Trae Crowder
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594 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Trae Crowder’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That bit... The special that bits on, I recorded it a few months ago and it like just came out and I've been feeling like, you know, I wonder how true that still is or feels now. Like I bet there's at least some of those people in some of those places are rethinking their decision to try to, you know, infiltrate over here.
Right. And I think that's a secondary concern to the producers of the show. They specifically select the wildest pairings that they can. But since you have some personal experience, I don't even know the... foundational premise of that show. Like, is that accurate? Like that, you know, the whole 90 day window thing and all that.
Yeah. Well, it's funny. I mean, I totally believe you, obviously. But I just always think about this buddy of mine. Now, this was years ago. I mean, this is like 2005. This is like 20 years ago. Uh, we were 19, 20, 21, something like that at the time. And I had a friend that was in the military, joined the army and, uh, was not the sharpest tool in the shed, but a bit of a wild card.
This guy, he would get a signing bonus and just buy kayaks from gas stations and he would crash into embankments immediately. He'd rent cars and take them off-roading and mudding and stuff and then just bottom them out and get sued and shit like that all the time. So, you know, not the soundest decisions, but I always... Remember, he showed up when he didn't even tell us this was going to happen.
He like came to a get together we were having or something with this this girl. None of us had ever met. And she was from like Columbia or Bolivia or some some South African or South American country. I can't remember. and it was totally out of the blue. And he was like, he was like, Hey guys, this is my wife. And we were like, you're what?
And he was just openly talk discussing how, like, he was like, yeah. So, uh, she gave me like 200 bucks, right? It was literally like $200 or something. He's like, she gave me like 200 bucks so we could get married so that she could have like a, whatever, you know, a visa or green card, however it works.
And it's like, And he was just talking about it very casually and shrugging it off. And then I never, and I don't know if he ever saw that girl again after that. Oh, man, you should. I'm assuming, in retrospect, they probably were not doing it right. No, no. But the way he was like... I mean, I know it was shady. You sure? But I mean, in terms of even...
accomplishing it properly they probably were not but it always just seemed like the way he the way he presented it and the way i experienced it it made it just seem like the most easy breezy casual ridiculous thing in the world he's like yeah she gave me 200 we got married now everything's she got what she wanted and then i don't care so you know here's the crazy thing a similar story when i was uh i'm twice married right after i got a divorce i met a girl and
Yeah, I don't know. He loves ratings and stuff. He loves a hit. And even though it seems like antithetical to their whole general immigration philosophy, it's a TV show that people like. And so he probably thinks they're doing great work over there or whatever, I would imagine. Yeah. Which, I mean, from a TV perspective, not that they're not. There's like eight spinoffs or whatever.
No, we don't watch all of them. We just went through a little spell there where we were watching it. I actually... It actually wasn't even her. It was... I was gonna... We... It doesn't make any sense. You ended up there. Yeah. We were trying to do these... Me and these two guys, other comedians, Corey and Drew, that I have a podcast with and collaborate with and stuff.
We were trying... We were doing these... digital sketches for Comedy Central at the time, and we were thinking about doing one that was... Drew had the idea to do one based on 90 Day Fiancé, and I'd never seen it. So to watch it, or to research it, I mean, I watched it and then ended up getting sucked into it. Yeah, I got hooked a little bit and watched a whole season or two or whatever.
And then we never even did that sketch, by the way. So I just... So I just watched it just to watch it.
No, yeah, you're right. I mean, it was both of those things are true. Like I had started I started stand up in 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I was living at the time. And and I had been doing it for like, you know, six years or whatever. And it was going fine. Like for all things considered, I lived in Knoxville and I had like a manager in L.A. and I'd gotten into this.
writer's development program that NBC had and all this stuff, so I was feeling pretty encouraged by it, but I was in complete anonymity. I had no following. No one knew who I was or anything like that. Couldn't sell any tickets or nothing. But I still was pleased enough with how it was going, and then I decided to make these Internet video at the time and stand up.
I was closing with this bit about the simplest thing, but it was basically just on a set list. If I wrote it out, I called it the liberal redneck bit, but I never said the words liberal redneck on stage. It was basically I said, you know.
Everybody that hears this accent assumes I'm one type of person, like a Bible thumping troglodyte, because that's the only time you ever hear this accent in the media. It's that type of person. Yep. But I'm not that type of person. So I got to figure something out to try to balance the scales. I got to find a way. I need to go out in public and...
you know, be just as loud and redneck as they are, but just say a bunch of super liberal shit to like, you know, try to balance the scales. And then I would literally just scream a bunch of like really, really liberal political talking points, but in the most redneck fashion that I could. And it like, I closed with it. It always worked.
Even in like, like small comedy clubs and like Southern cities and stuff like that. Like it always worked because it's wild to say now, but in that time, you know, 2015 ish and like, It wasn't as like charged, the politics.
Right, so like people would... There'd be plenty of people in the crowd who were like, they were conservative, but they would still laugh at that bit because it was just like, that's just a funny juxtaposition. So it worked as a stand-up bit, and I had the idea to try to make internet videos out of it. And at first I was like, ah, man, but I'll have to buy a fancy camera.
I'll have to figure out how to edit things and light things. It all sounds so familiar. I don't know how to do any of that. And it just felt like a barrier to entry or something. And then one day I saw this preacher guy, like a deep south preacher somewhere in North Carolina, who was standing in the woods by a big truck, just yelling in his phone about like...
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