wellRED podcast - #269 - The Clone Wars

Episode Date: April 27, 2022

This week the boys record in the green room before their shows in Louisville kentucky. among many things they discuss cloning!The WellRED comedy tour is taking a hiatus, but go see our boy Trae on the... road! Tickets at TraeCrowder.comAlso check out Corey and Trae's new podcast Puttin On Airs! Available wherever you get yours, or at WatchPOA.com

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Starting point is 00:00:19 It's just like you can just, it makes it easier to lose count of, well, your count, the count every month, how much you're spending. A lot of people don't even know how much they spend on a per month basis. I'm not going to lie. I can be one of those people. Like, let me ask you right now. Skewers out, whatnot, sorry, well-read people. People across the ske universe, I should say.
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Starting point is 00:03:31 All right Yeah, well, I'm ready Are we going? Yeah, here we are Here we are in the green room At the brand new Louisville Comedy Club In Louisville, Kentucky Coming to y'all
Starting point is 00:03:41 Coming to y'all what, would you say? I just yawned right as soon as we opened That's where I'm at Yeah, that sounds good for the listener We're not... Hist to yawn right before Second show, up here in about an hour.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Yeah, y'all are catching us in the meantime time in between time back here. Yeah, we haven't done one of these in a while. No, you're right. We used to do this all the time. But yeah, it's pretty much the standard. So here's the deal in Louisville, y'all. For anybody that's hearing this and we're at Louisville, we don't know how tomorrow Saturday's shows are going to go.
Starting point is 00:04:11 If you were at any of them, we may owe you an apology. It depends. Because here's what happened was we got to Louisville, and as soon as we got here, people everybody started saying to us you guys do show you're doing shows like saturday saturday you know saturday is going to be a complete cluster fuck right you can't do saturday like saturday no one no one would do a show on saturday everybody'll be here but they won't be doing anything because apparently derby fest is about to start in louisville the kentucky derby's in two weeks and i guess how they do that is they open it up the two weeks
Starting point is 00:04:45 before the derby with an event called thunder thunder thunder under thunder over louisville or or something like that. Thunder dome. Thunder or something. Yeah. And it is, they say, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to lie to Kentucky, I can't help but dispute this. They say that it's the biggest fireworks show in the entire continental United States. That's what they say. And they rope off all of downtown Louisville where we're at. There's 1.2 million people going to be down here, none of which are coming to see comedy, except for the few, except for the few poor souls who bought tickets without realizing what was going on. No parking. And yeah, even people that bought tickets, we're sitting here like, man, are they going to
Starting point is 00:05:28 literally be able to get to the comedy club? And we don't know. We don't know if they're going to be able to. So like I said, as we record this, we don't know how it turned out. But we, you know, we'll find out. We'll find out. That ever tell you guys about going to Sydney at New Year's for their fireworks show in Sydney, Australia?
Starting point is 00:05:48 No. Which I think is the biggest in the world. You're already bringing up a good point, which is that, like, how in the fuck is this singular event in Kentucky the biggest fireworks when, like, Fourth of July exists and New Year's Eve exists? Well, I think about it just like, I feel like Walt Disney World would be like, hold on now. Right. Like, especially, like, on any average night, but especially, like, to me in my head, Disney World on Fourth of July, they got to be blowing more shit up in the sky than Louisville is in April, right? But maybe not. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Maybe Louisville's keeping it. real but how was sydney though i think it's six million visitors and then the city already has a couple million so it's insane uh we were 21 22 running around my friend ben probably shouldn't use his real name about to tell this story uh was running around uh kissing women with or without their permission which is okay which is funny when you think about who he is definitely shouldn't have said it now well because you know there's a different time and a different country i mean when say without permission, I mean, he didn't ask. They all kissed him back.
Starting point is 00:06:52 And then he would scream, Happy New Year, you fucking Sheila! Which, you know, it's not a thing they actually say. It's something we've learned from movies. Oh, so is Ben one of them, or is he one of us who was making fun of them? Like, is he Australian? No, he's not Australian. No, he's not an idiot when he's drunk.
Starting point is 00:07:11 But, I mean, he's like a Harvard. Now right now I know, so, like, really, I'm just keep identifying. And we're like, he's the most gentle, kindest friend that I have. No, dude. But like when I say without permission, I just mean he didn't ask. Everyone kissed him back. Bro. Including a police officer. No one, everybody knows nothing hits harder for a woman than to get spontaneously kissed by a strange man
Starting point is 00:07:32 and then have a cartoonish version of their accent. Screamed at him. Screamed into their face afterwards. Yeah. On New Year's Eve. Yeah. For me. That hits for all of them.
Starting point is 00:07:41 Yeah, for sure. When he did it to the cop, though, I was really, I was like, do the cop. And I just, he wouldn't. I knew he wouldn't. And then he did. He was running over there. He just kissed a cop. He ran up and he goes,
Starting point is 00:07:51 Happy New Year! And, like, went to kiss her and she kissed him. And then she laughed. Hot. Yeah, who's cute? Yeah. What are their cops like? You know, they don't murder black people,
Starting point is 00:08:04 but that might be on account of not having as many. They don't have guns over there. Like. Not rarely. Some of them do, but it's like not normal cops. No. I meant, like, over there, like, they have a national gun ban because of Port Arthur, right?
Starting point is 00:08:17 Because of the Port Arthur, right? Massacre. Yes, but, you know, still they have a military and some of their police force will have some weaponry. Although, when did it happen? 90s? 90s, I think. I was there after that, obviously. What I will say that's interesting, and I may have brought this up before, but four or five people ask me or my friends what it was like to have racism. I guess from our movies and our pop culture they know about or know some version of the black experience in America. And they don't have black people, but they have aboriginals. And I swear to God, to a man, all four of the people who brought that up. And we said, well, it's sort of like with the aboriginals said some version of, oh, no, mate. Oh, that don't count.
Starting point is 00:09:06 They love it. No, no, some version of like, they're just happy to be out in the bush, mate. They like to be drunk out there. They don't want to work. They don't want to work. Yeah. We want to just take chicks from the government, stay outside, you know, out there where they belong. the bush in the bush you know they're not
Starting point is 00:09:20 mate they're not evolved yeah literally no it's different it's not like we're not racist they're not evolved it's not like you're black so they you know they don't rep like just you know yeah no we have talked about that on here because we were talking about uh we're talking about gypsies
Starting point is 00:09:36 and how like europe Europeans yeah Europeans taking the internet you know as an example Europeans have that same attitude towards gypsies it seems like. Like where they're like, they're like, no.
Starting point is 00:09:50 They've chosen. They're like, oh, Americans, they're like Americans. You don't, you don't understand. It's nothing like your racism. And it's because it's justified. Gypsies don't hit. Right. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:10:03 And Americans will be on the internet like, you know that's literally what all our racists say about the races they are racist against. And they're like, you would say that. A classic American, of course, you would say that. You just can't comprehend. Class of American thinking that what happens to Will Smith is similar to what happens to these trash people in my fucking, you know. Top 10 most racist countries. India.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Yep, number one. Well, you, all right. Well, no, no, no, because I sent it to Tuchar there. Trey has a Google alert. No, no, no, no, no. Because of our buddy, the Indian outlaw, Tushar saying, I saw that the other day and I group texted it to all of this. And I said, congratulations. Tushar, y'all got the belt.
Starting point is 00:10:43 That's exciting. Yeah. Number two, Lebanon. A little left in a belt. I'm sorry. Then number three, Bahrain. Bahrain. Bahrain.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Number four, Libya. Number five, Egypt. Number six, the Philippines. Number seven, Kuwait. Number eight, Palestine. Number nine, South America. They've fallen. South America.
Starting point is 00:11:03 South Africa. That's not a country. South Africa. They have fallen because I have a feeling that they had the belt for a while. And then number 10, South Korea. So, you know what states. I would say Rhodesia was, as was worse than South Africa at that time, I would assume. They had a very bloody revolution.
Starting point is 00:11:19 But I want to know who did this and by what metrics. I don't know, but if we go by the worst countries just for racial equality, it's number one is Qatar, then Serbia, I mean, all these are, Qatar, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, Slovakia,
Starting point is 00:11:37 Minamar? Myanmar, Myanmar, Israel, Ukraine, and then we made it. Number 10, United States. We're number 10 on the racial inequality. On the worst countries for racial equality, but not most racist, which again, I don't know what metric they're going by on that. But yeah, we don't even crack the top 10 on most racist.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Like, I'm not saying that there's not some sort of scientific method behind this, but it is wild that we have a newspaper. It's the whitest thing I can imagine to be like, you know who's racist? Let's rank. Fucking Indians, dude. God damn. I mean, I hear you, but I brought it up on here before about how, like, I know it's weird and hard for pretty much any American to acknowledge,
Starting point is 00:12:22 but I feel like a whole bunch of countries are wildly more racist than weird. Like they, I mean, clearly. Like we talked about on Bubba with Tushar, like most, most of the world is crazy racist. And a lot of them are places that are almost homogenous. So like they don't realize it.
Starting point is 00:12:44 but also it's like it's not even a faux pa there because you know what I mean the group has no power right yeah exactly exactly people in Wyoming but uh but yeah no yeah that ain't made trying like I ain't trying to act like we hit we well that's the thing we are racist we very racist I'm just saying we're not more racist right but my huge chunk we're just more popular but my point with that article is like what is the point of it oh I don't know I stopped after the list but do you what I'm saying? Like, other than fodder or clickbait, it's like, okay, so India's bad. What are we supposed to do with that information now?
Starting point is 00:13:23 Yeah. Well, we, nothing. I mean, I think. Well, anybody, anybody reading that, what would they do with that information other than someone go, see, I mean, hell. Why can they just accept America? Sure, but I think, I think it's possible. I have no idea how it happened either, but I think it's possible that they were in a
Starting point is 00:13:38 fucking, you know, editors meeting or whatever, and they were like, let's try to find a way to sort of statistically measure the most racist countries on earth. And they might have been thinking, like, because you know we number one or whatever. But if you do that, and then whatever metrics you choose, you still got to publish what the results are, even if they end up being that.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Like, there might not have been an agenda. I don't, I just don't buy the first half. That's an interesting notion, but I just don't feel that. That's what the editor's meeting was like. Here's how I'll read this.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Two different and independent racism. studies, which is what Tushar majored in, conducted in recent years surveyed a combined 85,000 people from 61 countries and achieved results that were different from the one in 2020. It was a Washington Post survey, and the main question posed to each participant was whether they would be comfortable living near neighbors of a different race. Did they name a specific race, or was it that general of question? It just says different race.
Starting point is 00:14:42 It'd be funny if they learn certain stuff about each culture. You know what I mean? They're like walking up to the Serbians. How do you feel about living next to a bunch of Croatians or whatever? Is that right? Is that who they had it with? Serbia, the Slavic World Wars. I know just enough to be dumb.
Starting point is 00:14:58 I was about to say like that there's kind of our whole deal. Yeah, right. I mean, I know that like over there, it seems like none of them hit for each other. Right. And then we don't hit for any of them, but we oftentimes, whenever they're doing, they're not hitting stuff, we will pick one of them and be like, all right, we got y'all. Right.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Well, they have a lot of ethnic genocide there, you know, where it's not, it's like, well, even that one, that one was. What's the other type of genocide? Racial. Oh, racial, right. So it's like, like, there, wasn't that between two versions of white, the Slavic situation? Yeah. So, but it's, it's an ethnic issue.
Starting point is 00:15:34 That's definitely what happened with the Armenians. You know, it was like they're ethnically different than us, so we're going to murder them all. Right. And so I think that's part of why it's a little bit more okay to be open with it, even if it's on a subconscious level, where it's like, I would never judge somebody based on the color of their skin.
Starting point is 00:15:52 But that culture sucks and buck them all. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, clearly, like, if they're both white, it's not that. It's just a, you know, that's how that shit works. I mean, that's what first got J.D. Vance in trouble and no longer like a liberal darling. I mean, now he's like, you know, Trump's boy and all that. But when he first came out, he was rocking with that guy.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Charles, I can't remember his last name. And that guy wrote a book that basically was arguing that it's black people's culture. This was in the 70s, that it's black people's culture that's making them all criminals and dumb. Like you started with the premise, they're all criminals and dumb, but look, it's not because of they're black,
Starting point is 00:16:26 it's because of their culture shitty. Right. And JD basically took that argument and made it about Appalachians. Yeah. And then went on tour with that guy, and a lot of people were like, hey, you got to see how this is problematic,
Starting point is 00:16:39 even if it's directed at white people, you can't just can't do this boy he just flipped over I mean I mean no you think it was
Starting point is 00:16:48 more of a steady clum dude it's just like when we talked about him in the past and we talked about this tray we read his book and we disagreed with it but we thought he was like
Starting point is 00:16:56 a sincere guy with different opinions and then he started like to run for office and I think now we can say this comfortably based upon the fact that he's Trump's boy
Starting point is 00:17:04 even though he said on our fucking show on Sirius XM that like or maybe it was to us privately that Trump and people have no he was saying it publicly all the time yeah people put out text messages like when we were he is their Hitler when have to stop him when we were
Starting point is 00:17:18 fucking with JD publicly and he was coming to our shows and we were hanging out and stuff that was still when he was saying all the like Trump is the worst thing that's ever happened and he was saying a lot of the same things that like I or a lot of us were saying about like listen he's the only person to even pretend to give a fuck about these people he's full of shit right but that's why we have to He's pretending to care, and that matters.
Starting point is 00:17:44 And, like, at the time, I was preaching the same shit. I was like, buddy, tell him, you right. Right. You know, but, like, but in the fucking years since, I mean, now he's fucking kneeling before the fucking, the shriveled orange wiener and sucking on it religiously. Which don't have. And I'm saying I think that's who he always was.
Starting point is 00:18:04 Right, yeah, yeah. He was playing a game and his bet was wrong, so he switched bets. you know he changed teams that's just so he thought that he could be the guy who spoke to the working class white people of the world but gave them an alternative to trump didn't work so now he's switching no but i think all the things we're talking about just points of like human beings in general were extremely tribal and so it's like you just no i know it's like human nature like in any country anywhere it's like we the people i am us yeah we hit right they don't they don't they don't don't hit.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah. And I feel like that's almost human nature. Yeah, where you're at. And so the whole, all of human progress has been aimed at trying to counteract that, push back against that. Like,
Starting point is 00:18:51 we don't have to hate people for that reason. Like, listen, no, we're all humans. But that whole idea of like us versus them. Yeah, that's how I feel about. People who are old.
Starting point is 00:19:02 Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, I got a, I got a, I got a,
Starting point is 00:19:07 I got a, I got a, I got a, topic I've been wanting to bring it up to y'all for a while. Oh, you mean we're going to get worse from doing an ethno cleansing and racist countries. Possibly. Possibly. But it may go nowhere.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I don't know. We'll see. But it's definitely in minefield right after this. Okay. So I don't even know how to frame this. I also don't have an angle myself. I'm just wondering what y'all think about it. Me and Katie watch the dropout on Hulu.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Do you all know what that is? I know. It's the show about Elizabeth Holmes, who is the Theranoslady. Do you remember her? Do you know who that is? I know Elizabeth Holmes. I thought that was an actress. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:45 Elizabeth Holmes was... Or a turtleneck, Corey. She got on... Oh, yes. She was the first... Knew it, knew it. She was the first self-made female billionaire in America. And she got jerked off a lot for it and put on a lot of magazine coverage and stuff.
Starting point is 00:20:00 What about the Kardashians? Did she beat them? I don't think they're considered self-made. I have gotten... I don't... I think maybe Kim is like a now billionaire, but it's like debated or whatever. But she was the CEO of this company that... that was valued at like $4 billion, which made her the first one.
Starting point is 00:20:13 And she was also in her 20s when this happened. So, but her company was a medical company, and the whole thing was that they claimed to, they could take one drop of blood, right? And they could test one drop of blood for every type of blood testing you could have. Like instead of having to get hooked up and get all these vials taken and all these different labs, they're good to go. They could prick a finger and check it for everything.
Starting point is 00:20:38 That's what they said they could do, which that would be a huge deal. Yeah, that's awesome. The thing is, none of that was ever even remotely true. They never, they never could even come close to doing any of that. So this is just an idea she had was like, well, say we can do it? Yes, 100. That's exactly.
Starting point is 00:20:54 And a lot of people, I think. It's an idea she had that people bought into. And also along the way, they lied and were fraudulent and they made it look like they were doing it when really they weren't. So it wasn't. What were they doing? They were like using. They were using like existing blood testing procedures and fudging the numbers and stuff and also hiding the fact that they were using these procedures and everything.
Starting point is 00:21:21 And it was anyway, it's all interesting or whatever. Let me ask this real quick. Let me ask this real quick before we get to the minefield. Was it also like doesn't the documentary set up or is this how it was like what she was telling people close to her who knew she was bullshit and was, we will figure it out. We just need their money. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Yes. The whole time to people closer, she was saying, she's like, listen, we're going to get this done. Right. We just have a billions of dollars. We need more money and keep going and figure it out. But anyway, that all fell apart completely. And like she's waiting on sentencing right now because they defrauded a bunch of people. And also it's like they defrauded a bunch of VC venture capitalist people and took their money.
Starting point is 00:22:01 And who gives a fuck about that. But the people. But they operate. They worked with real patients and real regular humans who they lied to. who didn't get proper testing. Also, in America, you can't steal from people that rich and get away. No, of course. But I'm saying, like, as far as the money she took and the people she lied to on the top level,
Starting point is 00:22:25 I don't give a fuck. Fuck those people. But she does kind of hit. Tell me she's from Alabama and make me real dick hard. She and they fucked over a lot of regular people too. Sure. In a way that was not cool. Yeah, of course.
Starting point is 00:22:39 fuck her okay but here's the minefield I'm trying to get to watching this whole thing the way it played out she was treated like a one-off documentary as a series it's not first of all there was a documentary I didn't watch that I watched the series that oh it's a dramatized Amanda Amanda Seafreed or
Starting point is 00:22:55 she played Elizabeth Holmes she did great it's very well done anyway um she was treated the whole time as like like a feminist icon kind of right this proves what women can do they haven't been allowed to operate in this world look what can happen when they do
Starting point is 00:23:13 as long as they lie like a man when it when it all falls apart the whole way she had this c o an indian guy like 20 years older than her who she also was fucking right and that daddy and that guy who had his own startup and sold it for like 40 million dollars or something and he was with her the whole way right but what i'm saying is the narrative as soon as it all started to go down, it shifted to, like, her defense and everything was like, oh, she was just being led astray by this man. This man is the one who was really doing all this, and she was just a victim. And a lot of feminists have already said it's, like, the damage she has done is irreparable for so many reasons. Even if that is true. For so many reasons.
Starting point is 00:24:05 But just like the idea of, like, I mean, I don't know. sort of how you navigate that whole thing of like giving her all to credit until it all falls apart. And then it's a man's fault. Yeah. Whereas the man was in the shadows the whole time on the come up. And it's like even if that was true, just I don't know. The whole story, the whole thing the way it played out is like, again, it couldn't be a worse look across the board. And I get why her defense team has to sell that narrative.
Starting point is 00:24:39 But it's just like, I don't know. The whole thing is wild. It doesn't make me feel any less about the women billionaires because, like, yeah, in order to be a billionaire, you have to be in a lot of, unless you're Jay-Z, a huge piece of shit. Right. You know what I mean? So, like, yes, I believe women are capable of being pieces of shit. And so to me, I don't go, see, look, look what happens when a woman does it.
Starting point is 00:25:02 I'm like, no, that's just why it happens that anybody wants to become a billionaire. The other thing I'll say, too, is they're probably both. sociopaths. Absolutely. 100%. But if one of them, only one of them was a sociopath
Starting point is 00:25:15 and was using the other, I could see it either way. Like, let's say that she wasn't a sociopath. She was. But let's say she wasn't and he was leading her astray. It would still make sense
Starting point is 00:25:26 that he would allow her to be the face of the company and get all those accolades because that would be good for his company and his plan. Number one, we're doing some bullshit. So I want her to be the face because she can take the heat
Starting point is 00:25:37 if anything goes bad. Number two, and all this press we're getting for being feminist icons is helping us get investors. On the flip side of that, if he's not a sociopath and she is, well, of course she had this guy that she was going to blame if anything went bad
Starting point is 00:25:51 and she could set it out. Oh, I was led astray by this guy. Most likely, these people who are fucking each other, the whole thing was they found in one another the only person who ever reminded them of each other. It's like the couples who murder people together. They're both. They're both terrible.
Starting point is 00:26:07 The whole premise of Kill and Eve is that This person who's so good at their job as a detective because they're a narcissist finds a killer who's so good at her job because she's a narcissist that they kind of fall for each other. It's that kind of mentality in my opinion. But the other thing that was wild about it to me, and I know this is naive of me,
Starting point is 00:26:23 but in watching it with Katie, I remember what it all happened. I remember how it played out, but watching the whole story in detail, I was like, early on I kept saying to Katie, I was like, but did not, did nobody check that none of this shit was true? Right.
Starting point is 00:26:38 This is a billion dollar option. Like they were just saying things. Right. And people were writing them billion dollar checks when none of it was true. Like, and this is the naive part. It was wild to me that people with that amount of money throwing around at that level that they don't check shit. And I've since found out that like that's almost a whole cottage industry. It doesn't always fuck over a bunch of regular people with their medical shit.
Starting point is 00:27:04 So that's a huge problem. But there's like a whole cottage industry in like Silicon Valley of stuff. Who people just... Sell an idea? They just come up with an idea. They come up with a great sounding idea. It's like that Tom's a good about it. They can't fucking do.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Right. But they sell the right people on it. They sell the right people on it. They get checks written to them. And as long as you don't fuck over a bunch of average Americans, even if you never figure it out, you can... You still got that money. And then you just go after that. I feel like I can do that.
Starting point is 00:27:33 It's wild. Yeah, right. It reminds me, there's that other Netflix show about the girl, inventing Benning Anna. Those shows were lumped together because they came out at the same time and it's about these fraudsters or whatever. Well, in that show, shout out Usama Sadiqi, a buddy of mine from New York. He played the role of this guy who had sold her a jet, even though she didn't have money. And there was a reporter. There's a scene where she's talking to him as the character. And she's like, so like this woman just walks in here and buys a jet, you know, blah, blah, blah. Anybody on the street could do that? And he goes, well, not anybody. I mean, I wouldn't sell a judge. jet to you. No offense, but look at your
Starting point is 00:28:10 fucking clothes. It's like once it becomes your culture, they're not used to people. How do poor people even know where to go to buy these jets? Like you have to know that kind of thing and then to say those things. So it's like fake it till you make it to the extreme. Like if you seem legit. It's hard to fake it. Yeah. They'll let you in.
Starting point is 00:28:27 But that also brings up something that I've been wanting to talk to you all about and it's very related. We don't have to even change topics. This whole thing with Russia, you know, we've been talking about Russia. It seems like I had nauseam for a while with Russia gate, rushing through the election, now Russia is invading Ukraine, blah, blah, blah. A big part of Russia to me growing up,
Starting point is 00:28:47 especially once I got the college was, you know, learned about it. It was like, man, what a wild place. Yeah. Just full of grifters and insane people and they own tigers and all that. We are Russia now. Everything in this country is a grift. Everything in this country. I shared that with you guys and said, do it on skews.
Starting point is 00:29:05 And Mark said, I'd already seen that. We're going to talk about it. where the whole book banning thing, where Florida won't do any books that are like grooming kids to be gay or trans, all it led to was there's only one company that's been approved to make textbooks that Florida will buy. And they're owned by the governor of fucking Virginia,
Starting point is 00:29:27 who has been leading this fucking charge. Literally everything is a grift. Every single time it goes. And we're starting to honor grifters. I mean, we even did it earlier as a joke. like if she's from Alabama, you're going to get me a boner. Grifters are starting to become heroes. I mean, that's Trump's deal too.
Starting point is 00:29:43 I mean, if the grift, if you're grifting and it doesn't fuck over average Americans, which no grift can work if that's not the case, then I don't give a shit. Like, dude, I mean, you know, podcasting seems like a grift. I don't know. Like, we're all just fucking around doing shit. And if you can make money, I don't care. I'm talking about at a policy level or whatever. Like, nothing's real in this country.
Starting point is 00:30:05 No, no. That's my big conspiracy theory. it's really like starting to like affect my heart every single thing the fucking old saying follow the money yeah right like always work every single time all these culture war things and everything if you just follow the money ultimately that's what all of it comes down to is the right people making the money they want for selling the lies that they need people to believe or whatever but even like cynical me further to the left than most people I hang out with kind of saying like Democratic Party's full of corporate bullshit. I still was like, man, Donald Trump's gutting the EPA.
Starting point is 00:30:42 We got to have the EPA. And the more I've looked into it's like, the EPA ain't had teeth and ears, man. Like, it's all the fucking grift. It's very upsetting to me. No, I mean, it's super upsetting because, like, on a dumber level, like, I'm, every single fucking day, there's a new doge coin or fucking whatever the fuck coin. Buddy, I can't even begin to understand all that year. No, I can't either.
Starting point is 00:31:06 but like I'm looking at it and of course they're all saying to you they're like no you don't understand the American dollar is this why you need this is because the American dollar's fake and blah and I'm like okay I can kind of wrap my head around that but like this is too like it's just a grift and like in 10
Starting point is 00:31:22 years everybody's going to be like I feel like and I could be wrong but I feel like in 10 years all the documentaries are going to be about all these people who started these coins and are now on islands and nobody else has any fucking money and it's going to be just some really super high-level Silicon Valley fucking Beanie baby shit.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Yeah. You know? Related to that, just because it's the same Redditors, you know, the To the Moon version of Reddit, which is what elevated the doge coin, that was very associated with the Wall Street. What was the name of that one? Wall Street bets. Wall Street bets. With all the GameStop shit.
Starting point is 00:31:57 GameStop, yeah, yeah. Those are, there's a huge overlap of people there. And for anyone who doesn't know. Yeah. But for people who don't know, I'll give you what is probably a done. version of it, but this is essentially what happened. A big thing on Wall Street is to bet that a company will fail.
Starting point is 00:32:12 Yeah, betting a short, right? Yeah, it's called shorting. You can watch the big short, and that explained it as good as anything ever will, as far as, in my opinion, that Adam McKay movie was great. I mean, I kind of understood it. But essentially, you're betting on a stock to do worse.
Starting point is 00:32:25 What you do is you promise to sell a stock to somebody at a certain price. They give you the money. Later, the price falls. You go buy that stock of that low price. You sell it to whoever you promised it to, but you reap the extra money. You're just betting that a stock will go down in the next few days.
Starting point is 00:32:40 On Reddit, some people found out that a lot of companies were being shorted broadly, like by almost every fucking hedge fund on Wall Street. And GameStop was one of them. GameStop was one of them because the prediction was, listen, the Internet has killed GameStop just like it killed Blockbuster. We're going to short this company. It's going to fall apart.
Starting point is 00:33:02 Well, creditors get together and they go, if we just buy a fuck ton of these, just by buying it, that's going to elevate the stock to a certain extent. AMC movie theaters was a big one. They were like, pandemic's going to end, people are going to go back to the movies,
Starting point is 00:33:18 and again, us buying it elevates the stock a little bit. Which fucks them over because shorts have a date on them. So it's like, if we all do this and pump the stock up now, it will fuck over their short, which comes due in a couple of weeks or whatever in a couple of days.
Starting point is 00:33:31 And then they have to like, they have no choice but to hang on. And then it becomes like a waiting game or a game of chicken or whatever. And people were just holding and holding and holding. And did cost some companies lots of money, but not as much as it could have been because that thing I just described, which was perfectly legal. And you can go, well, that seems morally suspect.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Well, but shorting is morally suspect. Shorting mortgages is quite literally what got us into the first, the economic crash from 2008 to 2010. These companies doing this quite literally nearly ruined our whole fucking country once already. So it's fine for you to say I'm morally against it But if you are, then you've got to be morally against both sides Both sides are doing this One side's been doing it
Starting point is 00:34:11 I mean even dude They said we got to rewrite the laws So we can't have this crash again Who rewrote them? Fucking Citibank I mean literally The new laws that came out Under Barack fucking Obama
Starting point is 00:34:24 As far as how we're going to do Wall Street now We're literally written by Citibank And then passed in a law by the Senate So like their lawyer City Bank's lawyer was like this is what we're doing Because they write things There's a Latin word for it. They write it and they say,
Starting point is 00:34:35 listen, we're the experts of the field. This is how you should do it. But it's become such a grift. It used to be like, we're about to pass a law related to cars. We should hear from Ford on this. And now it's quite literally, instead of saying,
Starting point is 00:34:48 here's what we think, they write out the laws and they just pass them in. That's what happened with that. And nobody wants to read. So there's like, well, of course, especially if they're giving you
Starting point is 00:34:56 millions upon millions of dollars and a cush job when you get out where you make millions of millions of dollars. So that's the scenario. They do that. they call their bluff. Everyone's like, it's the Reddit Revolution. And then many companies and the government to a certain extent came together and slowed it down.
Starting point is 00:35:13 100% sided with the banks and the hedge funds and the venture capitalists or whoever they were. 100%. People got kicked off of what's the app that you can buy stock on? Robin Hood. Robin Hood, which is hilarious. Still for the rich, give it the poor. They quite literally shut the poor down. They never got in trouble for that.
Starting point is 00:35:33 The SEC was like, no, this is fine. Two more things happened. I forgot what they were. But like Martha Stewart can't just get some advice. That's the hookup, Kat Williams. Yeah, right. But like it's crazy. Like shorting is a known thing, perfectly legal, but literally just like, hey, I heard, by the way.
Starting point is 00:35:51 And my thing is, people can go, well, it's only illegal to bet that a company would fail. Okay, fine. But then these guys figured it out, you've got to let the bluff get called. And they didn't let the bluff get called. I don't know if I'm going to get there with this. but like you you were saying like they just
Starting point is 00:36:07 write all the laws and everything like one thing that was wild to me recently was you know the Republicans have been in a tiff with Disney over the don't say gay bill in Florida right because Disney like runs Florida DeSantis is the don't say gay guy
Starting point is 00:36:20 Disney said hey that don't hit the Sanchez was like fuck you you don't hit and then they got into it and a lot of the rhetoric to come out of it was them being like and me and Mark talked about this on skews but it was them being like they were basically like
Starting point is 00:36:33 threatening Disney with rewriting these laws that existed to allow Disney to basically be their own government in the state of Florida. They basically have it set up from a legislative standpoint in Florida where like Disney, they're kind of their own government in the state of Florida. They're like their own many country. And DeSantis and all they were being like, listen, if you don't fucking. come correct and stop your bullshit, we'll end all that. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:07 And it was just wild to me this like sort of direct acknowledgement of, we're all just admitting that if you have enough money in this country, you can be your own fun. You can do whatever the fuck you want to do. And we all know that and we're all cool with that. Right. As long as you play the game the right way, if you stop,
Starting point is 00:37:30 then all that can end. As long as you don't, you can keep doing whatever you want to do like you've been doing for 40 goddamn years. And it's just wild to have it publicly acknowledged. And I want to say something on top of that with public. First of all, we are Russia. That's what I'm saying. But second of all, publicly, this has been happening as a result of that. This is weirder to me.
Starting point is 00:37:53 This is about our culture. That is our elite culture. Now you want to talk about regular everyday culture. Obviously, I hate the don't stay gay bill. I've hated it when it was in Tennessee. I hate DeSantis. I hate everything about that. What was the other one, Scott DeJaris?
Starting point is 00:38:09 No, that guy did the anti-Marsion. Stacey Can'tfield, right? Yeah, I did a video about how don't say gay. Don't say Stacey. Don't say Stacey because he's got a queer name. Yeah. Can't find that one anymore. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:22 But I remember. I remember. It was good. I remember. It was good. I'll bring it back. rightfully against that bill. So in some ways technically on the side of Disney.
Starting point is 00:38:38 And then you see them posting or writing very long, well-thought-out articles about what you were talking about going to bite DeSantis on his ass and being very for that. And I understand being for that in the micro, but it is insane for people to be like, you guys, this guy's going up against Disney. I just can't wait for, you can't wait for this corporation to dictate to a government
Starting point is 00:39:04 what they're going to do. That is a fucking wild thing to feel. Yeah, man. That is a wild thing to feel. That's crazy as fuck. Just because they're on your team. Right. In this one scenario.
Starting point is 00:39:15 Yes. In this one scenario, you're sitting here like, no, you're like Disney put the government in its place. Corporation put the government in its place, God damn it. And Disney's a lot of it. And it's like that, right. Like that or not be.
Starting point is 00:39:28 Copyright law. Fuck Disney. Fuck DeSantis and fuck all them, but fuck Disney too. I mean, you know, they want to do another pilot. I would love to do that. For sure, I'd love to work with them again. Copyright law.
Starting point is 00:39:37 But you know what I'm saying. We like copyright law. It protects us. Yeah. Oh, they've written copyright law for 100 years. It's 95 years now that you can keep a copyright. Disney quite literally wrote that. For Mickey Mouse.
Starting point is 00:39:49 It used to be like 20. That's a great example. Fucking copyright law in this country is literally dictated by Disney. By Disney. So they can keep Mickey Mouse. Yes. And it's wild too because then they use it to sue people who, do like a Cinderella thing.
Starting point is 00:40:04 Dog, Cinderella's from the 1300s. It's like a fucking Italian story or something. Yeah, right. Yeah, same with Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio, all them shit. Like, they just took them because they were public domain. Like, that's how Disney did that. They're like, hey, these are public domain stories.
Starting point is 00:40:18 But to your point about us being Russia, like, if you don't believe or understand that we are an oligarchy, right. Which is what they were. Then I don't know what to tell you. Because, like, we clearly are. And I've known that, like, most of my adult life. But what I've been realizing lately is how deep it goes. How much like Russia we are.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Like I guess in my mind it was like, all right, well, you know, if the Koch brothers want to keep their pig farms, they're going to have to pay off a lot of people at the EPA. They're going to have to do this and that. And that might used to be true, but now they ain't got to do none of that shit. It's already set up. That's, it's what like, the Coke brothers still alive. Yeah, I reckon. I think only one of them. I reckon that is. To me, they seem like, you know how like we had the theory that Dead Mouse and Marshmallow are a bunch of different dudes just wearing the helmet? I could see them being clones. Yeah, or wearing somebody's skin. By the way, we got clones, dog. We cloned a sheep in like 95. China got clones, dude. That's what I'm saying. Like the Coke brothers, like, also, when's the last time you saw them?
Starting point is 00:41:28 You just hear about them all the time? Like, I don't know that they're alive. They're wearing a skin suit. I just think that they're an idea at this point. You know what I mean? Like the Koch brothers are just like a corporation. Right. But we got clones. Y'all believe that, right? I mean, dude, if we cloned the sheep.
Starting point is 00:41:43 China got clones for sure. That's what I'm saying. We humans. Hunter. Yeah. If we cloned a sheep successfully in the 90s, why would they just go, uh,
Starting point is 00:41:53 stop there? I guess we could do it. Right. No way. We've got clones. China's definitely got clones. China's definitely got. Which is wild because they need the least clones.
Starting point is 00:42:00 What would be the, Yeah, right. What would be the most practical application for the rich people and clones? On a personal level or on a like, you know, broad, like, stay rich forever level. Stay rich forever level. I guess an army. Yeah, an army. They can be in multiple places at once.
Starting point is 00:42:18 This movie did not hit, but I thought it was an interesting idea, but the idea was given to Michael Bay, who turned it into an explosion fuckfest, right? But did you ever see that movie, The Island? Yeah, I think, yeah. So. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. Yeah. So the premise of the movie was that, like, rich people were cloning. They were making clones to have backup organs and shit for themselves. So they live in this, like, underground society.
Starting point is 00:42:49 They don't know nothing about the real world. And if you need a liver, you win the lottery. You call in your clone. They bring your clone in, put them down, take their liver out, and give it to you. and like, bro, if you think they wouldn't do that shit, no, for sure. You're out of your goddamn mind, dude. Like, they would do that shit in a heartbeat.
Starting point is 00:43:10 I think what Drew's saying is that they probably do. We just don't know where the underground shit is. Do you think about a clone of Elon Musk living in China, speaking Chinese with a Chinese accent, not knowing shit, and it came out somehow. Like, they busted that dude out, how wild that would be. Yeah, I just, I mean, like you said, dude, If we're cloning a sheep in the 90s,
Starting point is 00:43:31 they didn't stop trying. No. It's not how we work. No. And I think that it got to a point where they were like, okay, we've kind of got it figured out, but we don't need to tell people so that we can just. I mean,
Starting point is 00:43:43 I remember at the time, it was like, it was just stated. They were like, we've done this, but just everybody knows, we're not going to clone humans because that would be morally wrong. We can't play God.
Starting point is 00:43:55 So we're going, and they did make laws and stuff that made it illegal, but like these people don't. These people don't give a fuck about laws. And I'm saying the idea that since then there ain't been no nefarious actors, some literal mad scientist with billionaires backing them cloning people. The reason I brought up China is just because their government kind of famously or infamously didn't make it against the law. And they stay doing stuff that they don't want the West to know about.
Starting point is 00:44:20 But we're evil too. If we're not making clones, our government's because we don't want to. I just realized we sound probably a little Alex Jones there. right now. I ain't say we're wrong, but Alex Jones, but they got human animal hybrids and all this stuff over there. It's like we're kind of flirting with some Alex Jones
Starting point is 00:44:38 territory right now. I saw a tweet today that said, one key to happiness people don't talk about is you need one conspiracy that you believe in wholeheartedly. This is mine. It's clones. But what I wanted to say is I thought of a very dark sketch where the Chinese made a bunch of clones for their army.
Starting point is 00:44:56 And we in woke America, think that's what happened, but we can't tell because we don't want to sound racist. Like, they all look the same. Yeah, right. It's like, you can't say that, Bill. No, literally, these are clones.
Starting point is 00:45:07 I'm telling you. Someone get Bill the fuck out of here. I'm telling you. That's funny. There's no place for racism in war, Bill. There's fucking clones in China. Dude, ending with that, it's just funny me to think about
Starting point is 00:45:20 Alex Jones here in the last 10 minutes of this podcast. And him being like, hey, you're honest. He's got to figure it out. I've been saying this for years I don't know why I turned into Kermit
Starting point is 00:45:30 Kermit Kermit he do Humanoid That guy who does Burr, Rogen and Jones was talking about how it's all Kermit
Starting point is 00:45:39 the Frog to different levels All right Really? Okay Yeah, I can I guess So take it out of your nose But keep that same in the back
Starting point is 00:45:47 Oh the humanoid Yeah Look at that Nail that Nailed it Put four out in the water It's making us The frog
Starting point is 00:45:57 Marks Gary. That's funny, man. That's good. Wow. How do you guys? Let's do it. Let's do it. We haven't done it yet.
Starting point is 00:46:03 We'll be right back after this. Go ahead. It's like we're like 45 in almost. Mm-mm. So. Yeah, Corr, I'm wondering how you're doing with cancel culture. You're doing all right? I'm doing okay with it.
Starting point is 00:46:23 I mean, I think I've been okay so far. Haven't been managed to get canceled yet? No. And I've been. I'm trying. What hit? Dude, I've been, like, I'm doing a bit on stage where I sort of beg everybody to, and my reasoning is because, like, my dad legitimately, he worries about cancel.
Starting point is 00:46:42 Like, everybody I know that worries about cancel culture does not have a job applicable to it, and I do, and I'm telling them and it's fake, and they don't believe me. And I'm like, I'm literally, like, I'm not an expert on a lot of things, but I have one of the only jobs where this is, like, pretty prevalent. Directly applicable. Directly applicable. None of y'all do. And I'm telling you, don't worry about it.
Starting point is 00:47:04 And they fucking still do. Regular people being worried about cancel culture is a funny thing. I know. I'm talking about it. Like, what? That's where I said. You realize in order to be canceled, people have to be subscribed to you first. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:16 Like nobody's just going to the tractor supply and just going, can't say that. Get out of here. And but my point is like my dad, I'll be like, dad, who, I told him, I said, anybody that's been truly actually their career's done. it's they all they actually committed a crime right they raped they repped they committed a like kevin spacy fucking like they literally committed a crime didn't it get aziza's show canceled no it got a second season no i think it was after the second season that happened well either way he still got a career i think he did another season after all that i'm pretty sure that he did
Starting point is 00:47:49 he said at least two specials well the reason i brought that up i know Netflix gave him to him is did you see that it's happening to him again indirectly kind of no so this isn't this is again, it's not cancel culture. Bill Murray got in trouble with HR this week on set for being a dick to somebody. And it's not like rapes or anything like that. He's just like abusing
Starting point is 00:48:10 someone. He's been an asshole. And it's basically fired from a job because of what he did. Which is not being canceled. Which is not being canceled. It's what happens. Yeah. But then Aziz they're not going to let him do the movie because a big part of them wanting him to do the movie was Bill fucking Murray was attached.
Starting point is 00:48:27 They're going to spend that and to see this. This is cancel culture. And I'm like, look, do I feel bad for a guy who wrote a movie and then he loses the opportunity because of what his star did? Yes. But like, I don't know how getting fired from your job is canceled culture. No one's entitled to a movie. If you broke a rule that all jobs have, which is like don't curse out your coworkers.
Starting point is 00:48:50 Also, that's just weird to me because like, and it really, really, really sucked for these people. But like, it's not like the people that worked on House of Car. got canceled. Right. Because of what happened with Kevin Spite. They did another season after that.
Starting point is 00:49:03 But I'm saying like they were collateral damage. Of course. That sucks. That sucks. That sucks. That happens. People that used to
Starting point is 00:49:10 get all their. That sucks that happened but you can't, you can't point to those people and be like this is what cancel culture has done. It's like, no dude,
Starting point is 00:49:18 he's a fucking rapist or whatever. Like you can't, he got fired. Again, that's not the best example because they did. No, here's a great example.
Starting point is 00:49:24 You know what I'm saying. Hold on. Another difference right there real quick is that he did something not. onset and in the past and it's not okay fuck kevin spacy but that's another thing about the bill murray thing
Starting point is 00:49:35 it's like he's being fired from his job for what he did at his job yeah right exactly you know many different projects have fallen apart over the years just because like they couldn't get the fucking business shit worked out yes i do not yeah it's like it's sometimes it's one person one star couldn't get it
Starting point is 00:49:51 worked out whole thing whole thing whole many economy shuts down no one else got canceled because that happened you know what I mean it's like but it's like But in this industry, shit falls apart all the time. Have you ever thought about like Malcolm Jamal Warner? That's the guy from the Cosby Show? Yes.
Starting point is 00:50:05 So think about dudes like him and the other actors on the Cosby show who like their main sore, in arguably main source of income was royalties from syndication. And they don't be playing the Cosby show that much anymore, you know, for good reason. And like, that just sucks for them. Right. Like you can't go. No, they have to keep playing it because I get. these checks it's like dude you people don't want to people don't want to buy cosby in syndication right
Starting point is 00:50:33 now and with good right and like that just fucking sucks for them but that's not cosby didn't get canceled because we committed a crime and he went to jail yeah i mean this game wild sorry no it's i agree with you and that's a great point you're making it and i remember somebody kind of bringing that up and trying to give him and a few others like a moment in the sun didn't he get a roll even Malcolm Jamal I saw him in something It was like a very minor thing One of the Cosby guys was on American Crime
Starting point is 00:51:01 Story I think It was Malcolm Jamal Warner He played OJ, the dude The Joe's driver Yeah And I'm pretty sure that was a direct response To people pointing out What you talk
Starting point is 00:51:10 What you talked about We need to get him some work Which is cool But it doesn't solve You know what happened But it's like Well that's nothing can solve What happened
Starting point is 00:51:16 Every show from that era is not on anymore That was the one that was still on Right exactly I don't know man I do recognize that the internet itself is full of psychopaths who are very excited to be self-righteous and, like, take somebody down. But I don't agree with or recognize that it works all that often.
Starting point is 00:51:38 Sometimes you see, like, quote-unquote, the mob going after people, and the people they're going after clearly aren't stable. And it's like, that person might kill themselves because they're unstable. But, like, the whole idea of, like, yeah, you ruined their career. And it's like, well, you talked about it. Look, Roseanne, you were getting a second chance. And you fucked it up. That's what happened. Yeah, you talked about Hitler and shit.
Starting point is 00:51:58 You called black people apes, dog. That's what she did. Oh, did she? Yeah. You brought this up on that sports show that you did the other day about like how we don't allow people to grow anymore. Like it's one thing if, you know, actor with a TV show now tweet something, you tweeted something a month ago or whatever and somebody dug it up. That's one thing. But like, if you're someone who literally is going to.
Starting point is 00:52:24 like if someone did something 10, 12 years ago that's completely off brand for who they are as a person now instead of being like, oh, you're fake, this is how you really are. Right. Why don't we go, no, in 12 years, this person has become a better person. Dude, perfect example of that is me, what we were just talking about. Right, right. The don't say Stacey sketch that I did was actually fine.
Starting point is 00:52:45 Like, I've seen it, it's not offensive. But when I tweeted it out to like try to get eyes on it, the shit I was saying. So for people who don't, Stacey Canfield was, a guy who did a don't say gay bill in Tennessee. I did a sketch as a fake politician who was saying that we need a bill where we stop naming
Starting point is 00:53:02 boys, girl names, because it makes them gay. It was clearly directed at Stacey. It was ironic. I think it was pretty fucking good satire. I stand by the sketch. But when I tweeted it out many years ago, I would say things like, Stacy's a huge queer's name or like whatever to get
Starting point is 00:53:18 people to watch it or be like, what the fuck is this shit? And like, I recognize now that using slur to get attention even if your heart's in the right place. It's not good. It's a stupid thing to do. Dude. So the thing, the sports thing, shout out Bragg & Gall on a 440 network.
Starting point is 00:53:34 I did his show. And Aaron Dugan, good people. Yeah. And, but what we were talking about. Aaron, that's another one of them queer names. We were like, uh, or she a woman, but yeah. Pretty gay. Nothing's queer than being a woman, you know?
Starting point is 00:53:45 But, uh, but I was saying like, I thought about this a lot. One of the failed pilots I wrote was about this exact thing. It was like a version of me having a tail. from high school a high school party come out where I'm being like very inappropriate by today's standards in it but it's like I grew up in fucking Salina Tennessee now I was the liberal queer in my high school but I still grew up in Salina Tennessee at that point in time like if I was held accountable by today's standards for everything I ever said or every joke I ever made back by my career by it's over yeah right but what I was saying with Braden is like just the fact that like
Starting point is 00:54:20 if YouTube had existed back then do you know how many DMX cups I would have on the internet. Do you think I would have been censoring every word of that? No, I would try to do an interpretation with integrity. Right. You know, it's not on me to change the lyrics. Of course not. Right, DMX would want me to stay true to the soul of the peace.
Starting point is 00:54:43 Of course he would. Right, but like, and that's, like, I know. You know, cute as you wear, he might. Right. But I know, like, I know now you're not do that. Right. But at the time, I was like, I love this song.
Starting point is 00:54:58 These are the lyrics to this song. I know the lyrics. I'm going to do them all. And if there was tapes of me doing that, it would be very unfortunate. All right, but let me ask you this. You said it would ruin your career. So doesn't that prove that there is some cancel culture?
Starting point is 00:55:16 Yeah, well, I think that I would have to, like, explain it. I think you bounce back. I think you can bounce back too. I really do. I think you could be like, I think you could say what you just said with sincerity. And I genuinely believe this. I genuinely believe this part.
Starting point is 00:55:30 Most of the world will be like, cool. Some people will be like, nah, that's the true colors. You're right. And the question is, would Netflix or whoever in this hypothetical, give a fuck about one group versus the other? No, I'm glad you said that because we are kind of talking about both sides of our mouth here. But it's like, but what you just said is true. It would like, I don't think that, because I was on the sports show and it came up
Starting point is 00:55:52 we were talking about how like they look at these draft picks and they go back to fucking tweets they made when they were 14 years old or whatever and it becomes a story but like they still get drafted and make a million dollars and everything's fine now of course their sports are different if you hit hard enough there nothing matters nothing matters but i think it's like yes if i had videos like that which i don't but if i did and they came out it would be a problem for me i'm not a big enough deal for it to really matter but i would get a lot of hate it would be a problem but I don't think that it would end me, though. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:56:25 Like there would be people who would make a big deal out of it. But it would be unfortunate. But I would, you know, I'd be okay at the end of the day. Because I think at the end of the day, as long as you don't fucking rape or like anything. There's no like, by those standards, you can't rape anytime. Right. Well, I have way less than loose. You used to be able to.
Starting point is 00:56:46 That's true. Yeah, like a hundred years, though. You used to be able to just rape. I'm raping rape and rape, and it was fine. But I have less to lose than you, and I'll go ahead and say it, and I've alluded to it already, and there are videos somewhere of me where I have said the F-sler, not about or to a gay person. And, you know, what would I say about that? I played college football.
Starting point is 00:57:08 Every time I did it, I thought I was being ironic and edgy. I was a young, stupid comedian. That word was a part of my vernacular. It wasn't something that I said to or about gay people. It was something that I said to my friend because he wouldn't finish. It's just beer pussy. Right. And like, yeah, I feel a shame that I had to have someone be like,
Starting point is 00:57:27 you know that like hurts my feelings or hurts people's feelings and here's why for me to like process it. But that is what happened and I grew as a person. Yeah, I know. I said it. Like you, like people can fucking, they can figure shit out and get better. Yeah. I used to want to do. Especially if you're fucking, you're talking about somebody that's 18.
Starting point is 00:57:48 Right. Teenager to 20 something versus. when they're in their 30s, I would be more surprised if that, it would be worse if that person wasn't any different. Do you know what I'm? Yes. Like, God, yes.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Right. Like, you're supposed, that's part of how life works. You're supposed to be smarter and more mature, intellectually and emotionally when you're in your 30s than you were when you were 20. Or 25. 25 years old or 26.
Starting point is 00:58:13 New York City. I'm processing all the things we're talking about. That stuff's starting to become part of the conversation. And I don't say that word anymore, but I'm thinking about how I used to, and I wrote a bit that I did like two times. It wouldn't work, and I'd stop doing it because it wasn't going to work
Starting point is 00:58:28 and because I realized I didn't really feel this way. I know the bit. But the bit was that that's my rebel flag. Yeah, the EFler. That I don't want to give people who argue that the rebel flag is our culture any credence. But I get it because the EFler was my culture. It ain't like that.
Starting point is 00:58:45 I don't mean that. I don't mean that. Yeah, right. And there was some truth. It made something different. to me, damn it. When me and my friends on the football team say that word, it don't mean what it means to you. Just like when me and my dad's friends hang up their Skinnered flag, it don't mean that.
Starting point is 00:59:01 And it's like, the joke was like, yeah, what you don't realize, Drew, is you are correct. This is similar, and that's why both of you should be ashamed of yourself. So I used to do it in a bit, but I was literally just talking about Justin Bieber. And I was, I was 20. I said now, as far as that goes... I was 20. I thought you could say it. Louis said it. As far as that goes, the first year of this tour, I talked about, and this was true,
Starting point is 00:59:28 and I think that's why people were somewhat okay with me saying it. I said it. My nickname in college, and this is true, it wasn't a nickname as much as just what people on the football team called me. They called me liberal faggot. That is what they would say. I would say something that they would disagree with, and then that would be their response if they didn't have an argument. And I told a joke in which I would say that. and be like that's what happened uh you know i don't do that joke anymore either right well actually
Starting point is 00:59:53 you talking about that word reminded me like i i kind of feel like matt damon is a pretty good example what we're talking about it's like him like him yeah but he's 50 dog him retiring the f slur which at the time we're like just picturing him in his garage hanging up a Celtics jersey with a word written on the back of it number 69 beside beside an inward Celtics jersey that he had retired 20 years before just standing there with a tear running down his eyes. Like, that's fucking hilarious. But also, like, he caught a lot of heat for that. But, like, but he's Matt Damon.
Starting point is 01:00:26 He's fucking fine, which I'm saying I think he should be. Like, I think a dude from Boston saying publicly, you know what, that word ain't cool, and I'm not going to use it anymore. And I realize that now is like, I think that the way he did it was weird. And it was funny, and he deserved to get roasted for it. But what I'm saying is like,
Starting point is 01:00:45 what I'm saying is, that's what or happened. You know what I mean? Or he could have just like should happen with that guy. He also has the power to have somebody bring it up to him so that he can pretend like
Starting point is 01:00:57 it was just a response to a question. Like hey, you're from Boston. You know, that's a little rough there. You grew up there. You ever worry that something will happen where some stuff you said in your past
Starting point is 01:01:06 and he'd be like, you know, it's interesting you bring that up. I've been thinking lately. But instead he wrote this thing about how, instead he wrote this thing where he's like, you know,
Starting point is 01:01:13 I was talking to my daughters and I don't think we should say that. Turns out that's not good to say, I guess. I just found this out Tuesday. It's like Twitter. It's because he's not on Twitter. It's because he's not on Twitter, dude. He didn't know.
Starting point is 01:01:28 He was, the context of it, I'm pretty sure, was that he was telling a joke at dinner. Yeah. Dinner. Telling a good old. No, no, if you put. He was stealing Corey's materials. You understand. You turn the bar stools over and four of them can sit out.
Starting point is 01:01:44 You know what I'm saying? Like what? Fucking wrong. Yeah. No, you don't get it. You turn them over. We get it, Dad. Fucking always kills.
Starting point is 01:01:54 Yeah. Fucking go to Afflex House, huh? Oh, God. My daughter's a fucking quid. I didn't think it was funny. Your honor. Where? Yeah, we are.
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