765 Liberal Redneck Humor with Comedian Trae Crowder
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A journey through laughter and vulnerability: comedian Trae Crowder shares how his career in comedy took off after his viral "Liberal Redneck" videos and how he faced an unexpected challenge—anxiety. With raw honesty, he opens up about on-stage panic attacks and the alternative therapies that helped him regain balance.
This episode explores the intersection of comedy, identity, and emotional resilience. Beyond political humor, Trae reveals how anxiety transformed him as both a person and an artist, offering powerful insights into authenticity, personal growth, and the strength found in vulnerability. Comedy, psychology, and self help come together in a conversation that inspires and humanizes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Terry Cole show. You guys, I'm kind of still fan-girling. Let's just be honest. So I just had this great interview with Trey Crowder, who is a comedian that I love. And I'm a big comedy gal. And I've been saying for years, I'm to start getting my the comedians I love on the show |
| 0:22.2 | and then you know there's always something else that I do which is not that well |
| 0:25.5 | Trey is the first one I'm getting on the show so I'm going to tell a little bit about him |
| 0:30.3 | and then you're going to listen to this fascinating interview from the mind of a comedy genius |
| 0:34.3 | so Trey Crowder and it's T-R-A-E, C-R-O-W-D-E-R, |
| 0:40.9 | first gained international attention and notoriety, depending on your politics, in 2016 for |
| 0:46.2 | a hugely viral series of liberal redneck comedic porch rant, Porch rant videos. |
| 0:54.8 | So this is part of the beginning. |
| 0:56.7 | I actually, that was the beginning of me seeing him. |
| 0:59.8 | He's since written, you know, the liberal redneck manifesto. |
| 1:04.3 | He's got books. |
| 1:05.7 | He's doing comedy tours. |
| 1:07.1 | So in the years since 2016, he's become more and more popular. And now I really love |
| 1:13.2 | his Instagram stuff where he's sitting in his Jeep, just ranting. It's just ranting, but it's |
| 1:19.3 | smart, ranting. It's informed ranting. And I find him incredibly funny. So I was super psyched. I just |
| 1:26.0 | randomly just slipped into his DMs on Instagram being like, hello, I love you. |
| 1:31.3 | Please come on my show. |
| 1:32.9 | And he was like, a couple of weeks later, he was like, oh, my God, I'm sorry, I missed this. |
| 1:36.7 | So I was super psyched. |
| 1:37.9 | I really hope that you enjoy this interview with Trey Crowder as much as I really enjoyed doing it. And I'll, you guys, |
| 1:46.6 | in the show notes or all the information, do, do follow him. I think that you're going to love him. |
| 1:52.5 | Anyway, enjoy the show. This is the Terry Cole show, and as you might have guessed, I'm your host, Terry Cole. |
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