wellRED podcast - #168 - A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

Episode Date: May 6, 2020

This week the boys compare french phrases and redneck phrases and talk about The Great British Bakeoff among other things! wellredcomedy.comUse Promo Code Well RED to Get Free Shipping on GREAT Cereal From Our Friends At Magic Spoon

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Hey everybody. It's your boy the show. Corey Ryan Forster here. Unfortunately, once again, nothing to promote because everything's closed. But I hope you guys are staying safe. And when you do have to go out, I hope you're wearing your mask and I hope you're wearing your gloves. And I hope you're sneezing into your armpit instead of directly out into other people's faces. But other than that, like I said, just hope you're cool. You can go to well-readcom, w-l-l-R-E-D, comedy.com. Check out our book, our CD, our album, the merch, and just, you know, sign up for our newsletter so that when everything does get opened back up, you'll be the first to know where we're going to be. But aside from that, sincerely, just stay safe.

And if you're not subscribed to the podcast, subscribe, download, tell your friends. If everybody out there just tell one motherfucker, that'd be cool. But anyways, we hope to see you guys out there soon. Love you. Skew. They're the liberal rednecks. They like cornbread, but sex. They care way too much, but don't give a fuck.

They're the liberal rednecks that makes some people upset, but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. I thought Trey froze. He just looked sad. No, I'm here. Here we are, right? Here we are. Yeah, here we are.

Can y'all hear me okay? Yeah, what about me? Yeah, everybody. Cool. Well, what's up, y'all? I can't stop singing. I wonder what's inside your bow. It is a jam.

It is catchy, catchy little tune from a toddler on the internet. I bet you, I bet you that you're, you're leisden saw that and was like, Why didn't I think of that? Unbelievably, I didn't even show it to him. I think he was either doing something else or asleep already. I think he was asleep already. He's not on like some sort of butthole song, subreddit or something.

I figured maybe he'd know about those. No, no, not yet. One day, won't be alone. I sent y'all the remix. Yeah. So you can show him that. All right. So I got something I've been kind of dying to talk to y'all about.

and it may end up being one of those things that's like just a me thing. This may be a thing that everybody just already knows, but I did not know, and I thought this was wild. So first we preface it by saying, y'all know how like redneck old boys, how many times have you heard a redneck say something along the lines of, son, that deer had a damn rack on him bigger and a, I don't know what. Or like, you know, it's like that thing around that corner faster.

and I don't know what. You know, like, where they, like, because rednecks love analogies and similes. But sometimes they get ahead of themselves. Sometimes they get ahead themselves and they don't have one yet. And so it's a very, very commonplace thing in my experience for a redneck. I like it. I think they often, I don't know what. And they often.

I like it when they don't pause. Right. Right. Right. Around that corner fast, and I don't know what. It was like, you didn't even try, Earl. So. And they also, they often replace it with like it wasn't even funny.

That's when they. Well, hang on. Let's stick with I don't know what. Okay, okay. We are all in agreement that that is a thing that rednecks do, and it's a pretty red, it sounds very red every time it happens. Did y'all know or realize or have you ever thought about that's literally exactly what Genesequois means?

That's exactly what that is. Did you know that? Huh. No, Genesequois is one of those things that I know what it means when I hear it. it, but I've never looked up the definition. So what's it mean? To you, what does it mean when you hear it? It has a certain genocetat.

What does that mean? That's a something I can't really define or. Right, but to me, because it's French, it always had an element of like something special about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That I can't exactly define. It's got that it. Yeah, I think it's like an it factor.

Yeah, but literally. Right. But literally it translates to I don't know what. So when everybody, it has a certain, I don't know what. But like, that's so goddamn funny. I know. I thought so too. Katie told me that.

And I was like, what? Katie told you that? Yeah, Katie took French in high school and Spanish and speaks very little. She knew that. That is more surprising than I don't know what. Right. But it's just how different. That's an interesting pronunciation of Cua.

Yeah, man, it's just one of them things where the accent does the heavy lifting on both sides. Like, if your same redneck buddy had been like, God damn, out there, it's just got a genusayqua to it. Like, that kind of sounds racist or something like that. Whereas if a French, I don't know, man, like, again, those are two very contrasting accent and cultural people. But yeah, that's funny. Don't we know for sure if French people say that? I have not. Well, maybe in France, they are just saying the same thing that old boys say.

There's like, I don't know what. Some English speaker heard them say, heard that and was like, it does have a Genesequa about it. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Like, I know it literally translates to I don't know what, but I wonder if they, in French, ever say that in that way. In the old boy way? I don't know. Like, first of all, they seem to be a people who, at least pretend.

to know what the fuck are coming at all the time. Right. I mean, I bet that yes, they do just because like that's a thing. Every now and then everybody backs themselves into a verbal corner and it ends up with, I don't know what, you know what I mean?

But I mean, like using it that way on purpose, you may. Yeah, like to describe, you know, Billy Elish's music. Well, I mean, we just think that Geneseecois is a fancy thing to say

because it sounds fancy coming from a French person. That's what I'm saying. I know. Yeah, I know. Right. It's just so funny that I never. In my mind, that has always meant, sorry, Corey, you were breaking up. I didn't realize you were still talking.

That's okay. I wasn't important. But in my mind, I've heard Genesequa for, you know, for forever. And in my mind, I never questioned what it actually literally translated to, but it always meant it has a certain, a certain special something about it. Yeah. Right? And it's like, and just when I found out that it literally translates directly to, you know, it's just bigger, I don't know what.

Like, it just, I don't know if that really hit for me and cracked me up. It does hit because, I mean, you know, again, old boys out here doing it. I mean, I think their language has carried them a long way. French people put gravy of some sort on everything. Don't treat their women very well. they stink. I mean, they're kind of

are the rednecks of Europe. Smoked cigarettes like motherfuckers. Eat bread and drink wine all the time. Butter, like a son of a bitch. Like butter is like very, very front. Are racist.

Yeah. All that. Yeah. Boy, this wouldn't hit for either side. Right. No, it would not.

Neither. Yeah. It's another thing they agree on. Hey, nuts. Yeah. No, that's true,

though. I mean, I don't know, man. They wear stupid hats. That's another thing. So we're talking about... They dress in a way that they consider manly, but that outside of their own culture

would be considered kind of queer. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard for us to see that. With like cut off jeans and stuff and like, yeah, sleeveless shirts. Super short, sleeveless shirt. Yeah, it's also funny to me that my first, like,

when I, my first introduction to, France was, and for a long time, was just Pepe Lepew. Right. He and Andy talked about that last night. Pepe Lepew? Yes. Really?

Andy, what are we talking about with Pepey Lapew? Why did that come up? Happy Lapeu's a Cho. Oh, okay. This is a super raven trip we're about to go on. It's going to take me a minute to get here. Roman Polanski came up because his daughter is on show we watch. She has a very funny French accent. I thought it was a Dutch person speaking

with a French accent because it's super Smurphy. So I looked up who it was. I saw the last name, Polanski, and I was like, this is a Polack for speaking French. Turns out, that's not what it was at all. She is a French woman who happens to be Roman Polanski's daughter. Andy's got talking about Rome Palances. He's been over there for a minute. Then she said, he said he hits for French people. Then she said, well, you know, they don't really give a fuck. They're even behind us somehow on the Me Too movement stuff. And then I go, well, hell, yeah, that's literally Pepe Lepeu was my first introduction to French people was that they stayed date raping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Chappelle had that. But you never, but like, yeah, like that Chappelle bit, like you didn't. Maybe sometimes I take the pussy like

Pepe. Like Pepe. No. No. That's why that bit was so great when he first did that because like, I don't about y'all but i had never like i never questioned it or thought he was just one of the loony tunes and that's what he did and like speedy gonzalez too you know but how old is that loony tune old i mean oh they're all old yeah it's it's that's 50s that's pebbly probably probably started 6070s something like that so among the stinking and rude and all the other stereotypes don't forget mimes rape is apparently one of their stereotypes for in rapy well and for the record just to defend papal the pew raping

a little bit. Yeah, sure. Now, what I'm saying, what I'm saying is, 1945. At least me,

when I was a kid, my takeaway was never, oh, right on, this is how you're supposed to, when you date, I was definitely always of the mind like, pet,

this ain't it. Like, clearly this girl don't like peppy, and he's a fucking lunatic loser. So. But I thought it was just because he stunk. I mean, that is,

Oh, that is like part of the joke of the character of Pepey. He's a skunk. Yeah. And French people stink and he stinks. He's a skunk. He's a skunk. He's a skunky day rapist. You know, French people.

Well, the more, the more positive. Tell me one. Name a French person that ain't that. Well, you know. I can't name but two. Undeniably, one of the biggest stereotypes about them is that they are, you know, super romantic, you know, like they all love the zero mans. Put it in my anos.

Yeah. So like that... You want to do the baguette? My anus? So 1945, by the way, is when Pepele of Pew came out. So in 1945,

when it's like, what do you know about France? They, you know, stay trying to fuck. And, uh, but the fact that they literally didn't have him actually right means it was fine and it was good for its time. You know,

that's very true. Um, like... In the kids cartoon? I, I think I give the people in the 40s a little bit more credit than that. Yeah, they wouldn't show actual fucking, but I mean, just as far as like,

shit, they're not being kids cartoons. Yeah, I do. Because they did have that caveman would hit that woman over the head. And drag her into the cave. Yeah, man. I mean, which, like, you just had to fill in some of the blanks, but it wasn't that hard.

And then they had the goddamn, uh, uh, fucking Bugs Bunny and Daffy. They was going on a hunt with Elmer Fudd. And they was literally hunting jazz. and then they had fucking little like Mickey Rooney's pop up in yellow face because it was during the war. And I saw, oh, well, you know, we're at war with Japan. So it was fine. But like, who, buddy, looking back on it, God damn, it's rough.

If you get, like, collections, like box sets of all old classic looney tunes and stuff. Warner Brothers doesn't, they don't take all that shit out. They have, like, a disclaimer on it that's set because Disney, like, famously does. Disney will like whitewash. Right, yeah, whitewash their old shit or whatever. And Warner Brothers, they have like a disclaimer at the beginning. It's like, look, some of this is very insensitive. But to remove it would be to act like it never existed in the first place.

And, you know, and it did. And it reflected the times and it's still not okay. And it wasn't okay then, yada, yada, whatever. But we're not going to act like we didn't do this, which I've always thought was pretty cool. It is cool. But I also think that it's worded the way it needs to be worded for it to look like they're doing a nice thing, but what they really mean is, look, we did a bunch of

incense, we did a bunch of insensitive stuff, but the people who are buying this, it hits for them. So it doesn't really matter. When your dad was watching this, when he watches it again, he's going to be like, hey, where's the goddamn Indians? So we just left it in. I don't know what to tell you. But here's what I'll say about that,

about the Indians and the black face and the yellow face and all that. That's all talked about. Not many people, are sitting around right now going, you know, not all French people rape. Everyone's like, I'm actually fine with the stinky French rapy character. That one actually pretty cool. Dude, surely, surely at some point,

they, you know, do they still, I know they rebooted like the Looney Tunes in like the 90s and shit, right? Whenever they brought Pepe La Pue back, surely to God they at the very least, tone that shit way the fuck down. Like, I don't think that they just, allowed him to stay, stay raping, and everybody stayed okay with it. And, I mean, like, you know, that's Chappelle, that Chappelle's special,

but that bid in particular was like, 1999. And people, like, it was very popular. Like, you know, as far as comedy specials go, everybody, everybody at school was quoting that, talking about the Sesame Street and Pepelea and all that stuff. And I feel like it became, like, a thing that everybody, that society sort of collectively acknowledged, you know, that was fucked up about Pepella Pew. I mean, I'm definitely about to go watch some newer Pepele-Lapu after this podcast.

I mean, I'm curious for sure. The internet has, in my opinion, made broad observational bits like that. Not impossible, but like real, almost like I shut down when I start to hear him. I'm like, oh, this is going to be boring or I've heard this before. Yeah, I know. This is going to ruin a thing that I liked. Well, or like, are you saying, Drew, like, I, like, I, for example, I had a, I mean, y'all probably remember, I don't even remember all of it, but I had a,

I used to have a bit about, about a bunch of shit, but part of it was about how, how racist the Power Rangers were, because that was another thing that I would think back on when I got older. And it's like, the yellow one was Asian, the black one was a black guy who could dance. He was the only one who ever danced, but he danced all the time. And then I would say, I would say, and the most badass one was literally called the white, power Ranger, right? And I'd be like, that's like a, that's like, sounds like the sergeant arms of the clan or something like that.

And then I saw, I had already been doing that bit. I came up with it completely on my own, but then I saw it on the internet in meme form. And it was so weird. It's like, one of those bader mind off type things where it's like, I saw it for the first time on the internet. And then like a week or two later,

I saw a different version of the same joke, you know, like, which I guess the internet, they stay doing that actually. But, yeah. But anyway, I quit, I quit doing it. even though, like, I didn't steal that from the internet. And, you know, and it wasn't that great. I don't, I didn't mourn that bit or nothing.

But my point is, it's hard. Or like when I was doing God damn the Game of Thrones recap, I would, I would also read shit on the Game of Thrones subreddit. And so, so many times, I would see comments and shit that were a version of a joke that I was, you know, going to make or it already written down or whatever. And I would see that and I'd be, and normally I'd leave those in. I was like, fuck it. What am I going to do?

It's hard to come up with a novel thing. Well, yeah, I mean, I don't even think it's not, like, because of the internet, it's not a big deal to me. What am I trying to say? I'm not like, oh, it's hack or it's been done before. It's more of like, it feels boring to me now, but as a listener, as an observer of comedy, but that's not even true necessarily.

Like, man, I need more sleep. I'm having a hard time. pressing myself, boys. I think I kind of know. I've trained myself to just not dig stand-up bits about that because I've heard so many Brooklyn versions of them where I know they stole it from the internet. In 99, right, in 99 when Chappelle came up with that observation, he came up with a very original observation that you had to just, the only way you could get that observation was by

going back into an adult and re-watching a thing with your kid or whatever the fuck. But nowadays, because of the internet and because of the vast. amount of knowledge and because of all the nerds that spend all their time on the internet like us it's almost like every single subject like that has been broached at this point i think memes and red and redid have had an effect on standing for sure i agree i agree i still do like when one of those tiny little holy fucks slips through the cracks um hey dude check listen to this so i need to first ask y'all do you all know who max land this is yeah it's uh the director's son.

Yeah, he is, in my opinion, in my opinion, like, objectively speaking, he's an extremely talented writer. He's written a lot of, like, movies and TV shows, and like, the dude is gifted, if you ask me. But if people don't know, and yeah, he's Hollywood royalty, son of legendary director, John Landis. He has been the subject of a lot, a lot of different allegations, allegations of misconduct,

misogyny and just harassment up to sexual assault, all that stuff. I'm only bringing that up because, listen to this. Under feature film on Pepele-Lupue's page, it says in October 2010, it was reported that Mike Myers would voice Pepele-Lapu in a feature-length live-action film based on the character,

although no information about this project has surfaced since. However, In July 2016, it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that Max Landis was writing a Pepilipu feature film for Warner Brothers. That's tremendous. Dude, how, I mean, who, and I'm certain that that has died on the vine and will never see the light of day. Especially because of now. If you look at Max Landis's Wikipedia, his first allegations against him started happening in like 2013 and stuff. Yeah.

So this is three years later. And it was like, who in God's name? Also, thought that was a good idea. To make that movie in the first place and to get that dude to write it, and for it to be like. He'd say he'd do it. And like this is going to be Mike Myers, like the revitalization, revitalization of his career.

He hadn't done anything in a while. And so, all right, he's going to play Pepey Lapew in a Max Landis joint. That's so fucking funny. I want it to happen real bad. I know that you love Bryant, Trey. I've never seen it. I also know that you know you're not. not in the majority of like very online people with that.

It's so weird that pepping the few. It was called there were a lot of people were saying that Bright was literally the worst movie that entire year. The same year that the fucking emoji movie came out still makes me. Dumbus fucking shit. You get high and watch that. Well, I bring it up for a few reasons. One, he's only written four scripts that have gotten made.

All of them have been panned. No, Chronicle. Chronicle was hugely. I was going to say other than Chronicle. But we were talking about Pepe the Pew and that literally yesterday, me and India were talking about French people staying raping in Pepeo Lepew.

I also saw a tweet yesterday that I think is an old tweet, but it was the first time I've seen it. And it killed me and it came out because today's May the Fourth. Happy May the Fourth to all the Star Wars fans out there. Scoo scooo. He tweeted in like 2016, 2015, Max Landis was driving it. Max Landis.

About Bright, I just wrote what is going to be my Star Wars. It feels so weird to know that. And I bring that up because, hey, it's clearly a dumbass asshole. But also, the reason you make Pepey Lapey in 2016 as Max Landis in spite of the fact that you've been accused for three years is because he is a total fucking sociopath.

Yeah, right. Well, a lot of the things that had been said about him aren't even necessarily right about sexual things. There's that too. But a lot of it has just been people saying like, this guy's a fucking monster, like a nightmare human being who treats people horribly and he sucks to be around.

And like, so all that too. But American Ultra was also a pretty tight movie in my opinion. And yes, I really liked Bright. And I got, I liked it and got defensive. about how pan- because I watched it without reading in reviews or whatever else

and again I was high as fuck I watched it but I was like I was like this movie rules I do what I normally do get on the internet to go see everybody talking about how much this thing hits

that hit for me and that was not what I found people hated that movie yeah well I didn't know shit about it either I just knew that it was a Will Smith joint like that's it now I knew that I hadn't seen anything like overwhelmingly positive about it

but I was like what's Will Smith I'll probably watch it and I was talking to you and you were like I think that we was both high and you were like, bruh, you have got to see bright. And I was like, does it hit? And you go, does a buddy cop movie with orcs sound like it hits? Because it fucking hits. And I was like, yeah, and I watched it.

And that's exactly it. Yeah, I think why I said, because I was saying it to everybody at the time. I was going in the salina thread and everything and saying, I was saying training. I was like, it's fucking training day with orcs. How can it not hit? And that's how, and it did hit. I guess if some people's like reason for hating it is like how, you know, on the knows they were about like what it was all representing, I guess, then maybe.

But like, that's a thing that happens. I thought it was a good thing for them to represent. You almost, in my opinion, you almost can't do that premise for a movie without doing that. Of course not. And I thought it was an interesting way to do it. It made people have conversations because they're watching that. And then the dumber people, it took them halfway through the movie to be like, oh, the Orchish Blach.

I don't think anybody have a conversation. Yeah, you probably. Right. Some people, of course it did. No, I don't know whether it was. I was pretty online in that time. And if I had heard that conversation, I don't know more about the movie. I mean, I mean with people like my parents. The people were like, oh, until I saw how the orc was treated,

I didn't realize that maybe sometimes that's how black people are treated. You're probably right. That sounds like a sketch about a movie that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. But again, though, dude, if you're, like, I'm just saying, like, if you're taking, if you're taking a bunch of this. That sounds like a campaign ad for Pete Butt Judge. If you're taking this, like, again, that premise, it's modern day America except it's populated by all the classic fantasy races and, you know, L's doors and orcs and all that shit.

I just feel like it's unavoidable to have like I don't know how you you can't not do that with that premise that doesn't mean it was executed well right and it was it was on the note will Smith literally said fairy lives don't matter today at one point that was fucking dumb but like yeah but some dumb is okay I'm the type of person it was just it was just built to hip for me because I love that nerd shit I love and Will Smith I love hard like you know gritty cop movies like Training Day if they're good. Training Day is a while time favorite movies.

I love all that fantasy, dork, nerd shit. I have never stopped standing for my man Big Willie. I love Will Smith. Will Smith is one of my favorites. He rules. And it just had all these elements that like it was just made the hit for me.

And I got, I cannot stress enough. So high before watching it the first time. And it's just like, yeah, I really liked it a lot. I was very shocked. by how horrifically panned it got by most everybody. I did not see that coming. I've rewatched it since, by the way,

and it still hit for me. Do you think that potentially the allegations skewed it? Didn't help. Before you answer, you should know that of the things he's written, it has the second worst ratings. Victor Frankenstein actually got worse ratings, and that was not necessarily pre-alligation,

but before, you know, he was big and famous and all the allegations were at the forefront. Yeah, I don't know because I feel like a lot of times, a lot of times shit like that just gets completely ignored. Do you know what I mean? Maybe not like any more, but that certainly wasn't. You're talking about Roman Polansky, man. Like, yeah, he just won a French Oscar, whatever they're called.

Well, dude, he got a standing ovation at the regular ass Oscars years after raping that girl. And he wasn't even there. No, he wasn't there because he was in, yeah, anally raped a 13 year old girl, drugged and an anally raped a 13 year old girl. And then fled the country because of it. It's not like, oh, maybe he didn't do it. He definitely did it. Do people not think he did it? Is that why?

I'm sure there's some people that think, oh, he didn't do it, but he knew they were about to accuse him of it. And so he's in France because he doesn't want to have to deal with all the bullshit. I'm sure there's those people. Never mind, I'm an idiot. I want to know why. Isn't there an actor named Mary Shelley from the 80s? No, that's, uh, you think of the Sherley, Shelly Long.

Shelly Duvall. She was in The Shining and Shelley Long was in the years. I was thinking to Shelly Duvall. Yeah. For whatever reason, I guess she has the worst fucking hair in cinematic history. It's fucking stringy as shit. Like, God damn, dude. Get her a fucking wig.

For whatever reason, they listed Mary Mary Shelley who wrote the screenplay or the book, Frankenstein, as co-writer of the screenplay to Victor Frankenstein. And I got it in my head that this man had had Shelley Long co-wrote this movie with him just so he could call it Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which rape aside would have made me a giggle. Oh, fuck, I was about to say something out. There's another thing that's completely unrelated to any of this.

I've been wanting to run by Drew specifically, but it does involve Cho also, unless y'all have more on Max Landis and things not hitting. No, but I do have something that is the complete opposite of not hitting, which is cereal. Growing up, growing up, cereal was one of the best parts of being a kid, but I had to give it up because I realized,

well, okay, I didn't give it up. I've had to not eat like my second post-dinner bowl because I realized it was full of sugar. and junk that you really shouldn't eat. I've been trying to cut down on carbs, sugar, unhealthy food. And I realized basically I just can't eat shit anymore until I got Magic Spoon.

And I have really been going through this shit. It's got zero sugar, 12 grams of protein, and only three net grams of carbs. Now, this isn't, it's sitting over here for me to read, but I just know it to be true. Do you all know that like a bowl of like regular frosty flakes or whatever has like 45 net grams of carbs, whereas this shit has three? that blew me away because I eat like two or three bowls of cereal every day and now with magic spoon my fat ass can just keep going in I had a bowl literally right before this podcast started they sent us all four of the flavors and I like the fruity they taste great that's my favorite it's a good flavor I like frosted pretty good too we ate the blueberry first it was gone in like a day and you know it's mostly protein

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Yeah, does hit. So here's what I was going to ask Drew about. Drew, imagine like, imagine you're watching a baking show. All right. And in this baking show, one of the contestants set, part of the challenge they have to do involves making their own ice cream. And then it goes in the middle of a larger thing. It's a baked Alaska, right?

And at one point, one of the contestants sets another contestant's ice cream, takes it out of the freezer and sets it on the counter without telling him that. And then the guy sees that and it is revealed that has happened. What kind of effect, if any, would that have on you? Oh, I would destroy everything that they have worked on. Like, I would smash it. I mean, you know, is there like money involved on this baking show? Actually, weirdly, no.

No, it's crazy. It's extremely popular and prestigious. I mean, I might. The guy did what you said, actually. I was going to say, I might try to get the cops involved. Y'all know I'm against the police in general. But if it's like a competition situation and there's a way for me to get out of this without ruining my own chances to win, if I can be like, excuse me, I don't, can I get a judge over here? Like, I get their ice cream, right?

Like, that's the other thing I'd probably do. I would take the fuck out of there. Is everybody making the same dessert? Yeah, different flavors all that shit. you're making the same dessert. I have met plenty of chefs who could keep me from taking their ice cream, but none of them would ever do a goddamn baking game show on television. I cannot think of anybody who's been on one of these baking game shows

that could keep me from taking their ice cream. It was an old mama. It was an old mama, yeah. I would take that bitch's ice cream. I would take her diabetes, man. I'd take everything from her. I take her grandchildren. Well, what the guy did was he did the first thing you said,

he just, he said, fuck it. and threw everything away. And what the judges ended up saying was like, look, we understand you were frustrated. It was unfair, but you could have explained this to us, and we could have judged the other elements of your baked Alaska. We could have judged the cake. We could have judged and just excluded the ice cream part because of what happened.

That was an option, but since you threw everything away and don't have nothing, you know, you got to go. He threw his own shit away. He threw his own shit away. No, no, I meant her shit. Oh, I know. Wait. You're right.

Like, how did she get to hit? his ice cream, but he couldn't get the hers shit. Now, if I'm not sharing a mistaken, right, they were having to share a freezer or it was he was having to put some extra. I think there was kind of an added element there to where it technically maybe

wasn't his freezer and he was borrowing some space in there and she needed space because it was her freezer. But instead of saying hey, Michael or whatever, I'm having to take your ice cream out so do something about it. She just did it and then didn't say a goddamn thing. And then

it melted. So like, really regardless, like, she didn't have to do that shit. And it's a cold fucking move. If she meant to do that shit, that shit was cold-blooded. That bit straight up meant to do that shit. Oh, no, man. She was a sweet old, dumb, I'm all. But it's funny. It's funny. Corey has many. The reason I brought it up is because, like, me and Corey, it's on the Great British Bake Off one of the earlier seasons that me and Corey have both been watching. Also, real quick, the producers set him up.

What do you mean he was out or wrong? room. They, I mean, he, uh, there's only a, I mean, there's, everybody's having to share freezers and stuff. Whoever he was sharing a freezer with, their shit was probably too big. And he was like, okay, it's fine. I'll go put mine over here. He had one thing in there.

They had one thing and he needed to put more stuff in there. He said to a producer, I'm out of room. What do I do? And they were like, just use hers. And then some asshole behind the scenes was like, ooh, everybody. I mean, I mean, now I'm not, I'm definitely not going to dispute that just based on the, oh, a reality show. or competition show would never do that.

I have only worked on one. And nothing like that happened, but you could definitely, you know, and I had a good experience, but like I had earpiece in the whole time and I was hosting it, and they were definitely constantly like, hey, I think some shit's about to be fucky over there.

Won't you go do this? Hey, won't you go rile them up? Won't you go over and say that this person said this about this? You guys also were invited, to correct me, if I'm wrong, to film a competition that existed separate from me. your TV show. No, no, no.

It was, it was, the TV show is the competition. Okay. But it also paid, now, nobody did anything close to what we were saying, but there was like a, they encouraged me that, where they were like, hey, by the way, if, if you're over there talking to competitor B, and while you're talking to them, they happen to like talk shit about competitor A, you should definitely tell competitor A what they said. and and here's the deal. I will, I don't, I'll never do that.

That's not the type of person I am. So like, yeah, I can see it happening and the producers at least going, we're not going to say a goddamn word. We're just going to roll with this. Well, I mean, you know, the host of it was literally standing right there beside him and like begging him to not throw his shit away.

Right, yeah, that's true. She was like, you can't do that, don't do that. And he did it anyway. But like, the only reason I even brought this up is because it has been funny to me, because I feel like when you just objectively state what happened all that happened is

this old lady set some ice cream out on the counter and it's just like in the context of that show like my jaw was on the flow. Absolutely. It showed it. I was like, oh my God, no way. And I was texting Corey. I was like, dude,

biggest scandal in the history of Bake Off right here, I can't get over this shit. And then every now and then, ever since we watched it, every couple days, me or Corey would just text the other one and just like, set his ice cream on the counter, dog, set his ice cream. And he's in it, you know, I know, right?

Like, and it's just. And she didn't get in trouble. No, no, dude, it was utter Ballyhoo. Listen to this, though. It sounds like some real tiddly winks. No, you're about to hear some like Jordan baseball conspiracy theory. She, she disappeared from the show the very next week. They said she came, she was an old lady.

And that when the next, so he threw all his shit away, so he had to go home. When the next episode started, you never saw her again. They had a voiceover saying Diana had some serious health issues and had to drop out of the race. So now she's gone. So when this all happened, there was, of course, immediately a big internet conspiracy theory amongst fans that was like, they, you know, they removed her from the show for misconduct or whatever, but gave her this out. But it has apparently since then. They could never say that's what it was.

Right, but it has apparently since been, like, totally proven that she did get old lady sick. She's still alive. But it has not been proven. It's not been proven that they didn't infect her. Right. Yeah, yeah, they give it to her. You broke up. Okay, you did say infect her.

Speaking of baking, did y'all know that Betty Crocker, when they first came up? Ain't real? Yeah, well, first of all, yes, that's true. Betty Crocker is not a person. It's just a brand that never was a person. But when they first came up with box cakes, did y'all know that the original- Just add an egg?

No, it was just water. Originally it was just the cat-mixed and water. And that's why they put the egg so people would feel like they were cooking. And 50s housewives or whenever that was, nobody was buying them and they wouldn't fuck with them because they were like, this is obviously some bullshit. This ain't even cooking. So they changed it to where, okay, well, you got to add an egg.

And all of a sudden everybody's like, oh, okay. You know, now they felt like they were like making something. And they became this like, you know, cultural phenomenon, massive sales figures, Jaya, I did know that. Yeah, I figured that you might have.

I didn't. I'm sorry for ruining it. You didn't ruin it. No, no, it's fine. Yeah, I did because let me tell you why,

and I'll admit this, it was so important for me that you knew that I knew that before you started talking. Yeah. It was so important for me to be like, hey, before you,

yes, first off, she wasn't a woman, and secondly, just had a fucking egg. Go on. Act like I don't know shit about fucking cake. I knew you. Like I said,

I kind of figured you would. That's how dumb fucking housewives in the 50s were, man. That's unbelievable. Just tell them to add an egg. Oh, okay. Okay. By the way, I'm just kidding, 50s housewives who are now old people that also are stupid. But it's just funny how like-

I'm believing that out. I don't know. Marketing and stuff is wild. You know what I mean? Yeah, it is. It's crazy. I don't know if I've told this on the podcast. I've probably told you all about, I used to go on that tour to the Harpoon Brewery.

I would take anybody who came to see me, Boston on the tour because it was so fun. I've been there with you. And the tour was just, they'd take you in the tasting room. There was a glass wall where you can see down into the brewery. They would be like, okay, they'd ring a bell. Everybody gather around. We're going to start the tour.

Turn around. There's the brewery. That's the tour. Why do you give a fuck about how beer is made? Let's get drunk. And then they would just give you every beer they make and tell stories about it. And in terms of marketing, my favorite story was they had a beer called high burn Marian ale, which is the Gaelic word for blessing.

And it did not sell at all. And they were going to just discontinue it. They thought it was a great beer, but no one ever bought it. And so to get rid of it, they were discontinuing it right before St. Patrick's Day. They renamed it Celtic ale, because the Boston Celtics, but of course they call it Celtic ale because they're like this whole history. And they made the label green. And they sold out in a day.

And they said, let's try it again. we can, you know, blah, blah, blah, and they just keep selling. And now it's their number two producer. It's the same beer as their lowest performer of all time renamed Celtic ale, and it's now their number two beer. I can see it. Yeah. Dude, I mean, a very small, a very small thing. And I'm, and so this is my apology to housewives from the 50s, because I'm, I'm dumber.

When Miller Light, I never was a Miller Light, dude. I was always strictly Bud Light or Coors Light. I didn't like me. I really didn't think that I liked Miller Lite. When they went back to the retro cans that they've currently got right now, I just thought they looked really cool. And so I bought a Sixer to go to like a party because they just looked rad. They just looked cool.

And I have drank Miller Lite for every single time I've purchased domestic beer, a domestic kind of, you know, shit beer, as they're called. I'm now a Miller Light guy simply because they're the ones with the rad cans. And now that's just how my taste is. So like, yeah, who the fuck of mine to talk shit about eggs? I did the same thing. I like the 24-ounceers better than I do the 6-pex because there's more, they just look older. Yeah, yeah, they do.

And, but I could, I don't like me a lot. Like, I tried to. Yeah, it's the only one I like now. Now all the other ones are too sweet for me. But again, did not like it, thought the can was rad. Now it's my, now I've bought so, like them changing that can, at least for this one customer made him a good fucking bit of money. Yeah.

Okay, sort of on that note. So obviously there was that thing when coronavirus was first popping off. There was that thing going around the internet saying that Corona beer's stock was plummeting or whatever. That actually ended up being like not really true. Like at the time anyway, that was kind of just some bullshit that got made up. But like given how everything has transpired and just how big a deal it has ultimately become and how it's like ended the world. you know the world as we knew it or whatever like i mean do y'all do y'all think that they like should

change it or like we'll need to change it there's part of me that thinks so like if you were running you know 9-11 hot dog stands right back in the day or something like that and then that happened you just don't want to be like because for the rest of my life you know 9-11 hot dog stands well like a 7-11 i don't know if you if you're play if that shit was called 9-11 god damn it'd be changed is all i'm saying I'm never personally going to hear corona in any facet without thinking of the virus. And that's not what you want. That's not positive imagery. So, like, yeah, man, it's weird, but they probably definitely do.

I think if they were smaller they would. I think they're big enough to overcome it. Yeah, I mean, you're right. There's like Corona shorts. It's still something, though, like, I mean, I definitely think they can overcome it, but they probably have to look at it in the sense of like there's X amount of people. who aren't like when they see that their family member had died and they just don't want to be associated with that negatively at all. But I mean, yeah, they're a big company, but I don't know, man.

Maybe they might they'll probably, they'll probably, it's definitely being workshopped right now. Yeah, but I think ultimately they'll come down on brand recognition is invaluable. Not that it's good to be recognized for such a negative thing. That's not what I mean. I mean, they had built a positive one for so long. They'd have to start over. I mean, you'd have to have a commercial. to explain to people that this is the beer you like and you like to put lime in.

And then that is going to stir up a bunch of controversy, which that might actually be a good thing because people would be talking about it a lot. But it would be super weird. It would be weird. No, I agree. And people would be swearing up and down that it tasted different after they did that. Even if it was the exact same beer, people would be like, no, this don't hit. They've ruined it.

Even if literally it was changed the name. Like, it's a whole, it'd be a whole thing for sure. It could work, though. I mean, something you guys didn't mention about Betty Crocker. they used to be called Holocaust cakes. And to change it. But yeah, no, like, I mean, I don't know because, I mean, you're, I think you're both right. Like, you're definitely right, Drew, like, brand recognition.

I mean, it would be a huge undertaking and a huge, like, they'd have to be pushed pretty far to feel like that they had to do that because it is such a big thing. But also, like Cho said, I think that nearly every person knows that. They know that it has nothing to do with the virus. But when you hear the word corona, it's good. You're not going to ever think beer first. Everybody on earth is going to think virus first. From now on, that's it.

Yeah. Awesome. And so a lot of douchebags are going to buy only Corona beer because of it. For their party as soon as this is over. Yeah, I've seen a bunch of, I've seen a bunch of, like, pictures online of people, like in front of a bunch of beer, in front of a bunch of cases of Corona. at their house like, oh, I got the corona, dirt, der. So, you know, in the dumbass department, they're not losing any money.

No, well, they never have had to buddies. They've always done very well in the dumbass demographic. Yeah, it really is. Ben Diesel and the Fast and Furious movies. I don't want to talk to you about how offensive you have been lately to the dirt dirt community. The dirters, they don't appreciate the way you've been treating them, the way you've been mocking them.

Who are the dirt darts? I don't know, whoever it is, dur, der. Is that? Do you not realize you're doing that? You literally go, d'urter, you literally. To me, that was a southern person, not a retarded person. I didn't mean that necessarily. He just making a joke about a, as if there was a group of people who did that.

I genuinely thought that somebody had tweeted at you like, hey, man, do you think I know where he could quit? Really? No, I was just acting as if there was a group of people who went, tur-d-d-ur, and that you were. Okay, so then I just did, do you mean? Yeah. So a couple things. Oh, damn it. A couple things, Corey.

I would not stand for anybody telling you that you can't make jokes about the dirt, dirt community. I agree. Telling me I can't joke about white trash shit. Oh, yeah. Thank you for that. But also the second. Thank you very much.

But the second thing I'll say to the defense is like, well, it's a, that's a thing. Like, I've, I feel like mostly, most, most of the time when you see it spelled out on the internet, it's her dur or her do-d-d-r, like H-U-R-D, but like Corey didn't. It just means dumb. It's not the only one who does that. Yours is a skeet to date, deep, deep, deep.

It's the same thing. It just means dumb. Yeah. Well, it means, if you're imitating a dumb person, you do two things. You give them our accent. And at some point, at some point, you go,

her, du-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-. Yeah. And if you've already got our accent, you just come straight out with dirt-d-d-d-d-r. Right. So all I was saying is that dumb people are offended. You know, I was just trying to make a joke. No, you made a good one because it confused.

People do be tweeting about dumb shit that I did. So, like, in my mind, I was like, oh, my God, I've been doing this a lot. And it means something different than what I thought. But yeah, those are my people. I can say whatever I want about the dirt darts. Did I break up? You did for a second. Because you were like, you were like,

I was dirt dirt. I was like, God damn, boy. God damn boy Amber making sausage I can smell it Joe I had a thing I wanted to ask you about as we're like

Their sales have surged I just looked it up Corona beer sales have searched Well there you go Bucket I mean hell good for them Frankly I mean shit

They ought not have to Pay for a fucking pandemic And I got shit to do with them But Most people who like Corona Don't believe in the pandemic So they're probably doing it right

All right It's like yeah What Drew said about like having a whole bunch of dumbasses and assholes who will buy nothing but corona just for that reason i had had somehow not occurred to me but you're a hundred percent correct about that no and clearly it's already happening so like and they'll take any they'll take whoever's money you know all right well drew finally won one everybody um i was uh checking my phone and don't even know what i finally won that's raven so uh what was what is it true i don't

don't, I'm genuinely asking this just like out of actual curiosity. If it's like, this isn't a snide question, I promise. But I've been wanting to ask you, I promise it's not. I've been willing to ask you to reflect upon that viral tweet you had because it's been a while now, like a fair amount of time has passed. I'm just wondering how that all, like, I don't know how you feel. What all, did any, I don't know, what's the while this thing that came of it? Did anything really ultimately?

of it, what pissed you off about it? Just like the experience looking back on it, what do you think? Well, I'll tell you this. It's been like two or three weeks ago at least, right? Until I haven't, now I haven't checked today. I haven't been on Instagram today where it's just where a lot of it has come from. Since then, I'm not kidding, without missing a day, every single day since that tweet went viral, someone, a lot of times the same person, because I guess they just follow a bunch of these specific meme pages has sent me.

that meme from a different person without crediting me that has also like 50,000 shares, blah, blah, blah, blah. So like it went on my page, it went viral. But then once it's one, I didn't realize that it was actually going to, it got out there in a way that now it's bigger than my tweet. You know what I'm saying? Which my tweet alone got a bunch of heat. That's why, that's why at first when Tasha's people stole it, I was like, oh, God,

damn it. But then when mine got the amount of heat that it did, I was like, well, okay, it's not like someone stole it, they get all this heat, and then it's like, I did it and I only got 50 likes. Like I got my heat. So it was a little bit, it was fine. But man, yeah, every single day for like three weeks, it's been on another motherfuckers, which at this point, it's not them stealing from me and cropping my name out there. They're just, the meme is just out there. And everybody's like, well, this is just one of them things. And it'll have like somebody else that, that they did it and cropped my shit out. And then people were like, oh, well, this is there. So I'm sharing

there. It's like, yeah, it balloon and it's crazy. But other than that, no, Tosh never. holler back, Arne Anderson threatened to whoop his ass twice. No, that's I can't believe it. Honestly, I'm not mad, but I can't genuinely can't believe it. No, I agree. When we talked about it on here when it was just happening

like in the moment, I mean, we said, because I felt that way, I was like, we said, I genuinely expect him to somehow respond to this. Or delete it. Or at least delete it. And then after we'd already talked about it, the Arn Anderson thing happened, they already have an established

K-Faid feud thing going on. And I just, I was certain that somehow or another it would be addressed. And I'm also surprised that that never happened. No, I'm, I'm genuinely stunned. I mean, to me, the only way that it didn't happen is, as we were talking about, it was just a fucking intern and they just never said a goddamn word. Because otherwise, he really wouldn't have heard about it. But see, that though, because we said like, we think.

thought he would respond somehow or at the very least it would be taken down and neither thing happened. And as far as it being just some intern, which I'm sure it was, but that's still wild to me because you know, you know that intern because they, they get, it's their job to see all the interaction and responses. So you know that intern saw all the different comments and post from people saying, hey, y'all stole this and that ain't cool. And an intern, they didn't believe it. An intern who's on, on, you know, like on a short leash or whatever, probably to begin. I just can't believe an intern didn't freak out and say, oh, shit, oh shit, and take it down immediately.

I would say that Tosh does know about it. They talked about it and they concluded that, you know, you weren't the original, that this is an internet thing. His thing. Like, they didn't want to take responsibility for making it an internet thing. And that'd be one thing if theirs wasn't, like, one of the first ones that that happened to. Like, it wasn't like, it was three hours later. already got a bunch of heat and then Tosh picked it up like it wasn't

and it was on Instagram and on my Instagram it wasn't really doing that I don't know man like it just it just feels genuinely more interested in whether or not you know if people from your town or definitely I want to know if anyone who goes to that church knows that it was you

oh I don't know that an internet thing because that's the kind of thing that gets shared among you know certain religious groups on Facebook as not an offensive joke like Right, right, right. Oh, yeah.

If you take out, if you just, because I saw versions of it without curse words without saying whooping Jesus's ass on church website. Yeah, no, a lot of the ones that it was getting shared on that I was getting sent was like Christian or Southern Baptist. Like, it, like again, it fucking, I finally made a joke that like everyone could appreciate. I've never done that before. But no, number one, that church is in Lafayette, which is the neighboring town. Not that I don't know people from Lafette, I do, but it's also, you can't really get the full grasp of what that church is in that picture.

I would say that maybe 45 to 50 people can even fit in that building, let alone, you know, go to that church. So like, I don't know any of them. They, it might be one of them, it's probably one of them churches where they don't have the goddamn, like it's a bunch of old people. They ain't got the goddamn internet, but no, that ain't come back around yet, which is considering it's Lafette and considering how close that is and how viral it went. actually am kind of surprised that someone didn't at least say, hey, dude, my fucking grandma goes there. That's cool. Yeah, that's what I guess. By the time they saw it, my name probably wasn't on it.

You know what I'm saying? But they would go, well, who the fuck did take that picture? Right. Yeah, but no, right, I haven't. I'm sure there's been some people that wondered, but, uh, because I did see on, I think it was called godly memes or something like that, uh, it had been posted and somebody had tagged me in it. because that's what happened a lot is it'll just bet you got you got somebody mentioned to

Corey Forster and it's always and by the way I want to say this our fans are the y'all don't have to keep doing this because they do every day they'll see it and get on there and fucking they'll be like hey motherfucker this is Cory Forster's you better tag that son of a bitch and and I mean it hits for me very hard but y'all don't have to keep doing that but then I'll go on there and I'll scroll through a little bit just to see because it's still I'm still getting those hits like even though they don't know it was me I'm like let's say what you know And I'm first off not seen not one comment where someone was like, this is blasphemous.

I can't believe that. Not one. Not even one that was like, fuck this. This ain't funny. Fuck that guy. But I have seen a couple people be like, oh shit, I'm pretty sure that's in Rock Springs or oh shit, ain't that Lafette right over by Rock Springs. So, but none of them that knew me, but.

You just said that, you know, you're still getting those hits. One of the things I was going to ask specifically is how you feel at this point. It's happened over and over and over again. for weeks at a time now, your joke gets stolen and repurposed. Any comedian is annoyed when that happens in any capacity one time. It's happened to you countless times.

Literally thousands, yeah. At this point, how, what do you feel about it? At this point, there's literally nothing I can do about it. And even if there was, I wouldn't do it because it would just look really weird for like a month removed from tweets, a tweet to try to take some action now to get all your credit back because even if I got sole credit if you re-showed it and said hey by the way this was from core reinforced her people would sit and go yeah

we done saw that and moved on from it I don't give a shit like it wouldn't help me any and so now I just look at it as there's nothing I can do about it but I still genuinely and this is how much of a whore I am when I see it reshared I'll still scroll for just a second and be like see all the nice comments and even though they don't know that they're giving that comment to me it's because of my joke, so it still hits for me. Like, it's, it's really cool now just to see that something that I did got on to the, like, the inner, the Zat guys to the internet for that two or three days. Like, I was one of the top hits on the internet.

That's a cool thing, you know. So, like, they're nothing I can do about it. Just enjoy the hit. Well, that's definitely a healthy take on it, in my opinion. It's the only, it's the only take. Right. Well, because you're right. There's literally nothing you can do about it.

Nor what I want to. So why get mad. But the other thing I want to ask is, uh, you should start a, uh, uh, cult, you know, where you're Zen, like you just were, the Cho Zen. The Chozen. That's good. Do you, uh, do you, uh, so what actually like, like how many extra followers? What resulted? Um, for, what did you get out of it that we can quantify? Yeah. I, I mean, in the, in the, in the, basically the two or three day window of that tweet when it was really like

by phone, I, like, I don't have my notifications on anyways, but if I had of that day, it would have just been constant like insanity for about three days. Like it's still like every couple hours I'll get a new retweet on it, but it's slowed to that. But it's still still a thing. Wait, what was the question? I'm high. How many like followers are just whatever.

So it's now I don't know how many I got before I did this, but once it kind of started blowing up, I was like, oh shit, I really want to be able to track how many new followers I got. So I went and took a screenshot of how many followers I had. And then like three days later, I think I was up like $750, $800 or something like that. Probably when it was all said then, I gained about a thousand followers, I could say, because I didn't keep track for a while, which that's fucking great.

That's really awesome. It somehow feels like it would have been more because it had 20, I think it's got 20 million impressions on Twitter or some shit like that, which is like a lot to only get, but hey, that's just how Twitter works in order to get like, so it blows my mind those people that have like 550,000 followers and they're not like on TV. Like they're strictly an internet person. They've gotten all those follows just by hitting on the internet. They've had to like have that tweet and then back it up immediately with another hitter. Which honest to God though, a lot of those accounts, they just steal memes from other people.

Yeah, that's true. It's not their original shit. Related to what you just said, that's what like, so I don't know if we've, if this has ever come up before. but like actually before the liberal redneck like videos went viral one other time a couple years before that I had a post that went viral but it wasn't funny it was just preachy and pretentious but that's the reason that that that's the part of the liberal redneck video that they liked by the way that's the part you are correct anyway it wasn't the funny shit no never has been the funny shit but uh anyway that so that happened to me and I don't know And it went like, it was about the Ferguson riots.

And I was talking, it was comparing white people rioting, you know. It was about a hockey game in Vancouver or whatever. And it went like fucking viral. And like I remember at that time, again, this is pre-hit. Like I very much, I'd never experienced anything like that. And I very much was like, I got to capitalize on this somehow. And of course, I didn't because I don't know that you can. But I remember like feeling that way and being like, what do I?

I needed to do something to capitalize on this moment. And then I didn't. And I'm being like frustrated by the experience ultimately. And I don't know. It was just weird. And I was wondering if you had any of those. When it was happening, did you think like I got to find a way to ride this wave? I mean, not really.

All I did was I just did the standard thing that you do, which is you sub-tweets. on there like hey this is my podcast yeah like if you like hey if you like this joke here's the thing that is is nothing like it uh you know the like just just that like and then i would like tweet a link to uh i changed my pen tweet to uh uh are one of our sketches or i can't remember what is either one of our sketches or something of a group thing so that when people would see that tweet and then click on my profile the first tweet they would see was that or our podcast or something. But other than that, no, because like there's nothing you can do. It's just this thing's getting heat.

Here's also some stuff I do. And I hope that I continue to hit for the 1,000 followers that I got. I probably won't. I probably lost, I guarantee you, I've probably lost a considerable amount of them since then because they followed me strictly for that tweet. And then, because anybody, it proved that anybody could have liked that tweet. It's not like I tweeted a thing that was specific to my brand, and therefore if you like this, you'll probably like everything else I do.

That's the least example of that that I've ever done in my life. So I guarantee you a lot of people followed me based on that. And then the next day, they showed me, Twitter showed me telling Mike Huckabee to go fist himself with a squash. And they were like, oh, never mind. Yeah. All right. I just stole it.

I just stole your picture. I just tweeted it with your literal caption. The only difference is I capitalized ass because it's Jesus's ass. You should have done that. I mean, show some respect. My bad. This doesn't come out until Wednesday. What do you guys think the reaction to this is going to be?

How many people are going to tell me I stole this from you? Obviously, a lot of people are going to know that I stole it from you. I think how many people are going to know. I hope it's not going to know. I hope that's what I hope. That would be so hilarious. I think a son. Hey, everybody that it hit for has.

seen it. I think a solid number of people are going to know that I'm just trying to fuck with me. They, yeah, I mean, I'm going to retweet it. I feel like almost anybody who would otherwise go on a post to be like, hey, just so you know, this is Cory Forrester's joke and you stole it. It's obviously a pretty big fan and they, that means they know you too and they'll know that you are fucking. There's no, there's no way to just individually know me is what trying to say. I only exist within this group. Whether they, whether that's true or not, because that's also true for me, numerous of people.

Oh, if they know you, they definitely know me. That is accurate. What I was going to say is they're definitely going to tell me that I did this out of jealousy. Yeah, I can't wait for it. It's going to hit. I'm going to reach with it. Yeah, I can't either.

I'm going to ignore it until Wednesday, until this episode comes out as my plan. I'm not going to even touch it. Yeah, but now, dude, you're so right, Corey, about the, like, people that found, that just hit solely based on Twitter or whatever. Yeah. It is fucking insane.

like Rob Delaney, who now hits in a lot of ways, but like started out hitting, like, on Twitter. And like you said, you had one of the hitness tweets I've ever seen in terms of numbers and ended up with like 750, 800 followers to build hundreds of thousands. Unreal. Based solely on hitting tweets is fucking nuts. I don't have it in me. I'm not, and I don't mean like, oh, that I don't know how they have time to do.

I'm not that type of a content creator. I wish that I fucking wish that I was. I envy the shit of those people, but like, I think I'm capable, I know I'm capable of putting great stuff out there, but it's not usually ever one-liners. And dude, sometimes a great one-liner doesn't necessarily mean it will be a viral tweet. There's a certain genus sequa, honestly, about it. I just don't know what it is.

It's also true. It's also when people started on Twitter and all that stuff. There's a guy to New York. I won't say his name because I'm going to say that I don't necessarily like his one-liner jokes, but he started doing him on TikTok right to his phone. And as best I can tell, he's one of the first comedians to do that to just tell one-liners that he wrote straight to his phone, not clips of him doing stand-up.

And he has amassed a huge following really quickly. And I don't think that would have worked on Twitter. I know because he was trying. Based on what Drew just said, y'all definitely go out there and figure out who that is and tweet it at me. Appreciate you. that's true wouldn't mention who that was that he just described pretty perfectly

I think I know wait does that mean that you know Corey you're saying you recognize maybe I do maybe I do maybe I do yeah I don't think you do I have no idea anyway I mean you know we've we've about done it about that time yeah man and I timed it so it's it's May the Fourth be with you which is by the way this is the first May the Fourth I have been home for in 10 years I'm so excited I timed it about 30 minutes ago. I took a gummy because when we end this, Amber's got sausage,

um, sausage spaghetti type mess that she's just made. And we back, and it's time for, uh, episode four, baby. So I'm so fucking hype right now.

That's all I want to say. I'm gonna go get me some fucking magic spoon. Yeah. Yeah. May the fourth be with y'all. I'm gonna force the boys to watch. I'm thinking solo for some reason. Go so.

Well, you know what? We did, we did. Rogue one first just because I know that we're not going to do what I used to do, which was watch all of them. Plus, when I used to, there was a lot less movies. Right. But I went with Rogue One first just because if we're going to do in any order, I want it to be the, I'll get through the hit in this ones before I have to bow out. I know my boys are only going to do one.

And that's why I don't want to do. That's why I don't want to do any of the main series because of that. Definitely do solo. Selo's the kid, the cool, for kids anyways. That's what I was thinking. Rogue one is fucking awesome. Space Squid got his fucking dick rocked, yeah. So anyway, we'll see how that goes.

But yeah, love Star Wars, happy Star Wars Day. I'm going to say that this week on End of the Obisket, if you haven't listened, I get read by psychic. Like, R-E-A-D? Like live, like live on Zoom or something? Yeah. I thought you meant I get red by a psychic. And I think. you are, listen to it. And then I want to also shout out

well-read and into the Abisket fan. Amy Macasson, I hope I'm saying it right. I don't know if you boys have seen the coolest thing I've ever seen. She made these like boxes, they're round. They look like biscuits stray. And then when she opens it up, it's got the galaxy, like a spiral galaxy inside. And I am just blown away. I just saw on the day. So I'm just oozing. A gratefulness.

And if this ruins anything to just don't answer it or me go fuck myself, but like not a, not a bit, not a character, like an actual, an actual psychic actually reading you. Leo Brown, who loves us all and wants us to come over to his house anytime we're in Houston, he's going to cook for us. He's from Alabama. He's from Alabama living in Houston. He's from Alabama.

He lives in Houston. He's a sassy, gay black man. Yeah. And a medium and an empath and a psychic. and it's it was something else. I took it seriously and was calm about like, you know, I wasn't trying to do bits and I wasn't also wasn't trying to get defensive. I was trying to just be honest.

And he may be uncomfortable a couple times. So I know I know that we're about to close. I make this brief. I've been to a psychic before. There was a psychic in Clay County who was actually known around the area. Like when I was in Coupil working, oh, Charlie's, every now that somebody would ask me about the psychic in Clay County because, like, people, she had a reputation.

I guess, and we had all heard of her. So I went out there one day, and she looked almost just like that tiny little lady from polter guys to polter guys movies. Oh, yeah. Just like her, talk like her. That lady looks like the Jewish sex doctor. Dr. Ruth? Yeah.

Kind of, yeah. She had that sort of vibe going on, but way more mystical, obviously. And she was a tarot reader. And I don't, first thing I said when, first thing she said when I sat down, she goes, stop brooding. And I was like, sorry, I didn't moon to brood, but y'all know. be proven. And anyway, I don't remember much of it, but I remember two things that she told me. She told me that my grandpa was going to die within six months, and he did.

Oh, okay. And she told me that I was going to be famous one day. So fuck that one up completely. But you are. I know, no, yeah. I mean, kind of, at least a little bit. But she told me this is not what that's psychic man. This is not, this ain't how much that psychic meant. As described to a trailer psychic, this motherfucker's famous. Yeah.

Yeah, the Papal Dine thing, I feel like that's just one of them, throw that out there and it'll probably stick where you're from. It's funny because I completely agree with you. It does, I don't. I'm not saying these,

but buddy, if it's bullshit, they're better. You know what I mean? If they actually are possessed by spirit, I don't give a fuck. That ain't, that ain't on them. They didn't ask for that. Yeah, I mean, I pretty much said that in the intro. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't, I don't believe in psychics, but that's the only personal experience I've ever had and those two things did come out of that conversation. Yeah, how many things did you tell me that didn't happen at all? Oh, I remember another one, and this probably total coincidence, but because I don't know how the cards work, but she's flipping over the tarot cards and she flipped over one and on the bottom of the card

it said page and she looked up and goes, do you have a little sister? And so that was pretty wild too. Oh, wow. That's, um, but, uh, okay, I'm high. Let's go away. Well, it's fun.

I just, I wasn't expected Cho to be the like super skeptic about it because I generally am a big skeptic. Because he claims to have the brining. This is the motherfucker who says he can talk to his mama without talking. Right. It's specifically the cards is the one that I, have a problem with.

Really? Like all the other types of side picks are fine. They are not fucked with cards. Some things are sacred, Trey. No, it's just that I'm like,

if you got all that in your brain, why you need to fucking all of a sudden play rummy. You know what I'm saying? Like that, like, if you got the hits in your brain, why do you need to go to the casino?

Yeah. I don't, I'm just saying, I don't believe in it, but I know that it can be a wild experience. Yeah, yeah. The only one I've ever had is with Spoon Man

at the Scruffy City or whatever. whatever. Zeus. Or preservation pub, right? Yeah. Yeah, Zeus. Yeah, Zeus. That's my only dealings.

And I mean, he just told me I hit and then gave me a ring. Yeah. So, I mean, good racket, by the way. If you, listen, if you just tell people they hit and give them jewelry, I bet they'll give you $10 to sit in a booth with you for a while. If you got a bone through your face or whatever is he's got, Jesus Christ, man. That's a whole different thing.

Yeah, we just compared Michael Jordan to a guy who can dunk but is homeless down at the Oh, speaking of which, I got to watch the latest episode of that. Y'all been watching Last Dance? No, I'm waiting until it's all out. Yeah, I hear you. I wish that I had done that kind of because, but it has been neat. It's felt old school to wait on something and have to watch it when it comes out. And, you know, I don't know.

I'm grilling out. I'm hanging out with a family. I'm watching TV like a normal person. It feels like the 90s. You know what I mean? And Jerry Seinfeld's there. Yeah, there you go. All right.

well let's all go ahead. Hey, BJ Barham's new album, American Aquarium, I got the head on. I guess people aren't watching this, so I'm pointing at it for no reason. Lamentations.

Really, really good. Yeah, it's really good. If you want to be sad, and it's really good, even if you don't want to be, it's fucking tremendous. Also, Isbell drops this Friday

for all you Isbel heads out there. It's a good goddamn week for music. It's cute. You. You. Thank you all for listening, too, the well-read show. We love to stick around longer, but we got to go.

We're doing below. Tune in next week, if you got nothing to do. Thank you. God bless you, Trey and Drew. Oh, shit. What? Do it. I was just going to chime in with the way it actually goes,

but then you did a different thing after Drew already did a different thing in the middle of it, and it just. Oh, my bad. No, it's all right. It's my bad. Leave this in there. I am. He's going to, for sure.

Of course. Anyway, bye. Bye. Bye.