wellRED podcast - Joe Zimmerman Weighs In On Controversial Bird News

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

This week we had a BLAST talking bout stuff and randomly calling our pal (hilarious comedian) Joe Zimmerman to get his advice and ruling on a bird related situation Our old pal Bobby Bowman also randomly called in! Insanely fun episode. GO SEE COREY AND DREW IN ATHENS GA AT HENDERSHOTS THIS WEEKEND!! TraeCrowder.com  CoreyWritesForYou.com DrewMorganComedy.com SPONSOR: HelloFresh.com/WellRED10fm

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You said you had a butt-fut. They're the... rednecks they like cornbread but sex they care way too much but don't give a fun they're the liberal rednecks that makes some people upset but they got three big old dicks that you can suck well here we are where's where's Drew? Huh? Uh huh? Yeah, what do you think about that?

Huh? That's fun. Yeah, that is fun. What if we were like those guys? We were just like, what's up, everybody? Come see us at, we'll be at the punchline in Atlanta on March.

You know, like real radio guys. Yeah. Where'd you get that? Did you make that? No, I didn't make that. Although I have been making beats. I didn't make that. This is just on this platform that we use.

I guess some people, when they're streaming, I would understand if it was like a video game stream. I guess they have this music for you to just lay on the bed. you know, lay as a music bed to have stuff going at all points. And I listened to that one. And I thought, I like that. That's fun. That's a thing that, like, I don't know, people are, uh, people get that and I don't

music like, music like, hits. What do you mean? What do you mean? No, no, no, no, no. Obviously, I know that music hits. I was just, just hitting when I said that, but I, but like, I, what I mean is like, like, So you sent me a clip the other day of a little Twitch streamer, motherfucker, which I don't normally traffic him, but this guy was just playing a video game. And he was super broed out.

It seemed like he was high or something. He was like, and he's just playing this video game and just rambling. He's like, I just rewatch some of the Harry Potter movies and fucking there wasn't nowhere near enough Haken going on. I'll tell it right now. Fucking fucking new kid shows up. immediately QB1 on the Quiddish team fucking gets all that he's like hell no I wouldn't be having it dude

I've been hating like a motherfucker fuck that shit whatever and it was that was funny but also that dude like to me I thought the real stroke of brilliance was that guy I assume he posted his own clip that guy added

like part of the score from the social network the you know Trent Resner's score from the social network movie. Yeah. Which was just,

and it really, it really elevated. It really elevated. It really elevated. It really elevated. Yeah. At the other side of that is that everybody that ever makes a TikTok

thinks they got to have some kind of music on it. So they'll put, you know, it's just a cat doing whatever. And it's that, you know, oh, oh, oh, no.

Oh, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, fucking like that, dude. They do, by the way, boost your shit more if you put their stupid sounds. So that's why they're doing it. I know. That's what I'm saying.

It's like, that's what I mean. It was like people get that and I don't. Like I don't ever think to add like music to me it's like because obviously I'm always talking. I'm always running my mouth. Oh my jerrymanders. Yours wouldn't make sense to do. But my jerrymanders wouldn't be wouldn't hit his heart if I didn't have the political, uh, music because it's a campaign video.

But yours that don't make sense. I don't think. I don't think you're doing anything wrong. But what about like on what about like, you know, a cooking video that you're still talking. No, cook a video for sure. You got to have music on that. I know. But I feel like the cooking videos.

like the ones where it's actually about the food and it hits, the food hits, they don't talk. You just see them cooking and they play music. Yeah, but it still hits to have music. You can just make it real low. You don't have to make it. But I still think those are instances where it does elevate it. Like your rants, to me, it would devalue them, you know, you are the one putting them in that emotional space. You don't need it.

It's easy top to do that. But on cooking, yeah. But what if it was like, you know, fucking O-4-20? or something if I'm like really on one. You know what I mean? Okay. Now, well, here's the thing, Trey. Don't like your dreams.

It sounds like devil music or something. Yeah. Just, we'll fucking, okay, do it. On the next one, just put O-Fortuna in the back. It's royalty-free and just see what happens. Your career's not going to be over over one video. I don't think. You're doing better than that, right?

You can, you know, risk it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I need to start thinking about it. So, but. Right. I mean, like, I don't think for what we talk about, if that just played the whole time as I say,

what that would hit for people, I feel like, to me, it seems like that was like a buffer. Right. It's like you said, it's like a radio, you're coming back from an ad break or something. You start playing the music to signify the ad break is over, and you're like, what's up, everybody, welcome back. And then you fade the music out and you keep talking.

Right. That's how you treat that. And that's what we're doing right now. on Jazzy Jay and Donald Butt. That's our, that's our names, I guess. No, we were Davey in the Butt. We did that. Was it Davey in the But?

Because I was going to say, I feel like whenever I'm making up, whenever I'm doing a fake Morning Zoo, referencing a Fake Morning Zoo thing, I thought I always said Dickie in the butt. I'm pretty sure. And by the way, I am on IMDB. If you look me up, one of my credits is The But. From what?

from your from the from the fucking um you're short what communing with the void you didn't know that's on i'm db no i didn't it's on i it's on i'm i'm i didn't get it on there yeah i dude i don't know i'm so glad that this is happening right now because i'm like i know there's someone that does that but i'll look at the indie movies and i'm like okay so the independent artist is having to do that like i know a major company would do that but see now with commuting with the void who the fuck did put that on there. Who even knows about it? You know, like, God, I never put it out or nothing. I'm telling

you, dude, I know this because I swear, hold on, let me, communing. I'm on IMDB. Communion. Yep, communing with the void. Look here. Oh, sorry, guys. Commune with the void. Trey Crowder, short. And you've got, and this, by the way,

is why I'm now a multi-hyphenate on IMD, because I'm a producer on this movie. So this, you made me look really good. So, yeah, the cast is Trey and as yourself and Corey Ryan Forster as Corey and the butt. And that's all that's listed? Well, no. Then there's also Drew as Drew and the void.

Andy Morrow is Katie. Obviously, Jake Adams got first fucking billing. Jake Adams, you motherfucker. He's come up in the world since then. He got first billing. Jake Adams, Medium Void, Jimmy B., Giant Void, Will Bradley, Small Void. We got Andy Morrow who played Katie. course, our boy Val, who played the studio, except him fucking, why, where James is?

He's Jimmy B, I guess. Jimmy B, that ain't his professional name, though. No, not at all. Definitely not. I don't know. So the only one that got miscredited is the only actual working professional actor. Yeah. That's hilarious.

Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know any of that until just now. So that's, that's wild. Somebody has edited this, though, because McBrayer used to be on here. And I know that because I, well, no, maybe I don't know that. because I definitely would have posted that as a screenshot. But whoever did it, didn't put McBrayer. Well, it's funny because I remember when I asked him to do it,

I told him, I was like, you know, you'll be uncredited, you know, if you don't want, because I know a lot of times they do that. Yeah, of course. And so I think he was uncredited in the thing. So it would make sense that he's not on there. Yeah, right, right. But again, I don't know. Who did this?

I have a, I have one. We don't have to talk about it. I don't want to mention it. Yeah. Somebody used to, we used to work with, maybe, possibly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That would make sense.

That would make the most sense. That would make the only sense of the world. That's almost certainly. I do wish you would put it on your YouTube, by the way. I'll publicly say it. I don't know why you don't. It's fun. Yeah, I don't know.

You just, it's just an art. If you don't want to talk about it, you want to talk about it. That's fine. But, like, it's just artistically, you don't feel like you want to put it out or just like, because it's like too much time has passed. It's about a timeless subject. That is true. I don't know.

I just didn't, you know, especially looking back. I'm not going to edit this out, by the way, if you don't want to get it. It's hard enough. No, you don't have to edit it. I don't care. People know it exists and, you know, start clamoring for it. It's not going to change anything for me. I'm still not going to do it.

Yeah. Yeah, I'd miss we had a lot of fun, but, you know, that doesn't always make it. Yeah. We had so much fun making it. How. Anyway. We got to do another one, though, that we can put out. Well, I've been fucking, I don't want to raise, 50 grand.

I, we, well, I don't want to say this because I don't want to disappoint people. So, actually, we put this out there that maybe it will, it'll be an impetus to not disappoint people. But we're, you know, I think we're like legit going to try to make some sketches at some point in the relatively near future. No, I know, I know. And we should. And we should. Yeah. You know, we got to start making stuff.

We were in the trans. I think if you're comedians, you need to do that. You need to do that. You know, is a better way to go than like a short film. I agree. Unless out of film school,

when you're trying to be an autour or whatever, then you obviously have to make a short film. But like, if you're a comedian, you're trying to get more followers and sell more tickets and get the notice of studio executives and stuff, you got to do sketches because those are. I actually think.

Clippable, you know. Yeah. I think the jump actually is like, do comedians, do sketch, sketch, sketch, sketch, and then do your sleepwalk with me, Bribigli, a full feature. You know what I mean?

Yeah, that's the way to skip shorts and go straight to feature. But, like, really for comedy, aren't comedy shorts. Or, if not a feature, you know, like a pilot, like that's what. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently, that's what Shane Gillis did with tires. You know, because he had Gillian keves and shit, which hit and became popular. And then I didn't know this part. Reps just told me this because I thought that he just got pitched and got a pilot because he got so huge or whatever.

Me too. But apparently he had done Gilly and Keyes and stuff and then had tried to sell tires. He hadn't like super blown up yet and nobody, everybody said no. And then he just went and just filmed a pilot of tires. You got to do that now. And then in the interim he got more popular, but also he went and filmed the thing, brought it back and showed him. and then it got picked up by Netflix, is what my reps told me.

I don't know how true it is. But that's the, that's the, right, that's the type, yeah, you just got to make your own stuff. I mean, and it's, and it's definitely hard to do. Well, and it's also, yeah, I was going to say it's easy to say because, like,

you have to have money to do it. Like we, yes, me and you aren't. That's part of what I've been thinking, because I don't know about you, but I see, I see stuff on Instagram and shit all the time that I definitely would classify as a sketch,

but it's just, done on somebody's phone. You know what I mean? And it's, well, no, no, no, that's what I'm saying. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm not saying it looks bad. What I'm saying is it does not look like a key and peel sketch that was on TV and then turned into an Instagram thing.

Right. It looks like somebody with their phone making an Instagram real, except it is a comedy sketch. Yeah. And I feel like those play just fine. They do play just fine. They do. But in my, I would still always be part of me would be like, well, if these

hit, you know it would hit harder if we did. I would always still want to use that as a jumping off to like doing actual ones. But I mean, yeah, and I want to say this. Like it's easy to say like you just got to make your own shit because me and you, I feel like we sort of, we started to hit like, especially you in the transitional phase of like, you know, used to. It was like, dude, what do you mean make your own shit? You pitch your thing to a network and they put you on. You know what I mean? And now the shift is very much like, no, they don't have as much leverage as they used to. So if you've got a little to spend on a pilot, just go ahead and fucking do that thing.

You know what I mean? On that note, I've always wanted to know, and maybe you have an answer for this, but why aren't there dramatic sketches? You know what I mean? Well, I just, drama. The other day, I wouldn't call it. It's funny you say that because I've thought about that before, too.

I've had the thought of, like, for me in my head, that was a, like, backdoor acting real thing. things where I was like, I thought about hollering at Earl and be like, hey, would it be crazy if we like, you know, just like filmed some scene, just individual scenes. In my head, I would try to write them and they wouldn't be funny. And like you said, the idea would be that they would just be like, good. They would just hit. They'd be engaging or compelling or frightening or whatever the fuck.

You would have to add music to those, by the way. Right. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And those, those, they would need to look like a. They would need to look good. thing. Yes, for sure.

Except I will say, just the other day, I saw a, and this is, this is different because this is voice acting. So the visual doesn't even, because it was just a dude recording himself talking. But he was doing a dramatic scene as a illustration of like, this is

how hard I hit as a voice actor or whatever. Right. And he was doing like an orc captain, basically. I love that. And it was entirely serious. It's like, you know, you know, we would feast

upon your blood on fields of battle, like that type of shit. But like three minutes long, and it had millions of views and people like, you know, everybody was just like, dude, this is the shit, this is awesome. And it wasn't remotely comedic. But it hit.

Dude, I've- No, I know. I did hit. That's what I'm saying. You know my boy, Yuri, Yuri Lowenthal, don't you? Yeah. So, dude, I got to hang out with Yuri.

We played opposite each other. I played this bumbling idiot who sells his soul to the devil except the devil is the railroad man. and Yuri plays the railroad man, and we did this as a stage play. We did it for, we did it for, oh, my fucking Lord, Burns, you're going to, Burns, you do have to cut this. Burns. Oh, ain't no burns, baby.

Please leave it. Please leave it in. That, because, just because that's funny, what just happened. No. Are you talking about the old gods of Appalachia? I see, I saved it. It's fine. You ain't got to edit none of that.

I just talked to Steve all the time. I'm just a little stony baloney and I can't remember stuff sometimes. any fucking ways. Me and Yuri got to go back and forth with each other. He's clearly better than me. But we got to hang out a little bit between the stage plays or whatever. And he would just like do some voices or whatever and like just be seeing that shit. Like how it's like how is that coming from the same dude?

And like I would see his neck would start be doing different stuff. You know what I mean? Because he's like that one's the diaphragm and that one's here and that one's here. And like those really good ones can, they'll tell you they're like the way I look at voices now as I go, oh, you go from here to here. to hear. That's their voice. You know what I mean? You go nasally in this and then you sometimes it's two here, one here, three here, or whatever. And like, it's just blows my mind. I mean, I've told the story before, but I've said like, in my 10 year professional

career, I have never in my life felt more outclassed than when I did a table read for a animated Netflix pilot. And everybody else up there was like legit voice actors, including like, you know, like Phil Lamar was there. And people like, like, and yeah, it was nuts. I mean, I knew that Lamar is unbelievable. I just didn't give it the credit in my mind. Yeah, I guess it deserves. I mean, I did, I love that shit.

I love that shit. I've always been a fan of it, whatever, like, don't get me wrong. But in my head, I was like, I like accents and shit. I can do voices a little whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then that day, I was like, oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, this is a whole different fucking ball game than what I was thinking.

I'm over here in the sandbox. They're in the fucking, they're in, Dodger Stadium. Yeah, because it's like, it has nothing to do with appreciation. Like you know, like you can know something is great or whatever. But when, you know, it's fucking like with live music, dude. Like, imagine if we had actually got to see Skinner do fucking the solo, the solo from Freebird. Like, imagine actually fucking seeing that.

Like, you've heard it a million times. Of course you appreciate how badass it is. But like, if you got to see them prime doing it, same thing with like magic. You know, I see magic on TV. It blows my mind. But when fucking Magic Mike is in front of us doing that shit, it is such next level, man. Yeah, I don't even, yeah, magic, I don't even know. I'm still, I'm like a, you know, I'm, you know, damn near a blackfeller when it comes to magic specifically because I just can't.

That's the one stereotype. It just blows my mind, you know, every time. That is like the one stereotype that you know, you can feel safe and being like, that one, pretty, got to be pretty true. And here's the reason. There's not a hidden black magician. And like, there's black people. David Blaine's black. Is he not black or at least half-playing?

Yeah. I didn't know that. If so, sure, sure. He's something, right? He's something, but might I add, you know what I mean. I mean, like, Stedric. Yeah, two chains. Yeah. Two ones, fucking two rabbits. And like, whatever media. And I'm being, I know this

sounds racist, but I'm just being honest. at every, in every medium of entertainment, they're the best at it. Like at the top, like they even got golf. You know what I mean? So like the fact, well, again, dude, if he is black or whatever, David Blaine is, I would say he's the best. So like, you know. Then it just worked.

Yeah. Like, yeah, right. It just, it just be like that. Maybe he isn't. I don't know. But now that I'm thinking about him, he sort of got a Rick Fox thing going on. But like with David Blaine, like, maybe that's how. good he is that I just don't see color. He makes us not racist for a minute. He achieved,

you know, like multi-ethnicity or something like that just through sheer mind power or whatnot. It does feel like if a magician was given the ability to choose what ethnicity they present as, they would choose, you know, just nebulous. You know what I mean? They would want to be. I don't want you to know who I am. Exactly, right? It feels like that would be the choice they would make for some reason. Of course. Because like you've got the audience confused even when you're not doing the trick.

You know what I mean? It's just a constant state of what the fuck is happening here. Okay. According to, okay, well, one of the part of this is funny. So if you type in like David Blaine, one of the, you know, suggested searches is David Blaine White, right? I thought, you know, people are searching is David Blame White? I was like, I'm not alone in this. Please, please let him be white.

I was like, is that, you know, other people have wondered this. But when you look up his ethnicity, a couple things about this. So according to Google AI, which could be wrong, says that he's, his dad is Puerto Rican and Italian, right? Okay, well, that's. And his mom is a Russian Jew, right? So, which would make him Jewish, I think, right? Because if your mom's Jewish, you're Jewish. You're Jewish.

Yeah, that's how it works. So he's definitely not black, but, you know, he got a little flavor to him. He was what? Puerto Rican. He ain't entirely mayonnaise, Italian, which we know we count as white here. But Puerto Rican, obviously. But his birth name is David Blaine White. So.

Okay. It's a good change. That's why, yes, it is. Yeah, David White would not have gone. That doesn't hit it all. David Blaine sounds awesome. Like, David Blaine is either going to be a magician. Greg thing, do you think you think that because we know how wild he is? Like, if you met an accountant

named David Blaine and this David Blaine didn't exist, would you think anything about that at all? Would you be like, that's a wild name for an accountant? Because I don't know if you would. But I agree with you that it suits him. Like it works. It fits. Like Blaine. Like Blaine sounds like Blaine, like Blaine. Like it's just a showy name. But like, you know, I don't know if we've had this conversation, but like, you think Satan be that way? because I feel like the word Satan just goes hard as fuck. But, like, of course, that is the devil. You know what I mean?

So if Satan didn't mean, if I just randomly heard the word Satan and had no context, would I still think that word goes? I think I would. I agree with you. It's, yeah. Metal sounds like what it is. Yeah.

It's hard for me to imagine not feeling that way about Satan as a name, you know. If that wasn't the name of the devil and someone just said that, you know, I don't know. Maybe not. Also, let me run down the devil's side names. You got the devil, A, Satan, Bielzebub, Lucifer. I mean, Lucifer is fire. It's so fire. I've always been a little iffy on Biazelbub.

I think it's just the bub. Like, bub to me is not, you know. Beelbub. kind of sounds like... My sister calls my nephew bub, you know? Right. Like if Harry, if, if J.K. Rowling wrote a redneck mechanic, his name would be Beelbub

or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Or my sister was hammered drunk and he was going too hard and she was trying to tell me, like, you know, be easy with that or something, you know what I mean? Beezel Bub. You just sound... You just sound...

Yeah. To me. I've always thought that. I've always thought that. I've always thought that Biazel Bub don't. But Lucifer, that's the one. Lucifer ever ever time most pro fast. Like that one fucking goes hard.

And a lot of the other than... Well, do we talked about this recently? I don't know if it was on here or if it was P.O.A. Because we talked about there's the Morning Star or whatever. Remember, it was definitely P.O.A. because it was like

both him and Jesus were called... Morning Star. Morning Star. And we were talking about how there's multiple instances of parallels in the Bible between Jesus and Satan or whatever for whatever reason. Anyway, I don't know. But I know that like they's like biblical, I don't know how biblical they are. I know that the church over the years has conjured demons and stuff.

And they usually have very demon-y-sounding names. Like I know like, you know, Azaroth. I mean, that's the... God, Jesus, Azaroth. Super demon-y, you know. Oh, my God. Belaw, Belal, B-L-L-A-A-. L. Belal.

Yeah, because yeah, some of these don't go that hard, like the accuser that don't hit. The serpent, that don't hit. The serpent don't hit for you? It's just, it's too plain. Well, you think? Actually, know what? The serpent, I guess, no,

the serpent actually is a super metal name, and snakes are about as metal as a, as a, yeah, dude, honestly, but I don't, but see, that's chicken or egg to me too. I've always thought snakes were the most metal of animals, but is that because they are Satan? You know what I mean? Like my whole life I've known that snakes was the devil.

Yeah, but snake, but I mean, Joe Zerman has that great bid about snakes and having snakes for pets or whatever, you know, and I don't remember all of it. I don't want to butcher it, but it's him being like, you know,

I just can't imagine choosing a snake as a pet. It's like, you know, would you like the puppy dog or the snake, you know, and the one puppy, look, he's got his tongue out of his tails wagon, whatever else.

Like, oh, look at, over here, look at the snake. He's, he's banging his head against the glass. Yeah, sure seems like he hates you.

You want the one that all children around the world love or the universal symbol for evil, which one would you like to take home with you? But that, again, chicken or egg, the Bible was written by people, right? Obviously. Dummies. Not really. I mean, it's a book goes hard. Snakes, it's always been snakes, long as it's been us.

They pick a snake, I assume, because people have always been like, about snakes. Of course. They never would have put a dog in the garden of a chicken in the garden of eating. Right, yeah, exactly. So they worked. So the snake been going hard is what I'm saying.

Since day one. So here's some other demon names. I said Azaroth. I know that in some video games and stuff, they use Azaroth. Yeah, what's the other X-Men? Asteroth. Asterov is the biblical or whatever you call it.

So these names are found in Christian demoni-eemonial. such as the R's Gosha, I don't know if I'm saying that right, but it's a so I'm saying back in the church, you know, when the church was way more metal and stuff, they used to fuck super metal and shit and they'd have they'd have

demonology books and shit and it's like, so anyway Asmodius I love that. That also sounds like something for constipation. So asmodius is the demon of lust and sensuality. I'm made up on that one. Stuck it, Damon. that needs to be a candle

we just tell that it's that with the suck it demon uh astroth uh as we said Azazel Azazel that's the one from X-Man they call him Azazel yep yep you're right that one goes really hard

I said Bilal it's Bilial Bilial Bilal is the Diablo game franchise version of it That's how I feel when when someone is doing a cover of I ruined the joke because I couldn't think

of the La Love it song fuck that's okay another famous one in my mind anyway Mephistophiles is very good sometimes shortened to

Mephisto also in X-Man I'll yeah but say it well he's in Marvel he's the demon in Marvel universe he's also from

he's also a demon in the Diablo universe in the very famous video games but I'm not not I'm dude. Diablo 2 when I was a teenager.

We probably played, and I say we. I mean, me and my, me and the Salina boys, we probably played Diablo 2 more than literally any other video game ever made, I would say. You can get the old ones on PlayStation Premium. I know, like, just, and like, I know they make new ones. I'm aware that they make new ones, but there's something about playing the ones that me and the home is.

I can't believe. I mean, I guess I kind of can't. When I was a young, dumbass listening to be like that by three doors down, rest in peace, by the way. Oh, yeah, man. Pour one out. When I was listening to be like that at the fat young age of 12 in Salina, Tennessee and thinking, knowing I was going to go into comedy, but thinking I would also, of course, be an autour aside from that.

Right. You're an E-Tur, I think is what you are. Yes. What I wanted, one of the things I always wanted that I thought I would do as a teenager, a teenage dreamer was adapt Diablo. and of course I'm never going to do that but I don't know why that hasn't been done.

Because it's just like metal as Lord of the Rings in my opinion. There's lore for days in those games and it's like but then I thought Yeah, I know. Right. Me personally, I'd rather it be Diablo than Ballard's Day.

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hits hey look who it is we're back and drew is joining us back from parts unknown i was going to i was just going to say henry cabal's doing a warhammer adaptation somewhere oh hits we got to talk about do you know what warhammer is drew it's nerd shit no but i've heard of it it's well warhammer is like orcs and stuff but warhammer 40s K is like space orcs and stuff. So that's what I'm more into. I think that's the adaptation he's doing. But that's the other one's like,

I don't know how in guys' name you can do an adaptation of that show. If it isn't animated, which I don't think it's supposed to be, without spending an insane amount of money to make it look rad as fuck. Nothing looks right anymore. So maybe that's what they're doing. Yeah.

How's your day been, Drew? Not great. Cool. Tell us about it if you want to. Oh, it's just like dealing with some, you know, medical stuff with the family and then, you know, having the drive and Nashville traffic. And then my day job has this been a nightmare. And then I'm behind on everything. And my car was in a ditch last weekend and I got it out.

But then I had to take it to the shop. When I was over the shop, I found out of how to get new tires and new tires for $600. So it's just been a lot of life. And then also me and Corey have a show in Athens this weekend. And that's going to be fun. And I'm going to get a lot of this angst out. But there was a miscommunication. And I thought, anyway, I kind of stopped promoting it, but there's still tickets left, so we're going to promote it soon.

February 15th, we're doing it right now. At Hinder Shots in Athens, we're closing out the drive-by truckers, Heathen's homecoming weekend. It is going to be fun. Drew, how did you get your car in a ditch? Was that a you thing or was that a somebody else thing? I think we went over there. Snopocalypse thing. Oh, that was right.

That's right. I forgot. Yeah, yeah, snowpocalypse. I mean, it was on me somewhat, because I mean, I'm a man. and any time you're off the ditch, it's on you, son. But no, I mean, it was black ice or whatever they call it, which it's not black. I mean, can we talk about that? But it's worse.

Well, you did talk about this, right? Because I feel like, did I come in late or something? Because I asked if a dinosaur spit in your face or spit in the other guy's face. That's right. That's right. Because of the winching scene in Jurassic Park. Well, they call it black ice because it's clear and underneath it is black asphalt, right? That's why they call it that, isn't it?

I guess. They call it that because of, racism in my opinion. Or maybe racism is why we call brown people black. But anyway, I definitely think it's what's right. I know I hear you, but I'm just saying like black,

it doesn't matter. I'm like doing a BET joke from 1998. You know, why is the black rice got to be wild? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck was I saying? The only reason I brought that up is that like that just set me back. Like I had plans that weekend and then I got stuck in Knoxville.

Being set back sucked. I still haven't completely recovered time-wise. We've been talking about sketches. I've written the outlines for those, like three times to sit down to do them, and then I had to go, like, dude, yesterday I was about to write one of those sketches. My toilet got clogged. Okay, let me pause, go unclogged the toilet. Four hours later.

Damn. What's the next time you had to clog last four hours? I've just been getting rushed. I've gotten pretty adept at unclogging toilets over the years. I guess I need more skills. For raisins. Well, no, yeah, you're just, you know, you ain't got to worry about it as much as I do. I can clog any toilet, baby.

Speaking of. It don't matter. We've talked about like parallel universes and string theory and like time being spatial and stuff on here. So I think this fits. I'm not kidding when I say this. I have taken the same shit every day for 10 days in a row. The same shit. Like it curves the same.

It's everything about it. It's not like I'm shitting in a similar way. It's the same shit. Like, I'm, like, every day I think I'm having a deja vu because I was like, that was yesterday's shit, which was the shit before. More like a deja vu, am I right? Yeah, there you go, deja poo.

Well, that's what you want in it. Isn't that the goal? Yeah, because it's a hit and poop. But again, dude. Regular. But, dude, like, no, but it's, but they're identical. You know what I mean? It's like, it's not, I've, I've pooped healthy before,

but they were different looking poops. Something's up. I don't want to know about this. Okay. Well, that's all there is to know. Or something like that. That's why I was just letting that pause be pregnant because I was like, come on, Drew.

And then that was, yeah. This will hit for y'all. So today I was walking in the point. as I do. And there was this guy and he's like, I'm walking over to near where he is, right? And he's like, you know, doing this, like take your headphones out. I want to tell you something. I'm like, okay.

And I said, hey, man, how you doing? You know, what's up? And he goes, hey, so just wanted to let you know that right up there. And usually that means snake, right? And I said, oh, snake, I'll go the other way. He goes, because it does. Like in the park, if somebody's walking. Sure.

I know. I know. What else could they mean? You're in the party. Right. Unlike, I suppose black person, gay sex, something like that, you know. Well, I told you about the goddamn gas station guy who I've talked to like pretty much every day

because I'm there getting Crayed him or fucking vapes or whatever. And he's a nice enough dude. But like he's one of them like, he's a papal, but he's a jacked papal. He's got them now, you know? And so he's like, he's like, man, this was a while back actually because I was starting to look a little better. he goes, man, you slimming up, dude, what's you doing? I said, brother, I said, I'm just eating right. And I walk in the park every day.

He goes, over there. Really? And I was like, yeah, he goes, yeah, I used to run over there. But now, man, you, dude, there's dudes back there catching a butt fuck just, you know, in front of God and everybody. And the Satanist and everybody. And I'm like, really? You saw people butt fucking back there?

He's like, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I'm like, I'm not saying that this guy didn't. All I'm saying is, I have, I think if you look at my step oh, or whatever. I've taken like 3.8 million steps in this park over the past several years. I've never even seen anybody kiss anyone of either sex, but whatever. So anyways, I'm like, oh, snake, right on.

And he goes, no, no, no, not a snake. He's like, it's a red tail hawk is dead. And I go, I go, oh, okay. I said, well, dead birds don't bother me. I don't give a fuck. So like, whatever. And he goes, and he goes, and he goes, no, it's, it's. It's a red-tailed hawk, and like it's right over here.

And I go, I go, oh, dude, hell, I don't give a fuck. I see a dead bird. I just kick it and go on with my life. And I'm sitting there thinking, like, does he think it's like got rabies or diseases or something? Well, no, turns out this dude is a fucking bird enthusiast. And he thought that I was going to get just as hype as he was because there's a red-tailed hawk. And he was getting emotional about the fact that it was dead. And I was just sitting here being like, oh, just a bird?

Who gives a fuck? You know what I mean? So what? So you're going to eat it or not? And I was, and I was a little high, so I still was not connecting the dots. And finally I just go, oh, yeah. I go, oh my God. I'm going to, and he showed me a picture of it. And I go, I'll have to go over there and take a picture of it myself. And, which I did. And so there you go, guys. I didn't know that red-tailed hawk. I didn't know that birders also birded dead birds. I mean, I get that it's still exciting for them, period. There was a once living. Right, I know, but. Does it count? Right.

I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. If you have one on your list, call it. Texas Joe Zimmerman, you got his number. I want to see people kissed in the park. I got to tell you my catch-a-but-fuck story. Have you not? Okay, we'll definitely want to hear that.

Also, if you're not kissed in the park, it seems like you would have. Me? Yeah. You know. I want to catch someone. Of course I've done it. I'm not, I know. I know.

That's what I'm saying. I'm saying this guy says they do that. What am I traced him kind of home? I've never kissed a man in a park. Yeah, I'm saying, I thought it's like it's a stereotype that, you know, a bunch of gay stuff does happen in parks, but also hippies like Drew be fucking in park. People be like fucking in parks, I thought.

And I know you don't ever see them, but just in something of a defense of that Jack Papaw, even if he didn't see it, it is a rumor. Me and him both have gotten the impression that people be fucking in parks, you know. I get that impression too, but I won't,

but he won't go to the park because of it, Whereas I'm just like, yeah, whatever. Well, and on that note, if you're going to do it, you ought to stay out of the way so that you don't ruin the park for anyone, especially children. Or get poison ivy on your fucking goochole. That's part of it. That's when you have to stay in the way.

If you get out of the way, that's when you get the poison ivy on your goose hole. Joe, hey, if you don't mind, we got just, we're doing the well-read podcast, and a bird question came up. So I thought I'd call you real quick, see if you answer. smart great decision I'll be alive or not no not light not like streaming but it's being recorded so

all right so the question is just does it count for a birder if you see a bird that is now dead because that happened to Corey in his park 100% no

it hasn't been okay Okay, now tell... Because Corey can't have it in your freezer, you. So... During this, he... Corey... Did he say I'm going back to sleep?

That's awesome. No, he said you can't have it on your plate either. Corey met a dude in his park who was a self-professed birder who was very excited, but also saddened because he had just found the friend. Red-tailed hawk. Right. Wow. Yeah.

And so then he was like, Corey ended up taking a picture of it and shit. Me and Drew were like, does that count, though? And then that's when I called you. The funny, the cool, one, he's not that far off, though, because let's say there's a really cool war blower that you've never seen. And this has happened. And you're what, and he, and as the moment you see it. it gets knocked out and taken away by a paragon falcon you saw it alive for like half a second

that does count that does that seems like that would count doubled to me even if you're watching it as it's dying you could count it as it's dying but a deadbird well yeah deadbird does not count there might be there might be some ornithologist scientist out there who would have some caveat and disagree with me. But as a bird or as just a birding enthusiast, I wouldn't count it. It is cool. It is rare, though.

You'd see a dead hawk. Usually you wouldn't, because that's a bird of prey. Usually you wouldn't see a dead bird of prey. You can't hear them because I've got headphones on. Corey wants me to ask you a question if you don't mind. Okay. Okay. So I went up to the hawk.

I took pictures of it and stuff. There's really no, there's no, there's no wounds or defensive wounds or anything. Is it likely that he just flew his stupid bird head into a tree and knocked himself dead? So Corey has done like CSI birds on this crime scene where this hawk is. He said that he went up and investigated the corpse and to his obviously astute, well-trained eye. There's no defensive wounds or anything like that, Corey says. So he's wondering, in your professional birding opinion, did it just fly into a tree and kill itself?

This is literally the question, Corey just asked. So, well, first of all, birds, some birds do fly into windows because they can't see the window. I've never heard of a bird flying yet.

That's a good point. I didn't even think about that. Yeah. Birds are pretty good at trees. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. No defensive wounds, you know, the most likely way for a bird to die in a city area, a bird of prey to die in a city area that I'm aware of is that it eats a rat that's full of rat poison.

Oh, yes, definitely what happened. So, yeah, if it ain't a rat, full of rat poison, it could die. Right. Poison and not have defensive wounds. Yeah, this is in Chickamauga, Georgia, where court, you know, his small, town. So one of his neighbors was trying to poison a local dog probably and a rat like that. And then the bird got the rat. I think we cracked it. Maybe poison rat or mouse. But if there's no natural defensive wounds,

yeah, I don't think a bird would die of all. Corey's about to be patient zero of a new strain of bird flu. No, I was going to ask, ask Joe how much an autopsy for a bird is because I can go get it. I don't know if bird flu goes to hawks, but yeah, definitely it could have done.

Maybe it ate a bird with, maybe it ate a bird with the bird flu. So definitely watch out, for Corey to look for some bird flu symptoms, for sure. Right. Okay, well, thank, Joe. We appreciate it, as always. I want to look this up.

Okay. I don't know if you're hearing me on the air, but I do want to look this up now. Yeah. How would a hawk die and just be on the ground? Georgia. It's very specific. What's what Google's AI assistant has to say about that.

I'm sure it's... I want to see how far off I am here because, yeah, you don't find a hawk laying on the ground very often. I guess the most common reason would be dehydration, plausible in Georgia. Secondary poisoning, yeah. Okay. There you go. All right.

Well, thank you very much for helping us get to the bottom of these bird related quandaries today. Go see Joe live. One last theory for you. Electricution, if it was near a power line. No, no power line. He was out in a park, like a state park they have. So last quit.

Drew says the birds ever commit suicide? Um, well, the window, the way, I guess the windows could be construed that way. It's construed that way. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, I don't, I don't know if suicide. said that's actually a fun question which you guys can tell me if suicide has ever been found in any other animal or even human well the last time you were on the show in person we talked about

the infamous case of the lady jacking that dolphin off and then the dolphin killed itself so but dolphins are highly intelligent obviously so and some might even say in that case that that dolphin died of a broken heart so you might not even you know qualify that one that way but uh i don't know also, you know, Lemmings, everybody thinks lemmings hurled themselves off cliffs,

but that comes from like 1960s Disney documentary where the producers threw lemmings off a cliff and then filmed it and told everybody they were jumping off.

So, you know, we do a bit about that? No, I have not. I feel like that's right for a bit. Yeah, it is right for a bit.

If you all want it, let me know, because otherwise I might try to look into that. No, take it, buddy. You crush with the animal shit. So,

I mean, that's so, up my alley. Yeah, no, go for it. Speaking of which, before we let you go, I mean, since you're on here, you know, if you want to plug anything, you're, you know, plug dates or something. Well, yeah, I'm doing the funny bone in St. Louis, end of May. I'm looking forward to that. Several shows, end of May, St. Louis. And I'm putting together a tour down south in September as we speak, Asheville, Raleigh, and all those places. Right on. Well, one of the funniest. there is. Thank you very much, buddy. Always a pleasure.

Oh, I am honored to get any bird-related phone calls or identification texts. Very much appreciate it. All right. See you. Well, that was lovely. Yeah, good call. I feel like, and I didn't want to do this via the telephone game or whatever. Yeah, I know. That did kind of suck that he couldn't hear y'all because then we'd have to repeat everything. I feel like, and this is funny, I'm not besmirching my guy. This is hilarious.

I kind of feel like the way he was like, well, let me tell you what does count. He told that story. I think someone in his birding community said it didn't count, and he's fucking mad about it. He goes, where does count? Yeah. Is it he threw a very rare wobbler.

And that warbler is killed, but you saw it alive for a second. Like, it sounded very much like a defense. Yeah. Defensive's thesis. Because Joe doesn't raise his voice alive. I'm not a birder at all, but I saw, we have bird feeder. in the backyard and I saw some

kind of hawk and it was definitely like an adolescent, it was a small hawk but clearly a hawk like dive bomb a smaller less hitting bird that was on our bird feeder you know. So it was a man. It was a dude. You had it on camera?

Now dude I do not know how it didn't because our bird feeders have cameras on you know because we're white people. And but it didn't it like didn't either Katie had let the battery die or it's like a solar panel thing and it hadn't charged it or something even though we're in fucking California. But as soon as I saw it, literally as soon as I saw it, I texted Katie and I was like,

check the app right now. I saw fucking hawk it, you know, not a hummingbird, but some other little hummingbirds do hit even though they do hit tiny little bitches. But this was another one that like tiny little bitch bird. Yeah, exactly. And they wild, dude. Yeah. And, um, do you see that guy, he, uh, he got his camera shutter speed to the exact speed of a hummingbird? And so when you see this video, it just looks like the hummingbirds wings just stay out the whole time. Right. It's badass. The shutter speeds are wild.

Some of the effects people can achieve with them is pretty nuts. But, you know, we had, I mean, everybody knows. They're long-time listeners know this because I documented it on the show at the time. But we had a hummingbird make a nest in our backyard once, and it was just palpable energy in the Crowder household that whole time. Oh, yeah. Hummingbird eggs are like your Tony Soprano ducks. Right.

They're the size of jelly beans, you know? So, I mean, it's just like, it's just all adorable. And then if everyone recalls, the eggs did hatching the teeny tiny little babies, and then a squirrel murdered them. And that was the end of that. So, yeah. Is the squirrel pieces of shit. Anyway.

So butt fucking. You said you had a butt fuck. It's literally a catch-a-but-fuck story. I got back to Knoxville, or I was in Knoxville doing comedy, and one of my buddies there, Andrew McCaffrey, is very funny. He's only made a time about three years. And he was like, how was Nashville, blah, blah, blah, how did your set go, et cetera, et cetera?

How did everyone set go? And I was like, man, Corey said something about catching a butt fuck. And I don't even know where the joke is. I just keep thinking about catching a butt fuck. I can't remember what the job. I got those tapes and it was to, it was, it was something about the founding fathers.

I'm pretty sure it was in that big. I'm about Caprize? Yeah. Yeah. I said, yes, yes, yes. I was like, no matter,

I was talking about the founding fathers and how like everybody that, the same people that talk about their little kid can't wear a pink shirt from Target are the same dudes who worship the founding fathers and all of those dudes are in drag. I'm like, they're wearing panty hose.

They got whatever. And I was like, and they've got their pantaloons, I said, which are actually like Capri's, which like, I don't care who you are. Caprize are the gayest pants of all time. Like, if you're wearing capries, you're out there trying to catch a buttfoam. So I said something like, I mean, I'm probably said something like he had this joke about the founding fathers dressing like women.

And it was, you know, it was a good joke, but it was like, you know, it's like not when I'm, but then he says to catch a butt fuck and I can't stop thinking about it or whatever. And then like, it's new to be fair. It will be your favorite one. So then, like, you know, we're, you know, we just talk, like, whatever, we just talk. And then three days later, I'm stoned at my house at like 11 b.m. And I get a text. And it's from him.

And he just said, to catch a butt fuck. That's a great show. And he's like, I can't stop thinking about it. And I was like, and I said to him, I got to, I want to pull it up because I don't, I want to quote myself properly. I said something to do the effect of, you know, now you know, how my life is, Andrew. I am, I want to find this. I want to get it right.

That also sounds like if Harper Lee had grown up in San Francisco and wrote that book about, you know, homophobia. And at the time. Just to catch a butt. Yeah. There he goes. He said, he said, catch a butt fuck still stuck in my brain. And I said, that is his talent. And it is my curse.

Yeah. I tour with a clown poet who haunts me. Yeah, I'm like George Costanza in that way. And then you said it just now, and I was like, oh, I meant to tell Corey both about his poetry. And my, my, I dude, I tour with the clown poet who haunts me is a fucking bar that. That is a bar. That is a bar. It comes out because of catching a butt fuck.

You know, like art breeds art. It does. It does. No, it does, man. It's people don't understand that that is the creative process. And, you know, here's the deal, too. I had worked on that bit before Nashville slightly. Catch a butt fuck was added on stage without thinking about it.

And I know it's because when I'm with y'all, in my brain, I'm like, obviously I'm playing for the crowd, but like I got to give them something too. And I probably would have never thought Catch a But fuck if I hadn't been hanging out with you idiots for two days. Well, speaking of catch-in and art. But fucking? No, no, no, no, but fucking whatsoever. The TPUSA Super Bowl halftime show, that one song,

which I don't know which one of them that was. That was Lee Bryce or Brantley Gilbert, where I don't know the difference between something. Interchangeable to me. But that song, I don't know if people listen and have seen it, but it... Do you have the lyrics pulled up? I mean, I remember the better part that's just like,

it literally starts with him going, and he plays like a somber chord structure for a second. And he's like, I just want to catch my fish. I just want to drive my truck. I just want to drink my beer. And then the point, and it's like without having to hear all this, you know,

unfortunate stuff all the time, which he means like people acting like little boys or little girls and shit. Like I don't want to hear all that. I just want to drink my beer. Wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry. I got to get that. Who was that? Who?

What's up, dude? You're on the well-read podcast. Oh, no fucking way. Right on. Hey, y'all. Bobby Bowman, what's going on? Yeah, what I'm going on? Thinking about Corey, but I didn't have his number,

so I just called you to get his number because he's the one I really like. Right. He has my number. You know what? He's just likable. Just a likable, friendly. No drama. And, yeah, anyway, I just wanted something pleasant.

But, I mean, there's other moves I can be in to talk to you, I suppose. He called me and then shame me. That's great. Colerian. Can you hear them? Say what's up, guys. What's up, Bobby? Big traffic.

It's almost L.A. style. But I'm going from Chapel Hill to Raleigh. I just finished teaching over at USC. Well, hell yeah. We are recording. I can and will call it. you back. We had already done one call-in with Joe Zimmerman. I figured it was fate that you called in, too, so I was going to say hi. Hey, holler if y'all want to do a Zoom

call with a screenwriting class, a sitcom writing class, but mostly there's sketch comedy people in there because they get a kick. So I'll let you go. Go do important as soulful things. You know how much I love you. I love you. And this is a something I just been working on lately and you can help me tweak it. I love you like I love fried chicken. That's pretty good, dude. I like it. I think you have something.

But it may be perfect as is. I don't know, but I'll let the masters figure it out later, y'all. Love you, Bobby. Love you, Bobby. God damn it. For those of you who don't know, that is Bobby Bowman,

who was our potential showrunner on yet another failed pilot that we had. But the show was, if it had ever come out, it would have been amazing and Bobby would have been a huge part of that. And I love that motherfucker so much. And also, he definitely has my number. Right. He was just,

that was for me. Yeah. Oh, all I wanted was to talk to Corey. Oh, he's there listening? He was going to live in my yard for four months and then he forgot. Yeah, he goes that. He was going to sell me and Andy a band and then he gave it to an addict, which is cool. What is?

Yeah. But the, that song, oh, you were, right. Sorry, I was thinking you were like stopping me for some other reason, but it was just because Bobby was calling you. But that song, it's called, it ain't easy being country in this country anymore. And I just like, don't. Yeah, I think it is. I mean, I assume that's what it's called because that's how the chorus goes.

No, you're saying that, Drew's saying it's a false. It's a false title. Yeah, because like, dude, you, by the way, I love how these guys give themselves such achievable, I just want to drink my beer, I just want to fish my fish. All these achievable goals. He just go do it. I guarantee you don't do that shit all the time. Well, maybe.

You know what's funny is like most of my buddies who are like that, they don't, what they go, you know, I just don't watch the news anymore because it's all just this, this, this, this, this and this. But then they'll keep, every time I see them, they'll keep saying it. I go, how do you know it's this, this, this and this if you ain't watching the mother? You know what I mean? Like, just shut the fuck up. You can do, I do every single.

single thing in that song, I can just also like understand that there's a problem in the world, too. You know what I mean? That's what they can't be burdened with is I don't even want to know that people have it worse than me because that makes my enjoyment bad. Right. Yeah, but I just don't, it also just musically like, I don't know. I can't imagine being that like hack and I know someone's like, oh really, you can't imagine that. But like, but you know, being that. hacking not in thinking that you know you're hitting. You know what I mean? But I guess they'll do it with those people.

They don't care. Right. Yeah, right. In that lane. But he's not at the biggest fan. I know. That's what I'm saying. Like for them,

they were cheering him on the whole time. Of course. It hits for them. That song's going to be on the charts. It's going to do great. But to me, it's just like, I can't you take like, this ain't a bit.

This is real and I know that it is. Right. But, yeah. Well, I mean, there's a claim out there, I think most famously put forward by Tyler Mayhan Coe that Oki from Muskogee is satire. It is, yeah. And when you listen to it now, whether it's satire or not, it's like whatever. But if you think it's not satire and you frame it inside the time period that it's written, you would kind of come away like, oh, this is like really hack.

Right. If it's not satire. So like, people who didn't know it was satire. there's always a lame for that, man. But you know what, though? The reason it's hacked, though, is because Merle and those guys did this type of song better. But it's nostalgia porn almost.

Right. By the way, it's happening in comedy, too. And there's some jokes. I can think of four off the top of my head that I really like. But you can sort of see an angle. I mean, I told you have one trait that I really, really, really like, that I just thought of where I was like, hey, that will put that out and it will do well. There's this nostalgia thing, and there's different ways to do nostalgia, but like, and if you're on the right, that nostalgia, the desire for nostalgia is in all of us.

What you're nostalgic for is the time where you even hear or know about gay people or that black people have problems, anything that satisfies that is going to come across as not just sacram, but like, offensive. And that was offensively like head and saying it's weird. It's weird to, as you guys pointed out, be like, I just wish I could fish. Buddy, you can. I know. And you do. And you do. It would be funny if it did work that way.

Like, you know, like another unarmed black man is murdered and now this guy can't fish. You know what I mean? I was going to fish. Yeah. And now I can't fish because this. Dollar General bags at half mass. And this reason I care about this so much is. because I can't fish because of it.

It's like, wow, I'm glad that you're upset that this keeps happening and ruin your fishing day. Right. We have proposed solutions. Right, right. Yeah. To stop this. Oh, you just want us to not talk about it. My bad.

My bad. My bad. My day is only a little bit busier than that. Guys, I just actually stop to think about how bad the world is. It's like, dude, you don't even have to do anything about it. Like, you just going, you know, just fucking going with your life. I think there's real danger in nostalgia and the desire for it because I think it's one of the easiest to, I don't know what the right word is, pervert, hack, manipulate. Like, as, like, dude, ads.

You know, like, marketing is essentially just art used for commerce. And however you feel about that, whether you're like, yeah, it's fine if some people do it or it's totally gross or you're somewhere in the middle, you can't deny that, like, one of the main things they do is nostalgia. and you can't deny that the whole goal of an advertisement is to manipulate you. So it's like, of course. The question is, is that dude aware of all that? Whoever, he didn't write the fucking song, I guarantee you that. What Chat GPT wrote that fucking song. I don't think that dude's aware of, I mean, I'd have to know him personally, but like, I don't, to me, it would be like,

you just, you accidentally kind of tune into what these people like and you're like, oh, okay, and then you lean fully into it before you've even realized it. And then like, can you sleep at night? Because like, as you know, as we talked about in the last week's episode, like there's a ton of Democrats in fucking Nashville, right? And they all hang out together and shit. Like, is he embarrassed? Like, he has to be embarrassed to go to some people's house.

Maybe you don't go to those people's house because we know that there's plenty of the other ones in Nashville too. Right. Nashville's become a hotbed for all. I mean, Kit Rock was in Nashville, you know. And they hang out. that well I don't know who all of them is there but I know at least for a while like Ben Shapiro was there or something and there you know like there's been a movement in that general direction I think but I did want to and I guess I thought that this was perhaps the only appropriate way

to the most appropriate way to respond to that song and I hope that I just more than anything else I just really hope that that guy sees this clip specific. I'll put it out. You're only listening. This is a dude who reacts. He's an online, which I'm not, when all they do is just sit there looking at something

and then repost somebody else of shit that don't have for me, but this guy at least adds something to the equation. Is he black? Yes. So. Yeah, okay. They're the best at that.

So here he goes. Is this the diet half time you show you? I think is what's talking about? I just, I want to catch my fish I'm going to drive my truck drink my beer

drive my truck drink my beer so that is that's really good you know that's the only appropriate response to that. But yes, that one thing I like about that guy, he had those like fart

base drops. I'm not going to the 808 butt. That's my jam. All right. Well, that's it, I reckon. So come see us on the road individually, well, them two together this weekend, but come see me, if you ain't in Athens this weekend and you are in Alabama instead, I'll be

at the Star Dome. This weekend. Fuck that. Birmingham slash Hoover. And then next week, weekend, I'll be in Atlanta at the new helium down there, which is in Alpharetta, apparently, which is not Atlanta, they call it the Atlanta. Yeah, it's not in all Atlanta. Yeah, but either way, that, that, I'll be there.

I'm sure it hits and, you know, come see me. And then a bunch of other places, including Denver and Steamboat Springs in March, and then on from there, all at Trey Crowder.com. holler at it. Oh, yeah, listen to Gravy Baby. That's the podcast that have with Carmen Morales and DJ Lewis. We hit. Corey and I will be in Athens on February 15th.

Mike Cooley from the drive-by truckers will be opening. There's some tickets left. And I mean, there are not many, but I thought it was none. Anyway, that was on me, though. So come to Athens and check us out. I am going to be in Denver, March 27th. I'm going to be in, what day is it? I'm going to be in Bristol, April 17th and 18th.

Come see me. Come see us in Athens. also March 29th, I will be in Atlanta at the punchline. And if you're, I'm not doing a show, but if you happen to be running around Juggalo weekend in Miami, I will also be there. So say, hey, and we'll get you on camera talking about wrestling. And if you are a student at the University of Arkansas,

I'll be giving a lecture right after the Juggalo thing. So my life's what it is. The duality of the show. The reality of the show. Oh, but please. Thank you to everybody who knocked me up to number 13 in humor on substack, everybody that has subscribed, especially the ones who pay for this subscription. I pretend that I love you both the same.

And I mean, I guess I do, but I do appreciate it. So Corey writes for you.com, you get my daily diaries, essays, audio dramas, all that stuff. Thank you all for listening to The Well Red Show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we got to go. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do. Thank you. God bless you. Good night and skew. Fart. But fart.

We're going to get drunk and we're going to talk a lot. Dress real fancy sitting our chairs. Sex with family. Ew. Putting our airs. What other rednecks to talk about foreign affairs? Laughing so hard that we end up falling out of our chairs. Sir Trace, Sir Corey.

Oh, what a pair. High class topics with a redneck flare. Oh, yeah. Two red nakes But we're still fancy We gonna talk a lot Dress real fancy Sit in our chairs

We gonna get drunk And we don't talk a lot Oh even no courier We gonna get drunk and we're gonna talk a lot