wellRED podcast - #278 - Internet Stars and Backyard Hillbilly Ass Whoopins

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

This week Corey and Trae talk about the wild WILD world of Youtube/Tik Tok stars, Celebrity Boxing, and Rednecks getting exploited to beat the shit out of each other on pay per view!Havent heard Corey and Trae’s new podcast Puttin On Airs yet? Well what ya waiting for! Get it wherever you get your podcasts or watch it at WatchPOA.comGot to TraeCrowder.com to check out Trae on the road!Go to CoreyWritesForYou.com for Corey’s PublicationCorey is also donating 50% of his cameos this year to foundations helping women get safe abortions. Book him at Cameo.com/coreyryanforrester

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this is the first time in our, I'll use the word fully professional careers that me and you have not toured together. Yeah. Well, you know, we've both in that time done like solo things, but not like. Oh, I'm not complaining. And I've only done, you know, three shows so far, but they were all great. I went great. I'm doing, you know, I'm doing more time. I'm doing a full hour.

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way to go about this yeah right so but that's you know fucking inside baseball shit I'll get it figured out everything else about the shows is going well so yeah um yeah looking forward to I'm finding for Jenny tomorrow yeah where you're going to be at funny bone in Richmond and then Virginia Beach, the 29th and 30th. Well, I think the question that everybody has is, do you miss me? Yeah, of course. Of course, I miss you, always. Yeah, I know, you're right, that was on everybody's minds.

But to them, work together multiple times every week, you know, or even physically in the same room together because they're putting on airs, which everybody should check out if I haven't already. Yeah, for sure. You can. Every Friday. Yeah, if you somehow, or you don't know what that is, putting on airs is me and Trey's new podcast.

wherein two hillbilly dipshits talk about fancy stuff, you know, the royals and kings and queens and shit. You can find it wherever you get your podcast, your podcast, you're putting on airs on all your podcast stuff, or you can watch it at watch p.oA.com, which just takes you to our YouTube page and such. Speaking of YouTube pages and such and also our careers and whatnot, we were kind of texting this morning, and we've never talked about it on here before, but like, internet fame, the varying degrees of it and how wild it can be, how there's like,

you know, like I am and you are to a, like, certain degree, some level of internet famous, but we're just like, and like, you know,

everybody that comes to my shows knows me from the internet. And that's great. But then there's like, there's all these. these people, YouTubers and stuff, I feel like you can find a new one every day. Oh, yeah. Like, I mean, orders of magnitude, more followers and more huge than we are. And like.

And some of them are 14 years old. Yeah, right. And then you like, you're like this, because it's like, I feel like getting, you know, going viral, I gave my, made my whole career that I now have. And I, you know, I always wanted to be a comedian and I still like try to go about things. the sort of like traditional way and everything. This is a career I wanted anyway, whereas some of these people just kind of like go viral and oh shit, now we're in it.

You know, but like, uh, I'm with you in that. I use, I use the internet to get eyes on me so that hopefully that will translate to people coming to see the thing that I actually do and consider my career. You know what I mean? But these, these YouTubers and this is no slide on them, but that is the thing that they do. Yeah, right. Exactly. And that's like, I wonder, you know, presumably they could probably sell tickets, but to do what? And I think they had the same idea. And some of them landed on, well, we could fist fight each other.

Because that's that I feel like I don't know the backstory, but I feel like that is sort of, that's probably what happened with all these like YouTube boxing matches that are going on. Because it's like, they're the biggest ones. The Pauls are like the biggest of these types of YouTubers we're talking about. And they started all that boxing stuff. But now there's like all kinds of other YouTubers. The thing that brought this all up was there's these two YouTubers, never heard of either one of them before this morning. But ESPN tweeted a thing that you shared in the group thread that was, it says all pro running backs, Adrian Peterson, and Levion Bell, are going to box each other at this exhibition pay-per-view match. And those two guys are two of the best running backs of the past generation.

Yeah, I didn't even see the YouTube part. I just saw that and I was like, cool. Exactly. Because if you're a football fan, you're like, oh, that's wild. I still, I would never pay money to watch them to box because they're not boxers. But, like, they're, they're, Adrian Peterson's, like, you know, apparently pretty big piece of shit. But one of the greatest running backs of all time. And Levyon Bell had a really high peak.

So these guys are, like, super legit football players. They're one of the undercards on this exhibition. Like, they're not even the main draw at all. the headline match, the like title belt, but there is no title since an exhibition, is between these two YouTubers, whose names I've already forgotten, and I'm not trying to shit on any of them,

but I saw that these two great running backs were undercards on this YouTuber boxing pay-per-view. I'd never heard of, so I started looking them up, like, who are these guys? And like, like I said, they've got so many more followers on social media and stuff than you and I combined, drive like it's way more and probably more than watch NFL games yeah but I've never heard of

well I don't know about that yeah that's true but uh probably more than watch like hockey in this yeah right but and I'd never heard of them you know so I looked it up in the two guys one of them his whole thing on the internet from what I can tell is that he does his own like keeping up with the Kardashian style like sort of doc you follow show just about him and his wife and their kids just like him and his family just like living their life.

Yeah, but it's also like, and again, this dude, I just, I could not imagine. When I first went viral, there were a couple of like reality production companies who wanted to do that with me

and Katie and the boys as like a TV show because, you know, yeah, you'll move to LA, real life Beverly Hillbillies, basically, right? That's what, and I, and I, you know, and I've never even considered it. Mostly, Katie would never do it, but also I'm real private about my family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want them in front of everybody anyway, but also, like, once you do that, you're that good, because I'm not going to, like, they don't know how boring I am at home. Like, I just, right, just sit around and do regular family shit.

You'd literally have to fake it. Yeah, right, exactly, which I'm not going to do. But also, it's just like, I just can't imagine just, like, sharing, my whole life with everybody all the time. But also, I just don't, I don't really follow what they, like, why, how them doing that, you know, worked to the extent. Right. Because normally it's like you have to be famous first.

For people to care about watching you just live your life. But that's not true anymore. I've also found it over the years, all these, like, I think Mark put it in the group text earlier, and I think he's right. It's a genre of, like, streaming and stuff that I think is called D.E. DIY, which is, that's do it yourself, but I don't, which doesn't really fit to me. So maybe me and Mark both had the acronym mixed up, but it's that, it's like where people just, they just stream themselves living their lives. That's all they do. And some of them on,

they're on Twitch and they're huge. And Twitch started out playing video games, but these people only play video games, they just live their life and they got all these followers. But most of them are pretty girls, which is like, to me, it's like, that's all, that's all the explanation you need. Right. You know, when you're talking about nerds and the popularity of, of, of, of pretty girls who streamed their lives. But then, and the other guy, and this is even wilder to me, the other guy, so you know how in sports games now? They have this thing called Ultimate Team.

Like Madden did, does it. Oh, yeah. Most of them do a version of it. It's like, I don't really, I don't know. I don't like it because it's a lot of micro-purchased bullshit. And I'm not going to spend extra real money to be good at a game that I already spent money on. Fuck all that shit.

But the way it works is you get these decks of cards and inside the decks are. randomly generated players. And so usually the players are not very good. But sometimes you can get like an elite Tom Brady in one of these pack in one of these card packets. And now on your ultimate team, you have elite Tom Brady, which is really good. But you've got to buy these packs of cards, right, with real money. And this one dude, his whole thing on the internet, until he started fistfighting other

YouTubers in the ring, his whole thing was doing that on FIFA, the soccer game. which, you know, that's probably the biggest video game franchise in the world. I'd say. He's a British guy. On FIFA, he just spends thousands of dollars on these packs of cards and films them all. And whenever he gets a pack that's got like two elites and a blue chip in it or whatever, like he gets a really good pack, which is like a one in a five thousand type thing, then he puts that on YouTube.

And it gets billions of views. Best pack ever. Best pack reveal ever. And he's got like tons of those. And they all have over a million views and stuff. And it's like that was his thing. Yeah, right. He was like just making money doing that. And then got into the, you know, the YouTuber boxing game.

But it's just like, Mark said it earlier. He was like, don't you feel stupid for like learning a craft and shit like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, it's just so wild to me because I, always, I've always wanted to be some kind, like, an entertainer in some form of show business or something. And it's like, there, there used to be things you had to do, do that. Whereas, like, now it's just, there's no limit to, there's no limit. And there's also no rhyme or reason for my perspective to the things people can be, like, famous or known for or make money doing.

Yeah. And I know, I know that neither one of us are attempting to shit on these people, because dude, in this insane world that we live in, however you can figure to make money and have fun, I don't give a shit. It's not like people are clearly watching it and YouTube works on ads. If you're getting the views, you deserve the views. What the fuck ever. But we talked about this a bunch where like there, we seem to be, I feel like, and of course I didn't live back then, but it seems like used to when people wanted to be famous, it was

for a thing that they do that hits. Like me and you've talked about this all the time. My primary objective is to be the best comedian, best entertainer that I can be. And usually a symptom of that is that you get famous. But to me, the important part is that people notice me for the hard work that I put into a thing.

But there seems to be a lot of people who are like, there's people that I know, like they're younger people that are in my town that they'll like holler at me and be like, hey, man, I know we don't, you know, really know each other that well. I was in, like, sixth grade when you were in, you know, high school or whatever, but, like, I'm just like, I'm really wanting to get into the internet game, and I figured that you could help me because you're, like, good at that.

And I always tell them, the first thing is I go, by the way, people think me and Trey are good at the internet. We're not. Yeah. We're funny. Like, our peers, like, other professional comedians who are, like, better than me, and that I respect have asked me before for, like, hey, dude, you give me some points. I get some advice from you on this whole internet part.

And I always, you know, I'm like, dude, I feel so bad, but believe me, I don't know. I do not know. No. I just found a thing that the internet seems to like and I just keep doing that thing. That's all I do. I don't actually understand it at all. Because there's no, there's no formula. Like, when I go to, when I make a video, in my mind, that video was good and funny.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have put it out. But like, I never know which one's going to get a million views and which one's going to get 25,000 view. You never fucking know. There's no secret. It's just like my thing is I feel like I'm funny and people see that I'm funny and they share my shit. That's my secret. But like, so these people will be like, I just really want to get in the internet game. And I'm like, okay, well, like, doing what?

And they're like, what? And they're like, what is it that you want to do? And they're like, well, I want to be like an influencer. And I'm like, okay, but like, but what is the product that you're going to be putting out? And they're like, I just want to get a bunch of followers. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? And they really in their mind, they, what they want? And again, I'm not slighting anybody for this.

What they want is to amass a huge group of followers so that they can spend all their time making videos for companies and getting paid for it and not having a real job. And again, I'm not shitting on that. But like that they don't care to put out good stuff. They just want the quickest, easiest way to get a bunch of followers so that companies will send them free sunglasses so that they can put them on in this video. And that is just so beyond me. and I think they see me like, you know, I do promotional videos sometimes because like I do have a lot of followers

and companies will send me shit, but I got those followers being me and being funny and putting out comedy videos so that people would come see my goddamn show. But they don't want any of that shit. They just want the end result. Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's a little more right after this.

Yeah, I, you know, I don't know. Like there's, a lot of times but seemingly not anymore and I think it's because the first generation for which this was true they have now gotten older and are in their 20s but a lot of times you find somebody like this on the internet and you're like what's going on here the answer is children yeah right like kids my kid dude kids and for a while now because I remember when I was working on my first pilot five plus years ago John Embomb the guy was doing it with who I love his daughter at that time was he was he was doing it with who I love his daughter at that time was was roughly the age of my kids now. And I remember she then was like, he was saying, he's like, dude, I can't, I can't pay her to watch TV. He's like, you know, I work in TV and everything. I try to go watch TV.

And he's like, she just, YouTube is her TV, man. It's like she, you know, whereas like when we were younger, it was like sitcoms and stuff like that. He's like, it's all YouTube for her. And the boys, we don't let them just watch YouTube all day, but if we did, they would. Like, they'll watch shit. Like, they'll watch Kenobi and, you know, things like that.

in like Harry Potter movies and stuff. But we got to make them. If it was left up to their brothers, they'd just be on the internet all day. And that's how kids be and have been for the past few, you know, many generations of kids.

A lot of times you find people with huge amounts of followers, it's children. Right. Which makes a lot of sense. Matter of fact, dude, this was fucking wild. So there's a,

right on the corner of the main street that connects to my street, right, here in Burbank, right on the corner of my street and that main street, which is just right up here. You can see it from the front door.

There was this thrift store, and it really sucked because thrifting's a big thing out here. So, like, people were constantly blocking them, like parking and blocking my driveway and all this shit and everything else. And then finally, the thrift store moved out, and I was thrilled. And then Katie was like, yeah, well, you know what's moving in there. And I said, no. And she said, it's called CWA Studio.

I think I've got this right. And I was like, what's that? And she goes, Jojo, Cewa, right? And I was like, is that a person? Was that like a dance? What is that? You know? And she was like, it's this, she's like a, she, like is a singer or something and dances and stuff.

But she like went, you know, famous on the internet at four kids. Like kids love this person, Jojo Cewa. And she's like huge on the internet for kids and especially little girls. And she's since got. like a TV show and that's what they're doing down here on my corner is they film that TV show. It's like her running a dance studio or something like that. I don't know. I've never heard of her. But the last time we were in New Orleans to do our show at, you know, whatever, you know, little theater was down there. On the way to the show, I drove, and I'm not trying to be dismissive.

I love New Orleans. I just literally can't remember where we were at. But, yeah, well, it all blends together when you're in New Orleans. On the, on the way to the show, we drove by the Super, dome and at the Superdome that night was Jojo Siwa. Yeah, damn. And I was like, fucking what? Yeah, right. Like I did not. Katie explained to me if she was.

I was like, okay, she's like big with kids or whatever. But the fucking Superdome, she does stadiums. Full of kids. That's like the Rolling Stones play. Right, right. Because that's full of kids. I know, dude. It blew my fucking mind.

And I'm saying there's this whole like. world and it mostly exists on the internet, but of people like that who are like huge in that way, but there's so many of them. You have, and you never, you know, if you're not somehow connected to that world,

you don't know about any of them, but the boys, they'll talk about different YouTubers and shit. They have like their favorite YouTubers and all, you know, I'll watch them sometimes and I can't help it. I'll just be on there and be like, what the fuck?

Why do you like this? I'll be like, they're not making any jokes or nothing. I was like, none of this is funny. They're just like talking loud. And like, what, what is this? This is low effort bullshit. And they just, you know, they fucking love it.

I don't know. We do live, though, like, we live in the best time as far as like entertainment and creativity goes because of course there's so much bullshit. But like with any bullshit, you can just not watch it. That's fine. But we live in the first. time in the world where niche entertainment is like prevailing because like back in the day there were three channels but before that it was just radio every single thing that you did

had to have broad appeal because they're like we have to get the most eyeballs on this we have to have broad appeal and now because you can just do shit at your house or whatever people are starting to real like i remember the first tip i got in like podcasting from somebody was like actually the deal in podcasting as being the most specific that you can be because you don't know you want you you would rather have 250 to 300,000 dedicated ride or die listeners than you would 3 million passive listeners because these people are like oh my god you're making a thing that's so specific for me and I didn't realize that my niche was going to be on display like this and I think that's you know, super fucking cool.

But there is a lot of bullshit. But I think Roy Wood Jr. explained it the best. I don't know if you remember this conversation. He does. He does. Me and Roy did a conference this past weekend together. And me and him did a stand-up show together. But before that, he spoke at lunch.

And he didn't even know what the title of his speech thing was going to be. But it popped up on the thing. And it said, Roy Wood Jr. breaks it down. And all the, me and all the comedians are back there. and like almost synchronized. We just all go, I mean, literally no one breaks it down better than Roy. Like every time Roy has ever talked, it's Roy Wood Jr. Breaking it down.

Yeah, he stayed breaking it down. We had him on at the, I want to say the very big, when we first kind of started doing these remote podcasts because of the pandemic, we had Roy on, and he talked about what the future of comedy was going to look like after the pandemic. And if y'all go back and listen to it, it's literally prophetic. It's exactly what happened. And then also, we had been.

mention to him how, you know, we have a chip on our shoulder because a lot of people consider us YouTubers and we're worried that like there's comedians that exclusively think of us as YouTubers. And Roy, without missing a beat, was like, man, listen, it's like anything else. I'm going to explain it to you like this. He goes, back when a radio came out, there was a bunch of people that were live vaudeville performers that were like all this new radio bullshit, these kids, this ain't ever going to work or whatever the fuck. Then TV came out and all the old radio heads were just like, oh, this new TV bullshit. All the kids want to do is watch TV.

And he's like, YouTube is just that now. Like, this is just the new iteration. And basically, basically what he was saying was, yeah, there's going to be dudes that say that shit, but y'all shouldn't feel bad about it at all because this is just the next thing. And as an artist, you have to evolve. Now, granted, again, we're still not talking about the same thing as doing like these dudes on YouTube that have five million followers and all they do.

I don't know if you know this one. Some of them just do, have you ever heard of unboxing videos? It's kind of like what you just said with the packets of cards. But like basically for the listeners that don't know, some people will just like set up a P.O. box. And we have one for the record.

P.O. Box 240, Chickamauga, Georgia. That's the well-read P.O. box. But their whole show is like people will just send them stuff and they'll just do an unboxing and be like, look at all this shit I got. And people will be like, that's fucking wild. I hope he picks my shit next. And that's why they're famous. So like, that's a little bit different.

but at the same time, the stigma of YouTube is probably going away a little bit. Yeah, no, definitely. It's just like, yeah, I still just feel like it's too, like a lot of comedians look at us about the other internet comics or their YouTubers or whatever,

but it's like, but we're not, we're really not YouTube. I wish we were. I'm about to say, yeah, like the people we're talking about, they're YouTubers and it's this whole,

again, I just get fascinated by it sometimes because every time one pops up, it seems to be very internet famous, and I never heard of them. I'm always like, okay, I want to see what they do. And so often I'm like, okay, I still don't really know or I do know, but I don't get why it's a thing.

But they'll, yeah, they'll just be massive. You know, like, I think one of the single biggest YouTube channels is that Marcus or Marquess Brownlee, you know, that guy. I've heard his name. He's like one of the biggest guys on YouTube and his thing is, and he's like very, like, smart and professional. dude. A lot of these YouTubers, again, they just scream a lot in their wild and crazy and they appeal to kids. He's not like that at all. But his whole thing is like he reviews tech, like technology and gadgets. Oh yeah. Yeah. I know that dude. He reviews them and is one of the like top 10 YouTube pages, period. Like when, it's free shit all the time. Yeah. When, when YouTube did their YouTube rewind thing that they do every year and they had Will Smith for it. Will Smith was like running at Will Smith. It like referenced Brownlee. like name dropped him and that or whatever.

And he's like just massive. And that's, he's like a technology critic. Yeah, whatever. You know, and it's just like, shit is just so wild to me.

And the unboxing and the, the reaction videos, crazy. Crazy to me. Like the, because like, I've seen some that, that I thought,

like no life shack is the best. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, I love, when I first reaction video I ever saw, was him watching Freebird. And I fucking loved it.

Best video on the internet. it. But like, I just don't, it's like a whole thing now, and I feel like there's reaction videos for reaction videos. Yeah, no, there are. There are. I was almost about to propose that we do one for No Life Shack watching Freebird. Yeah. I mean, I try, I kind of did that for a little while once it first became a thing. I was doing it with Fox News, but it was like, you know, that didn't hit for me very quickly. Yeah, right, because then you've got to watch every day. Yeah, exactly. I was about to say like with our with the niche that we kind of have like none of that shit seems appealing to me like i don't know like dude i could not have more respect for anyone on earth than the respect i have for you who aside

from doing this podcast and not only does a weekly podcast that is just about politics and the news but also does like bonus patreon shit all that stuff about politics because like i i'm i'm not sitting here saying uh it's stupid to be like oh you being informed. You should be informed, but like, man, you really, you really got, you really put yourself through some depressive shit. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Like, I couldn't fucking do it. And I don't know what, like, I would love to do reaction videos, but I don't know what the fuck people would want for me. And I know that like our base would be like, you should react to like Marjorie Taylor Green hearings and stuff like that. And I'm like, I don't, mm-mm,

I don't want to do that shit. Yeah, no, I hear you. I don't know. Um, Yeah. And then there's like, you know, there's like some of the biggest people on TikTok are like, you know, they just do like a dance. Billions of views. They got like a dance that they do. It's like a signature dance. And a lot of times it's not, it ain't like some. It's good. So you think you can dance type stuff. You know what I mean? Where it's like, holy shit. It ain't the fucking moonwalk. You know what I mean? It's like pretty simple usually. And they'll just do it in different places. And they're fucking massive. One of those, I think, like, I'm pretty sure that's what that girl does. I don't remember her name, but, like, you know, Tom Segura, who's one of the biggest comics out there right now, does like arenas and shit. Yeah, right. He was at a big UFC fight.

Again, it don't get much bigger right now than in comedy than Tom's in-Sigura. Yeah. And he was at a UFC fight and was, like, playing second fiddle to that, to this TikTok dancing girl. Like, everybody showed up. She happened to be in his section. right beside him. And when she showed up, everybody's like,

holy shit, that's whoever. Dude, did you know that's whoever? And he's like, I have no idea what you're talking about. And she said she was,

he said she was a sweet girl and all this stuff. But they like looked up what she did. And I was just listening to the podcast. It was two bears with him and bird. I wasn't watching it. But they looked at what she did and watched a couple of their videos. I remember Bert was just like,

is that like, is that the whole thing? Is that it? That's what she does? Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah, that's how I,

you know, but it is. It's like fucking. And then there's like Patrick Mahomes' brother. Yeah. People seem to only follow to hate or something. It seems like no one likes him, but he has a lot of followers. And that's all he does is he just dances in different places.

For example, oh my God, shit, I fucked this up. Who was the safety for the Redskins that got murdered? That died. Fuck, I can't remember his name. But yeah, he danced on his like. On his grave. Yeah. Yeah.

It wasn't it. It wasn't his grave. It wasn't his grave, but they were doing a ceremony. They were doing. doing a ceremony for him and I'm pretty sure they had his number like spray painted into the field and he went out and danced on that which frankly may as well have been his goddamn grave. So yeah, this also like this brings up an interesting. John Taylor.

Yeah, there you go. There you go. Well, dude, I mean, not to be grim, but like so many young NFL dudes have died in the past couple years that it just, you know what I mean? Like last week a 26 year old died like I forgot who that was too. it also speaks to like how much reach the potential to reach the masses that the internet has and I say that because back in 10 20 years ago if someone was playing the Superdome you would know who they were you know it's the rolling stone it's somebody that pretty much everyone knows because back then there was only one way to get your shit out to people. and that was radio, TV, whatever, and of course it had to be like broadly entertaining

to a lot of people. Yet there was millions and millions and millions of people apparently during that time who were clamoring for unboxing videos and fucking reaction videos and no one knew that. And so now, dude, how many, I thought that I used to know,

I pretty much did like 10, 20 years ago, every comedian that could sell tickets, I knew who it was. And I knew them, or at least had heard of them, seen them on a show, whatever. Dude, we'll go to comedy clubs and watch the fucking like preview for people that are coming after us. And I don't know. Some of these people are.

And that's not a knock on them. It's just like how much the internet has made previously invisible people visible. And again, I thank God for it. And I think, I think ultimately, like again, like I said, everybody's like, well, there's so much crap out there. Well, then you just don't watch that no more. And I do think that like the cream rises to the top. Like we've seen in the time that that our careers have lasted, there's been countless people who popped on YouTube and you've never seen them motherfuckers again.

Because they did one thing and they didn't have any skills after that. But it's just, again, it's, I mean, the Superdome and you don't know who this fucker is. That's insane. Yeah, well, I think with her specifically, it's because kids, kids entertainment has always been this massive whale if it if like you you know can do that you know everybody knew Barney you're right yes yeah you're right everybody knew the wiggle I've got boys you know

and she's like mostly for little girls as I understand it but I wonder like if I had girls maybe I would be like oh yeah dude she's all the rage she's huge you know maybe but I have boys and so I'd yeah never heard of her and she's in the the Superdome but yeah you're right normally the things they're huge in the kid world you still find out about just the virtue of them being so huge. Yeah. Anything that used to be,

anything that used to be huge, everyone knew about it. Like that was the thing. But like, I guarantee you of the top 10 YouTubers, I probably know three of them. Like, and it's probably just from talking to you.

I don't even know what, the only thing I know that Logan Paul and Jake Paul do is invest in cryptocurrency and beat the shit out of people in exhibition fights. And I'm not shitting on them. The only thing. The one thing I knew, and I don't remember which one it was, like they were already famous, but then the reason it got brought to my attention

was they went to that suicide forest. Yeah, and like, what's up, everybody? Smash that like and subscribe button. We're here at the suicide forest. I'm going to see some dead bodies. What's up? What's up? Yeah.

So like, but like. So I know that they did that, but like, I don't know what it is that made Jake Paul famous. I don't know what his videos were. I don't know if he was doing a docufoil. I don't know if he was doing unboxing. But I do it, but I do know who the motherfucker is. One of them, whichever one was famous first, I don't know.

And then the other one got famous like off of that. But the one of them popped on Vine. You remember Vine? Yes. Vine one of them popped on Vine and was huge on there. And then after that ended, transitioned into YouTubeery. I don't know what they were doing on Vine, but like Vine was seven seconds. Yeah, I know.

And I know, you know, that's the worst medium for me and you. I'm so fucking verbose. Yeah, right. Like, I can't be funny and. seven fucking seconds. It just took you longer to explain why you couldn't be funny in seven seconds in seven seconds. Yeah, right. But some of those I remember, I thought,

Oh, crush. hilarious. Oh, and I was so impressed by them because it's like, I have no idea how you can do that. Seven seconds. The most popular. I don't get to a quarter of a setup in seven seconds.

Do you remember, do you remember our buddy Tyler Langford did stand up? So my favorite vine ever. And it actually went pretty viral as far as, Vines go. He had one where he bought a shirt. And it said, it was Michael Jordan and he was holding up all his championship rings. And it said, the real king has six rings. And Tyler's video, he goes, the real king has six rings.

I'm pretty sure the real king died on the cross. It was so funny. And I watched that video so many times. But to me, I'm like, yeah, you nailed it. seven seconds, but it has to be exactly that. I mean, the setup has to be three and a half, four seconds, then the punch is this. Like, when you write a blackout sketch for like a sketch and improv show, it's usually, you know, at least 20 to 30 seconds or some shit like that.

And that's considered insanely short. Like, I don't know, like, whoever, when they came up with Vine, was their first idea seven seconds? Or did somebody go, no, let's get it down even further? Never made any sense to me. And I couldn't believe it worked. I would never been less surprised by anything when it eventually went under. But, I mean, it was huge there for a minute.

But yeah, I just don't. Dude, fucking, I stayed off TikTok for a long time because for a long time, TikTok, it was a 60 second limit. Right. And I was like, I don't, none of my videos are ever 60 seconds. Yeah. I'm not even going to fuck with that because I don't, it just don't fit me. And then they raise it to three.

And I was like, well, shit. Yeah, you can do that. I might as well just do it for TikTok if I'm doing it from other platforms anyway. Yeah, I've been unbanned for a while now. Well, is it the same account? Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, so, yeah, like,

I wrote them over and over again and they finally unbanned me because it was some unjust bullshit. Right. So, that's why. The Instagram reels for me was the same thing because everybody was like, oh, you know, management and everything was like, they're really pushing reels right now. They're really pushing reels. And they're 60 seconds. And so, like, what I was trying to do was I would take my Twitter video that was two,

three minutes or whatever and try to get the highlights in 60 seconds. But like, you know me. the way I write, if you take clips and I don't have context, it's a bad read, so like I need all that. They've moved that up to a minute 30, which is great, but still not like that's, like when I do a gerrymandar

video, it's going to be two minutes and 50 seconds. That's just the formula for those for the most part. Can't really get them down that much. But I mean, you know, for our low attention span society, their money. But yeah, I never anything that was like 60 seconds, I was like

buddy, by the time I experienced explain what it is that I'm here to do. 45 seconds have gone by, and I'm, you know, completely fucked. Speaking of these, Jake Paul and,

and Levy on Bell and Adrian Peterson fights, have you watched any of the celebrity boxing or anything like that? No. So, I used to, when I was like,

you know, in the 90s, you know, Mike Tyson got out of jail and was fighting Lennox Lewis and stuff like that, and bit of off of Vanderholy Fields there,

by wildest, fuck. So, wow. That still hadn't been topped. And I was watching all that. And I got into boxing for a little bit there. And I remember the end of that era was when there was like the Klitsko brothers. And I used to like, I like, I like,

Gladmere. Yeah. And Valdemar. Gladd. They were both like PhDs who spoke six languages each. And one of them ended up being like the president of the country they're from or something. Are they from Ukraine? Oh, damn.

Are they? I don't know. I don't know. I haven't thought about, I haven't thought about them in years. but let's uh um let's go yeah uh

i feel like they were from you they are in crane yeah yeah yeah man buddy if they were popping today she we uh but yeah dude i had i had i had vladmere's poster on my wall i love that son of a bitch lanky ass motherfucker um yeah so i used to watch all that and um and also they're like you know who else is like that is dulf lungran golf lungren yeah yes is this like fucking super jacked and you know adonis dude but he also speaks like six languages and has like a masters of molecular fucking chemistry or some wild ass shit like that and uh he also wants like which is like the liberal redneck of the

meathead world there was something like yeah right there was something crazy where like some people broke into his house and like we're gonna leave him nascent him wife or something like then he like leum nasoned him in real life yeah he broke in the wrong goddamn wreck room motherfucker yeah he's a that some bitch. Anyway, though, back to the clips go. So I used to watch boxing for a while, but then I fell out of it. So now I don't even watch like real boxing. Yeah.

So I'm definitely not going to watch Logan Paul versus, you know, some washed up UFC guy or whatever. But do you be watching them? Yeah, I do. But like, I don't, I am not the one that sets up the, hey, we're all going to watch this party. That's Robbie. And, or my dad. My dad, as you know, is a massive barstice. sports fan, like massive.

And they do a thing called, is it backyard brawl or it's something where like, these aren't even famous people at all. These are just goddamn rednecks. Like they just have rednecks that sign up to fight publicly. And they, you've never seen this? No. Oh, bro.

They do it on pay per view? Yeah, yeah. But they have like people pay for it. Yeah, man. But here's the deal. We were texting about this earlier. It's not just like they're like, hey, we're going to have this. you know, fight and here's these rednecks, you know, they're going to fight.

First off, there's like 30, 35, 40 matches because they all last two seconds. You know what I mean? So there's a totally just find two old boys. And they're like, all right, you fight, Randy, you fight. And they're like, all right, let's go. That was the headliner. Like the fight club for the last. Yeah, yeah.

Randy versus Steve, the trilogy. Yeah, the rubber match. Yeah. Yeah. So. In a backyard brawls. From what I can tell what they do is. Oh, you know this.

Oh, you know this. Yeah. So from what I can tell what they do. do is like it's like how I don't know if you ever submitted to like be on a reality show or anything like that back in your younger career back when we were just trying everything I got cast on one yeah right but it didn't get made I made a pilot for a reality show oh that's right that's right that's right it was an impractical joker's type of reality like a candid can it was actually produced by the impractical joker but which you think wow can't believe that didn't get made but you got

I remember that I was in it so there was no way yeah so that's just that that was a done deal as soon as I was casting it. But yeah, it was like a hidden camera, like stunt comedy show. Yeah. So, yeah, I totally was up for that type of thing. Yeah, oh, dude, we all were. Well, that Redneck Island one that Rocky Del Davis ended up getting on, I auditioned for that.

And I don't remember how, like, I didn't see, I got emailed something by some lady that I'd done a show for and she was working in production of something. Like, I definitely did not go out of my way to seek out a casting, but I was like, oh, shit. I mean, if it'll get me on TV, whatever. And the way that the auditioned, and went was basically like they gave you all these like uh prompts for questions and

shit and they just wanted to see your personality so you just got on camera and hit i took my pants off and showed my butt you know how it is but but they as you do yeah but they casted rocky instead uh which honestly i have always looked back on it now rocky was able to do the show and then go on to do other things and is doing great i feel like it would have ruined me because i would have i remember me at that age i'd have said some wild shit that I shouldn't have said. I'd have been a lunatic. It just wouldn't have worked out for me.

So I'm, like, glad in hindsight that I didn't get it. But point is, from what I can tell for these backyard brawls or whatever they're called, they have people audition in that way, whereas, like, you know, dudes will just, like, auditions, like, they're playing a character. It's very WWE-like, like, all of them have, like, a little hook. They got a backstory. And so for, you know, a month or two leading up to the fights, they show these dudes. these guys have like

like beefs with each other and they send videos back and forth on the internet and they have people sharing them and like you know they have polls out which one of these rednecks is going to whip this redneck's ass so like at the end of it you're you're really watching because you have found out stuff about these people and you want to see one of them

get their ass kicked like no one ago like background and shit on each of these guys oh yes man how do they how do they find them like people they send it they send it They send the tapes, yeah. At this point, like, people were... They said, I want to be on backyard brawls. Yeah. It's like a tape of them, like, watch me with my cousin's ass.

Yes. And that's their audition team. Yeah. Dude, this is wild. And I've never heard of any of this. And like, so many of them will be like, I remember there was this one, well, hell, actually, this happened in a UFC fight where the two dudes were like, they had a lot of beef. But instead of being like, you know, Connor McGregor and some dude where it's talking about,

like, I'm the best fucking fighter in the world. Like, I'll beat the shit out of you. My record's this and you ain't got reach and blah, blah, blah. It was these dudes so mad at each other, arguing over which one of them Donald Trump would like the most. Like that was their whole, that was their whole beef. And so many of them. And again, these are two backyard brawl guys. So these guys are not, like, they're not famous or anything.

No, no, no. Those two were actual UFC fighters. I was, those two. And that's why it was so weird to me because I was like, why are they even doing this? But the, but the backyard brawler dudes, what they'll do is basically like they'll have some. and I'm not saying this to despair as the person. I'm sure he's very nice, but they'll have some catfish coolly looking motherfucker

audition waving a Trump flag, and then they'll be like, let's let him box this black guy. You know what I'm saying? They'll do that. And then like everyone will tune in to see either the black guy beat the shit of the Trump supporter or, you know,

the huge Trump supporters wanting him to stick it to this Black Lives Matter look, motherfucker. So, like, nobody, in my opinion, tunes in because they're going to see world-level fighting. Because, like, again, I've seen them, and it sucks. They will also have, and I'm going to use the proper nomenclature here, there will be little people. Okay. Hang on.

Wait a minute. All right. Hold that thought. We'll be right back after this. Okay. So Backyard Braw's Dwarf edition. This is, dude, how have I not heard of it? This is some, like, fucking.

side show shit. Yeah, it's very carny, dude. Like, I remember fucking, you know, bum fights being a thing. Yeah. It's one step up. Right. That's crazy. It's one step up. I did not realize this was, it's like fucking trailer park gladiator.

Yeah. Something's like, this is blowing my mind. So they get little people. Yeah, and I'm pretty sure. And they will up each other's ass. And they've got, you know. They do girls? Are they women?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And dude, they're, you know, they're ripping. each other's wife beaters off and shit like that. And, uh, no, dude, it's insane.

And like, there. Yeah. And my, dude, and my dad fucking loves that shit so much. And he'll like, how often do they do these? Um, you know, I don't know. I've watched two with dad. And I feel like they were definitely months apart. Um, and dad will be like texting me.

He's like, you're coming over. I'm grilling wings. And he'll be texting me all week like the videos that like Portnoy puts out. He's like, look at this, look at this fucking, you know, and I'm not going to say the words my dad said. But like, you know, like,

look at this, look at this, you know, I can't even think of a synonym. Yeah. These dumb motherfuckers, he's going to beat his ass because he, Corey,

I don't know if you know this, but he fucked his ex-old lady right after he got out of jail. I mean, they're coming for blood, son. My dad gets so fired up about it. This is like, this is fucking Jerry Springer,

man. Oh, dude, it's such Jerry Springer. except for like they, there's no, there's no, there's no big Steve to break it up. Like, it's just like, here we go. So, Steve Ditsko, I think was that guy's night. Yeah, yeah, they have these fights. They all, you know, they all talk shit.

It's super, super trashy. But at the end of the day, it's like, it's not, no one is watching it going, this is really good boxing. It's just because of these stories. They want to see idiots beat the shit out of each other. Not only is it not good boxing, what my favorite part of it is like, you know, obviously in the UFC or in boxing, they always, it's always blown my mind that they immediately put a microphone to these dude's mouth because it's like first. It's like, just got their brain smushed. But yeah, it's like to barely survived, came out on top. It's like, I've always said, and I maintain this and that people might think this is bullshit.

But like, if you, if a UFC fighter has a microphone put up to his mouth within three minutes of his. fight, anything that comes out of his mouth is not admissible and it must be thrown out in a court of law because, dude, again, they know that, their adrenaline's up. Like, you don't even, dude, like, there have been so many times after a good show. I don't even remember what I said for the next 10 minutes because I'm just up here. I'm just, you know, going crazy. You'll say anything. So, but they do that, UFC dudes, but, like, those guys are like, yes, they're out of breath and they got their ass beat, but they're also in super good shape so they can still do it. They do the same shit to these fucking dumbass

troglodytes and none of that dude they'll pull out a cigarette and start smoking it and they can't fucking breathe like they're saying slurs like I was about to ask I was like given what you're dealing with here the talent pool and whatnot and what you just said like are they

up there just saying like racist shit? Yeah I remember one of the dudes called one of the guys a wet back like right after you know the shit and And I'm pretty sure that was the one that Dion Sanders was announcing. Dion Sanders was announcing it. Like he was at ringside or whatever because he worked for Barstool.

And that's another thing about these situations that make them a little bit more palatable. So like I watched the Holyfield. Was it Holyfield and Lennox Lewis fought each other or recently? And it was like these old heads. Oh, no. I didn't know. Like a couple like a year ago. Like it was, I know Holyfield was one of them.

And it was these. It was these old boxers they were bringing out, and everybody was like, well, this is going to be a shit show. But they had Snoop Dog doing ringside commentary. And it was so fucking funny. Like Snoop Dogg just be like, man, look at Holyfield over there, posted up like, Unk by the Barbecue. You know what I mean? Like, it was great.

And so, like, it's a spectacle. You're not looking at, you're not looking at world-class boxing, but it's just an exhibition. You're seeing people beat the shit out of each other. And at least in that sense, like, it's still two people on the same level. You know what I'm saying? Like, so it is it. Is it rough and rowdy? Rough and rowdy.

That's it. Rough and rowdy. Yep. That is huge in my dad's, in my dad's world. Like, yeah, dude.

Hackman Jones is going to fight that one. It looks like. He's headlining it. Backman Jones headlining Ruff and Rowdy 15. Capital punishment, it's called. He's fought before, I'm pretty sure. I think this is his second rough and out of it.

He definitely fought before. Yeah. I don't doubt about that. This is, this is his second. Hey, you remember, was it Chris Henry that passed away? Yeah. Did you know that Pac-Man adopted his kids?

I did know that. And it's taken care of him. And I think that's a pretty, I think it should be noted because Pac-Man. He contains multitudes. He contains multitudes. The man's like an onion. You know, he was, I loved him when he was at the Titans when he was doing his thing, not when he was sidelined because he shot somebody at a strip club or whatever.

You'll have that. But I think that if you're going to point out all the bad of Pac-Man, it should be noted that the man clearly has a heart. Yeah, yeah. As my dad, as my dad always said, man, that dude could have been something if you could keep him out of the Titty Clubs in Murfysboro. So listen, I'm on the rough and rowdy website.

I've never read this. They got a bunch of videos. I'm not going to actually watch them right now, obviously, but let me read you some of the titles for his videos. Chainsawwielding Hillbilly Rages. I tell you. Boxer farts in the ring makes everyone sick. Dwarves fight for championship belt.

I'm saying. Toothless hillbilly fights young wrestling champ. It's a lot of hillbilly stuff going on. Tiny hero fights monster man to impress ring girls. The David and Goliath match. Self-proclaimed superhero hammers acne-covered lumberjack. What the fuck, dude. Read that one again.

Read that one again. Self-proclaimed superhero hammers acne-covered lumberjack. They could have just said lumberjack. It would have been fine. gelatinous man, forced to fight pro power lifter. Gelatness man. Gelatness. Worst superhero.

That's my superhero. Are there any more? Wild Hillbilly talk shit. Yeah. Boone County Boy and Putnam County Boy trade words. They're the only ones they know. Yeah. Can I have that word?

You can have this word. And Rough and Routy 15 is being held in Charleston, West Virginia, so it's inappropriate. I remember the one that we watched was in West Virginia. I'm pretty sure they've got like a running thing. with the West Virginia. But like, dude, yeah. Again, man, I know we's talking on the thread like,

why would you watch any of this shit? Tell me, though, that what all you just read? Don't sound like some entertaining bullshit. Like, of course they can't fight, but that's the point. They have figured out. And UFC's figured it out too, but those dudes still are actual professional badasses.

They, like, all fighting and boxing used to be like, this is a gentleman sport, it's professional, and it's, yeah, yeah. They finally, finally, everybody looked at Vince McMahon and went, man, God damn it. Like, he puts butts in seats and they're not even really hitting each other. Why don't we do some of this shit, too? And, like, it's bullshit. I don't really like supporting a barstool people, but my dad's going to buy it anyways.

Like, of course I want to see an acne-laden hillbilly lumberjack get his shit pushed in by gelatinous boy or whatever. It's great. Yeah, dude, fucking roided up man fights dumpster. Man still in puberty calls out hillbilly who can't speak. That shit is ridiculous, dude. I cannot believe I didn't know about this. Oh, man. Let me see.

I don't know. I mean, I'm cherry picking them. I think I've been there most of the good one now. You need to hang out with my dad more, dude. Yeah, this is fucking nuts. It's nuts. Who would you like to? see, Trey, if we're going to book a celebrity boxing match or a rough and rowdy,

could you give me like a fantasy booking, like who you'd like to see beat the shit out of each other? Damn, I don't know. I'm trying to think of somebody that super don't hear for me that I'm willing to say. Well, it's easy to say I'd love to see Ben Shapiro and like Stephen Crowder go at it. But like, dude, Stephen Crowder would beat up. No, I'd love to see Ben Shapiro and like Eddie George. Yeah.

that's where I was trying to get to in my head was something like that, you know, just watch somebody that I don't like just get absolutely fucking pulverized by somebody I do. Would you pay for that, though? Oh, yeah. We'll see, that's, George was going to fight in Shapiro.

Yes, I would pay for that. And that's, and that's the thing, like what the brilliance, the brilliance of all these things are is they put out these vignettes and these promos and they make you hate these ordinary people. Like,

they make you hate them. And so at the end of the, the day, you're like, I'll pay money just to see that motherfucker get his ass whipped. And it's perfect. Because like I said, like, I think the UFC has started to, it's how they're getting people. They know that if you like fighting, you're going to watch the fighting. But their whole thing is, well, as a business, we have to continue to increase our revenue and increase our viewership. So we have to somehow get people who don't like fighting. So what they do is bring Trump into it, bring make, make people hate this person and go, I don't really like UFC, but I would love to watch this dude get a concussion.

And it's working. And you know what I mean? Like it's a pretty solid business model. We should start doing fights. You want to start? You want to be a fight promoter? Yeah. What are we going to do?

Like, they already got the hillbilly market covered. Yeah, but I mean, but they need competition. You know, competition is healthy for growth. So like we start a competing one. You know what I mean? And we get all the people that they turn away. can you imagine. Oh, God.

The people there turning away. It's just like fucking get the N-word beat button ready. After that guy's fight. Oh, God. Oh, man, hell. Well, all right. It's been fun. It's been fun.

We got, dude, we need to do a watch, along to one of the rough and rowdies. That would be fun as shit. Like we'll stream me and you watching it. I'm fucking into that. And let us know if you'd like to see that. And thank you for subscribing and downloading to this podcast. Check out putting on airs, our other podcast that we're super proud of. Go see Trey on Tour at Trey Crowder.com.

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