wellRED podcast - #48 - "OK, We'll Take Some Questions Now.."

Episode Date: January 3, 2018

This week's episode features two separate Q&A sessions. The first one was conducted after a show we did at Comedy Works in Denver when WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT TRUMP WAS GONNA BE THE PRESIDENT HOLY SHIT!!! And the second was a sit down interview we did with our pal Jen Stocks in Charlotte, NC.We discuss our individual upbringings, our start in stand up comedy, where the south can improve and where it gets it right.....but because it's conducted in interview style we dont fucking yell over each other the whole god damn time! Aint that something? Download, Subscribe, tell your friends.  Go to getquip.com/wellred for AMAZING toothbrushes from our sponsors at QuipwellREDcomedy.com for tickets to our shows, merch, our book, our newsletter and more!

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Hey y'all, it's Trey here. Just want to take a minute to let you all know about a new video project I've got coming out that I'm pretty excited about. It's a collaboration between me and my good buddies over there at attention. A-T-N. Y'all seen me do stuff with them in the past. And, you know, they like what I'm about. I like what they're about. So we thought we'd dig in a little deeper on a particular subject. And we picked one that I think you'll agree is an extremely important issue we are all facing.

And that's income inequality. So, and I mean, you know, I'm pretty qualified to talk about that from one end of the spectrum. So we've got some people that were qualified from the other end. We put our heads together. and we've got 10 short form web videos that will be each dealing with a particular aspect of the income inequality problem in this country. And that starts with episode one, corporate welfare. And, you know, the welfare that's totally okay, the one that nobody ever talks about. Yeah, that particular welfare.

Not the real problem, you know, lazy single mothers, a scourge on this country that nobody wants to do anything. thing about. We're talking about the innocuous, harmless, totally profitable type of welfare, corporate welfare. That's the subject of episode one, which came out yesterday, January 2nd. It's a Tuesday. These episodes will come out weekly every Tuesday from now through mid-March. And each one, like I said, deals with a different aspect of the income inequality problem. I hope that y'all like them. And no, this does not at all impact my approach to. the Portrats, I will still do those, they will still be different, but I do think if you like those, you will like these as well, so please check them out. Every Tuesday morning, you can find

them on all my social media stuff, Facebook, Twitter, all that, or on attentions. And again, that's ATTN, we sure do hope y'all like them. I love you very much. Let's hope this year isn't the total shit show that last year was, am I right? Okay, love you like chicken, bye. What's up, everybody? It's the show. Well-read comment. for tour updates. We're going to be, we're about to hop back on the road next week, January 10th, Los Angeles, California,

then on to San Diego, California, Phoenix, Arizona, Asheville, North Carolina, Dallas, Texas, Austin, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Houston, Texas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jacksonville, Florida, West Palm Beach, Florida, Salt Lake City, Utah, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota,

New Orleans, Louisiana, sorry, I'm an idiot, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Lansing, Michigan, Detroit, and Warren, Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Portland, Oregon, Charleston, South Carolina, Napa, California, Spokane, Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, Huntsville, Alabama, Oxford, Mississippi, Chicago, Illinois, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma. God damn, we're going everywhere. Honolulu, Hawaii, Burlington, Vermont, Portland, Maine, Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland. That just takes us up to July 22nd, so the other tour dates will be

announced, you know, here within the next couple months or whatever, go to well-readcom to grab those tickets. As always, the tour dates are brought to you by Smokey Boysgrilling.com. Go to Smokey Boysgrilling.com. Pick you up some hog rub, pick you up some t-shirts, tell them we sent you. They're doing great things, and we love them so much. It's so delicious. I actually got to have some, I think they call them Smokey Balls.

They really is like sausage balls rubbed in the smoky dust this weekend. Super good. So guys, guys, this episode that you're... about to hear is a little bit different. Normally we're the ones interviewing people and trying to get, you know, unique perspectives on Southern culture and politics and music and whatnot. But this week, we're actually the ones kind of being interviewed. The first portion is actually taken from a show we did in Denver, Colorado at Comedy Works, probably getting close to two years ago. If you used to come see us on tour, you know that at the end of the show, we used to do a

Q&A instead of like a story joke, which is what we do now. So this is a Q&A that was taken from Denver, Colorado. And then following that is an interview we did with our friend Jen in Charlotte, North Carolina. I thought it would be cool to include these because to me, they answer some questions that we're constantly getting. So I thought it would be nice to put them in this succinct an hour and 40-minute context so you can listen.

And it's us blabbing on and, you know, about who we are and what we do. And, you know, how fucking brilliant we are. You know how we get. So anyways, check it out. Hope you enjoy. Subscribe, download, tell your friends. Go to well-read comedy.com, W-E-L-L-R-E-D, Comedy.com, spelled just like the podcast. Sign up for our newsletter so you can get tickets to our shows as soon as they go on sale.

A lot of times we'll have a promo code, and sometimes the shows will sell out just based on the promo code. So it's awesome to be a part of the newsletter. We always try to do something humorous once a month. Drew usually writes a nice scathing letter to our president. It's very sweet. So please enjoy this podcast. And like I said, tell your friends, we love you. Sorry, my skew was terrible.

I'm sick. I don't know if you can tell. I sound like shit. I've been sick for the past week. Nothing hits. But go dogs. Go on the championship, baby. Schukew.

Well, well, well. My buddy, Trey Crowder, everybody. That him has. My buddy Drew Morgan back up here. How about Drew Morgan? If you want to, I don't give a shit. One more time. What shit.

One more time for yourself, Denver. How about you? Jesus Christ, y'all, damn. As we said, we're going to do a little Q&A here with you guys. After we're done, and we did not bring one on stage because we are idiots. We have a T-shirt to sell afterwards, so if you ain't done spending money, we'd really appreciate that shit. You knew rednecks are going to have a goddamn yard sale afterwards. You know, that was going to happen.

But anyways, thank you guys so much for coming out. I really do appreciate you. Like I said, I'm going to field some questions now. Let me go ahead and fire one out, feel free. What's up, buddy? Particularly, this guy. Hold on, what now? Where am I staying tonight?

He has propositioned you, Corey. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, you got drugs. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. You know, how about, we'll talk after the show. That is a good first question, thank you. Not very prolific what we're normally getting, but next question. What's up?

How can you get your pre-order book sign? You must get the book. I don't actually, I don't know. I mean, I guess, yeah, we're going to come back. We'll be back to Denver and... Yeah, we'll come back to Denver. Sure, we absolutely will. You do not need to twist our arm to come here.

God damn it. You don't. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for pre-ordering the book, by the way. What's up? What's up? Would we have the courage... Would we have the courage to do this show in a room full of Republicans?

Yeah. We've been doing comedy in the South primarily for six, six, six, and 12 years. So we've been doing this show in rooms full of Republicans. show in rooms full of Republicans for a long time. That's why we like having y'all here. That's why you're so much better. That is a phenomenal question. It's very different. I think it made it sharper

and, you know, tougher. Not that comedians are tough, but you know what I mean. For me personally, I grew up in a comedy club. I started at 16. And so I pretty much grew up in a comedy club. It was a very conservative area. And so I had to develop this all shucks.

You know, like, you know Somehow when I turn around and show you on my butt and look cute and shit like that, that's on purpose. Because whenever I would call them a bunch of racist assholes, as long as I looked like, oh, it's okay, it was fine, right? So I got to go. You learn how to do it, but no, fuck them. Like, we'd do it.

I'll tell you, the best, or the funniest, at least, story I have about that kind of thing. So, like, sometimes people yell and scream and get real mad, but mostly, usually they just leave. They just get up and leave when you piss them off. and my best that type of story was one time me and Corey

were doing a show in Knoxville right for all this shit happened and this I walked this lady she left in the middle of my set and I didn't even notice she was towards the back Corey was outside smoking and heard her bitching

about having to leave and whatever and tell them what she said to her friend I go I was smoking a cigarette and she's like I'm just leaving I just can't stand under this shit and I was like

Jesus Christ and I said ma'am you my mom asking you what what offended you tonight and she goes You know what? I just don't think you should talk about Earnhardt like that.

That was the third. Which. On the outside chance, anyone don't know who that is. That is a NASCAR driver. Three. Okay, I just, I feel the need to say, for the record, I would never. Never.

Never. Never disparage Earnhardt. I don't know what that lady heard. She was pissed. He's a race car driver. A southern one. What's up? What's out?

You said you'd love to see more of his YouTube videos? Are you asking us why we don't have many up? Yeah, we... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, in his defense, he's done that. That's why we're fucking here. We are trying... You're saying you want us to get a TV show, and we agree.

Yeah, again. We are working on it. We love it. By the damn. book. Maybe we can be that look. We sold a share a load of books. Give us a show. What's up? What's up right here? Yes. Yes, ma'am. I knew at the second that you yelled out during my set, I was like, that's a woman from

the South right there. Right, yeah. Oak Ridge, I couldn't, with these lights. She, bro, and Oak Ridge Wildcats license plate. To a comedy show. I say I live in Knoxville because people know what Knoxville is, but I actually live in Oak Ridge right outside of Knoxville. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, if I... Hell yeah. At the year, Georgia Bulldogs won the goddamn national championship. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, thank you. And on that note, I want to say, because I just want to give her a shout out. The town that I'm... I live in Oak Ridge. The town I grew up in, it's called Salina, Tennessee. There's no McDonald's. There's no...

There's no... There's no... There's no traffic lights. It's that small. There's nobody there. Shut the fuck up. You're from there? Okay.

Because... What the fuck is happening? Hold on. Wait a minute. Hold on. No, no. Hold on. The reason that I brought it up.

The reason I brought it up is because one of my good friends from high school in Solana is fucking sitting right there. Her name's Polly. I'm so... Hey, Polly. Well... Hey, Polly. Polly. Am I bullshitting about any of...

that stuff, no, right? Hey, on that note... But we have two people from... That's fucking weird. On that note, before we go any further, I would like to point out, and I don't know where he is right now, but one of... I live in Chickamauga, Georgia. One of my best friends... What is going on? One of my best friends

from high school, Jim McJunkin just sent me a message. He's fucking here. I don't know where he are, Jim, but I... Where you? Thanks, Jim! What's up, dude? That's my guy! That's my guy! Yeah! Yes, sir. so I don't know what the fuck is happening

this is weird yes sir you got a question moss that's where my daddy grew up moss tennessee this guy's legit this guy's legit

this guy's legit this guy's legit hi matter in hell hey hey who won well fuck your goddamn ankle then yes ma'am

right here that's awesome though blonde lady I just got you drunk Blonde lady. Yes, ma'am. Asheville, we were just there. You're all from Asheville? God damn what the fuck? Did y'all follow us?

No shit. I did too. Well, not in Asheville. What's up? Hey, this ain't a town hall meeting, God damn it. Shut the fuck up. Sit down, oh, Chris. We sort of treat it that way.

Okay, you were interested in Trey after HB2? Absolutely. Well, you're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you. That's been stuff, that kind of thing has been the wildest and like the best part of all this. Because yeah, we've been comics for a long time just, you know, telling dick jokes making people laugh. Yeah, and that's great.

But like hearing stuff like that for people shows or whatever is just crazy. So thank you very much. I honestly thought that the best we could ever hope for is someone being like, I sent one of your clips as a fuck you. You know what I mean? like yeah i get a lot of that and that's great and that's phenomenal but i never expected that thank you so much well okay so let me here you got this bracelet a uh a fan came to our show in new york city in manhattan at gotham comedy club and gave me this bracelet it's pretty sweet

that's pretty cool i've been hearing it i've been wearing it pretty much ever since and i love wearing this shit in oakridge tennessee by the way because in oak ridge i walk around just sleeveless shirts just, you know, redder in hell with this on. You should see some of the looks, I get. What's up? I got you right here. Right, okay. Oh, my bad, I'm sorry.

Now, go ahead. I done did it. Hell. Yeah. Strawberry Pines, Tennessee. Lanes. Lines. Lines.

Lime. Knoxville. Well, my bad. God damn. Pines hit, too. You talk real slow. She's the first thing you do. She asked how we have conversations with our relatives about this kind of stuff.

And, yeah, honestly, I have it easier. they do because I was mostly raised. You might have noticed my mom was a pill billy, right? So my dad mostly raised me, and his only brother is gay, so that whole part of my family is pretty liberal, actually. And so that's fine for me. Now, my wife's family, they're Duck Dynasty rednecks, you know, like they are not about.

But here's the thing. I don't give a single shit what my wife's family thinks, so that makes it really easy for me. I don't know about them too. Well, I can, here's how talking to my family is. My dad's like, man, it's really sweet that you're not in the basement anymore. And I'm like, yeah, all right.

And he goes, all right, fuck it, go on. So, yeah, it's worked out. We have a question over here. We were missing. Sorry about that. Go ahead, man. That's all right. The family reunion portion is over.

This is the best one we've ever had. No, no, no. We're not just saying that. We're not just saying that. You say that included your routine. Huh? If we say that including your team, that Devere was the best audience.

No. Not kidding. I'm not kidding. This is the best show I would have been a part of it. It's my second but favorite. If I was going to rank them right now, as far as crowds ago, I'd go here, D.C. And then, but one of the funnest shows was in Johnson City, Tennessee. Whoa.

Because. Because usually we see like liberal rednecks, but they're way more liberal than redneck. People in Johnson City were redneck as hell. Y'all ain't, yes. They threw a can of pork and beans on the street. Rolled it. Roll it. And I,

I handed God, I thought it was like some conservative coming, and I thought it was a bomb, right? It's like, I jumped back. Me and Trey didn't flinch

for the record. And then I picked the pork and beans up. I opened it, and I bent the lid, and I used that as a spoon. I ate that motherfucker during the Q&A.

And so, and so he's actually, he's actually now the mayor of Johnson City, Tennessee. Yes, especially. I am.

They gave him a key to the city, which was just a hubcap. It just goes to a toilet, but it's fine. In the corner, all the way against the wall, you stood up. Yes, ma'am. Oh, yeah, we'll be back here a lot. We'll be back. Yeah, yeah. Trust us. Without a doubt.

If y'all could legalize something that makes you wake the fuck up, we'd be back here a lot more often. What's up? In the middle. Go ahead. Yes, ma'am. You know Jason Isbell. My hero.

I love Jason Isabel. I wore his shirt. I wore his shirt in our tour photos just so that maybe he'd see it and be like, hey, we worship. Alabama A has a mullet on it. Yes or they're. All right, yeah. I didn't get that from Jason Isble. I'm just a fucking genius.

I think we got somebody way back here in the very back. It's been back up. Which one of us will own up to be in a public defender in the South, and how shitty is it? Well, it ain't me, honey. And damn sure ain't me. God damn. The question was, who will own up to being a public defender? I don't have to own up to it. I'm more proud of that than I am this.

No offense to these guys. Are you a public defender? I will kiss you on your lips. I was an attorney before this. I was a public defender in Miami-Dade County out of law school and then in Knoxville, Tennessee for two and a half years. Thank you so much. This is weird.

Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'll be out there. We'll be out there selling insurance. We love you so much. Thank you very much, everybody. What are those spec?

Make a wish specials. Which one of you is the funniest? Corey. I didn't even say anything. I was going to let through him. He's the funniest human. If you could, just, and whoever wants to talk is fine. Trey.

No. No, if you could just describe the well-red comedy tour and what it's about. So the idea is that it's like progressive southern comedy. If you can say the real-red comedy tour, because my questions are going to be edited out. And maybe with some goddamn enthusiasm. Yeah. You want me to take it? Well-red comedy tour.

It's been really good. We're not like caring about people. We really have a good idea. Making them laugh. That's great. Next question. So do you want me to answer that question? Yeah.

The well-read comedy tour is the idea of it is it's like progressive Southern comedy. It's been our experience growing up as comedy fans. That there's kind of two types of southern comedians, typically. There's the people that you know they're Southern. immediately because they have the accent and they're very demonstrably southern. And those guys have always been, to date, have always been a certain type of comedy, which is like just for lack of a better word. It's like the blue collar genre, you know, Foxworthy, cable guy, all that.

Nothing wrong with that. But that's like, that's it. And then the other type is guys that are from the South and are great comedians, but you would never even know they're from the South unless they said something about it. The example we always use is David Cross. he's from Georgia. You would never know that unless you just happen to know it.

Or like Donald Glover, he's from Georgia too. Stephen Colbert's from South Carolina. You know, there's Aziz Ansari's from South Carolina. There's a lot of examples like that. But we have always been, and we didn't even know each other when each of us started comedy and we all just independently

have always wanted to be both, meaning like, be very immediately and explicitly Southern and embrace all the Southern stuff, but not be the like stereotypical what you expect out of Southern comedy and still talk about more, you know, whatever, highbrow or progressive, whatever, subjects, and do that at the same time. And so that's kind of the idea of it.

I think that when we first started, we were just being us. Right. And then as we did more things together and we're talking about, whole we were unique and realized we were unique. There were very few people like us. You know, there's some, it's not like we, the only ones, but as we realized that, then we said, well, that's our hook, you know.

It's kind of like one of those things when you get in the entertainment industry, if you don't know how people perceive you, they will tell you. And so that's what happened with it. Yeah, I get the people ask me, or and us, I know, but they're like, you know, when did y'all decide this is what you were gonna do?

Because y'all, this is great. And I'm like, we did. and we've always been this way. It's just now everyone's finally on board, pretty much. We had to put a name on it. Well, yeah, for sure. We had to put a name on it, but it's like... And it's not like we didn't think that it could be a thing.

We've talked plenty of times over the years. It's like, yeah, we didn't conscientiously put together, like, formulate this whole theme or approach. We all just did that individually, but we have talked about it plenty of times where like you know we really think that there might be some appeal to this so it's not like it's a big well I mean how fast it's happening all that stuff has been a surprise but I'm saying we always thought there was something to it but that doesn't mean that it's fabricated though it's just the way that it's worked out

we always compared it to music some of the music we listen to is progressive in Southern by the drive-by truckers Sturdle Simpson Sturgeon Sturgeon's Jason Isbell to a great extent we said if there's an audience for that there's got to be an audience for what we're into. Right. And not surprisingly, it's the same people that are coming out. Oh yeah, they're always wearing the Isboy shirt and that tickles me about as much as anything when like half the fans

are wearing Sturgel shirts. Well, hell, the drive-by truckers are fans. Right, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Did you say we're not a boy band? Well, because we said we were fabricated. Like, those dudes are put together. I wish we're ugly and not always. I'd kill to be a boy band.

You'd be doughy spice. Oh, damn it, I don't know which one. Pretense? You'd have 98 diseases. Cho town. Cho town. Okay, that was good. The back fat boys.

Okay. How did the three of you sort of form a team? if you want to call it a team it's war well like we didn't really form the team as much as it

we've been together and doing this like we have not been touring together but we've like been producing live shows or like we've written and done sketches and stuff in the past or whatever else

for I mean I don't know what like four years now we've known each other for six something like that and about yeah pretty much a year in we started doing the sketches and the live shows and writing, you know, treatments and throwing around ideas and, you know,

hating the world together. There were about six of us that did sketches, like my wife was in it, she's an actor, and some other comics and stuff, and so we've just been friends for a while. And then I guess in terms of a team goes, we happened to get signed by the same manager as a writing team because of a blog we were doing,

which she discovered because Trey went out to L.A. and she signed him after one set, which is pretty rare. Yeah. Yeah, and as we mentioned earlier, we had talked before, you know, drunkenly on back porches and stuff over the years. It all comes down to a porch at some point.

It's always like, man, we just, we know if we could just get a platform for this, if people could just see this, whatever, that put something, you know, somebody would dig it. It could work out. And so it's something that we've been talking about for a long time. And so when we saw the opportunity for it, it was a no-brainer. We do.

We didn't do shows for eight people and get so mad and just be yelling and screaming, God damn, I swear, one day somebody's going to like this shit. And it took a minute. I'm sorry, real quick before you move on. What are we doing with this? Is this just for the pitch? Is it what? Just for the pitch?

He's wondering who's going to see it? Oh, it's not for air. I mean, it might eventually air, but it's to add to our pitch. That's what I thought, but I just wanted to make sure. I felt like, you know. All right, I'm more relaxed. Say whatever I want then. Okay.

Say whatever I think you want. You know, what we've shot with you guys so far has been sort of performance-based. And I wanted to get some stuff that was really more behind the scenes, more interpersonal. Right. And really just try to get to know your. And we were told that just so. you know, but I didn't know if you also had another plan, so. Well, I mean, I would love for it to be broadcast somewhere, anything.

Okay. But be yourself. I mean, don't edit yourself. Right. I don't know about this particular line, but the other truth about that, too, is there are other comics who, you know, started with us who quit or fell by the wayside or were taking breaks or whatever, and in some cases, I'm glad because it wasn't awkward, like, you're not good enough. And in other cases, I'm sad because it's like, you're one of the funniest people I know,

but you can't go on the road with us last night, right now. You're just not ready mentally or whatever. And then on the other side of that, we're not the only people to have thought of this idea. There are people who claim we stole our identity from them, which is absurd. It's just that we are like them. So we're not the only. Really, there's only the one guy. Even the other guys on tour with him, it's the exact same concept of the tour they're on.

But the other two guys know us a little bit. Well, hell, the third guy does too. We all know each other. He's just an asshole. But two of them know us enough to know that we're not stealing anything, that this is who we were already. And have since then kicked that other motherfucker off the tour. But I only bring that up to say this is, just like we tell our fans, we're not unicorns.

When we go up north or out west, sometimes they're like, how'd you get out of the south? And we're like, that's part of the point of the tour. Definitely. You are used to, if you're not from the South, hearing the loudest, most obnoxious, and often most ignorant person represent this accent. And now that's us. And now we want to be the loudest, most obnoxious person, which was literally the point of the joke, the liberal redneck,

before Trey made it into a character. It was a joke. It was a bit. And that was the whole point of it. What? Okay, what's the on your leg collar? Corey or Drew?

Oh, it's probably a string. This jacket's about as old as my dad. I thought it was for a second time. It was like a mic like catching it? About the fifth time. I'm going to stop wearing this jacket on paper. I'm not going to have anything left. Can you just tuck it under or something?

I can, yeah, it may reappear. Was it that one? I should have took this fucking jacket. You hot? No. I just mean for this reason. Or is it? It's like a mic and go wild.

Hold on, I'm using some talking right now. My belly. Did you say that I... Much better. Did you say that I fingered your face again the other day? Yeah. Why did you not tell me that? I just told me, because you did it in the middle of the night,

and then I woke up in the next day, by the time I woke up, I had just forgotten it. He does this thing. We sleep together a lot. We'll get... I get a hotel and they'll accidentally have had us a king size instead of two double beds. Accidentally. I know you got that.

I did not do that. Or we get one room and I cannot sleep. I don't even want to be in the same room as them. They snore. We'll hop in the same bed together and he sleep, I don't just sleep walks. I'll wake up. He'll be completely dead asleep. Sometimes not even looking in my direction and he'll just be feeling my face.

Just squeezing it. And I'll just wake up to like, what the fuck is one? And he'll just be like, I don't know what he's dreaming about. He just grabs my head and starts rubbing it. Well, he's hilarious in his sleep. We were in San Francisco. Me? Me?

I'm hilarious. I'm hilarious all the time. We were in San Francisco. Trey had a very important meeting in L.A. And I'm a light sleeper, which is why I was in a different room. But we had like a double room. So I was like right beside him. And his alarm woke me up, but not him.

That wasn't my. That was, oh, that was Corey's phone. That's right. By the way, no one was waking up. And I knew Trey had to get to the airport at some point. So I went in there, and I was so asleep that I didn't realize until I was halfway into the room that I was butt-necked. So I just, like, put, you know, some hands over myself and, like, went to wake him up. Well, then Trey, like, gets up, and he's all confused.

And at that time, that was probably one of the biggest meetings of your life that day. Yeah. So I just was like, all right, I'm going to high-five him. And I went to high-five him, and he looked at me confused, and he just leaned his head on my hands like this. Like, he thought that's what I wanted him to. do and then he goes why are you naked and I said I just got up why are you leaning on my hand and he said I thought she was trying to hug me and there's a he had a good meeting so I feel like that's a superstition now that's a there's a little bit of an explanation for that

when I wake up out of a deep sleep I am half retarded like that but like that thing that's a thing that my boys do oh that's a thing that we do or whatever hey them pop a bear mode Yeah, that's probably where that was kind of coming from, I guess, but I don't know. But, like, I've, we were just talking about this yesterday. That'd be a lot sweeter if I wasn't butt-necked. Yes, it would. And then grown man. But you didn't know it until after you put your head down.

Yeah, that's the funny thing. You put your head right in the direction of my crotch. There's the whiner. But, yeah, my wife's woken up with me chewing on her arm before. Like, not like biting hard, but. but not like kissing either. Like it was a cheeseburger. Yeah, just gnawing on it.

Stuff like that. I don't know. I have no explanation for it. I can't believe that happens to you and not me. Yeah. And I don't get out of bed. You know, I don't sleepwalk. I don't get out of bed and go do things.

Thank God. Because you're still lazy. Yeah, exactly. Your subconscious is like, no, I'll just eat this arm. Yeah, m-g-g-g-g-g-g. Yeah, that's weird. Do you guys cuddle? With each other.

When we woke up. fairly close but I don't think we're like I said I mean you got to be pretty close to I'm not a and I don't know about him but I'm not a cuddler at all like even when my wife like even when she wants to I'm like my god my girlfriend also go right five minutes and get away from me and it's just the way I can't I can't sleep that way so even in my sleep I'm not gonna you know grab him or nothing at my girlfriend's request we're having we're getting a California king just because she if it was up to her and I don't mind it too I'm a dude but like it's we need to you know it's we need to you need to be on two separate play. Hey, I love you. I'm glad you're here. Glad we support each other, but get the fuck away from me. Like, we're trying to sleep. This is my own personal thing.

So you guys obviously spend a lot of time together. So much. Is that, I mean, you like it? You sometimes it's too much. How's it working? Both. You're going to make us fight right here. I think if you spend a lot of time with anybody,

it can get to be too much. And it's no different. I think all things being equal, I think we probably get along about as well as any group or band or anybody that's in this situation does. I don't know how you could do much better. Having said that, we do fight and argue and get on each other's nerves a lot at the same time. Yeah, and it's like we used to do that anyways. It's just now we're around each other a lot, so it happens more frequently. But like, the good definitely outweighs the back.

We have way more fun than we have. It's just when anybody. stress, they get pissed and they're reduced to being an asshole and we're stressed a lot in front of each other. And so half the time when we're yelling at each other, I'd say 90% of the time is we're not even mad at that person. We're just, we, Corey and I make people uncomfortable a lot and I don't realize it until we're halfway through our spat. And I'm like, oh, people think we're really upset. Really, really, really bad. Yeah, because we'll just take out both our days on each other knowing good and well, I'm not mad at you.

I'm mad at the earth for, you know, I'm mad at, I'm just tired and hungry, and we've been doing this a lot. And I'm mad at Corey. And he's mad at me. He actually is mad at me. And we were comedians. And so one thing comedians do is they give each other shit and bust each other's balls all the time.

So a lot of times we'll be doing that, and it's like they just said, and we're not even even a little bit, man. It's just funny. But like other people, you forget that other people are not normal. That way. Yeah, right. Exactly.

They're decent. So, like, a good example of that was, we were in Raleigh. No, we were in Asheville, North Carolina. We were standing at the hotel front desk trying to check in. Drew walks in, and he's like, damn it. I don't know what. He's like, I left my heart medicine in Raleigh or wherever we've been. Like, I don't have it.

And I looked at it, and I was like, well, you know, hopefully with any luck, you'll just die. And I died laughing. The front desk girl is standing there, you know, like she had been talking to us, and like, we're laughing. I look back and she's like. Almost in tears. She's like, that is so terrible.

And we're like, oh, no, he's, don't worry about it. Which gave me one of the very few opportunities in my life with this group to be the victim. I know. Can you believe they do that to me? I'm almost certain we then said, ma'am, it's fine. he truly wants to die. The thing about Corey, too, with us is he is the sweetest, most lovable piece of human garbage. Never been around in my entire life.

That's kind of his thing. That's like literally his whole thing. How would you describe each other's act? He just did mine. That's true. The most sweet, would you say, sweet, lovable piece of human garbage on earth? That's pretty much it. pretty much who I am, yeah.

It's your comedy style. How would you describe it? That sincerely is what Corey does. He says things that no other human wants to hear another person say, but they think a lot. But he's just so gosh darn lovable when he says it that they're just like, oh my God, that's so true. And that's it. And he's, you know, smart and fucking. Like Teddy Rucksman butt fucking a cat.

See what I mean? He's Teddy Rucksman butt fucking a cat. You just made that face. Had I not explained to you what he was doing? you would have died laughing right then. So you're asking a pill behind the curtain. We ought not answer these questions. We shouldn't.

You don't want to say how the sausage is made. All right. And now your turn. Descruves you Drew's act. Very smart. Makes me mad. He's a great long-form. Drew.

Drew is very smart. Sometimes it makes me mad. He is a great long-form storyteller. I consider myself a good storyteller. Kind of off-stage. On stage, you know, I did one. But he's really good at, at taking something that I would probably only spend a minute and a half on and stretching

it into six minutes of just like, man, those are some really goddamn good points. That's a really funny, well-structured story, and I hate him. So I make points. See, I was giving him a compliment, and he reduced it to make me look like an idiot. No, no, not at all. I was just thinking, so I'm like, Trey, I'm just not as famous, basically. Without doubt. I was just about to say, I think me and Drew's comedy style is pretty similar.

That's probably true, though, for real. Yeah. I think I'm a little more personal than you, or I have been in the past. I've noticed you're telling more stories. Trey's really good at, like, this topic and this topic, and let's bring them together. And I could cover those topics, but I almost have to do it, starting with... I was talking about my father-in-law the other day, and we got into an argument, and it's true. That really did happen.

It's really hard for me to get into it any other way. That's about the only difference in the way we do it. Pretty much, yeah. It is pretty similar. And mine, my style is more like, ain't it good that you don't have to have a can opener for beams anymore? They just put the thing right on top. You need them in the goddamn car.

Trey has a bit about Muslims and rednecks, as for an example, that I believe only he and Stuart Huff, who has been around forever and is one of the people from the tour we were discussing earlier. He's a liberal Southern comic, an awesome one. They're the only two people in the world that could have written it, I think. I might have been able to write it, but literally only if something happened to me on my day to day. And that's it.

There's no one else I know of that could have written. I think I could have had one joke in there. You all? I mean, I think that any of those things I could have done it, but I go, oh, that's great. But I wouldn't have, I'm going to die. I wouldn't have put it together for six minutes. Are you getting choked up because I talked about how funny you were?

Yes. I am about to die. Anything else on entrees, how he, Oh, you want us to jerk him off anymore? And what we're already forced to do? Yeah. On his what, on his style or on his videos? Trey breaks things down almost all the way.

Like barriers. He breaks barriers down. He breaks down the hay ceiling. The hay ceiling. The barn roof. The barn oria. But just like some of those topics we were talking about, you know, He'll break it down in about six or seven ways.

And I think that has a lot to do with the people that he models himself after. And I've heard him say that he models himself after Chris Rock. Chris Rock does that. Bill Burr does that. He's not as good as them. I want to look in the camera and say that. Of course not. But that kind of style where you just ring every angle out of something.

And that's why that first video was so effective. Todd Glass told him this on the podcast where he said, you took every single angle and you tied it up. There was no escape. I think that's a really good compliment of any speaker, and I do think that that's what he does. It's comedy when he does those big issues. And that's what he does as different than me,

whereas mine is what happened to me and my thoughts on it, and that's the main difference, yeah. Would you agree that Drew is also, I would say, more theatrical than maybe you guys? Yeah, definitely more than me. I'm not theatrical really at all in my act. I've not really been that way. Corey will do some of that.

I've seen him do plenty of that over the years. We actually, well, I was going to say, we call that chow and out. Nobody knows what that means. Yeah, I mean, he just, he will do that some. I don't really at all. I don't have the Morrison, which I know that's what you're alluding to. Yeah, I really think it's just that one.

It really is. And that's no offense at all. But it's so effective, I should probably lean more into that. Because I use my face a lot. I mean, I'm a big body of a big canvas. It's a big canvas to paint on. Actually, I don't think I have one joke where I don't really do some form of act out or something. And I don't know that it's easy.

It's just like that's how I like talking. I do that when I'm just talking in the hotel. It's wild to me. Ever since I started, that's been the only one that I, literally every other joke was just stand there and deliver it. And then that one became one of the best ones and then continued to stay. I said as I threw jokes away and threw jokes away, it remained, because it's a really old bit. Yeah, that's one of your, I think you've had that almost as long as I've even known you, which like you had just started when we met.

Yeah. My closer is a... That's the third joke. Third set I ever did, I did that joke. Yeah. But not in the form that you see it now. Right. My closer is about how ridiculous don't ask, don't tell was, but I actually wrote it when don't ask, don't tell was still a policy.

That's how old it is. And then it was, I loved that joke. And then they repealed it, which great. That's awesome. I was like, fuck, I can't do the bit anymore. And I was like, oh, yeah, I can't. I'll just talk about how ridiculous it used to be. So, yeah, that one's old too.

And that's probably my most acted out joke because I've been doing it for so long that it's become this mini play inside my head. Like, I actually, it's really funny because when I'm doing it, I see all the things that I'm trying to paint for the audience. I go a little bit insane. It's wild how his head works. Yeah. It's wild how it stays. up yeah oh they're making burgers I think it upstairs I was it upstairs yeah oh he just said he just shut the door

thanks Joe I think the clunk might have been the door maybe I hope are you guys hard on each other like do you ever critique each other's like you say or write to a new joke are you like that's stupid or yeah but that is no but if that would be a compliment probably to one of my jokes. Like, that's stupid. Thank you. We ask each other's opinions on new stuff or whatever all the time. A lot of the stuff that we're doing right now,

especially for me, more so than him, and him too to a lesser extent, is like, I, they know it front and back. They probably walk up there and do my set. I could do your whole thing. So, like, there's not a lot to talk about those bits, but when I was first developing those, we talked about it all the time.

Anytime we have new stuff, we always ask each other about it. Yeah, man, we had a long conversation last night after the show because you were throwing something in there that wasn't a new joke, but it's been something you hadn't done in a while, and you were wanting to rework it. I mean, we did have a pretty long, about 10-minute conversation about where does that fit? What should you do here?

Why isn't this? On that note, too, I think we're starting to finally get to where, because last night there was one particular line that Trey removed from one of his, jokes. And we were talking about whether or not to bring it back. And I said, I think it's stupid. And he knew what I meant by that, which is that part of it was a dumb joke.

He was like, yeah, yeah. Like that's why I threw it in there because there's always going to be, when you have a comedy show, there's different types of people listening to your jokes. Anyway, I only bring that up because I don't think a year or two ago, I could have just been like, yeah, that part of the joke's stupid without it being like weird and causing friction, but he knew what I meant. like we've finally become co-workers really is what it is. So let's just talk about in general your, your material.

Just what do you love about this? I know that you talked a little bit about this when you are like up north and people like assume that you hate the South sometimes. But talk about what you love about the South. The smells. That's a weird thing, but I love how the fall smells uniquely in the South and the spring and fresh cut grass because like in New York and gravy. I love New York, but I never get that smell of fresh-cut grass, and I love that so much hay, yeah, gravy biscuits, chicken, like walking around town.

That's so great. I just love all that shit. But your material, of course, addresses things that are not great about the South. But just talk about why you feel like you still have that urge to redeem it. Because it's home, you know. Like I, the way, and we were having a conversation with this guy, Chuck, who's editor-in-chief of this awesome, like, online magazine called The Bitter Southerner, which is very similar thematically to our whole thing, point of view or whatever. And he said something about how like, you know, it's just everybody, everybody wants to be proud of where they're from. And he's like, we just want the South to do better, you know. And that's how we feel about it, too.

It's like there's a lot of room for improvement, but there's a lot of things that we love about it, too. We don't want to just leave and then shit all over it and confirm everything that everybody else and all the other parts of the country already thinks. I have no interest in doing that. And like we said. I've got way too big of a chip on my shoulder about that whole thing to just go out there and just totally, again, confirm all the horrible things they assume about the South. I'm never going to do that. Hey, we'll be right back after a word from our sponsor, y'all.

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it's because they know that you can pass that test and they know that you can do better and they want you to succeed and they want you to be good. So that's not, we're not going, oh, fuck the South. It's like, come on. You know, like, you're not that at all.

You can do a lot better. We want to be proud of you. That's one of the main reasons I'm so happy that I left for the time that I did. And, I mean, I've moved back now, at least half the time. But growing up in the South, doing comedy and having the viewpoint that I have,

My jokes took on a certain, I guess, voice of, all right, I'm going to poke some holes at religion because I'm looking around and I'm thinking, okay, I can see how the church is doing some good in some communities, but this shit's also ruining some people's lives. And these fucking politicians are getting on television pretending that they're on their knees on Sunday, but on Saturday they're getting in fights and fucking their missionishes, but they're getting all these people who go to church vote because they're lying. So you know what? I'm going to poke holes in that because that's what I want to do as a stand-up comic. But then you leave and you get up north, or for me that's what happened. I get to New York and they're like, yeah, that's what the South's like. And I realized, oh, these people only see CNN when the hurricane comes and this lady who just went through a fucking horrific experience and she's in a nightgown and they're like, look at that dumb redneck. Or they only see these politicians who are winning, but they're only winning with 55% of the vote.

They don't represent everyone. and then you realize, oh, while I was there, I'm poking holes in those people's experience. And so if they're in the crowd and they disagree with me, then that's who the fuck I'm talking to. And if they're in the crowd and they agree with me, they need to hear that. Then I go up north and I'm realizing sometimes,

if they're in the crowd and they agree with me, that's just because they have this preconceived notion of what the South is like. And the first time I realized that my wife was with us on tour, and she's the first person that pointed out. She said, some of these people aren't laughing with you guys. I think they're laughing at the South. And I was like, no, you're crazy.

The very next night, I realized she was right. And I didn't change any of my set, but I changed the tone of it. And I made one particular joke longer about liberals who aren't from the South being annoying as fuck. And anyway, yeah, I'm glad I moved for that exact reason. Okay. How do you guys, can you sort of explain Donald Trump, the phenomenon of Donald Trump? Okay. Explaining Donald Trump, I mean, no, it's still very confusing to me, but one thing me and Drew have talked about a lot and that I have read, I've read other articles and stuff, we're not the only people to point this out. But I still think the public at large doesn't know anything or consider this at all. But so I like to use my hometown as an example. It's called Salina, Tennessee. It's very small, very rural. And for years, decades, the center of the town's economy. It was this big clothing factory, and in the 90s it went to Mexico after NAFTA, and the town never recovered.

It's been almost literally like depression-era levels of unemployment for 20 straight years now. Crime and meth and pills and all that has skyrocketed poverty is out of control. It's very sad and depressing place, and it's all a direct result of that factory leader because it was the heart of, of the town. And so when Donald Trump goes on TV, or he goes to places like that, and he stands up there, and he says,

I'm going to go to Mexico, I'm going to get your job, I'm going to bring it back to you, and I'm going to make them fucking pay for it. Now, he's full of shit, but that resonates with those people. He's the only person who's even pretended to give a shit about them

and their problems politically, forever. Other than Bernie Sanders. But he's a, you know, he's a socialist Jew. He also said things like in the beginning of his campaign and he stopped doing this because he knew he was screwing up with those voters. He said things like, we don't need to work anymore. And economically he had a point like we can just craft a society that's making things with factories, but everyone gets a fair share. But the people that we're talking about, they're too proud to let something like that. proud to let something like that happen. They're like, no, I want a job. Even if some of them

don't work in their minds, you know, they think, no, I want a job. And we've also been conditioned to be scared of the robot uprising, and that's what that is. That's literally AI coming true. So I think that if you mix those two things, Donald Trump says a lot of the things they say at their kitchen tables and says it not exactly the way they would say it, but he says it in a way that no other politician has in years. And so this scriptural, you know, the There's critiques out there like, oh, everyone who supports him is just racist and xenophobic. There's some truth to that.

There's some truth in the fact that people hear him say, yeah, all these Mexicans are causing our problems. There are people who have said those same things at their kitchen tables. And so they were prone to that. But they also were hearing a guy say, I know that you had a job or that your daddy had a job and you don't. I'm going to fix that. The government did that to you, and I'm going to make sure it doesn't happen anymore. And that resonates with people who come from a culture of mistrust in the government, who come from a culture of the coal mines having the police on their side,

and literally the police are bought in those towns. So, yeah, I mean, that's why he's resonating. And the thing about poor white people is they love potato skins, and he looks like he's made out of potato skins. He looks like he's made out of potatoes. And, you know, as you alluded to, the misogyny and the xenophobia and the racism and all that, I mean, that stuff don't hurt his appeal. And I think finally, too, there's the outsider perspective.

But if you act like that's all it is, if you act like that it's all it is, it, it comes true. This is what you wish for a little bit. Every night, while I'm asleep. He's an outsider. Jesus. Anyway, what the fuck was I even about to say? You just wiped the sleigh claim with that. He did, which is hard to do.

I think if you act like that's all it is, you're underestimating him and his soul. support and it's being dismissive and that's very dangerous. Yeah, you can't. It's a very real threat if you're on our side. And so like, you're not taking it seriously enough when you act like, oh, they're just, they're just all a bunch of dumbass racist and that's why they vote for him because there is more to it than that. Also, look at the debate last night. The people who now run his campaign, they're super geniuses.

They're some of the smartest humans alive. And if you look at what he's doing, he's really digging in to the outsider idea. He's really digging in that Hillary's been at this for 30 years and she's crooked, and she's a politician, and that's all she gives a shit about is continuing to be a politician, and I'm not that. That really appeals to people. People who like that idea, they've never had a viable candidate. There have been candidates who have played the outsider thing, but they've, well, other than, frankly, Obama.

So people like the outsider aspect of it. If you can tap into it, he's really leaning hard into that right now. And there's no way that you can just, like you said, you're underestimating him. If you think you can just run a campaign on bigotry and racism, and that be. it that be enough to win, you're insane. Because, like, Louis used to have that, he said it on the comedian's documentary or whatever, where he's like, people say you get a laugh with fuck.

You curse you're doing it easy. And he's like, well, you go up there and get a laugh with fuck. There's got to be something behind it. All that stuff peppered in does make it more palatable to them. But like, you can't just go up there and be racist and go, all right, see you. Vote for me. Right. So there's definitely.

The KKK would have Senate seats. Right, exactly. In Alabama. There is substance behind what he says. I don't agree. with it but there's fucking substance. A little bit later on we're going to do, we're going to ask people on the street if they watch the debate and then what they think about the recent tape that was leaked, leaked, about, you know, with Trump talking about women. In terms of misogyny and just in general treatment of women in the South, what are your, what are your thoughts on that?

Like if we if you encounter someone who says, oh, let's just lock a room talk, or a or, you. It's just men, you know, just boys being boys, guys, men guys. In the South, do you feel like that's more prevalent? No. I think it's just like so many things with the South. When you talk about misogyny, it's like a tale of two Souths. Like, you know, southern stereotypes about, you know, beating your old lady because Alabama lost or whatever. Like the old, but those are all, like, those are the shitty people in the South.

They give it a bad name that, like, you know, I don't. We want them to either go away or to change completely. But then on the flip side, the good part of the South, like the part that we love, on that end of the spectrum when it comes to treatment of women, I personally feel like in the South there's a whole, there's this thing about respecting women. Some people weren't even like a curse in front of women. Chivalry is not dead in the South, I don't think.

No. For the good ones. You know, people, you know, we open doors and plow seats and all that old school shit. good, but part of, and I know that some feminists think that have problems with some of that stuff, but like I do think that all of that comes from a good place when you're talking about those people. So, you know, again, it's a tale of two south. There's the side of it that's really bad, but then I think there's another side of it that is a lot of ways better than other parts of the country in that regard. I'm not a woman, though. Well, the whole locker room, when anybody

says that's just locker room talk those are people who are just such huge supporters of his that he can't do anything to throw them off because yeah i played sports and there is but there's a huge difference in man do you see that you know carly's tities are starting to come in and hey i think i'm going to go grab carly's tities when she's not looking there's a huge difference in those things i've yeah i mean men are pigs we're pigs when it's just guys around but i've talked about gross shit like that, but there's, I've never, I've never had those conversations where there's this, there's this undertone of, entitlement. I'm gonna, I could just do it. Rape. Yeah, right where it's rapy. That doesn't happen. It's

more like, oh, look, check out the ass on that or whatever, which is gross. It's gross, but it's fine. There's been a lot of talk about, but it's not rapy. Like that. We've been a lot of talk about rape culture in our society. And the reason that that term was created is because it was created for those instances where a culture was created, to protect people who were doing things like that, but it wasn't overt. That was overt. What he did is not rape culture, he was rapy.

Yes. And in terms of your specific question, the South has misogyny for sure and issues. I've lived a lot of places, I'm not a woman, my wife is. I don't think it's any worse or different in terms of misogyny. Other than perhaps, there's one key difference in the South. It's our religion. In the South, oftentimes a woman's place in the home or a woman's place in church or a woman's place at the table politically is informed by this idea that God wants women to be subservient to men.

I think that is the only thing the Bible got right. I think that that's the only sexist thing about the South that's unique to the South. That's not the only sexist thing about the South. That's only thing that's unique about the South. Some of the cat-calling things that come out of New York, those videos you've seen, that don't happen in the South. Well, except for the Muslim communities. Those aren't in the South.

That's true. And they have that. They do have that. No, the South publicly were very kind to women, like publicly. But yet, our theology is that women are to give themselves to their husbands. But, like, I mean this when I say this, there's a lot of places, and it's specifically in the South, people will come up to you and go, hey, like, if you could go, oh, shit, they're, hey, man, there are women around here. You're not supposed to cuss in front of women, which to me I've always thought, like, to me, that's not respectful.

That's going like, oh, so I have to be, like, she can't hear. She's so dainty. It's condescendingish fuck to go like. But it's better than, hey, grab her pussy. Right. Absolutely way better. But, like, it's the funny thing because that those, that dude that says that, 100% sincerely, I believe he thinks he's being good person and nice. I don't think he's being an asshole at all.

You don't think Donald thinks he's being a good person? No, not. You don't think he thinks them women want him to grab a pussy. You might be right, but I'm saying at least the one guy that's not, it's like, hey, man, there's women around here. Don't say that in front of a lady. I think he's being a condescending, but in his mind he's just like... He thinks he's been in respect. He thinks he was taught by his grandpa, and that's just, and he's never thought twice about it.

And I guess maybe Donald has never thought twice about, well, why would he? He was born a goddamn billionaire. He's never thought twice. Yeah, so he probably does think, you know, my daddy grabbed the pussy. My grandfather grabbed a pussy, just like his granddaddy before him. Trump men grabbed pussy. Viginas. Isn't it ironic that he's running against a woman?

I think it's interesting that, you know, if, like, let's say Joe Biden was running, I think Hillary's chances would be much less. Wait, what do you mean? I think for Hillary to win, she almost had to run against an absolute lunatic. Well, she wouldn't be running against Joe Biden, though. Well, you mean like if Joe had, Joe would have got the nomination. If Ben Romney was in this year instead of 2012? Or you mean like, Joe, I hope.

you're wrong. Romney, I think he'd be here. Okay, but what about Rubio or Cruz? Not Cruz. Not Cruz. That's obvious. Hell, he's worse than Trump. He got beat by Trump. But did you say that picture of him on the phone the other day? Yeah. God damn. That was the best.

Somebody made a meme of it and it was like the death of a salesman. It was a playbill of him doing that. The death of God damn it. Cruz apparently is calling people on behalf of Trump now. That's how much he's 180. Well, Pence. Take this for instance. Like that's, like that's

I think Pence would be Hillary pretty badly, yes. Now, half of that is because she's a woman. Half of that is because of who she is the woman. She's a Clinton. Her husband has all this dirt. The Benghazi thing. Her close ties to Obama, which half the country, I think, would be more on board with than Trump seems to think.

Yeah, I mean, we elected Obama. Obama's approval writing her now is like 55% or something, which is actually pretty high for a sitting president, That's very high. Yeah, dude, that's very high. It's because the economy turned around. I know. But, like, yeah, I do think Hillary...

I think Ron would be dusting her right now. Yeah, I don't think Hillary's a great candidate. People don't like her. Even people that are going to vote for her don't like her. But it's just because... Oh, absolutely. But it's just because... Not just because, but, yeah, the fact that she's going against this lunatic...

I'm crazyest candidate I've ever... I'm sure that, like, you know, whoever... Warren G. Harding beat was probably a pretty wild son of a bitch, but like in my lifetime, like in the present day. You know Tata Taua Warren G. You better be bringing something on the table. In my lifetime, I never seen anything like it, and she's definitely lucky in that way. I hope. Hell, she might not even do it, but I think she will, and I hope so.

Yeah, I don't think we'd necessarily have been having the same conversation if it was Elizabeth Warren up there. Because, I mean, I hope not. He'd be calling her Pocahontas. I have a question, Trey, to follow up to what you just said. Do you think she's not a good candidate as in, like, you don't think she's a good candidate, or do you think she's not a viable candidate, a very viable candidate? You mean viable, like, electable? Right.

When you say she's not a good candidate, did you mean that? Or did you mean you don't like her as a candidate? No, we've talked before. I don't, I think Hillary gets way too much shit personally. I don't think she's great. like in 2008 like Obama oh that's my dude

I've never gotten the way like the Bernie Bros were this year that's how I was for Obama in 2008 except my guy's a fucking winner but anyway one thing I am but anyway so

to me I think she's the system whenever else you said this in the Q&A I think last night or recently I think she'll be largely an extension of Obama and I like Obama. Yeah, me too.

And Bill Clinton, his personal issues aside, I love that motherfucker too. Policy-wise. So, like, I mean, I like Hillary. He also is all Arkansas. I mean, like, I hate who he seemingly is as a person as it turns out behind closed doors. But in terms of publicly, God damn, I never liked any more publicly than I do, Bill Clinton. Right. So actually, I like Hillary and I think she gets too much shit from people, too much shit from Democrats, generally speaking.

But I don't, I think it's pretty hard to argue that she's not in a normal election, a very viable candidate because she's, you know, been dusted before. And I do think if it wasn't Trump, if they had a good candidate on the outside, I think she'd be getting destroyed. Well, we have, we have right now two of the, we have one of the most qualified people that's ever run and literally the least qualified person who's ever run. What is the difference between the two other than that? Oh, yeah, she's a woman. Right. That's why it's close. Yeah.

And so Hillary gets accused of, I mean, first off, for some reason, the big thing was the email scandal, which, as if first off, she's apologized for. Secondly, probably not as big of a deal as grabbing an unwanted pussy. You know, like, that's a personal thing. Whatever, in my opinion, she's guilty of is politically, and she's not the only one pushing those buttons and making those decisions. But then you've got a guy who in his personal life acts a certain. What if you give him a little bit of power? What's he going to do in that situation? What's the guy who already thinks I'm entitled and powerful enough to grab a woman's vagina and just make out with her at random? What is that guy going to do with the goddette with his finger on the button?

Or even just in that literally that exact same scenario, you tell Donald Trump, hey, you can't use this phone or this computer or whatever for these purposes. You can't do that? You think he's going to give a fuck about that? No. You know what I'm going to do whatever the hell he wants to do? Yeah. And that's really what all that boiled down to. She was just not using an approved server or however the hell that works. Did you guys see that Billy Bush was fired today?

No. From what? The Today Show. Oh. Why? Well, because of his involvement in the Trump tapes because he's laughing. He's acting on. So a lot of people were saying it's interesting that Billy Bush is not qualified to be on television.

but the guy who was actually saying these things to him is running for leader of the free world and no one is in one of those is a private corporation and the other one is democracy and i mean i think trump is showing some of the ugly side of of people i mean i have people that i care about who are defending him because they want him to be president and they don't like hillary but i know that deep down on some level i mean i told one of my friends you've jumped the shark that's why i told him in a text and he stopped responding to me said you've jumped the shark with this but i know that You can still vote for him because you think Hillary would be awful for America, but you can't sit here and tell me that that is something that's relatively normal or only slightly worse than what I have done or you have done or other people when we played football in high school have done. Vote whoever the fuck you want, but do not tell me that's normal because it's not. Talking about women's pussies, it is. Absolutely normal. Being in a fucking college football locker room and talking about women's pussies and their teeth.

absolutely is, but I've never heard anyone say, well, you know, like, all right, for example, playing college football, I never heard the quarterback or the star receiver go, and this is what Trump literally said, when you're a star, you can just do whatever the fuck you want and grab their pussies. And I've heard women say disgusting things like, yeah, I know she wants me and da-da-da-da-da-da. But it was all conjecture. I've never heard anyone say, yeah, you can do that. Yeah, I agree. All right. Going back to your tour, I know you guys are kind of all over the place now.

It's sort of exploded. You're never home. Are you exhausted? Are you loving it? Both. Both. Both. Yeah, we're super tired.

Mainly because we, as we say amongst ourselves, we live wrong, which we've calmed down a lot. But we're having to adjust to that whole, okay, we've got to do this, this, this, so let's grab a burger real quick. And that's a lot. The diet's horrible. we're doing I ate Doritos and candy for dinner last night

me too and drank wine and watch the debate yeah so we're just becoming pregnant women we're we are

so we're doing a lot more radio too those are the things that the shows I don't think ever would bother us like just especially because you just when I used to go on the road before all this

and just fuck off all day and watch a movie but now it's like this radio yada yada yada and extremely grateful we could not be more but yeah it's It's very exhausting.

Well, stand-up comics at least think they have a lot of control over their lives. And then when you blow up, you don't have any. And that's the hardest thing for me to adjust to because I'm a type A and I'm kind of an asshole in that specific way where it's like, I'm going to do what I want to do. And now, like especially last night before our shows, you guys came in and do an interview. Then we had to discuss something with the club owner. And then our manager came in and we had to discuss something with her. And before the show, and then we had to sign books. like before the show like that's a time where I'm like I want everyone to leave me the fuck alone

but it's just not possible now let's talk about the book you guys read a book we did we wrote a book the liberal redneck manifesto dragon dixie out of the dark it's the book we wrote it's being more excited yeah he can't it's unbelievable it's called the liberal redneck manifesto dragon dixie out of the dark and it's a book that we wrote it's called the liberal Redneck Manifesto. Drew. You said that like someone who wrote an actual manifesto. Yeah.

Drew, tell me that you wrote a book and what it's done. We wrote a book called The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, Dragging Dixie out of the dark, and it's about what we've been talking about most of this conversation, which is the pride and the shame of the South, what it's like to be from here, and just celebrating what we love and then also addressing some things that we, as insiders, are over. We're just fucking over it. We're over hating gay people. We're over some people not acknowledging that race relations aren't where they need to be.

We're over people celebrating the generals of the Civil War, but then complaining that black people can't move on. We're over that shit. And since we're not outsiders, we feel like it's fine for us to say it. Right. Right. But we try to be fair, though. Like there's plenty of stuff in there that we celebrate, too.

And like, I don't think. that people from outside of South will read it and come away just like feeling affirmed about everything that you know what they do they were always going they're going to die ignorant and there's nothing we can do about those stupid kell-eaten motherfucker okay how do you deal we saw a little bit of this last night with people who not they weren't necessarily like headquarters but Have you guys encounter hecklers? Do you have a strategy for them? Last night was the only time someone like that has come to our show in that regard.

You're specifically talking about a guy who supports Trump and stuff? Yeah. That was awesome. Yeah, that was kind of fun. Literally is the first time that's happening. That dude was quiet throughout the show. He didn't do anything in the middle of the show. It was the Q&A.

He engaged us and he engaged us in the way that he was allowed to. We had a Q&A and he asked his questions. So that was awesome. He also proved, what's so great about Hillary is the question that he asked. We just said she's not Trump. We pandered. The crowd loved it. Yeah, absolutely.

But he was also, like Drew said, he was quiet, the whole show, and then he asked his question, and then we said what we said, and he didn't get defensive, he didn't get mad. And then after the show, we took pictures, and he was cool as shit. So, I mean, he kind of proved what we were saying. They're not all the worst people. No, but we did have, and we don't get many hecklers at all, because we're lucky in that most of the people come in our shows now are they're super on board.

If I'm like hecklers are getting normally with people that just yell like yeah that's right preach it kind of thing and I want I don't want that either

because when you're up there you don't but like that's different but there was one we went to this book convention we get fat checkers now the only time

this has ever happened we're at a book convention and I do this joke and it happened to me and it was my literally the very last thing that I say

when I used this bit as a closer but part of it is I'm doing like tweets from history or whatever is the concept and I say I can't believe Marie Antoinette said that shit about cake she didn't say that she didn't say that she never said that she never said that that's fabricated and uh and I was like and again I was like god damn it literally I'm five seconds away from being done and now this has happened

so she totally ruined the fucking closer but then after that we did the Q&A I was like I was like I was I was like I was like I was I was like, okay, that's fine, but it's clearly a thing that people, and it's a, fuck, it's a joke about goddamn tweets. I'm sorry. Yeah, and I'm having to go, ma'am, you know I didn't actually jerk off to Ronald Reagan's funeral. That is part of my act. And she just would not let it go. She can't.

That's the difference between. She would stop for a minute we'd go to somebody else, and then I swear to God, she'd chime back. It's like, it's just a re-answer net, and it's like, all right, okay. That's the difference between conservative and liberal hecklers, like, our conservative hecklers are just, like, yell out, like, woo, titty, something like that in a minute. But then liberal hecklers are like, actually, well, actually. I was reading a two-part biography the other day on Marie Antoinette, and the cake shit never happened. Yeah, that's like the battle cry of the liberal not from the South to me is me.

Yeah. Yeah. We got schoo, and they got, mm-hmm. Do you guys enjoy interacting with people in general? Yeah. Oh, yes. I love it. Yeah.

Especially from the stage, you know, after the show, at first, it was my favorite thing. To be after the show and people. So at the first, at the beginning of the tour, interacting with people after the show, like in the meet and greet time, was my favorite thing. I still love it, but it's wearing me out. I don't have, I don't know what the right word is. I guess like an emotional block. For whatever reason, people, I guess because laughing is such a cathartic experience, they feel very connected to us. And sometimes they come up and they're like, thank you, thank you.

But sometimes they come up and they're like, thank you for doing that joke about religion. I still can't talk to my dad and this and that. And after you've heard that, seven, eight times in a row that week, I mean, I still like it, and I'm still glad people are doing it, but it wears me out. I mean, I kind of feel the same way I'm exhausted about it, but I do love every second of it. I mean, it's, hell, that's why we get to be here. Yeah. But it's definitely a different, used to after shows, we're nobody, whatever.

People come by, they either buy your T-shirt, go, hey, you were funny, hey, you were funny. Now it's like, yeah, especially here in the South, they have a true, connection to us and they want to tell us about their papal and they want to tell us about they do I mean that guy that guy last night who looked at me he's like oh my god I can like kill you and where you're and like use your jokes and do what you do because we're like the same yeah and he kind of looked like John Wayne gasey yeah and his girlfriend was like yeah he could and we were just like oh god he looked like instead of reading he'd be sitting there having a salami on the rye on the steps after he killed you so that was a catcher in the rye joke

For those of you who missed it, Corey just made a literary reference, and I'm proud of him. But that's a... And I talked about a John Wayne that wasn't the other John Wayne. It was a killer clown, dude. You were still in your will. All right. Anything else you want to add to this conversation? Pizza.

I do feel like, with the book, like the Liberatic Manifesto, that's almost tongue-in-cheek, like the manifesto. and we're on the well-reads. I do think that some people, and it's people who we can't save, and I need to let it go, they do think that we're like agenda-driven. We're personal. We're personal driven. We're, you know, it's just our own. It's who we are.

It's who I've been since I was 13. It's who I was as a lawyer. It's who I was as a teenager. It's who I was as a smart-ass high school student. So I just continued to be that as a comic. I do think people think that we're out trying to save the world. and I'm just trying to make fun of some shit because I want it to change, sure.

But I don't give a fuck who you vote for, I mean, as long as it's not Trump. So anyway, I don't, there's nothing to be done about that, but that is one thing I wanted to add. It's interesting how this is blown up and it's out of our control now. And people also talk about us, like, selling out or whatever already, but, like, that's so weird to me.

Just because, I mean, I get, I understand, Most of these people don't know me, a lot of them do. A lot of people I grew up with and know me for years and say that shit about me. I forgot where I came from and I'm so whatever. But like I've always been this guy, always, even before I even started comedy. And my comedy has literally always been about exactly this. So like I don't, I'm not. Well, they could ignore you when you weren't famous.

Right, yeah. Me and him talked about last night and that's pretty much what it was. It was like, oh, it's just a trace little hobby or whatever thing. but now it's like, you know, serious or whatever. And they're like, oh, well, fuck that. Well, you know what that is, too? Until very recently, my in-laws sincerely thought and said out loud to my wife's face, she's the baby of the family, she is 29.

Until she was about 28, they told her her liberalism was a phase. Now, when you're 22, that's a little condescending, when you have been married for six years, you've lived in three cities, you've got your degree, you've been a fucking professional actor, and they're like, this is. a phase. It's like what part of my whole life are you thinking is a phase? That's what they're doing. That's what they did to us, I think, subconsciously. And now that we're getting some heat or whatever, they realize, oh, I guess it's not a phase. They've really dug in. It's like, no, we've been dug in.

I think, yeah, and I think certain aspects of liberalism, it is very possible for them to be phases, but like, you can't look me in the face and tell me that one day I'm going to wake up and think gay people shouldn't or one day I'm going to wake up and think that they shouldn't be allowed in the Army. Most of the... Most of it is not going to happen. I mean, I might get more fiscally conservative over here. I can totally see that happening. We keep selling TV shows.

I might become a fiscal conservative. I don't know. I'm never going to wake up and go, but women should only get a third of this shit. But yeah, no, exactly. That's the thing. It's like I feel like most of the stuff that I focus on about the South or whatever and, like, in a negative way,

are just the things that are hateful. You know what I mean? And like, just socially. That's not political or shouldn't be. It's like I just don't want people. Well, I hate. You hate people. That's it.

I hate that's liberal. I know that's what I'm saying. I can't that should be a political. Right. Like the normal redneck manifesto. That's the book I wanted to write. Right. Yeah.

The decent. The decent redneck manifest. It's like just like let people fucking get married. Yeah. If basic human rights weren't even a political issue, I wouldn't give a fuck about literally any of it. Probably. I still would, but like I'm a dickhead.

But way less. And I could, that, the other things I do tend to be liberal on those things. But I'm not as passionate about them generally. I can see both sides of the argument or I can talk about it. But then that stuff, that's the only stuff that I'm like, no, you're wrong. I'm right. Yeah.

I'm not going to have a fucking debate about this, not an honest one. You're wrong. My dad's an entrepreneur and has ran his own successful business for 30 years. I can see his point when it comes to health care tax. because he has to deal with that shit all the time. Me and him can sit down and have a legitimate conversation where no one gets mad. I'm like, I totally understand where you're coming from.

But if you try to argue with me about a goddamn person's rights... Or where somebody's allowed to use the bastard, man, and shit like that. Or the not, cops can shoot unarmed... Right, that's way different than where fucking tax bracket you're in. Because that shit, that's... God, just makes me mad even thinking about it. So anyway, I brought that up because because of the branding or whatever and the brand itself taken off, we are being a little pigeonhole, but there's nothing to be done about it.

I just wish it weren't so. Cool. All right. Let's reset. We're going to get, just ask Trey a couple of single questions. Cool. Single shot. Okay, cool.

So, what do you want? What do you want? Okay. See, see, let's get something. Sit down. Change the line. What line was that? I don't know what it was.

I know what it was. Wait, what now? Free dogs. Free dogs. Uh, Uh, yeah, wait, what,

oh, you're talking about, oh, you're just asking, like when you said it earlier? When I said, I used to say, well, in the thing about

box of dogs, I'd be like, yeah, it's just a, you know, that's what you do with unwanted puppies, cardboard box,

sign, free dogs, both words misspelled, problem solved. And I stopped doing it, not just last night, I stopped doing it a couple weeks ago.

And the reason I stopped doing it was because I felt like that was the type of thing. that people in San Francisco want me to say about this. It's easy and also just... We want to prove that everybody in the South isn't illiterate. Illiterate, exactly. So we probably shouldn't.

So that's why I quit saying it. And it's funny because our manager who's from San Francisco or that area was like, that's the best part. And I grew up in a place identical to train. The reason I said the joke was dumb is everyone, the dumbest person in my neighborhood knows how to spell free. Free dogs. Yeah, exactly. Right, I know. That's what I'm saying.

If they were... Right. Yeah. So that's why I just stopped saying it because I didn't feel good about it. And that was it. I changed the joke for the same reason. The way of just watching you guys yesterday, like, it seemed like many people coming to you and be like, oh my God, thank God. A lot of thank yous. I mean, like, I got so many thank yous. I mean, I know that you guys have already touched on this, but generally asked this question. But do you feel like very, I mean. Burden?

Well, we get that. Okay, it's weird. I feel weird even saying that. But yeah, I do. I do. feel an obligation about a lot of things like when any major big issue happens especially when i was still doing the like weekly videos from new york daily news which was like you know contractual required i'm still like working with them but i don't have to do every single week now but when especially when that was going on yeah anytime anything of note happened i felt obligated like well i have to i have to talk about this i have to figure out what's funny about this or whatever which is weird it's very weird for me and like the strongest one was when the thing when the shooting in

Orlando happened because they straight and we talked about it the editor-in-chief called me on the phone because I told him I was like I can't make that funny I don't know I don't want to do that and he called me it was like you don't have to make it funny but we we need to say something about it he's like but don't worry about making it funny and it wasn't but people really wasn't funny at all because you couldn't make that funny two days after it happened even if I could have I wouldn't have wanted to but people really liked it and it worked but that like that those like two days I was so I was really sweating

that hard because I was like I don't want to fuck this up I don't want to be distasteful or disrespectful or whatever that all that is brand new to me and the people coming up and saying thank you to us we do get that in other places but like we were in Charlotte North Carolina last night in the south that's a completely different tone because these are like our people Corey says a lot when doing the Q&A in other places he's like look y'all are just liberals. People, those are liberal rednecks

or liberal southerners. Like they get it on all levels. Whereas a lot of, like Drew's saying earlier, there are people that come to our shows in San Francisco or wherever that are just laughing at us

or laughing at the South. They don't get it. But the people that come here, they're allowed to be liberal. They get it. So they're allowed to be liberal so they're like, we say these things like,

yeah, we agree and we love hearing it with that accent because our accent is foreign to them and they love it. Here, the reason that we have, sometimes people cry, is they're like, I haven't had a, I haven't been able to have a good Thanksgiving with my family for years. Or what we get, the closeted liberals, they're like, I can't talk about these things and I didn't know that we were allowed to. Or I wasn't aware. They look around and they see a whole room full of people exactly like them.

And they're like, God damn it, I didn't know that this existed. It's like our fucking show turns into a goddamn support group afterwards. The thank yous affect me a lot, a lot more than I guess I expect them to. Of course, I never expected it to happen, but I should have. I know myself and I know how I feel. When we wrote the book, I knew how I felt, I know who I was thinking about. I was thinking about my parents who don't agree with much of what I'm saying, especially about religion.

And it's always been in the back of my mind to think, not I care what people think, but more I don't ever want to be shitting on someone. unknowingly. Like every time I tell a joke, as long as I know what the butt of the joke is and then the crowd understands what the butt of the joke is, I feel good about it. But I guess for me, and maybe this is holding me back, there are times where I'm like, the crowd laughed at the wrong part maybe. There's a joke that I have where I say county fairs, do you guys know what those are? It's what we have in the South instead of culture. The first time I told that joke in New York, I got physically ill. Like sincerely, I wish that that weren't the kids. case I felt like a pussy, but like everyone laughed and I went, oh, I hate that. And I was going to throw the joke out and then I was like, well, let me just add something to it because there's something there and I meant something. And really what I meant was, is we don't have museums, we don't have certain types of culture. And it's fine to laugh at that, but I can't make that joke without explaining that in some funny way because we have the best fucking music and the

best fucking food and the best fucking literature. But it is a goddamn funny joke. Well, I remember when you talked to me about that joke before you ever even told it, I told you I didn't like that line for that reason. It's like, yeah, we do. And they're not going to know that. Right. But he, again, changed it. And it works.

But, like, it's just like, for me, I'm always baffling between, you know, I want to be funny. And I don't want to worry about what anyone thinks. But it was me. It was what I thought. Yeah. And that was the problem. And it's, this isn't the same. But I did have a really interesting and good conversation with someone about this who,

uh, she's from Palestine. her family's from Palestine. She was born there. She's here now. And she's talking about how she gets so mad when people who aren't from inside her community say things she sometimes agrees with because she's like, you don't fucking get it. And I think I feel that way about the South a lot of times. And so that's difficult.

And I'm bringing up in this in regard to your question about the thank yous because, yeah, it fucking gets to me. I don't know if it weighs on me, but it's affecting me. People saying that, I'm like, God, damn, this is a thing for people. and I do feel the responsibility. And a part of me wishes I didn't because I wonder if I'd be a funnier comedian if I didn't give a shit about any of that. Yeah, you reminded me of something

when you're like, when people from outside the community talk about, my biggest thing with that typically has been racism, like when people talk about how racist the South is, when people in other, not always, but a lot of times these are people from places like Marin outside of South San Francisco or like the day, the day. Denver area in Colorado or like New Hampshire or something.

Places where literally every single person is white. And it's like you don't know shit about race for light. You've grown your whole life in your little bubble surrounded by people exactly like you. You don't know fucking anything about it. And in Colorado, this lady who had already told us that she grew up in a place that was, she said it was 99% white where she grew up. She'd already said that. And then she said she drove through the South once on her way to Southern Florida or something.

One time drove through it. And she was like, I just couldn't believe how racist it is down there. It's so crazy, whatever. And then I told her exactly what I just said. I was like, well, you know, I kind of resent that because I, you know, what do you know about it? And then a little later that she responded, and I thought this was a good, I was like, oh shit, she got me at first. Because she was like, well, actually, my daughter, my oldest daughter is half black. So I do know.

And I was like, oh, God, foot in my mouth. She then says, but, you know, she doesn't act black at all. She's very smart. She does good in school. Her daughter. She reads a lot. You know, she acts totally white. That's what she said about her daughter.

And I was like, that's the most fucking racist thing I've heard in five years, and I live in the South. And what that is is a woman who has no hate in her heart but is full of ignorance. Ignorance. But because of where she lives, she doesn't know that. She's going to remain ignorant. And so where we live in the South, you know, we have dealt with some of this shit. We've been dealing with it for 150 years, and we've got a long way to go, but like, we're fucking dealing. We don't know more than a black person from the South, but we know more than you, fucking suburban 99.9% of wife.

Yeah, the lady who fucked one percent of her community. And then said racist shit about her own daughter. And she's told her daughter that, too. You imagine that? Well, honey, at least you don't act black. Yeah, yeah, that girl's going to grow up to just be like a lot. She's going to go to college. Absolutely.

She'll be fun. And when she gets there, she's going to learn how racist her mom was, and that's going to be an interesting family dinner. Yeah. Ooh. Calling your mom a cracker at Thanksgiving, really hilarious. That's cracker-ass motherfucker. You want to, when you guys, it's a more more subculture question, like, do you feel like you're the voice of the subculture? I know, like, you can say that that way.

We've been told that we are. That we are the voice of this. I mean, yeah, again, that's a weird thing to think. can say about yourself, but I mean, people... Not for him, but probably he'd been saying that for years. Well, I know it would be one day, but yeah, no, but people, I mean, I guess, at least a few of them. We're the only ones for now, I think, but... Yeah, probably we are.

I don't know, in comedy, at least. Definitely in comedy. Yeah, maybe only in comedy. I mean, how Sturgles that way, the truckers are that way. There's plenty of other authors and... That's how I want to answer that. Rather than call us or myself any... anything like that. Whatever the drive-by truckers are, that's what we want to be for comedy.

Exactly. So if they're that, sure. A lot of people might not get that. Well, they can look it up. So the drive-by truckers, the drive-by truckers are a band from Alabama that they've been active for like, I mean, damn, going on 20 years. 93. Yeah. To over 20 years. So anyway, that's crazy. But I first started hearing them like in maybe late middle school or high school, like, the late 90s, early 2000s. And the first time I heard them, I was sincerely blown away because they're very, it's like we were saying earlier about comedy, but in music, they're very, very overtly Southern,

like immediately. Yeah, yeah. But they're not Southern in a stereotypical way. They're progressive. They talk about things and like they're, you know, they're rednecks, I don't wanna label them. Here's some subjects of some of their songs. They have a whole album that's an opera dedicated

to the band Leonard Skinner, They have a song about Alabamans that has a verse about George Wallace, who is the super racist governor and Martin Luther King Jr. So that's like in one song, and it's talking about them in both an empathetic but also, you know, a condemning way. They have a song called The Southern Thing that's about the Pride and the Shame of the South that we've been talking about. And then on their new album, they have a song about the stuff that happened in Ferguson,

the Black Lives Matter movement, the shooting in Charleston. And, you know, it's... They got a gun control song. They got one about the flag. lag. But it starts off with Raymond Cassiano, which is, you know, about the old white boy shotgun and Hispanic off his property. And it's, I guess the thing to like, Cooley, we found not guilty.

We got, we hung out with Cooley, that motherfucker is a redneck and then, but then the album opens with that song. Yeah, yeah, so what our guy that is. Again, this is, it's so hard to say things like this and not come off as a douche, but I'm starting to care less about coming off that way, as you all know. But like, this type of stuff that people say to us after the shows about, like, I thought I was alone, whatever else, you know what I mean? Like, I didn't know. Thank you guys for, like, showing everyone else and showing me that I'm not alone because I'm from a small town or whatever.

Like, that is exactly how I felt about that band when I heard them exactly the same way. I was like, oh, my God, I'm not alone. That's how I thought about Sturgle Simpson, who opened his second album with a very, very country song about doing drugs. And like hallucinogens, you know. Oh, Sturgeon is definitely, he's definitely, you know, in that vein too. But the truckers predate Sturgeoned by 15 years or whatever. Last question. Do you guys ever sort of wish that you were raised by non-conservative parents?

Well, I was raised by non-conservatives. Or, well, a non-conservative. Well, I was raised by religiously conservative parents. I was raised by fiscal conservatives. conservatives. We had the two different, like, when I decided I didn't want to go to church, it was like, okay, you don't have to. That's fine. My parents also, as conservative as they are, I will never not credit them for this. They were very much. Anytime something would come up, dad didn't just go, well, this is what we think because we're Republicans, dad would go,

what do you think? And I was raised by religious conservative parents who, my dad often votes a Democrat because he's in a union. And he, like, disagrees with some things, like abortion, for example, but he just doesn't believe Republican politicians actually give a shit about any of that. And no, I absolutely am so glad I was raised by the parents that I was. I do think religion caused me some issues because I was like a very philosophical kid or whatever and I asked all these questions and it scared the fuck out of me. It's like, you know, who goes to hell? It's like, well, rapists, killers, and your papal.

It's like, oh, shit. So I may be a conservative if I was raised by liberals. Yeah, I think that's probably, especially if in the north, If I was raised in the North, Lord, I'd be fiscally concerned. I would have to be something that wasn't those people. Yeah, I was always, I mean, I think, like, I was always a very rebellious kid, and everybody in my community was conservative and way far to the right. And so I was always like, well, I'm different, so I want to be different.

Honestly, if we were raised by your stereotypical Southern parents, we might not ended up the way that we did. Like I said, politics in my house, there was religion, and that was all we talked or cared about. but in terms of who you voted for, they rarely talked about it, and Dad didn't trust any of them. He's got, like, all his money in a fucking safe

in the basement where all his guns are. Like, he don't give a shit what George Bush was saying about abortion because his idea was, fuck that dude, he's got oil money. He just didn't say it that way. He probably said he'd pray for him. But anyway, I think if we were raised by stereotypical,

super conservative, and we're very political parents, I'd end up very different. So, no, I'm super happy about who I was raised by. Okay. All right. Can we... Reaction shots and I'm good.

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