wellRED podcast - Should The New Harry Potter Show Even Be Made?

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

The WellRED Podcast:Should The New Harry Potter Show Even Be Made?   TraeCrowder.com DrewMorganComedy.com CoreyWritesForYou.com HelpMeGetMyLegBack.com

I'm saying the showrunners already said another huge pet peeve I have in the world of TV, right? I feel like this was one of the things that brought Stranger Things so far down is every one of these streamer productions. I have your nipples. Takes two fucking... They're the... They're the... They're wrong sex.

They care way too much, but don't give a fun. Next step makes some people upset. They got three big old dicks that you can suck. I don't. Like, I've got a... fucking sweet. It's a wonderful life poster that I think would look dope there. That would only add

to the ethereal you know, sort of a heavenly feel of the surroundings. I feel like depending on the poster itself, you're wearing a pink shirt. If you're wearing a white shirt right now, it would it would look like

the end of the morality morality tale movie where you you know I missed the first part. Morality tale movies sort of in the vein of Adam Sandler's click or something, but you tragically die at the end of it,

but then you come to in these surroundings. Right. That's what it feels like. And it's like, is he dead? You think is he dead? But then it's like maybe it's just a hospital room or whatever. You're not sure. But it's filmed that way to impart the idea that perhaps you've gone on to the other side.

That's what it looks like to me. The shirt off, no. It doesn't. It's no... What if I died naked? It's no better or worse than the pink is what I'm saying. It's almost the same pink. I'm a very rosy shade of pink lately because I've been playing a lot of golf.

And it, you know, on a lot of normal people, they start out, you get that pink and then it turns into a tan. Not me. Just stay Mo Pink. Ever Mo Pinker. Evermo Pink. I got called, by the way, this is funny. You'll like this. one of my Maga Man videos that I've been doing with the face filter on or whatever,

they're the only videos I do where I enjoy reading the comments because even though they're shitty comments, they're not about me, the person. They're about the person I'm portraying so they don't hurt my feelings, you know? You know what I'm saying? And someone called me a sentient boiled ham, which I thought I meant it. Thank you, Drew. Thank you for that engagement. on my post. I appreciate that.

Yeah. Well, that's, you know, deep lore at this point that's not been brought up in years was that a friend of an ex-girlfriend of yours coined the alias Ham Satan for you. Ham Satan. Because you look like a ham and also she thought you were evil. Even though she beat me. Yeah, the girl beat you. But I thought it was her friend who called her. That's her friend, but what I'm saying is like...

Back girl's friend was, yeah, an abuser, and you were the bad guy in this situation. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong. I know I can be a bit much, but, like, that's no reason to wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and start punching a man just because he's like, no, no, look, you don't understand. When Vigo Morgensen filmed this scene, he really did break his foot, you know? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Drew, since you're here now, he's doing a thing. He's got an aside. I mean, it's for both of y'all, but I wanted you both to make the odds of someone knowing better. Who can, like, explain to me in the audience succinctly what this looks maxing phenomenon is about? Oh, I can't. This is definitely a Drew thing. He's way more in touch. I was, I tried talking about it on stage, and I think I got a good clip.

Most of my jokes, though, don't explain it. I'm trying to find Ham Satan in my phone while I'm talking to you guys. Yeah, because someone Photoshopped Corey's face onto a ham during the Ham Satan era. Rick did that. Rick did it, I think. Yeah, because this was PKE.

Yeah, I've got to K. I have too many hits in my favorites. There's, yeah, that's not set for work. We are butt neck, literally, but my dick is on his neck. Hey, dude, speaking of where dick neck and came from. It is, dude, hold on. I can't believe this is going to get brought up

because me and Matt Mitchell talked about it earlier and now it's going to organically come up. You remember that time DJ painted his dick to look like a clown? Yeah, that was, yes, that was part of, we talked about that not really that long ago because that was, we were, that was part of this, like, series, series of back and forths we were all having of, like, news, right? Drew started it.

I thought, I'm pretty sure I thought me and DJ started it. Okay, okay. Because I remember asking y'all in the other thread, I said something like, is anybody interested in some, some, you know, tasteful nudes.

Then in parentheses, DJ, you've already got them. And then, you guys were like, yeah. And then I, so,

and I had taken these nudes in your bathroom, Corey, and you didn't know that. And so that was super funny. You're like, wait a minute, that's my fucking bathroom. I'm just ass naked there.

You can see by the balls and everything. Then we all started sending nudes back and forth to each other. They were one up and DJ ended it the whole thing because what do you do after one guy? I sent a fully erect. I sent a fully erect boner and the only way DJ could come back from that was he painted his dick like a clown. Like a clown and sent it. And then we were all just like, well, that's the end of that, thankfully. But I brought that up not long ago because I told you I saw a post on Reddit from a girl who was asking Reddit for advice because she had looked into her boyfriend's phone.

and she had found a thread with his other, like, dude buddies who are all ostensibly straight. And there was dick pics and stuff in there. And she was asking Reddit, does this mean my boyfriend is gay? And everybody on Reddit was like, yeah, your man is gay, you know, to quote fucking unknown handsome. But that was the consensus. It's like, that dude's definitely gay for sure. And I was reading it in chuckling addicts. I was like, well, I guess that means we're gay.

I don't know. And we talked about that on here. and said it at Drew immediately pointed out it was like yeah we were doing a bit though it's funny when we were doing it you know Mark didn't get it Mark didn't even get that he's like

what's the bit I don't get it because Mark is Gen X and it's like that you know yeah that's gay that's gay he's the most woke homophobic I've ever fucking met in my life like he's such a goddamn homophobic piece of shit that he can't even send his buddy's a dick pick

without getting all butt hurt about it yep god damn yeah he's super super gay. Well, you know, I got to open up. Oh, well, hold on. My question never got answered. Oh, my bad. I asked about looks, Max,

and you just start talking about DJ's dick, man. All right. So let's just go live right here. That is a form of Lux Max. Is this anything? Is this anything? Yeah. I am like a father figure to my nephews because their dad went to prison for murder and a pedophile, uh,

who used to be married to my aunt. It's like John Griss from wrote a juggler. No. And, uh, because of that, I have to keep in, touch with stuff I don't like. So my nephew has been talking to me about, is it clavicular? Yeah, he's, I think. I think it's clavicular and I think he's like the main one. Yeah, I mean, usually I have a rule if your name sounds like a body part I'd cut off to get out of a conversation with you. I'm not going to fuck with you at all.

Right, right. But I have to understand what my nephew's taken in and he's been taking this guy in. So I started looking at him. And you know when you start to consume something just to break it down? Yeah. This dude's real smart. I was about to do this with this guy, but we're on here. So I'm asking you all first.

Yeah. This dude's real smart. And if you're going to take someone down and they are smart, you got to acknowledge that. So when you start watching the dude, here's how he begins. This is like how his content begins. All the stuff they're telling you to. do young men is not going to lead to where and what you want in life. They're telling you to be a good person.

And if you achieve that and you spend your time working on it, all that will lead to is you being a good person who is working for a shitty person. They tell you to go to school and be smart. And if you work hard and you get good grades, you might get an okay job working for a fucking dumbass. If you want to spend your life working for dumb, evil people, not actually getting ahead, then do all the things they're telling you to do. And like when I talk about it on stage, I'm like,

fuck, I wanted to hate the guy. So far, it's my fucker, spitting. Yeah. But then what he, where he cynically arrives is the only way to get ahead is to be hot. Right. Accurate. And he,

I don't know if he coined the phrase or just made popular, the phrase looks maxing. I think that coincides with his whole deal, but it just means making yourself hot. So like, you, like you can just go to the gym, and it can be considered looks maxing.

I think there's like a subgenre of making yourself look good where you like mew a lot and try to get your jaw. He took it to the extreme and fucking supposedly took hammers to his cheekbone. Is that what you asked? You texted me recently and asked if I've been doing like face exercises or something. Because your chin's looking like way more defined. I guess that you lose weight. And I thought you might have been doing that one.

You thought I was looks maxing? Yeah. Got stuck in his ass. when he was pulling it out of his head and it stretched a little bit. That's what happened. Yeah, like the jammer's thing. So, I mean, how? That's part of why he's infamous.

Supposedly like you lightly break it. It'll sweat. I don't, I didn't understand it. I don't buy it. I don't think he's good at that. I think someone probably him started that rumor to get more famous. But what he is, and he acknowledges this, like I said, he's not. He doesn't, he's like, it's basically in-cell culture meets bro culture.

he's like, he was basically like, you look at these in cells and you look at how lost they are. And what they get from society is like, well, work on yourself. Like, if you don't want to be involuntary celibate, work on yourself. He's like, but then what society tells them that means is like, go to school, be a good guy. And he's very cynically like, that won't fucking work. If you're an in-cell and you want to get pussy, get hotter. Yeah, I mean, but like, I don't know. It's wild that it's like groundbreak because I feel like just the idea of like shave your neck,

wear clothes that fit, walk up right, you know, and don't be a douchebag. And all that will help. See? That's where I'm wrong. Yeah. He's like, no, be a douchebag. They like that. Yeah.

And also, this isn't about getting pussy. And if you're spending your time worried about getting pussy, you're not going to get pussy. You don't deserve pussy. You're never going to get head in life. He's brod. He's made it. grind culture mixed with in-cell. It's not like that groundbreaking,

but he's essentially figured a way to mix bro culture with in-cell culture. I'm calling it. This is also an indicator of how back the 2000s are, because this is just the premise to every VH1 show in like 2002 was like how to get girls. It's also just like our moms in the 90s, always on a diet pill. Oh, God. You know what I mean?

You know my mom used to, her diet was she would, skip breakfast, have a light lunch, and then take sleeping pills at seven so she was too hungry to eat. That was her diet. And by the way, my mom has looked amazing my whole life. And that is not as extreme, but it's the same kind of thing of like, chip fucking hammers in your bone. Get leg lengthening surgery. Can I go to the gym for three straight hours? I mean, the dudes have become women.

Ironically, the ones who hate the idea of dudes becoming women. Hey, speaking of hammers, can I do it? And you mentioned Jay Leno. Can I do a Jay Leno joke that I just wrote about this situation? What? I mean, yeah, but why? What? You just wrote a Jay Leno joke?

I did. You mean in your head just now? In my head, I just now wrote a Jay Leno joke about the situation. I thought you meant like this morning. You were writing Jay Leno jokes. So I don't know if you've seen this, but apparently there's people that are taking hammers to their faith to make their faith look better. This is a job people can get where they hit people in the hammers.

And I was thinking to myself, geez, if only Tanya Harding had known about this, you wouldn't have to get naked on video. Hey, Kev. Not bad. Yeah. Thank you. That's not horrible. Hey, I have a, also, is this a thing?

Are you shooting a porn and are you the victim? There is a reason he doesn't have a shirt on. Why is he on a white couch with a white bag on a white hat? He looks like a meme. I asked him if he, you know, if he was transmitting from the afterlife or whatever, if he'd just, you know, learn some valuable lesson and died, you know, at the end of a movie and woken up in this room because that's what it looks like, whatever.

But he had a pink shirt on and I was like, the pink shirt ain't really, it ain't really work. And I was like, if you had a white shirt, you'd really be selling this whole thing. And he goes, well, how about this? And he just rips the shirt off. And I told him that that wasn't better. And then as he pointed out, he is pink. So he's still pink.

And then that's when the ham talk started. I played 27 holes yesterday. So I'm about as pink as I can get. Hey, I had a shirt on initially. For future reference, did you do all that while we were recording? Yeah, I think so. You can absolutely just tell me, we already did that. I'm not, it wouldn't like drive me crazy like it would some people,

but I also just want to say that like, no one has addressed the couch. It's not just that he's shirtless. You look like the start of a very dark video. Yeah, I look like a line of black gentleman is about to form behind me and just take my butt hole to the boogie town. It's a little snuff. Well, it's so funny about this.

It's snuff-maxing. This is like a difference between me and you, Drew, because I don't disagree with you. You're right. But I said he looked like, you know, like at the end of a movie where a character wakes up and you're like, did they die? Are they in heaven? It's just the act of life. But then it's just a brightly lit hotel room or some other, or it's in their head or whatever. But I went to like heaven or maybe purgatory, the good place or something like that, not a murder porn movie.

I don't know what the good place makes heaven like this. It's a bright white room. You can't see anything. Everything's white in it and it's bright and there's nothing else. I think your computer screen is giving you a different view than mine is. Like maybe the brightness is adjusted differently because it's not that bright and that couch. Are you in like a shitty condo? No, I'm in my, I just had to move some stuff around in my office and I haven't gotten any of decorations back here yet.

So it's just blank. Like I keep saying that I'm going to do it and then I just don't. I know you need about a brightly lit room tray but they it looks better than this there's not fucking stains on the couch and stuff. Yeah, I can't really see the stains on this couch

You're not like major ones. Oh, well that would make sense why they gave me this couch if there was stains on it. Yeah, who gave it to me? My sister. Right. It's not like stained up like gross.

It just looks oh whatever. I'm probably going to we upholster it. You can do your, is this anything or whatever, but I still have, you know, I want to talk more about this new.

Again, because it doesn't really sound new. That's you've explained it, as you already pointed out, a lot of that. Well, the words are new because it's always one. Looks maxing just means getting in shape.

Jester maxing is slightly new, which is what they use of it. That's like betas. It's like you can't be the alpha. So, so whatever you do to like cope with that, and a lot of us make jokes, right? We're gesture maxing.

The reason I... Yeah, it's just stupid internet. Just take a thing that already exists and puts maxing to it. Like, if I was out practicing golf, they would be like, oh, yeah, he's, he's a putt maxing right now. Like, there's a guy, dude, there's a guy on Instagram who fart maxes. He's my favorite account right now. He has these, he tries out these specific combinations of foods and liquids. in order to get, not only the, like, there's a stench factor to it,

but also like a loudness factor and all this stuff. He's an Asian dude. And he always, the one constant is he has this drinkable salad. It's like, it's a literal liquid salad. And he does that for, I think that's for looseness or something. I can't remember what it was, but he fart maxes. So it's just, could be wrong. I'm saying that.

But I think that that's like the internet interneting. Yeah, yeah, I agree. But I do think the original is looks maxing. Sure, yeah. And it comes from, okay, I don't. Go ahead. I just think that they just take a thing. Like, looks maxing.

This one of my everyone opens with, I don't know anything about it. And now he just literally won't let me get out of anything about it. I don't know anything about it, but here's what it is. Me? Yeah. No, I'm saying that I've seen maxing used for several things, and what it appears to be is just there are already things that exist, like looks maxing is just just dress nice that's looks maxing right well there's a culture around it which

i think is what tray is asking about and i think clavicular is that the center of right he represents this like a movement or whatever i think he's asking about the movement so it'd be like the difference between like the word manosphere and what that means versus what is the manosphere so the word looks maxing, you are correct, Corey. What is looks maxing is this strange movement that like I said, it mixes bro-manosphere

grind set with in-cell stuff. It's a really, really nihilistic, cynical view of the world, which is like, are we surprised Gen Z's latching on to that? Right. And he's very Patrick Batemany, and he is good looking

and he like doesn't seem to care about anything except quote unquote, winning or quote unquote um but like but like he had this interview i really fuck with channel five and yeah calahan he walked out on callahan just a few minutes into the interview because he said calahan was jester maxing him because he told him i don't care about my looks anymore i used to he's like when i was about your age i did but like i don't now and he was like you're a liar but before they got to that this is the part i wanted to talk about calihan was like okay so it's you know, you're going to get pussy.

And he's like, well, no, but that's, you know, sure, if you need to, but like, that's a side effect. Callahan couldn't really figure out what the goal was. It's to, like, dominate. Dominate what? Right. Like, that was what was odd about it. It's like, so it's not about getting pussy.

It can be about getting money. That seems to be one of them, though, or the main one to me. By being hot. His whole central thesis seems to be like, if you want to get ahead in this world and, like, have money and power, being hot is the quickest and easiest way to do. it. Yeah, I mean, that's obviously going to get you in the door quicker for sure and has been since, you know, time immemorial or whatever. So then now, like, turn that into making it your whole personality and saying, don't be ashamed

of it. Like, don't hide that you're getting plastic surgery. Be proud of it. If you're not getting plastic surgery, you're a fucking pussy and a loser. You're afraid to. It's just turning the sort of, I guess, shame or whatever around, like, admitting that. We all like... It's metrosexual for the new generation, right? I mean, it's just metrosexual is back. because that's what that was, was like, hey, you know, I'm not gay. Looking good doesn't make you gay. I'm metrosexual. Like, I'm just, you know what I mean?

Darker, though, because I think it's like, to me, it's darker because it's like, hey, you know this idea of being shallow being a negative thing? Right. It's not. And anyone who acts like that is scared. They're, you know what I mean? They're just coping. They're jester maxing.

It's better to be good looking. Obviously, like course, everyone's known that since the beginning of time. And that is true. but I just feel like the main thing is confidence or whatever, but also for me it's like the same thing with all these like Hollywood stars who are obsessed with their looks and they get all this plastic surgery and they look like vampires or goreel. It ruined Megan's career, dude.

And they don't look. And so I'm saying if you turn yourself into handsome Squidward, that's not actually handsome. Right. Right. You don't look like a human. Like people, what people actually think is handsome as someone who's just bored and naturally,

fucking handsome and doesn't, you know. So, like, I don't see how that. I think he would acknowledge that. Because, like, he promotes... What can you do about it? I think he, like, promotes, like, liposuction and leg lengthen and stuff. Also, he's a fucking influence. Like, he's just saying stuff to, like, you know...

Bro. But I think he would agree, like, those people are idiots and freaks. Legitening is insane. That's another one. I've seen videos of people who've had leg lengthenctin. That's in that world. And the way they walk after they have it. It ruins.

It makes them look weird and stupid. Just wear it in that world. That's part of looks maxing. And, dude, I'll be honest with you, man. Like, I know this is easy for me to say because I'm of very average height. Like, I'm 5-11 or whatever. But, like, if you... Yes, that's more above.

Well, whatever. I'm not a tall guy, is what I'm saying. Like, I'm not considered tall, but I'm also not a short king. So it's easy for me to say, but it's like, I just want to be like, guys, if you're 5-5 or 5-6, you don't want to be with a woman who would only date a person above a certain height. That's not a quality of a woman that you would want. To attract that type of woman, that's not going to be a good woman for your future. Like, you need somebody that likes you for you, and you are 5-6, and that's fine.

And, like, again, even if you did do the leg lengthening, if that woman does have that on her list of, I would never date a guy that was under this, then like, I don't want to be near that person. Like, I don't, I don't want to be with somebody that has that personality because that's, that's weird. That's boxing out an entire group of people based on something they have no control over whatsoever. And what they're still jacked, good looking guy, but it's like, nope, 5-7, can't do it. Like, you're weird. Like, I don't want you to date my friend. Yeah.

Yeah. What's, I mean, again, it's not about getting married in that guy's world. but in terms of the real world. Yeah. One more time. Why the word jester? Because we're the clowns and he's the king and we're the clown? Well, probably there's some depth to it.

But I think jester maxing originally came from like the idea of like people clowning them for this. Like in order to cope with the fact that you're not the alpha, what would you do? Yeah. And like goof off about it. Goof off about it. Make fun of them. Try to get attention. I know that's actually, I just remember that as a big.

So like Nick Mullin B, Beb Jester Maxson. Trying to get attention to you because you can't get it just by being the alpha. Right. That's the broad sense of Jester Max. What's maugging? So it started out as A-Mogging and they shorted it to Mogging. Alpha Mell of the group is the A-Mogg.

A-Mogging is turning that. A-Mogging is turning that into a verb. So if you're the alpha male of the group, a-mogging someone would be like establishing dominance and proving that in some way. They shorten that to mugging. And what they'll say is something stupid. This is so dumb.

I God, I hate this. You really got mobbed. Well, frame-mogged, which I'll explain in a minute. You really got frame-mogged there. Your cortisol spiked. There's a huge thing of like, if you let someone spike your cortisol, he mugged you, which is crazy because, like, God, I stay getting mugged by the whole.

I'm the mongest motherfucker of all time. I was going to say, like, what if a 5-foot-five rodent of a non-al-ma' man just like, you know, pulls a knife on you, stabs your wife, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, dude, I get frame-mogged by Delta Airlines every other fucking day, dude. I get frame-mogged by traffic on fucking Magnolia. But I'm not mistaken, frame-mogging is a set-up monging. So a maugging is like, well,

hanging out and I, you know, make your cortisol spike by just like fucking winking at a girl. I've mugged you, right? But a frame monging is like setting you up. Like, I invite you onto my fucking pocket. This is so stupid. I invite you onto my podcast and then something about the scenario. I bogged you. I set you up.

I frame monged you. Right. I, I mean, okay. Want to die. I do. I want to die. But, okay. But like, do we have to admit now?

But no, I don't think we do because, like, a lot of these dudes that are doing all this seem to be not that much younger than us. So I was going to say we're being pap balls about this. But, like, there's a lot of older than that. This guy is. This guy, maybe, maybe this guy, but I know people my age who are, like, into all this type of shit. I mean, we're not friends, but I know them. So, like, I believe that, but, like, it really ain't for them. I know it's not.

And that's what makes it more, like, out laugh. To use their word, to use their word, that's what makes it so cringe because, like, It's cringe to me when an age-appropriate person does it, but when a fucking old does it, oh my God, dude. And for the record, like, absolutely take care of yourself and look good. We all need to work out and care about our bodies and stuff. But, like, A, to make that your whole personality is insane, but B, to, like, call it looks maxing and fucking mug people.

By the way, yesterday, I put on a clean shirt and then closed my car door by pushing it with my shoulder, and there was sap on my car and my cortisol, I got mugged out so hard by my fucking Nissan. So like I would be... By the come of the tree. By the come of the tree.

The tree monged you do with this dick juice. I get mugged. Yeah, like I'm sorry. And by the way, I see no chance of me becoming unmodged in the future. You can't teach an old mug new tricks. You know what I mean?

Like you can't do it. So I had a thing, if I may. And, And it really is just perfect because you were talking about working for shitty people or whatever. And you said you've got a, is this anything? And I haven't is this anything about working with shitty people. And please understand that this is purely the premise.

I just need to know if it's anything. People, like I saw the other day, Dennis Quaid was in some new movie and some actor that a bunch of people like was also in it. And all the comments were like, well, I can't believe you're working with Dennis Quaid. I just lost a lot of respect for you. And so I wrote, It might have been Nick Offerman. And I said, people always get mad at actors

if they work with a bad person in a movie. They're like, how could you work with Dennis Quaid? He's a Republican. But it's only movie people that we hold this standard to. Like some of the people who say that are cashiers at Sherwin Williams,

and I guarantee you one of their co-workers is a huge racist piece of shit. But I'm not going to ask her how she could sit there and ring me up for Matt Gloss and Eggshell knowing that Darrell in the back thinks that Jews are actually serpent aliens sent here from some, sent here from some sort of hate and space god. Every single job has dudes that fucking suck at it, but we need to do jobs and stuff on account of the economy.

Like, I'm not saying woe are actors, but it really is the only, that's the only job they hold to that standard. Like, everybody I know who would say that, like, they got racist people at their job and they sit in the cubicle next to them every day. I think that generally think I think that generally think if it was I know Nick Offerman made of it because I saw an interview with Nick Offerman basically kind of being like

this guy was one of my idols growing up we make this movie before it comes out he puts out a gospel MAGA album he's like what the fuck is happening? You know it was him basically being like I didn't realize he was this fucking. Right. But I don't you might be talking about somebody else. I'm not sure how old that clip was.

But if it is Nick Offerman I think that there's this perception people have is like, you know, Nick Offerman, he ain't, he ain't, he ain't have to make that movie. Right. But, but this is relevant to a thing that I thought about maybe bringing up. HBO's got that new Harry Potter adaptation coming out. And there's a lot of people who are talking about certain actors, some, there's some actors in that that are very famous already. But there's plenty of that, plenty of that are not that it's like, this is a, would be the biggest thing they've ever done.

Yeah. And there are some people being like, I just don't know how you could sign up to be. associated with something like this or something that enriches jk rallying or whatever and it's like well this dude or chick has been whatever you know struggling obscurity in the theater or whatever the fuck for they got to turn down their dream because somebody's an idiot paycheck that you know is going to be on tv for seven eight years or whatever you know what i mean like it's going to get canceled like you're going to be on there for a while you're going to be employed gainfully in a very high profile thing for a long time and it's just like, you know, it's easy for y'all to judge on the internet. You know what I mean?

That's a big fucking thing to pass up. If you are Nick Frost or whatever, you, you know, he don't have to. But like, even him, it's like, do you know how much is getting paid? It's a sweet gift or whatever. So, you know, I mean. And this is different than the Saudi thing, in my opinion, because, like, yeah, J.K. Rallin's a piece of shit. She said horrible things. But, like, I am sort of a firm believer in, like, J.K. Rallon, did a thing and now that belongs to the world. She still makes money off of it, but she's been

a billionaire. If she stopped getting money right now, she would still be the richer than any whenever the rest of her life. So like, it doesn't even really matter at this fucking point. Maybe I'm trying to justify this selfishly because like I want to watch the show because I'm a fan and I want to show and I'm

and Bain likes it and like I like that. Kids like it. Kids don't know anything about transphobia or nothing like that or whatever. You're taking Harry Potter away from a generation of children. But it's recency bias, too. They'll make a new Dr. Seuss movie next year, and we all know that Dr. Seuss was a racist piece of shit.

Charles Dickens probably beat his wife, definitely cheated on her a bunch of times, but we're still going to make a Christmas carol. So many authors throughout history that we still make works of theirs, especially because they're in the public domain and you don't have to pay them. We're horrible people. Some of them were Nazi sympathizers, but that was a long

time ago, so it doesn't matter. It's a recency bias thing. Like, I know that J.K. Rillan said all those fucking horrible things, but the thing that she made is good. And that's all we care about. There's also a ton of people that are crew people that don't make millions of dollars. That will also work on that show, like hundreds of them, who will work on that show for a decade and feed their kids or whatever else and all this stuff. So it's just like, it's more complicated than that, in my opinion.

But there's a huge difference between like whether or not it should get made, which is what you're talking about with crew and all that versus whether any one particular. person that you might be a fan of should have taken the role. Yeah. I mean, don't you think it would be wild if a trans person took a role in it? Like, don't you think. That's what I'm saying.

That's not a nice. I think it'd be a good fucky you if they actually got cast in it. Sure, but I guess my point is like whether or not it should be made versus whether or not somebody should be in it. And then if someone, who chooses to be in it, how do you react to that as a fan?

I mean, people expect entertainers to, you know, follow certain ideas or beliefs. and far be it from any three of us to like fault them for that when peddling those beliefs that we do hold ourselves has like gained as fandom it's just a very odd time to me and this is a conversation stopper to a certain extent or like it's such a right turn but like man it's like about to be war war three there is and like we're right on the edge of a real real real bad economic just fucking implosion and and like we're right on the edge of a real real real bad economic just fucking implosion and. And there is a part of me that's like, I just don't care. And I don't mean like I don't care. Like, I'm a cramudgeon.

I mean, like, I don't know what anyone's focused on. I'm like, why is HBO making anything about a goddamn wizard right now? I'm pretty sure we're like, you know, and I know the answer to that. I'm not an idiot. But like, there's a part of me that's just like, this is so. Trivial. Insignificant. The only pushback I'll give, though, I don't.

Decency bias, sure, but for a reason. Agreed. Don't you think like... Yeah. Well, and she's alive. She's alive. She's still getting enriched by it. She's involved with the production.

Right. Like, Dr. Seuss is dead. That's how irrelevant he is. For sure. For sure. No, you're right. So, like, I do think that's... But anyway, I just...

And, I mean, Elvis fuck the 14-year-old. We're raping kids, dude. Yeah. Kid-rame. But, kid right butt. Oh, God. Oh, that's Ted Nudges. When we have a jinks, we call it a butt, everybody.

When we have a jinks, we call it a butt, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. You know, like, the Epstein files, we've already, as a society seemingly kind of like just, maybe we're still in shock, but like, dude, oh, no, she is transphobic. I mean, that's crazy, but, like, they're fucking kids. Right. Yeah.

I mean, yeah. You go to both ways, and I know you agree with this, but I feel the same way about a lot of trans folk. People that talk about trans people in sports and stuff like that or whatever. Right. It goes in that direction, too, where it's like, why do you, it almost never even happens. It's a percentage. Why can't it be treated on a case-by-case basis in a very rare instances where it does happen? Why do we have to spend all this time and effort in legislation on it?

It's fucking stupid. And yeah, no, I mean, I also, because I don't care about who is or is not in this show. But when people bring it up, it's like it's a weird place to focus your outrage in these trying times. The bathroom argument is dumb anyways if you know anything about what most pedophiles are. Like, you know, I've told you all, when Papal Batman got brought up, I pointed out to y'all that like there's an app where you can see all the registered sex offenders in your area or whatever. And so like my sister was real hot on that for a minute. And by the way, we found out a bunch that, like, we did not know. Like, it was people that we knew and were like, oh, shit, we didn't know that or whatever.

Well, you're never going to believe this. The common denominator was they were all old white men, save for, like, one black dude, right? But all old white men, straight, cis men. And so if the argument is we can't have these people in the bathroom because they might fuck our kids, it's like the ones that want to fuck your kids are legally allowed to go in the bathroom. You know what I mean? Those are the one, like, the old man that's a pervert. that wants to fuck your kid is going in that bathroom.

He don't have to put a wig on and go the other one, because you know what I'm saying? They're fucking boys. They're fucking girls. They don't give a shit. They're doing all that shit. It makes no goddamn sense, but it's also just a percentage game.

Like, I'm obviously every single type of thing that you can think of exists and happens. But why are we worrying about the thing that happens 0.004% of the time when there's this, all these things that are happening right now 100% and you don't want to talk about them? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, because it's going to be their dad and not, you know, quote unquote, some freak that they don't fucking know.

You have to reckon with the fact that your uncle was that dude. Right. And that's way harder than just like, ooh, I didn't like that thing, that person that I don't know on TV. And so it's funer to blame them. I mean, it's genuinely fun for those people. And as far as the reverse goes, I mean, it's not the same, but I do think it's like you're scared, things suck, et cetera, et cetera.

It's like I'm not going to call J.K. Rallying an easy target, but it's like a big target. Does that make sense? Like I'm a trans person or I'm a trans advocate or whatever. It's like fuck J.K. Rallying is just like a banner that we can get behind. Right, right, right. And I completely agree with it. Sure. Yeah.

But I'm not going to cancel. young actor for not being under that banner with me personally. And dude, that's how I felt about the whole, like, when the Cosby stuff happened, like, I genuinely felt so bad for the cast of that show because, like, they relied on syndication money and they'd had that. And, like, I get that you have to pull it. I do get that. But, like, I was like, man, it's, it really blows because, like, some of those actors are old

and they're not working anymore. And, like, that's how they, like, they don't have money no more. And that sucks. I don't have a hard time getting people who disagree politically with the rich people, feeling sorry for the rich people. On that note, I actually think that I would be more in the camp of they shouldn't have made the goddamn thing. And I don't mean cancel it now that these young actors have this big great.

I also don't think they should make it, but just purely for like creative hipster reasons. But just like, in this moment with what J.K. Riling is spewing, not to mention just like the fucking redundancy of art and all that. Like just fucking spend that money, make something else. Give young people their big break under a different money.

That means free money. Make more money. Bro, it's the money. Explain to me and I'm generally asking, what is the HBO Harry Potter event? Are they going to fuck this time? Is that what it is? It's going to be more grown up?

No, I think. No, it was. Well, now the HBO's all got. The trailer was a copy and all this stuff with. You know what I mean? Like it's not... The HBO's brand is expanded. They have kids programming and stuff.

It's going to be straight up. This is going to flop. I don't think it will. I hope it does. I don't want it to exist either because I'm just like... I mean, I'm talking about it. I just don't care. It's so recent.

I told Katie, we saw the trailer for it and it was like... It's a carbon copy. It feels weird. Like it feels, it's got like an uncanny value. It's not enough. It's different. Because we all remember it. We've all seen it.

There's no. And it looks like you're seeing like a indie theater troupe, a put together their own version of it. Because you're like, why does Hagrid look like that? Why? You know, like, because it's just so. Not enough, not enough, not even nearly enough time has passed to be doing this. And so I think it's a stupid idea too. But I don't think it will fail, though.

We've talked about this. The only, the only thing I'm excited. about because like when I saw the trailer I was like dude this is every single shot in this scene was choreographed exactly how it was in the movie there's nothing different about it they're wearing the same stuff the only thing I'm excited about

and hope that they do is and I told you this when I read I read all seven Harry Potter books back to back to back to back to back to back in the span of not that long during COVID and I love them I enjoyed the shit out of them they were great and I knew Trey had so I was texting him about stuff and I remember texting him I was

like man it is so wild that in the book there's this huge subplot of Hermione protesting for basically ELM, Elves Live Matters. They bring it up a little bit in the movie, but like she goes hardcore on it and it gets like pretty political and stuff. And there's several things like that in the books that like I go, I understand why they couldn't put that in the movie because it would have been too long. But if they ever did a show, they could do it.

That's the only thing that that makes me a little excited is like, well, each season is a movie, but they're going to have eight hours to play with instead of two. So if we can get some of that stuff, that'll be cool. But like, is that enough of a reason for me to care about a thing? I shouldn't. But like in prison or Vascoband, I can't wait for the third season. I want to see how they do that shit. I could connect this too.

Do you guys know, I'm sure Trado is because it's pretty Reddit coded or whatever, but you are aware, like, the theory of the inshittification of everything? Yeah, of course. I've heard of it. Yeah. I think Caleb China were just talking about that this past weekend. So the basic context, it's like the idea of like one huge example is how electronics are kind of designed to fall apart quickly now. And it's like they made it worse on purpose.

Right. When you look at Hollywood, there's a different version of inshittification. I understand a fan getting excited about what you just said, Corey, because in some ways it's the only way to hope for something new. Right, right, right. It's like, well, they've made the old a little new because they're making the full movie is now nine or ten hours long. So now I'll get something new because there's never going to be fucking anything new anymore. Our culture is dying. And that's not good.

And that's like big, again, that's bigger than like wizards. I will say this on that note, me and Burns were just talking about it on putting on airs. And it's still not where it should be. But like last year, I looked at the top. 10 grossing movies of the, and usually for the past 10 years, every single one of them has been a sequel. This last year of the top 10 grossing movies, only like three or four of them were either sequels or based on IP. Like there actually was a tremendous amount of original stuff that made a lot of money. So I'm hoping that that, you know, I hope they don't see that as

just a one-off thing. But you're still correct in that like, I mean, yeah, everything is a sequel. Everything is this. But like also at the same time. I think that's just the rebound. Right, of the pendulum swinging. The last gasp of the dying breath. Right. And I mean, you know, the thing is like... I hope rock and roll comes back.

I hope rap comes back. I hope movies come back. I just feel like it. Well, me too. And, you know, Hell Mary is doing really good. And Ryan Gosling put out a statement where he said, it's not your job to save the theaters. It's our job to make something so good that you will do it for us, you know.

And I'm like, well, that's one way to look at it. Even that I loved that movie. I loved the book even more. That book was a smash hit follow up to a smash hit cultural phenomenon from a breakout author. But that's not like that's cool. But so is Shawshank. That is cool. I know.

So was the shining. I know. But it's still not the same as someone who came up with a script. I know that. Out of nowhere. I know that. And that became... But I'm just saying that's nothing new as all right.

Then like a sequel. The whole problem, y'all know trying to get stuff made. You can't get nothing made without IP, right? That's one of the problems in my opinion. For years now, you've had creative people who have ideas and they write scripts. They write screenplays. So now they're trying to make comment books or whatever first so that now they can be like, hey, there's IP for this because they won't buy anything that doesn't have IP.

And I'm just saying Project Hell Mary is not a counter-example. to that. It's another thing. No, I know, but the point I was trying to make was like, when they just say IP, that's a real big blanket statement because like so many of the movies that are classics that we've loved throughout time have been, like the Godfather is based on IP. You know what I'm saying? Like fucking the man who shot Liberty Balance is based on IP. Shawshank Redemption is based on IP. They were just books. Gone with the Wind with the biggest movie of all time at the time. Margaret Mitchell books. So like,

Just the term IP doesn't necessarily make me go, fuck this movie. But when it's like a video game that they're now going to turn into a movie, I sort of get it. I don't get to the, I don't see the difference between a video game. Yeah, I guess you're right. And fallout rules. So. Yeah, you're right. About to hear pot of thing real quick, I already heard him say, the showrunners already said, another huge pet peeve I have in the world of TV, right?

I feel like this was one of the things that brought Stranger things so far down is every one of these streamer production your nipples takes two fucking plus years in between seasons now and the seasons are smaller and it's it's bullshit because you don't have to fucking do it. I don't care what they say. Well, Harry Potter's got all these little kids in it.

The showrunners already said the other day, they're like, oh, there's no way we're going to be able to put out a season per year, right? John Lithgow's like 81 years old. These kids are 10 or 11. Like, how are you going to do that? Well, dude, they can replace Dumbledore. That'll be true to the movies.

I know. I guess that's just, that's their plan. Well, he'll die and we'll replace him, and that's fine. But then the kid, you know, Harry Potter's, he's supposed to be 14 in this season, but the dude is clearly already 22 or whatever the fuck. And like, you know, that type of shit too. They're going to do AICGI for it. That's what's going to happen.

He's probably right. They probably signed a contract saying they'll still pay, but they're going to do that. That's 100%. I mean, they de-age people all the time. I feel like I've been very negative this whole episode. So I think people should garden. If you want my positive take on stuff, it's like, who cares what J.K. Raleigh is up to?

Turn off HBO, go outside, go jump in a river while you still can without getting cancer. Maybe, maybe they'll stop fucking making Harry Potter shit. Well, when did the, was it the, was it the Obi-Wan series that they de-aged? Mark Hamler, was it Mandalorian? Either way, it was like six, seven years ago, right? It was like six, seven years ago. And it looked pretty amazing. It looked pretty amazing.

And I'm not saying I'm for it. I'm just saying, like, that's clearly only gotten better. So, like, that's how they're 100% just going to do that in HBO. Like, that's their game plan. Yeah. I mean, when the big writer strike and actor strike and all that stuff kept churning, those few summers in a row, that's a big,

everyone was talking about the streaming contracts, understandably so, but a big part of it was what you're talking about. They've been planning to do this for a while. Yeah, and I mean,

I guess there is a difference, like if they actually have the same kids act and they just, they do all their scenes and then they do the de-aging and post, like I definitely have way less of the problem. Why don't they do that? I know, I know.

I have those kids do all that when they could just type in, do it. I'm with you. I'm with you. movement. I'm with you. I'm just saying it's been done before. Like that's what they did with Jeff Bridges in in Tron or whatever. Like he did the scenes and then they deaged him. So it's been done. I know it can be done. I'm with you that they probably won't. But like I do feel that's a

little different. You know what I mean? But but but to your point because that would be the only acceptable way to do it, that is not what they'll do. Well, it's going to be a more expensive way to do it. They're just going to do it the cheaper way. It's anyway. Yeah, man. I'm tired of I'm feeling like a stick in the mud today. I got a lot of good things going on in my life. And I'm not actually... Talk about them. What do you got going on?

Oh, I don't want to share. I'm just saying you. Oh, yeah, yeah, I hear you. Yeah, I'm currently signing up to be an ambassador for Hidden Valley Ranch. I hope that goes well. That's a gig. I really want to... Oh, yeah.

Do you really do that? Arnold. Did you really do that? Now, we really do that? With who? Motherfucker? I know. I didn't.

I didn't do it. I, Matt Mitchell, Matt Mitchell did call me. All right. Okay. Okay. Because just everybody listening knows. I know. I know. Mark put this in the fucking group chat.

And I read it. And I was like, I was like, Joe, literally sign us, apply us for this. I know. I was like, we might actually have a shot at this. And then now two weeks later, you're, you know, find that. Some other motherfucker. But I mean, obviously, I know Cassio. And he took it, he took it upon himself.

Yeah, yeah. Just snipe you away. So that's fine. And he called me and asked you about it. I was like, oh, yeah, I heard about that. And he's like, well, I signed us up. So I'm going to probably get you to do some clips. Like, you know me.

I didn't do anything. But we won't get it. But if we did, that would be, you know, exciting. I would be, I would be into that. That'd be fun. And it also seems like, to Drew's point, what a hilarious thing to do during World War III is run around in a hidden valley t-shirt. That's what you should be doing, dude. That's what people should be doing.

I'm serious. That's what people should be doing. I agree with that because like I'm I'm of like two minds and most of them is like I sort of feel the way you feel where like I walk around and unless I'm get higher I'm in the right mood like everything feels so moot and irrelevant and I don't feel like that hold on that's not I do not feel like that I feel like an arguing about a Harry Potter fucking HBO series is moot I want to be very clear and I'm not saying it's probably my fault so I'm going to correct it not to correct you but to correct the record I think people should be be getting to know their fucking neighbors. I think there's lots to be done and to be fought for and to be thinking about as we roll forward through whatever the fuck this next little bit is. I just don't know if yelling about what HBO's doing is one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Other hand, you should definitely be bathing in ranch or whatever you imagine. Yeah, fair. Okay, well, I guess what I mean is I'll leave you out of it then and say that just sometimes I feel like when I have an idea to do something goofy or whatever, then I turn on the news and I'm like, oh, God, this is just, and I have people, like, you know, we get this all the time. Like, we don't, we post these, we schedule these podcasts. So like, we do them one day and they come out the next. And sometimes they'll come out and something horrific had happened that morning. And we'll

get a message like, like, how could you guys be talking about this at a time like this? How could you be joking at a time like this? And I was, in my argument has always been like, dude, if we had to wait till everything was correct in the world to joke, we'd never make jokes. It wouldn't be a thing to do. But then my other thing is like, I understand wanting to walk around and be upset all the time. And you feel guilty for taking joy when you know that there are children being slaughtered in hospitals. But at the same time, I've always been of the belief of like, if we don't enjoy our life when we can, what is it that we're even fighting for? You know what I mean? Like, you should, like, obviously take your time and be responsible and do the right thing to make the world a better place.

But when you get a spare hour, fuck yeah, I play Minecraft. Fuck yeah, go, you know what I mean? Because otherwise, what is life? You won't have the motivation to fight for something if you don't like that thing, you know? Have you thought about like how you look right now, shirtless on this casting counts while you give this speech? I think it's really.

It's incredible in my opinion. I think it's perfect. I'm enjoying myself. You know what I mean? It pans out and then his old dick is covered in Nutella. Yeah. Did you tell me to cover my nipples earlier because they'll strike us from YouTube or something?

Yeah, that's what I said it. Oh, it's just because you didn't want to see my apples. I was just doing a bit. I was just like, okay. Right on. Yeah. They might do that. I don't know what they'll do on the YouTube.

No, I just, I was just saying like, you know, not even petty grievances because I'm not saying the J.K. Ryan thing is petty, but small grievances just feel like a real waste of time now. I don't think Joy is ever a waste of time. And I think that most people, I mean, yeah, you can still find on the, the pop culture subreddits, there'll be people talking about actors in this HBO production. or whatever, but I do think that generally a lot of people have reprioritized things in recent years. Like people on the left, I definitely think like a lot of those stuff that I always complained about us being all pissy about. I feel like people kind of have, you know, I got bigger fish to fry now, or at least I mean, that's how I also feel, you know, about it. Right.

So I think so. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. No, we don't. No, I checked before. We do not. We have, well, we have a D-A-I read, which means I do it myself.

Yeah. This D-E-I, yeah. D-E-I. We don't have any D-I. You would think that we'd be lousy with D-E-I ads. Delaware Bureau of Investigation. Yeah. Yeah.

We can plug our stuff and just leave a little early, I feel like, you know. Yeah, that's fine. I got some plugs. Go ahead, everybody. I'm, uh, next up is Philly and then Raleigh. I like how those sound back to back. Plus, I like both those places. And then after that, Phoenix and a ton of other spots in the near future Portland, not long from now.

All at Trey Crowder.com. So come say, me, for the love of God. Huge thank you to the people who I saw out in New Orleans. I mentioned many of you on the Gravy Baby podcast, some by name. Huge, huge thank you to the people who were in Denver last week. Shout out to the homie, Chris, who this is going to make his fucking day, wanted me to tell you, Trey, that Double Dale said hello. And he really thought that might mean something to you.

I think he was in a mean greet line of yours wearing a Dill-Earnard T-shirt. Oh, yeah, double-day. Yeah, yeah. Yes, I remember Double-Dale. He had a double-Hart shirt and what? And in the Earnhardt hat, maybe. Yeah, he had multiple layers of Earnhardy on. And I say it was double-dialin.

Where I'm from, we call the Doubledale the Widowmaker heart attack. That's my dad's name, everybody. He loves having heart attacks. Well, anyway, I want to be in Bristol, Tennessee next. I think that's like the April, the 15th-ish. I don't know. It'll be, I'll put it up. I'll be in Bristol, Tennessee.

Please come out and see me at the Blue Ridge Comedy Club. I'll be open for Tray in Portland. I'm very pumped to go to Portland. I think there's one more where I'll remember it. I am not doing any stand-up for the foreseeable future. I can tell you this, though, go ahead and get tickets for our Nashville show in December because they will sell out. You can get those at Treycrowder.com, and we just got a ticket link to.

We've never done this. We usually, Zanis is the last hurrah, but came a little early this year. And afterwards, on that Sunday, we're going to be in Huntsville at the comedy club there. So you got two chances to see the boys back together completely. and that'll be fun and you can get all those tickets. I don't think we have the link for Huntsville up yet. Maybe by the time this podcast goes out, but come see us in Huntsville.

It's in December. You got plenty of time. Here's what I'm doing. I'm taking the entire summer off to either write my first shitty novel or go to Europe and be a representative for Hidden Valley Ranch. But one or the other, who knows? And I'm excited about either. And you can find all of my writings that is inspiring,

the novel at Corey writes for you.com, which is my substack. And let me also say this, I did not film a special this weekend. However, I did film my set in Atlanta. And for some reason, I opened with something I've never opened before. And it led me into basically just talking about the war and Israel for an hour. And they filmed it. And I'm never going to do those jokes again because it was all stream of consciousness. So I'm going to put that out exclusively on my substack as soon as our good buddy Greg Barron sends it to me. So that's another great reason to subscribe to Corey Wrightsfor You.com, which is my substack.

I'm currently number 50 in humor. I was hovering around 42. I've dropped a little bit. But as you all know, I'm constantly coming for Garrison Keeler and Dave Berry's spot, and only you can make that happen by subscribing at Corey Wrightsforyou.com. Thank you all for listening to The Well Red Show. We love to stick around longer, but we got to go. I tune in next week

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