wellRED podcast - #9 - Wheeler Walker Jr.

Episode Date: April 5, 2017

Wheeler Walker Jr. is a country singer who, in our opinion, amongst the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and Chris Stapleton (along with several others we mention in the podcast) is helping to save the type of country music that we hold near and dear to our heart... real country music.In the interview with Wheeler, we cover topics like moving away from the south, breaking southern stereotypes, Chewbacca Mom desecrating The Grand Ole Opry, and the downfall of real country music as we know it. Pre-Order his new album Ol' Wheeler now on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play for the insanely bullshittingly low price of $6.99... and also go give his 2 singles (Summers In Kentucky and Pussy King) a shout on Spotify.. guarantee it will make you want to buy the album... it hits.PRE-ORDER IT HERE DAMN IT!!!!You can also snag his first album, "Redneck Shit" for a limited time for only $5.99. It's almost like he's paying YOU to change your life!WheelerWalkerJr.com for everything you need to know! Before the interview, as you all know, we screwed around in our hotel in Bentonville, Arkansas for about an hour. Topics included Bernie Sanders, the new Supreme Court Nomination, this week in "Rurning", and Corey's sudden new urge to pee on people.  Subscribe and leave a review!!! For all tickets to shows, t-shirts, random other merch, and a copy of our book The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin Dixie Outta The Dark... go to wellredcomedy.com Tell ya friends!!! SKEEEEEEW

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what are we doing? Of course. I don't know you won't. You say that every week and I ended up doing it. Oh, okay. Which is fine because nobody knows because I have edited this part out. So anyways, here we are in Bentonville, Arkansas. We're at Walmart.

We're at Walmart. If Walmart was a town, let it be where we are. And you're listening to this is a well-read, this is the first live episode we've ever done, and this is episode nine. Yeah, I'm scared. I'm all so terrified. Those things are usually heavily edited. Oh, very. No, that ain't true.

We're too lazy for that. Mostly what you hear is what you get. But we just, I don't know, we're bored. Thought we'd try this. Thought we'd go live and do it for a little bit. It's 420 in Walmart land. Do you know where your comedians are? I should have brought that joint.

Yeah, that's one thing that's cool about doing shows in the South besides all of it. But last night we received barbecue, moonshine. Good barbecue, too. Great barbecue. And a hand-rolled joke. Hell yeah. And it's all in my stupid room. Yeah.

Not in here. God bless us, South, man. So we're going to talk about some things that we've brought up earlier to one another, but also we're going to be taking questions from you, folks a little bit later. Oh, we are? Yeah, well, not right now. We can do it later.

It's fine. I got it pulled up. I wanted to catch up with you fellas first. Oh, I'm accidentally breathing. You're playing it. Feedback. That'll be good. Got a nice feedback loop going.

This is going about how I expected it to. And to be fair, how we expected it to, too. You said, we're going to do it wrong, and I said it'll be awesome. Those aren't mutually exclusive. That's true. How's your belly doing, Corey? No, I'm better than I was. You got too ruined.

I did. Corey threw up for the show last night about Saturday. Yesterday was Saturday. We're live. Y'all are aware that yesterday is Saturday. But you might also be listening on Wednesday. Say, I can't, I can't even. Anyway.

You remember that sketch from a. Oh, Lord. Yes, Mr. Show with Bob and David. They go into the future. He's doing a live show, but it's pre-recorded. So people call in. But when he's like, this is going to be out next Wednesday. So you're hearing me talk about old people homes.

Are they infected with sexual STDs? But next week we're talking about pets. So when you call? Yeah, that's us right now. Yes. So yesterday was April Fool's Day, Saturday the first. We spent all of April Fool's Day driving from Mississippi to Arkansas seven hours. Profoundly hung up.

Now that I think about it, do you think that was an April Fool's joke played on us by our manager and agent? Sure. It was good. Yeah, if you're all. Yeah. Baster. much. We were all as hungover as we've been in a while because we ain't been together in a little

bit and as usually happens when we... Close to your mouth. It usually happens when we haven't been together for a while and then get back together. We got blistered. On Oxford. Friday night in Oxford, Mississippi. And I hadn't, and this is not going to sound impressive to anybody, but I hadn't drank in five days, which is four months in my world.

Like to me. Right. I'm like a dog. A drunk dog That's five years And drunk days Yeah so Yeah

We was talking about All right Let's just go into that for a minute He hasn't We've been not We've been apart for a while And Corey's trying to clean up his life a little bit I got engaged

And I just wanted I mean I had a little bit To live Yeah I had a reason to live For the first time I said that I don't know what it was

We were talking about something I was like You know everything's different now Like a I don't My face even looks different in pictures, and Drew's like, you're smiling, you piece of shit. You've got a reason to live. Yeah.

Can't figure out what's changed in my life. So, as normally happens when a comedian decides I have a reason to live, Corey started... Just sucking at comedy. Just, well, no. I'm kidding. Just not hitting. He started... On stage, I was fine.

He started jogging, and he became a pescatarian, and he was like... For like seven hours. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And five days, that's weeks. It is. But, Trey, he had just considered it. Like, you were acting like he hadn't eaten nothing but fish.

No, I did that the day before. All I did was eat food. Yeah, man, dude, that's wild. But he went like, you know how five days with no carbs. Remember, he's like, I ain't had a car. I think it was like, 10 days without cars. I went a long time without cars. You said, well, okay.

It was Thursday night. It was not 10 days. That's two church services, God damn. I've gone by since I've had chicken. No garbs. Then again, do you understand? how he defines carbs. It's just bread.

Yeah. And being drunk. He's like, I can't have beer or bread. It's like, how do you feel about mashed potatoes? He won a whole bowl of them. No, I knew that day I was doing wrong stuff. But I'd already broke. I'd already got super drunk.

He told me either corn or yams didn't count at some point. No. All I said was at least yams is a complex card. That's all I said. At least it does something for me. We are getting ahead of ourselves. So we all get together for the first time, on Thursday night but late in Memphis

because we had to find Memphis to drive to Oxford the next day. So he didn't do, Corey didn't do no running on Thursday night and that's when he was talking about how yeah, I've been running, I'm off the sauce,

I'm a pescatarian now, I'm gearing up for our move to Los Angeles, everything's going good. The next day we get up and head to Oxford and we've all been awake for less than two hours and Corey is just murdering himself with catfish and macaroni cheese at Mama Jones.

country kitchen in Oxford, Mississippi, and it was all downhill from there. Fast forward. Fast forward to 4 a.m. later that same day, Corey is literally in a cab that he just called just to take him to get a butterfinger. I was really dead. I take to trade the picture. I was sitting there. I was like, I was doing so good for four days.

And now I'm sitting in a cab, I spent $20 to get a fucking butterfinger. At 4 a.m. And buddy, worth everything. It was so fresh. I did the same thing with booze. I had drank since I was last with y'all. It had been like 11, 12 days, completely nothing. And then, as you guys are aware, we got to Oxford.

We skipped dinner, first of all, and went to the bar, and then we just never found the time to get any food after that. And, Lord, I went in. I didn't eat until about two that morning. It was a plate of barbecue, and that stayed in my stomach for exactly 35 minutes. minutes. And all I ate that night was pound cake. We were at a book conference and conference.

Book conference in Oxford, those people were very kind to us. Very, yeah, southern hospitality at its finest. We're going to thank them. I was calling them the landed gentry. And Drew pointed out to me the next day that they were not particularly wealthy or anything. They just had a hidden house and were hitting people. And I was like, well, yeah, we were in Oxford. You were at a nice house.

You wanted them to be the landed gentry. Yeah, I just assumed, like, this ain't a trailer. They're rich. Gone with the wind was filmed here. They were very awesome. I was sitting here listening to y'all, and I was like, man, these two idiots, I didn't do anything shitty that night. And then I remembered, as I have already tweeted out, I remembered that I was in my hotel room, ugly crying to Conway Tweety and 2A. So, yeah.

We just missed each other. That's all it was. We just got a little too overzealous. And then we had to wake up Saturday. day and drive seven hours to Bentonville, Arkansas. April 4th. And so when we got here, I forgot if I was even going with this. Well, probably that you weren't in a good mood.

Oh, me being sick. We asked about if Corey was feeling better, and that's what started that story. But we got here and Corey just wasn't doing well because me and Drew, Corey drove like literally the entire way because me and Drew were sorry. Drew helped. Yeah, he drove like the last 45 minutes. Drew, he could have drove more, but he. He fucking drove.

You're sorry. Don't drag this motherfucker down with you. You ain't drove a day on this whole goddamn tour. I got bad eyes. Uh-huh. And spirit. Yeah. Is bad eyes that what they mean when you don't have a soul anymore?

Is that how you say that? Bad eyes? I guarantee you. What do you say after that text he sent you, what's he doing? He busy. Have you ever noticed that he doesn't have any trouble driving his own fucking ass to Warner Brothers for meetings and shit? All his eyes are fucking fine when it's Bugs Bunny Money and shit.

But like, no. I can't drive to Bentonville, got to let the Cho do it. I ain't got no Cho with me in Los Angeles. What am I supposed to do? Don't ever forget it. I ain't got no alternative. I have to drive myself.

Don't help. So what we did to make myself feel better after I drink when I'm there. I know. I've done and told you how much the drinking makes it worse. It's all real. Yons just don't. Whatever. Well, in order to make...

I thought the not having a Cho in L.A. was a decent counter argument. Well, I just Corey, if you were in L.A., he would absolutely make you drive him everywhere. Because I'd be drinking because I'd have a show in L.A. I'm saying the two things are... Did you hear me argue that? I wasn't going to. I was like, yeah, fair point. I'd be your fucking chauffeur, I'm sure.

The chofer. The chofer. That's my ball hair. So, wait, see, we've spoken our own language now. We are. Anyway, you got here. You got here. You got here and threw up last night.

Well, because I'd driven the whole... Well, Drew ended up. relieving me for about an hour and a half, but I needed to eat and I wasn't feeling good. So, naturally, when you're not feeling good, you go to KFC, which we did. You've got a pretty star-crossed relationship

going with that Georgia Gold chicken. I know, and no, this is not an advertisement. I wish KFC was paying me to say this, but they're not. This is just all for free. I just, yeah, they're honey gold. It's only been out for a couple months. That was probably my 20th time eating it.

You ruined yourself. I ruined myself on the chicken. I did. I ate my potatoes. I ate your potatoes. I ate my biscuits. I ate y'all's biscuits. I went in.

And then... And then was at the show later acting like, I don't know why my belly hurt so bad. This is different. This is some kind of stomach bug. I feel like this ain't normal. The germs about Walmart have gotten to me. I smelled cigarettes.

I smoked for like 15 straight minutes earlier, y'all. That's probably what it is, don't you think? Well, I still don't feel good. Yeah. Yeah, you ate eight pounds of Georgia gold. Yeah. Seven biscuits. And it's like not a natural color.

That's just the color of this microphone. It is. You shouldn't put that much of it in your guts. It was so good, though. But then, yeah, right before the show, and, like, I, me and Tray were talking, I've never had to, I think that's the first time. And I've been doing comedy a long time. But every time I ever got sick before a show, it just happened to be a show that, like, was like an open mic. They want to close that curtain.

Okay. Is that better? It's a little behind. You just don't want to have to see Arkansas. Was that the problem? I think it's in black and white. Is it really in black and white? I hope it is.

This is one of those sting videos. That's awesome. That dude's going to pop out and be like, did you know that the show was 16 years old? What have you been doing with this boy? Hilarious. And by the way, I forgot that people were watching this. If you do like this, well-read podcast, it's on iTunes,

download it, and you're going to, you can hear what we're talking about now, except edited later and with like a song or two or some shit. But anyway. And on that note, we are going to take, they're asking, yes, we are going to take questions in a moment. We're just trying to get through some stuff here because this podcast is going to be recorded. You know, we can't be just doing that the whole time. Sure.

We can talk about, you know, what y'all want to talk about, which is we know Trump. Let me get this out here. You just reminded me of it before we move on, just make sure we don't forget. For the record, this live part is just the first part of this episode. Yeah. The whole podcast will include an interview with the one and only Wheeler Walker Jr. The man. The man, the man who is single-handedly saving country music right now.

Without a doubt. And we're very, very excited about that. We're going to include some Wheeler music on the podcast, too. So even if you're watching and listening right now, still a whole lot of reason to come back on Wednesday. In fact, that's sort of the whole idea. Absolutely. So, yeah. Anyways, on that note, any other show I'd ever been sick before, I could.

could just not do the show. It was like, oh, this was a showcase or this was an open mic, and I just wouldn't do it. That's the first time I've ever yacked before a show, and I up hurled like five times. It really sucked. But luckily, people at the Meteor or Guitar Gallery, that crowd was awesome, and it didn't even feel like I was performing sick because they were so great. But, yeah, anyways, I'm just now kind of getting around to it. I also notice, like, I keep doing what you're doing right now and what me and you have to do,

and then I remember that we're on camera and people could see it. I'm still doing it on your leg accidentally. I wonder how long it's going to be for somebody realizes what it is we're doing. It's like, they're, do you notice after every time they talk, they pull the camera away from their mouths because they're fat and free hard? Because that is what's happening.

I said camera. I meant microphone. Yeah, we and Corey developed a system. I was just zoomed in on your leg that right there accidentally for like 10 minutes. 10 minutes? No, not 10 minutes. But I made it color.

That's what I was doing, everybody. I made it color. That's why I was doing that. So it's no longer in black and white, but sorry about the close-up of Trey Shinn. Well, anyway, we have to manually breathe off mic because it causes a lot of audio problems if we don't do that. Yeah, somebody posted, I got a ding on my phone the other night, and it was like an email or something. It was like, hey, great podcast, but, you know, one of y'all's got a goddamn deviated septum. Well, so to finish run, and Corey was laying there just laid up.

We couldn't eat the barbecue that Philip had so kindly brought us because we were too rurned. Then we did later, and it was awesome. So I appreciate that, Philip. And then, like we said, another fan brought us Moonshine, another one brought us a hand-rolled joint. I do want to tell one story. This drunk woman, white, which lets you know she could do it the fuck she wanted, and that's why she did what she did, which was she came back into our green room. And she sat down hammered.

Trey was on stage. I wasn't there for any of us. Just hammered. Like hiccuping, she was like, hey, y'all Tray's friends? Now, I was sick as shit. I wasn't yet convinced that this was just a drunk lady. I was late. I was like trying to sleep on the couch.

And I just see Drew talking to somebody. I was like, oh, she must work here or something or another. She did not work there. No, nor anywhere I'm thinking. I was like, yeah. Yeah, we're the comedians. And she goes, I know. And she wasn't liking that Corey wasn't pep

up. So she said, well, what's your problem? And he said, I'm sick. And she goes, yeah, I get it. I'm from Nashville. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I'm from Nashville. And then I went and asked one of the guys who does work there. I was like, hey, you know her? He's like, ain't that Corey's girlfriend or something? I go, no. I was like, how old was she back here? And we go, we don't know. Was she an older lady? Or was she like? She's like between 30 and 35? I was going to say 34 to 38. I hope she's 22 and she's listening. She had a real bad case of blistered drunk face. So, you know, that could go either way.

She could have just been a 24-year-old not having to get go of it. And I would say, you know, like, it was fine. It was an accident. She was nice. She wasn't nice. It wasn't an accident. That dude asked her to leave who worked there, and she was, like, giving him the third degree. She's like, I'm just back here hanging out.

He's like, yeah, but you can't be. This is for a crew and performers. Yeah, she told me to go fuck myself for something. Something over college girls college basketball. She said something. She was asked to me if I knew who won that. game because I was talking about the North Carolina game and I told her yeah and she goes who cares and then you go yeah who cares and she goes go fuck yourself yeah I was like I wish I could

vomit on her face well anyway all right that's most of this week and run I guess we'll take questions in a moment we can talk about whatever y'all want we'll start talking y'all can throw us questions um you all want to talk about trump yet I'd rather not but I know that's going to be how this fucking goes. Everyone's complaining about the audio. Like, we can control Facebook live. I don't know what, turn up the volume. I don't know what to tell you.

What's right? Is the audio on that thing? I don't know. I do this. I think it comes through the phone. We've done this before. What are our thoughts? With that thing?

Yeah. What are our thoughts on Bernie Sanders? Hey, or one. Next question. Jesus Christ. I really like what he's doing right now. He's trying to go for single-payer health care. And this is just a lot of what he's done his whole career, which is take an opportunity.

because a lot of Democrats are freaking out or trying to get Trump impeached by Russia and look if that ends up working at first I did not think it was going to and now I'm like God damn we might get him you know if you're working on that whatever but he was like no I'm going to go work on actual things that help people like I've always done

they fucked up the Obamacare situation so now he's trying to get a single payer pushed through I love Bernie Sanders that's how I feel about him I don't know if he would have beat Trump I think you would have had a better shot in certain areas the Rust Belt comes to mind yeah i like bernie sanders too uh

you know i don't really have anything i mean i i was getting in trouble with this shit man because uh anytime like i voted i voted for bernie like that was my guy that's who i wanted to win you know right but anytime i've ever criticized him even a little bit it's usually not him it's usually you know his fans you know yeah like jesus and tool and dave matthews yeah uh which is somebody else else

joke. I can't remember who right now, but either way, whatever. And anytime I've ever even started to do that, people have come after me hard. Like, what the fuck's your problem? You know, and I'm, and that's part of, that's part of my problem is that response to it. But I mean, him, he's awesome. You know, I always, I had nothing but love for him. But, you know, I'm a bit of a whipped pup when it comes to talking about Bernie Sanders. Yeah, he's a bit like Jesus. in that way.

I know. You love that dude. A lot of people yelling about him. I don't care for it. You know what I mean? So he's a Jew. He cares about people. Yeah, there's a lot of similarities.

He liked guns. Does Jesus like guns? Don't burn he like guns. Don't he like guns. I don't know. Not really 100% sure on that. Well, anyway, we got another question over there. Is that what you're doing?

It's mostly just high from like Mulletville. That's what we always say. That's what I always say. Been there like a lot of Bernie. Come to Seattle. We've been to Seattle. We've been to Pittsburgh. We will come back.

Speaking of that, while you're on that subject, we do have some days to plug. We got Brooke on the 21st of this month, April 21st. We got Brooklyn, New York, and we got Providence, Rhode Island, the 22nd. New Brunswick, New Jersey, the 23rd. Indianapolis, the 28th through the 30th, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania at some point there. I didn't write it down because I'm a dumbass. Dayton, Ohio, on the third of, what's the next month? April, May?

Is that May? And then we're super pumped. Chicago's almost sold out, so please get tickets quick. June 23rd, we're at, what theater is that? Talia. Oh, Lord, it's gorgeous. In Chicago, and then at the Wilbur in Boston on September 8th. So get those tickets, well-read, comedy.com.

Spell just like the podcast, which you can't see the graphic for right now. If you're on live, W-E-L-R-E-D, Comedy.com. All right. We did get some questions. A quick one. What do we think about Maxine Wals? Love her to death, which she is my aunt, Lord. But a longer conversation, someone asked us.

Go ahead, keep going. You're going. You're going to say something? No, no, no, no. What do we think about the future of public education under DeVos and in general? Well, under Devo's. I'm more versed to talk about future, the rapper. Jibber will get to work on fuck up some nuggets.

No, I had a fuck up some comments. No, but that's literally just because I've been sick. been, I'm behind. Yeah. What are you going to be a little thing? I will get to my nugget wrap. You are a child left behind. What do you think about the future of education?

Well, he's working on this parody of a future wrap. Yeah. It's about chicken. Chicken tafe, to be exact. I mean, I think DeVos is trying to dismantle shit. I think they're trying to make it go public or private, which is a bad idea. A horrible idea. I can think of a bunch of reasons why.

But one that I saw, this ain't mine at all. It's economic base. This ain't going to hit it then. It's going to make everybody sad. But, uh, sweet. Kind of my MO. It was, uh, in a business, like, if you have a crate of blueberries and they're bad blueberries, you don't sell the blueberries.

You throw them out because if you sell those shitty blueberries, you won't have customers anymore. Are you talking about throwing out dumb kids? That's what they're saying. That's what this, it was the teacher who came to the see. There's no such thing as bad blueberries in what I do. Right. Profits can't drive what I do because there's no product. There's fucking kids.

Kids ain't a product. Dickheads. It's like, I mean, it's equally as stupid as privatization. in prisons, you know what I mean? Because then you've got a profit, you've got a profit motive to hurt people, basically. Yeah, somebody said, I saw somebody say yesterday, they were like, Betsy said, she's like, you know, choosing your education, should be like choosing between Uber or Lyft. And somebody was like, yeah, well, some people have to take the bus, you dumb sack of shit.

That's an awesome rebuttal. How's it going to work in, like, Salinas and some, right? Seriously, what's going to happen in places like that in that future scenario? Mario, how does that? They'll have plenty of guns to shoot the bears with. No one knows what's going to happen there. Because it can't. That's the thing.

And most of the, in my opinion, reasonable predictions are bad. Of course. Because it's going to take away a lot of their funding and they're not going to have anything to replace it with. You can't give a rural family a stipend and be like, you can choose your own. You can go to the private school. What private school? Where? Dude, the closest private school to Salina, I'm seriously trying to think.

There's probably one in Cookville, which is 45. miles away, but I'm not even sure that there is one there. I mean, you know, I can't imagine how that's possibly going to work when, like, in places like where I grew up, and that's most of Trump's America. His base, yeah, his rural places. And it's like, how is this possible? How has this system? We've seen him fucking those people in the ass.

I know, but he's, like, made a sport out of it. Yeah. It's insane. And, I mean, but you're right. We were saying that the whole time. His people do. Like, that's like killing big game for fun, like just shooting a giraffe while it's sleeping. Exploiting poor people for the lizards, do you mean?

At this level that he's doing it on, it's like he's so bored. He's going to get these people to vote from them. Explority poor people is their, like, lawn darts. Now's a good time to go for Disney money because apparently on Facebook we have frozen. Well, that's great. What? Hold on, don't. What did you just say?

What are you talking about? We froze. It's, we're not on anymore. Well, I think they can still hear us probably, and we're coming in and out, but we're going to have to end it soon. So, we'll finish this conversation, then I'm going to end that. And if you want to hear the rest, you can hear us. It just completely fucked up. Yep.

I am. I'm going to pause the recording. Ready? I mean, yeah. All right. Well, we're. Well, that was hilarious. We were in the middle of talking about why the education system cannot be privatized, like we're smart,

and then we can't figure out literal Facebook. five, 13 year olds do it, dude. It broke on us, and we couldn't get it to work again. And I almost threw the camera out the window. Because I guess like, it won't quit. God damn it. Well, who could have possibly foreseen that going the way that it did? Who knows?

Who knows? Nobody probably. Certainly not any of us. Let's do what we're unable to do with our emotional problems in our life and move on and forget about that. The stories I was heard of today, are mainly going to be court system related. So maybe I'll actually be able to talk about them with some authority. For those of you who don't know, and I know, I'm sure they do, Trey.

Because, like you, as you point out, I say it every third breath. But I used to be a lawyer. So I'm particularly interested in Merrick Garland and this Gorsuch, Gorsuch. His name is Gorsuch, Lord. What is his name, Neil Gorsuch? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it looks like, I mean, it's spelled Gorsuch, Gorsuch. That's it, Gorsuch. Yeah.

Is that Russian? That sounds pretty goddamn Russian. I don't know if that's racist or not, but Gorset. Sounds like Ukrainian soup to me. I bet it hit, yeah, it's like some beets and some cucumbers. Gorsuch. Hell yeah. Well, I don't want to talk about his nomination anymore.

I just want him to be a soup instead. If he was a soup, Bernie Sanders would be a big fan. That's right. It would. A soup-eating motherfucker. That's a soup-eating motherfucker. That's a soup-eating this motherfucker ever state of a lot. He looks like he got soup stays on his belly all the time.

He does. Bernie Sanders stay eating soup. They do. And, you know, Bernie bros, which is fine. Yeah. Dude, I called my buddy a Bernie bro again the other day because he is and he got furious when I did that. Oh, that's hilarious. Remember that night Tom Feeney wanted to whip up our asses, but Tom Feeney couldn't have whoop either one of our asses?

I'm talking about Tom Feeney right now. I saw him in Florida recently. reference them as a Bernie bro and he was like what the fuck man shit what the fuck yeah yeah okay Tom you're not a Bernie bro let's go back to that night you're responding by cursing for the record I love the shit out of Tom Feeney he is a sweetheart he is but he's a Bernie bro

that night in Atlanta he put on a fucking clinic in then a Bernie bro he wouldn't letting us have shit he's gonna hear about this he's gonna listen to this and he's furious right now I love you Tom I really do anyway. Well, anyway, fucking Gorsuch soup. They're thinking about having a big battle over his nomination. The Democrats are because, of course,

fucking Republicans just refuse to do anything with Merrick Garland. So, technically on the record, he was nominated, and Congress just never heard the case. Yeah, and they said they were going to do that, and then that's what they did. Yeah, I do think it's weird when we get mad at anyone, but Republicans specifically on our side for doing exactly what they said they're going to do. like be angry about it happening but so can you believe they're doing yeah i can't believe that's how

i mean honestly that's i mean i don't know part of it's jaded but every time something comes out about trump and people write these blogs and shit about it i was like okay look we've established he's a sexist horrible trash piece of shit i don't really need to read any new information on that what else could we be what else could we be writing right now that could help the situation because like yeah well when we go too far then we end up like trump got peed on and i'm like I thought we were the pro getting peed on party. Yeah, I am. I'm all about.

Yeah. You know, I thought that's, I wanted to tell you guys this. I don't know how this is going to go over. But I had this weird. I was walking around the other day and like, this is what defines our podcast. Deep, in-depth political analysis and Corey telling stories about getting peed on. No. It had nothing to do.

It was nothing to do with Trump at all, but I just walk around like, I guess, you know how your taste buzz can change every seven years or something like that? Or they do? Is that a real thing? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's ever... Is this like Quicksand? Y'all made it up.

What I've heard. I read some shit on Quicksand today. How to get out of it. I was on John Tash's Facebook. I'm such a white woman. You are the most ludicrous person I've ever known in my life. Just hang out on John Tess's Facebook. Everything about you, man.

He has good tips for stuff, and one of them was getting out of Quicksand. Usually it's just like how to make wine last morning. Corey, my hometown, people our age, mine and yours. I mean, he's only 50 of them, but 49 of them don't know who John. Don Tess is, and one is that gay kid, Josh. Well, he hits. Yes, he does. No.

Oh, no, you meant Josh. Josh is cool, too. Taste buds. What I've always heard, I know for fact, they do change as you get older, but as far as, like, they cycle through every seven years. How does he even know about John Titt? Like, when did that dude come into your life? He's on Sunday, 92.3, and my dad buys radio time.

My dad's in advertising, so, you know, I just say no more fam. Your dad's in advertising. Go ahead, Trey. What was you saying? The initial question you said is, that real or is it something he made up was about taste buds and I was just going to say what I'd always heard about it is like when you're a little kid your taste buds were very very different than they are now that's why all the little kids like Brussels sprouts and shit and they're they fire

to me now like your taste buds do change but Corey said they like change every seven years your whole life I don't know that that is true may not be true maybe it happens the first two times every seven years or something and people back in the day only used to live 14 we so dumb No, we nailed it. It don't matter. Either way I was walking around the other day, and for some goddamn reason, it just literally hit me,

like just a surge. I was like, I could pay on somebody. Well, I'll tell you what. I had completely and utterly forgotten. I had not. I started that story.

And so you just went upside my head with that sentence. I had not, but I was like, does he want to try the tape? taste to pee? And then I was like, no, it's going to be something wilder than that. No, man, it's just like, and I don't know if it's just like, you know, I got engaged. And when you do that, you start going.

You want to pee on women? It's not that. You just, when you start, like, engaged as you're going into a commitment of like, this is the, you know, hopefully the last thing I'm ever going to do. And then you're like, oh, but I still got all these wild years behind me. I got to pee on something. Maybe that was it. I don't know.

But, yeah, it just crossed the miles. I was like, I could do that. Did you want to? Or did you just like, I get it, I could do it. It was a very John Tesh thought. It was just like, I could, I could go for, I could go for paying on someone. I could see how that's. John Tesh thought, cross my mind, what was it?

I could pee on someone. That's probably pretty accurate. What, what did it take? Yeah, there's got to be some ugliness inside him. He's always too bright and chipper. He's deep inside. He's a nice guy. He pays on people.

Which is fine. Which is fine. Which is fine. Yeah, we're the party of pay. Consensually. Consensually. Wait, wait, wait, what was the taste buds about, though, if you were. What I was saying is like, I've never thought peeing on someone would be something I'd be into.

And then all of a sudden I was walking in a home goods. And I was like, I can piss on a lady. Peeing on. Pets in a place. Like, that's just like, you're brussels sprouts is like. Yeah, she's like, I get it now. As a kid. And I'm about to be 30.

I was like, yeah, I could do that. You're becoming a man. That's what it is. Daddy, when do I know I became a man? One day, you will want to piss on someone. Oh, Lord. Well, that's pretty hard for. All I wanted to ask you guys.

was do you think it's a good move for the Democrats to fight this fight? This isn't a typical fight. You don't always fight, Judge, Supreme Court nomination. My Republican buddy asked me that same question in the text yesterday, and I just told him, shit, man, I don't know. That's one of those things that, like, when they do it, I hate it. But I agree with us, and I'm on our side.

So I'm like, yeah, but we right and they wrong, so it is different. And, of course, part of me, genuinely. believes what I just said, but the other part of me is like, well, man, that's hypocritical and that's bullshit. So I'm very, very, very conflicted about that, to be honest with you. I would be. I don't want to stoop to their level kind of thing, I guess. I would not be conflicted at all, and I would be completely against it

if the Merrick Garland thing hadn't happened. But that's kind of what I'm saying, though, is like it's just, it's like an eye for an eye type logic because he, because that happened. But they always do fight ours if they just lose. They refuse to even have the, fight, that's like a different, they took it to a different level with this America. They said that the president didn't have the right to do it. I know.

I remember. They took it to a different level. And so I'm like, no, fuck him, fight him. But then I'm like, I don't know how to win this, though. Right. So, and that's, I guess the second part of the question is, fuck morally. I don't even know if we can win this fight, so maybe we ought to not fight it. Right.

So speaking of fights. Losing don't hit. Speaking of losing, not hitting, Trump just took a big ale. And it is, oh, so sweet. Trump has been sued by some protesters. uh in i want to say louisville maybe lexington kentucky what the fuck was that i think it was a burp that's what i do instead of burping we how have i never heard you do that we ain't got to go in that we'll get in that later okay i don't

burp i don't burp america go ahead no you definitely just burp europe uh i think that was like an indian subcontinent burp or something yeah so trump got sued don't even know what that means that was a ribet trump got sued for inciting violence because He said get them, or we should get them or something like that at a protest. And then these people attack these protesters, including a white and like a known white supremacist. And they got arrested for beating these protesters up. And they have brought charges against Trump. And I don't know if it's a lawsuit and they're trying to bring actual crime, criminal charges.

But he did a motion to dismiss based upon freedom of speech and argued this is ridiculous. I clearly didn't mean that because Trump even said, and he didn't say this to them. he said this is so trump this is such a trumpian speak when i say go get him i mean legally i have to say that what when i say go get those protesters i mean legally speaking we're going to go after them i think that's how he said it because i have to say that yeah i mean dude he's like you know he's like the anyway i'm sorry the tarentino of getting sued and suing people so The motion to dismiss on his behalf was dismissed, which means the case will go forward, as best I can tell.

With all my three years of law school knowledge and all the shit I tried to forget, I think this is going to trial no matter what, unless they'll settle, unless he can pay them to drop it. I'm pretty sure that that's what that means. I could be wrong, or it might be another step they can get rid of it, but we might be having a trial with a goddamn president of the United States. Was this at one of his, why the fuck is he still having a goddamn rally rallies? No, I think this was when he was trying to be president rallies, but I don't know.

Oh, this is like, okay, I thought you missed some, this was new, they're just now bringing charges. They just now had the motion to dismiss hearing, and it got dismissed. Huh. Not the case, the motion. We live in a wild time. Well, what else you got for us, Drew Drive? Y'all ain't got no more comments on Trump. I mean, inciting violence is a serious fucking charge.

I don't want to, I don't want to jenks it, but, see, that's my thing, though, is what we're just talking about. I'm like, yeah, I know. It's wild to me that's going to trial, but, like, I don't know. I know. I've heard it. It's like the rush your stuff and everything too. I'm like, I just, it all sounds the same. I really, really, really want it to amount to something, but I can't help but be kind of cynical that it actually will.

And I'm just wanting to wait and see and hope and whatever our version of prey is. Okay, we can talk about that. It won't hit for our people, but I'm not going to not talk about it. Because it's a sports thing. Corey, read that to Drew. My ESPN app just popped up that Adrian Peterson is to me. with the Patriots Monday. Well, that makes me want to kill myself.

I knew it would. Listen, hope is a lie. God is not real. Trump's president. The Patriots win the Super Bowl every year. There's no reason to hope or anything. I'm about to have the most lit jersey in the game, fam. Only evil.

Only evil prevails in this world. So if you're out there and you're a good person, you have two choices. Stop being a good person or kill yourself right now. There's nothing good in the world. You either die a hero or you live long enough to become a Patriots fan. Watch Adrian Peterson become a Patriots player? Yeah, he, uh, hits. they've literally gotten better

like on paper objectively they've gotten better since they won the fucking Super Bowl for the fifth time fifth it's insane it's literally insane I will say though

and I mean Peterson has made a big part of his career about making fat white idiots like me put their foot in their mouth and also little children and also doing that to little children when they steal his candy

or whatever the fuck I mean fuck him a little bit But anyway, I don't think, I think this will be a lot more of a Chad Johnson-Albert Hainsworth situation with the Patriots than Randy Moss situation. Without a day. I don't think he's going to amount to very much. No, it just popped up on my phone, and I just seeing a football thing made me really happy because we were just talking about the Supreme Court and Trump and shit. And just seeing Adrian Peterson meeting with the Patriots. I was like, oh, yeah, some of that drama.

That'll be good. Well, speaking of the Patriots. somehow Atlanta has collapsed even bigger than it did in the Super Bowl. Oh, shit. Yeah. Learn. Roasted. You guys saw that the Interstate 85 bridge collapsed with no one on it.

That's why I'm making jokes. It was a construction situation. Literally the first thing I thought was, oh, man, getting around Atlanta, I ain't going to hit for a while. I better not go back there. I thought that was everybody trying to get to the orgy. Like, it just all fell out. That was the orgy, actually. It was so fire.

It just blew the fuck up. all did the bridge for how about that. It was fake, right? Yeah. The internet phenomenon about some giant orgy that was happening. Oh, that orgy wasn't real. That didn't happen. This girl faked it as, and I know this is typical.

Yeah, no, I heard that. Anyways, apparently, a bunch of dudes just showed up and played Xbox. Anyway, it seemed like a hit. I have a big time. But, like, anyways, she faked it for a social experiment and ended up in the class she was doing it for, got an A-plus or whatever, and because she was technically inviting everybody to party, people venmoed her for ticket money, it like paid her goddamn tuition for a year or some shit like that.

That sounds like fraud a little bit. Yeah. If she never promised she'd be there, she'd be like, well, y'all could have had an orgy. People still came over there. That's the thing. And orgyed out. I'd like to think somebody was fucking. It was like just, it was mainly just dudes, I think.

The hell you say. Surely not. Stop the goddamn dresses. And orgy was mostly full of dudes. Yeah. I did see something. It was like a fake text or whatever. It was just like, yo, I just got to the ATL origin,

apparently it's fake. And it's like, oh, really that sucks. It's like, yeah, this dude brought his Xbox, though. It's been to be lit. He said, we're about to play 2K. He's about to play 2K. I do it. I'd love to play 2K right now.

It's a, you could write it? It's a fire. Like, Matt and 2K? No, that means NBA 2K. Oh, NBA 2K. Oh, NBA 2K. Oh, NBA 2K.1 was the year, or 2K. 9, maybe, when they brought the old

Jordan teams back. You could play with all the bulls. That was my shit. Well, buddy. They still hitting that franchise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It was real. It was like being Bo Jackson on those old techno balls. Hell yeah. Well, anyway, do you all want to hear about the arrest report that they have made in the great bridge collapse of Atlanta? Oh, sure. I'd love to. I hadn't heard anything about it. They've arrested three people total, two charged with trespassing, but the other one charged with

fire, arson, all that shit? I could make some guesses where this is going, but I won't. A crackhead has been charged with first-degree arson. He was allegedly under the bridge with two other crackheads who are testifying against him. Get that. Two crackheads have flopped on him. And they are saying that they had crack they was going to do together. Then he went off to do it by himself.

And then they saw him set a mattress. or something on fire on top of a shopping cart. And that is called a grill, the bridge to collapse. A grill. That's a homeless grill. My understanding of it was that there was, I didn't know anything about any of that until you just said it. But it wasn't the fire in like a construction site or construction area where there was a lot

of very explosive and flammable things around? Right. Well, stop saying it's not as though, I mean, even if that happened, like it's not the mattress fire is not what fucking caused. And the mattress exploded like a generator. I'm saying that they're claiming that two crackheads let another crackhead walk off and smoke all the drugs. They lie! Right.

They have arrested these three poor people because they lived in the area. By the way, they just lost their home. They shouldn't be treating these people this way. Yeah. That's what I meant about guessing where this is going. Somebody getting railroaded by the police. They're railroaded mystery people. They got two of them to turn on the other one by saying, if you don't turn on him, we will fucking fry you.

And if you think about it, if I'm his defense lawyer, my first movement. move is to be like, these are the witnesses against him? They were high on crack. That's why they put in there, oh, he smoked a crack by himself. Guys, I don't want to just, like, shit on crackheads because it's old, and we've been doing it for too long as an industry and comedy. But I am certain that just they don't let one dude smoke all the drugs out of the goodness of their heart.

Coming from someone who's been around crack and cocaine and shit, those are not, yeah, those are not the type of drugs that people are selfless with. Right. Like marijuana is one thing, but like crack, ma- So I'm saying they either weren't actually with him Or they lying about something. Sure. And I think they lied.

I don't think that this dude did it. I think this dude was in the area. He has a huge record. Most of that's for drug possession and trespass, which is just what happens to the home was crackheads. That's what you get arrested for because you ain't allowed to live anywhere. So you can end up trespassing, you got crack on you. So they found someone who was a good fall guy.

They got two people to say he'd set a mattress on fire. And look, I can get two crackheads to say their buddy said a mattress on fire. and say their buddy set a mattress on fire, and they'd be believing it because they'd seen him do it before. I'll tell you what. Shut case, Johnson. It would take... Let's sprinkle some crack on him and get out of here.

It would take fucking Cobb County four months to tear that goddamn interstate down like this one fucking crackhead did in one night. Right. So maybe you learned some methods about construction because that shit happened very quick. I'm just curious because what I think happened is they needed to make an arrest because this was such a big deal.

Yeah, they had to. Somebody has to be blamed. And here we are. You know, on the other hand, motherfucker motherfucker might have a mattress party and blew the goddamn bridge up and if so good for him. I'm going to say, buddy, I'll be honest with you right now. If what you're saying is, the theory is true, that's the saddest shit ever. However, I kind of do want to live in a world where, yeah, you know that big fucking I-85 disaster?

Crackheadlet of mattresses. You fuck the whole city of Atlanta up for a whole goddamn month. That's hilarious. I mean, it's sad. Well, this is about to be nerdy and stupid. stupid, but that, like, great, one of the great Kyle's, Biggham's revenge. One of the great fires of whatever, either, like,

Chicago, the great Chicago fire was started by the church. Dumb-ass cow, kicking a lantern over or whatever. I mean, I took the tour of that. Don't sound like, that, don't that sound like the newspaper guy who wrote that story was the same one who was like, women float, they're witches. Well, I'm saying, yeah, but

it was a lot like this story, did it, and he was like, it's a cow. Yeah. It kicked a bucket over. Didn't hit. I've been telling her about it for years. I'm saying cows used to be treated like with your crackheads now. This is a segment we need to do. This is a segment we need to do is Chos through history,

and we need to go back and, like, investigate situations such as the Chicago fire, just like, because that was clearly the doing of a Cho. Ain't no goddamn cow. That was a Chow getting out of something. Oh, you're saying some dudes, like, set his house on fire rather than get caught cheating on his wife or something? Yeah, blame it on a cow. Yeah, blame it on the cow. Yeah, he kicked a bucket over.

or it doesn't have. Well, anyway, it just infuriates me because obviously it might have been what happened. I can't know that, but it just makes me feel like what happened was, you know, they had one of those meetings like in the movies where all the cops were in there and the chief's like, we've got to get an arrest on this one and I mean today. Yeah, I've already had problems with these people before. And that dushbag with the slickback hair like the detective everyone hates who you end up, you find out corrupts at the end of the movie.

Well, in real life, that'll never happen because Mel Gibson don't save the day because he apparently hates Jews and ain't allowed to make movies anymore. I'm haxel Ridge, though. I heard it sucked. I haven't seen it myself. No, I think you heard it from me and all it was was that, and I've got to watch it twice, but I just couldn't get past. It don't have for me. I just couldn't get past what's his face of the accent.

Hold on, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? Does it not hit for you because of Mel Gibson and everything you just said about Mel Gibson, so you just, Mel Gibson ain't going to hit for you ever again? Is that why that don't hit for you? If he could make another braveheart, I would have to be honest with myself, you know what I mean? But he ain't hit for me in a while.

Like, he just steady. He ain't been allowed to hit in a while. He ain't done nothing in a while. Even, like, even, like, well, I'm going to be honest with you guys. Talk shit about Apocalypse, though. Have you seen this? Have you seen that Beaver movie he did? Because I ain't seen it yet.

Well, see, but that ain't, that, I'm just curious about it. I'm not saying. That's a Jody Foster movie. Like, I'm talking about the movies. I can't believe he's done two movies with Jody Foster. They're like real tight. Yeah. Is she super crazy?

I mean, probably. I don't know. no she gay okay well no she came out recently and was in the media about it and she got a lot of flack from the right wing from it and so in my head I was like wait is she right wing

and I was like no she's been fighting the right wing I thought we knew that for a while we have that's what I was thinking to people she's been an ounce last year for lately fighting with people about something maybe I'm crazy I don't know either but all I'm saying is I'm talking about the movies Mel Gibson makes

and like the beaver is not one of those He's just in that. It's called the beaver. It is called the beaver. He can only talk through a beaver puppet? A beaver puppet, yeah. I've not seen it, but I understand that it don't particularly hit. But anyway, I'm saying Hacksaw Ridge is like a, he directed it, just like Braveheart and Apocalyptic.

I didn't like a patriot. What? Well, now, first of all, fuck you. To last. That movie hit. He didn't direct that either. He just started. Oh, did he not?

That's a, I think that's a Roland Emrick movie. Maybe. You got to made Independence Day? Somebody like that. Either way, I fucking love that movie. That movie hits so goddamn hard. When he fucking acts as that dude to death in the creek for killing his kid and just pulp is just going all over his goddamn face. He just, oh, boy.

Raw. I want to go watch that movie right the fuck now. Movie is righteous. It is. It hits so hard. In fairness, that came out when we were. I was in like fifth grade. Middle schoolers.

But I watched it three months ago. I know, but I think that goes back to that. I can still hear the first nickel back album and it's fine. There's some nostalgia at work there for sure. Yeah. Word? Tell us in sixth grade. The first song is fine. This is how you remember.

Well, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. I've never made her. I can hear that. And I'm like, I'm in sixth grade again. I'm fine with that. But yeah, I didn't watch that movie until I was in college. No, no, no.

That's why. Listen, he don't hit. That movie hits. I'm about to, I'm about to take his spot. You know that little girl, the little girl, that don't hit. I don't know. That's why I watched the movie. I'm about to take his spot real quick on that particular seat because I know this.

Normally this does not hit. for people at all. I did not see the Goonies until I was a grown-ass man. Don't even finish what you're about to say. All right, I won't. I haven't seen it as a grown-ass man, really. He's got to say it don't hit. I could.

Well, but I'm saying I never saw. I've just somehow missed seeing that movie as a kid when you're intended to see it. Bill Willie Mama things. And when I watched it as an adult. No, it actually is very weird and out of character because my dad on the video store. I saw every fucking movie. But the Goonies is one that just slipped through the cracks somehow. And I didn't see it until I was a grown man.

And it just, I mean, I thought it was real, I mean, real bad, honestly. I did not like it. I mean. It ain't for you. I know. I know. That's why. You don't believe in anything.

That's a soulless bastard. Who the fuck is you? Somebody who watched the Goonies and liked it, Corey. Yeah. How did you feel when Littlefoot's mom died? Did you laugh and set something on fire tray? No, because I was a kid when I saw that dude. There's a real

Nevermind. There's a real fucked up story about that movie too. But it's related to what he said about the Patriot. I've told you this for one of the child actors in Land before time.

Yeah, Ducky. Right? Yeah, yeah. She fucked up, ain't she? No, she dead. And it's a real fucked up story. And it's not her fault.

Like, it's really sad and tragic. And this is a comedy podcast. So anyway, I think we should talk about because of who the guest is this week, we should talk. Sure. A little bit about country music.

Now, in fact, that's most of what the interview is, so I don't think we have to go too far into it. No, but we should prime it and prime them for who and what he is a little bit. Exactly. So, take it away, Drew. Country music is dying, guys.

As you look out across the horizon that is Nashville, all you can see is just fucking zombies of just dead, soulless husk of people who call themselves artists. Anyway, here's one of the Walker Jr. I have a hit for him I probably would Now, I mean we've talked about it a lot in our book And on stage and whatnot our book

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Country music has become pop music. There are some exceptions in mainstream country and there's some people who were sort of blending the two. But for the most part, I mean, I think the industry's at this point not even really denying this that much. They want to be popular. If you're a record company, you want to make the most, you know, money or whatever. So I get it to a certain extent. But it has created a genre that is devoid of what country music used to be.

And I know that you get too deep in that. You sound like some kind of country music history. But, man, I said this one time. Like, if Chris Christopherson wrote Sunday morning coming down right now, they wouldn't put it on the radio. They would let Jamie Johnson put it on the backside of his album, but he'd have to put out four singles before anyone ever heard that unless you bought the album. Sure.

We hear about it and still be fire. Right. And Jamie Johnson is one guy that I was talking about who I like, and he's kind of doing both, you know, or trying to ride that line. Well, he kind of, I mean, he ain't, unless I missed it, he's been sort of AWOL for a little while now, unfortunately. It sucks. Well, I think he went and did it just some even more, like, you know, legit.

like old school like but i mean i could be wrong honestly i'm pulling that out of my ass i feel like i read at some point that he was doing like you know old time in music with some like you know super old like bluegrass dudes or something and hell you know i mean and i mean again i might be so wrong i might be imagine that i read that about somebody else or whatever even that is like a cynical cynical play not on jamie's part but by the industry's part to tap into what is now considered real country like you know people have been in this fight for long enough that now they realize Sturgle Simpson's selling out

his album and his tour they're realizing oh we can make some money off this and I think the perfect example to look at that is you can take some of the women that have made it and some that haven't and just look at the slight differences you look at Casey Musgraves I like her a lot

about safe but she be easy now okay but you can't deny that Margot Price is a lot like her in terms of sound and content, but it's even darker. And it's even more realistic, in my opinion. And then I was going to say below that,

is someone who's had even less success in that world, which is Kelsey Walden, who's my favorite song about her is called High In Heels and High on Pills. Yeah, it's awesome. That's a great song. Casey Musgraves, a literal goddamn Angel Doe. Of course. I'm not trying to disparage her and what she is.

I'm just saying that it's interesting that the industry, now they're trying to throw back to us. It's like they've heard their criticism, and they're like, this is the best we're going to do. They're also trying to make America great again, just in that regard. But wait a minute. Well, hold on, though. Like, where do you stand on that whole thing, though?

Like, to me, to me, that seems like a net positive. It is. Yeah, it's definitely overall good. If they start pushing in that direction and all that means is it's, you know, to me, that means it's getting better. But are you saying it's going to get a lot? That's why trouble one. They're afraid. It's going to get a hold of that, that, like, real country that we like, and

then he'll just fuck it up to and then we'll be back to like ground zero or something. To a certain extent it will because it always does. There'll be people who then that becomes their thing. Like a producer inside an office will go look for a guy who has a scar on his face and like make that person. I would argue Eric Church has kind of already done that. I agree. I was about to bring that up. You know, whatever.

I don't want to shit on Eric Church too much because like I actually, I used to like him. That's my whole point. First album, I used to think he was good and he was legit and he got found by them and he was that. guy that's like outlawed country, which he's not at all. And they brought him in. And I mean, he sold out, which, again, not talking shit about. No, that was his plan. Well, that was his plan.

That was his plan. But he did. And Lord, he is just terrible now. I mean, you know, after they got a hold of him. So that brings us to talking about Wheeler, which I don't want to put any words in Wheeler's mouth. You guys could listen to him on here and try to glean how he feels about it. but you will understand why. Well, we'll get to that in a minute.

But I don't want to put any words in his mouth. I'm not saying that that is why he has done what he has done. I'm not going to say that that is what created him. I just am going to say that he is in every way the comical antithesis of that. He's the answer to it. By becoming it fully. Yeah, taking it to its logical conclusion. So I think, well, I mean, yeah, Wheeler Walker Jr. is a country artist from,

Kentucky who lives in Nashville who was in LA promoting something or so I don't remember he was there briefly and he met us in our good buddy from last week W. Earl Brown's garage term man cave. Earl hosted us that night and that was a hell of the fun night. That was possibly my favorite night of my life. One of them. I got super drunk. Us three and Earl and Wheeler hung out at Earl's place in Burbank and it was very fun. We played music.

We spent an hour of that talking to Wheeler. about country music and about his music and everything. And I play guitar with him and Earl own a guitar that used to be owned by Steve Earl. It was the feel all right guitar. It was. I played guitar on the feel all right guitar. And it's so fucking funny because maybe I was high and I was drunk shit, but like, man, you can totally tell that's the feel all right guitar. Hilarious.

I mean, I like, but I mean, fucking a though. You know what I'm saying? Just like spiritually. I was like, yeah. Well, anyway, so as you listen to this, Wheeler is, yeah, the antitherto. of that. And if you hate this, maybe you just don't get it.

Maybe you just don't. So, yeah, here we go. Enjoy our conversation with Wheeler Walker. But first, here's a little ditty from Wheeler Walker off of his upcoming album, which we talk about in-depth on the interview. So enjoy it. And we'll see you next time. Skee!

Sneaking out of my house, I was just 16. Met you in the dark down by. We messed around until we got cold to plead. Some Murs in Kentucky, they were hard to be. Twenty-five years later, our lives have changed. I was thinking about the creek when I'm on the state. Murs in Kentucky, man, I miss that place. Stretch down.

If you ever feel like ditching your man, kids hit the road with the country band. There's room for all y'all in the side. you're on the side of my... Summers in Kentucky, man, I missed that still. That was Summers in Kentucky by our good buddy, Wheeler Walker, Jr. off his new album, his sophomore effort. O. Wheeler, you can pre-order that now for $6.99 on iTunes, Amazon,

Google Play, all those good, cool websites. And for a limited time, you can get his first album, Redneck Shit, another one of our personal favorites, for $5.99. So go pick both of those up. You really should be up to date on the entire discography of one of our favorites and a guy who we feel is saving country music. We'll get a little bit more into that on this interview. I won't bore you with dates because we've already done that. But just to let you know something we forgot, we're coming to Canada.

We don't have all the details yet, but check back to well-read comedy.com because, yeah, we're going to go up to the bitter cold north. It's going to be awesome. Anyways, enjoy this interview with the man and the legend, Weiler Walker Jr. See you guys next time. Ski. Well, well, well. Wheeler Walker Jr. in the building. We say, son.

What's up, guys? Thanks for having me, man. The depths of Burbank. The depths of Burbank. This is where I live now, man. I'm a, you know, hell, I'm a country boy like you. And I just moved out here. What do you think about that?

You think I fucked up? Well, it's weird, because I'm out here doing some press right now. And I always feel, it's weird. I feel weird in L.A., but I'll be honest, I don't know if you guys have the same thing. Like, New York City blows, like, it's just, it's like Mars. I don't understand it at all. But L.A., at least, it's like I drive around.

There's fucking many malls. It reminds me, at least, of Kentucky, you know? I understand it, you know. Especially on the valley, like, it looks kind of similar. You mean, like, there's a Domino's Pizza. So, like, you get to it. New York City, I don't know what the, I just, like, I just. Well, I live in Queens and New York, and it's like the South version of me.

It's not the South at all. But, yeah, that shit scares me. We have, like, in Queens, none of the buildings are more than three stories tall, for example. As soon as I went out there, I was like, fuck this, honey, we're moving out here. Like, I can see the sky. Why did you choose Queens? Because I could see the sky. Huh.

Literally. Do you guys might, might if I ask you guys a few questions? Oh, please. Take over. We got the liberal redneck. We do. Trey Crowder. We got the other, we got his backing band.

So. I play the consideration. Zoo. Corey and Drew. Corey and Drew, and you guys are from where? I'm from Sunbright, Tennessee. Okay. In East Tennessee. I'm from Salina, Tennessee, Claytown.

You said near the border. This is, uh, this is Corey. I'm from Chickamauga, Georgia, which is on the border of Georgia. I don't want to take over your podcast, but I was just trying to figure out what was going on. You guys reached out and it was, you know, it's, uh, anything with, with a redneck in the name, I always, you know, I was out here doing some other shit, but I always gravitate towards that. Even with the, you know, listen, the liberal don't bother me. I don't give a fuck. But you know what?

Press is press. I don't give a fuck. That's right, baby. Yeah, no, yeah, you're a seminal album, Redneck Shit. Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. You changed one word of that and made it totally different. I played that for my brother-in-law and that track off of it when it first came out.

He's one of those guys that's got a bumper sticker literally on. his truck that says my carbon footprint's huge and it was great because I feel like that song was his jam for about a minute it's funny you say that because we love about that song is I was working on that song with this guy Dave Cobb who produced that we were talking about very big fans yeah and uh my buddy Sturgeoninglerler and I had that as a demo and he's like let's try it I didn't really like it but he taught me into recording it and it was really I don't know if you listen to the song it's really just bumper stickers I used to see driving around if you could read I saw I remember being in a car with my parents and I saw I remember being in a car with my

parents and they were driving down the road and a guy zooms by on a motorcycle and says if you can read this the bitch fell off yeah my parents started cracking up and i just never left my head and i was like so i put that and then uh it's also a tattoo written on my dick yeah american by birth southern by it's all i mean the whole lyric is just bumper tear when he and he loved it and then i think like a minute or two later he goes oh it's about me yeah well i mean i i i i i it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a that first record's a love poem to the redneck life. And I think people get it. I hope they do. If not, I don't care. Because fuck them.

It's the big part of being a redneck. Who the fuck cares? They just keep spending their money on my almonious shit. Have you seen the, talking about those bumper stickers? Have you ever seen the one that says one of my favorites that I saw years ago was a bumper sticker? It just says shooting, shooting dears and drinking beers. And it had the S on the, you know. deer was pluralized incorrectly.

You know, my favorite of all time was, just I love the dumb ones. There was one with a picture of a gun on. I said, give me all your chocolate and nobody gets hurt. I'm like, but what goes to your mind, not even to make it, but to buy it and then put on your car? I'm going to shoot somebody over chocolate. Yeah, like, but like to put it on your car, that's a big move. Like, you must love fucking chocolate. And hate your car.

I admired the restraint of the people that made that one to not include queers in their, you know what I mean? Like, that had to be real hard. for them to not throw in. They tested it and it just didn't test well. That was all that was. That was not true. No, you're right. It's like the last song on my record, which one of you queer is going to suck my dick?

That's my favorite song, by the way. It's weird. Thanks, man. Yeah, that's a little more of the rocking one. It's weird to play that to like a southern crowd, you know, and then watch a bunch of dudes, you know, a bunch of southern dudes with their ball caps backwards, screaming at me that they're going to suck my dick. Yeah. And it kind of throws you a little bit.

They love it, but that's fucking great. I've learned not to open with that when I'm introducing you to people. I've learned to save that for second or third. If I open with it, it's like, Jesus. Yeah, we play it last. I think it's smart. I didn't realize how similar our tour was. I'm one of those people.

I'm like, oh, shit, I'm all in. This is great. Listen to this song. And then people are like, what the fuck is. So I start with redneck shit now. It makes me happy about that, like, what I'm doing, too. The same way I think I'm glorifying or whatever praising that. redneck lifestyle and what kind of how I grew up was gay guys fucking love that song.

Every gay guy I met and it was on a lot of gay blogs. They're like finally, because you don't think about it. There ain't no fucking country songs mentioning. That one's probably the least country song on the record, but there ain't no country songs mentioning gay guys. So any song you can make that gets both sides, I think it's just fucking cool. You might imagine that the liberal redneck, whose first viral video, was about an LGBTQ issue.

We got a lot of gay redneck fans, and they're awesome. Yeah, well, I mean, I always, because I'm from Lexington, and I always heard that Lexington had a huge gay scene. I mean, I just received the blowjobs. I don't give them, so I don't know. The lights are always so dark.

I don't know how many dudes are in there, but, yeah, I don't really, I always heard that, but I haven't researched it as much as I probably should. But the first time I did you suck your dick, did you know you're going to write a country song about it? I knew I knew something was going to come. I was going to do something about it.

Right. I was going to keep it to myself. So you, Wheeler, you live in Nashville, right? Yeah. How do you feel about, because it depends on who you talked. I grew up, if you were going to go to the big city, you went to Nashville. I'm always going to have a soft spot. for Nashville, but I understand the criticisms of it too.

And I want to know, there's a lot of good and a lot of bad shit comes out of Nashville. My mom's from Nashville, and all my mom's family lives in Nashville. So I've been going to Nashville's a little kid, and the Nashville I used to visit as a kid doesn't exist. It's now, it's now what do they call Nashville, or whatever. It's the, you know, it's the LA of the South. Yes, it's Hollywood. Yeah, it's hip and cold. It's a bachelor's a bachelor's party every weekend.

fucking these fucking girls ride I don't understand that where they ride the bike and drink the beers I've never got that shit like It don't check out I don't want to, if I drink beer I don't want to fucking exercise And if I'm exercising I'm not trying to drink beer

No, it's totally yeah also like It's like hey you want to drink beer and Exert yourself? Yeah you get on the exercise bike No thanks So I don't really get that But yeah it's strange now too Because part of the

You know goal of the record And the new one that we'll talk about too is was bringing real country back and it's like i had to it's almost like i had to be real explicit and real loud in quotes with my lyrics just to get attention for this country actual real country that i love so much because that country don't exist i mean that music don't exist anymore i mean you watch the award show i mean there's no is there anybody playing country well i mean not like that is there is there is there nobody or is there very few people what's i think i mean there's not no i mean i'm not a man alone on island i'm

I mean, Sturgle is a little more rocking now. I still love his shit, but, I mean, he did it with those first couple records, I felt like. And I think, you know, the classic kind of country that I love, I mean, I don't know. Who do you guys think is still playing country, like real country? You said Sturgel. I think Chris Stapleton's doing a good job. I thought American Aquarium was, but now they've gone very, it's not mainstream at all. I don't know those dudes, but I've used their practice space.

Their last album was a little bit more like pitchfork loved it. You know what I mean? It's not mainstream. I hate those fucking hipsters. Right. It got a little hipstery or whatever, but they were doing it for a little while. They had an album that was produced by Jason Isbell, who's, in my opinion, one of our best songwriters, period. Not that he's playing that kind of country that you're talking about.

Yeah, it's weird. It's weird how to classify him because he's just, I think of him, like almost like a John Prime. Right. Just a great songwriter. I mean, he's almost, I mean, he's in the country world, and literally because he comes out of there

and he's from the south, I think. Yeah. He's got a twang. Do you know Kelsey Walden? High in hills, high on pills. Who the hell's going to pay my bills? That's a great fucking track, and I think she's doing some old-school shit.

Also, my favorite Williams is Hank's. Oh, Hank 3 is great. Hank 3 is great. Holly's my favorite Williams right now. I saw her. She opened up for Jason Isboy, and it was awesome. Have you ever heard of, you know? Margo Price. Margo's doing country.

That's pure country. For sure. Was it you? I like Kelsey more than Margo, but like barely. I like Kelsey Walton a lot. I'll send you some shit. Was it you that introduced me to J.P. Harris and the tough choices? Yes.

JP Harris. And I don't, and now I say this. He plays trucker like country. Like literally, he's got little songs about like truck drivers the way that, you know, that 50s and 60s. 60s and 70s had truck driver. Yeah, funny, because I don't use the guys, to me right now, the Nashville country, whatever it is.

Lyrically, it's fucking country. It's just, but it's pop music talking about a truck over. That's or shit. It's regard to time. I mean, like, the structure of the song is. And I'm like, I'm going to get into country, because a couple of my friends are like, you know, you can write a song. You should get into, you know, start sending your songs around.

Yeah. But they don't want country shit. You know, I don't know how to write a fucking pop song, you know? Right. Did you, does it bother you at all when you, hear people like most people in this country when they

sat in in America when they say country music they mean the shit that's played on the radio and like I get why because most of the time when I hear people say that

they're talking about how much they fucking hate it but it always sort of like I get a pain because I'm always like I fuck country music it's the worst and I know that's what

they're talking about and it bothers the hell out of me because I'm like that that's not fucking country music I'm saying, I always wanted to say, like, my friends aren't that dump me up because I'm from Kentucky. Right. Right now out in L.A., you know, they think I'm, you know, see the cowboy hat or whatever, they think I'm one of those.

And I get a lot of that, actually, it shows, and people come out to me wherever. I don't like country, but I like you. You're the only country artist I like, which honestly, I mean, I'll take as a compliment, but I always want to sit them down, like, dude, if you don't like country, but you, I'm the only country you listen to, like, come to the record store with me, dude. You like country. Yeah, let's grab some whaling. You've got a whole world ahead of you, man. Well, and the records, so let's talk about who's played on your records. Like, some of the best country musicians around have played on your records.

Yeah, it's kind of Cobb, Dave Cobb's crew. I'll give him a shout out. Leroy, Powell, and Chris Powell. Chris Powell plays drums for another guy who's a real country singer, Jamie Johnson, who's great. Fuck. Yes. Last week, we were on tour in the South.

We were driving between Jacksonville and Charleston. listening to the serious station outlaw country. The only station in America that'll play me. Yeah, we heard you on there. We did. We did. We heard Pussy King on that same trip, but they played in color by Jamie Johnson,

and all three of us, without wanting to admit it or show it to each other, we all teared up in the final verse of it, and, like, caught each other doing it. Yeah, we all looked, and we're like, oh, fuck, we're all doing it. We're all crying. That's the only thing that, you know, when I, like, I'll listen to Sturgeville,

listen to Stapleton, listen to Jamie Johnson. I'm like, that's where I'm most sensitive. I'm just like, fuck, if I had a voice like that. You know, like, I think my voice is fine. It just doesn't, it's nothing special. But, you know, those guys got the greatest. I don't think, I mean, but honestly, though, I don't think it has shit to do with the voice

because, like, somebody that can make me cry more than most people is John prime and his voice is, I mean, before. There's the king, you know, of all of it, too, which is Dylan, who can't sing up for a little bit. Sure, it can't sing, sing worth of fuck. But, like, you know, Prime, I mean, before. throat cancer, you can hear the difference in his songs between throat cancer and this. Either way, though, he didn't have a very good voice.

But it didn't matter. The lyrics are the things that's making me tear up. And in Jamie Johnson's, he is absolutely powerful in that. But I swear to you, if somebody was just reading me that as like a poem, I would absolutely burst in the tune. Yeah, and that's what kills me with country not being around is that kind of great songwriting that gets you in the gut. It's just kind of gone. Yeah, right. You know, I always, and that's, I think where the first album blew up.

and that's in quotes again because it didn't, you know, it ain't selling, it ain't out selling Lady Gaga or nothing, but I think people were just, and it wasn't, I wish I thought it was this smart and thought it wasn't like, on purpose, just people were just dying to hear some real country and were dying for someone to go out there and talk shit about all this other bullshit, and no one was naming name, you know, everyone else else was like, you know, people at the most will go, like, I don't like the shit on country radio now. But they won't say who they, hey, will. I mean, I would get shit, I get shit all the, still like managers, Asian, you know, call me, hey, can you leave?

So, I wanted, the biggest artist in Nashville I've gotten. I wanted to get into some of that because I noticed that you were doing it. And I've like, I'm not in the country music world, even a little bit at all. But like, yeah, they don't think it's fun. I've always been. I'm not funny in Nashville, yeah. They're pissed. I mean, I've always been very open about.

We are, but just to our people. I've always been very open about how much I hate those motherfuckers, like very publicly, you know. It's been a thing. I've seen you doing it, but, you know, you're in the industry. So I definitely wanted to get into some of that shit talking if we could. Yeah, well, I mean, I, let's roast. Well, one of my, one of my go-to targets was Florida, Georgia Line. Buddy.

Welcome to death. Let me go back one second, the story, which is I had kind of ignored country radio for a while. So when I made the record, I thought I was making a fucking classic hit country record. And they, and I played them, we were listening to Fuck You Bitch in the studio. Cobb and the guys and I go, man, isn't this a bummer? I could just clean up the lyrics and I'd have a hit. And they look at me like I'm from outer space. They're like, have you listened to country radio recently?

Nothing like this. And I hadn't listened to it in years. I turned it on and it's... There was a reason you hadn't listened to it in years. Well, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was fucking this shit. I didn't know it was fucking hip-hop. Unreal. Yeah.

Well, I mean, and then... What it is, hip-hop. Jason Aldeen is a rapper. But it's shitty hip-hip. Hip-hop is awesome. We love hip-hop. It's the best. Yeah, you know.

So it's almost like I don't want to say But I don't know what it is It's fucking And that was the quote that got me in trouble too I actually stole a quote from Steve Earl That's because I said I'm Rogan Which was He kind of muttered it under his breath

On this guy Chris Schifflett's podcast He said Modern Country is Hip Hop For white people who are scared of black people That's the most perfect shift I've ever heard And I thought it was so great

And I wanted to I didn't want to make sure that he maybe he doesn't want credit for that quote but I thought that was dead on it's just like you know

right if you want to listen to hip hop listen to fucking NWA don't listen you know listen to ghetto boys don't listen to you know

Florida Georgia line you know then I go on Twitter and I'll lose my mind you know it's like I think someone got pissed

because I wrote you know I don't know what's going on on that floor on that floor of Georgia line but I want no part of it you know

and I'll say that kind of shit and someone will get to me to get to me to get to me like boy you better shut up I have retweeted you shitting on Florida Georgia Line. That was actually your, the last week it was the saddest three-word story. Yeah, it was the saddest.

See, I've done it so much, I don't remember. And I almost feel like the two of it easy to, like I kind of want to move on. Yeah, they're like they become the nickel back kind of. Yeah, it's a little bit nickel back because I never, I had to research, that's where I feel bad. I had to research these fuckers to make fun of them. Right. Have you seen the, uh, it's like Duke basketball? So how do you feel about, you're from Kentucky, do you have any feelings one way or another about the University of Florida?

That's another SEC team. Yeah, I mean, I've always hated Florida. Fuck them to death. Can't stand them. All right. Fuck them to death. Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, everybody's in front of Florida. We all have that guy and fuck Florida.

The university of it. Unless y'all are subscribing to our podcast, in which case. Fuck you too. Yeah, Kentucky football, it's always been horrible, but I'll never forget. Tebow and the gang came in, we got our asses kicked, but we put Tebow in the hospital. I remember just like, it's a horrible thing to say, but I remember just like, you know, feeling good about it. That feels like, that feels like a draw to me.

Yeah, at least a time. Well, that's why I thought up. You all made so many people pray for him. Have you seen, have you seen the commercial they run during football games a lot? It's like a Honda commercial or something. It's a car. It's a fucking car commercial, but it's, it's Tebow and Florida, Georgia Line all way. wearing like gator skin vest, doing a like modern radio country hip hop fucking mashup song about this car.

It literally, I've, I tweeted when I saw it. I've never hated anything in my life as much as I just hated that. Shit, man. You didn't send me that. I haven't seen it. He sent it to me. I just got physically ill. Dude, they showed it.

He sent to me. I almost fucking vomited. During this past football season, they showed it a lot. You know what else they showed a ton of his fucking past football? By the way, I just started a podcast last night. I don't know if it's going to air one. Bumpur. Promote it?

Well, just, you know, I'm going to do a podcast because I'm sick of people talking shit about me. And press, I just want to just have a direct line to my fans. And so we started this podcast. I talked about it on my podcast last night, if this thing ever, podcast ever gets out. But am I crazy? Last football season, I would see Lady Gaga Bud Light commercials non-fucking stop. Who's listening to Lady Gaga during? can Bud Light. Like, who's in charge of that fucking marketing?

Right. Yeah. Like, shug a bunch of Bud Light and listen to Lady Gaga. With Lady Gaga on the, like, her doing the halftime show or whatever, I think their thing with that is get other people. Yeah, that's just so corporate synergy. It's to give the people who don't give a shit about football something to look forward to during the big game. Yeah, like if they had the Who play and the same people was going to be watching no matter fucking what. For the record, in my opinion, she crushed the halftime. She absolutely crushed that.

But they've been doing that for years. I mean, that was... We either gives her a five. Well, you know, I said she was fine, but it should have been me. Well, without a doubt. By the way, I do want to say something here. And now, again, I'm forgetting names. I'm pointing. Drew.

Drew said that, because you guys heard the new record. You're one of the three of the only people on Plain Earth who've heard the record. Thank you for saying that out loud. And you were saying that you like Pussy King, but you were worried that the whole album was going to sound like that. And then you said, but you heard it, you're like, It's phenomenal. Oh, it's so great.

It's so great. Because I've gotten some pushback on Pussy King. They're like, man, you're going to go and they're thinking I'm going on a whole new direction. You mean they tell what's the direction you think that people thought you went in? They thought that was a sign of like a sellout record. Like it's kind of like, for some reason to them, that's, I don't know how Pussy King. Well, I said that to him. And you don't have to agree with me.

I thought we were having an Eric Church moment. Eric Church came out, man, and I was like, fuck. the pink line when pink line came out and then home boy came out come on home boy that was a weird one right it's like talking about like a hip hop it was I mean he fucked up before that but yeah well that was the first one I heard and then I went and then I listened to the rest of that album

and the rest of the album wasn't good to me and I was like fuck he sold out and then he made millions of dollars and he's one of the most popular artists out there and he literally sold out and good for him that's fine I thought that's what happened with but I'm so glad so you've heard it and you agree that I have a night but that means the work No, fuck no, no.

And, well, the other difference is I hated Homeboy. I did not hate Pussy King at all. The sound on it, I thought the song was awesome. But the sound on it, I was like, is he trying to go, like, more rock or what's he doing here? Yeah, I think some people thought it was maybe a little, like, kid rockish kind of, which was not with the, it. It's a country record. I can defend through all the way. Because when that record came out, we listened to it, and I fucking was ecstatic.

Because I go, I go Wheeler, what he's doing here is the old record was fucking what kind of. country music should be and now what he's doing is what country music is and he's fucking like he's he's he's right exactly he's taking the piss out of that and drew goes yes and this is awesome but if the whole record's like that i don't think i can listen to it because he's doing it so good that i don't like that shit yeah well and then we heard summers in kentucky and we're all like yeah no wayler's still on point that that that song was a weird because pussy king was just more jamming and it just kind of came out kind of more rock and i just well i just well i just well I just thought it would be funny to put out of my first single, again, in quotes, because it's not a single because the radio won't play it.

Well, let's say this real quick, because we've been saying this. It's a fucking awesome song. Oh, I love kids. Yeah, we've been sitting here comparing it and shit, but like, Pussy King is awesome. And I thought that was a fair, that's totally, that's kind of what my mind was. I love Kid Rock. Unironically, I love Kid Rock. You too, Cowboys.

But, you know, not what I wanted from Wheeler, which, who gives a fuck what I want, you do what you want, but what you wanted to do is fucking awesome. Yeah, well, that, yeah, just a little left. Well, this is going to air, I think, my albums. By the way, the other thing, too, I want to say is I get pissed at these high-priced albums. I'm getting into marketing mode, into push. How popular is this podcast? Very popular. How far should I push it here?

Keep going, buddy. What kind of listenership we got here? Where were we last week on the comedy show? We're always in the top 30. Top 30? All right, so I'll do the hard. I'll do the hard sell. I'll do the hard one.

We're in six countries, baby. You just go. By the time this airs, the, the presale for my new record will be up. And I said, 699, man. Presale, 699, no higher. Oh, is there a reason you had it at 699 whaler? Well, that's, well, that's funny too, but I guess. But I was like, I'm sick of these.

Like, it's just a fucking, it's just zeros and ones, man. It's not, you don't get a CD, you don't get the artwork. Keep the new album, 699. And then, but then set the first record back to 599. Okay. So are you doing this one coming out on vinyl too? Because I have the first one on vinyl. Yeah, this one definitely be on vinyl.

A prized possession of mine. We were in Asheville. We were in Asheville. And we were fucking, yeah, we were running over. We were all like getting our individual little records and Trey found the one Wheeler Walker vinyl. And we were all fucking pissed in them. People always send me messages that it's been hard to find. I'm going to make more of this new one.

The one thing I, we were going to talk about that. But there's what I was saying to too about the people in Nashville who were pissed. There's people who are trying to stop my record. I'm not making a good sign. People like that Pledge Music thing, I'll... Yeah, I want to get in that with you. That was what I saw recently on Twitter. They pre-sale, this site I've never heard of.

They're a bunch of fucking pieces of shit. And they were going to do presales for my records that came with T-shirts and, like, packages. They do a bundle. You pay the money and you don't get the record for, like, six months. And they claimed they were getting too many complaints, and they pulled the fucking album. And they forgot that I don't give a fuck, and I just... I went fucking... I went fucking, like, I'll bet on the first record.

I probably would have kept quiet because I wanted the first record to sell. Now I could give two fucks. And I went crazy. And then I called up, you know, my people who's just one dude sitting around. I go, take it to the, call up billboards. I want this in the press. So I went straight to the press. It said, Pledge of Music.

Listen, I understand what censorship is. I understand the First Amendment doesn't give you the right to be your album sold on Pledge of Music. But still, they're putting shit and dirty shit up there. They're taking me off. Fuck you. I'll take you the fuck down. Right. So I got real pissed.

And now they're on the defense, so... Shouldn't they? And then my fans, and they were pre-selling this 3-11 record, and they actually had to turn off their Instagram because my fans were just trolled 3-Elevens page, nonstop. It was all hashtag Free Wheeler, and the hashtag 3-11 was an inside job they were doing. And they're like, fuck 3-Eleven, sell Wheeler on your side. They just, people, I think a lot of my fans just love having an enemy. Why would they not, to me, from their perspective in that position, just, I don't, if people don't like it, they won't fucking pledge to it, they won't fuck with it.

Like, what does it hurt them to leave it up? They claim that they were getting a record number of complaints, which I take as a compliment. You should. What is that? Nine people? I don't even know what the fuck. They don't take complaints. Who's complaining to pledge music? Who's going to pledge music?

That's what I'm saying. A hundred people might have went there. Well, my manager called and said, we're going to presale it on pledge music. I had to Google it. I didn't know what the fuck it was. Well, I'd heard of it because, like, I think I told you before we started, B.J. Barnum, the front man of Mary Gwere did his solo record there, but not of the band's shit. So it is, but my point is,

what's a record number? They're not in the business of taking complaints. They just fucking put music out. People like music. But I also looked on their site, and they were selling a steel panther record that came with a five, a five-gallon bucket of cum. Right. And you're like, mine comes with a one-gallon bucket of cum.

It was funny, too, as I read the Billboard article, And I guess I interjected during the interview, and then you see the quote for me. It says, five dollar fucking had come. And you hear me in the interview says, why didn't I think of that? You're right. You yelled at your manager. It's like, why do we only have one gallon? Yeah, now I should have seven.

We can just come? Yeah, so they can sell come, but I can't see. Well, there's more of them. You know, they can come up with five gallons a lot easier than you can come up with five gallons. Well, give me, I got a few couple months on my album comes out. I can get you five, what's the Loboski. I can get you five gallons from them. I'll get you a tell right now.

So, yeah, and then the other thing, which I can't get into specifics about, but there's a duet on my record that you guys have heard. Oh, yeah. With the singer you heard on it will not be on the final record. Interesting. I don't want to get this person in trouble, but a major record label that may or not have made Walkman in the past. I decided that this person can't be associated with me

pulled the song after they'd given me the okay to do it we were in that album is in artwork in can we still have it forever like I mean you've got it yeah yeah right vinyl's in everything sent into the manufacturer we have to pull it but we're going to get sued so I'm telling you the big companies are we're trying to block this fucking album again I'm enemy number one

that's awesome why do you're saying like it's well you're not actually saying like it's problem but I'm God damn it. That sounds so cool. But it's... That's outlawed country. It's not cool for me because... Here's why it's not cool, because I got to pull the...

I got to redo the song. Oh, sure. Well... Find someone. I got to redo the artwork. It costs me fucking money. No, it's a hassle, but Hank Williams wasn't allowed in Grand Old Opry. God damn it.

You're the news that. They don't know. I also made a point of that, too. You know who was allowed at the fucking Grand Ole Opry? Chewaka Mom. There's this motherfucking fucking country singer name, Dylan Scott, who has now blocked me on Twitter, so I don't know about him anymore. But he invited Chubakamam on stage to the Grand Ole Opry.

What? And I fucking flip the fuck out. Yeah, of course. It's a fucking church. That is a church. Hank Williams Sr. is banned from the Grand Ole Opry. And Chubacama. You know what she's famous for, putting on a mask and being fat?

And being fat. Like, that's get you on the gal off. When we do our special at the Grand Ole Opry, we're going to have Chubbacamon. fucking story about how Hank William Sr.'s band, but goddamn Chewbacama him got to be here. So he said he was going to go on tour, to bring Chewbacama on tour. I said, this is literally the end of country music.

You ended it, dude. And he tweeted me back before he blocked me. He's like, Chewbacama'm's full of love and heart and you're full of evil and, you know, some version of damn you to hell, whatever it was. And then I was about to... I hope he died. I started ripping on him and I just looked and he was

blocked. And then a buddy in mine, I won't say who it was. His label called a friend of mine who they knew was a friend of mine and asked me to back off. He said, you get Shubaka Mom off that stage and I ain't backing off. What does she do when he brings her on stage? Put on a mask and be fat?

Or like just literally just... Well, she does that before she gets on stage. What's the... I don't know. But that's what pissing me off at too. The second Shubaka, mom came out, I go, this fucking fat piece of shit is going to put out a country record.

I said it. Because that's what they do to people now. Well, you got no talent. Just go fucking make a country record. That's why you get pissed because that's why people say country music is shit. Because they're going to be, the people who are saying shit in a year from now, they're going to be like have Chewbacca mom's greatest

Chubacca mom sings Loretta Lynn or whatever it is. You know, like get to her off the fucking Grand Al-Oprey stage. You know, it's like I don't want means to sacred. Yeah, exactly. That's what I was saying. He was like, and he was talking about me being evil. Like, I can't think of anything

more evil than bring Chubacama on to the fucking Grandinale Opry. Well, anybody talking about you being evil sucks, David Allen Coe's dick, and you're just the revival of him, in my opinion. I mean, if I, I don't know if that's an insult to you or something that you take. Well, it's funny because I played a couple, I opened, my first two dates, after

I put out the record, I opened for David Allen & Co. No shit. And he kind of, as Joe kind of sent a video, like you're ripping me off. But there was No, you're not. I don't feel, to me, music, lyrically, obviously there's a big section of his, what he's sang about that I'm not singing about.

And also, to me, the music doesn't sound similar, but I do, I mean, that's what's cool about my record is David Allen Coe put out those dirty records sold in the back of Easy Rider's Magazine, a motorcycle magazine. That was my point. I think it's getting shared by the same type of people. Like, when David Allen Co., he would do, he had his, like, mainstream hits, and then he had his...

Which are fucking great, but... Oh, they're great. Dude, he's one of the greatest. But then he had his, like, truck stop hits. It was, like, viral videos back in the day. That's what I'm saying. You know what I mean? It was only getting passed out.

So cool of me now is, like, he had to put him out in the back of a magazine. I can put it on iTunes. I can go on podcasts. Like, these podcasts are big things. But pledge. Yeah. I go anywhere but fucking pledge music. And I can't sing with this one word.

I hope y'all die. I can't sing a duet with this one person. But, yeah, it's cool. Now, I can put it up on YouTube. Like, there's a whole world now that I have access to. You don't need. that shit. I mean, I did, the guy who does my distributions, I did, I did Rogan's podcast for my last record. They said I sold more albums from Rogan's podcast than the artist that

was on SNL that we did from being on SNL. It's a new world now. And you can just do this shit, you know. So it's, it's cool for me to make this kind of crazy shit and have an outlet for it, you know, have a place where it can go. Sure. Okay, so we've talked about the new album some, and as people are listening to this, it's available for pre-order. It's out there.

They can find it. Called Old Wheeler, right? Old Wheeler, yeah. Old Wheeler. One of my favorite Whalen records was called Old Whalen. I've got it on vinyl. It's a fucking killer. We were in the studio, and I was like,

this is really an album about, like, getting older, and, like, a lot, you've heard the songs now, so it's, like, going on the road, and you're meeting these young girls who are snapping you, their fucking twots and stuff. It's like, I don't understand

this world I'm living in, you know? All my dreams came true, I guess, in a small way. I'm playing clubs and there's girls there. I mean, there's mainly guys,

but a lot of people are this girl, and they come up to you. Trust me, we know. And I don't understand, yeah. I mean, we got,

sounds like we got the same fucking audience. And I'm like, I'm not prepared for this. Like, I don't, do I want to meet up with a girl

who sends me a picture of her vagina onto my cell phone? Sure. Which is another one of the songs too on the phone. I there?

It's a good one. I have pictures on my phone. Yeah, and this, this, uh, Summers in Kentucky, I think it'll be out by the time this airs. We should have a video done for it by the time this airs, too. And that,

I would say that's my, that's, that's the argument out, because people always give me shit about the dirty lyrics. I don't know that you could write a song as honest as summers in Kentucky. I know you could. Without, without going where I went with it.

Because it's, to me, that's, listen, they, they, they put my, people think my albums are a joke,

which it's serious. shit to me. I can't think of that song in particular, more than anything I've ever done, is the most serious statement I've ever made in my fucking life. I feel pain almost. I see me as a kid, and I see what my life has become.

And that's it. That's probably the most perfect song I've done as far as what I wanted to say in it coming out the way I wanted to say it. But it's got the word pussy in it, so I can't play it anywhere. Everybody has that girl, or guy. I would imagine.

Yeah, I mean, I felt like what I was trying to say in that song wouldn't have been said the way I wanted to say it by cleaning it up. Well, I can say this right now. I know we, all three have talked about it, and me and all my buddies back in Chick-Mogg have talked about it. Fuck you, bitch, is one of the greatest country songs that's ever been written. I don't know if that's true, but I appreciate that, man. Yeah, that was another, that was my first blockbuster hit that's outsold Adel's Hello, I think.

But it was curse words aside. It was like, look, guys, let's look at this. Well, that was my whole thing is I'm just like... It's a good fucking song. I got dumped. Listen, it wasn't... That's why I try to defend myself. Listen, we're here on International Women's Day.

And the song is not women or bitches. That's not the point. The girl who dumped me... Is a bitch. Was a bitch. I mean, even... Actually, I'll go back a step. She wasn't a bitch.

But when she dumped me, under my brother, I said, fuck you bitch. I didn't even say it to her. I didn't have the balls to do it. But I was like, that's a country song. Why can't I sing? but why do I have to clean it up? And then I just kind of, that's what started the record.

You said what need to be said, and that's what country used to be. Every man on earth has felt exactly the way. And woman. I know. And woman. Yeah, I want to fuck you, you dickhead sack of shit. I was trying to get a, no one would do. I was hoping a woman would sing fuck you dick, but no one ever did it.

But yeah, I mean, it was just like, what if I just, that was kind of what started the whole thing? Was like, what if I just sang this and put it out on an album? Like, put, because the country used to be about telling the truth, and fucking, for some reason, it's now it's about coolers. Well, that lyric you have in there, that's, that's, God damn it. Please remember to name this episode that. That country used to be about lyrics and now it's about coolers. That lyric in there you have that says, fuck your dog, I hope he never comes home. That's the thing, I mean, just, I just.

That's hate. Because even as a redneck, you love dogs. Yeah. So that's why that's hate. It was really just like, it just so happened to be that exactly what happened to me ended up rhyming, you know? Like, it was really just going down the list. I fucking fuck her friends and her fucking dog. Like, fuck you.

And then I just put it down. And I look back at the producer and the guys in the band, like, we cool doing it. And they're kind of looking at me like, the fuck's wrong with you? You know, it's like, you're going to record it. Like, you know, they're waiting because they're, they're season pros session guys. They're like, okay, that's the funny version. Let's do the real one. You girl or whatever.

they think we're going to, like, no, no, we're doing this. This is the hour releasing it. Fuck you, you bitch. For some of them, did it seem like that was a relief or exciting? Yeah, well, I will say, that's one thing about the new record I love is the guys who play on it. Like, you can imagine playing, like, kind of session guy playing sappy kind of country all day. And it's a great gig, and they love it, but they have a fucking blast playing my shit. Guarantee.

And I don't, listening to it, and I wonder if you, I'm curious what you guys think. I don't think the fun was there on the first, I hear the fun. that we're having much more on the new record because we're having a blood now that we know each other. So you say you didn't know each other really yet. Yeah, we were just kind of getting to know it. Now you, I think on the new one you hear us having fun. Yeah, you guys sound like a band.

They sound like a band. Instead of some dudes you pay. Because those guys, because apparently ever since we did the first one, like, I just, because now they're friends of mine, they're just like, when are we doing the next one? When we do it in the next one? Because they're like, you know. How satisfying is that?

I love it, man. And these guys are such killer. I mean, one of my goals is to make enough money that I can play big shows and take these guys on the road and steal them from Cobb. Pussy on my phone sounds like you all are having a blast. We were, yeah. It absolutely comes through.

Well, that's why I want, again, maybe I've, the problem with being too independent like I am, which I own my own shit, and I put out Pussy King first was, that was us having a fucking blast and just having so much fucking fun. Probably not the best representation of the record, but I get to put out the fucking songs I want to put out.

No, I mean, we do that too. I mean, that's not uncommon for us, really. I mean, we're kind of... And what kind of... What's the size place that you guys playing now? It really just depends. That's fucking crazy, man.

I mean, that's awesome. Congrats, though. Yeah, yeah, something like small... We moved on from three to about five recently. And if we do three... Our best was we did 750. That was our big. We did the Texas Theater and Dallas.

Wow. And that was a while back. Well, by the way, I'm jealous for two reasons. One, to get that audience and two, to do it with the fucking microphone. Yeah. And not have to pay four dudes. and amps. Yeah, that's another thing.

Like, it's just us. Like, a mic check, literally, I'll just go up there an hour early and go, yep, yep, yep. And, like, we're good, and then we'll just go back there. I remember thinking on that last tour just because we were playing, we would do 500-ish, which is great for a first record. Just remember thinking, like, fuck, yeah. Imagine if I didn't have to pay all these fuckers. I know he feels that way.

He's the guy. You guys just. Yeah, we don't, we don't mean, yeah, I play. Yeah, we're on the sleeveless coat-tail tour. If I went and saw the liberal redneck and you two came out, I would have fucking asked for my money. I wonder, though, because, like, yeah, I could see the issue of paying them, but at the same time, isn't it fun? Oh, yeah, but that's the thing. I can't imagine.

Because I actually did one show. I couldn't afford to do both those David Allen co-shows with the band. I could only afford to do one, so we did Chattanooga, just acoustic. That's where I'm from, Chattanooga is right on the board. That's where my great show. That's where my great-grandpa is from. Did you do a revelry room? Yeah.

Okay. That's right on. But it wasn't fun. But with the band, I mean, it's worth the money because it's just a blast, you know. Sure. I love playing. And that's what, another thing I love about country is, because to me, rock's kind of fucking dead. Country's one of the few places where if you get the right people, you can actually see killer musicians play.

Fuck yeah. And I got some killer music, like, they're just, they make it fun of me all you want, but with the lyrics and shit. but I got, you know, the killer guys playing this shit that you can go out and see. Oh, are you kidding? Are you kidding me? Your fucking album is righteous, dude. Like, it's pure country. Listen, I wanted to do this podcast all night just for you guys to keep kissing my ass.

It's good to be in Los Angeles with people who actually like my shit. Because, you know, in Nashville, I think there's a lot of fans. But L.A. no one gives a fuck. I seem to know. It's sort of the thing I hear, though, right, to pretend not to give a fuck. That's why we're moving out here. We're just, like, just fucking, like, coming in, whether they like it, or not.

Well, yeah, so you guys are moving out here to kind of do the whole fucking show biz thing? Yeah, pretty much. Literally a show, yeah. Okay. Just seeing what the fuck happens. It's like, you know, it's up and down. I'm not, well, fuck, talking like I've been out here for the past year. I moved out here last month.

I mean, out of six weeks, so I don't. Bigger, I don't know. I'm moving in this guest house for doing this. It took you fucking six weeks to get a TV show? I don't fucking know. Well, no, I had the development deal before that. That's what brought me out here. But I don't know.

So I'm saying I don't even know how it's fucking going yet. You know, we'll see. Yeah, I mean, I guess we got to check you in 10 years if you're on fucking crack or if you're, or if you're fucking Ray Romano. Right. Yeah. There's some who based on sausage too much. You know what I mean?

Yeah. You know, Ray Romano on meth. That's me. That's basically the show we're doing. Everybody loves to be a bit. I will be the fuck with. What's the show? It's about, uh, you ever heard of Oak Ridge, Tennessee?

Where the Manhattan Project was, that's one of the two places. They built the atomic. bomb there it's outside of knoxville i know the oakridge boys right hell yeah right papa fucking a well they got there's it's this redneck town in east tennessee but in that redneck town there's like the world's fastest

supercomputer and a particle accelerator and all this shit that's part of the department of energy who came there to build the atomic bomb in world war war they built the city the city didn't exist they the government built it for that purpose i think i have heard about this yeah okay so uh it's based it's set in a fictionalized version of that town with a guy

who grew up like redneck and poor in the trailer parks there who left because he was, you know, liberal didn't fit in, fuck everything, never meant to come back, but gets a job at the lab that he can't pass up. So comes back to his redneck hometown.

Trays to work for the lab. Got it. Comes back to his redneck hometown and has to fall back in with all his redneck. My main point. You got a theme song yet? No. Liberal. You're perfect for that.

that, though. Yeah, I'll take care of that. Hell yeah. God damn it. God damn right. Can I tell you who you're competing with, though? You're the second person who told us that. Oh, shit.

Drive-by truckers. Oh, I'm fucking done. No, no, no, no, no. We want you to give it your best. They do rock. They do rock. I can't compete with that. You rock.

But you rock in a very specific way. If I didn't think you'd compete, I wouldn't have told you. I'd just like, after the podcast, I'd be like, well, he ain't fucking doing it clearly. I've got to go after, now you're going to make me on Twitter after someone I actually fucking like. I kind of. just want me and you to record a song together that I've already written that you can add to,

so we'll just do that. That's funny doing what I do because I'll just walk around. Everyone's got songs for me. I'll walk around Nashville. It'll just grab me. It'll be like, I'll just see me on the street. You go, pussy farts. You ever think about that, man?

And I'm like, can I help you? How you feel about quefin? Yeah, he goes, pussy farts. I was like, nice to meet you. Like, is that a hello? Is that your name? He's like, sing about that. I'm like, it's not that fucking easy.

So you get the same as we get with, you should joke about this. I got a joke for you. I got a joke for you. I got a good one for you. You just did it too. Well, I did, but I actually have a complete written-out song. It's not just an idea. Right, Corey.

We're going to do it together. Well, you get to you and take you. It's called pussy farts. By the way, I just got a theme song and I got fucking lost half the publishing already. So I want to know when you were, when you were coming up, first starting to make and do what you do and go out and do live shows and shit. I would imagine you've had your run-ins with crowds that are not expecting what you are at all. And I wonder how that goes. I've wondered that ever since I started listening to you because I've been to shows with crowds like that.

And I think in my head, like, what, you know, I think about if Wheeler Walker Jr. had come out during some of these shows that I think of and how they would have reacted. And I'm wondering how your experience with that is actually. Well, luckily, I mean, the album started selling, so there wasn't as much of that as... Right. But, you know, before, yeah, like, it would definitely fucking silence people, because they're just like... Because it's a really weird thing to play this type of kind of old stuff. Because I thought I was making a George Jones record to me, and then I just...

But I'll just sing it how the way I talk to my friends. Right. Right. Which turned out to be this, apparently this genius combination, which I never thought about. like um so to me i i forget i forget about the you know the words that are coming out i just don't notice it and i just i'll there were definitely shows i look in the audience i see the hands on their faces or just like you know people old ladies walking out the door it's like but then it's like then you feel good when you think about it's like when you make music you want to get a reaction

some way and that's one positive what i'm doing is i definitely i've talked about this before like you go on iTunes like my average on iTunes i think is like exactly like a three whatever the, it's like 5-1. It's the best record of all time or it's the worst thing ever made. There's no three-star reviews. It's all the best thing ever or the worst fucking thing you've ever seen. I've seen that even just in my little circle in New York, sharing your shit,

and then comedians who don't have any sort of connection really to country music who are like, oh my God, my dad used to listen to blah, blah, blah, and this is fucking amazing. Or what is this? and I'm just like, fuck you, it's not for you, move on. I shared this for the people who wanted to hear what they're, didn't talk about what their dad was supposed to do. Obviously, we can't really, you know, market.

It's really all been old-fashioned word of mouth with guys like you passing it around. It's really, you know, it's the old days of just passing around a record because it really, like I said, was made for country music fans, so the guys who just like to hear dirty words, I don't think really dig it. It's just like,

because there's a other place to get fucking dirty shit. Right, right. I mean, you got, we premiered our, we actually, put the last record. I don't know if I told you guys, but a lot of albums, you know, they'll come out a week early on NPR. You can stream it for free. And I was like, they won't do that for me. So we actually reached out to Pornhub. Yeah. To premiere my last, to premiere the first record. I think we're going to do it again, and porn hub premier my last record.

I didn't know that, and that's fucking... I didn't know that either. Because I found out about you, you'd been out for three or four weeks when I found out about you. Well, I think... Well, I mean, don't get me wrong, most people going to Pornhub weren't looking for country. music, but it certainly got enough eyeballs and dicks on there to... Was that your idea? Yeah, I said, I told my fucking people, I go, because I go, can we get a premiere on NPR? They're like, no fucking...

And I said, Rolling Stone, it's named like 20 places. They go, fuck it, just... Can you call Pornhub? Like, how the fuck do we find Pornhub? I go, you're a business. You're a big person. You're a big. And they called Pornhub up, and Pornhub was like, oh, you know, and then of course I look,

it's got like, you know, it's got a million views every minute, because... Because, you know, people like whacking off, you know. That they do. What do you think about? I saw this article. I wish I could remember who it was, but I can't. It wasn't Florida Georgia Line. It wasn't like Al Dane or any of them.

But, I mean, it was a guy that had some songs out. But it was this article where he basically admitted, he basically said that they know that they suck. Oh, I know the article you're talking. It was the whole thing where he was like, look, Okay, fine, yeah. It's not good music, whatever. It was the weirdest thing.

Was it Dirk's Bentley? Maybe. I thought it was. I thought it was. I know, like, it's weird because a lot of these are big guys are fans of mine. They'll come out, you know, nicest dudes. And I saw an article with Dirk's Bentley. It might have been.

He might have always, it seemed like he was almost apologizing for his new single. Yeah. I think that might have been it. It was somebody, it was a guy. It was a name. It was a guy. It just wasn't one of those ones we were talking about earlier. And the whole, basically the whole article was him saying like, yeah, I know it fucking sucks.

He put out a bluegrass record. Yeah, it's good. It's good. And he's a really cool guy. That's a good record. And the first time I heard, hey, come on somebody. What is that song? About the warden?

That's not his. That's like Shelton. And that was also, that was a. Oh, wait. No, I know what I'm thinking of. The one where he. You're talking about. read and that was an old song.

Yes, that George Jones was the first time I heard. I'm thinking of when the girl he leaves him. What was I thinking? What was I think? Yeah, that sounds a great fucking song. It's funny because I grew up I mean, obviously country was everywhere growing up in Nashville and Kentucky, but you know, my first love was

rock and roll, like Cobb and all those dudes and they all grew up really with, because you know, you want to listen to what your parents aren't listening to. Sure. I'll bet the first time I heard Act naturally was from the Beatles. First time I ever heard Buck Owens, you know, all that shit. So there's crosses over.

I mean, some of that 70s shit is Grand Parsons is is hanging out there. I mean, there's so much crossover to me

that it's just like, you know, pissing the off. Grand Parsons was like different from day to day. So talk to us about crossing over. Who would Weiler

want to work with or tour with or anything? But that's not country or whatever. Anybody? And you can say us. That's fine. Well,

you guys, 750? Yeah, I want it to do with you guys. Yeah. I think we could bump those numbers if you came with us.

be fine. Music-wise. Yeah, you can get the next of probably at least 804 or something. I'm trying to think, I don't, I mean, I wish there were more bands I felt,

I mean, I was a kid, I loved, I mean, I loved all that fucking, you were talking about, like I loved Alice and Shane and Soundgarden and all that shit. There's not that stuff anymore, you know? No, no, there's not. What's like the, what's the,

you know, there might be, but we're just not listening to it. There's a, um, band I've been listening to recently called Die Antwerd, you heard them? Yeah. I saw him at Monru, and it was the,

Best live show of ever fucking insane. They're wild as hell. I think now I'm more into the kind of the crazy shit. DJ was the one that introduced me to them. Andy introduced DJ to him, my wife. Okay, so that came to a monitor. They've got these crazy fucking songs about just like chocolate and like they're insane. Yeah, they're wild.

And live, they're really good by the way. They live up to it. I've got to fucking see him. Yeah. And their DJ died and they always do a tribute to him. He had that disease. You've seen it on the videos. He looks like an alien on some of their older.

shit. Oh yeah, yeah. They always do a tribute to him and they really mean it, you can tell. And it's like, here's people who don't seem to take anything seriously, and then they took 10 minutes out of their show to do something. They take super fucking serious. It's really funny. Which I ran into me when I pass. You've got them some serious and some

talent behind it because I listen to that new record earlier. It's like, there's some fucking killer songs on there. I mean, it's the furthest thing from what I fucking do, but I just, you know, like, I really like Eminem, and there's some of that. And there's some of that. or two of just that kind of um

I mean Eminem's probably made for me you know just like and I hate to say that I love sometimes you feel guilty you don't just name in half bars and naming the one white guy but it's kind of it's designed for me yeah we don't feel any guilt about that but he's great you know like I love that shit and I love

I'm trying to think who the fuck I mean there's obviously the guys I love and you know Sturgle and Isbell and um it takes a lot for me to get out and go see a fucking show nowadays, you know. Just because of your schedule? Just because I'm so fucking lazy. Right. I'm old wheeler.

You know, that's why it's the whole point, is I'm going to get old. And, you know, like, I think Miranda Lambert's, one of the few people in country who's on the radio and shit, who sounds like country music to me. I like Marana Lambert. I think she's good and she's a... I like Blake Shelton, okay. I think... I like Blake Shelton as a person a lot. Right.

Well, some of his awful stuff, whatever you're about to say, I guarantee you. never heard the son right right all right the recovery did that was fine it's bad i'm sure it dude son i'm sure it's bad i just don't even listen to it blake shelton as a person i'm like i think i could have a beer with this dude sounds all right kind of crazy on twitter and shit before was what i heard i don't maybe like the everything i know about blake shelton is because i've had a blonde white girl girlfriends and they've liked the voice and so blake shelton's been on that and that's a literally he's been my mom he's been my own Dude, well, I don't care for it, but he's been my only saving grace because, like, during the whole thing, he would come in with some ringer, and I was like, that's pretty funny.

Blake Shelds all right. You shit on people? Yeah, he would shit on people, and he'd be funny. And honestly, if I'm being fair, and I know our fans are going to hate this, he'd be overtly just kind of like charmingly sexist about something. I'm just like, yeah, all right, get it. Charmingly sexist. Get it, Blake, do it. And then he ended up fucking Gwen Stefani.

I was like, I knew it. I knew it the whole time. I still understand a guy who treats on Miranda Lambert. I don't get it either. He left his wife from Miranda Lambert. That was like the big story. Oh, I didn't know that. My mom and dad told me that story.

Yeah, see, I don't know anything. When you just start talking about the town. Yeah, it's just China. What's next for you, man? You're going to go on tour behind this? Yeah, we're going to do three. The week this album comes out, I don't know when it will be announced. We're going to do a week of shows that week, and then I'm going to wait a beat and kind of catch my breath,

and then probably do a tour later in the summer or something. Because I get pissed. The other thing that piss, because people just are fucking, I don't know what it is. But they won't fucking have me at the fucking festivals. The corporate, you know, the coach shows in Lollapo. Preach on it, buddy. Preach, baby. Let's talk about it.

Well, I mean, like. Our people was like, yeah, y'all are going to be all over them this year. Yeah. Even though you crush dicks, they just won't have you. We hear you. Go on. But I'm just, but yeah, you could, tell me a festival that couldn't use an extra 750 tickets. I mean.

Heard that. You know? Yeah, thank you. But I was like, I got really, I was like, I was like, I wouldn't be the 10th-th-thirtiest guy at one of these festivals. With rappers on the bill? Right.

It makes no fucking sense. And then, so, well, I can't do that shit, apparently, because I'm gonna, you know. Who the fuck's going to a festival that's like, I don't want to hear that? And pardon me, if I'm speaking out of turn, about comparing us, but I wonder if you suffer from what I think we're suffering from,

which is people look who, they're just corporate-minded, right? It has nothing to do with, like, all arguing that, they're just looking at, this is what I think you are, and this is what our festival is, and they go, you're not enough of one thing. In other words, you're not corporate country. You're not a power country person who's going to bring in a shitload of tickets.

And then you can say, fine, I cuss, but so are the rappers. And they go, all right, but you're not bad either. Yeah, you ain't am I. You don't fit anything that I want to put you in. You're not a box. You're a new thing, and we don't like new things. That's scary sometimes. That's the other thing, too, is, you know, music row, like I'm saying, it's not a joke to them.

They're fucking pissed to me, and they want to shut me down. But I think more than the language, I think it's that I put out my albums independently. I don't use the system. I don't use radio. I don't use their best musicians and they know they can do nothing about that. And I don't use any of the ways they do. You have a new artist. You put them on the radio.

You send them out opening up for fucking Florida Georgia line. You do the whole thing. And I didn't do it that way. And they're like, fuck, what if word gets out that you don't need us? Then we're all unemployed. I think that piss them off more than any of the fucking language. Sure. Absolutely.

You buck the system. They hate that. You're afraid of language. That's nothing threatening their business model. Yeah, because I'll meet these execs, and they fucking love the record. And I'm like, but you can see them kind of like, you know, don't tell them a boss. Right, right. Well, you're kind of a giant middle finger to them.

Everything about them and what they do. So, I mean, fuck them. I'm on your side. Which I take pride in, but it doesn't not make sense, you know. It really wasn't my goal, but now, but like, it's almost like I was so angry and pissed off when I made these two records that like I needed an enemy right and country music is just

an easy enemy for sure I mean it's just such shit and uh but that's not your fault that's theirs exactly I mean this music that I just have so much passion for you know whalen and Willie and Hank and all this fucking great shit that they're just fucking raping the corpse of they're just pulling their drawers down taking the shit on it yeah and I'm just like

fuck you I mean to like like an older person they'd be like they would say that to me, that I'm disrespecting the genre by bitch and fucking tits and whatever. Well, that's what I was bringing up earlier about the David Allen Coe comparison. It's like, to me, you are more of what I fell in love with with country than any of this bullshit. And like, you were, to me, closer to Hank Williams than any of this horse shit. So all that is just...

That was the joke to me, which is, was like, what if I curse like this? I don't censor myself, but I actually do the country better than the fucking dudes out there doing it. It'll blow people's minds, you know. Oh, I immediately, if that was the joke, then I, you know, pat me on the back and us, because we talked about it as comedians. Me were like, not like there's a joke, but like. It wasn't a joke, but it was just like, what if I sit, what if I play traditional country and I don't censor myself, what would it, what would happen?

Right, this is what I meant, like, we got it in the sense of it wouldn't have worked any other way. Right. If I'd have heard those songs, but the. The music wasn't good. Do you know what I mean? Or the music was good. It's a fucking real... It's both real country records.

It's both real country. Can you guys kiss my ass about the new one a little bit more? Sure. Yeah, but I said both the new ones to... Pitchers of your pussy on my phone. God damn it, is one of my favorite songs I've ever heard in my life. We do need to probably wrap up soonish. And I think we're going to...

Are we going to do it live or both? Did you say you wanted to hear Fuck you, bitch? I would love to. This is a song off the old album that we're going to play right now. He's going to play for us. I got a present to shrug at this.

Look what fucking Gibson gave him. He's showing us a new Gibson guitar that Gibson gave him. By the way. Is Wheeler. Yeah, pass him that pink mic real quick. And let's set this up for the guitar. Turn that overhead light on behind you, Corey.

You know what? Y'all, there's some. We'll that air right now, but this is about to hit. So, yeah, don't worry about it. This is about to hit super hard. You want to stand over there? I'll sit here. I don't have my strap.

All right. Oh, it'll be fine. Trust me. It'll pick up. He just brought, he just brought the fucking. God damn. Look at that hits. It says Whaler Walker Jr.

It does. It does. Lord, that's great. Yeah. Call me up. They go, you want me to make one of these? They go, here's the deal. Hold on, Wailer.

I got it. Stand up. Stand up again. I get to wait this. Yeah. They go, if you, if we make you these, you can only play Gibson's. I go, that's a deal. That's the kind of selling out you wanted to do.

And they go, and from now on, you can only play Gibson's. I go, but you get them for free. I go, I think we can work something out. Yeah, yeah, we can, yeah. Oh, Gibson? Gibson? It sounds like Takamini called me. Right, yeah, yeah.

It's Gibson. And they just keep giving me, like, someone there loves me, and there's this girl Casey who's fucking awesome, and she just keeps giving me these fucking guitars and made, they, like, Casey sounds like she hits. And she, uh, I, what I told them to do, was to write like Chris Isaac stock because I knew I didn't think they do I said just write

W.W. Jr. and chalk. And they send me this instead. That's so bad ass. Fucking righteous. So you want to hear fuck you bitch? So hard. And do you mind if we maybe do the chorus with you? Do you sing whenever you want? Let's do the chorus. It's always not to step on top. This is

Fuck You Bitch by William Walker Jr. With a little bit of rednecks and two random dudes singing back up. You say we're done You packed up your stuff It's really over Said you've had enough There's one thing

I'd like to say Before you late You bitch You broke my heart Fuck your friends For tearing us apart Fuck your friends Don't hope it never comes home

Fuck you bitch Hope you wind up alone I'm by myself You know The pictures on myself But before I swap on your face I just scream

You broke my heart Fuck your friends For tearing us apart Fuck your dog Hope you never Hope you wind up Alone You found someone new

Well I hope He does it But if not And you call me up Darling play Please Fuck you bitch You broke my heart

Fuck your friends Are tearing us apart Fuck your dog hope he never comes home fuck you bitch hope he winds up alone hope you wind up ain't alone

Lord God I'm so happy four dudes singing around sitting around fucking pissed off about a girl and I know we all had one specific one in mind we were singing now when I sing that and I look out in the audience I'm not looking at the audience

at the audience. I got that girl on my sure. I guarantee it. Well, when I hear it, I think of that one. It's not the one I'm with. I'm happy with the one I'm with, but when I hear that song, I'm like, yes, I know who that's for, and it helps me get through Tuesday. All you do is think about her in that stupid fucking dog. So, everybody out there, if you dug that shit or any of the rest of the shit that we've talked about at all, go check out. Oh, Wheeler,

the sophomore effort from the man who's saving country music right now, Wheeler Walker Jr. our good buddy. It's out right now for pre-order and if i can say from having listened to it ain't out while we're recording this it ain't out yet but we've heard it and it's fucking fire it's fire so fire how them listen to it it's fucking amazing go out there find it right now i need i need i need i need uh all the 750 you guys get in every city hell yes congrats and all your success man that's fucking awesome you too man buddy yeah hanging out of you guys thank you for joining us all right you all right see y'all next time just 16.

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