wellRED podcast - #328 - Good Cop/Rad Cop Serenades You W/ Humor!

Episode Date: July 5, 2023

This week with Trae out camping and Drew on a plane, Corey puts on his interviewers hat and sits down with one of the boy's favorite musical-comedy-duos: Good Cop/ Rad Cop! We get to know about Ryan and Dave and of course, they brought their guitars! Did you know you can Pre-order Trae and Corey's new book right now? Yes even the audio version! Please do so right now and make them the happiest boys on earth! Pre Order Round Here and Over Yonder! For tickets to see Drew, click here! For tickets to see Trae click here! For bonus stuff from Corey, check out PartTimeFunnyMan.com (if you cant afford the 5 dollars a month, fret not, you can have it all for free!) Check out all the podcasts in the extended Skewniverse: Weekly Skews, Gravy Baby, and Puttin On Airs! To watch episodes of Puttin' On Airs go to WatchPOA.com Go see Good Cop/ Rad Cop open for Bobcat!! : Knoxville: https://www.modelfacecomedy.com/calendar/bobcat-goldthwait-at-the-bijou-theatre-in-knoxville-tn Chattanooga: https://www.modelfacecomedy.com/calendar/bobcat-goldthwait-live-at-jjs-bohemia-in-chattanooga Charlotte: https://www.modelfacecomedy.com/calendar/modelface-comedy-at-the-evening-muse-in-charlotte-nc  

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They're the. Oh, well redders, how are you? This is a special occasion. I haven't drank on this show in a long time, but I got some old buddies here and it's time for a Miller light. I've been on the, I've been on the Seltzer train because my wife is a, what the Youngings would call a basic bitch, and that's just what's in the fridge. But I'm having a Miller light to celebrate the old times.

Before we get into who our guest is and why I'm drinking celebratory-wise, I need to tell you that I have, me and Trey, have a new book out. It's called Round Here Over Yonder. It is a travel guide. We talked about the South. We talked about the rest of the United States. And the way over Yonder Yonder is the U.K. You can get it on pre-order right now.

I'm going to put the link in the description. But if you're just listening to this and you're not going to the description, Corey Ryanforster.com will get you there and all my other cool shit. But, hey, enough of that. I want to talk about a comedy duo that is taking the country, nay, the world by storm. And I'm talking, of course, about Chattanooga's own. Welcome them to the show. First time, long time.

It's good cop, rad cop, everybody. Hey, what's up, everybody? Hey, thank you so much. Yeah, hey, this is great. Oh, my God. Wow. Live audience. It's a glowing review.

Thank you so much. So cool. Wow, that was very abruptly ending that applause break. But yeah. That was not a soundboard, ladies and gentlemen. There are fans outside of their house clamoring to get in. We're the Beatles of Dakota, Georgia. We're good.

I'm great. You're in Decatur, Georgia? Yeah. Do you live in Decatur, Georgia now? Yeah. We moved into Decatur. I didn't know that. Not to brag.

January of this year, yeah. Maybe I did know that, but that makes me. sat alone now i can't just pop in randomly to see ryan like i always did when he was in chattanooga no you have to drive uh about an hour and a half to do that but i'm in georgia now which is way cooler than being in tennessee yeah is it that's fun to hear from a georgian myself yeah well dude i mean you know how bad it is in tennessee so i do but i feel like it's pretty rough here but i mean you got to understand i live in marjorie taylor green's district so like it's the worst of the worst. We live in progressive town

basically. It's very progressive. People walk to school here. Really? Yeah. It's kind of weird. Andy Griffith Energy out here. Yeah. Where we're at. We live right by Agnes Scott University. Okay. Okay. Run on. So David just thinks all these hot guys look there and I'm like, Dave, those are lesbians.

That's not true. It's not true. People walk to high school. I see children walking. Yeah. I'm like, Dave, don't call those kids hot. Yeah, growing up in Tennessee, I see a child walk by himself. I'm like, this is a federal crime. So I was going to say, since you've moved to Georgia, you're allowed to be within 30 feet of a school now. That's nice, Dave. I'm really happy for you.

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I don't want to brag or anything. But I'm back, baby. Dave's back. Well, you're in Georgia now, but you're not going to be in Georgia for long because you guys are about to go on a little mini tour with, I think one of all of our heroes when we were kids. That's Bobcat, Goldthwaite.

Before we get too far into this conversation, I like everybody to plug their shit up top because people might have died from laughter by the end of this podcast and they won't hear your plug. So plug all your shit. All right. Well, first, let's plug our dates. So we're with Bobcat. Go wait on the 18th. We're in Charlotte at, I believe, the E. I can't remember the name of the video.

Fuck. Good plug. Charlotte, we're on 18. That's almost sold out anyway. so I'm not even fucking worried about playing that one. JJ's Bohemia, where we've all been and had a great time there. We're there to the 19th with Bob Gattah, J.J's in Chattanooga. And then on the 20th, we're going to the Bejew Theater.

Your fans will know that place very well. Of course. That's where they saw you guys with us. In Knoxville. So, yeah, we're playing that, and we're very stoked to be back at the theater. Excited to get accustomed to being at the Bejew Theater. Yeah, we're a theater act now, baby. You are a theater act.

Yeah, that's great. You're going from JJ's Bohemia one night to the Biju the next night. Like, it took me 15 years to make that jump, and you're doing it in one night. You know what I mean? It's a power of two people. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's a completely different scene.

And both will be, both will be fantastic shows, but, you know, there's a difference in both of those. Playing a theater is a whole different beast. But you've done it before in that specific theater. The fucking Biju is a wonderful place to see comedy. And I'm not saying that just because I love the place. But the reason I love the place is because that's true. Not every theater. I'm happy when we sell out a theater or even get asked to play at one.

Don't get me wrong. But there's some where you're like, okay, we're just going to get through this because it's large. It's cavernous. The people are way back there. But the Bejew, they're right up in your face. It's a fucking good time. And by the way, just in case anybody was wondering, yes, we are going to have the boys here, the good cop, rad cop, play us a little ditty later, a little preview of the show.

Stay. Yeah, don't leave. No, stay. Absolutely. Stay on the show. I do want to ask you guys, I mean, I can't remember. Like, I remember being aware of it when it happened, but now time flies, I've had a kid. We've been on tour.

When did this band form? Like three years ago during 2020, basically? March of 2020. We did pretty much right when we got shut down. We did like a one-off show. right before 2020. And then we moved in together. And the pandemic hit.

So we just started hanging out and grinding. Yeah, the band before the pandemic kind of started out as like a thing we would do for shows as like a joke. You know, it was just like a gimmicky thing that we got out to do like two shows to do. Now it's like a whole gimmicky show. And now we're, it's like what we do now. And so, but yeah, it's been really cool. But yeah, we started with that guy who sold all that. that hand sanitizer in Tennessee.

You remember that guy? Yeah. I heard about it because of y'all. Yeah, that guy is, he launched our career as comedy musicians. So shout out to him. Thank you so much. Big ups to that, dude. If anyone's thinking of doing something stupid and selfish, please let us know beforehand.

You'd love to write a song about you? We need about 15 minutes to write a song about it. Did that guy end up going to jail? No, God. No, but they ended up taking all of his hand sanitizer away. Yeah. Right. For the, for the, for every.

up donating it. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, for everybody, for everybody that doesn't remember, and please y'all feel free to fill me in on the parts that I'm missing, because this was like, I remember this was a story like during week two of the pandemic. Literally immediately. I still had a job when this happened. Oh, my God.

Jesus. I didn't. It was brand new. Yeah, the pandemic was, I immediately didn't have a job. It was really wild because I'm, like, we're independent contractors. So, like, basically each week. After I do a club, I'm technically unemployed until I go to the next one. And so because, like, nobody knew how long the pandemic was going to last,

I just kept getting fired from jobs every week. Like, every week some club would call me like, hey, you're fired. So that was fucking awesome. But if I remember correctly, this dude, what he did was, you know, the mother of all invention is necessity. And this guy realized that, hey, there's about to be a big fucking surge in people getting hand sanitizer. So he went, I guess, did he take out a loan or his daddy just had a lot of money? And he bought all the hand sanitizer in Tennessee. Yeah, him and his brother did that. It wasn't just Tennessee. He went to Georgia and Alabama too. I think he tried to clear out the

southeast. It was mostly also like not like he wasn't doing it in like Nashville, Knoxville. He was doing it mostly in like those towns. Underserved communities. And mostly dollar general would be what he'd hit up, you know. So he hit up the DG and just any place and just. He jacked up the price. I think he jacked it up maybe like 500 percent. Oh, more than that. Because a bottle of hand sanitizer used to be like $60. And then he was trying to sell him for like 75 on Amazon. Yeah. So he's the Martin Screlli of the hand sanitizer world. He was very confident that what he was doing was fine and ethical.

Yeah, that's the thing. Like this is where I go. There's a huge difference between smart and right. Because I heard a lot of people being like, well, it's smart. It's supply and demand. I'm like, why wouldn't you do that? And I'm like, oh, I don't know because people need to cleanse themselves of germs during this horrible time. It's a great way to figure out who's a piece of shit. Yeah, for sure. Dude, the pandemic was real good for figuring out who was a piece of shit. Like, there was people that you, like, had an idea that they were a piece of shit.

But you're like, I don't know. I mean, we're all pieces of shit at the bar. And then the pandemic, you were like, everybody was getting that certified piece of shit stamp. So, yeah, y'all lamb put. y'all lampooned this fella in a song and uh and now you have this blossoming career where you know you're selling out fucking j jay's bohemia yeah it's it's cool getting bumped up to uh headliner just kind of you know i mean we're in the early stages of it but it's it's nice we're hitting some clubs up and some smaller rooms but it's it's been good it's been really weird we were

out at a show we you know our buddy friend of the show here d j louis DJ invited us up to a barn party show for like his landlord you know and we got there and on the go farm. Yeah, on the go farm. And like two guys who didn't know there was even a show going on saw us and we're like, we've seen you guys on TikTok.

And I was like, yeah, I was like, yeah, we're fucking up on TikTok. We're kind of a big deal. Yeah. So it's our one video is kind of a big deal. We're getting so big that people accidentally know who we are. That's nice. fucking awesome. It's pretty nice. Well, I'm so, I'm so happy because I knew that you weren't going to make it as a straight-up

comedian. And I told you that for you. It's the raw truth, though. Let's embrace reality. It's true. Only all of us could have written Trace coattails. We would have been, uh, so. Hey, what are you going to do?

They are dirty, dirty, slimy coattails. Um, so you just mentioned TikTok, though. I don't really know much about the TikTok world. Are you all, like, considered big on TikTok? Is that real? No. No, no, we have a couple of solid. videos. Yeah. We get some stuff that'll do. We, we've only been fucking around with TikTok for about a

month, month and a half now. And then we've got, but like, I mean, two of the videos have got like a hundred something that. We'll play one of the songs. That's better in mind. Yes. Yeah. Yes, please do. They do numbers. Isn't that the fucking most annoying part of all this is like, you put so much work into the songs. You put so much work into the chemistry between y'all. But then it's like, hey, none of that matters unless you upload it to these seven places and use the correct hashtag. And none of them, like I remember used to, like when I first started out in social media was a thing. Like all of the social media platforms kind of had, it's like, oh, what works on this one will also work on this one. But now they're all so fucking different that you can't just like, you know what I mean?

Like you put a video on Twitter and it's like you've got to shave 20 seconds off of it if you want to put it on Instagram. And then on TikTok it's got to be this. So, uh, good on you. One of my favorite things about this is the different types of people that go to each platform and are your commenting. Because Facebook, we had this with Facebook. We have the dumbest fucking fans on Facebook. Facebook is just full of dummies.

And then YouTube is people who are just haters. And then TikTok is where people are like, TikTok and Instagram are generally where people Facebook, in my experience, Facebook was for haters. We put a video on TikTok and people are like, because they're old. Yeah, they're like, this is a nice video. And then we put one on Facebook and just for no reason. and people were like, God's not real. They started arguing.

It's like, bro, his song isn't even about God. What are you wanting about? Well, the Facebook lost a lot of their users to COVID. So that was good. Yeah, they really did. And like, I'm with you in that, like, Instagram and TikTok seem to be for younger people. And say what you will about the younger generation,

but like, they're definitely fucking nicer. Like, it's a, they're a more kind, supporting, nurturing, like, they see you living your dream and they're like hey even if it's not for them they'll be like well by god they're trying but like facebook is where people's dreams have not come true and they're taking it out on you for trying to live yours yeah this content is for me and it sucks where do i complain who do i complain to is this something that you when you first started doing comedy that you thought well i'll end up doing music or does this did this take you by complete

surprise. Definitely. The second. Yeah, we both did music in the past. I leaned into comedy and then kind of I leaned into it so long. I forgot I had any musical skills at all. So when we started doing music, I was like, oh yeah, I'm pretty good at this.

We can combine these two things. It ended up just kind of working out that the two hobbies melded together into something that didn't suck. Yeah, before I started stand up, I was in bands and then I got kicked out of the last band I was in because I was kind of a control freak when it came to like what I like to write and like I would be like this sucks.

He was always trying to write songs about dicks and balls. So they just kicked me out of the band. And so then I started to stand up because I was like, well, the only person who can tell me I suck is the audience and like myself. And so the only person you have to answer to is yourself. So I did stand up for years. And then I mean, I still do stay up a little bit. But, I mean, this is, we're busy with this.

So I'd, like, never really do much stand-up anymore. Well, the goal has to be to get big enough and then open for yourself. You know what I'm saying? Yes. Like, you both go out. Yeah. Or, you know, just like you both go out, you do 10 minutes and then you come back together as the band. And then you don't have to fucking pay openers.

You know what I'm saying? I've been thinking about it myself. Like me would anyway. Yeah, right. You start a band that opens for you. No, I was thinking about like, I have all these different characters. So I was like, well, if I could write the buttercream dream 15 minutes, I could just go do him and then introduce my next act, which is Aunt Lita.

And then me, Corey Forrester, the comedian, only has to do like 30. You know what I mean? Like I could just give them. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, I'll Tyler Perry it up. I don't mind. But yeah, like, so if I write a joke and I don't deem it good enough.

for Corey Ryan Forster, I'll just give that to the Buttercream Dream. He can make it work. Yeah, and if Buttercream Dream works it out and it's too good, Corey will take that. You know what I mean? So I can workshop my own shit.

I like that butter cream. It doesn't work. I give it to Ryan. Yeah. I like that buttercream dream is your like Chris Gaines, dude. Yeah, 100%. They're both sad,

clearly depressed. When did each of you, when did each of you start playing the Get Fiddle and, get into music. Like, Ryan, you said you were in bands, but were you also, like, in band in high school? Yeah, I played, well, if you want to know. I knew you weren't cool, but... My parents wanted to make sure I stayed a virgin forever, so I play trumpet and homeschool band. Just by yourself. So that's a real thing that I did.

Just playing taps every morning by yourself. Yeah. No, like, so, homeschool and I don't know how familiar you are with it, but there's like shit you do with other homeschoolers because they're like, listen, if you have to have some sort of social interaction. So they, once a week, we had like band. And so like, I played trumpet and homeschool band with a bunch of fucking, those homeschoolers that I was in band with, I would be looking around being like, these guys are a bunch of fucking homeschoolers. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I know that I'm homeschooled, but these motherfuckers are homeschooled. Home school, dude. Yeah, they're fucking, uh,

the dougar kind of shit. Oh, you were in that. You, Dave, was your, did your life start out that sad or was it different? Oh, yeah. My life started out sad as shit. But I'll just talk about the music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I started doing choir when I was in like the third grade.

I've been singing since I was like born. I started to inquire. Yeah, I started inquiring the third grade. I did it until I graduated. I did like all state choir and stuff. I did well. I was good in choir. And then I did some piano stuff when I was in high school,

but nothing prolific or anything like that. I did some piano stuff makes it sound so dirty. Yeah, I slapped my balls on the keyboard a little bit. We didn't play music. Just some light piano stuff. It's like experimental, like radio head stuff, you know. Now, other than karaoke, what kind of music do you do, Corey? Like, did you ever play in a band or anything?

I used to sit in with bands and just lend vocals. Like, I had, I just basically all it was for me was I had buddies that would play like the bars on the North Shore when we were like in our mid-20s. And so I would be there and I found out pretty early on that number one, a lot of my buddies wanted to take a break to go talk to a lady. And so I would go just fill in for them, not playing the instruments, but just sing. And I noticed that every time I did that, the bar gave. me the free drinks as well because they considered me part of the band. So I would always just be like, y'all got to give me at least one fucking song because I ran up a huge tab. You know, so that was it.

Like, no, no, dude, nothing in any capacity like you gentlemen. Just music bucket spots. Yeah. Well, you've got, I mean, I know you've got a hell of a voice. Oh, well, that's fine. Yeah, you got a good, you got good pipes, man. Start a band. Fuck it.

You wrote a book. You did. Yeah, I think that I should just collaborate with you guys on things. I can sit to that too. One song every two or three months. It fills my void, you know. Now I got to drive to Decatur, though. I don't fucking know.

We can do like an MF Doom thing where you pretend to be me. See, that's the thing. We don't want a tour, really. So we thought about setting up a franchise for the band where we just sell our songs to just like a fat guy and another idiot. Yeah, just start wearing helmets like Dead Mouse. Yeah, exactly. You guys have to do this and then, yeah. Well, I don't think there's any two people who could play like twins or brothers better than me and Dave.

We could pull that off. Like, we could pull that off pretty good. Like, you just put a hat on. I can't take mine off otherwise, you know, completely bald. But, like, we could, we could fucking, we could work that out. So how's the, how's the scene going for y'all, like, now that you're living in a different place? Like, you know, in Chattanooga, I feel like y'all knew everybody, knew everything, you know, what was the transition like getting to a different spot it was weird for i mean it wasn't weird we

knew a few people when we first moved here um but they've uh we've ingratiated really well everyone in the atlanta scene is extremely nice and now we kind of know everybody and we're having a good time like everyone's super cool i really enjoy this seat i like living here yeah it's our first time living in like a big scene and my first time living in a big city just the caliber of comedy is just so like hard like so good here like it's just yeah bounce i mean it's one of the best if not the best scene in the country so we have a lot of people to look up to and watch yeah and then like sometimes i'll be on shows and be like man this is a fucking hell of a show who's closing it out and then i'm like oh fucking we are you know it's like it's weird it's like it's so many like packed rooms and

like we'll do like and we'll kill but i often find myself in the back of the room being like, who the fuck is closing the show? And I'm like, oh, fucking, that's me and Dave going to fucking end this shit. We're going to eat shit. I'm always a little scared and then we get up there and I'm like, oh, which is good. You should always be a little scared.

Yeah. I think. I definitely think that the second that you don't feel anything, you should give someone else your spot. You know what I mean? Because it clearly does. And also, I think you'd have to be a literal psychopath. ass in order to because people ask me they're like I've been doing it for a while and they're like do you still get nervous and I'm like 100% it's a different it's not a debilitating nervous like it used to be like I never throw up or anything yeah like my hand would literally shake now it's more of a just like I kind of it's like it's like a anxious like I can't wait to get started because I know once I get started it's the waiting as Tom Petty said that is the hardest part but I know when I get started I'm like I'm going to be floating for 30 minutes to an hour

or whatever. The switch kicks on. You're on the cloud. Yeah, exactly. But, like, there's still fucking nerves. Like, are you kidding me? Like, I'm still having to do this in front of human beings. Yeah.

I'm about to speak in public. What if they hate it? What if they hate it? Most people's worst nightmare. Yeah. And we've had sets. I mean, like, I'm saying how good we're doing, but I mean, we had a rough one on Saturday. Yeah.

We've eaten a couple plates of shit in the past. But it's usually not our fault when. Yeah, of course not. It's the fucking audience. They're morons. It's the sound system. It's the fucking stupid podunk piece of shit town you're in. I know you are playing a lot of VFWs, so it could be that.

They're looking at you, but they're somewhere else. You know what I mean? I've never played a VFW. Maybe we should have that experience. We've got asked to do one out here. We haven't done one yet. Was it the morning Marietta? Because I played that one.

I think it might have been the one of Marietta. It might be the one of Marietta. I want to Marietta. Okay. Yeah. There was a time in my career where if you told me that you'd never played a VFW, I would take a drag off a cigarette and go, you ain't a fucking comedian.

I was so proud of that. It's like all I had was that I had played so many shitty places. I'm glad that we got there on, you said that you've eaten shit with this act because I do want to know, since you've had experience doing regular stand up and now stand up with music, do you, and I'm genuinely asking, do you find that you get a little bit more grace with the guitar? Do you know what I mean? I think so.

Yeah, I think we have to earn their trust a lot. We have to earn their trust, I think, more so than you do without a guitar. You think so. Yeah, because a lot of guitar acts, I mean, honestly, I mean, especially with comedians. especially with I mean fortunately we are respected amongst comics and because if we weren't well we would quit

but you know I think an audience kind of will see a guitar act and be like fucking you know guitar act and then we get up there and we're not smarter we're not the smartest guys in the room we are not trying to be clever or even write good songs

we're trying to be dumb as fuck you don't don't you're definitely clever I wouldn't say. You are dumb and you're all those other things you said, but don't, don't not give yourself clever because your songs are fucking clever as shit. Well, thank you. You're both ugly and dumb and not worth anything, but like you're very clever. With that being said, with the two-piece act in particular, if we start eating shit, we can't like bail. You know what I mean? If they don't like a song, they just don't have a good time for like another three. minutes. There's no going away from. Yeah, you're stuck. I guess in my brain, I guess in my brain,

I was like, well, if you don't like care for the words of this song, like, everybody still at least likes hearing a guitar, you know what I mean? They could just sort of like tune out. Yeah. Some people do not like hearing a guitar. I'm not that good at a guitar. Yeah. I was that good at guitar. I wouldn't be in a comedy band. It hasn't happened very much, but we played one or two shows where it was just like beginning to end. They're just like, this guitar sucks. Yeah. Really. Everything about this band is terrible. Yeah.

But you, but y'all are so right, because like I do feel like, at least in my experience with guitar acts, when there's a guitar act, this is either about to be the worst thing I've ever seen or this is one of the best things I've ever seen. And there's not really in the middle. Like,

I don't know many. It makes music. Yes. I don't know many guitar acts that I go, they're fine. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I don't. I'm either like, I'm fucking really into them or I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ.

You know, and obviously I'm not going to name names, but listen, if you're out there and you're a guitar act and you know me and we've hung out, I mean, you're good. You know what I mean? I'm not talking about you. I'm not talking about you. But if I pretended I didn't know who you were, I'm talking about you now. That's right, Donnie Marsh. I don't consider Donnie an act. so so I know the Donny heads

are going to be coming at you What button was that an applause button? That was the applause button All right cool I'm going to have to get the soundboard That you guys have I like that It's a good one

Yeah It's got six buttons And they all have applause on them That is right I am very broke now that I have a child Yeah and so on On comedy Kind of sort of

me trying to pick this apart because I don't, I mean, I know what comedy is, but I don't really know what your world is. You're obviously both up there together, so improv is, I mean, you can do it, obviously, but like, you both got to be on the same page, whereas if I'm up there by

myself, and like you said, somebody's not feeling it, I can fucking immediately go cut that shit, do this, do this. How's your communication process on stage and double part to that question? Do you both sort of have that one, song that you sort of save for like, okay, if shit goes south, this is a fucking banger.

You know what I mean? Like, do you keep that one? Like, is there, or it might just be your closer. I don't know. It is our closer. That's our close. You don't have enough one. If things are going bad, six minutes into the set, we're like, uh, let's close the

fucker out. There are definitely songs we go, we're not doing that. Like, if you're in the church. If things are, yeah, where you go, thank you. We should play a church show. We really should. Maybe DJ can book us one. Yeah, we know, we'll, we definitely have songs where we won't play him.

I would say as far as our communication goes, I like to go up with the mentality of like, I won't let Dave bomb and Dave won't let me bomb. Right. So no matter like what happens, we just have each other's back. And we've spent so much time with each other at this point. It's kind of natural. We can just kind of look at each other in the eyes and be like, I think we should do something else.

Yeah. It's really funny because like even when we're in like bombing situations, I will still find something funny that Dave will do that may, that'll like make me laugh. Yeah. I'll watch him or he'll really, if we're bombing, sometimes Dave turns it up way harder than it needs to go. Of course. Like comically large.

That will make me start laughing. And then he's not bombing to me. Does it end up going better? Yeah. Does it end up going better after that? I mean, if you're eating complete shit and someone sees somebody laughing, that can kind of open up the floodgates a little bit. I mean, people can definitely tell when you're having a good dime on stage.

And that 100% affects how they perceive you. Like if this, if we hated each other, this act would not work. Oh, God. Yeah. Like I wouldn't work at all. I've noticed if I'm in a really good mood, my act goes better, even if I'm saying the same words than when I'm in a bad mood. Like it's just like maybe my face didn't even tell.

There's fuck. I mean, I don't know, man. Like, I don't normally believe in hippie shit, but I sort of do believe in like you give off an energy and people can sort of like an aura. You know what I mean? And like every time I've been in a super good mood, I've smashed. And every time I've, I won't say every time I've been in a bad mood. I did bad because that would mean I would do bad all the fucking time.

But, you know, there have been times when I was like, I think they could tell that, uh, that my wife yelled at me before that show. Yeah, for sure. Or whatever. Pickyback and sort of on that question of you being able to go off of each other and of course you have the chemistry and you're talking about bombing. Does it make bombing easier when you have a comrade up there with you? Yes.

Yeah. Okay. I was hoping you'd say yes. Because if not, I'm like, what's the fucking upside of this shit? Yeah. Yeah. It's splitting your money, which is dog shit in the first place. When you bomb anyway?

it sucks hard. It sucks really hard. Bombing with two people is... You get to ride back with someone in the car and complain about it, which is nice. Also, our closer... See whose fault it was. Yeah, exactly.

Our closer also ends with Dave generally rolling around on the ground with his shirt off and, like, me pretending we're having... Bejew Theater. Come see me with my shirt off, falling around. We usually have like a crazy ending to our sets. And so when we're bombing, it's very funny to me that we're still putting it on that hard. even though I don't. Like we have a group sing. I will do it if we're bombing.

Like I mean, Saturday we have a group sing along in one of our songs where we do the, the main part of Hey Jude. But we change the words to it. The nah, nah, nah, nah is from Hey Jude. And then we're, and so when we're bombing, we're like, all right, now just the ladies. And we hand the mic to them. And it's silent. And we just wait. We'll just wait while the beats it takes.

And then we're like, and now the fellas! You know, and so, I mean, it's just truly silent and we're just acting like everybody's having an awesome time. That's great. That's really funny. But, I mean, it's very funny to the comics. But it's, it's, the audience is like, what the fuck are these guys doing? Well, pausing for station ID here, this is the well-read podcast. We're talking to Good Cop Rad Cop.

You can find them in Charlotte, Knoxville, and Chattanooga with the legendary Bobcat Goldthwa. We're going to take a quick break here. And when we get back, we're actually going to hear some of the musical stylings of these bad boys, if that's all right with you. Before we go to break, remember my new, me and Trey's new book, around here over yonder, available for presale. The ticket, or the fucking whatever, the link to get the book is in the description, along with the link to get all the dates from these boys. We will be right back. Hey, y'all, if you're not already listening to putting on airs with Trey Crowder and Corey Ryan Forster, I don't know what your problem is. It's a very, very fun show.

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plugging the putting on airs podcast and or my book Around Here Every Yonder. We are back with the musical stylings. I feel like Johnny Carson, these next fellas from Chattanooga, now they're living in Decatur. This is the musical stylings of Good Cop Rad Cop. All right. This is a new one.

All died in a shitty submarine, a shitty submarine, a shitty submarine, a shitty submarine. All right. We all died in a shitty submarine, a shitty submarine, a shitty submarine. And that's that one. Thank you so much. I am so upset right now because before we went to break, I wanted to just get y'all's opinion on the submarine shit. Because the only people I've talked about it to were like, Trey and Drew. And I was like, ooh, new people.

And I was like, I know that the new cycle of. that is over, but I have been fucking literally obsessed with it, and I just, I wanted to ask you all your opinion on the submarine, but I think I got it. Yeah, that's pretty much it. We can talk about it after the break,

but yeah, we'll, we'll do another song. This is a love song. If anybody's eating, I recommend don't eat during this song. What is song do you think of this? Dave, they have a couple

not eating friendly songs. Dave goes, is this the gross song? It's like, yeah, this is the gross song. So you've been warned. One, two, one, two, three. Wanna bite the pimples right off of your back and suck out all the pus. Want to chew your toenails and swallow them whole while you talk about Elon Musk. We want to lick your back air with the.

tip of our tongue. We want to jerk off your dog and swallow it's come. We're the biggest piss freaks in all the land. We're a human toilet band. I don't know why this would not go good at live. This is the song we usually go. We're not doing this one. We'll eat your grandma's diapers, but we'll wear them first, even if she's dead. We'll gargle diarrhea from your granddad. ass and spit it on each other's heads. We'll come in a trough. We'll fill it up to the top and then we'll slurp it all down. These piggies love their slop.

We're the biggest cump sluts in all the land. We're a human toilet band. Now, we know we only have like a couple of minutes left at the podcast and we want to end we usually have 40 more verses to the song, but we'll cut down. Oh, keep going. This is the last verse. One, two. One, two, three.

Wanna bring a straw to a port of potty at a Renaissance fair in June. Build a build a, build a bear out of pubic hair and give it to your nephew. We don't want to be gross, but we just can't stop. Life's a cum load and our mouth is a mop. And Jesus Christ. Christ died for all our sins. Yeah, we're a secret Christian band. Jesus Christ died for all our sins.

Yeah, we're a secret. Christian band. Thank you. That one goes out to Jay-D. My God, that had it all for me. I mean, you're drinking, come, you're eating grandma's diapers, and you're praising God. I mean, fuck me. That's a country song.

I always find a one you. Three chords in the truth. It didn't mention diapers, cubs, I should write you all a letter just like Steve Goodman did. It ain't nothing about piss for eating diapers or

God. Sucking off your dad. Oh my God. See a little more verse of this song and it goes a little something like this. All right. I think our next collaboration, because we've collaborated

it a couple times. I think our next collaboration should be, yes, I would like to write another verse to this. I'm going to save this video and I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to think about it. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to have you all back on the show and have you play it and I'll fucking sing you my part. Corey's going to drop some bars on a remix. This will be our, you know, that Bob Dylan song when I paint my masterpiece. Yeah, the band did better.

This is our masterpiece. He keeps changing it every, you know, 10 to, 20 years. That's that diarrhea songs are masterpiece. That's fucking, that's wonderful, gentlemen. I mean, if that doesn't make me a good. Everything is going to be different. Your Trojan magnum opus. Yeah.

Yeah. We'll keep adding to that. Well, guys, if that doesn't make you want to go out right now and get tickets to see them work for the very last time with Bobcat gold plane, they're not going to be back. No, if anyone on earth would love the shit out of that. It's Bobcat Goldthwaite. I think that like,

I think he's probably the perfect mainstream comedian for y'all to open for that like he sort of has a built-in audience that I don't think. I think anyone that likes Bobcat Goldthwaite is going to be like, oh, there's a band that talks about come

and eating grandma's diapers. This is art. You know what I'm going to make a movie about this. My new movie's about a guy that eats diapers. Yeah, we're essentially the two-piece version of Barry Cremens, you know. Oh, my God. But for real, though, how captivated were y'all with the submarine shit?

Was that not an amazing moment? I paid attention, dude, it was so crazy. I'm an Uber Eats driver, so I listened to the news for like eight hours a day. And they were covering all day long, which is hilarious because there were never any developments. It was just constantly like, have people stuck in the ocean, who knows? Well, every time you gave me an update, it just seemed to get dumber and funnier every time. Oh, my God. Yeah, we were like, yeah, it's funny seeing the people who are like billionaire sympathizers who are like, it's wrong to laugh at the people who are dead.

And it's like, no, it's really not. It's fine. But you want to know something that people. But you want to know something that I love is that those people were few and far between. Like, I was actually expecting to see a lot more of those people. Like, frankly, I was expecting basically every single conservative is going to take the side of the billionaires because that's what they do with everything. Like, it doesn't matter what the problem is. If a billionaire did something, they're going to defend them.

But, like, I didn't find that to be the case. Like, dude, I went, like, I was, my big litmus test for anything is like, how does my mom and dad feel about it? because they are very conservative people. Sure. And I went to the house and I'd been just fucking dined at all this shit. And I was like, I'm going to go over their house. I'm going to make some fucking submarine jokes. And my mom is going to be like, you know, if those were a bunch of liberals on that,

you wouldn't, you know, you wouldn't be saying on this. But my mom, my mom literally, I go, so the submarine people, huh? And I just kind of gave her the floor. And she's like, yeah, play stupid fucking games, win stupid fucking prizes. I don't know what to tell you. And I was just like, I was like, oh my God, thank God. And we just started roasting them. And I'm, I don't think it was on well read.

It might have been on my substack, which is people of this podcast. No, that is part-time funnyman.com. That's all my bonus stuff. You can sign up over there. It's $5 a month, unless you don't have $5 a month, in which case it's free. That's how that works. So I think I, if you don't have $5. Hey, most of them don't.

And that's totally fine. So the point that I made over there, and I truly believe this, and I felt it at first, and then it was like cemented for me for the days afterwards that like, this is the most united. And now, by the way, it ended immediately with the Supreme Court rolling. But at that time, it was the most united the country had been since 9-12. You know what I mean? Like everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone would. was look at these stupid fucking idiots with an Xbox controller.

Everyone from all sides, all races, all classes. We were all just sitting there going, man, isn't this great? Because like every detail they came out with was just like how. Even more ridiculous. Fuck do you. And it proved. And it also proved a really good point, which is like some people are really good at making money. Well, which first off, if you were born into it, that's really easy.

But like, you can be smart at one thing and be a complete dumbass for everything else. Like, that's possible. Like, some people are like stock savants, but like, they can't, they don't know how to fucking, like, open a door. No. You know what I mean? They couldn't be on this podcast. Talking is not everybody. No, they can't.

No, they can't. But it was, I just thought that that was a, that was such a wonderful time in history that I don't think, like I said, I thought we were all united. And then, boom, here comes the Supreme Court bullshit, which we don't have to get into. It was such a fleeting moment. But, like, we need once a year for billionaires to go up in a hot air balloon, you know, and just, like, we all get to shoot them down. Like, you get to, you pay, like, you know, $1,000. You get as many shots as you want at the billionaire hot air balloons. Well, I think what was fascinating in, I think what captivated a lot of the minds of it.

Were you, now this is fucked up, but were you, like, a little. bit disappointed when you found out it imploded. No, that hit for me. Oh, wait, that they didn't suffer? Yeah. Like, I think we all were like, okay with it, like, when they weren't suffering, but, like, with the part where we were all imagining them suffering, there was part of me to be like, this is pretty funny.

Like, it's like a good, it reminded me of, like, the ending of Seinfeld a little bit, you know, it's just a bunch of people just stuck at the bottom of the ocean being like, Well, this sucks and we're going to die. Might say when when it imploded, I immediately felt better about making fun of them. Yeah. See, I'm with you. No, I'm with you 100%. Like, they got, like, we should all be lucky to go by way of implosion.

Because the way that I was reading it was like, it happened in like 0.03 milliseconds. They literally would never have known. Which is way shorter than the time your body can even process pain. And so, like, they, it, you can't get more immediate than that. And, like, when you implode, like, you're, you're gone immediately. Like, there's just a stain. It would happen six thousand times since you started. Yeah.

Like, just. Yeah, right. Yes, exactly. There's just a tiny stain. So fucking privilege these fucking billionaires get. That's what I'm saying. They don't even have to feel fucking pain when they die long. Or they don't even have to be, or they don't even have to be.

The slow way is what they fucking deserved. Well, no, what they deserved was to be rescued on the brink of death, and then we get to all make fun of them forever. That would be what they deserve. Like, they deserved to live and know that this man took a million dollars for them, and then we laughed them out of the fucking country. That's what they deserved. What they got was a thing that I genuinely wish would happen to me right now. I would love it if my house imploded. Is your house underwater?

You know, I was actually thinking about that the other day. He bloated in his waterbed. Like, with how we know that depression is rampant and there's more people that have depression than we'll let on. And which means that statistically every single time a plane has been going down, there's been at least one person on the plane that was like, fuck yes. And like probably audibly, probably audibly. And like I like to think of them like everyone's crying and they're just looking at them

just fucking doing the cabbage patch. Like, I'm fucking, hey, I get to do this. It's not suicide. I'm going to heaven. This is fucking great. So what else do you guys have going on this year? I know these three dates, but I want to know more about the good cop, rad cop life. You're doing spots in Atlanta.

Where can people see you most often? Yeah. I mean, down in Atlanta, if they follow us on Instagram and TikTok, we're always posting our dates and where we're at around the city. Sometimes it's like, you know, you just hop on a show, you know, no, no. real notice. But yeah, we're out here. We come up to chat about once every couple months. We're going to be in Cincinnati in what's September 2nd, baby. September 2nd. Oh, we'll be in Huntsville, Alabama for Epic Comedy Fest. Okay. That's Friday and Saturday. That'll be the 20 first. So like a five-day run there. We're doing. Where can people get the tickets to

Cincinnati? Because we have a good bit of well-readers are from the Cincinnati area. Come see us. I think that's called bombsaway comedy. So probably tickets are probably available at bombs away comedy. Go ahead and Google that. Bombs away comedy in September. Is this a 9-11 theme show? This is Labor Day weekend. Yeah.

No, it's for the invasion of Iraq, actually. We're big fans. One of my favorite invasions. Shockin-aw. Yeah, Operation Shockin-Aw. That's kind of what our band does. Well, if I could. switch back to interview mode real quick, because I am curious. Another thing about, like,

you know, maybe bombing is easier because there's two of you on stage, and it takes you a little while longer to get your chemistry together because you're not a solo person performing. On that note, when it comes to the writing, is it based, I don't know how you all go about it, because everybody has their own thing. Like, for me, I never really just sit down and go, today, I'm going to write a joke. You know what I mean? Like, for me, it's like, I keep a running notepad of little ideas that I have. And then one day I'll go, okay, let me look at all this and see which one that I, but I don't go from just like sit down, write Joe.

So basically, how does it work with y'all? You just walking around, you think of something funny and you just pick up the guitar. Yeah, basically, like a good bit of our song has been written that way. Sometimes we'll just decide we're going to hang out for a couple hours. We'll riff out, we'll play some chords or whatever and just start singing. And usually something will come to us like that. Yeah. A big thing for us is deadlines. So if somebody, yeah, if we have a show where we have to write a new song for it,

that will help us because we'll be like, well, we fucking have to do it. And whether it's good or not, you're kind of stuck with it. And most of the time it's going to be good. It works out pretty well for us. We're generally pretty fun. Like, we're very anxious people. So when we feel that, right. Yeah, we go for it. We put that energy up on stage and like it's, it goes generally pretty well most of the time. But yeah, I mean, when it comes to writing it, we both kind of will take this, you know, we'll write a lot of it together. Is one of you more the melody guy and one of you more the words guy?

Or is it just kind of like, it's just, hey, on Tuesday it was this and on Wednesday it was fucking this. It's more than second, I think. Yeah, I feel like, yeah, we do change it all up on stage. Sometimes Ryan will come up with like good concepts for songs and I can work on like the definition, you know. So like left of my own devices, I can't always write a good song, but Ryan will come up with an excellent idea. And then we can like roll that around in the rock tumbler or whatever. And it usually spit out something pretty bad ass. Yeah, I generally have a hard time getting like an idea going like, all right, where can we take this?

Like where does it start? Like be like, this is what I wanted to do. Well, how do we get the ball rolling? And then Dave will just start rolling the ball. And then I'll just kick it back and forth and be like until we find some of the. And we like the two piece, man. It's very effective. Well, and we were talking about Bob Dylan changing his shit earlier.

And that's a thing that I kind of wanted to get into on the difference between a joke and a song. Because I've always thought about this when like when I would go see like, you know, Todd Snyder or Sturgell or whoever the fuck. I'm like, they do a song. And then like it's kind of, it's, so touring bands and stuff, they have it kind of backwards as comedians. comedians, bands will put out an album and then tour that album, whereas comedians tour and then record an album based on the material that did on the tour. And so with a band, like, if they cut the song, then they go start touring it. And it's like, on the road, someone might think of a better line for the song, but it's like you can't. It was already fucking recorded.

But in comedy, we know that a joke's not really done until you've done it a hundred fucking times. Do you guys feel that way with a song? Are you comfortable with like, hey, let, I know we've been doing it like this, but like, let's change this. Have you done that? Absolutely. We changed the song to our, we changed the lyrics to our closer, not too long ago. And that's a song that's like 10 years old. Yeah. So, I mean, we just. Because it's never done. A joke is never done. We're very, I mean, if we think something's going to fit better or if we just think like maybe this was good in 2018, but now it's not hitting anymore. We'll revise. We'll edit. We don't get it. It's all about like, the experience right then. We want to make sure the audience currently is having the best time possible. And also the benefit of that is like,

we also have a little bit more grace with quiet moments as a band. Like we can tell what lines are not getting laughs. And sometimes that's designed, but then sometimes we're like, man, I wish we were getting a little bit more laughs here. So, you know, we'll just cut that line. you know, if it requires more laughter, you know, we'll just jump in there.

The benefit of writing songs about diarrhea is that there is no ego involved. Yeah. It's not like, that's what my soul said to say. Very rarely are me and Dave just like, I wrote that one. I'm not betraying some influence. Yeah, it's like, hey, if you can top gagging on my dad's balls, go for it. It's like we don't care. Usually the punchline's going to be really dumb.

but um and i think one thing we really prioritize and one thing i think i mean let me know if you're seeing this more i think with tic talk and everything there's more people talking at shows and there's like more crowdwork yes oh my god it's the bane of my existence yeah i feel the same way i think we're old headed i can count and like here's the deal it's a double-edged sword because i totally understand why comedians post crowdwork videos because they're managers have told them, hey, you got to put out content, content, content. And they're like, okay, but I don't want to burn all my fucking jokes. Yeah.

And so they're like, oh, okay, if this happens, then I can put it out and I'm not giving away any material. But to me, what has happened is, and again, it's a double-edged sword. I get it. But to me, it has trained the audience to be like, they want me to talk here because when I go on Instagram, I see everybody talking. And like, so I can't fault the audience as much as I used to. But like before the pandemic, I can count on one hand how many times I got heckled on the well-read comedy tour, not me in general. But like we have a very respectful audience. It's just that after the pandemic, I have noticed they're a little bit more chitch-shaddy.

And I know that it's this. There's no, oh, it's either that or everybody forgot how to behave, which, you know, whatever. I don't think it's that. I think it's TikTok. Yeah. I really did. I agree. Well, one thing we do with that is we don't really do a lot of crowdwork at per se of like where we talk to an individual a lot.

Well, of course, there's two of you. You both got to be on the same page for that. What we do instead is we do these things like we have songs that are kind of designed to get the entire crowd participating in what we're doing. And if they feel like they're sweet Carolines. Exactly. They feel like they're participating or and being active in it. then that desire gets fulfilled. Yeah, I guess.

Right. And then if somebody is talking too much, we'll just shut them up with singing and playing. With the guitar. That's, see, okay, that's another thing I wanted to talk about. Because, like, you know, I'm friends with a lot of musicians, like, you know, musicians like listening to comedy podcasts. So I'm very fortunate that some musicians that I love are past have kind of crossed. And I've always said, I was like, I do feel like one of the advantage, well, first off, I think that music. is way harder than stand-up. I do.

But I also am like, one of the advantages, though, that y'all have is that if the audience is, if the audience is really loud and being crazy, you can just fucking, bra, you know what I mean? Like, you can just do that. And so I'm really glad that y'all have that kind of cheat code in comedy. I would fucking, I just need to get a gong and just keep it up there with me and we just beat it. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you to do that, but if you did that, I think it would work. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, that's a good idea.

You could just get like a fucking, you know, just. No, anytime, any time like a new comic, anytime a young comic will ask me for advice, shut the fuck up. Get a second person and a guitar and he'll talk over you and fucking bull whistle. See, he's doing it to me right now and it's working. I want to stop talking. I'm loving it.

Do you have that soundboard with you when you're on stage? Do you do? No, not yet. We have a keyboard that's actually set up to do some of that, but we have not really used it. Kind of the benefit, where we are right now, as far as the NAC goes, is like, we need to be as easy as possible in book. So it's a guitar and two mics.

You know, we need to be that simple. But given our own, like, headlining stuff, we have keyboards. We have, like, fun things we can bring in. but most of the time we are as simple as possible. It's also where you throw in a second instrument, all of a sudden Ryan is doing 82% of the work. Right.

It's better if we have like a half going on. And here's where the way to incorporate them both. And here's where it's the complete opposite, where I said like when it's a crowd making a lot of noise, advantage musician, but when it comes to traveling, advantage comedian 100% because all I have to do is bring my body.

That's literally all I have to bring. and sometimes it's not even all the way together, as long as I show up in some form. And I've thought about that, like, as much fucking trouble as I've had at the airport just with my body, I cannot imagine having a piano, trusting your fucking whole life to Delta. Are you fucking kidding me?

They don't get, they literally, like, almost ritualistically, it seems, murdered dogs. Just throw your shit. Yeah. Do you think they give a fuck about a guitar? Have you all noticed that... I keep the sky gods happy.

Have you all noticed that your influences have started to change now that you're doing something sort of different in the comedy world? Like, do you now go back and listen to some old Pinkerton and Bowden that you wouldn't have listened to before? Because you're like, well, I'm doing fucking music comedy now. I got to check out the greats. Weird Al, does he come up a lot more? We talk about him sometimes.

I think in terms of like influence. I look a lot more to music than I ever did when I did stand up. Like I'll listen to a radio and I'm like, okay, here's a B-side song. We can make fun of this. Like, just trying to listen to songs that are older that haven't really been like parodied so much or at all and trying to make something out of that.

Whereas with comedy. Yeah. That's what you should do forever is just B-side 60s record parodies that no one will even know it's a parody. So it just seems like you're writing an original and it's like really good. Yeah, right. No, it's not. It's completely legal.

Yeah, I think as far as influence goes, yeah, I mean, I've been more interested in musical comedy. I watch a lot more of it now just to see like what I like and what I don't like. There's a handful of people doing it that I go, okay, don't do, they're doing a good job. There's always a negative. But it's not your shit. But I don't, but I'm like, that's not what I want. do. So it's like if I ever have the instinct to do it and then I see somebody doing it, then I go, okay, I'm glad I got to see the person I don't like doing this so I know that my instinct is off.

Right. You know, so like, you know, sometimes you just watch that shit a little bit. And then, but I mean, there's some, I mean, there's a very, very good comedy music out there. And I mean, there's some great music out there that I, I wasn't to as well that I'm very influenced by. Who are some musical acts that I don't know of that I would be interested in? Because I assume you just know more than me. Like I know, you know, I know fucking obviously. He doesn't have an answer for that. He doesn't.

Like musical comedy acts? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, there's some new ones to it. Just good copy. Radiohead's pretty funny. That's fair. Radiohead is really funny. Fucking, no, I mean, Two Tree Hill is doing some really cool shit. I think there's, uh,

And that's it. You know who I almost, you know who I almost consider musical comedy is the fucking mountain goats? Like, they're not. I know they're not, because they obviously have a bunch of serious songs that are all great. They're all fucking poetic. John is an amazing writer.

But, like, you tell me that no children isn't the funniest song that has ever been written. And I will tell you you're a fucking idiot. like it's so goddamn funny and i'm just like i'm so jealous yeah john prine's like the funniest songwriter there is that's true and and that's so like it's andrew jacks jihad or a jj right but like the only difference is the ratio right yeah like our songs have a high ratio if not exclusive ratio of being comedic if we dipped it down to like 42 percent who knows what kind of band we are you'd be john prime yeah i've always said and then we would never get but like we would

We wouldn't get booked on comedy shows. Yeah, we wouldn't get booked on comedy shows. And so, and that's been beneficial because we mostly get booked on comedy shows. But every now and we get booked on music stuff. We like hanging out with them. Yeah. But it's also really fun. I like doing shows with bands a lot too because, like, oddly enough, I mean, because

I'm not a great guitar player. And I mean, we're, we write fun songs. But like, we're, as far as bands go, we're the worst band on any bill we're on. But people still enjoy it. But bands are. Yeah. You guys are the shit. I wish we had more songs about diarrhea.

And you know what's great that y'all do something that I don't know if it can be coached or not, but you both, like, you sound good. Like you both have good voices and you harmonize with each other well, but at the same time, you sound funny. Do you know what I mean? You sing funny, but it's like, it's easy to sing funny if you're singing bad. You know what I mean? but like you sing good but funny and that is a very very very unique skill uh to do that yeah that's high praise like i said it would be so like if you were to be like oh we want to sound funny okay go up there and suck but it's like no we actually need to have we need to have harmony

and not offend people's ears but at the same time we don't want to be too fucking good you know what i mean like dude fucking obviously y'all don't even come fucking close to tenacious day but like Jack Black, but Jack Black, I'm kidding, you're, you're very close. Hey, buddy. And we all know it. But Jack Black does that where it's like he has a Juilliard fucking voice, but it's somehow funny. Like he figured out like, like you can tell it's a comedy song, even if he doesn't say anything funny just by the way that he, you know, vocalizes or whatever. But like, if Jack Black wanted to have just been in a metal band, he could have absolutely done that.

And they would have been fucking awesome. Yeah. I think it goes back to the hippie shit of unreadable oras where Jack Black just has something about him, where when he's singing a song, you go, okay, he's not taking this seriously. Yeah. And so I shouldn't either. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

He's got a fun aura. He's just got a funny. Yeah. Right. Yeah, like Peaches. Peaches is actually doesn't have really any funny words in it. No. But he sings it funny.

But it's funny. Yeah. But it's funny because he sings it funny. Well, speaking of singing funny, I would love it. if you guys would play us off. I know that you've got to go. So I want to end the show here with you playing something. I know y'all've got to go to the studio.

You were telling me earlier. You got to, you know, get your flights book for the Bobcat show. You got to fucking sign autographs and shit. But if you guys wouldn't mind playing us off normally at this point when we end the show, I sing a little ditty. What do you say? Thank you all for listening to the well-read show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do.

Thank you. God bless your good night. I'm skew. That's a good close-in. I almost don't want to overwrite that. No, no. Give it up for Corey. But now it's y'all's turn. All right.

We're going to do, do you want to do a train of Georgia? Yeah, we'll do two of Georgia. We're just going on. This one's about public transportation. Well, she stepped off the Marta at 305, and from there it was a 10-minute Uber drive, and then she kicked down my door and shouted out my name. And then she whipped out a strap-on big and long, and she said,

This here'll make you write a song. Then she bent me over, put a ball gag in my face. Where are my fellow's at? Come on. She took a train to Georgia, and then she ran a train on me. All right. It was fast and strong, as she chugged along on the track that was on its knees. track. And she took a train to Georgia.

And it was all the rage. And now she keeps my tiny cock in a little cage. All right, kids love this song. It's like chuga, chuga, chuga, chuga, chuga. Chuga. Chuga, chugga. Chugga. It's about a train.

Chugga. Schu. Chugga. Schu. Yeah. All right. We're doing it. It's like chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, shoo.

Chuga, chugga, scoo. Chugga, scoo, yeah. All right. Well, she pulled it down. She said she was done. I said, hold on just a second there, hon. I was just about to come. Just a little bit.

And she grinned her teeth, and she shoved it in. I said, this here might be a sin, but I kind of want you to fuck me until I shit. All right. Kids love it. And she took a train to Georgia. Then she ran a train on me. Hell yeah.

It was fast and strong as it chugged along on a track that was on its knees. She took a tray into Georgia, and it was all the rage. And now she keeps my tiny cock in a little cage. Thank you so much. That was good cop, Brad Cobb. Please go see them with Bobcat Goldthwa in Knoxville, in Chattanooga, and in Charlotte. Thank you, boys, for joining the show. We really appreciate you.

Thank you for having us. What a delight. This has been great. Dude, absolutely. And again, me and Trey's new book, round here, over here, over yonder you can get it right now by going to cori ryanforster.com and pre-ordering the sunbitch also all that will be in the description love y'all so much and we'll see you next week love you skew bye