wellRED podcast - #62 - Trae's Birthday Podcast! + The Teacher Strike

Episode Date: April 10, 2018

This week we recorded on Trae's birthday.... so we did it in the yard while drinking box wine. We discuss the teacher strike, how democrats can win back the working class, and whether or not plants are gonna rise up and kill us all one day.  wellREDcomedy.com for tickets to all of our shows!

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dumb-ass fucking idiot friends drew and tray say what's up all right where we're going drew well we're going to be lots of places we're going to be in feyaville this saturday coming up April 14th we've only got like 90 tickets remaining so if you want to do that Fayetteville holler at us you better get on that uh Portland we added a six the show. That's right. We sold out five shows. We've added a sixth one. That's Thursday, April 26th at 10 p.m. So, you know, if you're in Portland, I know you guys don't want to miss out on a bunch of rednecks coming. Trey, do you want to do anything? Trey's not responding. I guess that. That was the best joke you've had in years.

We added two Thursday shows in Napa, but they're already almost sold out. So, man, we're popular in wine country. We have. I know. And when we got Charleston, Spokane, Cincinnati, Dayton, Huntsville, Oxford coming up. And we're going to be adding. 20 new dates to the schedule and announcing that via our newsletter, which I'm always telling you all to sign up for next week. So sign up. It's on well-readcom, W-E-L-L-R-E-D, Comedy.com,

spelled just like the podcast. That's where you can find all our tour dates and links to our new merchandise, our book, Liberal Redneck Manifesto, Dragon Dixie out of the dark, and all that good shit. Trey, say something for fucks out. Well, well, well, well. All right, guys, enjoy this podcast.

We love you. And, uh, It's cute. Excuse cute. No good. My butt don't hit. Even outside your butt don't hit. I mean, why would it hit more?

My fart's always like, if I fart outside, it seems like it goes away real quick. Yeah, I figured that's what he meant. I think it has gone away. Yours get, like, thicker, I feel like. It, like, combines with the Adams everywhere else and just make the earth stank. You wanted to eat his fart earlier. My fart. My fart is combined with a dude named Adam.

You had what I call... Adam's fart. You had what I call a cassero fart, which is... one of them. If I walked in on it, I'd be like, oh, who's cooking? Well, you said it smell like beans, and mine often smell like beans to me, burnt ones. It's my birthday. Happy birthday, Trey. Oh, shit, it is your birthday.

Yeah, we're recording this on my birthday, as y'all are listening to this. 32? It is no longer my birthday, yeah, 32, yeah. Today's Sunday, April 8th. I was born April 8th, 1986. What are you going to mean? Well, I was just looking at you because I remembered that. that's like a thing they tell you when it comes to you know identity theft being on the internet or whatever is to not you know because like on facebook and shit you can have your whole uh birthday on there and they say not to do that because your birthday is oftentimes like one of the you know you call somebody or whatever and they'll ask you to verify your birthday or your address oh right but we'd already said the day and how old i was so fuck it yeah i mean and on your wikipedia page it says that so does it really i

Of course it does. I mean, I would assume, yeah, that's one of the first things. Yeah, you're right. Well, okay. Whatever. Yeah, you just don't got thefted. Someone please steal Trey's identity and do something hilarious with it. I've been trying for two years.

The slow burn. All right, so because I just, I can't remember what else we said we was going to talk about. I'm going to jump right into this. Well, you drew. The trees? Plants. Well, we was going to talk about the teachers. Okay.

We can do the tree. I'm sorry. I don't even know why I derailed you there. Because you said I forgot. So I was like, let me remind you. But there was no reason for that. I want to die. Plants.

I'm bad at podcasts. Yeah. We will talk about the teachers, but this is wild as hell to me. So do I know this? No, I don't think so. You know that Drew for a while. Drew recently. It ain't about a lasagna plant.

Or they make lasagna. That's an eggplant. I know that you were at least around or we talked about. recently drew read this book the secret life of trees oh yeah i remember making fun of him for that but having no context we were in the my primary memory of talking to drew about it was me him and brian was walking through san antonio and drew started telling me about the secret life of trees and he was like he was like yeah man and it's like the trees that you know trees they want they want they want light and so they do that and they want this and so they do this or whatever and i was

I said, Drew, I don't really give a fuck what tree is won. It was just like, you don't hit. You don't hit. So I very, I summarily dismissed it all. But then I was on a plane and I was listening to a podcast and whatever. And I was listening to Radio Lab. And the episode was about plants and about this chick, summers. And you were like, oh, now that it's not coming from Drew.

True, I'm listening. But no, this lady Experiments with plants And about how they can like learn stuff And dude I've heard that It was wild So there's this plant

And I said I was talking about I told Drew we were going to talk about this And I was like I'm going to look it up So I know the name of the plant And I just didn't do this Well while you do that

I'll comment on how raven this all is Hey guys Here's an interesting thing That I've been reading And it's cool You suck A month later you've seen something it's like hey man i have seen the same thing that you wanted to talk about

and now let's talk about i just said that i just said that i wasn't listening because i was reading you're becoming me this is exactly what happens to me i'm gonna we just said that 30 seconds ago you fat lasagna eating motherfucker man i wish we had lasagna no shit so there's this that's what i said tray was basically just like well now that drew's not saying it this seems all right all right mimosa pudica oh hell yeah yeah also known that sounds like the only four I don't mean to correct you, but it's Mamosa Poudica. You're right. Here he is.

Yeah, for anybody, listen, don't know. Corey pronounces Mimosa Mimosa, and he pronounces tapatio Tapatio Tapatio. And I'm fat and bald and stupid. Don't deserve anything. Just we're catching you completely up. Yeah. So they knew that. I know.

This plant, Mimosa Pudica, also called Sensitive Plant, Sleepy Plant, Action Plant, Touch me Nights, It's the seven dwarfs of plants Shame plant or shy plant I got a lot in common with this plant Shame plant Shame plant Yeah It's this like little fern looking plant

That if you touch it at all All of its leaves like draw up To like protect themselves So it responds to touch right So this lady what she has done is She's trying to see if she could Finger this bush Yeah finger this bush

You know Pavlov's It'll be a good album to bail. Think of this bush. Classical conditioning. Yeah. Ring a bell and I'll salivate. Right. She was trying to see if you could do that with plants, which most people would be like, no, of course you can't do that with plants.

That I have a conscience. Or better yet, who gives a fuck if you can. It's actually super important, Corey. It's wild. Go ahead. Go on. So she takes this particular plant and she found a way to, she's, well, she's, well, she's, well, What she found was dropping it, right?

Dropping it, it would have the effect of curling up its sleeves or whatever, like it should, or like if you touched it. But if you drop it enough times, like, you know, onto a pillow or whatever, if you drop it enough times and nothing bad happens to it, like you drop it and then it just still gets sunlight and water or whatever, like there's no consequences of dropping it. eventually they stopped doing that when she dropped them so like that's a plant learning that's yeah that's wild using reasoning or like something but they don't that none of them have they they they don't have brains right because as far as we know with like classical conditioning and learning stuff or whatever it's all it all has to do with the brain like that the brain is what does that, whether it's a dog's brain or a person's brain or whatever, but plants don't have brains,

but they are at least seemingly, according to these experiments, capable of learning stuff. And nope, she and no other scientist anybody understands how that is, how that could be

possible, but it clearly does happen. So the trees also talk to each other. They let each other know things, but the way they do that is, through fungus, they send electrical impulses down. I swear to God, this is true, down through the tree, it goes into the ground, fungus that is in the ground,

then we'll send those electrical impulses hundreds of feet to other trees in a forest. And so this is one of the reasons most trees like being in a forest. And the dude who wrote this book was actually... Tell you what, I got to get to a fucking forest. Well, they don't do well on their own. Like there's plenty of trees if you plant them on their own in your yard, it won't grow as quickly or be as big or whatever. whatever. And this is one of the many reasons why.

What they talk about as an example where they talk about, you know, my old lady, she don't hit. What they talk about is like if a bug comes by and it's eating the leaves, that tree can put out a toxin for most bugs, not all bugs. Sometimes bugs will kill a bunch of trees, but most of the time a tree can put out a toxin that can get rid of that bug or control it to where it's not eating all its leaves. But it'll also send a thing out and all the trees in the area will put that toxin out.

Something don't hit. Exactly. It's the something don't hit signal. Toxin, yeah. That's communication. That's great. And that's passing information along, which is totally insane of itself. The guy who wrote the book was a forester.

Not your kinsman, gory, but mine. Right. By trade. Yes. I'm sorry, not a forester. I said that wrong. What is it where you... No, he worked for a paper company.

Like, he's trying to make money. That seems like the opposite of a forester. He worked for a logging company, but he was a scientist. So, yes, he was a logger, but he had it, but they were trying, they were basically paying him to figure out how to make the forest make more money. And he started to realize, oh, like, we should leave most of them alone. Like what we're doing, yeah, we'll get a lot more paper quickly for 10 years, but then the next crop is fucked. And we're not making any money. So a longer, better play is, so I thought that was part was wild.

But anyway, he had other people, you know, other scientists come in and he showed him what he had learned. And a lot of people are arguing that is how a nervous system, a centralized nervous system and a brain kind of works. You have electrical impulses. Right. You pass the information through something and it goes to the other parts of the body or the force or whatever. It's just that we're all, you know, our brain is contained in our skin, blah, blah, blah. And I mean, I know how super mushroomy this sounds. No, I mean, I'm with you.

But, like, where, you know, what is a self-contained system? I guess what I'm getting at is, is a forest a bunch of individual organisms, or is it one big one? That's that avatar shit. Right. We're all one, man. That's what my hat being. We, the trees. That same lady did another experiment with different plants.

So, like, anyone a tree together, a forest. Anybody that has a house plant knows that. they like their leaves and stuff will turn to face the sunlight or whatever eventually and that's just something that humans have known about plants since we've been fucking with plants right but she did this thing where so she put them in a dark room but got a UV light you know so it was like still nourishing the plant and she would before she turned the UV light on you know to the right of the plant she would be turn on a fan, right, which don't do shit to a plant. Just a very, like, gentle breeze. Fan, UV light. Fan, UV light, over and over. And then slowly, gradually, took out the...

Fan? No, the light. Oh, shit. To where... And found that the plants would then start responding to the just the fan, eventually, after long enough time of that conditioning to them or whatever. They would, you know, they'd turn their leaves to the fan as though... it was nourishing them even though it wasn't because...

Was that sunflowers? I saw one with sunflowers where they would face the same way every day at the same time when they would turn a UV light on, they would start... That's wild. And that is wild. But like UV light, that's essentially the same thing as the sun. Like, they're still getting something out of that. But again, but a fan, they get literally nothing out of.

But you can still, like, train... you can train plants to fucking respond to just a fan. Right. And that shit, that's fucking crazy. It's insane. And then, like, reading the one I read, thinking about fungus's role to the trees and how it uses them, I quite literally can't wrap my head around it. Because, like, you know, I'm sure there was a time, hell it may still be going on.

We're someone who owns a forest, like, for, you know, paper. cutting purposes. They'd see a bunch of fungus. They'd be like, get rid of that shit. You know, put something on that to kill it or whatever. And it also blows my mind to think about how this is another example, kind of like medicine, where we don't know what we don't know. You know what I mean?

Like in a hundred years, some of the things we do medically are going to sound so insane. I mean, it seems like maybe the plant world is obviously another example of that. Cho? Don't help. Well, I mean, like... I'm already scared about robots and now I'm thinking about 100 years from now. a goddamn tree just decides fuck this don't hit and just

that's actually what reminded me of this off mic earlier we were talking to some friends of ours that were over here and are now gone but we were talking about M. Night Shyamalan movies and so we started talking about the happening and how fucking ridiculous and stupid that

and that movie does suck but that's basically what that movie's about is what you just said like well you said well of a hundred years of tree decides well you must don't hit That's the premise of that movie. And we were just talking about how shitty the movie is, but that's what made me think of all this shit.

It's fucking, it's crazy. Well, I mean, you know, that movie's whole point, it was like an environmental point, right? It was like, that was a metaphor. The plants were fighting back against us. What Corey's saying is, what if metaphorically, what if they literally start fighting us? Yeah, of course it ain't going to be.

Like the tree, like Lord of the Rings trees. Harry Potter, that fucking, the weeping wheelin' Harry Potter that throws that fucking car out. Yeah. Yeah. They don't communicate with other trees. Don't hit. It's also just, uh,

Bob Hanson has that great joke where he says, so the other day they're teaching a chimp how to lie. That's one of our best tricks. Yeah. It's also, man, like, you know the trees are pissed because like, dude, so like, they communicate with, they boys. Right. Well, they've had the same neighbors their whole goddamn life.

That don't hit. Like, you a tree, you there. It's like if you next to Bob and Bob don't hit for you, that's it, dog. You got to be telling Bob, then one day you just decided, I'm going to warn Bob about these motherfucking bugs and let him go down. But that's why you got to get along with Bob, because Bob might do that to you. See, trees are better than us. That don't hit for me.

Come, Bob, yeah. My favorite ever Jack Handy joke. Deep thoughts with Jack Handy. Yeah, I know this one. Yeah. I was, uh, if trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? I bet we would. Well, we might be if they screamed all the time and for no real reason.

That always hit for me. That fucking crushes, mate. To this day. I don't know. I don't like thinking about the environment, not because I think the trees are going to come alive, but just because. Well, I don't really believe that. It is going to kill us, you know, just not that on the nose. Well, but.

It's our fault. Well, we're, so we're killing us, not the environment. Yeah, well, dude, that's something, I don't mean to bring up Trump, but that's something that's, like, kind of strange to me is he's been so unreal good at changing the narrative so much. I, I ain't seen nothing on the news. I'm sure it's been there, but I ain't seen nothing on the news about pollution in fucking two years. You know what I mean? Because everyone's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, we need to take care of that because we're going to die in 50 years. But he's going to kill us next week or whatever. Yeah, right. That's not a problem right now. The thing about that, though, like, I... I hope we live long enough to die from Global Warmer. That'd be awesome. I think both sides of that are valid.

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, you're right. Like, we need to be fucking doing something. But at the same time, I don't blame any of the people that there was like, yeah, but this is a real problem. This is now. Like, yeah, we, okay, we need to fix that, but, like, we don't... If you need to change your oil, but your tanks on empty, you're going to get gas first. Right.

Well, those worlds collide, though, with this dude, proves. who he made head of the EPA, who's just rolling back every fucking regulation ever been. Have you seen him in the news later? He might have to fire him. He has, I think, 29 bodyguards. He has an armored tank car. He's the fucking head of the EPA. Today he came out.

The only thing I've seen lately is Trump basically tweeted by how much he hit. So he ain't going to fire him? He won't. But anybody that he needs to fire, he won't. He only fires people once they get on some bullshit against his ass. On this note, I can't, I can't remember if we've talked about it. talked about it on here or not before, but like, that's another example to me of like, it doesn't make logical sense.

Like, why? So, you know, rednecks our people, the ones that are super pro Trump, though, like. And fuck trees. Why don't, why are they like that about the environment? You know what I mean? Because like, because they're hunters. They're outdoorsy. They love outdoorsy shit.

They love fucking, they love hunting. They love camping. They love pontoon bows. They are about the outdoors. To be fair. Don't give a fuck about saving the environment. To be fair, a lot of them are. They just don't believe that it's true.

Really true. That's what I was going to say. A lot of them, to be fair, are much more, you know, it's as close to left wing as they get. Like, I've been around a lot of hunters because of my dad, and, like, a lot of them are, like, the idea of not saving the parks. It might not, they might not believe at all that we need to keep the parks alive to, like, save humanity. But they're just like, no, don't get rid of, you know, parks hit. Parks hit. It's where I hunt at or whatever.

So I do think a lot of them do lean a little bit more left on that, to be fair. And then the rest of them do, just like Corey just said. They don't believe. They don't believe that oil is causing global warming. I genuinely think that my friend Bailey would rather not the trees die and the earth, the polar caps melt. If I said this is, if she knew for a fact this is really happening, I think she'd go, oh, fuck. But like, she just don't, they don't believe that it's real. If that's a bunch of lefty bullshit so that they can.

sell smart cars, I guess. That's the only thing, because you know in conspiracy theories you've got to chase the money. That's what I've said is like, you've got to chase the money. So like, if I'm sitting here, let's say it is all full of shit. We're wanting to oh, treat the earth better. Oh, my God. What a bunch of assholes?

That was the John McCain's stance. What's the end fucking motivation? Because it ain't like taking their guns away. You know what I mean? Right. When it comes to faking the shooting. Then the tyranny. Our motivation is to take their guns.

But like with this. I don't get it. What are we trying to do? Well, they just want to... I've heard that, well, they just want to do this. This is a stepping stone to passing legislation that gets you used to them controlling your fucking lives or whatever. And I'm like, but y'all, these are the same motherfuckers that didn't give a fuck about the goddamn Patriot Act. They were just like, yeah, goddamn shoe bombers.

So I just, I don't understand unless you... I've never heard anybody made the argument of like, well, they're just in it with big Prius. But like, what the fuck? Outside of, outside of... You know who? They don't believe that it's... ending the world. Like outside of that,

what about like, how many, how many, like, real life examples do they need from the entire course of the industrial history of mankind

of, you know, big companies just not giving a fuck about dumping a bunch of poison into a fucking creek or river or whatever. Like, even if, even if it's like,

okay, all right, that ain't going to end the world, but like, it might poison your water if you live, If you live upstream or downstream from a fucking a chemical plant, if we don't keep them from doing it, like that, what's that about? That's how ingrained, I think, in our, you know, capitalistic society and the idea of having a job,

like a company comes in, because it's always a rural place or a poor place, the company comes in, gives a bunch of people a job. 20 years later, everyone's got cancer. Right. And then the company goes, ah, man, we didn't know. And everyone goes, yeah, they didn't know. These people have been taking care of us. It's like the feudal lords of the fucking 1800s or whatever.

They also just don't like anything we got to say on a lot of things. I mean, like, they... I hope the trees kill us. They, dude, and this is a... This is going to end up being a segue, but I genuinely didn't mean to start out like this, but like, they just didn't give a fuck when Al Gore was saying it. He was, you know, when he came out with the inconvenient truth,

and he was one of the first ones that... I mean, there have been people, scientists for years, saying the, Earth is warming at an alarming rate. There is climate change, yada, yada, yada. But he's one of the first people that took his own money and fucking, like, made a film and made this big movement. And he sparked the DiCaprio's to go out there and have these big political movements about it. And he's a lefty.

And he was in the Clinton administration. And that was around the time that we had this really big surge of conservatism because Bush got in during 9-11. And that really is, I guess they just thought he was the wrong representative at the time. And fuck him. That made. it like irreversibly associated with the left. Right. If it had been some, right.

If some bipartisan, if some bipartisan, if there's a scientist that didn't have an R or D near his name, just came up. Well, they were. Right. They weren't any press. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm, and then Al Gore was like, here's these people, but they associate it with Al Gore.

It doesn't fucking matter that he's like, yeah, but these guys don't, aren't Democrats or Republicans. They're just fucking scientists. It's who's fucking saying it. Right. And I mean, you know. Goldwater had funded that film and be different. Right.

And I'm not going to sit here and act like that I can't be like guilty of that bias as well. Like if, you know, fucking Trump's people came out and made a film about some horse shit. At first, I'd definitely be like, well, all right, this is horseshit. But again, what's the fucking motivation? Right. Al Gore's like, well, I've got to somehow make money off of the polar bears now that bills that evolve. That doesn't make any fucking sense. Yeah, he's mad.

He definitely lost money. None of that makes sense. It just seems like, it seems like they're just like, well, that's some queer shit. You know, like saving stuff. That don't we. Yeah. So, I mean, you said it was going to be a segue. Do you, I mean, I'll talk about that for a minute.

But, I mean, if you got something. Yeah, I didn't mean jump off of it right now, but. No, I mean, dude, we haven't touched much on the environment on this podcast. But, like, I mean, dude, it's legit a crisis. Our kids. your kids are going to do maybe their kids are going to deal with some real fucked up shit

your kids ain't going to like our kids ain't going to die on account of it but they're going to have to deal with a lot more shit than we with and their kids it may very much more. It's going to be Water Wars. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude. Okay. Real quick just on that note. Water wars. Have y'all seen the big short? Yeah. I still hadn't yet. I want to watch it.

Movie fucking rules first of all. And it's about basically what that movie's about is it's about the there was a couple different pockets of people that saw the uh bubble about the the housing bubble bursting and the housing market crashing or whatever and that movie is about them and how they saw it coming and nobody believed them and yada yada the main one was played by christian bail yeah this dude who's a ex-doctor that got into finance and he was he bet like everything on the housing market crashing and but he did it almost too early yeah like he did it like so early that by the time it happened he was like nearly completely fucked you know what I mean

like he lost a lot of money waiting on his bet to pay off but then it did and he made all that money back times 50 or whatever I think on that last scene remember he wrote the percentage up yeah I think he wrote plus 1,800% It's something like that, something insane. So anyway, right after that, at the very end of that movie, it gives like an update on what happened

to all the principal character, you know, the principal people in the movie that the movie's about. And that guy, that doctor, it said, after that, after that happened, he basically retired from finance, just retired period,

with a shitload of money. You don't know what I'm saying. And, and basically, got out of it and then it says now he only trades in one

he's recently got back into the market and his only activity is in one single commodity water and so it's like that don't know and dude it's ominous as fuck again if you've watched that whole movie and then they say that at the end it's like well that

that's not because this guy clearly knows what's going on right yeah and yeah it probably will be water wars and that don't hit at all i don't hit but um you're gonna go back to mellar anyway you said you wasn't trying to do a segue but it's gonna be a segue so since you said that we'll just talk about it so i don't even really know exactly where to start i got so well that we could finally apologize to the good people of new orleans because there was a mix up on our show right if you were

are showing it up being Friday instead of Saturday and the reason is what we're about to talk about but like there was some fuckery with the email and I'm sure you all have already Well first of all we weren't allowed to announce what was going on why we had to change it.

Yeah which really sucked and then as part of the change process there was an email that went out from the business that was the only thing that went out we thought it was taken care of but in retrospect clearly a lot of people did not know that

So I said all I'd say this If you're there And you got fucked over by it From the bottom of our heart We didn't mean to do it We're sorry, we love you We said all of that last week We were just like

Well we can't say the specific reason And we can say it now But in fairness I'm sure a lot of people If you're one of the people If you got fucked over by that You're going to hear the reason To be like well Not give a fuck that

Right It's still shitty Sure But again let me reemphasize When it first came up And we looked into Changing the date It seemed very much like

This will be fine It would be fine Again it was from a Saturday to a Friday, the venue was open. They were like, yeah, we'll take care. You know, it didn't seem like it would become as big of a deal as it ended up becoming from a lot of people. We were assured that it would be no problem to take care of it. Right.

And then we, our fault was not looking into it anymore or worrying about it. And then our second fault was because we were assured and didn't look into it anymore, we didn't tweet about it. You know, we didn't do our own shit. That was a mistake. It was an honest one. That's all true. I mean, yeah, mistakes were made by us as well as a lot of other people. But, yeah, if I, that was a good one.

But, yeah, when this first came up, it was far enough out. It just didn't seem like it did. Did you hear how sad he was that I didn't fart into the microphone? Wow. Like, there was so much, just, what's the word? Oh, my God. That got over here, and the wind's blowing that way. I feel a breeze at my back, and I can smell your asshole.

Almost nostalgia for a thing that didn't happen in his voice. Oh, that was a good one. Jesus Christ. The wind is literally blowing that way. I ain't pooped right in about six days. I believe that. I believe you just poop right into the air. Anyways.

Anyway, so having said all that, go back X number of weeks, however long I don't remember. Weeks and weeks ago, our manager called me and was just like, so, she's got a pretty crazy phone call. It was from Al Gore's cheese. of staff and they were wondering if you would perform at Al Gore's 70th birthday party as a surprise if you'd be a surprise special guest and I was like yeah I mean yeah but also like surprise oh yeah that's gonna be a real payoff this mother this mother's this mother gets briefed on his breakfast the day before well it's not just that it's also just like you know what I mean like it was like any like surprise

I was like a fallout. Just, it'd be a letdown. Right. Me. Right. Al Gore's sitting there, where's Cardi B? Her new album's about to drop. Yeah, he was wanting somebody like Bruce Springsteen and said he gets an inconvenient tooth.

Oh, fuck my butt. I have been saving that for a day, dude. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, yeah. That's better than my fucking inconvenient truth pun. was pretty good. I think that's about the time I thought of it and I was like, I got to save that for it. So if anybody doesn't know, and I think we've definitely covered it, Trey has an extra tooth.

It's very inconvenient. It's very inconvenient. And if you don't now get that joke, just fuck you. To go even further, the extra tooth that he has, where he has that extra tooth, I was born without a tooth there, so I've always felt like that means that we're soulmates because he has what I did. It has none to do with a joke or anything we've been talking about. But yeah, I'm glad you told everybody that.

I just wanted to go deeper into the lore. I know. Yeah. But, uh, but, you can't be saving a far. off mic and then act like I'm fucking shit up. I was not acting like you're fucking shit up. I wanted to make fun of the fact that you had to tell everyone that you and Dre were soulmates. That was all that way.

Yeah, yeah. That's like y'all's best friend chains. We're slow mates. That's like y'all's best friend chains. It's just your team. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. That's established little without, yeah. But wait, do you have a fake one? I have a fake one.

Yeah, right here. Oh, okay. I don't know that was fake. But I was born. I was born without it. Period. You had a good dentist the way he like made it the same shade of brown. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, yeah, luckily when I got it done, I had done ron't these other teeth, so he just played off of that. If I had got this fake one put in when I was like 16, right now, Lord God, it would look like a Charleston rally dude in a sea of Black Lives Matter motherfuckers. It would not hit. So, that came up, and I was genuinely very pumped to do it because, and I told this story when I was there, and I told y'all too, but like, I, like, I, like, Al Gore's always hit for me. Me too. Even before, because like...

He had two good stints on 30 Rock that hit for me. He's a Tennessee guy, you know, and like... Seems sweet. And this is the story that I told at the birthday party, which is true. And I hadn't thought about in years, but I remembered it. Like, going back in high school. So I'm like 17, 18 years old, and I'm sitting in a truck with Thompson and one of our other buddies. And we're smoking with.

weed, we high, right? And we're talking about keeping it real. Because, you know, because of course we were. Yeah. Just the concept of keeping it real. That's always a huge subject, especially when high. Yeah. Keeping it real gets brought up.

Yes. Three 17-year-old redneck fucking, you know, idiots. Idiots. Talking about a rap philosophy. Yeah. The idea of keeping it real. And in the middle of that, with complete, total sincerity, He wasn't trying to hit it all. I was being completely genuine.

I was just like, man, you know who keeps it pretty fucking real, man. Al Gore, dude. What Thompson said? He was just like, he was like, what?

I thought you was going to say Tupac or something. But, you know, but Thompson, I mean, he was just like, after that, he was like,

But I mean, yeah, man, Al Gore keeps it pretty real. Al Gore keeps it pretty real. Al Gore? I'm saying that just to illustrate it like, God damn right, Al Gore keeps it real. God damn it. But, yeah, just so genuinely, he's always hit for me. Yeah. And so I was very pumped about it.

And like, Katie came with me. That was Easter weekend. His birthday was that Saturday, which was the day before Easter. and so all that shit came together and so me and Katie and my sons well I was in New Orleans with y'all and we've been on a run we'd done some shows and I

and then I flew to Nashville and met Katie and the boys in Nashville her mama picked the boys up took them to her house and Katie came with me to the party to the birthday party so I was pumped about it for sure but I was also like I was pretty nervous not just like

from a performance perspective, but more like, I've never been around. In my mind, I was like, I've never, I ain't never been around these people. This type of power. When I say these people, I mean like, I mean, the upper crust of fucking American society. Right.

Whatever. Yeah, this is different than some rich folks we met in Mississippi. Right, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Way different. And like, dude, fucking Ted Turner was there. Yeah, these people have tombs for their horses. There's governors there and shit.

Right. And so, and I don't know nothing about that. And y'all know, because I've told you before, is, like, still to this day, I feel not just weird, but I get almost, like, physically uncomfortable when I just go into a super nice neighborhood, like a wealthy neighborhood. It's like I immediately start feeling like they know. Yeah, and they do. Yeah. You're right. Yeah.

And I've always been that way. And so, like, I was kind of, that was kind of bugging me out a little bit. Just that whole thing. I didn't know. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know how it was going to go. And so I was a little nervous already. And then, you know, birthday party for a dude like that, it's got a full itinerary just nailed down to the, in half hour increments.

You know what I mean? And I was supposed to go on at 8.30. and right before me before me it was a 30 minute period for speeches and toast right so 8 o'clock speeches and toast 830 tray crowder but again it's a surprise they told me so because it's a surprise they picked me and katy up at the hotel which is 15 minutes away so we get we're getting there at 815

I know all that already I told katie I was like and you know what I'm glad honestly It's like I don't want to sit around and have to just like wait to do it too much and just like stew on all what's what's going to happen or whatever. It's like I'm glad. Oh, and hit. Yeah, I'm glad it's only 15 minutes and whatnot. So we get there at 8.30 and you'll never believe this. Those speeches and toast ran very long. Yeah.

Because the type of people to give a speech or a toast at Al Gore's birthday party, they, you know, they make me. A bunch of long-winded gas bag out. They make me look like Sally Hawkins in the shape of water. Right. You know, and I'm a verbose motherfucker. Right. They'd be talking. Right.

So it went like an hour and a half long. So I ended up going on at 9. I mean sitting here talking about how pretentious these people are and it makes a Shally Hawkins in shape of water reference. Yeah, I did hit. Continue. Move it hits. Guillermo.

He does hit. Giermo Delboro. That hits. Don't borrow mean bull. No, Toro. Toro. Bulls don't hit for a drawer. Bill's on Hiffordland.

Now we get it. Now we know. So I end up having to sit there and sit in that room for an hour and a half, you know. And I was like, in my mind, I was thinking, man, everybody in that room has been sitting there listening to all these speeches and toast and stuff. I know for a fact every one of them is ready for the talking to be over. You know what I mean? They're ready to get up, go take a piss, get a beer, whatever. Like they're done with it.

This ain't going to hit, man. That's what I was thinking. But what I didn't take into account was compared to those speeches and toasts, I was, you know, I was immensely entertaining. You know what I mean? Like, just like I was so different. Like, comparatively speaking, it's the opposite of following. It's like the easiest act to follow, is what I'm saying. Right.

Your talent is humor and their talent was their dad's had. money. Yeah. No, I didn't hear any of the speeches and toast. They might have all been very touching for all I know. But they weren't funny. Hilarious. And so, dude, I crushed, man, like destroyed.

It went awesome. And I had written some material just, some jokes just for that. and I did some of my own actual material and shit, and it was just, it went fucking great. I'm trying to imagine, like, I'm imagining like one or two really bitter fans who had gone, who showed up in New Orleans on Saturday because they didn't get the email or whatever, and they're hearing you said,

Well, I'm glad Al Gore liked the fucking show I paid for. Yeah. Thank you, Drew. It's what I'm here for, baby. Very raven contribution on your part. It was. Couldn't have been more raven. But, uh,

I want everyone out there to know that while Trey, you know, is at risk for becoming one of the lizards as long as I'm around, it won't happen. That's true. So I had a great set. It was fun. Like everybody, everybody, you know, everybody was into it. It went awesome. And he was super into it. So he was super into it.

Yeah, there's a picture of him almost coming himself. There's a picture. That we can't show. There's a picture that his fiancee sent to our manager. because those were the people that were doing the back and forth, arranging the whole thing. And she sent him this picture of Al Gore's face when they announced me or whatever. And he looks genuinely surprised.

Well, his mouth like opened and shocked. I wish we could show the picture, but we can't because all of you will put a dick in it. Like, he goes, oh! Yeah. So, okay, that went awesome. Next day comes me and Flady. Me and Katie fly back to L.A. with our sons on Easter Sunday. And I'm getting ready to do this short film, right?

I didn't expect anything else to come of it other than that. So fast forward to third. This is the hitting this part for me. Fast forward to Thursday of this week. And again, so today, as we're sitting here Sunday, April 8th, is my birthday. But so this past Thursday. Today's the 8th? Yeah.

God damn. This past Thursday, I was, I'm three days in. I'm three days into filming my first short film. and like it's pretty much all I can think about. So I wake up on Thursday morning and I'm like thinking about a bunch of shit related to it. And one of the main things is we're doing a 12 hour, 12 hour shoot on Friday night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. And I'm like, I got to feed everybody. And lunchtime is going to be about midnight.

Like, what am I going to do? I just go order a bunch of pizzas, I guess, or whatever. And that's what, that's where my brain was at trying to figure out how I was going to approach that. and then Katie yells in from the living room, Trey, you've got a bunch of packages from Al Gore in here. I was like, what? And I come in there and some of them are,

their birthday presents. That's a pretty subtle impression of what I assume Katie was saying, but go ahead. Well, she had been there with me and everything. You know what I mean? So like, I just hear her yelling at you and it actually sounds more red often. Right.

Well, it usually is because she's usually matter than how. But anyway, it was birthday presents. And so I start to open the shit. And the first thing I opened is two big-ass boxes of ribs from rendezvous in Memphis, not just ribs, ribs and also pulled pork and sides and fixing some shit and barbecue sauce. And don't sleep on that cashew brittles, son. God, damn. Cashew brittle, y'all, peanut brittles, but cashews.

With coconut. And I was like... It was unreal. And I... It's now I'm dreaming about it. As soon as I saw it, I was like, this is it. This is it, yeah. This is what I'm going to feed everybody tomorrow.

Now, Al Gore just solved this issue for me and catered to the filming of my, of my short that we're doing. So, uh. Say that motherfucker can't say something through. I'm going to tell. So that shit was, uh, it was just, it was wild and I'm going to send, I'm going to send his fiance, but, you know, the person that I mostly dealt with in the lead up to it. I'm going to email her, tell her this whole story, because, you know, she'll be listening to a podcast, which is fine. I'm going to tell her an old story and how much it hit for me and for us and be like, and so, you know,

and also, I was thinking that I put a credit on end of the short film catered by Al Gore, because, you know, it's true. It's true. And it hits. Yeah, and it hits. And so, you know, we'll see. But anyway, I just, I can't get over the fact that a 70-year-old man has a fiancé. like at that point like you know

will you marry me? Yeah just do it you know Right There's been a new word Betrothed Maybe that's what that word's supposed to mean I mean I thought that meant Promise by your family

No I thought it meant married Like My betrothed is my marriage My newly betrothed Yeah newly betrothed means the marriage Your betroth means like Y'all are married Pre-trothed

I thought Pre-trothed Pre-trothed She's my pre-trothed I don't head I just, you know what I mean? Like, imagine if this whole man, this is my fiance. What are y'all waiting on?

What do you mean? Yeah, do it. I mean, obviously there's going to be a time, you know what I mean? You asked them and then you've got to take some time to plan the wedding or whatever, but still. Right. You're going to officiate the wedding now? No, no, you write the official definition of betrothed is the person to whom one is engaged. Oh, shit.

Well, I ain't, me and Amber Betroth. now. No, Betroth hits way harder. Fiancee is French, but I can't say it without saying it, the O'Brother-Wi-Fi-Li. Fiance.

Like how, Ray McKin. It does hit, because Ray McKinnon, that's how he said it on O'Brother War Art thou. Lord, love Ray McKinnum. So hard.

And so now Al's going to come to our show in Nashville because he had such a good time. And that's when I made the original pun, I said, we need to save him a seat in the back in the VIP section and put a sign on it

that says an inconvenient booth. But then God damn it, inconvenient tooth hit way harder. We had another one. That's not the only one you had. When I first got those boxes of ribs and y'all knew the situation, and I texted y'all and said, hey, you know, worried about feeding everybody what I was going to do? Well, check this out.

Al Gorda sent all these ribs and you responded, well, that is a very convenient truth. Yeah. Yeah, we've been hitting with the same three-word pun. No, it's mostly been you. Right. And I'd give you total credit for that. The way you said it, Inconvenient tooth is amazing. And I was like, that's what Trey has.

And I almost said it. And I was like, no. You were right to sit on it. Yeah, you were right. You were right to sit on it. And I'm in no way mad because it's too good of a hit. And who the fuck am I? Thank you.

So we was talking about the night when we actually ate the ribs. They were fire. Friday night, 12-hour shoot. I mean, actually for us. I now know why he wants to talk with us. I do, too. Well, we started at 1 p.m. and then the whole shoot went to 6 a.m. the next morning,

but y'all was done at about 1 a.m., but still, you know, 12 hours for y'all, 16 or whatever for me. We had a bunch of scenes, well, a couple, but in each of them, they each have to do with us coming home after a show, and Corey's drunk. Yeah, and that's part of the scene. Mm-hmm. And so, Corey, y'all know.

That's why you wanted to talk about it. Y'all know, Corey, he's a, Corey's a method actor. I always have been. Meth-O-D. Yeah, put the meth and method actor. He is very, uh, put the OD in it too.

Got damn right. He said that the other night about you, and I was like, that's one of the best puns I heard in my life. And then he was like, well, I originally had it for, for DJ.

It was still my joke, though. Right, yeah, yeah. And he, he was rapping, and he said, he tweeted, I need some other rap names, give me my A-KAs, and I got on there

and gave him some A-KAs, and Meth-O-D man was one I like that one. I also like the smell of ice a lot, too. But yeah, Corey's a method actor. He's very dedicated to us. So, over the course of this shoot, yes.

Corey proceeds to get hammered. Hammered. Just hammered drunk. I would like to say off top, I never acted unprofessional and I didn't fuck up a tape because of it. You was hitting your lines. You didn't fuck up a scene. I think you might have fucked up a take or two, but that was fine.

Maybe one or two. Maybe that. You also made a take or two. I was about to say. I never, you know, I wasn't not paying attention because of anything. I was very in it. I'll give myself credit for that, at least. I was drunk, but I was paying attention, and I was absolutely all about it.

And, no, I mean, yeah, don't get me wrong. Corey was fucking hitting for me all night long. Like, it was clear that he was drunk, but again. Needed to be. He was hitting his, he was hitting his cues. He knew his lines. He was fucking, I mean, he was doing his job just while hammered. and it was fucking, it was crushing me.

So you're telling me Corey's a functioning alcoholic. Here we are with the well-red podcast, guys. Breaking news! Something's been revealed here that we've known all along. Yeah, and I hope you don't mind me saying this. Of course that I don't. It's a very positive thing. But, yeah, shortly after it's over, we're eating ribs and stuff.

And right after that, we're out back. And it was me, Corey, and Jake, Jake Adams, funny comedian who was also playing a part in the short short film. And Corey spent at least eight minutes explaining in vivid detail to Jake just how

much he loves foreigners. All foreigners. But specifically. Dude, it was specific at first, but I'm not kidding. You ended up getting like, you kept talking about different people from different countries that hit for you and you named off a few. And in finally

you're like, you know what? Just not Americans just any goddamn foreigner but typical liberal shit he's being very I was being sincere

he's being very positive but like in our way so you know he's just like dude god damn fucking Mexicans fuck I love them

fucking love fucking Mexicans man he says he's like earlier I got this Uber god damn fucking Mexican motherfucker motherfucker and I got in there you know

and I had to I had this 12 pack of beer, and he looked at me, and he was just like, all right, beers. I was like, yeah, buddy, you want one? He was like, no, I can't. I'm working. But he was just so happy to be here. You know, I was just so happy. And, you know, Americans, we don't, we ain't happy.

We don't do that. He's like, and he tells a couple other things the Uber driver says. He's like, now I tried to give him another bear. He still wouldn't do it. But, I mean, he was being good-natured about it. And I was like, damn, you were sitting back there, like, begging your Uber driver to fucking get drunk with you. basically why he's driving you around. He was hitting for me.

I got pretty buzzed while making the ribs. And Corey has a video of me making the ribs. We should put that out with the podcast. Jimmy the line cook? Yeah. It crushed me. Because y'all was out here finishing up a scene and I cooked them ribs or heated them up. But, you know, there was a lot of steps to it.

You didn't have no vinegar. So I used pickle juice. I never told you all that. Oh, they hit. That hits. But yeah, you guys also were giving me shit last night and I'm like, I'm not denying this. for basically like making y'all parodies of yourselves in the script like the way that I know it. I never accused you as shit.

I was just hitting my mark. I'm the one who pointed out. I said literally every line you gave me is me being mean to Corey. And every line Corey has us him being drunk. All I said to you today was, Tray, thank you for my role in this because every scene I've done, I've either been laying flat of my back or hammered drunk. It's been the best shoot I've ever been on in my life. Yeah, I really, I really, I really, uh,

captured the essence of you guys. But yeah, Corey's just drunk throughout the whole thing and Drew was just shitting on Corey for being drunk throughout the whole thing, basically. Yeah, we're stretching. I think we did good. Oh, did fucking great.

I had a blast. Everyone was seeing it. I think I learned a lot, which is the first time that's happened in a week for me. Drunt. I was talking to my director of photography last night about a way we were going to approach a thing. And I said, I said, oh, so we're talking about doing a, hold on, hold on, don't tell me, hold on.

We're talking about doing a, it's going to be an L cut. And he was like, that's right. And Corey was like, oh? And I was like, yeah, fast forward 30 seconds. We're about to start taking it. I was looking at that. I was like, did you hear me know a thing a minute ago? And he was like, yeah, I did.

It hit for me. I said it hit. And I was like, I know you said it hit. 15 seconds later, we're yelling at each other. It does hit. I know it hits. I know you said it fucking hit. Doing the thing we always do.

Just screaming in agreement. Yeah, just fighting over. It was cool, though, like hanging out and like being behind the monitor and stuff and watching you frame shots and giving input and stuff. You know, I felt like a part of something. Yeah, so hopefully it hits. It won't hit nothing. It won't hit nothing.

but yeah anyway well that's that we're pretty much we did we were filming again today too we're pretty much done i was like a couple things i have to do later this week uh with jake who i mentioned earlier but other than that the shooting is basically done it's all editing and shit which is going to also take an insane amount of time so like whole lot of work will have to be done but shooting wise just about there so well that's pretty much that imagine that same person that I cut to earlier to be an asshole. Okay, so you met out going, now your movie's done.

Well, good for you. But I didn't fuck nobody over to make this movie, except y'all. You didn't fuck me over? I'm not really. I got to come hit in California for a week. You know, I love doing that. Well, there is one thing that I've been wanting to do for a couple weeks, and then we've only been together the last two, this podcast and the one before,

like two or three before that. It was been you and Katie, or me? Well, you popped it. Well, no, that was last week when you popped in. It's been. It was you two and DJ. wasn't there. Right.

It was me and Katie. It's been sporadic at best. And the reason for that, folks, is we haven't been together as much because we've had some of many projects going on. And yeah, drunkenness at least one. It was Mice. That DJ episode was not Bags of Shit. That was Mice.

That was Mice. You know what? Butt Mace really set us back, son. It really took a lot out of us. I've actually thought about this a couple times. If we'd been more bags of shit that night, we'd have missed the Mace. Like if we'd have just stayed at that little redneck ass Cassini and Fargo.

Where everybody was buying us drinks and pizza. If we just stayed there instead of being responsible to go back and do the podcast, it would have still been maced, but we'd have missed the big, huge portion of it, and the podcast would have came out. So this is kind of a moment where... No, yeah, really, we're heroes. Well, if we hadn't gone to that fucking place to begin with, we'd already been done with it. Yeah, but then the podcast would have been interrupted.

No, that would have hit. Yeah, you're right. But no, I'm just saying. What I was saying is I've wanted to shout these teachers out for the last few weeks. But my art won't let me not do this because it came up. There it is. Respect. Mr. Butt saying what's up to the teachers.

That's so funny how that point out. Hell yeah. We're finally going to get to the teachers, guys. We want to talk about for weeks. We care deeply about this. Hold up. Can't not. Hold up.

Wait a minute. Let me put Mr. But in it. That stinks so bad. How, dude? I don't know. Outside. Honestly, I feel bad now that it happened.

Like, I didn't at first. I was like, yeah, a fart came up. I got a fart. Now that we've done that. I can edit it. I think of something. Go ahead. Teachers, it's going to be for real.

But this is all reminded me as something. You just did hold up. Wait a minute. Let me put my butt up in it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tell the story. I've mentioned on here a few times.

My Leaston, my, which where I'm from, that just means. That just means my youngest one. So everybody understands. I'm not. He's, uh, he's my. little, he's my little chow, and he is a fucking show. But my five-year-old, the other day, y'all were over here. My DP was over here, and other people like, people that had never been around, my kids are

families out before. And we're out, Katie is out. They're getting in the Jeep case, taking them somewhere. I have been asking him if he had had dance parties at school. That's what brought that song on. He stayed saying he did that. Well, so. That's what brought that song on.

Also, do we? yeah we talked last week about what he said what they said about core yes okay all right well so anyway all right this is not that he was out there in the we haven't said wait about how about how what they thought you what in the we talked about that on the last week's pocket that's how long we've been out here i thought we talked about that it was on how they thought cori was dead we recorded on on tuesday with andy me and and no it was the next y'all i don't know well we'll tell the story again just in case yeah but first this and so my five-year-old's out in the yard just doing flips and shit

who know that he had been he'd been singing and it started it started with uh he knows the song hit it cori mr butt everybody dance now so so everybody dance now so he starts doing different version you know remix and uh he don't like so he's like he a future DJ. Yeah. And the first one was like, it was, what was it? Everybody poop. Everybody poop now.

Purt. And so then we're out there. And then I'd hear him, he just, he screams like, fuck the melody. Fuck the catas. He's going, everybody show your wiener. And then he starts to take his pants off. No, no. That's all I heard was I walked out and I heard Trey go, no, Benton, don't pull your

We didn't even start. We had to tell him that way too many times. Yeah. It's a common occurrence. Which I said, y'all moved to Hollywood and within a fucking year, this little motherfucker already pulling his dick out in front of whoever it is.

Yeah, yeah. Something about this city. But it's actually, as a call back to, you know, as your buddy in high school moved out here to suck wainers, well, you know, maybe he moved out here to show his wiener. This is the place for it. For sure.

But, yeah. He stays showing his wiener back home, too. He's been about that life. California's full of whiskey Wheders and gold Staying down all night Showing your wiener to the stars Did we tell the phone?

We did, right? I don't think you remember telling the crew I think we just told it so many times Okay, maybe you're right All right, so Just tell it quickly because an abbreviated version to be good too Okay, so

We'd been filming for a couple days I come home one day like later in the evening Been editing and shit and I come in And I asked Katie. Katie is sitting at the kitchen table with the boys, both my sons. And I said, where's Corey at? And she goes, I think he's out back here in the guest house. She's like, but Bishop, why don't you tell Daddy where Corey is?

And he didn't because he's like doing his homework or whatever. And he's just like, you know, you don't help whatever. He wouldn't do it. But then I was like, what are you talking about? And she told me that earlier that day, while I was gone, and Corey was out back in the guest house, Bishop had asked Katie, can I go out back? Can I go out back and play? Because they've got a playroom in the guest house back here. Can I go out in the playroom? And she said, and she goes, no, not right now, honey, because Corey's out there asleep. And Bishop said, no, he's not. Corrie's dead. and Katie goes What? Why would you

Why would you say that? And Bishop goes That's what Drew told us And so Katie told me that And I fell out I was like God damn

Everything about that It's so amazingly raven And hilarious And we'll tell What actually happened But in my mind I just picture Drew Just like sitting on the couch

Looking at my son Oh that boy Where's Cory at? He's dead, guys. Come here, guys. Or he's dead. And it's like, it gets up and walks off or whatever. Yeah, what bothered me, which I didn't think about for the first couple hours,

because I was sharing that with all my friends. I was texting about how fucking hilarious is this. And then like five hours later, I was just like, it occurred to me, and they didn't give a fuck at all. Well, buddy, what that actually means is they don't have a firm grasp of what death really is yet, and that don't hit for me to think about. But that's, I mean, that is funny. All right.

That kind of hits. But they're going to have to, though. Well, yeah. But not yet. But that's all that is. It'll be when I actually die. Like, they know, they have to. Playing video games and shit, you know, dying.

But, like, they don't, you know, they didn't, they didn't interpret it the way that, you know. Drew told the children. That Andy would interpret Corey's, Corey's dead. Right. And then just went all. about their lives. Right. Because they don't,

you know, they don't understand, but, but yeah, and what, it killed me, but that's not exactly what happened,

but it's still funny as fun. What actually happened is really hilarious, though. Yeah. What actually happened was, you forgot how we speak. I came over here. You weren't with me.

You had been with me. And Trey said, Where's Corey? And you were asleep at the Airbnb. And sick. He had been asleep basically all goddamn day.

Which is part of why I said it the way. I said it. I said, Corey's dead. Yeah. And when I see, said it, I looked down, not Bishop,

Benton. Now, Bishop's who said that to Katie. Bishop wasn't there. Benton was there, eating. Cho boy. And he kind of stopped, but he didn't look up. And I thought,

I don't think he heard that. And there's no reason to do anything. Because if, like, if I try to explain something, and he's like, I don't know what you're telling me, Corey's dead. You know what I mean? Like, ah, it was fine. No, dude, you said it to me.

And honestly, I didn't even consider it. That's just how we speak. Like, it didn't even occur to me. So from that. little, like, you know, weird language thing we do, he extrapolated that Corey was dead. Then he told his brother. From me saying to you, his father, Corey's dead. He somehow extrapolated in his child mind that Corey was dead.

Y'all missed a Mr. But because he was staring into each other's eyes during that hit. I can isolate your butt vocals on that. But he then told his brother. Yeah. I mean, apparently. Katie and said it. Corey, Dad. Drew told us. Yeah.

Just like that. It's so insanely right. It's like they were like in their room later, just about themselves and either Bishop asked or just bent out of nowhere. I was like, Bishop, Corey's dead. Okay. Legos. Drew told me. He don't hit. Yeah, Corey's dead.

What? Who said that? Drew said it. Okay. Legos. End of that. Okay. So now that we've done all that.

Now that we farted and then told. that story, talk about the teachers. Yeah, you're betrothed. Yeah, my betrothed. She has to work a second job to pull in two. Well, I mean, we're back now. You're talking about you're betroth who is a teacher. Yeah.

Has to work two jobs? Yeah, two jobs to pull in like two a month. Two grand a month. She makes more waiting tables two nights a week at a meeting three restaurant where they don't even serve alcohol. So, like, you know, alcohol is what gets you the tips. Two nights a week, meeting three, she makes more doing that than she does being a teacher. That's insane.

It's fucking crazy. On Easter Sunday, after, like, when me and Katie, we met her parents and picked the boys up, and we're, you know, going to go drive to the airport and fly back to L.A. We met them, and we had lunch with them at a Longhorn in Columbia, Tennessee. One of my favorite chains, by the way, just what we're here. So we went in there and we had we were they weren't there yet. So me and Katie were sitting at the bar just waiting on their parents to get there. And, uh, I just overheard the bartender just Longhorn talking about.

And so it's Easter Sunday. He's behind the bar at Longhorn. And I gleaned from overhearing him that he's a, uh, a teacher and a coach. Right. At a school. But he's bartending on a fucking holiday at Longhorn because clearly he has to or else he wouldn't be doing that. Yeah. But like unbridled capitalism is totally fine.

That's what pisses me off is that people always go, well, I mean, you knew that going into it. You knew what you was going to make going into it. All right, bitch, well, you knew that you's going to have to pay a higher tax rate when you got rich. Shut the fuck up. We're trying to change shit that we don't feel is right. Suck my dick. Which, by the way, this dude wasn't bitching about any of that. He was just talking about his kids and his class.

Yeah, teachers don't be bitching. And did another thing. He wasn't complaining. So shout out, obviously. First off, that ain't true. But whatever. good reason. Yeah.

They actually have some good shit to bitch about. Well, I mean, like, a lot of them are those salt-of-the-earth-type people who, the reason it's taken so long for the strike to happen is because they're like, we don't want to make ways. We're just here for the kids. Right, because they actually want to do what they're doing. But obviously, they're fucking over it, you know. And again, shout out to West Virginia, Kentucky.

Now it's Oklahoma and Arizona. And, you know, someone asked us, where were we? Someone asked us if we were surprised. No, it was Bob. It was interviewing us. And I don't know if we can talk about what he was. he was interviewing for it but he asked me and you said he asked you i think too are you surprised by the west virginia teacher striking i was like no that region has such a rich

history of striking of standing up for themselves yeah that's where that's where johnny paycheck went baby we'll take this job and shove it that's right coal miners baby and you think about these communities and who these teachers are you see these stats where it's like teachers make 30% less than comparatively educated people across all industries and you go oh man that's really a shame then you go to these rural communities and I'm not shitting on a rural community I come from one but you go to these rural communities where they make up most of the educated population do you understand what I'm like like where I grew up I would say that in terms of people who have college degrees teachers the number one job where I would do chickamauga absolutely is too

there's no doubt in my fucking mind almost would have to be so inside their community as a group they're one of the most educated groups in a rural community and their coaches like you were just talking about they're doing PTAs they're making sure the kids have food. They're doing all this shit. On their own dime a lot of times. And then they take home a thousand dollars a month. That's God calling.

He's as mad as we are. And as usual, we ignore God. I burnt myself with a cigarette when I did that and just sucked into pain. Love it. It goes in a bunch of different directions, too. It's not just we need to pay them more because the service that they provide warrants it, which it does. But also, like, it would just, if they were paid more, it would. would attract, you know, teachers hit, but people that might end up becoming, like, corporate

loggers or whatever. I mean, probably not corporate lawyers. No, but what you're saying is we might be missing out on some very talented people. Really talented educators who are just like, I can't do that. I can't feed a family doing that job. That's definitely an argument to be made. But on the other side of that, just the teachers that are already doing it, which I think are fine people and there's some great people out there, it would just remove a little bit of

stress from their life and make their job easier to do and they could teach better. Right. Because Amber... That's why I said it goes in multiple directions. She teaches her fucking ass off and at the end of the day she's having to go pay all this shit out of her pocket for students that, you know, can't afford stuff. And of course she's going to do that. Like you're not good...

You get into it because you like the kids. She's not going to have some student go without because their parents can't afford their $5 permission slip shit or whatever the fuck. So like if you just ease a little bit of their... stress they can put more into their lesson plan than they do into going down to dollar general after easter to make sure all the candy's on fucking sale so they can afford it and then we get more educated kids you get a less stressed teacher and then you know not as many people doing a desk pop from time to time well dude and right you know i'm just saying on a positive everybody

it's so appalling and it seems so obvious but this is another thing where i'm like rednecks really like like when i see sort of right wing you know and it's not everybody. Well, that's one thing. First of all, I should say, no, I wasn't surprised when he asked that question. I was like, no, I wasn't surprised. And Joy Reid, and I said this on the podcast, I think, once already. I love her, but like, she tweeted something like, okay, teachers in West Virginia, now don't vote against your interests. And I'm like, they weren't. This is another fucking example of how blue some of these states are and can be. And I'm not saying every teacher who's on strike is blue, but a lot of them could be.

Ten the fire every now and then. Right. If the Democratic Party would give a fuck, they would listen. So the governor, they were in a standoff against, you know, the Republican governor was a Democrat when they voted for. And West Virginia had elected a Democrat governor like for the past like 16 years or something like that, like four elections in a row or something. Because of labor. Labor is why they're a blue state. Right. And then that and then this, the current one, what ran as a Democrat was elected and then just promptly flipped to a Republican. He's a progen horse his ass in there.

He's a piece of shit. He's a cold, he's a cold royalty. And I'm most people who don't own the company. Right. And apparently he owes four million. Apparently he owes four million in taxes to the state. I didn't know they had to pay taxes. That's his argument.

That's his argument. That's why he became Republican. Taxes don't hit. Don't hit. I'm Republican now. I mean, they don't hit, but still. Well, what you get from them does, though. For sure.

Teachers, schools, roads. Yeah. Don't hit. Don't hit. But. But. at least teachers had so hard and good and good for them and i hope that the domino effect continues i think it will because they're not backing down i don't know if you saw it but like

oklahoma offered them a big raise and they told them to go fuck themselves and i also i hope that like i feel like okay so what it's all right it was west virginia arizona kentucky oklahoma so far red states all yes this right here this this labor this this labor resurgence that's happening this is a such a fucking golden opportunity to get the working class back right exactly to come in and stake a fucking claim with these people again but you got to mean it right yeah absolutely and one they fucking should the left is the fucking party of you know yes labor but and but they need to I hope they just see it for the that it is and try to make something of it.

Because if you go there and tell the, and these people will listen to you. If you tell, it's like, you know, like with Doug Jones and Alabama, like, you can win,

you can win in these states if you can just go there and show these people that you give a shit. Yeah. Like, genuinely just, just that you give a shit. And like,

I, they should. They should give a shit. Well, and I get, why, just in terms of as a practical measure, why the national left sort of has written off certain states in the past. Like, just as a practical measure, I think it's bullshit.

I think if you really believe in stuff, you should be going there and trying to get people and blah, blah, blah. But as a practical measure, I get it. But practical. All right. Well, yeah, like, you go to a place where... I don't need to spend too much time in Alabama when I could go to Ohio that's actually a swing state. Especially if you're, like, where I come from,

that's like my uncle's shop, you know what I mean? but like I think that it's practical now. It is. You know what I mean? And that's not the things that's not the best argument. Like it's also correct.

Right. Logically and morally. Logically they need to be pay better and you need to be working on that as a politician and promising them and other people who work for living certain things. Morally they deserve to be pay better and you ought to be promising them as a party

and working on certain things. But then also practically as a party wake the fucking. up. Right. We got two fat fucks on the seesaw now. I'm not sure how that analogy applies, but yeah. I'm just saying it used to, it just seemed like there's just the right, had

the fat fucks sitting there, and it's like, well, it's just unattainable, this motherfucker's going to be up here, and now it's just like, we're balanced. We're more balanced. Oh, when a fat kid's sitting on a seesaw, and then you can't get him down, so you and all your friends jump on top of it, and then you finally get the balance, one of you flies off and you break your arm, and the teacher

comes over and makes you feel better. Exactly. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. Hey Andy. Hey Andy. Get on that seasaw, y'all, y'all. Yeah. Andy stoned. She got that stone face.

Climb on now. Let's go. Let's wrap it up. Teachers hit. Teachers hit. Al Gore hits and keeps it real. Al Gore keeps it real. We went a whole thing about talking about teachers, and I didn't even bring up my mama.

That's special for me. I love you, Mama. His mama's an angel. And a teacher. Skew. And a teacher. Skew! Thank you all for listening to the West.

Red Show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do. Thank you, God bless you. Good night and skew.