wellRED podcast - #196 - Why So Miserable?

Episode Date: November 25, 2020

Among other things the boys discuss the myth that in order to be a successful and funny comedian.... you must also be MISERABLE! WellREDcomedy.com for merch and ticketsSponsors: Lucy.co Promocode REDHelloFresh.com/RED0

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It is your boy at the show Corey Ryan Forster here. Wellredcom. W-E-L-R-E-D comedy.com. That's where you can sign up for our newsletter and grab some merch like our book, The Liberal Redneck Manifesto of Dragon Dixie out of the dark and our hour album, Well Red, live from Lexington. Also, guys, why don't you just go ahead and check out our sister podcast, the sequels or the offshoots or the reboots or whatever it is of the Well Red podcast? Trey has the evening skews with Smart Mark Agee.

Drew has Into the Abisket with DJ DJ Lewis and I myself have threw the screen door with my co-host and my producer, the lovely chocolatey-voiced Matt Coon. And guys, today's podcast was super fun. It's going to start off right in the middle of Drew telling a story about DJ, DJ Lewis. And I pressed record right when he was in the middle of it. So we just right into it. We also, guys, we have a live show that I need to plug. But instead of doing that, before we start the show, I'm just going to let Mr. Drew Morgan himself tell you guys about it.

So Drew, take it away. Skiw. Oh, hello. I'm just sitting here in my garden of Tranquil. a place I've been spending more time in lately. I wanted to invite you folks to our live internet comedy show on December 12th at 9 Eastern 6 Pacific. Myself, the Liberal Redneck Trey Crowder,

and Corey Ryan Forrester, also known as The Buttercream Dream, will be doing a stand-up show of all new material. Now, you may know that we did one of these in August, and you may be wondering, what social events have transpired since then that would give these guys the material from which to go, Glean humorous anecdotes.

Hmm. I guess you just have to find out. Really love the Statue of Glory. They're the Leroyance Sex Daycare. Way next that makes some people upset but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. Some bitch in an astrofan pulled up

when I was talking to my niece and was like, hey buddy, there's him your chickens? And I was like, no, these is community. chickens. He goes, well, do you mind if I come by and get some of them? No, buddy. Come by anytime what? Dude comes back with his whole family the next day. If you don't listen to the Obisket podcast, go fucking listen. We did an hour on this, but I will tell you all the highlight as best I can. This dude starts fishing for chickens with his rooster. He's got a rooster on a string. He throws it out. Other roosters come in. DJ's hammered drunk. So he's

on the porch, you know, in his bender. And this dude shows up and starts chicken fishing and he goes hey dray get my net i'm going fucking chicken fishing so they're doing all that and they're talking with there's kids there and dray like waits on dj to kind of give her the nod that you know she can come out and like be a brown person around these chicken snatchers because who knows how that's going to go right yeah at some point dray goes to get her bugs to show to these kids yeah she makes bug art everybody some kind of of cross signal exchange, they follow her inside. Once that happens, DJ's in there too, and I quote,

I can't even keep you up with a chicken man, buddy. It'd be like trying to paint with a Picasso. So once that is done, then like DJ and Dre's life is there on display. And Dre is who's killing me and DJ commenting on it. Dre's talking about how like these chicken catching dirty kids drive around in a minivan just catching feral chicken trash people are judging her because you guys know dray yeah so this kid like finds a box of bones yeah right with a with a baby doll head in it but he's sick so he doesn't know it's a dog picks it up and he's like mama she kills baby

that's one of my favorite things about dray is that when DJ's DJ will be in the middle of the most insane story you've ever heard. And then Dre will come in and you'll think to yourself, oh, right, here's the voice of reason. And she'll get about two sentences in. You're like, oh, shit, I forgot you're crazy too, just way different. Like in a bug bone way. Also, by the way, that's an oft-forgotten 80s pro-life country.

I ain't the mama she kills babies. So, listen, it's an hour. Y'all are going to listen to it. Trey, if you still have any interest, and making a show about DJ's life but trying to sit comment. Buddy, please go listen to this fucking episode because, by the way,

they were sitting around debating getting married versus renewing their suicide pact when dude showed up. Yeah. Did that satisfy their decision either way? Well, according to Dre and Hermann, well, according to Dre and her mind,

the suicide was off the table because, and I quote, we're both so near death anyway. Why would we do it now? What's the point? So since Drew mentioned a little peep behind the curtain and also I guess kind of an update for y'all that will be in no way surprising. But while back early goings on of the pandemic, we were all on our group chat with DJ and he was talking about how him and Dre were having a fight at the moment like a domestic argument, you know, like anybody would have with their old lady, with their gal. except the subject was her bug collection,

her like dead bug collection was stanking too much. And that was too much stank for their trailer. And he's just telling us all this. Also in 80s ball. Yeah, too much stink for this trailer. Yeah, he's just relaying the story to us in text form. And I said something like, I really want to see like everybody loves Raymond,

but with this. like a multi-camera sitcom in that style, but the married couple is you and Dre, and these are the fights you have, and we're all laughing about it. But then I just wrote up that one scene as a joke, and then I just sort of kept going. I ended up with a whole pilot that's like a multi-camera sitcom,

but it ain't network because it's very R-rated with all kinds of cuss words and stuff and dick and butt jokes and whatnot about DJ and Dre and their trailer Utopia down there. And chickens feature heavily. in the script that I wrote. Well, maybe this is the season finale, buddy, but they're gone now.

So I wrote it, and I thought it was one of the funnier things that I'd ever written, but I also thought, like, I was very aware that it was both, it was two things and no things all at once. And what I mean is it's like, it's like a network sitcom,

like Big Bang Theory or whatever, except, but a parody of that. Except, yeah, and except it's like really, raunchy and dirty and all this shit. And so people who like Big Bang Theory, people who like those types of sitcoms probably wouldn't fuck with it. And at the same time, people who like raunchy, dirty, you know, common, many shows.

Look down their nose at Big Bang Theory. It's my Louis didn't work. Lucky Louis. Lucky Louie. Yeah, yeah. Right. Well, so I knew that, but in my, like, arrogant, very brave and brain, I was like, it's time to try.

No, I agree, by the way. I mean, I still think it would hit. Drew's showing us a picture for those of just listening at the chicken fisherman here. Hold on. Hold it again. I see it around you. Yellow legs.

Yeah, yellow legs. Who's in the pilot? Yellow legs and the fishing rooster. Oh, by the way, the bee story of this episode, Trey, is a fight. It is a fight. Dre and DJ were having over which chicken is yellow legs. DJ won by holding up the chicken that was not yellow legs and screaming at her in front of these kids.

kids, look, his fucking legs are blue, Goddamans. Yeah, yeah. How could that be a yellow leg? Your Honor, the evidence on this live chicken clearly illustrates. Anyway, go listen to the whole episode. So I passed that around a little bit, and most of the feedback I got that I did get was pretty much what I just said, which is people being like, well, it's funny, but nobody's going to do it. But it doesn't like, it doesn't really fit anywhere because it's like, you know.

What you just said. Before I even did it, I asked a couple of people, I asked a couple of people who had meetings with or whatever in the run up to it. I was like, is that just a thing that you just don't do in Hollywood? Like that type of multi, like it's just been decided because of Lucky Luke look like. Right since Rob Thomas, he called me, we were talking about it. And he brought up Lucky Louie. And when he said it, I got excited at first.

But then I was like, I was like, of course. That is a very noteworthy, massive failure. Yeah. In an illustrious career. And Rob was like, yeah, right. But anyway, people were like, no, it's not that you just don't do it. But then the response that I got was like, look, we kind of just don't do this. So it was very raving.

But it's still, whatever. I would still love, if I get to a point in my career where I can like to shoot it, make a thing happen, I'm going to, I'm still going to circle back to that because I think it's fucking hilarious. DJ and Dre deserve a sitcom about their life. Well, to me, when something's the first thing, one of two things are going to happen. It's going to be a huge failure because people aren't ready for it. Or it's going to be a massive success because,

holy shit, this is super fresh. We've never seen anything like this before. I think with Louis, the thing is like, they were, I mean, they were dirty, but other than that, it was still a pretty average American family. Like, it wasn't the, it wasn't the soaked up version of like, you know, everybody, oh, we're in love, but we kind of fight. it was real America.

But DJ and Dre, what's perfect about them is, is that, I mean, technically they're real. Like I know both of them. You know what I mean? But like, son, ain't nobody ever seen shit like them motherfuckers. And I mean, that is a compliment. So I think it would work. I mean, it's like Tim Burton at his peak.

Like, this is like the beetle juice of sitcoms, but I think it could work. Yeah, me too. But, you know, nothing hits. That sounds wonderful, though. Drew. I'm glad to hear DJ's, you know, still doing DJ shit. We had a meeting with DJ the three of us, y'all on a potential group project, including him. Don't get your hopes up. Never, ever get your hopes up with anything. We say we might be doing. So don't, don't get me

wrong. But in the meeting with these like suits, and this guy stretches the definition of the word suit, but either way, it's still a suit. Yeah, right. Either way, he's like, producer production company. He's a Hollywood executive. And in this meeting, DJ at one point, goes, oh, fuck! And runs off out of nowhere.

And then runs back. He's like, my goddamn chickas got in the goddamn house. And fucking you sleep, that's a great back motherfucker holding it up, throw it outside. I'm like, God, damn. And then he started, and then he just rambles on it to this thing.

He was like, you know, we'd put up this, we'd put up this poison for all the damn critters is coming up, dude, but it don't kill them. It just makes a mean. They just want to fuck with you. I was like,

that's the shittiest poison ever. So he just gives a goddamn blood. Bloodlust, buddy, and he's got that rabbi. Just getting racked. He's drunk in his yard, fighting them. It's like, we're doing everything with Cam, buddy. They're just fucking, man. It should be pointed out that this was a Zoom call so you could see all this going on.

And DJ was where, DJ looked like a trailer maimaw in that he was wearing a kimono with, with like some sort of, like he had a hairnet on or something. Like he looked like he was serving lunch at a Chinese prison is what it looked like. And then he's got all these fucking chicken shit going on. So it was it was something else to see. It was, but here's the deal. I'll be honest with you. Here's how our particular brand works in Hollywood.

I was telling my mom that story. And she's like, oh my God. You think that hurts y'all in the meeting? And I was like, no, it helped us. That's perfect. That was money. If we were in a pitch and that happened, we would 100% sell it. There's no.

Absolutely. It would have to be real. Like it was real in that moment. You can't coach that. We tried to like fake that in a pitch, it wouldn't work. But if we were in a pitch, a Zoom pitch, and that really did just happen the way it just happened in that meeting, we'd sell it no doubt in my mind. Well, we would, if any exec was worth their salt, we'd sell that. They'd be like, fuck whatever you just said about that day.

This is the show. Yeah. Drunk raccoons fighting this man. in a kimono. Let's talk a little bit about a, and I, you know, just because it's tomorrow, as of people listening, this is tomorrow. Thanksgiving, Joe, I imagine it's one of your more favorite holidays. Is this a fat thing?

Yeah. What else would it be? It's Thanksgiving. Well, I know. I think it's a gratitude thing? No. A sweet and caring person thing? Well, it's just that, like, of course it's a fat thing.

It's one of my favorites. Right. Well, it's of the two, I mean, there's only two fat, no, there's three. Fourth of July is definitely a fat holiday too. And a drunk. And a drunk. Fourth of a joke. Bro.

Yeah. Yeah. But of the, I'd say the two number one seed fat holidays is Christmas and Thanksgiving. And I got to give it to Christmas just because. For sure. There's also, right. Like, often on Christmas, people give me something that I can future fat with, which is awesome. You know what I mean? Like last year I got an air fryer hit real hard.

Big fan of Thanksgiving. Obviously this year's different. We're not doing it. Which hits. Your parents don't want to. No, no. We're doing a like immediate family thing, like very small, but like not with any other groups or whatever. And it's, you know, what do you have a big, yeah, I'm about saying, do you all normally have like a big, fucking, like one of those big ass like 90s movie type of Thanksgiving? So what we We normally do because, you know, my family, I don't have a big family. Like, it's pretty much just my immediate family, but we've always gone over to Randy's house. Oh, yeah.

Because they're in the same situation. They don't really have a big family either. So, like, years and years ago, everybody was like, well, let's just all, you know, get married. Now, but over the years, certain people have gotten married and there have been kids. So, like, now, yes, what was once just two, four people, families getting together is now like a fucking huge thing. but we're not doing that. And so we're just going to do. And then also we go from there and Kirby has to go to her side to ask you.

And like, God damn, son, there's like 900 of them motherfuckers. That's how Katie's family is whenever we go to Waynesboro. Which obviously we don't really anymore. Right. In California. But, yeah. But no, we're just going over to moms and doing just us. And that's it.

So, like, dude, ecstatic. And I mean, you know, not that anybody in my. fucking family or, you know, the tons of anybody's listening to this podcast. And I love them. If y'all are, I love you, but like, I'm so fucking excited. It's just going to be like a 40-minute deal in and out, watch planes, trains, and automobiles, go the fuck home and pass out. Like, it's going to be so tremendous.

Yeah. And I'm sure, obviously, y'all ain't doing shit. No, well, this is our seven, eight. I heard Thanksgiving. No, fourth. Holy shit. We moved in, we moved in, I know it's why. We moved in January of 17.

So Thanksgiving and 17, 18, 19, and now this year is the fourth one. And we don't, you know, you just can't, and no one expects otherwise, but you just cannot feasibly go back to fucking Tennessee every single holiday. Especially this year. So, and Thanksgiving is the one that got lopped off. Like we had been, you know, last year, like, we went home for Christmas and we're there for like three weeks at Christmas time because we had to Zany shows, but so we went to Waynesboro and Salina and did all the that or we go in the summer sometimes to do a version of the same thing but never

thanksgiving so ever since we moved it used to be and it used to really not ahead because sometimes we'd have to drive five and a half hours into god damn wayne county where katie had one of those big like fucking duck dynasty type thanksgiving situations going on which you know you boy oh my god it was not is not it and her family's like and i'm not listen i'm not i don't mean this how it's probably about to sound i'm just describing to y'all the dynamics of her family here. Her family is one of those. It's like, it's like 75, 80% women. It's like they all just have girls mostly. You know what I mean? Like there's not a lot of sons. There's a few, but it's mostly sets of sisters who then have daughters and whatever. And so it's like,

and they loud boy, they loud. All of them together on a holiday and Katie, the worst of the worst. They're just sitting there just screaming over each other with telling simultaneous stories. None of them care about. And then we're all just, and then all the guys are just sitting there not making, you know, no noise because why, what are, all the guys are just sitting there remembering where all their guns are. Yeah, we're just ornaments in this situation. Like, we serve no purpose there.

Which is another thing they talk about for an hour. Yeah, right. And so, but we don't, ever since you moved out here, we don't do that because it just doesn't make sense to go back. So I mean, we, but y'all know I love to cook. You heard it here first. I love the kitchen. You heard it here first, well, Red fans.

Trey doesn't go to holidays because he hates women. All right. Sound bite. But yes, you do love to cook. In-laws, you're allowed. Of course, dude. So anyway, we just like. You can't say, you can't say women be talking a lot.

Women, but you can say the women in my family do. That's just a select group. You know what I mean? They're loud. They're chatting. I cook too, you know, it'll be too much for just us, but we'll end up eating the leftovers and stuff, but I always do like a, last year instead of turkey, I did a chicken, like I roasted a chicken, but made dressing and mashed potatoes and gravy

and all that, but with a chicken instead of turkey. Well, chicken's better. Chicken's way better. And that's why this don't hit this morning. Benton specifically asked if I could do turkey instead because he just, you know, Thanksgiving is turkey stuff and he wants a turkey. So, of course, I told him yes, but I agree with you chicken is way better. Do you think he'll know?

All turkey and a chicken. Do both. He'll know. of course he'll know that kid's smarter than all of us yeah that's true but he'll but okay well then he'll know oh this don't hit as much like he's smart enough to know that because it don't hit the other day we're talking about christmas we went for christmas we went from sancloth he's like sad it's not real oh no just tell it yeah yeah but we're still like i don't know we just moved on we didn't get into a whole thing with him but yeah he's about figured it out um i mean he clearly has that right

But he may also keep up the illusion because he's also smart enough to know in his head. He's like, why can't he out Santa Claus is not real? Because that might be two or three less presents, I guess. Right. You know. I explained a long con. We wouldn't do that. I don't think.

Like it wouldn't make a difference. I can see in his kid brain, he's like, I can't knock Santa off the, you know. He may be also doing, is it called Pascal's Wager about God? And maybe doing that way. Santa could be real, and then I'm not going to get these fucking presents. Right. Hey, let me ask you this, because I know who you are as a person. Is there part of you that's like kind of pumped up now

that you'll get credit for the hitting presents that you get, get him? Good question, Corey. I hadn't really thought about it because honestly, we've discussed on the podcast before. Santa hits for me. Santa hits for me too. It don't hit for Drew. It's a whole, it's a whole G.

Jesus thing is it was you and it's Mark it's Mark it's Mark we're in agreement that you and drew what it was was you and Drew were in agreement that Santa is but an extension of the you know God yoke of the church yeah yeah yeah so this guy will reward you yeah yeah yeah and I still agree with that and I was always like no it ain't got to be got got shit to do with it for me obviously and Santa still hitched for me but anyway Santa hits for me I like them being little the idea of them being too old to even fuck with Santa anymore is like kind of sad. So like, I hadn't even thought about what you just said, but I mean, don't get me wrong. Yeah, sure, it'll hit for me whenever. Yeah, that's always been one of the things for me is like,

I mean, granted, I don't even have kids, but I've always thought like, man, if I get them something that really hits, I'm going to let this fat bastard take credit for, you know, something I fucking did. Is that how it was when you were a kid, both of y'all? Did the big thing like come from Santa Claus? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Me too. So what you just said makes sense, right? But in Katie's family, and Katie does the same thing, she don't put it the way you just put it, although I wonder if it's got something to do with it. They don't do that.

They do, I remember what she described her. The big thing comes from them. Yeah. And there are Santa things, but Santa things are smaller things. And I think she said for her, the idea of something like.

Imagine some shithead kid in Katie's family. Santa's poor. What a loser. She said that, I don't know if it was her parents, rationale, but she said her rationale was so that like when kids go back to school and they're talking about Santa and shit. Other people didn't think

Santa's like Santa taught me, an Xbox and a new bike and all this stuff and then the little poor kid is like, I got some soup, you know. That's what happens. We've got a lot of thoughtful. It's to avoid that, but the thing is soup in a bag. You know that the rich kids are still going to be showing up talking about their fucking Xbox and stuff they got. So I get it, but I don't,

you know, whatever. I don't have a thought of feeling on that party. that's not. No, that is. You have a bunch of women in your family. That is thoughtful. And my mother actually has, I mean, she didn't apply it to her life or care about it after she thought it. But she had said to me, like, you know, it's kind of like, I wonder how those kids do feel like if they go there and they think that Santa doesn't like them, you know, anyways, fuck the poor, blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever it is that she sings before she goes to bed. But, I mean, I mean, cucumbers on her face. Fuck the poor.

I started her. Mexican. It's pickles, actually, if you live in Chickamauga, if you're Chickamauga house. It is after she takes them off. I promise you that. So, because she's sour. I do. I mean, she's drunk.

No, it's both. Yeah. Now, she's more high now. She don't really drink anymore. She just stay blazed, which hits. Now, I'm sure that when I have kids, I'll just be like, the joy on their face, it won't bother me. I won't care where it came from. I'm sure it'll be fine because, yeah,

San, I'm sure, hell, I'll probably be playing Santa anyway, so I'll probably get the best of both worlds because I'm fat. That's true. And don't hit. Ugly, dumb, stupid, filled with gravy. Ooh, he's spitting. All right, speaking to gravy, can we go back on something? Yeah.

Obviously, in a one-to-one comparison, chickens better than turkey, but I do kind of want it once a year with a fuck ton of gravy. I want it with gravy. Right. Yeah, yeah. Because you have to. Yeah, but like, I want to you. I hear you.

I hear you. I'm the same way except like I felt differently about it whenever I moved out here and we, and I'm the one cooking it because like I'm so sensitive about like what I cook on. It's like Katie the other day. Like I made that beef stew the other day and it hit raw hard and she got bowl of it. And I was like, how is that? And she goes, it's good. She goes, it's good. Then she says to rent.

She goes, beef stew is like, not. one of my favorites, just in general. But this is good. Well, at least you're only like that about cooking. I was like, Katie, you could have to stop at this is good, you know, whatever. She's like, well, now you know, it's not one of my favorites. I was like, I don't care. You think it's going to stop me from making it, whatever.

And now I get all pissed off and I sulk. I always salt. Me too. I make a big show of it. The idea of turkey versus chicken when I'm making it, I'm like, because I agree with you, Drew, I've always been the same way. I do want turkey and stuff like once a year. But when I'm making it, I'm like, no, I'm make chicken because it'll hit harder.

If I make a turkey and it's drying, it don't really hit, that's not going to hit for me. Yes. Personal level. Because it don't hit. So, but I'm still doing it this Thursday. But if you make the giblet gravy, how could it not hit for people? You can make it not dry. Just put more than gravy.

For sure. Yeah, I agree. I mean, you're right. I'm just explaining that. Now, I will say I've got like very upset with people not wanting gravy. I don't get that at all. They should be killed. Like in a field.

Yeah, I agree. Put it on TV. Beating slowly. We also, every year except this one. Cook them in a pot, make gravy out of that. How meta. Yeah, idiot gravy. All that fat and dumbness make it flavorful.

You know, we're good. Every year until this one, we used to always go to this. We used to always get together with all these other comedy people, but not stand-ups, you know, stand-ups are loner and lunatics who don't have families and stuff generally. These are all improv people. So it's like improv comedy people. Let's just pretend there's a turkey. They do get pretty improvvary sometimes.

It's, you know, like, but now they're cool. They're, you know, they're, it's wild how, I don't know, they quick. They quick with shit. Really? You know, right, I know, sort of the whole thing. Anyway, they're all, it's all a bunch of, married couples who have kids around the same age and all are in like the comedy world

and we have a big like Friendsgiving thing but not not this year obviously. Are they a happier about the improv fault? My sons got into a fist fight year before last got trapped in a fist fight with each other year before last got trapped into bouncy house and panicked and started just throwing

hands at everybody in there last year wed to leave so like I won't be invited back anymore my little fucking trash monster. Was it an actual? I know what you're about to ask are those separate things to fist fight? Yes. And then also. The fist fight was two years ago.

It was two years ago. The other incident was last year. And maybe they're saying to hell of COVID and they're having it this year and we're just not invited. Wouldn't surprise me. But yeah, it's always something. It's fun until that shit happens and we leave in shame. But we're having to yes and when you get a fucking boys, man. Bunch them right in the face.

Little boys. What were you about to ask me about it though, Corey? or you're saying something. I don't ask me something. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I just want, because for the record, if you're out there and you do improv,

I don't actually hate you. It's just an inside joke that stand-up comedians and improvs are like on... Stand-ups and improvs. Yeah, like, yeah, like... Policemen and firemen or Navy and the Army.

Exactly. I know that we're in the same thing. But I did want to ask, because we are, I mean, we're a different people on a spectrum. Are they a happier bunch than eating Thanksgiving? We are on the spectrum.

Yeah, for sure. They are. They're a happier bunch. Happier, yes. There's still some darkness and stuff with the jokes of the ones. Sure. Don't get me wrong. Plenty of talk about how everything out here is bullshit and whatever else.

But like happier. Can't believe nobody will give me a shot to pretend I'm on a boat. Like that's what they can. Well, hold on. They're successful. Are you comparing them to successful comedians or just the people we used to come up with? What about saying? I mean, you know, we all hang out with comics.

there's some that it's a big i mean hell tone's very successful you know what i mean like we're not we're not yeah you're right no you're right you're right yeah when i think of comics i think of all the comics that i have spent the most time around which have not been missing throats the most yeah but what drew is saying is like when you get a level of success you're like happier and stuff and the only time ever like hang out with successful comics is at largo and they're usually pretty you know pretty cool and yeah they're not like just rags with fucking, you know, intense angst and fucking despair and all this shit that you associate with stand-up comedians a lot of the time.

Yeah, you're right. You are right. I mean, we've been a lot less angry since we started touring successfully, I guess. With less. Less? Yeah. I feel like a lot of times when we're being angry bags of shit, it's like a bit. Yeah, for sure.

Because, like, I feel pretty good. I think all comics do that. To a certain extent that I play into it or whatever. Right. We need to stop doing that. We need to fucking change the channel. Well, absolutely. I've been trying to change the channel.

I wish you guys would let me. I'm glad you're on board now. Smoking DMT. Just doing all meditating. I haven't been angry in a long time, fellas. It's true. But, well, I mean, you know, you see a year ago, this would have made me infuriated. But instead, I find it kind of, kind of cute.

Like, look at your face. It made you so happy. Hold on. Just so I. even though what we're talking about. Of course, we need to change the channel. You're talking about as stand-up comics,

we need to not play into that stereotype is what you're saying. Yeah, fuck it. Is that what you meant? Yes, because here's why. As stand-up comedians, we're supposed to, you know,

buck the system and, and, you know, evolve and stuff like that. And, like, I think that has now become hacky. Like, that whole comedians,

it's cliche, like, and we're supposed to, we're supposed to recognize when something gets played and do the opposite. Like, I think being the, you know,

the whole, like, oh, we sleep till 12, and we're all sad. Like, fuck that. It's cool to be happy and wake up at seven sometimes. I know you're never going to get there.

I think, you don't have to be sad if you sleep till 12 just for the record. And I don't sleep until 12, but I'm saying sleep at that. That's another goddamn stereotype. Another stick. People think if you sleep in, you like depressed.

Right. No. Or just lazy in your neither. Sleeping hits. Well, you are depressed. Or that, well. Louis, I think Louis did that. I think Louis was such a giant.

He got so famous and people got so comfortable with his style that, you know, it was like, oh, that's what comedy is. Talk about your darkness or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, I know. He was far from the first to do that. Yeah, but I think he got mainstream. I think he made into a cultural thing. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I agree with you. Like he became, he was the manifestation of literally all of that and he got super huge mainstream. But like, yeah. Let me say something else. and Trey, you can comment on this too. There were a lot of miserable people at the public defender's office

and a fuck ton of miserable people in the courthouse. That's what, yes, I know where you're going with that and yes, I agree completely. I watched a documentary, fuck, I can't remember the name of it, but the premise of it was

do you, does misery make comedy? You know, comedy is tragedy plus time. It's like, do you have to be somewhat miserable or have gone through rough shit or whatever darkness and whatnot to even be funny. That was like the premise of the documentary interviewing people and trying to figure that out. They ultimately landed on, no, you don't have to, but it sure seems to be a lot of overlap. That's pretty much where they landed on.

I didn't see what Penn Gillette said when they interviewed him about it, he was like, I think comics, and I'm paraphrasing here, he was something like, he's like, I'm tired of comics like romanticizing this whole aspect of it or playing it up. He was like, he was like, he said something. like what you just said. I don't remember if it was public defenders, but he was something like, there's a lot of miserable doctors. He's like, there's a lot of miserable people on Wall Street. He's like, if you met people, he's like a lot of them are miserable. He's like, I don't buy into the idea that more, a higher proportion of comedians are miserable compared to other subgroups of people.

And yeah, I used to work for the federal government. I worked for the DOE. And yes, there were plenty of very miserable people there. It's just, that's how people are, but comedians tell you about it. Well, we tell you about it, and I didn't see that documentary. Maybe somebody touched on this. Not every comedian has to do this. Anthony Jesnick doesn't really do it. Maybe he does in a way. But, like, for the most part, to be really successful,

you've got to be very relatable to somebody. Like, somebody in that audience, or most of that audience, has to relate to what you're saying. Ergo. You say it. Misery is a fucking big old world to draw a relatability from. Absolutely. 100% accurate.

I genuinely believe sometimes I think about it and I'm like, I think, I really think that for years, I wasn't nearly as miserable as, like, I didn't realize I was pretending to be more miserable than anything because it was just what you were supposed to be. Like, like,

again, we romanticized that whole, like, if you're not a fucking depressed bag of shit that's constantly on the verge of jumping off a bridge, how could you possibly, you know, make good comedy and art and, like,

you just like get in that zone. And now, back. I think I think I was like just like uh, cosplaying the idea of what a stand up comedian is and like now I don't feel that way no more. And I'm not, not only am I just as funny. I better, I think. Like my creativity skyrocketed. Once I was just like, hey, you don't have to be that way. You can be, it can be okay. You don't have to drink yourself to sleep every fucking night and

and curse God and hate. I might still do every now and then, but like, I don't know. It's just weird. he stops drinking for one month turns into Russell Branch right? One month. It's been so long. I think you're right completely. I also think a part of that and understand that I'm not accusing anybody. I'm talking about myself. Well, all right, let me tell this story.

I tried to talk about what happened on my brother on stage pretty quickly. And I was trying to make it funny and it wasn't working and nobody wanted to hear about it. And also, I realized at some point, and this is why I stopped. I didn't think it was funny. I had convinced myself that you've got to turn your life into humor that even though I didn't think it was funny, I was trying to get people to laugh at it. And it hit me one day,

that's sort of the definition of hack, or one of the definitions, asking an audience to laugh at something that you know isn't funny. Right. And I was like, fuck, I'm like this weird kind of anti-hack hack, because at the time as a young comic, I was like, well, what's hack is playing it safe or whatever, you know.

I did the exact same thing when my dad died. Yeah. The exact same thing. I went up, I went up. That pancreatic cancer bed is fucking funny. Well, here's what happened. I don't think he'd been in the ground maybe two weeks. I feel like it wasn't even a week.

And I went up in, I was still living in Knoxville, and I went up to a show in Knoxville. And I was at a point, you know, where like I could pretty much do however much time I wanted to or whatever. Because I was, you know, I had it and had been around for a while. Right. And so I went up last at that show, and I don't know how long I did, but I did at least 25 minutes and talked about nothing but my dad dying. And yes, I did get one bit out of it that always murdered. That was part of that. That bit, though, was like two and a half, three minutes.

I was up there for 25 minutes and all the rest of it was real fucking dark. Yeah, talking about my dot, dot. My dad's doctors abandoning him because they had too many conflicting appointments to go, like, suck all these rich dudes, dicks and all this stuff. And they're getting fucked in the butt by rich assholes or whatever. And that's why my dad died because he was poor and all it, like, just. But 25 minutes of that. Yeah, it was. And it was like, and it's like Drew said, I felt like, again, one tiny part of it.

like 10% of the bit. Okay, okay. And I think that allowed me to feel as though I had done the thing. Right, right, right, right. I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I have to do this. Because I was already like scheduled on that show and I think whoever was running at the time was like, everybody knew my dad had died and I think they were like, buddy, don't worry about it.

And I was like, no, I'm coming. And I'm like really playing it. I'm really playing it up in my head. And I'm like, and like you said, I was like, I got to do it. I got to go and I got to talk about. because that's what this art form is. You know, that's how to be true to myself or whatever.

And then I think because I got one little chunk out of it that did work that went into a regular act, I think that part of it allowed me to tell myself like, I did it. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing you're supposed to do. But you're not wrong. And I did it. That's sort of like what, I mean, man,

sometimes you write new hours and I'm like, how the fuck does you do that in a year? because you're not wrong though like doing 25 minutes and getting two and a half out of it is how most people do this job right yeah but i also think i was saying like i didn't find any of it funny myself did you find some of it funny or was it just anger and pain honestly the part that works exactly was funny the only part for my brother the only part for my brother's shit and i'm going to start doing it if we ever get back on tour again the only part i kept was about how i can't do wrong in my parents' eyes now no matter what. Yeah.

Like he gave me freedom by going to prison. So even now, I think it's funny. That's the only part of my. That is funny. That's the only part that works. Everything else wasn't funny to me. You talked about your dad having a heart attack? I was going to-

I was like, what? No. Corey started to say that a minute. Well, the day... I think I got a delay. The day that he had a heart attack, it was me, Josh Gondelman, and Landry,

and we'd been at the comedy catch Thursday, Friday. I think this happened on a Friday. And dad had a heart attack. I went to the hospital that day. And then that night, like I had two shows at the catch. Three, actually, I had one in the grill.

And, like, dad was having surgery. And, like, it was kind of up in the air. And, like, everybody was worried. And, like, I just went and did the shows. And, like, it was one of those things for, like, truly thought I was doing the right thing by leaving my family there because it was like, dad would want me to do this. And, like, it also, but I,

I said that out. That's the part I said out loud. Dad would want me to do this. But like, I fucking wanted to do that. You know what I mean? I wanted to go and have the fucking Brett Fav game. And then I genuinely, selfishly wanted people to be like, that's why this motherfucker is, because I was in the same position as you,

like in Chattanooga, I was the man. You know, I wanted people to be like, that's why this motherfucker is the man is because his dad is dying in the hospital. And he's like, fuck that. You know, I got to play. I don't, like, I know that I did. I don't, genuinely don't, here's how bad it. I mean, I'm not saying it was bad.

Like, I know I didn't do it in my whole set. I didn't 25, because I was hosting. Like, I couldn't have done that. But, like, I know I opened with something about it, but it wasn't, I don't remember it. Definitely I never said it again. So it clearly wasn't that good. But, like, and from then until, like, very recently,

I've just now started to, like, being married has helped me with this. Because there's certain things that, like, Amber, maybe she'll say something. I'll be like, please cannot. please can I say that verbatim and she'll be like just can you save it till we're doing good enough to where I don't have to teach anymore because I can't have you say that while I teach you know and that's fair that's a that's a fair fucking thing to say and I'll be like yeah okay and it's like it's just now starting to occur to me like it's totally okay to have a private life and be a comedian like you you don't have to say everything like used to I genuinely

thought you go on stage cut your fucking arm open and bleed for the whole fucking stage. Like, they get to know everything. Nothing I do gets to just be me time, uh, which is like now if dad was to have a heart attack, I don't, I wouldn't, I'd fucking stay at the hospital, you know, and I also wouldn't talk about it. That's, it's insane, I think. What about the podcast? Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. That's different. That's different. I go up and down. Well, I mean, if, listen, but the thing about the podcast is, if I talk about it on the podcast, that just means I really, really, really wanted to. I may like think like, oh, I better take that out later.

But at the time, that's probably just me getting it out. But like, when I go on stage, I got other shit I could be talking about. You know, I got bits and stuff I wrote. If my dad had a heart attack, we'd be like, cool, we get a, we get a filler, you know. We got some other shit we could be talking about. That's true. Incredible value that is, hello fresh, Corey. It's so amazing.

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That's like his favorite thing, like number one favorite thing. It's like, here's his favorite things. Cheeseburgers, those fried apple pies, and haven't, yeah, it all makes sense now, having heart attacks. Well, okay. I remember Andy, Andy dreamed it, and I thought we could come back. And then you were like, no, no, no, it turns out it was just something different. No, no, no. No, no.

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And this will make sense what I'm saying in a minute. The Crown? Yes, it has, yes, that's due with that. Yeah, and that's something. The Crown is very popular, very popular Netflix show. A lot of people watch. It's so good. They watch that show.

They're going to, I don't know, they're going to be like, yeah, of course, everybody knows that. But I'm wondering, Drew, so you don't watch that show, right? No, Andy brought it up, but we were, we're still on Bertana. And you're an American. Okay. Do you know who Wallace Simpson is? No, I was going to say that name sounds familiar, but I don't think so. I think that Wallace just sounds like an actor's name.

So I like, I don't know. It's a woman. She's a socialite in the early 20th century. What about, so we got Queen Elizabeth now, right? She seceded her daddy when he died. Yeah. Her daddy took the place of his brother. After that adication.

Do you know anything about his brother? We whipped their ass in a war and I learned a goddamn thing about them sent. And that's, again, that's your right as an American. That's why we fought that war. We didn't have to work about these motherfuckers. Also, there's just something weird about knowing too much about royalty. I know. I was about to say, before I even get into this,

I've always been, like, annoyed on a personal level by the craze in this country surrounding, like, the royal wedding and the royal baby and all this stuff. Me too. I've always felt like, why do we give a fuck? Right. Especially because. It's like they have. art that hits and like culture that hits.

I like the way they talk. Spoiler alert. It ain't their fucking kings. That ain't what hits, man. Well, that's my thing with it too is I'm with you. Like I thought the obsession was fucking stupid. Still do, by the way. I'm,

but I enjoy it when a group of writers gets together and retails it in a dramatic fashion that's based on the line. I'm sure. Of course they fucking do. The tabloid version of it. Yeah. The tabloid version of it is some, is some bullshit. I was working at the DOE when the royal wedding and all that was going on.

And I used to say a lot of this to the women I worked with. They were intensely into it. Man, you just give women a break today, Trades. And I would ask them. Well, they just, they were screaming about it real loud in another room over each other while they worried about poor kids. Here's how they just. Everything I've said has been true about these women that I know in my life.

My in-laws and my former co-workers. Then the women at the DOU was not saying, I have to distance myself from this. Me and Corey both. We just have to distance ourselves from these comments. No, fuck them. They're loud. Not every woman at the DOE was into it, but I worked with plenty of women who were,

and I would ask them, why are you so into this? And the response they gave was, they were like, it's like a real life fairy tale. They're like, no, it ain't. She's like a princess and a princess story. Because she wasn't royalty, right? They met in college? Yes, that, yes. It's like a fairy tale because she's like, you know.

A commoner. I don't know. I feel like she's still out of, yeah, I don't even know her background, but whatever. She like, you know, she found her real life Prince Charming and now she's in real life. And it's like, whatever. And that was how they explained it to me. But anyway, we've gotten distracted. I'm just saying, I've always agreed with all that.

But this that I'm about to tell you, I think it's wild, considering our obsession with the British royalty in this country, I think it's wild that this. I think it's wild that this isn't a more like known thing. And I feel like it's not that known of a thing because I asked you and you didn't know about it. And I didn't, I don't think I knew about it before I watched the show or if I did know I'd forgotten. The king before George, Elizabeth's dad, George, his brother, Edward, was only the king for like less than a year.

He didn't even get coronated. He was the king, though. Like, he didn't even get a chance to get coronated because he was only the king for less than a year. But he wanted to be with that lady? And the reason, yes. And she's an American. She's an American socialite who had already been divorced once,

was married when he met her, was trying to get divorced again. She got that king destroying pussy. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. He left the fucking throne behind and left the whole country, his whole family, everything for this woman, Wallace Simpson. Yeah. And like, that is wild.

That is wild. Well, you're the king. I mean, I've heard some. version of that story. What is England? That's like 1930. January, he was the king at 1936.

He was king from January, 1936 until he abdicated on December 11th, Corey's birthday of that same year. When did World War I? The year, not 49, 19. Oh, what, World War I.

My bad. My bad, yeah. World War I was 19, 19 or 20. And the Great Depression happened. 18, 19. 29. 29. He wasn't there for none of that.

I just, well, All I'm saying is, when World War II was getting started. I was trying to figure out if maybe people just had other shit going on. Also, obviously, we're talking radios at best, right? I think it was a huge deal at the time. I'm saying I feel like it's like, I don't know. That's just a, again, the king of England just saying, fuck it. I'm going to get some pussy.

And walk away from the throne and the crown and all that because of an American girlfriend. Who he still could have had. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's not like he couldn't have just been like, I'll be the king and I'll marry whoever they want me to marry, but like you still come through. You know, I'm the king. I'm the fucking king. He probably just wanted to live a life not as the king.

Oh, well, you can definitely, I mean, at least the way they're portraying it in the show, that's definitely like he didn't care. Like, he, none of that, obviously, none of that was glorious enough to him to like do it. And then, but their whole thing with this is like it killed old King George. Like he wasn't ready to do it, but he had to step in for his brother. And, you know, he had a stutter and his bowels didn't hit, like, all sorts of stuff. And, like, the throne killed his ass. But, like, yeah, I mean, clearly he didn't.

Isn't this what the new ones did, too? The new ones we made. When old boy married a girl that your coworkers were obsessed with. Oh, though, yeah. Because it was a princess thing. They just fucked off recently. Yeah, yeah, kind of. He's not in line to be, though.

like, not for a long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also, the thing is, they had to modernize because they also, back then, this lady, you know, obviously she wasn't nobility. She wasn't even British. Imagine. And imagine, you know. How daft.

And she had, was twice married once. And so, but I'm saying, I know. But back then, all that was a complete non-starter to like the British, the church of England and all that stuff. I don't think any... Did he freeze for you? Yeah. I'm here now, right?

Go ahead. You don't think any what? I don't think any or most of that is true anymore when it comes to like royal matches. You know what I mean? Like Megan Markle, she's American and shit, right? But he wasn't in line. That might be different.

I know. I think they've loosened a lot of that shit from what I'm saying. You're kind of allowed to America because they weren't, even if you are going to be the country. Kings. Because of Princess Diana, probably. And I also think she's the reason for the American obsession with royalty, almost single-handedly. The time period, the paparazzi, and the way the American press reacted to her. And let's just put it where it's at. She was good at it. She was good at being the princess. And then she died so spectacularly sounds like I'm saying it's

positive. No, but I get it. No, I get it. Very much so, yeah. For the record, I think that's why people care now. I definitely has a lot to do with it, I think. Elizabeth's coronation was the first to be televised, and that was due to the influence of fucking Philip. Ain't it wild? What do you mean? How old her ass is, made him like,

do you know that he's still alive? Do you know that he's still alive? Yeah. Her husband. Prince Philip, her husband. the king the queen consul how he how he had come he ain't the king because because he's not she married him he's not from the line he's not from the line after she was the heir she married him no no she married him before and they had kids but she's from

the line he's not from the line he's not of the blood line she's of the blood line so that that's why it went to her like if she had been a man she would have been the king that's but like but but george he had daughters he's still alive too but when she became the queen she was queen of like Jamaica Rhodesia she was like they still had the empire the empire still existed yeah Gany all that shit

all these like other countries yeah she would like you said she was the first scene on a television because television was brand new when she started and just the idea that she's still the queen today that's just that's wild

she's 94 years old so here's my she's the only queen almost everyone has ever known. Almost every person on earth has only ever known one queen of England. Here's my theory on it. Getting back to these loud ass women.

TV becomes a thing. This woman is the most powerful woman, arguably in the world at that time, or in the top three people in the world. Even as they're... And arguably the most powerful woman, I'd say. Right. As their empire wanes,

she still retains a certain amount of power. Then the next wave or whatever is during the paparazzi era, Princess Diana becomes a movie star, for lack of a better comparison, a rock star. Maybe it's just like that is such a strong and powerful symbol of being a powerful woman, and that's why women in this country are obsessed with it now. Yeah. I think there's part of that, and there's also just like, and this ain't just women, this is everybody. like people love it's why some dudes are obsessed with the fucking trumps people like extravagance and wealth

and like this idea of a life that either they could never have or this like well maybe if i just do this i could like i just think people i don't know man it's fucking weird because like you know in game of thrones uh they always were talking about like they're like why would we spend all this money on this wedding and tywin was like well you've got to give the you've got to give the commoners something to celebrate otherwise they'll figure something out on their own and you know they'll revolt or whatever. But I was, it always struck to me. I was like, if I was in that town and I saw this money being spent on this fucking wedding, this royal wedding, I'd be pissed off because I'd be like, y'all got all that. And I got, you know, and I can't get no fucking bread or no fish. But like,

turns out, man, people do turn up for that shit. It's wild as fuck to see. But like, they do. Like, when the fucking royal wedding happened, the last one or whatever, I was at side splitter, as a matter of fact, with Lynn Coppil. Y'all know Lynn, don't you? Comedian. Lynn's very funny You know if you saw her She was in Fuck she was in She was in the King of Staten Island

She was She was Motherfucker Pete Davidson's mom's best friend That cussed at him all the time Anyways Lynn's great And we were working together And the royal wedding was happening

And I said, What are you doing tonight? And she goes, I'm going to stay up and watch this fucking royal wedding Because I want to talk about it on stage tomorrow And I was thinking like Okay, that doesn't

don't seem worth it and to get five minutes. God damn it, she did fucking 50 minutes on the fucking roll wedding and smashed because every woman in there had stayed up and watched the fucking role wedding and like, I mean, and I mean murdered. But yeah, like, I don't know, man, it's fucking weird. But at the same time, we're in the same culture that's obsessed with the fucking Kardashians. Like, if we're already going to be that way, it's like this is the Kardashians except for

like, I don't know, they look like they earn it a little bit. So, fuck, I don't know. We're just dumb. I'd say they earn it less, but I know what. Well, okay, I mean, monetarily earn it less, but like they put on a better show to me. Like, I would rather, I would much rather watch the Royal Wedding than watch anything the Kardashians do. Because at least like they're not pulling out any stops. I don't know what I'm trying to say, but like they're more entertaining.

I know what you mean. And I don't give a fuck about watching either of them. For sure. And I can't believe I'm saying this. In this specific comparison, the Kardashians are like the indie band, dude. Right. They kind of made it on their own. Yeah, but I'd rather see the stones.

I mean, they're millionaires. Yeah. I don't know about that. Well, they, the royals are the network, you know? Like, they had all the money behind them. They had years of, look, they don't. I think if you look at, I think a lot of the world would say, and I find this very unfortunate,

but that the American version of the royal family is currently the Trump family. And that's horrible. No, Jayze and Beyonce. But the idea that before that, the idea that before that, the American equivalent of the royal family was the Kardashians, like that don't fucking do it. I don't care how they think about it. It's like, I would rat, no, like, that's not a good look.

We also until the Trump's and maybe them didn't really have that, and that's a good thing. We had Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. You know, you know what I mean? We respect talent. We respect talent. Like in our country, to get to that stat, right.

We did. Right. Right. And that's kind of the thing, right? That's kind of what makes them both sides of the same coin is it's like, it's based upon like randomness or luck or fortune or whatever. It's not based on talent. Well, like worthiness or merit.

And that's what makes it equivalent. It's not based on merit or worthiness. I still think there's some kind of talent to accumulating the amount of money the Kardashians have. Yeah. For doing, you know, famous for being famous.

There's some kind of talent to keep that going. For sure. Look, they ain't done, they've not done nothing. It's just what they've done don't hit for me.

Right. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. This has been a while with them, boys. Yeah, what the fuck?

I guess we should probably get started. Yeah. Here we are. Here we are. Yeah. Thanksgiving week. Yep, Thanksgiving. Scoo.

Well, I mean, what are we? We've done the time, ain't we? We have. Speaking of Thanksgiving, special episode of Through the Screen Door this week, Thanksgiving episode, if you didn't listen yesterday, go check it out. We reviewed and cried about planes, trains, and automobiles and a whole bunch of other stuff.

And apparently this week on Into the Abisket, there's chicken fishing. Chicken fishing on any of the abisket. Also, guys, we should say that we have a streaming comedy show. We sure do. December the 12th. Day after my birthday. Next time.

That's the day after the king abdicated. I'll plug it in. I'm going to plug it in, dog. Shit, who do you think I am? You never listen this fucking podcast? You know, I start talking about it. But rustics.com. Some people might skip that, yeah.

Rushticks. Also, it's going to be new material. New material. You can go to well-readcom and grab those tickets. It's going to be super fun. We're doing everything safe. And I'm excited to virtually see all of you. We did it before. We had a great time.

I think the last time we did it, we had a slight kink in the first two minutes. The folks at Rush Tick got it worked out pretty much immediately, and we won't have that problem this time. I'm excited about it. I hope you guys are too. Me too. And just a little shameless plug extra here. We, to my knowledge, still have the. the record for Rush Tick's comedy sales, the well-read comedy tour does.

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Bye. Howdy, y'all, Trey Crider here with a very hitting announcement. I've got some more computer jokes to tell. Back in August, me and my buddies Corey and Drew did us a online comedy show. And it went so well and so much shit has happened in the world since then. We want to do another one coming up here soon. December 12th, to be exact, at 6 p.m. Pacific time. You can see us on your screens and in your hearts, telling jokes and having an after-party afterwards.

It's going to be a grand old time. We hope you will join us. You go to rushticks.com to get your tickets now and see us on a computer, baby. I'll be sagiba.