wellRED podcast - #19 - Comey Testimony, Conrad Thompson, and Mr. Butt!

Episode Date: June 14, 2017

This week the boys sit down in their condo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to discuss all this hubub about Russia, Comey's Testimony, and Drew basically predicts the Kamala Harris/Jeff Sessions showdown. Also, our friend Mr. Butt stops by to give us his unique perspective on the whole situation.After all that, we sit down for an interview in Huntsville, Alabama with the Co-Host of the insanely popular podcast Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard .. our good buddy Conrad Thompson. When it comes to professional wrestling, Conrad knows it all and we use that to our advantage as we dive in to what Drew considers "modern day Shakespeare".We discuss our favorite wrestlers as well as shining the light on how important the south has been in defining the sport. Check er out!!!! Skeeeewww!! As always, go to wellREDcomedy.com for tickets to shows and for merch and all that good stuff. 

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Ah, fuck. I mean, it was hard not to. Yeah. Where's the whole that? Where's ball? No. Lord, no. They'd just be out of where it's just right here.

Lord. Yeah. Yeah. It makes it look like a G-string type situation. Yeah, it does. Like I should be able to put stuff in here. We'll have to release this pick with the episode. Yeah.

I'm kind of surprised Corey don't wear like thong, like male thongs, whatever, more like banana hammock type of bill. It would check out. Well, those would make sense for whatever reason. The new underwear that I got is it does have that holster for my balls, and you've commented on it before because it makes them look super big. Yeah, but it still, it also has like the leg, the legs and shit. Like a...

What now? The legs? I mean, they're like boxer briefs, but they have an additional compartment for his gargantuan balls. Yeah. But I'm saying the meat undies that I have. Oh, right, because I have them off brands. Let's stop talking about them. I'm not trying to will them in the sponsor to podcast or something.

They want us to talk more about it. They better come correct. That's true. With some me undies money. But it does make my balls look extra huge, which is, you know, that's saying something. Yeah, that's a, yeah, that's no small feet there. Mm-mm. No small balls.

I could probably go to Banana Hammock. I'm not, I'm definitely not opposed. Like those, those Speedos that we wore on Bert Show, I was very comfortable in them. It felt good. It always seemed weird to me like that. you know, Wimmernes and thongs, it always seemed to me like that wouldn't be comfortable at all.

Because they're all up in your butt crack. Yeah, I don't think it is. That's very much a we just told them this would be sexy and made them do it and some of them do a thing. I mean, I don't know. I mean,

I'm like, does Amber stay wearing them? No. Because Katie wears them all the time. And I'm saying like, like, even when she's just, like,

point being sexiness is not entering the equation at all. Oh, Yeah, because I don't think. I think she used to. And then, like, we're... I know she used to. Right. And then we're committed now.

She's like, cool, I don't have to do this. But, like, yeah, it's up your butt crack. But at the same time, other than that, your whole butt is just out. Right. Yeah. And so, like, that seems like that would hit. Right. But the part that's up your butt crack, that don't hit.

But your whole butt being out, that part does it. You get used to it, I assume. Yeah, I guess. I mean, I've worn women's panties before. Me too. And it does. does feel really good. I kind of like it.

For me, I think it feels good in like a sexual way. I don't think it actually feels comfortable for me. No, I know what you mean. Like, I'm not supposed to be doing this. But are you also saying it's comfortable physically?

I see now that you've said that, I don't know if part of it was like, I felt comfortable in it. Like, this is who I am. I need to be wearing these panties. But I also kind of don't get how like, okay, if that,

if it is comfortable, like it does hit for them, like, and you're talking about, oh, what's sexy or whatever? Well, why do they even,

why wear anything at all at that point? You know what I mean? They're not getting, it's not like a bra or nothing where they're getting a supporter. Like, you know, you got balls. Holding your balls up is a thing with underwear. But like, they ain't got nothing down there to hold up. So like, well, they got things to hold in, not to be gross or whatever,

but that might be part of it. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. But also, wait a minute. Are you asking me, what's the point of them? Dongs are sexy, too. Yeah, but I'm saying so is just naked. So it's just not, I'm not wearing any panties.

I mean, that hits too. Well, it hits harder than thongs. So why wear thong? Well, like I said, I think, I mean, you can't see panty lines and thongs. That's a big part of it with dresses. Now, you could say go back to why not naked, but if they're wearing a dress, that might blow up. Yeah, that leaves a lot of danger, number one. And then number two, you know, I think they sometimes, I think there's a reason for women's underwear other than, you know, I know support ain't one of them.

I should know more about this. I mean, I know for me, I've got to wear underwear because I will, from time to time, accidentally shit on myself. Right, and women will be doing that, although I don't think phones, they do discharge. Other things happen. Yeah, that's what I was saying earlier. Yeah, yeah, okay. All right. All right.

We gross. Yeah. We are. Humans. Humans. Yeah, humans. We as people are gross. I think.

It's funny how little we understand about that, though. And how, even though, like, I would totally make fun of someone who were saying periods were gross. Right. I kind of just did the same thing. Like how we just are sitting here just going, how come women don't just be naked under them to run? I don't get it. We're done.

Anyway, what's going on, Drew, in the world? I mean, it's been a, it's been a hell of a week and it's going to continue to be something, as usual,

you know. Yeah, but is it, though, really? Is it really what, been a hell of a week, or is it always going to be this way?

Like, is it ever going to amount to anything, I guess is what I'm saying. Well, I mean, it's already amounted to some stuff. We're talking about James Cummary's testimony is what we're talking about. But there's other stuff to talk about now, you know, since then. So, I mean, is it going to amount to something? At the very least it's going to amount to the fact that this is what we're talking about instead of anything else. And, you know, it just came out of the day that Trump had this weird meeting where he made everyone in the meeting on his cabinet.

Not made them, but he like called upon all of them to say some. words, quote unquote, about his first 143 days, and they all praised him. Like, he did that last week? He did it, I think, yesterday. Okay. That's weird. Rens Prebius's quote was, we've done really well so far, and it's been a blessing to work here. That was what he had to, like, that's what he said to me.

I'm saying that to say, you know, you're like, is it going to amount to anything? It is a amount of something. We have a crazy person in there, and I think even Republicans know it. But let's, that was in the details. Let's go back. All right. So Comey's testimony. I watched some of it while walking to the liquor store from your house.

I went to the liquor store. We had stuff to do that night, podcast, or maybe it was the night of the show. I don't even remember now. I'm so tired. And they were watching it there. At the liquor store? Yes. And it was wild because it was a Middle Eastern man with a turban working out of the liquor

store watching Comey testify on CNN, snapshot of America. But when we've talked about this at our live shows, I didn't really watch Comey testify because I read his testimony. Right. And I was like, well, if I read in the news that he went away from that at all, then we'll pick up on that. But there wasn't really anything there that we didn't already know. Right.

It's under oath now, so maybe that's a bigger deal. But there's not really anything there. Well, you tell us, is that a bigger deal? You're the longer. because that's all I could really take away from it since there wasn't anything new that we hadn't already heard. And it was like, well, but it's still significant because now it's under oath. I mean, is that true? Is there anything too there?

That's part of it. And then also we locked Comey down on some things that we kind of knew. But like now he has said it on record. Do you know what I mean? So it's not like he said it and now he said it under oath so it's more important. It's more like it was speculation and now it's evidence. It's literal testimony. I guess the three biggest things is we knew what he was going to say or we thought we did that Trump said to him, and he did.

And he said that Trump said to him, I hope you can see your way into letting this go. This being the investigation of Flynn. So he said, I hope you can see your way into letting this go. He's a good dude. Comey said under oath, I took that to mean stop investigating. Now, what was one thing that was surprising, what else could that even have possibly meant? Well, I mean, letting this go. Quite literally, quite literally, it could mean I hope you do it. Not I'm instructing you to do it, not you should do it. Just, this is a wish that I have. And the only Republican defense, quote unquote, defense of Trump at all, and this was one thing that was telling, the Republicans did not defend Trump during this hearing. They didn't really go after Comey. One Republican woman, I can't remember her name. name, sort of

challenged him in the sense of like, I know it's intimidating in the Oval Office, but you're fucking James Comey. Why didn't you push back? Right. And then, but then another Republican, I don't remember his name either, he said, have you ever in your experience prosecuting cases known anyone to be

even charged with obstruction of justice for saying a hope out loud? And that's when Comey came back with it. Well, there was the context, and blah, blah, blah. I don't think that's obstruction of justice, but I absolutely believe you could charge someone with it. Charge someone with it. You know, you could bring the charges.

But bringing charges and bringing an impeachment, technically the same thing, but actually quite different, obviously, in terms of the context. Like, you know, charging someone on the street. I mean, I fucking posted about this. I had a 13-year-old client that got charged of obstruction for saying to a police officer, stop hurting him, I'm about to film you. He got dismissed, but they charged him.

They charged him. You know, and then there's like, there's this vet in Florida that got charge of obstruction for filming the police, didn't interact with him, didn't get that close, stood back, but they kept saying, stop filming me, I'm going to charge you with obstruction, and they did, and he got found guilty, and he won on appeal.

So, I mean, like, you know, if you ain't the president and White, it'd be happening. Well, hell, that well, I shouldn't even say this because I have so little details to add to it, but I did see on the internet shortly afterwards where some guy had so it was on Reddit,

it was some dude on Reddit, who said he was a He found these, he's, it found three instances in like case law of somebody getting, uh, convicted or whatever of obstruction of justice. At the federal level. For hope it. See, I mean, I don't know. That's the thing. That would be interesting.

I would love to see that. Uh, I wish that we had pulled that article up so we can read it. Well, I know. I didn't think about it. Should have sent it to me. Talking. You know, we work together and stuff. People at work share emails next time forward me that stuff.

Yeah, we'll see. I just read that. that headline basically. It was like, well, there you go. Right. That's how I do.

Especially on Reddit. Yeah, I don't need. I think there's two other things. Real research. I think there's two other things that came out that are way more, to me, a bigger deal than that,

for me personally. Like, he said that we all know what he meant, but we can't prove it, whatever. You know what I mean? He was smart about it. Fucking Trump wins again somehow.

But they also asked Comey, why do you think you were fired? And he said, and this was a great point, he said, I don't have to speculate. Right. He said to the media that he fired me for my, the way I handled the investigation

of Michael Flynn and Russia's ties to this election. That to me is fucking clear-cut obstruction. I am firing you because the way you're handling an investigation. Now, I could see an argument that, well, hold on. Are you saying a president can't fire someone for not doing a good enough job investigating? Well, no, of course.

If your job is to investigate and your boss doesn't think you're doing a good job, I could see that. But he's investigating Trump's staff. Right. You're the target, ultimately. And your people, and you haven't said he's not going hard enough. You've actually said the opposite. You've said, this is bullshit, blah, blah, blah. So I could see a way around it in court, you know what I mean, arguing?

No, no, no, no. I need to fire him because. this was this was bullshit but this is why this is really dicey and frankly i need i think we need some different fucking rules i mean we have a system of checks and balances and it's not that fart was really loud i hope it picked up in the mics i really wish i had my headphones on right now we got a system of checks and balances that's what mr butt thought about that statement yeah and by the way for once that wasn't made they've got a system of fiber balance mr mr butt weighing in on the calm man.

What do you say about this about the bus of the butt? Y'all, you all remember that fake commercial on SNL with Phil Hartman fiber colon blow? Colin blow. Colin blow. Do you know how many bowls of

raising brand you'd have to eat? To equal one bowl of colon? And it just stacked up to the ceiling. He had one chairman of them. Oh, God damn it. That was great. Well, those bowls represent all the lies trump tails. Stacked up. Yeah. And it should.

Well, anyway, I could see a way around that in terms of an argument. What I was saying about checks and bounces is, man, I think there's a hole right here in these checks and bounces. If the president can legally fire someone for investigating him, what the fuck are we doing? Yeah, no shit. Which is a good segue into the next thing I want to talk about, but I'm going to say that because there's one other thing from Comey's testimony that struck me. and this has nothing to do necessarily with impeachment, but it's interesting. They asked him, well, in your meetings about the investigation, not this meeting where he said this about, I hope you can drop it, but your briefings about the investigation, what was Trump like? And he said, you guys know what he said?

We didn't have none of them. And they said, the president hasn't been briefed on what's going on. that because he's a part of it? No, he wasn't under investigation. So why? He didn't ask. He didn't want any. Is that normal? No. I had these types of meetings all the time with President Obama. He had, he's shown no interest in this investigation outside of telling me, I hope you can see your way through it. In other words, the only thing he's ever said to me is drop this. He's never asked me how it's going, what the evidence is, any of that. And like, I feel like the point is, It might have been that Comey had to tell him, I can't tell you what the evidence is.

But his total lack of interest in the fact that Russia meddled in our elections, take the Flynn situation out of it. Just like what they were doing on the Internet. You know what I mean? Spreading fake news and shit like that. He's shown no interest in it. None. Right.

Well, but. And the assumption is it's not an actual lack of interest that he has. But like, you know, if you're on our side, you're thinking, well, you know, if you're guilty or, you know, you have like, skeletons in the causes or whatever when it comes to that, why would you ever bring it up? You know what I mean? Like, that's like... I'm going to be honest.

That's true, but I'm also kind of leaning the other way. He just doesn't give a fuck about... Right, like, anything. And since he is ignorant and didn't, you know, quote-unquote do this, like, clearly his people, at the very least Flynn has fucking done something wrong. But, like, if he himself... really didn't know and he's just like no I don't want to hear about how I didn't deserve to win

and he probably also I mean this would be totally in keeping with his character and everything like he just assumes that you know that it's gonna that he's gonna be fine well that's what I was so it's like why like this is even bring it up

it's like oh yeah this is the first time who cares about that fucking whatever yeah this is the first time he's like realizing like oh I can't just do whatever the fuck I want like what are you talking but so like yeah in his mind He's just like, well, this isn't, this isn't going to be a thing. So I think part of his whole deal about, you know, running the country like a business, which is what people, you know, said they wanted or a lot of them did.

It's like, well, if you're just running a business and as long as you're not, you know, fire, basically you can do whatever the fuck you want, whatever the fuck you want. If it's your business and you're in charge, as long as you're not firing a black guy for being black or, you know, a gay guy for being gay or whatever. Outside of that, you can do literally whatever the fuck you want to. And that's what he expected. presidency to be like was that exact same thing so yeah i mean it's very clear that he you know didn't understand at all what it was going to be like and i can't fault his ignorance

but i can't fault his total lack of giving a fuck about learning right all right well we'll move on to the next point yeah learning no help um he has been saying now that he's going to testify some yeah he said that a few times i'm glad you brought that up Part of the reason he's saying that is he's saying Comey lied. What's wild about that, though, is he's also saying Comey vindicated him. He's saying his testimony showed that I didn't do anything in terms of obstruction. You know, that doesn't amount to obstruction and this doesn't amount to obstruction. And he's said all that, so I'm vindicated.

But also he's a liar. Right. And this is the perfect example of this bullshit double Trump speak that his fucking seemingly hardcore base just doesn't give a shit about. He can get on there. and say this man totally, you know, abdicated me from any wrongdoing, but also he lied the whole time. Well, which is it? Right.

And he'll say this is, everything in the media is fake. This is all fake news until there's like an article that somehow praises him or something. Then he'll share the goddamn link on his Twitter's. Which one is it? Is it fake news or is this one real? What am I fucking supposed to believe? This is like when you're in a fight with your wife or boyfriend or whatever. they tell you they're sorry but also get mad at you for being upset yeah i'm sorry for what i did

but also it's bullshit that you're mad right well so yeah him being like yeah all gladly i'll gladly testify under oath i mean shouldn't that be like our many you know those of us on the left shouldn't that be like our white whale now at this point because here's what i mean because we just based off everything like he lies so in just like he lies so stupidly even like he lies about things that there's video evidence of him and I'm talking about like innocuous things about oh I never said that and they show him three clips of him on the campaign trail saying that exact thing like that's the level at which he lies and also there's also the like the reports came out about from from lawyers of his in the past before he was ever president like you you know, lawyers that he employed as a businessman who used to, and again, they represented him. And it was them saying, we never, ever went into a meeting with Donald Trump without, like, additional third party people there to keep the records or whatever. And they're like, why not?

It's like, well, because he's full of shit. Because he would just say things and then later say that he didn't say him, you know. So, like, he has a long, long. recorded history of doing that kind of shit. So if we get him under oath, he's going to say some shit that is not true and that is ridiculous. And if you're under oath and you're the president,

you do that, I mean, that's what happened with Bill Clinton. He was lying about a fucking blow job. This is lying about, you know, treason of whatever. Right,

exactly. And if that's what happened with Clinton, then Trump, they should have like 25 counts of that by the time that testimony is over. That's a big deal, right? There's only two scenarios. Because Trump won't do it.

Well, that's why I don't think he'll do it because everybody knows. Where are you going to say? Well, there's two scenarios. I'll tell you why he won't do it. Trump, if he does go on there, Trump does what you just said. And he lies. And that's what that is. Or what's the other thing?

He tells the fucking truth. Right. And then it is what we think it is. But he ain't going to do that. So, yeah, it's fucked either way. So he's not going to do that. Well, he's not going to do that. And here's why I don't think he's going to do that.

Everything you just said, the Republicans know that. You know, Lindsey Graham is going on every single fucking channel he can get on and saying Donald Trump is going to be the first Republican president who loses his presidency because he won't shut up about an investigation. Now, I want you to think about what Lindsey Graham is indirectly admitting there. He is admitting. He's not saying that my president didn't do anything right. Right. And he's not saying, my president. He's not smart enough.

He's the only one dumb enough to not talk about it. He's the only one dumb enough to not be able to cover it up appropriately, like the rest of us have done for years and years. And he's saying he's not saying he's telling the truth. He's not saying he needs to shut up because these people are just out to get him. He is saying if he goes up there, he'll definitely lie. He's admitting that he's a fucking liar. So they know exactly what you're saying.

And what's wild about it is they're not hiding it. Lindsey Graham is going on television and saying to his supporters and to the president and to the Republican base, we got to get him to shut up, guys, because he's, it's like, is no one on that side giving a single fuck? The premise of that is that he is going to lie. They just want to win. That's all they want. Of course. They're fucking lizard people.

I hate Lindsey Graham. Lindsay Graham is one of the worst. Lindsay Graham is closeted, homosexual, which of course is fine. if you don't want to come out of the closet, you shouldn't be forced to, but he passes legislation related to that family first bullshit that goes against gay people's rights all the time. Yeah. And yes, people are going to be like, you don't know that and it's not right to out people and blah, blah, blah, blah. And that's fine, but I do know that actually. I got that on really, really, really good authority.

Like, wait, what, that he's gay? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, somebody sucked his winner? All right, let's move on. what Mr. Butt got to say about that.

Yeah, you're going to get... I know, murdered. Corey cut that out so I don't die. Inside Corey's head, all I've ever wanted is true to die. So, you just said, at the end of the day, all they care about is winning. Which brings us back to something else we talked about on this same before, which is, does any of this even fucking matter?

Because, like, if that is ultimately the number one thing, that's driving them winning and just staying in power or whatever will they no matter what the fuck he said even if they get him under oath and he says some bullshit whatever else like will it ever fucking matter

until we take the majority back away from them at either the midterms or in 2020 or whatever if we're even able to fucking do that if people vote that's another fucking problem right now because he split the Democrats in half without that if that doesn't happen

and will they ever do shit about it in the fucking first place? Well, here's the thing. This is right now, I said recently when we first talked about this stuff with Russia, I don't remember how many podcasts ago. You know, I pointed out that, well, right now it's great for them because they're trying to push through all this legislation and he's the distraction, he's what's in the news. But the flip side of that, they ain't gotten shit done. Right.

Because this is all that's going on. That's why Lindsay Graham wants them to shut the fuck up. Right. and that I'm wondering if that's going to come to a head finally if Lindsay if the Lindsay Grams and Mitch McConnell's of the world are finally going to be like you're the distraction is actually too much trouble for what it's worse we'll see I'm and then they'll throw on with the dogs like I'm start like on the one hand I want them to do something about I want some to actually happen for him to be held responsible for this bullshit but then on

the other hand the longer it stretches out and the longer it goes on I'm kind of of like, well, let, you know, let's just keep stretching it out. Let's keep it, let's keep this, let's keep this fucking side show going. Right. And that way he and the rest of them aren't doing anything else other than dealing with this bullshit up until the fucking midterms, then, you know, maybe the Democrats could take some power back and then get him out of there and then move on from there. So let's just fucking, maybe we should just stretch it out because then Pence doesn't get

into power and all that. shit. We talked again about this last time and you said, you know, what are they doing? And I said, well, I think maybe they're trying to make it to where they, when they get rid of him. No, you said, I guess they're wanting credit. Like, they want to make it to where when they get rid of them, it's like they can be the good guys.

Right, right. I think I figured out what Mitch McConnell's plan is. And the reason I think that this is what the plan is because it's smart and evil and I hate it. Stretch it out. make the base mad. Not at Donald Trump, but at these quote unquote,

awful liberals and bullshit moderate Republicans who are obsessed with getting rid of Trump instead of moving on and letting who won one and letting the government govern. In other words, get rid of him only when you can make it the liberals fault and you can make enough people mad at the liberals for it happening. In other words, I do want rid of Donald Trump.

But when it happens, I want enough people pissed about it and blaming the other side for it that not only do I get what I want and Trump's gone, I also get to be the good guy who was trying to just govern and move on and not get bogged down in this bullshit Russia conspiracy theories because I'm just trying to govern. And these goddamn Democrats won't let it go. And we ain't going to let them do that to us, are we base? Yeah, but how can that... It'll work. To me, as far as like just purely a numbers game, how can that... ever possibly work out in that way. To what end?

To me, the only way you can, if you're Mitch McConnell getting reelected. The only way if you're Mitch McConnell that you can accurately point the finger at the liberals and say it's their fault that he got ousted or whatever means that the liberals had the ability to make that happen, which means that the liberals have already won the majority and whatever else in the first place. Are you saying like you, that's like him saying, we're going to give up all these seats. They don't have to win the majority. can then be like, look, it was their fault and then try to win all those scenes back?

They don't have to win the majority. They have to win the majority. They have to win this game, this game of building evidence and all that. And I'm not talking about nationally. I'm talking about Congress, the 2018 elections. If you make enough Republicans in your base in Kentucky or wherever else angry about what's happening on that level and make the Democrats to be the ones at fault for it, you win those. even if you do lose the presidential election next time. I don't know. It's just a theory I had. I didn't really think it through.

No, man, it's not. That's fair. There's a way bigger deal going on now, though, in my opinion. And he, a turtle. He's such a turtle. And he's always trying to win a turtle race. He's wanting to be a lizard. He's a marathon guy.

He's not a sprinter. He's always thinking eight steps ahead. Trump's the hair. He's got a hold of his back. And he's riding with the... I don't know. This metaphor is stupid. I'm so tired of raw on her underwear.

It's daylight outside at 10 people. p.m. in Canada. 11 p.m. Yeah, God damn. All right. He has said, and then supposedly some news organization got one of his quote-unquote friends to say in an interview that Trump... Wade Hall Hood. McConnell? Trump.

Okay. That he is considering firing Robert Mueller. But hang on a second. Hold on. Trump said that he is considering firing Robert Mueller, the special investigator appointed by Congress, to investigate ties to Russia. Wouldn't he have to fire

what's his name, Sessions Sessions Underling, who's the one who appointed Mueller in the first place? Or just tell that guy you'll get fired if you don't do it. Which is literally exactly what Nixon did. Nixon said, fire that guy and the A.G. said, no, I won't. And the deputy A.G. said, no,

I won't. So he fired both of them until he got to a guy that would fire that guy. And then that guy fired him and it all fell apart. Yes, that's why I'm bringing it up. This, to me, would be so good for us, which is another reason I don't think he'll do it. His advisors will actually cut him off on this one, and they'll make him see that it's a bad idea. But I know that their camp, quote unquote, has already started considering it because Rush Limbaugh,

when Robert Mueller first came out, Rush Limbaugh was so fully on board. This dude is impeccable. He's so to be trusted, blah, blah, blah. Literally, three weeks later, Rush Limbaugh is tweeting, follow the money. Who's this guy really connected to? They're scrambled. which makes me think Robert Mueller might be. And I said I was, yeah, earlier I was like,

nah, maybe I don't really trust that this. I think it's going to be a bullshit smoking mirrors game. Maybe he's found in something. Who's this guy really connected to? hilarious. What do you mean? Like Russia? It would be wild if this guy had some shady backdoor connections going on.

We can't have that. So you mean the fucking government. You mentioned Sessions. You mentioned Jefferson Buregard Sessions, the third. Your boy. I can't believe. You're a boy. I hate him more than anyone in the cabinet right now.

If he was in the cabinet, if he was in the cabinet, if it was a literal cabinet, he would be like, what do you hate in the cabinet? I was going to say spam, and then I know you two would get so pissed. Being in the cabinet is I think somebody who doesn't admit they're racist in the South, but is racist. I was going to call him the racist in the cupboard. So no, he's like the little, like, civil war figurine and put it in the magical cupboard from the children's store and you close it and open it up and it's just Jefferson Boomer Guard session. Did you all right that VHS when he's a kid? Of course. It came with a little Indian in it.

What I'm saying is Trump's cabinet, if it were a real cabinet, it would just be full of like vegemite and shit that sucks. Food it ain't no good. Is it not hit? No, it's gross. dude I all right well I had quick sidebar I haven't surprisingly so I have but I ate it the way on toast I ate it the way that we would eat like you know like butter whatever which means like slathered on

I've with a spoon I've read it like or with a spoon I've heard that like it's supposed to be very very conservatively applied to like of course you went in you're right I'm saying I said the way we eat stuff which means I went in But vegamide is not meant to be went in upon. It's meant to be spread very thinly and it's like it's a subtle thing. If you put it on there. If I'm not mistaken, it was made literally to feed people back when Australia had a hard time doing that.

Right. And like to provide nutrients. It goes a long way. And it's gross. But I ate it like an American eat shit. So maybe if I had eaten it the correct way, it might have hit for me. I bet it did not hit. No, I, dude, it was fucking terrible.

It's bitter. It's gross. Yeah, bitter. I like bitter stuff. Super bitter. Super salty. I mean, yeah, salt hits, but I'm saying. It's salty.

It's bitter. Yeah, it didn't have for me. It's shitty. But if it was... It's four poor people, it claims, but they hate it. It's Jeff Sessions. He is a salty motherfucker. Exactly.

That's the funniest shit. Well, anyway, he's testifying tomorrow. Now, by tomorrow, I mean, Tuesday. This will come out Wednesday. day. So by the time you hear this podcast, folks, Well Rettters, people have testified. I call them Wellreditions. I've heard some of your intros and they're something else. So I don't really know what he's going to say. I am very curious to hear it because there's a lot more there. Because he's, as you guys recall, he's the guy who said, I never met with the Russians, got the job.

Turns out the FBI's investigating him. And they're like, well, what about this? meeting that you had at the fucking Republican convention and he was like well that was me meeting an ambassador as a senator that happens all the time and then they were like and what about this and what about this and it kept because I'm very curious as to see what he

has to say. Also like the over under on him saying an N word you know what I mean it's like 10 minutes in at least right? Jefferson? Yeah. Without a doubt well party as a lawyer like you got to I mean he's good what he does you know what I mean? So he's he's

He's like right now being prepped by some of the smartest people in the game. That's what I'm saying. Like, we're talking about Trump going in there. It's like, yeah, of course he's going to go in there to look like a fucking dumb ass. Right. My man Beauregard is not going to look like a day. He'll look like a goddamn evil sack of shit to us because we don't like what he's saying, but it will be good. He ain't going to, he going to misstep.

I am excited to hear Camilla Harris, the senator from California, female black, former prosecutor, go up against him. I'm very curious about. about that like how long it takes him to break to say the N word or call her a woman right yeah yeah full full sexist yeah yeah that'll be something else I kind of wish she were a man because just for sorry ladies but just for one instance because it if she went as hard as I know she'll goes and it was a man he he would call him boy right and then we'd hopefully be rid of him well yeah that too and but like also just with people that love

Jefferson Buregard. A woman goes super hard. They're all just going to be, ugh, what a bitch. Well, sure. But the thing is, there's like bigger damage. Yeah, but it was a black dude who's like, oh, what a... Yeah, yeah, exactly. Rhyms with chigger.

Don't have a Bill Maher on me, Trey. I'm not. I'm not. I'm saying, but that's what they'd say. Well, okay. Okay. I think we should play a Jeff Sessions' drinking game tomorrow, though. Um, So if you're out, well, I was going to say if you're out there do this, but fuck, never mind.

Y'all remember that great sketch? I think I've talked with us about it before on Mr. Show. Mm-hmm. The, the, the, the, it was a call-in show. Yeah, it was the one they, if you're listening to live live live. Yeah. I about have one of them moments where I was like, tomorrow, during the testimony, play this drinking game, except this comes out on Wednesday. So the testimony will have, I don't know how time works.

You can just replay the testimony and still. do it. You'll probably need more of a reason to drink after the goddamn thing. I don't know. Well, Corey, where we at? About 35. All right, so. I want to tell them about something. Go ahead. No, no, no, no. Go ahead.

I was going to change the subject to something more lighthearted and silly. Me too. You go first if you want. I was going to ask a question, which was, uh, and this is totally random now nowhere. Me and Corey was talking about this last night. And, um, Corey over here eating on my food out my bare hands. what you want to bite it too come on daddy

here talking about my sandwich babies feed my baby is that 7-11 sandwich what's the uh like what's your we actually did kind of talk about this

earlier I think at some point earlier today but like what's your biggest guilty pleasure when it comes to uh art pop culture shit that you like that other people don't like

Have we talked about this on the air before? I don't think so. I wish you'd give me a little bit more prep time. Damn. Are you talking about... For now, let's just keep it brawl. Music, movies, right, shows, whatever. When you say stuff that I like that everybody else don't like,

do you mean, like, people that might listen to us? I'm not talking about people in Chickamauga. Like, I'm saying stuff that you know don't have a lot of artistic value. Well, I would fight some of them if they told me Joe Diffie don't have any artistic value, but I expect a lot of people feel that way. Yeah, I also would never. I was going to say Dixie Chicks, but I don't feel guilty worth of fuck.

No, Dixie Chicks don't count. You're wrong about Dixie Chicks. A lot of people, like, on all spectrums. Dixie Chicks ain't a good answer because. I guess what I mean is people that hit on the Upper East Side. What I meant was is people that wouldn't think that I would like them. And that's kind of what I thought you were saying. Like it's very weird.

It's maybe weird to be able that I like. No, no, you feel guilty. But you know you've got to defend it. Right. And I, yeah, I don't have to defend that. Well, he doesn't know what guilt is, Trey. So that's why I'm having to describe that. So one of y'all has an answer?

Yeah, my, y'all's taste is just too impeccable. No, no, I don't. My first answer, I've got to think about this. My first answer is definitely Joe Diffy. I feel like there's a lot of circles I'd have to defend that end. And then the circles that I wouldn't have to defend that in, I might have to defend my love of Kelly Clarkson. Lord, she hits from me.

Her music, I fucking jam out to Kelly Clark. Sit you big God! And again, I don't know if this is a good answer, but I feel like I'm constantly defending. and Jimmy Buffett. I can't breathe for them. Yeah, but I'm so moving on.

Yeah. What I sent you been going to. Yeah. We're going to get royalties demanded now for this episode for that. For that stirring rendition. But, uh,

actually, you know, I said, didn't we talk about this earlier? It was the Jimmy Buffett conversation. And I mean, honestly, man, I don't know.

I, I masturbate too much. I feel guilty about that. What? Everybody likes masturbate. baiting. I feel good to go, too. Jimmy Buffett might be a good example.

I think most people, especially of our generation, identified Jimmy Buffett. Identified Jimmy Buffett solely as the Margaritaville, Cheeseburger, and Paradise guys. So, Corey, explain to us why he's more than that, why Jimmy Buffett actually does hit. Okay, I want to do this for Joe Diffy, too. Go ahead. Which those are perfectly fine.

I mean, yeah, they are commercial, whatever, but I mean, they're fun songs. But, you know, his old shit, man, he's got some actually, he's a great lyricist. Like, I mean, again, to me, I'll kind of. so you have to defend him because yeah most people aren't diving that far back in but his old records literally diving i mean all his records about going diving but right well you know the first ones he you know yes they had some boat shit but well when he first started why don't we get drunken screw is high art he just bought a water bed it's filled up for me and you yeah that's a fantastic song but i mean that song is terrible that song is that song ain't terrible that song is

exactly what it should be why don't we get drunk and screw have you heard the story about why he wrote that he was in Atlanta he wanted to get drunk and screw some woman he was in it no he was in Atlanta and he just done a show I can't remember where it was but he was in Atlanta I'm saying to bar I can't remember if he was that when he wasn't when he's

doing theaters but he just saw this old businessman who was clearly peddling for a hooker and he was hammered and he said that dude's trying to have this conversation with this woman to get her to go up to his hotel and he's literally just falling into his spaghetti like the whole fucking time

and so he just sat there and wrote that song like, well, this is what you should say. So, like, yeah, it's a, it's a cute little fucking let's get drunk and get hammered song, but it's got a unique story. It's a cute little let's get drunk and get hammered song. One of the lines is, I heard you are the smut queen. You know, adorable. Snuff queen. Isn't that worse? The snuff film?

He says snuff queen. I think it's smut queen. Is it smut queen? But hold on, snuff is worse. Snuff made murder. Yeah, murder porn. But also women back into older women. and older people back then.

Murder porn people. You know that snuff was dip. People used to dip snuff. I don't think that's what it is. But my mama did dip. She used to always had like a dip trail going down to chin. And she also had a beard so the tobacco spill would get caught in her beard. And that was hilarious.

Either way, it don't matter. He went to Paris is one of the greatest goddamn song that's ever been written. It's fantastic. That's fair. I like his shit. I don't feel. But I don't feel guilty about it. That's my thing.

And like you said, I don't feel guilt. You don't really. So I don't, this, yeah, I look fucking Taylor Swift. of late, that's what I've been fucking with. Gross. Maybe that's, right. Yeah. All right.

Me and Corey was talking about Taylor Swift recently. I don't want to do this. No, let's do it. I might. You and your wife both. Hager. Hate Taylor Swift. Talk shit about her.

Yes. You don't hit. Okay. That's what it's. Don't hit. You're not going to, like. No, I ain't got nothing to say. Everybody out there knows what Taylor Simpson sounds like.

They either agree with you or know that I'm right. Kevin Swift is a pop star. Okay. I said I don't want to talk about it. She's one of the very few ones who actually was writing her own songs. To me, that in and of itself is enough to set her apart. That's actually a bit of a myth these days. Like the Pop-Tart teenager in sync Britney Spears of the world, but like, dude, Pink, Katie Perry, Miley Cyrus,

who we just talked about. Jimmy Buffett? No. Kelly Clarkson. Justin Bieber Justin Timberlake Lady Gaga They'd be writing their own songs now

Taylor Swift Broke through it like 16 years old She was a 16 year old girl Writing songs that became I stand by what I said Everyone out there listen to this Will either agree with you Or be right

That's just how it is Okay well what I don't want to argue with you about it I don't care enough I don't give a shit about Taylor's flow. Well, hold on just a second. Next time you're trying to argue with me on something, can I do what you're doing right now? It depends if it's relevant to our life or not.

Because sometimes you don't want to argue about something, but we have to do a thing, and that's what we're arguing about. Okay. But otherwise, yes. Even bringing this question up, though. Was to defend your guilty pleasures? And you're like, no. And you're like, no, fuck it. I'm not having this conversation with you.

No. The point of this was to defend our guilty pleasures. You were trying to get me to defend something I dislike. That's very different. I don't care. It's not a big deal. I'm not arguing with you. But see, you guys, when I saw you guys, I'm talking about you and Andy.

It's Andy. It's just Andy. Y'all don't say, that's fine. You like her, I don't like her. That's okay. You say, no, she's not talented. I never said she's not talented. And I'm literally saying that.

It's fine. You like her. My wife won't. That's what's going on here. Who's your strike? You have gotten an argument. I mean, like, I respect her. I don't listen.

I never, ever, ever listen to her on the airplane two days. I listen to her on the airplane two. ago. That's fair, Tray. But what's definitely happening here is you fight with my wife about this. You think she's unfair or ridiculous about it, and now you're casting that on me. I understand your points. Who's your guilty pleasure, Trey?

I can't name one specific artist. I'm just going to name a genre of things, which is when I be lifting weights, which I clearly don't do enough since I'm a doy fat fuck. But I do be lifting weights. And when I lift weights, I listen to a lot of, uh, Well, I bro out. You spit a little Dorito piece on the microphone when you said that. But I bro out.

And so, like, that takes two forms, which is stuff from a few years back, which is like Theory of a Dead Man, Hinder type of shit. Which, Hinder ain't on the playlist, but I'd say, Theory of a Dead Man, God's Mac, slip knot that type shit and now newer stuff it's like a

knife party fucking bro step yeah type shit that I do that like is that real or did you make that up bro step

and I've heard people call it bro step before but so I listen that shit literally only in that instance but in that instance I really enjoy it while also

objectively realizing that a lot of it is just straight up garbage. You know what I mean? Yeah. And that paradox, well, not that paradox, but that kind of paradox just made me remember what my other one is. But anyway, you just like the beat, though.

Like, you're just trying to, you know, like, it's aggressive. It's masculine. It's testosterone, which is what I'm trying to channel at the time. Not far as somehow doesn't sound masculine, even though obviously knives, quote, unquote, that's like phallic. But in my head, just because I associate that with like, you know, people in a lot of neon, and not a lot of clothes. I'm sure it is masculine.

The music's masculine? It's, well, like I said, it's aggressive. Okay. And there's another, there's like this French, there's like this French edm dubstep guy and they called a Gustafels, no wait, not French, maybe he's German. German E.

German makes a lot more sense. Gustafelstein. Gustafelstein. Gustafelstein. And it's like industrial. The German industrial EDMDMD. Jay named Gustafelstein. Yes.

Yes. Now, you have to defend that. And I squat to that. But, yeah, so that shit, that's my answer. I'll tell you something that's probably, it's not really, I don't feel guilty about it, but it's probably a guilty pleasure to a lot of people. It's professional wrestling. And that's the subject of the podcast.

I see what you're trying to do, but I want to talk about something else. I was like, smooth. Corey, good job. Drew was like, you know, I want to talk about something, so we will talk about something. Go on, Drew. Down and gout. Oh, yeah. We do have this good idea. This could be everyone's guilty pleasure. Oh, down and gout, y'all are going to love this. I want Mr. Butt to weigh in on this. Corey and I want to do a cartoon. Lord, that one ripped.

Mr. Butt, what you say? Corey and I want to do a cartoon or a live thing, the detective show, 70 style, where he and I are partners. And since I'm always sad, I'm down. And since he's got gout, he's gout. So down and gout detective agency. And we would love nothing more if someone would mock us up like a door, like a down and gout detective agency. What's our slogan going to be? Down and gout.

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Well, now I'm sad. I wish I'd like I should be. I wish I'd saved that far for this moment. Anyways, down and gout. Yeah, that's the thing. And my guilty pleasure used to be, and I've always thought it was a garbage show, and I've always maintained it's a garbage show.

But I, my parents would watch, what's the worst show in the world? Dut Dynasty. No, the sitcom. Honey, Bubba. The sitcom. Big Bang Theory. My parents watched Big Bang Theory.

What? And I would watch it. Oh, you got one? No, I just, I just ought not be trashing Big Bang Theory. Mm-hmm. And, uh... God damn it, Drew, you wrote me into that. And I would watch...

Big Bang Theory. And I would watch it with him. And I really, really, really enjoyed the guy who plays Sheldon. I think he's a great fucking actor. Sheldon, yes. Mr. Buck, can we get a comment? man those are so good

that people are going to think that I'm doing that I'm doing that from a board they're like Corey's got to have a board it's like no man

his ass is on fire Mr. But Mr. Butt was in the room we're going to have to add Mr. Butt to the list of people on this pod as mentioned

Craig Craig Corey right for us Drew Morgan and special guest Mr. Butt well we're in Canada so

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oh, oh, oh, God, this is ridiculous. Pion pion pion. I bet we're some people's guilty pleasure. I was fixing to say,

we just covered, like, the biggest scandal in modern political times in America, and now we're doing butt jokes, fighting over Taylor Swift, and farting into the microphone. Oh, my God. I'm going to lay big back.

theory is how hard i'm going to end up recording the fucking dates on that i'm going to record the dates on that microphone and get pink i oh god anyways jesus christ so your guilty pleasure it is true and smooth jesus christ right yeah i'm not guilty pleasure i go to church because church girls are easy no um no i wanted to wrestle yeah wrestling like when i was a kid had zero guilt about it and mainly a lot of people's guilty pleasure i think now if you're if you're if you're an adult and you grow up you grow up watching you still watch it you probably ain't gonna tell all your buddies that like you're fucking with john sina still but you're not gonna tell a girl on the first date that you got them you know power well the things called the little

figurines they used to have a name for anyway you ain't you're gonna tell her you got five wrestling buddies is what the ones i had them hit yeah they did hit they're like sort of plushy type yeah yeah i had hogan and i had macho man hell and actually i think we talk about on this interview with our good buddy Conrad Thompson, who is the co-host of Something to wrestle with Bruce Pritchard, which is a wrestling-based podcast that is insanely popular, so much so that we literally run into motherfuckers that know Conrad all the goddamn time. Yep.

We talked about it on there, how that kept happening, but happened to me at an airport. What happened to you at? Happened to me. I met, I got to know the producer of Diamond Dallas Pages. podcast and we were just talking

he's a fan of ours we met him. He's a fan of ours and I was just talking to him randomly and I was like yeah I'm gonna be in a Huntsville I've actually got a buddy that's super into wrestling he just immediately's like yeah Conrad and I was like what the fuck he's like did we all know Conrad last year at WrestleMania we went out and got fucking tour Conrad's the shit and we may have told

these stories on this interview you're about to hear and I'm sorry if we did but I was at an airport and a fan recognized me which the only time it's ever happened and then he knew Conrad too so we all were very drunk during this especially Corey was I was hammered. You're in for something that honestly I hadn't listened to it.

If you go on Twitter, you can see me in a nature boy robe, which happened there. And I will post pictures too, Corey. Remind me to send you the one will post the me in the belt shirtless. Oh, yeah, that was my. It was a little bit. So I've known Conrad for a little bit, and we hung out at his place, the Conradison, as he has named it, his place, which is insanely nice. He's got a bunch of wrestling gear and belts and Rick Flair robes and shit. He's just an all-around interesting dude.

And all-round great dude. And I had a blast. We talked about, you know, mainly wrestling, which is fine. And we've talked about, you know, it's like we do politics a lot and we do this and that. But we also always do the southern culture. And, man, the South has, it goes way back with wrestling. And wrestling's all over the world. Japan has had circuits forever.

It's all over the United States. But the South has always had its own circuit and its own mark on the industry. And we talked about who the greatest wrestler of all time was. and I won't give it away who it was, but a lot of Southerners came up in that conversation. Absolutely. Undoubtedly, they were going to. So, I mean, I had a blast doing it.

It was nice to take a little bit away from politics and just sit there and get drunk and talk about our childhood. Yeah. I don't know how y'all felt about it, but I felt great. Yeah, so y'all enjoy this conversation with us and one Conrad Thompson. Before we do that, though, just let you know. Go to well-read comedy.com for tour dates. After you hear this, we're going to be in Madison, Wisconsin, Chicago,

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And, uh, well, well, well. All right, well, all right, well, what's happening? We are here in Huntsville, Alabama, at the, uh, uh,

story to Con Radisson. Conradison. The Conradison, which is the, uh, home the palace, the castle

of our guest this week Mr. Conrad Thompson thank you for joining us sir. Man, that's awesome to be here. I'm a little

intimidating. Three professional comedians and a mortgage guy. This is going to be a pro battle here. But, and I mean, obviously,

you're a damn good mortgage guy. The Conradson is something else. I know y'all obviously can't see it, but it's wild as hell. This man has

actual championship belts from WWF When we release this I'll post a picture of me wearing a WWF championship belt shirtless. How many Rick Flair Oaks were there five up there?

Yeah, I mean I've got a cool little flare collection. You sure as hell do. You said it like the dude or no, not the dude. Hey, I dabbled in passivism. Not NOM of course. Walter. But you are

you are also one of the hosts of the wrestling podcast. We just said it. Something to wrestle. Bruce Pritchard. Yes. It's kind of a big deal for you into that kind of thing. No, that's what I've heard. Yeah.

So, all right. So me and Drew both had heard tale of you a few times from Corey here, who had just told us about the Conradison and about you and about your Rick Flair robe collection and all that shit and everything. and like, I was like, in my head, you know, you were, you were this guy that Corey knew who had this awesome place with all this awesome shit in it. And that's it.

That's all I knew. Which is enough. Roll Todd. Yeah. And then we started noticing, like, we told you this all fair earlier, but in, like, in the same week, Drew had ran into a guy randomly at an airport who recognized him. from our show and wrestling got brought up and Drew said something like, yeah, we're going to have this guy on the, he has this podcast, wrestling podcast and that guy was like, Conrad,

you're talking about Conrad? What was their names? The Starcade Boys. The Starcade Boys. What up Starcade Boys? Who did a phenomenal music video, spoofing the 80s and Jim Crockett promotions and just music at the time, old school hip-hop, long limousines. Long limousines, baby.

Yeah. It's phenomenal. And I don't know if it's that song or another one they have. It might be that song where they're also talking a lot. about the South. There's a line where it goes, you want the fried chicken, but you don't want what comes with it. And I think that's a great line.

It's about how people want to, you know, promote the South, but they don't want to actually go deep with it. Anyway, I enjoyed them. Then a few days after that, we were in Indianapolis at Crackers Comedy Club, and the guy, Corey was at a wedding, so he wasn't there. And there was an indie comic named Brent Tarhune,

who's a very, very funny guy who was filling in for Corey. and again he just mentioned something about where he's like hey what are you you know what are you into brandy said he loved wrestling and i said i was like yeah there's this guy in huntsville and immediately he's like conrad you're talking about conrad and uh so i that was bop i was like that's when we asked cori's like so what what is what's the deal you've buried the lead on this guy or something because clearly there's something else going on here other than this this is just your buddy with awesome restaurant collection and shit until all that all this that started happening like drew mentioned that and you mentioned brent or whatever like i i i'm

no offense i didn't really fucking know sure because like well conrad was like i got a podcast sure yeah everybody i know you got one of them yeah me and comrade were just buddies through our buddy cassio yeah and comrade would just come out to my shows and we'd hang out and like it no big deal whatever uh conrad's not the like when our podcast does well we fucking tell everybody you know like we're very you especially me me especially and i mean i'll share that i'm not sure i'm not too good for it but you go in baby i do well this is my thing like this is my thing like i love our podcast to do well but conrad is like uh the type of dude who like yeah i've got a really good podcast but also i'm just conrad and i just hang out and i you know whatever this isn't my fucking life he's not as broken as me he's certainly not as broke as you look at this fucking house broke yeah of course he's not as broke as me well like I never like I would trust me

I always knew when I came when I first came the Conradis and I was like you don't just get this from being nothing you've got to be right but you didn't think of anything to do with the podcast there's plenty of and I don't think it does but I was just like this is here's just a guy

who I like he's nice he comes to my shows whatever I had no idea that like when I talked to DDP DDP was like yeah bro Conrad Conrad Conrad By the way Conrad DDP thinks Corey is currently doing DDP yoga and Corey

is just not I've had gout I saw the text message that DDP sent to Corey because Corey said DDP asked him how's it going and Corey said well I've had this gout flare up as been kind of kept me under and DDP said there's plenty of modifications to the program as long if you can

walk you can do it it's meant for people there you know whatever way more disabled than just gout and Corey was just like, yeah, well, I've got gout. And so he could still be doing it. According to DDP, it's my excuse too. I've got gout too. By the end of this,

I'm going to get you to text DDP on my behalf and get me a lifetime membership like Corey has on DDP yoga. And I'm going to really fucking do it. I'm absolutely going to do it when I get home. I promise. Yes, I am. I'm not the man. I'm starting to mine.

Tomorrow, guys. Exactly. I guess here's the point that I was really trying to get at. When I was hanging out, at the Conradison, I assumed that I was the celebrity. Oh my gosh. And that was not the case. Not the case.

Turned out even at. It's old Conrad. And honestly, this is a year, when we first met, like, I hung out here like a year ago. And Conrad was like super cool. And he was like, dude. And what happened? He's not anymore. Right.

Yeah, yeah. His head. He came to my, you came to my Huntsville show at Epic Comedy. It was phenomenal. And I know that because I've listened to the tape and I can hear Roll Tenseville. tied after every punchline, so I know it was you. But, like, Conrad was super cool. He had me out here, and he was like,

dude, you're going to make it. And I was like, well, oh, no, I got, I got a couple things going on. Like, whatever, yada, yada, yeah. And then, turns out I did make it thanks to Trey. But then I still, I'm like, yeah, I'll come to Conrad's and be like big swinging dick. Still can't. And then I found out that Conrad is also just way more famous than me.

Like, you just go to airports and go Conrad and people are like, yeah, wrestling. Yes. And it pisses me off. but I like I mean if whatever you're just you're just the man and you're the most humble man I know so having said all that well tell us about it the podcast what in the hell what's the genesis of that what's your because you're you're you know your day job the sort of the you know source of the conradis and everything is you own a mortgage company right yeah I started doing mortgages in 2001 and I started a podcast with Rick Flair in 2014 you skip some steps I did I did Yeah, like I would start a podcast with Rick Flair tomorrow. The thing is, I don't know him. Well, we can call him.

Well, sure, but my point is... Can we call him and put him up? But my point is, like, you didn't just get... That would be phenomenal. That would be. How'd you just get to be Rick Flair's co-ho? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. All right.

What's the story about it? And before you tell the story, I want you to know, part of the reason I wanted you on is I, and I sincerely believe this, wrestling and wrestling fandom, to me is sort of... I don't want to go too far with this. but it's like an analogy of the South. People look down on wrestling fans. Yeah.

They act like wrestling fans are dumb. They act like wrestling fans are a monolith. They act like wrestling fans, you know, they're better than them. And none of that's true. And if Conrad's dumb, I want to be fucking dumb. Exactly. Well, they're not a monolith. I grew up a wrestling fan, especially in the South.

You know what I mean? Anyway, that's why I'm interested in this because I'm going to go real far right now. I'm going to warn you. I think wrestling is modern Shakespeare. I sincerely believe that. I mean, a lot of people do compare it to like a male soap opera. And, you know, and I really don't think it's any different than like a live action, you know, superhero movie. And so there's all these people who are going to flock to the theaters this summer to see Wonder Woman.

Well, what's the difference in watching Rick Flair's daughter do a moonsault off the top of the cage or something? It's the same thing. I'm like how you plug your girl in there. It just is. Yeah. Real time on that. I'm just saying I'm a big fan of wrestling because I grew up with it. And I feel like if you were to ask my dad, hey, who's the best quarterback of all time?

He would probably say Roger Stalback. And that ain't the answer. It's Tom Brady and everybody knows it. Sure. But it's what you grow up on. So like if we were to talk about your favorite cartoons, we're probably not going to name what's brand new for kids these days. We're going to talk about what we grew up on. Right.

And our favorite movies, when we're just flipping through the channels, there's all a movie that most guys will get to us. Oh, I'm going to watch this. Mine's Rocky 4. If Rocky 4 is on, no matter how far along in the movie it is, I'm going to stop and watch. it. I grew up on Rocky 4. It was awesome. Well, that's kind of wrestling for me. So maybe I'm not as into the current wrestling, but if they were still making Rockies, I'd still be watching them shits. I mean, that's just the way it is. I mean, did you watch Creed? Oh, yeah, I saw all of them. The weekend they come out. Yeah, yeah. No, they're not as good as Rocky 4, and neither's the

current wrestling. It's not as good as Hulk Hogan in 1988. Okay, so here's what, I think this is true for all three of us. I mean, this is true for literally every dude I've known my entire life or at least growing up that I knew we, I mean, we were so insanely fucking into wrestling. We'd go into

we'd all get together and watch. You and I have a comment. Your dad on the video store. My mom ran a video store. My dad owned one. My dad on the video store and we had all the old WrestleMania. Yeah. Like from the first one all the way through and me and my buddies would watch those. We'd get together and all get, you know, the

we'd like do fucking like, Moe, Boe Baines' Mada's yard or something so she'd get the pay-per-view of WrestleMania and we all go to his house and watch. We did one of your buddies have a trampoline? We were talking about that. I had one.

My buddy Matt did. It was right. It was, I mean, I could see it from my yard. I didn't have a trampoline. But, like, that was, you. How many times? How many times? Everybody, I never got hurt with me.

How many times have you, like, had a, well, your back's hurting right now. Yeah, I'm old. Do you ever in your mind think, like, maybe that's because you got crossbarred on the fucking trampoline? Like, that's an, old injury coming back.

I was assumed just because I scored so many touchdowns. But yeah, I mean, what I said is a humble break. How many times, but how many times, how many times did you get

suplexed on the bar? Yeah. On the trampoline. And you hit your head on it? Oh, dude. On the fucking cage. We had, me and Jared got really into the ECW

right around the time. Like, we were the right age or the wrong one. And how you look at it is where we were like, fuck yeah, I'm a body slam you through a goddamn table. Sure.

Right. That was my cousin, Jared. he's getting married to summer. Shout out to Jared. And, like, we would do that. We would break shit over each other. Sure.

You know what I mean? Right when Extreme really hit the mainstream. Yeah. ECW is my favorite as a kid. It was the, I remember flipping through the channels. I got out of wrestling like a lot of kids. I think that's probably where I was going with the story.

Yeah. Is that everybody is into it when they're little and then they kind of grow out of it. And that happened for me too. I first found it by VHS and the summer or fall of 1988. It was the WrestleMania 4 double tape VHS. I was all in. How old are you? I was seven.

At that time. Yeah, I turned seven in 1988. I'm 35 and I was just hooked. It was like, these are my new superheroes. These are my new real life live action G.I. Joe's. I'm all in. Like,

Screw me, man. I got Hulk Hogan now. Yeah. He was so good. Yeah. And so anyway, time passes. We all grow out of it. You know, we get hair on our peaches and we're like, this is kind of dumb.

I like girls. I'm dumb of this. So in 92, I just kind of quit watching. And then one day I'm flipping through the channels in 96 and Hulk Hogan's wearing all black. I'm like, what the hell is going on? I had no idea. I didn't know who Kevin Nash was.

I didn't know who Scott Hall was. Because I missed all the Razor Ramon-Diesel stuff. And so that whole woman's got a beard and he's wearing black. Like, who is this guy? And that was when Sting was coming down from the rafters. Well, he was about to. And he was wearing a white face now. He was the crow.

Yeah. So when all that happens, I'm like, oh, this shit is better than ever. I'm back in now. It's fucking great. Yeah. I really, and I said what I said, I meant when I said, because like, Dude, Chase Beer was literally looked down upon as like, that's for working class people or whatever. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, the storylines are actually legitimately really good. They can be. Sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, well, you can go off rails, but still, that's kind of cool. I like it when they go off rail. Well, that's what was his name? Yeah, Raven.

Yeah. And he has a podcast, too. It was called The Raven Effect. It's not nearly as good as something to wrestle with Chris Pritcher. Didn't he come from ECW? He did come from ECW. Absolutely. And I've got something to show you later that you'll appreciate as a Raveny fan.

But so that what you were just talking about that era when you like you had gotten out of it and you got back into it, that's when we were like still just fully, fully into it. And then I got, I mean, yeah, I don't know. Around like 2000 or something I want to say is when I sort of grew out of it. It never really went back to it. But I have, I've told people there's plenty of times. I have two young sons They're four and five And one of the things I'm most excited about

Sincerely Yeah I guarantee is getting back into pro wrestling When they get a little bit older And they're going to start watching it I can't wait to get into that Take them to fucking WrestleMania or whatever Just all that shit

I'm so looking forward to it But I still haven't And so here's a question I want to ask you I've We've also The three of us have had this conversation A lot about country music which is, okay, so in the 90s, we were kids.

Country music was fucking awesome. Country music on the radio. Country music, that was popular. Yeah. We were listening to it, and it was fucking great. We loved it. Yeah. And now country music is on the radio is just cancer to me.

I absolutely can't. It's pop music now. It is. Okay. And the question, what we've talked about a lot is, like, how much of that is nostalgia versus how much of it is just, that's just genuine. that's just the way it is. Like, if we were,

if we were 30 and 95, would we have felt that way about the country on the radio then? And I wonder the same thing about pro wrestling. Was Holmogen and Sting, like the greatest two wrestlers ever other than the ultimate warrior? Or was it the right age?

And that's what I was talking about earlier with my dad's example of Roger Stalback. I mean, there's so many people who would still say that Seinfeld is the greatest TV show ever. Or the Sopranos is the greatest TV show. If you sit down and you watch, certain Sopranos, man, those shows are turds. They're not all awesome.

Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite shows ever as a whole. But there are episodes where you're like, what the fuck did I just watch? But yeah, Breaking Bad's Better. This didn't, exactly. This episode is a turd, breaking bad's better because we advanced. Okay, but see, but that's the opposite though. With country, which is like,

I look back calmly on the 90s country and 90s wrestling, and like I thought, over the years, there's been a few times where I thought, like, man, I'm going to try to get back into wrestling because I love that shit. Yeah. And I will try.

I'll turn it on and watch it. And now I think when my sons get old enough and they get super into it, I think I will be able to get into it. Right. And I've just tried myself, I'll turn it on and watch it. And I'm like, was it always like this? Right. Was it like this in the 90s? But have you seen an episode recently or a clip of when the Rock comes back because he's promoting something or whatever?

It's always fire. He's so fucking good. Yeah, but he came out of that era. But what I'm wondering is there's a part of me that's like, maybe they were really good then in some time. No, I know. That's what I'm asking. I'm asking for your opinion on that.

Were they really just, that was like, it was that good then, and it's not just the way we look. It really was better than it. Was it in the 90s also like Seattle in the 90s where all the grunge rockers really were that fucking great? Or is it just seemed like that because we... I don't get a fuck. What anybody says, Stone called Steve Austin, was a goddamn poet. it.

It doesn't matter. Because he does still come out today every now and they do some shit. I think mankind, dude love. Oh, yeah. He's the Andy Kaufman of the error. He's the Andy Kaufman of that era.

Every time he committed to a bit, but he was like, we have not let Connard answer. You're right. You're right. That's all I thought. about that. Sorry, Kama. Here's the thing.

I think you guys gave some really good examples there. And one of the things that, like, Stone Cold and Mankind have in common is they both came through the territorial system. So it's like you guys have been on the comedy circuit for a long time bouncing around to all these different clubs across the nation or maybe even internationally. But imagine if they just decided, hey, we're going to make this kid a star and put him on a sitcom. Well, is that guy funnier because more people see him and he came

up through this system or are you guys funnier after you've done all the, taking all the bumps and the hits through all the clubs? Clearly you guys are, but what are we seeing of that? And so if and when you were given that opportunity, you would flourish in a bigger way. So you guys are the Stone Cold and the mankind of comedy. This guy. I told y'all this is a big right.

Earlier than I got called George Carlin and that meant more to me. Are you kidding? You know what? No, I just feel like that that's the biggest difference.

And to the... So who are the kids? The people these days are not that. What are they? You're saying that the rest of the stars now they get like plucked

and like groomed and just created as opposed to going through the territory. So back in the day what you would do is, you know, the guys would bounce around from territory to territory and they wouldn't

necessarily buy a house. They would just rent and make money in this territory and then go to the next one. So the concept would be you would try to leave when you're on hot, when you're hot. You wouldn't wait until it started to falter a little bit. You want to leave making them want more. So you can go to the next territory. That's interesting. So you would have like the Florida territory and they would have like 13 cities. They would work down there night after night after night and they'd be in every town twice a month and then you would have the georgia territory and then tennessee and then the carolinas and then new york and then like texas oklahoma all that was a different one and then portland was another and so you've got and detroit was another so you've got

all and minnesota was another but they all had local tv there was no national tv back then so florida territory would have tv in all their 13 florida markets and they would work shows twice a month but they didn't get the tv from everywhere else so cori could show up today as stone cold Corey Forrester. Damn right. And then six months from now, when he's on top, he could say, all right, I need to get out while they're getting's good. I'm going to Georgia.

Call the Georgia promoter and go spend six months there. And there he could be Mankind Corey Forrester. And nobody's ever seen him before. So it gave him an opportunity to try different things, just like you guys try jokes. Well, they would try. It's the same concept. It took us years to figure out exactly what worked the best for us. The parallels between comedy and wrestling.

They are un-fucking believable. It's interesting. You say that because she's trying new things. Leno used to say, he said, whenever you get good somewhere, get the fuck out. You got good here. And he said,

I got good in Boston. I went to New York. I go good in New York. I went to fucking L.A. I go good in L.A. And then whatever the fuck. He's like, whenever you get good somewhere. He became one of the highest paid comedians of all the time.

Yeah. Fuck yeah. Right. But that was his method. He was like, you're good somewhere. Oh, okay,

you're welcome. Everybody likes you. It was like, Yeah, everybody likes you. Go see if you can do it here. And if you could do it here, you can do it there. If you can do it there. And he did that shit.

So, like, yeah, the parallels are absolutely. And New York was the big territory. New York being Vince McMahon and the WWF. So if you were hot in Georgia and you were drawing 3,000 people in fucking Gainesville, then, hey, could you draw 20,000 in Madison Square Garden? That's the old. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere for wrestling. So if you could sell out Madison Square Garden, now you're a big deal.

You're in all the wrestling magazines and you're rolling. So that brings up an interesting question if the parallels are there. This is a comic, Norm McDonald. I'm sure you've heard of him. But he's not super, uber famous. And a lot of comedians feel like he should be because we think he's one of the best. He famously has said,

fuck Frank Sinatra. I made it in New York and then I couldn't make it anywhere else. Right. Is there a wrestling version of that? Absolutely. Who is it? Well, there's lots of them. There's lots of guys who didn't get their big break.

But they killed in New York. they killed in that market, but like they couldn't do it nationally. Well, a good example of that would be a guy like AJ Stiles, who's on current TV. And AJ Stiles has probably been one of the top best wrestlers in the world for more than a dozen years. But he has only gotten WWE fame in the last 18 months. And so most people didn't even know who he was. He turned 40 yesterday or today. So he's just, AJ.

Yeah, so he's just now 40. and most of the time when like when you were talking about the rock earlier you know when he first hit he's like 25 so it's a totally different deal and he's there's only so many so much punishment that your body can take and resting whenever you fall on the mat and get back up or whatever they call that a bump and so they all say you've only got your body's only got so many bumps and once you've done it so many times your body just starts to break down and shit your career's over so a j is kind of late in his career to be to this point but he's just now really getting the national and worldwide recognition that he deserves.

So you had mentioned something earlier and we kind of got away from it a little bit. You were saying like a lot of the guys that hit nail, like that pop now and get big now are it's a different thing. So how does it work for them? What happens now? Like you're like a brand new young, young gun wrestling superstar nowadays. How does that work? Well, there's two types of ways to get there. who's on top now in the company who does really,

really well is Kevin Owens. And Kevin Owens came up through the independence, kind of like we talked about a minute ago with the different territories, except the independents nowadays don't have nearly the draw and the ability to pay the guys like they did back then. Because they just don't have the syndicated television opportunities. It's a lot of comedy. Yeah. So it's just you make a lot less on the lower level.

But then when you get to the big show, you make a lot more than ever before. So Kevin Owens is just now making it, but he's a guy who was in the independence for 15 years before he ever hit. Rick Flair's daughter Charlotte, for instance, though, went from being a personal trainer to a four-time champion inside of three years. And that's from the day she put on wrestling tights to when she was like four-time champion. Yeah, but does some pedigree shit. Well, is it really or is it she went to the WWE school and they taught her their way from the jump? So Kevin Owens learned how to entertain independent crowds and what works for 300.

people is different from what works on television. There's different from wrestling for a live crowd versus performing for one camera. And so you've got to make sure that you're opening up and you're positioning yourself and you're playing to the camera more so than to the crowd. And so those little nuances and how you present yourself to a WWV audience compared to a local independent crowd are totally different. And a local independent crowd, they call it getting heat if you're a bad guy, then it would be easy for you to just go out there and just totally smash them.

And just, thank you, sir. And bury the local crowd. So like, you know, earlier tonight, you told a joke that was now if my son was an Alabama fan. And that is really topical here. It works everywhere, though, because, you know, Roll Tide, Alabama is the best team that ever did it. Go walls. It was true. It does work everywhere.

But the point being, you know, Kevin Owens could do that type of stuff in a local market and get a huge reaction. On television, though, people may not care about the Minnesota Vikings. So the parallels are all there, man. It's all there. It's all there. Because I've seen people go on Conan and do really well. Yeah. And like, I've seen them in the New York clubs on the circuit.

And I'm like, oh my God. I thought he or she suck. I saw them suck. But they just murdered. And I realized, oh, you built that whole set for a TV camera. Right. Whereas the live crowd didn't give a shit about you because, and this is another parallel that I've heard both comics and wrestlers use.

You didn't get over. You didn't get over. Getting over is huge in comedy. Getting over is all there is in wrestling. And in wrestling... Can I elaborate on that. Do they buy you? Do you get in a reaction?

So over in wrestling means, are they cheering the good guys? It's what I always get in the bad guys. And with comedy, it's within that first minute. Do they buy it? You know what I mean? Like, are they on board? Because I've seen people go up with really great jokes. But maybe they're telling them from a very confident point of view.

And the audience just never believed they were that confident. Your Facebook videos are over. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Corey's pudding bit is over with me. Yeah. For Conrad. So, but a different example other than Rick Flair's daughter, because again, I thought the same thing.

Drew thought you said that. I was like, yeah, well, to me, that's a little different. She's the child of a legend. The Rock didn't work the independence. The Rock came right through the WV system. Which is what? How does that even be? get what did the rock do

to like his daddy you got it his daddy yeah yeah okay period you're right okay so someone who doesn't have a family number that's what I'm gonna do okay so like what are your options they just signed they have a development territory

travel territory okay there you go holding it right in front of my fucking face how do you do this how about this that's good yeah I'm just saying I'm not doing what he's saying I'm doing that's perfect what you're doing is perfect right now

how am I doing I hate everybody everybody's part around everybody's part real time so anyway the uh the wb e has a developmental territory in orlando florida called nxte which is their fancy way i'm saying these guys are next and they just have this big training facility and they pay these guys a salary and most of them started out at a nominal salary like 35 000 a year i say nominal because they still got to pay their travel expenses and they're still traveling every weekend now not internationally just around florida working in front of small crowds but they're making them pay their dues they build the ring they put up

the ring, they set up the chairs, they do all that stuff themselves. And most of the guys who are getting these opportunities are college football players whose knee blew out and they couldn't make it in the NFL or basketball players or track athletes. So they just signed some guy, I don't know who he is because I'm not European, but there's some Billy Badass from rugby that they just signed. And one of the trainers down there said, this guy has a physique you couldn't even draw. And I'm going to be honest, I'm super hype about this because I used to follow rugby like a little bit as like a, as a, on a very big international level type fan. And for,

just as an example, there's this dude in France. He's got like a giant beard with a fucking ponytail. I want him to be a wrestler. He looks wild. He should murder people. And so,

and here's my favorite thing, though, that ever happened to him. This is like a perfect wrestling story, but it happened in real life. So he goes to like what would be the equivalent of the 50-yard line when they're playing,

when France is playing New Zealand. And New Zealand's doing their dance, their whatever, you know what I mean? Haka. The Haka. and he spits on one of them while they're doing the hanka. The guy he spits on doesn't stop doing the hanka,

keep staring at him. They broke his goddamn arm in that match. He kept playing. Rugby's wild. Anyway, they should make more rugby players. That's a Ronnie lot-level story right there. Yeah,

where he cut his finger off. I just told me that the other day. That's accepted, though, in rugby. Yeah, you know, this past week... Also, this whole thing where French people are pussies... Sure. Who believes that should say this moment. thing is like in rugby like that dude did that they broke his arm everybody's like yeah that's

fucking cool well this week you know bryce harper got thrown on and he charged the goddamn mound and punched somebody everybody's like he should respect this is baseball bullshit i don't not baseball charge the amount oh you didn't who you know i saw the story i'm saying i didn't see that response to it the thing i saw said the only thing i saw was people criticizing buster posey who was catching for the pitcher for not staying up for his didn't, he didn't have his voice back, basically. Why didn't see anybody saying, like... His name is Buster.

Oh, no. See, and they were saying... No, that was the fucking headline on Sports Nation. Buster, being a Buster. I wish that I saw what you saw, but what I saw, I'm friends with a bunch of baseball bros on Facebook, and I saw like, Bryce Harper's a pussy. He's the biggest pussy.

He shouldn't have charged. For charging the man? That's what I said. I was like, he threw it his goddamn shoulder. That's a total. playing in baseball I think baseball baseball bruceball

made me think Bryce Harper's a pussy a little bit in the week now because he's he's the baseball he's the current baseball club of a

of a pretty boy yeah his name is bright he's the Jeff Gordon baseball he did he did he did he did

Kate Upton yeah he said to Kate Upton you know I think this is Joe no but that was Justin Burlander

Dated Kutton Oh no he doesn't matter not matter Bryce Harper has done some bullshit in the past that everybody

like Bryce Harper's a fucking pussy. I saw that goddamn pitch. He threw it his goddamn shoulder. If I was Brous Harper, I'd have charged that motherfucker. I'd have beat the fuck out. I think he threw at his head and is a bad pitcher and missed. No, that you don't.

I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm not even, I'm not even a fucking baseball guy, but I'm saying, son, he threw it his ass. I know, you're not here. I'm saying, I don't, I feel like you're being a little unfair to bait, because you were like in rugby, that's fine, but in baseball, everybody calls you a pussy, I don't think that's true.

Like, charging the mound is it's a thing. What I'm saying is, you try with a motherfucker, you get charged at. I think Corey disagrees with you. My point is that they have in this week called Bryce Harper a pussy. And, for trying to look a man's ass. We're not respecting the game.

No, a pussy, because Bryce Harper in the past has done some bullshit that they don't agree with, so now they're like, oh, whatever. But like, back in the day, when Nolan Ryan beat a motherfucker's ass, like, everyone's like, yeah. Hey, dude, most badass shit you were hurt. He signs autographs on that picture.

But now everybody's like, Bryce Harper's fucking pussy shit and done that. And everybody's defending her catcher, like, yeah, well, he, he stood up. Well, actually, that's a completely different story. But, like, dude, motherfucker threw his shoulder. You charged a goddamn man. Again, I believe he threw at his head and it hit his shoulder.

Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it clearly threw it him. Bryce Harper, no matter what you want to say about Bryce Harper, you can say he's done some bullshit in the past. He threw, he hit him enough a goddamn

shoulder. I feel like you're, like, I agree with you. What I'm saying, I know, he said,

well, I think what he's saying is what you're mad about. He thinks maybe that's just like specific for your Facebook time on.

I saw that story get covered and I saw the analyst when ESPN breaking it down and shit. And I didn't see anybody saying,

the narrative that I saw had nothing to do with like Bryce Harper right of line. I didn't see anybody said.

And I just told you this is probably from my Facebook. Facebook people that I look at perspective. I call him Bryce. Anyway, when it's definitely,

gotten into the wades for sure. It's fine. We always get in the wades. You're talking about rugby. We stay in the wigs. You brought up because you said they've got some new guy. They've got a guy who's coming in from rugby with no wrestling experience. Where's he from?

Fucking Europe. I don't know. Is it like British or Australian? Because I've been one of an Australian wrestler for a long time. He might actually be from Australia. No, Lord. please. So that's what you said.

You need one of them. He's going to be Crocodile Nundee or something like that. Yeah. You said that it's usually ex-athletes or whatever. Right. College football players or ruby players or whatever. Well, so if you're one of those guys, is there like a tryout? An audition or something?

Yeah, absolutely. How does that work? So you can submit a tape, but they do hold open tryouts. And they have a training facility. So you can contact them and they actually have recruiters too. I'm just going to send them my stand-up tape And then I'll send them my highlight film From when I played high school football

But that is more than a decade old, though Conrad, do you think you could Do you think I could be a wrestler? You could be a hell of a manager What didn't? He'd be a great manager A phenomenal manager I do

I'll be a hot man I think you already have the different personas down Because you took your hat off a minute ago And I said, who the fuck is that guy? I did. I missed it by like five years. I'm upset about it when the Miz first came out

I was pissed because I used to do a character with my friends and we did our resident called The Fuzz and I had a very similar personality that he did at least on real world remember when he was on real world?

Yeah that's a wild story parlayed that reality show TV and he will be a W.B. Hall of Famer and is now a multimillionaire and it all started from real world

and he's the most successful person in the history of real world for sure he was also one of the most likable people on real world of all time though well he's not likeable at all in wrestling. Everybody fucking hates him. He's good to be in a hill.

He's phenomenal. But like people were pulling for him. Have you seen his wife? Yeah. Ooh, roll time. Go balls. It does not suck to be a champion

WWU wrestler who was on road rules. I'm going to send my comedy tape in to them. No, that's kind of the deal. I'm kind of thinking I want to be a wrestler now. There's a guy named Jerry Briscoe who's, he and his brother were badasses in wrestling back in the day.

Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Well, so Jerry is still. actively recruiting wrestlers. And since he has an amateur background, he's constantly looking for amateur wrestlers. And anytime there's some sort of major tournament or a college tournament or an Olympic tournament or trials or whatever, he's there. And he's talking to those guys about, hey, what are you going to do? Because the reality is, okay, you win a gold medal in amateur wrestling.

Now what? Like from an income standpoint, you're going to wrestle for food? Like, that's not a thing. So if you're done, what are you going to do? And if you really like the idea of being a professional athlete and not having to clock in and clock out and do the traditional nine to five gig, here's an opportunity for you to make it seven figure income doing what you like to do, which is wrestle and be athletic and be an entertainer and perform in front of a live crowd. So you've just got to be in the right spot at the right place. And one of those recruiters will offer you a gig and a try out and then you get rolling. So.

But what? isn't it like you're talking about the parallels between that and comedy and we bitch a lot frankly the three of us about you know being on the road and stuff like that sucks wrestling that's a fucking grind right like the schedule those guys have it's unreal right after a wrestlemania most of the guys aren't home for 45 days because they go to europe for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time and then they've got this non-stop stretch so like a friend of mine i don't feel too sorry for anybody getting paid to travel through europe well but still 45 days but they're doing it by bus and i mean what if they've got pets or children or girlfriends no no no i i'm with you

and i understand what he's saying but i'm still with you and imagine too if you're professional and you've got to have like prepared food right how do you do that like how do you meal prep oh yeah We go for 45. How do you do your laundry? Please tell us how to meal prep. I would love to know. I would love to know. I have no idea.

No, man. You call Tomonos. I know what he's talking about. I know what I'm saying. That's insane. That's absolutely. You know what those types of guys fucking do for, because my wife was a, she did like fitness, like figure competitions and shit.

Like for a long time. And so I saw a little bit of that world, which I know has to be similar, but As far as like, they eat, they, they, they, what the motherfuckers will wake up at like three in the morning to eat a chicken breast and then go back to bed or whatever. Like, they eat seven, eight meals a day. That's what I'm saying. It's just chicken and rice and stuff. It's like, it's a regiment. Here's something fascinating for you.

Imagine their travel plus they got to eat good. Yeah, yeah. We travel, but we don't eat good. Or stay a plate or drink. You know, they don't do any of that. No, we don't do shit. Like, dude, today we ate at Dufei, we look to a Cajun place. we had all the crawfish we could eat

we got fucking hammered and then we did a goddamn show. There's beer in your beard right now as you're saying. Yeah, I'm lit there. My beard is wet with beer. You do DDP yoga in the morning? Yeah, of course, of course.

Yeah. At the Conradt. I'm standing here. I'm going to start doing DDP yoga. I'm serious about that. Conrad, do you have gout? Yes. Do you really?

No. I was just saying that. No, I don't have gout. He's also not bald. You're a papal gout. God damn it. I hate my life. Popol Gawry.

You're like the old. only 24-year-old grandpa I know. I'm not 24. Everybody thinks I'm 24. Everybody thinks you're 24. Literally no one would think you're 24. Aside from y'all, everybody always goes younger. You're the only ones that. I swear to God, everybody goes, you can believe that.

Yeah, it's that twinkling his eye. No, it's very weird. But like everybody goes out. As happy as he convinces people that he is with a twinkling his eye after shows, they go, there's no way a 29-year-old could be this thrilled to be anywhere. No, no. He's clearly 24. And you're correct.

Thank you. Most people, they're like... I was born that way. Most people are like, you're not 29. You're like, what are you like, 23, 24? I'm like, what the fuck? You're like, I mean, don't you wrong. You're a really fat.

It's definitely 25. Yeah, you're a really bald, really fat. You're committed to the deal. You're going Stone Cold Steve Austin. Oh, yeah, I do. I slicked it. I slicked it yesterday before I came down here. I'm going, I'm going in.

I like it. You thought he was 45? You can talk, Chuck. You got on my. Yeah, Chuck. here, Chuck, come sit by me. What do you take? Chuck, go ahead.

You can't hear what you're saying, Chuck. You can't hear. This is Chuck, our buddy. He's the editor-in-chief of the better souther. Chuck, what are you going to say about me? When you take off your hat, you look like you're 47. And that's true. When I first... When you get your gout foot out, you look like you're 70. The first liberal Nazi I've ever seen.

It's funny. about that is if we had any like crazy all right fans they'd be like none all the Nazis were liberal actually if you think about they were democratic socialists or whatever crazy shit they believe in um if you've seen the

movie the wrestler yeah absolutely so I'm the guy that the director of that movie is one of my favorite directors I love all his shit and most of his movies are these like fucking wild ass mind trip movies like Reckman for a Dream and Black Swan

and the fountain and all this wacky shit and I, so I watch that movie because I'm a huge fan of that guy, and I loved that movie. That might be my favorite movie of his, actually, the wrestler. But, Nicholas Farks. As somebody who's super into it and also knows a bunch of wrestlers and shit, how, like, accurate or whatever was it? Like, was it? On the fucking money. Really?

I'm so glad to hear that. It's on the money. I love that fucking movie, man. And they really did their homework. They actually hired Nicholas Cage for that part, and then once they're so. started filming fired him because they said he was not doing what they wanted so they paid him and that fucked up the budget but then they brought him in and he he had a home run but before they got going he got robbed at the academy awards there he should have a fucking murder dude god damn

i think he i think he lost because it was about wrestling and and the academy was like oh it's i think it was that's what i was i think it was open the show i was curious your feelings about that general idea of wrestling sort of being i think it was was more, I'm sure that had something to do with it, but I think it was Sean Penn playing a gay guy who got assassinated for being that, it couldn't have been more Hollywood Academy

like Oscar Bait. It couldn't have been a more Oscar Bate movie than Mill. And Bill's a good movie, and Sean Penn crushes it in that movie. But the rest is better. But the rest of him. But the wrestlers better. And Mickey Rort, dude, hell, Sean Penn said on stage, basically, that Mickey Rort deserved it. Did you? You know, because he did. He just too. What was going to

I don't know I had some joke and it was for something somebody had said but it's past now I thought maybe because you know how sometimes

you just say food all of a sudden I thought maybe like your white woman this is now you're just screaming Nicholas Sparks there was some joke

there did you see did you see the fucking Mickey Roark shit last week of him and Tupac

yes wasn't that great what are you talking about unbelievable so anyways some fucking Timsy bullshit came out and it was like

Tupac what was the story? It was like some, right before Tupac got killed there was some like bullshit that happened that Tupac like ran some fucking gamut upon some

kids at like a fucking, what was it a what's the burger joint? I vaguely remember the backstory of why Mickey Rourke was going in. You know me I focus on the going in. What's the burger joint in L.A.? in and out in and out

anyways right before Tupac got murdered apparently this is what these people said there was like some kids that came up from the in and out

that wanted to talk to Tupac get an autograph etc yeah yeah and Tupac was like nervous about it and he was just like him and his boys

like not him but like one of his boys pulled a gun out like what the fuck are y'all doing like get the fuck away from this car or whatever and so like they were claiming that that's the reason

he got murdered. Like they were all in there being like all fucking like oh shit we're gonna and so they're being thugs or whatever. Anyways so this reporter gets up in Mickey Roark's face. Mickey Roark's getting out of a goddamn car and they're just like Mickey Roart

you're friends with Tupac huh right you know so we heard that like his murder was actually probably justified because he was being like very weird before and Mickey Roart just straight up told these people, these fucking camera and he goes, hey, you want to talk about

fucking Tupac? You come to my fucking face. Right. Anybody who fucking says anything, you tell them to come to fucking make you work right now, I'll beat the fuck out of them. I'll beat the fuck out of them. That was my homeboy. He was there for me

when I had fucking nothing. All right? You fucking, you go fuck yourself, you piece of shit. I will fucking kill you. And he fucking, and this reporter, teams. He's like, okay, anyway. So, Mickey Roark off the rails again.

No, I think he, well, he wasn't for sure. But apparently Mickey Roald. I'm into it. Very good. Very good for him, Coupic. And he was just like, you talk shit about Tupac. You talk shit about me.

I will fucking kill you. So I think that he did a really good job in that movie. He did a fantastic guy. I was just waiting for comedy. But so, you're saying, you're saying it's absolutely spot on. Well, that actually is fucked up then because, I mean, that's a dark-ass movie. Yeah.

It's real life, man. Yeah. Oh, it is. It's depressing sometimes to go to wrestling conventions where you see guys who, this is all they've known. And so they started wrestling, you know, maybe right out of college. And they hoped to go to the NFL. That didn't work out.

So instead, they got into wrestling. Didn't make any money for a few years. And then spent 20 years wrestling. And they're on the road every night. And they're super famous everywhere they go. everybody wants their autograph and picture and they're making a bunch of money. And then you never think the money stops. And then one day it does because your body stops.

And so now you need a new hip or a new shoulder or a new knee. And you've got all these physical problems. And when the money starts, as you guys have probably heard, when money problems enter the household, relationships do too. So now you may be estranged from your kid. Maybe you've got a divorce or two. And you're not making the money used to. Maybe you lose your house.

You're renting. like it's it's a tough life because what do you do when your resume says pro wrestler for the last 20 years and now you're 50 something years old you work these little independent conventions and you try to keep making little spot shows but instead of wrestling in front of 20,000 people you're wrestling in front of 110. Yeah. And an intermission, you're trying to hustle people for a $10 picture. It's a fucking depressing deal. Or you take up yoga. It's out like our man, DDP. DDP is a fucking.

self-made millionaire because he was able to say, you know what, I need to find another way to generate some revenue and I don't really want to go work a real job and I'm going to go become an entrepreneur. And I'm going to save my money and I'm going to now, this DDP yoga thing is caught fire. But it's because of his hustle. If he would have just said, oh, yeah, I'll do your yoga videos. Just pay me a licensing fee. And it's sincerity. Like, and that's related to hustle.

Like he was like, fuck it. Yeah. I'm all in. Let's do it. I'm all in right now. If we called him right now and said, hey, we're doing a podcast. So you come on. He would wake up out of a dead sleep.

For sure. Oh, he's in. He called me. And it was the weird. I actually had a conversation with him. And it was the most genuine conversation that I've ever had with a human being. He was like, yeah, man, I've heard.

I've heard all. He called me bro three times. Sure. He's from Jersey. He was like, bro. You know, I've heard you're funny. But here's the thing. I've heard also, you need to get in shape.

Here's what you need to do. And I've done none of that. Sure. Because I'm a sack of shit. Well, but that's beside the point. You have a really cool hair. Well, all right. So I want to go back on something that you just touched on.

You were talking about the Oscar that year and you're like, well, it was a wrestling movie. There is, correct me if I'm wrong, a bit of a defensiveness around the wrestling culture because... There's a stigma. I mean, I have people here in my local hometown here in Huntsville who knew me as the mortgage guy for years and years and years. and now to be fair there's a stigma of that in certain core areas no yeah there used to be a stigma about mortgages but what I'm saying is locally everybody

now is like I don't get the wrestling thing like it's this weird phobia or so I don't want to get it on me I don't get this wrestling thing it's a podcast you know it's just it's entertaining people it's telling jokes it's trying to be engaging and funny and build an audience and none of that matters it's a wrestling thing

right and you know kind of is what it is well that's the thing that like Corey's hammered apparently when you shave your hair you lose your ability to drink that was more gout than it was drunk they said more gap do not do needy-p yoga my foot just stop working good night Mr. Was it uh was it the

you got to diabetes? No it's not that poem first off because I'm not in the microphone it's not diabetes it's gout I have gout there is there's crystals in my foot like the little square hamburgers no those are in my mouth they didn't hurt like the things my wife praised to

that's what probably started this but no I have gout my foot doesn't work nothing works I hate my life I hate you Conrad I hope you died roll tide oh yeah oh god

and crystals are going to kill me too so your wife worships jewels no that was a she's a hippie and she likes crystals. But that was a joke. Well, I'm a Sutherner, and I love

crystals. I was a little square hamburger. I know, yeah, buddy. She's a southern hippie. She's all in. Well, yeah, I think that I sincerely, maybe it's a stretch, I think that's fucking parallel to the defensiveness of general,

in general, of Southerners. Oh, for sure. It's just like, there's a stigma in general. It's like, people learn one thing about you, and they think they know four more. And it's probably worse as a wrestling fan, to be honest, than a southernery in general.

But like, people learn that. It's like, oh, you have a podcast about wrestling. And now they think they know six more things about you. Well, yeah. Which in their defense, you do have a fucking Rick Flair closet in your house. But they probably think I live in a trailer park. Right. And that I'm married to my sister.

Right. And that I have four teeth. Right. And then I really like crystals. And only one of those is true. I mean, the rest of that is just not true. And your wife is a lovely woman, your sister wife. Yeah, exactly.

My sister wife is great. You know, one of the things you mentioned to me a minute ago about the Southern thing is something I got a lot of hate on when I first started the podcast because other wrestling fans would listen to the podcast and then just take a dump on me for my accent. Right. You got a big guy's got an accent. Fuck him.

Stupid hillbilly redneck. That's hilarious that wrestling fans are doing that. Are you serious? Are you serious? Wrestling fans gave you shit for it? That's what I'm saying. Like, dude, you have action figures. You're not a position to fucking judge me.

Come on. We like the same thing. I love how you're taking the thing that wrestling fans get shit. on for that you hate that they get shit on for it, but you're using it against them. You're like, all right, goddamn it, I'm one of y'all. So we're going to talk about how we have action figures and it's bullshit. Don't shit

on me for having an accent when you've got action figures. But if an outsider shit on that same guy for having an action figure, you'd defend him. Absolutely, I would. Because the reality is everybody has their own little thing they collect. And, I mean, one of the baddest wrestlers from the 2000s is a guy

named Dave Batista, who's had a lot of success in the Guardians and the Galaxy. He collects lunch boxes. Does Corey always get this hammered when he comes to your house? This is the most sober I've ever seen him here. By far. He collects lunchboxes like those 50s cartoon lunchboxes or whatever. And that's something you would not expect a badass bodybuilder, movie star, world champion to collect.

But he has a whole room in his house dedicated to these little fucking lunchboxes. Right. Which I think is pretty fucking cool. I love Batiste already. and that only uh that only helps for me that's awesome um do you got that one so i wanted that you were talking about how it's a sad existence a lot of times if they don't if they don't find another way to you know spin it into something else so well but but you also said like you know here's why you can make seven figures doing this awesome shit for years and years this is very common in

sports all sports uh sure at athletes they make insane amounts of money for years and like you said then your body stops and then the money stops then when the money stops so many of them go just flat broke fucking destitute and clearly that happens in wrestling too but like how common is that

and like what I mean they're making you know they're making a shitload of money for a long time so like what is it that you know when they're 45 or whatever age and they have to stop doing it still with that amount of money you might for that long

why can't well you have to appreciate too that a lot of times when you're making a million dollars a year you're spending a million dollars a year sure so a lot of people i do appreciate the fuck out of that yeah how about you can't take that shit with you i found that my life up to this point which is as much whatever amount of money i make that's about what i spend i by when i was a fucking server at 20 years old in college i you know stayed broke and then there's a limit to that what no there's not that's what i'm saying is there's not and so the thing i learned especially from doing mortgages is by and large everybody's broke just on different levels. And so maybe it's a matter of, hey, can I go afford to buy pudding cups or can I get that

new beach house? It's never enough. That's the point is you're always trying to just buy and acquire more. We all have a hole inside us that we're throwing pudding or beach houses into. Something like that. You got it. And so that's kind of the idea as I feel like these professional athletes, whether they're wrestlers or their boxers or their football players or whatever the case may be.

in their mind is so sharp, well, maybe not football player, CTE, but you think this is going to last, this is going to last forever. Yeah. You know, like I'm 27. I'm in my prom. This is going to,

I'm good friends with Reggie Ragland who played at Alabama. It's one of the best linebackers we ever had. Should have been drafted in the first round. Ian Rappaport put out. I thought my Raiders were going to take him. He should have been a first rounder. He wound up getting drafted by the bills.

Yes, he did. And last year in the preseason, Torres fucking ACL. Your rookie contract is your most impressive because if, most critical, because if you have the right type of years you're supposed to in your early years, your second contract in the NFL is where you make all your money. Well, he's now been stripped of that opportunity. And it's not because he wasn't mentally sharp. He tweaked his knee in practice, boom, never even gets on the field.

So he's a little. come back from that still though well he can but what if he's not the same yeah so it creates all this doubt where when you get drafted you think fuck i made it i'm a millionaire and then before you even get to take your first snap oh shit my body disagrees in my head i'm going to be a millionaire my knee said not today and that's unfortunate and so when that happens if you're not ready for it what's the backup plan now let's imagine he got used to making that money for 20 years and then all the sudden not today and it's not based on even maybe your your body giving up.

It's on Vince McMahon saying, I'm kind of out of ideas. We're done with Stone Cold Corey Forrester. That's it. What do you do now? And so... You get gout. You end up...

Hop around the Conradition. Have you seen the thing on the internet with the Virgil? I love Virgil. You love it in what way. Like, you know... I love him personally. What the fuck was that? It's from the arcade.

That sounds so dush to sound a podcast. But we don't see. Conrad has his own arcade and it made it noise and they confused this. I thought. I don't know what I thought. I thought a wrestler had showed up. I'm kind of drunk. If y'all've never seen it. He's in the vortex. It became kind of a meme on the internet. It's phenomenal.

It is. Of Virgil, who I remember Virgil. I remember Virgil. I remember Virgil from back in the day. And he was a wrestling. He was the million-dollar man's bodyguard. Right, yeah. Slash Moeller. And so he.

But nowadays he goes to these conventions you were talking about earlier, and he sets up a table, you know, Virgil, come see Virgil or whatever. And the meme is people have started, and it's fucked up. Yeah, Lonely Virgil, they take these pictures of him at his table, and there's just literally no one there ever, you know, or whatever. And it, like, became a whole thing. And I don't even really know what my fucking question is. Have you seen that?

Have you seen that? kind of remember how do you feel like when you say that are you like man that's fucking shitty or is it no it is and so what's crazy is because of the popularity of the content or of the podcast uh wrestling promoters have tried to book me to come do these signings and i'm like i'm not doing it and it's not because i'm above it it's because there are guys like that who man this is all i've ever done and now you know it takes me 30 minutes to get out of bed and my knees hurt and i can't sit down for very long and i can't walk long distances and you got all these problems that you have really sacrificed your body for,

for our entertainment as wrestling fans, I'm going to go take your $20. Right. I'm not doing that. Like, I'll pay to get in, and I may not pay to get a picture with you, Mr. Virgil, but I'm not going to make somebody else choose. Do I want my Conrad Thompson picture or my vert?

Go get your fucking Virgil picture. Right. Because that guy gave his body for it. I'm over here doing mortgages and telling jokes on a mic. This is not the same thing. And this is what he's dedicated his life to. But what he's done, differently from some other guys is he hired some social media pros who get it.

And so they created this whole persona about Virgil's 13 inch penis and about how he loves Olive Garden and he wants meat sauce and he's after the fuck money. And so he's got all these little full fucking cool things now on social media. 13 inch penis. I think I could take this career. There you go. Well, here's the deal. I don't know that he has a 13 inch penis,

but apparently you can jump rope with it. I don't know if that's something anybody needs to do or not. but I think that's a thing. So, well, what do you think about, like, you were talking about them, um, like charging the, or charging for pictures and shit.

Yeah. So, like, I mean, I get, I get how it's fair and it's like, you know, what, what else they're going to do?

They need to make money. But I also, you know, just from purely a fan perspective, get how it's like, I don't know, kind of shitty. Or like,

And it's not exactly the same thing, but I don't know. You guys, I think, right in the park, you already left or whatever right before that. But, like, after all of our shows, we had, like, a meeting, group and shit, and we take all kinds of pictures and stuff. And I would, like... But we also... We've already got paid that now.

Yeah, we also just to show up to the conventions or whatever. Like, there's no kind of... Well, if they do get paid, that's how the promoter recoups their money. So maybe they... I'm just freestiling. Maybe they pay Virgil $500, but they're hoping that 25 people pay $20, and then they broke even on Virgil. Right.

So I'm saying. We already got paid. Right. Yeah, we also gave a show, which is what they paid for. Right. And Virgil didn't do shit. But if I was seven. Like, it's not, you're right.

We did already get paid. What's the difference between? I'm not saying. What's the difference we go into a card signing, like a baseball card signing, and having Tom Glavin sign your baseball for $35 or getting your picture made with Virgil? And I don't know. I really don't know. There is a point.

I guess I just feel like, well, if you set up a thing, hey, come, I'll sign your baseball for $35 and people come to it. That's fine. I think it's more about, I'm conflating two different things right now because you also hear stories about people running into, and I'm not saying he actually does this, just say Barry Bonds, whatever. Run into Barry Bonds at the airport.

It's like a kid or something. The guy's like, you might take it. picture with my kid or signing my kids hat or whatever and you know then being like I'm yeah sure that's you know it would be $35 you know that's like charge of right I'm saying you hear stories like that all the time

and any time I hear that story I'm like man fuck that that shit you come to me you're like you're like yo can get I'll be like I don't know I just don't do that don't fucking charge somebody $35 right either do it for a same time it's at a convention

it's a convention where you're right charge $35 You're right. That's different. Let me pitch this too, though. One man gang who wrestled on WWF TV as a keen, the African dream. I remember that guy, the big guy who used to do like the shuck and job dancing? People say I look like him.

Anyway, he lost his house last year in the hurricane in Louisiana. Like, and didn't have flood insurance because he's so far inland. They didn't tell him he was in a flood zone. He didn't think he needed it. It flooded his entire house. He's fucked. It doesn't have a place to live. If I see that guy in the airport and ask for a picture and he wants $35,

while it may be easy to say, fuck that guy, it's also him saying, my wife needs a mattress. I got to get $35. I'm not saying he's wrong. Yeah. It's just a hard sale. It is a hard sell. It is a hard thing to ask.

It is a hard thing to ask. But what I'm saying is, if a guy is willing to square you up and ask you for $35 in an airport, when you positioned him in your mind as a celebrity worth. while of getting a picture. Sure. Then who is really the dickhead in that situation? Sure. Yeah. You're not wrong.

Like, you have humbled yourself in a major way. You thought of me as a celebrity and now I'm asking for two-twenties? Yeah. Oof. There are a concert. I felt that way for a while. Like, there was that thing of Kanye West slamming the, he was like, he took a camera and threw it on the ground. And he was wrong.

I'm not saying he wasn't wrong to do that in general. But there was a big part of me where I was like, you approach a dude. you didn't know. Right. You put your camera in his face. You started taking those pictures. And then you seem to think that because he should, quote unquote, be used to that, that they should respond to that way.

And, like, I get it. He's a dickhead and he probably shouldn't have slammed the camera on the ground. But, like, no, you expected the thing in a lot of human being because he was famous. But you don't expect out of anyone else. Sure. I mean, like, if somebody just, like, came up to me in, like, I'm Corey. I'm not shit. I ain't shit.

Earlier he was telling you he was the most famous person in your house. True. And I am. But. You know Trazer. At that time. At that time. No, at that time, I was.

But I'm saying, somebody comes up and just puts a camera in my face. Yeah. It's just going like, hey, hey, what you fucking? Oh, I'm not allowed to go, get the fuck. Am I not allowed to grab that and then throw it the fuck and go, what the fuck are you doing? That's in my goddamn face. You're in my personal. I want to, according to me?

Or like, what do you mean? Are you allowed? Is it a human being? Like, you're fucking, like, Disrespectful. I actually saw a guy in an airport. Rick and I were walking through an airport in Atlanta. Rick Flair.

Yeah. And I'm sorry. I hadn't say his last name. You dropped it. I didn't trip over it. Roll Tide. He let, don't be stealing my gimmicks, motherfuckers. This is called gimmick infringement in wrestling.

No walls. So we're walking through the airport and this guy comes over and puts his cheek against Rick's while we're walking and says, I'm going to get a pick. and does the selfie move cheek to cheek with Rick Flair and he's never said Mr. Flair, nice to meet you, can I bother you, didn't address him at all.

Touch his cheeks, I don't get a pick. That's what I'm saying. What the fuck. To be clear, that's what I'm saying. Like what you were saying too, as far as somebody getting in your face with a camera, yes, of course I agree.

Fuck all that. Like, that's completely different than what I, what I started this conversation with. I was in the bathroom whenever that was. Which is asking, But still, what I'm saying is, if somebody comes up to you and says, hey, can I get a pick, you're allowed to go, I'm so sorry, no, not right now. I've got to get a sandwich.

But you're made to be an asshole if you go, no. You know what I'm saying? You always say yes. Yeah, you should. If you're us and you're trying to grow. Because we're all trying to grow. Hey, can I get a picture? Sorry, I got to take a piss.

I got to have a goddamn sandwich. Like, what's the fucking line? I'm always the bad guy in our group, Conrad. Perfect example, two of them real quick. One happened to not. In New York, this woman skipped the line, came up. People were talking to us, and she was just like, I'm not waiting anymore.

I want to pick. And started taking individual selfies with us. And she did it with Trey. She did it with Corey. They were being polite, nice, whatever. It was like, okay, you're just doing this. What can we do about it? I was like, I looked.

to her, I turned my back on her everywhere she went. It's like I'm not going to do it or whatever. And then she grabbed my, she reached around. She grabbed my face and like turn it to her. She said, you're going to get a pick with me. I grabbed her hand. I threw it off me. I said, get the fuck out of the line and get the fuck out of here right now and take your

fucking friends with her. And all her friends left with her except for one girl who then like apologize later and blah blah, blah. But like I was the dickhead. Then she came back and tried to act like I was an asshole or whatever. I felt very justified in that situation. Tonight, literally tonight, this dude, skip line.

Trey was talking to this woman. Trey was having a conversation from two feet away with this woman. This dude walked in between him and said, I'm just going to skip line and take a picture if that's not too rude. I'm sorry. And I go, no, it is fucking rude. What are you doing? And I was like, what?

I was like, no, you can't do a picture. This is ridiculous. And it's like, then I'm the bad guy to both those people. And you were correct. No, you being right in that moment might not be enough. Yeah, sure. I would have handled it differently, but I appreciate the way you handled it because I would have wanted to handle it like you did. That's pretty much what we always tell him when that happens.

I'm glad that he does that shit, but yeah, I always, like in that first instance, the drunk lady, she came up to me first and, like, was very, very clearly a, you know, hammered lady out with her friends and was, like, just being loud and obnoxious. And I saw all that immediately, and she came up to me first. She was like, I was going to have a picture real quick. And in my head, it was like, smile, take the picture, get her the fuck out of here. That'll get it over with quicker and then it'll be done. And yes, it's shitty.

It's shitty and everybody else has to see it being shitty. But then she'll be gone and that will be that. Whereas if you engage with that person, now it's a fucking thing. But, but though, but what I want to say is fuck you. You know, who the fuck do you think you are? Sure. And so, like, when Drew does that, yes, I appreciate him doing it. Sure.

But I just don't know that. He's the Arnd Anderson of the group. He's the enforcer. I'm absolutely on. Oh, he's the fucking hill. So that would make Tray and Rick. Yeah. But he's got the iron hair.

So. Well, here's the thing. I'm the enforcer, but I'm Rick because I'm the nature boy. But anyway, but he's the star. If that's what you're sure. I miss Elizabeth. Here's the. But here.

I forgot what I was going to say. Hammer. Well, actually, we know what I was going to say. Here's part of that for me, though, is they're, you know, invading our space, and that's, like, problematic. That's not actually why I engage with them. If that happened at an airport, I really don't think I would be that guy. Because even though they're invading our space in that scenario or being rude, I wouldn't, like, lose it or feel justified. You're on a job.

I agree with you. It's not just that I'm on a job. There are other fans in line in both those scenarios. We've been waiting patiently. We've been waiting patiently. Being sincere, being good people, being good fans, being respectful. That's what I meant by your own job. And they're looking up.

And they look at us like, the fuck is this? But they don't want to say it because then they're the dickhead. Why the fuck is this lady? I feel a responsibility. So the woman that tonight that Trey was talking to or that night in New York, the couple we were talking to when that woman walked in and just invaded that, I feel a responsibility to them to say, hey.

Shut the fuck up. I've got people here. you know what I mean? Yeah, no, I agree with you 100%. No, like I said, I wish that I would do the things you did. I just might have this one. I said I would do that at the airport, the Rick Fler. I actually don't think I would.

If someone did that at an airport, I would be like, y'all, I would want to, but I wouldn't do it. I'll push his arm down. The reason I have the quote-unquote courage or whatever to do it in the other two scenarios is actually, I realize now, just because I'm doing it on behalf of the other fans. We're going to wrap up here, but I need to know before.

we do. Who's your favorite wrestler of all time? Oh, that's a good question. And then I want to know. We haven't gotten into that. Excluding Rick Flair. Yeah,

excluding Rick Flair. That has the obvious reasons. Take Rick Flair out of that. Hold on. And then I want to know. This is an unfair question. Who's the best? Yeah, yeah.

Who's your favorite? Who's the best? Can we exclude Rick Flair for both? Rick Flair does not have his personal bias. Rick, you know we love you. No, he can say Rick Flair for the best.

Okay, Rick Flair is the best. But if we're going to go one, if we're going to go one A, I agree with, say it's Sean Michaels. Okay. Yeah.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not surprised here. My buddies that are huge wrestling fans. I mean, yeah. The heartbreak hit? Now, if I was going to go just personal favorite, I would probably say Dusty Roads

of Terry Funk. Terry Funk. Because anytime they open their mouth, it's entertaining. But by the way, the reason I ask is we all have to before we're done, say who our favorite is. It's going to go on this line. Oh, yeah. Well, let's do it. Well, hey.

I'll go first because I didn't want to not include Rick on the best. I think he's the best. Your favorite and the best. I think that Rick Flair is the best. My favorite, it's a tie between the Ultimate Warrior. Yeah, man. And Jimmy the Dragon Steamboat. My favorite is Stone Cold Steve Austin, who I think is the best, is macho man.

Oh, yeah, Macho Man, Randy Savage. Oh, yeah, Maw Man was the Man. I don't, and, and by the way, I can't argue with Rick Flair. Like, I see it too. I couldn't argue with Macho Man, though. No, my husband is what I'm saying. It's like, well, I'm not going to sit here and go, fuck you. I was on Snapchat today watching people talk shit about the finals, or it was yesterday, the Cavs, Golden State.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was a dude who embodied Macho Man to talk shit, like on his snap thing. He was like, oh, yeah, bro. Steph Curry didn't know what's going to hit him to night, brother. No one owned mean Jean more than macho man Randy Sa. He was the best. And again, when you say that Rick Fier's the best, I don't, I don't disagree with you. Like, I'm not going to sit here and go, fuck you, because I can see your point.

Macho man to me. Dre. So, I don't think this is a cop out. I have to give separate answers for the separate times of my life. When I was. Sure. No, I remember that. Later on, I was, Sting.

He was the best in my favorite. When I was a little, when I was a kid kid and first got into wrestling with the VHS types of stuff, it actually, for me, was also the ultimate warrior back then. Yeah. And he slided. Like high school era, it was Stone Cold. It was Stone Cold. Yeah, because it was Sting for me for high school era.

It was Stone Cold. I also absolutely loved the rock at that age. But Stone Cold. Today is the rock for me. And today, as an adult looking back, it was. on it, I actually am going to say McFoly. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. I've got so much respect for that fucking life.

I'm upset. I didn't pick McFoller. You hear this, liberal, we're sitting here agreeing with each other on fucking wrestling. No, I hear you? I think it's fucking, I think it's much of, man. It is McFoly. God damn.

No, it is. You know what? He might be slightly better than Rick Flair in a weird way. As far as the best, to me, my answer is. No, man, but Rick Flair, man. I don't know about the Taverlaher's Nirvana, but. aspect. I'm sitting here... I'm sitting here telling you, I disagree with you

that Rick... I'm going, it's macho, man. But then I'm thinking about Rick Flair, and I'm like, it's Rick Flair. Oh, yeah. I'll do, Rick Flair's the shit. But then I'm going... Wheeling. Dealing. It's stealing. God damn it, man.

But then how can you not say it's a whole Cogan? How can you not say it's whole Cogan? Because he's bobbed. No, yeah. The reason I'm a wrestling fan. But that's what I'm saying. Is that like there are... Remember seeing them?

It's like your... Remember the favorite one? All right, let's do this then. Besides yourselves and your friends, who's your favorite comedian? I feel like we handle that. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. You did the same thing about wrestling choice in the comedian.

We can do it the same way, best and favorite. Because those are different for me. I think the best right now... I said Bill Burr for years. That last special was good. but I think Jim Jeffries might be better than Bill Burr right now. And my favorite is Maria Bamford. And the reason why she's my favorite is it's magic to me to watch her.

I don't know what she's doing. I can't do what Bill Burr does and Jim Jefferson, but I know what they're doing. I have no idea what Maria Banford's trick is. It's unreal what she's doing up there. Yeah. Currently, Bill Burr, all-time Chris Rock, for me personally. currently Bill Burr

all time is your favorite or is the best Richard Pryor is the best all time I think George Pryor is the best of all time I think George Caron is the best of all time

I would say Richard Pryor is the best of all time my favorite right now is Bill Burr now my favorite two years ago was Louis that changes of all time it hasn't changed for several years It's Richard Pryor, and it's because I've seen all the specials.

You're probably right. No, I mean, I'm not right. Well, again, my favorite versus best. My favorite of all time is Chris Rock, the best comedian of all time. If you ask me to name the best committee of all time, I'm going to say Richard Pryor is the best comedian of all time. Well, my thing, too, is I may like a lot of Carlin specials more because I've seen it. Also, I think he must be more than both of them. Yeah.

He had 16 to do it on HBO. I saw all of them. Seinfeld was my biggest in person. He means in person. I saw, I thought he meant the special. I saw George Carlin here in Hustle before he died.

And he opened, he comes out, huge applause, of course. He has to wait a few minutes for it to die down. Of course. When it finally dies out, he adjusts the mic and just holds it for a minute

and everybody's just waiting with bated breath. And he leans in, and he takes another deep breath and pauses and just, just milks it. and then says, pussy farts. That's a great way to end this podcast. Pussy farts. Thank you, Conrad.

Thank you, Conrad. Thanks for having me. I'll get to answer? Oh, no. Actually, you're glad. We're assholes. But we're still going to end it on pussyfarts. Okay.

All right. Favorite is Corey Forrester. Thank you. And best of all times, Cassio, kid. I love it. Matt Mitchell, we love you. Thank you guys. to listen to the well-red podcast

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