wellRED podcast - #245 - The guys talk Ernest P. Worrell, Derrick Henry, and Sobriety!

Episode Date: November 2, 2021

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Hey, what's up everybody? It's your boy, Corey Ryan Forster. As you know, go to well read comedy.com, w-E-L-R-E-D comedy.com, which is where you can get tickets to come see us on the road. and also it would be super cool if you would sign up for the newsletter there so that you will know where we're going to be. I say this every time, but I'm serious. You'll know where we're going to be before even my dumbass knows where we're going to be. Sincerely, like somebody told him, text me the other day, or not text me, but tweeted me.

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wireless and have been. Because you don't hit. No, I do hit. I haven't used mine all year because I hit. Everybody else has used there. So I've gotten to the top and I'm just sitting at the top. I thought I was about to get Adrian Peterson, which will end up not matter in any way. But I thought I was about to get him in both.

But nope, don't work that way. So. Yeah, I can't decide if it's like, oh, well, I mean, dude, he's old. then obviously his better years are behind him or if he's going to come out with something to prove and really just have one of them alien-type moments and it's going to be sweet. I don't think he's going to do all that great, but I do think he will be,

I think he'll be, I don't think he's going to be fully washed or nothing. I think he'll bring something to the table. Well, I don't think he's definitely fucked. I don't think he's fully washed either, but yards after contact that Derek Henry does, I don't think our line is otherworldly, or he wouldn't have to get so much.

many yards after contact, or maybe that's a scheme thing. But my point is, I don't think anybody can do what Derek Henry does. And Peterson's got something left in the tank, but I'm not feeling. I think we're a seven seed at best now, maybe six. No, no, no, no. And I'll tell you why. Are we keeping all this shit? You think anybody cares?

Yeah, here we are. Here we are. Derek Henry, take my foot. I don't need it. I don't do shit with me. For sure. No way. Of course, he couldn't hit with your foot.

Well, I feel like my, I mean, my feet are real big. They don't hit, but I feel like if you put my foot on the Derek Henry's leg, he could do something with it. It ain't like he got like feet muscles. I mean, he probably has feet muscles. His foot broke. Your foot might break too. Yeah, I don't know. Y'all don't think.

I was actually thinking, you know, making the jet, you know, it occurred to me, I wish I could give Derek Henry my foot. And then I was thinking, but my foot don't hit. Your foot don't hit. My foot definitely don't hit. But do you think you could put a not hitting foot on a really hitting man? Yeah, for sure. And he could hit with it.

He could. He's got his own ankle. He got his own joints and all that. It'd take it like two weeks, but he'd get it. But didn't his foot break under pressure? So. And now what a Jones fracture is. So on that, though, everybody's talking like, you know, it's already been like put out there like,

this is a season-ending injury, and I was listening to Lebitard today, and Stugats made the point that in the game, when he got the injury, you can see when he gets the injury, and he goes to the sideline, they kind of start fucking with it. He got 27 touches after that.

You know what I mean? Yeah, the surgery is what is season-ending. Yeah, right. Well, okay, first of all, it's like six to ten weeks is the thing I saw, but six weeks would be superhuman, but he is superhuman. but like eight weeks, they're hoping to have him back in time for the playoffs,

but he's going to miss most of the rest of the year. I do think they will make the playoffs only because the AFC South is such a dumpster fire. They swept the Colt. They have a three-game lead over the Colts and the tiebreaker, and they're six and two, and they still play the Texans twice and the Jags one more time, and the Dolphins. The Titans could go nine and eight. They could go three and five or whatever the rest of the year, or three and six.

They can finish three and six and still win the AOC South at 9 and 8, which would mean they'd be the four seed. They'd be a four seed and they'd have a home playoff game in time for the return of the king, you know, which would hit real hard. This is called copium, what I'm smoking right now. I'm smoking that copium. But I believe, I believe. Molly Copacet.

But yeah, he took, yeah, it is apparently like a stress fracture thing. And I mean, you know, they've been running him. into the goddamn ground for a very long time. It seems like he could handle it, whereas most people couldn't. But, you know, I guess he is human at the end of the day. I bet he wants that too because of like legend status. Like that's the only way to be that, I don't know, honored as a running back now. To even get into the conversation in the current NFL, you have to be an exception to many rules,

including workload. All right. So I looked it up and he works a size 15. shoe. I wear a size 13 or 14 depending on the brand. So he'd be a little off. So my foot's a little bit smaller than Derek Henry's foot. That might make him faster.

Get up on him toes. Yeah, but he'd have one foot different. He'd be going left a lot. Yeah, but could you take a shoe and make one shoe, both shoes are the same size. But the shoe that has my foot in it, right? It's got some, like,

it's got some padding in it to wear it fits his foot snugly, but the shoe is the same size as his, his foot shoe. I'm basing this on, I'm basing this on. We had a girl that had a stump foot and she had, uh, wore same shoes, but one of them had padding in it to like cover up for her stump. Okay. I was going to say, I feel like that throw me off more. I'd rather just adjust, but maybe not.

Oh, stump foot from, Stumpfoot McGee from down there and Chickamauga's, counter, running counter to that. I didn't know you knew her. Stump foot McGee, yeah. Old Stumpfoot, Betty Joe Spivey, they call her. But you know what I mean? Like it would take time if it was new, but I feel like if it was a one-size difference,

I would just prefer to get used to it. He would get used to it, for sure. Derek Henry could definitely hit with your foot. All right. I'm glad we figured that out. Kind of speaking of hitting with your foot, I guess. Well-readcom. Right down here, if you're watching it on the YouTube,

is where you can go to see us on the road this weekend. Unfortunately for y'all, but fortunately for us, our Seattle show is absolutely sold out. So that's wild and hits and is awesome. But there's still some tickets left for Spokane, which is Sunday, right? Right, guys? Yeah, yeah.

Sunday. Sunday, and after that, I believe we're on to Lexington, Kentucky, where we recorded our album, well-read live from Lexington. Then after that, we're in Charlotte. Then after that, we are in, in Naples, Florida.

And then after that, we're doing our very special homecoming shows at Zanis. Am I correct here? You missed one December 3rd. Oh, New Orleans. Yep. You are right.

New Orleans, Louis-A-L-A-L. And I've been, dude, you know why I missed that? Because I've been like, so, yeah, well-readcom, W-E-L-R-E-D, Comedy.com, grab those tickets, come to see us. I've had that New Orleans one because we've talked about it a lot

because we're all sober right now. and I've been thinking about that show way differently than I have ever thought about a New Orleans show and I have decided and I'm certain that you guys will be with me and will be my account of bill of buddies on this.

I'm just going to eat like three times the amount of et tufei and gumbo that I normally would and I think that I will be just as happy. Unable to put anything else into your body. For sure. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Because like, I love drinking

when I go to New Orleans, but every time I wake up, I think to myself, I'm like, man, if you hadn't got that drunk, you left a lot of bignets on the table. You know what I mean? Literally. I don't see, I think we've had this conversation before about you, about how like normal, Corey, normal meaning drunk, drunk, drunk, Corey, and drink it all the time. You don't, you don't eat as much as people would think you eat. I pick around a lot.

We've noted this before. Yeah. Drew calls you a grazer, which I am a grazer. I am a grazer. And I don't want to fuck my buzz out. You've always said it's like, you're like, it's because I drink so much. But me, I mean, while I'm in the process of drinking, yeah, I'm just drinking.

But then when I get to the eating part of also drinking, it's bad. It's real bad. Being drunk makes me eat more. No, me too. When I do eat, like it'll be the end of the night or whatever, but when I eat it, like, I don't know that. I can put more et tufe into my body than I already do when I go to New Orleans personally. There's a couple differences between me and you.

That's definitely going to happen. Let me just say that right now. I had three beers on Halloween. I don't think I'm going to get drunk, but like I'm going to have a drink in New Orleans. I guarantee. So I was going to say I didn't do it, but weirdly, last night, so it's November 1st right now. So last night was Halloween. Last night was the first time that I've had even really an early.

urge to drink and it wasn't because I was stressed or anything. I was having a perfectly good time. It's having a good time. Good weather. And the weather was amazing. And I just wanted to get back and sit on my porch and like, you know, drink a beer while looking all these little kids costumes and stuff and giving them candy. That makes it sound weird, but it's Halloween, you know, like, I won't get drunk or I give all these strange kids candy, but you know what I mean? It's Halloween. No, I get it. It's a year to the season. But it's way more fun. It felt like an all-American. American evening. You know what I mean?

It's very neighborhoody. All the neighborhood kids walking around. Porch, nice weather, evening time. I just wanted a beer really bad, but I did not go get any. And so my streak remains alive. We instead, we went inside and I introduced my boys to one of our people's cultural touchstones, Ernest P. world.

Hell yeah, which one? Well, which one do you think? Ernest scared stupid. Because it was Halloween. Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. I wasn't even thinking about the Halloween part. I just thought it was like this would hit today.

Yeah, any day is a good day for Ernest and you are correct in that assessment. But I hadn't watched an earnest jam in 25 years. Me either. Of course, growing up in Tennessee, I watched the shit out of them as a kid. I watched all of them over and over again. But I hadn't seen any of them in 25 years. And I was like, I don't know what to expect about this. And I tell you, I mean, yeah, it was nostalgia at play or whatever, but I was utterly charmed.

I was utterly charmed by the experience. Jim Barney was awesome. Although, I will say, and, you know, look, 1991, you'll have that. But less than 15 minutes in, he was in Brownface doing a bit. Yeah. But, you know, again, it was a different time. It wasn't a, he was doing a history lesson thing. And he went into character.

is each, so he was like a Roman centurion or whatever, and then they were going to fight the Ottoman hord. So, of course, he got in character as an Ottoman hordesman or whatever, which meant brown face with the big, long mustache and the only hat and all this shit. Is 100% offensive, absolutely. But you know that at the time Jim Varney wasn't thinking to himself, oh yeah, let's make fun. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, looking back, you know, like, it's, you can't hardly defend it now, but you know at the time that that, that, that, that sincerely he was not trying to be that way. He was also playing an Ottoman.

You know what I mean? Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, man, fuck on. Can't do brown face, but like, if the Ottomans come forward and they're mad about it, you know, he could have a talk with them. For sure. But I haven't seen those movies in a very long time, but I have always assumed that

like they probably hold up just because like whenever you've got a dude like Jim Varney and guys like Jim Carrey and guys like Robin Williams, their movie. movies always end up holding up because it's like, yeah, well, because they smash so hard that it kind of can't not. You know what I mean? Like, everything around it could kind of be like, I don't know, but they're crushing so hard that it's great. Yeah, the first thing I thought, and Drew said on Into the Abisket, this has been broached a lot. Man, I mean, I think we did it on this podcast with DJ. On this podcast?

I mean, I know that. When he was a guest, I think you brought it up, Trey. I don't think I did So this predates our relationship actually because I remember when me and DJ were first doing comedy together Big Ed brought that shit up

Like Big Ed was like This man of Bruce brought up Ernest on crack I think it was Asheville We were talking about Ernest and I swear to God it came up on well read listeners Y'all will know

I think Did we bring it up on here The End of the Abisket podcast or also Slobberhose made a meme, but I think that was in response to something we said, but I know Slobberhose put him in a trailer. We haven't even explicitly stated yet. Our buddy DJ, who you all know and love from multiple things with us,

DJ DJ, DJ Lewis, he's got a lot of Jim Varney influences going on in my opinion. And I hadn't thought about the other than the drunken conversations, I guess. When I turned Ernest on last night within 90, seconds of him appearing on screen. I was like, holy shit, this is like the G-rated version of DJ right here. I made that as a tremendous compliment. Of course. Yeah, DJs. Both of them. For sure. Both of them. Yeah, of course. But DJ's got a lot of, he's got a lot of Marnieisms going on.

Yeah, and the purity of spirit and the sincerity with which he delivers his comedy, which is part of what makes both of them work. Speaking of, real quick, November 18th, me and DJ should be in Bristol, Tennessee. Oh, hell yeah. He's moved to the Great White North, but we'll be plugging that soon. I think that...

That's May Mon's birthday. I hope she comes. To the show or in her life. But I think that DJ's purity and Varney's purity, like they deliver their bits with such utter sincerity. Ernesty. With such earnestness, yeah. Both of them are also,

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I like the name Beanbox. Just real quick. I want to say that. I do. Yeah, for sure. No matter what that was that came to my house, I would be like, hell yeah. You know what I mean? You got a beanbox.

Yeah. What are you doing? It could be a chair, you know, shaped like it could be an Ottoman. Any of those things, I mean. I like that empire. I almost said airports are 9-11 when you said airports don't hit right now, that's right? They are. Probably don't need to do that.

Dude, I saw that opposite of 9-11. Do you? No. Who is it that? Was it you that shared that that picture? of the insane lines at American Airlines this morning? No, I saw it. Oh, yes, yeah, I did.

I threaded it. I threaded it. You're right. Yeah, man. I ain't trying to fuck with that at all. Well, they're the second ones now. It happened to Southwest first, and now American, and I just, we're all three primarily Delta people,

and I just know the Delta that Delta's going to get deltled, you know, at one point or another, and it's going to really not hit. I'm just waiting on it. And he's been flying United for her work because they're, you know, the work is booking it. She's trying to change one right now because the schedule changed and she literally can't get anyone on the phone.

And I don't mean like the wait time is four hours. It just hangs up on her. Dude. Yeah, I'm driving the rest of the year. Things don't. You're driving Seattle? No, not Seattle. I've done booked that.

But after that, I'm not risking it. It just looks, I can't stand the thought of all that shit. I'd rather be in my car and listen to podcasts. and fucking all that shit. After Lexington, I'm sticking around. I may ride part of the way with you, but I was also kind of planning on driving. And then we're driving in New Orleans

because we're driving all the way back for Christmas. Yeah, I'm definitely driving in New Orleans. Me too. Yeah. As long as I make it to Lexington, me too. Yeah, you good, you good. So how does it remind me? A listener reached out and told a story,

and I think it's appropriate to tell it on here instead of the next Bubba, because I will forget that, Hank, if you're not listening to Bubba Shot the podcast, here's a chance to me to plug it, listen to our Auxiliary Podcast, Bubbush Up the Podcast. It's on this feed. We put it out every Thursday or Friday. It just depends on the date. We've got another partner, too, Char, we've got to record with.

Don't complain about free podcast being late, folks. But Thursday or Friday we put it out. They still will. I'm certain of it. Yes, they do. Hank Williams was the topic of the last song we featured, which was Alan Jackson, midnight in Montgomery. I got a message from a guy from Montgomery.

Apparently, fans bring booze to his grade as an homage. So when you're in high school, when you're in high school, you try to get over there early on his birthday or in his death day so you can get the booze. That's- Him and his friends used to get hammered in high school by stealing booze from Hank William's grade because in their mind, they were honoring his memory as well. Of course.

Oh, dude. I was about to say, man, like, I don't know which one honestly honors him more. like Hank, that would definitely hit for Hank William Sr. For sure. Like, that's not a desecration of a grave. Like, dude, if you leave fucking booze in a goddamn cemetery in Alabama, you got to know what's going to happen. He said he got drunk there when Obama got inaugurated. Nice.

He was like 18 or something. Wait, like out of like to drown his sorrows or like celebration? No, they went there to celebrate. Right on. And he said Obama, the people who worked for Obama in Montgomery. just happened to be, were there too, and they gave them beer.

By the way, that, the bubble shot the podcast is, uh, it, I mean, it's, it's up there with like,

the most immediate popularity, something we've ever done has had. Uh, and everybody's loving it. We really appreciate y'all, like and download, subscribing and all that stuff. And also,

uh, I'm sure that you've been getting them, Drew, but, but tweet at us some songs that you'd like to hear because, and I will say this, it has not been hard for us to come up with, 90s country songs that are great because

I don't know if you know this, there's a fucking shit ton of them. But y'all just tweet at us, man, because there's definitely probably some that we haven't thought of. And we're having so much fun. We need to do too. We need to do a poll and everyone can vote, but I really want the lady listeners to vote on which Shanaia Twain's

song. Because she has about three or four that would be really great. None of them really tell like a solid, and if you, yeah, like a solid single story from front to back, which is mostly what we've been focusing on. So I'd like to hear from the ladies on which Shaniya's song they want

because we got to nail that one right out of the gate. Dude, every time you're still the one comes on, I get like a, what's PTSD, but it's good? Just a memory. Nostalgia. Nostalgia. Like, my dick gets so hard whenever that song comes on. Because some of my first boners,

Some of my first boners were to that song because it was like at dances and stuff. You know what I mean? Like I just, every time I hear that song, every time I go into a hospital or a home goods, pretty much anything with white walls, we've gone over this. Anything with like white walls that's like kind of weirdly lit, I really get boners. Probably because I've dated a lot of nurses. But you're still the one like, I'm telling you, dude, it's like as soon as that song comes on, fucking boing-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ing.

I'm right there. That end up breathe by. Faith Hill and Shaggy. Shaggy, well, I was going to ask, you know, you reminded me talking about dances and boners of, and I know we talked about it back when we were doing the boner jams. Of course, it was on there, but... We got to do that with country music, right?

No, we... Yeah, we are. That should be a thing we do on Bubba after we've covered a few songs. Maybe the month of Valentine's month, we'll just do all boner country. But anyway, the ultimate boner jam was sung literally entirely only about boners. Too close by next.

Yeah. That song. It's great. Great in retrospect that there was like, while we were like middle school dance age, that there was a popular song. That hit about getting a boner. You think there was a floor.

Got my first dance floor boner grabbed stranger, 19 year old. I was 14 in Myrtle Beach. She was doing the standback. You're dancing kind of close. And then she just grabbed my dick. And I had a boner. She was right.

Damn, 19 years old in Myrtle Beach. She was a full-grown lady. Hell yeah, she was. Oh, well, it's going to be funny that that reminded me of what I'm about to say. But I texted y'all this, but I won't say it on here because it's funny. I mentioned earlier, Ma Ma Ma'a's birthday is coming up. I was talking to Ma Ma'a the other day. And she was, I don't want to put everything.

everybody's business out there, but she was talking about somebody in our family who's dating an immigrant, right? And this ain't going where you think it's going. Me on the subject of immigrants come up. I don't what it was. She said that the guy's brother who still lives in India, if they're from India, the guy's brother who still lives in India, wanted our family member to find him, quote, an American woman that he could marry, right? And Ma Ma'i told me that, and she goes, verbatim,

she goes, I said, I don't know why the hell he'd want to do that for. We ain't got nothing but sluts and hoars over here. She's progressive. Yeah, sure. Not very feminist, but it's funny. She didn't know. No, it's not very feminist, but it is very funny that she's like, oh, don't do that to that poor immigrant. Somebody saved these immigrants from these hoars. She was saying she was like, I don't know what they're like over there, but I know we ain't got nothing but sluts and hoars over here. That's 10 out of 10. I love it. No notes on that story. She's always good for something like that. She then later started talking about how she wishes still, she don't give a damn that he's not the president anymore. She wishes somebody would shoot Donald Trump in the head.

She said if she had a gun and was, you know, in his vicinity that she would shoot Donald Trump in the head. And I was like, you know, I started joking that, you know, the FBI was going to come after, whatever. You don't say stuff like that on the phone, you know, or whatnot. And she just wasn't, wasn't having none of that. She was like, they don't give a shit about him. She was like, let them come. Take me. I don't give a damn, you know.

There's many reasons I miss having grandparents. But one of them is I wish I had more people in my life that were allowed to be inappropriate. And I just couldn't, yeah, didn't even need to correct them. Just like, yeah, that was fun. I was thinking about that a lot. Like, because I remember my granny died like before he got elected and shit like that. And, uh, you know, old people are, or how old people are. And somebody one time was like, don't you think it might be a blessing in disguise that you didn't have to see what your granny would think of Donald Trump?

And I was just like, buddy, my granny, like, she didn't know shit about politics, but I know for a fact she would have hated that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying? absolutely despised that son of a bitch. Because like, you know what I'm saying? Like, just she would have thought he was gross and not professional. And that's, you know what I mean? Like, that's not what you're supposed to do as a president.

Yeah, I know I have one papaw that would have loved him. And with the other three grandparents, I feel like they wouldn't have, but I felt like that about a lot of people, man. You know what I mean? I've got people in my life who are like, I don't like him, but I had to vote for him. Yeah, my papal,

on my dad's side, he was actually a lifelong Democrat. And it's weird, my dad, my dad rebelled against him and my dad was a Republican. It's all up. But like, I mean,

we've got like, you know, Christmas cards that the president would send. And my papal is so proud of the one he got from Bill Clinton. Like, he was like, look, he sent me a,

you know, Christmas card or whatever. Um, but I have a feeling he was, I have a feeling that like he would have ended up turning. You know what I mean? I could see that. I,

my whole family on my dad's side were all lifelong Democrats. But my dad or my dad's dad, Pa of me mom pa fame was, I can remember the day he came in. It was after NAFTA, right? And which wrecked the town. And he owned a business in town. And I remember him like storming in one day and saying to my dad,

I'll never vote for another Democrat as long as I live after, because that's how much he blamed Clinton for the NAFTA thing or whatever. And my dad, I don't know if my grandpa then voted for George Bush or just didn't vote after that. I'm not sure. But I don't think that Bush hit for him either. And I know my dad fucking hated George W. Bush, I'm talking about. But probably the first one, too.

Did he hate him? Did he hate him not just for politics, but because he tried to act like a fucking cowboy when he went to Yale? My dad just hated everything about George W. Bush, my dad, he stayed, even after and after and all that shit, my dad stayed and was always a Democrat. But Pa, though, because of that and thinking about that, he died in 2004, but I don't know. Knowing how much me ma'am, his widow hates Trump. I feel like Trump wouldn't hit for him either. Right. that whole narrative around Trump of like, you know,

don't take no shit. Fixing what NAFTA broke. You know what I mean? None of which he ever did, of course. But that whole thing that he was pushing, that might have hit for my grandpa. Yeah. Well, that's the thing you said, like,

early on in the thing people were, or after he got elected, people were like, I just don't understand how these people voted for him, blah, blah, and you said, you were like, because he came down there and fucking talk to him. And you were like, I mean, don't get me wrong.

Everything he said was a goddamn lie. But like, he said it. You know what I mean? Like, of course, everybody lies in those situations. Like, yeah, man, if you take all the fucking rape shit, which didn't bother them, I guess. Like, I totally get why a lot of people were like, all right, you know what I mean? This sounds like what I want to hear. Yeah.

And now, my other truck driving, horribanging papal, my other papal, you know, he was. was mostly just about, you know, bussy. Driving, driving trucks and banging horrors, uh, as, as we've discussed.

So I don't, he was, I don't ever remember him having a political stance of any kind. Well, you know, so I have no idea. A lot of people didn't back then. No,

that was the most common attitude that I remember is people just, a political, fuck them all. They're all full of shit. None of them did. They're all full of shit. But I also remember like, I genuinely remember,

like hearing my parents back when Clinton and Dole were like when they were the they were the dudes or whatever. I remember hearing my parents and other people talk about that like very briefly about because most people were just like I'm not telling you who I'm voting for like they didn't want to tell you. But I remember them like talking to other people who weren't going to vote that way and they were all just like yeah I mean what you're going to do. Whatever. It wasn't like are you serious? You know what I mean? I just remember that we knew a lot of people who were voting for Bob Dole and we knew a lot of people who were voting for Clinton and nobody really gave a shit. But yeah, man, it's, well, to get off this, if you want to, I was curious.

I did, because I do, fuck this shit. But I was curious, because I kind of railroaded you earlier, what did your boys think about Ernest? Oh, they were really into it. They thought it was real funny, and they were, like, engaged with it the whole time. I mean, it definitely hit for them. Good. You know, they liked Rimshot.

Y'all remember Rimshot? That's his dog. Yeah, yeah. How did it look on your TV? Do what? How did it look on your TV? I mean, not great, honestly. It wasn't like remastered or anything.

No, they didn't say anything about it. They probably just assumed that the Wi-Fi connection was bad and the stream was messed up or something. It wasn't that bad, but it also wasn't remastered. It looked like we were watching like a 90s VHS tape or something. Yeah. Do you like it? Like for your nostalgia?

when something's not remastered? Like a movie like that? It depends. A movie like that, I was completely fine with it. If I was watching like Star Wars. The Abyss or Aliens or something like that, I want that to be ratcheted way up. I watch old wrestling sometimes and like part of what really hits for me

is like I'm totally in that world because it still looks like how the TV looked when I was a kid. And I know it doesn't look good, but I like that. You know what I mean? I'm like, now I'm really in a place. in time right now. Yeah, speaking of old boners, that's how I am with porn. I like it to

look like it did back when I first started. I know you're hitting, and I normally would say yes, but I'm confesion. I can't, unless it's 720P, get the fuck out of here on porn. I can't stay it anymore. You watch the 70s. Dude, I can't do it no more.

It's like you can't even see the leaves. Dick's got a beard. Yeah, I got to have 720P or higher. I filter mine now like I won't even accept porn that's like 480p not happening I like it granny yeah you get to use more of your imagination that way that might be it I don't know because sometimes it's like Jesus Christ you're all the way live there baby you know what I mean like that's that's all of it I can see your varicose veins Jesus yeah this is a lot more close-ups with that 4K going on too

yeah that's something you're right maybe that's what I'm really is is I'm just avoiding that It's like, oh, I got too real. Yeah, it can be a bit, a bit much. Well, that hits for me that, because I know that you've showed them stuff before that didn't hit for them. And it's, like, heartbreaking. Yeah, a lot of those things, I just fear that it will happen, so I don't show it to them. What was it? I don't remember.

The main one that gets brought up, I believe, is Monty Python, the Holy Grail. Yeah. I think it's too young for that. I about to say, yeah, probably. I need to let them get, I don't know. I feel like a couple, like 10, 11, I think. They definitely, they're not 13 or 14. Yeah.

I feel like I would, James Bain, also friend of the show, he introduced all of us because he was like, he was our buddy, Jason Bain's older brother. So he was like everybody's older brother. And he introduced us to Monty Python, the Holy Grail. And I feel like we were like 12 or 13-ish when he first showed it. to us and, dude, we fucking loved it. I mean, lost my mind over that movie. Do what?

How much of it was the accents, do you think? I mean, a little bit, but not much. Yeah. I thought the fucking, I mean, it's funny. Like, the, like we thought before about. Of course it's funny, but at 11, there's, because I've rewatched it recently, and there's definitely some stuff that the first time I saw it, I didn't understand. Sure, but it's so it's funnier to me now.

The coconut horses and, like, this. And, you know, I fart in your general direction and not like. There's plenty of stuff in there for like that would hit for, you know, twains or whatever. And they didn't laugh at how far to your general direction? I didn't. I haven't showed it to him yet. Oh, I'm saying.

I'm sorry. I forgot what didn't hit. Corey said you've showed them stuff and it didn't hit. And I don't know what they did. And I said no. I said mostly those are things that I've withheld from them because I fear that they will not hit. Right. So it hasn't happened yet. First example.

Yeah, right. But I'm sure when we were younger, we didn't fully appreciate the conversation that they have with them mud peasants about politics. Yeah. And he's like, watery tarts and ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. You know, you're not the king just because some moistened bent loved a scimitar at you. You know. And it's just, yeah, they're all talking about being a social. Socialist Collective or whatever they're saying.

And then the lady's like, oh, Reginald, there's some lovely filth over here. And they're literally just like stacking up poop, basically, while talking about this shit. It's so funny. Drew, do you say, Dune yet? No, I'm probably going to watch it. Andy leaves Wednesday.

I'm probably going to watch it that night. I don't think she's interested in it. And Tuesday, which is tomorrow, we're going to see Deer Tick and Delta Spirit. So, you know, hopefully I party like a, it's 2003 because I used to love that band. So you be drinking? I had three beers.

I had three beers on Halloween. He didn't drink at this concert? No, no, there's no reason to do that because I'll get back in the cycle. You know what I mean? My thing is like, well, I was out. You know what I mean? I drink out, but I'm not going to do it again that close to it. Like I was like, I'm not going to, I'm not putting all this pressure on myself to like,

oh, it's been 12 weeks. Oh, it's been 13 weeks. Because then if I fuck up, I'm just going to feel guilty and terrible about myself. That's the only way I can not fuck up, I think. I feel like I'm the other way around where it's like, you know, if I really want to, I will. But then I'm not going to do it two days later because physically then I'll fall back into it. And next thing, you know, I won't be even remotely sober by the time we have. Yeah. If we talked about all this on my...

I don't think. I think we've like alluded to it. Yeah. Well, so like I, like I was saying to y'all, the green room the other night in D.C. Like, we're all not drinking at shows and have been for weeks now. For me, it's just a realization. We hadn't been on the road at 18 months.

Then we got back on the road. And like three or four weekends in to touring again, we were doing it like we used to. Not drunk during the shows, but drinking before, after the shows and just going out with friends and whatever city we're in and just, you know, doing it like we always used to do it. And after about three or four weekends in, that last one, which was Riley, North Carolina, we were there Thursday through Sunday. And on Monday morning, I was a husk, just a deadened husk. And I was like, man, I cannot do this anymore. And instead of trying to, oh, I'll drink on Friday night, but not Saturday night or whatever.

Because the thing is, you drink one night, you kind of have to drink. You have to get back into. You owe it. You honestly owe it to the, I mean, I'm not even. trying to be funny, but like, if you get hammered drunk on Friday and then you've got another show on Saturday, you literally owe it to the fans to have a couple more drinks because the show's not going to be good if you're hung over. Right.

I agree. So we just stop. I just stopped and Corey kept going for one or two more weekends. I can't remember. It was at least one more weekend. Right. But not the first night, right? No, the second night.

Because the first night's when we recorded fancy for the bubble shop to podcast. and you were hammered. That was the last time I drank. Right. Okay. So actually, you were, whatever. It doesn't matter. Yeah, so I quit.

But my thing is, I've been saying the whole time to y'all, I don't, I didn't do it because I have a drinking problem. No, me either. Like, I'm not worried about my drinking or nothing. It's just physically I can't do it. And on a given weekend, it's easier just to not do it at all than to try to do it a little bit here and there. But now it's like seven, eight weeks or whatever it is, and I haven't had a drop. And I don't, I don't care, but I'm also, I feel like I'm like starting to care, even though I'd said the whole time, like I told you, I just don't do anything when I'm in home, Drew, but I said if I went to a

concert or something and we didn't have shows before or I wasn't leaving for shows the next day, it was just a random day and I went to a concert, like I would drink at it. Because I'm not, like, an alcoholic or anything. It's just I'm trying not to fuck the rest of my shit up. Well, I went to see Lydia. I did have done that last night and I didn't, you know, so. Yeah, I went to see Lydia Thursday. Lydia Loveless, great show. She's on tour with Lily Hyatt.

Go see them. If you've never heard her episode of our podcast, it was very early on, so you'll have to scroll way far back, but probably the funniest guess we've ever had. Other than George Wallace, I think she's number two. I think that I did dirt, you know, and I was having a good time at the show, and I started to get tired.

They were co-headlined. Lydia happened to go first. I just went home. You know, it just wasn't a big deal. And then me and Andy were out for Halloween or whatever. And it was like, you know, she didn't want to go home. I was by myself because Andy was working at Lydia's thing. So it was like, all right, I'm just going to have three.

It's not a big deal. I only had three. And I didn't the next day. And I'm not going to on Tuesday. But I guess if I'm there Tuesday and I'm really wanting one, maybe I will. But like, it's just not a big deal to me. And trying to just go full on. Like I could do it, but if I happen to break in New Orleans, I know me.

I beat myself up. And I'm just not going to do that because I don't have a, I don't think I have a drinking problem easier. So if I want to have a drink in New Orleans and I'm going to want to, I'm just going to. You know, I'm not going to get hammered every night I'm there. That I cannot do. I can't do that because then it starts the cycle. Yeah, I don't think I have a drinking problem.

But we did set like a date, like, oh, if we can get to X this and I'm like, I'm addicted to the goal now. doing it and I'm also like I've I've kind of just replaced it with like I'm working out a lot and I'm eating healthier and that's and I'm tricking myself into thinking those are kind of the same things but for me it's not just like weight and how I feel physically it's a big mental thing like my anxiety is so much better when I don't drink it's a mental health thing and speaking of mental health by the way let's talk about our friends over at talk space talking about your mental health like we do not treat our brains the way that we treat any other organ. And I can't speak from anybody else's

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But yeah. It's okay. Talk to your therapist about it. And I'll say you to forgive yourself. Why can't I remember stuff? I forgive yourself. You're doing the best that you can. But for real, though, that did just feel like a good time to throw that in there.

But that really is like so much of it for me because like I have always been able to pretty much anything I do aside from cigarettes, which is why I would never even like, that's just one of them that like, no, I can't have one puff. You know what I mean? Because I'll be back in. But like pretty much everything I've ever done, I'm like, yeah, I can stop anytime I want through and then I do but like it's just night and day the way that my brain functions when I'm completely dried out sober and then even when I'm just having a couple drinks like it just changes me I'm just like don't even wrong I still it's still the void all that I'm still depressed every

now and then all that but it just like I'm I just realized with like the way that I was drinking it's like dude you're not putting yourself in a position to win like quit being miserable it's not worth all that shit so like I don't know man I keep saying that after we hit our end date, I'm definitely going to, like, get drunk and celebrate and all that stuff. But I don't, I just don't think that I'll ever be like I used to be. I don't think I can. Yeah, I think. I don't want to be.

No. I don't either. What, do you all, I think the same thing. I think that going forward in the future, it'll be like fucking somebody gets married. Yeah. It's a good buddy's birthday that I don't see very often. Whatever. Somebody just, I got sold a show.

Some shit that's like cause for celebration, you know. I think will be the only times that I ever, I'm not just going to be sitting around watching football, drink a beer anymore. I don't think, no matter, ever. But do you all,

because like, I'm just, I'm only 35. It's not that old. But dude, I just, and again, I realized that after we got back on the road,

but like, I am at a point where physically, like, I cannot do it anymore. Like, I, it goes beyond just a hangover. I feel like it's a mental.

I'm just, empty inside. In addition, feeling terrible physically. And I'm wondering, A, do y'all think that just not just people are different? I know if people are different, but I'm saying like that most people who drink regularly just they don't have that. And B, do you think that like, some of them just don't quit? If you get to a groove where you're drinking, I'm not saying full more alcoholic, but you have a cup, you do happy hour every day after work, that type of thing. You're drinking a little bit pretty much every day. If you do that, are you more adapted? to it, your body, so it doesn't

hurt you, it hurts me, because I'll stop for five days and then drink on the weekend or whatever, and I'm fucked up after that. Me and you both legitimately have mental health issues. Like, that's not, I'm not making fun of either of us. That's true. Some people genuinely do not have that, and

like, it doesn't affect them. Like, my buddy, Robbie, who does not drink like he used to, he hardly drinks at all now because he's way more health conscious, but like, even when he was drinking, I never once saw it affect his, like, mood. You know what I mean? And I wear that shit on my sleeve. I always felt like when I was drinking, it was the sleep, because alcohol messes up my sleep,

and that that was affecting my mood more. And I just think that people who get in a cycle like you're talking about, like I know a guy right now, DJ's real close with him, he works his ass off physical stuff. He like owns his own land. He does farm stuff. He's an artist, but he's like he like works with metal and glass so he's like picking up shit and moving it around and then when he gets off work he has a couple beers before dinner and then a whiskey after and that's that's his routine

maybe two whiskey you know it's he's not an alcoholic it's not like 15 drinks but I do think he's getting in that groove and he's sleeping good with it and I think that when with us the travel we're in schedules even when you are sleeping good you got to get up and catch a flight

etc etc I just think that alcohol's poison man So you got all this other stuff going on. And then on top of that, you got the poison. I think for me, going forward, like having three beers the other night was fun and it was plenty. You know what I mean? There's also just no reason to do shots with people after shows. And then, like, I just, I don't even, you said wedding.

Dude, I don't want to get drunk at a wedding. I don't ever want to go to a wedding again, honestly. I always like, I mean, I haven't been to one in a while, but I always liked weddings. I mean, I only ever went to weddings of people who hit for me. And I always have had a really good time at weddings. But one thing I'm worried about is having done this now with the drinking, when one of those occasions does come up that I'll drink, if not fully the way that I used to be able to drink,

even like even close to that and get like shitty embarrassingly drunk because I've got such a lower tolerance now, you know, like that type of things. I'm definitely going to have to watch that whenever I do. But that's another reason to do it is like maybe you'll have a couple feel good. still hit on the dance floor, still hug the people you may not be able to hug as tightly if you were completely sober and feeling awkward and have fun. I have fun at weddings too.

I was joking about not one to go to one, but like I'd like to be able to have fun without getting hammered at one. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah. I'd be crying sober. I stay doing that. Yeah.

I'm doing it all. But there used to be things that's like when I, before, when I would try to stop drinking, like to lose weight or for whatever reason, I've got like certain triggers, you know, Music's one for sure. Real hard. Live music is a huge one for me.

It's hard for me. Going to, going and watching sports at a bar, of course, but also just going to a buddy's house and watching games or whatever. That's another one for me. There's just like certain things.

It might be. Any sort of boat situation? I ain't been on a boat. You said that you got triggered the other day? It might be, I was just going to say, it might be that I'm dying to be back out there. I was worried about it.

I have been like, I would take dirt. I smoked some weed when I saw Pearl Jam at that festival. So I'm not like completely sober. Yeah, I mean, I take dirt. But it's, I've very much enjoyed myself listening to live music sober. Well, I do find that like when they wrap up, I'm not like, damn, I wish they had to play at another hour, you know. But like, I've been enjoying myself, which is a really. Well, the thing about you, you were talking about triggers earlier and how the other night, you said you really wanted one.

I was like, I man, I, I wanted to be like, yo, I genuinely had that. but that's not true. And the one time recently that it was like, it was almost overwhelming was, and I texted y'all about it. I was in the goddamn grocery store parking lot listening to fucking, uh,

country music radio and Doug Stone's better off in a pine box came on. And buddy, I almost like, out of body experience, like watched myself from the outside go in and get a 12 pack. You know what I mean? Like I was like, I fucking need that shit.

And then the song was over and it was fine. but like, man, it was like somebody else was driving that truck, boy, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, I mean, I remember, you know, and you already told him this. So I know it's, you know, cool to say, but our buddy BJ, or American Aquarium, B.J. when he put out that cover album of 90s country songs, now I wasn't even trying to like not be drinking at that time. But I was. If I would have been, that would have been a huge problem. I went on a bender.

As soon as I turned that shit on, I was like, oh, dog. I drove, I drove and drank, not drunk. I hadn't had any, but I went and put it on in my Bronco and took beer with me. Yeah, that's what's up. No, dude, I got, I went on a fucking bender, and then I got in my car and I was, huh? I want to go get my bronco and drink beer and listen to B.J. Barham, right? You fucking know, what you're going to have in a goddamn Bronco? Dude, I got so fucking drunk, listening to that album.

I listened to it like nine times in a row. Then I went out to my car and I live streamed from my other phone, me listening to that album. And I was just raising hell in my car. And then BJ called in and I interviewed him on that. And next morning, I don't even remember having done that shit. That's how fucking turned.

I didn't. I mean, it was like, it was one of them things where I was like, did I dream that I did the coolest shit ever. Oh, shit, I did that. Oh, my God.

I hope I didn't say something. What if he covers Palm Box on the next one? I'll die. I'll die. Let me ask you all this, just to be a complete square about this whole thing. Did you all also find, aside from the hangover part and how that got so much worse, but physically and mentally. My dick is harder than it's ever been.

Is that what you're about to say? No, I'm talking about before we quit drinking while we were drinking. Did you all find that even the like hitting part of drinking didn't hit? Didn't hit the way it used to. Like there would be times where I'd be drinking. And I'd be in the middle of the process. We'd be hanging. I'd be hanging out with people or whatever.

And I'd be like, this don't really hit. Like the drinking part, I mean, I'd be like, this ain't hitting for me. Even the hitting part wasn't hitting no more. I hope no doctors or psychologists are listening to this because we're like, no, we don't have a problem. And then we've just stepped through every single cliche of like, now look, sometimes I get an uncontrollable urge. Now look, it wasn't fun anymore.

It's just something I was doing all the time. All right. All right. Let me say this. Let me say this. Because I agree with everything you're saying. You're making really good points. If I do have a problem with alcohol, yet I can at any time I won't literally stop drinking for

four months, then I'm fine with the particular brand of problem that I have. There are worse ones for sure. There's definitely worse ones. Like, I know there's different types of alcoholics than like the dude you, I know some of them. I love them to death, but like literally are shaking every morning until they get theirs. There's that. then there's like people probably this would be mine categorized as like yeah you can go a while

without drinking but when you drink that is all you're fucking doing and and i'm like yeah i can be that way for a couple days but like never once if i had shit that i really had to do did i do that it was always like i got three days off i'm gonna get fucked up for three days and then it's back to the real world you know what i'm saying so i mean if i've got a if that's a problem then i got a fucking problem but whatever. I think my hangup is mental where like when we first started doing this it was hard for me like I would be like man the first 10 minutes

of my set are sucking because I don't have that two beer buzz. That's been difficult that kind of shit. Me too. I do not like that. I do not like that because we've talked about it a bunch I can absolutely when it's a good show and I'm doing well and the crowds into it

being sober doing comedy is awesome but when there's one misstep being sober is the fucking worst because that is not something that you want to feel all of. You know what I mean? Yeah, it makes me tighten up and stuff more than I used to when I would have a two drink buzz going

or whatever. When you're in that mode, you fuck something up or something, just don't really lie in the way you want it to or whatever, and you just shake it off and amp it up to keep going and whatever. It's like, all right, well, let's see what you think about this one, motherfucker.

You know, you just roll with it. But yeah, when you're stone cold sober, at least until I adapt to this new reality of, doing it that way. It definitely, yeah, affects me more when there's miscues or whatnot. Yeah, man.

It's hard to navigate. But, hey, we'll be doing show sober this weekend in Seattle. Soil out. Sorry, but also thank you. You know, there's an outside chance. We got like 25 or so comps that I'm sure we didn't use all of them. There's an outside chance. If you're in Seattle and you really.

want to go. Hit me up, DM me on Twitter, and I'll see if I can't work on them out. Now, you know, if there's 100 of you wanting to do that, I'm just going to ignore all of you. The thing is like, if there's five, I can make it work. Go and check. Yeah, here's the,

because without getting into the, there was a thing where it was showing us all that when really there were still some tickets left and we found out and we told them to fix it. And they did. So just go check. So, and just make sure. Here's the thing on that. Like, a lot of times, a show will be declared sold out and why they, but there may actually be 10 tickets left.

And the reason that they declare it sold out is because all 10 of those tickets are solo seats. You know what I mean? Like they're just scattered about and they're like, yeah, it's sold out. So, but then, and I went back on Ticketmaster and look though, like you literally can't even pick a solo seat. There was one yesterday and it's gone. But yeah, try. But other than that, we'll see you next year and we really appreciate those that bought tickets. We will be in Spokane on Sunday. I know there's some tickets left. And then it's on to Lexington, Charlotte,

uh, uh, fucking New Orleans, Naples and then, uh, uh, Zanies for Christmas shows. That's,

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That really hit for me and I thought you were about to make fun of me. You did. But I thought you were about to do it in a very specific way because over on my substack, I'm actually currently in the middle of doing a sci-fi series called Earth 2042. So, if you think I'm reading your substack, that's hilarious that I'm going to pay $5 to do that. I'm kidding. No, that's what I'm going to have to because I feel bad. Well, you don't have to, dude, that one goes out for free.

Oh, yeah. That was just so very specific. So anyways, yeah. Thank you all for listening to the well-read show. We love to stick around longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do. Thank you. God bless you, good night, and skis.

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