Chapter 1: What experiences shaped Trae Crowder's comedic style?
My whole life growing up, poor, rural Tennessee, whenever I heard others talk about white people, in my head that was always like Connecticut, Yacht Club, like, is that dill? Fucking white people, right? Like, white people. And I didn't know what I was, but I knew I wasn't the same thing as them. And it was very confusing to me as a young man. Now that I'm an adult, it couldn't be more clear.
I'm not white. I'm white trash. And it is different. It is different. There's a whole list of differences. Like white people got a trust fund. White trash people got trust issues. White people got a sister who's secretly a lesbian. White trash people got a sister who's secretly their mama. White people play golf with their boss on the weekends.
White trash people play scratch-offs with their rent money on payday. It's different. On this episode of the Commercial Break. 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. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now.
Oh, yeah. Cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of the show, Chris Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How the hell are you? Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial Tuesday with our friend Trey Crowder. Trey Crowder is a noted comedian.
And political commentarian, I guess is the best way to put that, known as the liberal redneck. And some of you will know his work and some of you will not. Some of you will care and some of you won't. But I really think that Trey has got some important stuff to say. I've enjoyed his stuff for a long time, so I'm glad that he is coming in.
Trey is on the constant never-ending stand-up tour, as most comedians are, and he's a very popular one. TreyCrowder.com is where you can get tickets to any of his shows. He's also got a brand new special out on YouTube and his website called Trash Daddy. And I think he's got a couple of other things in the works. Maybe we'll get a chance to talk to him about that. But, you know, listen.
Not everybody a huge fan when we choose to talk politics or bring people on who do talk politics. But give it a chance. We're not here to beat up anybody. We're just here to have a conversation. Yeah, have a conversation. Absolutely. And I'm open to conversations on all sides of the aisle because I think that's what we need. We need to talk to each other. About what?
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Chapter 2: How did Trae Crowder's 'Liberal Redneck' videos go viral?
And no, this is for an important reason. And we're going to be raising money and awareness and talking to some celebrity guests about their own challenges and thoughts on mental health. And so we're super excited about this. Twelve straight episodes recorded that day that we will put out. That's a Saturday. So we'll give you we'll give you the right day.
I hope there's no like major sporting events or anything, is there? I don't know. Not on May 31st. It's after Memorial Day. I will tell you that. Don't worry. It's not a Memorial Day weekend. We did it the weekend afterwards so that we knew you would have plans.
You can tune in driving back from your Memorial Day weekend.
Yes, from your vacation. That's right. Whatever your vacation plans are, we'll give you three long days to digest all 12 hours of the commercial break. Don't ask me why. Don't ask. Whee! Yeah, wee! It's going to be a lot of fun. Thank God we have five-hour energy here in the studio.
Yeah, boxes of it.
I think we'll need all of it to get through that 12 hours of TCB. So Trey Crowder, treycrowder.com. That's where you find more information about Trey, all of his tour dates. There's a link to his special Trash Daddy up there. Let's do this. I know that this is a short intro, but we don't always need to blab on forever. We do that We'll do that on the 12 hours of TCB. How's that?
So why don't we take a break, Chrissy, now, and then when we come back through the magic of telepodcasting, very popular overnight. I say overnight. I'm sure there's some story behind that. But overnight sensation, Trey Crowder, will be here with us in studio. He's been on Bill Maher. He's been on... I'm excited to talk to him. He's been in movies and documentaries, and he's a hot commodity.
Why he's showing up here, I have no idea. But maybe we'll ask him that, too. Which agent are you going to fire after this appearance? All right. We'll take a short break, and we'll be back. What do you think?
I think we should do it.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Trae face with political comedy?
And that's got to be indicative of something. And I'm sure for a lot of those people in a lot of those places, even now, that holds true. But it's funny. Like 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.
You know, my wife's listeners of the show will obviously know this, but my wife is Venezuelan. And when I say Venezuelan, when I met her, she was living in Venezuela and then moved to Switzerland to get her master's degree. And I chased her around Europe for a couple months, brought her back to the United States.
But when we first started watching that show, which kind of the beginning of that show coincided with our own story, we were like, that resembles nothing like anything that we went through. These people are... I mean, the chances of their success in their marriage is zero to minus seven on a good day. It's just so clear that some of these people are ill-fitting and it makes for great television.
But you wonder how in the world they're going to stay together.
Right. And I think they don't. And I think that's a secondary concern to the producers of the show. You know, they ensure they specifically select the, you know, the wildest pairings that they can. But since you have some personal experience, like, I don't even know the like. foundational premise of that show. Like, is that accurate?
Like that, you know, the whole 90 day window thing and all that.
It is.
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Chapter 4: How does Trae Crowder view the current political landscape?
So, so there are multiple ways to bring your loved ones, specifically someone you want to marry or you're married to over to the United States. There are multiple paths to get there. 90, the 90 day visa is, is one of them. It's an option that can be considered. And you do have 90 days as the clock starts. And it does take a process. There is a process by which you, I mean, it's really strict.
You have to go by it. But that's not the process by which we accomplished being able to live together here in the United States. But that 90-day visa program is no joke. And it's 90 days and you're out.
And I've heard from other people, if you do that 90 days and you don't get married, your chances of getting back in the country, and from some countries, even on a tourist visa, are slim to none because they imagine you're coming in now just for other purposes, right? To be in.
It's really, you know, it's such a stressful thing to go through when you fall in love with somebody from another country. And you have to get lawyers involved. And so many people, I would imagine, did not have the same resources that I did to actually hire an attorney to walk you through the steps and all that.
And you would think that it would just be a little bit easier, that if you actually fell in love with somebody and the relationship was real, and you could prove that to whoever you needed to prove to, that it would just be, okay, go on about your life. But it's not that way. It's an unduly stressful situation to go through. And luckily, it worked out fine for us. We didn't have any drama.
But so many of our friends and family members who have been through similar things have been through so much drama. And now, today, 2025, I couldn't imagine going through. I couldn't.
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 at 1920, 21, something like that at the time. And I had a friend that was in the military, joined the army and, uh, Was, you know, not the sharpest tool in the shed, but a bit of a wild card.
This guy, like, he would get, like, a signing bonus and just, like, buy kayaks from gas stations. And he would, you know, crash into embankments immediately. Like, he'd rent cars and take them, like, 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 was...
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.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Trae provide on the impact of social media on comedy?
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 charged, the politics. It wasn't as divided, yeah. Right, so 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, you know? So it like, it worked as a standup bit. And I had the idea to try to make like internet videos out of it. And at first I was like, ah, man, but you know, I'll have to buy a fancy camera.
I'll have to figure out how to edit things and light things. 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...
He was preaching fire and brimstone about the dangers of transgender people using the bathrooms with their little girls and all this type of stuff. And it's like not a dick joke inside. It wasn't funny at all. Just spewing venom. And it had like 20 million views or something like that on Facebook. Amongst people on the right, obviously. But when I saw that, I was like, oh, wow, okay.
If that guy doing that thing, if that's what I'm trying to make fun of or whatever, then I don't need to do anything fancy about it. In fact, that would be a mistake. That would be the wrong thing to do. I should just do exactly what this guy does. I should just pull my phone out and yell at it, right? Yeah.
And once I had that sort of realization, I made the first one like in the next couple of days. And the first one got like 50,000 views or something, which I was over the moon about. I was thrilled with that. And then the second one I made was also about the whole transgender bathroom law thing. And that one like went to the moon. It's like 30, 50 million views or something. And just like.
went like crazy, you know, megaton viral and like changed my life literally overnight. So it was like zero to a thousand. So I'd been working at it for a while and it was a very deliberate thing, but I also did not expect it to work like that.
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Chapter 6: How has Trae's upbringing influenced his views on politics?
That first video that went viral was just on my personal Facebook page. Crazy. So I maxed out my number of Facebook friends immediately. First of all, I shouldn't have been accepting all those people as friends. Yeah. Because it's different. Followers and friends, it's two different things. But at the time, I was like, I got to accept everybody. I got to accept everybody.
But I maxed that out immediately. And then it was just nuts. And I was getting... I got contacted by Warner Brothers. They signed me to a development deal. I signed a book deal with a publisher. I started touring. I quit my day job and started touring. I didn't think anyone was going to... Even in spite of all that, I didn't think anyone was going to come to the shows.
I was like, you know, dude, look, it's one thing to watch somebody, like, to click play on a video on your computer or on a phone. Right. Like, it's a very different thing to spend $20 and get a babysitter or whatever and come out to a comedy show. I was like, nobody's going to do that because of these.
And we did a trial run of one week of dates, and the very first tour date I ever had as a headliner was at the Punchline in Atlanta. And it sold out almost immediately. We had to add a second show, and it sold out, too. And that's when I was like... Holy shit. This is wild.
How long does it take you to get that? Does the development deal, does your agent just send that over to you the next day? They're like, oh my God, they want to sign you to a development. Does that happen just so quickly?
So thankfully, I did beforehand, I had a manager already who lived in Los Angeles, but she was very green and new. She was like a rookie manager herself. But she... still she helped me navigate all that because she at least, you know, had some notion of how things were supposed to work, but like, I didn't even have an agent yet or anything.
And the, the Warner brother, the, the, um, like, uh, uh, assistant to, or secretary of, or something like that of the president of Warner brothers television, like sent me a message on Facebook is how that is, how that happened initially. And then, um,
And then I got contacted by a literary agent because she knew that, you know, there was whatever, a publisher wanted to do a book deal or something. And yeah, and it just, I mean, it was wild. And then I was on, you know, a couple months later, I was on like real time with Bill Maher the Friday after the election in 2016, like three days after the election.
I do remember that appearance. I do remember that. I think that was my introduction to Trey Crowder.
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Chapter 7: What are Trae's thoughts on the future of the Democratic Party?
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 are actually like that, but they do have a lot of fans that believe they are like that. And then some of those guys, I mean, 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.
Absolutely right. And it's kind of strange. It's like it's flipped upside down. And part of me thinks that some of the podcast comedy. Man is fear, whatever they're calling it. These days, bro is fear, bro podcast fear. I don't even know what the new name is. Everything's got a name. I don't know what it is.
A part of me believes that it's in fashion to troll and to press those buttons because that's where the clicks and the likes are and the more... You can flirt with it and be controversial while maintaining a brand that can be on SNL or wherever, then the better off you're going to be. So it's like one foot in, one foot out and, you know, in for a penny and for a pound kind of thing.
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Chapter 8: What upcoming projects can fans expect from Trae Crowder?
And like you, I grew up... I mean... I don't say when I grew up in a liberal household, I grew up in an Irish Catholic household and my father leaned conservative. My mother was liberal about almost every social issue, which I think I picked up on that kind of empathetic nature of hers. And it made me really see the world in a different way to put myself in other people's shoes before speaking.
And, you know, all that stuff, like do unto others, the stuff that Jesus taught, the pretty simple stuff. Right. But, um, I always felt strongly that... you know, the government, a political faction shouldn't be bullies. That was just kind of my thing. And so I'd never really felt strongly about conservatism because I always felt there was a little bit of that in it always.
But that being said, I don't disagree with everything that the conservatives have to say. I don't think government should, I don't think we should have to fill out a piece of paper in triplicate to walk across the street, right? I think the government should Needs to be smaller. It needs to work more for the people in the middle and down below.
And I think that, you know, there's there is a lot of waste that goes on in government. And so for me, I don't totally disagree with I hate Doge and everything that it stands for under the under Musk. Right. Because I just don't agree with the methodologies and the way he's going about it and the reasoning that he's going about it. I don't think it's as simple as I want to cut waste and fraud.
I think there's very complicated reasons in this own man's head. But I agree that we could probably get rid of some of the stuff that we just don't need or we're spending too much money on. Do you... Feel that there is any common ground with the current administration? Do you feel like does does Trey agree with any of the things?
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. 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, look, 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,
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