Name: Koe Wetzel | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #549
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Koe Wetzel | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #549' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-10. Transcript available.

Koe Wetzel | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #549

I have some new tour dates to let you know about.
I'll be in East Lansing.
I'll be in Toledo, Ohio, Rama, Ontario in the Canada,
Pittsburgh, PA, Eugene, Oregon, Kennewick,
Washington, Seattle, Washington, Victoria, BC in the Canada,
College Station, Texas, Belton, Texas,
San Antonio, Durant, Amarillo, Oxford, Mississippi,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
and Tallahassee, Florida,
Rosemont, Illinois, Winnipeg, and Calgary in the Canada.
Get all your tickets at theovahn.com slash T-O-U-R.
Thank you so much for your support,
and thank you to the fella in Montana that gave me this jacket.
Got some Indian artifacts on the back.
And I just want to say thank you.
I really like this jacket.
We've also got some new merch, some new gang gang tees in pepper and ivory,
and we've got a new gang gang hat that gig it.
Check those out and more at theovahnstore.com.
Happy holidays to everyone.
Today's guest has never been afraid to speak his mind.
He has been a staple in country music and in Texas lore for many years.
He's having a great year right now with his new album, Nine Lives.
It's country.
It's rock.
It's grunge.
It's him.
He's got a new Christmas EP, Wetzel's Wonderland, Chapter 2, out now.
And I'm just grateful to spend time today and to catch up with him.
Today's guest is Mr. Coe Wetzel.
I shouldn't be allowed to be alive.
You ever feel like that?
You ever feel like that really, dude?
I mean, I should not be allowed to be alive, dude.
I just.
Kind of one of those days?
Yeah.
You ever just burn so many bridges down, you can't even take a step.
You burn, it's not even bridges, you burn down just regular flooring.
Yeah.
Ceiling, everything.
Carpet.
I mean, I'll just turn a wreck, just.
Everything's a chimney when I come around someday when I'm like that.
You want those beers, Bubba, or honey or anything?
You can have whatever you want.
Yeah, I'll, if you don't mind, a couple of those.
Yeah, I'm just damn.
It's just, you know, yeah, everything's fine.
It's just when, you know, if I get in a, you know.
You think it's kind of like with the holidays and shit coming up too, or?
It doesn't help.
Yeah, no, for sure.
And it's a lot of little things to do and suddenly a lot of just feeling like a
little responsibilities and then.
Everything kind of has a.
Yeah, and then if I, yeah.
And I start turning, I'll just turn it into just a, you know, I get too focused
on what I need to get done.
And sometimes I just got to hit an AA meeting or something or f***ing drink a
damn eight ball, dude.
Dude, I'm glad they didn't come out with eight ball, the beverage or whatever.
I think they did at Celsius.
That could be true.
I'd have been on them bitches, man.
Coe Wetzel, man, congrats on the new album, dude.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate it.
Wow.
Shit kind of popped off, huh?
Yeah, well, you've been working so hard.
For sure.
People don't think about that.
Yeah, everybody, it's the overnight success shit.
And I don't know, they don't see the 10 years, 10 plus years, you know.
We've been grinding it out for a while, so.
And all the places, you've played every place they would allow someone to play,
really.
For real, though, man.
Like, we would.
I mean, you'll play.
I've seen, yeah.
Yeah.
Trailers on the back of, like, semis, behind chicken wire.
Oh, I've seen places where, like, tomorrow this place is getting fumigated,
right?
Where they'll already be setting up the tent around it with the bug spray in it.
And it's like, but tonight, co-wetzel, baby.
It was with big lights, right?
We had, dude, there was this one run that we had.
It was probably the third year.
It was probably 2013, 14.
And it was like, we were playing VFWs and, like, firehouses and stuff.
Well, there was, like, three places that we played.
And within two months, I don't know if it was tax reasons or what, but all of
them fucking burnt down.
So, it was like a thing.
Like, co-wetzel's coming to town.
Get your extinguishers ready, man.
He's about to burn this bitch down, literally.
Dude, it was almost like that white snake memorial tour, kind of.
That's how it was, man.
And it was kind of a joke around East Texas, but it was legit.
It was always a VFW or a little cash grab or something.
It was kind of a sketchy place, you know.
And then you get in there and it's like, did you hear that place burned down
last night?
I was like, what?
You're like, what are you?
We just left.
Yeah.
Like, I think we still have some drums in there.
Bro, you can smell the kerosene as you pull it off down the road.
They're just in the bag, just pulling wires and shit.
I was electrical fired.
Oh, bro.
Oh, yeah.
Nothing like a good scam, dude.
Dude, I'm telling you.
Nothing like a good...
Gets you out of a pinch.
You're talking about, yeah, getting your day back to brighter, man.
Getting a little government money, man.
Oh, we had a dude who had bought a bunch of...
He made a bunch of 4th of July t-shirts, right?
Okay?
And they didn't get in until...
They basically got in, like, on the night before.
They're supposed to come in, like, two weeks early.
And it was a business plan this guy had.
And so on 4th of July, he's like, I have basically eight or nine hours to pedal
these bitches.
You know, so he got...
He was out there with a bike, with a little wagon.
He was pulling, like, he was supposed to have a child in it or something.
But it was just full of these 4th of July shirts.
And he was out there just slinging them bitches.
And he only got rid of about maybe 17 of them.
So he had about maybe 420 shirts left or whatever.
What do you do with them?
He said...
Here's what he did.
He said he set them on fire, right?
But...
He did it near a fireworks display.
And he said that some of the fireworks had landed in him.
Hey, man.
That's...
Got to respect the hustle there, bro.
That was great.
That's awesome.
It was a great idea, man.
Yeah.
I bet he's got a lot...
I bet he had a lot of great ideas.
I mean, maybe...
Is he still around?
We should have hit him up, bro.
He's an idea, man.
I would say that.
Yeah, absolutely.
He's an idea, man.
Yeah, man.
You're playing some different venues now.
So that's kind of changed, huh?
Has it?
Well, yeah.
I mean, we've been doing, like, arenas for, like, the last two or three years.
But it's just kind of to a bigger scale, I guess.
I mean, definitely got newer fans.
With this record, we kind of tapped into the mainstream kind of side of it, I
guess.
You know, we've always been independent.
And, I mean, I guess, you know, coming out of Texas, I mean, you can tour Texas
year-round,
you know, and make a damn good living.
And that's pretty much what we've been doing, but, you know, over the last
probably five years,
you know, we got out of Texas and got to play these crazy arenas and stuff.
That's crazy.
Look at that.
Yeah, man.
It's been a while.
I mean, we've been blessed.
Fans have just come out of the woodworks, man.
And it's cool to have people, you know, fuck with the music, man.
Fuck with what you're telling them, man.
And, I don't know, it's been wild.
It's kind of...
We've been so busy, I haven't had time to, like, step back and actually look at
it.
You know, and kind of see where we're at.
But it's wild, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of that energy out of Texas where it's
just like that, you know,
we'll figure it out.
And Texas really supports their own a lot.
Yeah, for sure.
You know?
It's the same with guys like Parker over the years.
And, I mean, Texas has their own thing.
They always have.
Yeah.
You know, they support their own.
Yeah.
Very, very proud people, man.
And, you know, it's just such a cult following, you know.
And we've been blessed to have those cult fan base, that fan base for so long,
you know.
Is there, like, co-beef between, like, people, you know, like, new fans and old
fans, do you feel like?
Maybe a little bit.
But, I mean, like I said, they're so passionate and they're so, like, co-fans
that, you know, I think they've responded.
I was kind of curious as to how they're going to take this new music that we
put out.
I mean, they came on with it.
I think they dug it.
It's, you know, because we haven't really veered off from the shit we've been
doing our whole, you know, career or so.
Yeah.
Do you feel weird?
Do you feel like?
Is there a part of you that feels like?
Because I get, like, if I have to do something that feels kind of mainstreamy
to me sometimes, it makes me fucking angry.
It's just like, yeah, yeah.
I don't, man, not really.
Because, like I said earlier, you know, I'm still doing the same shit.
It's just more, I guess, on a bigger scale, kind of more, I don't know, kind of
expected, you know what I mean?
Like, to do all these interviews and, you know, just kind of get your story out
there.
So, I mean, it used to be, you know, get fucked up, go play music, and that was
it.
You know, write music, throw down, party with everybody, and now it's kind of,
all right, let's take a step back and calm everything down a little bit, you
know?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Yeah, your TikToks, you guys would be just fucked up out there eating dandelions
and shit, or just adopting animals.
I mean, you guys are doing a lot for nature and everything out there.
Everything, man.
Do you have to slow it down a little bit?
Have you had to a little?
This tour, we definitely did.
So, last year's tour was the Hell Paso tour, and it was balls to the wall.
Like, it was insane, bro.
Like, it was too much, honestly.
I'm surprised somebody died.
But we had a couple folks go to jail, but other than that, I mean, it was just
chaos the whole time.
And then this year, with the Damn Near Normal tour, they kind of, like, caged
me a little bit.
Like, so after every show, it was direct to the bus, and then the cop escorted
out.
Like, they wouldn't let me go out and party and stuff, which was great.
I mean, the tour was great and stuff, but I felt like they were trying to
settle me down a little bit.
Because, I mean, like I said, it's just kind of on a bigger scale than anybody
kind of expected it to be.
Yeah, you got more responsibility the next day.
You got to actually be there.
And, you know, I felt a whole lot better this tour, and the shows were better,
in my opinion.
And, but, yeah, I mean, I guess it's, you got to grow up sometime, man.
It sucks, huh?
It sucks, man.
It sucks getting old.
It sucks having to grow up.
Grow up, yeah.
And it's not even getting old.
Oh, you can stay young and just be an old dude.
It's kind of like, damn, that old dude is, I shouldn't be, you know.
It's like the FOMO, though.
Like, the fear, like, you know, like, whenever it's just, like, you reminisce
on all the good times.
It's like, damn, man.
That'd be fun to do tonight, you know.
We should do that tonight.
Oh, yeah.
It's nothing.
Oh, dude, going to bed early and laying there and just feeling like just even
God knows you're a little bitch.
That's the saddest part, dude, getting into bed early.
You're like, all right, I'm doing it.
And then you kind of get ready and you're like, oh, start to feel a little bit
bad.
You're like, oh, you know what?
And then you wake up next morning.
I feel like whenever you wake up next morning, you're like, no, good on you.
Yeah.
Fuck yeah, man.
Oh, yeah, that's a.
Yeah, that's like, if you got a little oomph in your chest, like, hey, man.
Yeah, a natural oomph and not just where your heart's just burned out from
running overtime.
Dude, I remember when I first met you, I was like, because I was like, I don't
know if I had just, like, gotten, like, re-sober or something at the time.
Re-sober is a good name.
Re-sober, yeah, that's pretty cool.
I never heard that word.
I never said that word before.
Re-sober.
Re-sobered.
But I never got.
And I remember when I met you, I was like, I got to be careful around that guy.
Because.
I remember that time.
That guy.
That was at Whiskey Jam, right?
Was it Whiskey Jam?
I can't remember.
At Winner, or Losers?
It might have been with Todd.
With Todd Gr