wellRED podcast - #397 - Dyed Beard Drunks!

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

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what's the lady what's the female version of fellas? Well, that's a fellow. Would that just be a lady? Yeah, but that we also have gentlemen. You know what I mean? Ladies and gentlemen fellows and they just don't get one, which I mean

that makes sense, you know. Well, they have extras. Sometimes they have extras though, like Miss and Mrs. Yeah, but I mean, that's also funny because it's like the only reason that they have that is to denote whether they're like a worthless spinster or, you know, someone's property. Right. I can't fuck her. She belongs to somebody. Yes, exactly.

Hello. Pardon me, fellow. They do the. Please remove your dick from my missus. The, uh, where her name is just his name, but with Mrs. in front of it. That's always been planning to me too. You don't know what I mean? Mrs. Drew Morgan.

Yeah, it's so funny. That type of thing. It's like some broads. They got broads. We don't have one of those. Some broads these days, they're like, I don't want to take the last name.

It's like, well, 50 years ago, you had to take them both. So lucky we're letting you keep Katie. Yeah, it's wild. So,

the world is insane. If stuff looks different to y'all and it probably does, it's because we're on Zoom right now, because Cho is on a tour, bus distributing democracy to the huddled masses via the mechanism of stand-up comedy more on that in a minute because he should be joining us. But he's normally the one that does all this. It fell to me this week and I, we use the same software we always used, but it just wasn't working.

So we're using Zoom instead. So anyway, that's why shit looks different. I think why Drew looks different though. What happened to your, uh, Mohawk? You're looking real. Well, I heard we were going to be on Zoom. So I got like an appropriate haircut. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Was it what you mean like like Zoom, like court, Zoom? Like you look like you're in court for something. You know what I mean? Zoom's for business. Yeah, right. But you don't look like business. You look like your court business.

Court, like I'm the criminal? Yes. Yeah. That's funny. With that haircut and that. You could also be the cop just like off duty in a hotel room. The hooker just left crying probably. Yeah.

Because I did what I did and charged her with it. Yeah. You're going to take one of those showers where you just, you know, lean against the wall with the water running over your head for a long time. And then it trickles down over my Nazi symbol on my arm. People who are only listening are like, what are they talking about? Drew's kind of skinheaded, not literally skinheaded. He's got a real tight buzz cut, basically.

Two things. I've got a tight buzz cut, but two things. I have a receded hairline. So at certain angles, it just looks like I'm shaved. And then even two, the sun hasn't blessed. that part of my head yet. Right. So it's like I look skin-headed because you can see my skin even through the hair that is there

because the hair is thin and the skin is bright white. This actually is relevant to something I was going to ask both of y'all about this week anyway because I got some, my gray, my patch gray on my temples keeps encroaching further and further, which is generally fine with me, but that was my question. Also, I was watching the new season of the boys last night and I'm only two episodes in, homelanders aging and it don't hit for him. So I was asking. I'm also two episodes in.

So I was going to ask like, uh, you know, how y'all felt about aging specifically where like looks or aesthetics or whatever are concerned. I feel, I feel like we've talked about how like, oh,

you can't drink as much. Oh, you hurt all the time. But I'm talking about like how you look. Yeah. You're going to combat that? You're going to lose your mind and get, I'm not going to lose my mind.

Just for men up or are you just going to let it ride? I've already done it some to my beard because I filmed a don't tell. And I can't, like, I can't pretend like I've not thought of it or whatever because I did something to combat it. In my mind, it was like, and this is true, their audience is all like 28. Yeah. And it's not so much that I don't, that I want to trick them or feel the need to. It's more like a fear that I have, and I guess this is a fear of getting older of like, if I look old as their scrolls, they'll write me off before I ever open my mouth.

And in my head, that sounded both reasonable and not super, like, weird. But that's like literally what every old person's worried about, other than ones who want to look hot. It's like they don't want to be written off. So I guess I would have to say, clearly it bothers me, but it's funny because I never thought it did. In my head, I was like, well, I'm in this industry.

You got to do that. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird though with streamers, though. some of them like they be old older than us I think some of them we have like real but like it seems like they also wear costumes and stuff I'm real dumb about streamers but you know what I mean like I don't know if you know or care none of it matters but a couple like streamer uh controversies going on right now they're wildly different I only know this because of Reddit and I've got some friends in Salina who like know about streamers and shit one of the biggest streamers is this dude and I always just assume they all have very, you know, child-heavy fan bases because that's the nature of what they

do. You know what I mean? And like, you were just saying, you don't want to look old. Well, there's this dude that looks old, but he dresses up and like, uh, he's called Dr. Disrespect. You heard of that guy? Well, I've only heard of him recently, I think, because of the controversy. And I purposely was like, oh, I'm skipping over this. Now, I'm thrilled to have you tell me the story, but I didn't want to, like, read and then read it. You know what I mean? You have to, like, parse. I had no interest in parsing doctor disrespect. I know, but it's like, dude, he was like the, he like did things for the San Francisco 49ers, like at the kickoff game of the season and stuff like that. Like they brought him out on the field and I'm telling these people are huge,

is what I'm saying, these streamers. Sure. Sure. And it, and they had mostly young fan bases. Corey, we were talking about like getting, looking older and Drew's saying he just did a don't tell and he like died his hair or died his beard hair a little bit because he didn't want to look old because don't tell his audience is young and they won't be like they would be like this old idiot don't know stuff and then I started and I want to circle back to that but like I was saying Twitch streamers they all got young kids and fight but some of them are old too like easily our age or older yeah they also definitely kind of act like they're not or whatnot and it's they're all dude broie yeah but they also I don't know I don't understand it

I don't understand any of it. The other controversy is with this guy. He literally is just, it's just that, like, people found out that he might be gay. So it's like, oh,

is this the one that we, okay, that I, the sketch, the sketch one is that one. Pretty different. But what's Dr. Disrespect?

Pedophilia. Oh. That is very disrespectful. I know. It's also disrespectful to, like, compare the two, but it's,

like, the sketch one, the other guy's name is sketch. Evidently, I'd never my life heard of him until yesterday. But anyway, Anyway, yeah, he just, like, people found out he made, like, gay only fans videos in past years. And, you know, that's like a controversy, which seems like it's 1996 again.

But apparently it's because he's a Madden streamer and, you know, football. It's like actual football players except they can't be gay either, but it's like. Okay. So this is related to the hot two thing we talked about a little bit. That's why Antonio Brown was the one that called him a. F word. So this is related to the Hoctoa thing. We're talking about a little bit because he's been claimed by what is essentially now the young right wing.

It's like Barstool, the Theo Vaughan fans. He's been on Theo Vaughn, which is how I heard of him. Here's why it's wild to me. From people who don't know, I learned this. This to me is the controversy, but probably because I'm old. I knew who he was because he was on Theo Vaughn. And then you know how like if you like a clip, then they just keep showing you that person? Yeah.

So the algorithm kind of forced this character sketch upon me. He's a streamer. He seemed like a little bit of a spectrumy, very positive, very sweet, very wholesome kid. A lot of the videos that I saw were other, probably people like Dr. Disrespect, putting him beside a porn star without him knowing they were going to be there. and he's like really awkward. So me finding out that he like used to do gay porn, I was like, wait, what?

And what I then found out is that sketch is a character this guy has created. A lot of his fans know this because he got so famous, like the former frat he was in was like, yeah, that's not how he acts. It's like, and so like my nieces and nephews, no sketch is big. They're doing the, uh, What's Up Brother? Which is like his sketch phrase and he points at the sky.

I literally thought that he was this sweet kind of on the spectrum streamer who had very, he has very, all his phrases are positive, he's very positive. And I was like, all right, I guess that's who this kid is, good for Gen Z or whatever. So to find out that it's a character,

some actor, like I feel fooled. I feel old in the sense of like, did y'all know he was just an actor? Because he got me. I only saw Antonio Brown tall and McQuire. That's my intro. By the way, Drew, you look like white trash, Maroon 5. You are Adam Ravine.

That is who I'm calling you. It's hitting for me. Maroon three-fist. So to me, the controversy for me was like, that's how out of touch I am. Apparently people are pretending to be regular people as streamers because that's more profitable to me and Zaney. I don't know if I'm making sense.

So are you telling me that I saw. what I saw was at the front page of Reddit was his like, I don't know what you call it. Not an apology, him addressing it, right? Yeah. And he's sitting there with his headset on whatever.

And he's like, and he's being super, super, super awkward at first, you know, he's like, listen, I look,

a couple years ago, look, you guys may have, okay, so, man, this is, all right.

And then he goes, he goes, I did not have sexual relations with that, man. Wait, no, I did. Maybe.

I don't know. But, and it, like, I thought it was funny. He kind of hits for me. Like, it hit for me, too. He hits. Also, I was surprised by the Bill Clinton reference. Yeah, right. From, oh, yeah, he's 502.

Presume as a zoomer, but yeah, maybe he's old than that. But anyway, it's like, you tell me all that was fake, too? Like, well, like that's just a character he doesn't. He don't, he ain't really like that at all. Right. Because my understanding is, I totally bought it for sure. Right. And so that was like,

wild to me. And then as far as the controversy of him being gay, like I said, it's related to the hot to a girl thing because he is a darling of what I don't know what to call it, the barstool Alphas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The alpha world, that's their little brother. Hmm. And so

a part of me is into it. You know what I mean? Yeah, that he might have a buttline. Especially because he didn't apologize. Well, who also didn't apologize with Dr. disrespect. He got on Twitter. He got a he put out like again i see all this through reddit uh i have no idea what any of these people do

it's important to me that people know that for some reason well i know the reason because i don't really respect this stuff obviously but uh but um old me he got on twitter and uh posted a big long thing like addressing the controversy but in it he just kind of admitted that it happens but that uh i mean not really he was like he was like look were there some text messages with someone who may or may not have been under age, sure, there were. Were they pretty inappropriate? I guess so. It depends on how you like.

And everybody's just like, where are his lawyers at it? Like, who's idea is this? Like he kind of, and then he just feels like a character like on the office or something, you know? I mean, he definitely plays, obviously, his name's Dr. He plays some kind of character too, but I don't know what the thrust of it is or the premise of it or anything. Based on the streamers that my son's watch, he's probably just like loud. Corey

30 Rock. The blonde lady's character's name. Is it Jane? Jenna. Jenna. This feels like a very Jenna. Yeah. It feels like a very Jenna speech. Look. Yes, it does. Were there some inappropriate text? I mean, maybe. Did some of them show pictures to me filleting a 16 year old Guatemalan? Yeah. But that's not the point. The point America is that I love freedom and the flag. That's pretty much. It's very Jen Maroney. Yeah. That's pretty much what he did. That's pretty much what happened. I mean, dude, this is like

some sort of broken dystopian thing where this sketch kid apparently is an actor who was pretending to be on the spectrum for views. We're like, we talked about it before. Sometimes you write a character that becomes beloved in a sitcom, but if you lived with that character, if that character was real, it'd be like you can't, you can't,

like Jennifer Anderson and friends, you can't do the things. You know what I mean? like Ross was the only non-cyclopath on that show. He was a pretty big psychopath. Probably. I just said a thing I read on the internet once. So the point is, like, what if he wrote that as Dr. Disrespect?

I don't think it played. Well, you know, that was Alex Jones's defense. Yeah. Alex Jones literally said, I'm kind of retarded. Yeah. That was a quote. That was a quote. In paper, that they wrote out, was that he was doing performance art.

Right. Well, the nightmare with that is the next Alex Jones, and maybe Dr. disrespects a version of him, is going to go, all right, well, that was a dumb lie. But what if I start out planning to say that? I mean, that's just another version of the, like, you know, the Fox News, they had that huge case, right, where they were like, it's literally called Fox News, and they argued like no reasonable person could believe this is actually news. And the courts like agreed with that despite the fact that it's called Fox News.

And every mammal in this country think, well, not every hashtag, not all mammals, but most of them think that it is news. But Corey, are you like what I mean, I feel like I know the answer to this for you. But say, I'm like I'm going gray, drew going bald, all this stuff. Talking about getting older just in terms of looks alone. I put my hair. I'm not any more bald than I was. I'm just going to.

Yourself was talking about your hairline receding, so I thought that was a tacit acknowledgement. But, okay, but that's not why I should, or whatever. Okay. Where do I fit in now? Yeah, but no, I mean, just in terms of looking older, like, you're going, you're going to fight back. You're not going to go quietly into that good night. You're going to rage against the dying of the. No, I mean, I really think that this is, it's really true.

Like, we've joked about it for years, but I've sort of got that. Arne Anderson thing where like I just feel like I'm going to look this age for a long time. I mean, yeah, you already have. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And like eventually. 42 forever. Yes. Right.

And I'll be 42 soon. And so it'll just make sense. You know what I mean? Like I'm just going to grow into myself. And then you hit the hidden part of it, which is the back end of it. It's like you, I literally thought you were 40-ish when I met you and you were 23 years old. And that don't hit. But like, once you get past 40,

and you get into like 50s and you still look 42. Now it's like a major plus. That's what I'm saying, man. That's what I'm saying, man. 60 but look 42 and it's like, this guy hits. So yeah. Yeah. And I mean,

I've put on a little weight since the baby, but it's coming back down and like, you know, I'm a relatively, I carry my weight well, you know, and I mean, look, I'm always going to be backwards half idiot,

dude. So like my bald's never really even got. Like, I promise you this. I will either always wear a hat or I will get hitting hair plugs. So like I guess that would be me fighting it. But like that's not really even like I want it look younger thing.

That's just I just want hair because I've never had it. Yeah. Something I just thought of, like a follow up question for you, Corey and Tre. And caveat, I'm thinking of this because of my answer to you, Trey. And Corey, I think it was before you got on here, I was like, I was going to say that I don't care about this shit. but then I realized I said that like oh

the only reason I die my beard is because I was going on this thing that's being recorded and you know I just I didn't want the kids scrolling to see it and be right me off before they get and it's like oh that's what caring about that's caring yeah that's caring yeah but I mean you know would you care the same or not at all or what would be different if we weren't in the business we were in

because for me I genuinely think it's the only reason I think I really do believe in my heart it's the only reason I think about it is that I am perceived and I unfortunately have to think about how I'm perceived a lot. I mean, I could not agree more because, like, I feel like most of my insecurities come from the fact that I have to be seen by a lot of people all the time. You know what I mean? And they love to comment. Like, dude, when I'm at home, I rocked the ring bald in front of my family. I don't give a shit. You know what I mean? Like, none of that bothers. I don't care. But then it's like when it's out in front of people, I'm like, oh, God, I have to see a

of me from this angle and that angle. Like, I don't know if I'd completely let myself go if I wasn't in this business, but I do think that, like, having to see myself on camera is the only thing that kind of keeps me in a little bit of check. Yeah, that's a slightly different version of what I said, too, because I was just thinking about how I am often, like, I'm always thinking about what's the audience think when I walk on stage? What's the audience think when they're scrolling?

But you're also right, this is kept me in check on tour. people post pictures of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think this is a very relatable thing for people listening. It just happens to them so much less. Where, like, one Christmas you saw yourself, and you hadn't taken a picture in a while, and you were like, well, that happened to me on tour every fucking month.

Every day. Yes, that's, yes, exactly. Like, I would see these things. I was like, holy God, Jesus Christ. But, like, honestly, it's really funny because, like, for a lot of my career, and I know this kind of sounds weird, considering I dress like a clown.

I wear backwards hats and stuff. But like I was actually always, I hated it that I appeared so young a lot because I felt like the audience, because my audience was always a lot older at the comedy catch and hours. I was like, they're not taking me seriously or whatever. So like, I don't fucking know.

Yeah, I know. And that sounds stupid too. I get that. I ain't taking me serious. He's talking about teet of sweating and farting. Yeah. Yeah.

I did that last night. I opened with that. I don't think. I think, I think it's because the don't tell thing I taped, I know they have a young, I know for it. I know where their audience is. They're one of those companies. They're like, here's our demographics. Yeah, right.

And it's like, oh, that's why it's such a big deal. Yeah, I think it's that mixed with, and I'll get vulnerable about something I do care about. My career's not quite where I want it to be. And so I think there's a part of me that's like going, dude, nobody breaks into this fucking business at 45. That's not true though. You might be right, but like in my head, I'm like, it's got to appear a certain way, which is stupid.

But beyond that, and I think I mean this, I don't like, show them the gray. Like, yeah. I'm almost mad at myself for doing it now because I'm like, yeah, dude, you got a kid. It's funnier to talk about your kid being, you know, keeping you up at night if you look like a guy with a kid keeping you up at night.

Dude, I've always, listen, I tell this to Amber all the time and maybe it's just me like, saying it in a like, please be true, please be true, please be true kind of thing. But I'm always like, you know,

whenever a comedian is the new it guy, like your Gaffigans, your Nate Bargatsy's, your Bill Burs, it always happens to him, like they've been in the game for a while, but when they really hit that huge level, they're always a little bit older.

You know what I mean? And it seems like 40-something-year-old white guys, that's about the time it's like, our comedy finally, meets the age we need to be for people to pay it. I don't fucking know. But like, yeah. I agree with that.

So I disagree with your notion that like people can like break at 45. Like if they start at 45, no. But like I disagree with that. I think what I meant though is like these were known entities who blew up. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, dude, I'm going to be completely honest with you. I think I just in processing this.

I think I wanted my don't tell to look like it was like, okay. And then the next thing comes out. And then he reveals the gray. You know what I'm like? I don't know. All this, all this is stupid. No,

I hear you like the same stuff. I haven't had my Burr on Chappelle's show. You know what I mean? Yeah, right. Yeah, that's the part. Well,

I know people don't. We get way too inside baseball with it. But that last thing you said is what I, because I think of everything Corey just said too. I tell myself that to sleep, but not as well very often. But then I think about what Drew just said, which is like 15 years before Burr became the hit in his comedian on earth at the age of 45 or

or whatever. He was the white guy on Chappelle show absolutely. crushing and nobody knew who he was but he was like... The business is different now. I agree with that show. I think, and maybe this is grass is greener, Trey, I think you can... Like if you pop to another level

soon or in your 40s, plenty of people would be like, yeah, you used to watch that guy's videos. He was shirtless. And now he owns a house. That's crazy. I'm just saying like, dude, we're white men. Like, I know that this is, in arguably the worst time to be white men in this industry, but it's still a good thing to be.

and like, like, we don't, and this sucks for women, but like the clock don't tick for us the same way. Like, if I was a woman, I'd be freaking the fuck out right now, you know, but I'm not. So, eh. Yeah, I'm really glad you asked this. I'm kind of fucking had too much coffee and I processed it out loud. I hope the fans are at least entertained. I did that because I got in my head about how young don't tells audiences.

But I really, and I think I mean this, I really don't think I care about most of that stuff. I care very much about my inability to play basketball without my back going out. I care very much about hiking and my knees hurting. I don't want to get fat. I just don't want to because I've told you guys before, I feel like people have treated me differently when I've gotten fat. No, right? Shut up, fat ass.

I just don't think, other than that, man, I'm like, I'm disappointed in myself for caring about the Don't Tells Young audience. I really don't think this stuff I guess I'm comparing myself to other comedians and actors because that's mostly who I know compared to that group yeah I don't I don't give a fuck

compared to my dad yeah I'm a huge pussy about it I hit way harder my dad in that way your dad like cares about how he looks like just in general just in general yeah what do you think about

that's how Corey's proven he don't care I hit harder my dad like you said a comparison to other people in show business. Like, you know, every now and then, uh, it seems like they,

I don't know, maybe that I don't, y'all think they get more work done now than they used to. Yes. Yeah, right. That buckle, that buckle fat thing,

we've actually been talking about it on the bus with, uh, all the comedians I'm on tour with. Yeah, I want to talk about the bus at some point. One of the, one of the girls was talking about and I, and I was blown away because she,

and I'm going to say her name, I'm going to put her on blast, but she's real young and she was talking about like, like she's had Botox or whatever, you know, done and shit like, like that and I was like I would have not I didn't well all of this is going through my brain because when a woman starts talking about getting work done I'm just like I'm nothing I say is going

be good so fuck that but I was just like leave all women yeah but I was just like me old enough to be having that shit done but then I'm like hey man you know maybe she saw a wrinkle and she's a woman in this business and like she has to be thinking about that stuff and I don't but anyways I then did pipe up and I was like okay so I've been hearing a lot about this buckle buckled fat or whatever and I said said, and y'all seem like, yeah, and I was like, y'all seem like y'all know about it. And they were like, oh, yes, they start telling me. And yeah, it is, it is the pure cheek fat.

And I was like, well, like, tons of people are having that shit done, right? And they were like, yeah, probably. And I said, I only say that because, like, I just see so many celebrities now with dramatically better cheekbones. And I'm like, I don't know how you worked that out. But, but you know what I mean? You think it hit, you said dramatically better cheek bones. You think it hits harder?

No, I'm not just saying. No, I think they look like. Gould. Like, they look like Skeletor. Well, there's good work. Well, dog, there's good work and there's bad work. Like,

Dolly Parton has had a series of good work and there's people who've had the same amount of work as Dolly and they look like the fucking Donatella Versace bitch. Her drag queen makeup is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Sure. But- Ali Parton and she's beloved. I'm going to get so much different from what I'm about to say.

She's beloved and so it changes your perception. If you didn't know who she was and someone just showed you a picture. I think you would be like, what happened? Okay, okay. All right, maybe bad example. But somebody like, Roblo, Roblo looks amazing. He's clearly, John Stamos, Tom Brady, these people have had work done, but I don't

think they look like ghouls. What's the common denominator here, boys? Well, no, there's women too that have probably had it done that I don't think they look. But I think the only, like, the big example was like when I saw the Aaron Moriarty picture from the boys, not to dump on her. But it was a stark like, holy

shit, you look like a different person. and I think they took too much. The fucking Mar-Rife. Sure, but no, on the boys, the Puerto Rican cop. Oh, Mother's milk, Mother's Milk. No, man. Very black. He might be black.

I think I thought he was Puerto Rican. One of the boys. You're talking about French? He's talking about his name. Not Frenchy. No, everybody was talking about Mother's Milk, the black guy. He looks different too. I think he just, he got skinnier and shaved his beard.

He looks awful, in my opinion. Is that a Zipik face? I don't like to be. We're getting a little ming girly about it, but I do agree with you. It's the mustache. He used to have a bit of a beard now. He's got a weird little mustache, but he also lost a lot of weight. And he was like a big thick motherfucker.

Yeah. And even though now, he still looks like he's in like, he's definitely in shape and stuff now. He don't look as menacing, though. But compared to his old thickness, like he had more, he had like some fat and everything too before. He would just, he would just thicker than a. all the oatmeal, right? And now he looks, because sometimes you lose a lot of weight real fast, it looks,

it can look weird. Drew thought he was Puerto Rican. Yeah, yeah. You know what I? Maybe the Maniccan, maybe, because they can be kind of black, right? Let's talk about. I meant the Dominican. You know what I actually thought?

And this is wrong. So I apologize to everyone listening for this wrong thought that I had. I thought, oh, he's gay. and he beefed up to get a role in Hollywood because he knew he'd be top cast as a tough guy and he got that role and feels secure in it and now he's like, I'm going to look the way I want to look because that thin mustache looked a little bit to me

like Jonathan Waters. Either that or it was what we were talking about where like he hadn't had a big role and then he gets one and he sees himself on TV and people were commenting like, look at that fat Puerto Rican looking black guy. He's Cuban. I knew it. I fucking knew it.

Fuck you guys. You tried to throw the racist at me. That ain't Puerto Rico. That's confused my Mexicans. So fuck you. Okay. That's fine. That's fine.

Okay. You're right. You're right. I'll agree with you. I was still very, right. But you guys were like, he's black. I'm like, he is. But he is black.

He's Caribbean black. Yeah. He's Caribbean black. And I can tell when they're that. I guess so. Yeah, you can. You fooled me. Yeah.

I should add the papal should hire you. It's not racist if you're good at it. Yeah. He can put them out. Help them categorize everybody for the camp. How do I hate him? Yeah. You know, we're all on the road a lot.

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I just heard a, it reminds me today. I heard a Robin Tran joke that was very funny where she goes, I'm the least racist type of person. because I can tell people apart, just not very specifically. If you can't do it at all, you're racist, and if you can get real specific with it, you're racist. Yeah.

Right. Corey, how goes the spreading of democracy through comedy? Oh, I mean, honestly, the shows have been through war. Yeah, the shows have been really fun. And by the way, last night in Muncie, it was a well-read crowd buddy and everybody was missing y'all saying, you know, saying, hey, we had a bunch of well-read podcast fan putting on airs people's that makes me really happy

but a part of me's like all right dude cut the fat fucking go on tour by yourself dog make more money spread democracy and spread your butt cheeks and let the bank man fuck you in the ass i mean yeah if you're bringing you bringing everybody out you know yeah i'm i guess your fans talk to you after the show and the other people's fans talked to them after the show it was mostly mine but he's like no it was all made uh but but i'm up for that one but but But no, no, no, but I'm just saying like, but that wasn't necessarily the case in Milwaukee. It was a spread out of order. But Muncie, I guess, you know, we've just got, that's where our people are.

But it was super fucking fun. The shows were great. And the bus, so I will say this, the first day we were on the bus, I slept the entire five hours. And I took that to mean like, man, this bus super hits. Well, today I wasn't able to go to sleep. And this bus has, I'm going to say, zero shocks. it takes every bump like Tyson hitting you in the fucking chin. And like I literally have bruises on me from when I was just sitting normal and I got slammed against the window or my arm got slammed because the bus is just going.

But, you know, I love all the comedians on there. So we were, I mean, I say we were having a good time. I put on my headphones, listen to a book, ignore to everybody. Yeah, I was right to ask. Like, I mean, I've never, I've always, I've always thought a tour bus would hit, you know, because in my, head in between places. If you're driving at night, you sleep. But if you're driving there in the day, I don't know,

fucking somebody brings an Xbox or you watch a movie or play cards or something like that. But so I was going to ask about the like, like, what are you doing on there? But you're just sleeping and listening to books and stuff and just sitting in the corner, brooding, ignoring everyone. Yeah. Yeah, they were all having a good time. A man, they were all having a good.

But like I took, but we hung out after the show last night. We've been hanging out after the shows. And I've just told everybody I was like, I've got like my type of anxiety and impression or whatever is I've got so much hangout juice and if I use it all right now, I probably won't even have a good show. You know what I mean? So I was like, I just need to, you know, relax. So like, yeah, I was ignoring everybody, but they were all fucking, you know, doing their shit.

But on the bus, like, bringing us back from the hotel and shows and stuff, we're all tagging each other jokes. And it's like, you know, we're hyped from the show and like, it's all fun. But it really is, it really is a blast. I'll tell you, you know, a lot of it, I'm not doing well missing my kid. I'm not doing good. Amber has been sending me so many fucking videos and like, I know I'm making

it up in my head, but I'm like, he's an inch taller. You know what I mean? All that shit. You're not making it up. Sorry to tell you. I was gone for five days and Roscoe grew two inches once. But I'm wondering, how long are you gone for? That's what I want to do.

A week, right? No, 10 days total. I'll be back. We left Friday, Thursday or Friday, and I'll be back Sunday or Monday. I can't remember. Because it's really... 10 days and then you're off for a bit,

or is it 10 days and it's over? 10 days and it's over. And, but the thing is, like, I didn't really even... You know me, they just tell me I'm going for these days. And I'm like, all right, cool. And I don't check shit. We've only got like five shows, but we were gone 10 days.

So we've actually got days off in between. I was going to ask you about that too. I dig it. Yeah, I was going to say that's like, because that almost never happened. It never happens. The only time I can even remember that happened to me, and it's like, obviously, this still don't hit.

But I had a content. Kentucky run and the second day of it was Lexington and the fucking theater was about to collapse. They found out that morning. I remember. They had to cancel the show day of. It had nothing to do with me. But I had to be in Louisville the next night and I had been in Bowling Green the night before. So me and Donnie just like went to the horse track and just like,

bet the ponies on out or whatever. And it was like, it was so great. Like an unexpected day off on the road is fucking killer. But like, that's heroin. But you, uh, it's still. you're out there the whole time, but you have days off in between and people don't, that's like very, very unusual.

Right. So like, yeah. You like tonight, you just get to just hit in your hotel room, right? Where are you at? Where are they stopped? No, tonight we,

tonight we have a show. We're in Hazard, Kentucky tonight. But then, then tomorrow we go to Memphis for two days, but only one show. And like, they were all like, none of these people are from the South, right? So like, I'm definitely like their attache.

of all this shit. And they were all like, oh, Corey, would you go to Graceland? Have you ever been to Grace Land? I was like, yeah,

I'll go for the eighth time again. That'll be fun. And I was like, you know, or, you know, y'all can book the tour or whatever, or I could just give it to you right now.

Yeah, I can just tell you all the shit. But so we're going to do Graceland or whatever, which is just getting really fun. But like, yeah, I mean, I've been like,

the one, the one positive I'll say of like, uh, not having my kid sucks, but like, I've been sleeping. Oh, yeah. It's been amazing.

Oh, my God. Every hotel we've had has the blackout curtains. And yeah, and so I'm pumped for having, you know, two days in Memphis. Like, you know exactly what I'm going to do.

I'm going to burn myself on ribs. Yeah. And then I think we got two days in Fayetteville, Arkansas. And like, yeah, the being away from home part sucks, but the not having a show every day is like,

it's kind of the most relaxing on the road I've ever been. Well, here's the other question. These other comics, most of them, most of them you said earlier, they're like younger. They're young comics, younger people. Yeah, well, you know what's funny is that I found out that the one guy that I thought was insanely young is actually just one year younger than me. He'd just be taking care of himself. It'd be like that sometimes. So that's related.

He'd be taking care of himself. Does anybody be drinking? Do you be drinking? So everybody's been having a drink. So this is funny. We were in Muncie last night. And the guy that was running the venue was super fucking cool. I mean,

Brad asked it. He had a Robert F. Kennedy if Robert F. Kennedy wasn't a lunatic vibe. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he was a handsome guy. Yeah, he just handsome guy has a commanding personality, but was like super cool. And he was like, hey. Do what?

How was his son? I didn't meet his son. I met his dad, though. And he was like, same way, kind of. And he was like, hey, guys. guys bought, you know, the bars on me, y'all do whatever you want. So like, we've got like an hour before the show and I go over there and, uh, they give me, they, I was like, I'll take a wine. They gave me one in a mason jar and I was like, oh, is that how you serve them? There, she's like,

no, we usually put them in this, then this how we measure it and pour them the glass, but I just figured it would hit for you in here. And I was like, yeah, it does hit for me in there. So anyways, I'm having, I'm having my wine. Show still hasn't started. We're kind of just chilling out. I finished that wine. And I mean, I think we all know what you do after you finish a wine. You go get another wine. Yeah, of course. And the producer of the show was like, you're having another drink? And I was like, I was like, but she wasn't mad.

She wasn't mad. She was just like, you're having another drink? I was like, am I having a second drink? She's like, yeah, she's like, oh, you go, girl, do your thing. And I was like, man, I'm about to show out. That was passive aggressive, dog. This is out. And I got drunk. See, this is why I ask, it is a goddamn epidemic

in the comedy where it's just like with, I guess it's with everything. I guess it's, I guess it's with everything because it's also when we wrote a book, we found out it was that way with writers too, but comedians are the same way. They don't drink no more. They used to be. I'm the only one drinking.

I'm the only one drunks and drug-addled lunatics and stuff. And I'm in green rooms now and my openers out everywhere I go. The openers are anybody. Like I'm the only one. I'm the only one drinking and I'm like, the fuck is wrong with y'all. They saw their heroes die at 50. That's true,

but we don't have. And also, it's way more competitive now. I mean, all right, let me just say this. I'm with you guys, okay? I hate it. I hate it. Do you think we hadn't drank so much and spend a little bit more energy figuring out how to get what we was doing?

Because I think a lot about some of the nights we had on stage and like, you know, what we were doing on stage was fire. But getting that out to the world, how we didn't get that out to the world. People weren't doing that then. I feel like if we had more energy. We wouldn't have done it anyways, though. But that's Drew's point. That's true's point, I think.

It's like the idea that if you're not, part of the reason why we're worthless in that way, because we should have been making all kinds of content videos and promos and all this stuff. And we weren't doing none of that. And it would have helped us. And part of the reason why is because we always felt like shit because we were fat and lazy and hungover and drunk and stuff. And that is definitely true. But it also just hit harder. But secondly, what you're saying, I thought that before, too.

It's like, dude ever makes these crowd work videos and shit. We were doing that at the end of every show eight years. ago, but we weren't filming it, but people weren't making those and putting those out back then, and I know we could have been ahead of the game. Numerous, numerous times, our people said, we should be filming the Q&A, blah, blah, blah. And we always said,

we can't afford to hire somebody to do all that, which is true. Which is true. What people are doing now that we could have done is somebody else is filming them, and then when they wake up not hungover, they edit them themselves. I absolutely know how to do that now. It would have taken me three weeks to learn it back then,

but I felt like shit. every day. Right. I'm fine with where I am and the memories I've made. Sure. I'm with you. I'm not saying anything like that. I'm saying that is why it's like that in my opinion.

Yeah. We have an ultra-visible because of the internet now, ultra-competitive, ultra-lucrative industry. And I just think that the people you're talking about still exist. Buddy, they're road dogs and people whisper about them. They're cautionary tales. Honestly, that's a testament to how fucking good we are. well I make it to the shows I'm on time you know what I mean most of those dudes are like sleeping in hotels and not making it to shit like I don't have a problem but like if we're doing like and I told him and this is true because they were talking about like they were asking me about Disney or whatever and I was telling him I didn't drink they're like you're a drinker though right and I was like I know this is how this is about to sound but like usually only when I work you know I was like we just got one of them jobs where you can drink and I'm like well fucking hey right brother you know but I was like no when I'm on vacation and stuff like I don't drink it's just like two me

I can't. And like, I'm good at stand-up and I believe in myself, but like, having a couple drinks will make you a couple, not a lot. It's going to make you have a better set. It's going to make you have a better fucking set. You know I'm with you on that, dude, but a lot of people, I guess it's generational comedically

or something. Yeah, it might also be, they use sobriety as a crutch, man. It might also be if you study high, you got to take the test high. We might have gotten good at comedy I know that's true for me. I know for a fact that from the time I started,

when I first started, I was so insanely fucking nervous that I had to have a couple of drinks to be able to get on stage at the very beginning. And I'm a very, like, conditioned person and habitual and like a creature of routine. And it's like I started hitting early on and that became a part of it for me.

You show up, you have a couple drinks, you go up, you hit. The couple of drinks became like a part of the hitting for me. It also just hits. It also does just hit. You're right. You're so right. But it's like,

that's the part I can get away from me. And it's like when I've had to do it with that. And I've, you know, there was a stretch of time. We know, after we first came back from COVID, I wasn't drinking at all for like months on the road.

And I wasn't, I wasn't hitting for myself. Me either. Okay. I was doing better as a stand-up. And I have continued. Not me. But the reason why isn't,

in my opinion, and isn't, oh, no drink Drew is better than two drink Drew. It was six nights in a row. Three drinks, Drew, is so much worse than six nights in a row than no drink. And then I learned how to be present and all that stuff. But this is fucked up. Well, this is fucked up. I learned, I did get better at being sober on stage.

And I do think it made me a better comic. You want to know what? Then I did. Started having a couple of drinks again. and I was even, it's like you got to train sober, and then you got to perform on two drinks or something. Like,

you get better, I think sober. Like, you remember what you did. You remember that tag. You're, oh shit, I thought of a new one,

at least for me. And then, well, going back to the don't tell thing, this is what I did. I did not drink on stage hardly at all, maybe one every once in a while, for the two months leading up to that set.

And then I had two and a half before. I went on that night. It was like, I learned this set sober. It was like Chris Rock sitting down and reading his jokes and getting laughs and then performing him as Chris Rock later. It was like, I made this hit sober. Now watch me fly.

Yeah, well, I had three glasses of wine and did five new minutes on Garfield that fucking smashed. And I don't think I could have done that sober. Muncie is where Jim. Spocked the Mason jar in front of the producer's face. By the way, Muncie, Indiana. where Jim Davis is from.

I'm not just doing Garfield. I'm not just doing a bit on Garfield. But see, the idea that, and I think Drew very likely may have been right a minute ago when he said like, no, that was passive aggressive, bro.

Like, even if it wasn't, a lot of people are like that. And when the idea that like you having two, why, like, if people are showing their ass, if people are showing their ass and fucking things up

and being rude and harassing people, that is like a problem. and it's like, we can't work with this guy. But if all you're doing is doing the job and hitting, but you're having more than one drink while doing it, the idea that people are out there judging for that now, that that's unacceptable. Fuck that.

And by the way, we've worked together before. That producer messes me off so much, knowing that that is true, or at least may be true. I'm projecting maybe, but yeah. Maybe she's like a theater producer, not a rock and roll. She rules, by the way. But you know what I'm saying? Like there are worlds, Andy's world.

Actors, dude, if you were having a glass of line before you did a play, people would be like, what the fuck are you doing? Well, hold on. Let me tell you this story that I texted Trey earlier. And I think it illustrates this too about the general vibe, not just the drinks. We were at the gas station earlier today, right? We're getting out to pee. Everybody go in, get your snacks or whatever.

Well, I was about to fucking go get all my skittles, do all my thing or whatever. And then one of the comedians, she goes, like, to the group, she goes, you know what? I think I'm going to be bad. And everybody was like, what? And she goes, I'm getting some sweet tarts. And everybody was like, oh, my God, holy shit, you're getting sweet tarts. I haven't had those in like years, but you do, you girl, you know, treat yourself or whatever. And I'm sitting there.

I didn't get nothing. Before he snort matter all in the bathroom. Yeah. And they were all just like, you know, they have chemicals and stuff. But like, sometimes you just got to do it. And I'm like, bruh, if y'all. If y'all went on the, if y'all went on the road with the well-read crew for one week and, like, just observed and we didn't know y'all was there, you would fucking vomit. You wouldn't vomit.

I would destroy their family. Y'all would kill one of those people. I'm saying. And that, that fact that that is true, it just blows my mind because I don't feel like. Because we're not that. We're not that. We're not that. We're not that.

Salishy. Right. Exactly. Because we've compared ourselves to Belushi. This goes back to the thing I've talked to guys about, about every male friend duo. One of them's White Art and one of them's Doc Holiday from the seminal motion picture, Tombstone.

Yep. And you can be one to one friend and one different to the other, right? Oh, yeah. I am everyone's Doc Holiday in my life, except for comedians. I'm almost every comedian's in my life's White Art. You guys are saying we're not that bad because Corey just said it, because we're not

John Belushi. Oh, you mean the guy that died at 30? Yeah, we're not... Yes, yes, I am. But we're not... But I don't know. we're not. We are drunks. No. No. No, you don't hit.

We hit. You don't hit. This is the posthification of society. That's what this is. Yeah. Go hang out with your fucking don't tell young piece of shit fans and talk about being straight-edge, motherfucker. Oh, it ain't out yet. I'm not going to have any because I'm talking about being a dad and they hated it.

I'm just getting it killed and the hip for them really hard. I want to go back, though. What time has it? 106. Okay. Passive aggressive. And it might be that this producer has had many roles as producer and there's plenty of cultures, performance cultures, like rock and roll and comedy and rap probably really are

the only ones where you're supposed to do that. You're probably not supposed to be having drinks if you're doing a play or whatever. But Trey, what if, just hear me out, just a wild hypothetical. That's probably not even remotely true. what is fucking Corey's got the goddamn B going back there. He's got the banjo tutored up and he's in the middle of saying something about how fat the ass was on the bartender. I'm like, buddy, I could have rested my fucking drink on it.

You know what I'm saying? And then like that was the context because you got it. But it weren't. You're saying all that happened was you had two drinks. I'm telling you. I don't know, man. She was calling me out. I mean, I definitely,

but here's a thing. I could buy that. I do believe it says he had only two. but what you're describing also could very easily have one of the two. I'm saying he was in the middle of hitting. And she was like, so you're going to have another one? Now,

no, now, by the way, two things can be true. The first thing I said was true is that. The first thing I said was absolutely true that we had just got there and I'd had two drinks. And by the way,

people were filing in. I wasn't doing none of that. Now, that said, we went out afterwards to a dive bar and I know I showed out. I know I showed out. I know I did because I was there. I sainted it.

But like, you know, but they drank so I remember. But at that point, though, they were all drinking too. You know what I mean? Like their thing was like, how could you drink before the show? And my thing is like, you know, no offense, but y'all would hit a lot harder if you did. You know, because you see what I did? You see how that hit? Well, you know, I was drunk.

But anyways, but like. Some of these young comedians are learning horrible lessons right now. now both literally and through osmosis. They're like, I disagree. Oh yes. God forbid they go out and hit. Yeah,

that'd be terrible. What a crime? They're going to be chasing the dragon. One of them's going to wake up in a fucking gutter in two years. You're being the guy they blame instead of their dad. That's not the person. I know. I mean, yeah, that's whatever.

Like you said, it feels like it's either, oh, you can never drink before a show that's unprofessional. You can't do any of this, anything at all. Or your fucking John Belushi. And that is insane. insane. I think I think John Belushi.

And we are really relatively tight. We don't ever cause no trouble, get kicked out of nowhere, do nothing like miss any shows. Cheat on our wives. Cheat on our wives. None of that ever happens.

We literally just be drinking and that is enough to, even if you're not drinking, your behavior is fine and you kill on stage, just the drinking is enough to make you a pariah. That's fucking stupid. I think,

I think. Amen. I agree with you. I think Belushi and Farley and those stories created the other thing. Yeah, it happened to the wrestling too, by the way, because I- Happened in writing. When I first started hanging out with wrestlers, like through Conrad or whatever, I genuinely, like, I remember we were going to a party at Cody Rhodes House, right?

Fucking Dusty Road, son. And all these, the young bucks were going to be there. And like, all these new wrestlers that I'd just now heard of. And I'm like, dude. and it was in Atlanta. I was like, this is about to be fucking lit, bro. And Cody had like a drink,

but none of the other wrestlers drink. And I was sitting there like with a 30 rack, just like, I got some for everybody, you know? And they were like, no, we don't drink. And I was like, wait, what? And they were like, oh, we do. We have to be in peak physical performance. And I was like, yes, that all makes sense to me.

But like, so was macho man. You know? Yeah. But they watched all them die. And so I get it. Like, they literally saw Eddie Guerrero die at 36. And they're like, fuck all that. athlete, I do understand it

because it does objectively affect you for the worse. Of course. And it's more competitive now. And that's not... Well, I mean, I guess some people think that's true for comedy too, but me and Cho believe that it's not true. Because it's not. The only other thing, I'm doing Trump hands,

the only other thing that I'll say to argue with you guys little is this is my cross-examination of the show. This is where I would pull up... Oh, it's about me now. Trey's been the loudest, but... I know, but this is where I would pull up a clip of you on this very podcast talking about how sobriety led to some of your most creative outlets.

It does. I think for a lot of people, they don't feel like they can or should tempt fate by riding the line like this. Like a lot of people are like, I'll be Belushi. You know what I mean? But I think I genuinely don't think, I really think it's like hypercompetitive. competitive. People are very, like, you're on this tour bus with successful people. They're super, super into their career.

And I think they're just like, yeah, maybe it would be better and more fun. Or maybe I'd be John Belushi. Dude, but here's the thing. No, I feel you like when I'm at, like, when I'm home, when I'm making videos, when I'm like, you know, and whatever, like, I don't drink when I do all that. Because like you said, edited and hung over ain't. And so, yeah, yeah, all of that. And like, all the jokes that I wrote, I wasn't slam.

I mean, don't hear wrong. I've been like, if I'm on stage and I'm buzzed up, riffing, I'll think of a tag and then I'll write it down. But all my ideas usually come sober. It's just when I'm on the stage and I don't want to have a drink. So like I'm with you. And that like when I'm like when I write like, you know, whether it's writing the book, writing an essay or whatever, I'm usually stone cold sober because like I like to be in a good, I feel like I need to be in a good mood to create something good.

But like, but being on stage, though, you're supposed to drink. drink. No, I agree with you. I agree with you. I just think that their mentality is they're not trying to have the most fun tonight or even necessarily put on the best show. They're trying to have the best career. Go fucking working accounting.

That's exactly what I was about to say. They're not trying to most of it's like, go work in a fucking office then. Hey. Like, why do this? We're supposed to have fun with it. What I tell the literary agency or publishing or how the fuck it was. This is why your industry is dying. Right.

Yeah. The motherfuckers won't drink no more. Right. Yeah. Well, that's why most comedy is just, what do you do for a living, sir? Oh, that's crazy. Yep. Everything's pussy-five, boys.

That's what it is. And again, to go back to what Tray said. Okay, well, yeah, I won't do that, then. Hey. So, come see me, perform drunk. I won't be drunk. I'll be drinking. It'll hit.

And Tulsa this weekend with Donnie. And then also, guess what, y'all? At the end of this month, I got a big, week long run. through New York and Connecticut, including Brooklyn and upstate and everywhere else. And on that run is going to be former guest, Ali Clayton. She's going to be with me on that run. So you all come and see us. Don't bury your way.

That's exactly what I'm about saying. I hope I don't get buried that entire time, but probably pretty likely. Either way, go trekkruder.com and come. I'm saying me. Drew. Oh, I'm on vacation in Kentucky with my family. the second half of the child support tour doesn't start back up until September.

So I'll be in and around Knoxville, but mostly just listen to Gravy Baby and share my clips. If you're listening to this when it comes out, I'll be at Graceland just doing the Elvis tour. But then Thursday night, Memphis, and then this weekend, Fayetteville, Arkansas. I'll throw that link up in the description of this. BonusCory.com is obviously my essays,

my bonus podcast and stuff. listen to Putting On Airs and also the sister show is back me and my sister, Lady Kirby, are recapping House of the Dragon on our podcast, Little House of the Dragon, which you can find on the Putting On Air Speed. Thank you all for listening to the Well Red Show.

We love to stick around longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you've got nothing to do. Oh, frog in my throat. Thank you. God bless you. Good night and skew. Spart. Art. Oh yeah, I'm in charge.

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