. Speaking of concentration camps, let's go to this festival. All right. What did you see where AOC called the camps at the border and everyone, like, all these Republicans fake freaked out? Like, that's not a concentration camp. I mean, it don't hit. I saw a tweet that was like, the mere fact that we're arguing over what is and is not a concentration camp is enough evidence that we're in a really shitty place.

A lot of arguments were like, I've been to Auschwitz. That was a death camp. Right. They left concentration camps and went to the death camp. I can't even look at these pictures of... The kids? It breaks my fucking heart, dude. They got them sleeping in plastic bags and shit, man.

On purpose. Did you see the woman... Don't give them soap or nothing? Did you see the DOJ lawyer arguing in court to judges? Straight face. There's a mandate. Contractually, they have to be safe. Right.

It's safety and... What was the other word? I don't know, but... Sanitary. Safety and sanitary. So, soap and water, whatever is not necessary. Well, and sleep. The judge kept being like, so you're saying having a place to say...

sleep where you can actually sleep is not required to be safe and she was like well that's not what i'm saying judge he's like to their credit the judges some of whom were appointed by bush were like no that's what you're saying yeah like you're saying to me that sleeping on concrete under tinfoil is safe and she was just like i mean it ain't dangerous it's like yes the fuck it absolutely it is fired up that's their whole that's their playbook though with everything it's like it's just like like health care or whatever it's like you know we shouldn't have to pay for this other person's health care, whatever. And then you're like, so you're saying that they should just be allowed to die.

No, no, no. That ain't what I'm saying. The move is the same. It's the same type of thing. Because what you're talking about with health care is someone who has convinced themselves that it's actually worse for people if we give them free stuff. They will stay in it. That's how the cycle of poverty work.

I completely disagree with that. You're living proof that that's not how it goes. But that is the argument that they've convinced themselves of. This is different shit. This is not taxes. This is not, this isn't even like, gay people kind of make me gross, so I'm going to hide behind my religion. This is that Stephen, what's that dude's name?

Not banning the other, the really ugly dude who's like 25, but he looks like he's. Oh, Stephen Miller. This is a Stephen Miller policy that is explicitly put in place to carry out a white supremacist. Dude, this is insane. This is them tricking Donald Trump into doing some crazy shit. And I'm not saying Donald Trump's a good dude in any way. I'm saying this is literally them tricking him. This seems even above.

doing Nazi shit and telling him, oh, they're all pussy, sir. Don't worry about it. This is crazy. Little kids are fucking dying. No, that's fucking terrible. Did y'all see that? It was like a political cartoon,

but not at all funny. Just a heartbreaking one where like, it's a campaign poster of Trump says, Make America Great again. It's his face. And in front of it, it's this little Hispanic toddler being pulled away from her mother.

And so she's like reaching out for her mom with one hand and the shadow of her hand cast a Hitler mustache onto Trump's face. Not bad. It's very effective. Yeah. But yeah, makes me want to drink in tours.

You know what I'm saying? But what do we do? I don't know. God damn it. She got a vote, buddy. I don't know what else to say. I don't know what you do right now other than just keep talking about it. I saw another article.

But yeah, it's fucking bullshit. This journalist got caught up by ice and he was being a smart ass to him because he was tired and he didn't want to be fucked with. and they thought he was doing a story on them. He'd been to Mexico and was coming back. And he hadn't. His story had nothing to do with any of that.

But anyway, he got detained for hours. They went through all his shit. They told him, if you don't give us your password, we're keeping your stuff. All this is apparently legal. This is an American citizen. He was born in Austin. That's where he was going back to.

And he pointed out, and I'd never read much about this. I knew how fucked up ice was. But a lot of ice is like people who literally failed the test to become police officers. Jesus Christ. Yes. Good Lord. So you think about how dumb they are. I thought the cop test was like the bottom of the test,

other than like maybe TSA. Well, it is. And if you fail, you get to be ice. I'm saying I just would have assumed ice was above that. Also, think about it this way, whatever it was years ago. And by the way, I'm sorry, not just ICE, the border agents too, which is kind of like TSA, but a specific type of TSA. Are they not part of the same?

They're not. And they're civil. See, I thought they were. But they have a new, this is very weird. that is a civil organization. They are not military or police. Which one? The border agents.

The ones who work at the airport, not ICE, but I think they're called BCP. I'm fucking up my acronyms right now. But they've changed. They've become military. They're starting to use military terms. Like, you know, in this day and age of terrorism, they've never been military. They've always been a civil organization. And that's a very different thing constitutionally and as far as the government goes.

And to think about it this way. Whoever wanted to be that years ago, okay sure who wants to be that now like if you literal white supremac like you're going for a job and you read all this stuff and it's like yeah we've got kids in cages and we're literally taking water that we find out in the desert to keep people alive and we're dumping it out

we're putting Americans in jail who leave water for people who are crossing the desert and you go man that's where I want to work yeah dude and that's one of those were unlike with police officers where I'm like, no, man, fuck all of them. Like, if you work there right now and you're not that person and you don't quit, you're that person. Yeah, I mean, unless you're... I mean, what I'm saying is I still think...

You've been in it for a while and it hasn't been as crazy as it is now, and like, you got a family and a pension and all that shit or whatever. And also maybe... It's easier said than done to just like quit a job. And also, maybe you're trying to be one of the good ones on the inside. That too. I think there's at least a few of those guys. That maybe they're trying to help.

I don't. I hear you. And like, well, dude, okay. a little bit more radical than y'all about some of this. Like, I know good prosecutors just as an example, they burn out. I know I've met good police officers. They burn out. Sure.

You do quit. You have to. You start losing your humanity if you don't. I mean, I know, I know some, I do know some good cops who've been in the game for a very long time. It's different in a small town. It's very different. Well, that's true. I mean, this is, he's a Catusa County cop one I'm thinking of in particular.

And you're right, it is different. But like, yeah, I mean, I don't know. The ice thing does feel different because we're getting all. this. I know, but again, like Tray said, you've been working there for a very long time, and you are one of the good ones. It's like when... It's only a 15-year-old institution, though, like, I think, I think that's right. It's very young. Like, why'd you start there, dude? I mean, you probably got put there. You know what I'm saying? No, that ain't how that works. It's not work for the government, and then they assign you. You have to apply to be at ice. I mean, I can see

it where you apply to different ones because the government has a good pension. It's a government job. And you get that. And you get that. You were in the military. You're not qualified for many other things. It seems like a good thing. All right. Well, let me say it this way. If you're fucking retarded, then I don't hold you morally accountable. There you go. I still generally agree with you. I'm saying I would imagine there's at least a few of them. Who are very, very stupid.

I agree. Well, because it's the same way I feel about cops for the most part. Yeah, there's a lot of cops. I think a shitload of cops are like, are assholes. And that's why they're cops, but there are some of them. But I'm glad you brought that up. It's a lot easier to convince yourself, though, that being a police officer has such a great moral, like, you've got to be pretty woke to really, I think.

If you grew up white in a small town, for example, in America, to realize just how corrupt the police system's gotten. And it wasn't until the new age of digital media where we're filming these cops, planting guns on black people and all that, that people are really starting to realize that shit. I think with ICE and Border Patrol right now in this administration, I'm sorry. It's just so fucking obvious.

I mean, like, you got Joe Rogan, who's like an all right darling being like, this is fucking disgusting. Yeah, Rogan's pretty left-lanning, actually. He just gets this. Sure. He gets painted as this. He is all right. darling you're right but i don't think he really deserves that but anyway

you should remind him i think i might have told him well he's an m mma guy so that's just going to happen as we talked about yesterday there's a guy used to live beside in oakridge he was a little bit younger maybe lived with his parents his whole life it sort of flitted around from job to job he was kind of like a little bit of a meathead you know like a sweet guy but you know didn't seem all that bright like like an australian kind of sort of yeah but like a small town version of it and he's like and then he told me i'd talk to him every He lived right beside me. I saw him all the time.

And he said he was going in the police academy. And I was like, yeah, this checks out. And then he went through it. I knew he got the job, whatever. And then I saw him like two weeks after he got the job. And I asked him, I was like, how's the cop thing going, man? He was like, oh, dude, didn't work out. And I was like, why not?

And he said, well, when my first night's on the job, I got in this situation where I had to, like, pull my weapon on somebody. And I thought that, like, I might potentially have to shoot a person. and I realized in the moment that I just don't have that inside of me to do that, no matter what the circumstances are. God, I wish you to stay on the fucking force. So I know, that's what I'm saying. So he's like, so I went in the next day and told him that I just, I couldn't do it. Because, like, I just don't have that in me or whatever.

And I was floored by that. Because y'all, like, y'all don't know this. He was a sweet guy. I do know him. Yeah, you know plenty of those. I know. Yeah. They're my best friends.

I was just not expecting that at all. And he told me that. And I was like, God damn, dude. Respect, man. But you're right, Drew. those are the type of people that weren't even as cops. And to be fair, I've met them. My time as a public defender.

And by the way, you both loved and hated to run into him as a defense lawyer. You loved it because it was like, wow, this person is honest and they're a good person and this is what we want in our community. And then you're also like, my dude's probably guilty because this isn't a person who would lie at all. And they've done everything by the book and they're smart. I'm saying that I don't believe the equivalent of that still exist inside the ICE or those Border Patrol agent organizations. I hear what you're saying. Just some dude grew up in Austin. government job blah blah blah yeah i mean okay you got three kids i hear you dude but like if you got

three kids how you're not seeing their faces every fucking day when you give them literal that's fair that's a hundred percent fair i just like cori said earlier i think there are at least a couple of guys who like even though they're in that situation are like telling themselves that they can make things a little better at least by being and they're like if i leave it'll be nothing but assholes left. If I'm here, then I can try to make it a little bit better. Well, I hope they start smuggling out videos and pictures of the shit because you think about what we've been allowed to see, son. Oh, I don't know. It's brutal. Dude, don't get me wrong. I generally agree with you. I just don't think in almost any situation, it's like 100% across the

can't be. Well, I mean, Trump's cabinet maybe at this point. Well, I guess now that we've, let's go back to this completely isolated, insulated, rich mecca in the Rocky Mountains. We looked it up, it is the Rocky Mountains. The capital of white privilege. Yeah, let's go listen to some bands for free and get some free booze, guys. Hits. Hits. White Privilege, Colorado, population 3,000.

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