wellRED podcast - #260 - NOT ALL BOOMERS!!

Episode Date: February 23, 2022

This week Trae and Corey talk about losing their breath walking up stairs, their new Comedy Central Sketches that got some people in the Boomer generation upset, and also why do corporations like Coke and Pepsi still have to advertise the way they do? Hell we dont know... listen, wont ya?WellREDcomedy.com for tickets to come see us March 5th In Knoxville at The Bijou!Patreon.com/traecrowdercoreywritesforyou.com____Join hundreds of thousands of guys who have made the simple decision to elevate their wardrobe with CUTS. Get 15% off your first order by going to CUTSCLOTHING.com/WELLRED.Right now, it's time to reclaim your health and arm your immune system with convenient, daily nutrition! To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/WELLRED.Get 20% off your first order of Caliper CBD when you use promo code WELLRED at TRYCALIPER.com/WELLRED.Try it risk-free for 30 days. If you don’t love it they’ll give you a full refund!

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They're the next that makes some people upset, but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. I actually find, as I'm still out of breath, I find that no matter what shape, because I'm in insanely better shape. First off, I'm in insanely better shape than I was. because two years ago, and like, a year ago, I was in better shape than I was the year before that, still got tired on the stairs. Now I'm in insanely better shape than I was even a year ago and still, dude.

Still get tired on the stairs. Yes. And it's, yeah, well, I've, in my experience, and I find, I find this really annoying. And I feel like people who just, just hit, like, physically, because some people, they just hit, they don't maybe have this problem. But, like, yeah, I ride the bike all the time. Pelotime bike and on the bike, I'm like, you know, I can do it. I can ride that bike for over an hour like doing the actual programs, not just like

pedaling, like going hard. And I'll, you know, I'll get out of breath and stuff, but I can, I can do it. Whereas when I first started riding the bike, I couldn't get through a whole class, you know. So like my fitness level has improved, but it does not seem to translate. Yeah. To other things. Yeah. Just climbing a set of stairs.

It's like, it's like you'd have to do a. stair running program in order to no longer get winded going up the goddamn stairs if you don't just naturally hit physically. It's like it doesn't, it seems to not translate. I know, I know other things, which is annoying. And used to, I thought like, because it's not, because I constantly am coming up my stairs to do this podcast. Maybe it's because I'm always in a TIF and I'm in a hurry. I don't know, but like, I wanted to actually mention that to my trainer, Robbie, over at Uncle Bod Fitness, because, like, I just thought, oh, well, we haven't been doing a lot of cardio because he, that's just not in the, in the system, but I go, and I go out

on walks, but that's not really strenuous. But the other day, I literally ran like five miles, like straight, like, just did it. And it was blowing my mind and I even called him afterwards, because I didn't know that I was going to be able to do that. I just kind of had a lot of energy and I started running. And then I just kept going and I just didn't stop. And I was like, holy shit. dude and I text him that he goes yeah you know I mean you know the stuff we've been doing the ab works out it strengthening your core it does help all that but again literally I'm still out of breath from walking up my goddamn stairs yeah no it don't hit but but you know here we are here we are we're here on the well red podcast drew is on a plane at present and this is the only time we had to

do it so it won't be no drew is his show tomorrow night I don't know I don't and I also don't if he can if that's like a thing he could talk about okay well if you're on drew social and he posts something about zanis and you're in nashville go see our boy so yeah i don't know the specifics that he's doing a taping or something he's doing a taping at zanies yeah so anyway it's just us today but we want to start off telling people i feel like probably podcast listeners may have already seen them but if you haven't seen them uh go check out our new comedy central sketches that just dropped a couple days ago over the weekend we got two uh two new ones out there there in the world. Yeah, their own Comedy Central's YouTube page. And if you don't feel like

digging around on that, you can go to any of our socials and you can find the link there, but they are the last two up there. On that note, I don't know, how interesting this is to people, I feel like everybody grapples with this sometimes. It fucking kills me how inconvenient and frustrating it is to just like- Sharing a YouTube clip. Share a link. It's insane. others like the social media is they don't like work well together because they're all like no you don't have for us we won't we want your people over here because we hit and you don't Facebook and Instagram are owned by the same people so they kind of do but they still both also have their own rules that none of them interface with each other well at all and you know that's by design but it fucking sucks because you got to like follow all these different rules or techniques just to like get people to see your thing that you're trying to so we got these sketches on Comedy Central's you. YouTube. So we've got like clips that will post on something else, but you can't post a link in the clip or in the body of the post. So what do you do? And it's like, oh, there's a sticker you can

search for and fine, but only if you do it this way. And with the other ones, you got to put it in a comment because if you put it in the post, they'll bury it. And it's just, you know what in my experience is good for the user on social media? Make it more difficult for them. That's usually going to be good for us. That's always going to translate. But they get away. with it. You know what I mean? Yeah. People, it's not like they're losing people over it. Well, the, yeah, I mean, because it's, there's only the three that you have. It's not like there's an alternative, like where, oh, no, everybody's just on this other

social media site where links work and everything's fine. That doesn't, that there ain't one. Like it, you know, and I, so I don't even really know the best way. I believe if you go on YouTube and you type in well-read Comedy Central, you will find all of the sketches we have done for them. just start there and you'll see the two most recent ones. But yeah, that hit. What do you want to talk about? I don't know.

Behind the scenes type stuff. Yeah. Well, first of all, I want to bring up. So a little bit behind the scenes. We all sort of write these together and stuff, but usually each sketch is the brainchild of one of us to start with. And then we like collaborate on them after that. We had two this weekend. The kids these days translator, which was a Cho brainchild.

And then you know it's a me brainchild if it's a commercial parody for the record if you ever see us do a commercial parody as probably my idea. And then the other one was originally called Going Coastal, but it's like what California does to, it's about a redneck guy who's gone all California and is embarrassed by it. And so I'm sure you'll be totally unsurprised to learn that that was from me. It's only semi-autobiographical, but I do get, it's based on like, I get self-conscious about my Californiaism whenever I'm hanging. out with my buddies back home again and stuff is the sort of the source of that. But where did, we could talk more about that in a minute if we want to, but where did yours come from? Mine came from, so my wife's really tight with all of her cousins from Iowa.

And they have, in Iowa, they have this grandmother, the cousin's grandmother. Her name was Grandma Pat. We called her, J-J-J-J-J-J-Pat. And she did. didn't really like me from the jump. When I first met her, it was like six or seven of us all going over to her house around Christmas time. And I walked in and I thought one of Amber's cousins was directly behind me, but they had turned back to go to the car. So I left the door open thinking that they were walking right behind me and they didn't come in for another five minutes. And the

first time I meet this woman, she accuses me of being raised in a barn, but not like, Like, not in the, like. We're trying to do. Hating a hole outside. She was trying to do. A real bitch about it. It wasn't like, oh, honey, were you raising a barn? Like, it was, it was rough.

And would not. I don't have for them. No, I know, but, like, she wouldn't even accept the fact that, like, clearly I didn't just mean to leave a door open. I thought there was. But so from the jump, she just didn't really like me. And she was kind of a surly old gal. Well, her Facebook. Nothing but an open door queer.

That's where he is. I mean. Yeah, pretty much what she thought. So one of our favorite pastimes as cousins, the Iowa cousins and me and Amber were all in a big text chain together was sharing screenshots of J-J-J-J-J-J-PAT on Facebook because she did not know how it went. The stereotypical, like she would post a status thinking it was her searching for something.

You know what I'm saying? And just all sorts of shit like that. that and she would just like every now and then she would have a post that was like cancel facebook cancel google like she was trying to cancel like subscriptions and stuff just by posting them as comments and shit and she had no idea what was going on she also very stereotypically didn't know uh that the crying laughing emoji was for laughing and she would post it on like obituaries and shit so like just all sorts of just yeah right yeah yeah that's a classic one there all of that all of that my best friend and brie

bridge partner just died today crying laughing yeah yeah she would do all of that shit and so from that and from our group messages we had like been you know told by comedy central we want y'all to write another thing i didn't really have that much of an idea and then i just started thinking i was like i don't know i think it's because i grew up loving saturday night live and they had so many great commercial parodies but i was like oh what if what if there was a device that we could give someone like g pat to plug into her Facebook and it would translate all her lunacy and make it appear like she knew what the fuck she was talking about. And that ended up being, well, how can we take this and make it kind of about actually

what's going on in the work? Because we, you know, our group has to have at least kind of a political band for, not for me to like it, but for people to want to buy it from us. And so it turned into what if this was a boomer translator for people going on. you know, anti-Semitic, anti-socialist tirades on Facebook and it would make it to where them and their grandkids could still have a relationship. Yeah.

And how's the response to end of that? Here's the deal. Now, I do a, now you know that like, I know when I say this, I've got to preface it by saying, I don't mean on Twitter, because I know you're about to say, motherfucker, you check comments all the time. On YouTube stuff, I don't. The only reason that I check comments on,

like social media is because engagement is such a thing that you need in order to like, you know, push stuff and sell tickets and you, I just kind of want to monitor like, oh, this person said Knoxville. Hey, buddy, I'm going to be in Knoxville, Marchfield. But YouTube stuff, none of that's really, that's not really a thing. It's not a social thing. It's just a comment section where people shit on you. So I haven't looked at one comment on either of the videos.

All I know is screen grabs that people have sent to us. that I'm pretty sure you know the same that I do on these. Yeah, which they, what's the, what's the tenor of those? The last couple, and these are all Drew sending us these, are people, boomers, saying basically coming in with the not all boomers shit. That basically like I, this is a,

this is a long running thing with us because like, to be fair, we're aware of that we have a lot of like boomer age fans a whole lot to come to our shows and stuff and they're like good liberals and everything and they get defensive when we talk shit about boomers and it's been going on for forever me and mark run into it on skews oh i'm sure the time dude and every time we always say every time we're like listen we're we are not in no way are we implying that everyone who is this age acts this way but just making fun of a thing that does happen with people who are,

who are this age. And it's like to me, it's literally no different than what we do with our like redneck material or redneck sketches where we're making fun of redneck shit. And, you know, of course. And I feel like no one has a problem with that. Like people don't,

you know, no one looks at that and they're like, you know, you guys are really implying that all rednecks are that way. And it's like, because they know, of course we're not. because that's our whole thing.

Right. So of course we know that not all rednecks are fucking Bible thumping triglydeics in my own parlance. We are those people who prove that. But there's plenty of people, by the way, that share our shit that do not know that about us and probably do think that we are just straight up making fun of rednecks and it hits for them. And they share it and they're like, boom, fuck that, you know. But I'm saying some of those are boomers who know who knows. ever once would be like, this ain't how all rednecks are. I don't know why these guys are doing that, to

your point. But it's like, and this is maybe a more extreme analogy, but it's like, you know, when, like I remember in one of my videos and other people have said this too, but it was like early in the Trump era or whatever. It's like, listen, I know that objectively speaking, not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist. I know that's true. But every racist that voted, voted for Trump. Trump. You know what I mean? Like, Trump is the official candidate of hardcore racist. Right.

You can like him and not be racist, but like, don't try to act like that ain't what it is. You know what I mean? And so it's a similar thing where it's like, if you're talking about people being, you know, dumb and confused on the internet, not understanding how it works. Of course, we know that plenty of older people are not that way. But it's a thing with older people, you know. And being also like. casually homophobic or you know or uh not entirely woke about stuff literally and figuratively you know it's like that's just those things are all real things and we're making fun of them but it

it's never the implication is never meant to be every one of these people is exactly like this like i mean of course not i feel like you shouldn't have to say that about any piece of like sketch comedy or stand-up material or whatever of course No one's ever implying. Well, we didn't even say it in the sketch. The sketch was about a papaw and mamaw, these two characters. You know what I mean? It wasn't, the character's name wasn't every old man in America and every old woman in America.

That wasn't, it was these two people and do not act like those two people do not fucking exist. And a lot of the comments too was, this was a really hilarious one that Drew got. That was, it started off with the, uh, not, Not all boomers are like this. I'm not like this. Sure, my husband is all the people I went to high school with and everyone at my church is. So basically it was just like, hey, I'm not this way. So, and it's like, right.

So you shouldn't these, if you're not this way, then you shouldn't feel attacked by it, basically is what it boils down to, which is like the argument I always made with critical race theory. The reason I don't have a problem with critical race theory being taught is because I go, yeah, it's not really affecting any of my core beliefs. So fuck it, let it rip. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I don't know.

Again, it's been an ongoing thing with us, and I don't know how many times we have to, you know, say that over and over again. But the other thing that I'll say about- Well, we could just not. I just want to say it. That's true. You're right.

That is true. The other thing I'll say about it is that it's not, the jokes in that sketch are not, exclusively pointed at the boomers either. Like, there's, like, jokes in there about the younger generation. You know what I mean? The fucking last, the literal last line I had Drew Deliver was my way of being like, hey, man, you should still respect these people.

They've been through a lot for you. There's a reason that maybe it's been harder for them to come around on some stuff. Like, the last line was literally like, I just want to be able to talk to my pinko, commie, liberal grandkids, and have them hear it from my point of view as someone who, uh, fucking worked four jobs in two cities over four goddamn decades and gave up on his

fucking dreams to provide a better life for them. I did, I mean, that's fucking on the nose. Like it's, you know what I mean? Like it just says that and I did that because I was like, I want everyone else to go,

oh, that's true. You know what I mean? Like they're old and they've been through a lot and fucking maybe talk to them different. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, there was one comment, too, that was something like, this is spot on for the current generation. And then the comment under that was like, yeah, and for boomers too, or maybe vice versa.

And it's like, you know, I couldn't be entirely sure, but I felt like at least one of those people interpreted the sketch as us, like, making more fun of the younger people. Good. You know what I mean? That's fine. No, we weren't. But I'm glad they thought that because I did have it peppered in there. I mean, at first it says, this way you'll be. able to talk to your pansy-ass grandkids i know right i'm saying all those lines like that they're

meant tongue-in-cheek of course but i think that some people may watch it and just be like yeah it is hard to talk to them you know for the record i bet it is that's why that's why i put that last line in there yeah it is funny um but yeah now and then mine the premise of mine is that this and i i knew this would happen and i get it completely but like people are um it's not meant to live literally be me and it's definitely not meant to be Corey and Drew in the sketch that part I was like not worried about but like Corey and Drew play like redneck ass old boy cousins of mine from Salinas so they're not at all playing themselves we just had our same names because fuck it well I thought they we changed that didn't we uh Drew was definitely drew in the sketch for sure like in the final

cut yeah yeah when did he get called drew did I call him Drew uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah When Alexa talks, which is one of the funniest parts of the sketch in my opinion, my own very biased opinion, originally she called y'all Corey and Drew, and I had them change that to the boys. So now it says the boys on it because I was trying to, but I guess I missed at least one instance. We called in that while filming it, but I remember even while we were filming it, I remember saying to you guys and to everybody, I was like, don't use each other's names. You're like, you don't say because I was trying to not have that happen, but maybe I missed one. I don't know. I mean, dude, it's totally fine.

It's bullshit that we can't just play the sketch here without getting flagged on YouTube since it's our goddamn sketch. But I know we can't. Right. Yeah, it would be an automatic thing. But anyway, the character that I play is a version of myself is from rural Tennessee and now lives in California and his cousins are coming to visit from back home and they're real rednecky. And so he's a shame. and is trying to hide all the California shit that he has assimilated into. And it unravels immediately.

I felt, you know, I felt pretty good about it. But the inspiration for that sketch was just like, I don't, I haven't really adopted very many super California things. I mean, I got a Peloton bike.

I'll do yoga now and then. But I ain't like, I'm not that. You were pretty queer for you left. Exactly. Right. I haven't really changed all that much. in my opinion.

But still, like, I would, when I would go back home and visit with my high school buddies and stuff, there would be, like, little elements, like, for, I remember one time, and I think I've told this story before, but, like, my buddy Kobe, who's an awesome dude, but he's, like, probably my most red-ass good friend. But, but, uh, here's how I know Kobe's your most red-ass friend because his name comes up in your act more than anyone's. And he's my go-to. Yeah.

Even when I'm telling a story that ain't about Kobe, I just, I just think his. name just so redneck right yeah so anyway but this is a real conversation and coby was telling me this pretty amazing story honestly about his daughter's first hunting trip she was like nine or ten at the time and my sons were like four and five or something like that and it was her first hunting trip and she got she killed a deer she bagged one and he told this story and it was like real heartfelt and touching the way he told it it was like it clearly meant a lot to him because she like nailed it and he was so proud and all this stuff. And then like at the end of it,

I was just like, yeah, Bishop's a vegetarian for moral reasons. Which is true. But like I just, so like shit like that. And I thought it was funny the idea of like, we like flipping things on their head and people in California, the thing that typically happens, if a Southerner moves to California,

you know, you try to hide the fact that your redneck, that your redneck from the rest of the cat, you come here, you lose your accent. You're like, like Mark told us the other day, he met some dude walking his dog and he asked him where he's from. And he said the guy very sheepishly was like,

well, I'm from Alabama. You know, like he was like embarrassed about it. That's normally the direction it goes. So I thought it was funny flipping it on its head, you know, and having the guy be embarrassed of all the California shit

because of his like redneck background or whatever. So that's sort of the premise of that. But yeah, if y'all haven't seen them, you should watch them both. Feel good about how they turned out. And watch all the old ones, too. They also hit. Yeah, they do hit. And, no, I mean, I relate to that sketch, too, still living in Georgia for the record.

Just being on the tour that we're on and the fact that we're, you know, a little successful, I still get called Hollywood living here. Of course, yeah. But then when I come out to Hollywood, I'm fucking, I'm a redneck, you know. So, like. Yeah, right. That's another thing. Yeah, that I've talked. Man without a country thing.

You know, we talked about that a lot. Yeah, talked about it a lot. I've mentioned it on stage before. I've thought about going into more detail on it in a bit or something. But, yeah, it's like everything's all relative. Like, I know when I first went viral and stuff, I knew there was some dudes that I went to school with who were kind of like, you know, talking shit somewhat to Thompson or whatever,

saying things like, like, dude, fucking Trey. Everybody knew Trey was the least redneck motherfucker in our whole school, you know, or whatever. And it's like, the thing is. in my friend group absolutely. Right. Like I was objectively. But what they don't understand is that was Salina, Tennessee. Right.

Just by virtue of having grown up with them in that place at that time in most of the rest of the fucking country, including like Knoxville. Where we're going to be March 5th, by the way, at the Beesu Theater. Yes, the Bees U Theater. Marchfield. Get your tickets. Please come see us, Knoxville. Well, red comedy.com. But like I'm the most country-ass redneck seeming motherfucker.

Most of those people deal with on a day-to-day basis. Like in my old office job in Knoxville, people commented all the time. Other people from like the Knoxville area or from other parts of the south would, you know, comment on my accent and shit. And dude, out here in Southern California, oh my God. So like it's all just, it's all relative, you know, and it is based on just, you know, individual perception or whatever. What did you say a minute ago? The man, yeah.

So, you know, we are sort of men without a country in a way, which is fine. Because I never felt like I fit in in Salina either, you know. I know, me either here. But I don't at all feel like I fit in out here either. And you don't. I've always been a misfit. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm definitely, I've grown to accept it. Like I said, it's a big part of my whole deal.

As I was saying, like, you need to stick out, not fit in. You know, the second you blend in, you, kind of, and this doesn't, this is no offense, but like you lose part of your whole goddamn thing. Yeah, the other night at the bar, our buddy Irvine, who's been on the show before, very tubular dude. Super tubular. Was in town for like a week, so we all got together at a bar, me, him and Drew and his buddy Ben, and we were just like hanging out or whatever, and some chick comes up to us about our age.

And she's like, I'm sorry, where are you guys from talking to me and Drew? Me, mostly, I had been screaming, of course, you know, like. Got what? football no it literally there was a jukebox plan so there was music so i was like i have to elevate my voice but when i elevate my voice yeah it's bad even it's like really loud and has the accent to go with it so she heard me she come over and asked where i'm from i said tennessee and she said she was originally from texas and then she went in this whole thing she just could not believe she was like so how long have you been here and i said i've been here for like five years now and

she was like he's like what but you still you still have that accent and i was like yeah Yeah. She was like, what do you do with it? She was like, you're not working on that or whatever. And I was like, and I was like, no. You know, and she was like, you're just going to, you don't think you're ever going to just lose it. And I was like, no, not at this point. And Drew, I wasn't going to say nothing about it, but Drew finally mentioned he was like, that we're comedians. Yeah.

He told her, he was like, you know, it's kind of like, that's like a big part of our whole thing. So I think he's fine, you know. but she just couldn't wrap her head around the idea that someone would like not go out. But also it's hard for people like that make it sound like when you're from the South and you move out here, it just gradually just goes away. Yeah. I mean, it does for some. I know. I mean, I guess it does to a certain extent.

I just know that I would have, I would have to like actively pursue making that happen. Fuck that. In order for that to happen to me. I just know I would. Maybe after fucking 20 plus years. Maybe, but, no, and here's why, because you're in a job where you're always performing as yourself. And also, on a daily basis, you talk to me and Drew and all you boys from back home. Like, these people, they go in and they don't talk to their mama for a whole goddamn week because they're so busy working on the lot trying to get ahead.

And they only talk to other fucking California types. So, like, I get it to a certain degree. like, you know, I can be around Matt Lajesky in Jersey for 30 minutes and I'm talking Jersey a little bit. I could see if I moved to New Jersey and wasn't doing comedy and wasn't talking to my boys back home regular or doing a podcast every week with a bunch of rednecks and I just isolated myself there. After 10 years, I would definitely still sound like a redneck to them. But when I came home, everybody would be like, oh, wow, you've kind of lost your accent. But yeah, by virtue of the fact that you are always performing as you, like, why the fuck would you want to? Honestly, I think mine has gotten a little bit worse since the tour started.

Yeah, yeah, maybe. I don't know. I just realized which probably should take a break real quick, shouldn't we? We should. Let's take a break real quick. Okay. And we're back? We are back.

Yeah, no, I don't know. I mean, yeah, dude, I'm not. I mean, again, I also kind of get it. know the idea is like, listen, you got to get, you're trying to get out here and get a job and get it. You're going to need to get rid of that accent, but it's completely different for me and for us, for all the reasons we already named, you know, but, but I don't fault anybody who felt like they needed to do it.

I don't either, but I just know how I am. And I know it's easy for me to say, because I am a comedian. And this is a huge part of my whole thing, but I've got such a chip on my shoulder, a lifelong chip on my shoulder about it. I do not think that I personally would be any different, even. if I wasn't a comedian because I would be so like, again, I'd have, I'd be so defiant about it that I would just refuse to lose my accent either way. But I, but I don't blame people, I don't blame people who do that either. No, I mean, hell, their college professors literally told

them to. And some of them weren't being dickheads. As I'm sure that there were some Southern professors that were like, hey, listen, just letting you know, I'm not telling you it's right. I'm just telling you how the world works. And that's fucking true. Like, it's not right. I hate, hell, I wrote a whole thing today at Corey Wrightsfor You.com, by the way, where you can subscribe and get newsletters every week. I wrote a whole thing today on this lady calling me out for not having a good vocabulary. And that is something I'm kind of sensitive to because, like, if I didn't sound the way I sounded, nobody would bring that up as much.

But because I sound the way I sound, every little tiny thing is, oh, he must be a goddamn idiot, you know. So, again, it's, it just is the way the world is. you ain't going to change how society feels about this accent. You just got to either be us who were like, fuck it, I'm going to be, you know, defiant. Or you got to be like, I want my life to be easier. So I'm just going to kind of adopt the mid-Atlantic accent. Yeah, like I remember one time early on in stand up because I was a house MC at sidesplitters in Knoxville.

And the feature act, who was this guy from Florida whose name I genuinely don't remember, but you probably ran into him a time or two. When we first met or whatnot, he was. that, you know, he asked me about my day job or something and I told him. Tall, bald guy? No, he wasn't bald. He was tall, very tall, but not bald at all. He had like a pretty big head of hair.

Not long, but I'm saying, like, he had hair. And, uh, anyway, he'd ask me like what my day job was because, you know, I'm the fucking emcee. And I told him I worked for the, I was a contracting officer for the U.S. Department of Energy. And he was like, I said that and he was like, holy shit. He's like, they didn't hear your fucking accent and turn you away at the door or something like that and I was just like I was like well no because they also saw my fucking GPA and

ac t score and got over it pretty goddamn quick yeah because I've got they saw that I had two degrees and a 4.0 and all like I just got all up in his face about it yeah whatever and he was just like but you could just so I'm saying I've always like that that whole thing I've just always had that in fucking spades you know that's kind of fucked up coming from a comic to be honest with you because dude he was doing it all weekend he was like doing it on stage and And it never really landed because we're in Knoxville. And also I had done, I always did well. I was funny.

So like they had liked me. We're in Knoxville. I've got that. But he'd get up there and like fucking try to make cracks and shit about my accent and stuff. And again, like yeah, you're in Knoxville. It's not playing.

Dude kept doing it. Yeah, he just kept that. He was doing that shit all weekend. It's so funny. The dude did not hit for me if you can. In his mind, he didn't think like the whole audience was like, you know you're talking about us,

right, buddy. Right. Yeah. But I said that as fucked up as him was comedian, my point was is that I know and you know that all comics are not brilliant but we definitely all like to

pretend we are. You know what I'm saying? So like you would think that in his mind he would be like, well yeah, you're a comedian so clearly you're a smart person. Why wouldn't you work for the DOE? Because that's how my brain would work. I'd be like, yeah, if you can do this you can fucking do anything. So why wouldn't you do that? Well, yeah, but this dude was just one

of those people that was on it. All of that was completely totally overridden by my accent. Yeah, I guess. And how he interpreted it. Like, yeah. He heard my accent and he and his head, he was like, this guy is a fucking dip shit, dude.

Yeah. You know, he couldn't process that I wasn't, no matter how many times I sort of illustrated that for him over the weekend, you know. Right. But some people just be like that. No, dude, it's, uh, I mean, goddamn, you know, the fucking, you know, lady in San Francisco asking you how you got to college and it's, uh, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a double edge sword.

because, like, it is awesome in a way for us. Yeah, right. It's a huge cheat code. Yeah, right. Because that's like, yeah, it's like, oh, my God, I say a big word and people are like, oh, my God. Yeah. It's great.

Like, because the bar is so low. It's, dude, it's. When you have this accent. It's insanely low. Like, I'll write something and I'll put it out there and people are like, oh, my God, dude. I mean, this is fucking like, this is like Faulkner level shit. And it's just. just because the video that I'd posted before was me shirtless screaming,

so they're comparing the two. And they're like, oh, wow, range, you know. But it's like, if I had just decided to be a writer, I'm not good enough for anyone to think that I'm fucking brilliant. But because of the other shit and the accent, they're not expecting it. So here you get. So again, like, I really don't want it to go away in a way. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. No. And it won't. Don't worry about it. Yeah. I'm, you're 100% right. Like, we're fucking, we're sitting here complaining about it and everything, but it definitely is like a hugely important part of what we do.

You know why we're complaining about it, Trey? It's because we care about other people besides ourselves. That's right. You know what I mean? It's not just on them other poor rednecks out there. That's what I'm saying. But like, yeah, for me personally, you know, it's working out. It's working out okay.

But yeah, like we've made, like, I feel like the South has had, this is fuck. I can't say this now because, you know, you can't discount the four years of Trump and how much that set the South back again. But what with Georgia Turning Blue and Stacey Abrams and a lot of stuff going on, we have had kind of a moment. You know, Dolly is still out there showing out for us. You know, we've had some good moments, but it is always three steps back.

All I'm saying is... Because, again, and we both, fucking, I think, addressed this online at the time. But, like, that did happen, but, like, you... using Georgia specifically as an example. That happened with Georgia going blue and everybody was jerking Georgia off for a minute. For literally two weeks. I was about saying it was like a month or so later, the Republican state level people in Georgia started passing these voter suppression laws. And all of a sudden, all these same people who have been jerking Georgia off were now be like, boycott Georgia.

Everybody get the fuck out of Georgia. Fuck Georgia. You know, and that whole thing. It's like you just already completely forgot about like all those people that flip Georgia blue. like they're still there and this don't hit for them either and everybody everybody just went straight to you know fucking sanction them leave punish them fuck them because it's just the i don't know there's just so much baggage still there that like when something good does happen everybody's like oh this is noteworthy but then it doesn't really buy any long term goodwill or anything

like no it doesn't to be fair because the states then turn right around and do some fucking They do. They do. And I'm no goddamn Polly Sye major or no anything at all in general. But in my opinion, when a state, Georgia is now like a swing state, which is insane. That's crazy to say out loud. I genuinely didn't know that I'd see that in my lifetime. That's bizarre and awesome.

But Georgia flips blue in the 2020 election. Yay, everybody's great. Oh, Warnock. Awesome. Awesome. Oh, Stacey Abrams is going to make. a run. And then the voter suppression thing, the abortion thing, and everybody's like, fuck them, let's pull all our money, boycott all the movies. To me, that's a real good way to make

sure it goes red next time, in my opinion. You know what I know? And I don't know how, for sure. It's so hard to say, I don't want to just say, hey, ignore it all. It doesn't matter. Give us a pass. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying, like, as you said, when we first started the tour, long before COVID, which is so hard for me to even remember a time when we were touring and that wasn't even a thing. But people were like, are y'all going to actually tour in North Carolina, you know, because of the bathroom bill? And you were like, yeah, because the people that voted for that bill are not coming to our show.

And why the fuck would we punish the good people of that state who won't entertain? It's not their goddamn fault. Right. Like, that's insane. That's criminal. It doesn't help anybody, in my opinion. And for the record, why don't, like, they're like, I'm not even going to drive through Georgia. I'm going to drive six hours all the way up just so I don't leave the fucking country then because it's all America.

You know what I mean? Like what the fuck, dude? Like at the end of the day, this is America you clearly don't like. And I get it. I'm just saying don't fucking act like you can annex one little part and feel good about yourself and jack your little Democrat dick off. It don't work like that. When you said driving around Georgia, you meant they were like boycotting it, right? Yeah, I saw.

It's also a thing that like people don't, they just like worry about literally driving through. southern states and stuff like that. And like, listen, if you're black, I get it. If you're talking about black people and for a long time, sundown towns and all that. I mean, I get it. For sure. I've met plenty of white liberals and stuff who would talk about like it's a harrowing

experience. And I'm saying like, dude, I don't think there's very many states in this country that you can drive across the rural stretches of and not feel like you. That don't have a lot of the exact same things going on. I know for a fact that it's not. Matter of fact, did you watch the show Lovecraft Country on HBO. Yeah, sure. I didn't, you know, I still have two episodes left because it's one that my wife bailed on. So they, um, I really dug that show, but like one thing they showed was like,

um, how it back in the day in the 50s and stuff like that, like, it wasn't safe for black people to travel like anywhere. Like I don't, the show takes place in like, I don't know, New York or, somewhere up north, I can't remember, but like there's sun downtowns and it's a problem and it ain't safe. Chicago for some reason. Maybe it might be, you might be right. It might be right. It It might be up there. But it's in the north somewhere. Yeah. And there's like sundown towns and it ain't safe for people to be there.

And also the Perry Mason reboot on HBO showed how insanely fucking racist Los Angeles was in like the 20s or whatever. Because I'm just saying I feel like people like that people feel like all of that shit was just relegated to the South alone at that time. When it's like, no, the whole goddamn country was horrifically racist. The Green Book wasn't written just for the South. Right, yeah, still is in a lot of places. But it, that sentiment carries forward into like the modern day where they think it's like, oh, we're fine here. Right. The problem is there.

Yeah. And it's like, we have a problem there. Sure. But like, it's problems everywhere. And it just makes it the South's an easy scapegoat and makes it easy for people to sort of overlook their own shit in their own backyard. I mean, yeah. No, I know that's, dude, the people love just, you know, I always say Connecticut, and please, if you're listening, I don't have anything against Connecticut.

It's just the most area dot goddamn state I can think of and thus the best example. But I feel like, you know, people in Connecticut do look at the South and be like, well, you know, at least like you said, we're good. You know, it's not our problem. It's all them down there. So then they can just kind of be lazy and not do a goddamn thing and feel good about themselves. Like they're a better person just for simply living not in the South. And for the record, I wasn't talking about a person not wanting to drive through it for being scared. And like you said, I would totally understand black people doing that.

Roy Wood, you used to have that great bit about how he doesn't want rebel flags to go away because that's how he knows what gas station not to stop at. To not go to. What I'm talking about is this woman, back to comments, this woman made a comment on something I did on Twitter. And to preface this, she thought she was endearing herself to me as they often do. That happens all the time. Yeah, she told me that she had to go somewhere and the route takes her through Georgia, but she decided to take an alternate route that took her three extra hours just because she didn't even want to give the state of Georgia gas money. And I just,

and she was, and like, I don't remember what she said. She went through Tennessee instead, because I'm going to tell you right now. It ain't better. It ain't no fucking better. Right. Well, it's just Georgia. was in fact. Georgia was the pinata of the week, you know.

Right. Yeah, right. But she said all that in a very like, look at me, Corey, aren't you going to be proud of me? And I called her a fucking idiot. You know, I was like, you didn't do anything. You didn't like, number one, you just spent three extra hours of your life to do nothing.

Congratulations. And B, at very best, yeah, you didn't give tax money to some people that probably could have used it and aren't assholes, you know, maybe we're fine, you know. I don't know. just I'm from here, so it's easy for me to say, but that just don't fucking help and is stupid and is personally offensive to me. Yeah, I mean, right. I mean, I live in L.A. now, but yeah, I just always think about like, you know, when I lived in Tennessee, if Tennessee was doing some dumb shit, I still wanted to be able to go to a show or whatever.

Of course. I would have felt like I was being punished for the dipshits around me. Yeah, and I would have been, right? And I just don't because I just, so whenever that whole thing comes back up, I just don't fuck with that, that notion whatsoever because it just, I just ain't with that, you know. Yeah, and I don't really give a fuck how people feel. Of course, I think we've made that, we've made our case on that pretty clear before.

But like, it just doesn't, I mean, dude, again, every single stop on our tour, no matter what state it's in, if you give me 20 minutes and Google, I can figure out one state representative from that district that did some fucked up shit. So what? I can't go to Wisconsin now. You ain't saying shit about Wisconsin? You think everything's fine in Wisconsin? Shut the fuck up.

Yeah, for sure. I had one other thing. I don't know how long this will go, but if you want to switch gears a little bit. Sure. You want to take a break real quick? Yeah, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.

I feel like you might maybe have some insight into this because your dad and what he does for a little. because this is like a marketing sort of question, but it's like a grand scale marketing question. And I've thought about this type of thing before. But so apparently Pepsi has decided to no longer sponsor the Super Bowl halftime show. You know, it's been the Pepsi Super Bowl halftime show for a long time now. Yeah.

Well, they're, that's a big fucking deal. They're pulling out of that. And so the NFL will find a new sponsor and it's going to call it. It was, it's $50 million a year. Of course, they'll probably bid it out so it could go up at this point. but Pepsi paid $50 million a year. And so, look, I know it's the fucking Super Bowl. I get that.

But I always wonder with brands. That's all it is is $50 million. Yeah, but so with brand, and I know Pepsi's got, they got it like that. Yeah, of course. They're Pepsi, but that's part of my larger point is like, with a brand as ubiquitous as Pepsi, it's like, are they getting $50 million worth of return out of that one particular, like marketing ploy because like people it's not like a movie trailer or something where people see it and they're like oh shit i got to know they made that that looks good it's like it's Pepsi

like Pepsi's everywhere you either drink it or you don't i know you have to spend on marketing and shit i get that you have to do that and i know that it's like a cumulative effect of the whole thing for brand recognition or whatever but it just seems like are they like how many people ever and i guess they'd say it subconsciously, but have watched the Super Bowl halftime show and then went, you know what, I want a fucking Pepsi right now. Like, I feel like you either fuck with Pepsi or you don't or you're in the store and you're looking at sodas and you're like, you know what sounds good? Pepsi.

Pepsi. Because everybody already knows what Pepsi is. Yeah. So like when they got a new flavor, when they got a new, you know, hotness. They're dropping. That's like a movie trailer. I get that. But just Pepsi in general, I don't know.

It's kind of, I just don't. It seems, the whole thing seems. seems kind of weird to me. Because everybody knows what Pepsi is already. I've never thought about it with Pepsi in the halftime show, but I definitely have thought about it just with Coke in general and how much advertising they do all the time. Because I'm like, dude, it's fucking Coke.

Coke is Mickey Mouse. You know what I mean? Right, yeah, right. But then at the same time, Mickey Mouse is Mickey Mouse, and they shove that shit down my throat all the time too. So I don't know, man. I guess we just don't really have a good sense of like, first off, Super Bowl, I mean, how many eyes are on that?

like 80 million people. Or more. Yeah. Actually, it's definitely more because I think 80 million was like who what's the I think it's like over a hundred million. Yeah, and it's global shit. And I don't know, man. I really, I really don't. I mean, obviously those people are not in the business of just throwing away fucking money.

Right. You know, like clearly they're not. And it's just one of those like. Also, they've chosen to stop this year. Right. You know what I mean? But yeah, no, it's like people like that, they don't, they don't just. spend money if they don't have data that suggests that it's working for them or whatever.

But I guess it's just to keep it in everybody's mind. I know, but it's so maybe there are people that like normally we're going to go get some soda and they might have defaulted to Coke, but they just seen the Pepsi halftime show and they're like, ah, blue box, I'll grab it. I don't know. You walk in, you walk in grocery stores, you see billboards and stuff and like print ads or big posters or big like signs and stuff for Coke and Pepsi and brands like that that are like physical ads.

that are put up in the world. Yeah. Like those I totally get because it does, it does just make a person go like, oh shit. Oh, right on. Good right now? A Pepsi. But that costs $50 million.

And I'm in the store. I get why they put their shit up everywhere in that way for that reason. But yeah, but like big elaborate ad campaigns and stuff, I don't know. It just seems weird to me. But again, obviously they do something or everybody wouldn't be,

wouldn't be doing it, you know, but just an ad. just for some big super expensive ad for just straight up. This is for Pepsi. Not, not new Pepsi, not new Pepsi orange vanilla that's coming out.

Just fucking just Pepsi. You know, it's like, I don't know, I've just always thought like, what's that doing? Yeah, no,

again, I've thought about it with the Coke all the time. Like, who's not fucking getting Coke? Like, Coke is just, like, Coke exact same thing,

like in my head. Like, I feel the exact same way about Coke, too, you know, but I don't know. Okay, top three, I'll give you mine. Top three predictions for who is going to take over the Super Bowl halftime show.

I'll give you my top three right off the top of my dome. Number one, Allstate, okay? Insurance is a perfect, they actually would benefit from that shit because that's not a Pepsi Coke thing. That is a thing where a bunch of people are sitting there watching it. It's the beginning of the year. A lot of people's insurance has lapsed. They're about to have to find somebody new. Allstate.

Oh, what a great deal. Didn't Aaron Rogers one of their guy? He fucking don't believe in COVID. Right on. So Allstate's my number one. My number two is meta or Facebook, as it were. They've got the money. They are currently kind of taking a bath on some shit because they've had some bad press, right?

So they need to get their stocks back up. Some big exposure like that. You know, they're hitting their target, you know, which is all of them and a lot of older people. Of course, that's not the target demo, I guess, for the halftime show.

That's, so that's number two. My dark horse is Bitcoin or a, yeah, or a dark horse was crypto.com. Yeah, crypto.com. They're,

I was going to, yeah, I was going to name them the dark horse too. And then the mainstream, I would say like, Geico and I don't know, the United States Army, probably.

Walmart. Yeah. Would make sense. Yeah, it would. Crypto, if I'm not mistaken, crypto.com actually already bought the naming rights for the fucking Staples Center in L.A. It's wild too.

See, that's another kind of wild thing to think about when it comes to shit like this because the Staples Center, that's the fucking office supply chain. How has it been the Staples Center? But it's like, it's also just the Staples Center. It's been the Staples Center for so long. People just call it the Staples.

Like, I mean, I live in L.A. I've been. to the Staples Center. I don't... You don't even think about the... The store. Yeah. I just think about that's the name of that place.

You know what I mean? Some of them are more in your face about it. Like it's more obvious, you know, like fucking Nissan. Matt Life Stadium. Yeah. Yeah. Like, but like something like that. I feel like that's hard to quantify how much that is worth.

You know what I'm saying? Especially again, when it becomes like just the name of a place and people aren't thinking about it. that way at all anymore. But anyway, Staples Center, I think, is like the fucking crypto dome now or some shit. I mean, honestly, I can't believe that it's taken this long for Staples to lose that shit just because, like,

dude, Staples and, like, places like Radio Shack and shit and Office Depot, they are not doing, well, first off, Radio Shack's gone. But, like, Office Depot and them, they are not doing good right now because of Amazon and because of all sorts of other things. I saw a thing the other day that, like, apparently when you go to somebody went to a staples or an office depot and was like looking at

certain products and like taking pictures of their prices and then go going and showing the same exact thing on amazon and dude we're not talking about like a 10% 20% markup we're talking about something on amazon that was 1099 was like two grand at staples and i started reading about it And it was basically, they were like, yeah, they know most people aren't going to fall for it, but somebody might, and that will cover their nut for all the other shit that they're not selling. Because they assume someone now going into Staples is probably in a pinch. They're like, oh, shit, I've got to get this thing and I need it right now. So they're like, we can pretty much just make it whatever.

If they were smart, they would have fucking went to Amazon and got it. They wouldn't be in Staples. That's wild. But yeah, like I can't remember what it. It was like an Ethernet cord or something. that was like $1,000 at fucking Staples. And like I got that same one for like 20 bucks. You know, same exact one.

Yeah, but I don't know, man. I don't know how you, I don't know how you quantify that shit. Like you clearly aren't able to. Like you can't, because it's not like people walk into a store and go, how'd you hear about Pepsi? Oh, Super Bowl.

Likeers guy. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. And I'm sure that Pepsi is about to have, though, the actual data on the first year that they don't do it, you know, if they see a decline around February,

March, then they're going to be like, oh, shit, I guess we should have done that. Yeah, right. But it was,

but they're so huge and so everywhere. And they got, I'm sure their overall marketing budget is so massive that it's like, it could be, you know, the numbers could, who knows what it depends on all the other things that they've done too, you know what I mean, like in that

time frame. Do you think anybody at Pepsi still has a dream of being number one? Like, do you think anybody there? I hope not. I mean, you got... I don't know why. That's a pretty high level of line yourself, in my opinion. But like, you got to hire someone with that attitude,

right? Wait a minute. Didn't for like a brief period of time, didn't that actually happen? A long time ago, I mean. When coat changed their formula, I think. Is that what it was? Okay. I don't know. But all I'm saying is, Just thinking of what it literally almost would have had to have been was when Coke went to new Coke. You know what I mean? And like there's a reason that they went right back to fucking regular Coke.

But like it, it's almost impossible for me to think of them taking over Coke unless it was, yeah, this new Coke don't hit no more. I wish we had a fucking producer right now. I'm trying to look it up right now. I guess it's like. And that was like the 80s and 90s, right? I'm about saying in 1983. Michael Jackson. At 1983, Pepsi was outselling Coke in supermarkets and whatnot.

So I thought there was a time in the 80s where Pepsi kind of did it. I guess Coke had fallen off briefly or whatever. But I mean, nowadays, you know. Hold on. For the most part, it's been just coke all away. While you're here, Google, when Pepsi started doing the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Because Pepsi had a big deal with Michael Jackson. Remember when his goddamn hair caught on fire?

That was during a Pepsi halftime Super Bowl. that was 83 and that's the year that they took them over and that's why they've kept doing the Super Bowl this whole time because they're like, it got us here, you know, you can't deny it. We started doing the Super Bowl and we out sold Coke and then of course Coke put out a new banging Santa Claus commercial and like they were back on. What are you saying? According to this, Pepsi's been the presenting sponsor for the halftime show since 2013. That's it.

So not even 10 years. Yeah. It's why. Man, I really thought I was on to something. What's wild how quickly these things sort of take over in your mind. You know what I mean? I'm asking for nine Super Bowls. Thinking about, I know.

And I'm saying, and in my head, it's like, I can't even remember when it wasn't Pepsi. But, like, clearly I can't remember those games. I don't, I have no, like, when Justin Timberlake was pulling tities out, who was, who was doing that shit? Like, did they have the same one forever? Super Bowl halftime show, sponsors. Amazon, by the way, might be the Super Bowl show. Yeah, that would definitely make sense. that would check smooth out.

Or Elon Tesla, you know, Tesla could do it. These are none of my hopes for the record, although I don't really know how it would change anything. It's not like, were you in a thread the other day when I told you that I found out that the performers don't get paid and actually put up the money for their halftime show? I did actually know that already,

and that is so wild. It's one of those things that's like, it kind of makes sense when you, you know, think about it, but it also still is bullshit because if anybody can afford it as the fucking of course yeah for people that don't know the NFL doesn't pay the halftime performers at all matter of fact they don't even the halftime performers have to pay out of pocket to put on the halftime show and they all willingly do it because it's just like

it's a long-running sort of joke in the creative world about getting paid and exposure yeah and I think Snoop Dog got paid an exposure yeah but the Super Bowl's like you know that's about as exposed as exposure gets know that but think about this though think about this though back when just and timberlake did the super bowl all right this is like early 2000s see i don't remember that was it good how'd that go when timberlake did it it's pretty good yeah okay it was all right check that out yeah i'll we'll send a clip later i'll show you i'll love there's a good one i look forward to saying how that panned out yeah it was all right and uh and and and he got in just

as much trouble as the gal, you know, it was a whole thing. So, um, when, though, when Justin Timberlake was on there, physical CD copies were still very much a thing and selling great, you know. Now you're like, oh yeah, well, Snoop and Dre and all them, like, you know, their album went to number one on iTunes the next day, but like, dude, those are pennies. Like, I'm, again, if we're talking about millions of buys, it's one thing, but like, that was a goddamn production that they put on. had to pay. The amount of

insurance just for 50 cents fat ass to hang upside down was pretty a good bit, I'd say. So like I don't, it definitely doesn't seem as worth it now to me for them to do that. I guess Dre like sells his

beats so that gives him recognition. It's not, I don't know. Like that had to cost him a shit ton of money. I mean, hell I did, a whole lot of people went on wherever and skewed up some fucking Dre and Snoop jams that they hadn't listened to in a long time. Of course.

And they're listening to again now. Relevancy is a thing. I don't know if it equates to like $7 million worth or whatever, which is what they spent. So apparently. But Snoop's been relevant. Like he stays on TV. It's not like he needed more national exposure. Right.

Yeah. The stuff I read and who knows what's true, but the stuff I read was that it was Dre funding at all. And it was like $7 million. So like Snoop and them, they just showed up and hit, you know. Oh, well, then for Dre with his beats and all that, yeah. He probably made $7 million back just on B. So there's been a bunch of different sponsors over the year,

and it's mostly big, like Bridgetown, AmeriQuest, fucking, you know, shit like that. I guess for a long time, it was, it changed, you know, year by year or it could AT&T, E trade, stuff like that. And I know we're about to, we're about to wrap up. This could have been a longer subject, but since we're on the halftime show, do you know that like do you know the sort of history of the halftime show and that it's like it has not

actually for very long been this like big elaborate production with a list stars and you should just be like a college band come out right or something they did that for a while and then they did do goofy shit you could like the year before i feel like michael jackson doing a halftime show was like the first big crazy thing and it was sort of a paradigm shift for the super bowl halftime show it's like well we can't go back but the last year before mj did it uh it was this like Elvis impersonator who also was a magician oh that's called Elvis Presto and if you if you google Elvis Presto half time show you can like find it on YouTube and dude it is wild that like that's what that's what the Super Bowl halftime

show used to be again we think about it now and it's like the biggest stars in the world putting on a multi-million dollar production with some of the biggest hits of all time, right? But for a long time, it was just some dude in a fucking leisure suit, talking funny and fucking doing rabbit tricks and stuff. Like, it was weird, man. And it probably wasn't near as long either, which that changed the game for, like, the players. I heard, I think it was Drew Breeze talking about, like, the difference in resetting

from halftime of a regular season game versus resetting for the Super Bowl. he's like, it's really, it's some mental gymnastics you have to play because like, usually in a game, it's like, yeah, there's TV timeouts, yada, yada, halftime is this, we get in there, we get the game planned, blah, blah, blah, I goes, but this, like, we got to like stay loose because, like, you know, we're in there for a minute. He's like, I took it. He's like, in both Super Bowls, I took a shower. He's trying to reset myself and like, it's wild because for a minute you forget,

you're like, oh, fuck, we're in the Super Bowl, man. And, but yeah, that's Elvis Presto. God. Is that dude still around, you think? I have no idea. I think that was like 1989-ish or something like that as when he did it. But the last thing I'll say about it, and I don't know that this is true, but I was reading

about all of this on Reddit and stuff. And somebody commented and said, the main reason that they changed their game in that regard was because back when they did bullshit like that, one year, like 1990 or somewhere around in there,

Fox held their own Fox did not have the Super Bowl like CBS had the Super Bowl whatever and but Fox held their own Super Bowl halftime show and it was a in living color special event right? I think I remember that. Yeah. And in living color was hugely popular at the time right. Yeah. And the half time show every year was fucking stupid bullshit. Yeah. So everybody switched over a great idea.

Everybody switched over to Fox to watch in living color special and whatever game that was that year, and really hitting. And a huge chunk of those people just didn't come back afterwards. So the NFL, when that happened, they were like, we got to make this fucking thing hit. Right. We can't be having this shit no more. And so that's sort of what prompted the big elaborate shit we see today. So there you go.

A little history lesson for you. Yeah, and it's been some bangers. Banger this year, my opinion. That was right up my alley. Yeah. All right. Well, go, you know, do. at patreon.com slash tray crow

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