Trae Crowder
speaker
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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And I'm brilliant, you know, like, so it makes sense that I would be the only one who's right about this thing, you know, like that.
Yes, exactly. And it's like, that's... You know, I realize now that's... I mean, I'm very self-aware of how douchey and insufferable that is now. But at the time, I wasn't aware of that. So, like... So, because I felt that way, I just had no qualms about just being up front with, like, that's ridiculous. You know, you're wrong, I'm right, whatever, and pushing back on people. So...
Like, I remember one time, a story I always think of, we had our English class, like, one Friday a month, English class in high school became debate class because they couldn't justify an entire, like, debate team or debate class.
Right. But, like, one Friday a month, they'd be like, okay, today's debate day. And we came in there one day, and it was that Friday. And she goes, this is, you know, 2003 or whatever the timeline was for this. We were just gearing up to... The country was debating whether to go to war in Iraq, right? Like weapons of mass destruction and all that. And she's like...
who all here thinks we should go to war with Iraq? And roughly half the kids raised their hand. And she was like, okay, who thinks we shouldn't? And it was literally just me. Like, I was the only one who raised my hand in the whole class. And she goes, and who doesn't have an opinion? And the other half of them raised their hand like, I don't care.
And she's like, okay, you guys are on Trey's team. You get over here. You guys get on this half of the room, and everybody else on this side. But, you know, they had all just said they didn't even care. So it was literally just me saying, It was literally just me versus the other half of the team. But I was completely unbothered by that.
Well, I ended up getting bothered by it because I was like... They're over there yelling. It's like, they knocked their damn towers down. We got to do something. And it's like, no, they didn't. I was bothered by the idiocy of it all. But I wasn't bothered by the prospect of having to be alone and push back on that because I've been doing it my whole life. So I like...
Yes, I was very aware of being – like, I've been – it's like a running theme with me is I'm kind of a man without a country. I've been that way my whole life because I never really fit in in my hometown. And, like, now I live in L.A. And, I mean, you know, you'll be surprised to hear I don't super fit in here either. So I just kind of never really have. So, you know, I'm adjusted to it.
Oh, the current administration. I mean, I mean, kind of just to steal your answer. I mean, I like I mentioned earlier, I used to work for the Department of Energy. So like. I know firsthand. I'm sorry if it's inconvenient for anybody, but it's just true. There's a lot of areas in the federal government that could be tightened up, let's say. It's pretty bad.
I've got a political podcast and my co-host on there, he's the smartest guy I know. And he's very, he's very anti all things, you know, Trump and MAGA and all that. And he hates Elon and he hates Doge. And when we'll be talking about it, I'll tell him, I'll be like, well, you know, to be fair, man, like there's there, you know, we could clean some of it up and he just, you know, he's always like,
he don't want to hear it. He's like, that just feeds into the narrative. Feeds into the narrative, whatever. But my whole thing with that, it's like, okay, but I know that it is true, though. Like, I've seen it, so I'm not going to I'm not going to act like it isn't just because, you know, it's like inconvenient for my political beliefs or whatever.
But like you said, the methodology is insane and the way they're going about it is ridiculous. So it kind of doesn't matter. It's also like I'm even going back to the very beginning of Trump. It's like. The town that I'm from in Tennessee was wrecked by NAFTA and everything and opioids and all that.
It was actually a blue county for years up until around the turn of the century, like Southern Democrat working man type shit. And then now it's hardcore Trump country. And it's like I was always...
sympathetic to the reasons that they felt because my town has been like utterly decimated and people there have been really screwed over through no fault of their own they have a very valid beef with like things that have happened in this country i just was always like but this dude is not the answer for any of that you know like so There's a lot of it that I'm sympathetic to.
Like you said, populism, a general, a more leftist populist message, obviously like Bernie Sanders or something. That's really more aligned with where I'm at. There's plenty of things people do actually agree with if you take the... the letters out of it. You take the R's and the D's out of it and all that.
And it's just about like, you know, most people agree with regular, you know, everyday Americans having more money in their pocket, getting paid better. You know what I mean? Most people are okay with taxing the rich and corporations, but it's more, you know, I'm kind of a no war, but a class war type person. Like, I think it all really comes down to that. I believe that
most of the culture war things are just, uh, purposeful distractions, you know, that like turn people against one another. And it's like, don't get me wrong. That's not, I think the trans people should have rights. I'm just saying the whole narrative around even debating it in the first place is just serve.
It means, you know, just serves to like distract people from stuff that really matters is my opinion. So, and I think there's a lot of people like you, I've heard Theo Vaughn talk about how like, or on his show, like, uh, A lot of people on his show, they hate, like, oh, the billionaires that are really in charge or whatever.
But the people that I'm talking about, they think that those billionaires are all, like, liberal elite billionaires, like George Soros and that type of thing.
And it's like, I hate the billionaires that are in charge, but I'm talking about the one that we see being in charge every day, who's like... clearly on the right. Like, I got a problem. Like, I've seen people tweet out, you know, it's like, Elon's gonna, you know, finally get rid of all these corrupt billionaires that are ruining our government, you know?
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