wellRED podcast - #282 - Vince McMahon's Retirement + The Most Redneck Names We Know!

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

This week the boys discuss "Wrasslin".. mainly the shocking news that Vince McMahon is retiring. They also list off some of the most redneck ass names of people they know and their familiesGo check out Corey and Trae's new podcast Puttin On Airs!Go see Trae on tour at TraeCrowder.comGo see Drew at DrewMorganComedy.comSubscribe to Corey's Publication at CoreyWritesForYou.com

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They're the liberal rednecks. They like cornbread, but sex, they care way too much, but don't give a fuck. The liberal rednecks that makes some people upset, but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. Here we are. Here we are. Hey, we're here. Before we get started on the well-read podcast,

I would like to make a congratulatory announcement. Y'all are probably hearing this for the first time. Friend of the show has opened up for us in Nashville. Our good friend Laura Peek just got new faces. So I wanted to say, congrats. It's super rad. She is one of Nashville's best. Of course, she's out living in L.A. right now,

which is, you know, where all the best. end up. But one of the Zanis hometown girls got new faces. That's super cool. Follow her on the Twitters and stuff at Laura Peek. She is tremendously awesome. And while we're plugging stuff, I'm Corey. If you're listening, you can go to Corey

writes for you.com and check out my writings and stuff like that. And also me and Trey have a new podcast called Putting On Airs. And it's really cool. Very well about you, buddy. You go to Drew Morgancom.com and get tickets right now for Denver, Colorado, coming up.

This comes out on Wednesday. Tomorrow, when you're listening to this, because you know you listen to it immediately. Tomorrow, Thursday, the 28th. Boulder, the 31st, Erie, Pennsylvania, the, I think August 12th. It's on my website. Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1st, and then I got a lot of days on October. You can find them out there. Yeah, and for me, you go to tray crow Crowder.com and see where I'm at.

I'm also touring right now. I'm in upstate New York this weekend. Connecticut, but probably miss Connecticut by the time the show comes out, but that's okay. And then, yeah, other places later on down the road, they're on the website. It's going to try Crowder.com and, excuse me, traycrouter.com and check it out. And yeah, also, I got weekly skews every Tuesday at five, but you can watch or listen to it whenever you want to just by looking it up. It's all politics all the times.

So that's fun if you're into that sort of thing. Well, if you listen to this week, it might have been a little different because I'm once again hijacking the show. But y'all will have already heard that. Because I'm in Connecticut. Yeah, exactly. So whenever I do skews day, it's a little dumber because Mark has to completely steer the political ship. And I just, I spend most of the show going, no shit. Why?

They're doing that. Damn. Something else I got going on this week that I forgot to plug. the roast of Rick Flair is already sold out, but I'm roasting the sunbitch and you can watch it live via satellite or paperview or whatever. Go to fight.com and grab tickets for the, or grab down whatever the,

what do you do? You order it? You order a paper view? Yes. Yeah. I mean, yeah, but like, are you talking about on like, like, dish and direct TV and shit? Like you'd order at WrestleMania back in the day. Yeah, same thing. It's probably an app though. Surely you can do it on a computer. It's going to be, I heard it's going to be on fight.com. You can go to Starcast.com for all the information, but it's also going to be on all the major, like,

it'll be on the Comcast shit when you're scrolling through. Like, it's on them all. So pretty cool. This is my first time ever on pay-per-view. Pretty big wrestling weekend for me. Pretty big wrestling week for everybody. I don't know if everybody keeps up with the wrestling world like I do, but I think that this one sort of slipped into the just regular news.

boys the day has finally come nobody thought that it would happen until his death which would probably occur in the ring vince mcmann has retired from being the head of wwee yeah on account of he sort of had to right what isn't it some uh yeah yeah of course like rape type stuff going on yes so i don't know i don't i don't i used to love wrestling as a kid i don't keep up with it at all anymore but yeah i'm definitely aware that this happened, but I haven't kept up with the details of it. And I saw earlier that Triple H is going to be the new creative guy now. Yeah.

Yeah. Just like his son-in-law? It is his son-in-law. But, I mean, Triple H was the head of NXT for a long time. And the only reason Triple H has been sort of sideline is because he had heart surgery a couple months ago. So, yes, it is his son-in-law. But, like, to give AAA, I mean, obviously nepotism is very real.

I'm not going to act like it's not. But he was like a big time. Right. Like headliner wrestler. No, no, no. I'm for a long time like that. Yeah, yeah. But like he like he definitely like you know, you politic and worked his way into the family,

whatever the hell. But yeah, Triple H like he's always been kind of the dude. And him and Stephanie, they're sort of, from what I hear, they're like actually pretty beloved. So a lot of people on the inside are like, this is the greatest thing in the world. Like Vince has gone. We're not writing for an audience of one anymore. But the allegations this time, now there have been,

there have been actual rape allegations in the past. But right now what's on is, apparently over the past 10 years, Vince has paid allegedly $27 million in hush money to female employees that he has had affairs with. And this is all now coming to light. His money or the company's money? That's what's actually, that's the thing that's being investigated, because the thing is, like, if you look at it from a moral...

That's the part. That's the part that's illegal point. That's the only part that... Exactly. Exactly. So, like, from a moral standpoint, anybody that looks at it strictly from the moral standpoint is like, no, the gross part is him paying hush money. But business people are like, yeah, but we don't give a shit if it was coming out of his pocket.

You know what I mean? Like, stockholders are like, look, man. Yeah, exactly. So that's the current allegations. But, of course, when he comes out and says that he's retired and it was all, look, I care about the business so much that I realized that like the game is passed me by and it's finally time for me to step down and of course started grandstanding and making it about, you know, himself and him being, uh, him being such an ambassador for the business

and shit like that. And I would, so what's the, I feel like I've gotten conflicting notions of Vince McMahon over the years. Like, oh yeah. I saw like when he came out there was all these like famous wrestlers you know effusively praising him and like you know giving him like a retirement eulogy I don't know how else to put it you know like I'm doing doing that type of thing and but but also wasn't he like you know a bit of a maniac megalomaniac and like a tyrant and all that stuff so like yeah well how was the like Like, are they afraid of him still?

Or is it like he was a madman, but also he's the reason that I had a successful career and was, you know, rich and famous and shit. So I got to give it up to him. Or what I don't, what's the deal there? It's definitely that. I mean, here's the deal. So basically what Vince McMahon did. Now, I don't think anybody could argue that if Vince McMahon hadn't had done what he did,

wrestling wouldn't have been as much of a global. phenomenon, the wrestlers wouldn't be able to get the amount of money that they're getting right now. Because these guys are signing like nowadays, like the lowest downside guarantee for a dude is like a million dollars a year. Well, back even like in the early 90s, I hear wrestlers talking about how like their only guarantee was like $25 a match. Like they weren't getting shit. Yeah. Like before it really exploded. W.F. That was their now that wasn't exactly what they got paid, but that's all they were guaranteed a lot of times was like you get 25 bucks if you're on TV if it's tv maybe it's 100 whatever like they're like you know we got to spread this wealth here whatever

there's a lot of people and then we got to pay this and blah blah blah blah blah but so the territory as you know there was like i'm going to get this wrong i'm spewing out my butt but there were like eight or nine territories in the country there was you know mid-atlantic uh you've got uh then of course new york which is the the territory that vince's dad had and all these territories was basically like they only had their own market like you had Memphis and it would go from Memphis to like you know Arkansas and they'd get that and then what they'd do is like they would just trade dudes you know what I mean like Andre the giant would be in this territory for a couple months and then once he did his thing and it was like all right he's done all he can do here he'd

move on to another territory and that was like what the NWA was the national wrestling alliance they were all sort of it was like mafia families you know what I mean and then there was one that they were all feeding to. But Vince McMahon, what he did was he was like, okay, well, like, I should just start buying all of those territories because this needs to be national, right? And so what he started doing was like he would offer dudes, he would offer these huge stars from territories, these big contracts, but part of it was, I want you and I'm going to give you all this money, but you can't give your promoter notice.

You literally have to leave. So like they would leave right before a huge match. You know what I mean? And like they've already sold all these tickets, which is essentially killing the town. So he would do shit like that. And then these companies start losing money. And then Vince can come in and buy them for cheap. You know what I mean?

So he started doing all that shit. And yeah, I mean, that's, it's funny because you see everybody talking on Twitter. Like sounds like good business to me. Because you know, everybody is like, as long as you succeed and make money, it doesn't matter. And you're a good person or whatever. And of course, everybody else was like, well, if Vince didn't do it, somebody else was going to do it because there's no way the territory systems were going to succeed. But like Vince 100% monopolized wrestling because until AEW came along,

he was literally the only big name for 20 years. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, I mean, since WCW, right. Right. What's that, Drew? What about when there was WCW and WWF? I thought there was two in the 90s.

There was, but I'm saying the past 20 years. which is, you know, they bought, they bought, yeah. Yeah. No, I know. No, I know. It's correct. When I said that, I was like, is that correct?

But yeah, WCW was the bigger one. But if you, if you look back, WCW only beat WWF at the time in the ratings for 83 weeks. They beat them for 83 weeks straight. And, but before then, WWF dominated. That was during the NWO time, right? So the NWO happened. Right.

Goldberg happens. And then they have, it was fucking great. They have 83 weeks of pure. of pure dominance. And then after that, Vince McMahon just bought WCW and brought all those dudes over. You know what I mean?

So that was over. The way you, I just noticed, by the way, you said WCW, like, I don't know if it's for this reason. I don't know if it's only me that noticed it. But I remember when I was a kid

feeling like the announcers, the people that would like, when they would say WCW, they would be like, WC, WC, WC, W. W W. W. F. Like, they really, really over pronounce the W. Like, W. Like, W. Right. And I feel like just now, you kind of said it that way. Yep. And it made me think, like, was he doing that because of. That's how I've heard it. Because like when you say W in that context, that's how you hear it in your brain. So that's how you say it, even though normally you would never say W that way. 100%. And a lot of that comes from. It's kind of fascinating to me. This actually relates to our podcast and our brand as a whole.

The reason that that happened in WWF was because Vince McMahon, like wrestling for a long time had been seen as a super redneck thing. And there was a difference. Yeah. And like a lot of people stood this day. They're like, I don't like wrestling. I like wrestling. And there was a difference.

The early days of WCW, that was wrestling. And the WWF used to always make fun of it. It was like, oh, no, y'all don't wrestle. Y'all are wrestling. It's this southern. It's this lowbrow. It's this bullshit. And so Vince, even when JR came in, who J.R.

has a semi-south. He's from Oklahoma, so he's got a redneck accent. He would always be like, no, no, we're going to pronounce it the way it should be pronounced. We're not wrestling. It ain't W-W. It's W-W. And they were all to a degree. Again, nobody wanted to be associated with the South in any way.

So if you talk, if you talk. If you talk like that, it was wrestling, and they weren't about wrestling. You know what I'm saying? Why the hell did they hire JR in the first place? I mean, obviously, he's iconic in that job, but knowing what you just said, I feel like you'd want anybody else but him for that role, if that's what you care about. If you look back at wrestling announcers through history, there's only really a handful of ones that you even know about.

And I think it's sort of like, like, you know, quarterbacks in the NFL. it's like, is there really, is there really only 32 people in the whole world that can do? And, and not even all 32. That's just what I'm saying. That's, there's 32 to fill the teams. But really, there's not, I think it's, 17, 18, maybe. I think it's kind of the same with announcers because, like, someone who's a super good announcer. I don't know.

There's been 17 people who could do wrestling announcing. That if they're good enough to be an announcer, they don't want to do wrestling, because you've got two niches coming in right there. You know what I'm saying? Like, JR was, Go ahead. I think there's more nuanced

to the Southern thing because I think they knew that they made a lot of money there. But it was, I'm certain that what you're saying is true where it's like, we're not the wrestling. Like we're big time.

Right. You're going to be better than these podunk towns. But at the same time, JR probably hit for people because he was partially because he was Southern. Well, he loved the business. And that's the thing is like,

when you're announcing for wrestling, it's not just you having a good voice. you're essentially also acting. You know what I'm saying? Like you're acting. None of this, they know this is bullshit. You're improvving too.

You're improvving a lot. You're having to remember all these dudes' names. They're finishing. Like, Bob Costas is a fucking wonderful announcer, but I don't think I see him doing WWE shit. Because again, like. But I'm saying, so what I'm saying is. That would be hilarious,

Bob Costas on a pro wrestling thing. That was a really good point you're making, like, you've got to really want to do that. You have to, right. So like, someone who's a tremendously good announcer, they might be like, I'm not going to do wrestling. I want to do football. You know what I mean? And JR worked in the business

forever. For sure. And JR, like, you know, he started out in the 60s and 70s working in the ring crew, refereeing, doing all this stuff, helping Cowboy Bill Watts book and stuff like that. So like, he's just, because, and I've told you this before, too, I've told Trey at least.

JR wasn't just the announcer at WWF. He was also the head of talent relations. Like, he wore a lot of hats. So, Big it too. Find a guy who, yeah, huge has. Find a guy who has a great voice, is good at calling, loves the business, and can also handle talent relations and payroll for you.

So I, again, offer to you, there's not that many people in the world that fit all those bills. Yeah. No, I agree. It's me. I got to say two things. It's going back a little bit. Hang on. Say these right after this.

Okay. All right. we're back say the two things yeah so listen all this first of all i was in a different boat than tray i didn't know mcmahon was being ousted i think i'd heard a week or two ago probably from you that there were new rape charges and like most of the world i thought yeah yeah no shit okay it's just it's just that quarter it's the quarter where it comes out that he's raped somebody right right somebody again well again this one wasn't this one wasn't rape this particular one wasn't rape, but go on.

So there are rape allegations, but that's not what, those are not the ones he's leaving for. He stayed through the rape. And for the record, but the non-rape is what's taking him down. And there's no, I don't, in my, to my recollection,

there's not been any like formal, like someone took him to court for rape. It was always just those like, you hear the rumors of like, no, I will, not only did he do. Rheap rumblings. Yeah, not only did he do this, but he did this. into rape rumble this Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Let me go ahead and tell you all.

I hate accusing somebody when there's not like a trial or a lot of evidence out there, but 27 million is rape money. That is not grabbed a titty as she walked by money. Yeah, right, right. No, I mean, because again, like, I don't know. It's like, Vince and Linda reportedly have, like, had an understanding for a very long time. You know, it's like, look, we have an empire together. We're married.

we're not going to get divorced because that would get messy. You do your thing. I'll do my thing. So like, I'm inclined to agree with you. Now, WWE, when they switched to WWE and also went that went public, things did change a little bit because it's like, well, back in the day when we were a private company, I could do whatever the fuck I want. It didn't matter. But he's got stockholders to like, you know, appease now. So I guess it is different.

Like I can't be having everybody know that I've had sex with some of my employees, even if it was consensual or, you know, what the fuck. ever. But no, I'm, I mean... 27 million is not consensual, dog. That is a, like... He got cornered in a closet and, like, had to, like, shove her way out, and she got 80 g.

But this is... 27 million is rape money. But it's not 27 million to one person. It's... Yeah, okay. But I'm saying... I'm saying... What I'm saying, though, is it could be...

80 million. I can't do that math. I'm saying... I'm saying it might be $27 million divided by 80 grand that amount of people. You know what I'm saying? I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm not defending the guy. I'm just saying it's not 27 million to one person.

And this is also just the allegations and the number that has been thrown out there, reportedly also by the dirt sheets who I love Dave Meltzer and I love Wade Keller and I love, I'm been a subscriber to the wrestling observer newsletter for a long time. I love them, but they are also wrong about a lot of shit because they're just, they're usually getting their information from a disgruntled employee on the way out who's like, okay, I'll fucking talk now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do know what you're saying, but if it's 50 people, I still feel like.

Again, I'm not, I'm not defending the guy at all. I'm just saying 27 million might not exactly be the number. That's all I'm saying. I think he did the shit. What I wanted to say is that I was in a different boat. I kind of thought we were thinking, talking about Vince McMahon today when you said, let's talk about Vince McMahon, because you're about to do this roast. I thought maybe you had had a meeting with him.

I thought this was all leading to something like that. So I just was like, well, if we're going to talk about Vince McMahon, somebody's going to have to bring up that he's a shitbag. And I typed in Vince McMahon racist. into the computer. Did you get the clip of him saying the N-word? And then it auto-corrected to Vince McMahon rapist and told me that he was getting fired this week.

So that was what happened to me five minutes before we got on, which I thought was hilarious. No, no, no. Not racist. No. You got it wrong. It's rapist. Come on now.

I'm sure it's both. It's definitely both. It's got to be both. Yeah, you got to go to Bing for the racist. He called John Seined of the N-word in front of Booker T one time. On TV. Yeah, that was scripted, son. Yeah, which makes it worse.

He actually thought about it. This is something I really am curious about, because I was trying to make a very different point earlier, and I got misunderstood, which is my fault in retrospect. I was not trying to disparage Triple H. Oh, right. I was in college. There was this guy my brother worked for, the arms.

And they had a federal contract. Trey, one of the people who was above you when you got there, probably wrote it. It was with the Y-12 or whoever it was. us. They were building something close to our town. And they fucked up so much that the feds took their contract away. They were like, you broke contract. We're going to go through the rig and roll replacing you. That's how bad you are. And they sold the business to his son-in-law for a dollar, rebid under a new name, and got the contract back as a different company. Which is highly illegal. Got away with as far as I know. I brought up the Triple H thing because I'm like, is Vince McMahon stepping

right down or is this just like we change the name for a dollar but i'm still involved what do you yeah i mean he still is the majority shareholder and in a publicly traded company i mean that still means like how can you say that that guy's not in charge he's the he's the you know leading leading stockholder there's also a lot of people and of course this happens no matter what in wrestling no matter how very clearly real something is everyone's like this is of work. Vince McMahon, because Vince McMahon steps down and then reportedly Brock Lesner was like, he walked out of the building. He's like, if he's gone, I'm gone. And Brock was supposed to have a match at SummerSlam. Now, that angle of it, I could see Brock

being like, I'm going to use this as a thing to get some heat or whatever. But like, the thought of like Vince McMahon publicly stepped down from a publicly traded company like this, after all this, it being like he's going to pop up at SummerSlam, like surprise bitches and then like hit Brock with the chair. I don't know. So he have his own music still. He used to. No chance in hell.

Yeah. Yeah. No chance in hell. Like his music is going to start playing at SummerSlam is what everybody thinks is going to happen. Yeah. For sure. Marks.

He had a trial. That would be great. That would be funny. What, like, I was asking earlier about how wrestlers actually feel about him and all the, you know, people jerking him all for the retirement and whatnot. But like what, behind the scenes. what kind of ship was he doing like with the wrestlers I mean like was he just like was he assaulting them no just no like Brett heartbeat his ass one time using them wasn't he in various ways or no like so

here's the deal on Vince McMahon that's fucking um over being to me to me this is the worst thing well okay it's the worst thing he's ever done as a businessman um everybody that works at the WWE is tech well not everybody now but most people and especially back in the 90s they were an independent contractor and of course he did that so that he didn't have to pay everybody health care and shit which if any if any company a payroll tax all that shit so that's still going on today with some of the lesser ones like you know like a undertaker is still under contract with them he's an employee he signed a legends contract or whatever but what would happen was these dudes who were wrestling on the undercard for

they're independent contractors however he prohibited them from doing anything else like they would try to do cameos you know to make some extra money to compete right and so but it's like you're not but they don't actually work for the company they're an independent contractor

because like you can't do Twitch you can't do cameos you can't make go on any podcasts at all you cannot promote yourself one bit and so back like right at the beginning beginning of the pandemic, I actually had an interview for the headwriter position of WWE.

And it was down to me and one other person, right? And I was terrified. I knew I wasn't going to get it. I knew I wasn't going to get it. But I had a lot of people in my ear who were like in the wrestling world that were like, I don't think you should do it. And I was like, why? And they were like, well, here's the amount of money that you're going to get paid.

And I was like, it sounds like it hits. And they're like, aren't you doing pretty good right now? And I was like, yeah, I'm doing. really good. They go, okay, that's the only money that you'll be able to make. And also, all this momentum that you've had with the buttercream dream and everything else, you can just piss that away because you're not going to be allowed to have another identity. You work for this company and that's it. You're only allowed to put the company over. You as an entertainer do not exist while you're riding for the WWE. They will not allow you. Even the writers, it's not

just the wrestlers. Like if you were a writer there, they care, he cares that much. You're not allowed to do anything. And the thing is, is like, apparently also, it doesn't even matter if you really want to do anything else. As a writer, you're going to be in that room for 24 hours. And apparently, with him, you're like on-call 24 hours to Vince McMahon. Like, if you work all day, then go home and it's two or three in the morning, which this happened routinely. Vince would get up at two or three in the morning, just call everybody and be like, we're going to work. You know what I mean? And you can say no, but you ain't going to work there no more.

I mean, that fucking, dude, their writer's room was just a rotating door of motherfuckers who were like, can't. just fucking can't because like he sounds like a bag of shit. Yes, I know. I agree. And everybody looks at like they look at all of these things and there's so, there's a huge percentage of people on Twitter who look at everything I've just said, screwing people out of health care, not

letting them make any other money, uh, overworking him. And they go, yeah, that's a good businessman. That's why he is the way he, you know, that's why he's achieved so much. And I'm like, yeah, off the backs off screwing other people over. That's, I mean, they're probably, those people are probably not, they're not,

not like wrong like yeah it is good business that no that is like you do have to be that kind of person probably to you know reach that level of yeah true CEOness you know what I mean like they're all like there's the whole CEO thing rewards yeah for sure fucking slave driving sociopath but I guess my I guess my point is like that's the reason he is the man he is it's like they're not wrong about that's true it's just that's not something to be and that's not something that all exactly celebrated there you go there you go and it's not something that should exist you know what i mean like yeah of course if you want to do this you've got to do that but we shouldn't live in a world that like because it like okay the CEO of oh my god Costco right this dude's like a legend right and yeah right he's like a legend because he

pays his employees good gives him health care gives him a lot of vacate now here's a Still, that guy don't make as much money as the CEO of Sam's. But like, I'm certain that his boat's pretty goddamn big. You know what I'm saying? Like, all these people... How big is your boat got to be? That's why I've just never understood how some people, they literally only go, more money means better all the time.

And it's like, but at a certain point, you only need this to hit. Anything else is just excess. Like, you know, we... We hear... You see how a cap every year, and then they could race to who gets that. Yeah. With swords. in February.

Yeah, right. But like, you know, I know that y'all get it as much as I get it with people being like, you know, if you didn't beat up on the Republican so much, you'd probably make more money if you appealed to everybody. And I'm always just like, but I make the amount of money that I like to make. Like, I don't, I don't care. Like, what do you mean? Like, if I made more money, that would be great.

But if it was like sacrificing my morals and I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, don't give a shit. Like it'd be one thing if I was making like 15 grand a year and I was like something's got to change. But like there's a certain amount of money I need to live my lifestyle. I make it. So why? What's my incentive to do anything different? Just so like my dad laughs at more of my jokes. That's insane. Yeah. I mean, I don't know also. I don't know if that's true. But I did want to say that or ask you all speaking of things that shouldn't exist and jerking off CEOs. Did you see that? I thought you were going to tentacle corner or something. Like,

jerking off. Basically, yeah. Elon Musk said that he hasn't had sex in a while. He tweeted it. And a guy was like, very weirdly, like,

I'll sacrifice. I talk to my wife about it. If you need me to blow you, bro, I will, L. O. L.

and then somebody had a back and forth with him. They were like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Blah, blah, blah. And this dude's like, look,

I just for the cause. And the guy's like, what cause? Yeah. Like Elon Musk. Like, it's not a call. Yeah, like Elon Musk is in the same vein of like, people worship Elon Musk.

I was about to say, if Elon Musk isn't having sex, that's a choice that he made. You know what I mean? Like, that dude, like, that's insane. Dude, the Elon Musk stands are amongst the weirdest and worst on the internet. And I, because it's the ones that are left, there's still plenty of them. There's still a whole lot of them. But like, he used to be broad. revered across how he started hell hell dude i about saying i like i used to i used to think that

elin musk hit i did and like on a cool CEO on reddit he was a on redid he was like a deity but now on reddit he gets fucking dunked on and ripped apart all the time i mean they'll still be like elon stands who crop up in the comments and get downvoted to fucking hell for yeah but uh but but but generally speaking, he don't hit on there no more. So the people that are left that idolize him are, yeah, that's just the drags, the dregs of the internet right there, buddy. He's Gen X or internet, Donald Trump, in my opinion. For sure. And I mean that and horrible and, I don't want to say complimentary, but going back to what we were just talking about, it shouldn't be lauded that Vince McMahon did that.

But Trey was right. That does make him a good scene. He's the goat. Yeah, he's the goat. of people who hate Elon now are like, he's not even good at his job because he stays on Twitter and in the algorithm more than he runs his company. And I'm like, no, he understands that in his particular case, that is his job. It is. He's phenomenal. Being relevant. Being relevant makes Tesla stock go up, which makes me want to kill myself. I mean, dude, that's how Trump got elected,

bruh. Like, it wasn't because he did anything good. It's that he just was out there and was saying the things that made that created a legion of stands you know also that this is not i'm not i don't think this applies to vince mcman and i don't know about elin must but i think a lot of times those like ceo types and like lower level ones and stuff and they talk about you know other people just don't want to work you got to put to work in i work 18 hours a day you know whatever like or more like bad type of shit or whatever and it's like but they go to like fucking luncheons or shit or they have like dinner with investors. That's their work. All they're doing

is sitting there for three and a half hours drinking champagne and talking about fucking titties and stuff. Right. But he's like, well, I've been working since I woke up this morning. He went to fucking Pilates and shit in the middle of it. They love their job. Yeah, right. Like, I work. Everyone's

and all they do. Exactly. They just like tell people, they just say things. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, no. What happened? No, don't Don't hit. Don't hit. Tell him to make, tell him to make that happen or I'll fucking fire him. How's he supposed to do that? I don't know. That's his job. Make it happen. I just want it to be made to happen. God damn it. Yeah. I mean, like, I think about that with myself all the time because I do, I'm putting this in quotes for everybody just listening, work a lot. Like, I'm always doing something kind of for work. But bruh, I'm talking about putting on a wig and making a stupid Batman video. Like, yes, that is work, but I'm not going to say.

sit here and be like the reason that I'm here and this coal miner is not it's because I put in the fucking time like that's insane it's also all the slurs he says of the internet yeah I want to get to the next segment because I think it's going to last longer than we think because okay at least 30 to go through that's true that's true that's true and for those of you that don't you say at least 30 were we supposed to do a certain amount I know y'all kept list I didn't I'm just going I got some of mine. Corey told us to do 10. I did tell us.

I did tell us to do 10. I don't take my orders from this motherfucker. But you can do the same. Get me a sandwich. No, I didn't, I just missed that we were supposed to have a list of plan. Dude,

it's okay. I've got plenty. So what we're doing... These are all real, right? These are all real. We're doing our 10 best redneck names of people that we know. And I'm going to go ahead and tell you,

I phoned a friend. Now, I do know all these. people but I had to get my mom and my dad to like remind me of some of these motherfuckers because I'd forgot um do you want to do them like a everybody do their 10 at once or I'll do one you do one I definitely think it should be I do one you do one okay that's definitely going to be a better podcast but I also just want to check in with everybody we're going to go more than an hour which is following me I got about an hour 15 in me before I got a dip but like I mean I can yeah right that's fine that's okay well I don't know we'll just we'll just we'll just we'll

We'll just see. Okay. I'm gonna... Again, I'm sure I could sit here and think of more, but like, y'all are, you know... It's not the list that's going to get him, son. It's who they are. Yeah. Yeah, right.

Okay, I'll... This is one of my first round picks. I'll go first. Beaver Robertson and... But that's his name that he goes by because his real name is Hillary and he thinks that that's gay. So he goes by Beaver... Because for Biver...

Because for pussy reasons? I guess. He's been beaver. I got a woman's name, so I changed my name to pussy. But it's because I get so much, just so everybody knows. Not because I am one. So I got a beaver on my list, but he had big teeth. Oh, nice.

There we go. We've canceled out. We both got a beaver. I did not see that one coming. I'll be honest. Beaver. So, again, I did not keep a list. But the first one, y'all both know that y'all are going to

know most of mine because I've said them over the years, I think. But this is just like a, just a class. And I'm wondering how many ladies will have. So I'm going to start with a lady. I put some money on here. But so my first one was a lady. It was my babysitter when I was a kid. And y'all have heard me talk about her a lot.

But her name was Minnie Eva Dullworth. Pretty hard to be. Dahlworth, yeah. Many Eva Dullwere. She was also 300-pound old, like, redneck gypsy woman that would rub people's warts away and do other sort of trailer mysticism like that and drank Diet Mountain Dew out of a cam with a straw and would whoop yo ass as a four-year-old.

Maybe it's because I know. It's abusing the shit out of us. Fucking everybody signed up for it. Maybe it's because I know her. It's a different time. But that's both a redneck name. However, Minnie Eva Dolworth, if that was a character in Game of Thrones,

I would buy that too. Do you know what I'm saying? Or like Victorian England. Yeah. mini evadolworth but it is you know what i mean it is a redneck and maybe it's because i know that she's a a healer like a crystal healer but like mini evadol maybe also it's because it kind of sounds like medieval i don't know but uh that that's a pretty hard name to beat i'm not gonna lie drew damn i got one that's like it's not a great it's one of my lower seeds but i got one that's like

that too that i'm just realizing that kenneth allen webb could also be kenneth allen webb yeah true But it's definitely Kenneth Allen Webb, son. Maybe this all makes sense. Like if you say... They call him, call call. You know, like a raven sound. Cocoa.

What's up, call call call? K-A-W. That's Paul-Po-Coc-Coc-C-A. Yeah, Paul-Pol-Col. Pa-P-Po-C-C-C-O-P-Po-C-P-Po-C-C-O. I'm going to run through a list because I got too vitty. All right, you know what? Fuck it.

I'm going to do the women first. Yeah. because I didn't know how many y'all would have had. I had to think, but then I got some good ones. Billy K. Smith, pretty good. Donita and Juanita Hall. Oh, I got. Not at all.

Like nothing Hispanic or Latino or anything about these not twins, sisters, Donita and Juanita. Can I, hey, just while you're on Juanita real quick, just take two seconds. I don't know how Juanita took off like it did. I have a Juanita. I got a cousin named Juanita. No, no. Mine's better. I've got a Juanita, but they pronounce.

announced it Janada. Yeah. Oh my God. Proceed. Thelma Joe Webb, she hit real hard. Mm-hmm. And then one of my top picks, I.C. Cobb. I see E.Y. Cobb, who got pregnant at 13 by a dashboard confessional fan named Tyler.

Nice. If that ain't our generation, this is our generation. If that ain't our generation red, I don't know what it is. I see. That's this. And she got a fat little daughter now. That's her. Yeah.

That's her actual name or whatever I call her. Holy shit. That's wild. Yeah, I said I had a cousin named Juanita. I don't, for the record. I don't know why I said that. But I do. But I do have a cousin name and it's just as wild and in that same vein in my opinion.

I have a cousin named La Quana. And she, you know, she's just as white as all of us in my family. These are just my granny's sisters. Maybell cut. My granny is, my granny is Edna Arlene Potter-Bain, which that's pretty fucking good. Then you got Betty Joe Hicks, Tookie Keith, Tooky. Tooky Keith. Uh, uh, uh, uh, fucking, uh, Mo Zelle, Green.

Dude, my dad, my, my, my, my papa used to fuck a lot of name, myzele. Nice. Willadine Jones. Nettie, we got some Willa Dean. Neddy Bragan, Irene Youngblood, Maddie McDaniel. And of course, they all had an Aunt Cleavey. Dude, I think Irene Youngblood is a lady who got murdered in a murder ballad. Yeah, for sure.

So, uh, there was a, let's say, um, I had a, my great grandma's name was Viny. Viny? V-I-N-E-Y? Yeah, Viny. And my living Ma-M-A-M-A-L-N-A-F-A-T-A. That's a classic, that's a classic mammal name right there.

I thought some other lady names, there was an old school teacher who had awards named after I won the Miss Eva Nell Plumley Creative Writing Award. when I was in high school, which is a funny, it's a funny, like, it's funny to have the literary award be named after Miss Evennell Plumley, in my opinion, you know what I mean? But apparently she was a, you know, she was, she hit it all that. I thought before my time.

It was Miss. She was, uh, no, I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to comment on that confidently. It might have been Mrs. When you first said that, I thought you said she had a ward named after her as in a psychiatric ward. and that was about to make more sense. Yeah, and then another one that popped up real quick.

My dad used to talk about her sometimes. Like, he was somebody who went to high school with. I never met her. But he never did not call her in its entirety by anything else other than cross-eye Betty Joe Spivey. He remember old cross-eye Betty Joe's Piving? Yeah, of course. Conrad, this is a great one that's kind of normal.

Conrad's dad's, dad's name is Larry Wayne Thompson. Yeah, that's like, that's like a classic. That's classic. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of like Kenneth Allen, I guess. I want to say that I'm starting to realize that generation of our grandparents. Like I started cycling through my grandparents' names, Clemmon, Morgan, Ruby Geraldine, Morgan, Flo. Ellen, L of Lemberton.

It's like, oh, they all have that maybe sound to them. I don't know. I'm not disqualifying them necessarily, but it's like, shit, man, almost all them names. Unless they're James, unless there ain't shit James, like all the old people's names is wild. All right. Yeah, my great grandpa's name was Guard. Guard Kendall. Yeah, his brother, tackle.

G-A-R-D or like a point guard. I think like a point guard, but I'm not 100% sure he died before I was born, but that was his name. I bet, looking at Tray's progeny that he was. more like a pulling guard. Yeah, right. It's a big old some bitch. My favorite ones are Bubby Stewart because he was my, his name is Bubby Stewart

and he was my uncle who's used to sell Coke and now he's a preacher. Rocky Durham, who is the most prolific murderer in my town who's gotten away with it. We all know he's got at least seven bodies under it. Word, everybody knows and he just... Everybody knows.

Buster Sexton, the illiterate mayor of Huntsville, Tennessee, Was mayor It was either him or a roaster You know Was mayor until Three years ago Yeah

And then this guy Dated one of Andy's friends In Scott County What a good Scott County entries And I have met these people So I know Actually I haven't This is one guy I haven't met

But I met everyone involved in this story Dated one of Andy's best friends When they were seniors He was 26 he was bald already and he worked for the sheriff's office and he was dating his 17 year old and everybody knew and his name is dinky low oh stinky dinkie this is i do not mean this to be racist but dinky low kind of sounds like a running back name or something too no it sounds like asian oh yeah like la like sorry if that's racist i don't mean it to be it just sort of it's like no it does joe yeah right

god damn it uh and then elmer shannon was my other type one that's good he was a mechanic but god damn elmer shannon i try this one on for size these i'll name three that i well what dixie box is definitely redneck uh but then these two right here i don't know if they're rednecks so much as they're just kind of wild, miracle snow, actual Christian name. Is that a young person? Yeah. And I like the generations too. Elmer Shannon was my age, but sorry, go ahead.

And special joy, spelled S-P-E-S-H-A-L, special joy. I doubt it. Yeah. And then, of course, I say she's special as hell, son. And here's a name, here's a name that the first is redneck and the last I could see being kind of fancy cornbread van pelt yeah yeah that's like you remember cornbread was the name of our constable and yeah yeah cornbread remember i told you about he used to he used to wear a shirt that said chicken ain't kicking without cornbread on it that was like his official constable uniform was that t-shirt

oh sheriff chicken gun still had a gun no of course he did hey corey do you know cornbread very well do i know no i don't this is a guy that my dad knows I just wonder if he hits. Like cornbread, Ben Peltz. He has to. He hits. And then a couple other wild names. Poodle Helton.

Peanut. What? Peanut Huffstettler. I got a peanut. Snake brown. Joe, rest in peace, though. Yeah. Snake Brown.

My buddy Bear Scott. Ricky Millsap, which I think it's a normal name, but that's still a super red name. And Rick, for y'all, Ricky Millsap. is the country club pro. Yeah. Yeah, I got Randy Wallace on mine. I feel like that's a very same vein. They both,

they send like two race car drivers from the 90s. Yeah, I've got a couple race car ones. Randy Wallace in the walls. I got two race cars right here. Stump Martin and his brother Chig Martin. Chig? Chig. Yeah,

but imagine meeting Stump Martin and finding out two seconds later that was the least red nickname in his family. Yeah, rest in peace stump he is uh that's the uh on uh the cartoon we're doing heat of sports guy buddy chig i'm not going to get over that one that one might be the winner for me chig yeah chig like chiggers like chiggers cotton m'daniel and uh that's pretty good that's it sounds like a cartoon and i'm this is the one that i think is the most badass like actual this sounds like a tough guy. Stalk Williams.

Ain't that badass? It sounds like you're going to kill a woman. That's what I'm saying, well, that's not what I'm mad. I'm just saying like stalk, like a, I don't know. Like a corn stalk or to, like, to stalk you. Yeah. Stalk Williams. Pretty sweet.

I mean, I wouldn't fuck with him. Okay, I got some just family members here. You know, I've also mentioned before my uncle bubbles rest in peace. along with his brothers, Billy Jack, Eddie Lee, and his son, my first cousin, Kenny Ray, Huddleston. They're all Huddleston, yeah. I mean, Kenny Ray, for me, because, like, I did, I had a character a couple years ago that was Joe Biden's press secretary back when I felt like defending Joe Biden. And I stopped doing that character pretty quick. And I was like, what's the most redneck name I can think of?

And like Ralph, top of my head, it was Kenny Ray. So I got to give it up for that. My first cousin, Kenny Ray. I'll be out of jail still. My favorite name on my list that's like, this is a solid character. The guy who ran the gas station in my town, rest in peace to him too, his name, I don't know his full name, but he went by his initials, which were W.E. England. But we, England.

W. W.E. W. W. W. W. Go down to W. W.

W. W. W. I was like 13. I was like 13. when I looked over at his name tag and realized his fucking name was W.E. Speaking of initials. Go ahead, Trey.

My grandpa had an uncle. I know that was born or died away before I was born, but his name was Comer, Comer Crowder. Yeah. When I was a... My dad's best friend's name is Rick Rydener, but he goes by Redbeard. Even his mama calls him Rick. Oh, that hits. And Red Beard Rydener's pretty good.

Yesterday I was, my buddy's grandma just died, and I was over at their house. helping them move some stuff and they had some like other relatives there that I was meeting for the first time and the concept of what we're doing right now got brought up because I had asked my Aunt Beth for some names and stuff and this girl goes oh yeah you're she's talking to her grand shoes your uncle Roy had a great my name my name was W.L all he ever called me was W.L and I was like what does W.L. Stand for and she goes wide load. he'd always call me and he'd be like w l i'm coming to pick you up we're playing ski ball baby and i was like okay she goes i got a big butt get it and i was like yes i get yeah we got it let's uh let's uh take

a quick break and come right back after this there it is all right and we're back uh yeah you uh shit i thought of another one and now i have already i mean My dad's nickname was Spoke. Yeah, that's great. That's pretty good. Here's one. Like everybody in town, everybody that knew it, no one ever called him Terry, which that's his real name.

Right, which is Redneck. Right. Yeah, no one ever called him that really. People exclusively called him Spoke. So, I mean, yeah, it's pretty rare. We had a guy that went to church with us. Their family's last name was, they were Marks. They were the Marks family.

And would you like to guess what they named their first son? Hit the. Carl? No. Mark. Mark. Mark. We got Mark.

We got Mark. Pa-paw-Cow. Pa-paw-cow-cow. I had an uncle named Gerald Smith, but we called him Uncle Jed. And that's one of my, I like that. That feels homie. I liked him, too. That's how it goes.

My daddy had an aunt gay nail, and her husband was Mutt Clayton. Yeah. That's good. Gay-Nail was a good one. My great-grandma, Viny. My great-grandma, Viny, she was remarried, and her husband,

who was not my actual great-grandpa, but his name was Lemuel. Oh, shit, I had a limew. Yeah. I want to read. You and Lihue were brothers. My dad, uh,

my dad sent me this. It was a, it was just a long string of words. He goes, Shug Pelham, Odie, Tuck, Lar May,

Pulley, Beady, and That's just Salem Road in Rossville. Uh-huh. Yeah. The Newports, Lemuel and Lahi were the Newports. Limuel?

Lemuel. Yeah. Trey had a Lemuel too. I think Newport adds to it because the town, Newport, is one of the most redneck towns in Tennessee. And then obviously Newport cigarettes. Well, that's about the entire list for me. Oh, I see this one. My dad also sent Roy Lee Clark lived in Dewberry.

and made the best strawberry pies on earth. I think that whole sentence is pretty great. What about places? Dewberry is a good one. Yeah, right. Shake rag is always my go-to. Shake-rag. My go-to, I think, is...

Bug-tussle? Bug-tustle. Bug-tustle. It's not even really a town. It's like Buck-snort is a classic in Tennessee. Buck-snort, bug-tustle. My dad's from Moss, which I always thought was fun. Just Moss.

There's a place of Jackson County called Nameless. nameless Tennessee, which is funny to me. Sunbright's pretty good. Yeah. Sun bright. That was your job, wasn't it? Yeah.

Infrastructure bad. We had Pea Ridge, Deer Lodge. We also have a Peary Ridge. That's the most redneck part of Clay County is Pea Ridge. That's where you did a show in Peeridge that time.

Corey was supposed to, but sister got sick or whatever the fuck he lied about that way. Yeah, whatever lie. Pee, fine. Peavine Peavine. I think DeBring is the most redneck place in Morgan County and Fentress

County because it's right on the line and it's wild although a lot of them sold their farms to the Amish they've really cleaned up Shake Ragon I'm not for it personally. Damn. It's funny because there's also like a place there's an area of Salina called Turkey Creek

which is like backwood countries but Turkey Creek is also this fancy ass mall and Knoxville. Yeah, right. It's like super white, not. The fancy part of Morgan County, it's not fancy, but the school that has the reputation for being the most stuck up, and it's because they're the closest to Oak Ridge.

That's the whole reason why. And they do have a little bit more money because a lot of them work at Oak Ridge. But it's called Coalfield. Yeah, I know Coalfield. Coalfield is like the uppity part of Morgan County. Dude, they're the uppity ones. It's funny because I had a buddy. I had a buddy in college, and he was a good dude.

I liked him a lot. But he was like, he was from Colfield, and he was like, he was kind of rich kiddie. You know what I mean? Like, he seemed like that type, sort of. It kind of became a suburb of Oak Ridge. And compared to other Morgan County schools, you know, that was rich. I mean, I've talked about it on here before. My dad worked for the railroad.

I was squarely working class by national standards. But Sun and Sunbrite, you know, I had two Abercrombie T-shirts. Right. Colfield kids had five. Yeah, right. Yeah, he was sort of like that. Yeah. Well, he was a good dude, though.

I probably know him. What's his fucking name? He's got a good name. He's got like a southern, it ain't like red. It's exactly, I feel like his name suits him perfectly. And again, you know, I love him. So I'll say his name. I don't think he'd mind.

His name's Colt Jackson. That's great. That's a country singer name right there. Or a wrestler. Yeah. Dude, if I heard Colt Jackson, like in the WWE, I'd be an media fan. Well, hey, if I heard it as a country music singer, I wouldn't like it. Because you'd think it was fake.

Exactly. Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, this has been fucking great. And you're right, Drew, that did go on longer than I thought it would. And before we get out of here, we're doing a new thing here. I'm going to take some listener messages, some fan mail. You can email us at well-read pod at gmail.com.

And I got three here that I'd like to read. This is a good one. This is from Chance Honer, Sleeper Pick for Redneck List. Patsy Klein. she sang classy but she was known for cussing smoking fucking and fighting not a lot patsy klein is like one of those where like there's the mystique about her or whatever and you know she died super young but also still isn't talked about enough in regard because like i've always heard that too like didn't she like steal jerry lee lewis's car one time or some shit like that

like she was fucking pretty red i'm gonna be honest i don't know much about patsy klein other than like you said it's sort of the mystique because she died real young like would have been one of the, you know, like an almost like a James Dean of country music type of thing, except, you know, a female Jamie, buddy Holly, yeah, buddy Holly sort of thing is how I've always looked at Patty Klein. I don't know that much about it, frankly. That reminds me, though, I want to say that we did talk about Loretta Lynn and kind of decided this was when we were writing the book or I at least thought

about her and kind of decided that she was a hillbilly. But then we kind of made allowances like, you know, really, Pat Summitt is more of a country girl than a redneck. Anyway, we probably could have put Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter. Yeah. To take a woman to Fist City on that list. Me too, baby. We've also got...

There's a thing going around the internet right now saying that that is actually a song about her cheating on her man with another woman. It's a joke, but it's pretty... Right, and we'll take her... Look at this lyric. Yeah, we're going to go to Fis City, baby. we got one here from Vincent Life. Top redneck names. I have a cousin, Tony, I have two cousins, Tony Joe, same side of the family.

One's a guy, one's a girl. That's great. That's great. Two Tony Joes. Oh, and then this one here. This is from our buddy Henry Simmons. He said, how great was the catfish at Flat Creek? That is for me specifically.

I was in, where's that place I go in Missouri that? Branson. Branson. I was in Branson, Missouri a couple weeks ago, and I was at this place called Flat Creek, having catfish, and I'm walking to the bathroom, and I hear butter cream, butter cream, and I look over and it's this waiter

there, and he's wearing a name tag that says Mr. Wonderful, like Paul Orndorff. I don't know if you all remember the wrestler Paul Orndorff, and I was like, oh, well, this checks out. So we hung out. He's a great dude. If you're in the Branson, Missouri area, please go to Flat Creek and

have Henry Simmons cook you some catfish because it is a you it's top notch you were in branson would yeah i forget that when'd you go to branson i was only i was only there for a weekend i went last weekend uh you know we go every year because that's where my uh wife's family has a lake house because they're iowa folks or whatever and uh yeah i was there but i was just there for a week we left friday and we came back monday so it was just kind of a blip i sort of went m i i don't really have service there and so i just kind of you know hang out you can go see Yak off. No, I don't think he has a show there anymore. James Sibley does. Do you

remember James Sibley? Oh, of course. Yeah. Yeah. He's got like a Branson residency. That makes sense. Makes so much sense. Apparently he's lost a bunch of weight and is doing really good. If I was him, yeah, because somebody was like, yeah, I don't think he has to sit on the stool anymore. Right. But I was like, I was like, man, if I never saw him not sitting on the stool. Well, but I was like, dude, if I made that my gimmick for 20 years, I don't give a fuck if I could stand up. I'm going to keep it on the stool. You know what I'm saying? But yeah, we were in Branson, which is, it's like the Midwest Gatlinburg, I guess. Yeah, right.

And, you know, I'm for that type of stuff in doses for sure. It's not as good as Gatlinburg for sure because Branson don't. I guess their Dolly was Yakov smear. Well, Dolly used to have also stuff up there. She does. She does. She does. She does.

She does. She does. Derek Zew Askeani, who used to stand up in Chattanooga. That's where he works. he acts in the reenactments or whatever. It is the, they changed it from the Dixie stampede

to Dolly's stampede, I guess. That sounds right. It's a good change. I don't know if they changed the whole, I don't know if they changed the whole, the South wins in this reenactment part of it, but like, they definitely got rid of the next.

This is the gray team. Dude, when I was a kid so that we went to, you know, but. Right. People who don't know, it used to be that the crowd would choose. Yes, yes. And so when I went there as a kid, my mom and dad, I don't know where it is, but they, they, you know, they have a contest. Like, they bring people from the crowd and they, like, race horses or some shit, like, or I don't know what it was.

But my mom and dad, they called them down there and they won, and they had the trophy for years. But now I'm looking back at it, like, basically both sides of the auditorium or whatever was like, this side was Confederate. This side was fucking from the north. And in Gattenberg, dude, I just remember how pissed people were when they found out they had to sit on the unions. Like, this is fucking bullshit, man. I can't believe there weren't more fights. I can't believe there aren't still to this day, like fights at the Dixie Stampede from people like getting upset. That's true.

No. Well, they didn't when I was a kid, at least. They had to, I remember, they'd give you chicken, biscuits, and they would give you a, like a gravy. it was like a gravy ladle type thing, but it was huge and it was full of the gravy and everybody I know just drank it like soup. Yeah, and who's going to fight full of chicken biscuits and gravy?

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