wellRED podcast - #344 - Europeans Say Dates Wrong + MCU Opinions

Episode Date: November 1, 2023

Trae thinks Europeans are wrong about some stuff, and the boys agree. Drew's time is cut short because his baby was screaming at him, so Corey and Trae put their nerd hats on and discussed some issues... they have with Star Wars and the MCU at large!   TraeCrowder.com DrewMorganComedy.com BonusCorey.com   Check out all the other pods in the skewniverse and pick up Round Here and Over Yonder wherever books are sold!

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Starting point is 00:04:00 Go ahead and sign up. OnlyFans slash Drew Morg comedy. That's my username. I posted for free the first quote-unquote special I put out, which is more like a mixtape. I put it out during the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:04:16 It was just like, I hadn't been posting any clips yet. So this is before I posted any jokes as clips. I posted it like 40 minutes. I think it's 44 minutes. it little half special where it's just jokes that I'd accumulated and recorded in various places over the years. It's never not,
Starting point is 00:04:36 it's never been up and not behind a paywall. And my only fans is free, so it wasn't behind a paywall. Well, they took it down. I put half of it up. I was going to put half of it up again next week, the other half.
Starting point is 00:04:45 And they took it down. And I was like, what the fuck? And then I realized, like, oh, only fans has to verify every person in a video. Right. And in my head,
Starting point is 00:04:55 too, I'm like, okay, well, they should split their divisions. If they want to be a company that has comedians and also porn stars, they should hold them to different standards based upon the content that they are making. Yeah, I mean, was it us on stage or what was the context in which we were in the video? There are kids in the video because in between jokes, since it's like a mixtape, my transitions would be like, like one of my jokes on there is, I'm an uncle, not a parent. Obviously, this is an old joke. I like being an uncle. And as I say that line before I cut to me on stage,
Starting point is 00:05:33 I've got pictures of me playing with my niece and nephews. Nice. So, like, their filter caught it and should have. But what I realized is when I was promoting this, and I don't know if you guys remember this, I promised everybody a pick, if they would buy my special that at the end, there's a picture of you two naked eating banana pudding.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Oh, yeah. So that picture is at the very end. What do I need to sign for only fans to allow that? Right. Well, again, the kids kind of took it away. But my point is like, that I had, like I'm sitting here like, man, they should really do something different for comedians. And then I'm like, oh, wait, I had that little AI robot working overtime. I had nude people eating me and you in the shower, Corey, which, Trey, you were the cameraman, and you didn't get our butts, even though we tried to get you to because you wanted us to be able to be able to.
Starting point is 00:06:25 post it. Yeah, I think I did post it at the time. Yeah, I was, Mike, you did. That reminds me way before that. We made those god awful sketches years ago. We were just like we were out of our minds. The one we made Drew that ends with me and you in the shower together. It also is just from the waist up. There's no dicks or butts in it. I was just thinking the other day about how someone reported that on my Facebook page. And, This is before, this is pre-hit. So my Facebook page is just people I've actually met in real life or no to some extent. If somebody reported that and got it taken down, that just ran.
Starting point is 00:07:05 You ever have that happen? Like this randomly popped in my head like three days ago, a memory from 10 years ago. Yeah. And I was, and then all of a sudden, I'm right back in it. I'm sitting on my couch in the present day going, I think I know who that bitch was. And I can't fucking believe she. Like, I'm pretty sure I know who did it. And I'm still mad about it when I think about it now.
Starting point is 00:07:25 This lunatic conservative girl that I worked with who hated the gays, and I'm sure still does, and I'm assuming it was her. Yeah, Facebook used to, like, they all used to do this thing where it was like, if someone reported it, they wouldn't even, like, review it. They would just be like, well, someone hated it, so we're taking it down. You know what I mean? And then I would go back and be like, whoa, what's wrong about this? And they're like, oh, you know what?
Starting point is 00:07:49 Actually nothing. I'm like, hold on. So just any random human being can just be like, this don't hit, take it off. and y'all just do that? They still do that. Oh, really? Because Instagram doesn't. I don't know about Facebook, but I'm not, I mean, that's what happened to me on TikTok.
Starting point is 00:08:04 Like, initially, when I first got on TikTok, like, you got a lot of people, a lot of, like, very sensitive, conservative snowflakes who, you know, are thin-skinned and can't take a joke, tried to get me canceled from TikTok. Because, you know, they didn't like the jokes I was telling. But all these people would see it and think I don't hit and they would report me. And enough people report you. just like ban you or whatever. Right. At first it's like a temporary ban, and then I got permanently banned for hate speech, and then I had to spend like months trying to get back on there,
Starting point is 00:08:34 and then they finally actually listened. But yeah, all that was was people for whom I did not hit reporting me, and enough people do it, and they just take you down. They don't, you know, they don't investigate for nothing. I thought on Facebook the excuse was this is, like we don't have the technology to make sure wild shit ain't going up yet. So we kind of have to rely on the community. You know,
Starting point is 00:09:02 it was like a painting with too broad a brush in order to keep child porn on Facebook kind of thing. And that now they don't need to do that anymore. Am I just completely wrong? No, I mean, I feel like you have to be right because again, like... But then why TikTok caught up to that? Because I've reported shit on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Their robots are sensitive. I've reported shit on Instagram where they stole the video we made of my nephew and we're trying to monetize it. And it's not work at all. Right. Here's where they got me a lot was that they would tell me, they would take my videos down and say that I was spreading misinformation because they didn't realize that I was playing a character who was saying these insane things. So all their, all their AI heard was like the vaccine was created. You know what I mean? All that shit.
Starting point is 00:09:55 And then, you know, to their credit, on several of them, I would review it and go, hey, I'm not spreading misinformation. I'm making fun of people who do. And sometimes they'd be like, okay, cool. But what sucks is that the video would have been like really taken off and then they take it away. And they're like, okay, it can come back and then it just fucking stalls out. Like, it don't get it anymore. Dude, I had one on TikTok. You just reminded me that did fine on Instagram, but was blowing up on TikTok.
Starting point is 00:10:21 It was about, it was a joke about how ketamine and what was the horse stuff that they were taking? That is ketamine. The dewormer. Oh, Ivermectin. I made a joke about how like Ivermectin and ketamine, the right and the left, both take horse pills in order and they're both going to end up meeting God. It's something like that. It's something about like meeting God because one's going to die and one's. But I said another line in there.
Starting point is 00:10:54 It was like a longer video. It was like it was something about knowing how to shoot. I think I said most these people are dying on Ivermectin though because they're taking too much or too little of it because they don't know how to use the goddamn metric system. Metric system. If y'all were real drug addicts like us on the left, you'd be fine. And that was what got me. It was talking about how to use drugs. The metric system.
Starting point is 00:11:19 It was. Yeah. The metric system. I was like, we're a goddamn American here at Facebook. It was like, you're telling people how to use drugs. And I was like, I guess I am. Like, I guess I actually am telling people how to use drug because I'm, because I said something like, y'all got your milliliters and your leaders confused.
Starting point is 00:11:35 It's weird. I see shit on Instagram. Like, I'll see like a comedian. They'll post a video. And in the joke, they'll use the word, like the word dead will come up. Like, and on the caption, they will change it to something else. Because apparently if you put the word dead, It, like, demonetizes you or something?
Starting point is 00:11:52 Like, what the fuck is... There's all kinds of, man. There's like... Living to hell. Porn. It doesn't matter the context in which you use the word porn. As people change it to corn, you know? Corn stars.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Unalight. You can't say kill for any kind of suicide. They change it to unalive. He unaligned themselves or whatever. And all those words like that are all a result of this algorithm shit. And I don't ever know any of those rules. So I just do what I do and just then my videos don't hit because, you know. I break all the rules.
Starting point is 00:12:21 It's clearly what I do too. You just reminded me, I got a message, and the gentleman tipped. And there's another thing, if you want to fucking talk to me on OnlyFans, you better be tipping. So this gentleman tipped, and he sent a bunch of messages, but he tipped almost every time. And he was like, happy Halloween, hey, seed. And he was responding to some of my posts. Like I'd like to see you do this.
Starting point is 00:12:42 And I'd like to see you do that because I was like, you know, nothing. Like sexual? No, I was like, you know, do you guys, would you guys rather me talk shit about like the world or would you rather me tell stories from my life? Like, I'm going to drink coffee and either tell stories or shit talk, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? The, the highlights. Yeah, what do you call that?
Starting point is 00:13:03 Not highlights. The zeitgeist. The Zichguise, yeah. Headlines. Yeah, yeah. Lord, we dumb. Anyway, that guy is also that. Yeah, it is.
Starting point is 00:13:15 It's a smarter way to say that. You couldn't think of a dumber word for what you were trying to think of it. I offered the smarter word. And so, you know, no part of me was on trial here. Yeah. I just want to say. Like, you're getting defensive for no reason.
Starting point is 00:13:28 We were all done there. And I just, no. Oh, my bad. Yeah, that's not defensive at all. Anyway, he asked me where this scar came from. And I was trying to answer and I couldn't figure out which word it wasn't letting me say. I said, the scar is from where I had a bone. removed to make more room because I had blood clots and I almost died, but obviously it's all good now.
Starting point is 00:13:57 And it wouldn't let me do that. So I kept removing words. I thought it was bone. It just wouldn't post the video at all. It was not a video. It was response to this guy in a message. It had nothing to do with the video. Just the message. Long story short, the word was blood. I thought it was like, you know, I said that happened to me when I was younger. I thought maybe younger was the word. Then I thought it was scar. It was blood. I thought it was bone. Blood. So Army Hammer
Starting point is 00:14:24 has completely fucked up the DM game. Like you can't say you can't even allude to like there's so many reasons to use blood that's not violent. Well and also
Starting point is 00:14:35 we're talking about only fans. Blood is a pretty decent sized portion of the kink community. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Not one I'm into,
Starting point is 00:14:44 but no. Speaking of we got the tongue tight today. Trey, when your kids got the tongue tire removed, did they just bleed fucking everywhere, dude? I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:14:58 You mean like right in the moment? Are you talking about later on after? Right in a moment. I don't know. You might have been at work. No, I was there. I remember being in the office, the medical office,
Starting point is 00:15:11 but I don't know if I was back there like when they actually did it, though. I feel like they took them, took them away and did it and brought them back. But maybe I'm wrong about that. I don't know. They or took him away because Andy was crying, just fucking squalling. Yeah, I don't remember seeing that.
Starting point is 00:15:25 I remember being at the doctor's office when it was done, but I don't remember seeing the actual procedure. I think they, I don't think we were in the room for that, but maybe I'm wrong. Katie might remember better. Might have blocked it out. Well, this is. If I see a bunch of blood, I'm at my baby's mouth, I think I'd remember it. And also I would have, you know, passed out. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Forgot about that. In the moment, yeah. You got a blood thing. Well, maybe I are not. Maybe I are not keep going. I don't know, dude, I cut my finger once and could see, I did not know this, could see the bone in it. I could see my own, I could see my own finger bone. And I, uh, I saw that and then woke up like 90 seconds later with Thompson pulling me off the floor.
Starting point is 00:16:07 I fell into our trash can, knocked the trash up, spilled it everywhere. I felt like into the trash can, knocked the trash can out of the way, and then like knocked a hole in the wall behind the trash can. and then into the floor. And Thompson was like, what the fuck? He's like standing beside me at the sink when I did. I'm like, holy shit. And I just passed out.
Starting point is 00:16:29 I nearly passed out when Bishop was born, like, very nearly. That's calling. Yeah, I was calling, right? Mine wasn't like a, oh, gross, I'm seeing blood thing, but my, like, I was, it was almost like a good anxiety, like I was having an anxiety attack, but not because I was scared because I was like so happy and so like but it was still freaking me out but like I definitely when we were in the delivery room I felt 100%
Starting point is 00:16:55 like Johnny Depp and blow who's just sitting there and his fucking arm locks up and I was like oh yeah I couldn't I could when they first pulled him out they tried to hand into me and I like I need to sit down for a minute because I couldn't feel my arms you know I'm like they said the same thing so I was white knuckling the railing of the bed like literally white knuckling it and just like arms locked out or whatever and they did the same thing and like, hey, you know, come over your dad, whatever. And I was like, I was like, if I let go with this rail, I'm going to collapse into the floor, you know. And then I just had to, you know, whatever, take a minute and compose myself.
Starting point is 00:17:29 But yeah, a huge bitch. So he was, you know, doing that. I think part of the reason this is a little bit of a hippie-dippy doctor because, of course, and we didn't go looking for a hippie-dippy doctor. It's the only one we could find. It doesn't matter. That part of the story is boring. He's bleeding a lot.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And I think part of the plan was like, get the blood to stop and then get him to latch immediately because this is a latching issue. That's the main reason that you get the tongue tie clipped, at least in terms of as a baby, his life. It would probably help with other stuff down the road. So they were trying to latch him. And at one point, Andy looked at me and was like, it was very weird to pull my nipple out of his mouth and it had blood all over it. And in front of the doctor, accidentally, like... I'm just talking to my wife having this intimate moment. I said, and now you know how I feel when we have period sex.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Yeah. Because, and I wasn't even trying to be funny or gross. I am so for period sex if Andy wants to have it. My only thing is I can't look at it. And she's like, she's like, you think I'm gross. And I'm like, it's not gross. It's not you. It's not you.
Starting point is 00:18:42 It also feels, no, it feels like I'm hurt. to look down and see blood on your dick, that's a crime saying. It goes against stuff, right. It goes against some part of your DNA of, like, protecting the people you care about. DMX be damned. I don't want it, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:58 All I was trying to express to her was like, yeah, yeah, you think that I'm grossed out by you. I'm trying to convince you that it has nothing to do with that. A blood. It's some visceral reaction to associating blood with, like, pain, and it's coming out of you. But I said it right in front of the doctor. right in front of the doctor.
Starting point is 00:19:17 I bet the hippie was probably mad about that. The hippie doctor did not say anything. She just said something about the baby. Something about like, yep, let's clean it off and try again, which I should have said. If I was a real comedian, I'd have said, that's what she says. He said, right, yeah. There's been something that has been annoying me the past couple days.
Starting point is 00:19:40 I want to ask you about it. It's got to do with Europeans. Actually, the whole rest of the world. I think I know where this is going. Yeah, but this is, I thought this before, but it just recently got brought up. And of course, I was on Reddit. This whole thing happened. People, all the other non-American Reddit people were like ripping on America as they are wont to do for so many things.
Starting point is 00:20:03 But in this particular instance, it was how we write dates. Okay. Like, y'all familiar with this. Yeah, they do the year first, right? I don't know, not the year. It's just today. It's like 21, the 21st of June, then the year. Almost everywhere else in the world, except us, would write today as, because we're
Starting point is 00:20:25 recording this on Halloween, would write today as 31, 10, 2023, right? Tommy. Tommy trash. 10, 31, 20203, right? And they're like, oh, fucking Americans. Oh, we're going to do a shit, whatever. But, like, I just think the whole rest of the world is wrong, and we're right. Me too.
Starting point is 00:20:40 I agree. I think, I agree, but I think it's. Closer than you believe. How do you say it? Today is October the 31st of 2023. You could say it's the 31st of October. Yeah, if you were trash. Akami, yeah, like you said.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Well, I agree, but there's something you have it you're not thinking of. If you're just talking about units, it is odd to go from the small one to the middle one to the big one. I'm sorry, from the middle one, I mean from the middle one to the small one to the small one to the small one of the big. big one. It's like there's 12 months, 365 days, and then of a year. Like, that's a little weird. I still agree with you 100%. And I've lived abroad and fucked it up before. So like, it's not just been annoying to me. I've been like, fuck, I got to start over. Yeah. Right. But do they, do they also, do they say it differently? Like, if you ask somebody like, hey, what is next, like, what is next Wednesday? They'll be like, oh, it's seven November. They don't say November 7th.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Well, that don't hit. I don't like that. I don't hit it all. I don't like that. And by the way, not always. Sometimes they'll say November 7th, but I don't know if that's because of our movies. Sometimes you got to like realize that like we are actually slowly making the world America. Yeah, which is.
Starting point is 00:21:59 That's the other thing too that pissed me off about Americans on or Europeans on the internet just the other day. They're talking about, you know, how like America, you know, like America don't have culture like other places do. Like our culture is just fucking applebees and whatever else. And it's like you, like, the whole. world is our culture now. Like we export our culture to everywhere. Even our like dumb shit, even our idiots we export to other countries. Look at like Australia's idiots right now. They're just our idiots with that fucking accent. Right. They take, like, we've, like achieved an almost complete cultural victory because of, because of Hollywood and everything. And we're
Starting point is 00:22:37 trying there. And fucking, so shut the fuck up. Like, it's just. But it's not, but shit ain't true. Arguably, that's their point. That's at least part of what's going on with them too. It's like, they're like, stop doing that. Yeah, I will say, y'all don't hit. As far as like storybook goes, like, you know, if you're, you know, reading like, I don't know, Charles Dickens, like, it sounds more storybook to say the 31st the 31st. Then it does October 31st.
Starting point is 00:23:10 So like in that regard, like actually written out, I see the merit. to it, but like saying it to another person just in conversation, ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous. My son just got home from school. He just walked through the backyard and he's dressed as a wizard because it's Halloween. Even though I just said it was Halloween,
Starting point is 00:23:27 I forgot it was Halloween. And so I just saw like what I thought was a crazy hobo or something coming in a fucking in a wizard robe. It freaks me the fuck out. But then I realized it was Benton. Shoot him with a trink dart. So I
Starting point is 00:23:43 I talked about that on stage the other night. I did a show on Saturday. And so Saturday, the kids were out in Halloween. I drove from my house to the comedy store. And obviously I'm doing material about being a new dad. And then I was like, oh, here's a new thing for me as a new dad. Halloween means nothing to me because I no longer have any thought of going out. I didn't know what day it was.
Starting point is 00:24:04 And he's too young to dress up. Yeah. So this weekend. Mine was the perfect age. So like three times this weekend. I had a what the fuck is going on moment last, a little longer than it sounds like yours did. Like, there was this dude hanging out. You never know.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Right. He's just smoking a cigarette in full on the crow gear on Friday. Yeah. And I'm looking at this dude. And I'm like, man, that guy's giving me the fucking, why the fuck would you do that? Like, right. It's 10 at night. And he's just like bothering people.
Starting point is 00:24:38 And then I'm like, oh, that guy's being festive. And I'm an ass. Yeah. Awesome if it was just staying. I was in Boston this weekend and I went to like the north end and, you know, over there where the freedom trail is and Union Street and all that shit. And it was fucking massively packed on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:24:54 And we pulled up and I was like, my, people here are fucking weird. I was like, this really how like Harvard kids dress or whatever because they'd be like a, because like they'd have like a dinosaur onesie on or something. Yeah. Like something like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:10 And like, and like, and I didn't immediately. put that together that it was a cow and then i noticed but i saw a bunch of i was like what the fuck and like some goth chicks i guess were vampires or something but i didn't see like penny wise or nothing right you know what i mean like i just saw those and i was like this and it took me an embarrassing on time i was like oh right it's halloween and then i realized that easily half the people or it's hallelujah half the people were dressed but i was usually going to say like it means to you i actually was going to bring up on this episode because i know cori's already done it
Starting point is 00:25:36 because uh you know he sent us pictures of his baby dressed up as lieutenant dan they made him look like can't got no legs. It was fucking adorable. One of the cutest goddamn things ever seen in my life. Because he's in a stroller. Yeah. It looks like a wheelchair and he ain't got no legs. And it's,
Starting point is 00:25:52 it's fucking hilarious. And I was going to say, Drew, like, yeah, you don't, like, I can't even remember what it's like to go out and fucking get ripped on Halloween. But, like, that's one of the cool things. I still took mushrooms. Parenting is like you, it's going to, all the holidays, you're about to shift pretty hard, or if not all of them, you know, many of them,
Starting point is 00:26:11 Halloween and Christmas especially, in a way, in a direction that, you know, I find hits. Yeah. I've been done. You've been born.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Little, so it's done with my version of Christmas for a while, so I'm real pumped about that. I mean, they already wasn't getting nothing good. I told Katie earlier, like, I'm getting sad about this.
Starting point is 00:26:30 It's been coming up so much for me. Because they're grown. Yeah. Like mine, they're not like, that whole era I'm talking about. Like Santa's gone. It's just about over for me.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Yeah. Like, I think they're going to, We don't even know if they're going to go trick-or-treating tonight. Have another one, bro. And then they, but it's soon. Next year or the year after, you're going to have another one. They're going to be done.
Starting point is 00:26:51 We are probably going to Carpacitori, no. We are probably going to Carrie and Earls, which is what we usually do, depending on how he's feeling. And they hand out candy. So you guys should just do that because I feel like the kids could have funny. And, dude, it's awesome because, you know, the four-year-olds come up and they want you to do Darth Vader with them or whatever. So like, we usually go over that.
Starting point is 00:27:12 We only didn't last year because one of Bishop's friends from school, they had this big, like 30 goddamn fifth graders all like went together. And so they weren't in Earl's neighborhood. Yeah, this was my first Halloween with like, we went to a party that was specifically for basically like, you know, we're adults and we're going to have beers or whatever, but like we're bringing our kids and it's like this is where we're going to hang out. And it was fucking awesome.
Starting point is 00:27:39 know, Bain, like I said, if he had just been born, I wouldn't have gone even a little bit. But he's just at the age where, like, he can crawl around, dress him up was fun. All the other kids dressed up was super fun. And yeah, not for one moment did I miss getting fucked up on Halloween. But again, I will say this, I myself took psilocybin mushrooms because Amber was driving. So I kind of got best of both worlds. Well, that hits. I saw like a meme or whatever.
Starting point is 00:28:07 that was like your four-year-old super socked about his outfit. You have two shots of bourbon in your warm cider. It smells like fall. Halloween fucking rules as a dad. And I got like emotional. I was like, I can't wait to be drunk in a neighborhood. I was thinking about that the other day about how like how much Halloween hits for me
Starting point is 00:28:28 because it's the only holiday that doesn't have anything else behind it but fun. Like I love Christmas, but then you got Christian things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what, you know what I'm saying? Like nobody even, it's not like there's, I'm going to run into a witch's coven who is like, remember what we're truly supposed to be celebrating today? Like, whereas on Christmas that happens. And then on July 4th rules, but then I got to hear people being like, if anyone fucking takes
Starting point is 00:28:57 a knee for that goddamn flag, all right, Halloween is just fucking candy and dressing your kid up like Lieutenant Dan. And I spent all night, by the way, just looking at him going, Lieutenant Dane, I cream and he had no idea what I was talking about but it was a lot of fun yeah well and don't forget that we all have to put drugs in the kids candy that's one of my favorite parts about it is getting together with my heath and friends and just throwing fentanyl into the Snickers bars yeah I'm out I'm out like $2,000 but hopefully I ruined an entire neighborhood of children's day exactly for fun I did
Starting point is 00:29:32 want to tell you guys something that I had forgotten about been meaning to text you all this every time it comes up and then I just not. But I think it's easier to convey on a podcast and over text anyway. There's a guy that I've done some shows with. He's like a rapper and a comedian. And he's got like a lot of followers. He's got a new song out. He's been posting about it. So it's all over my feed. And the song is, I think, called kissing girls or girls kissing girls. I'm 99.9% sure that what this man is doing is he's finding the opening part to black lesbian porn scenes. He's scrambling. He's screen recording them and then posting it with a 20 second clip of his song as if it's his music
Starting point is 00:30:13 video and I have to say this is the greatest move I've seen in a while on the internet and it's but but so it's not the nude part obviously otherwise it would be flagged just like the storyline it looks like this dude has a music video that he has yet to release the full length of that's just a bunch of hot black chicks making out but I'm pretty sure he's just stolen from porn. For the record, that's also how every movie on Tooby looks. So it could be something from Tobey. What, no, how, like, what's going on over there, dude?
Starting point is 00:30:49 Yeah, right, exactly. Like, I wonder at the existence of movies like that all the time, because it's like, I've never been able to get a goddamn thing made. And everyone sets out to make something good. It's really hard to get something made. but then there's all these fucking movies that exist out there that are like comically terribly done and made for fucking peanuts evidently
Starting point is 00:31:15 and are still like, you know, available for people. They exist and people can watch them. Well, we're in that middle ground. You know what I mean? We're in that middle ground where it's like... I make a stupid-ass terrible movie. I guess we're just going to have to do it ourselves. I'm not turning those down.
Starting point is 00:31:32 You turn those down? No, fuck no. I've been a fucking Toby movie tomorrow. Hell yeah. When we were in New York, Andy's mom, she always has... Andy's mom always has suggestions for Andy's career, you know, how to fix it, you know, because she knows as a former librarian in Scott County. But one of them was like, her mom genuinely loves the Hallmark Channel. My dad does do it.
Starting point is 00:32:00 She's like, Andy, you got to get on the Hallmark Channel. And I was like, fuck it. I'll look into it. Some of that stuff's made in New York. Like, I might as well try, look into it. She talked to her agent, and her agent was like, literally laughed at her. It was like, you think I can get you on the Hallmark channel? She was like, first of all.
Starting point is 00:32:18 Has that locked down, boy. She was like, look at the women. It's all people who were famous and they're faded. Or they all, and she was right. They all literally look exactly alike. Exactly the same. And Andy don't look like them. Yeah, dude, they're
Starting point is 00:32:33 They're massively, they're massively popular. And my dad, unironically, like, those are his favorite movies to watch. Like, you know, it's every single one of them, by the way, here's the structure of all of those movies. All right. It is either small town boy or small town girl, right? Comes back home. Comes back home. There's a rich city boy or girl, whatever.
Starting point is 00:32:58 There's some problem that this person has that potentially, only this rich person can solve. It'll never work. Our personalities clash against all odds. They get together. They end up you know, they make the beat juice factory work and then it's Christmas. That's all of them.
Starting point is 00:33:18 The women often leave a man in a suit who's from the East Coast and probably voted for Joe Biden. So I feel like that's part of it for people. Yeah, for sure. I mean, which by the way, you know what, Sweet Home Alabama and the Notebook also follow these tropes.
Starting point is 00:33:34 They were just like knocked out of the park when they did it, you know? Yeah. Was Sweet Home Alabama a book like the notebook? Wasn't the notebook a book first? Yeah, Sweet Home Alabama
Starting point is 00:33:43 was absolutely a book. Here's how good Sweet Home Alabama. That's from a... Nicholas Sparks. He's like, he writes all the books. And he's like the guy. Yeah, exactly. Waltz remembers him.
Starting point is 00:33:55 He's the book. So, you know. Sweet Home Alabama was so good that I believe for a few years that Reese Wetherspoon was from Alabama. Yeah, she's from Georgia, though, ain't she? I thought she's from Tennessee. I think it's in Tennessee.
Starting point is 00:34:11 Her kid is named Nash, I think, after Nashville or something like that. Friend of the show, Sean Bridgers has a gay best friend in Sweet Home Alabama. What? He's, he plays the gay best friend in Sweet Home Alabama? He has a, he has a, Sean Bridger's character in that has a, his best friend ends up being gay. It was a very weird way to say Sean was in that movie. Well, I was just letting everybody know which character he played. I know I fucking love that movie. You know, I'm a reverse Bechtel test.
Starting point is 00:34:45 Right. I'm a big fan of those like early 2000s romantic comedies and shit. I had to watch them all the time and I'm not. Yeah, I love them. Like failure to launch, oh, any day. Terry Bradshaw, give me Terry Bradshaw. Oh, yeah. Give me more bradshall.
Starting point is 00:35:02 I love 10 things I hate about you. Great, fucking wonderful. It's pretty much the only one that hit for me, too, I think, generally. Maybe, I don't know, maybe. My high school and college, early college girlfriend, her and her family watched them all the time. It fell out exclusively. If it was the early 2000s, it has, if it has Kate Hudson or a McConaughey or any of them people fucking give it to me. Because the thing is, like, I watched them for the same reason any dude was whoever I was dating at the time wanted to.
Starting point is 00:35:30 And then I got to go, guys. I may be right back. I may be right back. I'll leave it. and I guess because we got to upload it anyway. Anyways, I would like think like, oh, I'll watch this because they want to watch it. And then it turns out they hit for me, but I never let them know that they hit for me. That way it would just always seem like I was making a sacrifice.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Let me fucking mute Drew for the love of God. He's got the fucking babies going on. There we go. Yeah. Yeah, I never never really hit, never really liked them that much. I was too pretentious for that type of shit at that during that era. because I always, I saw a bunch of them too, also for girl reasons. And I was always, you know, just way too cool for it.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Right. You know. And they're not movies you can go back now and be like, oh, never mind. I would have liked this. They don't really age well. But I had a movie thing written down. I wanted to run by y'all too because it just occurred to me another night. And I was a little high when I thought this.
Starting point is 00:36:29 But like, you know the trope in movies where like, for whatever reason? They show somebody and he's like, they're like mystical and nature. or kind of dark or sinister or something like that, or if not straight up, supernatural, whatever the case may be. And they'll do this thing where they like hold their hand over a lit candle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm talking about?
Starting point is 00:36:54 Yeah, yeah. To show that they're wild. Yeah, it won't burn them or whatever. And it's like, don't get me wrong. That is a wild thing to actually do, like in real life. But in a movie, not so much. But it's odd that it became such. of common trope in movies because it's not like visually spectacular or nothing.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Like it kind of just looks like in the heightened world of movies where you got a wild somebody who can't be burned or whatever. Yeah. Like they need to eat a bird in front of you. A little bit. Yeah, right. Like fucking, you know, like Calisi and season one, a Game of Thrones or whatever. Like that's fucking half.
Starting point is 00:37:27 And walk into an actual burning building. Yeah. Like that's how you do that. Like this is like it's just not that visually compelling or anything. I just thought it. I saw like for the 80th time of my life. I saw a scene where the person did that in a movie the other night. And I was like, and for the first time, I was like,
Starting point is 00:37:42 so they're still doing it. That's kind of dumb looking. Yeah, yeah. Like it is dumb looking. Yep. We've got a bleeder. He's fine. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:37:52 But he's kind of choking on his own blood. So I'm going to, I am going to go. Okay, buddy. I'm going to take care of that. Sorry, guys, but Andy's a little exhausted and so see. That's all right, buddy. We love you. Take care of blood.
Starting point is 00:38:06 All right. all right well there goes drew well what uh what do you got uh you don't like my candle thing go ahead i did like your candle thing then drew came in here with the screaming baby talking about fucking shit bleeding i don't have anything we were having a great conversation and then drew had to leave which by the way drew if you're listening to this i totally understand and not your fault at all i would have done the exact same thing i got one for you can i know you can talk about this we were texting about this the other day all due respect to them and i would love to be involved in any capacity. Don't get me wrong. Not trying to just shit talk for no reason.
Starting point is 00:38:42 But I believe the inevitable has finally occurred and the the MCU, I think, is on its last legs. I'm not saying in terms of commercial viability, I think it would keep making money or whatever. But unless they- In terms of critical success. Unless they make, unless they pull out of this nose dive they're currently in in some way, like they've got to knock something out of the park and really bring it together. some fashion to get it back on track. Unless that happens, I think we're reaching the end of the road because I was,
Starting point is 00:39:15 I was telling you, I was watching Loki. We are currently watching Loki and Loki. Loki is a good show. And I enjoy Loki. Even Loki, one that I actively like, I have issues with it too because I find it pretty fucking confusing. Like almost anything that involves time travel or multiverses or whatever, which is what the entirety of this phase of the MCU is focused around is these inherently
Starting point is 00:39:37 confusing fucking subjects, which is a major problem, in my opinion. And not for nothing, I said it, I said I thought that was going to be a problem when they first introduced those elements. You did. At the very beginning, I was like, yeah, I don't know how that's going to go. And I feel like it's going exactly the way I feared it might. But anyway, while watching Loki, I thought all that, and I was like, and then I thought, but really the bigger sin, or not bigger sin, like, shame of it all is that I realize, like,
Starting point is 00:40:02 I no longer give a fuck. There's no stakes about the MCU. at all. Like, I was so heavily invested in the first, you know, the, the end game saga, like, whatever, how many phases it was that culminated with Thanos and end game, fully invested, love that ride, hell of a ride, historic ride, cinematically. And you knew it was going to be a hard act to follow, but they're just, I mean, they're just not pulling it off.
Starting point is 00:40:28 Like, I don't, this current phase, I'm not, I just am not into it, really. I don't care. You sort of said this, but I want to say it again, too, which is like, all due respect because, like, I don't see how this couldn't have happened. Like, if you hit that hard, it's going to fucking happen. But like you mentioned earlier, like,
Starting point is 00:40:47 unless they really come out and knock something out of the park, I would argue that, like, they did that with Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and it still ain't mattered. Like, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was fucking awesome. But whatever, but we look at that as like, oh, well, that's throwback stuff. Yes, that's
Starting point is 00:41:03 the conclusion of this chapter. Yes, exactly. That's what I was about to say. The difference there, they did knock that out of the part, but that feels like it's an epilogue to the first era of the MCU. Because it kind of is, right? Right. So it don't feel like it's part of this new current era, which to me feels pretty directionless and also all over the place. Like, I don't really know what the fuck is going on and they've done so much and they're all trying to tie it together. And I don't know how to expect everybody to watch all of it, especially when so much of it is like mediocre at best.
Starting point is 00:41:36 And like, you know, I know how this is going to sound, you know, because I'm sure there's going to be a whole lot of girl power in it and whatnot, which I have no problem with. But like the marvels, like, I just don't give a fuck. I could not possibly care less about that movie. But I don't think that's, like, I don't think that's even close to like a woman's thing or like, I know the, like, because I'm full, like, okay, I'm not like, there's, there's plenty of people who were like literally read every comic.
Starting point is 00:42:04 They fucking go to all the conventions. they're way more of Marvel nerds than I am. But I'm far from like a casual fan. Like I do know some shit. I do read the comics and stuff. And me, right, who makes up not as big of a percent as what you need for like a global market of fucking, you know, film audience. I don't know what I'm supposed to be that excited about in the Marvel's movie. Because like, dude, with all the other ones like you understood, like you're like, okay, well, like in this one, you know, there's Ultron.
Starting point is 00:42:36 and ultimately it's going to Thanos. But like you said, right now, they're all sort of just pieced together. And like, that would be, listen, it would be cool if they just said, hey, all right, we're no longer doing like, there's no phases. We're going to kind of do what Batman is always done. And we're just going to make standalone movies, right? I'd be like, well, that's really cool.
Starting point is 00:42:57 But they try to do that. They're like, okay, here's the marvels. Like, yes, you don't know who they are, but that's fine. You have to learn eventually. but then that movie will contain all this shit that if you didn't watch this, this, this, this and this, you're not going to fucking understand. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:43:13 So, like, I'm, again, I don't know what the fuck's going on. And people, they've sort of trained the audience to be like, you kind of need to know what the fuck's going on. So, like, I'm predicting, and I hope it's not, like, dude, I want everything that's good and has good people working in it to succeed. But, like, there's probably about to be some pretty rough box office numbers for this Marvel shit, if I had to guess.
Starting point is 00:43:36 Yeah, I agree. I think that like, and then you add in the fact that and this ain't, this is not their fault. And also, I don't know how they're going to handle it. But like, you know, the next Thanos. The Jonathan Majors was going to be King played by Jonathan Majors, who it turns out apparently likes to beat up on Wemmerns and whatnot, it seems, allegedly.
Starting point is 00:43:56 What's the latest with that, by the way? Like, do you know, like, are they just trying to like let that, the heat die, let that run its core? Is he still like, part of the, you know, part of the MCU. They haven't, like, fired him or nothing yet. They definitely haven't fired him because I would have 100% heard about that. But, like, you know, there's, I think right now all it is is allegations and shit.
Starting point is 00:44:17 But, like, it's not a good look, you know what I mean? Especially when, like, it'd be one thing if he just, I don't know, if he was just a character that, like, oh, well, you can lose him. But, like, no, they very much, in the first season of Loki, set him up as, like, this, the new big bad. A lot of people were speculating like, you know, he's Kang the Conqueror who also in another life was Victor Von Doom and like, which got me fucking pumped because I was like, dude, if you're going to follow Thanos, it's going to have to be with like Von Doom or some shit like that. You know, they're already talking about bringing the Fantastic Four back. Right. Well, that's the other thing too. Like, they got the Fantastic Four back. They got the X-Men back. But like, what are they, what are they going to do with, like, surely they're going to use the X-Men and the MCU, right? but like, do they even know?
Starting point is 00:45:04 Like, when is that going to happen? And the whole thing might peter out before they get to that point and whatnot. And I don't know, I don't know if I think it's like superhero fatigue, which people have been calling for for a long time. There's a lot of that. I have it.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Yeah, but I feel like if it was, like, hitting, though, I feel like the bigger problem is that it just don't hit as hard as the other movies did. Right. I think if the movies were still smashing, like, quality-wise. Right, we don't get football fatigue as long as the games are hitting. Right, yeah, exactly. No, I'm with you, but like, it's a real big bummer because, like, so much of what makes the X-Men cool in the comics, like, you know, if you're a comic nerd in any capacity, you know that the X-Men, like, were actually active in the Marvel Civil War, like, which the, and they weren't allowed to do anything with them in the movie. Now, in my opinion, Marvel Civil War is still one of the best movies they did. I fucking love it. Like, they pulled it off even without the X-Men. But I guess what my
Starting point is 00:46:02 point is like if they if the marvel universe right now has to be like okay we're still in the world where tony stark is dead and all this shit then like the x-men aren't going to be able to live up to their full potential so to me as a creative like if i'm just looking at it from creative i would go all right guys reboot like let's redo let's fucking just all that was one thing kind of like how they do with batman like we got a new batman now You know what I mean? We're fucking doing this new thing. Because like, if you, if you fucking just go, we've got the X-Men,
Starting point is 00:46:39 which are one of the greatest properties of all time, but then you throw them in just with all these, the scraps that have been left over after end game, it's like a discredit to how fucking badass they are. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, man. I mean, I think that, like, you know, they, DC, like, I don't know, DC, like, Batman's kind of its own thing.
Starting point is 00:47:00 It is. And I like it. Yeah, me too. And they also at D.C., they do those else worlds, they call it, right? Like, like, Joker, right? Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah. And were there more than that, or they plan to do more of those or something where it's like they're just other totally separate standalone things that, you know.
Starting point is 00:47:22 It's like this is in a different universe. Like the Matt Reeves Batman and the fucking D.C. Batman are two separate things. If you're pitching what I hope you are, which is like I wish Marvel would do. some shit like that. I do wish Marvel would do some shit like that. Like you if y'all want to have this universe continue and go on, that's totally fine. But like let other great direct, like let Robert Rodriguez come in and take a shot at like an Iron Man standalone movie. You know what I mean? Yeah, that would be cool. I think that like, you know, they, it's the other, it's also a problem that any kind of like any good TV show runs into after a while if it's not based on like a book series or
Starting point is 00:48:01 something so there's already a narrative in place for it like you know you got to keep raising the stakes right and it's like of course and with superhero movies especially when it's like how many different times has the whole goddamn universe been saved or whatever and it's like the stakes are just so insanely high ostensibly except you don't really give a fuck about them at the same time and and but also it just gets so shit just gets so wild you know like and they kind of just the whole the beast kind of gets away from them, I think, eventually. You know what I mean? They kind of lose control of it or whatever.
Starting point is 00:48:36 And what you said earlier about time travel, like, it makes that problem grow exponentially because you've introduced not only time travel, but you've introduced the multiverse, which means that anytime these people want to, they can make a death not matter. They can just make a death completely not matter. Like, oh, well, actually, yeah, we did see that person get killed, but that wasn't on Earth 619 so it doesn't matter or hey you know what we can travel back in time and save them from actually doing it so not only do we not have a thanos out there we also now like dude back when when we saw fucking you know black widow get killed the reason and tony stark get killed the
Starting point is 00:49:17 reason that it heard is because we knew that that motherfucker wasn't coming back like this is they're done like that's over but now with all the multiverse and shit like i don't trust that to be a thing like i don't trust of course not I mean, I feel like that's why they did it in the first place. And yes, it does cheap and all of it. Yes, that's the problem. Right. Yes, that is one of the main problems with all that time travel multiverse stuff is because it takes us, takes away from everything.
Starting point is 00:49:41 Because in some other universe, that never even happened at all. Right. And they're still totally alive and everything's fine. Or like you can undo whatever. So it's like nothing ever really matters. And it's like, I guess they were always kind of going to end up there because like it's comment, you know, in comic book shit, nobody's ever really dead. But in like the comic books, like, you know, know, they got to keep those
Starting point is 00:50:01 storylines going for like, fucking a hundred years, or whatever. Like, you know, with the same characters. So they will eventually end to run. Right. And then they'll, yeah, but I'm saying, you know, whatever happens, and you should have to look at them as self-contained stories, I guess.
Starting point is 00:50:17 Agreed, but like, they kind of have, with all this multiple. They have an overarching canon, though, don't they? They do. They do. Right. They do. They have an overarching canon. And the main one, I believe, is Earth 619, or whatever, but like, okay, let's make this fucking multiverse actually work for us. Instead of looking at it as, well, we're looking at it and we can see all of the multiverses and therefore if something
Starting point is 00:50:41 happens right here, it doesn't matter because we can go over here. Why don't we then start having independent movies that take place in a separate universe, but have their own stakes in that universe self-contained? Do you know what I'm saying? To where like, hey, this is an alternate reality. this is a new Tony start, but we're not going to fucking, we're not flirting with the idea of, we can always go to this multiverse. Like, just show us that world. It's a way for, you don't have to recast Robert Downey Jr.
Starting point is 00:51:12 reboot the whole thing. It's just that guy was, he looked different in this fucking universe. So do that. Have a completely different Spider-Man. Let Matt Reeves direct that motherfucker. And like, we all know that it's happening within the Marvel universe. It's just, this is going on on like a parallel timeline so you can get away with it. yeah yeah they uh they ought to or bring you in for a consultation well and here's the thing
Starting point is 00:51:37 obviously when it comes to the money and shit the Kathleen kennedies of the world and all these like they know better than me and you what they ought be doing just from like a money aspect you know but like i'm not always 100% convinced they are still people they are still people i think like i mean like we i mean like we i mean like we i mean like we i mean like we i mean like we I mean, you really think that, so Kathleen Kennedy, she's the Star Wars woman, right? That's right. So, like, you really think that she maximized the profit potential of this later phase of Star Wars? No, I just say that she's better than me.
Starting point is 00:52:16 If it had hit, if it had hit, it would have made more money. Of course. You know, and she's, like, she's in charge of making sure that it hit. And, you know, and she's on the record ever since it's saying, like, they had no larger plan or long-term vision for it. They just started making the movies, which is one of the most insane things. That's such wrestling, carny, horse shit. Yeah, you're talking about Star Wars. It's a multi-billion dollar franchise that you're bringing back.
Starting point is 00:52:42 It's a massive deal. And it's just like literally unfathomable to me. Also, people in charge of something like that, something that big would go into it with no plan in place. But they've admitted to the fact that they did. It's so crazy. Like, how, though, like, this is a. franchise that like not only do millions of regular people care about but there's a ton of creative geniuses that care a lot about it that would have loved to been entrusted like just go hey hold
Starting point is 00:53:12 in just second no no no i swear to got like there dude let's take patten oswald for example you know pat and oswald you go if i guarantee if you told pat and oswald you're you're in charge of a team for star wars but it's going to take 10 to 12 years of your life can you commit he'd go fuck yes Let me do it. Let me hold the instead of them just going like, well, JJ wants to do this and blah, blah, wants to do this. I promise you there's enough creative geniuses who would have the respect to take that and go, let's think of a long-term goal. I'm here for the fucking long run, but they didn't. They bounced back and forth to do that other shit going on, which like, I totally get it.
Starting point is 00:53:51 But God damn, man. Like, if it's the money, like, you can, dude, you can hold so many people hostage with a contract. and they'll gladly do it. Yeah. I'll do it. The way the goddamn, the primary sequel trilogy played out in terms of like, it's unreal, man.
Starting point is 00:54:09 J.J. Abrams came in, basically sort of just like soft rebooted a new hope. Like there was so many similarities in parallels. Not basically 100%. Right. But, and that was super fan service here and whatnot. But that didn't, like,
Starting point is 00:54:23 that didn't not hit for me. Right, exactly. It was literally hopeful for everybody. We're like, oh, wow, they're in the right direction. And then they bring in Ryan Johnson who hated that. And like undid all that. It was like, I'm going to do a whole other completely different type of thing. And it's like, I respect the balls required to attempt something like that.
Starting point is 00:54:42 Right. But it did not work really. And then because it didn't work, then they brought back Abrams. And he was like, okay, I'm just going to undo everything he did. Right. And basically start over again in the final movie. The final movie that's the culmination. of like four decades of fucking cinematic storytelling,
Starting point is 00:55:03 and the most popular franchise of all time in the final chapter, that's what we're going to do. It's just, it's so, it's such a cluster fuck, dude. And I'm sure not coincidental since they're all under the same parent company, but like it's the same problem with fucking the MCU too. It's where like, hey, a lot of these ideas are totally fine.
Starting point is 00:55:24 If we're talking about a standalone movie that doesn't have to connect to this thing. But like, when you call something, episode 7, 8, and 9, those things exist in the same fucking universe and need to make a little goddamn sense. Like, like, am I just like, am I stupid for being pissed at J.J. Abrams
Starting point is 00:55:46 for being like, I'm out. I'm going to, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, how the fuck? It's fucking Star Wars. This shit not mean, anything to you, motherfucker. I mean, I've always been astounded at people. Like, he was given,
Starting point is 00:55:57 both Star Trek and Star Wars to reboot both of those franchises. That is nuts, dude. It's crazy. And I can't imagine, I just can't imagine being at that level of hitting where it's like, that's just the job that you have right now is doing either of those things. Also, for what it's worth, I don't know how you felt about them or whatever, but I always liked the Star Trek movies because I was never a big Star Trek. I'm not a Trekkie.
Starting point is 00:56:25 Trekkies don't like them because they're like, this ain't. really Star Trek. Well, I don't even really know what that means because I'm not a Trek. And I was like, okay, well, that aside, they are movies that hit for me. And my son's like those movies too. So I thought he did pretty good with those. But hardcore fans very much disagree. So I don't know. I kind of fall somewhere in the middle because I like Star Trek the show more. And I totally understand what they mean by like, that's not Star Trek or whatever. But like two things can be true at the same time. I just looked at it as a fun space movie and I think Chris Pine is very charming. I like him and fucking anything. But like, I mean, yeah, it was, yes. Oh, was it different than
Starting point is 00:57:05 fucking the 1960s goddamn, you know, Lucille Ball produced television show that barely had a budget? A little bit. Yes, it was a little bit different than that. I agree. But like, it was fucking fun as shit. But like, you know, but the Star Wars thing, though, as you said, like all of Star Trek, like Star Trek episodes, they're literally episodes, they're episodic. So like, there's nothing you can do in one of the movies
Starting point is 00:57:31 that is going to foundationally rip apart what Star Trek was. But that's not true of Star Wars. That's not fucking true of Star Wars even a little bit. Like, I don't buy in when people go, like if someone covers a song and they're like, oh, they ruined the original for me. I'm like, well, you're a fucking child because you can still go listen to the original.
Starting point is 00:57:51 And I think of that. terms of movies when they remake them or like, you know, like, oh, I didn't like dumb and dumb or two, therefore it ruined the first one. Well, you're a fucking child. So I still love the original trilogy, but like they did as much as it was possible to do to try and somehow retroactively ruin the first three goddamn movies by making none of this bullshit matter. By making the fact that Luke, or Darth Vader throws Palpatine down a fucking well, oh,
Starting point is 00:58:18 it didn't matter. He was just down there on a goddamn, you know, fucking respirator. and shit was totally fine. Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. Also, I'm supposed to care about this scarface motherfucker, and now you're telling me that he is telling this bitch that her papal was palpeteen the whole time. Like, make it make sense.
Starting point is 00:58:38 Why? What the fuck does it matter? How does it service anything in the goddamn story? Also, if I may, we've seen enough Skywalker's. We can just stop. If you're going to do anything else, go back to the fucking High Republic. The comic books are fucking amazing.
Starting point is 00:58:54 Let's leave this world for a second. Nothing has to have anything to do with Dark Vader. There's so many other fucking Jedi and Sith stories that could be told. You're tethering yourself to something, but then while sitting there tethered to it, don't give a fuck about it. So quit. Yeah. No, you hunted on all that. I haven't read them, but I've always read that, I've always heard that there's like, you know, there's tons of novels and stuff.
Starting point is 00:59:22 out there and the Star Wars extended the Universal, the EU that they've had for years in the form of books. The throne shit. Right, all that. And I've not ever actually read any of it, but I've just heard so many people say, like, that stuff is great. A lot of that stuff is so awesome. It exists already.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Just make it. You love IP. You're obsessed with IP in every other regard, and then in your most valuable franchise, you're like, no, fuck existing IP, we're just going to throw some shit at the wall instead. Like, it's insane, dude. It's so. sense, dude. Yeah, because episode 7, 8, 9, now again, like, as you said, I understand why when
Starting point is 00:59:59 7 came out, JJ, it was like a, I understand why they'd be like, okay, this is, this is what we should do. But then, you know, everyone kind of has to agree. But like, yeah, if they had just done 7,8, 9 and it had been like a Thrawn trilogy, which again, as you said, was already written, was already a New York Times bestseller, was already beloved by the community, they could have just done that and it would have been fucking awesome you know but no no that would hit i would hit tray where you're going to be this weekend phoenix on sunday uh not only am i doing a show in phoenix on sunday night but i am going to the nascar championship uh race which i feel like a major fraud about because i have no clue who's in it or or anything about the context of it but i'm bringing
Starting point is 01:00:46 our boy brice producer brice i remember him from early in the podcast uh or early in the podcast's Life Cycle, producer Bryce back from the dead, huge NASCAR fan. He's coming with me at the invite of NASCAR itself. That's right. Yeah, your boy got called up. Somebody over there thinks I hit. I'm not going to say their name because it might ruin their career because they work
Starting point is 01:01:07 for NASCAR and I'm a huge queer and all that. So it's not a lot of, like it's not a collaboration. It makes too much sense when you think about it. But I'm honored to be there. And yeah, but the show is that night in Phoenix. Then the following weekend is Chicago. and then I got San Francisco coming up,
Starting point is 01:01:23 northwest Arkansas and Nashville, and that's it for 2023. You can also, you can get all that at Treycrowder.com, where you can also find a link to our book around here and over yonder. It's funny. It hits for people.
Starting point is 01:01:32 If you want to hear us read it, then don't go to Treycrowder.com. Use your audible credits or just go on audible and get the audio book because that hits, perhaps harder, I would say. I'm not going to be able to out redneck you here, because you win with the NASCAR thing,
Starting point is 01:01:48 but I do have to at least try to counter with. I got invited to the George Dickel Distillery for a night of a private concert and private tastings of some whiskeys that they haven't even released to the public. So it's pretty fucking cool. You can't come see me at it. But I just wanted to, I had to say, like, I get to do a redneck thing too. I'm also doing something that hurts. But I'll be in Nashville with Trey December 14th through 16th. Also, Asheville, December 28th.
Starting point is 01:02:20 I'll be at the Grey Eagle with our buddies Good Cop Radcop. And, by the way, those of you who already follow me at bonus Corey.com, you know, but in case you haven't gone over there, the epic conclusion of Colonel Cornbread and the case of the Confederate Ruby. You get to find out who done it, where they done it, and why they done it, baby, over at bonus Corey.com. And we're working on a new audio drama for you. So all that, listen to putting on airs. And thank you all for listening to the well-read show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we got to go.
Starting point is 01:02:55 Attune the next week if you got to the do. Thank you, God bless you. Good night, and skew. This episode is brought to you by the new book, Round Here and Over Yonder, written by author's Trey Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester. That's ya boy. The book is out now. I would like to thank everyone who did the pre-order,
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