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🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Trae Crowder, the viral Tennessean comedian joins to discuss his upbringing in a red state, why rednecks are Trumpies and what happens to a community when the jobs leave. Learn why he understands Trump's appeal to rednecks, and how and why they transitioned from not liking Trump to supporting his every move.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change. And this time, it's not just a great one, but a different one. Finally, finally, something different. Because my guest is Trey Crowder, also known as the liberal redneck. |
0:21.3 | Trey is a terrific comedian who grew up in Salina, Tennessee, |
0:25.2 | a small town with no traffic lights, |
0:27.3 | and until the 90s had one big employer, Oshkosh Pagosh, |
0:32.2 | makers of overalls. |
0:34.1 | And in the 90s, the Ashkosh factory picked up and went to Mexico. |
0:39.2 | The jobs left forever and the pills showed up for good at the exact same time in like |
0:44.7 | the mid to late 90s in Salina. |
0:47.3 | And that combination just, that was it. |
0:50.2 | It was curtains for that town. |
0:51.8 | It's never recovered, you know, to this day. |
0:53.7 | The pills are opioid pills like OxyContin, which trade. it. It was curtains for that town. It's never recovered, you know, to this day. |
1:00.4 | The pills are opioid pills like OxyContin, which Trey's mom got hooked on and then did time for selling. And Salina went from a town that went for Gore in 2000 and is now a Trump |
1:08.9 | stronghold. I say Trey is known as the liberal redneck because that's a character he plays online, starting eight years ago, when his videos went viral on YouTube. |
1:20.5 | Here's one from this week. |
1:22.9 | A lot of people are coming after Cohen saying you can't trust him because he's an unscrupulous opportunist. |
1:27.0 | Ah, yes, unlike all those paragons of virtue who normally testify in criminal conspiracy cases. |
1:32.5 | Yeah, it's kind of par for the course, all right? |
1:34.5 | When Fat Tony to Bull testifies against Don SpaghettiOs, it's understood you're not dealing with a PTA member, okay? |
1:40.9 | To me, it's more important that their testimony can be corroborated by evidence and is in line with the |
1:44.8 | case as presented, but hey, I didn't go to crime school. Yes, and as I record this introduction, it's Thursday afternoon, |
1:51.5 | and the defense is doing its cross-examination of Michael Cohn, an unsavory character to be sure, but then again, look he worked for. |
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