wellRED podcast - #276: The Boys Are Back In Town!

Episode Date: June 15, 2022

Trae and Corey are finally back to join Drew in talking about their favorite field trips, how glad they are that the 90's are cool again, and to discuss a little bit of their trip across the pond!Have... you heard Corey and Trae's new podcast Puttin' On Airs? Well what are you waiting on! Get it wherever you get your podcasts (or watch it at WatchPOA.com)

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Starting point is 00:03:32 Anytime our air conditioning went out, you know, it's just a truly nightmarish. It exists, especially when you broke as hell and couldn't just afford to fix it. Last time our air conditioner went out to this day, we've just got window units at the house in Salina. It kind of hit harder when you've got multiple ones. Yeah, it can get cold as fuck. Yeah, like you got one that's dedicated. Like every time I go there, still to this day, the room that I sleep in, I turn on the window unit back there and close the door, you know,
Starting point is 00:04:05 and it's just, that's what's up. You can't really get it. Yeah, it does hit. You can't really get that with a, you know, with a central heating and air unit. So in your face, middle class people. I'm a window unit, man. Poverty Plex.
Starting point is 00:04:24 I'm taking a window unit to Bonnaroo inside the 99 expedition. You want a poverty flex. We're going to wire it in to the door instead of propping it and then run it on a generator. Oh, that's the move right there. Super awesome. Bonarue. Got to be son. I'm leaving in the morning, son.
Starting point is 00:04:43 Oh, word. On that note, I'm off next week. Nice. Yeah, word. Yeah, well, thanks for holding it down for the past couple weeks. Now, all the boys are back here on the well-read podcast. Who are you most excited about seeing? I don't know anything about the.
Starting point is 00:04:57 You sent me the lineup like, I don't know, a month or two ago, and I've done for God. I don't know. I think probably Billy Strings is up there for me because he's such a great musician and everybody's saying that he's wild, live. I want to see Jay Cole pretty bad. Ludacris was up there and he dropped out to film Fast and the Furious 47. Roddy Rich got arrested at Governor's Ball, and so might not get to go to Bonneroo.
Starting point is 00:05:23 So that's a big bummer. I really want to see Mark Rivele, that Loup Daddy, that guy who sings about licking butts, that brunch. Oh, yeah, the guy that's like he's just, it's just him on the ones and twos, that guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Turnpike troubadors are playing in a plaza Thursday. They say it's going to get too packed and they're not going to let everybody in. But I know some people who are running that plaza, so I think I can get in. And I'm a cry.
Starting point is 00:05:48 I can't wait to see the Turnpike. What's a, what, what's a plaza as a part of Monaroom? No, it's a new thing, yeah. So it's not that new. They've had it the last five years or so. I did comedy in a plaza. So now they have stages out in the camps. The camps are broken down.
Starting point is 00:06:05 General camping is broken down into seven areas. Each area has a plaza. One of them is a coffee shop. One of them is the House of Yes, which is a collective at a Brooklyn that runs a bar, and they have like drag shows and dance parties. The rest of them are stages, and whoever runs the plaza can just do whatever they want there.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I did one that was comedy. Plaza 5 this year is basically just doing country music. And this DJ named, I think, Disco Cowboy, who just spins. I mean, honestly, guys, we yet again are at the forefront of the Ziteguise. 90s country and country music and hip country is in. So this whole plaza is basically hipster country shit. Nice. And Turnpike and Paul Cawthon are playing Thursday night.
Starting point is 00:06:50 We really are at the best point that we could be. at in our lives because like as as mid 30s dudes what it means is that people your age are sort of starting to run things you know they're not running the whole world you know i know those are still the old white men yeah right but like people our age are starting to become in charge of like entertainment and like culture and stuff like that and everybody is such a fiend for nostalgia that that means that our favorite shit just comes back to the forefront which rules yeah and there's also bands I miss because my brother wasn't into them that the Gen Xers are bringing
Starting point is 00:07:24 around. I just started listening to this band Turnstile. You fuck with them? They're a hardcore band, which is, I think a subgenre of punk. I sound very stupid to some Gen Xers right now. I think that's right. Yeah, all the Gen Xers. Well, we have plenty of Gen Xers listening. My brother only
Starting point is 00:07:40 listened to rap and like Guns and Roses. Yeah. Checked out. So that, I missed a lot of 90s music. Like, I never got into the Beastie Boys. Well, turnstile rules. Yeah, mine was not, mine was not because of a brother or anything.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Mine was because of the church, so I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of stuff. But then, like, I would go off with my buddies who, like, went to, they went to the school with black people. So they introduced me to, like, bone thugs and shit.
Starting point is 00:08:08 But that was always stuff I had to listen to, like, in my room with the headphones on them. Well, I guess saying the church is why I didn't hear anything, but then my brother just, I mean, I don't know if you guys remember his backstory,
Starting point is 00:08:17 but he didn't do a lot of stuff they told him to do. when he comes to the church. So I was sneaking in his room, you know, when he was gone, and I would listen to Bone Thugs, Tupac, um, Dr. J. The chronic was like one of his favorite albums.
Starting point is 00:08:31 Yeah. My, uh, my cousin B.J, the, my older first. All right. Rest in peace. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:39 My older first cousin, who's, you know, felonious pill-billy type fella. But a sweetheart. A sweetheart. And a, so naturally a Raiders fan.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Yeah, he's the reason I'm a Raiders fan. He's also, he's the one i didn't you know i didn't have none of those church limitations i was allowed to listen to whatever i wanted to but he he's the way i got introduced to rap music and it was mostly it was mostly west coast rap you know dr dr dna snoop dog the chronic and all that stuff nbua that was his shit you know raiders connection it all makes sense but uh that's how i got into rap in the first place and then i separately found out about one of the first ones for me on
Starting point is 00:09:17 my own and I don't even remember how but I was a pretty big puff daddy and the bad boy family. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. MTV is how that happened. Yeah. Yeah. He was all over. And he was, you know, he was big he's boy. So, you know, right. And Mace, uh, Mace was a, a big of May. I've been a course pastor now. I know, yeah, Lord rent him pretty quickly. Uh, but, you know, but of course, DMX rose above at all. Uh, but yeah, I was allowed. I remember one, I've told the story before, but I, like, my dad, did not like rap music whatsoever, but he wasn't, he also was never going to tell me I couldn't listen to something. It's like, you know, my dad was showing me R-rated movies and I was seven years
Starting point is 00:09:57 old. He censorship is bullshit, son. That's what he used to say. So like, he was down for whatever, but I tried, I tried to get my very, very Christian, very buttoned up guidance counselor to buy flesh and my flesh, blood of my blood for me when it came out, the DMX album, where he's covered in blood on the cover of it. And the fucking titles. He's got blood on his dick because he fucked a corpse. Yeah, that's the album. That's the album.
Starting point is 00:10:24 That's it. Yeah. And she was horrified. I tried to tell her, like, my dad, he's cool with it, you know, but she just wasn't having it.
Starting point is 00:10:31 And then so I, you know, had to have my dad get it for me like the next week or something. Like on a trip or something? Yeah, we used to like, I don't know most schools do this, but I feel like because we were in salina
Starting point is 00:10:43 where there wasn't nothing. We'd take a field trip that had some, kind of like educational premise, but it would also often include a stop at a mall or like an Oh, Oh, Charlie's or stuff we didn't have in Salina. That would be part of the field trip. Places to eat, places to drop. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. So this is a great. Every field trip we had pretty much included something like that. Look over there. It's a functioning family. So this is great. This is great little callback because with Carmen and DJ last week, we talked to.
Starting point is 00:11:16 about, you know, your favorite field trips. Carmen talked about how they would go to Disney World, but it would like, you know, they went all the time because she grew up in a place, kind of like, whatever. DJ, of course, talked about when he would get to go to the yard and get exercise for an hour. I brought up the loss seat because, you know, Little Contrarian Drew, what I was saying was like, I just couldn't believe anything rat. They were like, it's rad.
Starting point is 00:11:43 I'm like, no, it's not. It's in Sweetwater. there's no way it's that cool and it blew my mind like that was my favorite one I've never been I don't know what that is yeah we never went to that
Starting point is 00:11:52 oh you don't know what the loss you mean so we wonder Tennessee the lost sea though yeah I don't know like the lost sea I don't know anything about that so it's like it's an underground lake it's a cavern
Starting point is 00:12:03 and it was an underground and when I was a kid I was like all right there'll be some water underground then it's like four miles we had to take four separate boat trips we were down there for like while underground you were underground the whole time
Starting point is 00:12:14 that's crazy They got fish down there that are blind because they were bald over time. I bought a knife and then I put it to my neighbor's throat as a joke and my dad wouldn't let me have it after that. Yeah, it was crap. Good call, dad. So you bought a knife on a school trip and that just flew, you know. Yeah, of course. They had a knife buying portion of the trip.
Starting point is 00:12:39 As a matter of fact, it's like, don't forget to get your knives. It wasn't, it wasn't a black man expressing themselves, right? You remember the, knives were totally fine. You make me remember something. We went to, like, you know, Ruby Falls and Rock Cities just like right up the road. So, like, we went to those all the time. And I remember in their gift shop, they had what was meant to look and act like a switchblade knife, but it popped out and it was a comb. Cone.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Oh, yeah. You all remember those? We have butterfly combs. Yeah, yeah, dude, we used to get them those things were huge. And they ended up taking them away from us because we'd be doing what you did. did. We'd be on the bus just like sticking it against each other's throats and shit like that. It's like this was at a kid's gift shot. And they wouldn't they want it? If they had a switchblade comb that and fucking candy cigarettes and shit, man. Like the not two distance path, the not too distant
Starting point is 00:13:29 past was also pretty wild. It sure was. The outsiders. I remember at so the annual festival in Sline Everier used to be called the moonshine days. Now they call it a homecoming or some generic shit. Dave. Yeah. Yeah, huge step down. But I remember at the moonshine days when I was a kid, they had a booth set up. Like, and it was four kids.
Starting point is 00:13:52 It was like kids, toys and things like that. And there was a knife section. And these were like little girl knives. Like they were like pink and purple and stuff like that. And so Paige wanted one. And it was just like, why wouldn't she have one? And Paige was probably five at this time, something like that. And so she got her little girl knife.
Starting point is 00:14:13 and then we went back home to my mom's apartment after that. And she's out on the porch and she starts screaming. And I go out there and, you know, we're there alone, by the way. Like, it's just me and her. I'm eight. She's five. No idea of where anyone's at.
Starting point is 00:14:31 And I run out there and there's blood everywhere. And like, to the point that I, as an eight-year-old, I was like, I was like, that's not funny. What are you doing? Like I thought she, I thought it was fake, which makes no sense. But I just couldn't process that it was, she was literally bleeding all over the place. And then when she got through me by, you know, wailing in my face that it wasn't a joke. Then I started freaking the fuck out.
Starting point is 00:15:00 And I don't, I ran to like a neighbor's apartment, I think is what I did. And then, you know, they, she was, she was fine. She was never in any danger. You know, it was like she cut her hand or something and it was bleeding a lot. but it wasn't actually dangerous, but I didn't know that. I thought she was going to just fucking bleed out on my watch, you know. But, you know, I don't believe she got that knife taken away. I think she chose to not fuck with it anymore after that, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:29 but like no one was like, short and I have knives. No, of course not. She just learned how to use that knife. Yeah, right. Did you ever used to play chicken with the pocket knives and stuff? Oh, yeah. Yeah, steak knives more than pocket knives. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Yeah. They gave me a steak knife instead of a pocket knife once when I wanted a pocket knife. I don't know. What's the, what kind of chicken? So you stand, both people stand facing each other and your feet or shoulder width apart. And then you throw the knife and stick it in between their feet. And if you make it, then they take two steps in until like, you know, your feet are there. And you're, I mean, dude, we were just stabbing each other in the foot.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Did you do that one? Yeah. Yeah. The two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, two, five. Yeah. Five finger fillette. I believe that's called. And we just, it was kids.
Starting point is 00:16:16 We were just like, yeah, these are like, dude, our parents would like, watch us. We would be playing chicken, like, at church, like in the Sunday school, like, floor. And everybody was just like, good to these kids. I need to add some of this to my, I've got that, I got a new bid all about this about how I can said to my, the not too recent past was pretty insane to, like,
Starting point is 00:16:36 because it's all true. About how all are. Wild. Yeah, our parents, like our childhoods were so different, but they really weren't that different. Right. Well, dude, they gave me that steak knife because they didn't want me to have a pocket knife
Starting point is 00:16:49 for my clubhouse to like, I was like notching trees and trying to. I feel like a pocket knife is safer than a stave. Way safer. It closes. It closes up. If I tell the story in front of my mom, she swears that it was a butter knife. I know it wasn't.
Starting point is 00:17:04 I will tell you guys why in a minute. But what may have happened is she was like, go over to that drawer. Yeah, right. Get you a knife. thinking it was going to be a butter knife. Me and Tasha were doing that, and then I did what you were talking about, Corey.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It wasn't chicken. I was just trying to throw it in the ground and look cool. Yeah. I was five, Tasha was four. She had her shirt off because we were redneck kids. Yeah, right. It bounced up and stabbed into her titty. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:17:28 And when we would party together in college, Tasha would inevitably get drunk and then tell everyone she had a scar on her titty where I stabbed her when we were four. She pulled them out? I don't recall that. That wasn't part of it for me. Well, you say it was a part of it.
Starting point is 00:17:41 party. Yeah, well, she may have later. That might have been trying to get people to think about her kids. Reiterate, this is my cousin. But, yeah. Oh, I was going to ask you all, though, what's your favorite field trip when you were younger? We answer that question right after this. That's a good call, Troy.
Starting point is 00:18:04 I don't really, I feel like I don't have any good ones, honestly. Like, they were all, like. Going to the mall is pretty good, dude. Did you finger anybody? No, no. No. I only fingered somebody on the FFA horse judging trip. Yeah, but that judge got a 10, son.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Or that horse, I mean. So we, all I can remember is like real, you know, just school type shit. We would go to plays a lot, like at the, but at the Upper Cumberland Playhouse, which is like a theater in Crossville. Yeah, Andy's done play. there, which is like, Crossfield's like arguably the most redneck town in that whole area. And it's while they have a theater there, but the type of productions we were saying, you know, we didn't know any different.
Starting point is 00:18:51 I mean, hell, I guess they sort of hit, but, you know. And then, and then every now and then there'd be something that just had no educational value. Like I remember once, I was probably a freshman or sophomore or something like that. It was like a Saturday trip. We went to six flags in Atlanta. And that was a big deal. You know, I remember my buddy Chase said to me, Chase Stevens, and keep in mind, we have, we have the Freehills, the black community in Salina and had black kids in our grade and school.
Starting point is 00:19:17 But Chase Stevens, who was our quarterback on the football team, came up to me and said, Trey, I didn't know there was this many black people. And I was like, and I said, well, you mean like in one place at one time? And he goes, no, I mean like in the world, in the whole world. I didn't know there was this many black people. And I was like, yeah, well. surprise you know he never watched sports I never heard of Africa
Starting point is 00:19:45 he was he was a sweetheart but he was dumb man they didn't have that scene though they didn't have that scene in varsity blues yeah yeah yeah no but you know let me six flags Atlanta you know I mean it was shocked this system
Starting point is 00:20:05 mine were kind of cheats because like they weren't like so you know like obviously so you're senior, you've got the senior trip. I'm talking about little kids. Yeah, but this is kind of a cheap, like in fifth grade, this is fifth grade, so I was a little kid, but we took like, you know, the fifth grade class got to go. We went to Washington, D.C. Hell, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:25 We did that in eighth grade. And yeah, we did, eighth grade, we went to like that. Eighth grade, we went to Williamsburg, Virginia, which was super dope too. And I think that both of those. Is that where they all dress up like they're in the Colonials? Reenactments, yeah. And it was. Was this like during the.
Starting point is 00:20:40 school like would you take days off of school to go to these places and stay over night and they obviously come out yeah we never we never it was a Thursday through Sunday thing but it was like it you know when you're the like fifth grade eighth grade senior year so it's like you're about to leave to go to a new whole new school whatever so it was the end of the year thing so it's not like a regular field trip but we went to Washington DC when I was in fifth grade and uh dude like I think between that and like us going to Williamsburg when I was in eighth grade like that cemented my interest in history throughout my whole life. Like I saw all that shit and I was just like, man, there's old stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:15 I mean, granted, you know, it was old at the time. And I know that now if I was to go to Williamsburg, I would think it was the cheesiest shit in the world. Because I'm certain that it looks faker than shit. But at the time, you know, it was just, it was super cool. And there was a Ben Franklin motherfucker and like, you know, it was pretty cool. I enjoyed it. We did eighth grade, D.C. I enjoyed that a lot.
Starting point is 00:21:36 I did finger a girl. That's what made me think of that earlier. Also, a kid stole probably a DMX CD. It might have been the big timers and got arrested. Like his parents had to come get him. I was with him when it happened. They had to come to fucking D.C. Yep.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Oh, my God. Mad? Yeah, I bet. When we were in Williamsburg. Almost didn't get a go. I just remember that because I broke a urinal at school and had to pay for it. Almost didn't get a go. The best thing that happened,
Starting point is 00:22:06 on the eighth grade trip and we're in williamsburg and we saw that it was about to happen our buddy brad was running through this like little grassy area and there was this big old pile of dog shit and like he was just like in perfect stride to it and we watched like happening in slow motion and he hit this dog shit got it all over his fucking shoe and he slipped and it went all up his fucking calf muscle and son i i think it's one of them things where you laugh all day like it don't quit you know what i mean like you start laughing, you die, then it gets a little bit better, and then you just see the motherfucker and you die again. And every time I see him nowadays,
Starting point is 00:22:43 I think about him slipping in that dog shit. So that's probably my favorite. I was Brad. I got shit on by a bird twice at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They knew you were coming. I started gagging and then like my teacher got mad at me. Showed some respect. I was like, I got bird on me.
Starting point is 00:23:03 And everybody laughed at me the whole time too. so that was fun. That girl I think was a cop now. Oh, nice. That Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers fucking eerie shit. So weird, dude. Like, I remember. Strange.
Starting point is 00:23:16 Yeah. All that ritual. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, as a kid, it was just like, oh, wow, man, this is, you know, saving Private Ryan just come out. This is cool. And then, like, I remember going later and I'm just like, this is, it very much reminded me of that burbett, that whole say what we say when we say it.
Starting point is 00:23:32 And, like, seeing any of that type of ritualistic stuff, just like, It terrifies the fuck out of me, probably for no reason. Well, they're like, we don't know who this soldier is. We just found his body. And this represents all the soldiers who will never be identified. It's like, we should work harder. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I don't know. Some of them just, you know, they get exploded. They're goo, whatever. You know, what are we going to do? We are going to do that. Yeah, I don't. I feel like most people, and I don't know, maybe part of this is like, yeah, we're not talking about ancient shit,
Starting point is 00:24:05 but like, if you see rituals from other cultures, usually it's like, oh, that's real cool type of reaction. It would be weird and colonially to be like, this fucking gross, what are they doing?
Starting point is 00:24:18 That's stupid. You know what I mean? So you don't say that. But if we have a corresponding ritual related to death and whatnot, then it's like, I don't like this. It's fucking weird. I think it's the war glorification more than death for me.
Starting point is 00:24:38 But I know exactly what you mean because sex rituals or any relationship to sex, other countries, even if it makes it uncomfortable, we're like, I'm not supposed to say it makes me uncomfortable because that would be duchy. But then with our own, people will be like, man, fucking, you know, BDSM jokes, you know, kink shaming. It's like we have to invent these words to keep people from making fun of everybody. That's actually true because when we were, when we were like, like near Buckingham Pouse or whatever. We saw like the changing of the guards,
Starting point is 00:25:07 them doing it. And I didn't, and I was just like, oh, this is fucking cool. You know, they're wearing red coats like this is great. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:25:13 do you laugh and get slapped? No, because I had, I've done my research on that. And, yeah, they will beat the shit out of you. Well,
Starting point is 00:25:22 let's, let's get into it. Wait, hang on, hang on. Hang on. Because I had two other, I also want to hear about your week,
Starting point is 00:25:28 Andrew. Two other field trip. Yeah, I was going to say, let me review my life while y'all were gone. That'll take five minutes. Two other field trip things We'll move on from that because I remember them later. First, I should just note,
Starting point is 00:25:39 I said Salina didn't do any of that type of overnight type shit. There was a really, really cool trip in Salina, but I ain't get to go because it cost a lot of money. It was probably a really good deal for what it was, but it was still like a couple of thousand dollars. It was in the summertime, and they would go in high school. They would go to Europe every year.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Holy shit. Solana would? Yeah. Yeah. How many people got pregnant? Thompson went, but like it was literally like, it was like two weeks or something, and I feel like it was like a little over $2,000. So again, like as an adult, I know that that's a good deal, but also $2,000,
Starting point is 00:26:16 it might as well have been $200,000. Well, 2000 back then, too, was a little bit more than it is now. Yeah, right. But either way, it just wasn't in the cards for me. Yeah, right. I tried and my grandpa basically laughed. Did they have like a program where you could like sell code or whatever? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:32 or kills. I don't know. I don't remember that being a thing. Yeah, that was our thing for like our senior trip, the kids that couldn't afford it, like Coca-Cola would like give the school a crates of fucking 20-ounce coax like at cost or whatever and you could go door to door and sell them and shit.
Starting point is 00:26:49 That's right. His community, his poor community there on the outskirts of the outskirts of the city. I didn't see. Free coat donated to it. Listen, I'm just. Black kids they let there for the football team. Why don't you just do that?
Starting point is 00:27:01 Well, first off, I didn't have to do it because my shit would just pay for. I was just asking if they did have any kind of program like that. Not that I recall. It would have been just everybody would have been. Yeah, right. But exactly. The other thing I was going to say, I remember, this is also a high school trip, not a little kid trip. And I think I've told this for it, it's been a long time if I have. It was an ag trip. We took an ag trip to MTSU to like go around their ag program.
Starting point is 00:27:27 And a big part of it was at the time. You saw the Cal TV? The Cal TV? Now, this always, this has happened multiple times. I'm not the one who saw the Cal TV. This is the first time I've ever remembered what you mean by Cal TV. I remember now. But previously, this is, you'll bring up the Cal TV, and I'm like, what, what are you?
Starting point is 00:27:48 And then you explain it. And, and, but it's where you could see into the side of a cow, right? That's me. We've done this before. Yeah. You, T. Martin, where I was a governor school instructor. And T.E. would get his hammer and walk us over and be like,
Starting point is 00:28:02 you want to stick your hand inside of a cow? And I'd be like, what? He goes, there's a hole in it. Come on. So this. Our cows had holes in them too that we'd stick our hands in, but it wasn't on purpose. It was looking at various ag programs at MTSU, right?
Starting point is 00:28:21 But one of them, and this is like 2002 or 2003, and at the time, and I guess they fell way behind at some point, at the time, they were like at the full. forefront of like, what's the word? Cars that don't run on gas. What's the... Green energy, hybrid cars? Yeah, but they didn't even have the word hybrid yet.
Starting point is 00:28:45 It was just like alternative fuel source vehicles, right? Like trying to figure out cars that didn't run on gas, right? MTSU was at the forefront of that at the time. They had a car that was like fucking hydrogen. And then they had like biofuel, like ethanol and stuff. like that and we went and checked that whole program out and the dude who was in charge of the whole thing was this phd old boy he was in like overalls and shit doctor fucking cooter you know and and he was and this dude fucking cooter yeah he was like fucking really did it for me yeah he was
Starting point is 00:29:21 very highly respected in his field he was german cordie dr fucking cooter yeah he uh he was like you know, brilliance and was in charge of this whole thing, but he was also red as hell. And I remember he gathered us all around. He was talking us all through whatever. He's like, it got real raving at the end because he goes,
Starting point is 00:29:42 he's like, boys, I'm supposed to tell y'all, you know, I'm doing all this. I'm dedicating my life to it because of, you know, the environment,
Starting point is 00:29:50 saving the planet and all that type of shit. And that, you know, and that's fine. But the truth is, I just want to stick it to the ARABs. Corey really has forgotten that based on the laugh. Yeah, I knew I'd told it before.
Starting point is 00:30:11 No, I remember it as soon as you said it. But yeah, that's still ready to get us off in their oil. I thought Chinese was coming. I think I, I think I made it Chinese in my head since we're now at war with the Chinese energy-wise. Yeah, I think all that oil we can't, you know, the OPEC and all that. He wanted it. He's trying to save us from all that. I remember us the first time we talked about this,
Starting point is 00:30:34 we came to the conclusion that it's like, sometimes you just got to accept that someone can be on your side and an asshole at the same time. You know what I'm saying? Because like he's still doing good work, but not maybe for the right reason. Yeah, we need assholes. Yeah, I think that, oh, and then circling way back,
Starting point is 00:30:53 just so I saw Jay Cole at Bonneroo before his first actual album came out. This is like mixtape Jay Call. and it was fucking awesome. It's one of the best shows I ever saw in a tent. It would be a whole different affair now since he's, you know, you know, going through the stratosphere, yeah, in the intervening years,
Starting point is 00:31:13 but I'm sure it'll hit real hard. I hate to say, but must say, might just been a one-off, and you said he's not going to be there anyway, but I saw Ludacris at Bonner, too, and was really looking forward to it,
Starting point is 00:31:24 and it didn't hit for me the way the whole set up was. It was like, you know how Ludacris has done, a whole lot of features. Well, he kept, like, playing those songs so he could do his feature, which I got, but they would play a lot of the song, like fucking, like, glamorous. Is that one he was in? Like a third, whatever Fergie song had ludicrous in it, just as an example.
Starting point is 00:31:49 They would play, like, a lot of that song. So for, like, a big chunk of time, it's just, it's just a song playing. And he's just overhidden. Someone else's song, yeah. And then finally, he's. he'll do his verse or whatever, but he did like a lot of that. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:32:03 he should have done like a melody of them or a medley. Yeah, no, I know, right. And I just, that's what I'm saying. It just,
Starting point is 00:32:09 like, it just sort of didn't hit for me. Because there'd be long stresses where you're just sitting there, like, why am I listening to, to Fergie? I know that Luda's coming, but we don't need all this.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Just play a couple of fucking, you know, uh, beats or whatever. Dude, just do chicken and beer. The thing. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:32:26 I know that's, I know. I was also, I was also like, man, you got plenty of jams just of your own. So many. Just do like just do those.
Starting point is 00:32:36 But it seemed more focused on the shit he had featured in. Although like I, because of that, I didn't even, I've wandered off to some other show. So I'm sure he might have circled back around the hit. And that was just like the features part of his set that I happened to see and it didn't hit for me.
Starting point is 00:32:51 So, but anyway, I still love Luda though. Yeah. I mean, that sounds awful. I know a lot of times too, at a festival, the rap can be bad
Starting point is 00:33:01 because of the sound or whatever. Like Big Boy wasn't that great. And I know he's great. Fucking run the jewels at Governor's Ball sucked. I couldn't hardly hear him. And then Outcast at the same festival, but on a different stage, was awesome. So it just be that way sometimes.
Starting point is 00:33:18 But on the features thing, I'll send you this video. I think at Governor's Ball, recently, within the last week, there's this kid going viral. Anderson Pack has a song with someone, I think their name is Corday. I'm not up on the new rap,
Starting point is 00:33:32 but Anderson wasn't there, and this kid had a sign. Bring me on stage. I know all his words. And they did. Nice. And they wrapped it together, and the kid was really, really good.
Starting point is 00:33:42 And it's one of those wraps. It's not like your verse, my verse. They're finishing each other's lines. Oh, that's cool. And it's really, really, really sweet. I'll send it to you guys. I just saw it like yesterday or this morning. I, speaking of features,
Starting point is 00:33:57 I saw that you had an, interesting person pop in and feature on one of your shows this weekend. What was that all about? Yeah, I let this up-and-comer open for me. This name's Brian Regan. The way it went down was really wild. So DJ and I have been on tour. We got one more show in Birmingham on the 22nd of June,
Starting point is 00:34:17 and then we've got a bunch of dates we're going to announce for August soon. We're at in Birmingham. We're at Avondale Brewing, which is like it's a huge venue. Like the truckers played there. but they've got two stages. Like I guess that whole like, let's have shows that a brewery has become so specialized that now
Starting point is 00:34:37 Alex Hokes, he's the number one brewery comedian in the world. I've heard that, yeah. This is a real venue. But so anyway, my point is come out even if you don't like beer. Birmingham on the 22nd. We were in Chattanooga.
Starting point is 00:34:51 We did a show at Cherry Street Tavern, which is the Bohannon Boys, who are just great people. They're former punk rockers, and they own a bar. And DJ was like, I want to do one at their bar. You know, it might not be the best comedy venue, but, you know, Michael's busy and blah, blah, blah. And we usually do JJ's.
Starting point is 00:35:09 I was like, all right, we'll check it out. It ended up being one of the raddest shows we've ever done. Anyway, I'm on stage, and it's a bar, so there's like windows behind you, like, you know, at the front of the bar. And I turn around, and it's Brian Regan. And I just, like, immediately was like, holy shit, that's, Brian Regan. Did you know he was in town? I did not.
Starting point is 00:35:32 So apparently he did have a theater show. And I found out later that his buddy, after the show, he was like, I want to get a shot and a beer. And his buddy was like, I know a cool bar that's on the other side of downtown, so maybe no one will bother us. I turned around. I said, I go, holy shit, it's Brian Regan. And he kind of looks at me. And I go, Brian Regan, come in. and then I see him go up to the door guy
Starting point is 00:35:59 and the door guy's like asking him for ID and a coach dog. So I walk out with the Ryan Regan, gray-haired. He like, he was outside walking by and you just saw him and you yelled at him from the stage and he heard you.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Yeah, the door guy's got the door open. Yeah. Yeah. Door guy and I have the door open. Oh. It's just. So presumably everybody walking by outside could hear.
Starting point is 00:36:25 me scream it. Yeah, right, which is, I mean, that's fine. It's just like... Now, I will say this. He said this, and I didn't believe him. But apparently he's niche famous. Because about 10 people in that crowd went nuts. And then about 60 people in that crowd went, who?
Starting point is 00:36:44 Yeah. Were they just young? Maybe, but it still blew my mind. Some of them were, you know, there's a lot of our fans were there. Well, you know, he's never had a TV. I mean, he's had that one sketch show, but, like, he is one of those guys
Starting point is 00:36:55 that we always talk about that it's like, man, it's so wild that he is where he is and it's purely from stand-up, you know? So I yelled out, I walked out there, I was like, hey, let him in.
Starting point is 00:37:07 It's fine. He's on the show. So he comes in, people go nuts. And DJ had started this bit where the door is right by the stage. If anybody walks in, we yell free bird at him.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Because unfortunately, earlier in the night, someone yelled in and started literally yell on January 6th. during DJ's set, yeah. So after DJ kicked that person out and dealt with it and it was like a crazy veteran and apparently they were fans.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Apparently it was like a fan of ours. Like, I don't know if it was well read or any of the abiscuit or both. But DJ was like, no, man, it wasn't like, fuck you. It was like, why didn't you talk about this? Yeah, right. Which is arguably worse.
Starting point is 00:37:51 Way worse. So I guess DJ decided he goes, listen, every other person who walks in that door, y'all just yell freebird at them because whether they're cool or not, that's the test. If we yell freebird at them and they're cool, they can come in.
Starting point is 00:38:07 So we had that going. Brian Regan walks in. Half the crowd cheers because we built up to it. I've been outside. And the other half screams Freebird, which he didn't acknowledge, but he made that face, that Brian Regan one eyebrow,
Starting point is 00:38:21 the rock thing he can do. Yeah. And I was like, like, Brian Regan, everybody. And then I pulled the mic away and I go, hey, man, you don't have to do time at all, but also you are very welcome to. And he goes, well, I'll do 10. I introduced him right then.
Starting point is 00:38:39 He walks on stage. And he goes, hey, I'm coming from another show. I had tonight at the Tivoli Theater. You guys weren't there. So thanks for nothing. And that murdered. And then he did two jokes. the second one of which was very long.
Starting point is 00:38:56 It was about being on an airplane and setting in the emergency row and no one thanking you afterwards. Thank you. Yeah, I know that bit. And the one before, I didn't even know what he did before. I got it all on tape and I also got a pretty cool video of me bringing him in that a fan sent me that I haven't posted yet. I haven't done anything this week but work outside.
Starting point is 00:39:14 But anyway, it was rad. He did 10 and then I had to go back up and follow him. And Good Cop Bradcott was there and they murdered. They're even better than they were. like they have new songs and they're genuinely incredible. And I'd already been complaining about having to follow music. Yeah, it's hard. I had to follow them and it was tough.
Starting point is 00:39:33 So then I walked back up there after already having done that for about 15 minutes, Regan comes on. Then I go back up there and technically the show's not over. Like we haven't hit our 90 minutes. It wouldn't be a big deal if we don't, but I'm like, I guess I'm going to try to do 15 or 20 more. And I did and it went really well. And part of the reason I did is I was like,
Starting point is 00:39:50 I want Brian Regan to see me do stand up. Yeah, of course. I was hammered. He stayed. I would have got the fuck out of there. Then we hung out. And I think that's what he wanted, man. Like, I don't think I've ever hung out with anybody famous or famous is quite like
Starting point is 00:40:06 Brian Regan. He talked to every comedian that wanted to talk to him and not like in a I'm being nice way. He just stood in one place if you came up to him. He was happy to have a conversation. He bought us rounds. He wanted to hear about stand-up. He was very intrigued in basically my life as like,
Starting point is 00:40:23 what I would call a middle class comedian, like the fact that I'm a pro, but he has no idea who I am. Like, he was very intrigued by all that. And, you know, I told him, like, you know, well-read sometimes those theaters in some cities or sometimes me and DJ are doing bars. Well, we talked about jokes. I had been doing, I've been doing some stuff about my brother. Some of it was rough.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Some of it is working really well. And he wanted to talk to me about that. And he was very intrigued by it all. I was on cloud nine. It was, too. Man, we were texting each other all day the next day. like, can you believe that happened? Can you believe how cool he was?
Starting point is 00:40:57 It was truly incredible. Coming from his perspective, you got to think about it, unless, you know, obviously he can bring his feature anytime he wants, but like because he's been at the level he's at for so long, he doesn't really get to hang out in a room of comedians all the time, especially ones that he doesn't know, you know what I'm saying? Well, in his feature afterwards thank me and said, you know, he really loved that, by the way.
Starting point is 00:41:20 He doesn't get to do stuff like that. and I go, honestly, I wanted him to know that I didn't expect it, but like that he could do time. And he was like, no, he loves it. I think Brian Riegan just loves everything about stand-up comedy. Oh, yeah. His girlfriend is a longtime girlfriend. She was super sweet.
Starting point is 00:41:35 She was clearly very smart, had a lot of good conversations with her. But like, neither of them have kids, or at least I think that's what they said. My point is, like, I think Brian Riegan just likes traveling the country. Oh, yeah. Doing stand-up comedy. Clearly. And it was really rad. really rare yeah he's one of those as far as like being niche famous he's like built up this
Starting point is 00:41:56 following over you know he's cleans there's this huge swath of people that are like you know they will only fuck with clean comedy obviously right it's like oh i know that that's safe to go out to or whatever and i feel like that group of people it's sort of like another version of how there's like this massive group of people on the internet that fuck with all the like rogan verse you know what or the legion of skanks yeah right like that there's like that there's like that but for clean comics too and Brian Regan's like the top guy in that Brian Reagan Gaffigan and Bargatsy exactly yes all those dudes and Brian he's probably the third most famous I mean like probably just now Leanne
Starting point is 00:42:33 Leanne Morgan is a big part of that whole deal and it's like once you get into that world once you're known in that world you know like those people will support the shit out of you right yeah but but Brian Regan so he's the biggest in that where he does like fucking red rocks and shit but I'm not surprised that just like walking around the streets of your average sitting around bars and stuff like that, that there's a lot that you said, you know,
Starting point is 00:42:58 there was whatever 10 people that love him and 60 people that didn't know who he was. I'm not, because he's not like a movie star comic, you know, he's just, he's a comic. Right. And a lot of people just don't know comics, period.
Starting point is 00:43:12 It might be an age thing, but I would argue Gaffin's probably more famous based upon. The hot pocket around. Yeah. Well, and people being like, oh, like, I was going to say, he's been a very interesting thing about what you were just talking about.
Starting point is 00:43:28 And like, you know, it was a private combo. I don't want to make it sound like he was saying something he wasn't, and I definitely don't want to reveal something he doesn't want to reveal. But he definitely said something interesting about how he has chosen very purposefully to express himself the way that he expresses himself. But he has been, I think he used
Starting point is 00:43:46 the word, surprised at times at what he's gotten back from. that and I'm pretty sure he was alluding to by being clean he gets embraced by people who don't who aren't like him who don't see the world he likes that but I'm being careful because like it's clear that he wasn't mad about that yeah right but he was basically saying it was a conscious decision to express myself the way I want to express myself but not a conscious decision to be embraced by Christians necessarily yeah right right but you will have that but it was conscious and I thought that was very interesting and he said it was conscious
Starting point is 00:44:20 because of how he feels as, as like as an artist, for lack of a better phrase. Yeah, I heard Bargazzi make a joke about that same type of thing on a podcast with Joe DeRosa the other day. Joe DeRosa, you know, he's way different. He's very dark and blue and not family friendly at all. And I love them both. I think they're both great.
Starting point is 00:44:39 But DeRosa was saying how he ended up getting books somehow on a show at an old vault home, right? And he was just like, so, you know, fucking nightmare. And Bargatzi was like, what are you talking about it? Like, that's a dream scenario for me. But he's like, old folks home, I know I'm going to crush. He's like, that's my crowd right there.
Starting point is 00:44:57 Like, you know, it's like playing with a cork bat for me going into old folks home. So like he fully embraces that whole deal. Yeah. Yeah. How bad it's just like he just, that's just the way that he, because they sort of asked him like how he made that decision or what that type of thing. And he was just like, you know, it's just the way my brain works, you know, it's like I's just the type of stuff that I think I don't think. It's not like I think about R-rated bits and then think to myself, I can't do that.
Starting point is 00:45:25 Yeah, but he won't let people curse on his podcast and stuff. So he's clearly like trying to cultivate something there. I think it's just that he knows he's got it. So why fuck with it now at this point, I guess? Before we take another break and before you guys bring us home with Tales of the UK, I just wanted to do some highlights of the well-red beard podcast. But for y'all. like highlights for y'all.
Starting point is 00:45:50 Because everybody's listening right now. Y'all were here. You guys know what all went down. Carmen was great. As always, she shared a lot of cool stuff. She has her special out on HBO. You can watch it on HBO Max right now. It's awesome, et cetera, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:46:04 My favorite thing from the week is there have been at least three comments, the people who have been very kind saying that they are going to miss me. And when you guys come back. So I just want to say to those people. They think you were leaving? They didn't know I was on this podcast is the way I was reading it. I don't know where this Drew guy is, but he's done great. He's done great.
Starting point is 00:46:31 I don't know where they found this guy, but I like him. Oh, God. That's wild. It might have been, like, syntax. They were trying to say they were going to miss Carmen, and they're just not great writers. But, like, that's not what they said. Oh, man. let's uh we'll be right back after this
Starting point is 00:46:50 so you guys went to scotland you guys have been saying england the whole time you may have said uk once i was i was trying to say the uk the whole time not a twinge of jealousy till you sent a fucking text saying something about scotland and then i was like fuck these fat pieces of shit well it even the uk wasn't really at because we didn't go to northern island or wales we went to england and scotland specifically
Starting point is 00:47:19 and yeah Scotland was the part I was most excited about yeah I don't give a fuck about England tell me about Scotland when we were in England people kept telling us you're probably going to find a certain kinship with the Scott I would imagine and that sort of they say it in a snotty way no no but they didn't say it in a snotty way but it was like you can tell what they meant I think yeah right like you know they're fucking rednecks
Starting point is 00:47:42 yeah right yeah exactly it's like they're fucking stupid cheap fuckers up there you know the way that y'all love her way that y'all are. I know one thing, man. And, but I, but the thing, like, I also expected and hoped for that before we went to Scotland, so I was excited about it. And, you know, there was definitely, you know, that was definitely true. I felt like, like there were people, a lot of people in Scotland were very, uh, pumped when they,
Starting point is 00:48:08 you know, heard us talking or found out where we were from or whatever. And there was like, and also England, but one thing I was surprised about, and I don't know if it's something about us or what it was, I thought, because, people in England were saying like, yeah, you know, they're really going to go in on us while you're up there, basically. Especially because it was the Queens Jubilee and all that. Right, right. We expect to be a whole lot of vitriol in that, in that direction.
Starting point is 00:48:32 And it was also funny because the English people would be like, well, what do you think about the Scots? And we're like, well, you know, they've, they're kind of upset. And I guess I understand why it was. Right, you know, because we sort of did like take their land and oppress them for generations and all that. not let them be independent. Sure, sure, I hear you.
Starting point is 00:48:51 You know, they had this sort of like, well, you'll have that. It's like they understood the disdain that a lot of other people's had for England and why, but they were also just like, they were just like, yeah, what are you going to do? But they did acknowledge it. No, they did, yeah. I'm not used to that type of, I'm not used to that type of behavior.
Starting point is 00:49:11 But they acknowledge it in a very casual way. Yeah, right. Yeah, well, you know, we sort of did all. Aren't the Scott's like. aren't the scots like way more cool though with being a part of the UK than Ireland is generally speaking oh northern yeah maybe northern Ireland but they're not cool with it like they were you know they had a referendum on leaving the UK like five or six years ago and it barely lost and then since then there's been Brexit and all this other shit and so every most every scotsman scots person
Starting point is 00:49:38 every scotch whatever Scotland people we talked to scooters were saying like they were saying like 100% we are going to be independent in the next few years. And they were like, you know, we haven't. Especially because of the Brexit shit. Right. Well, I knew that the Brexit should change it. I think I thought that referendum was less close than it. No, it was like 52 to 48 type thing, apparently.
Starting point is 00:50:01 Because I do be keeping up with Scotland a little bit. I really give the scotch. I like their politics. I like the way they've organized their society as best I can tell. Yeah, no, me too. I dig all that as well. The one thing I was going to, I was about to say about that I was surprised about but I guess I sort of get it like I said I thought there'd be all this vitriol toward the
Starting point is 00:50:21 English because we asked a bunch of them like yeah we what about the English what you think and it was always like I think they it's like they wanted to keep it in house or something yeah right I don't know like we were out like they were they wouldn't they wouldn't just start going off on them they would be like they'd be like yeah well you know we want to be our own country and all that but you know we don't have a problem with English people like they really downplayed it which I thought I thought they were going to just go in you know but that that never really happened. I think it's because we were other, we were Americans.
Starting point is 00:50:50 It's like when Yankees. Yeah. They try to get us to talk shit about our dads. Right. Right. That's pretty good. Yeah. And I'm just like, I mean, I want to, but not to you. Yeah. Well, we've seen how that goes before. Yeah. But I was seeing like post on Reddit, because when I was on Reddit over there, I was getting the
Starting point is 00:51:08 UK version of Reddit, you know, because that's cool. Well, it's just a timing thing because, you know, by the way, same thing on Pornhub. there you go but uh i and i saw a lot of a lot of posts about the queen jubilee like from scotland that was posted on reddit that was like fuck the fucking queen you know like that type of shit and like graffiti all around glasgow of you know fucking queen can suck my dick type stuff and but we didn't see or get a whole bunch of that and like i said i think it was
Starting point is 00:51:40 being kept from us because it's like this ain't y'all's this ain't for y'all that's that's that's our thing we don't we're not going to share it with you we uh we closed down this podcast with fuck the queen every week uh yeah i heard that changed the lyrics so i'm with it i knew i was scottish i am i am scottish literally yeah it was it was a it was fucking nuts man like when we got off the train in edinburgh like literally just stepped off the train you go you immediately go holy fuck this is game of thrones you know what i mean And it really is like, God damn, there's a castle right there. But also on the train going over there, me and, me and Trey both, like, looked at each other.
Starting point is 00:52:22 And we were like, this is East Tennessee. Well, that was the train from Edinburgh to Inverness. Yeah, right, right, right. When we got from the Scottish lowlands into the Scottish highlands, we got into Scottish highlands, I swear to God. Yeah. It looks just like Appalachia. Like, it was just like East Tennessee. Well, I mean, I'm currently at Andy's house.
Starting point is 00:52:40 She went to Scott County High School, home of the High High School, home of the High Islanders, you know. We went to Marble College, the fighting Scots. I mean, it's here, baby. It just, I was telling Tras, like, it really makes sense that those people came to America, got as far as East Tennessee and went, this is fucking it right here. This is whom. Well, that's definitely true. And I could be wrong, but I think also back when they were just giving out land to white people and or the American government was trying to tell people where they should go, they were telling Scottish people like, hey, you'll like it there. you know so but simon our first tour guide or no this was later on somebody told us that there was a theory that before before the continental drift that those were just the same mountain regions yeah i was going to bring that up i'd never heard that before but this dude's a phd in history uh it's not gains i think it was his name and he's a scottish guy and a fan he was he was talking
Starting point is 00:53:37 oh yeah that's right yeah he yeah he was a fan but he said that uh what up gains he was saying a lot of you know a lot of the you know a lot of Scottish people ended up in Appalachia and all that stuff and that there was a lot of like connection there and whatnot but I'd never heard until he said he was like yeah actually before yeah like in Pangia like before the continent split apart he's like those are literally the same mountains like that that was connected to the Appalachian Mountains before everything split apart so it's like geologically ain't that bananas are the same like I'm gonna look at age of this in the same type of mountains and rocks and stuff.
Starting point is 00:54:13 That's so interesting. I mean, so the smashing of the continents is how those mountains were formed. So it's like we could have smashed together, form the mountains, and then broke apart. But I'm struggling with this north and southwise because the Appalachians stop in Pennsylvania,
Starting point is 00:54:28 but then just north of there, you got the Adirondacks. I don't know. I'm just trying to imagine how this went down. Yeah, I mean, it's beyond my fathomability. Is that a word fathomability? I wonder if he generally means
Starting point is 00:54:42 the East Coast ranges of the Americas. Yeah. Rather than specifically the Appalachians, because there's so much space between the Appalachians and the Adirondacks that there's separate mountain ranges. That makes way more sense to me. And those are basically the same mountains too, to be fair. It's just that they don't, it's not a continuous range.
Starting point is 00:55:00 Yeah. And you know, they were, the reason they all came over and ended up in Appalachia and all that stuff in the first place was because the rich people over there, the landed gentry in Scotland, they want to just they had a meeting and somebody realized one day they're like you know we got all these poor people living on our land just farming it but they just farm it to survive like they're not really making us any money you know what make us a lot more money is if we had a bunch of sheep on that land instead of poor people like sheep are worth way more money than poor people and they were all like holy shit you're right what are we doing this is crazy so they just like kicked all the poor people out of that whole area the Scottish Island the Scottish Highlands, and they didn't make them go to different countries,
Starting point is 00:55:45 but the people that they, like, kicked out just did because they were like, fuck this place. Like, I'm not, where am I supposed to go here? I'm not going to stay here. So they just, that's the Scottish diaspora or whatever, if that's the right usage of that word comes from their rich people just deciding. Y'all are gross. You need to leave.
Starting point is 00:56:03 And it's just all starting to make so much sense. Yeah, right. I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's when my teeth don't hit. Right. I pointed this out to Trey too when we first got to Glasgow. Like everybody in England that we talked to was super nice to us. But like sort of like a New Yorkie way, they don't really go out of their way to engage.
Starting point is 00:56:22 You know what I'm saying? The second we got to Scotland, like my water bottle was about to fall out of my bag on the escalator. And this Scottish guy was like, hey, hey, buddy, you know, let me help you out here. And there were just several times where like random southern hospitality things would happen that didn't happen in England. and so that really started, you know, click with me too. I was like, oh, maybe that's why we're like that.
Starting point is 00:56:43 They're just a more friendly people. That dude Rob Corey, he stole his identity. Took his wallet, got his ID out, put back. Well, that's,
Starting point is 00:56:53 I mean, that's super dope. Are you guys allowed to talk about anything else? I mean, that was one thing, I started to bring it up, and then I was like, I don't even know,
Starting point is 00:57:00 you know, but like, did y'all get any work done? Did you just get drunk? Was it both? I got some work done a little bit. I kept up with all my paper and stuff. And I did some writing and shit while we were there because I didn't want to,
Starting point is 00:57:14 I know how my brain is. And I was like, if I take three weeks without keeping up with my shit at all, without doing anything, like I'll be, I'll be all over myself, like depression wise. Yeah. So I, but I mean, dude, not like. We drank our asses off. Yeah. He got more pages done than I did.
Starting point is 00:57:35 I got some pages done. We took a lot of notes. We did a lot of like audio journaling, you know, at the end of some days to try to keep our thoughts on track. And I was able to keep my personal work going, my substack and everything, surprisingly. But it was very difficult because, man, just like it is in hotels over here, the internet was just fucking shite the whole fucking time, especially like in the Cotswolds and shit. Well, we here at Well Red Nation, we were very happy you guys had a good honeymoon. Yeah. Everybody thought that, by the way.
Starting point is 00:58:08 I think a lot of, a lot of places definitely thought we were, you know, a nice gay couple from America. We went to. It was, it felt like a honeymoon for sure. We got to one hotel. Is that right? That would have felt like? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:27 We got, uh, we got to one hotel and they had us like a bottle of champagne and strawberry. I don't think they just. do that for us. That's so funny. Corey's like, oh, you guys brought us champagne and strawberries. And the guy's like, yeah, I mean, you requested it. You wrote it four times. We also had to tell them a couple of times to like, I don't know if American hotels,
Starting point is 00:58:48 maybe I've just never noticed, but they, almost every hotel room we were in over there, they have like a bed. There's two like twin-sized beds that they can put together into one big bed. And so like they can just use the same room for any, you know what I mean? Right. either and so I mean it's smart it makes sense but like there were a few times where we had to tell them like no can you can you can you unsip our bed please can you make it two beds and they're like oh you guys we like to we like to fuck on that one and sleep on this one you know like you guys need
Starting point is 00:59:18 too we just assumed you know once for farting yeah yeah yeah but we got a lot I do have to go yeah we got a we got a meeting here in a minute so well hey thank you all for listening to the well red show we're going to stick around longer But we got to go Tune in next week If you got nothing to do Thank you God Worship you good night
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Starting point is 01:00:00 Hello Trey Two least fancy people on planet Earth What is that actually? and I just did. Just, I think, just drunk, a duke. Just a drunk dude. That's always like my goat. Bring me.
Starting point is 01:00:15 It just sounds. Yeah, you don't even have to say words. It's just like, I would definitely be able to know if someone was British by the way they came. Yeah. By Joe. Bring in someone to clean this.

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