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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It was kind of woven into the whole MAGA experience from the very beginning, I feel like. And then so it, you know, as that got to be more and more of a thing leading up to the election and certainly after they won, it was like we were kind of in it at that point because I had been doing that bit in front of live shows and never had a single problem with it ever before.
But now that I have an internet presence, I mean, that whole time, you know, in 2016 and everything, like, I mean, I'm getting death threats and crazy stuff all the time, you know. So, yeah, I felt like it happened pretty early on in the process and it has only gotten worse over the intervening years, I feel like.
moment in 2025 because you do get death threats and people want to and you don't know who's out there you don't know who's taking it more seriously than the next guy right well i mean honestly i probably should i guess but i don't i don't really worry about that part of it too much and i guess it's because in nine years in i thankfully you know knock on wood i haven't had any kind of like real life experiences or anything that made me realize like oh this is
This is a serious concern, but it still is tough. I mean, that's why I said you said, yeah, we don't do politics. I was like, yeah, good call. It's like, because I've... I mean, there's a lot of aspects to it. Honestly, before this most recent election, it's not that I... I did not think I knew what was going to happen. I didn't know what was going to happen.
I was like, you know, this could go either way in my mind. We'll see. But had it gone the other way, I had fully intended to, like, I kind of had a plan in my head for, like, pivoting away from politics. Because in my head, it was like, had it gone the other way, it's like, okay, we could put all this. Mm-hmm.
nastiness behind us and just kind of go back to the old boring version where people don't care as much where no one talks about politics and all the corruption happens behind the scenes right yes and then I could do like I was gonna do like you know cooking videos and just more stand up clips and that type of thing yeah
But then that didn't happen, and now I feel almost obligated to keep – because of my brand and what I do, it's like, well, I can't stop that now. So I'm even – I'm deeper in it now than I have been in recent years. But it is – it's obviously – it's divisive. So it's like I'm on – there's a huge chunk of people I'm never going to get on board, no matter what, because of that.
But then also a massive part of it that I –
frankly never saw coming is that uh there's been a huge influx of like right wing stuff in the comedy world specifically like and that never used to be the case it used to be like it was like a stereotype or a cliche even that it's like are there any uh conservative comedians is there anybody funny that's conservative it's like it just it just doesn't happen there'd be like a couple of
Token ones you could throw out or whatever. It's like, well, post 9-11, Dennis Miller is, you know, he's pretty good. Or it's like, you know, Nick DiPaolo or Adam Carolla or guys like that. But, like, they were very much the minority. And now... the objectively the biggest people in the comedy world are at least somewhat associated with the right.
Or if not all the way on the right, at least they're anti-woke or whatever. They're flirting with it. Some of those guys that get categorized over there,
i don't think it's fair i don't think they they are actually like that but they do have a lot of fans that believe they are like that and then and then some of those guys i mean it's you know they just are that way they just are that way yeah right but there's a huge chunk of them and they're like some of the biggest names in comedy and serious power brokers and all that and it's like
I never, ever would have anticipated that that would happen when I was getting started.
All the time. But even though it wasn't as much of a thing, you weren't supposed to talk about like religion and politics. Right. But, but still, but the main thing for me, I've talked about this a lot, but it's true.
The thing that made it different is that like, so I was raised by a single father and my dad had only one sibling, a younger brother, my uncle Tim and my uncle Tim is openly gay and has been since, you know, I was born. So, uh, and this was, you know, I'm growing up, I'm a kid in the nineties in the rural South. So there's like, I mean, just rampant homophobia, you know? And, uh,
And I always loved Uncle Tim and was always just very opposed to that. And part of that also was that I did not grow up in the church at all. So those two things definitely made me sort of stand out. And also I was very... Combative is not the right word, but I was very open with how I felt about that stuff and my disagreements. And a lot of people were...
A lot of times the people in places like that who are on the other side or on the left or whatever, they just – they, like, never speak up and I don't blame them. It's like you don't want to be the one that ruins Thanksgiving dinner or whatever or just gets yelled – gets ganged up on.
So I get it, but I never had that problem when I was growing up. And what I've always chalked that up to is the other thing that was going on with me as a kid was that, like – I was the smart kid in my school, which I realize now looking back is like being the straightest guy to share a concert. It's not really that impressive, but I didn't know that. I had no frame of reference.
So at the time, as a child and as a teenager, I literally left that town. I left high school genuinely believing that I was goodwill hunting, like a prodigy. level intellect. That's how I thought of myself. And then realizing in my 20s that that was not the case really screwed me up and engendered a major quarter-life crisis that fucked me forever. A lot of gifted kids have that problem.
You end up being just a burned-out husk at 26 or whatever. But anyway, but as a kid and as a teen, I thought very, very highly of myself in terms of intelligence and intellect. And so it was always a thing where it's like, well, yeah, all these so many people surrounding me, they disagree with me. But like, you know, of course they do. They're all idiots.
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