wellRED podcast - #154 - If a Movie Hits Then Let It Hit

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

In this episode, Drew and his wife Andi discuss a new project and talk about the process of working together as a married couple, and CHO and Trae catch up over the phone and talk about dreams, chicken wings, Oscar Movies, and of course the tragic death of Kobe Bryant vincerowatches.com promo code RED for 15% off your next bad ass beautiful watchkeeps.com/red for your first month FREE!

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Trey Crowder. Trey called me earlier, and I recorded our phone call. He knew about it. I didn't commit a felony. But we recorded our phone call, we discussed, among other things, we discussed cinema. We discussed the Oscars, some of the movies from this year. We discussed, oh, Lord, what are we fucking talk about?

Well, of course, we talked about, the sad news this week, the sad news this week, the loss of Kobe Bryant. We talked about the impeachment trial. We talked about all sorts of shit. We just basically talked about how we're not even out of January and 2020 is already not hitting. We also talked about dreams and food and me being a baby. So there's a whole bunch of good shit in there. Yeah, enjoy the podcast.

Subscribe, download. Tell all your friends and give us a five-star review if you think we deserve it. And without further ado, here we go. On with the podcast, skew-you. They're the liberal rednecks. They like cornbread, but sex. They care way too much, but don't give a fun. They're the liberal rednecks that makes some people upset,

but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. I'm here with honky chunk Andy, aka Andy with an eye, a.k. Andy Maria, aka Andy Morrow. Hillbilly Porter. Yeah, I told Andy that she needs to make her Instagram name Hillbilly Porter. If you don't know who Billy Porter is, look it up. But I feel like...

Like a drag queen needs that name? Appalachian drag queen. That's a great drag queen name. Hillbilly Porter? Yeah. Well, what's going on? You're sick? I'm sick. Yeah, we've been sick.

The cold that never ends. Yeah, we don't have that Wuhan. flu. I don't know. Wuhan. Well, I think that's where it started. It was Wuhan China. I probably said that wrong.

It's made up a word, I feel like. Leah. Yeah. They made up a word. It's a city, I think, or a region. I don't know. I'm kind of, like, delirious because I've been sleeping, because as soon as I lay down to sleep, I start coughing, like, crazy.

Yeah. I've been having crazy dreams, like fever dreams. The cause of the sickness. What are your dreams? Well, I've had having a lot of like alien type dreams Because we've been binging The expanse Now on Amazon Prime

It's really good I love that show But I had The other night I had a dream About seeing a bunch of aliens at a party And they Oh yeah, we need to turn this into the opening of a movie Go ahead

So in the dream I'm sitting on a rooftop top with a bunch of people and we're looking into the building next. The abyss. I'm sorry. We're looking into the building beside us and there's like it's like all windows and we're seeing like there's party light splashing. It's like a rave. Yeah and all these people are dancing and then we're watching them and they start speeding up and then they're going like super fast like somebody fast forward. Like unnaturally. Yeah and then all their heads explode and we're all like what the fuck and then there's like a few people still sitting in the room his

heads didn't explode and they all turned to look at us and they have like blue eyes and four blue eyes four blue eyes and we were like aliens run and so like we run back down to the house where we're sitting on the roof and we're like yelling at everybody run there's aliens and like a bunch people don't listen and I run out and then I became like another person I was like what kind of music was it like rave music like industrial we always associate that with aliens Because technology and lights and blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to hear space country. Space country.

That's Sturgel, right? Yeah, well, no. He's stinted about DMT and reptile aliens made a lie, but that was the only reference I know of. You mean country music that's kind of industrial? No, it was just about space. Like, singing about the girl with four blue eyes breaking your heart. Oh. You know, like when we finally make contact, that's what.

what I'm excited about. Space rap? Yeah. Space rap's going to rule. I mean, we already had AT aliens, though, now that I think about it. That's true. We should write some, we should do like a space billy duo. Yeah, well, we should involve DJ in that. Yeah, we should.

Space billies. Lean a little bit towards me. Space billies would hit. Yeah, it would. Well, I didn't mean to derail it, but I also know that the rest of that is you just. That's pretty much. Yeah, the rest of it kind of didn't make sense, honestly, but that's how dreams are.

Well, at the end, I felt like there was an alien. I was, like, pretending to be asleep in a bed. And I was, because there was an alien there, I could feel like walking around. And I was, like, in, like, a lucid dream state, and I felt it in front of me. And you open your eyes, and I was standing there with my dick out. I kind of expected you to be there because I was in, like, this lucid state, and I felt like somebody was in front of me. It wasn't that moment. Oh. It was a different moment. Andy moved to the couch because she was coughing so much. It was waking us both up. And I vaguely remember you moving. This was two nights ago. And I woke her up. I was standing over you, staring at you because I thought you were awake because you'd just coughed. If it had been that moment, I would have screamed.

And you opened your eyes and I realized I was butt naked and I was like, you know, your eye was dick level. I was dick eye level. Dead eye dick. I kind of wish it had been that moment when I made myself wake up because I felt like there was an. alien in front of me dead eye dick is my favorite space country singer dead eye dick dead eye dick and the space ramblers the space pirate um I want to plug something real quick follow me and Andy on Instagram mm-hmm or Twitter I'm Drew Moore Comedy on Instagram I'm honky-talk Andy and I and Twitter Andy with an I on Twitter Andy with an I. E-Y-E-Y-E.

You really need to just blend those. She's honky-talk Andy, and you spell Andy with an eye on Instagram. So type out honky-talk Andy. And then her actual name on Twitter. Twitter is Andy. W-A-I-T-H-A-N-E-Y-E. Andy with an eye. That's a little confusing.

Clever, though. I want to be feel-building on both. Yeah, that rule. And I own it on Instagram, I think. I shouldn't have said that out loud. Somebody's going to get it. But I can't switch on Twitter because some person in Korea has it, and he hasn't tweeted anything since, like, 2015.

Don't they got to get rid of people who don't do that? They were going to do that, and then a lot of people freaked out because they're deceased friends. So Twitter backed up. They are going to do that, but they said we're going to figure out a way for people to authenticate. As a memorial. Well, Facebook does that now, right? Like, memorial and memorial pages? But that's different because it's your name and your picture.

You can have the same name on Facebook. The thing on Twitter is, like, they're running out of cool names. I mean, you know, the kids are coming up with new ones, I'm sure. Yeah. But, like, how many times have you thought of a sweet name? I thought of a sweet name the other day, and it's not taken. And someone out there, somebody do this, tie-dye biscuits. Tie-dye biscuits?

Yeah, or tie-dye biscuit. It's not as good as I thought it was because it was. You can give a shit about it. It's because that shirt you bought it. Yeah. Listen, guys. That was actually my... God damn it.

The Nashville Biscuit House, I'm putting you on blast. Here's what happened. We were in Nashville for our shows over Christmas. I drove over the Nashville Biscuit House. It's like seven miles from the club. There's millions of restaurants in between there. It's not bad. It's not bad at all.

I like the food there. I'm not saying... I went there because I wanted to. But it's not great. I went out of the way because it's like old and it's grimy. You know, I took DJ there. Yeah, yeah. we ate eggs, you know.

And they sold their t-shirts. And they had Nashville Biscuit House T-shirts, and you see the case where all of them are, and there were tie-dye ones. And I was like, man, Tidey Biscuit House, you can't be more than me. Like, I'm about to buy one these right now. I almost bought a long-sleeve one, too.

I almost bought two. I buy it, take it back. Me and DJ go home, we probably smoke, and lay down for a nap, wake up before the show, and then I put it on for the show that night. And it says Nashville Biscuit House on it, and then it's just two muffins. It's got, like, pan muffin muffins.

My theory is they went to make these t-shirts, and there was clip art options on the website they used. Yeah, there were no biscuits. And instead of paying two more dollars per shirt or whatever. It's kind of ridiculous. I gladly would have paid two more dollars. And it's also, you pointed out, not ironic because that place was not trying to be ironic. I don't think so because it did say, what was the slogan? Not your typical biscuit?

And because of that, some people are like, oh, do they make their biscuits in a muffin pit? No, they don't. Maybe they used to. I'm furious about my muffin biscuit tie-died t-shirt. That's bullshit. I'm coming back around on it, though. You were plugging us and then you go off on a biscuit tangent. Well, that's not the first time that's been mistaken.

Andy and I, I told you to follow us there, because we have what I'm calling a series, a web series, which is a stretch. A sketch series? A web sketch series, yeah. That we're going to do. Everyone's doing these, what they call forward-facing characters, and Andy and I decided to expand that to couples. So we put one out, and the idea of the one we put out, we're just making fun of ourselves. It's a couple that moved to the city.

The series is called couples, you know. Yeah. And this first one is a couple that's moved to the city, and they're back home visiting. and it's just us making fun of ourselves when we go back home. Basically, yeah. Like heightened versions of ourselves. Yeah, you'll have to check it out

to understand what we mean, but we're just making fun of, you know, city slakers who get too big for their britches and they come back home and they try to tell everybody to eat organic and they judge everyone. Yeah. And that's us.

We're making fun of ourselves. But our next one is going to be that couple who never left your hometown. So we're going to go the other way with it. Yeah, we've got lots of couples plans. Yeah, if you've got ideas, let us know. Share those videos. Get on board with it, man.

It's going to be good. The first one was great. I was very pleased with how it turned out. We had about eight minutes worth of footage when I did the first cut. I cut it down to four minutes. I hated it. I thought, this is stupid. There's maybe two good jokes in here.

And then Andy cut it to two and a half, and she got rid of all the stuff that wasn't funny, and a few things it were. And it's great. All that experience of editing Raila videos, I got some experience. You should trust me. You got to get back.

I do trust you. That's why I ask you to do it. Yeah. There's something else we were going to talk about. If you only heard of Rayla, go look up, Rila. Rila for real. We should have Rayla and David couples. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we kind of do. I have a cameo. Oh, we were going to talk about, because we've been watching The Expans on Amazon, do you think we're going to be living in space during our lifetime? Maybe like a few people Because they've been talking about that whole Mars thing for a long time But not like a lot, not like civilizations Right, I guess technically a few people live on the International Space Station

One of them's name is Andrew Morgan And I am Which is where? It's orbiting there Yeah I about every... Isn't that just an astronaut? Yeah, I guess an astronaut living on a space station is barely different than an astronaut

living in a space shuttle yeah well no except you go to it and then people can leave you there which is kind of like a planet is he there by himself no there's a I think there's one more American and a cosmonaut or maybe just I don't look the only reason I know anything about it is because I keep getting tagged into that shit what is a cosmonaut that's what russians call an astronaut that's a cool name mm-hmm I may be fucking that up but I'm pretty sure that's what that is a dope name I want to be a cosmonaut what do they call people who do drugs

that, like psychedelic drugs, they've done a word for that. Like Terrence McKenna, they call him that something not. Psycho not? Psycho not. That's cool. That makes sense. Yeah. I don't think we'll be living during our lifetime.

But I do think that if we don't blow each other up or murder the earth, in 150, 250 years, I could see us totally living on Mars. Well, probably have to. Well, sure. We're going to have to out of necessity. Would you be into that?

Um, I really like the Earth. I do. I love... Hot take here, folks. I do. I love... Andy Maria Morrow. Pro Earth.

I love oceans and mountains and rivers and forests. I love... But what about the excitement and adventure and the Ness? Okay, I would love to see space. Yeah. But it would be scary as fuck. But I would love to see it. I would like to see Earth.

from space. And I go, oh, there's pictures. Nah, I want to see that shit. That's wild. Yeah. It would be amazing. It's like that guy who took the picture from Earth. It's like the first picture of Earth.

From where? From space. He's like the first person. He was an astronaut, obviously. I forget his name. But he is like the first person who took a picture of space. And he was like, I listened to a podcast with him. And he's like so unemotional and very practical.

He's an older man now. And the guy... They were asking him. They were like, so what did you think? And he was like, I mean, yeah, it was... It was pretty cool. And I was like, what? And it's like this famous picture, and it's amazing and stunning.

It's the first time people have seen Earth from that perspective. Like, everybody got to see it. On that note, every movie, TV show, book, The expanse is one of them. When they start talking about new explorations, they always have a poet or a religious leader. And as a device in a plot, I get it. Because you have all these practical scientific people, and then the pastor or the novelist has this idea that's outside of the box, and then that pushes your plot along, or they were right the whole time.

And it's a little cheesy at this point, but, you know, it's a pretty damn good device. It's a nice way to set up, you know, that right brain, left brain thinking. But it's so unbelievable. It's so not true to life. I don't buy it ever because, I mean, they did it in expanse. We don't do that. Like that do. We don't listen to those people anyway.

Well, we don't. It's so expensive. If something's new. I mean, even now. We've been going to space now since the 60s, if you, you know, believe the government. And we still only send people like that guy up there who take that picture and they're like, well it's cool I don't know because his he's an engineer probably or um was a former pilot it's one of the other yeah they're there for practical reasons they're there to do experiments

and those people are awesome yeah they're super valuable so valuable in fact we send them to space yeah the notion that we would ever send a pastor to space you know just because like what would people who like god think about it we're artists we don't fucking do that we're artists we'd be just like crying the whole time I'd just be crying the whole time I'd be like no use we did it one time It's a teacher. Yeah, she died. Yeah. Maybe that's why.

Maybe they're like, well, see? Maybe there was one asshole at NASA. It's like whatever Kevin Costner's character was in that Disney movie. What Disney movie? The numbers one? The black women who did the math? Oh, hidden figures. Hidden figures, yeah.

He was just like, see? I've been telling y'all. It's just bullshit. I'm not supposed to send teachers up there. And everybody was like, I guess he was right. Damn. By the way, the Challenger's anniversary was, It just happened?

Yeah, it was like three days ago, I think. It got completely overshadowed because what happened with Kobe Bryant. Yeah. Holy shit. What? That's like sort of a similar event. Like a very famous explosion of flight. I mean...

Did it happen the same day? I think it was the day after, but I could be wrong. I'm not... You know, I'm not good with, like, time. You know, like, I didn't really care about Kobe Bryant, like, at all. But this whole thing has been like very, the last couple days, like, I found myself when I'm sleeping. It's been like in my head a lot, like that wreck. And it's interesting because, I mean, tragedies happen all the time.

You know, like people die all the time. I don't know him. I don't particularly care about him or for him. But like something about it has like really stuck with me. And like, it's the thing I'm thinking about. go to sleep and I think maybe it has something to do with the fact that there were kids on it like they never got to live their life and like they had potential and whatever but also I think it like brought up some like old like some fears of like losing somebody like I keep thinking

about his wife losing like her husband and her daughter and she just had a baby like you know stuff like that it's just crazy that a tragedy like that can spur those those things In the day and age of social media, when you see a lot of people posting about loss, I think that affects anyone who's not a sociopath. Right. So in other words, you're not a basketball fan, you didn't care for Kobe Bryant, but you recognize that the world is hurting right now. Yeah. And then that puts you in that headspace, maybe. And then also the kids thing.

I don't, yeah, and I don't think I think about, like, everybody else being sad about him, because that's, I'm like, they don't know him either. They are sad. They are sad. But I guess I think more about, like, his family. Uh-huh. And, like, empathizing with them. Right.

But if you just see on the news that there was a wreck on the 210 and three people died. Yeah, I guess I wouldn't think about it as much. That's true. That's a weird thing about, I guess, celebrity. Well, we've really ended on a downer. Yeah, we did. Sorry. I don't think I want to go.

to space. I do want to see Earth from space. And if there was a way where we were living in a time where it was pretty common, kind of like, like the way my dad feels about flying to Hawaii, he did it. He's going to take my mom to Ireland, and those are the only times he's ever going to get on the plane

if he can help it. He's happy he did it, but he's not crazy about it. Like if we get to where that's how common it is, I'll be my dad about it. But until then, I'm an earthling. Like, that ain't...

You're an earther. And, like... That's the phrase they use on the expanse. I take it to stuff, too, like, technology. People that start thinking about the future and, like, eventually we're going to have these screams and our eyeballs and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I'm not doing that. And people are like, well, you're just going to be the old man and refuses to adapt.

I'm like, yeah. Yeah, I don't have to. That's the only good... Especially when you're old. That's the only good thing about being old. You're like, fuck that. You don't have to give a shit anymore. Yeah.

Especially if you gave a shit during your life. And what I mean by that is, like, If you, like, fought for justice or try to be a good person or whatever it is, and you feel in your heart that you live the good life, I think you can check out at, like, 65. Yeah. 65. That's pretty young by today's standards, though.

I'm talking about checking out. And in 75, you can kill yourself. I don't always like to get mad of you. Well, all right, fair. And if you're unhealthy. I will be mad at you, though. Well, you're not allowed to be. That's my rule.

And if you're unhealthy, you can do it early. earlier. Well. How do you feel about a right to die? I think it should be allowed. I think it should be legal in every state. Yeah. I think there should be some like, I think it should be like, you know, how we want more gun laws.

I think you should have to go through some steps to get it. But I think it- Prove you're worthy to die? What would the steps be? Yeah, I actually don't know. I haven't thought that far. I mean, you'd have to find a way to keep it from like young people, from kids. I think you're going to find you can.

wouldn't want minors to be able to have access to it. Is the cut off 18, though? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I think it should be illegal, though. I think you should have that right. You shouldn't have to, like, put a burden on your family if you, like, want, if you want to die and you want to unburdened people, and you don't want to, you know,

I think you should be allowed to. And it shouldn't be, like, a whole fucking ordeal to do it. Because like I've read these stories about... You get mad when I say that I'm going to start doing heroin at 75. Because 75 to me still seems young. So you should have the right to die and kill yourself if you're 80s? No, you. I'm talking about you. Oh, just me.

I just want you to live until I live. Live until you live? Until I'm dead, I mean. Oh, you want to die first. Yeah. Yeah, you are a very... You're like the sweetest, selfish person. I don't know how to phrase that properly.

You know a lot of empathy. You're very kind. and you're very sweet and giving, but you're also the most selfish person who also has those qualities that I've ever been around in my life. Well, thank you. You're welcome.

You're like dying first. Yeah, I know. You're not going to let me. I'll kill you. Got a spite. Bum-Bunch. Give my joke. I did.

I did, Andy. And it made me want to die right now. All right, well, I think that's enough time. I think that's enough of us. that's how it all ends yeah that's fair what do you think would be the worst way to die oh god

oh Mick has opinions Mick has an opinion on that um god fire I think so yeah probably or just really slowly

like you know like if you're like really sick for a long time like that would be if you were drowning in the ocean and then someone came and they threw you some woods so you were just floating out there so you weren't going to drown anymore but then you started thirsting to death so now you're going to die that way and this is going to give you some water but like 30 days past so now you're going to starve to death and then before you starve to death a shark comes by and you bite your leg off so now you're getting

shark attack to death and you're bleeding to death and then a helicopter comes and it rescues you and it scoops you up and now you're getting the escape in the helicopter but then it explodes and you catch on fire and you're like going to burn up to death and you fall out of the helicopter because you're over the ocean, you go down the ocean, and that puts the fire out, and then somebody comes and rescue you survive all that, and you live to be really old, and none of your hopes and dreams come true, and you die alone. That'd be the worst way to die.

Just sitting there and nobody to tell your cool shark story, too? You are correct. It's an old joke I used to do. You guys can have that one for free. All right, let's get out of here. Thanks for listening. Thank y'all for listening to The Will Red Show. I'm sure Corey will do that one.

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But this one was really weird because, like, well, first of all, I just, I remember it pretty clearly. But me and Katie in the dream, Katie wasn't in the dream, so, you know, that hits. But, like, she existed. She existed in the dream, and it was like, you know how dreams are so weird because, like, you know how you, like, you just know. everything about everything that's in the dream, even though the dream itself does not cover it. You know what I mean?

You'll be like, Corey, you were there except you, except you were like a black man from Chicago. But it was you though. Yeah, that happened. I had a very similar thing happen in my dream last month. Well, I didn't, it wasn't that specifically, but I'm just saying Katie wasn't

in it, but yet I knew all of this information. Me and Katie lived in this like apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, and we had this neighbors, like a single mom or something, who also wasn't in the dream, but she had asked me to babysit

while she was working or something. So I'm babysitting this, like, six-year-old baby, right? And it's, but none of those other adults in the dream is just me and this baby, and I'm arriving at our apartment complex in downtown L.A., and then every time I went into the apartment complex,

it was like, it wasn't right. Like I walk through the front door and I walk in and it's actually like it's not the apartment. It's the lobby of a bank. So I walk around and I go, I went through the wrong door and I walk outside that door and walk around the block and go in another door. And it's like now it's an apartment complex. I get in the elevator and I come out of the elevator and I'm in a shopping mall or something. And it was like this like trippy like David Lynch like labyrinth, like an urban labyrinth. And I couldn't, I could not find my way to, you know, the, to my home through this, like, urban healthscape, sort of.

And all the while, I have this baby that is not my baby with me. And, of course, and so, and it was really, like, stressful because I just wanted more than anything else to figure out how to get, how to get through this. And I just couldn't do it no matter what I did. And I would try the same doors multiple times. and multiple doors. And I'm not one to normally, like, analyze my dreams, but I was thinking about it, and I actually think that I figured this one out,

and I think that it's that the labrancing urban apartment complex that's impenetrable, that's like, that's show business, right? Yeah, I was going to say this, the bank is meaning something to me here, but go ahead. That's show business, and every door that I think is the right door turns out to be the wrong door. or whatever. And all the while, I've got this baby, and the baby, obviously, is you. It's your relationship. It's funny because, like, I was so, like, I was worried about telling you this because I thought

you would know where I was going with the baby part. Like, I thought, I genuinely thought as soon as I said it, as soon as I said I have this baby with me, you were going to be like, baby, me. I'm not crazy. It's funny that you say that because I literally, I mean, this is, I guess, out of character for me, but as soon as you said that, I was like, oh, the baby is

his relationship with his wife and his kids that he's having to nurture. I wouldn't do like an actual place with it. You know, if we were going to try to genuinely analyze that during that, I mean, yeah, that's probably what it actually was, but this whole thing was just one of those long,

like Norm McDonald's style things. just in the way trying to hit at the very end of it. And I fucked it up. No, no, no. You didn't. No, you, that was perfect. Because like I said, I was worried you were going to snip it out. No.

The fact that you didn't made it hit harder. No, I'm stupid. But what's funny, though, is... I'm a stupid baby. When I told, I woke up this morning and Katie was on the way of the gym or something. And I was like, I just had the weirdest dream. And I wasn't already thinking of it as like a joke in the moment, but I, like, described this one.

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in the future you're going to be like are you having a recurring journey right yeah yeah I think for you to talk about it like that it probably has to recur for like weeks or you know something okay well well then we're not there yet because this has only been twice and it's been within like

I'd say almost two weeks at this point probably a week and a half one of these times Amber was there to hear it and the second time was this morning but both times, I don't really remember exactly what happened in the dream. I just know that both times I woke up and out loud scream, I'm getting chicken wings.

And I don't think I have to interpret much. Right now. Pretty straight down the fair way. And both times I went and got chicken wings. Like immediately, like got up and was like, yep, that's right. That's what I got to do today. But, you know, so. I couldn't devise a more perfect or courage during.

for you to have wake up in a cold sweat. I'm getting chicken wings. There was a cold sweat too, which I wake up in a cold sweat. I would say 75% of the night.

But this morning, it was really bad. It was so bad this morning. And when I say morning, I'm in like 4.30 in the morning that I actually had to like take a shower, even though I had just taken a shower before I went to bed. and but this particular and for the record it's cold as fuck in my house

because Amber is the one in charge of paying all the bills and so therefore she controls the thermostat which is stupid I should just go in there and fuck with it but like I don't she likes to a certain temperature because she don't want the bill to get run up and so it's cold as fucks like I know it weren't that like I've just assumed

it's because what I you know me like what I'll do is I will drink hardcore for a while, and then I'll just not drink at all. And I just assume, like, yeah, man, you've got the trimmins. Yeah, right. You're fucking really sweating it out, which is fine, you know, as long as you can handle it. But this morning, apparently Amber 2 woke up in a insane cold sweat, and that had never really happened to her.

And it happened to both of us, even though it's super cold in the house. So I think we've got a chicken spirit running through here. well that hits and don't hit i know yeah i mean if you're going to have a spirit yeah i uh i don't hardly ever wake up in a cold sweat but i do very often wake up like in a just just blind panic like yeah yeah like like wake up like you know and i'm like gas finger whatever and then i'll half the time i don't even know why sometimes i do know why sometimes it's because i've some horrific nightmare or whatever that would make anybody freak out, you know. And so I wake up and I'm like, oh, thank God.

But sometimes I'll wake up like that and I don't remember any of what I was dreaming or whatever at all. And I'm just now in my bed like gasping for airs. Yeah. But in a, not in a like, you know, in an apnea type way in a like hyperventilating type way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'm afraid and I don't know why.

No, no, that's happened to me too. It's like, it's so fucking raven because like, it'll be like, oh, I'll be telling I'll be having like a bad day or a bad week and I'll just be telling myself, Corey, listen, you know how this goes? All you got to do is get some like real good sleep. Just get some real good sleep. And tomorrow you'll wake up and you'll feel better. And then like 4 o'clock in the morning, I wake up in a blind rage.

panicking, can't breathe, and I'm sweating. And I'm like, God damn, I can't even do that fucking part, right? Like, I can't even knock myself unconscious and be away from the world without the world tapping me on my shoulder and bringing me back to the fucking hellscape that I know it to be. Yeah, the world be like that. The world do be like that. Speaking of the world being like that, pour one out for... My man is Kobe.

I know, too. I was, I, like, and I'm not just saying this, I was always, mostly because I was, and I've very much come around to, like, I love LeBron now, but back when, like, Kobe versus LeBron was a big thing, I was, I was hardcore team Kobe during that whole thing. Like, I would always, I'd get into so many drunken hollering matches with my buddies back in, like, Cookville or Sliner or whatever that was pro pro Kobe Bryant and uh I was talking I was telling Drew about that and I know that Drew was very much Drew respects Kobe Bryant and all that but Drew was very much team of Braun at that time and I also know that Drew and I believe

you're in the same boat here has only recently come around on Lil Wayne as a rapper and used to be not at all a fan of his. And, and, uh, that is accurate. Lil Wayne also, he has always it for me. And during that time, that was like Carter 3 era, like Lil Wayne was probably my single favorite rapper. So Lil Wayne has a song from that era just called Kobe Bryant. It's just a little Wayne song about how hard Kobe Bryant is.

And so like, back in that time, I would like, there were so many times we'd be having some house party or something. in Cookville and everybody be drunk and fired up and I would just I would turn on that little wine song and just get riding my buddy Charles you know Charles I didn't know Charles Charles he was big team LeBron guys be up in his face

just rapping this little whine song about Kobe Bryant and just drunk and red as fuck you know and I was telling Drew about it and I was like dude sincerely in 2008 can you imagine a person that you would have hated more than me like you you had the chin strap right yes it's like a

a fucking drunk redneck bro wrapping Will Wayne about Kobe Bryant with a chin strap and probably like a backwards ball cap. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. The fucking polo or something. Like, oh, my God. Well, I don't at all regret the Kobe part of it. I mean, honestly, I really don't regret any of it, but it is funny to look back on now.

Well, I'm going to comment a little bit on everything you just said. number one, I am now, like, as the argument, like, now that LeBron's career has, I mean, I know that his career is not over, but now that it has since played out the way that it has played out, I'm absolutely like, oh, yeah, no, LeBron, you know, it's him and M.J. One and two. But what used to really fucking piss me off is when LeBron first, like, literally first came on the scene, and everybody was like, oh, M.J. or LeBron? MJ or LeBron, I'm like, motherfucker, he ain't even better than Kobe yet.

You better shut the fuck up. That was always my exact position because you got to get in time now. He hadn't won anything yet. Right. Went to Miami yet. And I used to always be like, that is fucking asinine that you would put him over Kobe already. That's what I'm saying. And yes, MJ and of course, MJ over Kobe and you're a fucking idiot if you don't think so.

But like to be like LeBron just automatically got to jump. before any of that shit was always bullshit to me. And secondly, as far as Little Wayne goes, as far as Little Wayne goes, Lil Wayne did hit for me. And then I think a lot of what happened with me and Lil Wayne is a lot of what happened with a lot of people in LeBron. LeBron wasn't comparing himself to Michael Jordan.

Other people were. And so it was very polarizing. And so, like, I knew a bunch of motherfuckers who, like, because, you know, I'm Eminem until you. till I die, but not that I can't enjoy other people, but they would just be like, man, fucking Lil Wayne, he's so much better than fucking slim and plain. And I was just like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And like an idiot, instead of holding those people accountable for being stupid, I held it against

Lil Wayne. And I was like, oh, yeah, this shit is fucking overrated. I don't like half of this shit. You know what, Lil Wayne, maybe you should write some of this down because it don't hit as hard. And so I, you know what I'm saying? They're like, he just fucking straight makes his shit up. that's why he's better.

I'm like, no, that's why he's worse. I don't like improv. Fuck that shit. So, but like, yeah, then the, then the Carter 5 came out. And I was like, wait a minute, that ain't fucking Wayne's fault. And it also slapped really, really hard. Mona Lisa is one of my favorite rap songs in the past 20 years. And to bring this back together, he talks about Kobe Bryant in that song.

Yeah, so, and I also, I've been, you know, like a lot of us, I've been thinking about Kobe since then. And I was thinking about, like, that's a very rare thing what happened because, like, it's not like rock stars or whatever, you know, because athletes, you know, generally they tend to take really good care of themselves. Sure, sure. And so it's like a, like, megastar iconic athlete. It has to be an accident, yeah. Going before their time like that is much more rare. And one on the same level as Kobe.

Like, I mean, I can't. I was thinking about it. I'm probably leaving some about it. Okay, first of all, disclaimer, yes. In the state of Tennessee, Steve McNair was, you know, earth shattering.

Yeah, absolutely. But I'm not, I can be objective enough to know. No, that they're saying. McNair, what, right. Yeah, it ain't the same. But it was, you know, it was hard for me.

Oh, dude. I mean, I was tweeting, I was, or not tweeting, but I was texting you fucking nay, what, four or five nights ago,

I was up. crying, drinking whiskey, watching fucking Steve McNair documentary. Like, the wound is still fresh, but, like, that's very much a us thing. Right. Well, and this is, too, but it's more of us, because this is also not on the same level,

but tell me if you think that I'm out of bounds here. I think the closest example in recent history that I can think of. No, because I'm specifically limiting it to athletes. Oh, okay. For this purpose. is uh is fucking earnhardt yeah man honestly it the only the only way it's a little bit different is that like you know he was in a sport where you drove 200 miles an hour and there was walls so

and that's what he that's what he died doing it's not like cobi collapsed on the court or right which that would still that would still be insane that'd be fucking oh it'd be it'd be completely insane but just as far as like you know iconic figure you know dying young or whatnot in the world of uh sports in general and again like math you know how old was in the whole in the whole south though man fucking like i mean you know like there's not been many more monumental no no tragedy he's in the death of del earnhardt uh i don't know but i mean not much older than coby was because there's no way to one.

Yeah, they might have been around the same age. I was, I was about to say, like, when you think about Earnhardt, it's like, oh, yeah, he was 58. But, like, no, dude, it wouldn't surprise me if he was fucking 39. No, he was, he was 50. He was 49. He was 49. He was 8 years older than Kobe. Yeah.

Okay, well, hell, that's fine. He had a good life on the truck. Yeah. But, no, that's fucking insane. and like Kobe, this is weird to think about Kobe was only four years older than McNair. I know.

God damn, man. Like, no, but I can't, like, the only reason I said Robin Williams is because I thought you were about to say, I can't, I can't remember, like a celebrity's death that is going to have this type of impact. And I didn't realize you were saying, like,

just sports, but like, this is fucking big. Yeah, right. I mean, but I just, it's like I was saying, I feel like in sports in particular, it's more rare. Because of people who become famous, you know, you've got sports stars and you have like entertainers and maybe have politicians and shit like that. And of all those groups, I feel like it's probably the most rare for sports stars, except maybe politicians, but, you know, they'd be getting shot and stuff. Right.

Yeah, I don't know. No, it's insane. It was one of those things where, like, you know, sometimes you hear a celebrity has died and you're like, well, like, Michael Jackson. Yeah. Massives. Don't get bigger than that. But, like, I didn't have disbelief about it when I first heard it. No, no.

You know what I mean? No, I was like, man, I was wondering when this shit was going to happen. Yeah, exactly. But, like, you know, Kobe, like, my first reaction was literally no. Like, that can't be actually true. Yeah. It got shared. It got shared in a group that I'm in on Twitter, like a thread.

And somebody just shot a screen. It was a screenshot of TMZ, and it said Kobe Bryant did in helicopter crash. So knowing that that shit gets passed around, I immediately went to Google and typed in Kobe Bryant. And none of that shit was up. Like, it hadn't been up yet. Like, I don't know how the person had this screen grab. I guess it, like, went up. TMZ, they broke it.

They were the very first. Right. But I guess, like, they put it up real quick. and then like maybe took it down for a second to be like, oh shit, that we get all the facts? Like, again, when I went to check, it wasn't up on nothing. And so I was like, oh, this is some fake bullshit. Like, this didn't really happen. And then, like, five to six minutes later, it popped up.

And I was like, dude, no. I was like, no, this is fucking, nah, man. Like, fucking what? Then I saw helicopter crash and I was like, well, that'd be about the only fucking way. I mean, that part sounds very accurate. But, like, fucking what? Like, I don't know, man. It was extra, too, because.

Like, number one, LeBron had literally just passed his record deep night, like, less than 24 hours before that. So, like, Kobe, not that Kobe's last tweet was, like, what was Kobe's very last post was about? It was congratulating to him. Yeah, so keep it moving forward, brother, you know, whatever. So, like, not that Kobe's not always in the news, he certainly is always in the news. But, like, between LeBron just passing him and then, like, in the past week and a half, the most famous meme that has been going around is him and his daughter that died with him. it was that video, that little clip of, like, them on the court,

and he's explaining something to her, and people were, like, making gifts to that. And, like, so, like, for the past week and a half, it seems like he's been just in the news more than he has been recently. Right. So when I saw that, I was like, no, no, no, no, this is some fucking bullshit. And, uh, and it don't hit. No, it don't hit at all.

Um, and, yeah, it's one of those that's, like, will be, like, you know, it will, loom large for like a while. Oh yeah. In the world of basketball especially, like it's going to, I mean, dude, they fucking, they like announced it somberly on the floor of Congress before the impeachment hearing started. Yeah.

You know. And, yeah, it's just, it's wild. Dude, Mark Cuban retired his number for the Mavericks. Like, you can't even be number 24 in Dallas. Yeah. That's wild. I mean, that's how fucking big it is. but don't hit.

Yeah. A lot of stuff happening right now. Yeah, rest in peace, Mamba. I got a pair of Paul George Mamba additions that I don't even want to wear anymore, so I don't want to get no goddamn dirt on them. Right. What were you about to, you were about to say there's a lot of stuff down with it right now? Oh, well, just with the fucking, the impeachment and shit like that, like,

just everything. It's like there's literally not one good thing that I can turn on TV. And I'm not like, like, this sounds such like a fucking old man right now. But like, whenever the impeachment and shit's going on normally, I'm like, well, I'll fucking turn on sports center. At least I'll get a little fucking release there. Right. And now it's like, it's like you can't turn on nothing without seeing Kobe.

And like, I get that. Like, dude, fucking we should all, we should all aspire to have the type of life that when we go, it ruins people's channel changing for a week. You know what I mean? For sure. That's how you should want to be like, you should want people to be like, God damn it. All you see is that motherfucker die here and on this channel.

I don't know, man. It doesn't hit. It sucks to be alive in 2020. This has been the one. It's been fucking bad. Yeah, we're having a bad run, man. We're having a real bad run. Dude, I know that like, it's like everybody's whole life and all the time it's been,

you know, it's like a running joke. Oh, this is a fucking worst year ever. But like, the first time I remember it being a thing was like, 2016 was not only when Trump was, you know, got elected, but also that was that year that like it seems like every rock star you ever loved in your life just happen to die. Like, you know, the reality of,

the reality of the situation is just like if you take when rock music got popular and then you take 2016 and subtracted, it's like, yeah, they're all turning the age where everybody dies. They're about to be dying in droves. Yeah, so like exponentially, it's going to get fucking worse. So like that started happening and then this motherfucker got elected.

But then like 2020 jumps off. And then it's like, no, Kobe weren't that. So, like, 2020 is already fucking way worse. And we didn't even out of January. Don't hit. Have you on a personal level? Have you ever thought about the fact that, like, no, when we get older and everything, like, especially for me, but it's definitely true for you, too.

Like, far and away, hands down, it ain't even close. 2016 has been in my professional life, the best and most monumental year of my Yeah. Oh, yeah. And no matter what I end up doing in my career, 2016 will always be the year that it all started. Yeah. Everything changed for me. Yeah.

So it's just kind of funny having like, like knowing in the future, if it ever coming up. That's going to be looked at it's the worst year ever. Right. Yeah. For most people, it's like, man, 2016 is when everything went to shit. And then I'm going to be sitting there like, well, not everything. Yeah, yeah. But yeah.

There's two sides to everything, man. I mean, you know, there was people who looked at prohibition very differently. You know, like when they put prohibition, there was a bunch of drunks. Like this is the fucking worst thing ever. And then Lucky Luciano was like, I don't know, it was a pretty good fucking time for me. You watching Boardwalk Empire, huh? Yes, I am. But it does hit.

But also before that, I was watching Making the Mob, which is what. made me want to watch Boardwalk Empire. And that was a lucky Luciano was featured heavily in that. I'm also, I'm what, boardwalk Empire is my whisper show with myself. Because me and the wife have one going right now, but like we can't count on each other. You know what I mean?

You like to watch it whenever we want. So we also both have a whisper show. But both of mine are mob related up. Me and her show is Peaky Blinders. And my whisper show is Boardwalk Empires. And as you know, since we've been on breaks and touring, I literally watched Supran.

I was front to back in fucking a week and a half. So I'm just on a mob run. This is part of my, when I get, when I get into something, I'm like, I'm fucking, I'm doing all of it. I was going to say that if you didn't. Like, you're the most, like, binging or streaky-ass motherfucker I've ever known. Like, it goes across every aspect of your life. Yeah, you're like, you're currently on a mob kick. And so it's just all mafia all the time.

Did it start with the Irishman? well here's the deal i've always fucking love mob shit like that you know i've always liked that like uh goodfell is one of my favorite movies of all time but yes when the irishman came out i watched it and it got i was like oh god damn it and then i was like man dude it's tight like we went on break

and i've never what i haven't seen all the sopranos like i hadn't done it like i've seen some of it but like that show came out at a time when a if you missed an episode you just fucking missed an episode right and b and b i was in fifth or sixth grade when it came out. So, like, I wasn't hardcore about nothing, except for fucking, like, playing sports with my friends. So, like, over the years, it's just been one of those that I'm like, yeah, I know I should watch it, but I'm also supposed to watch the water and I'm supposed to watch this. And I just don't have fucking time because

breaking bads on and blah, blah, blah. And I was finally like, after the Irishman, I was like, nope, it's fucking time. And I started it. And boy, once I started it, that was fucking it. And yeah, man, like, yeah, as you pointed out, I'll be that way. Like, if it's the mob, I'm like, no, I'm here's something to do. I'm going to watch every fucking mob thing. I've never seen him my life and learn everything. I watch every documentary about the mob, learn every fucking thing about the mob until I feel like I could write something

about the mob and then fuck the mob forever or at least for a while. Right. I was about to say, oh, this is not really related other than watching things, but it reminded me it was something I wanted to say on the podcast

as a PSA to all, you know, other liberals out there. And I'm, you know, I'm sure a lot of them won't even give a shit or whatever, but I just saw a lot of this on Reddit pertaining to this one particular movie. So I've been watching, you know, I get screeners because I'm in the Writers Guild or whatever. And so I just, every year around this time, I get a bunch of screeners at the house. So I just start watching all these movies that are like, they're all the like Oscar Bate type movies, you know.

Not all of them are great, but a lot of them are fucking fantastic. And I watched one the other night, and I had read, I always really. Rita, I'll get on my Reddit or just Google shit and say like what, you know, the, you know, what the discussion was about a particular movie after I watch it because I want no spoilers or nothing. But I just like to see like how people responded to whatever I've been watching, that type of thing. And I did that with that movie Richard Jewel, which is a Clint Eastwood movie. And I wasn't necessarily surprised by this, but I saw a whole lot of people and all people. on the left because of the nature of what they were saying, either writing that movie off entirely or

even having seen it and then saying some version of that it was just straight up Clint Eastwood like propaganda. Because, you know, Clint Eastwood is conservative and everybody knows that. He's famously conservative ever since that invisible chair with the invisible president. Yeah, and every movie he's made,

and every movie he's made since then has fucking still hit. Right. Well, that's the thing. He makes a good movie and he's, you know, he's had some misses or whatever else here and there, but the man is almost 90 years old. And I just feel like people are injecting a lot of that or overblowing that with this movie in particular. So, like, and no, this is spoilers because it's all a true story that, you know. Can I guess, can I guess real quick? And I promise you I've not read any of this shit or know what the fuck you're talking about.

If I had to guess some of the comments or at least in some vein of, oh, so this. This is what we need right now, a movie about a fucking white hero who was a victim. We need more straight white male victimhood. It's specifically the type of victimhood is what people are focusing on. So like if you remember, and again, this is just the true stories. 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, there was a bombing in Centennial Park around the opening of the games. And the security guard, this fat, dumpy, kind of the. loser of a security guard named Richard

Jewel, the one who discovered the bomb and saved a lot of people's lives by discovering it, but a few people still did die. And the FBI had a, they were doing their investigation and they had this theory that they landed on that he

fit the profile of the lone bomber, like the guy that, like this had happened before in Lesser's what they didn't have this high profile of that story, but like were some dude with like, some fire like set a fire so he could heroically put it out and save everyone. Right.

Some other guy had like put a bomb on a train so he could find the bomb and diffuse it and save everybody's lives. Yeah, Bud famously did that with the Iraq War. Right. It just didn't work. Well, so the FBI was looking into Richard Jewel for that, but they were just looking into it. But then the media got, there was a leak in the FBI, and the media got hold. older the fact they were looking for it. And the media just took that story and fucking ran

with it and just like, and dude, I don't know about you, but I like, I remember for, I remember the, my perception of it being there was a bombing. This is the guy found it and pretty quickly after it's like, oh, turns out he was the bomber.

Yeah. And I'm like, and that's what everybody thought. Like, he very much got painted publicly as like, he did this shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was nine years old, but like that also happened an hour and a half away from my house. So, like, it was being talked about a lot. And, yeah, that was very much it.

Like, it was pretty much just like, this happened. Oh, shit. What a hero. Wait, he did it. Okay, what's OJ on now? Yeah, right. Exactly. It kind of, because they ended up, you know, he didn't do it.

They ended up dropping the investigation, all this stuff. But that was stretched out over so many months. Like you said, like, the media moved on and everything. And by the time, it became, like, con. concrete that he actually didn't do it. Like the damage was very much done. Yeah. Right.

And like, so what everybody was saying is it's propaganda about you can't trust either the media or the FBI. Right. Because Donald Trump is being in best, you know, he's been impeached right now. So it's sending the message. It's all fake news and the FBI is a bunch of fuckheads or whatever. Have we? Go ahead. Have we, like, has Clinties, I know Clint East was a conservative.

Like, there's no denying that. But, like, if Clint East would actually come out in recent years, talking about Donald Trump specifically? I don't, I don't know. If he has, I didn't hear about it, but, I mean, he might have. I don't know. I'm not sure. He's not a hardcore out, like, front and center Trump or as far as I'm aware.

Yeah. Yeah. And, like, you, I feel like that he would be, because he's so fucking extreme of a dude. Right. Like, it's hard for me to be, like, yes, like, I know a lot of people, like, well, nowadays if you're conservative this is what the conservative republican party is so like blah blah blah but like no like it really is kind of it would be hard for me to believe it because clin eastwood does not suffer fools like at all that's like his thing and like i can see him being a mitt romney guy

i can see him being a mccane guy but like no dude i could not see him in any way trying to help don't trump or in you know like that motherfucker at all my other thing with it is it's like and i'm they kind of twisted this own narrative themselves, like, purposefully recently. But, like, it's weird to me that we've gotten up to a point apparently where, like, the FBI is considered leftist. Like, they're not, they're fucking, they fucking killed Martin Luther King Jr., bro. Like, they're not, like, I almost texted y'all while I was watching it. And I almost said, like, I'm kind of surprised that Clint Eastwood made this movie because of how much it's about the FBI not hitting because I wasn't thinking about,

I wouldn't think about from that perspective because, you know, they're the police, they're law and order. Right. They're all this, like, Republican shit from my perspective. Oh, yeah. It's just how fucked up the whole landscape has gotten recently. But I'm saying, like, putting all that aside, hey, all of that shit, that's what happened to this guy. Right. That literally is what happened.

And it's a good story. And it was fucking bullshit. And it's like, whatever, like, message that ends up sending doesn't change the fact that, like, Like, that's what happened. And it's like, and it's a story that needs to be told. Because, like, this dude,

because he, you know, he was fat dumbed. He needs to be vindicated. Right. Yeah, exactly. Like,

he deserves to be, have his, like, his name, like, very publicly cleared in this way because he really was a fucking, a hero.

And it's like, yeah, right. But the, but the, but just as a movie, though, it's a really good movie

with some insanely good performances in it, dude. Fucking Camdo. He's great. He's, he's, he's, he's,

he's an antagonist in it and he's like, you hate him watching this movie, but that means he did a really good job. And it was weird for me because I'm not used to hating John Hamm because I love him so much. But I could not stand him in this fucking movie because he did well, but dude, my man

Sam Rockwell, dog. Hell yeah. He can't not hit. He can't not, he, man, oh my God. I can't even express how hard he hits in this movie. Like, he just fucking crushes. And then, and Kathy Bates, to play Richard Jewel's mama.

Just shattered me. Shattered me into Paces Cho. Guarantee. Couldn't even handle I guarantee it. And then Paul Walter Hauser, the guy that played Richard Jewel. Oh, yeah. You know, the role he was born to play, if you know who that dude is or what he looks

like. But, I mean, he fucking pulled it off. Dude, Sam Rockwell is a guy who, like, I really, okay, so, like, whenever people bring up, like, who's your favorite actor or whatever, I think everyone's mind starts shifting to, it's natural for your brain to start shifting to, like, leading men a lot. Because that's just who's put in front of a statue's on the fucking red carpet. Now, me and you,

me and you were pretty good. Like, we're fucking I-M-D-B hounds. We fucking know some B-List, some C-List motherfuckers that hit and shit. But, like, I just need it said right now that if he ain't my fucking favorite, Sam Rockwell is on my fucking Mount Rushmore. Yeah. Dude, man, literally every fucking thing he does, me and Amber are rewatching for me, but for the first time she's watching, like, the MCU.

And I found out that I really don't care for Iron Man 2 that much in hindsight. But, dude, Sam Rockwell doesn't do nothing but fucking murdering it. I've never seen him not crush. I agree completely. And I watched the very next night. I watched another screener I have that was also phenomenal, that movie Jojo Rabbit. Oh, it's great. So you watched it?

Yeah, you know, I told you I didn't get to see and don't tell what the fuck happens. Because me and dad timed a thing wrong, I missed the last 20 minutes of the fucking movie. Okay, well, let me say, without spoiling anything in particular, Sam Rockwell, particularly in the last act of that movie.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Fucking brings it. But that movie, you know, I was thinking, you'll appreciate this. Everybody doesn't know Jojo Rabbit is crazy. Paco Watiti, the guy that made for Ragnarok, and he also made what we do in the shadows,

and this movie called Hunt for the Wilder People, which is awesome. He tends to make some, like, you know, very funny and very offbeat type movies, and this is latest movie about a 10-year-old Nazi boy's imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler, and he finds a... Played by him. Played by Taco Watiti, and then the little boy finds a Jew hiding in his attic, and that's what the movie's about. And it's absolutely insane the whole way through, but then, like, best possible way. And it also, like,

it goes hard on the absurdity of bigotry and stuff. Yeah, I mean, that's half of the humor that I was like, man, how the fuck are they going to make some of this funny? And, like, that was, that leaning in on, like, very... They didn't pull any, they didn't put any fucking punches.

Like, they, like, they make a lot of really, really offensively anti-Semitic jokes in that movie, but the context and the point of it... Is that this person is stupid and wrong. Right. And why would you say that? it's such a perfect example of like what we've always argued for as far as like you know people you know i saw somebody on reddit say in the discussion for that movie they were like you could never make this movie today you know like for yeah because it just came out because that's like yeah right people say shit like that and it's like yeah i'm always good no you that movie's a perfect example of that you don't have to as long as like it's good you're the meth you do it well and like the point of it is in the right place then you're you're you're you do it well and like the point of it is in the right place then you're you can do any of that shit, you know.

But again, that makes it sound easy, and it ain't easy. But everybody acts like Django and Shane, everybody actually like Django and Shane came out like 35, fucking 40 years ago, you know. Right. And I always look at that movie like, yeah, like, okay, here's the deal. Clearly Quentin Tarantino really likes people to say that word in his movies. I'll, I'll admit that. But, like, you know, as we've talked about before,

Leonardo DiCaprio's character would fucking say that. And it would be stupid for you to have him not say that. Like, that's insane. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So it's like, yeah, it's another example of that whole, like, the PC culture shit getting overblown a lot of times. So this may be, this may be on me. But like, a kind of an example of that is like, today I was watching an episode of Boardwalk Empire.

And it's the one where they find out that Commodore has been being poisoned slowly by arsenic. And they find out that it's his maid who is a. black woman and they're calling her out at the table and Commodore's cussing her out and everybody sitting there like, I can't believe you did this. And they didn't say the N word one time. And I like, was like, well, this is fucking bullshit. Like, there's no fucking like, dude, they would, they would say that to them when they said hello. Like, but you tell me that she poisoned this man with arsenic and he is just like, how dare you best it? Like, no. It's weird if you don't have the villain. that's all I'm saying.

Yeah, no, you're right. Fuck, what was it? I watched some movie that was set, or a TV show or something that was set in like the Old West and I remember, fuck, I can't remember what it, I don't even know. I can't remember well enough to like even address it, but

it was an example of what you were just saying. Because it was like, I feel like you can either, if you want to make a period piece that you don't want it, it's not a about racism, it's about something else. You know what I mean?

Like, you can either, like, basically pretend it's like an alternate universe or something, which I actually, actually, like, I'm pretty much fine with. Like, I saw, I saw that movie Mary Queen of Scots, which takes place in, like, you know, medieval England or whatever. And there's a couple of the members of the Royal Court who are played by black actors. And it's just like, I know that what they were doing is just like,

yeah, no, there weren't any black people around them, but fuck it. We like this actor. and we catch him in this role. But it's treated throughout the whole time as though, you know, it's not weird or whatever. Like, they, it was like a very purposeful choice to just, like, which frankly is the only way to have a lot of representation in a period piece. Right. And that's why I'm pretty much okay with that approach.

Like, if you're just going in with it being like, that's not what we're doing with this movie. We're doing a different thing. But, you know, we want to have, like you said, representation. and we just want to, you know, who gives the puff what the eighth earl of sandwich really looks like or whatever. It doesn't matter. We're going to have this dude for him and fuck it. And I think you can either do that sort of thing. But what I don't like is when they try to, they try to address it, but then don't do it.

Just kind of punt on it. Yeah. They half ass it. Yeah. Sort of like what you were just saying. And to me, it's like you've got to do one or the other. Like, if you're going to get into that and get into it, but fucking, you know, show it. way it really was. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, and sometimes you just, if you don't want to do that, you just fucking can't. It's like a lot of people. And I mean, you know, this is fair, but they were like talking about the lack of women and the Irishman. And I was like, yeah, I hear you. Maybe they could have had some more women in there, but I'm not really sure you would have liked what was happening to them if they had to been in it. You know what I mean? Like they're, it's not like they couldn't have put a strong female character in that because that type of person in that world does not fucking exist. Exactly. That was like a finessexious. a true story. These are all real people.

And it's like that, you know, that's who, that's, that's, that's just wasn't how that worked. And so. Not even just for the fucking mob people. Like, just in the, that era in America. Like, that's just, I'm sorry, man, but like, a strong female, the, the strongest female that a female could be then was fucking Pesci's wife smoking in the car even when he told her not to. Like, that's the fucking, that's the fucking tops. As much as you're going to get. And honestly God, I can't believe he didn't slap her for that. I'm not even trying to make a joke. I didn't want to be like, seriously, I can't believe he didn't pull the car over

and beat the shit out of her. Right. So, well, you know, yeah, I might need to wrap it up, I guess, about that time. This is a hitting conversation, though. I don't have anything to leave people on other than just, you know, rest in peace for the Mamba. Yeah. And if Moby's hit, if Moby's hit, just let him hit, you know.

Yeah, that's a great. If movies hit, just let them hit. Don't make them not hit when they do hit. Just let them hit. Yeah, there's so much stuff that don't hit. Don't let movies be one of them things. That's right. All right, well, uh, skee.

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