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Because hilarious. They're the liberal rednecks day like cornbread but six. They care way too much. but don't give a fun. They're the liberal rednecks that makes some people upset but they got three big old dicks

that you can suck. Trey looks like Freddy's Fort Mercury. Who, Freddy, who? Ford Mercury. Oh, it hits. The only jamming song is a, I feel like a, I mean, crazy ad placement.

Yeah, but that song hits, though. I love that song. It only occurred to me when I got older. Like, oh, that's a pretty wild, clear ad placement that he probably got paid by Mercury to do that. I think the model year he name drops in that song at least once it's like 49 or something, which is wild listening to. You know, because that's just so ancient. Right. But when he wrote, when he put that out, it's like it probably still seemed like 40 years old.

It was like saying an 80, having an 85 Mustang or something. Exactly. That's one. But to us, it was ancient. Yeah, no, it's wild. Like, it wasn't really that. Bad, speaking of old shit, I just want to say RIP, Garth Hudson from the band passed away,

and he was the last remaining member of the band. And I know that it's a dark day for many reasons, but it's a dark day to me because nobody from the band is alive anymore, and that super sucks. Also, he was 87. Yeah, me too. Also, he was 87 and like, bro, being a member of that particular band and making it to almost 90

is crazy to me. When did Robbie Robertson died? He died in 2023 at 80 years old. I still feel like that's, he'd been on borrowed time too. Like 80s. I came very close to running into him once, but didn't. He had just been there and left. He would have no idea who I was, but it would have been cool for me.

Yeah, fair. Yeah, it was when I did Mark Maron's podcast. You go to his house to do that. When I got there, he told me, who said, he was like, oh, you just missed Robbie Robertson. He just literally just left there. seconds again. When I was younger, I hated him because I knew that him and Leavon had like a riff between them and I was such team Levin and then I got older and I was like, eh, well,

I like them all. Who gives a fuck? Like, of course they're going to fight. He's Canadian. What are you going to do? How many bands don't fight? Right. Yeah. Yeah, you're correct. And also like there was that once you watch the last waltz and you start reading all the shit about like, you know, they were, dude, like they quit. They Barry Sanders did. You know what I mean? Like, they stopped being a band at like the very height of their shit. And the reason was basically that Robbie Robertson had been, old Scorsese had got him sniffing his own farts. And he was basically like,

why are you in this band come to Hollywood and you'll be the hottest shit when it comes to, you know, scoring movies and doing all this shit? And like, yeah, he was successful in stuff, but never to the amount that I think he thought he was going to be. Whereas that band, God damn it, they just, boy, you know, don't hit. Yeah. I get the impulse, though, I think, because it's like, well, I don't know. Obviously, as a comedian, being in a rock and roll band that hits. If you don't fight, what are you doing?

Well, it just seems to me like it would be, well, that too, but I'm talking about making that decision. What I'm saying is like, it seems like it would be so rad. Like, I travel all the time and I perform. It ain't being a rock star, though. Being a rock star seems like it would hit. but still tiring right so i'm saying it's very hard to find a uh a rock a rock job right that's not boring you're at home all the time yeah that would rule i do it too you can knock that that like my my man t-bone right like he's got a studio in his house and he's a very successful fucking legend

and he don't ever have to leave if he don't want which he is touring right now to support his new album y'all know i know and it does but he but he doesn't have that's the first time well that's first time he's like really toured in a long time I'm pretty sure he because he was told me about it out you know but and I'm sure in his mind he's been like yeah staying at home does it this whole time he's that's what I'm saying so I get why anybody would want to do that you know want to make that happen I think it went the other way around I think they like split up and then Robertson started to do that they were already having a big riff over money I don't I don't for me I'm not like screw Robbie Robertson because he left the band

it's more that according to Levan, who I have on a pedestal and nearly made my son's middle name Levon, he should be on the hearing. They had agreed to do it a non-traditional way, meaning yes, royalties usually go to whoever is

considered the lyricist. They had agreed not to do that for one because they had just said we're all equal, but for two, according to Levin they helped him write all those songs. Right. But he wrote down he was the lyricist and then he kept all the money and the royalties. And once they started to get success, they started pissing people

off. So I, and again, whether you knew and believes it or not, all I'm saying is I don't have ill will towards Robbie Robertson's memory because he broke up the band by going to Hollywood. For me, it's more like, oh, I feel like you sold your boys out for money. And one of your boys was Leighon Helm, so it's easy for me to pick Tim. I don't really get why it traditionally works that way with lyricist or whatever. anyway, meaning like, I get that sometimes in a band, there's, there's like a central creative driving force that everyone acknowledges. Sure.

But I know that also there's a lot of times where it's like, okay, they do write the lyrics, but then like they work with the rest of the band members to put the music or song together. You know what I mean? They got like the lyrics like this being the key, whatever, but then. Yeah, a lot of times the lyrics don't know shit about arrangement. Exactly. It's like, well, I'll do this and he'll do that and whatever. And then they put it all together.

and I don't see how that isn't, that should be, when it works like that, it should be equal parts in my opinion. If the song gets sold as a whole, it shouldn't work like that. I guess the only thing is like, let's say hypothetically, someone covers the song, right? And they don't use any of the original arrangement because they make it

totally their own. The only thing they use is the lyrics, like, then okay, you know, that's one thing, sure. Yeah, the fact that the lyricist would get most everything when the song is just sold as a package, right? Because like, I promise you, Robbie Robertson didn't know shit about the organ or like that Garth Hudson did. He was a fucking, I mean, maestro on that thing.

Didn't know anything about drum arrangements and all the stuff that LeVon did to make, yeah, like I agree with you. Like the song, uh, fucking, uh, half their songs are great lyrically, but like it's the arrangement of the whole thing that makes them smash. Yeah. What's like, I wonder Bernie Taupin. Does he get like half? You know, like, like, of Elton John?

Well, because like normally the lyricist gets like the ball. of it, but obviously in that case, that's not happening. Can't be happening. Maybe it's a 50-50 deal. They just have their own agreement. Yeah, you're right. I would doubt, but yeah. I know just enough about the music industry to be ignorant on this.

I'm still about to just expound upon this for two paragraphs. That's what we do here. Breckless speculation from our butts. I think there's a few reasons. I think there's a few reasons it is the way that it is. I mean, part of it's just like tradition. in the sense of like, there was definitely a time, at least in country music, and this I do know, where you came to Nashville with your lyrics,

and then they put you up with a studio band. And if you blew up, maybe that became your touring band as well. But the point being is like, we're here doing this, we're paid well, it's our job. You come with the lyrics, and if that blows up, you get it. And then the publishing company started to figure that out, so they started pulling people as, you know, giving them songwriter contracts. So they could get the money. And then no one in the fucking band would get the big blow up for the first certain number of years.

So I think it's tradition mixed with just like good old American military style capitalism. I say military style meaning like you got to have a leader. Leaders get paid the most. I know that a lot of bands chose to do it a different way with the knowledge going in. Like, hey, I'm not interested in that. You have to assume I do anyway that like flee. can say to Anthony Kedis, you're going to give me more money, or I'm going to quit the band and that's going to look bad on you.

It also seems like those dudes have known each other so long. Maybe that wasn't the tenor of that conversation, you know. I do feel like a lot of people do it slightly differently. It's like, dude, Bob Dylan ain't sharing writer credits with, hey, in this case, literally the same band for a few years. Yeah, yeah. But then you go with Robbie Robinson, and you just don't know. Maybe he wrote, maybe he is a genius lyricist.

But you've also got to think, dude, some of their most popular songs are covers or own classics. I don't think that he's not, but like, you know, a big part of it was it. Levan was like interviewed one time. You might have even shared this interview with me. And he was talking about like, he's like, yeah, sure. He's like, Robbie Robertson is the one that put it in that order on paper. He said, but half of those songs, he wrote after a long conversation with me where I was explaining all this shit to him because all like you would never know that everyone in that

band was canadian except for levin helm because they are almost they drove old dixie down yeah they're almost the quintessential american band but they're all from canada and the night they drove my mom found that out right well the night you can make you can make two arguments there you could also argue i could of course or uh the reverse of like that kind of proves his genius right like he kind of proves his worth of like levon run your mouth and then i'm going to turn it into I don't disagree with that either. For the record, I don't disagree with that either because, like, you know, if you're, it would be, like, if you're Robbie Robertson and Levin Helm is this great orator who's sitting there explaining to you a Canadian about his experience growing up in Arkansas and stuff, and you're a songwriter, how are you not going to hear that and be inspired by it down? So I'm like, well, you know, whatever.

But I guess Leibon's argument was like, all those hits were inspired by me. You know what I mean? They were inspired by me. and here I'm getting a drummer's salary for it, and that's kind of fucked up. You were right. This band won't exist without me, so I demand to be paid more,

and he goes, no, and then the band breaks up. And I made a vow to myself when I decided that I'm going to be a person who realizes the Civil War was awful, and I'm not on the South's team in that. And I'm going to be on the South's team in literally every other debate. So I just, that's a deal I made with myself. So leave on him versus not just the North, the White North, which is arguably the worst one.

I fuck everybody with Leavon is how I feel. Well, before I agree with that. Yeah, I mean, I'm definitely on Leavon side. At least with the band, Leavon was from Arkansas and was very legit. And like me, like, they're all legit. Credent, I mean, I'm talking about with the way that they sound. Oh, yeah, yeah. Credence is like.

Ogrety is, like, they're Californian. Like, yeah, all of them. Fogarty included. And it's like, born on the bay. It's like, born in the Bay Area. But like, but. But. They still did.

Don't get me wrong. I didn't know that about them until I was older. They're some of the best appropriators of all time. Yeah, dude, I didn't know that. I mean, this is like if the internet had have existed, we would have, I guess. But like, I found that out, you know, about Fogarty or whatever later in life. And I was like, I don't know. I bought it.

You know, like, I thought. Very much so. They sounded like it to me. There's not authenticity we're after. I borrowed this from Tyler Mancoe. It's sincerity. CINET that. Sure.

Well, now that we're into Cickeg or. Who else is like that is Kid Rock. He's very, he's very, he's very, sincere. It definitely means it. Yeah. Well, now that we're into that, and I know where we're going from here, I just want to briefly share with y'all something wild that happened to me.

Okay, before you do, let me just say, Trey shows some respect. That's Secretary of Defense, Kid Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right before this, I was eating my sandwich before we started, I listened to Only God knows why, and it, you know, still goes hard. It rips. Were you thinking about how Kid Rock's Secretary of Defense, and that was your response? Yeah.

I mean, yeah, pretty much. I could not think about, you know, his whole deal. I was like balls my eyes out over that. So I went to bed on Sunday night and I woke up today at lunch, right? What? Literally? Literally. Like literally.

You missed a hell of the day. I texted y'all. I texted the fucking thread today, son. Like, go check since the last time I fucking texted y'all in the thread. I texted Trey one time yesterday when I woke up in the middle of some shit because he had whispered to me or something. but otherwise I've been fucking radio silent, right? So Sunday.

I think the longest I've ever slept at once was I think 18 hours after a Bonaroo one time. Here's the thing. I was sick. I went to bed fine and I woke up, I guess sick, and then went to bed and slept through all the sick and shit. So, but at one point, and again, I would have to wake up to pee, but I'd be in this like fucking fog and I kind of didn't know what day it was. And I guess I just perpetually thought it was the night that I went to, does that make sense? I just metachry. You should probably go get a test.

I know I really should. But anyways, like, I woke up to, I came out, and Amber was like, I was wondering when you were going to, and I looked in this fucking Tuesday, right? Like, I woke up, I went to bed and woke up, a whole different president, I'd missed the championship, all this stuff, right? Well, like, anyways, this is the crazy part. Clearly, I was covered in sweat. I'd had a fever and it broke. So I'm having these crazy fever dreams. But because Amber told me, she said, you were, she said, you literally didn't move for an entire.

24 hour period. She's like, you were out. She's like, I kept thinking like, God damn, he's going to wake up at like two in the morning and not be able to sleep. She's like, but you were gone, snoring all this shit. I had a dream that like, I can't explain this other than in my brain, it lasted a whole year. Like, it was a whole year and I had all these experiences. And then I woke up and I was like, I didn't know where the fuck I was. I thought that was my life. It's, and I, for like an hour.

Now, it's obviously it's fading now because that's how dreams are. But for like two hours, I was subconscious. Like, I wasn't even Trump. I was mourning the loss of like all these friends that I knew. And I was like, what the fuck is happening? By the way, parts of my mouth were coming out. Like little pieces of skin was just falling out of my mouth. And I had a film over my face that I, like, peeled off like I'd been wearing a mask or something.

Are you talking about it in a dream? No, I'm talking about when I woke up. I literally had like this six film over me that. You say parts of, but not parts of your mouth, like build up in your mouth. Build up in my, but so much of it where I was like, it felt like I was pulling out my jaw. I've had that before when I'm, when I'm, you molded. I molted, yeah, but dude, it was the most, like, it was the most, I don't know, fucking Kubrick movie type shit where I was like, I literally had best friends in this dream that lasted a full year. Like, I went to sleep in this dream.

I got up and went to work. Like, it was a whole year of my life and it's gone now. So two, two things. it's wild you bring this up because one of the things that I meant to tell you about was about how wild time is in dreams. I was going to bring that up on this episode. That's because of DMT. And you do 24 hours straight.

It's a year. It's weird that you had that experience because I was literally going to bring that up because I had a dream the other night where I woke up at 2.30 to P. It was a travel day. So I had to be up at like 4.30 to go to L.A.X and fly. And I woke up at like 2.30 to P. And it went back down and laid back down and fell back asleep pretty quickly. and I had a dream that

it was like it covered at least a few day period and it was really a nightmare because it was a dream about my life falling apart uh that was awesome katy leaving me and fucking realizing that you know I got to pay for the house and some other dude is going to raise my kids and all that type of shit

like I went through all that Brooke yeah that that song and that that Toby Key song who's that man That's my dog in the year. Not that I would have a fucking dog, but anyway. Right. He's got a dog in the yard.

And it super didn't hit. And again, in the dream, it was like at least days, like, like two days, you know, and was very in depth and felt very real. And then I woke up again like, oh, thank God, you know, fully thought it was real. One of those dreams, so relieved. I looked at my phone and it was like 258. It had been like 25 minutes or something like that. Dude, I wasn't even me.

that's the crazy part that's always why when you have a dream where you at you it don't know what people don't like to hear about other people's dreams dreams in general are insane that's why i didn't bring i'm not talking about the actual dream just the product like nobody yeah nobody wants to hear about my dream two things there i read a long elaborate anecdote on reddit once about a guy who claimed and i mean i believe him said that he'd been in like a motorcycle accident or something like that it was in a medical coma for like a week or so so he was like knocked out for a week and he says that while

he was out in that coma he had a dream where he got married, had children, bought a house together, had a job, lived a life. His kids were like 12, 13 years. Like he partially raised these kids and all this shit. And then came out of the coma and woke

up and none of that was real or it ever happened. And he was like powerfully depressed and grieving and all this stuff and had to go to a therapist because like he lost his children and his wife or shit because he had lived his whole life and during his coma. and shit like that, it's just fucking nuts. But it's also, like you said, you weren't even yourself.

It's also while no one questions, like, you tell Drew, you're like, so I had a dream and Drew, you were there. I mean, you were like a fat black lunch lady, but it was you know. I was wondering if I was any of these fucking dreams. And you're just like, none of y'all were because it wasn't me. And you just say that. And everybody's like, right, yeah, I get it.

Because we all know how that work. But it's crazy that that can have. It's still your brain inside your head. And it just accepts these things as being normal. DMT. Yeah, you're right. But dude, I'm telling you, like, and when I woke up, not only was I depressed immediately, that all the, I, it took me a minute to realize who the fuck I was. You know what I mean?

Because I just woke up in a dark room. Like Amber wasn't there. I just woke up in a dark room and then like fucking, I don't know, it was bugging me the fuck out. And then, of course, and now we can get back into what we are talking about. I was having this. Well, I was going to say I was having this existential crisis. And then I finally get my phone. I found it.

And I start scrolling. I was like, right, Trump's the president. Now, right, well, at least Notre Dame got. And then I started having to like re-download actual life into my head. And it seems more like a dream than what I had. Because what I had was very normal. I was dude in Europe, I had a, I was like, I flew a plane and that's how I worked. Like I gave tours or something.

And my dream seems so normal. And then I woke up to a reality that seems like a dream. A nightmare, if you will. Yeah. Sorry That's the way it went That's got up I think DMT is

I think I mean I don't think I'm talking out of my ass It's why the time is weird It's also why it feels real Even when you know it's not You can't shake the feeling Is that a stye? Is that a stye?

Damn it, don't look I can't tell if that's just a shadow Or something fucked up No I'm just now noticing That's a stye or something I'm dying You slept too long Yeah

All right, go ahead there. I'm sorry. Well, no, I was just going to say the White House accidentally declared that we're all women. I saw that. That's hilarious. They said that for people who don't know, they said that whatever gender you are at conception is what gender you are, and that's women for everybody. And I didn't think that was true until I heard y'all talk about dreams for 35 fucking minutes. That was a good one, fuck you guys. And then, secondly, you guys were talking about, uh, Damn, I'm trying to remember.

Oh, yeah, I remember what made me think of this. Sam and I were texting Sam Talon and I, like a month, two months ago. His dad, Dave Talon, is a great guy. He's kind of a hippie type. No way. He's apparently in love with my wife. Well, yeah. And Sam and I started doing a running bit, essentially about how I would be polyamorous with his dad

because, like, I got bills and shit. And I just, you know, I love Dave enough. And I wanted Sam to be my stepson anyway or my step-nephew or whatever. that would work out as. So I was like, I'm not willing to give up my wife, but I'm willing to let him join my family. Well, that allowed me to tell Sam Talent about the genius country song, That Ain't My Truck. Yeah. Nothing's ever been more fun to me than to explain that to him.

He got such joy. I mean, you know, soul of a poet, the great writer, a very funny man. He got such joy out of the brilliant simplicity of the metaphor of, That Ain't My Truck. That's a great song. By the way, shout out Sam Talent's wonderful book running the light. I don't know if y'all know this. She probably did. Penguin Publishing, I believe, just bought it from Sam,

and they're doing a reprint of his once independent books. So, hey, sometimes the good ones. That happened as part of a larger deal they gave him to write more books. Well, hey, sometimes the good ones win, and this is one of those. Yeah, I texted him when I saw that. Yeah, he deserves it. It's great. It's an awesome book.

Yeah, read it. Go ahead and buy it now independently before, you know. why not? If you're an audiobook person exclusively, that's a great one because I read one of the chapters, and that's how I know it hits. So, you know, check that out. Man, as he's getting more and more successful, Andy really needs to start fucking his dad. Yep, before he flips full conservative, because that's what happens when you get successful now, apparently.

In the comedy world especially. Yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ. He hasn't been going on kill Tony a lot, but he told Joe Rogan there was no trans agenda to his face. Yeah, dude, him and Stavros are about to take life when they go on Joe. back on Rogan too. I saw people, you know, like Stavros went on Joe Rogan, not longer or whatever, and I saw a bunch of people like,

oh, no, he was our guy. And now he's, I'm like, why don't you I actually watch the episode? Because I guarantee it's an hour of him just being like, this is fucking stupid. Like he actually- Neither of those dudes are liberal. They just fucking, you know what I mean? So it's like, if you, if that's where your brain is,

anyone who goes on Rogan is not my guy. I was like, well, they weren't your guys anyway. That's not really what they are. Democrats, whatever word you want to throw at it, They're like something very different. But they're doing a thing that like, I feel like most people, uh, most like self-professed liberals would like,

which is like they'll always be like, no, you should speak truth to power. You should go in. And it's like they are doing that. Like they go on, they use their platform to go on these places and say the things that they like. Like I think it would be worse if stop. I don't go on Rogan.

No one invites me, but I've always, I've always said that my policy is that, of course, of course, of course Joe Rogan, but I don't even mean Joe Rogan. Like, I would go on any of these fuckers shows. Me too, gladly. Because I feel like it's a bitch move not to.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's like a bad look or something. No, dude. But like if fucking Tim Poole or what any one of those dudes, like, wanted me to come on their show and fucking, I'm not as long as you stand on business. I know, that's what I'm saying. So I don't get people having that out either, you know. I think people like to pull a clip of people getting along and then like put

that out and be like, this is normalizing it. And look, it is. Like, that wouldn't be your fault. You know what I mean? Like, if there was a 10-minute section of you guys talking about something that, like, a movie you both like, it wouldn't be your fault when that got isolated and put out there. But the effects of that being isolated and put out there would be a certain amount of normalization of, I don't know,

or whoever else. I think Mark, for example, would tell me that it's bad or not do that, and I should be ashamed to myself. I mean, don't you think so? Yeah, but we can't base our lives on what Mark would have this bill. I'm just saying. I think he would say what I'm saying. I think he would say it will end up bad, but it wouldn't be your fault. I mean, it would.

Like, the powers that be would use that for a negative. Sure. You know what it's like? It's like that Seinfeld clip talking about cancel culture was seen by, I want to say, half the world. And then that clip of him saying I was wrong was seen by like 200,000 people. Yeah. The arc of that was wholesome, moral, interesting, in my opinion, an old man, processing the new world, and then getting it right.

But the reality is, Seinfeld became fuel for people to be the worst. And then when he backtracked, those people never saw that he did that or didn't care. Right. And I think Mark would say something like that, and he'd be right, but I still think you should do it, dude. Yeah, well, you know what y'all should do. You should take control of your diet, guys. That's what you should do. I want to talk to you about our sponsor this week, Factor, one of the ones,

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Skew. All right, man, we're back, everybody. So, yeah, you missed a hell of a day show. A whole lot of stuff happened. All of it hit for me. I thought it was all great. It was a big thing of all of it. But, um...

I'm pretty stoked. Yeah, but, um... Did they make it legal to be white? Was that one of them executive orders? Yeah, hits to be white again. That's fine. straight white male. You can be a man again.

Me and Mark, well, I'm sure there's probably a lot of people listening to and also listen to skews or at least some, and they know that me and Mark have started pre-recording because he really wanted to, which is fine with me.

But like this week is a good example. I feel like we barely even talked because we recorded it yesterday. Does this mean I'm never going to guest host again? Well, I don't know. I wouldn't say never, but probably less. You get used to not ever guest hosting after a while.

Yeah. But anyway, we did it yes. We did it yesterday. And we tell the people on the episode, hey, this is Monday when we're recording this. So we've really barely even talked about Elon doing a Nazi salute or whatever. And that's going to be weird now. You know, because it don't come out until tonight.

Because it's weird because Mark did. I had not even seen it at the time we recorded. You know me. I mean, I watched Trump's whole inauguration and the whole speech and everything. But I hadn't even seen the Elon shit. Yeah, why would you? Yeah. Well, I need to make a video about it. I didn't know what to talk about it. No, now you would, but I'm saying like, if you're sitting there live, Elon comes on, it's like, yeah, dude, you're not the president.

Oh, no, I don't even know if you have an official cabinet position yet. There's no reason for an American to watch that. I didn't even know that stuff was going to continue to happen. I thought it was over or whatever. So I hadn't even seen it, but Mark had seen it and did mention it, but he kind of just mentioned it in passing. And then it became like, maybe the biggest story of the whole thing. And it's like, I just texted Mark about it a minute ago. I was like, I was like, I just texted Mark about it a minute ago. I was like, I was like, I was like, I was. I feel like you kind of just barely brought that up. What was, what was that about? I guess he just somehow, I guess he thought he's like, nah, no one's even gonna, no one's even gonna register or care that this dude did this

because that's how crazy things are or something. But, uh, it's all over the place. Well, his people, the cat turds of the work, not cat turd, but these cat turd adjacent people. He's not a serious place. Yeah, I know, but I know exactly what you're talking about. And that's like, that's unbelievable. It's crazy. Yeah, he's a thought.

Well, they're all, they're all commenting like, yo, well, this kind of seems like AI to me. And then what's funny enough is other Republicans are commenting, and they're like, no, this was during the live thing. We saw it. It's not AI, you know, but they didn't seem to give a shit. And they've been replying as much. This is, in fact, a feature and not a bug.

It is what they have voted for. Now, look, I mean, you could go so many ways with how you feel about whoever Elon Musk is in our government now making that salute. I just, I think the debate, to me at hand, is like, is it better that we mask off fascism in the long term? I know it's not better in the short term. Don't you ever fucking put that in my mouth? Because a lot of people, and I know this,

and I don't want anyone to be out there and be like, it's bad. I know. No, you're right. I know what you're bad doing. You're right. Do you think, is this going to, like, make it easier to convince? You know what I'm trying to say? Like, hey, yes.

They're just going to, like, make trans people illegal. They're Nazi saluting. Like, will you now at least listen to something else? For the people that have never cared, it would mean nothing. But there's plenty of people who were like, who were like, no, no, no, it's not those things. You're just trying to put it on them. Yes, I agree with the people who literally just couldn't see because it was completely. completely in the shadows.

I do, but, like, Roy Wood used to have a bit. I just don't know that I believe that anymore. Drew's not good. I brought it up because I think it's worth debating. What more did they need to fucking see eight years in to know better at some point? But we're not talk.

I'm talking about young people, right? Yeah. That's a good point. Young people. Like, they, there's some, like, dude, there was this fucking dude went viral on Twitter. And he was a Mexican.

And he was like, what's up with, he's like, what's up with all this mass deportation bullshit? He's like, I voted for Trump, yada, yada, yada, and they were like, have you not, and he goes, I don't follow politics like that closely. I'm not online all the time. They just went into space slurs and they hate trans people. I mean, for some people, it really is, I should say they're freaked out by trans people

and they think the trans agenda, whatever that means, is going to make their kids trans. And look, if you're rock stupid, that is scary. Like, if someone tells you, they're going to cut your kids wiener off at school and you believe it, then that is, in fact, a. terrifying specter of reality. Absolutely. It's not reality. So I guess I get that.

And I get what you're saying with the kids. Here's what the kids think, legitimately. And this is, to a great extent, the Democratic Party at the top's fault. They think, a lot of them, that Joe Biden got rid of abortion. Right. And Donald Trump brought back TikTok.

Yeah. And while neither of those are even remotely true. Well, TikTok told them directly that Donald Trump from TikTok. That it was. there. In an attempt to suck up to him, because what's happening is there's a 90-day punt going on with TikTok. And that was directly TikTok sucking up to Trump,

hoping that the 90-day punt will work, is one theory. The other theory, by the way, there's a big theory out there that TikTok's already been bought by Meta, that they bought the data first, and that the shutdown was so that they could transfer everyone's data to their own servers. which took about a day. Makes sense. Thank Trump for it in an attempt to suck up to Trump because now Mark Zuckerberg is sitting with the other billionaires at the inauguration.

Well, the other thing that I've seen on Reddit, I've seen multiple posts that have like screenshots and purported evidence and stuff illustrating that since TikTok has come back, that like it seems to be censoring things that are like kind of lefty or leftist. also that that's happened on Instagram, too, since Zuckerberg makes it. I can't know anything without getting flag now. Super hits for me, my whole thing. Oh, dude. You know, selfishly.

But also just don't hit in general because it's like, where there ain't going to be nothing. I mean, it was bad enough when it happened to Twitter because I mean, Twitter hit for me. Used to. And it was bad. Me too. I didn't think that the rest of them, I felt to me like the universal response, not universal, but the biggest response to the Twitter situation was, wow, this really ruined Twitter and also they lost a bunch

of advertisers I thought and they made less money and it just, it seemed like it got worse from a business perspective. So it's wild to me that the other companies are doing the same thing, but maybe it's just, they're just cowtowing. It's like Trump has won so they're like, we got to do this or they'll take, they'll shut us all that.

They're getting to where they're firing all their employees and replacing them with AI so it doesn't matter if they lose a little less money because they don't have to dole as much out. But like my dad, my dad called me like, I don't know, a week ago, or whenever the TikTok thing was about to go in, he's like,

hey, you don't, because you know, Capcut, the thing a lot of us use for editing, they're owned by the same people. And he's like, hey, you don't have any like,

uh, projects going on Capcut right now that you haven't finished, right? And I was like, now everything I do is like 30 second, whatever he goes, okay, well just,

you know, Trump's going to ban TikTok and like, so if you got something on there, you know, you need to get it done and figure out something else. And I said, dad, that shit will be back up in like a day.

I said, this is all a fucking ploy. I said, This is literally just being set up so he can look like he's a hero because that will make him hit really hard for young people. I said, that's all this is. I ain't fronting it. Dad's like, no, I don't know. No, absolutely.

That's not going to happen because it's a threat to democracy because of the Chinese or whatever. Well, I ended up being right. And I'm sure my dad's not going to apologize to me, but whatever. I'll give you my take on that. There is no powerful entity that wanted TikTok to remain the way that it was. I think it's a mix of everything. I think the military side of our oligarchy is, in fact, afraid of China. And China having our data could be bad.

I think they're also afraid of the Chinese people being like, hey, guess what? Sometimes being communist hits, you know, maybe not if you're a Uighur, but like if you're, you know, a regular Chinese person, we're crushing it over here. So I think you're-Marc made a good point about that when we were here to say that I thought was funny. He said that like, because you're talking about like a lot of people when TikTok was going down or sending me down, they went to Red Note, right? which is like, which is like, policed by the CCP.

Like, you're literally not allowed to say that it's bad. And then there was all these stories about like, Chinese people on Red Note are telling Americans how hard it hits over there. And Mark was like, well, I mean, fucking yeah.

He's like they're like they literally not allowed to say anything else. They'll kill their whole family if they say anything else. It's like, of course, the propaganda app is going to have propaganda all over it. And it's, this state sanctioned, you know,

app is like, makes China sound awesome. And Mark was like, fuck it, it, of course it does. It's like, I hadn't really thought about that. And I'm not saying

the things that they're saying aren't true, but I just thought that was funny because that hadn't even occurred to me. I was like, because I'm also stupid. And I was like, yeah,

you're right. That's a pretty good point. It would make China sound like it. I wish Sweden had to have to have to. It's also what social media is. Everything. Very few people post anything on Instagram.

But it's the best version of their life. Right. It's a highlight real. That's true. Well, that's the thing about, I'm just saying, has a legitimate point in terms of

the people in a room who make a decision all right now who else is in a room making a decision I think that APEC has proven

to be one of the most powerful lobbies in the fucking world at least in America and most of the anti-Israel pro-Palestine stuff that I've seen lately

originated from TikTok because it was in fact being suppressed elsewhere that's a fact and then on top of that who else did they let in the room Elon Zuckerberg

BZZT does. TikTok is 100% eating away at all three of those businesses. Now, the Elon and the Zuckerberg thing, that's obvious. Elon and Zuckerberg own boomers when they're on social media.

That's on Facebook. Millennials, that's on Instagram, Anne X, and Gen X. They're on all three. Yeah, right. But the young kids are on TikTok. If you let big American tech into the room to make a decision and they go, hey, we think TikTok might be a threat.

they're going to be like, you damn right it is, while they're foaming at the mouth to get a hold of that data and those kids. Exactly. And then you add to that shit, I lost my turn to thought. I had an even better point. Well, what I was going to say was like, you're like, oh, yeah, on red note, you know, like they literally aren't allowed to say anything other than that about China being good or whatever. It's like, well, if you look at TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram and Facebook in America, right? It's like, who are the only people in America who were ever pointing out America's false? For the most part, it's leftist, right?

The only people who are constantly talking about how great fucking America is, is the fucking Republicans. But they actually kind of don't. They act like they do, but all they ever do is bitch about how much America sucks and how terrible anything is all the time. I know, but I'm talking about two other countries. I'm talking about two other countries. Two other countries, Republicans are always going, we're the best. That's why you motherfuckers want to come here. Shit's great over here and if you don't like it, leave.

I agree with you. We're all on the same team, but I'm saying like, as ambassadors for us being number one, the people doing it on the internet are all fucking Republicans. So now they want to suppress the leftist and shit who are constantly pointing out. We don't have health care. We don't have fucking this, blah, blah,

those shits go down. And now that Trump's president, the only goddamn thing you see on TikTok is fucking hoorah, we're over here, we're number one, get on my boat, fuck Chinese, whatever. But I agree with you that you're right. whenever whenever they're not in office, they constantly go,

we got to get in here and make America great. And it's like, what do you mean? Wait, do you not like America? If not, then fucking leave. But it falls on deaf ears, you know. The other point I wanted to make, and I can't believe I forgot it

because it was the best one. Jeff Bezos, the only threat, even a monocum of threat to his business, was starting to become TikTok. TikTok had a TikTok shop on there. TikTok shop. Now, sometimes they would use Amazon,

but they didn't have. have to. And it was directly competing with Amazon in terms of where you get your little trinkets and gadgets. Now, was it a big competitor? No, but he saw the writing on the wall. Now, there's 100% other industries that some politicians

have brought up, but it's never made the news as much where the Chinese government actually is who's making money off of it because when you trace it back to the companies that own the companies, power grids. The Chinese government's making a shit ton of money off that. They own half of our pork farm.

which is like a weird thing, but they do. Like if you get a pig from Iowa, if it's from a big farm and then that farm's owned by a conglomerate, China 50-50 chance owning it. This stuff ain't getting brought up. There's like it is, but there's no huge push to get China out of our pork. There's no huge push to get China out of our real estate. There's no huge push to get China off our power grid. Why is that? I think there's a few reasons.

I think your dad's somewhat right, military. I think you're completely right. TikTok's the place where people are shitting on them. And then I think that tech is who is coziest with Trump in terms of big business. It's not oil anymore. It's not even military industrial complex as much as it used to be. It's tech. Because tech is the military industrial complex.

There's a scary one for you. Yeah, buddy. So they don't want TikTok to exist. There's no one in the room with power pushing back on this. Every faction of power that I can think of, who would it be? A Chinese businessman in this particular. case they couldn't buy their way out of this. That's my theory.

I'll take my temple head off. But here's why I think Drew's right on the, and this is going back a little ways, but why the mask off fascism overall is, again, none of it's good. Mask off fascism or mask on fascism, both bad because it's fascism. But I do think the mask off

fascism is going to be better long term for everybody because not everybody. Some people are going to die. I mean, just just, yeah, no, I know, but I'm saying, like in the long run, it will be better to somehow make it. If we're going to make the turn and stop it, I do think it's better than it's out and open.

Then at least you know where they are, right? Yeah, Robert Jr. had that bit without love, which is like, I don't want them to get rid of the rebel flag because that's how I know what gas station not to go to in Mississippi. And like, again, I know, Trey, you said you're like, what more do these fucking people need to see for eight years? I hear you, but you were underestimating how stupid and gullible most people are, because for the past eight years,

But it also... I think you're overestimating how brave they are, Corey. It also... There's a whole other aspect to it, though, that I... Because, dude, when Trump first happened, and this was a big part of it, and it's like, they're just openly being... They're, like, he is emboldened them to be this way. Back in 2016, this was being talked about then, and at the time, I was saying,

it's like, look, you know what? End of the day, I prefer them to be honest about it, because at least then we know where they're... I was saying that for a long, long time, but gradually over the years, I've kind of changed my own mind about it because it's like... Didn't that just... kind of miss them pretending at least that they're not. Like, because it's like, you know what I'm saying?

It's like used to, they, you know, there was just things you didn't do and put up things that weren't socially acceptable to do. And even if a person was like that, I kind of miss them just at least having the decency to act like they weren't most of the time. I agree because it made it easier to just have nice conversations at the grocery store. Like there's, you know, we talked about there's a lot of people who, like when the whole Trump, thing came out and I was like, oh, wow, I remember this is not Republican, this is crazy. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then I'd find out that like, oh, God damn, this is actually how so many people that I loved actually are. They just weren't

allowed to do it. Right. But see, that also, that's the other part of it. Now that they're allowed to do it, they find each other more, they get together more, they grow their own numbers. Back when they used to have shame about it, they didn't realize how many of them there were. It was hard for them to find each. And that also is, I've completely kind of 180 on that whole thing because I used to feel that way too and I don't think I'd do anymore. I don't give a fuck about conversations at the grocery store. I think to me it's more like it's easier to take people's rights now in the mask off version. The only thing that's harder about the mask off version is sustainability. Like you can't, you know, with the mask off version,

you can't be like, well, you know, we got a vote and blah, blah, blah. It's like, nah, we got to fight. We got to have a fight right now. I just think, there's so many people susceptible to like what Andrew Tate has been screaming for years like oh it's just it's all a matrix and they're just kind of making everything appear to be one way like there's so many people that would hear Trump say

something horrible and they would be they would be like no listen they've they fuck with this audio they took it out of context they but any they're like all the Democrats are doing is doing it is making it seem like it's this when it's not but now they really are just like they just be doing it and maybe I'm just holding out hope that maybe

the younger people are like oh fuck. fuck, that looks literally just like the Hitler thing I saw. Using Elon, dude, I don't know how you, other than it, and it's clearly not fake, but other than being like, well, this has got to be fake or something, I don't know how you can defend that shit, even if you're on there. But one of two things happen, either he did a Hitler salute, which is not good, or he's too stupid to not know that that would look like a Hitler salute.

Either way, he don't. Right, either way, it's bad. But talk about Trump, though, because like I said, I watched his whole speech yesterday, and it's not like this was a novel thought for me, but I was thinking throughout the whole thing. I was like, dude, this is, he is absolutely crushing for his people right now,

this whole time. And I started thinking it was like, a lot of this, almost all of it sounds so awesome if you dumb and wrong about stuff. Like if you don't know, if you don't really know what he means or how things work,

it sounds fucking great. For example, he said things like, this country doesn't work. I'm paraphrasing, but it was essentially, This country doesn't work for regular people. Instead, it benefits only a favored few at the expense of everyone else, which is 100% true if you're talking about the billionaire oligarchs, right?

They're sitting in the front row. But he's talking about immigrants, right? He's talking about migrants with guns and rapists. And trans people. That's what he's talking about. And trans people. And he says, like, our health care system is a failure, which is true. We need universal health care, but he wants to privatize it all.

Right. And it's like that with every single thing. He just says a thing and it's like, if I didn't know what you meant or what your plan to do is, I would be like, fuck yeah, that rules. Right. Like the whole thing. Well, there's so many people who don't know that. And so they just hear what he's saying. And they're like, God, this guy is awesome.

And it's like, it sucks, you know. It blows, man. It requires some level of critical thinking or whatever. Well, and too, like, people just don't have or do that. Well, and it's funny because when. the Democrats go on and they give some sort of speech where they're talking about this idealized America that could be if they're elected, they'll always go, well, that's great, but anybody can just say stuff. It's whether or not they're actually going to get it done or not. And it's like,

right, well, he's doing the same shit right now. Like, he's just saying a bunch of shit that he does not have, him and his cabinet do not have the wherewithal to make a reality. So yeah, like, oh, look at him. He's such a good president. No, he had a good speechwriter and he fucking delivered it. Like, until he actually does any of these things. Like, what are you fucking talking about, dude? Like, by the way, why didn't he do that when he, he was already here? He was here once. And none of that even got an inch closer to getting done for y'all or for anybody.

See, but the thing is, they remember it as being great that they do. Like his whole time during the campaign, he was like, remember how awesome my first term was and all those people were like, hell yeah, rule. The worst. We back on God. They're going on feeling. But I'm saying they, in their heads, in their heads, Trump had us fucking kicking ass and taking names and then migraine in and ruined it all.

Like, that's how they remember it. That's something that like... These people just like talking shit. That's their power. We like talking shit. And there's nothing... Yeah, and they're afraid of trans people. They're legitimately afraid of them.

And immigrants. They, the Democrats do know what I'm about to say. They do know that people kind of just go based on feeling. The Democrats screw up how to manipulate those feelings and what to do with them. but Trump, the Republican Party in general is so good at like, oh, I know what my base's vibe is. And then Trump is a specific once in a generation talent at pulling that out. Yeah, we need one of them.

That is, I mean, I'll be honest. I don't want to say like I'm legitimately scared like more so than I have been. I feel I think I'm like at the same level I've been at for a while. but I do feel like J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos being in the room with the guy who wants to be the emperor god adds a layer of darkness that I never felt with Bannon and the anti-globalist people because these cats are dreaming of a Bitcoin economy where everyone's in from, I mean, Black Mirror. Think about the worst Black Mirror episode. This is their wet dream. Dude, Trump just... And Trump has the sale, and they have the most money. Right, yeah.

And that does terrify me. And, yeah, man, I don't know. I mean, that's that... You've nailed it, because this time, like, when he first came out, the first time, it's like, he was the most dangerous, crazy person in that room. And now he's surrounded himself with people who are way more crazy and way more dangerous and have the money to get all this shit done. Like, it is scarier.

Like, the first, again, the first Trump... presidency was scary, but it also felt like, we were so like, holy fuck, did this just happen? Now it's like, I don't know, man. It's also Steve Bannon wanted to shut our borders down and kill everyone who wasn't white. And I didn't like that. Me either. But I could think of several reasons it wasn't going to work.

Because of him. Yeah. What they want to do now is they're saying they want to do that because they don't give a shit about it. And what they want to do is turn us into some weird technocrats day. I mean, look, what's happening here is a changing of the guard among the oligarchy. It used to be oil barons and certain industry titans, and now it's mostly tech and Amazon.

They're trying to watch them kill each other. Buddy. Here's the problem with that. The industry titan people that are being replaced, they know that they have a better shot of just like adapted to the Brave New World. Right. Well, yeah, I mean, they could just go get on their island, you know. Well, I mean, or they could sell cars to the robots.

are going to need them or whatever. I don't know. They're like, this isn't fair. My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson won't have all the money in the world. Oh, no. Right. Yeah.

That's why they're not scared. Yeah. It sucks. We're near the end. I'm not trying to leave y'all on a cliffhanger. I'll give you time to respond. My heart won't let me not say, for me, I'm speaking for me, I'll never forgive the Democratic Party for the way they fuck this up.

They did fuck it up. Yeah. I won't hear anyone say. that they won't. I'll have a conversation with you, but I've thought about it, I've read about it. They blew this so hard. And so they could continue to kill fucking brown babies in Gaza and tell me it's not a genocide. It's so, I got these people saying all these dead kids ain't a genocide. And now I got these people saying that ain't a fucking Nazi salute. I almost did it to demonstrate. Right. We're being asked to. We're being told in real time that things that we know are true aren't true. Right. That we saw it right. But that's what's scary about. That's where I'm like with Trey,

people are looking at reality and then saying that something else is true. I just don't know if we're coming back from that. No, I hear you. You're right. Go ahead, Trey. I mean, yeah, no, I definitely think the Democrats fucked it up. And they, you know, they like the chargers of politics. It's like it doesn't matter how much it seems like they should hit or whatever.

They'll just find a way to not hit at the end, which hits for me with the chargers. But, you know, with the Democrats, it's like they just, they, underachieve consistently. The only hope that I have, because I always have to try to find some hope or somewhere. And I mean, there's no real reason to believe this right now, but Trump was literally just sworn in. So, like, maybe he'll die of a heart attack. Next time around, if we still have elections, he doesn't become king and all

that, uh, there will be like a legitimate primary that will result in a like, actually inspiring and exciting candidate or something like that. Like, you know, something close to like what, oh, was in 2008. Don't get me wrong. I know that Obama also is a moderate, neoliberal. For sure. It was ultimately a disappointment in that way. But I mean in terms, but in the moment, though, at the time, it was like special, you know. And like that they need another one of those. And I don't even know if that person is on the same yet. Or if they are, they're not, they're not expected to be at that. You know, he had a meteoric rise. I think it started the midterms in 2006. And, and then he went on from there. And they need something like that to happen. to have any kind of hope of rallying in the future. That needs to be a younger person for sure and who actually inspires people and who cares about the type of shit that Bernie cared about.

And that apparatus will get behind someone like that, in my opinion. They might get behind a neoliberal and that might be the fight you were talking about, Corey. That might be like big oil. Right. And all those money and interests saying, all right, we need one of these dudes because we can't deal with one of these other dudes. like, you know, they're going to fuck us in the end, too. I wish I had shared your hope that it would be a Bernie type.

I don't think that apparatus will get behind the Bernie type. I think that we are about to embark upon a 20-year fallen empire, and I hope that what happens is very few people, as few people as possible die or end up in some kind of camp or jail. I mean, they're already building them. They're already mass deporting people. They're already doing versions of it. It's here.

It's not like in the future. This isn't speculation. It's already happening. I mean, we're already funding a fucking genocide across the ocean, and that was supposedly the good guys. It's already here. My hope is like it will be as painless as possible, and then it's kind of like Germany where you land somewhere, you know, you take your licks. But you know why that happened? Because they lost the shit out of a war.

Right. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you lit this flame that has begun us shitting on the Democratic Party, because I'd like to add one more thing to that before we go. I would. Because, frankly, I think, you know, a lot of, even we've said it before, like, oh, the Democrats have a lot of infighting. We never stick together on anything. And like, I've said that, and I agree with that.

I said, however, what we're doing is the Democratic Party. I won't even say we as then. Like, I know several, you know, Democrats like us are like, no, that what y'all are doing and what we want is two different things. And the only reason, the only way that the party will ever change and be for the constituents is if enough people and very loud. bitch for them to change. So no, I don't agree with this whole

like, let's not it. No, fucking tell them this shit. And this, I saw this the other day like, somebody fucking tweeted at me. They were like, I used to love you, Corey, but with your last couple posts, I don't know if you're on the right side anymore. And I was like, what the fuck? And I was like, oh God, I got drunk and tweeted some

shitty stuff. I looked through my post and I'm like, it was like, me shitting on JD Vance, me shitting on James Woods. You're talking about how Merle Gibson heads. No. Well, there was that, but sure. There was that.

That wasn't a tweet, though. That was a reply. That was a reply. It was just some poor Jewel's fan who thinks he's a big Mel Gibson and that's stupid. Hold on. That was a reply to someone. And what I said was fuck Mel Gibson as a person, but let's not act. Like the man didn't have an incredible run and quit calling him untownded.

But I'm going through all these things. I'm like, what could this person mean? There's one post in the middle of all that where the Democrat, like the official the Democrats page, they shared some fucking video a day before the inauguration that was them like making a sweater it was like Donald Trump says he can't be out in the cold and they were like printing a sweater that said snowflake on the back we made this we made this for him and I shared that and I was like hey this is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen I said want you sew together a better fucking campaign while you're at it and they took this to mean that I was a Republican shitting on the

Democrats and I'm like, no, I'm here to tell you. I'm a Democrat shitting on the Democrats. And then this person's like, don't you think they are kind of being snowflakes for this, Corey? And I'm like, yes, of course. But like, this is, you just look stupid. This is a waste of resources. This is, this doesn't help

fucking anybody. If your entire campaign is like making little daily show type fucking tweets at the Republicans, you've lost the fucking game, dude. And so, yeah, I think that for four years, we need to, anytime the Democrats look like they're being stupid and not

representing us as voters, I do think we should say something because if we don't, they'll just assume that everything is fine when it's not. So fuck Trump and all them above all, but also fuck, as Drew said, the Democrats for letting this happen because they did. That's all I want to say.

All right, well, I'll be in Santa Barbara this weekend. If you already got the tickets, come see me. If you didn't, sorry. Selled out. What's up? Bits. Thank you, Santa Barbara. Also, after that, coming up, I got Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, DeCarolinas, a bunch of other places that hit. So come see me, Trey Crowder.com. I am auditioning for Netflix as a joke introducing at Zadis, Thursday at 10.

It's a late show, I know. Coming out, though, throw me some support. I'll be in Marietta, Georgia the next night doing two shows at the Alley State. as part of the Honest Fox Comedy Festival. And then I'm taking a break for a while. You may catch me around Knoxville, getting up on stage, Nashville here and there, getting those house shows in there.

But I'm taking a little bit of a break. So that's your opportunity, guys. This week, Thursday and Nashville, Zanis, and Friday at the Alley Stage at the Honest Fox Comedy Festival and Marietta, Georgia, outside of Atlanta. I'm adding some dates right now as we speak. I'll keep y'all posted.

I did want to say thank you to everybody who came out in Raleigh this weekend. we had like such a limited time to promote and y'all still filled them bitches up and showed me a lot of love and i really appreciate that but until then we love cori.com that's for all my bonus stuff and uh it's a lot of fun listen to gravy baby listen to weekly skews listen to putting on airs and also thank you all for listening to the well red show we'd love to stick around longer but we got to go attuned in next a week if you got nothing to do thank you bar Excuse me. Thank you. God bless you. Good night and skew. Mel Goods.

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