wellRED podcast - #394 - Frugal Billionaires Can F*** Right Off

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

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They're the they're the liberal rednecks they like cornbread but six they care way too much but don't give a fun. They're the liberal rednecks that makes some people. people upset, but they got three big old dicks that you can suck. What's up, everybody? Here we are. Here we are. And, well, it's just me and Drew today. Drew looking wild.

What is that? Like a foahawk or just a real high and? A real mohawk. Mohock, okay. What makes a footh? When you like blend it, so it like gets, it gets a little, like, it's longer here and it gets a little longer. And then you spike the middle. so your hair's not cut into a faux art

but you kind of style it into one and then but this is a you know I striped this son bitch yeah no it does hit back to that in a second I'll let everybody know yeah Chow's not here he's not gonna be here because a couple weeks ago he said he needed to set a standard time for recording the podcast because that would hit for him

and we agreed and then he immediately scheduled something else on his own chosen standard time so he now just can't be here so you know pretty raven Raven's yeah I mean but you know things come up unexpectedly like you sometimes you don't expect yourself to plan something right at the right time

that you ask for. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, sure. So you've got a Mohawk and that's because you went to Bonaroo. You just got back to Bonarue. Yeah, I was tired of my hair and I wanted to shave it and I was like, I'll just do this for Bonarue and then shave it. But I kind of like it.

Although I did get told I looked like Chuck Liddell earlier. And Carmen didn't know who that was. It was on the Gravy Baby podcast. So she looked him up and she goes, if somebody told me I look like him, I'd be upset. really I guess he's ugly I don't know oh you don't know what chuckledell looks like I mean I do but it's like I just know he looks like I know he has this look beard mohawk yeah the fact that he's ugly or not right I guess I just think he looks like a supreme hard ass because that's like what he was like you know I was in my early 20s in my bro period in college it was also like the ascendancy of the UFC I got really into it for a while and chuckle bell was like hot shit at that time so like you know I associate him with bad assery and I don't I don't think about I don't think he's like a heinously ugly motherfucker he just looks like a you know bit of an

animal I suppose well Carmen said he looks like someone who got punched in the face for a living yeah and that you know it checks out well one of my friends did tell me I looked scary right with this look yeah there is like a square jaw thing going on that that even I'm not used to. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I do look like I'm angrier than I am now, but that I needed this look when I was angrier. Yes, well, you know how there's like skinheads

that are like fervently anti-Nazi, but there's also neo-Nazi skinheads and stuff, and they didn't hit for each other, obviously. I feel like there's like a much lower-grade version of that with dudes with that haircut. I feel like there's a lot of guys at, you know, UFC 572 or whichever one is coming up soon in Vegas, cheering, you know, Trump coming out the tunnel and whatnot, who look kind of exactly like you look right now. Yeah. Well, I looked like a cop most of the time, been on how long my hair got before.

So I'm used to that. I mean, and obviously, Corn Dog is a legend in the thread. If I put on a hat, and we've talked about this before, but for people don't know, if I'd put on a hat, I look like I coached JV football in my hometown. and was at January 6th. Yes. So this is just like a worse and better version of that at the same time. Yeah, it's like, so. The only way I can not look like that to grow my hair out,

but my hair doesn't grow out well. I don't have great hair. I get tired of fucking fooling with it. Like, you know what I'm saying? And that's what happened here. I've been growing it out. I liked it for a little while. And then it started to get annoying.

And I was like, fuck this, I'm shaving it. And then I shave it and I like it. And everyone tells me I look like a racist. that I grow my hair back out again, thus starting the cycle over. Yeah, hats definitely have a massive impact because I feel like thinking about like, you know, you can look January 60. Mark looks very alpha-malee, you know, objectively. And when he puts on a hat, it almost gets better because he's like chrome dome

with that big beard and ripped. I feel like a hat mitigates some of his alpha douchebaggery lookingness. And then Corey, you know, if he's dressed appropriately, he looks just like a, you know, like a, like a wife slapping Alabama man or whatever. He looks like a different, different free. Deputy speedboat. Top hit. Yes.

But I, you know, and I, I think I've got, like, I don't sound the way. Like, I have to, like, country myself up or it's even more discordant for people because my, like, my glasses and my hair and whatnot. Like, yeah, you look, you have the opposite thing going on. I do. Have the opposite thing going on. Yeah. You're, like, California dreamy, northern California, dreamy. Yeah.

Right. So, and I don't know which one would, you know, hit harder. I feel like it definitely plays into, you know, the fraudulent accusations from people because I just don't look the way I sound. But, you know, what the hell you want me to do? That you do, like, as a whole in a certain context. But yeah, that's funny. I hadn't thought about that.

How you got the, like, people are calling you a fraud. That dude ain't really redneck. And then people are looking at me like, so can this guy read? Yeah. But not with this. so how was bonner have you like have you missed one like ever or recently i feel like you is the last one andy when's the last bonner we missed that wasn't canceled it's been it's been a few years now andy only did one day this year and i only did two

i filmed a don't tell set on friday shout up to the people who came out um it was rad to see you guys um and then i read eyed in uh it's been a white since I missed one that wasn't canceled. I took Brian, a friend of the pot, everybody knows we talk about Brian, my child of this friend, in like 2016 or 17.

And he had been reluctant to go with me for years. And he had such a good time that he bought an RV the next year to go and to make sure his life would come. She has some hard issues so she can't really camp.

And I stayed in the RV with him. and I was done like I'll never not go in an RV right okay but I've definitely been every year except for the canceled year since then yeah well that makes I thought that you had access to an RV and that definitely makes all the difference in the world to me because I only ever you know I went five years in a row in my 20s and we tent camping every single year and that's all my only real experience with it when I think about it I'm like it ain't no motherfucking way I could do that at you know in my late 30s or whatever but if you got RV and there's like air conditioning in there and stuff that's uh that's pretty different yeah and it's also like unlike being in

my 20s I think partially because of who you are and your personality in your 20s who most people are also because going with such a much bigger deal financially you know it was like a lot you know it was less money back then because it was cheaper but it was more money to me I had to like do it right but I'll stay in an RV till I feel like fucking coming out. You know, there's like every day there'll be a band or three. I got to see this. Everything else is, is debatable. You know what I mean? It's negotiable. And that helps a lot. You know what I mean? And I just go out at night more now. I'm way more into the late night than I was when I was younger. When I was younger, I was into like sad Jason Isbell music. And I still

like that. But live, I'm into a lot more lively stuff now. And that's- I always love the late night shit but it was like but I had nowhere to go there was no respite during the day and tent camping it's 100 degrees so like I mean it was a fucking merit I mean I would over the course of the whole weekend I get like six hours total of sleep or something

because we do late night get back at four or five in the morning and by seven or eight a.m. It's too hot to continue sleeping and then you're just up burning the fuck up all day long dying for the sun to go down and then it does and then you rally but I feel like you rest during the day you got more energy at night, especially as an old.

And, you know, and I'm an old. I know, like, I was going to ask how many, because I remember going and seeing, you know, there's always some old fellers there, even older than like we are now, like, really, like, oh, like, you know, some fucking Uncle Ronnie's and stuff or like in their 50s, you know, 10, 15 years ago. But like, where do you, demographically has it shake out? How old are you? What percentage is old?

I think it's mostly millennials there still. Gen Z does do festivals. but they do them less than millennials ever did. We, obviously we didn't invent the festival, but festival culture is a millennial thing. I think like VIP, more mistint, like Bonnaroo is aware as an entity that their main source of income is getting older,

and they're doing more for that. But, you know, I was definitely an old guy. My friend Serena was giving. me shit. She wanted me to come to the pit with her for this act, this woman named Chapel Rhone. Chapel Rhone is Taylor Swift for women who've actually been through something. She's a very talented Missouri queer pop star. She wears camouflage and loves drag queens. She rules. And I don't like a lot of pop, but I do really dig her. And she was like, come and I was like, I can't, like, I just don't, it's hot. I'm going to stand in the back if I make it. And she's like,

you'll love it. You'll be the only straight guy. the pit and I'm like yeah but serena I'm 40 that's not appealing I'm married like that's creepy I'm gonna be the creepy 40 year old and she goes you were the creepy 40 year old at diplo last night and I said serena diplo was the creepy 40 year old at diplo last night all his fans are 40 right the difference is tomorrow it'll all be 24 year olds well I think that carries through throughout bonner like I didn't feel like the old guy except that a few shows right I was not went to the old guy shows, which is where all the other old guys went. And you digs to the, yeah, to the young and shows where all the youngans were.

100% got. So, I mean, any wild shit happened? I mean, I didn't, well, Andy, he asked me if any wild shit happened. Okay, I didn't know if you wanted me to tell that or not. She responded exactly how I needed to see if I was going to tell that story. I'll build to that. one of the coolest parts of the night, speaking of this

fucking haircut and being a poser, your buddy porno. Yep. He was there with his girlfriend and her dad. Yeah. And we texted each other and I was only in Bonner River two days.

And by the way, I'm glad of that. That might be my new tradition. He's like, you want to go to idols because we were comparing like our list and idols was my top band. And he said it was his top band. And I met him there. and first of all, they're just such a great rock band.

It was such a fun time. I took his, as you know, very tiny girlfriend into the pit. She wanted somebody to go with her, and I was like, I want to fucking go. We had an awesome. We only stayed for like two songs. I think she was a little overwhelmed after a couple, like it's hot. I'm not a big person. I was overwhelmed because it's hot and I was on drugs.

So like I had to get out of there. My body temp was actually starting to like get it. But it was just. genuinely just such a fun great show. It was one of my favorite, if not my favorite rock shows, maybe ever. So see, okay, like, yeah, you sent some screen. You and him were both texting me separately about meeting up and going to that. And, like, you know, I got early onset Papaw.

Don't we keeping up with new music? How long has this band been? First of all, what was the-12 years? 12 years? But their last album, you know, has found its way. And, like, they've leveled up recently. Like they did a song with LCD sound system. They were in one of the tents, that tent.

At what time of day? One in the morning. Okay. I mean, that's a pretty good, pretty good spot. Yeah. What is that, like, mid-level on the lineup type situation? Okay. And it was opposite this group parcels, which I call ketamine music,

which is like disco but slow. And it was very much like Banneru was doing a good, like a lot of people were mad about that conflict because they're, both great bands. But I think Bonner did a good job of like, yeah, but depending on where you're at in your life and emotionally and physically, you're going to choose one over.

You're going to go lay on a blanket or you're going to go, you know, risk your life. So idols, they're like a British actual rock band. Post-punk. People, okay. I mean, I like post-punk.

I'm pretty sure. I'll send you some songs. You do. Yeah, because I, you know, lament the death of rock music. I think all the time, I'm like, there has to, because sometimes I'll listen to, like, my old rock, not like classic rock, but like rock from my 20s and shit. I'll listen to those, like, whatever, gaslight anthem and shit like that. And I'll be like, there have to be rock

bands out there right now. Yeah. I feel like I've kind of come up into before. There's that one, there's like a huge one. I think, what's it called? Bring, bring me the horizon. Or they like imagine dragons or something like that? I don't know them. I'll check them out. I'm not saying that they hit. I don't know that they hit. I just know that they're really big. Like they're really big and they're like an actual band. Yeah. But they may not be legit. I don't know. Speaking of our old bands, Cage of Elephant played the main stage right before Red Odd Chili Peppers

and I had never seen him and it was everything I wanted it to be. Oh yeah. I've seen it a few times but not in a long time. I cried. Hardcore. It was so good. There is a band called Milky Chants there that all my friends were going to and it was during the day and I was I expected to be tired and I wasn't. So I went with them. Check them out. It was good. They don't rock hard. They're more like cage, late cage. But I think we'd have to get into the nuances of the current state of the music

industry. I think a few things are killing rock and roll, but I think one of them is the way the music industry works in terms of making it now. I mean, even people who make it on their own and there's really cool stories of people making it out of nowhere, like Zach Bryan, posting on YouTube, becoming a phenomenon. But even those people, get sucked up into the machine and rock band is not as viable even as country.

You know what I mean? So like it's just it's just not what's being, it's not as common so there's less people popping up. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to look at this.

I mean, Idol's most popular song on Spotify, the most streamed one, is a song they did with LCD sound system. It's a rock song, but that's with a

dance electronic bank, you know what I mean? Right. so I'm not in it enough right now to be able to talk intelligently about all that but you you're not wrong that rock is fading from at least like the top lines of the posters you know did you watch the chili peppers I did uh I think to me I think they phoned it in dude really they played they played some of two or three hits up front then I to me it sounded like new music in the middle which don't blame you you know it's your show and then they keytis left the stage for three songs they just did

instrumental and the crowd like sang like popular songs it was very odd i saw them there one of the last times i went it's like 10 years ago or something 10 or 11 years ago and i was upset at the beginning for sure because i had bought i had like bought some molly but it was just baby powder in a fucking capsule or something like it was just bunk it was bullshit which that's the only that's first time i'd ever happen to me at bonner and i was real pissed off about that like i was sitting there as it was starting realizing what a time to be alive or we could just buy Molly off a person and the biggest fear was it would be baby powder. Yeah, right.

And I was sitting there pumped at first, but then gradually realizing like I got fucked. And so I was mad about it. And I still ended up enjoying them because I thought, because as I recall, and I, you know, that was 10, 11 years. They changed shit up all the time. But the show I saw, I remember having that thing happen where I'm listening thinking like, holy shit. I fucking forgot or did not realize just how many goddamn son.

songs they have because I felt like every single song of their like two hour set list was something that I knew and hit for me and then they didn't do that that instrument like I don't remember Keats leaving the stage or none of that either so I was hyped for that when I saw I was hyped for that experience because I experienced that re-listening to them gearing up for Bonnaroo. Yeah. It was like got down to the ninth, 10th song. I'm like, oh my God, I forgot about this one. Uh, they did not. They, I mean, they opened with hits and they closed with hits. Me and my friends left to get a good spot at the next show. And as we walked away, they were playing, is it called Water Under the Bridge?

It's just called Under the Bridge. Under the Bridge. And I mean, dude, you're walking by people, everyone's singing it. You know, that's like, it's like the closest thing to a religious experience. You know what I mean? Like, that's my God. Like, everyone's feeling the same thing. That was really cool.

But because I had high hopes, I was a little disappointed in the chili peppers. Yeah. I mean, I hear you. So what's this thing? You had to get permission to tell me or something? Oh, yeah. The wildest, yeah, what's the wildest thing I saw at Monaroo? The wildest thing I saw at Bonaroo, I think, was my wife getting out her milk-filled

tithies because we weren't with our baby that were physically hurting her and just squirting them all over our friends while 22-year-olds around us reacted everywhere from, oh, my God, to, holy shit, bro. Did you see that? Yeah, I mean, that's pretty fucking hardcore. I do know that you got to, you know, you got to do something. I mean, you don't have to do that, but you have to do something. Yeah, yeah.

She was like expressing them into the ground at first. Yeah. And then we were with some wild people and some people were on drugs. And they were like, squirted on me, mama. And so she started to because that's my wife. But then she started squirting on strangers with permission, specifically three girls. And that was hilarious.

they're probably thinking they getting like I don't know some kind of aura or something out of that you know what I'm certain of it dude and I'm certain there are people who are horrified last right now hearing this and I don't particularly care but I was saying to Andy I was like listen you were going to end up on the front page of trashy bone or Reddit if you don't stop doing this like we you will be videoed if you haven't already been yeah that is I mean that's wild to think about too like even I mean even when I was going So that was like, I don't know, it was like 2009 to 2008 to 2013 or something like that. And even back then it wasn't, you didn't automatically assume that everybody was filming everything all the time. You know what I mean? Even back then. I feel like now you have to assume that. Like any kind of wild shit, you've got to imagine someone is recording it. Well, the saddest thing, the worst thing, and I didn't see this thing.

I don't know why I'm saying. Thank God. I was reading on Reddit. a guy fell out at We're in the Woods, which is a new thing, at the end, like late night Sunday. And this guy was helping him. This dude that wrote the Reddit post was like, while I was helping him, my boyfriend was having to scream at people to stop fucking video in us. So dude's season out and people are recording that. So there's definitely a nefarious to that, nefariousness to that too, you know.

Like there's, come on, man. live in the moment. We don't have to film everything. But then there's also like, hey, dude, mind your fucking business here, you know. Yeah. You just reminded me, I know I've told this story before, but I feel like it's been a very, very long time. So I'm just going to do it again. Somebody seizing in a music festival. One of my memories from Bonnaroo one year is at the main stage, real high. Like, the type of high that I can't believe I ever even used to get now. Like, the prospect of it terrifies me. But at the time was fine and was having a good time. until, so first we're all just standing there and all of a sudden I feel this like kind of commotion just like beside me on the ground.

I don't know what it is. And I look down and laying on the ground is a girl like on her back and then another girl over the top of her. You know, I can't tell what she's doing and I can't see that girl's face. So I don't know what's happening. But what she's doing is she's like like shaky or like what you know, what's wrong or whatever. But I can't tell that because I'm saying it from the. back. I just, it's girl. I was like, what's going on there? And then like, uh, I shift over and I see that the girl on the bottom is having some kind of seizure or some. Her eyes roll back in her head and her

friends like freaking out trying to help her. And I was like, what the girl. And that freaks me out. But then, then the girl who was helping the first girl, she like shoots up and her eyes go back in her head and she falls over and she starts having a seizure too. So like for a second, I was like, I thought we were being like, you know, bio bombed or for a second. Like for a second, I was like, oh my God, am I about to start having a seat? Like, I thought it was the start of some like apocalyptic movie or something where like a seizure starts in the middle and spread like every, you know, 15 seconds later, 30,000 people are all laid overseas and I'm right by patient zero or something. Like I really thought it was like, holy shit, I'm about to have a seizure. But they just took the same thing and took the same amount of it.

Same thing happened. And that's all. And, you know, and they, and by the way, people, whatever, medics, whatever you call them, came out there and got them and they were, you know, I'm sure they were fine. I don't think it was that big of a deal. But yeah, I genuinely thought that there was like weaponized seizure virus in the air or something. And then I was next. So funny, dude. So funny.

But hanging out with porno, that show, going back and forth from the pit to him, he wouldn't go into the pit. And then also, is it weird to say everyone else's name? anyway his his girlfriend's dad um i won't say his name or his girlfriend's name in case they don't want me to he didn't enjoy idols yeah he apparently had loved john batis you know like apparently like he was like that was worth the trip alone he came over from a different country i was that's well i guess we don't say that either he's from i mean i don't think that europe right or is he from the other okay europe yeah so her parents are from different corners of the world he's the from somewhere in Europe, yeah, all right.

But he was just like enjoying them, enjoying it, you know? And I kept coming back and forth to them. Pornow was like in tears half the time telling me how much he loved me and you and idols. And it was just, it was just phenomenal. A weekend for me full of mostly like EDM shows or sitting in a blanket watching Jason Isbell. This was the one that I was like, I didn't feel like the old guy. I felt like, I felt fucking great the whole time.

And then also I just really dig what they do and what they say. I mean, we were moshing talking about fuck the king, free Palestine, fuck Trump, fuck Biden. I mean, it was just like a real cathartic, you know, if you have to get sober, get sober. I mean, you know, it's like punk got old and it aged kind of well in this particular case. They didn't turn into like racist or Gavin McGinnis types, you know. Right. Yeah. Does it. Which happens to some punks.

I know. I guess that's a thing as old as time because it's like a lot of, you know, a lot of hippies from the 60s turned into like the boomer assholes of the 80s and the Reagan era and stuff like that and a lot of like Gen X types are going through the same thing now

and I'm sure like I don't really Punk's and Gen X I think it's like they were attracted to like I'll do whatever I want aspect of punk and so when like woke culture tried to make them be a better human they reacted as if they were being oppressed

like the same gear kicked in. The fuck the government became fuck these kids telling me about pronouns. With hippies, I think that the hippie movement got bigger than it actually was. I think like the actual pure heart free love thing was here. And then all around it was people who just were like,

these people are hot and they're fucking and they're doing drugs. So like some like, I don't know, investment banker's son who's like college age or whatever, whatever, just like grew his hair out and went and did some hippie shit for a while just to do drugs. And maybe believed that he believed it. Right. Yeah. But really it was just came back home afterwards.

It took a job there and was then it was over from from that point. Yeah. Is that going to happen to millennias that already? I know obviously there's plenty of millennials that are already crazy and MAGA-E and stuff. But is that like shift going to happen? Yeah, some version of it. Like what's the, we think the driving factor with us? Well, I think that.

How much things don't hit? I don't think it'll be as big for. us because that's where that whole thing of like you're conservative as you age yes and it's like well because you have a lot to lose right exactly and that right and then also the world shifts away from you you know it shifts further left well america i don't think is shifting further left i think it's splitting yeah so like instead of having a new overtone window it's like now there's two overton windows we see that with gen z people who pay attention to gen z they are far more left if in that bubble if you're in the right they're far more right than our rights like right wing

gen z is far more right wing than millennials so i don't think millennials will have quite as big of an experience with that because uh the next generation won't go too far for us some of them will but then we'll look at the other side of the next generation and we'll be like i guess we'll just stay here you know but yeah there's an argument i've seen made many times i think we've talked about on here before but yeah you alluded to it to it that's like over the generations people get more conservative as they get older because they like yeah they save up money and buy a house and have a family and all this stuff so it's like yeah they want to pay less in taxes because they're protecting their own whatever nest egg and all that

shit and you just like grow up and that means having these like you said having things to lose and for millennials generally that just ain't happens like those things have not happened so like why would you shift in that direction as far as like the thing the younger generation going too far I feel like for a lot. I mean, I don't know, my experience, you know, like when we were, like we, you know, like we, you know, like we lost being able to say the word retarded or whatever. It's bad, baby. Like the, like, those are, those are the things. And then there's like also, you know, I think there's, but I've, I've met plenty of, like, big fans of ours, mine and hours and hours and stuff who will still say that and act that way. And a lot of my friends and so I, like there's, I don't think that that. The world's not passing a spot. made everyone go, well, fuck everything about this. I'm going to listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or I don't know, whoever the fuck it is now.

I mean, and it did some people. I mean, anti-woke culture absolutely captured some people's hearts and minds. And that'll happen to more and more millennials, I suppose, as Gen Z tries to go more woke. But that's the thing. Gen Z's not really. Gen Z's leftism is going in a route I like a little bit better. it seems to be going in two ways.

One, there is a lot more like labeling. Like, they're even more into that than us. You know, they're breaking it down. I'm a demi-pam sec, you know, blah, blah, blah. But then also a lot of it has to do with capitalism. And so that might be one way we swing back, where we're like conservative because these fucking kids are trying to tax us to death and make everybody drive the same car.

But I don't know if they'll be successful. I think they'll actually just get murdered on college campuses and we'll be like, well, goddamn, I guess we don't have to swing back. I mean, also, sorry, go ahead. There was another thing I wanted to ask you, I mean, y'all, but Corey ain't here, you about this week because I saw this thing on Reddit. I feel like you see stories like this every now and then. I can't think of another specific example, but it's not foreign.

This type of thing pops up every now and then. I don't know who generates it. who has the idea that this person should get glazed, does the kids say, or jacked off or whatever? But every now and then you'll see an article or something about, like a billionaire, a super rich person,

right? Sometimes it's about them giving a bunch of their money away or whatever, but I'm specifically talking about, I saw an article this week that got, made some traction about the founder of IKEA, so a Swedish billionaire who's, I'm pretty sure he's long dead now. And he was like,

I think he was like a Nazi sympathizer and shit back in the day and the 40s. As soon as I saw, the way he was getting glazed. I knew he had to be a vampire. But the whole thrust of the thing was like, this guy was worth billions of dollars, and he, uh,

you know, he drove like a 92 astro van or whatever it was every day. He got the same, you know, he ate like fast food. He lived very, very, very frugally. And people are,

it's always presented as like, isn't that admirable. And I don't know what you think, but my opinion of it is, because also, as far as I could tell, he did not, like,

then take it. his whole fortune and just give it away. It just went to his kids or his heirs or whatever. And it's like if you don't give it all the way, if you just pass it on to your shitty rich kids and then treat it like, then I think that's like work. I would rather a billionaire live like a billionaire if they're going to keep all their money than like hoard it like a dragon without even like doing anything.

Like you know what I mean? It's like now it's like completely worthless. It's literally just sitting in your dragon cave not doing nothing. for nobody, whereas if you were out globe trotting and buying islands and shit, I don't know, you're giving money to fucking Mai Tai bar-tenders and stuff. Yeah, dude.

Some whore in Thailand deserved a bonus. Right. Yeah. So, yeah, I just think it's weird. I'm with you. I saw that thing that you're talking about. And I kind of dove into it just enough to see if he'd like been giving it all

away. Right. Even if he had, my first response was, well, this dude's like autistic or something. This dude has something going on, and I don't mean that as an insulting way, I just mean like, this dude needed his habit so bad. He needed his routine so badly that he couldn't even do something out of

the ordinary, even though he had all the power in the world. And that's, again, I'm not trying to, like, I don't want anyone to think I'm now disparaging people with autism. I'm just saying, I saw that, and I thought, well, that's a personality thing. But then he didn't give it away, didn't do anything with it. And I was like, no, fuck this guy, man. Fuck him

forever. And like you said, it's almost worse because I don't believe in like trickle-down economics being anything worth the fuck policy-wise right but it but it does help of small microcosm of people you know Elon Musk having to pay off some girl he molested at least her kids are going to get to go to college like did you see what I'm saying no yeah I read that story and I was like so other than IKEA what did this dude give the world and what did he experience

and get from the world and the fact it's at best neutral the idea that it's admirable to me is a sign of how like almost fascist our culture is becoming where it's like

isn't it admirable not to enjoy yourself right no right compared to the white privilege thing and I worked on doing a joke about this and I could never figure out how to get to work. Maybe I should go back to it. The best thing you do with my

privilege obviously is like try to change things. To me the second best thing you can do is enjoy the fuck out of it. Yeah. Call a cop fat to his face. I used to do it all the time. Yep. You sure did. But if I got it, live through me. Right.

I'll go live. Yeah. They also said that he did all that typical rich guy's shit to have like you know, I don't even know how it all works. but like headquartering IKEA in tax haven places, you know, like all that like loophole gaming the system stuff to keep from paying taxes and all that. Like he did all that shit. He just like didn't drive a bentley or get driven around in the Rolls Royce.

He was a scrooge. He was afraid it's been his money. Like that's what did it for him was the numbers going up, you know. I'm assuming. But I think it's okay to assume bad shit about billionaires, even if you don't have any hardcore evidence. They were horrible people. Um, not giving away a lot of your money when you have that much.

To me, there's nothing a person can do to counteract that. Right. They are overall a bad person to me, especially not eat at McDonald's. To assign morality to those types of choices, one way or the other, like, I'm saying fuck that guy because he didn't spread his money around. Right. If it made him happy to eat at McDonald's, then by all means, go ahead. But to assign morality to like those, that basic of a choice, well, what's the word we're allowed to say now again?

To me, it's just like, and by the way, I'm kidding. I'm trying not to say that word. I don't want to get back to toxic 20-year-old Drew. But the way we assign morality now to like so many things, that's almost like a counter response to the woke culture, I think. Like anti-whokes are, they're now playing the hour game. You know what I mean? they did it with Morgan Wallen.

They anti-woke that motherfucker right to the top of the charts. Right. Where it was almost like, they almost made it, it's weird, they almost made it a morally good thing that he said to N-word. Right.

But what do you say about with these rich people? He's a regular guy. What do you, how do you mean they're doing that with these like frugal rich people and stuff? They're saying that it was admirable that he went to McDonald's and it's neutral. He just went to me.

What's admirable? about that. I feel like it's a I don't know like an it's adjacent to their whole obsession with you know like the whole like bootstrap hustle culture shit where it's like the idea that anyone can be rich and successful you just have to

be smart with your money and work very hard so that's the implication is that he didn't blow his money that's how IKEA was successful I mean I think that that's like the underlying thing that makes people think that that hits is because they're like I didn't think of that because it's dumber than what I thought it was that is

IKEA work because he didn't go to steakhouses is so stupid. Right. But I think they think they think like, see, I do, if I do that now, because I'm disciplined and I'm a hard work and all this stuff, one day I'll be that billionaire or whatever because that's what you've got to do. You got to do that from the beginning. Yeah.

And then if you're really, you know, you really whatever change your habits and your lifestyle, then of course you're going to keep doing that way. I mean, I don't know. I'm speculating here. Right. No, I thought it was like, behind. humble and good things will happen to you, which is adjacent to that, that's even dumber.

That's just basic math. Like if you add up, if you live, like a, we'll call it a Morgan County baller, you know, I'm not talking about flying all over the world, but just like, you stay in a hotel when you want to, half a million dollars a year is probably all you can spend. That company's worth. I mean, Can you look it up? Yeah, it's with a B.

And if you compare those two numbers percentage-wise, it's literally a drop in the bucket. $21 billion. I honestly kind of thought it'd be more than that, frankly. But yeah, $21 billion. So I just feel like, I think that guy's a bad person because I found out he hoarded all his money.

The fact that he ate somewhere, like out of the ordinary for a rich person, means nothing. Right. One way or the other. Yeah, no. I completely agree. It does make me a little mad that he didn't enjoy it.

Right. But I'm not going to like spin that into like an article. Yeah. I don't know. It's weird. I thought, you know, that used to, I don't know exactly what changed,

and I'm not saying they were ever, like it did not hit to be a peasant or a serf or anybody like that. And it's not like society didn't used to be stratified. But like there's a lot of examples of, and I brought this up on here before, but it was also a very long time ago. Like the rich people like back in the day were like culturally given the impression that they had an obligation to like do something with it. The Rockefellers, man. And then and that was part of it.

You know, you got to build some schools or do you got to do something with it. And that used to be a big part of it for a long time. And then I don't know exactly where or what happened, but that's just like completely gone now. I mean, some of them still, but now some of them still do that, but now they're like jerked off as the exception. Like you believe how much of a great guy, like Bill Gates. Bill Gates is like, maybe we should do something with it. And people are like, what a fucking firebrand genius thought leader this guy is.

And it's like, that used to be the standard. But like, you know, greed is good and all that shit. I don't know. I think two things. One, I think they, rich people and people who wanted to service them in order to get money, did a concerted effort. to get rid of that to like change culture you know it's immoral to give handouts right don't you know that shit right yeah yeah right and that that's done wonders in America for the

rich class in terms of getting them out of building schools but also in terms of people looking up to them I mean again some of the worst people in America are considered good people simply because they're successful. I remember a time where we were suspicious of almost anyone successful in business because it was like a good for you, but I mean people just screw over. And now it's like screwing over people is almost virtuistic. It's wild. And then the second thing that I'll say, and I don't mean to bust your bubble about Bill Gates, they, and maybe this was always going on. Maybe this is what it always was. Maybe philanthropy's always just been to serve the rich. You know, Rockefeller was able to have a lot of goodwill.

A lot of people in the Rockefeller camp got positions of power. Because he was considered this nice, wonderful philanthropist, a lot of things he wanted to do in the city and get out of in the city as far as taxes. It was easy for him to make that happen because he was beloved. So maybe it's always been about that. But with Gates, as an example, almost everywhere in Africa, Bill Gates is doing work and putting in a lot of money. They have a resource that his,

company and tech companies in general need. Right. And he gets to, through his organization, dictate policy there. So it's like a really dark, even the exceptions to the rule now, there's often like a dark underpinning to it. So I don't know. I just think what changed mostly is our culture now like considers being successful,

even if you're an asshole, a virtue, like a moral virtue. and they've almost spun like philanthropy into like something that's wrong and ruins people. Yeah, I don't know. Don't hit. Don't hit. Happy Father's Day. Oh, yeah. Back at you.

Yeah, I told, I texted you all this, but I was just messing around the house doing stuff. I don't remember exactly, but like rearranging the kitchen or something. And I had my, I had Alexa playing a playlist of mine. I've had for years, which is like kind of my classic rock playlist, but it's not like you know, WKOM, classic rock, you know, it's like Leonard Skinner and Elton John and David Bowie and all that type of stuff that hit the band, stuff that hits for me. And it was mostly smashing because I hadn't listening to that music in a long time. And then at one point, it was on shuffle and again, mostly hitting. And then at one point, this song by Warren Zivon, there's a lot of Warren Zivon on there,

a song from his final album that he wrote while he was, uh, passing away of cancer called Keep Me in Your Heart for a while, which is a really great song, came on shuffle. And I told you all, it's like, I might as well have told Alexa to set a your dad is dead reminder for Father's Day. Because it just wrecked me. I don't know. Like, you know, I just didn't. It's also like I told you, I made a playlist.

Setting a reminder. Your dad is dead. Father's Day. Yeah. Are you sure about this? It's also like I told you all. It's like I made that playlist. It's like I blew myself up by stepping on a mine that I buried or.

whatever. But yeah, it, but other than that, it was mostly fine. Another Raven thing that happened on totally opposite end of the spectrum, but I think it'll hit for you because we know how I am with sports fandoms or whatever. Earlier last week, we decided, we're like, we'll go to a Dodgers game for Father's Day. And I looked up, are the Dodgers at home? They were playing a three-game stretch Friday, Saturday, and Sunday against the Kansas City Royals. Looked at the game on Father's Day, not surprisingly. That's a popular choice. So the tickets are more expensive, and the choices for seating were not as good. Also, it was in the middle of the day. They were playing the royals on Saturday at nighttime and the tickets were cheaper and there were better seats. And I was like,

you know what, let's just go on Saturday and just call that Father's Day because it's, you know, better option in multiple ways. And everybody was cool with that. So we went on Saturday and, you know, Shohei Otani, a $70 million man, right? In that game, he went over the Kansas City Chiefs and the or Royals, Kansas Reels in the like fifth or six inning, hit a grand slam to go up five to two. Then they scored two more runs and ended up winning seven to two. It wasn't even close.

O'Tonnie didn't do shit. Freddie Freeman didn't do shit. The game on Father's Day that we almost but did not go to, Otani got two homers. Him and Freddie Freeman went back to back with home runs. They shut out the Royals and won three to nothing. And it was like trending on Twitter that they had hit so hard. So like, so, you know.

You have quite a hot streak. Yeah, I know. So that's also pretty raven. It's funny because people that don't know what I'm talking about. Like I have, it's like a running joke, except it doesn't feel like a joke to me that I have terrible luck with like sports fandom. All my teams don't hit. But also it's like if I go to the game, they're like guaranteed to lose. If I'm going to go but then don't go, it's phenomenal.

Shit like that always happens. But I had thought previously silly me. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. The Dodgers are so good. You know, people hate the Dodgers. And I get it because they're really good. And they, you know, they're like the West Coast Yankees. They buy all the best players and they hit pretty hard.

So when I moved to LA without a baseball team, and I was like, well, I'm going to be a Dodgers fan. I was like, this, this will hit, though, you know, in spite of my own personal sports-related Ravens, this will be just fine. And I really thought that was working because this past Saturday was like the fourth or fifth Dodgers game I've ever been to since I moved since I said, hey, I'm a Dodgers fan.

And I had never seen them lose before. And then Saturday that happened. And then they followed it up Sunday with that. So I think, you know, the Ravens finally. called on. It took you a while to change the culture tray, but you finally done it. Finally did it. Well, it was my first father's day. Andy left

me a card at Bada River that I found when she left, so I was just crying in an RV. You know, like a dad. It was very sweet. But obviously other than that, you know, I mean, he's a baby. I got a plug-in. That's why I moved. Yeah, well, look, I don't know. Maybe you'll have it differently, but my, you know, my sons are

tweens or middle schoolers, and they don't, you know, They had no idea. It was fine. Even though they had been reminded by Catholic Father's Day's coming up or whatever, like even though we like went to a baseball game for Father's Day the night before. Still on Sunday, they were like, what? What's, it's what?

You know, like, oh, okay. Like they had no idea. So, you know. But what about sports fandom? I thought you were going to connect it to being a dad. Did I miss that? Oh, no. No, the only thing.

No, no, no. I almost thought you were going to be like, they were like, dad, we get it. We like sports. No. The only thing I have to say. say about sports fandom and fatherhood for me personally is because of my own personal experience that we just described, I have done nothing to like try to get my sons into like watching sports or enjoying it because I genuine, from my perspective, I genuinely feel like they will be better

off that way. Like I like, I don't even try to get them to watch football games with me or nothing like that because I'm like, you don't need this and you're like, I get so mad at myself so often for how I react emotionally to the result. of things that I have nothing to do with. And I'm just like, y'all don't need this shit in your life. I was listening to an interview with somebody else who's like from Boston, who's around my age, and he has a kid. And he was talking about how he can't wait to like get his kid into, you know,

Patriots. Oh, he's going to be a Pat's fan, all this stuff. And I was just thinking about it. I was like, yeah, why wouldn't that guy think that? Like that guy and his dad shared all these great memories of, you know, Twan Brady and the, you know, the Patriots dynasty and all that shit. The Celtics just won an 18th. Oh, right, yeah.

Yes, right, yes. It's not just a Patriot. Yeah, the Celtics just won their 18th champions. Yeah, if you're from Boston, I get it, but I'm from fucking Tennessee and also happen to like the Raiders. So, like, I just, you know, I'm like, if they end up getting into sports, I'm all for, and then so with baseball, like, kind of drugged them to the first couple of games, but then they liked it.

Now they like going to a game. I still have no interest in watching it on TV, but they do like going to a baseball game. And when I saw that happening, again, because it's the Dodgers, I was like, well, this is okay. Like, I can, also baseball, they play a million fucking games. So it's like, you know what I mean? They're going to lose a lot, even when they have a great year. It's a little different.

But yeah, with the other sports, I just don't. If they end up getting into it, great. That's fine. You know, I'll watch it with them and enjoy it with them, but I'm not doing anything to influence that because I think they'll be happier people without it in their life. That's just how I feel about it. something that our fans may not give a shit about, but I find it very interesting.

And I think it goes against baseball with younger people. I was watching my niece play softball. Her team went undefeated and ended up winning the tournament. They had some close calls in some games. It's wild how baseball has a rule, and the rule makes sense. And we can explain the rule for people doing anything about sports. But it has a rule in place that on certain game days, prevents your best player from playing.

That rule is, it's about pitches. And it's to protect the players. And maybe MLB doesn't even have the rule. It's just that nobody can pitch that many games back to back. But in like the high school levels and below, my niece, like you can't pitch games back to back on certain days because it would hurt a kid's on. It's a good rule. But it is wild that there's like by rule, if sometimes your most dominant player cannot

play. I mean, imagine you brought up Tom Brady, if even if it was just one or two games a year, year, late in the year, Tom Brady wasn't allowed to play. Right. You know, that's not, conceptually, that's wild. It is wild, but that's why they have to, like, focus so much on building a bullpen and a good roster of pitchers and stuff. And, you know, I mean, I don't think you literally could do that in football because

they can't even find 32 quarterbacks who are good enough to do it. So you couldn't have a stable of good quarterbacks. Like, so it's a good thing they don't need to. But, like, in baseball, because of that, that's why. why they have to take all that into account when they, you know, build their team or even look at their schedule. They have to think, like, that team's harder than this team, so we need to save this dude for that game. I'm not pitching before, you know, they got to think about all that shit. But yeah, when I was younger, I never got, I was always like, I always felt like, you know,

pitchers were bitches or something. You know what I made? It's like, what the fuck you fucking play once every three games or something, four or five games, like, what? You don't even hit most of you. Yeah, but like, but, you know, I guess. it really wrecks their shit if they don't do that, you know, it's like apparently it's really bad for an arm throwing that hard that often. Yeah, even doing what they do destroys their arms all the time.

Yeah, it's like, yeah, explosive kinetic energy that you're... Did you see that story of that 40-year-old trying to make it in the league? He was a hot shot recruit who got hurt and then I think got addicted to some stuff and fell apart. And then he like left sports behind, went to do whatever else. And he started throwing again almost this. like therapeutically and he was hitting like 103 no he was like well they gave him a fucking contract dude like a short one i don't even know who what team okay it might be the royals it's like a fucking kevin costner movie or something i'm pretty sure they've already

sold the rights to yeah blah blah blah i saw it on tick talk um and if i'm misquoting you guys know how i am if i don't remember part of the story i just make it up and then convince myself it's true if it wasn't addiction and i just cast that demon on a guy i'm sorry uh type like 38 or 39 year old rookie pitcher okay uh ruby da bid bid be old old rookie pitcher mlb lb gondem it jimmy look that up yeah um while you're doing that let me take a chance to plug my nashville date which is next wednesday what is that the 26th I don't know. Yeah. Yes.

June 26th. I'm in Nashville, Zanis headlining. Fucking, dude, we're going to have, speaking of quarterback, Patrick Mahomes is coming. He's going to do a set. We're going to have Kevin Hart.

He's doing a set. We're going to let Bill Cosby do a set, but we're going to heckling. So you guys come through. We've got a lot of special guests. It's going to be a good time. I don't know. I ain't finding it.

You can't find it? No, it could be that he's, he got a contract and he's in, like he's at the AAA or something when he hadn't been called up to the show yet or something. I don't know. No, well, I know he at least pitched in the game.

I'm pretty sure he pitched. But also, it might be a year old. Dude, whatever. If people are interested, they can go find it. Yeah.

All right. Well, it's going to be a slightly shorter episode this week for reasons that it don't matter. It's just going to be. So we're going to wrap it up. You're already gave his plugs. I'm, uh,

uh, this week, depending on when you hear this, I got chosen. So I got chosen in Orange County and then Oxnard. and then on Sunday I'm in San Jose and then after that a weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a bunch of other places. So go to Trey Crowder.com and check it out.

Who's opening for you? In Tulsa? No, in California. I don't know, just whoever they get. I didn't replace somebody. Oh, okay. I thought it might be farming. I thought people might be interested in that.

I mean, that would be fine with me. I just haven't, you know. Yeah, yeah. Not bad. Generally speaking, if people ask, you know, I let people come to me or just let the club book them as my kind of rule of thumb. for whatever reason. I don't know how I got that in my head. I just thought it would hit for people.

I was trying to help. Carmen has done that before, but that was like my last Hollywood tour day today. But anyway, also check out weekly skews and putting on airs and gravy baby and all the other shit in the skewniverse. And we appreciate y'all.

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