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Episode Date: March 19, 2026

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And not only are we one man down, we are two men down. And I will take the blame for this episode coming out late, regardless of the fact that we're two men down, you know, I was supposed to have something out. And Trey and Drew are both traveling. I was traveling too. I got home in time to, as we call it, Bur one, which is to do one by ourselves.

And I got sick. And I was so sick that I could. I wouldn't even, I don't know. Like, I was like, well, I was rolling over. I was like, I'll just, I'll record a voice note and I'll put it on the feed. That way, at least they know what's going on. And I've not let everybody down, which would have still been letting everybody down. But at least there would be, I don't know, precedent, not precedent, but at least you'd be warned.

I mean, there's definitely precedent for me letting you down. I let everybody down all the time. So it's my fault. I was ill and yesterday was my son's birthday. So all the power in the world that I was able to muster was rolling over and standing up so that we could give him his presence and film him and do all that stuff. And for the record, I'm not a, it's not a, there is some stuff going around here. Don't get me wrong.

That seems like there's just all, like people say that. No, there's a bad bug going around. It used to it was like once a year. People would say that. And now it's just all the time. I guess it's COVID and we're just a more, I don't know, we just seem like a more diseased people and it sucks and it blows. Pretty sure mine was a combination of allergies and just when the weather changed, I'm screwed up.

My wife saw, my wife actually, she has like Snapchat or whatever and so it tells her every year what she's taking pictures of or whatever. So on yesterday for my son's birthday, she came to find out through scrolling through there that I've been sick on every single one of his birthdays. except for literally the day he was born. So just this time of year, it kills me. And it sucks. And I couldn't get together with the guys.

And, dude, I'll tell you what, recording this even feels weird. Like, it's so bad out there. It's so fucking bad out there that it doesn't seem like we should even try to be funny, which is stupid. And maybe that's just an excuse for me to not want to do my job, you know, because I feel like artists and comedians and stuff, we're the only ones. Oh, it's not, it's really more outside pressure. Like, I've felt that before, like when, you know, like if I, if I have a scheduled post or something and it comes out and like just so happens on that day, there was a school shooting or something that there's no way I could have predicted,

even though good money is on, I feel like if you just bet on there being a school shooting every day, you would eventually, you would make your money back, which is very sad. But something like that will happen in there, and people will be like, oh, you know,

wrong time to put this out or how can you be funny today or whatever. And it's weird because I always, I feel two ways about that. Because there's one part of me that goes, yeah, I hear you. Like, how could you be funny today? But then on the other hand, I go, well, I mean, are you going to go up to a plumber and go,

how could you plum today or go up to a dentist, how could you pull teeth on a day like this? And it's like, yeah, man, it's my job. It's our job. And, you know, it could be argued that when things are bad, that's when people need to laugh the most. I would certainly say that as far as a need goes. You want to laugh every day,

but you need to laugh when things are bad. Matter of fact, I'll be honest with you. The only reason I'm even sitting here and recording these words and have the strength to do it is because this morning when I woke up feeling terrible, and by the way, I'm in the parking lot of a dentist right now. I have to go to the dentist because one of my teeth just fell out of my hand. I don't know if it's stress or what, man. I don't know. But Trace sent me a really funny Kevin Neeland joke that he had heard.

and that made me laugh, which gave me a little boost. And I was like, okay, let's get this day started, you know, a little bit. And then I was like, oh, I still feel terrible. My son came in and he said, Dad, Mac and Cheese. And I was like, yeah, buddy, I'll get up and make you some mac and cheese here in a minute. And then he, like, five minutes later, he came in and he just threw the mac and cheese at my head, which made me, which was so goddamn funny to me. And for the record, I don't think he meant to actually throw it at my head.

I think he was just trying to throw it at me, and it hit my head. head. If not, he's got really good aim. And then on my way to the dentist, which I was going to get here early anyways, I listened to, I was listening to some music. I was listening to the drive-by truckers, and I was listening to Gravity's Gone, which is a Mike Cooley-Pinned drive-by-trucker song, and it's one of my favorites. And the song, if you've never heard, Gravity's Gone, as the chorus is, so I'll meet you. at the bottom, if there really is one, they always told me when you hit it, you'll know it. But I've been falling so long, it's like gravity is gone, and I'm just floating.

Obviously, about a guy either, you know, hitting rock bottom with alcohol or drugs or whatever it might be. And it's a very poetic thing to say, like, I don't even know where the bottom is. I've been falling so long. I'm just floating. Like, there's no bottom, you know, when's it going to happen? but there's so many great lines in there. Cocaine rich comes quick.

That's why the small dicks have it all. And it's not intended, it's not like a weird owl song funny. It's not a Kuwaitist T. Judd song funny. But it's funny, you know, and it rocks. And it got me there. It got me to where I was like, you know, okay, I'm not going to feel great the rest of the day. but my brain has been at least turned into something operational, and it was through various mediums of art,

which proves my point of its importance and how it can help you get through some things. And I'm not trying to get up my own ass here. I mean, we just had the Oscars if you want full, you know, we've already had a week of getting up your own ass from people in the arts, and I'm not going to sit here and say that it's the most important thing in the world. It's not. I mean, the thing is, like, obviously, we need doctors.

I said, well, we need... Everything has to work in tandem, I guess, because I'm sitting here like, you know, obviously we need doctors more than we need artists because it's like if you, you know, get shot in the chest, an artist isn't going to be able to heal you. But I've definitely gone to art more than I've gone to doctors. But luckily, I just haven't had those emergency.

situations, but I can't imagine a life without art, you know. And to me, it'd be like if you got rid of artists just to save doctors, which is a hypothetical that makes no fucking sense, I'd probably just end up shooting my fucking self, because what would be the point of living if I couldn't crank up concrete blonde in the morning, throw on Joey in the shower, and get my day started with some of that good, I don't know why 90s grunge helps me get the day started, but it does. It is important, but it's also important that we feel good. And I mean, we as artists and people, and sometimes, and I'm getting personal now, which it's, it's easy to do, I guess, when you're doing the podcast by yourself. But I tend to think, like,

oh, man, I've got to, I really, because I really do feel a responsibility to you guys and everybody, even the people that don't listen to this podcast that follow me. I feel a deep responsibility to you guys, and I don't mean that in a bad way. That's awesome. I love having that responsibility to be like, hey, there's these people that every Wednesday on well-read and every Friday on putting on airs and then on my substack near every day, except for this week because I've been ill, they come and they get a little dose of the well-red boys and it gets them through their day, and I know because I see the emails and I see the comments

and stuff, and I feel a great responsibility to you guys for that. And I know the other guys do too. And we love that responsibility, and we are overwhelmed by it, I think, sometimes. Because, you know, this is well-read 10, baby. This is a 10th year. Whatever that means. I mean, you know, granted me, Drew and Trey have been writing together for 17, but I guess the well-read tour started 10 years ago.

The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, Dragon Dixie out of the dark came out 10 years ago. And we've been just unbelievably blessed by all of you who have been a part of our lives and have been a part of it through whether it be coming to a show, buying a book, leaving a nice comment, following us on socials, or listening to this podcast. We feel a great responsibility to y'all. But at the same time, I'm trying to learn how to take better care of myself, and I think the other guys are too, in that some weeks you just don't have it. You know, some days you just don't have it.

And this world, and it's not just in comedy, it's in y'all's lives, too. I know, like, you know, everybody has to have fucking three jobs now in order to survive. You know, like, not that America's ever been great at work culture. It's always been work over everything, I feel. But at least back in the day, a goddamn one person in the family could have a nine to five, and that be enough for a family. and now everybody has to work, everybody has to have multiple jobs. And some days we just don't fucking have it.

And you go, well, goddamn, I've got to have it, though. This whole thing falls apart if I don't have it. You know, this whole ecosystem, everything in my world falls apart if I don't have it. And it really does feel that way at the moment. And then in hindsight, you look back and you go, I probably could have taken an hour. I probably could have taken a nap. It might have been okay. But the deal is,

is like, some days you just got to not have it, or you're going to lose it. You know, I found out. Like, I've gone through, yeah, let's talk about mental health for a second. Why not? In this goddamn world we're living in

that's so fucking shitty right now anyways, where it doesn't feel like we have any hope. It doesn't feel like we have any safe. any say. It feels like that to the most mentally healthy people. So if you're not mentally healthy, I mean, you're going to fall apart. And we got to get rid of that stigma, dude.

And I've been preaching that. I've been on my stump about that for years because it's something I deal with personally. But, man, I would say it's something that most everybody listening to this deals with personally. It's just to the extent of what you do. You know what I mean? It's like everybody has a slight allergy.

Some people just have them more than others, like me. Mine are horrible. This time of year I get my allergies and it feels like I have the flu and it sucks. It doesn't mean other people don't have allergies. It just means mine are worse, but like we still have to deal with them in whatever way that we can. And those are like, you know, allergies and the flu and all these things. People can tell when that's wrong with you. Like they can see it in my eyes.

Like my eyes are watering my nose is stuffy. You can hear it in me. But mental health, you can cover it up. And we all have for years because of either the stigma, the actual stigma of it, or just we just, I just don't want to, I don't want my friends to feel sorry for me today. Or I don't want anyone to think I'm weak or I don't want to make it seem like I'm making the same old excuse over and over and over and over and over again. But the thing is, it's so very important. and to use a cliche, it's like if you broke your arm, nobody would be, nobody would tell you

that, I'll just shake it off. It's not really that big of a deal. You can figure it out yourself. Nobody. They'd be like, you need to go to the doctor and get that thing set, man. So why your brain, the, I mean, I guess all your organs are important because if one of them, you know, but your brain's very important. It controls everything that you do.

on a daily basis. I mean, my God, if your liver fails because of alcohol, it's only because, in my opinion, your brain let you down and made you drink that goddamn much to begin with. You know what I mean? For me, my brain tells me that when I'm feeling bad, I should have a big piece of cake or something, which is also horrible.

And we take it more seriously now than we ever have in our lives, I guess, But at the same time, we don't take it seriously enough. And when you look outside and you see freaking genocide going on and people supporting it, and then you've got people more divided than ever at home on whether it be that genocide or whether it be the goddamn Epstein files that said genocide is currently covering up, or at least we're using it in that way to cover up. and we look out and we see people still being discriminated against for who they are as a person,

what group they belong to, whether it be sexually, racially, or ideologically, or whatever, and we see the powerful get more powerful, and we see the weak get weaker. Man, I mean, when does it all end? And I really do believe in my whole heart that a lot of where we're at in the country, at least in terms of how someone like Trump, can get such a massive amount of people to believe in the bullshit that he's selling. It's a mental health problem. I really do believe that with my whole heart. And, you know, Republicans like to use that argument all the time when it comes to school, like school shootings. They're like, it's not a gun problem.

It's a mental health problem. And I'm like, bro, how can you not see that it's them in tandem? It's them in tandem. How? I just feel like every single thing is in tandem with mental health. Like, don't get me wrong. At this point, I've got no sympathy for anyone still out there spouting Trump's bullshit like I may have had in the past because I've always believed it was a mental health thing. But at the same time, I don't know.

I kind of do because they're, these are. mentally unwell people. And I've been a mentally unwell person. We just don't have the same flavor of mentally unwell. They're mentally unwell about something. They're scared. They're maybe narcissistic, which is still a mental health issue. There may be, I don't know, something is going on to make these people,

these white people who should have no society. fears, which we don't, but they've been made to believe that they should. You know, that's the thing is like, I have zero societal fears living in this country. I'm a white man, and I live in the South, too, and, you know, I know a lot of people listen to this who don't live in the South, and they always ask me, like, oh, how do you live down there? I'm like, well, bro, I'm, you know, I'm white, and I have a beard, and I sound like this, and I wear blue jeans and flannel shirts, and that's just how I, I, I, I, I'm, I,

And it's not masking. That's just who I am. So like to the outside world, I present as one of them, and it's not dangerous for me. Now, obviously, I run my goddamn mouth, and there's people who know I run my goddamn mouth. But for the most part, I stay away from them. They stay away from me. I've never really had any societal problems. There's never been a problem I've had where the color of my skin was the issue.

And that is not the case for other people. But that is certainly the case for white people. And there's been a fucking clown who has come and come. convince these people, convince them. I mean, they really believe it. And when you really believe something, it's hard. Like, I don't know, man, they really believe it. So how the fuck can I?

It's like, God, he's made them believe it. That they, there's some of them, I think, are lying. But some of them, they really fucking believe it, man. And I think the only reason they believe it is because they're mentally well and they're mentally weak. And they've allowed a kind man to make them feel that way, even though nothing in their life has, should have made them feel that way. I mean, we've all got fucking problems, dude, and obviously white people have problems too. Everybody does.

Any working class human being, which middle class don't exist, any working class human being in this country has problems. And maybe that's where it came from is that they just heard the word white privilege, and they just assumed that that meant that if you're white, you're supposed to have it made, and because they don't have it made,

they rejected the entire notion. You know, I get that, to a certain degree. until you do your research a little bit and literally most anybody has ever been saying about white privilege is like bro we're not saying your life can't be hard we're just saying that your race has nothing to do with it and race has never had anything to do with it for me and like all these dudes will be upset about like all they're there you know there's some people that hate white people and they just hate white people and it's racism or whatever and blah blah First off, I'm very aware that there's some people that hate white people,

but I'd say that it came out of fear more than anything, and I live my life so as not to be one of those white people. So whenever I hear somebody talking about we can't stand racist-ass white people, it doesn't trigger me because I'm not a racist-ass white person. I'm just a white person. I mean, I know, you know, with how systemic racism and shit works, obviously we all got it in us, we certainly do. I've come to grips with that over time because I,

I like to, everyone, everyone likes to see themselves as this perfect entity. And especially when you're someone from the South like me who's tried to go against the grain so much and be anti all the bullshit that is bad, you like to say, you would like to go, oh, I'm not even racist even a little bit. And then you realize all the things that you were doing or thinking that was not on purpose at all. It was just how society was set up that you bought into. unknowingly and you go, oh, wow, that's how systemic racism works. And it's impossible for me not to be at least a little bit, but every day it's a journey and every day it's something you work on, just like your mental health. And I think that's another thing that we don't realize is that none of this shit, nothing ever gets fixed in one day, but nobody wants to do the goddamn work,

just little by little, day by day to fix themselves or to fix the country or to just fix their fucking community, which, by the way, local politics, get into them right now. And because it all, I mean, if you read back to the David Dukes and the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, all the, half the politicians came from on a local level that they rose to power. A lot of it all starts local. And a lot of it breeds there and hibernates there for a while and is in this fucking petri dish. And then it explodes. And, um, I don't know, man. I know I'm, I'm rambling, but it's just all so confusing right now on what to do. it used to seem very black and white everything used to seem very black and white this is good this is bad or whatever

and now god damn it we we don't even know because of fucking AI we're all confused on whether Netanyahu is alive or not and we don't know nobody knows what to believe and like don't get me wrong there's some AI out there that if it's like dude if you looked at that and you bought it you're a fucking idiot but like I totally understand

that there's like I'm a chronically online person because of the nature of my job. So like it's easier for people like us who were either chronically online or we were brought up with the internet. It's easier for us to notice this stuff. But if there's someone that like isn't chronically online and hasn't really seen the evolution of AI and hasn't like seen it enough to know the tell tell signs of AI, I mean, I get why some of them would just see this and believe it and then move on. And you think to yourself, God damn, well, why can't they just do the research? And I feel that way, too. I'm like, you know, guys, don't just look at something and believe it. Do the fucking research.

But like, some people would just see something in passing. They go on to work, and then they go on to their kids play, never had time to do the research. And the seed is planted. You know, whether they took the time to actively believe in or not, the seed is planted and it's in their mind. And that's all that fucking matters to these higher up sons of bitches. You know what I mean? And it's getting so bad. And it's like, don't please, please understand. In my mind. opinion, it is no coincidence that AI started being prominent during this administration and all the key figures in AI support this administration. This is the administration that it most behooves to have literal fake news out there. I mean, when they started the campaign back in 2015, Roger Stone and all his evil brilliance came up with the fake news tag and laid that groundwork.

for not believing anything bad about dear leader, right? And now it's don't believe anything at all. Everything is false, right? It's like all these right-wing chuds and these groopers and these fucking all right sons of bitches. They'll just be like, everything you've ever been told is a lie. And I'm like, okay, like, if you want to, if we want to have an open conversation about how the government has been lying to us, I'm open to that.

But they only want to say that the things that are lies are, are. the things that are beneficial to them, because I want to go like, yeah, okay, I hear you. Everything we've been told is a lie. So let's get into the fact that after slavery and after the civil rights movement, both of them, incarceration rates for black people went up by like 700%. And that's not a fucking coincidence. It's because every single time we give black people or any minority more rights in this country, we figure out, and by we, I mean the country, not me,

but that we figure out a way to fuck them over in the aggregate in a legal way. You know what I mean? And the government just puts up the statistics of, well, black people commit more crimes. And no, we've been lied to. It's that they're just arrested more. And if you want to really look at the data, you can see that, like, a white person is, or a black person is more likely to be sentenced harsher for the exact same crime than a white person in the same county by the same judge and with the same shit on their rap sheet.

this is the shit we've been lied to about that this country ever got rid of slavery and fucking oppression. They just retooled it. They rebranded it. I mean, I used to have a bit that I could really never get to work, but it's like college football came out, was started two years after slavery. It's like they were like, we're going to figure out a way to exploit people for profit and not pay them and make them running backs and make them make this school all this money since we can't have them fucking picking cotton anymore. They figure out a goddamn way.

And we have been lied to. But I don't think it's the, what they'll go is like the, the LBGTQ community has not been lying to us about their need for safety and their need for representation. I mean, we probably landed on the moon, but I don't fucking know. But I don't even know why that one fucking matters anymore. You, of course, we've been lied to, but they'll tell you they've lied to us about everything. And then you'll mention something like I just said with the prisons. They go, oh, well, they weren't lying to you about that. And it's like, well, what does everything fucking mean to you?

You know what I mean? Quit saying. Like, now we're getting into a semantics issue, just like we did with, just like we did with white privilege. It's a semantics issue. It's not everything, surely. but it is a lot of things, and now they're able to lie directly to our face, whereas back in the day they would just lie to you and you'd go on about your day because you didn't have the internet.

Now they lie to you, and there's video evidence to soft quotes, prove them correctly because of fucking AI or because they'll pay off some huge influencer to say, I was there and I did this and shit like that. And it's just absolute nonsense and lunacy. And that's why I say it's more complicated now, just being black and white because, yeah, we are being lied to on a grand scale, and they're pitting us against each other in ways that they've never done before. They've always done it. They've always done it. It's always been, hey, how can we get the working class white people and

black people and Mexicans or whatever? I'm sure back in the day they really only thought of it in terms of white and black people, because that's mainly what they were in this country. But how can we pit them against each other and get them to fight so that they'll be looking one way while we're robbing their pockets in another way. It's always been like that, but now it's more complicated because there's fucking chat GPT and all this fucking whore shit. I guess this is as good as any time to throw an ad break in here, so let's do it. We'll be right back. Oh, by the way, I'll go ahead and advertise for myself. March 29. That's next week I met, I think is next week. I'm at the punchline in Atlanta. Come see me. But let's go to an ad break and we'll be right back right after

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which I'm aware that's an indicator of that the world's ending and that global warming is real and all that stuff. But as our good buddy, Kurt Cobain said in Nirvana, weather changes moods, and it certainly changed mine. And also, my Claritin kicked in, my allergies aren't as bad. And yeah, it really got me to thinking about how we treat people and how sometimes we should give people grace, because, like, I bet if someone had met me this morning, and it was like their first time meeting me, they would have been like, oh, man, this guy, what a dick. He seems like a grumpy fellow that's never happy.

But if they met me this afternoon, they'd be like, what a jovial young lad? What a friendly fella. And it's really just the difference in a couple hours and the weather and my allergies. And all of a sudden now, I'm feeling just so much better. And this happens to me from time to time. And I always have this thought of like, man, you got to always, you know, maybe whenever you meet somebody and they're kind of being a prick, maybe assume that they're just having a bad day. But I never do it.

and I need to do it. We need to give people the grace that we would expect, you know, from them, I think, personally. Who fucking knows? I'm a windbag. So on that note, let's let the last half of this podcast be at least a little joyful and hopeful. And something that's certainly been giving me hope. And Drew pointed this out in the group chat earlier. I don't know if y'all been following the whole Afro-Man.

trial, but it has been nothing short of incredible. And Drew pointed out that, well, I don't want to, well, I guess I will spoil. You've probably seen it. Afferman won his defamation suit. And Drew shared that news with us this morning and was talking about how it has genuinely given him hope, a little speck of hope in this country. And I hadn't even really thought about it the whole time. But like if you've been following this trial, basically what happened was, and look, please

look it up for yourself because the clips are amazing and I know I'm going to get some of this wrong but essentially there was some cops got like a tip off or something that afro man if you don't remember who afro man is of course the author and singer of one you know a couple of the greatest rap songs of my generation one being because i got high we all know it he's a funny guy very creative apparently there'd been like a tip off that maybe afro man had some like drugs in his house or something, so the cops go over there, like, very illegally, enter his house, fuck with his shit, steal some of his money, and, like, Aframan had all of this on tape, like, all of this on tape. So he starts, they steal his money, and he's like, y'all just

give me the fucking money back, you know? Like, you can't do that. I know cops think they can do whatever they want, but you can't do that. And he starts, they're like, now fuck you, You know, none of that. We don't, yeah, fuck you. You're a drug taker. You've done all this shit. We can do whatever we want. Well, he started making music videos about how shitty these cops were.

And he was using actual, like, I guess, ring camera footage from his house, right? And was made, like, there was this one video where this cop was, like, staring. You could see him staring lustfully at Afro Man's wife's lemon pound cake or something, which I think was the title of the whole album or something like Lemon Poundake. And he started talking about how he was fucking this one cop's wife or whatever. And like basically what he was doing was just like, I'm going to, listen, I'm going to make money off this shitty situation. Like, if they're not going to give my money back, I'm at least going to use it to my own benefit and use my freedom of speech to my own benefit to call out this nonsense and whatnot. Well, the cops then did one of the dumb.

some of his things in hindsight they could do, which is they file a defamation suit against Afro Man for all of the lyrics in his song saying that they've caused him, they've caused them great pain, right? They've caused these cops great pain. So they sue them with this defamation case, and I don't know if they just didn't understand that Afro Man had so much of this shit on tape that he could prove or what it was, or if it's just them being like, you know, we're cops and, um, Your freedom of speech ends when you're talking about us, buddy.

You know what I mean? So there's been this long trial of which Afro-Man has been like dressed in like this Uncle Sam red, white and blue suit with red, white, and blue shutter shades shades shades on and just absolutely smoking these motherfuckers on the stand. Like, I do not think that they saw this coming. I think what they thought was, hey, here's this rapper who raps about weed and stuff. and he's not going to be that smart of a cat, and we can fuck with him. And boy, were they wrong. I mean, he absolutely lit them up on the stand. And his lawyer was absolutely amazing.

And his lawyer actually, like, at one point in this defamation suit, he basically had this cop. He called this cop like a fat, dumbass or whatever. And so the cop suing him for defamation, and the lawyer's basically like, oh, it's a fat, bald, dumbass. right? And he's like, he's like, so, you know, do you, do you not agree that you're a fat, bald, dumbass? I'm paraphrasing. And the guy's basically, I mean, I don't know, I'm fat and I'm bald, I guess you can't prove it or whatever. And then this dude had to like, had to say under oath that, it's one of the lyrics is like, Afferman talking about how he fucked this cop's wife. And this cop had to under oath be like, it's caused great personal harm to me and my family. these lies or whatever.

And the lawyer's like, so you know their lies? And he's like, at this point, I don't know anymore. So he had to like, under threat of perjury, admit that he didn't know whether or not Afro-Man actually fucked his wife or not. And anyways, I was just watching it as a spectacle because it was. It was really funny. Every day Afro-Man would put out some sort of video or whatever about what had gone on in the trial. And then I was catching up on all the stuff that I hadn't seen, you know, with the cops

breaking into his house or whatever, but it didn't really even, I never even thought about the implications of the case until Drew pointed up. He's like, this is a huge win for the First Amendment. And then when after a man won, he, you know, he started shouting about that. Like, you know, they're not going to take our rights. They're not going to do this and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, wow, that is a huge win because Drew was telling us about how the particular area in which this case, which this was taking place and like how the judge was, like, I don't know if this is going to go in Afro-Man's direction, even though, like, based on all the evidence and stuff, it absolutely should. But, like, we've found out in this country that evidence and righteousness and all that

stuff, it often doesn't matter. You know, they kind of just focus around and do whatever they want. And in this case, they didn't do this, and they weren't able to do this because of how awesome afro-man was on the stand and how great his lawyer was. And again, I highly suggest that you go check out the entire thing, the entire saga. I'm certain somebody has it chronologically laid out from clips to the court filings and all that stuff. But it was, it was great. And he won.

And the cops looked like fucking assholes. And you could tell on each of their faces when they declared that Afro-Man won that basically, I don't know, they were just stunned because they truly do. believe they can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity. And I mean, they believe that because for the most part, it's true. We see it all the time. I mean, we see, we see cops shoot unarmed people and get away with it. We see it now. Like, we have it on video. So imagine what the fuck they were getting away with before there was video. Like, they're still pretty much getting away with whatever they want, but in this case they didn't, and you could tell they were just absolutely

stunned. And I don't know how much of a ripple effect it's going to have on the entire legal system and how cops go on about their business, but it was certainly nice for one moment out of this insane fucking year, decade, millennium generation, whatever the fuck, to feel like the good guy actually won, and in this case the little guy won. And I know that Afro-Man's not, like, look, Afro-Man's been very successful, and he's certainly got more money than me or you, probably, but he's still the little man in this regard, because it's him against the state, and it's him against the system. You know what I mean? And, I mean, let's face it, like Afro-Man has been successful, but it's not like he's Jay-Z or something. You know what I mean? It's not like he's got,

it's not like he's got Tom Cruise money, where all this would easily gone their way. and been swept aside. And I'm really, I'm glad. I'm hoping it revives his career to a big point because it brings me to something that we've always, all been feeling, in that the 2000s are back, baby, for good or bad,

the 2000s are back. Afro-Man is in the news. Creed is working on a new album. Brittany Spears just got a DUI, which I'm not going to make light of, Brittany obviously has some mental health stuff going on and I hope she gets it together. And frankly, a lot of that is just, boy, the world and her parents or whoever put her through hell. But either way, Brittany's back in the news for those reasons.

Let's see, what else? Oh, we're in a pointless, well, I say pointless, but we're in a stupid war in the Middle East. once again, it's the 2000s. I'm hearing from people that Jinko jeans are back. I don't know if you guys remember Jinko jeans, but one of the, well, I say few, but one of the many fashion trends that I just never understood. Jinko jeans, of course, are those like parachute jeans. They're just fucking huge jeans.

Most of them are black. They seem like they have to be really hot. I never wore them. even though I definitely as a child jumped into some fashion trends and I mean, similar to the Ginkgo I remember bell bottoms were back in at one time I rocked them, you know what I mean?

I did, I rocked them. But Ginko's always seemed uncomfortable but they're back, baby. I'm pretty sure like the Warped Tour is back. There's so many things for the 2000s that are back. And I mean, I guess it's because those of us who live through it are now the ones this happens, you know, every few generations

where, like, I remember in the 90s, the 70s were back, you know, and the thought process I had on it was like, well, yeah, because the people who live through the 70s, now that it's the 90s, they're the ones that are sort of in charge of shit, you know, they're in charge of what movies get made and what songs get put out there. So naturally there's going to be more what they like. Everybody wants nostalgia for their own thing. And then sure shit in the early 2000s, the 80s kind of came back. And then that sort of informed that 2000s culture, but it always like mixes in with each other. It's not like full 80s. It's just like a little bit of, and it wasn't full 70s in the 90s. It's just a little bit of 70s sort of culture bringing its way back in the 2000s.

And now that that's coming back, it's basically like the 80s-2000s hybrid is back, which was a very silly thing. Like the 80s is one of the most silly fucking decades ever. And it makes sense as to why I guess it was so silly. You had Reagan in office. You had Iran-Contra. You had all this fucking bullshit that was going on. But there was cocaine and stuff, which, by the way, I'm being told cocaine is back.

Y'all be safe. Please don't do it. But if you do, get it tested. And I guess it's all like a, it's some, you know, with Reagan being president, I mean, Trump literally modeled his part of his campaign on Reagan. So it makes sense that this 80s, 2000s comeback might be, you know, in response to an overtly conservative society that is trying to not go forward at all, but instead go completely backwards into the fucking stone age. So now we're all getting silly. we're all wanting another Michael Bay movie you know

there's fucking of course we you know we're still I don't know we're not still getting Mission Impossible but one did just come out

we're like in loud dumb action shit again which is fun but the culture is certainly shifting and we're seeing it right in front of us and now that now that like

you know we have so much technology and stuff you see it happening right in front of your face where like in the past, it was kind of like, in hindsight, we go, oh, yeah, right on, yeah, that was, that was kind of that, the definition of that era. But now you really see everything from every single camera

angle, 24 hours a day, and it's wild to see. It's truly wild to see. And, you know, as much shit as I was talking earlier about how it feels like it's over and all that stuff, you're seeing more and more people really start to figure out like, oh, wow, yeah, this whole Trump, not only Trump as himself, but the whole ideology behind all this, not only is it evil and bad, but it's just not sustainable for a country. And it's very clearly set up just to help the powerful. And they don't give a shit about any of us. And they will spend eight years in office working their asses off just to cover up for 0.5% of the population's misgivings, right? Like even fucking Nick Fuentes, who, by the way, please understand that I'm not going to be one of those people that's like,

yeah, he's on our side now because I don't think he is, but like, even he is like, Jesus fucking Christ. Like the conservatives have gone too far. You know, everything is fucking woke now and all this. Even he can see it. Now, granted, with a guy like that, you go, well, this might be for clicks, but if it is for clicks, you know, he's certainly alienating the audience that he cultivated and seemingly doing his best to get rid of them. And I don't think, I think he's too smart to think that he will ever have like a predominantly liberal fan base that he can target to. So while I think most of what he is about as bullshit, you still got to look at what his turn

and like Tucker Carlson grilling Mike Huckabee and all these fucking dudes night after night, like it's still enjoyable. And if these dudes are going to be evil, which they are and can be, but they're also both very bright. You know what I mean? I fucking hate Tucker.

across them with my whole heart. But if I was to sit here and try to tell you that he wasn't a good interviewer, I would just be lying. He's a very good interviewer. He was a good interviewer when he was saying shit that I disagreed with. I could recognize that beneath the veneer of bullshit, lied, a talented man. And now it seems, I don't know if he's using his evil genius for good, but he's certainly using it against a lot of people who certainly thought that Tucker Carlson was going to be on their team forever. And it's wild. And I think it just shows, you know, that, look, here's really what it shows.

If Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes have always been opportunistic journalist types who only go with the way the wind's blowing, it should make you feel good that the wind is blowing clearly out of favor of Donald Trump and it's no longer cool. to be on the Trump train. And also one thing that I did not expect happening was that, like, most everybody on that side thinks of JD fans as like a little bitch, which I didn't see coming.

I'll be honest with you, when Trump announced J.D. is his running mate. And then when they won, I was like, God damn, this could be even worse, because, like, if J.D. truly has fallen in line with Trump and all his ideology, then you've got a guy now who is younger, means he's going to be around for a long time.

Like, the only decent thing about Trump is that, like, no matter how it happens, he will be dead soon. Like, you know, this guy, he'll either be dead sooner. He will be unfunctional. You know, he's too out of shape and too old to go on any longer at any high level, as you can already see happening. Like, dude, if you look at clips of him, even in 2020, like not screw 2016, even 2020, Like, the motherfucker has clearly lost his fastball in a very big way. But then I was scared because I was like, you got a guy like J.D. Who, like, he's young and he's freaking Harvard educator or Yale educator.

I can't remember which one that he definitely told me when we had fucking dinner. Can't believe I've had dinner with that guy. Sitting vice president who is evil. But anyways, people don't seem as keen on him on that side. And that gives me a little bit of hope. And there's also probably proof of something we've talked about in this show a million times. It's like Trump is a one of one, a generational talent for being an evil fuckass. You can't really copy his style because I don't even think he could tell you what it is.

You know what I mean? I don't even think he could tell you what it is. And so anybody now that's trying to run off of this maga shit, it's like, no, I'm not saying that every evil policy dies with Donald Trump, but whatever the fuck MAGA is probably does. And it probably dies with this generation, this particular brand of fascism. Don't even wrong, it will rear its ugly head again. And frankly, it's like it's never really gone away. It's just been lurking in the shadows. And now that we are, you know, all of us, more aware of things because of the internet and because of a vested interest in staying more informed,

we're just more aware of it. But, you know, as it has usually been in society, it's like a pendulum swinging, you know. We had eight years of Bush and pointless wars in the Middle East and a very conservative era. And that pendulum was so far to the goddamn right that when it swung back, boom, first black president, go dog, skew, sick them.

You know what I mean? So now that pendulum has shifted, has swung so far. I don't know what the fuck we're in store for. But I'll tell you this, not that we'll ever see another Barack Obama. And I don't mean that in terms of how good of a president he was. I mean, I liked him compared to most. But they're all pieces of shit. I'm talking about in terms of like a cultural phenomenon who you can really throw the party behind.

Like, I don't know if we'll ever see something quite like that again, but it seems right now that the Democrats are hell-bent on not even attempting to look for one. I'll say that, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes. They, uh, despite what some Republicans might believe, uh, they don't call me or Trey or Drew for any of this shit. We're not in the Mentson meetings. We're not at the George Soros rallies. None of them ever giving us a fucking dime for our thoughts, which they ought not. but that is the leading narrative on the right that every, you know, entertainer that leans left is somehow on the inside and at these secret cabal meetings were not.

But, you know, right now, no party has probably ever had such an opportunity to take back power than the Democrats because of the low approval rating from their opponent. I hope they're able to get it back. mainly because they're the only other party in this goddamn country. We so desperately need to have viable third, fourth, fifth, whatever parties to end this fucking monopolizing of our feelings and emotions. That would be great. But until it does, you know, I guess I know who I'm voting for, you know,

the pro-First Amendment, pro-inclusion, pro-union party. and I hope they can lean into a lot of that because I think that people have in the past 10 years, dog, I mean, we talked about earlier about this being well-reads 10-year anniversary. It's also 10 years since fucking Trump. We've been dealing with this for a goddamn decade, y'all. And surely to God, surely to God in that time,

you know, even the most fucking Lord. loyal supporters, as long as they have half of a fucking brain, they have, and I'm not saying see the light of the Democratic Party, I'm saying see the dark of the Republican Party. Like at this point, I would settle for people just not goddamn voting, then going out and thinking that they're picking the less of two evils and then somehow ushering in fucking, you know, want to be Hitler 2.0. it's absolutely bananas and insane. And it makes me want to die.

And, but hey, don't worry, guys. Don't worry because they have just registered aliens.gov as a website. And I'm certain that there's truly going to be some fascinating alien information on that. And it's not just yet another distraction from the Epstein shit, you know. Which, by the way, they're so fucking predictable. all that alien shit basically came from like Obama was on a podcast where they asked him about aliens and he's like I mean yeah there's files and stuff

but I've never seen them and I've never seen this part of it I've never actually seen whatever they think is an area 51 and that immediately made Trump be like if he's going to talk about aliens I'm going to talk about aliens I'll know more about aliens than he does just so fucking predictable and um all a distraction and at this point though I think we're all praying for aliens like a and I'm talking about like a species like from independent It's day that it was just zap us and just fucking let us all be gone.

Like if we're not going to fix the world, just fucking hit the reset button. You know, as long as it's painless and as long as we all go at the same time so nobody misses anybody and there's no misery, you know, as long as it's a complete and total annihilation, that might not be the worst thing in the world. It would certainly be better. Obviously, I don't really hope that happens. but it would certainly be better than the people in office who are currently attempting to bring about the biblical apocalypse.

And isn't that fucking frightening that we have a party that is in control who it actually, for all of them being predominantly Christian, they want this all to be happening because in their brain, it has to happen before Jesus would come back. And if there has, if, bro, If you need a larger example of why the separation of church and state is important, then I don't know what to fucking do with you, dude. I don't know what to fucking do with you because that's what's happening.

I mean, I know there's a lot of people that listen to this podcast and just out there in general who weren't brought up in church, especially like a Southern Baptist church like I was, where, I mean, I remember as a kid them talking about like, we got to, you know, protect Israel because that's, that's, you know, they say in the end times, Israel's going to blah, blah, blah, all this. And it went from like, we've got to protect them so that the end times won't happen. I guess then it shifted to like, well, hey, hold on now. We want the apocalypse to happen because then we all get to go to heaven. It has to happen eventually. And wouldn't it be neat if it happened during our generation? Wouldn't it be awesome if we were the ones to bring it upon it?

wouldn't God be so pleased with us if we were the ones that finally signaled his son's return to earth? That's insane, by the way. And by the way, it doesn't feel at this point so much like a prophecy in the Bible as it does a command. You know, because like if you see something in the Bible and you're like, oh, this is how they say it's going to happen and it's going to be really bad. And then you yourself are the person who sets in motion the wheels for that thing to happen. I don't think that counts as a prophecy. You know what I mean? Like if I make a goddamn, if I tell y'all, I was like, hey, I'm playing in a basketball game tonight,

I'll bet you $100,000 that somebody breaks their leg in the game. And then I go out and take a hammer to my leg in the middle of the game and break it. I don't think I should be able to cash in on that bet. I'm the one that fucking did it. You know what I mean? It was a Fugazi from the beginning. It was a setup. It was all fucking bullshit.

So I don't know, man. All I know is I'm basically, this podcast represents exactly how I feel every day. The two sides of me, one is just completely hopeless. And the other is, well, there are some things that are happening that might make it okay. And we should all laugh and we should all have a good time. And at the end of the day, what else are you supposed to do? Aside that and love your neighbor and take care of your family. and your friends and be nice to everybody

and try to make your part of the world and by your part of the world, I mean just fucking what you can see. You know what I mean? Everybody that you affect in your general vicinity, if you can make that part of the world a little bit better, and if we all did that, then the world would be great.

That's why I was earlier when I was talking about local politics. Like, we've got to grow from in to out instead of out to end. It's the only way it's going to fucking work. You can't saw, all the world's problems. You can't even solve any of them. But you can solve some of yours and your friends and you can make your kids life a better than yours. And you can leave somebody feeling good about their day just by smiling at them and saying the right thing and being nice to them when

maybe nobody was that day. And maybe if everybody fucking did that, myself goddamn included, because I've been worse about it lately, so I've been a goddamn criminal. mudging, out of shape, got a kid, busy as fuck, allergies killing me, weather killing me. I got to get better about it too, so I can't just talk to talk. I got to walk to walk. But yeah, the duality of man here in one podcast, it's all over, but maybe it's not, you know. Y'all have a great day. I love you. Thanks for bearing with me on this solo edition of the Well Red podcast.

And I hope you go see Trey wherever he is this weekend at Trey Crowder.com. Go see Drew wherever he is at Drew Morgan Comedy.com. Go see me. I'll be at the Atlanta Punchline March 29th. Come see me. But also what I'd really like you to do more than anything is go to Corey writesforyou.com. That's my substack. You can subscribe and read everything I write completely for free.

or you can give me $5 a month. I would obviously prefer you do that, but you don't have to. I want it to be accessible to everybody that doesn't have $5 to give. But if you got $5 to give, go ahead. And I enjoy writing over there. And I'm actually crawling out of my skin to write something right now. But I've been so ill this week that nothing creative hath burst forth from my brain. And I wasn't really able to move.

and I just can't right line flat on my back. I just can't do it. CoreyRightsview.com, I'd appreciate it if you subscribed over there. That way you could keep up with me, all my writings and audio shit. And frankly, you know, I want you to subscribe because the more people that do,

the less touring I have to do. And it's really, it kills me now. It just throws. I know y'all get, like, everybody wants a, routine. I don't know if anybody actually has completely the routine that they want, but everybody works better on a routine. And I know I certainly do with the way my mental health works. I work better on a routine. And being on the road, it's impossible for me to have one. And I like

writing. And I just feel like I need to stay at home more and write and entertain people that way. And I know that, I've told that to some people, and they're like, oh, fucking, you can't stop doing stand-up. And I'm like, I'll never stop doing stand-up. I just need to not be on the road as much because it's killing me. And I think it's finally high time that I say that out loud. Like, I hate that it is, but it really is. It kills me. It throws me off. It fucks with my head, being away from my family. Traveling just puts unnecessary miles on me. It's harder for me to stay. Just be healthier in a lot of regards. It's just more difficult. And I've always just said, well, that's just the way it is. You know, that's just what you got to deal with as a comic.

I mean, it is, but like, fuck, man, we got to all start thinking about ourselves a little bit more. I mean, obviously, some people think about themselves exclusively, but, like, you know, it's like when you're, I got a family to support and a kid to raise, and it's like when you're on a plane, it's like you do have to put your oxygen mask on first before you put it on anybody else. And I swear to God, it feels like for at least 22 years, I've been trying to find the goddamn oxygen mask. And it's like within my reach right now, but you never fucking. really know. So that's my pitch for gory rights for you.com. There's a little sad sap story. I love y'all.

I'll talk to you next week. Hopefully everything will be back to normal. All of us boys will be there. This shit will come out on time, and it'll be like this never happened. But since it did, I thank you for being patient. Love y'all. Talk to you.

Oh, 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. nothing to do thank you God bless you. Good night and skew fart.