wellRED podcast - #32 - There's No Place Like Home!

Episode Date: September 13, 2017

How can one stupid little Facebook comment make you so mad? Well it's pretty easy when said comment takes a shot at a southern man's pride for his homeland! That's right - the jumping off point for this weeks discussion was a shitty Facebook comment that some lady left on one of Trae's Posts .(We are super mature:) This led to a discussion of what it's like to leave your hometown, and whether or not sometimes it's best to stay put (The Brain Drain Phenomenon). After that we discuss Trump revoking DACA and the challenges that presents to some people who are just trying to stay in the only home they've ever known. Did y'all know we have exclusive content over on Patreon? Click Here to become a Patron and enjoy even more silliness! wellREDcomedy.com for tour dates, tickets, and to subscribe to our newsletter! Download, subscribe, tell ya friends! We love ya like chicken! SKEEEEEW!

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Here's some tour updates from over at well readcomedy.com. That's W.E LLRED comedy.com. Spelled just like the podcast. Subscribe to our newsletter and you will get ticket up. updates before anybody else does, and that means this portion of the podcast will be completely irrelevant, and you can skip right through it. This weekend, September 14th, 15th, and 16th sold out. We're going to be in Lexington, Kentucky.

Can't wait to see you. September 21st and San Jose is also sold out, but there's still a couple tickets. September 22nd and 23rd, we're in Sacramento, California. September 24th, San Francisco, California. September 27th, back at Largo, where they're doing Trey Crowder and friends. Of course, me and Drew are some of the friends, and we have an insanely awesome surprise for you guys. I cannot wait. Lord, I can't wait to put this on Facebook and brag to my friends.

September 28th in San Diego sold out, but then we're going to come near back home. October 7th, Memphis, Tennessee. October 8th in Knoxville, Tennessee sold out, but October night still has a couple tickets. October 11th, Iowa City, Iowa, then on to Lincoln, Nebraska, Springfield, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, Seattle, Washington, Eugene, Oregon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., New York, New York, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, Denver, Colorado for two nights, Chattanooga for two nights, Nashville, Tennessee, for three nights, Orlando, Florida, Clearwater, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Portland, Oregon, and Asheville, North Carolina.

That was a mouthful. We got a lot of tour dates coming up, and we're so pumped to get back to some cities that we were at last year and some cities that we ain't been to yet so go to well read comedy dot com for those tickets tell your friends uh and pick up a copy of our book the liberal redneck manifesto dragon dixie out of the dark we love you guys and uh skew hey everybody what's up guys uh thanks for joining us as always listen before we get into this week's episode which is a you know a hell of a good one yeah i think it's a good one we get in some shits pretty near and dear of the heart and also topical and all that.

Before we do that, we have a very important announcement for y'all. We would like to stress off top that the podcast as it is, whereas it's well-read Wednesday, we release an episode every Wednesday, that shit ain't going to change. You're always going to be able to keep that if you subscribe, but. Well, Corey, always be drunk on Wednesday. I'll always be yelling at him. Yeah, exactly. That shit ain't going to change.

However, we are about to start coming at you with some additional. content and with that what we're going to do is we've set up Patreon. Patreon is a subscription service where basically you can donate a certain amount a month and you're going to get additional things aside

from just the weekly episode that we do. We're throwing a couple things at the, oh here we go. Oh yeah Mr. But there may be an episode that's just Mr. Butt. I don't know. Mr. Butt's schedule is pretty, you know, it's pretty filled up for a while. He's booked out for a while.

I'll be hard to get him for that long. He currently comes out of Trump's mouth most of the time. But yeah, it's like burnt beef. Like Corey said, the podcast that you've been listened to this whole time in exactly the format that you are used to is free and will always be free as long as we do it. That is not changing. If you love it and love us and want to support us and be patrons, then you can do so. And for that lovely generosity, you will be rewarded with additional content. That's what we're saying.

And the way that will work, Corey, how would that work? That will work with basically you going to Patreon once we give you the link, which will be in the description of this podcast. And Patreon. And Patreon is a subscription service that you can donate certain monies to to get us to get the additional content. Exclusive content. Donate. Again, that's subscription just for you. And this is our job.

You know what I mean? And that's what we're trying to do is turn it. in our job and we tried advertising and you know we'll be honest it didn't hit for us we don't think it hit for y'all we did one commercial and the truth is like we had all these opportunities but it was like a lot of these they don't check out for us they don't line up for us we're not just going to pedal anything no and then by the same token i think a lot of the companies we didn't hit for them because it's like yeah we like you guys but y'all are a little too out there for us right and with advertising we're getting paid but taking shit away from you because you have to

sit there and listen to us do an ad with this we get paid and you get more shit right so you actually get something for your money and again this is basically so that uh we can all uh move out there to l a hit nass studio and the podcast will hit harder right and you don't have to do it obviously like i said like we said yeah you'll come out every wednesday you can tell us to go fuck ourselves on that note i will go fuck myself if you give a four hundred dollar donation every month i'll film him fucking himself and fuck myself while he does it for an extra 200 that's your price my man Because it's a subscription for, yeah, but see, that's the thing that would be...

I don't know how to literally fuck myself. Well, you don't know about Drew, though. That's every month. Because of Patreon, that would come out. It'd be $400 a month. So Drew's price for fucking himself on camera is... Oh, yeah, I didn't say... He said on camera.

I was just going to tell people I had done it. $4,800. That's how much to lie to people and tell him I fuck myself. Drew will let you take a masturbatory, make a porn of him. If you're going to film me, the price is different. For sure. Yeah, it has to be. It has to be.

It has to be. So basically, we're going to have a lot of that was the content. If anybody wanted to accuse us of selling out and being horrors, we literally just said we were going to do that. That's fine. So it would be funny if we did porn later. So we're going to experiment with a couple different exclusive content formats to throw at you and basically throw shit at the wall until we see what sticks, see what you guys like. If you have something suggesting, you know, hit us up. Tweet at us, hashtag well-read podcast.

Or email us. well-read podcast at gmail.com with your suggestions. So, you know, we're going to do a lot of cool things. We've got some fucking ideas and we're going to get real wild with it. Yeah, we have, like Corey said, we're going to do a bunch of different things at first to we nail down, you know, what y'all do like and what you don't like and what you do like we'll keep doing what you don't. We won't.

But like, it's going to be a lot of different type of stuff. Like, you know, respond, interacting with y'all directly answering, you know, questions, taking suggestions, things like that. We're going to do character episodes, you know, like. like a whole, a whole bonus episode that's just us and specific characters that we make up that, you know, when you had, like, like, you know, that type of thing. When I do, you have. Sketches.

Commercials. Who not like fake commercials, obviously, because fuck ads. Commercials. Yeah. One idea that you had the other day, which hit from me immediately when you said it, but after hearing the responses of the podcast we put out today, which is Tuesday, or Wednesday, September, what's the day, fifth? It doesn't matter. Six. The one where we had a bunch of people talking about the story we were talking about Shadraq Meshack and Abiligo.

Yeah, yeah. And so I noticed it's like... Bible study with Trey. Bible study with Trey. We always talk about how Trey don't know shit about the Bible. Me and Drew grew up... Not only grew up in the church, Drew's daddy was a preacher, and my mama ran vacation Bible school. So what we're going to do is we had this idea where we give Trey Bible study and fuck with him a little bit.

Give him like a half-truth on something and tell some... We'll tell them three stories. Two will be true and one will have some lines in it and we'll see if he can figure out which one is not in the Bible. We're talking about the Bible, so none of them will be true. I said not in the Bible, but you're very clever, trade. We get it. And the other one won't be in the Bible. That's exactly how I said it.

But we get it. The reason this is I'm going to end up having to dive back into the Bible because, like, we can't come in with Joan. I'm about it's for you. That hits for you. Hey, now, we talked, me and you both have talked about a million times. That's a good book to read. it right it's a good it's a goddamn epic but like we can't just throw him jonah in the belly of the well because everybody fucking knows that's like it had been turning a kid we got to dive in how many days was

jona in the belly of the well tray he has no idea you met over under uh over under uh 28 i was gonna say 30 so over it is over it's over so this will be kind of how that goes right yeah but it'll be way funny so that's about that's an idea for you know bonus episode we and is Bible study with Trey. We've also tossed around the idea of doing commentary tracks for like the least redneck movies or whatever you can possibly

imagine. Like us watching like Twilight or Bridget Jones or something like that. If you followed our blog, Downton Flabby, you know that we're extraordinary at doing that. Right, yeah. And if you have to check that out. That's another idea. We talked about our own version of an NPR radio show

and that might be fun, don't you think so? So we've got ideas and we're going to throw a lot of a match. Go to our page and you're going to see what different levels, you know, can get you different types of content. And no, there's not actually a level where you can pay for shirtless pictures yet. But, you know, we'll see how our career goes. But PayPal does exist still. Just PayPal.

Yeah, it's sliding to my DMs, girls. You can have the socks I wear it every show for $10 a day. Before we get into this episode, too, we also want to make sure that we just say. said, uh, oh yeah, we recorded this episode when DACA was dominating the, uh, you know, the narrative of the news cycle. And we talked about it and I'm not upset that we did. But, you know, our fucking hearts and minds are with, obviously both Texas from last

week, which is still fucking underwater. And then South Florida and the Caribbean. Yeah. And Florida. With Irma. Lord. We probably should have done an episode or should need to do an episode on global warming and how the environment's fighting back.

Yeah. But like you said, we were. recorded this whole episode of y'all that's about to start and you're all you know listening to now and yeah back all that shit was going on and then but then we realized when we were done we didn't want to put something out there without just you know saying something about the fact that it's you know it's a goddamn you know the fucking it's it's wild and it you know don't it's just it's just a Texas and Florida but also like hell and not it not even remotely the same scale at all but then on the other side of the fucking country in the west,

fucking everything's on fire. I live in Burbank and God damn it's the biggest fire in Los Angeles history and there's fires in fucking Oregon and other parts of California. And like, so shit's just wild right now environmentally. Take this as a mental note. Take this as a mental note going into the midterms in 2018's at a time when we should be happy that people are just alive. We're trying to get the fuck rid of people.

So that's horseshit and our hearts go out to Texas saying everybody. That was a reference to DACA. It could have been interpreted it. Yeah, we were talking about DACA and the hurricanes. Well, that's just what I'm saying. I got you. I just now thought of that where it's like, we should be sitting here so happy that people

made it. And instead of doing that, there's half the country going, we've got to get people the fuck out right now. Like, that's what's on your mind. So fucked up. Anyways, Patreon is going to be a really fun time. And I'm pumped. Yeah.

Enjoy this episode. Check us out on Patreon. Mr. But. Mm-hmm. Here we go. Skiu. Well, well. No.

Okay. We are now. Hey, what's up, everybody? Here we are. Where are we at? Albany, New York. I've asked that question eight goddamn times. Yeah.

Albany. Yeah, the, uh, is, this is a fucking ignorant question, but like everything that isn't New York City is upstate New York, right? You know, like you say, you're from the city and you from upstate. I think there's a central New York. I think people say I'm from the Albany, Syracca. And I think people definitely say itthaca, which is in the middle. That's where we're at, right?

Central New York. Yeah, okay. Yeah, well, that makes me feel like an idiot because I've had a bunch of people comment on my, you know, when I'll get drunk at like three in the morning, I'll go Facebook live. So like every night? Every night, yeah. People will be fucking going, when are you coming to upstate New York? And I'm always like, we're going to be in Albany next month.

So if that's not upstate New York, I'm a fucking idiot. No, I mean, I think they get that. I mean. Right. I don't think they get offended. Maybe they do. Well, I guarantee they don't get offended. I don't want to look stupid.

You're right. It don't matter if I look stupid. I have very quickly adjusted to it and also like it hits for me now and it's feeling good. But like I was stunned by how cold it was here when I got off the plane because I've been in L.A. for the past few days and it's been literally a fucking 105 degrees and also on fire. Yeah, that's a lot of wine. Those are related? I mean, it has to help.

I laughed at her and I'm about to laugh at her again now, but I asked Katie, I was like, do they know what started that fire? And she was like, I think the heat. I was like, what? She was like, you know, whatever. She meant like the drought, though. Right, there weren't enough water. She meant like it has been so hot.

Right. And, but also dry. Yeah, which if it's hot. The earth called on fire. Well, no, but it's hot. That's how it seemed to me. Right, right. That's how it felt.

if it is hot a lot and there ain't no water, some dumb ass just throws a cigarette out the fucking window and put over in Joshua. He's in Joshua tree getting fucked up. You don't check out that like, you know, the atmosphere is as if it's a magnifying glass. Right, yeah, yeah. No, no, yeah, it don't not check out.

But also, if it's hotter than it should be in, it ain't rains. Right. And so, well, I mean, I can see the sun just like, you know, coming down through a goddamn bird feeder made a glass. It hits it like a fucking magnifying glass and then sparks a fire down there and then the fucking timber gets up.

Oh, you're right. That sounded dumb as shit now that he explains. It could happen. It could happen. If there's just somebody left a magnifying glass sitting in a tree, who would do it. But it could happen. So, I wore shorts on the plane. Imagine Corey just sitting a magnifying glass. In a tree?

I'll get this later. This looks good. I wore shorts on the plane. Some of them birds can't see. They fly in my window all the time. They need this. They want to read. Bird books.

Bird books. Birds hit for me. We've said that. Bird. Yeah, we've covered that. That's part of the mythos. I wore shorts on a plane because it's been hotter than the devil's buthole where I live. Shorts on a plane. And so I get off the plane in Syracuse, New York, and I walk outside and I was like, God damn, it's already winter here. North don't hit. But it wasn't winter. But I got a taxi.

The cabby pulled up, opened the door. I was saying, around my shorts and stuff on, but also I got this haircut now, whatever. All I know is what he said was, he literally, first words out of his mouth, the door, I opened the door and he goes, I look at this guy. I say, he's from California. Yeah. And I was just like, you know, I start looking for a ball cap, ripping my fucking shirt sleeves off my shirt or whatever.

Well, that is. That is your home. Are you serious? That is your home. I know. Well, yes. You know, I was going to say that shit. You know, I was going to fucking get into it because I got my red up over it.

But since y'all brought up. No, it was on Facebook. I would like to say, by the way, last week on the fucking thread, I specifically said, boys, it's going to be cold and spitting rain next week. And you go, in the great northeast, the hell you say. I didn't say that just because. where we're coming. I literally looked at the weather. Yeah. No, you did. You're right. It said 70 during

a day, 50 during the night. I just wasn't thinking about it. You mean, you're right. You did say that. I actually checked the weather. I never do that shit. But as far as that being my home now. I do sometimes. You stay checking the weather. I do. The weather, the schedule. You know what? That's the old part of me. The only part of you that's I'm glad you do. Yeah, but that's like, I'm mostly

a baby. I get mad. But you're a old man baby. And the way you're an old man, he's he checks the weather. He always has to early. Yes. He loves old man shit like buffets in Walmart and he has gout. Right.

Yeah. But he also is a baby. Like he looked like a baby and literally all the other ways. Like a baby, but he's an old man eight-year-old. And then there's a lot of things that are both. Benjamin Glutton, we've said it. Yeah. There's a lot of things that's both baby and old man about him.

Oh, yeah. He's bald. So many things. His eating habits. He gets boners at random times. And he's pointed out. Like, you know, he shits himself.

Always shits himself. This is something that a million different comics have covered. But, like, you know, you get old you turn back into a baby. Right. You start shit. But he never stopped shitting himself. No, I know.

Yeah, he just, he embodies both is what I'm saying. Yeah, but you used to do a bit about that, about how when you're, it was about your grandma, about how when you get older, you turn into the most, uh,

well, I was talking about Alzheimer's reduces you to who you really are. Who you really are. Well, like, I've got that. I'm like, you know,

I'm already reverting back into who I really am, but I only had one year where I wasn't that. And I think that was when I lived in New York. York. I think that's that somehow makes sense to me. But anyways, yeah,

I lived in New York. You currently live in L.A., which is your home. Yeah. Remember when you hooked up with a reality show celebrity? I'd rather not talk about it right now. I'd say he probably don't get into all that.

That is funny though. Well, okay, now suddenly you're back to being an adult and you don't want to talk about things. Well, I want to hear Trey's story. So I got my red up earlier, and y'all,

y'all supported me in doing so but there's a post on my facebook page my fan page it's about a show that we have at lago in los angeles which we've done two or three three yeah three shows at lago so far it's one of my favorite venues in the world it's also i think it's too super legit we did two i think too i thought we had april and june maybe it was two it don't matter it was two it was two no it's three uh-uh i thought we did two like normal ones in on the third when we brought Roy in and made a little different. Yeah, or was it just... Roy was on the third one, not the second one.

I think it's too. The inimitable Roy Wood Jr. Shout out to him. He the best. Anyway, Largo was an awesome-ass venue that like a whole lot of supreme hitters go to. Matter of fact, last time we were there, Flanny, the guy that owns it, was telling us about how Ellen... Yeah. Fucking...

I saw that Ellen... I follow their Instagram. ...had came and done a stand-up set for the first time in like fucking 15 or 20 years. How was she? He came to, dude, he said it was unreal. She's so good. He said it's one of the fucking, and again, all the biggest heroes in the world have been at Largo. He said that was one of the best sets he's ever seen in.

One of my favorite albums ever, Tignitaro's Live, looks like Live, but Tignitaro live, where she's talking about having cancer, recorded there. Right. There's been a few of them. So anyway, it's a super hit-nast venue. That actually confirms what I'd heard, I'd heard a rumor that Ellen was gearing up to do another special. No, Netflix, I think it's already paid her. Okay. So then, yeah, so that's actually happening.

I didn't even, I was like, well, who knows? And so she getting back out there and she started that process at Largo, where we are going to be on September 27th for Trey Crowder and Friends. We're two of friends. Yeah, y'all are two of the friends and the best of friends. And the rest of the friends, y'all just have to come and see. Or, you know, maybe the next day we'll tell you who it was if you live not in Los Angeles. I'll tell you 30 seconds afterwards.

Right. But, yeah, that's still, that's a secret. But anyway, I posted about that on Facebook, and it just started out with, so on September 27th, I'll be back home in Los Angeles, Ford, and I just said everything I just said to y'all. And the very top comment on it, but also a few other comments, but the top one was like, you know, I used to like, Trey, but right when the South needed him the most, he just up and left and moved away. and now he's just posting stuff about Los Angeles being home. Like, you know, like a scoffing noise. Which is normally how I spell Mr. Butts quotes. You know, look, here's the thing.

Like, I get all kinds of shitty men. But usually it's for people that don't even pretend to be fans. They're like, I hate this guy. He's fucking sucks and everything about him's the worst. And who cares? But I get shitty comments all the time. But like this one just struck accord to me for a couple reasons. Number one, yeah, I miss the South all the time.

I didn't like just want to leave the South, but the fucking fact of the matter is. They don't make movies and TV and fucking Oak Ridge. If you work in our industry, at some point, you basically have no choice but to move to move to either New York or Los Angeles. And for me, Los Angeles is just the one that made more sense. So like, that just is what it is, but I miss the South and South, the South will always be my home. but secondly, the part that really bothered me was, less than two weeks after we'd moved to L.A., I had already started calling at home,

and it was kind of weird to me at first. Like, people had asked us on the road, like, where are you guys going next? And I'd be like, home. And then I, you know, I was like, damn, that's L.A. I'm already calling L.A. home. That's kind of weird. But then it's my home is wherever my...

Homes where your hat is, baby. Family is. You know, like, it's wherever my wife and my babies are. And like it could be fucking, you know, if my babies lived in Mogadishu, home would be Mogadishu. For sure. And like, I'm not going to fucking. What's the scenario that your babies had to move to Mogadishu?

Do you literally have to be like the devil's advocate no matter what we're talking about? I just don't know what he said Mogadishu. I just picked a random, you know, place. Mogadishu hits. Where's that at? Somalia. See, I didn't know that. It's not known for hitting.

Mogadishu sounds like a bartender. Which is part of why I said it. Smoga Dishu sounds like a bartender in Queens that I'd be best fucking friends with. Yeah. Well, anyway, my point... He knows you like Shiner Box. My point is, I immediately started feeling like L.A. was home because L.A. is

where my sons were. And so that would be true of wherever they lived. And that girl can kiss my fucking red ass if she has a problem with that or if anybody has a problem of that, like... Well, dude, and mine fucking right after it's just the way it is. Whenever I used to fucking... When I lived in New York, as brief as it was, I lived there of like 10 goddamn months when I was when I was talking to one of my boys about how you know I'm at home I'll call

you later about you know I'm back at home after work it's just that because that's where the fuck I lived all right you know what I mean like yes of course my home is chickamauga Georgia yeah Tennessee will always when we're going back to Tennessee when we're going back to Tennessee I tell people yeah we're going home for a couple weeks we're home and that will never change no of course not I agree with that and I agree what you said but you've lived in New York for four fucking years right right and you know who gave me the most shit for that. This motherfucker, I'm pointing at

Trey Crowder. Don't you shake your head of me. You have been shitting on me ever since I moved. Talking about how everyone who's worth the shit always leaves and you're one of the ones that did it. In our book,

in our book before you left, you wrote that people or stopped doing that. I know that. Well, I'm saying you've been giving me shit for doing this very thing and then one person One single human being on the internet gives you shit. You are not fucking being fair right now. I did not fucking...

If you're saying like people... I've never... I've never... Have I told you? That... Dude, me and you, and we'd have that conversation, I also, I was including myself because I was talking about Salina and Sunbright.

And we would talk about it and I would be like, yeah, man, but you know what? We ain't doing shit about it. We left the minute we could and we're not making anything better. No, we've had drunken conversations when I was in New York where you were like... I was telling you the whole time that I wanted to move to L.A. and hoped to move to L.A. and was planning on doing it.

Also, I still think you can be... I've known I was going to move to L.A. as soon as I could because of fucking comedy. I would also like to defend you... Not because I was just dying to leave, but I've known that for years. If I could defend you for a second, I know for a fact if you could do what it is you're doing right now in Knoxville, you would. Right. Of course.

Well, we just, well, I mean, but... You ain't got to defend him. I don't think he did anything wrong. I'm saying that one person gave him shit. And he's, of course they gave you shit. They have the same out of that you had. Well, no, what, actually, yeah, but in this sense, like they go, I've always been a fan of Trey Crowder, right?

So if you're a fan of Trey and you're a fan of everything that Trey does, the last thing you should do is go, fuck you for where you're from or where you live. That person is wrong. They're wrong. And she can kiss my ass. Right. I left four years before you did.

I'm just saying that you. know you get, like, do you not get, and also she put, by the way, everybody out there, listen, she put like 15 of those crying, laughing emojis after it. Yeah, she may have been, you know. I don't think she was quote unquote kidding, but I don't think she meant it like, I hope you die. I think she meant it like, oh, great, another person. So I'm saying, do you not get that mentality?

I mean, then again, though, at the same time, there have been plenty of times I've said some shit on the internet when sincerely I was being as sarcastic as I could fucking be, and people didn't get that. And I'm like, how do you not think that's sarcastic? In her mind, she may have been like, I used to be a fan of you until you ran off your old pretty boy motherfucker. This is hilarious because I'm on your team. Before we're talking to the goddamn Mimezone, y'all were both like,

hell yeah, Trey, you got to absolutely you need to say something. I do. I know. I just depend on my side of my own and y'all want to this motherfucker here. No, no. I've done nothing to defend you. Like you've done nothing. I've done nothing but defend you.

First of all, I'm drunk so that might be, I might be why I fuck this up, but I'm not... You know what this is. Shut. Fuck her. No. You know what this is, Trey? You know what this is? Because you earlier over something that was not that big of a deal, you go, do you really always have to be devil's advocate, Drew?

And I saw this motherfucker go, whatever. And then he became devil's advocate on the thing that earlier he was going, yeah, burner at the fucking cross. You've done this to him. The thing that caused me to ask that question was the same thing that he's talking about. No, it was getting into it. and I knew where he was going, and that's why I said it. I thought it was a lesser thing.

What, you guys are both right. But anyway. He's doing it again. Anyway, here's the main thing. I feel like I need to defend myself because I'm saying, and I'm drunk, maybe I'm fucking this up, I am saying that, fuck her. Like, you can live wherever the hell you want, and I can live where the hell want. I'm saying that, but don't act like you don't get why she's giving you shit. The main thing that upset me about it is way more than the leaving.

Like, anybody take an issue with me. calling Los Angeles home. Because of your babies. Because of the fact that that's where my kids are. And y'all know how I get about them and about that whole thing. I get very defensive about it.

So like, I'm just, it makes me mad and anybody's going to be like, well, you know, whatever, give me shit for calling the place where my children live, my home. I'll tell you this. That's what made me the most mad about it. Here's what you can fucking. I was just

trying to, you know, get in your ass. You did right. No shit. Here's what you can do. You can, you can say, oh, I used to be a fan until you moved off to LA. You sold out. You got to stay in the South right when we need you. You can say that if you won't,

but you can't then later say, when can we expect the sitcom to get made? You can't be that same person. If you're not, that's fine. Because I've noticed every now and then we'll talk to people like, when's the show coming up? Oh, I can't believe you moved out there. When can we expect the first season?

It's like, which motherfucker, which one do you want? Do you want me to live in the South in a fucking town of a thousand people, or do you want me to work on a fucking sitcom? Because I'm sorry, that's just how it is. So if you're going to be doing one, you can't do the fucking. another.

Of course. But also, I would, you know, and we, believe me, we will, maybe tomorrow in the car or whatever. But, you know, I want to move on. But at some point, I want to get back into that whole thing you were saying because I just don't think that I would do that. It would be so ridiculously. Because you've been going to move to LA. Proactively hypocritical of me to have jumped all in your ass for moving to New York.

When I, dude, I was applying for jobs. You knew that. Like, I was trying to move to Los Angeles the whole time. I wouldn't give you. We did have a bunch of conversations. You ain't ever been hypocritical. We did a bunch of, we had a bunch of conversations where I said, and I was talking about us both. I was talking about our hometowns, and it sucks because, you know, the people just leave, you know, immediately.

And I was saying, but, you know, man, we did. Are you going back? I'm not going back. Are you going back? And I see why you're saying move on because it's like we're being insecure about a thing. But I think that some of our listeners might be into this. There's a reason that we're defensive. about it and there's a reason she said what she said like this is a big thing where we

come it's like the too big for your britches it's a huge thing but see i don't know about you but like tray calls them pants now trousers trousers my pantaloons i have begun too endorsed for my pantaloons caprease uh i i don't know if this is true for you but like dude in salina you get that oh you too big for your bridges you too good for salina now you i got that shit for moving to Knoxville. I got that as soon as I went to college. I still get it and I still fucking live there. So what is that?

I'm like, bitch, I'm at the store with you right now. I'm saying that her comment I think comes from that and I think we all got that inside us and like where does that come from? Here's, oh, what the fucking matter where we live? Aside from her. No, no, where does that come from? That mentality? The small town specifically or the south as a whole?

The wide you leave us shit? Yeah. I mean, god damn, we two are 40. eight weeks of a fucking year. What does it matter? I'm talking about it. With the small town?

Yes. Well, actually, maybe both, maybe the South too. I don't know, depending on who it is, who you're talking to. But like,

with a small town specifically, I think it has to do with that whole loyalty. That they have of the people in those places, you know, are snooty,

pretentious, whatever, condescending them, look down on them and stuff. So it's like, if you go there, you're joining their ranks. Yeah,

well, they should be more like, maybe. They should be more like, motherfucking Ben Affleck and Goodwill hunting. They also, I think, yes. You know, my... Your boys are.

Yeah, I dream every day I come here and you don't answer the fucking door. Well, that's part of why that's such a great scene. Obviously, you're pulling for it and he acts it so well, but also if you come from a place, any place I think, obviously I didn't grow up, you know, like, I don't know, in an inner city or in Southie, like the movie. But I assume if you come from any place where there's a feeling that not everybody will get the opportunity to live a life outside of this. Even if they want to, there's a feeling of like, and it's captured

in that scene of like when you care about people who you know can, you're really fucking pulling for them. I mean, I live, y'all been to where I live. It's an absolute fine place to live, but my friends that know what I want to do with my life, well, are still like, no, if you live here the rest of your life, that's fine. I'm not saying get out your,

but they're like, but dog, what you want to do, there ain't no here for you. And one thing that bothers me is that whole, so there's the thing of the brain drain, right, of like there's the concept of like because there's not as much culture or jobs or whatever it is to offer people in small towns or in the south people leave they go elsewhere for jobs or culture or whatever but here's what pissing me off about that that whole phrase annoys me of like brain drain because like i still know folks back like brian we bring up all

the time yeah thompson robbie they live in the they're not fucking dumb my buddy chris they're not devoid of culture robbie robbie's brother chris is literally tank, level smart. And that's why... He's a fucking brilliant person. And that's why I think that that plays into that defensiveness.

It is. You went and joined him because like brain drain came from... We didn't invent that time. Well, I was about to say a version of what you're saying, which is I also think that a lot of those people

from small towns, it's kind of a cultural thing. You know, a lot of people that grow up in a small town, they like that and they don't want to leave. Like they have no, you know,

desire to go somewhere else and do something else. They're happy where they are and they're happy with that. And I think it feels to them sometimes, even if it's subconsciously, that like, if you don't,

that means you have a problem with what they want to do, or what they are doing with their life. Even though you don't, but you know what I mean? Like, they interpret it or whatever sometimes as like, oh, well, he thinks I'm just a piece of shit.

Right, right, right. Just because I want to live here and start a family, he thinks I'm a fucking loser. whatever. And I think that phrase brain drain comes from a third party who is not that person who is still there and is not the person who chose to leave. It's a fucking, you know, sociologist or whatever from somewhere else commenting on it. And then how does that feel to the person that's stay behind where this is an outsider sees you leave and then sees Corey stay and goes, that guy left, brain drain, your town sucks. But I, in defense again of you, I get it to a certain degree like you, if you.

He's pointing at me, Drew. Drew, right. If you could be a lawyer near your hometown and in the fucking set. Near, Knoxville. To a degree, two degree. You cannot be a stand-up comedian, showrunner, sitcom. There's certain places that literally, it's like, I want to do this. I fucking have to go here.

There's no goddamn way I can do it. You want to work it to Michael Jordan Super Center. But I got it in Knoxville. I was going to clarify that. I wanted to revisit that just to emphasize because I mentioned earlier when I was defending myself to you about the whole me talking shit to you thing and I was like dude I've been wanting to move to LA for years you know it I was looking

for jobs and shit that's true and when I say I didn't want to leave that also is true and always was true but it's like Corey just said I wanted to I wanted to work in the world of comedy since I was fucking 12 years old and that whole time I have

known that means that means if it works out like if things go well eventually I will be living in Los Angeles because that's just you have to like that's just what you have to do and so it was never even a want to thing as far as like the sad it's not like I got to get the fuck out here and go to California that was never it well it was that I want to be in comedy and yeah I don't feel like you have to defend that and that's that goes what I'm I think it's in it's me too like anytime whatever these conversations I feel bad about

That's what I'm saying. I feel bad about it and I want to move back. That's what I'm saying. Anytime you and I had these conversations about it, that I may be misremembering or whatever, and I'm sorry if I was. Like, if I did interpret it wrong, it's because I was defensive because I did feel guilty. Buddy, I could promise you right now. Anytime I said that kind of shit to you, like I was trying to, I meant it as like a us thing

because I put myself in the same boat because I wanted to do the same thing. We're defensive about that. You responded to her comment the way that you did. You brought it up on the podcast, et cetera, et cetera, because that's still inside us. Like that too big for your britches, it affects people because you don't want to be that. When you're little, you hear them say that about people and you're like, I don't want to be that. Well, dude, I mean, I guess how do I word this without saying, I'm not saying I want to be a comedian more than you guys want to be a comedian.

What I'm saying is I wanted to be a comedian at five, and it's also literally the only thing I've ever done. I didn't go to college because I was like, fuck it. this is it for me no backup plan i'm fucking doing stand-up i have still been fighting the am i gonna move thing i still fucking live in georgia and like i'm the one that you'd think would throw it all i mean yeah again i did live in new york for a little bit but now that we're touring i keep coming up with this whole like well we're and by the way pretty valid like you know we're on the road so god damn much who cares we're planning a wedding yada yada yada yada but i keep staying the fuck at home there's and i'm just like yeah i'm just you know i'm here and i do like dude there's something

it that I really did like when I was at that wedding last week and I go back to my house just just knowing like I still consider this home and I'm I'm doing what I love and still consider this home right now I know I got to get my fucking ass out there right dude there is a lot of me like whenever when my granny when I move home from New York a lot of it was you know I ain't making it and my grand I got sick of fucking talking to my granny on the phone I'd been habitually just like I got to stay here for granny I got to stay here for granny I've got to stay here for granny well she's been dead a year and I'm still fucking at home because it's just ingrained to me like I gotta see my mom every day you said you said I'm it feels so good I still consider this place home and I'm doing what I want to do or whatever. Like I said earlier, and I know what you meant, but again, like, I didn't say that shit on you. No, I'm saying I also still consider that home. I still consider Tennessee home too. When I'm back there with my boys and shit,

like I remember the first time I went back to Thompson's. Well, you're barely in L.A. more than my ass is when we're on fuck hardcore tour. But the first time I went back to Thompson's after having moved to California, like it was just, I don't know, it was extremely emotional for me. Not just because it was Thompson's house, but because we're all there. Everybody had their kids there.

riding around on four-wheelers and shit. Tom's places out in the middle of nowhere, and you could see the fucking stars in the sky. And I was, and like, you know, I got kind of like overcome with emotion because I love the fuck out of Tennessee and never won't. But that doesn't explain the guilt.

And one thing that I've been trying to... Because I believe that shit, I think it's an identity thing. I believe that maybe it's not guilt. It's like losing your fucking identity. Like you feel like you're losing the part of yourself. No, no. That is one thing losing your identity.

I think that's what I got. But that's what I got a little bit. I've been trying to tell myself lately, and you can disagree with this. I've been trying to tell myself that that guilt actually comes from a place of similar to the brain drain thing. It's like I'm saying the South needs me or something. Right, right, right. It's like the South will be fine if I leave. Well, and, you know, for me.

I don't know. The South need me, but. They do need you. They don't need me. I'm kidding. So wherever you go, I should go. But the South don't need my ass. I can do what I do fucking from anywhere.

And look. Maybe it does or maybe there's a place. What? South has Internet. South has Internet. You do what you fucking do. You've got to just got a different backyard now. I don't fucking get it.

I've just been working on letting go of the guilt. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I was going to say it's because I believe when we say in the book, like look, you know, yeah, a lot of people do just leave immediately and can't wait to get out. But see, part of that also is, I mean, yes, we mean what we've been talking about, But we also, in large part, we're talking about the people who, like, left and couldn't wait to leave and immediately turned their backs on the whole thing. And we're, like, just totally ashamed of it and just, you know what I mean? Yes.

We're ashamed to tell people I'm from the South or whatever. And we're the opposite of that. I mean, like, we wear it on our fucking sleeves, like, maybe to a fault sometimes. Yeah, I mean. And so, but a lot of it was also that. But I do, I believe that. Like, I believe that when I say, you know, I wish so many Southerners didn't just. leave as soon as they could.

And then, yeah, I'd turn around and leave, and that's hypocritical. But again, there's, we've already talked about all the fucking other reasons why and all that shit. It's like, part guilt, part being afraid to lose my identity. And then part, like, that's one of the last remaining comforts that I have because of, like, man, you know, I don't have to tell you guys. But, like, travel in this country every goddamn week can stress a man out. even though, like having the time of my life, would not do anything different. But, you know, you go without sleep, you get a shitty diet, you get, your anxiety gets up,

you start getting a depression on. When you get a break, there ain't nothing like, dude, I have to, like, when I go home, the street that me and Amber live on is four doors down from my papal's house where I grew up and the house my parents grew up is right down the road. Just pulling into that subdivision, there's this calm that comes over me, no matter how stressed out I am from the week, no matter how much I hadn't slept, no matter how much anxiety I have,

it's just, it's, it's fucking great. And I know that I need to get my ass to fuck out. I get that in Burbank. Yeah, it's like a visual, when I pull on in my street in Burbank,

I feel the same way. Exactly, because you're fucking home. It's like a visual X and I just ain't let it. And I'd have that out there. If I had, you know, if I had me and Amber out there,

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Okay, here we go. This is a quote from it. It's written by Trey Crowder. And many native southerners live almost entirely on the shame side of the scale, leaving home the first chance they get, going out of their way to lose their accents and hide where they are from. They work

very hard to assimilate themselves in order their northern or western metropolis they find themselves in. It's a lot easier to resist ordering biscuits and gravy if you become quote unquote gluten-free, a thing I had done for a couple of years. uh after all these people sympathetic though their stance may be are not helping if everyone who's worth a damn just leaves as soon as possible then what's left how will things ever get better i took that pretty personally when i first read it to be honest with you but i am also saying that a lot of the reason i took it personally has to do with the fact that i have this defense mechanism built into me where i was never supposed to get too big for my britches sure you know what i mean

I've been saying the whole time. 80% of what you just read pretty clearly does not apply to you. Right. And I don't know how I was saying is. I don't know how you thought that it did. Not personally like he was thinking of me when he wrote it. That's not what I mean.

I just mean like I read that. I shouldn't say I took it personally. I was convicted by it to borrow a term from my religious days. Why does take that as like, it was like, God damn, that's me. If you're somebody that lives in the South and those ideals don't check out for you and you just go, man, fuck the same. South, fuck all these dumb people, and you just move for that reason.

And then, like, never claim it? No, yeah, I get that. And that's who, I mean. If you move to L.A. to do what you want to do. Because, like, he still wears it on his fucking arm where his sleeves should be. I wear the South where my sleeves are being. I mean, you got a point, but it is a very, yeah, it is a very different thing. It's one thing to go, sure, I used to live in the South, man, fuck that shit, da-da-da, then it is to go, I'm here because I have to do TV.

We should write country songs. Yeah, we should. Don't act like it's easy being me. I wear the South. wear my sleeves, or it be. Yeah, that's good.

I like that. Yeah. I meant, I know it doesn't apply to me. I'm saying it's like when we were doing the book and I read that, I was in New York. No, for tax reasons. I was in Tennessee.

And, uh, speaking to the book. It was, it was, it was like, oh, fuck. Is that,

is that me? And then I'm saying you do the, like, the work of like, why do I feel that way? And what you realize is, there's something inside you. And I think it's,

inside all of us of it's almost like guilt it's almost like i mean i'm not allowed to get out of the trailer in saline right i mean and i you know i think even if it's like a like not even if it's not overt and people straight up telling you that like i think you fucking feel that way when you come to a place like that like that's absolutely a part of it it's like that there's that song by blackberry smoke one horse town that i love it i love it for you and you you were like you're like i don't know man like do you really think that's like do you really think that that, like, is that really fair? Because a lot of the whole first verse is about you ain't allowed to leave. Like in this whole, the town, the song's about, one horse town's like,

you ain't allowed to leave. You grow up doing what your daddy done, and that's all it is. And, you know, and this is your life and it's what it's always going to be, and you can't leave. And I remember you were like, man, you know, like people didn't make me feel that. People were like, hey, go out there, do good, whatever. And I absolutely had those people, but they're also absolutely are the other people who, you know, who do think you're supposed to just stick around. Like you. First part of it, he says, in the tiny town where I come from, you grew up doing what your daddy does, and you don't ask questions, you do it just because you don't climb too high or dream too much.

And with all the whole work and a little bit of luck, you can wind up right back where your daddy was. Yeah, I don't like that first verse because there was too many people in my life who did that shit. No, who weren't the embodiment of that. And I want to be clear about that. Teachers, my own parents, my mother. Right. But, like, culturally, don't you think it, I mean, that's why I brought it up. But I'm not, but I'm not talking about, like, here's what's weird.

Those verses, like, you know, you're not allowed to leave. There are a lot of people who are very supportive of you, quote, unquote, getting out or leaving. Then when you do. Right. Absolutely. Then they're like, oh, you're too good for us. For your britches. And that's what's confounding and infuriating to me.

but I'm saying this is a double-edged sword because when you rail against that Pocket knife. I think, yeah, double-edged pocket knife, hilarious. You've got to be careful because in railing against it, you can make it seem like what you're saying is Yeah, we should have fucking let it.

My whole thing is like, everyone should just be able to do whatever the fuck they need or want to do. Can I ask you this? Because I feel like I know for a fucking fact, we do it. And whenever, we go somewhere that ain't the south and whenever we're in l.A. for an extended period of time, I personally feel like we do a very good job of bringing the goddamn south with us.

So my point is, you know, a lot of people, when they move from the south, their whole thing is, I don't belong here, fuck this place, these backwards-ass motherfuckers, they go out there and to throw back to another episode we did, they code switch immediately, drop their accent and just want to assimilate to that culture because I don't want to be known as some dumbass. we don't do that shit we walk into a place and go hey I'm wearing my fucking jean shirt my jeans my jeans my boots

I don't like you can be honest I'll be honest I feel like ego from Guardians of the Galaxy too I want to spread my shit everywhere and plant my redness and let it grow but I'm going to be honest I had to grow up and like

get to where you're talking about because I left at 17 well me too I just like I love I love it when people like it took me a while to get to what you're just You know what I bet, or at least part of the difference might have been?

And I'm not just saying this. I genuinely, I never had that once I started having any stances on anything. And I think the reason probably is I grew up in, yeah, right? I've been a pretentious fuck since fucking pre-skirts, since Head Start, because I was poor. Sybilac is the corporate shield. So, anyway, I grew up. Fisketty. Yeah, I don't know that joke.

So, Salina is the only thing that, you know, that anybody would have ever known about Sala if they know anything at all, is that that's where Dale Hollow Lake is. Like, that's the thing, Salina, I'll criticize a lot. Del Hollow Lake is fucking heaven on earth as far as I'm concerned. Like, it's... They named it after somebody's aunt.

Aunt Dale. Have you ever heard, I've known a lot of people have Aunt Dale something. Whenever I hear Del. I hear Dale, I think of a dude. I know a lot of women named Dale. It's DEL. It's D.E.L. It's D.O. It's D.O. It's, and it's... That's why Delllalla.

That's why Dale Holla makes something a woman. When it's a dude, it's just Dale. When it's a woman's named Dale, they always throw the middle name in there, too. Well, anyway. Hellelholy just always makes me think of a woman. I'm sorry, fair enough. But anyway, it... She also smells like a lake.

That lake, unassailable, as far as I'm concerned. And so because of that, that tourism is like the only, like, industry there, ever since the factory left, because people come down and rent houseboats and shit and go out on the lake. And you notice I said people, come down. Those people they all come from what in like

growing up they came from the north they were Yankees and like they are right but what I've since realized is like some of them were rich people from Kentucky. No no they were coming from really the Midwest right right none of them were coming from the northeast at all and we know now that culturally

the Midwest is very fucking similar to the south in a lot of ways where it's like anybody that wasn't from the South was a Yankee into all them anybody that ain't from California Do you guys remember people calling Jeff Gordon a California Yankee? Yeah, California Yankee hits for me. Yeah, well, so Jeff Gordon hit for me. Of course.

Well, so, again, California was... It looked like he made Keish and he raised the cars. And everybody hated him. California was a line with the Union and a Civil War, so I mean, that's fine. That's okay. To say California Yankee. Okay. But anyway, they were Yankees, right?

And they came down from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, whatever. And I think any kid from a tourist town feels this way about the tourist, no matter where it is. but like, you know, they didn't hit for us. They were shitty and all they were. They were specifically shitty. Well, this is where it might be different. You're from a Civil War town.

Think about what my tourist is like. I know, but I'm assuming they're rednecks, right? Or other southerners. There's a lot of people from the north that come down there too. Very educated. Anyway, all our tourists, all basically were Yankees. And they were, and, you know, their tours, they didn't hit for us. We did not like them and they were shitty.

And a lot of times they were specifically shitty in a, you don't. little hicks type way you know what i mean in a condescending way and so that's why like i've had a chip on my shoulder from a very early age about never losing my accent like being like proudly you know a fucking white trash redneck or whatever and also being you know educated and fucking you know open minded and whatever else like because fuck them you know what i mean like i can be both and having grown up in a town with that like dynamic i think that's what engendered that in me from super early on and like in some i'm saying maybe that's why you had to come around to that and didn't feel that way initially no i didn't i don't feel like i had to come around to that as much it was like

the idea of like bringing the south with me it was i don't know it was just more of i don't know i didn't think that way to answer what you were saying we did have uh like yeah a lot of redneck tourist because where I'm from, as you all definitely know from listen to this our 32nd episode or whatever. I'm from Chickamauga, huge huge civil war town. We would have the rednecks that would come in,

but I've always said this, if I ever meet a northerner that does know something about the Civil War, they know more than what most of my people around there do. Because like, I buy that. The people where I'm from, they'll know a shit ton, but they know a shit ton from like, they grab a little bit

over here, they grab a little bit. The dude from the north that knows a lot. He fucking studied the Civil War in college and shit like that. Then they'll come down there and basically tell their kids, yes, this is, you know, this was our conquest or whatever. These dumb fucks, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. But then you get rednecks that are tourists from all different goddamn places that want to see the Battle of Chickamauga. And then it's just the fucking worst of the worst thing. And like, here, this is the battlefield. We're free to be who exactly who we are. There's Robert Lee's fucking, you know, monuments. Anyway, yeah, but I just, like I said, tourists, you know, tourists don't hit, I think, no matter where you are, but because the tourists

in my town were Yankees and that was the specific, like, attitude people had as far as they think they're better than us or whatever. It made me, like I said, I had that chip on my shoulder like always. But we hated Yankees. I feel like the chip on my shoulder, like, you know, in college, Marrival was like a big city. Right. And like, there's like hats that Marrival college sold hats that it was spelled Merville. Right. Yeah. You know, like, like a joke on how everybody talks. But like, I remember this girl older than me

who went to my church. Brenda, she went to Marville, Merville. And when she came back, everyone was talking about how she talked different. Now,

looking back on it, she probably talks still very Southern, but it was just slightly different than us, less hicky or whatever you want to say. Dude. And so we were like, oh shit,

you know. And I remember that happening to me thinking, like, I don't want to be that way. But I also know that the chip on my shoulder and you were talking about like I'm going to be smart I'm going to be educated

I needed to be able to you know speak there was no there was never a conscious decision on my part to like talk like them quote unquote but it was like you're not going to have anything on me and it was the same way in law school too you won't get nothing over on me well you know man like you fucking traveled the world and shit too that's also important to point out like I mean I never left the south until I moved to Los Angeles in January. like it was just when I would when I would venture outside the South for whatever reason I always was like like almost making it a point to have you know to make they even like thicken my accent and shit because it was almost like I wish motherfucker would you know

think I'm dumb we're you know what I mean yeah well we like I don't know if we started this with this but we got deep into it because I was like thinking yeah man this is part of that fucking chip I'm sorry too big for your britches bullshit but also what has been revealed as this conversation as progresses, we're just, we're very broken. Well, yeah. The chips on our shoulders, I mean, they're barbecue and ranch flavor, but

well, again, and I'm not big. This is a very interesting subject. The one is close to home or whatever, but again, and I really mean this, if it, the main thing about it that made me mad was again, the idea that I shouldn't

call Los Angeles home when that's where my family is. Like, that's the thing that fired me up enough to post about it and say some shit about it. And then, but this is more relevant to all three of us and like got us into it or whatever. But I mean that sincerely. Like that was the first thing I said to Katie because my wife's the one that showed it to me. And I said, fuck that. My home's where my babies are, you know.

And like that was my immediate response. Not that I had to leave the South because of the comedy or whatever. That's not where my head first went. But obviously, yeah, that too. but I'm just saying God damn what anyway so talking about people leaving

Mexican kids get them out get them out here is it DACA I've been saying DACA but I think DACA yeah the Deferment Deferment Child what is deferment

Against child action or something like that You sound close Nah that ain't it's over Excuse me I've been president for seven months And you're telling me that people still have dreams We can have this. Well, you know, that's funny, and that is hilarious.

But, well, yeah, it's sad. The DECA was a compromise or replacement bill. The DECA. Deferred action for childhood arrivals. And deferred is a perfect word for it. So the Dreamer Act actually failed. The DREAMer Act was the idea that if you got brought here, here being the United States, if you guys have been listening the whole time and we're talking about DAC and now, we have shifted.

Yes. Right. If you get brought here as a child, by illegal immigrant parents. The DREAMR Act basically said at 18, if you're in school or you have a job or the military, no, it wasn't the military. There's some other quality. Anyway, after five years of that, you can become a citizen automatically. That failed.

Right. I want you to clarify because I misunderstood you when you said this to me earlier. What administration was that under? When you say failed, you mean did not get past. Yes. Not being, got enacted and it didn't work. You mean it did not get passed. Yes.

It did not get passed. And I said Bush, I think it was Obama because I think it was 2010. Congress did not pass that. They passed DACA, which you said deferred. That's literally all it was. Right. They said, we can't make this. No Republicans voted for it.

And five Democrats voted against it. And they said, we got to have rule of law. You can't just make it. Yes. We can't make it to where you can just come here. And even though you came here illegally, because this will, you know, influence other immigrants to bring their kids here and blah, blah, blah, and whatever it is they fucking said, right?

And again, five Democrats voted against it. DACA was a bill that came later as a compromise that said, fine, you don't automatically get citizenship after five years, but we're not going to deport you. I'll be, God, damn. We're going to kick it down the road. The bill was first introduced in the Senate on August 1, 2001 by Senators Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, and Oren motherfucking hatch from Utah.

Are we talking about Dream or DACA? No, the Dreamers. The Dream Act. I think Dream became extinct though in 2008 or 10. Is that wrong? Yeah, which is whatever.

Well, I'm about to look that up. But I was thinking like, yeah, it sounds like some Obama shit because it's very positive and seems good. Obama had nothing to do with it. And to be honest, when he was a senator, he, the song he was singing was not one

that was in tune with us currently. But they haven't to a lot of Democrats. but my point, the reason I bring that up is it's important to point out that the DREAM Act wasn't killed because it never even fucking existed. It died a long time ago. And two, this was called the deferred whatever you said earlier because it literally was saying let's put this off. Let's not give them automatic citizenship, but we're not going to deport them either. And what I was saying. But there's never been any entity on planet Earth that's better at kicking the can down the road than the United States government.

I agree with you completely and I agree with you that it's often wrong or bad. But it's interesting in this case because it gave us an opportunity to watch and see what happens, right? It's like, all right, Republicans and five Democrats, you don't want to give these kids citizenship when they're adults. Let's kick the can down the road and see what happens when they became adults. Right. And what did happen? Our boy Bernie was against it. Bernie was against it.

He stood with unions and unions opinion at that time, I think in 2008 or 10 again, I'm not sure. was this is bad for us. Our wages are going to go down. We can't have these workers in it. Because we'll be competing with illegal immigrants for the work that we do. Exactly. And it'll fuck us up. Exactly.

And we and Bernie's super pro union. Right. So he's like, I'm with them. So we kicked a can down the road. A decade passes. Unions have changed their mind. They're now saying, we have worked with these people.

We've fought on the lines with these people. And this is another example of capitalism and white supremacy trying to fuck up working people. were for the Dream Act being reinstated. Bernie's changed his mind. A lot of people have changed their mind. And my point is that time passed and everybody could observe what happened. And what happened was, of course,

these kids became adults and they're contributing amazing members of our fucking society. And so what I'm saying is it's amazing that we had that time period to observe what happened. What happened was only positive things. And then Trump goes,

yeah, maybe we should deport them. Well, so, And me and you were talking about this while he was on stage. It's kind of even more infuriating than it would have been back then is what I'm saying. Yeah, right. Absolutely. Right. Because now we've seen the benefits of it.

And how it worked out and how it worked out was generally positive. It actually enacted in 2010. It was among the same national, part of the national defense bill that got declared that actually got don't ask, don't tell thrown out. You're talking about Dachca now. I'm talking about the dreamers thing that still kept going on. So in 2000, it's, it's. 2001 they tried it, then they tried it again in 2004, didn't work, and there was a filibuster in 2008, didn't work, didn't have the 60 votes to get it through.

Then in 2010, same shit happened. John McCain actually had supported it in 2008, and then him and Orrin Hatch both backed out, probably due to pressure from their party. Then Obama finally, I mean, from what it said, 2011, here we go, went through. So 2011 was, I mean, that's what was DACA. The Dream Hacks is going to go good. But what it was is that was the evolution of it. Right.

Like they've been trying and then basically they named it a different thing or whatever and they were able to get it through. But it's an evolution of that is what it is. There's obviously a whole lot of, you know, different ways to approach this argument. But, you know, Drewman and you were talking about it earlier. And I said, like, ultimately for me, all the, like, immigration arguments aside, which I know are the ones that are central to it, like, I just don't, anything, that I think

like either targets or like victimizes in any way children. Babes? Just really don't hit for me and pisses me off. And like it's because you know like we talk about like welfare queens and stuff and people are like they're fucking sapping the government and shit and it's like okay yeah, whatever and that

don't hit. Yeah, your white cousin. But if they have kids, it ain't the fucking kids fault and I'm not willing to take food out of the kids mouth. So fuck you. You know what I mean? Well, that's how I feel. What do you think about that? Right. That's exactly how I feel about this. The whole point of this is we're talking about children who were brought here

illegally. They didn't fucking come here or sneak in. They were brought here illegally as children and then, you know, have lived there their whole fucking lives ever since then. You don't know shit about this is their home. Right. And like, I just think it is so

fucked up to even talk about making people in that specific situation leave. Like you're literally deporting them to a place that they're not even really from really there's hypocrisy on it's fucked up there's hypocrisy on both sides i do my best in my act you do your best in your act you do your best in your act you do your act to call out that hypocrisy on our sides as we see it and obviously we're biased we can be a little blind to some things however where the fuck i'm from which is what we're talking about

the south the things that i know about the people that align themselves with the god damn republican party these are things that they'll gladly tell you i'm a fucking christian i'm a pro-life person baby the pro-life so oh yeah hell yeah so anyway I know where you're going there's a zygote

right also just what's that word zygote but then when they come out the womb they're drain on society yeah yeah yeah exactly there's apocity there's hypocrisy on both sides

but at the surface level I can't think of anything more fucking hypocritical than a and this is I'm not the one that's just mentioned this first I've said it many times but to go these goddamn motherfuckers

you know they come over here and they just want a fucking check and they just blah blah blah blah blah and then you find out oh no they actually had a job and then you flip the script and go, they're taking our goddamn job. Which the fuck one is it? Do they want to work? Do they want to pull themselves up in their bootstraps or they want to fucking check? Secondly,

another thing that's very goddamn hypocritical is what I just said. You want to be the pro life party until that motherfucker comes out and then fuck them. Thirdly, you want to be a goddamn Christian and you sing, you make your fucking kids like that Bill Bird bit talking about like standing up like the Manchurian candidate.

what we say when we say it when I was a kid every fucking Sunday all it was Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world red and yellow black and white I used to have a bit where I would go Jesus loves little children all little children of the world and then I would just tap my microphone on my chest for a minute and just go and white they are precious in it's like because that's fucking all you give a shit about don't sing that goddamn song unless you fucking mean it either stop singing the song or actually go you know what maybe they should be over here because I'm a fucking fucking Christian, and I care about people that aren't just me, because Jesus wasn't

white either, you sack of fucking shit. I'm sorry, go ahead. No, I posted about that very thing. This was, I think, during the campaign season, people were singing that song. They were. At, like, a PTA type meeting? Trump's kids. Wasn't it's Trump's kids, he had that whole, they had that thing set up?

I remember what you're talking about, but I don't know if they did that song or not. You're talking about those little girls that came out there and did the hall. No, I think this was. That was unbelievable. That was parents saying Jesus loves the little children. Well, dude, even if they don't sing that specific one. Hold on. No, but they were saying it.

I don't remember the exact situation. But it had to do with this type of issue. Like the irony was so thick. You could have cut it with a fucking knife that we're not allowed to have. Right. Yeah. And it's unbelievable. Like, call me, call us the queer party that loves everybody.

and then literally go on Sunday and jack off to that dude. It don't make any goddamn sense. Which one do you want to be? There's no fucking, dude, by the way, I'm a goddamn, I'm all about capitalism. My job is based on selling tickets and doing all this shit. But I also, it just, do you want to be a fucking capitalist or pig or do you want to be a fucking Christian? It's hard to be both.

I'm not a Christian, so I feel I can do whatever the fuck I want. But I don't get how you can look at one thing and then go, eh, but, you know, but, you you know what, fuck Mexicans. Go fuck yourself, dude. I don't, it's been well covered

on this podcast multiple times that I don't know much of shit about Christianity in general, I haven't grown up in a time. I mean, obviously,

I know more than people from other countries. I'm just saying, all I'm trying to say is having said that, it has always been my perspective that like a huge amount of the things

that they like support or beliefs have or whatever outside of the church, I mean, and the way they act and vote and treat people and stuff, is like literally the exact opposite of, you know, Jesus. And again, I mean, I know millions of people have said that, but I'm saying... I found it. Parents saying Jesus loved me to silence the lone transgender supporter at a parent-teacher conference.

Jesus fucking Christ. I really have been very different than the DACA issue. That's still something else. They're using Jesus to bully somebody, basically. Yeah, I went in. Again, they've been doing that. As gay people, how long have been doing that? It's kind of like what Joy Reid says, said about, we talked about a couple episodes

ago about, she's like, you know, we get on these people for voting against their own economic self-interest. She's like, but, you know, as a liberal and as someone who makes a lot of money or whatever, she's like, I mean, I do that because you just vote your values. But then when you look at shit like this, you're like, are you, are you voting your values? Because to me, it seems like you're voting against your economic self-interest and against your goddamn values. Well, it's what their values should be.

But that's the thing, that's what we're saying is like, surface level. Those aren't actually their values. How can you listen to any fucking thing Trump says as a Christian and go, yep, that's what, you know, that's me. Well, there's a couple things I want to say real quick because I know, I don't know, how long are we doing for it? We're at 56.

Yeah, well, anyway. I wanted to ask just what y'all thought about. It's still about DACA, but like, like I said, I don't, I don't need to go any further or have any additional argument beyond, I don't think. it's fucking right to, you know, punish these kids or people who were kids when they came here or whatever, you know, for some, through no fault of their own or whatever. And that's as far as as I need to go. But in terms of just immigration in general, you know, it was me and you were talking about it. And you were like, you know, like we need, of course, there need to be rules.

You know, there need to be rules that needs to work a certain way. And like, you know, at some point you have to, you have to, I mean, you have to uphold them or else why do they even exist? So, like, I mean, how do y'all? think immigration like how hard-core do you think we should try to be on. This is how policy or laws get changed. People on both sides, when something's happening that they don't like and they want to argue about the rule of law being important, whether it's liberals arguing about, you know, rights in the courtroom and like, you know, we got a rule of law, but these cops think they

they can go above and beyond it when they do X, Y, and Z. And that's, you know, a fair argument. And then here with the immigration, a lot of conservatives, like we've got a rule of law. It's illegal to come across our borders, you know, without papers. You're rewarding that bad behavior. But you wrap yourself up in the rule of law only when it's convenient for you. Right. So many people are guilty of that.

And the way it actually does work in our society. And this is, you can argue that this shouldn't work this way, but this is how it works is. Exceptions are often made to the rule of law. Well, that's what I was about saying. Don't all rules have exceptions for the most far? Well, have exceptions on paper, but even not on paper. Like the current situation with marijuana, you know, cities and states pass their own laws making it legal or just examples of officers letting people go or whatever it is. That is how policies change where those things happen and society as a whole goes, look.

Whatever. It's working. Maybe we should change the law. It's so naive to believe that we have a law. it's followed to the T. And then one day we go, yeah, I don't know if this is working. And then the next day we make it a new thing.

No, like people break that law or they bend it or whatever. And we all kind of go, look, we didn't need that rule. And I'm not saying that that makes everything okay. I'm saying it's fucking naive to act like that doesn't happen. That's not how and why things change all the time. All the time people bend or break laws. And as a society, we go, oh, turned out all right, actually. And so we changed the fucking law.

I guess what I fail to understand is that, all right, first off, everybody's like, we keep letting people in. It's going to get fucking too crowded. Have you driven through Indiana? We got space. You know what I'm saying? Like, and when y'all was remembering something about marijuana, dude, if we keep going like we're doing and start fucking, hey, every state's going to have marijuana, all that land

that there ain't shit is about to be fucking farmland for at least some goddamn greenhouses. Guess who knows? And this ain't. I know how it's going to sound. I'm not being racist. Guess who fucking knows how to farm already and don't have to be fucking, these got some goddamn Mexicans. I can't believe you just realized where he was going on that.

Yeah. No, I did. What I'm saying is, still, these goddamn Mexicans, it's still landed. When Tim Wilson used to say, he's like,

he's got the word, gee, he ain't offensive, but the way I say it is, gee! Right. So, but anyways,

my point is that, that was really just a small part of my, my point was that we got, we have, We have room. I don't think it's, to be fair to those people, I don't think it's about room. But this is my second part. This is my second part.

They don't have room in their heart, Tray. My second part to this is I live in or around the areas where people are very vocal about, they're taking our jobs. They're taking our jobs. Yeah. Buddy, first off, the, where I live is near Dalton, Georgia. And I don't know if anybody, and some of our listeners may know, Dalton, Georgia is literally the carpet capital. of the world. United States.

Of the world. Yeah? Carp, swear to God. What about all them? Flying carpets over in... I'm not saying their carpets don't hit. I'm talking about volume. I'm talking about volume.

Like, turning them to fuck over. So, in Mexico, sincerely, there are, like, match telling you how to get to fucking Dalton. Because the dudes that run these cars, they bring in for... And by the way, a lot of times illegally, but they're going down there and grabbing them

because they can pay them whatever the fuck they want because they're not documented. That's not them doing it. The people that are fucking up the immigration shit more than anybody are not the goddamn Mexicans. It's the people who know they can exploit the Mexicans for cheap labor because they're not documented.

In Dalton, Georgia. Right by those places, there is a fucking billboard. Trump, yeah. It says Trump above the Dalton carpet factory. What I'm saying is not like some conspiracy theory. It's just very well known. Yes. There's a make America great again right above the fucking carpets of Dalton thing.

It's the most raven anyways. Well, now, to be fair, to whoever got that billboard, fucking Trump didn't run on this. This is not one of this campaign. That's true. That's true. But what I'm saying is, I mean, the wall is a huge part of that.

Yes, there's obviously people that are not illegal immigrants that could be working at that carpet plant. Absolutely. However, they go there and tell them motherfuckers to come here. They're not just coming here going, fuck you, Wadi, and taking the job. They don't want a white man to work there. It's the white man up top this fucking lower. My second point was, though, is it's just that. Here's where I've seen Mexicans in the goddamn south

at the carpet place and working at a Mexican restaurant that their family owns. You weren't going to get that fucking job. And the places that have the most illegal aliens taking their job in these culturally rich places like California and New York are the places are complaining about it the fucking least. They're the ones going let everybody in.

We're fucking liberal. Then you got, and then in Texas, they actually pretty well celebrate their Tex-Mex culture because it's pretty fucking awesome. So the people complaining about it aren't actually fucking affected about it. He's beat, rad. But dude, they're not. The people that complain about the most are the least affected by it. And it's fucking horse shit. And I am about to have a heart attack, I think.

Of course. His head looks like the sauce that you put on a Mexican dish. Yeah. That's a lot of songs. That's all 100% true. As far as the last thing you said, I mean, yeah, it's one of those things that, like, you know, who'd have thought, you know, getting to know what people would make you more sympathetic to, you know, know who they are and their causes or whatever, like familiarity, you know. By the way, domestic restaurant and Amity hometown, they got, they hired a bunch of white

people. They're job creators. Well, I was about, yeah, ours don't, but that's fine. I don't want white. There was a very, there are only waiters. They don't let them cook. There was a very known, like, I don't know, case studies, right, work. Just a thing that happened in Alabama a few years ago, they passed this state level

extremely restrictive immigration law. And, you know, it wasn't, again, it's a state level law, but the, it. impact of it was that a lot of the illegal aliens that lived in Alabama went, you know, next door to Mississippi or Georgia up to Tennessee or whatever, right? And so a lot of them left. Like it worked. It worked exactly the way they wanted to. And then that year, later that year, during harvest season, they had catastrophic losses in their agricultural industry because the fucking white people in Alabama. And I mean, I guess to be completely fair, I guess the black people too because there's a shitload of black people in Alabama also.

But either way, the rest of the Alabamans, Americans, they wouldn't, the rest of the Americans wouldn't do that job. Wouldn't take the fucking job. They wouldn't do it. Recently immigrated Americans, we could call them. Yeah. Would have. And they would have and have been doing it for years.

And then they run them off and now. Billions of years old, 200-something years is very recent. And I like that argument in the context of the way that you made it in terms of like, look, they made this policy. and then look how it backfired. Right. But I do disagree with in general this whole,

the general idea of like, you know, they're coming here and they're working jobs. They ought to be able to stay. That's true. But like, even if they're not, like even, I don't say like even if they're not, like they're, I don't know, these criminals that Trump keeps alluding to

that I don't even know if they fucking exist. Bad umbra's. But like, you know, if you're here and you work at McDonald's sometimes or if you're living with, with your mom when you're 19. But you got brought here when you're five? I still don't think you should be fucking deported.

I want 100% agree. You know what I mean? I agree. I think what we're arguing. We're just specifically saying. No, I know the context of what you said. It's hilarious when it backfires on the fucking, you know.

I can like get myself in a position because I hear this from a lot of people say like, when they say a lot of people I hear say, well, why do we take care of these people when we got people in Detroit? You know, we got our own people. I'm like, you ain't fucking going to Detroit. You know what I mean? So, like, if you're going to say that, then do something. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

Also, dude, I'm sorry. I think there's some, look, yeah, should everybody limits to it or whatever? Yeah, you can't just, you can't just have totally open borders. But, like, I think there's fucking something to the fact that they're, that, you know, that's one of the fundamental founding principles of America. That's one of the things this country was literally built on. It's on the fucking statue of liberty. Give us your fucking, you know, you're poor, you're tired. You're all like.

You're hungry. Like, you like, you can. come here. If it don't hit for you where you live, you can come here and you'll be all right. Yeah. Which was bullshit for such a long time for so many people. Yeah. Even the people who were already here.

I think that we were saying give us your poor, your tire, and your wheat, because we were going to eat them. Well, I mean, I was, I was. Especially the week. Please, the week. That's what I was like. If you could pre-beat them with a hammer, that would be slow. Right. Well, I started thinking when I, you know, and I'm like, if you, you know, if you're, you know,

press there, you could come here and I was like, then we'll make you slaves. Send the poor. You're tired of your week. No Jews. That's right. But still, philosophically. If it's your poor or you're tired and you're weak,

especially the black ones. Those take, we get high dollars. They can put this statue up for free. If you're poor or you're tired, you're strong. You're dumb. The ones we can fucking sell control.

Yeah, I shouldn't say dumb. Anyway. Well, no, you meant dumb people who could be exploited and then you were throwing it in. We didn't have the same time. Good Lord. Anyway. I hear what you're saying, but that ain't what you meant. The other thing I want to bring up is, I don't know if y'all ever ran into this, but I've known a few legal immigrants, you know, whose family or themselves came to the country legally and went through the process the way you're supposed to.

I mean, that Tushar did. And oftentimes, I'm sure his parents did. Well, right, right. I think Tuchar is born in it. I don't think Tuchar's ever done anything. But he's first. But he is first generation, I feel like. Yeah, right.

But anyway, I've known a few of those. He is first generacist. In this specific instance, I'm talking about Latinos. I'm talking about Hispanic people who, that dude, illegal immigrants hit for them less than like anybody. Yeah. Like, even the fucking people in Corey's hometown. No, no. I'm saying I've known some.

But like, it's one of those deals. You like make some mad because they did it the right way. They're like, I fucking did it the right way. And then I see this shit. And you know what that's like that? that ain't right that's like comics shitting on you for being an internet famous i mean i'm not saying i'm not saying that i side with them i'm just i'm bringing that up like i'm gonna say who it is it's a thing of ours in new york said that same shit to me one night at the bar and i was floored

and it wasn't it wasn't i mean i enjoyed her argument but i mean she's her parent you know she came over here her they came over here and i was like and you're really you're against that and that's what they were there was like why i fucking came over here the right way god damn harry came over the right way i her name. I let me say, Corey's Melry whispered until time Durr just immediately says it.

But again, I mean, I, they have money. Well, who am I to deny her perspective? I can't tell her, you don't, you don't, you don't, you know, you're not allowed

to have that. Hell, she's a fucking, you know, I don't know, but was it just her parents or did she come over here with them, too? Regardless, her whole thing was like, I don't know,

fucking agree with that shit because I, we came over here the right, yada, yada, you know. One of Katie's best friends is in that same position, and a guy that I worked with

I mean, that's how I feel about internet comics. The guy that I worked... For the most part. He literally just sent it. I literally didn't hear you say that. He literally just sent it. You said how loud is you whispered in the mic? No.

I swear I didn't hear it. Y'all hilarious. We gotta eat. All right. Anyway. Hellous. God damn. Patreon.

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