wellRED podcast - #209 - Taking Over For The '99 and 2000

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

On this episode the boys go over some more rap lyrics, Trae points out that many conservative talking heads are form Canada, and also predictions for how the world will be post covid!Sponsors:Stereo! Get the Stereo App for Free and join the wellred boys every friday at 3pm EST for an interactive show... you can leave messages, ask questions.. they've been a lot of fun.CutsClothing.com/WellRED for 15% off the only shirt worth wearing

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We have some rap talk recently. Do you have, I found recently, and it's like I've never noticed it. before, but I almost every single morning, I wake up with a seemingly totally random song stuck in my head, like playing in my head. And it'll be a different song every day and it's all genres. I don't know where it comes from. I don't know if it was in a dream. I was just having before I wake up. But every morning I wake up with a song in my head almost. And a couple of days ago, and obviously this hit, I woke up at like 5 a.m. needing to pee and said song was the a seminal turn of the century club banger backed that ass up by Juvie and uh little

Wayne fresh and little wine yeah was that 99 yeah because cash money was taken over for the 99 and 2000 as you may recall they announced it yeah they announced it so it was 99 uh and it was particularly uh and let me look up the lyrics real quick just so i don't butcher any second verse yes uh he says uh uh uh I can walk it like a dog, yeah. Actually, no, I guess it's the third verse. It's Manny Fresh's verse. Yeah. Mani Fresh's a good verse.

I know you can't stand it. Dick Bandit. Dun land it. See the droll's hand. Dick, Dick, Dick. Don't get a yo. Gangs put it ago. Yeah.

Okay. So here's the part in particular. And I hit it, yo. The very next part. What's the very next part? Looking kind of lonely. I'm feeling lonely. Keep going.

Put a dick in the middle like monie. Right there. Right there. Stop. Stop. It was the whole thing playing in my head. that little couplet stuck with me for the first because you know what came out we were we we I was 13 by the way well done boys on remembering exactly this third year's this

club ball camp 99 dude did yeah seared in all of our memories if you was slow in a freshman you knew all the lyrics right so that last couplet looking kind of lonely I'm feeling honi put the dick in the middle like mona I got hung up on that the other morning I was like wait Do y'all know what that? Do you all understand that? Actually, in my brain has always just like interpreted it as like Mone was a, uh, wasn't Mone a song too? It's not a song.

It was a singer. And she, Mone love. Was she a backup singer? Oh, I don't know. I don't know that much about her. I was going to say that would make sense if she was like a backup singer and there were three of them and she was always in the middle. She had a song.

that was something of a hit in 1990, but I don't remember it at all, but it was, her name's Moni Love and the song was called Moni in the Middle. Oh, that hits. So that's what it means. Put the Dick in the Middle like Moni. I did not know that. I was unfamiliar with Moni Love. I never questioned that lyric at all until the other morning.

So I'm laying in bed. It's 5 a.m. And I'm just playing that over and over again in my head. And I don't know anything about Moni Love or that song. And I was like, what? I put the dick in the middle like Moni. And you know what I landed on and it's totally incorrect, but it hit for me so hard. Any money, Mo?

No, I thought he was saying, well, because first of all, he says, I'm feeling honet. You know, it's not horny. Yeah, how you say that. So I thought it was the word money, like money, you know, like money. And I thought he was saying. That's probably what I've always thought. I thought I had cracked this for the first time and, you know, 20 years or whatever, the other morning at 5.15 a.m.

I was like, holy shit. he's saying that like American money has a dick in the middle slave owners yeah right like slave owners in the middle of it that a dick a dick head right yeah I put the dick in the middle like moni and I thought what I was like I was like oh my God that's brilliant I never even realized that it's like put the you know because our money has a fucking dick in the middle because they were all racist assholes or whatever and I thought that's what he meant and I couldn't wait to get on here and hit y'all with this. But of course, I had to look it up in the meantime,

and that's not at all. It's just a pop culture reference. You know what I realized? But I had blown my mind erroneously out of nowhere. You ever just think a thing for no reason your whole life and never questioned? I mean, I'm now realizing that what I think I thought as a kid and still till just now that I'm thinking about it was put the dick in the middle like Mone. my brain took moni as a part of any mini-mini moe even though it ain't

moni it's miney and that was the middle part of that thing even though it ain't because there's four of them so like I was just wrong both but that's what I thought it was like any meeny-miny mo mooney's in the middle of that that's what I thought so you're I thought it was just I thought it was yeah close to that like I'm not sure I thought anything but I think I thought it was like you moaned I put my dick in the middle of you

and then you moni and it's just like you know he stretched the rhyme out I think the I think what the big takeaway from this is is that like that's how good that song is yeah you would never like why would you question it you're just like yeah I mean you fresh knows the deal

I think everyone was like that when it came out like I'm saying adults too but I just thought you know to me it's like again it came out when we were kids 13 year old prime prime age for that song by the way playing that at fucking junior high dances and shit and it was just money.

Slapping. But anyway, I feel like you just back then, especially as like a white trash kid, I loved rap or whatever, but I just took it all in stride. Do you know what I mean? I never questioned any of it. I would like learn the lyrics and just roll with it,

but I never even, if it wasn't immediately obvious, I just didn't even try. There was no way to find that out back then too. That's true. We lived in a time like you could, if you would have had to, I mean, like, look, at that time in my life,

I was just like, look, man, black people know different stuff than you do. you know and they say different stuff but like it's not like we could have gone to Wikipedia and figured out what the fuck this means

like we would have had to ask somebody we would have had to ask one of our black friends and like there's a good chance they wouldn't have known neither you know because they was also 10 and 11 so yeah how the fuck would we have known there wasn't no black kids where I grew up but um what you said

you know black people just have different stuff to talk about that is what it is like moni was a reference Right. His culture understood. For sure. Where Mone wasn't famous enough for hours. I didn't tweet this the other day because I was like, this is going to come off wrong.

And then I got high and forgot how to tweet it. Have you just now started deciding to do that? Yeah. And within the last year. But like, the way rap is able to just bypass context all the time. Don't matter. Think about gangster rap. It's all about tough and killing people and it's poetry.

Yeah. They recite poetry to music about, you know, like, and I'm not saying that if you do poetry, you're not tough, but the context of American culture and the machoness, the ability for young black men to just insert themselves in the tough American consciousness through poems. And no one goes, wait a minute, you're a poet. You're not a killer. That's fucking crazy and really cool.

It is crazy to think about a guy like Tupac who like, when you look at Tupac through the lens of us now with all the information, with everything on the table, you go, you know, you go, this is an artist. Like this is a supreme artist. He was a poet. He was sensitive. He was. But like at the time, it's just like you take it at face value and you're like, this is a motherfucker that will kill you. You know what I mean? Because of what he just said.

But, like, realistically, Tupac was almost playing a character. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know that, like, he had that shit in his heart. But, like, Tupac, to me, if you really read about the guy, you're more likely, in my opinion, to see him in some, like, Brooklyn Coffee House. You know what I'm saying? Then you would actually fucking murdering somebody. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Going back to what you said earlier, about like just assuming, you know, well, black people, they have, they have different things to say than we have, you know. And we were just like, and those things hit. I love them. I don't know what they mean, but they hit. But that same logic applied to people for which to white,

okay, that same logic applied to white people for which rap and black people did not hit. Right. But like, you remember that, I'm ashamed that I can't. Was it Chappelle or was it Chris Rock that had that bit about like how rap, could slide things through because white people didn't know what the words meant yet. And the example used was skeet, just like skee-skis. It was a hell show. Okay, all right.

He was intro and, I think he was intro. And remember when he used to be, Little John? Yeah. Yeah. I think he was intro in them sketches. And he said something about skeet, skis-keet, and he was talking about how hilarious it was that white people were just now finding out what skeet, skis-keet, skeet means. Right.

But so they were- I was on the radio. Right. Yeah, exactly. things like that could be on radio like because white literally because white people didn't know that they meant something bad. Yeah. So they just, you know, flew things out of the radar that way,

which also hits for me. Yeah, me too. Very, very different rap-related thing that I just found out about this morning. So I can't talk really at length about him. I'm just wondering if y'all knew about him because this dude has millions of hits and it's on the billboard charts and stuff. y'all know Tom McDonald is

are you about to tell me that's a rapper yeah Tom McDonald how about that either one of y'all no no I'm not cool but does he have a different name

I didn't know it no oh is this that conservative guy yes yeah I didn't I never heard but does he hit I'm I saw him on so somebody shared an upchurch the redneck TikTok

And I was like, God damn, what is Upchurch up to? He's singing now, boys. He's trying not to rap. He's a singer now. He's been rapping. So, yeah, right, but he's singing now. Upchurches. Anyway, Upchurch, shared one of this dude's videos.

And Trey, I didn't recognize the name. I typed it in and recognized his face immediately. So white guy. White guy from Canada who now lives in L.A. And he, uh, white guy from Canada now lives in L.A. With a whole bunch of tattoos, face tattoos and, like, dreads and stuff. but he raps about, like he's got songs called fake, woke, no lives matter, canceled. You get the picture.

I get the picture, but what I'm saying is like, is that why he don't hit or also he sucks at rapping? He's all right. He's all right. In terms of just like technical ability as a rapper or whatever, I mean, yeah, he ain't, yeah, he ain't bad. Yeah, I'm just saying like, let's be objective here because, like, you know, I'm just saying like, he might be good, but also don't hit. I'll just make it sure. Struggle Jennings and Jellyroll are big Trump supporting white rappers. And they can fucking rat.

Yeah, and they can fucking rap. Word. I'm disappointed by Jelly Roll. Me too. I know that. I know Jelly Roll and I didn't know that about it. Man, they can rap. Yeah, Jelly Roll can go in.

My buddy Bullwinkle, he was bumping that shit when I went to see him when I was back home. And I was like, damn, this is, oh, that's a Trump hat. Oh, now I'm listening to the lyrics. Now I'm hearing it. Yeah. at first I thought it was just some dude like saying, fuck you. He was specifically saying to me. That can happen though.

Like that's the thing about music is when it's good. You really, you don't, you let a lot of it go. You let a lot of the message go. Like, like, man, if, I mean, dude, listen, if a jelly roll song comes on and he's talking about loving Trump, but it's got a sick beat and he can fucking fly. There's part of me it's going to be like, look, man, I'm not saying I'm going to pick it,

but I ain't going to turn it the fuck off neither. You know what I'm saying? Like if stranglehold comes on, I'm not thinking about Ted Nugent. I don't give a shit. I only listen to snippets of this guy's stuff of like two or three songs. And just in my opinion, he ain't got no stranglehold because I mean, yes, I agree with you. You know, stranglehold is undeniable.

I'm sorry, Ted Nugent sucks, but stranglehold is undeniable. And it goes the other way too. I don't think this dude is like that. Like, yes, he definitely is actually talented, but not like not on that level. Well, and he's not on Jelly Row or Struggle's level either. Let me be clear. Like struggle in Jelly Rose compilation album they did together

It's called Whalen and Willie Which I'm a little annoyed That they decided to act like That's who they are and they're Trump supporters But the top hits are like money, sex, drugs They got a son called glitter They got one called filling no pain Where they talk about pain pills

They just throw in there That Trump hits for them Whereas this other dude That's his whole thing His whole persona is I'm fucking against wokeness or whatever You know A fucking white dude

named Tom from Canada. Get them, buddy. Oh, I may have spoke too soon. They got one called Proud, and I'm about to read the lyrics to make some of you. I don't know what. How do y'all feel about it? Because I think my distant cousin, Stephen Crowder,

not away if anybody thinks I'm being serious. But that dude. You need to work that gimmick. That'd be funny. Yeah, I think he's Canadian, I think. Yeah, he is. Right, that's what I thought. Oh, I didn't know that.

That was Jordan Peterson. Yep, yep, right. Okay. They're both so American to me that I would have never... Right, because their whole thing is super like patrioty, American patrioty, you know, or whatever. And I'm just like, how do y'all... How's that strike, y'all?

You mean that they're from Canada? Yeah, because also Milo or Milo, or whatever you said that dude who's kind of gone away a little bit, he was British or whatever. I mean, just that fucking white people are all the same everywhere for the most part. And also, like, why wouldn't there be some shitty people from Canada? You know what I mean? I think it's like one of the things...

I'm not surprised by that. It's more like, like, don't come down here and talk about our shit. Well, they, there's money in it. You know what I mean? Like, why wouldn't they do it? Well, we're listening to them. It ain't like we ain't got American burden to that. Keep the racism in country at least.

They're taking our jobs. Well, it's funny because, like, both sides do that. Like, when a foreign celebrity starts saying stuff that me, you and Trey, all that's three, like, agree with. The other side's like, hey, you don't live. here, quit saying our shit. So, like, I feel like we all feel that way when some

motherfucking foreigners start saying some shit that don't hit for us. We're just like, stay up there and say it. You know? Does they tour here, though? Do what? Do those people that you're talking about tour here and make their career here,

I guess Trevor Noah does. Yeah, okay, but, but, right, okay, maybe this is what you're saying. Russell Brand. There's a shit of celebrities who are, who like, lived here like live in LA or whatever and yeah they're British or whatnot but I mean and I guess Crowder and all these dudes we're talking about they live here now yeah I mean yeah I guess it

works the same either way but I think if you uh you know you are living in a country honestly whether it's liberals or not fascination from people who are still in other countries and have like really strong opinions about what we got going on well I mean I don't know hell because it's gotten so terrifying lately I feel like you have to You have to kind of care because it's like, oh, we're interested. They're going to blow up and kill us all over there. So, I mean, I can understand now being fascinated with it. Isn't that the most American thing in the world being very interested in what another country has going on and not being able to mind your own goddamn business about it?

I mean, that's what we do. You know what I'm saying? Like, let that. Do you mean internally? I mean war-wise, we're fucking always wondering what the French are up to. War-wise, that's true. But I feel like culturally, it's 100% true. And also like culturally, it's completely, it's completely the opposite, though, meaning like,

Americans don't know nothing about no other country. Like, you know, like, Belgium. Except for that they're bad. Right. But I'm saying they don't like, it's like Americans is like, I've always felt like a lot of other countries are really focused on us and what we got going on. And like I said, I guess I can understand that. And then over here, Americans are just like, what's the Belgium?

Right. Well, no. There's a reason why they're focused. Get out of here with Belgium. There's that. I don't give a fuck. You know, like... And that's one of our strong points, to be honest.

That we don't have a king. Literally everyone is focused on America, especially Americans. Especially Americans. The reason that they're focused on us, though, is what you're talking about, Corey. Because what y'all are describing is the everyday culture is to not give a fuck what's happening in Europe. Yeah. And the international political policy culture of America is to be trying to control literally everything but China. Right. Yes. Right.

My point is, is that those dudes, like, the reason that they think, like, everybody wants, everybody wants to be able to go, see, this guy gets it, you know what I mean, about people that aren't necessarily from here. Or, like, I don't know, man. Like, I feel like they look at a Canadian similar to how they look at, like, a, when they find a black Republican. They're just like, see, here's a thing you didn't think was a thing. And they agree with us. So like when it comes to Canada, well, Drew's dogs out, when it comes to, when it comes to Canada, you know, we're always talking about how like Canada's got great health care and Canada has socialized this and Canada blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they fucking absolutely love it when one of those motherfuckers thinks the way they do and that's why they get so popular. You are 100% correct about that. That totally makes sense to me. Are you patronizing me right now? No, no, no, no, no, sincerely.

I just, you know, I didn't even know where I was going when I brought it up. I was just thinking about there, you know, there's a number of kind of high profile foreigners who are very, very present in that whole like scene. The sort of like American political commentary scene. And I feel like at a superficial level, that like seems odd. But I mean, you're right. When you get into it and really like think about it and break it down, I mean, no, it does make sense. You're right. It don't hit.

They don't hit. No, they don't hit for me. But I mean, I mean, they're wildly more popular than us. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we should leave. I know. Like, maybe we should go to England.

Yeah, we'd hit over there maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Or they might just be like, no, we don't want y'all neither. What? So, all right. Let's just get, let's just, you know, get real, get introspective here. Because obviously, I've thought about that before.

I think this Tom McDonald dude is a good example. is it because of the scarcity of options they have? And what I mean is like I feel like on the right, on the right when somebody breaks through a little bit on the right, they like fucking every single one of them latches onto that person. And they explode and they're huge. If I. Because every conservative in America watches it.

Whereas that's what we have done on the left, but we don't even approach that level of notoriety or followers or whatever that the people on the right have. have. And yeah, is that because there's so many more options for shit like what we do? Yes. People are like, oh, there's way better than y'all. Absolutely.

But if you're on the right, they're like, this is all we got. We got seven dudes and two blondes and that's all, and that's all we got. If the buttercream dream made a heel turn and was a fucking conservative, I'm people, everybody out there listening, you might be like, oh, Corey, you got a big egg going to you. I would make $8 million dollars next year. Yeah. Easily. I agree.

Because, because, because who's your favorite young conservative comedian right now? Right. Right. Fucking, I don't know. Well, I'm real good. Yeah. So I just go do that. Now, I will not because I have integrity.

Integrity. Yeah. Principles. And, yeah, and beliefs that I cherish. But, yeah. No, dude, of course that's it. Like, fucking, of course, that's it. They don't have, like, that's why me and Matt Coon were talking one day about how, like, Republicans, we talk about, like, separating the art from the artists all the time.

And, like, the one thing I'll give Republicans credit for, but really it's just they have to do it. Like, they, I think they can do that better than us sometimes. Like, like, if an artist does some shit that a liberal doesn't like, they're just like, fuck them. Nope, never again. But conservatives, literally, every artist ever is liberal. So they just have had to do that all the time, except for, of course, the few who, like, just now think that Bruce Springsteen

has just suddenly become this huge liberal. Like, they didn't listen to anything he was doing before. But, like, for the most part, these people have always felt about Hollywood the way they feel, yet they keep buying tickets to see movies because they're like, what the fuck you're going to do about it? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean, that's definitely what's going on.

It, you know, I, I don't know if that's a thing I'll give them credit for or not. No, it's because they have to. Right. Yes. Yes. I was going to say, you're right. But yeah, what else are they going to do?

But it feels like another example of their kind of hypocrisy or whatever. For sure. Because, yes, they do do that. Because I feel like it's not, I feel like they don't, almost never do they make any kind of like conscientious decision. Like, sure, I know this guy I really like is liberal, but I'm going to keep fucking with it or whatever. It's more like burying their heads in the same. Right, for sure. And watching stuff.

And then when somebody who's involved with music or TV or whatever that they like, when they come out publicly and it's something of a big story and they're being all liberal and shit, they still get really pissed off. For sure. About Springstink, then they're like, you know, won't you go back to doing the things that I like that you did and stop having these opinions you have that I don't like? You know, like they get mad about it when it comes up.

They do get mad about it. they're just like, they're not as effective boycotting wise because of that. Like they, because like they never, they can't make these little concessions in their life. Like I remember when I was, they will, they only boycott stuff that already did not hit for them.

And which means that they're not actually boycotting anything. Like, it's not making a dent because they already weren't doing it. Like when I was a kid, the Southern Baptist Convention called for a boycott of Disney. Right. Because Michael Eisner, uh,

it okay for them to have a gay parade at Disney. And so they wanted to boycott Disney. I don't know if I've told this story on the podcast. So like all these preachers and everything at our church, they're just like, all right, no more Disney. You got to burn all your kids, Bambies and Lion Kings and yada. Well, here's the deal. That went over like a fart in church, as they say,

because most of the parents were like, okay, well, then you come over to the house and you get them to shut the fuck up then. Only Aladdin can do that. So no, thank you. But still, they were calling for this huge boycott. of Disney cartoons because that was gay. Meanwhile, though, my dad had to go explain to Pastor Darrell, who in his sermon was talking about the top 10 on ESPN that week.

My dad had to explain to Pastor Darrell that, hey, if you're going to boycott Disney, you can't watch ESPN because they're owned by the same company. And also, your favorite show is tool time. It's home improvement. You can't watch it. And he got a bunch of, well, well, you know, well, and my dad's like, well, fucking nothing. Well, it's easy for you to not watch cartoons because you fucking weren't going to anyways, you asshole.

But if you really want to do this, then you got to do it down the line. And they fucking, they won't do that. Like, like, Eric Church is still selling out fucking arenas because, like, they like his shit. Right. But they will make their own. I mean, veggie tails is a direct result from that culture.

It's a direct result from that culture and wanting. They want their own shit. I mean, that's why Mormons have their own tiny Hollywood. they do want to do that. There is an attempt to have an insulated culture, and it's kind of creepy. But, I mean, not really an attempt, like they do have it.

That's kind of what we were talking about. But it's just so small. They don't have it. The talent pool isn't good enough. Those things don't really hit. They might fuck with those. It's like people talk about Gina Carano is going to go make a movie with Ben Shapiro.

It'll fucking suck. There's no way that's going to hit. Plenty of conservatives might pay to download it just to support the calls, and they'll make their money from a Griff perspective. And they might watch. the whole thing. And if it panders to be hard core,

they'll, you know, it'll like kind of hit, but deep down, they're gonna, it ain't gonna be the fucking Mandalorian. She doesn't even look like Ava Braun at all. So like,

like even a little, like out into prosthetics, I guess. It looks like the Ava Bronny man. Yeah, she does. But here's the thing. And I'm gonna go way up my own ass here,

but I don't give a fuck. This is how I feel. Surely not. This is, right. This whole episode has been the, up my butt club. But that's what we ought to rename the podcast.

Come up our butts. Yeah, with us. We're going to up our butts club. We call it Come Up Our Butts Club, and we might get some extra downloads. That's true. But listen, here's the deal. The reason people, why is Hollywood full liberals? Why is actors and actresses all liberal?

Why is every comedian liberal? Let me explain to you fucking why and why it will always be. Here's why. In order to be an effective artist, you have to have something called empathy. It's the only way that fucking works. You have to be able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. You have to be able to feel something that you're not comfortable feeling. You have to be able to emote those things.

You have to be willing to accept a lot of things that maybe you didn't believe at one point when you're trying to get into a character. You have to meet a lot of different types of people. You have to talk to tons of different types of people and hear their experience. And if you do that, only two things can happen. Either you grow as a person or you shoot yourself because you had to talk to a black guy. So, therefore, when it comes to being an artist, which is what Hollywood is comprised of, yes, that's going to swing about 98 to 2 on the liberal to conservative degree, in my opinion. You know, as Stephen Crowder would say, fight me on it. Yes, I agree with you.

I think what, just to play devil's advocate, I think what people would point to. And the answer to this is that it's actually a very small percentage. but there's also definitely a lot of sociopaths in Hollywood who can like, who very effectively fake all the shit you just said. And then behind the seams, they are fucking monsters. That's true.

And most of them, and for them, it's probably just because they're in a culture that's predominantly liberal and those types of people do whatever they need to do. They want to fit in. Exactly, to fit in and be accepted. So that's probably why most of them identify as liberal. Yes, yes.

Like Tom Cruise isn't everybody. I'm just acknowledging their existence. But yeah, I think mostly across the board, yeah, what you said is true. That's all the more reason to make- Canadians. That's all the more reason to make culture try to be fair and do more good for more people so that you can, that's the only way to insulate yourself from sociopaths and bad people is make it to where the systems as fair as possible and the culture won't allow for them to be sociopaths.

So they have to pretend to have empathy and all that shit. And Trump woke that up in a lot of people. That whole like you've been faking it the whole time. Don't be ashamed anymore. Just be an asshole. Right. And that was pretty disheartening. Yeah, that didn't hit.

I would prefer it if people would go back to being fake about a lot of things. I'm that way though. I don't mind that. I think that has kind of happened on the other end of the spectrum, though, don't you think? meaning like with corporations and with Hollywood and stuff like that, a lot of them are faking, giving a shit about like progressive things or whatever, and they're doing it because they know-

Nike don't give a fuck about Colin Kaepernick. Exactly. But I'm glad that they- All the like really we're in this together fucking progressive commercials that every corporation feels as though they have to make. It's good though because it informs something. That's what I'm saying. It works in the opposite direction too.

Because they feel like they have to do that because of the general cultures shift in that direction. And because if they didn't feel that way, they wouldn't do it. No. They don't actually give a fuck. They're, you know, soulless profit-driven entities. They don't actually care. But the fact that they feel like they have to act like they do is a good thing or a good sign.

I think it's a good sign. I think it's a good sign. What's scary about it is if they can just do that, like you were talking about, the sociopaths, if they can just hide and continue to be awful. But, you know, I have no workaround for that. You know, there's no solution. There's no easy one.

I mean, look, dude, the world will never not be, in some way ran by soulless sociopaths. Because it, I mean, it's just true because soulist sociopath, because you don't know that they're that. That's how good they are. You know what I'm saying? Like, in order to get to certain things, like you're just going to have that.

you just have to hope that the soulless sociopaths think that they have to fake it on your side. You know what I mean? Like, that's it. You just have to hope that the sole sociopath is more Tom Cruise than Donald Trump, I guess. Yeah, we have to hope for someone who is driven by feeling like they're doing good rather than power. Right. Right. Because, like, I mean, some sociopaths, it's not like they, they, they, want to do bad. They don't have, they don't have those feelings. They, and I think that they, they do, like you look at, look at the show Dexter or whatever, you know, I feel like there are

some people out there like that who are like, look, I genuinely don't have feelings. Um, but I, I see what people want me to be? And that's what a good person is. So I'll do those. I mean, what the fuck else are they going to do? They literally don't, like, it's not natural, but like I'd rather them act like that. Shout out to my man Amos from the show The Expans, by the way. He's one of my favorite characters. who is exactly what you just said. He's like a sociopath and he knows it. So he keeps himself around good people to be like his moral center

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We've done what? Three shows now on stereo every Friday at 12 Pacific. We hop on there and do a little live show for people. and you can connect with us directly. Stereo is a free live broadcast social platform that lets people have real conversations and real time. We can make a more intimate relationship with our listeners because y'all can engage us directly. Like I said, we've gotten on there the past three Fridays at 12 Pacific 3 Eastern.

There's this little feature they got where you can like leave us a message. We've played every single one. I do believe so far. All good. Nothing wild, nothing crazy. Again, I think it displays a lot of trust both on our part. but more so on the part of the people at stereo. A lot of trust they're displaying in people by just letting that happen.

But hey, so far it's been good. It's been a good time. So we're excited to offer you all a new way to interact with us. You can join us this Friday and every Friday for the next little bit, at least, for a live show on the stereo app Friday at 12 Pacific 3 Eastern. All you got to do is download the completely free app, stereo app. It's called and select any of our names, Trey Crowder, Corey R. Forrester, Drew Morgan, any or all three of them on there.

Follow us and you'll get notified on Friday when we're about to go live and we'll get on there and we'll hit and it'll be a good time. Me and Tray had a lot of fun this past week talking about cereal and sugar milk and getting called out by Texas mammoths and whatnot. And I really, I love that feature, man. I was, I'll be honest. I'll be straight up honest with you. I was like, this is going to get out of hand really quick. And I think it's made for some great shows. That's probably due to the fact that our fans, as we've always said,

and as every club owner and waitress or waiter in the world has told us, are the best people in the world. So we appreciate y'all and join us over their own stereo. That's 100% true, but we say that every time we do this ad. And I'm starting to feel like we're daring people to fuck with our show. And we're not. Right. Well, that's the thing, though.

Our fans, they aren't like that. That's not who they are. They wouldn't want to do that. They wouldn't want to derail the show. So, yeah, I look forward to it. This Friday, which of us is a, Who's up? You and Trey, I'm off. Well, I thought, yeah, we figured out how we can all.

Oh, we did? We're all three on it? I think, I think Drew has. Drew has said he has. Okay, well, even better. You can call in or somebody can call in and the other two can talk to them. Interesting. Okay, cool. Well, yeah, we're all three on it this week then. If that don't work, it'll be two of us in some combination, but it'll hit either way. All right. Anyway, I have a question for y'all. Yeah.

Do you think, and then if you do think this, you know, how do we feel about it? I was thinking today about when this is over, the world opens back up, we're all going to be a little weird. I went and hung out with a comedian friend last night in their yard. And it was funny how quickly we just went right back to talking shit about other comics. Yeah. But it was weird at first. Like I haven't been around people in a while. I was an Andy.

Andy's gone. So I've been by myself completely for five. days. Andy talked about how she had like a weird almost panic attack at the airport. Mark was talking about how he tried to go to a patio and it didn't, you know, he didn't feel comfortable. We're going to be weirdos because we did the right thing. Yeah. And all the people who ain't been doing the right thing are going to seem normal. Yeah, it don't hit. It really don't hit. I don't know that they're going to seem normal to us. To me, they're going to, like, I feel like, I don't know about you. but like when you're watching TV now and it's like an old show or something,

do you start just noticing all the teeny tiny germy things that we always do that you normally wouldn't think about? Like I don't like until this pandemic, I never used to just notice people shaking hands and hugging each other and patting each other. And now every time I fucking see it. So like, I think that's what I'm getting at. If somebody's trying to hug you,

that's normal. Right. Those of us who are like, we're going to seem like weird. fear does. Yeah, I'm fine with it though. I got, look, man, I'm fine with it like, uh, I, like, I hope the world gets back to as normal as it can be. I don't think I'm ever going to, I'm not going to fully go back. You know what I mean? I think I'm always going to be a little bit more cognizant of what's going on around me germ wise than I ever have been. I don't

know, I don't know, I don't know, man. You don't have any negative feelings about that? No, I think that's, yeah. It depends on, I mean, I'm, I think I'll, I think I'll be, I don't be the same way. I'm just, I'm more yet just cognizant, like health conscious or whatever because of all this. And I don't think that'll go away or at least not immediately for sure. I think meeting greets are going to be weird as fuck. Yeah, I think any interactions amongst people on, you know, who gave a shit during the pandemic will be weird for a while afterwards. But then I think we'll all kind of collect. We're all going to go back. We're out one way or another. Well, well, either that or it'll like kind of shift a little bit. Which is fine. Either way, we're going to

I agree that. I agree that's fine. Like, people don't, there ain't as many bro hugs and shit or whatever. You know what I mean? It's just like culturally not done as much or things are done a little differently. And I think that'll be fine too if that happens.

Or if we just gradually do go back to the way. I think not even a health thing. I think not even just a health thing. I think that everyone's brains have been retrained to, I think that going forward people that live through this are going to more understand that, oh, hey, just because so-and-so asked me to go do a thing, doesn't mean I have to go with. Like, we've learned during this year the people we really can live without.

You know what I'm saying? Right. We've learned that you don't have to do shit all the time, and it's okay to not have all these friends because, fuck, you know, during this pandemic, think of all the people who you've thought about calling or texting on a daily basis. Those are the people you need to go back to anybody else. You didn't really give fuck about them. So I think that we're going to be more tightly knit anyways.

Right. but paint that a different way, we're all going to be more isolated. And I think I agree with you guys in general, but I guess what I'm saying, right, you're for that. But you have, you know, you have your career set. I guess, all right, so I had an interaction. My neighbor wants to buy my Bronco and he can't have it.

But he, like, is one of these, he listens to Joe Rogan when he works out. I see him out there. Like, he wasn't wearing a mask. And I could tell. You see him listening to Joe Rogan, so he's listened to it out loud or you can just tell by his face that he's listening to listen to it out loud.

That would be funny. He's just grunting extra hard. He's got earpods. Yeah, Drew Zerber. It's like, that's definitely terrible. Look at how he's nodding his head. He's drinking amino brain or whatever the hell it's called. He does.

He's got two packages. Alpha brain. So he wants you by my Bronco. But he's knocking on the door. I'm like, hold on. I put my mask on. I could tell he was like, oh, you're putting your mask on.

But he didn't say anything. But then, you know, I am. Like, part of me in my head, I'm going, fuck yeah, I'm putting my mask on. Yeah. I'm just saying that those interactions are going to be that way. If we're doing a meet and greet, our fans are going to be.

cool, but we have a very unique life. People are going to go back to the world, and you said it, our brains are rewired. I'm not sure everyone's brain is rewired. They're not. Some people just kept living. Definitely not. I'm saying like, my wife, the rewire brains and the not rewire brains, there's going to be, there's going to continue to be weird tension and clashes.

There already is. Well, yeah, right now it's about, you know, you're not, you're killing old people. Well, you're a sheep. In the future, I don't know what, you know, that'll be over. So what's it going to be? We're just all going to seem like Howie Mandel of these motherfuckers. I swear to God, I was about to say pretty much verbatim that exact thing. We're just like, German folks have existed.

And people on both sides, including me, have thought, you know, oh, they're a little weird. But not like, I thought most people, not in a like, oh, get the fuck away from me. You're fucking germaphole type of way, you know, he couldn't help that. Like, at one point, you realize you're like, oh, that's not like, he's not making a choice to do that. Like, that would be insane. Like, he just, he has an issue or whatever. But I think it depends on numbers and where you're at.

But what I'm trying, I guess, to get at is, if you start acting like Howie Mandel, the people who didn't have enough empathy to put a fucking mask on, ain't going to have enough empathy to give a fuck about you. Oh, for sure. Dude, a similar thing happened to me yesterday as what happened to you and your buddy. But this actually happened and we both, like, all right, I was out walking in the park like I do. yesterday was a gorgeous day. It got up to 60.

It's the first time I've walked in 60-degree weather and a while. I was so excited. But as you can imagine, there was a fuck ton of people out. Granted, just in the parking lot, once you get in the park, like, it's so spread out. Like, that's not even an issue. Like, everyone's social distance. But I was walking, and I walked past my old preacher, who him and my dad were really good friends. And by the way, super smart guy.

I've seen him at the grocery store before. Where's a mask? You know, he's a good dude. Fuck the lady. What are you going to do? So, uh, anyways, we both saw each other. It's been a while since we saw each other and we just instinctively shook hands and we, but we called ourselves looking at our hands and then we step back from each other like,

ah, oh shit. Like not, not just one of us. Both of us like realized that we just instinctively did a thing, but oh my God, I don't know. Like, we hadn't been in that position in so long. I haven't been in the position. to shake a motherfucker's hand because like if I've seen you in the past year I you're my dad or my mom and I don't shake your hand so like to go back to your point yeah it both of us immediately were like did we just fuck what just happened it was crazy I think that basically what it will amount to is the same type of thing we're like you know where you meet somebody for the first time or interact with somebody don't really know each other whatever and if there's ever some moment where something gets said on either side you're like you know that makes either person go, oh, right, you want of them then, right? That will just happen immediately now, like immediately when I'm at the handshake stage or

whatever. And on it, I think that's like pretty much okay. I think it's good. I have an experience, right, yeah, I had an experience yesterday too along these same lines. And this super hot take, I know, but I just can't understand at all these people's brains. that we're talking about in so many ways, but in particular, and I know it has to do with where you live and what's normal there and whatever. I live in Southern California.

Everybody always wears a mask. It's illegal not to, like at the grocery store and whatnot. Yesterday, I was, you know, I was hitting in my AirPods. I was listening to Jim Blossoms, I believe it was, or fuel.

Hell yeah. I was listening to some 90s rock, and it was hitting for me, and I went to the... Brett Scallions is on cameo. How deep is that, how deep you go in their catalog, bro? What, gym blossoms?

Yeah. Not that. I had the album. album, Hey, Jealousy, I think was an album and the single. I had that CD and I listened to it all the time as a kid. So pretty much anything off that, but anything else, probably not. But I love the gym blossoms. Anyway, I was rocking.

It was hitting for me. I was just spaced out doing that, not driving, but in the parking lot. And I put my headphones in. I was hitting. And I got out, got a cart, walked all through the parking lot, walked through the front door of the grocery store. Everybody turned and looked, like record scratch, turning and looked. and I realize I do not have a mask on.

Oh, yeah. Before anybody can even say anything, I just turned around and walked out. But, like, I was petrified. Oh, dude, I would have been too. My heart was pounding. I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God. I was cringing at myself. I felt so fucking bad.

Then they're going to hear your accent and be like, I knew it. Right. And, like, all the way back to my, almost just got, I can't believe I didn't just get in the Jeep and just drive to a different store because that's normally how I would have done that. Oh, I would have done that. Oh, yeah. Or at least waited to all of,

the people from that store had gone out had gone and it was a whole new crop of people shift change sat there for five hours waiting on shift change sure applied for a job right yeah so so you get the discount but and all i'm saying is like that's just that was just a genuine mistake and i rectified it immediately and i was like appalled yeah myself yeah and it just made me think about like i can't imagine i can't even imagine just not giving a shit about that unreal but let alone the people who do the exact opposite, who go in a place wearing a t-shirt that's like, it's my constitutional to not wear a mask. And then they put to pull their phone out and tape themselves having an argument with the barista or whatever about why they don't have to wear a mask.

And then they get kicked out and post that on the fucking internet. And that's like, it just, it blows my fucking mind. Because that was a completely involuntary reaction I had. You know, that wasn't me like choosing to feel that way. I just genuinely immediately felt so bad and so. dumb and I can't, I just can't understand. I'm keeping the mask. People who are that far on the other end of that, you know, spectrum who just don't. Yeah.

Like, it's so wild to me. But they feel pride, right? I know that's what I'm saying. They're rebels, dude. They're rebels. They're not fucking sheep. I'm a fucking dumb sheep. You're a dumb idiot sheep.

That split is going to continue. That weird tension is going to continue. And that's just odd. a related question. How long do you think we can catch up to our counterparts in the comedy world who barely stopped? Like, taking a year off from comedy, sets you back as a comedian. And Zoom shows help, and I've been doing them more regularly and making myself right for

DJ and I show, but they don't fix the absence. And look, that's not a hugely important thing, but it is how we make money. How long, do you think we'll ever be able to catch up? How does that work? Yeah. I'll be fine. I do think so. I'm kind of excited about it.

I can't wait to struggle a little bit. This is maybe naive. Because I acknowledge, of course I'll be rusty. But I'm, to me, it's like not literally everyone. The guys you're talking about won't, but I'm not touring with them or I'm not doing the same shows as them. A huge chunk of us will be rusty. And I think people will understand that we're rusty.

So yeah, I'll be rusty, but I'm kind of okay with that. If I continue to struggle for longer than I expected, then yes, it will become a problem. But as for right now, I know I'll be rusty. when we finally get back to it, but I'm kind of excited because it's like, it's like starting completely over almost, except I have this foundation. Right. Of like experience and ability, so it's not like literally starting over, but it kind of is, and I'm excited about that because that's something that most comics never, ever,

ever do because why would you, you know? And so like, I'm kind of pumped to see, to knock the rust off and then see what kind of what kind of develops, you know what I mean? after so such a long time off and everything. I'm kind of excited. Like there's such thing as rope as a as ring as a ring shape. Like if you're a wrestler, it's like, oh, he's, you know, he's, he's a great talker, but he's not in good ring shape right now.

And getting back on the ropes, it kind of, you know, you got to knock the rust off. I feel though like, yes, I've taken a year off the stage. But honestly, I've written more than I've ever written in my life this year. And I've also performed a lot. to and it hasn't been on stage but like dude i've done the but i've played the buttercream dream like 375 times this year so like i'm still yeah we were going to talk you about that man you you need to slow down we're kind of worried thank you i appreciate that i actually haven't been on the internet since wednesday it's been nice um yeah it is cool i don't know what the

fuck's going on so don't don't surprise don't tell me i want to find out nothing that matters god i love this presidency um so yeah i was just trying to hit no right uh right right for you My point is, is like, I do think there will be probably a several show, uh, rust period. But I do think it'll be like riding a bike in a way where it's like, okay, now I remember how to do it. And once I remember how to do it, I'm, who cares? I need this all to be new material anyways.

There's no fucking way. I, I, I, I, to me, as just an artist, I will not be able to take anything from my old shit and do it now. Maybe a line or two, but like, we live in a different world now and my voice needs to reflect that. Right. First of all, let me say that I agree with y'all. And second of all, the rust aspect, the rust is definitely going to get knocked off. I guess I was more wondering if you think, you know, being, like having that, it's like,

the rest will take a certain amount of time to knock off, but we'll never get that year back. But my positive outlook on that is, I guess it's kind of what y'all are saying. I feel like it's like an athlete takes a year off. As long as they stay in okay shape, that's good for their muscles. Of course. Their knees got a year off. It's good for our brain. Dude. Yeah, you spend all your time on the road.

You get road brain. Right. Okay. You need a different experience. On that note, I feel good about it. I hope this is a little too behind the curtain or not, but because of what you just said, that's part of why I'm excited because, like, if people have been following us for a while, they know, I mean, we toured hard, like, relative to the comedy game in general.

They're very, very few people. that toured as much or certainly more than we did. There were plenty that toured as much, but I'm saying, like, objectively speaking, the level we're in the top one percent. The level we toured at was like a high level by any comedian standard. And we did that for four years or whatever, you know, it was like, right?

Four years. Four years straight. And I'm not going to lie, by the end of that, man. Yeah, I was fucking burnt out in a lot of different ways. And you can't help but let some of that shit come through. Of course, every single show I'm still trying to give. it everything I got. Don't get me wrong. People listen. I was absolutely doing that.

It's just a fact of life. It just happens. You get burned out. And now like I've more than recharge my batteries now. And I just think that that will make me, yes, I'll have to knock the rust off. But I think once I'm going to be better. I think I'll be better than I ever was before. I agree with. I'm a better person too. But that's what I think. I agree with it. I mean, I'm going to say that. That's how I feel. I'm going to come into it a smarter person. You know, I've read, I've been reading. I know more words to say. And yeah, my batteries are fucking, I'm healthier.

That's mean something. I mean, shit, dude. And yeah, just got a lot more to talk about. So, like, I think, I think, you know, here, we've talked about this, though, a bunch. The first weekend, whatever it is, whatever the first weekend back on a well-read tour, those people are either going to get, it's going to be something else either way, is all I'm I'm saying. Yeah.

Like, either way, like if you come to that first batch of shows, I think regardless you're getting your money's worth, it's just going to be to what end? Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

Because I'm getting fucked up. We've done the Zoom shows, and I approach the Zoom shows every time. Like, at first, it's always completely brand new material and a lot of it. And I try to write it the same as I would if it was going to be regular stand-up material on a stage in front of people in a room.

I approach it the exact same way. I've always had fun with those Zoom shows. I've felt good about the material that I've written, and I feel like it's gone well on the Zoom shows. But I know the reality is, like, if I had been doing that material on stage, each Zoom show we did, I wrote like 35 or 40 minutes of new material, something like that,

if that had been for the stage, easily, half, more than half, easily of all that, would eventually have gotten whittled away. Or one piece of it would be 10 minutes. Right. And that would make the whole, thing better. So I'm not telling myself like, I'm writing 40 minutes of goal, baby.

I don't even, you know what I mean? Like, I don't even need to workshop it. I understand the reality of it. Like, that's how it works. But, uh, I'm so excited to write a joke. But I get that and I'm still doing, I'm still, you know, like, dude, I don't know. I'm feeling pretty good about it.

I, I think that if, I think that there's a part of me that feels like if I, if I went out my first show and bombed, which that ain't happening. But if I, but if I did, I would be like, hmm, what a, what a, what a, what a nostalgic feeling. You know, like, hadn't felt that one in a while. Like, I don't know, man. Like, I'm so excited. I don't mean like a straight bomb.

Like, that ain't going to happen, but that wouldn't feel good. But, like, I'm kind of excited for when I'm in the middle of something that I really think is good for one line not to work and me to just have that on that like, hmm, okay. All right. Well, yeah. All right. I'll do that one different. You know what I mean?

Like, that's fun. Like, that's the process. Like, the process that this year off has made me realize how much the process is the dream. You know what I mean? Like we all always think we're like, oh yeah I do stand up and the dream is to have this show and the dream is and this year I've done a lot of reflecting and I was like

dude you already made it. Yeah, you're the buttercream dream. Like did you have as much, were you making as much money in your career as you want to or will? No, but but bro you that's all you do. You do stand up for a living and you get money for it and the

process is the dream. It's so much fun. I think also, I think you guys identify with this. I think for me it was also like, yeah, but I'm after like respect to my peers and I got that shit. Well, that's what I realize is like, wait a minute, who? Like I want Dave Chappelle to know my name. Dave Chappelle ain't ever going to know my name probably. And if he does, that'll be because I have already earned the respect of you two and people who tour with us, you know? Yeah, I feel that too. I've also cared less about the back of the room. For sure. I was just about saying, I mean, y'all know this.

Y'all know this about me. Yeah, buy a ticket. I feel like this is less, I feel like this is less of a thing now. But like when I first went viral in 2016, there was very, very much a thing in the comedy community at large that was like, you know, yeah, there's YouTube acts. And YouTube acts are not at all respected by actual, quote unquote, actual comedians. And that was very much a thing. And of course, that bothered me at first. I considered myself an actual, I mean, y'all know, it's true for all three of us,

but like where I came from and where I was at, the community I was in before. You were a stand-up comedian that popped on the internet. Yeah. I was very respected amongst all the other comics that I knew and everything. To go from that to knowing that most, a huge chunk of comics in general, automatically didn't respect me because I was a YouTube actor, whatever. Like, that very much bothered me at first, but I got over it. Dude, me and Drew were just the whole back.

YouTube guys buddies. Right, right. And like Corr was just saying, Karen, less about the back of the room. I just, I had to get over that a long time ago, and I'm still pretty well, you know, over it. Because I just know that.

It's super inside baseball, but just let me get this off my chest a little bit, since we're talking about it. I need to work on letting go of now, seeing them all do it and try to be you. The ones who I know ran their mouth about you or people like you, like I can't help but be like yeah you know and I know that the pandemic changed then but it's just like it wasn't ever about you caring about stand up you motherfuckers it was just about another way for you

fucking gatekeep because you got intimidated that someone who can do stand-up comedy also figured out how to get fucking fans in a different way and I knew that but watching y'all chase it now see I'm gonna get fired up on your behalf and there ain't no reason to you got more money than God and you're killing it but I just you know what I'm saying are you talking about me or try right now both of you. Okay. But no, I was talking about

at Trey, like seeing people back then in the comedy world, knowing, like seeing their faces. Like I was in New York and you were popping. I know how they all

pretended to feel. Right. Until they, honestly, a lot of them started being free speech warriors on the internet and started getting patrons.

Well, I think that's what, I think that they mostly realize at certain points, like, oh, that's just like part of the game now. Like,

an old traditional way. Well, also they saw your standup. Getting better like that does still exist. But like that is just part of how it is now. And so like at this point, I think pretty much everyone recognizes that. So like I said,

they also saw your stand up on that other level too. They saw your stand up. Like eventually they, I'm sure even if it was just like watching it to hate, curiosity got, but they had to watch it and go, oh, he really is a comedian. You know, like that's not a, that's not a YouTube guy

doing his best at comedy. That's a fucking comedian that did some YouTube shit. And like, that's why I don't, I don't give a fuck. Like, I got to watch you go through all that, so I have a very different perspective on it. But like, I would love, man, I would love to be somewhere and somebody go, oh, you're that motherfucker that only got, you know, only popped off for screaming on the internet.

I'll be like, hey, how about you go after me, motherfucker? Let's see how that goes. That works for you. I really do. I'm sure that does still exist with some of the more edge lordy, you know, comics out there, whatever, but I really do think that's what less and less of a thing. Oh, it's gone away completely. That's why I thought like people, like you said, the pandemic also.

Yeah. But I think even before the pandemic, it's just kind of like a paradigm shift, basically where people realize like, oh, that's media now. That's just a thing you have to do. Oh, it's gone. And I know I had just have to let go of it. I know there's, but like what I'm saying, you were cutting edge is the fucking reckoning for sure.

That's what I'm saying. Like, I want the fucking reckoning. Like, you know, I want a goddamn. Apology letter. I'd say Bo Burnham, I guess, was like... Bo Burnham was the very first, but he was so far ahead of his time. It was like he was his thing. And then it was...

There was no one else. And then it was you. And there was... It was like a wave of people at the same time as me. You know, and I'm around that same time. Well, he had people who copy him who couldn't do the live stuff. Right. Yeah.

That's the thing, though. Like, and I think people start... You're still here five years later, and people... recognize that. I think that's part of it too. It is. Even if they don't, like, even if they don't say it out loud in their brain,

in their brain, every comedian knows if you suck, they will not keep you around. Like, period. Anybody can pop. Literally anybody. Fucking, I'm serious. Anybody can pop.

Gorilla glue hair girl could have a special. You know what I mean? She could. I'm just, that's the world we live in. Like, anybody can pop. If you're still doing it five years later at that level, you are good.

Period. And everybody goes, it just ain't for me. Case closed. You know? Southern Mama's still on tour, but he ain't selling out. I'm just looking right now. Good.

What are it? I don't, honestly, like, I have no frame of reference on that guy because he's never done, to my knowledge, been big on Twitter. And I gave up on Facebook a long time ago. And so, like, he could, he could still be murdering for all. And I'd have no idea, but mainly because Rocky ain't texting me about it. Yeah, I mean, since I haven't thought about him until right now in a long time. I haven't either until you just did that.

That's crazy. But yeah, I mean, I'm sure he's still touring, but like, yeah, he's not taking a world by storm because he ain't got a fucking act. Yeah. Get an act, kids. Get an act. Get an act. All right. Skew.

Yeah, yeah, skew, but we got to remember to do this. Oh, yeah. Remind everybody again, this Friday, 12 Pacific 3 Eastern, that's it. Join us on the stereo app. And all you got to do to do that, get the stereo app, complete. completely free and find any or all three of us by our real names on there and follow us. And that's it. And we'll see you there Friday.

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Skew. Well, well, well.