wellRED podcast - Gate Keepers, Ear Worms, Ella Langley, and more!

Episode Date: September 16, 2026

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I'm just saying you're doing it because that's what you're supposed to do right now. Yeah. Like, for whatever reason. Yeah, that totally makes sense for me. It doesn't really, to me, like, you are just adding the structure walls to the roof I built. I still feel like the mammals are scared. We don't know what the fuck's going on. They're the fever.

Rednex day like cornbread but sex, they care way too much, but don't give a fun. They're the fever. red next that makes some people upset they got three big old dicks that you can sun well we're here what's up everybody well-read people um i don't know if they'll be the jingle the song or not because chow isn't here i'm still going to sending these files and they can put it up i don't know where chow is or what he's doing doesn't matter i'm trey that's drew i guess we'll just start with an announcement of sorts um it's been 10 years here at well-read and i told the fellers a couple weeks ago that I think it's time we hang her up for at least a little bit

with this podcast. I'm calling it a hiatus or an extended hiatus. We're leaving the, I think it's called the RSS feed. The podcast feed will be left up like it'll be left alive so we can post anything on that we want to, a little special thing. If we did get a wild hair and do an episode or do something else, we could put it on there. And if, you know, if when we bring the show back put it on there too um it's just this show in particular the reason i kind of wanted to do it is because i'm doing i'm working on a new fucking kind of like a youtube show but it's a podcast and i've already got three and i was like i can't have four that's insane even for a you know straight white male comedian and this one ever ever since we've been in disparate parts of the

world this one has been like you know kind of ramshackle fly by night I feel like, if we're being honest, it's very often that I feel like, I'm sure this isn't true, but it feels to me that's more often than not that it's two of us as opposed to three of us, you know, and so I told them that. They said that, you know, they were okay with it. And so we're telling y'all that now. How much longer will it be? That kind of depends on the network a little bit, but we're thinking like two, three weeks or something.

But that is the announcement. nothing else will change. We all still love each other. And that just is what it is for now anyway. Yeah, I mean, I'd just like to add, I did not vote for this. This caught me very off guard. This was against my will. I'm kidding.

Yeah, this is, as you said, like moving. I mean, my own most recent move. I mean, dude, I'm recording this in a basement with fucking rape paneling behind me. sorry to anyone that rake paneling offends, but that's what it looks like. I got a lot of stuff I want to do here at the house to get set up to do more things creatively, but yes.

And if I'm honest, I don't know how you feel about this, but I feel like when we stopped touring together, this remained as like a very positive way to like keep in touch and keep in touch with well-red nation and well-read fans. But it did sort of feel like a band and put out a final album.

And then every week, we were just doing a documentary about how much it used to hit to play them songs, you know what I mean? Which was fun, but it was like, we're not even making albums anymore. We're just literally doing VH1 behind the music. Yeah. Well, when we first started,

people still weren't doing video for any kind of podcast or nothing. You just needed the mic set up and everything, and we had that and we would do it on the road in rooms together while drunk and shit like that and stuff. And it was always like, you know, it was just fun and better. And then for a while, me and you were still in a room physically together. And that also was better. But, you know, life happens.

She had to do what you got to do. I mean, that's fine. But that's what I mean. I feel like ever since you, like you said, you had to move and it became like fully, wholly Zoom based. It's just, you know, it's just not, like I said, it's not as fun. It's not as, it's felt like something, you know, it's like, Oh, shit.

Oh, yeah, we better, yeah, we got to do that, huh? Type of thing. Yeah, I agree. I think, I mean, I think it also, well, we don't need to get into the weeds or whatever. Show how the sausage is made in terms of that. I mean, there's definitely times where it's like, oh, shit, is it three? We got to record. And then there's other times where I'm like chomping at the bit to say something to folks.

Right. I guess we should wait on Corey to relive the hits. One thing I will say now that I will lament again when we read, relive the hits in the next couple weeks with and four people is we were both ahead and behind so much in our career. We were doing exactly what 85 South was doing live while 85 South was doing it, but we weren't filming it and putting it out. Right.

We were doing incredible podcast bits when we were together. Before it, most people, not everyone, but most people were doing podcast bits. I mean, a bit we did, we've talked about this before, and I don't want to sound like I'm shit talking to anyone. A bit we did. Someone else did as a podcast, and it's now one of the five biggest ones. It wasn't even just a bit that we did.

They don't know us. We even talked about, and yeah, like you said, they don't know any of that and how would they? But, like, it wasn't even just a bit. We discussed making this, making that the whole podcast, and we were like, nah. I think we could say what it is.

We were going to do red cred. Red credit. on and have them like prove to us that they have red cred that they are they have redneck credibility and we were like I think people might be into that and then there's some guys who do a non-southern version and again I don't want this to sound like they didn't know that they had nothing to do with it they were the smart ones who actually took initiative and did the thing they just happened to have a similar idea as us that we just were like bad whatever and didn't do anything with I'm sure people could found them why we're being cagey about it's argue garbage which is a great podcast

and those guys are incredible very funny and and i think it knows them dirt did that podcast you know but but yeah that definitely occurred when i found out about it and it being a hit because that they're new york guys you knew them a little bit i didn't i didn't and i found out about the podcast it didn't immediately occur to me but then when it did i was like oh my god this is so this is so rafen i hope we're not coming across like we have we have all these ideas first i'm lamenting how like dude if papaw batman if the dinosaur feather if those are were videos. Right.

You know, I mean, you know, you're doing theaters, but like, I do feel like I wouldn't be in a rape basement right now. There's also even just, you said, we're not going to relive the hits, we're reliving the don't hits. The other thing is just that, uh, that'll be good because Corey wouldn't let us relive. Right. People that don't, especially this one, because it's not just his, it's anybody, but like,

um, people just listening right now, you know, unless you've been there since the very beginning. You may not remember, but dude, the very first week we like put that out. This podcast like debuted at like number two or three or something like that. That's actually true. That's like how much internet heat I had at the time and how early in the game still. Even though like Rogan and Marin were huge, it was still, I mean, it was 2016. It was like way before podcast like exploded. We literally debuted at number two or three, but those first couple episodes were audibly unlistenable, right? because we fucked the tech up so bad because we didn't know what we're doing and still put it out

like idiots and it's like and just that even if just that had not happened like you know it's fun i never used to be this guy that would like dwell on those types of things it's like oh if that had been handled a little bit differently or do you just think about like oh we go like a sliding door type stuff but there's a few of them though where i do Yeah, man. I mean, well, it's pointless to do that other than learning your lesson, but I guess now we're kind of reminiscing. I think about that stuff sometimes in terms of, okay, we said no to Patreon because we felt weird.

And we knew that if we did that, like, people were paying, we would owe people a thing. And then we started seeing how much money people were making on Patreon. But by then, by the time we sort of realized that, process that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I think you had already started or we're thinking about starting your own. I already had one with me and DJ that was making dozens of cents. So, like, it was just like, oh, yeah, that's, I mean, honestly, I think it would have felt like at that point, you just giving us money.

But, like, had we done it from the jump and then use that money to pay someone to make sure that we had the video? and honestly dude it might be a little shitty of me I blame two things one I'll own that we were the worst if one of us said

won't work for any reason that was the out the other two needed to be like yeah that I don't hit because we were exhausted partially from working hard partially from drinking hard and then the other thing is dude

I think we were getting some shit advice you know what I mean I don't want to put it all at the feet of somebody. And we should have recognized that quicker. But we needed someone saying, hey, this is why you should do this and here's how it's going to pay off for you. It's not just because quote-unquote, everyone's doing it.

This is literally how this is going to pay off for you. But whatever, that's another here and there. The last thing I lament in terms of touring live, and this is not really related to the podcast. But remember that time, Corey showed up late, and we were wasting time until he got there to do his set in Seattle. This is one of many examples,

but this is one I remember. That papaw, who was gay from Alabama, talked about finding his papas. Clan robe in the closet. Because he thought it was a ghost outfit. Great. I mean, dude, we'd have made 20 grand across all platforms on just that.

I know. Yeah. I mean, you're so right. It's like you said, we used to just do that type of thing. Literally at every show, And with that, I don't ever even remember it coming up. Maybe I'm wrong and stupid, but it even coming up like, hey, should we be like filming this every night and trying to make clips out of it?

I don't remember us ever even talking about it. We did, but we had it in our head that it had to be like. Yeah, probably level like super good. Yeah, right. And then what we always settled on is we will when we film our special. That will be part of it. And then we had talks with the guy. John, I don't want to say his last name, you know what I'm talking about.

And that kind of went nowhere. And I don't, I don't think I was ready. And, you know, I hope I'm not the only reason we got held back there. Do you remember who and when I'm talking about? Yeah. He's produced, like, Adam Sandler specials and a bunch of big people. There was a period we thought we were going there. That didn't happen.

And we arrived at, like, the Amazon thing, which I'm very proud of. And I was ready then. And it was like, we weren't doing that anymore. Right. And it was kind of just like, we'll just buy a $1,000 camera. Right. And learn the software.

And I know that sounds dumb and obvious to people out there listening right now. And I guess to some extent it was to me, we did talk about it. I think my thought process was, like I said, if you were Corey said, or somebody on our team at the time said, well, we'll do this professionally when we do the special. I was like, yeah, and that's going to happen in the next eight months. Like, no reason to hurry. It was that weird paradox of we were getting enough heat and help that I thought it would be bad for us to do things ourselves.

It would look shitty and DIY. And then some cats who weren't getting heat had to do it themselves. Yep. And they laughed us. That's exactly. That's exactly what happened. No, I mean, you're right. Yeah, it was definitely like that.

It's like, I mean, right. It's like you said, it was like that hit purgatory or whatever, but that feeling of like you said, it's like, oh, I'm not going to do anything like that because it'll be amateurish. That could be bad. I'm going to have the opportunity soon to do it at the highest level. That's obviously right around the corner.

I can tell you specific instances, and now we'd be getting into the minutia in the inside baseball. But I can tell you specific instances with conversations I have with people on our team about me, separate from well red, like, well red's going to do X. It'll look bad if you do Y. Because Y is beneath well red.

And of course I wanted to believe that. But there was plenty of stuff back then that, like, the other thing about that that I know now, and again, it's totally separate from the Daily Show. That was an audition thing, and I knew that. there were other things where it gets presented to you as like, they want you to do this, right? Like hosting some show.

Like one of them I remember CBS was doing a kind of amazing race type of spinoff, but with a different gimmick, right? And again, what I hear, effectively, what I'm told is like, they want you to host it, right? And I, and again, that pilot, they made it, whatever, it didn't go to series, that show, never existed so either way but i was like nah that you know i ain't trying to do that or whatever thinking that i could have just said yes and had that job i did that with some other i did that

with one that's like a massive hit show and but but what i know now is that because all during covid i got one of those and i was like yeah okay you know it's okay i'll do it yeah i'll do it and what i know now is that a number of people are told that same thing, right? It's more like they're interested in you. And so it's like you're one of the people. But it's not really told you. It's like they make it sound like, oh, they want you. You're at the top of it.

They don't even say top of a short list, but it's like, but that's what it is. There's a list. So it doesn't mean I would have gotten any of them anyway, but some of them I think back on the fact that I was like, nah, and it's just insane, you know, I mean, and in retrospect, But like I said, at the time, it was just what I was being told and also how things felt. Like you said, what I wanted to believe. I was like, well, dude, any minute now, one of these things, you know, the Trey Crowder show will take off. And then all this is moot.

But, you know, that shit ain't happened. Yep. Yep. The only other thing I lament, and I'm going to rectify this. And I do think I was on the right side of this one. This is not me trying to, like, win argument. Not that there was an argument, but I don't want to make it sound like I'm patting myself on the back. But I also wish we would have just done more ourselves.

We did do some things ourselves. I wish we'd have done more. But anyway, I'm also very happy with what we did do. And we'll get into that when show comes back. Yeah. So what's up? Are you in your new house now? I'm in my new house.

The kitchen renovation. Like they always do, it's taking longer than expected. But I also just had a lot of things that have nothing to do with the renovation pop up that are really slowing me down. And that has a trickle down effect on the house. So, like, I expected to be, I've got this whole back studio behind me. Like, outside of my house, there's a build on, an add-on, been there, you know, it was there when I bought it, that I am going to turn into a secret. recording space. And I really thought I'd be in it three weeks after I bought this place.

And then I didn't even get into the house for six weeks, blah, blah, blah. But I'm a full-time Athenian. I'm going to Atlanta to do spots. I've already gotten some cool stuff going on there that I'm not allowed to talk about, you know, of the cool industry variety type shit. I love Athens. It's a little too far away from my family. It's like an hour too far away. way. Like just in terms of like you're close enough to kind of be expected. Yeah. Oh, I know.

Things. But it's still a shit drive. When we, I mean, when we lived in Knoxville, Waynesboro is like fucking four hours from Knoxville or something, four or five hours, something like that.

And it's still, like you said, it's like, and we had two boys that were in diapers and shit like that, but it's like you're supposed to be there, Thanksgiving, and Chris. And we were.

And it was always like, But it's like you're not close enough to just run them over there and drop them off. Right. At Ma'amaw's house, if y'all want to go to the movies or something like that. Like, that's way too. You don't have that, but you do still have to do the other shit. Like out here in California, there's just none of any of it. You know?

So it's, I know exactly what you mean. That was the situation we were in in Knoxville. So I live in that state now, and that's taking some getting used to. And Razzie's hitting three. He's really getting rambunctious. We're about to start daycare for the first time, but we haven't yet. Andy's job's been a nightmare for her. So it's just been a, you know, yeah, I'm in my house.

Barely, it's been stressful. We have company coming this weekend. We thought we'd be really ready for it, and it hasn't been. And then also two things that I don't mind talking about. I'm not sure I've processed them all yet. There was lead or there may be lead in our cabinets. And I'm dealing with that, and I went and got a lead test. You can't get a child's lead test immediately, apparently.

You have to go to a pediatrician. We've gotten Roscoe tested. We're waiting on the results. My lead was an acceptable level. I don't know if it came from the work I did on these cabinets or if it was just already rolling around in my balls. You know what I'm saying? Where are you doing this? The cabinets in my kitchen.

No, no, no, no, no. the lead test. I went to just like Quest Diagnostics. I've seen those places. That's what they do. I thought they did like drug testing. They must have to do drug and STD tests. Right.

But you can also just check. And your tea? Will they check your tea? I don't know if you're not, but if you want your tea check, you can just go, I don't know about in California, but son around here,

you can just go to any place that says weight loss clinic. Uh-huh. You can go there and get all kinds of shit. Right. From a doctor who lives five hours away. who just signs the goddamn paperwork. Yeah, I downloaded an app when I was going to start my most recent diet a few weeks ago

because I just wanted to track things. That's why I got the app. But I realized a week into it, I was like, oh, this is just like a vehicle for pushing OZMPIC, GLP ones up, because the app is all like, you can track calories, you can track steps, you can do all that. But it's like every other day,

they're like, you sure you don't want these? because we can get them for if you want them if you, you know, and I was and it's, you know, I'm not going to say it wasn't tempting, but I have not done it. Well, it's a metaphor because really where they're going is hey, you can do all this. Right.

But. But also. Right. Yeah. Well, if they were doing that with testosterone, I think I'd probably just be getting testosterone. You can get it, you can get testosterone. Me and Brian went.

I just worry about my hair. I know I've told you that before. Buddy, you should. do it just not till you're like 50 because it's like you're kind of on it do you know what i mean you can come off it won't kill you but but if let's say you started now and then it started to have some effect on you and the doctor was like man it's we can't keep you tea that high it's just you know you're you're old and your heart or whatever it is right then you come off it unbelievable sad, right?

And depressed all. The fattest and saddest, yeah, I can't imagine. Yeah. Because it's like, this is how fat I'm inside I am with normal testosterone, apparently, according to my doctor. I thought for sure, that's what it. When this started being talked about, I was like, well, that's it. That's got to be it.

That has to be it. But here's the thing. They've adjusted normal because we're so fat and sad. You know that, right? No, I don't know that. What are you mean? So they're like, I think it's, considered low. I want to say if you're under

3 or 400 at our age. I don't know what the number is. Let's just say it's 400. But like, supposedly in the 70s before all the chemicals in the food and all that, that was not normal. That was abnormally low.

Right. Right. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. If you think about the 70s, you know, Burt Reynolds and shit in that era. Like, it feels, you know, it's easy to believe. We're getting into that kind of Tucker Carlson and he shit. now, though, you know what I mean, where it's like, um, whatever, young boys ain't got hitting enough sperm and shit. Sure.

But the thing is, everyone's trying to process very real things that are weird and impossible to understand. Yeah. Through their own filter. Right. That's happening everywhere, dude. Mm-hmm. And like, you know, the conspiracy minded of the world, it's like a government op to make

us all gay or a government op. to make money off of us. And usually it's just someone being greedy, figuring out a way to make money, and then buying the government off to let them do it. Because like for the hippies, it's like microplastics and stuff, right? Like, yeah, it's a lack of regulation

and unfettered capitalism, which is everybody's got, right. And yes, that's what I think too. I think it's always unfettered capitalism. That is the conspiracy. Even when the CIA did do it, that's why. Right. But anyway. uh and i'm not you know i'm not in spite of what people believe i'm not a communist i think

free markets are cool i just need to fetter this capitalism yeah they need to fetter it it needs to be fettered i don't know why there's no that's why we voted for fetterman and look how that's right we were like gone federman yeah get out there and fetters dude nobody's fetter and that is one of those i never thought about that iteration yeah never thought that being one of those words, but it is, like, wellmed, you know, like, I've heard that one a bunch. You know, it's like, oh, how very wellmed I am, because everybody

says over, underwhelmed, but what is wellmed, but I never thought about, you hear unfettered, you don't ever hear fettered. Yeah, we need some fetters, man. Yeah, me and Brownwin got checked when we first started, my best friend from always back in the day, we started working out

when I was living in Huntsville, and we went got checked, and told us we's low and we went to our doctors right after that and they told us we were like 200 points higher than what them fucking yeah shysters told us see but that's you know I need to find me one of them I'm sure they got him out here like I just went to my actual like he's a real doctor and again as soon as I brought it when I brought it up he almost cut me he was like he was like you don't you don't you don't he was like he was like I'll check it if you want me

to check it. He was like, I promise you, it is fine. He's like, I've seen the fat, slob low T people. They do exist. You're not one of them. Look at your jaw. I can see it.

Yeah. But you can get it. I just I don't, both GLP ones and that T stuff. I buy that it's fine. I just

think that the corporation definition of fine versus your lived experience at 60, 65. Do you know what I mean? Like they'll be looking at a group of statistics in a study and they'll be like, yeah, people's outcomes were only slightly worse than everyone else's. Okay, but what if you're one of them people? Also, I don't know if we know really the long terms of the global ones because everyone always says, what about diabetics?

Right. Because diabetics have been on it forever. And I'm like, yeah, they're doing it in a very different way for very different reasons. Yeah. Because it's like people with type one, that's right, that's the one that needs it. I don't know which one it is that needs

GLP ones. I just know that type one is the one that's like type two is the one you eat yourself into, I think. Right. Right. Yeah. Type one is like you can just be born with that or like Jack Cutler had type one. But I think what happened with GOP1 is they're like, hey, long term, they're pretty great. It's like, yeah, because people with type one used to die at 40. and now they die at 65 or 70. But if you was not going to die at 65 or 70,

that's probably not a good thing. I mean, unless you just really wanted to be hot. And, you know, people should be allowed to do whatever they want. I just think they need to contextualize it before they make that decision. Yeah, but with dudes, though, they don't look hot. Because it like melts your muscle mass too. Like it's not just, it ain't just fat with that stuff.

It just, and I can't. I have a friend on him, mutual, won't say his name, we'll tell you after if you want to know, and he doesn't do like the big full doses and makes sure that he works out in each protein. And like, when I tell you, you'll be like, oh, yeah. But without me telling you, you just wouldn't. Do you know what I mean? It's just that these really fat people are trying to do it quickly. and yeah, the first thing your body's going to eat is the muscle.

Right. And that don't hit. This latest go around with losing weight, I've been trying to do it to like keep the protein high, keep doing strength training, and keep a small weight loss window, like purposefully do it much, much slower because I'm like, dude, I can't be,

I can't lose, not none of this, what little muscle I have. Yeah. Because it's like I'd rather be, um, Pretty fat, but also at least a little bit bulky or burly, then be like skinny fat. Do you know what I mean? There's like a doughy, skinny piece of shit that can't do a push-up. That's just me.

If you are that out there, listen, that's fine. But I'm just saying. So it's like, and that it makes it like fucking way harder. You know, it way more frustrating. And also, it still may not end up even working. I don't know. It remains to be seen. Yeah.

But all that stuff, there's like, what are those called peptides? There's peptides now that supposedly heal your gut, if you've got like leaky gut and all that. And apparently it's like a true miracle drug in terms of it helps your body heal. It's sort of a fountain of youth type situation. So it's all about to be weird. And my thought that I had the other day, and maybe this isn't, is this anything? It probably isn't, but because it's so myopic to the entertainment business. But one thought I had was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait.

moment. Does this mean that like generational talent, rappers and comedians and musicians are just going to be in their prime longer? That kind of sucks. No, I don't think so. Okay. Because to me, I feel like that's not connected to just, I mean, I feel like they already try to do that,

meaning like, getting their lips done, all that. And it, the whole creative prime thing doesn't seem to me to be connected to just looking pretty. Maybe if you're acting, it does. Yeah. Yeah, but dude, I don't, I don't know what they're seeing when they look in the mirror, but all the shit they've been doing lately, I don't think it's fucking. It ain't working.

No. They look like. Wilder than they ever have, I feel like it. It's crazy. You'd think the advances and shit that have been made medically, scientifically, because like, dude, Joan Rivers is getting plastic surgery in the fucking 80s and 90s. And looking pretty wild, but like you'd think in 40 years it would have gotten so much better. But it's like, again, I feel like they look wilder than they ever have right now.

Well, the doctors have a limited canvas. I also think they look wild and they ever have. I mean, I honestly think that's like a culture thing too. We are a crumbling empire going through a very odd black mirror meets 1984 situation. everyone's aware of it very few people really truly want to talk or think about it but like

this place is crumbling and it's having an effect on the mammals who live here right yeah jelly roll chittification jelly roll is a sign of that

you're saying it starts and ends there somehow brother he's on ozimic well yeah oh hell yeah obviously you got you got AI music helping out his voice auto tune it's just there's something I haven't quite put the words to it

I've been sniffing way too much I was talking about this on gravy baby I'm sorry blue people I've been sniffing too much drywall dust accidentally while I'm working on my house by the way one side effect it does make you want to say slurs so I think we do owe blue collar people and apology it's not a fall

it's what they've been inhaling, dude. But also my brain ain't hitting. I'd be just leaving stuff around the house. Like I'll just walk in there to get a charger for my phone, get the charger, and leave my phone in there. Right. Yeah. That's also having an effect on what I've been thinking about.

But I have been thinking more about, you know, with World War III upon us and the crumbling of the American Empire and gas is about to be $19 a gallon and we've building these data centers and all that. all that. No one, no person is going to be able to sort of funnel that into one finite theory, thought,

feeling. We're all feeling all of it. But what I am saying is that when you look at an actor and you're like, what the fuck's wrong with her face? That's part of it. That is somehow part of the grotesque nightmare

we're living in. Right. Like, you're right. They don't need to do that. And they're doing it anyway. Do you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. These are beautiful, talented, rich women who some of them aren't old yet.

No, some of them are super young. They're in their 20s and shit. Fucking their faces up. It's weird. It's weird. The mammals are scared and we're doing weird shit. Let me ask you this, though, because obviously things are definitely, you know, they'd be worse.

Don't get me wrong. but like I don't remember who it was like my brain wants to say Marie Antoinette but that's too obvious but one of them old-timey you know big dress boatner hair type women yeah the boat women uh they were all haunted they still are the women fucked her leg up like legitimately fell off a horse or something or had a fucked up leg I don't remember but because she was like the Kardashian every day all these other like women

started purposely walking with a limp because it was like the hidden thing to do because she was a trendsetter. And like then this is in 1815 or something like that or maybe even further back. So it's like I guess I'm just saying there's an element of obvious like sort of human nature to it, I think too where it's like somehow this shit becomes a trend.

I remember 20, 25 years ago when we were teenagers and stuff, there was heroin chic, right, which seems to be coming back with GLP ones. But it was like that was that. And then that went away for a while. And then, you know, They was thick. They was thick, which hit.

Yeah, the Kardashian era was a good era, dude. And now they're, you know, it's going back to the heroin stuff again. So it's like, I don't know. Oh, you're saying these 28-year-old actresses are fucking up their face because they're losing rolls to 35-year-old actresses with fucked up faces. I'm just saying you're doing it because that's what you're supposed to do right now. Yeah. Like, for whatever reason. Yeah, that totally makes sense for me.

It doesn't really, to me, like, you are just, uh, adding the structure walls to the roof I built. I still feel like the mammals are scared. We don't know what the fuck's going on. By the way, that's called the Alexandra Limp. Okay. The Alexandra of Denmark Limp.

I looked it up because that sounded familiar to me too. All right. Yeah, that makes sense. What your point kind of, I think your point being like, this isn't really new. It's the current manifestation of it.

Right. Which still is wilder because of the same, you know, all the different resources and tools and stuff at your disposal when you want to go down that path today. Back then, they just had the limp, you know, that's all they could really do. It's also wild because it's like, okay, that kind of means that it really is just like we just kind of decide what's hot or what's cool. Can we decide a better thing? Do you know what I mean?

But that's what's so weird about that, though, is like who do, who does, who finds that, we're talking about hot. Every time I ever see it brought up, it's people talking about how it ain't hot. How, oh, she used to be hot. What'd she do this for? That like yassification, Mar-a-Lago face stuff.

Right. Like, do you, did you follow the thread at all when me and Mark were going back and forth about Spotify? Was it today? Yeah, it was like real, I ain't caught up on the thread today. I've been wasting my time.

So good. So good. So this would be like new stuff for you and also for the people listening. So apparently a thing that's happening on Spotify is that that song, he's choosing Texas. Yeah, I just told Corey, I don't think I've heard that song somehow.

That's crazy to me. I know, that's what he said too. You guys both live in the South, to be fair. Yeah, that's true. So it's a good song. It is an earworm, and she is rad. I have been educated on how rad she is. What's her name?

Ella Langley. Ella Langley? Meaning she's talented. I don't think she's actually radical. I think she's probably pretty right wing. But anyway. Okay. All right.

Her song's number one. So Spotify will put out playlists and feature it. And then that makes people listen to it, which keeps it at number one. Yeah. Mark and I were going back and forth about like how that compares to Paola,

but it's the new version of it, but it sucks that instead of like a DJ deciding who gets to play. Playtime, it's an algorithm. And that is an important conversation. But related to what you were just talking about and yesification phase, I was saying,

people do like the song, though. Spotify puts it on the playlist because it's number one, but then people don't skip it, and that's how it stays up there. Some of what this algorithm is revealing to us is how fucked up we are. So going back to the yesification face, brother, I think there's dudes out there.

Lots of them who want a bimbo. Yeah. And, yeah, I think we vocalize our distaste and displeasure for, for example,

GLP One Face. Like all them dudes on Wall Street, like finance pros and stuff, you think they want bimboes? Somebody does? Or like guys that go to fraternities at SEC schools and play golf and.

What I'm saying is the computers are telling the venture capitalists who now run Hollywood, this is working, or they wouldn't do it. They would cast a full-body bitch because these full-body bitches out there. Does that make sense what I'm saying?

Yeah. I mean, yeah, logically, you would think. Right. And it's a fine song. I like it too. We have shitty taste and the algorithm is showing us that. not me and you, we're cool. Obviously, yeah. Yeah, I've thought before, like, you see those Spotify suggest app now.

I've always thought like, how you get on one now, you know? And I do think you can buy your way on. Probably. You know, I think that part still exists. It is like you said, though. It is true. Even if people see that and then check it out, if you ain't hitting, they'll fuck off. And if they're not fucking wrong.

You know, I hear so much stuff. It's a place I bet you and I could bore our fans to death real quick for an hour and a half talking about how, while gatekeepers were an awful, frustrating thing, because they wouldn't give a guy like you a chance in spite of how hard you hit, because they didn't get it, it didn't connect with their experience. Leanne Morgan is such an example of gatekeepers couldn't see it and the internet opened it up, right? but also the double-edged sword there is how many fucking terrible people are selling out theaters because the gatekeepers are gone and the algorithm figured out that dipshits like laughing at dipsittery for every Leon Morgan there's five I won't say their names mudflat McGrawl remember that guy for a minute that was selling out shows dog

right yeah early on in this conversation I remember us all saying because this was all this was being talked about back when I first went viral because it was but that's the era of that dude you're talking about and Southern Mama and other ones. Southern Mama, perfect example. Liam Morgan rules. Southern Mama sucks. And we always used to say back then we're like, yeah, but the thing is, you know, you got and this is what you're saying now, it's like even if that happens, if you ain't

got the stuff, you know, you won't stick around, right? And with those two examples versus Leanne Morgan, that point feels proven because she got her shot and now she's gone to the moon. But, dude, there's people... What's that... I don't know. What about, like, you know, like the Kill Tony stuff? That's still, like, super hits, don't it? For people?

Oh, yeah. I just, you know, what's up with that? I think it's what I'm saying. We have found out that the gatekeepers kept people like me and you from having to suffer through what dipshit's like. And to somebody said that's always gone on, you know, we hated Crunch Country Radio, right? I was about to say... They,

they, but it was a huge hit. In the interim period, too, there was the Kardashians and then like Duck Dynasty. Perfect example.

Well, they, so there were gatekeepers who also catered to that same type of thing. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah,

they were, the gatekeepers were just incorrect. They weren't, they were pretending like they were too good for Duck Dynasty or a Lee-An Morgan. They were just wrong

about whether or not would make them money. As soon as the gatekeepers found out how profitable Ian Morgan is, they finally started helping her. Right. I think you have to have somebody, you got to have it like some kind of gatekeeper person who wants to believe that they have some artistic integrity or taste themselves because like, dude, it's undeniable almost about, as far as like commercial appeal.

Because I remember when I found out, this obviously 15 years ago now, but when I found out I read in some article or something that like the finale, actually I think it was the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, which is considered by many to be like the best episode of TV ever made, maybe. It's called Ozzymandias. I think it's the penultimate episode. The fucking trailer for that is one of the best pieces of television I've ever seen. It's awesome. Rules. I loved it. It's one of the best things I've ever seen. And I read that that episode got like, got like one seventh of the viewers of the Duck Dynasty Christmas special that aired around that same, you know, moment in time.

And I remember, you know, I knew that like they, in my head, it's like, well, they're both popular. I'm a person who hits. I'm part of the group that likes this thing that hits. But then people who don't hit, they like this other thing. And they're both, they're both viable things. And then I've heard that. And that was the first time that I was like, oh, shit.

Like, I did not realize that it was that lopsided, you know, like, why does it, honestly, if you're just pure business show business person, why does anyone ever make anything like Breaking Bad? Do you know what I mean? Again, unless they want, because there's some of them who want like glory, prestige, awards,

there are some of them who still want that type of thing, so they go for that still. And that's the only thing keeping that shit around, dude. And I spend a lot of time kind of hating some of those people because I sort of saw them as antithetical to what they claim to want. Because for every breaking bad, there's so many knows.

You know what I mean? There's so many people who didn't get to make the thing. Or it took them seven tries to make breaking bad because these fucking vultures, you know what I mean? And it's wild how I now realize like those are the only good guys. Right. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly right.

Yeah. They're like the only hope there is as far as like traditional industry, you know, people or whatever. Yeah, man. I was talking to a comment the other recently. He just, I won't say his name. He just audition for S&L. He's not going to get it.

Lauren just told him straight up. I don't know what to do with you. Because of that, he was like, I think I'm just going to, like, just do my own thing. Like, I've been getting that a lot. I've been having some opportunities. It's been great, but I'm getting a lot of, like, we don't really know what you are.

So I'm going to do my own thing. And I was like, you should and you should know that that is a. separate skill from the one that you are clearly great at, and you are, and this guy's so funny, you need to understand that manifesting all that stuff, producing all that is a different muscle, different skill, different thing. And that circles back to what we were just talking about. I hate to admit that we do need those other people.

Right. And like finding one or two or three of them is as rare as finding a trade of Tray Crowder of DJ Lewis. I found Trey Crowder and DJ Lewis because I was out, putting my shit out there, and you attract that to you. You know what I mean? But like, dude, you do need these tastemakers, dog. Mm-hmm.

And it is frustrating when they don't, you know, they exist and you're like a young comedian. That's the only way I've experienced it. It's so frustrating that they don't see what you know you see in yourself for your own. Right. But the internet did get rid of that. It is beautiful. We are talking right now because you put out liberal redneck videos and it launched. You know what I mean?

Like that's so beautiful, but it also created jelly roll dog. Mm-hmm. The duality of hits and the internet. All right. Yeah, well, you needed to go right. We're just going to do. We're cut it off a little early this week, I think. So we both got stuff to do and we got started a little late.

And, you know, we're coasting here. We put in our two weeks notice. This is how it's just going to be. Now, we'll get Corey back next week and reminisce about the hits, I reckon. but that's it for now uh well come see i'm still touring and everything this weekend i'll be in upstate new york and hartford next weekend eugene organ then austin texas uh and then east tennessee and then a bunch of other stuff all at tracrouter dot com uh i'm gonna put out an announcement soon but i already have a link i'm ready to do it i just got to get with it i will be headlining

knoxville the friday after thanksgiving also known as black friday uh that'll be a fun time. I'll be in around Atlanta, in Athens in the meantime, and I post that stuff. If you're in that area, just follow my shit. I'm going to go out to Austin

and do one night with Trey and do some other shows, hopefully. You can follow me on Instagram. I don't think I've posted to my website in two years. All right. Well, thank you all for listening

to the well-read show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we've got to go. Tune next week. If you got nothing to do, thank you, God bless you. Good night, and skew, skew, we fart.

All right, bye. And that was Trey Crowder with the most derision-filled version of the well-read outro song ever. Thank you for that, Trey. Hey, everybody, it's Corey. Sorry, I couldn't be on the episode today, but still had to edit it. So I thought I'd throw in some of my stank on it coming up right now. Just a little glimpse into some stupid stuff we're doing over at CoreyWritesforyou.com and the ever-expanding world of Chick-a-Luky.

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