wellRED podcast - #293 White Trash Music, Massholes, and Office Etiquette

Episode Date: October 12, 2022

Drew tells us wild tales of rude Bostonians and hillbillies in the city, the fellers wax nostalgic about the greatest time in White Tr@sh history and Trae wonders if his former office's prudish culture is normal. Thanks for listening and be sure to check out Drew in Atlanta and Savannah (Oct 21 & 22) and Trae in California (November).

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What's up, everybody? It is Uncle Daddy here. Check it in with you. I'm the producer this week of the Well-Red podcast. Just want to do some dates real quick. First of all, well-read, as usual, closing out the year at Zanis Nashville, the weekend before Christmas. I want to say it's the 14th, 15th, 16th.

I may be off by a day or two, but you can go to well-redg Comedy.com and get those tickets. It will be the only chance to see us all together this year, as far as I know. I know I got some dates coming up. I'm going to be in Savannah, Atlanta. I'm going to be a part of the New York Comedy Festival. I'm going to be part of the Red Clay Comedy Festival.

You can find my dates on Drew Morgan Comedy.com. And peek behind the curtains. I'm doing this intro while Trey Crowdy. on the mic, Trey, you want to go ahead and tell people where they can find you and when? Other than Zanis with you fellers, I've only got California shows the rest of this year as it has worked out. But I've got plenty more and plenty other places in 20, but I'll be in San Jose, October 20th, and then November 9th and 10th, I'll be the Braia and Oxnard, California Improves. But yeah, I go to Trey Crouter.com and see all the dates in 2023, currently adding a bunch more.

I'm in a Florida family working on Texas, yada, yada, all that stuff. So, Trey Crowder.com. It's one-stop shopping too because also any well-read shows are on there and will be marked accordingly. Yeah, and I want to reiterate real quick. Atlanta, October the 21st. I really want people to come out. I love Atlanta. I always have good show there.

It shows there. Don't blow this for me. Come out. Have fun. All right. Let's get started with the show. They're the demon six-acre. way too much but don't give a fuss

Some people upset make up Three big old dicks that you can suck All right Here we are Let me ask you a question It's your general opinion that Mostly Apple Really does hit for people, right?

It's not just a trend thing People like the products of Apple Yeah It's like oh there you pay more for the logo than anything, but they're still, you know, they're good, they're good stuff. I mean, I think people feel that way. I know a lot of nerds hate them, but I know a lot of nerds like them. Well, I'm not a computer nerd at all. I'm very computer dumb, in fact, and I finally got a MacBook Pro recently, and I don't know if you can, if computers have lemons, the

way cars have lemons. Oh, but this is, this thing is the hands down biggest piece of shit I've ever owned and I hate it and it sucks. I have a, and I'm not just saying that and it's not just me being a hater. I'm a, I have such a resentment for Apple because they've got me right where they want me despite the fact that I hate them and everything they stand for. But generally, I've been, uh, pleased with the way stuff works for the most part until this fucking thing and I hate it. But, uh, you know, here we are.

Let's back up. What do you got? A what? A MacBook Pro. I just got a new MacBook Pro. I got it to be my editing equipment when I was on the road with that art project slash comedy thing. Me and DJ were going to do that did never pan out.

I've had no trouble out of it, but I haven't pushed it. Have you been pushing it? Have you been pushing it? No. The thing that's got me even doing this right now is because you texted me the link to do the show. and it's a MacBook Pro. It's hooked up to my Apple ID, so I had my text messages on the computer.

So I was like, yeah, I could just get it on the computer. So I went to the text message thing, and it's just not allowing me to click any, like my clicker ain't clicking nothing, but only in the text message window, not in any other window. It freezes up all the time. It like locks up and shuts down.

It's like stuff that any computer ought not be doing. And I'm guessing to take it to see some geniuses and see what they have to say about it. But I resent the fact I even need to do that because it's like three months old or something. And, you know, it costs how, whatever, whatever it was, $2,000 or whatever. Might be a random, simple thing or it might be a lemon. I mean, the good thing about them generally as a company, did you get AppleCare? I don't know. Does your wife buy it?

Does it get you buy it? No, I bought it. I hope you got AppleCare because it'll make it all easier. But like, I know in my experiences with AppleCare, they just be fixed at it. And if it's a lemon, they should replace it. But like every company, man, have you noticed this? A lot of companies, it seems like their business model is to hit real hard until they corner the market and then just stop hitting.

Yeah. I think I've read that Amazon lost money on purpose for like a decade. Yeah. In order to become all we got. The monster that they are. So I'm wondering if, like, Apple built its reputation. Because, like, I mean, I don't even have friends with stories of, like, well, and I've had them since law school, so we're going back a long time. They take care of you.

But I wonder if, like, they don't anymore because I've been hearing a lot of people complain. One of the biggest complaints, they got sued. They were making old phones slow. on purpose. Yeah, I always totally figured that was a real thing that they were really doing.

I got one right now and old one and it's cracked and I don't care. You don't get that new 14? I don't know. Look at me. I look like I'm a Victorian ghost

with herpes right now. Sorry. It's weird because like I'm kind of not high tech. hijack about anything. I'm kind of into like new gadgets in some ways and then I'm just into really old shit in other ways. I have a MacBook Pro. I have a desktop. They're all linked up. I edit on them. I'm into that stuff. But then like, you know, I mean, honestly, I want to flip

phone. Like sincerely. You cannot do Instagram reels without a phone. You can't really keep up with like, you know, what we do in terms of promo on social media without a phone. I genuinely want to flip phone. I'm barely on anymore. I finally broke my habit of it. I mean, you guys probably noticed. Maybe you don't. I don't be responding to texts as frequently or as quickly.

I just, I'm not into it. You're not into what? Just being on a phone at all? Yes. Because to me, it's like, well, the dream. drug. I'm one of those people that can't drink on the weekends when it comes to the phone. I start answering your texts. Then while I'm there, I go check my Twitter. Then I get in an argument with somebody. Then that makes me in a bad mood. So I go look at Instagram to see

some butts or something. Now I'm scrolling on that for an hour. It's got me or it don't. Like those seem to be the two modes. And lately I've been pretty good at it not having me. I don't give a shit about it. Yeah, I, uh, uh, My fucking sinuses is rough the past few days, but that's neither here nor there. I'm pretty good about, like, it was weird. Like going viral on the social media's broke my addiction to social media, you know, all those years ago, kind of almost by in the set. Because overnight it became something I could not keep up with no matter how I tried. So I just mostly stopped trying ever since then.

And it's been something. long now it's like uh it's like social media is almost like a like a sody pop to me or something like i barely even remember being completely hooked on the shit uh but i definitely was for a long time i still like i dick around on reddit but i don't consider that because i don't uh i don't engage i'm just a lurker i don't ever i just i just go there to see what's going on in the world of internet and look at cats and memes and stuff i don't interact with people people. So it's not a social media type thing for me. Are you on your phone, though? Like, are you texting an emailing? Or are you able to just kind of

set it down? I mean, I check in. If I'm on Reddit, I'm on my phone. But I check in, I just check in on texting emails and shit. I'd be curious to hear from people, tweet at us or whatever it is you want to do, which is ironic because Tray won't see it. He just admitted. Cori'll say it. I wonder if like, you don't hear about it much anymore. Are people less addicted or are we just like it's such a part of just an extension of our hand now? We don't even talk about it like sugar. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I feel like Corey be on there a lot.

Well, I do too. I just wonder, since people aren't talking about it as much, have we just like accepted that a big part of the population is hooked on the phones? And I said like sugar. I mean, sugar was very much a treat, not, you know, something people rarely had. and now it's literally in everything. Has the phone become that? Yes, I think that's exactly what the phone has become.

Also, you said he wasn't here, but just so everybody knows, Cho's on vacation with Mrs. Cho in Boston and New England are up there looking at leaves and antiquing and just other general super white people shit. It was funny, he texted yesterday, you used to live in Boston. He was like, is it just me or like, what do he say?

He was like, I don't remember people in Boston being so rude. And you were like, that's funny because I feel like that's literally sort of their whole thing. That's what they're known for, mass holes. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess Cho was, I'd like to have some more. When he comes back, when he'd ask him for some more details on the specific rudeness he encountered.

Because like, anytime he don't hit for people, it usually hits for me. You know what I mean? Because like, yeah. Like, it's just usually funny. in some way. So some, uh, freaks out,

with a Boston accent. Right. Yeah. Yeah. He'll have, um, he wants, had a complete breakdown and fully showed his ass at the Walt

Disney studios. The actual studios in the gift shop because they wouldn't let him buy a Donald Duck notebook notepad because it was for cast members only, which means Disney employees. And they wouldn't let him buy it. And so he threw, uh, fit and stormed.

out basically because it was made the same as though he did not hit you know and that was his whole thing he literally said he was like i don't know how to prove it to you right now but i do hit i like to imagine someone being like what was all that commotion who was in the back yeah i was like ah you know how these are just for cast members something i really wanted one like oh a child yeah right uh kind of six foot one child yeah sort of looked like a big child yeah Yeah. So something that you just made me think of, and I knew this is going to come up, and I was debating on whether or not to bring it up,

but it might be interesting to talk about whether or not I should take offense. When I'm not here, I always listen to the first 10 minutes. You guys literally never address it. That's not true. I feel like we make fun of you when you're not here. Maybe you do it on the backhand. We say you're dead and stuff. Maybe you do it on a back end, and I just don't ever make it that for it.

It's funny because I definitely don't think. that that's accurate because I feel like we usually at least talk a little bit of shit about you, which I always expect you to hear. Maybe it's just not within the first 10 minutes, but it's definitely something I endeavor to do, which is sort of what I'm doing right now. Sure. Yeah, it's a good, you got to do it. I mean, that's the thing. It's like, that's the thing in comedy, you'd rather than be mad at you or talking shit than, you know, acting like you don't exist. Right. Well, one of the reasons I wanted to bring it up is to say that a lot of times, I don't know why I feel the need to defend myself or like whatever.

I feel like no one's noticing it. But I want people to know that I'm not lazy. Like oftentimes schedules conflict in a way where it's me or you. And it just like makes sense that I miss and you don't miss. And to be clear, I'm like, the laziness in me is like, that's fine. I won't do it. But I just don't want people to think, man, I guess true didn't feel like joining again. It's like, no, I was available, but not the wrong thing.

Well, also, when he's not on vacation, chose the one that handles all of the stuff for this podcast. And, of course, he going to pick me, you know, every time since he's in love with me and all that. Well, and, again, you're not the founder of the well-read tour, but also, like, that hits for me, too. Like, he picks you, and I'm like, got out. No, what am I going to do? Hands are tied.

I can't do it. Do you have any good, like, encounters with my assholes from when you were living there, like ones that are funny or egregious. Like you get called a queer outside of dunks or anything like that. I got called a queer at least a couple of times. Yeah, there's some funny bar stories. To be honest, most of my funny stories, like, what's DJ's old line?

If you get called a hillbilly, I guaranteeing goddamn MTV. Probably doing some hillbilly shit. Yeah, right. Ain't know some bitch been out in the woods drinking Miller Light on a four-wheeler with shirt off and keep it on the down low, you was making it be known, and you got called a hillbilly.

I bring it up because the first couple of stories that pop into my brain, there's some assholes involved, but there's absolutely some dumbfoot rednecks involved. When we come back from this break, I'll tell you one of my favorite stories involving, like, hillbillies in the city kind of thing,

because there's layers to it. There's multiple people involved. had some friends come in. We got separated. It was a lot. So right when we get back, I will tell that. And, yeah, it would be pretty good. All right, and we're back.

So these mace hole stories. Yeah. I was trying to think of some of the better ones, man. There was one guy who I went to law school with. I'll do this one quick, and then I'll do the big one I teased. This one, I'm kind of the hero of this story, but that's not why I thought of it. I was just trying to think of funny stories. his name's Nick.

He's a good dude. He was really tight with Micah, who you've met, who I was tight with. And we were out drinking, and me and him got in the dumbest argument. With each other? Yeah, it was over Guinness and IPAs. I guess we've talked about this before. I may even tell this story before. Guinness is low in calories.

Yeah. But it's very heavy because of that nitro. Right. And he was making that point, and I was like, yeah, but you still can't have six of them. I think I said, I can't do it again as I'm full or something like that. And he was making the point, this has the same calories as the light beer you ordered. And I'm like, it's not just about calories, dog.

It's about the nitrous in it and the sugary feel and all that. Well, this dude, the macehole in him, he's taking me to task. He starts yelling. He's like making a big scene. He's like, hey, literally, everybody, this fucking guy right here says he's too full for a Guinness. too full for a Guinness, this guy here. I don't think he called me, you know, a queer, but like that was the implication.

It's the implication, always sunny in Philadelphia. So literally people are like, some people are like, okay, whatever. Some people are laughing at me. Now my red's getting up. And I'm like, all right, let's do a bet. I say, I say Guinness is feeling. You say it's not feeling. Here's the bet.

I'll bet you that I can chug a pitcher of an iPad. quicker than you can chug a pitcher of a Guinness. Now, mind you, this dude played Division I'm football defensive line. He weighed, I'm not exaggerating 320 pounds. So he played like Boston College? He played at Holy Cross before they lost their football team. Yeah.

She's like, now he's also maceholded me. Everybody. So now everybody's looking. He's like, all right, we'll take the bet, right? I order them for the pitchers. Micah's just laughing. Micah's looking at me like, you can't chug IPA. even if you're right about the filling aspect,

fucking IPA is gross, right? I get the pitcher. We say go. I start to turn it up. And then I just set it down. And the whole crowd watches this man, this 320-pound man, chug an entire pitcher of Guinness.

And it takes quite a few people, like a minute or two to figure out, like they're like, oh, he gave up. It's like, no, I just trick this giant man and chugging a whole fucking bitcher against. He puts it down, slams it. He's like, yeah, fuck you. Oh, shit.

He ran to the bathroom and puked. And then he went home. And he didn't have my number. So he's texting Micah messages to show me because he doesn't have my number. And it's just like a string of expletives. This fucking piece of shit. He's no kind of man.

He tricked me. He thinks it's funny. blah, blah, blah, blah. But he also thought it was pretty good. Move on my part. And like those giant men who played sports adores me now and didn't beat me up. All right.

The longer story. We're at a bar. Brian and Robert from Morgon County. The Morgon County maniacs are in town. Brian's my best friend from forever. People may have heard me talk about Robert. Robert's a, he's a real corker. He's quite a character.

He adopted. half black, half white, but talks like yes. Loves to tell stories of getting pulled over in adjacent towns in our county. Everyone in our town knows him, but the cops pull him over, one town over,

and he shows him his ID, and they're like, wait a minute, are you Roger Brown's son? He's like, yeah, and they're like, all right, you're free to go. They're up there. The first story, we were at a party,

and I had to leave to go get something as soon as I got there, and when I came back up the stairs, the crowd is chanting Tennessee. Tennessee, Tennessee. And I walk in and Robert is on one knee chugging a bottle of vodka. Oh, God. Yeah. So, like, you know, he's been making his mark or trying to on the city of Boston.

We go out to a bar and things are going good. I think we were going to leave and go to a different bar. And they told Brian that he never gave him a credit or a debit card. and he was like well how'd I start a tab then like I have a tab right they're like yeah you owe us for three drinks he's like how do I start it

you start tabs without credit cards and they're like you never gave it to us they couldn't find his credit card and the mass whole move was this bartender was just acting like he didn't give it to him and she was doing the move of like

you're just fucking drunk you're some dumb redneck I'm sorry you don't know how the city works. Like she was hitting him with like really shitty things. Yeah. And Brian was being calm at first. But she was just being a asshole. It was total ruinous.

He was like, he's like, I don't, I don't know what to tell you. You have the only card that I have. And again, how would you have started my tab without it? You don't start tabs without cards in this bar. Right. And she's like, get him out of here. You know, like fucking get him out of here. And Robert had been with a girl like up on.

a different, like, level. The bar was two floors. And he had seen this and he'd kind of come down there. At this point, the bouncers have made their way over there because Brian's starting to get mad. Brian's a pretty big dude. And she's getting louder. I mean, this is just like a trashy, like the bar is not trashy, but she's just this

mouty, trashy. Get this fucking prick out of here. Yeah. He's like, I will leave if you give me my card. Robert comes into the middle of this melee. I'm trying to like coordinate stuff. There's giant bouncers. This is downtown Boston.

He's like six foot five bouncers. And Robert goes, you ain't throwing Tennessee out of this bar. And, like, I swear to God he didn't finish the sentence, and he was in the full Nelson. Somebody had him with their hands behind his head, picked him up. Robert was like 6-1-200. Like, he's a big, you know, he's a muscular dude.

He looks like a feather. I mean, this dude just, like, flopped him around, kicks him out. He's outside, waiting on us, right? I'm still trying to get Brian to just leave. The bouncer haven't kicked Brian out yet because he's like, hey man, I'm not being unreasonable. I'm not yelling at her. What I'm saying is, I will leave

if she will give me my debit card. And she's like, I don't have his fucking debit card. He's a fucking idiot. Get him out of here. So the guy's like, I can tell you're trying to be calm, but you have to leave or I'm going to make you. So finally Brian's like, all right, we'll go outside. We get outside.

I don't see Robert. I'm like, okay, he probably went to this bar next door. I kind of peek in. I see him at that bar. It's like Robert just went into another bar and got a drink. Total reasonable move. Well, then, this is the redneck hillbillies come to town situation, Brian starts getting like fuming.

This is when we were younger and Brian, you know, he hadn't got a hold of himself yet. Like Brian has a real bad temper with a really long fuse. And from her yelling at him and him having to leave and then he sat there and thought about how he don't have another card. Yeah. He has no way to like have money now. Yeah, don't hit.

He has decided, and I quote, I'm going back in there and I'm getting my card or I'm waking up in jail because at least I'll get food in jail. Hard to argue with. Well, you know, I mean, I could argue with it, but. I had to argue with it. I was in law school, so luckily I could a little bit. I spent probably 20 minutes trying to talk this man off the weirdest ledge ever. I mean, he literally kept saying to me. He was saying he started getting worse and drunker.

like I think the alcohol was hitting him more and the anger was building up and time was passing. He was saying shit like, Drew, you have a future. You're in law school. You don't need to be here, but I'm fucking going to jail. Like it became like less, here's my logic and more. I'm about to go fuck somebody up. And I had him in an alley.

And I kept like getting in front of him. To the point where I was like, you're going to have to hit me to get by me, dog. Like, I'm not letting you do this. I finally talked to Dan. I was like, we'll come back tomorrow. I may have made something up like me and my friends will sue him, buddy. Like we're going to figure this out. We'll be back here tomorrow.

And he's like, all right, we'll leave. Well, at that point, I leave the alley and I realize where the fuck is Robert? He's not at that bar anymore. I call him. He answers. And he's going, I went home with two girls. I'm like, hell yeah, dude, rock and roll. Get in a cab, leave.

I get to my apartment 45 minutes or so later. And basically as soon as I get there, Robert calls me and says, they kick me out, dude. They kick me out. Some dude punched me in the face, dude. No clue what he's talking about. I have no idea where he's at, neither does he. I'm like, where are you?

And he goes, kind of close to the bar. And I go, you walked from the bar? No, we took a cab. I'm like, Robert, Boston is a huge city. I really don't know what to do right now. And he goes, well, my phone's done. And I go, do you have any money? And you said, no.

I was like, fuck. Now this is pre-Uber and Lyft or any of that. I was like, get in a cab, and when you get here, I'll pay them. Okay, here's the address. Robert's like, I'm doing it. My phone's dying. I'll see you in a few. I waited on the curb for what felt like two hours.

But in the meantime, Brian's lost his debit card. I was a broke student. I had $16 some of which was changed that I was planning on doing my laundry with the cab driver showed up Robert fell out onto the curb and pute

he fell onto the curb and vomited and then I just kind of handed $16 of the cab driver and was like this is literally all the money I have I'm sorry and then jerked Robert inside so we also were the assholes of that story well I mean at least he puked on the curb right Exactly. And that cabaret was probably $70.

$16 is better than none, I think. I thought you said 60. Oh, yeah. 16. 16. 1.6. That don't hit. I had a $10 and $6 in quarters. I handed him $6 in quarter. She way. I had no other option.

You know, it's a different time. I had no credit card. This is so far removed from when it would have made sense to be in the conversation. but I just don't want to not bring it up. Three minutes into the show, you said something like, I'm not high tech or nothing. And you reminded me, do you remember the song,

High Tech Redneck? Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that song in years, so I looked it up. It's by fucking George Jones. Yeah. George Jones. George Jones had a song called High Tech Redneck in the 90s.

And as soon as I thought of it, I was like, I'm going to look that up because I bet the stuff that qualified. for high-tech redneck, you know, 30 years ago is funny now. And it, you know, it ain't bad. So I looked up the lyrics, I thought I'd read them. So this is what a high-tech redneck was in 94 or whenever that came out. It was something like that.

He's got 13 channels of wrestling coming in strong from a satellite sand, a 200 function remote control big screen TV with stereo, football, baseball, NASCAR 2 with picture in picture. It's all in view. About picture and picture. You remember that shit? Oh, yeah. That was, yeah, I was.

Brad Duport, first person in town that got it that I know of. Yeah, you have two games going at once. What it was for? Never did really hit all that hard, though. but also like the big this is definitely uh you know this was the height of i think it hit back then you don't think it hit back then i don't know i mean it was like you know for me it was like what a time to be alive you know but i don't think it ever really i mean why would they is it just like standard now can any tv do that and people just don't why would they get rid of it if it kept

hitting for people it's like the other stuff you're not it's like the other screen, especially back then you got to remember, people were like, the TVs that hit back then were like either 36 inches, right? That was a big CRT TV, cathod, ray tube, or whatever the fuck it is, which is like the or a truly big screen back then was one of those projector TVs. And those did not hit. I don't care what anybody says. They were big for the time, but you had to be directly in front of it or it looked

like shit if you tried to watch it from any angle. So if you have like a 36 inch, you know, big non-projector TV with picture and picture on it, I know because we did, that other picture, you know, you couldn't tell much about what was going on there. I don't disagree with what you're saying. I just feel like I remember everybody being excited about it back then and I can't help. Oh, they were, yeah. I can't help if we're looking at it through like our modern eyes.

because here's another example. When you like watch on this, because now you just do like Red Zone or whatever, right? But when you watch on this on the phone, I can go text y'all or talk shit, but keep it going. That really is for me. No, yeah, I agree.

I mean, yeah, that's another reason I guess you don't need picture and pictures so much is because you've got multiple screens around you at all times. I mean, I can have something on my TV, on my iPad, and on my phone, you know, and this stupid piece of shit. this MacBook that I'm talking to you on right now. I could use it too if I wanted to.

No, it don't hit. But then also I'll keep going. And if it comes on just a little too late with his VCRs, he'll get it on tape. He's a high-tech redneck, Mayberry meet Star Trek. He's a bumpkin, but he's plugged in. He's a high-tech redneck.

He's got 20 subwoofers in the back of his truck, a thousand watts of power, and he keeps it cranked up. He ain't into hip hop. He ain't into rap. He likes to rattle them speakers with Ronnie Millsap. What a great bar. CD cassette, digital tape, C, B, radar, and scanning shortwave.

And if he needs to talk to his honey and home, he just dials up her number on his cellular phone. He's a high-tech redneck. I didn't think cell phone was going to make it in there. in fucking 94, but sure enough did. Yeah, Asians invented that unlike rap. I want to, two things. One, I love this song.

I always sing it, and then I'll go, he's a something, but he's bumping. I can't remember that lyric. And it's funny that it rhymes with what I thought. I should have known it was bumpkin. Two, the rap call out, it feels connected to, this is a stretch maybe. it kind of feels like connected to the sort of weird identity divide we have today

I don't know if that makes sense because now Rednex will blast rap and I was about to say I don't think any I don't think a country what artists would ever say that today because hell they fucking ape rap what they you know yeah they copy rap all the time but now so it's different but it's a similar thing where country still has that thing of like I'd never do that. I'm trying to think of what it is. Probably go to the city. It's generally like, keep your city stuff over there. Eat it like a Michelin Star restaurant or that type of shit. You know what I mean? The opposite of, exactly. That's what I was going to say. It's the opposite of fancy like, you know, because that's what we will do is we eat at Applebee's and be dumb, but we won't

hit somewhere that hits or be smart. that's actually related to a thing that I had wanted to I was thinking about earlier do you have any idea or any concept of I guess it's that I guess we just answered the question I wasn't thinking of this song when I thought of the question but earlier on the bike I was listening to it was a 90s a 90s ride and corn was on it and I was once again thinking about, well, basically it led me down this road. And this is, I'm sure every different type of person probably has a similar type of thing in their head. But I feel like the late 90s, late 90s and early 2000s was a hitting time to be white trash, which I was.

Then the mid to late arts was a hitting time to be a bro, which I had become in my college years. And then the 2010s were a hitting time pop culture speaking to be a nerd, which I've always. been and now it's a hitting time to be a queer and I'm the biggest queer on earth you know so it's like coming up to ray been pretty yeah everything keeps coming up tray but no i uh so for you in the 90s i guess the early 90s the early 90s i suppose yeah but i was just thinking about trash and i was wondering like i was just standing around thinking about trash well trash music there used to be so much really hitting trash music and i was like is it what what are the white trash kids in salina and morgan County and stuff now listening to but it's probably fucking fancy like and all that shit ain't it

some of that but like the the cool kids i'll put it in quotes don't care about that they're listening to i mean i'll tell you they're listening to up church or they were he may be out now up church the redneck but you know but shit like that he's like still relevant and hitting in that world he may not be like i might be going back five years but my point is like they They didn't just move on to fancy like. They got their own shit. My nephew loves Zach Brine, which is good. Yeah.

Loves Morgan Wallen, which is not great. They like Tyler Childers. There's a few rappers, and I can't think of their names that they like, who are like, you know, hiccopy. Oh, they like jelly roll. Yeah. No. So, like, you know, there's still, you know,

white trash abides, basically. maybe. Yeah, right, for sure. Like that, dude, think, like, and I mean, I think we've talked around this subject before, but fucking,

like, corn, Kid Rock, Eminem, fucking Everlast and what, so much other shit was like, mainstream. It's like white trash culture,

like, blew up, I feel like. And not the redneck part of it so much, but, you know, because white trash, like transcends.

You got redneck white trash, but you also got like Detroit white trash like Eminem or whatever, but just white trash across the board. Yeah. Had a real fucking moment, I feel like culturally back in that time. And I didn't even appreciate it as a trash baby in the moment. I mean, I did in that it hit for me, but I didn't really realize, you know, the significance of the trash era.

Well, how could you have appreciated it because what was happening then, and we have touched on this a little bit is... MTV was creating a sort of rotation of different things having their moment. The internet made it to where everything can have their moment all at once, but no one can have a huge moment anymore. Corn, there's a pretty convincing article that I sent you guys like a year ago, that corn sort of the last big, huge rock band, meaning kids lined up around the block to get into the studio when they did MTV.

meaning they went from nobody to overnight. Every kid in America knew who they were and loved them. I think it was just sort of random luck that white trash was the last thing that was being pushed on there. Because hip hop had a moment before that. Skaterpunk shit had a moment before that with Blink 1182 and all that stuff. So, you know, it was just like it was going to be a rotation of all the things kids liked. And then the internet made it to where we can just do all that at once. But we've had some mainstays since then now.

Let's bring up Miley Cyrus, you know, who's crossed over a little bit. We like her. I do anyway. And then, you know, Morgan Mullen is what he is. But he's trash, and he is mainstream. Yeah. No, I know. I mean, in country, like, you know, as everybody I named earlier,

it wasn't country. Like, countries always had, you know, it's claws and trash and vice versa. but I was talking about like there was like mainstream shit but you said Cormons' last big rock band is it just to do and listen they don't hit for me and they're not trash either I don't think but like is Imagine Dragons not a

like a rock band like a modern day version of rock band because Kit my sons they imagine dragons hit for them and like kids I don't think I don't know if kids are losing that now but like they were definitely huge for a while in the kid world I think they're considered more pop, them and the chain smokers, but I would also argue that I don't think Imagine Dragons was ever as big as corn.

Yeah, I don't think, well, I don't think that that's part of your point, I guess, but I don't think that bands can get as big now as bands could get back then. That was like at the tail end of what the music industry used to be, you know, which it's long since dead. I think that's right. But then at the same time, I just checked the Billboard top 50 out of curiosity. Part of what happens is with the internet

might be that whatever's super popular, if it's not your shit, you don't have to know about it. Used to it was unavoidable. If I wanted to hear the one Kendrick Lamar song I liked on MTV, I had to see what the fuck else MTV was playing. So the reason I'm bringing this up,

the top hits right now, Glass Animals who I've heard of, the number two hit is by Justin Beaver. I knew he still was relevant. I thought he, I thought his face fell off or whatever. I don't even know what that means. Didn't he have Bell's palsy or something like that?

I thought he was going to be out of the game for a while because he had some sort of like, some sort of slot face. I don't know. Am I wrong? Yeah, I believe you. He's got another. He reveals why half his face is paralyzed.

That's from June of 2022. well maybe that just happened in the area made these songs because one of these is number eight he canceled his tour and all kinds of shit yeah he made the number eight song he made with juice world who I think is dead so oh well there yeah okay my point that it's maybe it's a little convoluted that I'm trying to make is like I think one thing that happens

is whoever the biggest in the world is we're removed from it because number one we're old but number two we don't have to go to a centralized spot to hear what we like we can just go hear what we like. So I have no idea. I knew Glass Animals was a band and I've seen them at festivals and liked some of it. It shocks me that they have the number one hit in the world right now. I thought they were an indie kind of not underground, but you know. No, yeah, I agree. They're like

a, yeah, like a Bonnaroo type of like, yeah, like you said, like indie type shit. Like, it's sort of like Portugal, the man had like a major hit a few years. I mean, hell at this point, that was probably four or five years ago. I don't know if they still hit her. not but I'm gonna go see them I'd fucking love them love them we saw them together and I was I thought that show was fucking incredible top five all time for me yeah it was yeah it was so great PTM baby oh yeah they do hit uh but yeah I don't know I knew obviously I mean we've talked a lot about how I don't keep up with music anymore which is part of why I was asking the question but I was also just thinking about I got corn or you know corn going and it

just got me in that trash space. And I was like, I was like, damn, there was just, like I said, trash was, trash was in for a minute there. I think it was in. I wish, I wish DJ was here to help us with white trash pop culture references. But there was also, I just remembered there was that moment where Zeph was in because of the Artward, which was just South African white trash here. Sure.

That was like years later though. Yeah. I'm saying it's had a separate moment. Yeah. Yeah, it has these pop-up moments, but I hope that. But weren't they, and look, they hit for me. They always did hit for me. But they're like performance artists, right?

Meaning like, they ain't actually that, right? 100% correct. Yeah. See, I can't help but have that hit for me a little less. Of course. It's just the way I'm wired. Like, if they were real Zep, which, yeah, South African white trash, that would hit for me way harder than knowing that it's like,

the whole thing's like a fucking art piece or whatever. Of course. But I do, I did like their shit though, you know. Yeah, but there's definitely no insane clown posse going on right now. They still go. I'm about to say,

yeah, you can't, yeah, you can't fly CP, but juggle a mission. Every head must bow. Yeah. Every tongue must profess.

The kings of trash right there. I just want to remind everybody that I heard, I heard Violent Jay on a podcast talking about how fucking stupid a southern accent is and how anytime you hear somebody with a southern accent you can just tell they're a dip shit who don't know nothing and he's saying this with his iCP makeup on and it was just fucking it was cracking me up because it's like dude this dude think it's like like check out these dipped he wasn't talking about us but he would think that about us and it's funny to me knowing that uh you know like that's sort of the space that our accent occupies in most americans minds

Aren't you still doing an accent bit? Oh, yeah. I'm always doing an accent bit, yeah. I mean, me too, generally, but I happen to not be. I don't think right now. I mean, I'll try to work into the one of mine if you don't. You really aren't put that in there, being like, this is how universally known it is that we're done.

A grown man in a clown outfit. It is known. What are they known for? Like spreading hepatitis and drinking fago? Right, yeah, yeah. It's like, you know who's dumb. People who sound like William Faulkner. Right, yeah.

All right, well, I have a whole other thing I wanted to talk to you about, which I guess I'll get into right after this. Thank you, Ron. And we're back. All right. I want to thank Rome for sponsoring the podcast and for that read you just did. I just want to say reading between the lines, and this is a positive.

this is a feature. Their whole thing is, hey, are you too dumb to figure out how to iron your shirt? Are you too lazy to go to the dry cleaner? Yeah. Do you stack?

Figured it out. And they did. They did. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. I wish I'd have had run a shirt back when I worked at my office job, which is the thing I wanted to talk to you about,

because you were a lawyer. And so, I still, you know, right, well, I just want to know how different this is in your experience, because that was the only job, like, that's the only office job I ever had. I worked in restaurants when I was in college and business school, and after that I had this one office job. And it's a pretty sweet gig in a whole lot of ways. It's working for the government, you know, it's like super good benefits and insurance and all that stuff. They pay well.

You don't have to work all that hard, you know, everybody, I think most people know that. You get good time off and all that. stuff. All that shit hit. But, like, it was a super, and I don't mean this in the political sense. It was a super conservative work environment.

And again, I don't mean politically. Like that too, even though mostly nobody, you weren't, we weren't supposed to talk about politics. Obviously, we worked for the fucking government. You're supposed to just do whatever the mission was. But like, like, here's the best example that I think I can think of. We had

to like get together with everybody that was part of this one large project, right? And it was a Recovery Act project. And it had to do with like sponsoring, renewable energy projects for towns and cities and county governments all around the country, right? So there was like the people who worked the grants, which is me,

the people who approved the projects, the cities were doing. So, oh, you're going to install a bunch of high efficiency streetlights or whatever. Those people, and those people are like scientists and engineers from the lab. And then like the managerial people and one of the managers had a party like a during that like a barbecue to celebrate the end, us hitting some milestone or something. So it was on a Saturday at like the boss's house, right?

And we go there and one of the science people and a lot of them were like this, they were from all over the world. She was this Russian lady, nantanya, right? And everybody loved Tanya. She was super sweet, funny, you know, Russian is. fuck. She came.

Sorry, she was Ukrainian, everybody. Our bad. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, look, I think that you can meet a Russian who still hits for you. I don't think that, I doubt Tanya's down with Putin or anything. That'd be wild as she was. But she brought a bottle of Russian vodka. Fuck yeah.

Right. Yeah, right. Okay. And keep in mind, I've been there less than, me and Bryce and all of us, I think have been there less than two. years at this point. I'm 26 or something. It's my first office job. I'm fucking trash. I don't know what I'm doing. I expect to get fired every day. But anyway, no one who was there touched it, right? Nobody. Because it just, it, that's just the way it was. Like, for everyone. I can tell by

looking at your, I know in retrospected Israel, I know that all of us, I knew how I felt I was like, I'm not going to be the one to start drinking at this party when nobody else is. but it's like it was always like that. Nobody ever did anything that hit with like me. Like those of us who came in together out of college, like me and Bryce and our friends who were our age, we'd go to a bar together separately. And I'm sure there were other groups of people

who worked there were doing the same thing. But if it was any kind of like work-related function, but not while on duty, like something like that, there would be things like that, holiday parties and stuff. No one was ever hitting or having any fun because it's like it wasn't, you know, it wasn't right or proper.

I think it was a religious thing. Probably that too. But I'm, but I'm, but I'm, yes, also that. They were mostly older and stuff.

I think the young people didn't feel comfortable enough yet to do it in front of the old people. I know that's true. And I think the old people just didn't really drink vodka. Like they just, they just didn't want it. Oh, I'm just wondering what,

because like, I hear. Again, that's the only office job I've ever had, but I hear other people talk about, you know, whatever. They go to Happy Hour after you get off on Thursday or Friday or whatever, and that type of shit. And that's just like, that job just were not like that at all ever.

And I'm wondering how rare that it. And I was like, well, I was in the South. I'm in the Bible Belt, but I don't know. Anyway. Well, I have two reasons I think it's rare. One is I've never experienced that. To be fair, most of my office jobs in the South, though, were public defender's offices.

And that is its own type of thing. And, you know, people start letting loose, start having drinks and, you know, talking about the drugs they do openly in front of the boss. That just hit so much harder. Yeah. Oh, this was the other reason I think that's rare. That exact office that you no longer work in. I walked on to the patio on a Friday sometime last year of a day of a day.

downtown establishment and saw the friend of ours, a mutual friend, who you may have, may not have mentioned already, it might have been a year and a half ago, with his entire team on a team building day getting hammered. Oh, well, that's great. Well, like you said, maybe it. So, yeah, well, my man's making some changes to the culture around there. That's why I like to hear. No, that's great.

It's good. That's what, you know, because, yeah, like you said, generation, because we, like, no one. people don't leave that job people don't leave government jobs for the most part like i was extremely rare in doing so but also like we all got hired under the recovery act thanks obama right and so because of the recovery act a whole bunch of new people fresh out of college came into the doe at the same time and most every there was us and then most everybody else who worked there had been there for 30 fucking years you know what i mean and they were like our parents age or older.

So there was a massive generation gap. And yeah, they just never, they was never trying to hit or have any fun at all. A lot of them were very cool, very sweet people, you know, and I don't have anything against them. I'm just saying like,

I didn't, I was trying to get a beat on how, you know, how common or not that is. Because I definitely at the time, you know, I was still, I was still hitting a sauce.

pretty hard and none of that shit I found it to be with it. No, hell no. I think all the young people were scared and all the old people just wouldn't have done that. They weren't going to drink vodka that day or at least not in front of people, you know.

What's the old joke? How do you keep Baptist from drinking your beer and buy two of them? Right? Yeah, yeah. Why do you have to go? Why do you only go fishing with two Baptists? Because if you only go with one, he'll drink all your beer. Yes, that scenario was going on with the old.

Yes. And then the news were like, I am surprised you didn't have one mouthy broad. There's always one mouthy broad in an office who's so much fun. And that's her thing, is being fun. And she can get some, she can get like three things done. Nobody knows how to do. And she is fun.

And I cannot believe she wasn't like, damn, Tanya brought vodka. Well, we're going to do shots. We had a full board drunk. in the office but she I don't think was there that day and she's like she don't go to those parties she knows yeah right and she was you know again like like getting the DUI at nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning type drunk I hope she's doing better now but anyway nobody was following we have nobody was following her lead in any point and then we had another

mouth then who hit for me but was it but was also like super churchy like I remember her telling me about she bought a she when 50 shades of gray was huge she had to know what all the fuss was about but she like put it under a stack of like what are they called devotionals or something like like church books like she went to barns and noble and got like four church books that she already had at her house or didn't otherwise need and then under and then the fifth book on the bottom was 50 shades of gray so she And she told you this story. Yeah.

Yeah. She always really hit for me despite the fact that me and her, like, I'm sure she hates me now, which is. No, I don't think she does because I'm, she was pretty, you know. I know you don't speak church lady, but that was flirting right there. Hardcore Christian conservative. Oh, hell, I didn't even thought about it like that. No, she's a freak. Oh, Lord.

He! I don't just don't get back to her because I was not trying to call you a freak. at all. I hope it don't get back to her either. I thought you were a sweet lady. She is a sweet lady, but she wants you to tie her up with rosary bids and put a crown of thorns in her butt. Not what I'm saying.

It's funny because, like, I genuinely feel that way, and it was kind of just a past and thought I had. I was like, kept it with the church stuff. That feels kinky. Like, put it together, told Trey about it, a man who's not her husband, and I'm saying it out loud, and the more uncomfortable you got. then it was like, I don't even care if I believe this anymore.

Now I'm going to spend a whole tale. But I've convinced myself, I'm a great fucking lawyer. She's a freak. All right. Well, again. Oh, man. Also, I'm only just now starting to get a little bit of an echo of myself. Now I don't hear it.

But anyway, I think it's been fine. And we're almost at an hour anyway. So I think it'll be okay. I'll just send it to the lady. I'm going to regret saying this, but go Valls, baby. Oh, God. Yeah, I'm not going to regret saying this. Go Chiefs.

Fuck the Raiders. Oh, fuck off. Whatever. Don't know. Yeah, make sure you go to our websites and all that. And, dude, I can't. I'll try. Thank you all for listening to the Wellred show.

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