wellRED podcast - #379 - The Return Of Caleb Synan!

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

This week Trae and The CHO are joined by the hilarious Caleb Synan (Co-host of What’s It Called? Available wherever you get your podcasts!)   The boys talk a bit about ear worms, Corey fills everyone in on his visit to the hospital with his father, which leads to a discussion on Papaws not wanting to go to the doctor…then they talk about babysitters whipping asses, spanking your kids, gypsies curing warts, and the impending takeover by our AI overlords (as it pertains to the art world!)   Thanks for supporting our Sponsors over at:   LectricBikes.com   RocketMoney.com/WellRED   *BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!* TONIGHT Wednesday Feb 21st at 7pm EST Puttin On Airs is celebrating its 100th episode by LIVESTREAMING on our Youtube page which can be found at WatchPOA.com …. It will also broadcast on all of Trae’s social pages!   March 2nd The Buttercream Dream will be making his in-ring wrestling debut in Chattanooga, TN at a Royal Rumble/Fundraiser for a good cause… tickets at SCIwrestling.com   For more on Caleb, go to CalebSynan.com   Trae is on tour! Go get your tickets at TraeCrowder.com   Catch Drew on the road by going to DrewMorganComedy.com   BonusCorey.com is where you can find Corey's silly stuff!   Check out Puttin On Airs, Gravy Baby, and Weekly Skews!

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everybody it's Caleb Sina and look at that hell yeah it is he's been sitting here for 10 minutes while we do ads and stuff I'm not saying it's funny if I was like let's talk about communism for an hour and a half how about that yeah if you guys have been listening for a while you know Caleb he's been on here before but it has been a long time it's been a long time dude I was so pumped

when you all said we had like three pre-rolls I was like oh shit I don't know I don't know this all these fancy podcast terms yeah yeah but no I've been trying to get you on here a couple times where we couldn't get the schedule to line up. Yeah, yeah, this is George's own. That's right. Very, very, very, very funny guy.

And we've all known each other for years and years at this point. Dude, it's so long. Yeah. Doesn't everyone else we know, remember when we all met, you know, back in the day? Everyone looks like shit now. Except us. Except us. Well, yeah, right.

Three of us look the same, but maybe people look like shit out here. Yeah. Well, you know, I have looked like so many different shades. of shit over that intervening intervening decade or whatever right now I'm kind of in between shit shades sort of but Corey we're I was actually

talking with my wife about this last night because we saw a young bald man right on a TV show and but Corey's like you know Corey unfortunately went bald very early in life but the upside to that is he looks

basically the same age forever and will for it's like the Patrick Stewart effect Patrick Stewart has looked the same age for like 50 years. Well, Corey's going to be one of those guys. So, Benjamin Budhole. You looked, you were always funny, but you did look worse 10 years ago. He did, right? I know.

It's weird. What did you do? What are you doing now? I got money. That's basically it. Trey, can I finish your, can I finish your thought from three and a half minutes ago? Well, I don't remember where, what I was. Without a dope beat to step two.

It's been killing me. I know. Well, Caleb sat down before we were rolling and he was like, damn, do I feel like it's been like 10 years? And I said, yeah, it's been a long time. I shouldn't have left you without a dope beat to step two. And I actually, I did want to do y'all have anything? Like, I have, there's certain phrases that if I hear them or say them, it's like a

compulsion, like at least internally I finish the song lyric or whatever it is. Hot blooded every day. Somebody goes, it's hot. Hot blooded. I can't help it. I don't like that song, but it's in there forever. Nice. That's just, okay, so it's not just me.

I'm trying. It's even just like, got, and I'm not, I barely know who Jack Harlow is, but somehow Jack Harlow got on my list, and it's literally just, God damn, if I hear it the right way, it's like, goddamn. And then my brain goes spending money at the club like Sam's. Yeah, yeah. She's a little freak on cam. And then I can stop after I do that.

And I, you do it Jack Harlow is better than Ben Shapiro doing wet-ass pussy. I'd love it to. At least there's that. It makes me so happy. Yeah. Cho, do you have any of those? Do you do that? I definitely got a lot of them.

I can't, like I feel on the spot right now and I can't think of them. I probably have a million of them. There's a lot I have that I don't actually finish the actual lyrics, but I've got like parodies in my mind. Like if someone goes, ooh, ooh, I go, Jackie Drew, because that was my buddy's mom. and every time we'd see her, we'd go, ooh, ooh, Jackie Drew, because she wasn't hot.

So it was like a, it was, you know what I mean? It was like ironic. Oh. So did she get that? But this poor, nice lady understand. Okay, all right.

Yeah. I don't know. There's a bunch of them. My girlfriend's name is Jenny. And when your girlfriend's name is Jenny, you got to deal with everyone on earth going, Jenny. Yeah.

And I'm like, it's a little problematic, you know? Just to constantly be like, hey, do you have AIDS? It's just like, jeez. Leave my girlfriend alone. I'll match you a couple other questions about her. Are you ever fooled by the rocks that she's got? And also, where is she from? Is it the block?

Oh, okay, not the block. Okay, yeah. Judy from Grace and Georgia. She is not from the block. Yeah, all right. But I don't know. Oh, that's one. If someone goes, damn, and Amber does this one,

if I go, damn, Amber goes, I wish I was your lover. She does that. Yeah. I thought of Amber because you were talking about horrors with AIDS. I just not realized that. Which is lovely wife. I'm always talking about horrors with AIDS.

Mother of his children, horrors with AIDS, good topic. Speaking of Corey's family, I don't, you probably, years ago, did you ever meet Corey's dad? Corey's dad's around sometimes shows and shit. Are you going to tell the story, Corey? Because I've been waiting with baited breath. People in audience don't even know. So you've never met his dad, but, you know, his dad's a. How would you describe your dad, Joe?

He's a sweetheart. You remember the movie, a Goofy movie? Yes. You know, Goofy's friend, is it Pete? Yeah. Goofy. He's like Pete, a big glute, except for instead of a cigar, it's a big gulp mountain do and a hostess cake that is his vice. Yeah.

And he's wearing a T-shirt with Ronald Reagan as John Rambo on it. Okay. Yeah. Now that is kind of a cool shirt. Yeah, shirt. I love my dad. Obviously, he's my dad. But yeah, he's that guy.

Well, he's had some health issues since about 40 years ago. Oh. And most recent, like, he's had two heart attacks. It's his favorite thing in the world. Like, the guy fucking loves having heart attacks. And so much so that, and we've got another buddy, my, I guess he's my best friend, but we call each other like God brothers, because, like, his dad's my godfather, my dad's his godfather.

And they both love having heart attacks. And we started calling the hospital. We just call it Mimos for short. It's called Memorial Hospital. We're like, hey, you going to Mimos this weekend? I bet Dad's going to be at Mimos, you know what I'm saying? It's like, hey, fucking loves having a heart attack. We get free subway up there if we punch in again, you know?

And so anyways, mom calls me a couple days ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mom calls me a couple days ago. She's like, hey, we think we're about to, your dad's back. have to go to the hospital. I'm like, okay, you know, what's fucking new? Whatever. And she's like, I'm just letting you know. And I was like, okay, fine. So anyways, mom calls me again. She's like, you might have to get over here. And I was like, oh, shit, you know, what's going on? So my

sister then calls me. And she's like, and I'm going to have to edit some of this out because I do love my dad and some of it I don't want to say. But there's some hits in here, I promise you. So anyways, my sister calls me crying because she, She's been in the car with my dad because, now this is a really funny part. Dad had been feeling bad that morning. So he's like, I'm feeling bad. I'm going to go to the doctor, like the dock in the box, you know, just the place you go and they give you like a Z-pack or whatever and a steroid shot. I thought you're going to say the ice cream parlor or somewhere like.

I was going to the barbecue pit. I need to go to Hardee's. Usually cheers. Yeah, hearty's. Can't miss breakfast. That reminds me my godfather one time. He went to the doctor to get, he had to get like a physical or whatever, and he was getting his cholesterol checked. And they were like, sir, we might have to take you to the emergency room right now.

And he's like, why? And he goes, did you eat anything before you came in here today? Because if you didn't eat anything before you came in here today and these are your numbers, I don't know how you're alive now. He's like, oh, oh. No, I forgot. I did have something to eat this morning. He goes, what did you have? And he goes, I had a steak and cheese biscuit.

And he goes, he goes, is that all? And he goes, oh, no, I had something else. And he goes, what was it? And he goes, I had another steak and cheese. Just a couple of balls of hot dogs, you know. So anyway, dad goes to the doctor because he's feeling bad. he gets to the doctor, tells them he's feeling bad, they check him, they tell him, you have COVID, right? Wow.

And he believes them. He believes that he has COVID. But then he gets really short of breath, and he kind of starts nodding off. So they check his oxygen, and his oxygen is to quote them, critically low, right? Not good. No, boy, no. You need oxygen. Which my dad doesn't understand.

I don't know why I said that, but he doesn't have any good oxygen. Oxygen, no good. and they go, sir, we need to call the ambulance or take you to the emergency room right now. And he's like, no, I'm okay. I'm going to go home. And my sister's with him. And they're like, sir, sir, your oxygen needs to be here. Now, it can be here.

But yours is it here. And for our audio only listeners, I'm pointing at a place that it's not good for your oxygen to be. That's where my dad's oxygen was. And he goes, I ain't going to know. goddamn hospital. And my sister's like, Dad, they're telling you to go to the hospital. He's like, oh, what do they know?

And she's like, Dad, no. Who knows? Who knows? If it's not the doctors, who is it? Yeah, right. And she's like, Dad, you were feeling bad, so you came here for them

to make you feel better. If you don't believe what they're saying, why did you even, you know what I mean? Like, why didn't you just stay home and listen to what kid rocks said? Was it to like, Was it to like shut your mom up or something? Like was he confident they were going to be like,

ah, hell, she don't know shit, you're fine. You can go home? No. Like that's what he thought was going to happen. It's like getting a note. Yeah, right. Can you say my wife's a bitch? Yeah.

And write that down, please. I get to call you a bitch twice a day. Doctor's orders. No. No, because like, it's weird. It's the duality of my dad, right? It's the duality of my dad because I've told you this a bunch. Like, my dad truly will be like, man,

you listen to Kid Rock's latest stump speech. God damn, I'll tell you what, that guy, he really knows what he's talking about. But then the other day, like, while we were at the hospital, my dad's like, you know, I've got to tell you, I've been watching Barry. And I think that's my favorite television program that I've ever seen in my life. And I'm like, what the fuck? Like, who are you? So, anyways. Kid Rock and Barry.

Where was I? Oh, right, right. So, but my point, he was feeling bad. And he, I guess what it is is that dad just thought, like, they're going to give me a shot and then I'll be back at home working. But when it was like, you're going to have to go to the hospital, he was like, I don't want to do all that, right? Now, I'll give him a little bit of a pass because how he started acting between this point

and a couple hours later, his oxygen was so severely low that I don't think he was thinking correctly because he was saying some wild shit. Like, he seemed like someone who was about to run for president. Do you know what I'm saying? like he was just fucking, I mean, he was saying some stuff. So they, but they tell him, they're like, well, my sister goes, call the ambulance right now. They're like, we can't. Like, we, as long as he can physically say, I don't want to go, we can't do that.

And they said, but we can strongly suggest that you drive him home, right? So Kirby is telling, she calls me, tells me all this stuff. I go, Kirby, you just drive him to the hospital, just drive him straight to the fucking hospital. And she's like, he's fucking being mean to me and blah, blah, blah. I was like, beat the shit out of him. He's got two bad knees. He's 100 pounds overweight and he can't fucking breathe. Like, your daughter could whip his ass.

You know what I mean? So anyways, she's like, no, I'm just coming home. And I was like, well, I'll come over there then. You know what I mean? So dad's sitting there. They've got a thing to check his oxygen at the house. It's worse when he gets to the house. So now I got to call him.

And I'm like, dad, you're going to the hospital. And he's like, I ain't fucking going to no goddamn hospital. I don't give a fuck that. You know, he's not saying. that's where they really kill you. But it's like, it's the subtext. You know what I mean? So anyways, I finally go over there and I'm like,

Dad, you can either go, I can either call the ambulance right now and they take you to the hospital because your oxygen is bad. Or I can call the ambulance and they take you to the hospital because your oxygen is bad and you have a head wound. It's up to you, which one it is. Because he was just talking.

some wild shit. Well, finally, like, about just the world and Mexicans and stuff, or like about you and your family. Was it like talking about, you know, I don't know why ever had kids. What the fuck? Like, while you're trying to get him in the car. That's the thing about my dad, though, is like, he don't ever say racist shit. And he actually, like, my dad, this is a crazy thing. I've talked to you about this a million times. My dad is the reason that I turned out to be as left-leaning as I am. Like, my dad has always been a super open-minded guy. Like, my dad detested

racism was always super open-minded. And he would never say, he never says bad things. It's just that he'd be voting for the people that do. Right, right. It's like, and there's going to be people listening to this that go, well, that's just as bad.

I'm not disagreeing. You know what I mean? Again, I'm just speaking on the duality of the human being here. Right, right. So anyways, he, I'm sitting there and I'm asking my brother-in-law, who is a fireman, I'm going, I asked him straight up. I said, hey, what is the easiest way to knock someone like my dad unconscious without killing me? You can ask him. I asked him this.

Because I was like the only, because I said the only way we're going to get him there is I will call the ambulance and then he's going to be unconscious when they get here. But I can't accidentally kill my dad because I have a child now. And Lloyd's like, it's not worth it, man. You know, and I'm like, all right. So dad falls asleep. And everybody's like, what if he don't wake up? And I said, all right, here's what I'm going to do. So I went and got his, he's got a little finger thing that checks his oxygen.

I don't, I genuinely don't know how that works, but it works. So I put that on him. And every five minutes, I just went in there. And as long as it was staying steady, I was like, we're good, right? And my theory was, I said, maybe if he gets a little sleep, When he wakes up, he won't be his ornery, and he'll want to go. Well, I'll be goddamned. That happened.

He took like a 30-minute nap. He woke up. He wasn't feeling good. We told him what his oxygen levels were. And he goes, I think y'all need to call the ambulance. And I was like, holy, dude, I was like I was on Mori and I just found out I wasn't a father. Like, I was running around the goddamn house.

It would have been real funny if at that point after that whole ordeal, if you were like, well, I mean, I could just take you. We don't have to call that. it's like $2,500. You know that, right? Well, I wasn't paying it. It's just down the street. Well, the thing was, though, his oxygen, because Lloyd was there as a fireman, his oxygen was so low that we were worried that something was going to happen in the car on the way up there.

You know what I'm saying? Like, it was so low that we were worried that, like, on the way up there, something would happen. And he would need the attention. And we weren't because it was fucking, like, the machine was beeping like, bitch, why y'all at home? You know? Is he like blue or anything at this point? No, he was his normal shade of like fluorescent tube. Yeah.

Well, see, any dad's listening to this are going to go, see, I'm fine. You can live without oxygen. All right. Corey's dad can. For at least some amount of time. Yeah. Is your dad, is he like that? My dad won't go to the doctor unless one time he slipped a disc in his back and he was just

sleeping. He was just literally laying. on the ground for like two weeks. Yeah. And we were like, you should go see a doctor and he's like, ah. And it's like there's no way they're going to have pseudoscience for your, like, right. You know what I mean?

It's a back. Right. They're not going to. I don't know because I haven't been, but I've heard that pseudoscience for your back is just called chiropractor. Right. Or whatever. But like you've got an actual doctor.

I think it's a little different. I had during and at the end of COVID and stuff, I had a bit about this for a while. It was like, I was so shocked at first that people weren't listening to doctors during COVID. but then I started thinking about my own life experience. And I was like, I don't know why I'm at all surprised. No man in my family has ever listened to a goddamn doctor, like ever. And science was hard.

Like now, like, we got to be on the left and like love science. But it sucks. Like, it always kicked my ass in school. Yeah. There were labs. Fuck labs. Yeah. But that's why you trust people who were good at it.

Right. You know what I mean? I don't think I know shit. I just always felt like for my like papal and stuff, like, I feel like my grandpa my dad both, both, you know, pretty long since dead and both, I think, at least would have lived somewhat longer had they gone to the goddamn doctor, you know, before it was way too late. But they're also going to the doctor in their neighborhood. Like, my granddad's doctor would just make shit up.

Yeah, that's true. You just make shit up that I'd look it up. Nobody agrees with it. Yeah, right. He's just a country doctor who's like, well, just put on it on it. Pigs are like. Just moonlight graham. Yeah.

But I always felt like it was like you can't have nothing wrong with you if you don't go to the doctor type thing. Do you know what I mean? It's like. And just believe you're fine. I'll be fine. You know, but if you go to the doctor, he's like, no, you're not going to be fine. Now you can't act like you're going to be fine. Well, I've had it.

I kind of am still like that. I like the gambling aspect of it. Like, I'll be like, should I go to the doctor? This hurts. And then it three days later stops. And I'm like, I don't know what that was. The check engine light goes back off. Right, right.

And I love. I'm like rolling the dice. I'm like, I'd save some money there. Right. You know, that would have been something, but I want to see how, I want to see how strong I am. I want to see what I can do, you know? Maybe that's what it is too. That's what I'm saying. Maybe we're just like, we also are all just like that, you know. I did have to go, I went and got a wart frozen off. I had a wart on my face, and I was just like,

but do you ever have something frozen off? No, but I had an old gypsy babysitter named Minnie Eva Dolworth, who, you used to rub people's warts away with her thumbs. Okay. Yeah. She also, you could also pay her for child care with food stamps because that was before it was on a card, which is, that's how my mama did it. That's how I got to stay at the daycare slash trailer, illegal daycare slash many-even's

trailer. That's all true. Beat your ass, mom. Yeah, yeah, I don't, I didn't have, at three, I didn't have any warts, but that was like her side hustle was like people with warts would come to her trade. What a side hustle, dude. trailer slash daycare and she'd rub them

and do some like redneck gypsy incantation or whatever and thanks to Biden's economy we all got a side hustle rubbing warts off the kids yeah and dude she used to also I had a bit about this years ago too back when we met I was probably talking about her because like she was like 65

350 pounds you know never drank anything but Diet Mountain Dew from a can with a straw always wore a moo-mo-mo right yeah dude And she would whip your ass, right? And not just whip your ass, but like make you go pick your own switch and that whole thing. Oh, yeah. Dude, where do switches grow?

I don't even see them anymore. Right outside many of his trailer. But it's not far away. Whole bushels of switches out there. But anyway, you make you pick your own switch, all that stuff. And when I was in high school, I was telling this redneck buddy of mine about it. And I called her my babysitter, which she was. We all called her grand.

Granny, Granny, right? But I mean, she ran this, like, again, illicit daycare.

So what is that? That's a, a nanny. It's a babysitter, right? I called, I said something about my babysitter

whooping my ass, right, when I was a kid. And Kobe, my buddy was like, your babysitter. He's like, if my babysitter

tried to fucking whip me, I'd have showed her what's what. I was like, yeah, well, my babysitter was a 350-pound

woman named Mene Eva Dolworth, and you wouldn't told her a goddamn thing. You're thinking of yourself. as a six-foot-tall adult now. Like, if you have a babysitter, you're not tall.

And he's picturing like a 15-year-old who's on the phone with her boyfriend or something. You know what I mean? While an inappropriate, all-rated movie plays and that type of shit, you know, but no, she would, she was called blood. Dude, everybody was allowed to beat my ass when I was a kid. For sure, that's what I'm saying, yeah. Like, if you were just standing near my parents and they needed to do something, they'd be like, whoop his ass if he does anything. Right.

Yeah. What'd he do? Nothing. I just don't want you get out of practice. Y'all's school, like, you have teachers that had, like, paddles on the wall. Yeah, you can get paddled. Had names and shit. Or they, like, they treat them like, fucking, like, G.I.

Holes drilled in it. Yeah, their rifles or their helmets and shit. You know what I mean? Yeah, drill holes in it, tape it up. Fucking, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Exactly, exactly. That's how they treated it. Shit was wild, dude.

Dude, it's crazy what I think. It's not that long ago. Now, now everybody's, like, blown away. Like, I'll, sometimes on stage I'll just be like, who got spanked? And, like, no one will clap. Right. And I'm like, are there no Mexicans in there? This is Los Angeles. This is an L.A. Trow. It's so weird.

Your mom, I know you got hit with a sandal at some point. But yeah, in the South, I think it was just different. It's everybody got hit. I don't know, even had, I didn't even have friends that didn't get spanked. Like, nobody's everyone got, dude, spanked. Right. Beat.

I mean, borderline beat. Yeah. Well, you should have been acting up. My parents didn't. beat me, like, call child services beat me, but I also wouldn't call it just spanking. It's somewhere in between. You know what I mean? It's somewhere, because, like, spanking is like, yeah, what they do at the school.

That's, like, kind of sanctioned. It's a pop. Beating is, like, leaving bruises and stuff. But there's an in-between where it's like, that was personal. That had nothing to do. That had nothing to do with justice. You know what I mean? I remember seeing a movie when I was a kid and it was about a mom.

And the mom goes like, whenever I had to spank, I would like, I would always take a break. I would eat some milk and cookies and calm down because I never wanted to hit my kids when I was mad. And my mom muted it and was like, I'm not doing that. I was just like, thanks for that. You might get away with that shit then. Might come to my senses. Yeah, it's like, I got to get something out. Well, dude, on that note, because, you know, you're a psychopath if you hit your kids and you're calm.

Yeah, I agree. That is kind of worse. but I think that's probably that lady's point is like... Right. But anyway, I used to always say, like, as an adult, but before I had kids, which that's a pretty small window for me because I started early. You got after that. Yeah, right.

Yeah. So at like 23, whatever, I was... If this shit came up, I would be like, hell yeah, I'm going to whip my kids. Fucking everybody, everybody I knew got whipped. I turned out fine, that whole, like, classic white trash thing. But then, like, I just actually had them. And when it was, like, on the table, immediately, I was like, I was like, I don't. this is fucked up.

Like, I didn't even have to like... Yeah, I'm not doing it. That's what I'm saying. Me neither. And I know it is cultural and generational. It was a different time and place. All that is true, but it is still wild to me because... I'm not mad.

I'm not either. I'm not either. And I think it's funny. But like, as somebody who has kids... Well, there's other ways to punish and make your kids afraid. Yeah. You know, you can take the things they love away from them. Waterbortem.

Like their mother, leave their mother. Never come. them back. That'll show them. Tell them they suck at baseball. You know what I mean? I have this with my niece and nephew sometimes. Sometimes we'll be playing and then my sister will like, they'll get in trouble.

But then we'll all be punished. Like she'll be like, all right, no more PlayStation for today. And I'll be like, well, what did I? I didn't do shit. Yeah. I'm an adult. Oh, dude. I've had numerous fights of my wife over that because it's like, I'm the one playing

the Xbox. Like not the idea. She'll be like, yeah, but they can watch you and it's taken. And I was like, you know, you ain't, you ain't my mama. You know, I'm doing this like in front of them. Like, you can't take my Xbox privileges away. And then I just don't get laid for three weeks. That's how it goes.

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funny things because Caleb is our guest and I don't want to take all the time away. But so we get dad to the hospital, right? We're in there and we're trying to figure out, you know, exactly why it is that is oxygen lows, what's been going on. They do this x-ray on. on him. They're trying to figure out if it's something wrong with his heart because, you know, he's, he's had several heart problems. And anyways, they find out there's a lot of, there's a lot of fluid on his lungs, which, like, can be caused by COVID, but they don't think that it is necessarily. And one issue is, um, he should have, they should, he has a pacemaker, right? And how a pacemaker works is like they, it alerts your doctor and stuff. Like, they've got, all these Bluetooth shits hooked up to it. And it like, it should have been sending an alert and stuff that his oxygen was going and his heart was out of rhythm and stuff. But see, the thing is, is that a few, I guess a couple months ago, there was this beeping

noise that had really been driving dad insane in his room. And so he went and unplugged the thing that was beeping, which was. his pacemaker receiver. And the reason that it was beeping was because his pacemaker was dying, everybody. His pacemaker was dying. It's like

your smoke alarm going off and you walk out and there's smoke everywhere and you just hit it with a fucking broomstick to it. Shut up the fuck up. It's three in the morning. And then you just go burn to death in your bed after that. Oh, man. So I'm going to skip right to the end,

but please know that I'm editing a lot of great stuff. And I'm only editing it because my father is still alive. I'll tell you the rest of it when he's dead. Anyway. Emergency podcast. On alert on our phones. Anyways, towards the end of our stay, well, I stay with him mainly all through the night.

my mom couldn't because she had become ill with COVID. And she had to go on. So anyways, I'm there. And it's like 9.30 at night. And I got to get home to my family, fearing that I now have COVID, of course, which I didn't. So the doctors got the results back of the fluid on his lungs. And, well, and I hadn't told you this, Trey,

the reason that he had so much fluid on his lungs, and I shit you not, they'd been asking him about his diet and all sorts of stuff, and they asked my mom what he drank all day. And of course, he started lying, and then my mom had to tell him exactly what it was. He's on all these Lasix and stuff for his heart, which make you retain fluid, right? the reason that there was on there was so much fluid on his lungs and on his heart is because he drinks two gallons of Milo's diet sweet tea a day. I swear to God, it's going to sound like bullshit, I swear to God, when you were like, so they got the test results back from the fluid on his lungs, I almost went, this is just sweet tea. And by the way, that's why his oxygen levels were low.

The only reason that he was in the hospital is because instead of drinking water, he drinks two gallons of fucking diet tea a day. He was like drowning himself and diet tea. Yeah. He was gurgling tea. He was gurgling tea sponsorship. You think Milo's going to be pissed? Hell, maybe. Maybe.

Give him a sponsorship. Yeah, he's still going. Yeah, right. He's still going. Good enough to almost kill yourself with. You could have two gallons a day. That's the limit, I guess. Yeah.

So. And he, of course, this is where I. I get it from. He got really fucking defensive about it. And he was like, well, the goddamn pills they give me make me so fucking thirsty. What am I supposed to do? And everyone in unison went, have a cup of water, dickhead.

Yeah. You drink water? You drink enough water? Because that's nothing to I don't think anyone's ever drink enough water. Right. I mean, I try to. I'm a pretty big water. I go hard with the water. I do too. But I also want to enjoy my life. What's another like Southern generational thing? I feel like, like I said earlier by that

baby's granny, many, she'd never drink anything but die at Mountain Dews. People just... Oh, dude. I don't think I saw someone drinking water until like 2009, maybe. I don't know how you lived like, oh, dude, we'd go to church. It would be just, it's all, they go sweet to your Mountain Dew. You'd be like, oh. Is there a water time?

Which one's the blood of the Lord today? Yeah. Now roll the kids down to Sunday school. Dude, and at school, you know, they'd be like, well, we're doing our big test, our aptitude test. Everybody line up for your Mountain Dew so that you focus. Or warm milk. Yeah, yeah, milk and mountain dew. Yeah, like, there's no water at school lunch.

That's not a little suspicious. Oh, yeah. Two cartons of chocolate milk. We got Fruitopia out of the ass. I love that shit. Oh, me too, dude. That was good. Oh, man.

Does that still going? I don't know. I haven't heard of Fruitopia in a long time. That's a shot. I said that too. You've been keeping up with Fruit Topia. Aggressively. But it's not.

Yeah. That Butterfinger Bebees. He's just waiting on the day. Oh, dude. To come back. Man, this podcast is getting me riled up. Okay. Speaking of which, it has nothing to do with nostalgia or any of that.

But one thing I wanted to ask you about is where you're at mentally on the coming AI Overlord situation? Because have you seen the videos this week? Puppies, right? The puppies in the snow? Everybody's upset. SORA. SORA.

There's a ton of videos. It's not just the puppies. He's in this people walking down streets, city streets at night and stuff, like human beings that look photo realistic. Prior to seeing all those videos, anytime the AI stuff come up, I would always kind of downplayed it because I would be like, I was like, dude, it ain't good. It's not actually funny. Like, if you tell it to write something funny or whatever, it's like, it's not that good. It ain't good enough to replace us, whatever. But then I saw that shit this week and I saw people in the comments talking about it.

you're like, you know, a year ago, it was like this garbled, like, fever dream looking version of Will Smith eating spaghetti, you know, like it didn't look real at all. That was one year ago. And now it's this. In five years, you'll be able to feed this program a whole book series. And it'll produce like an HBO level fucking production of whatever book series you put into it and all this type of shit. And I think my edible had kicked down when I was reading all this at like 1130 night or whatever.

but it was the first time that I got like, I got really freaked out about the whole thing. I'll tell you this. I've never made a correct prediction in my life. Sure. And I've never really been right about anything. Like I remember when Trump ran in 2016, I was like,

there's no fucking way, this piece of shit. And then he did. And then when Biden ran, I was like, ain't no way Biden's beating Trump's crazy ass. You know, and then he did.

And I just don't know anything. I remember when Instagram came out, I was like, nothing. This is bullshit. And it's like, I just, I don't know anything, but I also think the key to, especially music and movies, is the audience either consciously or subconsciously, most of the audience needs to kind of want

to fuck somebody involved. All right. You know? Yep. Yeah. Like in Dune, they're like, throw Timothy, throw some people, people want to fuck in this. Yeah. You know, there's no singers, no one wants to fuck.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, there's no popular. I just don't know if it can, you know, I don't know if it could ever get more. You know how... Bro, in Japan, they're already trying to fuck computer programs and stuff. There's always going to be people fucking weird stuff. Robots, yeah.

There's always been people wanting to fuck robots. But I don't really think it's going to... I don't know. Because, like, Madam Webb, right? Yeah. I went to saw Madam Webb, laugh my ass off. One of the best nights that the movies I've ever had. It's such a piece of shit.

Yeah. But that's only because you're like, well, I can't believe someone came up with this and this this happened and got promote. Holy shit. And it's like, if AI's good, who cares? And if it's bad, who cares? Like, really, I'm sure there's going to be a amount of people who are like, ooh, I'd rather watch AI.

But it's like, I don't think real people are going to give that much of a shit, you know. But do you, I, sometimes aware that it'll, they won't give much of a shit in the other direction. Me, like, part of me, it's like, tell myself, it's like, no, they, even if it is subconsciously, they'll be able to tell what, however cheesy you want to put it, it don't have. of like a soul or whatever. Like it won't be as good. It'll be like soulless,

a fucking mindless entertainment. And that hits for some people, but plenty of people will be like, this is horseshit. I need something that people will get bullied. Somebody like Quentin Tarantino did or whatever. I tell myself that, but then I'm like, I don't know if it is good enough.

Maybe they'll be like, ah, let all the funny people eat rats. Like, I don't give a shit. I think it'll be a thing where like in high school girls will be like, oh, doesn't that guy like watch AI movies? Yeah. And it'll be like, You can't get laid.

Can't get late once people find that out. Well, you, I almost said before I asked you, I was like the reason I wanted to ask you is because I feel like you always have some kind of take on whatever we talk about. Then I'm like, oh, yeah. Because, like, that happened when we drunkenly talked about badees once years ago.

Oh, man. Before, yeah. And you were like, you were like. At the chicken place. Yeah, and San Jose. I believe. And you were like, yeah, paper plane. That's what it's called.

And you were like, you're like, well, dude, if you had some poop on your arm, you wouldn't just take a piece of fucking paper, just wipe the poop off your arm and then go about the rest of the day or whatever. And I was like, oh, my God. It's more like poop on your belly button. Like there's shit and you just go,

like, no, you're going to take a shower. You got shit in your belly button. Yeah, so, and I, when you brought a mingo, it's like a lot of art or whatever is based around people wanting to fuck someone involved. Right. It is something they can't replicate. Well, I mean, again, dude,

but you know the fuck bots are coming to, and they're going to put AI in a fuck bot. And, dude, we've been talking about that for a long time. Sign my ass. Well, on the dot. Deadline, my dad. Kat Williams said in one of his recent specials, he was like, ladies, get your pussy game together.

Because when these robot bitches come out, it's curtains for you, you know, or whatever. So true. You know, like, I don't know, man. All this talk, like, has really been, like, what y'all just said about. I don't know, who am I to say, whatever. You know, I've been reading a lot about old Hollywood lately and reading about all the people like Douglas Fairbanks and all the people who were like big into the silent films and they were in the, they were like the founders of the academy. And to read their quotes when like talkies were first a thing and to hear how they were talking about movies with sound. And they're just all going, oh man, this is such a phase.

It's so stupid. Nobody's going to go for it. Don't worry. Because all these other stars are like, oh, my God, this is going to be a thing. We're not, all of us, silent stars are going to be gone. And they're like, listen, it's really no big deal. I promise you. Everybody's worried about it right now.

And so I talked this mad game about like, yeah, this AI thing, it's going to be for some people. But I'm worried, like, are we doing the same thing? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, and also, like, I saw somebody else point out that something hadn't really thought about. It's like when AI first started getting talked about, like, you know, a lot, however many years ago, five, six years ago or something. The assumption back then was like, it was all like self-checkout shit and stuff. The assumption was like, no, it's all right because this will replace jobs that nobody wants to do.

We've got to find a way to take care of those people that would work those jobs. And that's when people start talking about UBI or whatever, putting all that shit aside. The assumption was it would AI would automate shitty menial jobs, right? So you can focus on what you want to do. but instead it's like coming for the jobs everybody wants to do. Or like the dream jobs are like the first on the chopping block or whatever, which is another thing that I hadn't thought about. Like it, you know,

it's kind of, Uno reverse card situation. I don't know, man. Yeah. I mean, I'm not losing sleep over it. But the only thing I'm qualified to do other than this is to like work as a checkout boy.

So like I'm going to have nothing to do. Who's going to be listening to an AI podcast, you know, or going to see an a, like you want to watch an AI stand-up special? Stand up, stand up especially. I really feel like everybody knows stand up is best when you're physically in the room. Of course.

And I just, even with a Tupac style hologram that looks photo realistic, if the dude ain't real and it's all, I just don't think that's going to be the same for people. I think it might replace, like most, I looked it up because I couldn't believe this shit. Hollywood makes about 700 movies a year.

It's about 700. Just Hollywood. And how many of them are good, 15? Yeah. maybe. Right. So it's like it might replace the bottom hundred. Yeah.

I could see, but who gives a shit? No one's even seen it. Like those gas station movies were like, who the fuck watched that? Right. You know? But I don't know, maybe. But I don't feel that threatened by it because it's like most standups already made.

Because you weren't going to be in any of the movies anyways. Right. Right. Yeah. Doesn't matter to me. But it's like, it's already the lowest. I feel like stand up is just such a low, you know, people's art or whatever. that I don't think it's also like tickets for a stand-up show it's not like you're shelling out

Taylor Swift right you know what I mean it's like go to go to the stand-up show don't go see the AI comedian who gives a shit right yeah well I hope you're right speaking of the bargain bin movies there's another thing I wanted to ask you all about I feel like every comedy podcast on earth has devoted at least some time to talking about Stephen Seagall right so I'm not gonna like we don't have to it's well-worn territory we don't have to rehearse any steven seagall talk I was just thinking the other night again while a little high Do we have our own current pop culture, Stephen Seagall? Because I thought of somebody.

I know I'm putting you all on the spot. I got thought. Okay. You got one? Corey, you think of like... I mean, Alex Jones has a lot of those qualities, but he's kind of his own thing. Right. Yeah.

He's not like a movie star. Who are you saying? Gerard Butler, buddy. Gerard Butler? Dude, he's in nine movies where the president is kidnapped. Yeah, right. None of them are good, but I've watched them all. He's in a movie called Plain that came out last year.

It's called Plain. No snakes, even. No snakes, just plain. Just plain. And he's just, he's churning him out, dude. And they're all the exact same movie. They're all the exact same amount of not good and not bad. Liam Neeson does the same thing, though, bro.

But I feel like Gerard Butler, I've seen him in interviews and stuff. I feel like he has some self-awareness about that. And also, he's kind of funny and self-effacing and whatnot. Steve, Seagall takes even. Stephen Seagull is fat and beats up kids. So the person I was like, right, right. So the person I thought of is not in the movie world, but I still think he's very analogous. I think maybe it's DJ Calid.

Because, oh, because, right? It's so serious. It's like, it's because like when he first became a thing, like Stephen Seagall, people are like, this dude must hit it something. Right. And then gradually over the years, more and more people are like, does this guy hit it anything? Like, what does this guy do? why is this guy a thing? And he take, he, he's totally unaware of all of that.

He takes himself incredibly seriously. Oh, dude. Like, he, you know, he thinks he's like a defining artistic talent of our time. And at least when Kanye does it, you're like, okay, there was one point where he was a genius. I'm just crazy. Right. It's like with DJ, you're not doing, you're not breaking ground doing crazy shit. No.

Unless he steps on it. You just getting like the best rappers on earth being like, you guys should do something together. Right. I'll yell another one before he starts. And he's like, and he just walks around talking about how he doesn't eat pussy. It's like, this is a weird brand you got going on. Have you seen him on the golf course? No.

No, but I saw him on the jet ski. He got lost at night on the jet ski. He got lost on a jet ski. Yeah, and like the Miami outside the port of Miami and the sun was going down. He started to freak out and stuff. He was like filming himself on his founding. He obviously survived it, you know. Can you imagine being the person that found DJ Call on the jet ski?

Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. He takes the, he'll have somebody film him on the golf course and they'll take these like insanely too long videos of like his warm up and then like him lining up his putt. And then, you know, not very, not a very impressive put at all. And then he'll make it and then pick up the ball and then like walk over to the camera and just look at it and then just go, gatorade.

And then just walk off or just like something like that. And just, like, it doesn't have to be Gatorade, but just say something stupid and then just leave. Oh, dude. Now, I didn't even know about this. This is great. The fact that there's more DJ college shit I didn't know about. Do you ever see him with Bob Marley's guitar? No.

I don't remember why they obviously regretted it immediately. He probably donated some money or something like that to some kind of Bob Marley Foundation or something. And so one of Bob Marley's descendants gifted him one of Bob Marley's guitars. I'm sure you had a bunch of guitars, but, like, gift to DJ Kelly won Bob Marley's guitars. Pretty sure it was Bob Marley. This was a few years ago.

And they're filming him doing it as this grand gesture. And he's like, I appreciate it. And he starts to, like, strum it, but it's like a four-year-old. It's clear, like, he knows nothing about how a guitar works. He's just, like, butchering twinkle, twinkle, little star, whatever it is. They're all just, everybody's standing around awkwardly,

and you can tell it's, like, in his mind, he's like, just like I drew it up, you know? Like, crush that. Or have you ever seen him on Hot One? I'm saying like I'm like, DJ Khalid, like connoisseur. I didn't even, I thought I was a fan. I don't know shit. So Hot Ones.

Right. I know about Hot ones. Okay. His episode of that is widely regarded as maybe the worst one because he quits like three wings in. But not only does he quit though, he gets defiant about how that don't make him a quitter. Or he was like, no, I'm not quitting. I'm stepping away from this shit or whatever. You know, and Sean's like, okay, but that is quitting, though.

Oh, I'm a quitter, dude. Yeah. I am a quitter. Every day I quit something. Me too. It's weird that people just want to change definitions. Yeah. It's like...

People are so stupid about that. Like, there's some things that, like, you absolutely should quit. Yeah. Yes. You know what I mean? Well, that's what I used to say about smoking is like, I ain't no quitter, you know? Yeah, right. It's fine to quit.

It's a word. It's in the dictionary. It's a thing you do when it's not going good. Uh-huh. Quit. Right. What the fuck? I mean, if something's your passion,

Well, yeah, there's times when you, you know, I'm a quitter and a liar. And people hate, oh, you calling me a liar? Yes. I'm one, too. Drew used to have a whole bit about how, like, sometimes it was, like, the whole idea of honesty is the best policy. And he was like, no, it ain't, not always. He was like, I was a public defender. He's like, you should lie.

You know, that type of shit. But, yeah, the quitting, you said, unless it's your passion, I feel like every comic on earth would agree that, like, especially on the come-up when you're starting and over the years you run into plenty of people that you're like you're like

you really should just quit and you know I'm sure many people thought that about me too but you know well dude the way I was raised is you have to try everything

I tried baseball I tried football basketball I tried everything you could try quit them all and I quit them all I quit basketball because I didn't enjoy it

right like my coach my coach was like what do you mean he's like what do you mean? You're just going to be a quitter. And I was like, I don't have fun doing this. It's a waste of my time. I don't like it. This isn't war. You'll get better. You'll get better if you play. It's like, I don't want to get better. I will get better at a thing that I don't, I like watching it with my friends. This is pointless.

Someone's got to quit. Everyone can't play this. You need people in the stands, you idiot. And also, I get drug tested during football. I don't want to get drug tested the next season. Yeah. Don't you know those people that like, and we don't want to say their names, we could, but uh, that have done stand up for like 20 years and have not gotten funnier or better or even like risen up beyond where you're just like, wow. Okay. Okay.

They're still doing the same. It's like, it blows my mind. I'm like, is no one we had you on our podcast and here you go. I used to especially working at like side splitters in Knoxville. Yeah, yeah. starting out some of the people that would come through there that were like, you know, like old road dogs and stuff that at least were like, they were working at clubs and whatnot, but you could tell that it was the same actor, at least largely, even having never seen them before, because they've got like fucking OJ jokes or whatever, you know, that might be an hyperbolic. So Michael Dukakis. Yeah, maybe not quite that bad, but very, you could just tell it's like they just, you know, go all over the place living out.

I talked to a club owner in Florida, uh, who told me, Jamie Morgan told me that he's like, I saw a comic. he came through and he used to do this bit about how he's like, don't I kind of look like Kadafi? And he was like, you know, it would kill. And then the joke stopped working. Yeah. But he never stopped doing the bit. Yeah.

He would just be like, huh, the crowd's weird tonight. And then when they killed Kadafi, the joke started working again because people remembered what he looked like. And the guy was like, hell yeah. And he's still doing it. Yeah. He's like, he's been doing the joke 40 years. Yeah, that's to say, at this point, Gaddafi's been dead for, surely it stopped working again,

I would imagine. But I've seen people do their OJ jokes. Like, you can tell it's a 30-year-old OJ joke. And they're just like, well, I don't know. I guess people still know who he is. I'm just like, man, you got to, that is sad. I just start, like, I start hating my own jokes. If they get too old, and, like, for me, too old is to my own detriment sometimes.

Yeah, no, I shouldn't give it up. No, I agree, yeah. If you haven't even, I've got some right now. Like, I'm hoping to record my shit relatively soon. And I've got some. They're like 18 months old. or something like that. And it's like,

I want them to be in the hour when I record it, but I'm getting tired of them, though. And it's like, no, I need to stick it out with these because I know I want them to be part of it, but it's like,

that shit just happens. I mean, I guess it doesn't happen to everybody, but it happens to me. Like COVID jokes are some of my favorite, because sometimes I can tell I'm like, oh, that's the newest joke they wrote and it was the first week of COVID.

Yeah. When they haven't updated it, and you're like, ah, shit. But yeah, it's like you can't, I wonder who's done a joke the longest, you know. I got to, I have an answer, I almost brought him up. I'm only going to drop this guy's name because he seemed completely above board and like

up front about this. He seemed totally unapologetic about it. But I listened to Marin's episode with Gary Mule Deer, who was like a 70s, you know, Gary Mule Deer is? Yeah, like a 70s guy who then got into Grandineloperie this week. If we're going to talk about him, we'll plug him. Yeah, he's at to Opry all the time. because he's also a musician.

He does, like, musical jokes and stuff and kind of like country music adjacent things, whatever. And he's been around in that world for a long time. And he said on the show that he has, I'm pretty sure he said the first night he ever went up, ever, at like some open mic in Oklahoma or wherever it was. He had come up with a couple little bits he would do something about like losing the pick and the guitar or something like that for his first ever stage appearance. And I'm pretty sure he said he still does those two. And this is in like, 1967 or something like that. It was like the first time he went up. So it's like, it's got to be that guy, I think.

Yeah, that's probably it. That's a long time. Like, before the moon landing and he's like, this joke still works. Before the moon landing, yeah. This joke's still going. But it's like they're not, they're not, you know, like I said, they're like little, it's more like vaudeville type things. Right. You know what I'm saying?

It's like a gag using the guitar or whatever. Things like that kind of makes sense that they'll just kind of involuntarily come out every now and then. Yeah. Right. Or like, I've seen, you know, it's sort of a thing just a ton of comics do. But when someone's laughing at the wrong time in the crowd, everybody's got kind of the thing they do about the late laffer or whatever where it's just, you're just kind of acknowledging it.

But I'm sure there was someone who's like, I came up with the late laugh. I came up with acknowledging the late lapper. And it's like, that's not a, yeah. That's something. Well, this fucking episode flew by. That's how much, how much fun it is to have Caleb signing around. But tell everybody where they can see you. Yeah, I'm on the road all the time doing a bunch of clubs and stuff.

So come out there. I think I'm in Boston next week at the comedy scene. It's right where the Patriots play. It's like around there. I don't know geography. But you know, near the Patriots Stadium. And check me. I do a podcast every week called What's It Called with Dave Ross.

And it's just being an idiot. It's very funny. I love it so much. Thanks, man. And yeah, and follow me online at Caleb Signing, and I'm out there. I'm doing the road all the time. Yeah, me too. I'll be at Helium and Indy next week, and then I got D.C. and Virginia and Pittsburgh and other places coming up.

So go to Trey Crowder.com and check it out to come and see me. Hell yeah. Cordy. Hey, this Wednesday putting on air celebrates its 100th episode, and we are live streaming it at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on our YouTube, which you can find at Watch P.O. It will also be streaming on all of Trey Crowder's socials. That is putting on airs live streaming this Wednesday, 7 p.m. Eastern watchPOA.com.

And also anybody in Chattanooga or the Chattanooga area, you boy, the buttercream dream is making his in-ring debut at the Scenic City. Royal Rumble Daddy March the 2nd at East Hamilton Middle School. for raising money because their school burnt down or someone stole their library or some shit. I don't know, but we're raising money and I'm going to go whip a bunch of people's asses at the Royal Rumble.

March 2nd, East Hamilton Middle School. Get your tickets at, well, the link will be in the description here. Yeah, because I can't remember it off the top of my head. Sing us out, baby. Oh, yeah. 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 you, good night and skew. All right. That's right, baby. It's your boy, the champ, the buttercream dream. Listen to me real quick. All right. Saturday, March the 2nd.

Write it down. Tattanooga, Tennessee, March 2nd. Get your notepad out, scribble-de-dibble. Because that's the day it's all going to change. You hear me? The 20-24 scenic city rumble daddy. So things just got real. Because guess who just got named an official entrant

and is making his in-ring day, do you, baby, that's him dream, daddy. Now, if that alone ain't enough to make you want to get your butt in the seat, first off, don't tell me, because it'll hurt my phone. feeling. But secondly, let the champ add yet another incentive. The 2024 Scenic City Rumble taking place on March 2nd, doors at 6, bell at 7. We'll be raising money for East Hamilton Middle School, baby. Scoo, skew, skew. We've mentioned the where and the win. The where, by the way, is actually Apperson, Tennessee. I only said Chattanooga, Tennessee, because more people know where that is. Ain't nobody ever heard of Apperson, Tennessee.

Scoo! The win, of course, is March 2nd. That is provided that anyone from Apperson, Tennessee, can count that high. One, two. Now we've done the win and the where, but now we've got to get to the why, the Y buttercream. I know you're sitting there thinking yourself, well, buttercream, you're doing it because you want to help the children because their school burned down. Wrong! I'm doing this for me! For mine! The Buttercream Dream's doing this, Jack, so that I can prove everybody once and for all that I don't just talk to talk, but I walk the walk, brother!

People only know me as a funny man, but they have no idea! I'm bad as bad can be, baby! That's right, Daddy! You think I gotta be performing in middle schools? Are you kidding me? The Buttercream Dream is written not one, but two books! And while they didn't do great, they did pretty good. You think the Buttercream Dream needs to be performing at middle schools like the rest of these gibronies? I'm certified Hollywood, baby, put me on the first flight out.

I'm in LA sitting at Spilberg's house drinking champagne in the E.T. helmet. Scoo! Oh, but Buttercream Dream, you've never wrestled before. I took a guitar shot from Jeff Jarrett. And last I checked, this was a royal rumble. You know how much core strength you develop when you waller on the ground with a baby all day? I believe I can keep myself from going over the top rope. Especially when my opponents are.

Sorry, the buttercream dream had to write them down because they're so unmemorable. Rob Killjoy. Joey Hyder. Casey Owens. Hippie and Johnny. I think I'll be okay. Skiu! Now listen here real quick, I'll be the first to admit.

that I've let myself go just a smidge. But as my pap-hole buttercream used to say, why would you want six little muscles when one biggin'll do just five? Excuse! That's right. Who needs free weights when you got a free baby, daddy? So if you want to come out, once again,

it's Saturday, March 2nd, East Hamilton Middle School, Appison, Tennessee, doors at six, Bell at seven, SCI Wrestling.com for tickets. Now it's a fundraiser. What are they spending the money on?

Well, it's a school in Tennessee so you know it ain't books. School!