E516 Competitive Kingdom
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 35 minutes
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156.30255
Summary
TheoVaughn is back in the studio with a solo episode. He talks about the heat and what he's been up to. He also talks about some of his favorite songs from the 80's and 90's.
Transcript
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Shorty want a thug, baby, that's what they say.
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That, you know, shorty don't want that thug, you feel me?
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You know, some of the songs just aren't really.
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Shorty want a three-bedroom house with two and a half baths.
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What's going on, you little cinnamon sniffers, baby?
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Bro, you take an animal outside, and next thing you know, that thing is grilled.
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You got you a little beach on or whatever, you at the park, and next thing you know, that thing.
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You'll have a couple of, I don't want to say it, but C-H-I-N-E-S-E.
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You'll have them show up and be like, oh, so, what's happening, appetizer?
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But, yeah, it's just dangerous out there, dangerous to hit the dog park, dangerous for anybody.
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That's the kind of shit you see on the side of an oven, bro.
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It's just too much degrees for a regular man or woman.
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So, I really feel, yeah, feel some nostalgia about that.
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I'm trying to do more solo episodes because I think it's important, and I miss it.
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I haven't spoken to you guys since I went to Ireland, brother, and England.
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And they call it the United Kingdom, but it's not.
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If you're in Ireland and you're on stage and you yell out, fuck England, they go bonkers, dude.
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They will start eating the freckles off of each other.
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So, that's what they should call it, probably, the competitive kingdom.
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And even certain parts of it feel like, like in Ireland, they're like, we're the real Ireland, you know.
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And then if you get over to, you know, once you get over to England, like the people in Manchester, they're like, oh, fuck London.
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But I want to say thank you to all the people that came out over there.
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I did, you know, sometimes I feel like I leave a place and there's not a way to say thank you.
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You know, I'll go to a show somewhere and I'll leave.
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And a lot of times I'll be sitting in the tour bus or the car or something.
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You know, and I'll share something on my social story.
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But I'm like, man, I just wish there was a way to thank people better sometimes.
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Those people, they will, oh, they'll drink their buddy.
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Dude, I saw a guy put a straw in his friend and fucking drink him.
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You know, beautiful, semi-beautiful, off-beautiful.
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The darkest thing in the whole country is the Guinness.
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They didn't have any, like, I even saw, I remember seeing one black guy.
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And I was like, oh, my God, are you a Guinness?
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Like, they just don't have a lot of diversity, you know.
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In fact, if someone there has a black child, they just name it Guinness.
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But, yeah, just a marvelous group of people over there, you know.
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And in Ireland, they send, there's always the one Irish guy.
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You open the pet store, there's a couple pets, right?
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And then there's, like, people just in there drinking.
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It could be, and you open a hardware store, and there's three wrenches, and then 11 guys in there drinking and singing the Pogues songs.
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You know, it's a drinker's paradise over there.
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And then every now and then, you'll see the one Irish guy who they send to check out to see if it's sunny outside, right?
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And that's, I don't know if he lost a bet or whatever, but there's always that one Irish guy that they send out, you know, to check the weather.
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And it could be two degrees Celsius in Ireland, which is, like, 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and he'll come back in with a sunburn.
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It's, there, anybody there, you cut a lamp on and four guys get sunburned in Ireland.
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Even if I turn the light on on my phone, right, 11 guys get sunburned immediately.
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Anything, you open up anything, a pothole on the street, they're in there.
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They're like, and they're just drinking beers and singing.
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Because I grew up in New Orleans, you know, and so there, there's a lot of drunk people vomiting and, like, projectile vomiting into people, you know, in the strip clubs and shit.
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They're drunk, but they're, they're just Irish.
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The crazy one is if a guy gets so drunk, the freckles on his face start kind of moving around or relocating, or they'll spell out things.
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It'll just, the freckles will start to ask for help.
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That's when a guy is too drunk and too Irish, you know.
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They're like, oh, Michael needs a biscuit, you know.
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It'll just start saying like that, oh, call the cops, you know.
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So you just have to be, you got to be, you got to look out for that guy.
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And I guess this is how I kind of say thanks, you know, just by making sure I try to reminisce.
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What else was, oh, the best thing in Ireland, they're always like, oh, the girls are coming.
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They're like, the girls, the lady, they'll be here soon.
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We went out a couple nights and the guys we met, they're like, all right, the girls are coming.
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And we'd wait and they would just close the bar and send everybody home.
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It's fascinating to see just this culture of just not obsessed with things as much as we are in the States.
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I definitely noticed that about the Irish, you know.
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They're like, come see the Titanic, where we built the Titanic.
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And I'm like, dude, I ain't going to see that, bro.
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Why are you, why, like, I don't understand, I guess.
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Like, why if it sank, are you like, come see it, you know.
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If they're like, oh, come see where we made the plane.
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Irish and English people, you don't have to say you're joking.
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You open a pothole in there, people are drinking.
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You open a cupboard to get you a plate, and there's six people on the plate drinking.
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You open an app on your phone in Ireland, and there's three guys in the app drinking.
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You open up, somebody opened a new restaurant, and we went for the opening, grand opening.
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We opened the doors, there's 48 people drinking.
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That's what the other parts of Ireland call it.
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And then we went down, to be honest, look, I'll say when they're bad.
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Sometimes you get off stage, and you're like, oh, fuck.
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But it's like, yeah, that's how I feel about it.
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And it's a different type of place down there, you know.
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And you think, you know, Ireland, you think, oh, Cork.
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You know, they're finally going to put a Cork in the bottle.
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You know, it'll be kind of sober Ireland or whatever, you know.
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And they're going to get down there just living and living just comfortable lives, you know.
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But no, it's just drunk men, drunk cattle even.
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I saw two cows that couldn't even pay their tab at a pub.
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And then they fucking butchered them right there.
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But he don't, the calves don't, they don't have any hands to even pay their tab.
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The guy put the little, like, electronic pay your tab thing in the guy, you know.
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So just kind of heartbreaking to witness some of that.
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It just, and I was like, who is going to show up to this circus tent?
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That show was kind of tough, just, but it was great, man.
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It's just been, you know, yeah, I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining.
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Sometimes it all happens so fast, and you wish you could hold on to it, you know.
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Yeah, sometimes it just all happens so fast, and you just want to hold on to it more.
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But, yeah, we got to go see a dairy farmer right when we got over to Cork.
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The driver, our driver, his cousin or nephew was working at a dairy farm.
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So we went out there, and that was pretty cool.
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We got to see the cows and just, you know, I never known that much about a cow, to be honest with you, bro.
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Some people look at me, and they're like, oh, yeah, this bastard knows about cows, bro.
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Like, oh, this little boy will suck on an udder.
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But the truth is, I don't know much about them.
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A lot of cows, when I look at them, they kind of remind me of blind people a little bit.
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And I don't know if I have to know why, you know.
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But, yeah, we got to go see a dairy farm and just see what it was like.
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And we got to sit at the table at the farmer's table and just kind of have a meal with them and some tea.
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That was, like, the most, like, settled thing we did on the whole trip over there in the U.K.
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Yeah, and it was just, and the girls are coming.
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I don't even know how there's any people in Ireland because you need women to make people.
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You put two dudes in a room for a long time, dude.
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You open that door again, there's only going to be two people in there.
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And so, yeah, there's, like, everybody's, like, the girls are coming.
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It's just, it's a bunch of Conor McGregor fans swearing that the girls are coming.
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And they, and I don't know where the girls are.
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At the dairy farm, that's the most females I saw.
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Depending on how cold it gets, some of them were cute.
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Yeah, and the best, but, yeah, the wildest thing about Ireland is the craziest thing you can do,
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you can go on stage, you can say, fuck England, and they will go apeshit.
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They will start eating the freckles off their face.
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They'll fucking, they'll start licking the sunburn off their body.
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But then we went to England, and we couldn't say that anymore on stage because we were in England.
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You know, I think people know I've had some history with the British over the years, you know?
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So, you know, because we used to be British or whatever.
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If you look at the Christopher Columbus, the Bible or whatever, and we left.
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So we left, but then, so I was always like, well, why would, you know, you know, it's not going, you know,
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you want to stay where you are, you know, you're moving forward, you know?
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It's just like, you know, you don't want to go back.
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So I'll say fuck England when I'm in Ireland, but when I get to England, dude, I'm not saying it anymore.
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We went to Manchester, and one of the best shows.
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If you haven't gotten to check him out, man, he's just such a joy to be around.
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Jimmy Carr showed up and did a guest set in London along with Catherine Ryan.
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You know, just that kindness of them to say, hey, I'd love to come and be on the show.
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And it was also a time when the soccer was kicking off in the U.K., so people in England were hyped, bro.
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People kept yelling Harry Kane at me, and I thought my penis was hanging out.
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But, yeah, I just want to say thank you to everybody that came out over there.
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It's just such a crazy experience to go to another country and people come out to the show, you know.
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And then you're worried that, like, people don't, like, they don't know what you're talking about or that you have to change your references or whatever.
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But that's not the, you know, some of that's all in my head.
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So I think, like, in the first shows of, in Ireland, I was, like, worried, like, there's this exchange rate or whatever.
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So, yeah, so that's what it was like over there.
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I'm trying to think of anything else kind of wonderful that happened.
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You know, it just all, it just happens at the speed of life.
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And sometimes it's, it feels quicker than we wish.
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Sometimes I feel like life wants to just, like, minutes are just faster than they used to be.
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Like, even minutes, they want to get done with it.
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It just used to feel like things were a little bit slower.
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Joe Biden has decided now that he's running for president.
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Now, everybody knows that, and if you don't know, I don't.
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My issue with Democratic Party is taking advantage of a senior citizen.
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I think that they should have taken Bobby Kennedy on and brought him into the fold.
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I think that he is a plausible candidate who's willing to talk about real shit.
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He's a plausible candidate that's willing to talk about real things and not only just wait for the question to come at him,
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but to say this is what I want to do, and when he says it, you believe him, I think.
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Jim Henson put his hand up little bodies and made the Muppets, dude.
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So, I just did, I've never liked that, I've known that this guy is not doing well.
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You know, my father was a senior citizen when I was born, so I don't like the taking advantage of somebody who is not mentally well.
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And so, here's the, here's the hilariousness of it.
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So, he's been experiencing dementia for a while, right?
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And now, they kept telling him so much, like, these puppeteers, whoever they are, we don't know who they are, but we know who they are.
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They've been saying, like, you're the president, Joe.
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And now, when they're like, you're not, you can't do it.
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It's almost like you convince a puppet that they're real for so long, and suddenly, they fucking, they believe it.
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It's like, if we can't control Biden, how can we control AI?
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You know, we can't even control B-A-I-D-E-N, dude.
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So, all this shit, to me, is just kind of hilarious.
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I think we, I think the CIA and the FBI are corrupt.
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I believe that we are living in a very corrupt experience with our government.
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But I think that the powers that are pushing them are.
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Because I don't believe that on an individual level.
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I'm so, because imagine you, like, build a character on an NBA 2K or something, right?
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And then finally, you log in one time and you want to use your character or whatever.
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And your character just fucking looks at the screen.
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And gives you those Nate Diaz number ones, baby, the middle fangies.
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And then he just does his own shit on the game.
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So that's what I'm, I am hyped about this, about Biden.
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That's what you get for telling a puppet that it's real the whole time.
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Anyway, so not to get super political, but those are just some of my thoughts.
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And I felt like what they were doing to Joe Biden, whatever you think about him politically,
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what they were doing to him, I thought was fucked up.
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You know, if I sat in a room with a senior citizen and I knew something was not well about him.
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And I said things to him or made him believe things to take advantage of him.
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That's, that's a sick person that would do that.
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You know, that's, if that happened to my father, I've said this before.
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If somebody did that to my father, I would fucking take their legs off their body.
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You know, I, there's just nothing sicker to me than that.
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It's like there's people that call, uh, old people and try to sell them gold and cheat them out of their money.
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All that shit are the, uh, those Nigerian scammer people.
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I know that they're just trying to make money in their country, but, uh, just taking advantage of senior citizens is just fucking,
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Sorry if this is all over the place, but, uh, you know, I've never known what this show is.
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A lot of guys are afraid to say it, you know, you know, and I will say that I promised my father on his deathbed that I would not go to a WNBA game.
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And, and I put, you know, and I felt like, of course I won't go.
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Um, and he, he goes, oh, your mother, if your mother found out you went to a WNBA game, she'd roll over in her grave.
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And I said, I remember being like, well, mom's not dead yet.
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I went to a game, uh, this past weekend in Las Vegas.
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I became an Iowa Hawkeyes female basketball fan.
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And a lot, you know, for some people, it's almost like admitting that they're using drugs or whatever.
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I mean, they put up way more points than the Iowa men's football team.
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If you even want to see a point scored, you got to watch them.
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So, um, but yeah, so I went to a Kate Martin game and I got to see her play, dude.
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Um, the best thing that I didn't realize is, uh, some of the player, you know, as a guy, you're sitting there, you're watching the game.
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Because a lot of times you'll see the women driving to the hoop and you, they can't dunk, right?
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But it's the, to me, it's the most relatable thing I've ever seen.
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You know, at this point in my life, I can't dunk.
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So if I'm going to the hoop and I got a layup, it's the, there's nothing more relatable to a white guy than driving to the hoop and you can't dunk.
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So at that moment, I was like, holy shit, this is the most relatable moment of my whole life.
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I can't really relate to all those bangers that are out there in the NBA.
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All those Beyonce Carters, baby, them Vince Carters.
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I can't really, you know, I can admire it, but I can't relate to it.
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But when you see somebody coasting through the lane or trying to figure it out, catching a bounce pass, and they're going up and the only thing they can do is lay up, bro.
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As a white, off-white, semi-Nicaraguan guy, I can relate a thousand percent, dude.
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So that's one thing that I realized that was so relatable about the games, man.
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The second thing that I thought was really fascinating is, as a man, some of the players, you're attracted to them.
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So if you're a man that likes a woman, then you're, you know.
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So it's like, you know, at the men's game, that never happens.
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I'm hoping that none of the players are trying to bang my girl or whatever.
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But as, at the WNBA game, you're like, damn, shorty, shorty, shorty.
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And some guys are like, I would never be attracted.
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See if some of these beautiful broads don't hit a three-pointer
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So just been praying about a lot of that kind of stuff, man.
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But that was, so those were some things about the WNBA game that I really loved.
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And I know it sounds crazy to say that, and I'm sorry, Dad.
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And this is one of the best things that the WNBA has going for it as well.
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But the fact that the best team in the league right now is in Las Vegas.
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So you have so many people that are just in Las Vegas that are there, you know,
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So if they go see a team, bro, they're going to see the best team.
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That's the dark arch is the people in the distance.
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But, yeah, it was just, there's just so many different little elements that kind of happen
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And some people are going to chirp me or whatever for having gone.
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So, but, yeah, it was a great, it was a, I had a great time, man.
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It just, and I'll say this, the games are a little shorter.
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You're, and you're attracted, you're attracted to some of the ladies on the court.
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And you, it's just, there's a different thing going on when you are a man at the game, I think.
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Dude, I had an amazing, some of my best, the best shows I've had in the past few years
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Just even being in Las Vegas, you know, just getting to be in Las Vegas, dude, it's like
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you go to Las Vegas and the freaking advertisement goes by and it's me, you know.
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And I sat there with my mom and we rode in together for my brothers because we spent,
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And it's, there's nobody, it's 250 people there.
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I got to go to lunch with my nephew and just be like, you know, what's going on, bro?
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I'm thankful to God that I got to have that kind of moment.
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Just where, you know, we got to go together and then I'm able, you know, I'm trusted to
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take my nephew out to lunch and, and we just had a nice time.
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We drove around and just talked stuff, you know, because I think maybe sometimes for nephews,
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some, some things they can't talk about their dads with.
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And, um, yeah, that made me feel like, uh, like I had some value, you know, like important,
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like, or just like familially, like family importance or whatever they call it.
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Um, but yeah, we got to draw, we got, we rode back in with my mom and she came to my show
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And if you were at that show in Vegas, it was pretty cool.
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You know, um, I know my, you know, me figuring out like my, like, yeah, I mean, my mother and
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I had a tough time growing, you know, we've had a tough time over the years and, uh, but
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she still stay, she, you know, she listens to every episode of this show, you know, which
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is kind of wild because, um, she couldn't be there when I was young, you know, but I
00:39:18.120
know she tries her best to show up when, as an adult, you know, when I'm now, you know?
00:39:29.620
It just, you know, and some of that's been, it's been hard for me to like evolve, like,
00:39:37.720
But, um, yeah, I'm grateful that, you know, even the P like, I'm just grateful that my mom
00:39:47.080
has been patient while I'm trying to figure this out and go through it.
00:39:52.460
And it's gotten a lot better, you know, um, it's gotten a lot better.
00:39:58.900
And I'm just, I'm really thankful to God for that, you know, to the powers that be in
00:40:03.820
the world, because I didn't know, you know, I don't know.
00:40:09.160
Sometimes I never knew if I would have any other feelings towards my mom other than, um,
00:40:20.780
Now I have like feelings that pop into my head where, uh, that are new and different.
00:40:29.980
So I'm just, yeah, I'm just thankful that, um, yeah, I'm thankful about that, but it was
00:40:35.860
just fun, you know, that she got to come and see me do what I like to do, you know?
00:40:45.900
And so I'm just, you know, I'm just grateful for that.
00:40:49.020
Um, cause every kid just wants to make their mom or dad proud, you know, that's all they
00:40:57.600
I, you know, I mean, they want to steal their parents' car sometimes too, but outside of
00:41:03.040
that, you know, and they want to fricking hook up with a strain or with like some, somebody
00:41:07.900
from down the street when their parents are out of town or whatever.
00:41:10.160
But outside of that, dude, all they want to do is make their parents proud, you know?
00:41:24.140
Sorry if I'm rambling, we haven't even gotten into any of you guys' calls and really why
00:41:28.420
if I feel the only reason I even want to do these episodes, um, is so I can check in with
00:41:40.420
Um, and so, you know, I asked in the past, the last solo episode and I try to solo episodes
00:41:46.740
And so if you're not familiar with this podcast or if you're new to it, um, solo episodes
00:41:53.400
And so, um, I asked in the past who listens to the episode.
00:41:58.260
So I'm just going to rattle off a few of them right here.
00:42:02.980
Um, my name is Zeta and you were wondering what people do for work.
00:42:11.940
And I'm kind of a bigger girl, if you know what I'm saying.
00:42:14.460
So it's kind of embarrassing because people probably think I'll sneak a snack or something.
00:42:18.720
But my job basically is like when you go to the grocery store and you, you know, buy a
00:42:24.840
ribeye steak or something and it says like pine ribeye or choice ribeye or select or whatever.
00:42:49.080
As long as you don't see my meat's contaminated, baby.
00:43:00.800
Out here, uh, delivering carbon dioxide, also known as CO2, also known as carbonation.
00:43:06.680
And trying to make sure that everybody's sodas are fizzy and remain that way.
00:43:42.940
Uh, I just want to let you know I listen to the pod.
00:43:46.060
You're always playing in the background while I'm sitting here at the jail after I see everybody.
00:43:50.820
And just wanted to give you a call and say thank you.
00:43:55.520
I'm out there talking to people, keeping them going.
00:43:57.940
And you're back here talking to me, keeping me going.
00:44:07.480
We'll see how bad my marriage is one day if I get married.
00:44:15.160
I know people make mistakes and they still need to, uh, they still deserve to help, to get help.
00:44:32.920
I'm a beauty school dropout turned production welder.
00:44:37.700
And I just heard your pod, the merging, where you asked what everybody does for a living.
00:44:51.500
Won't you frickin' shh me up a little steak, baby?
00:44:55.760
That's what I would like to see somebody that, you know, steak by welder.
00:45:00.240
And that bitch is just a fuckin' grill do it, damn.
00:45:12.220
My name's Peyton, and I am a school nurse, and I absolutely love your podcast.
00:45:31.440
If you got a school nurse that was hot, dude, it was like, God.
00:45:40.780
I adored your podcast with Melissa Ansel, the school lunch lady.
00:45:57.680
I just wanted to call in and let you know that I was a nurse, and I love you.
00:46:34.000
But for a man, I think of him as a handsome guy for sure.
00:46:42.480
He is – people ask me about Joe Rogan all the time.
00:46:47.720
Literally, I feel like I'm Joe – I feel like I'm a secretary sometimes for Joe Rogan.
00:46:51.920
Or like I'm like that – whoever the Speaker of the House is or something.
00:46:56.860
It's a lady with the curly hair for Biden who they always ask her questions.
00:47:09.180
People try to label him, I think, as different things sometimes.
00:47:16.720
You can't really lie to him because he remembers.
00:47:21.340
So if you tell him some shit, it's just like he remembers.
00:47:28.560
It makes him very endearing because he remembers things about you and about the world.
00:47:40.440
That's one thing that I really think about him.
00:47:42.480
It's like if they could make a library person, it's Joe Rogan.
00:47:48.820
You can kind of show up to the desk and ask, hey, do we have a book about this?
00:47:53.400
And he will go into his memory because he's had so many conversations and informative conversations.
00:48:01.580
And he will share what he can remember or what he knows.
00:48:06.380
And that's one thing that I think is very fascinating about him.
00:48:14.200
And then when you get to go watch him do the UFC, it's just like he's like commentating.
00:48:21.160
I just feel so lucky that he helped a lot of comics and fighters, UFC people, kind of connect in some weird way.
00:48:37.980
Like, yeah, and I think that's exactly how I think about him.
00:48:44.600
And I know if, yeah, if I reach out to him about something, he's willing to be helpful.
00:48:48.580
And I also know he's a very busy guy, so I respect his time.
00:49:14.800
We got some we have some callers that called in about their first time somebody touching their genitalia.
00:49:27.840
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00:49:36.360
Yeah, that Joe Biden wants to be the president now.
00:49:39.540
They told him he was the—you tell him he's the president for so long, and then he just walks off believing he's the president, baby.
00:49:59.080
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00:50:06.340
I want free Reader's Digest for all natural-born citizens.
00:50:13.620
They let—I'm just so excited now that they made somebody believe something, and now that dude is like, no, you're not telling me I'm not the president.
00:50:29.480
And so that's got to be—we have to look at it, I think, in the excitement part, you know.
00:50:42.180
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00:53:09.540
I want to let you know that I am 36 days off of masturbation,
00:53:30.400
Um, you know, some people don't worry about that kind of stuff, you know, uh,
00:53:37.740
But for me, a lot of my life, I like, if I felt uncomfortable, like, you know, one day
00:53:43.680
I should do an episode probably maybe about this kind of stuff.
00:53:46.100
But, um, yeah, when I was young, I didn't, you know, I had a lot of trouble relating to
00:54:01.260
I think a lot of it was, you know, I didn't have a connection with my mother.
00:54:06.980
Um, but because of that, you know, when you don't have a connection with your mom,
00:54:14.260
And so I went into the world and I was just so scared.
00:54:16.820
I just was so scared of any, uh, connection, any, uh, intimate connection with a female.
00:54:24.900
And so when pornography came along, it was easy.
00:54:27.580
It was like, oh, I can have some form of intimacy, but it's not, it's not real.
00:54:34.400
You know, it just, it filled like this space that was huge in me.
00:54:41.480
And so that for a long time, anytime I had a feeling or anything, you know, I would watch
00:54:47.680
pornography or something or I would masturbate or do something like that because I just didn't
00:54:51.440
know how to handle any of my feelings, especially if it was a feeling about like, um, maybe dating
00:55:01.620
A lot of it I'm still learning about, but, um, but yeah, so to have this break, uh, to have
00:55:10.980
this like space and yeah, I mean, I've had date, you know, it changed over time.
00:55:15.440
Like it got better, but it still was always this thing.
00:55:19.780
Like, or if I felt uncomfortable in that, you know, I would resort to that.
00:55:26.300
It would make me feel some connection, even if it wasn't real.
00:55:29.180
Um, so yeah, I'm just, I haven't had this kind of a time in my life where I've had that
00:55:42.020
And so I'm just really thankful for that, man, you know, and, um, yeah, I, I, I started
00:55:53.240
We, we do ads for them sometimes we do pro bono ads for their company because, um, I believe
00:56:02.660
So anyway, uh, maybe one day I'll do like a more episode about that kind of stuff about,
00:56:08.220
um, being addicted to that sort of thing and, um, and that sort of thing.
00:56:13.020
Maybe it would be, um, you know, something to do.
00:56:16.020
Um, um, anyway, um, let's get to some calls, man.
00:56:25.700
I want to see a lot of people have called in, you know, we, we, the last solo episode, we
00:56:29.360
talked about the first time somebody ever touched your genitalia, which is a very important
00:56:36.800
Cause for most of your life, your genitalia, it's yours.
00:56:45.720
It's your little fucking dirty little secret, but sometimes you'll let other people touch
00:56:56.400
And so that's what I wanted to figure out and see if we could, uh, get to some of those
00:57:03.180
Actually, yo, Theo, it's Mike from the quad cities.
00:57:15.880
I was Moline, Bettendorf, Davenport, Rock Island, and Moline.
00:57:26.140
Illinois, uh, Rock Island calling about the, uh, the statement you made regarding when's
00:57:39.320
Cause there's not, cause your whole life you've had your penis.
00:57:42.520
You don't even know when you're a kid that you even have a penis, but then you get to
00:57:45.520
like 12 and you're like, Holy shit, dude, I got this wand on me.
00:57:52.900
You know, I got this fucking little party oyster on me.
00:57:59.820
It was, uh, it was on the basketball court at the fitness center.
00:58:03.060
I was, uh, I was playing a five on five full court and we was playing with, uh, a group
00:58:10.140
Uh, they was, I was probably 14 and they was probably around 40.
00:58:16.440
Um, and, uh, there was a, there was a female, one of them and she was guarding me and, uh,
00:58:22.620
I cut to the hoop and she cut because of drawers, you know what I'm saying?
00:58:26.280
She, uh, she rubbed her hand across that shaft.
00:58:35.060
I, you know, I'm not a detective for sure, dude.
00:58:38.520
I can't even find my sandals that I fucking, I swear to God they were at my apartment.
00:58:53.800
Uh, he told us to call in about the first time somebody touched your genitalia.
00:58:59.220
And I have a vivid memory of that, which was, I had this gal over to my house when I was
00:59:05.540
about 16 and, uh, you know, it was the first time I had her up to my room and I, bro, the
00:59:14.040
first time somebody comes to your room, it's so crazy.
00:59:25.720
It's so, the first time a girl comes to your room, you're just like, what?
00:59:47.800
So it was just destined to happen that something was going to go down.
00:59:52.740
And, uh, I remember the very first two minutes of my.
01:00:03.980
My very first hand job, you know, my cousin walks into my door and, uh, my door was a blanket
01:00:11.600
tacked up to the door frame, you know, just covering the doorway there.
01:00:19.980
You're trying to get a hand job behind a blanket, dude, like you're some kind of magician.
01:00:33.320
But I, I, when people get a door, man, you have a whole room and you don't have a fucking
01:00:44.160
This guy, he just bust through my blanket door.
01:00:51.220
Tree fort, whatever you want to call it of a door.
01:00:54.460
And, uh, he's like, Oh my God, don't ever let me see you doing that again.
01:01:02.700
And here you're coming through my fucking blanket door, like an animal.
01:01:14.200
You can't be shocked if somebody runs in through a damn doggy door, homie.
01:01:27.340
On your most recent episode, you asked people to call in about the first time.
01:01:32.700
The first time that they, um, that someone ever touched their genital area.
01:01:45.060
And my, uh, now husband, uh, we've been dating since we were both 15.
01:01:52.040
So when he was over at my house, uh, my parents, they were out in our hot tubs and it was just
01:01:58.680
us in the living room and we were watching, um, the movie Waterboy.
01:02:04.600
If somebody touches you, you'll fricking junk to Waterboy.
01:02:13.100
And we started, like, making out and kissing and I was wearing these, like, dark jeans
01:02:19.080
and he started, he, like, put his hand down there and started, like, you know, rubbing
01:02:31.760
He's, like, kind of, you know, being a little aggressive with it, a little hard.
01:02:35.320
Well, my mom came in from inside and so we, like, panicked and, like, jumped up and then
01:02:41.760
we looked at his hand and his hand was dyed blue, like, his fingers were dyed blue from
01:02:50.040
And then this is kind of awkward because we were only 15, so we couldn't drive home.
01:02:59.180
But after that, you know, that was the first time.
01:03:01.440
And so after that, we got kind of into it and he ended up riding his bike through a
01:03:12.160
You rode a bike through a blizzard to come, dude?
01:03:26.400
But, you know, we've all done things to ejaculate or to, I don't know what women
01:03:31.400
do, but to, you know, to pretend we're ejaculating.
01:03:54.320
So this girl, like there was these two girls in school when I was in like seventh or eighth
01:03:58.720
grade and they were like, they had like drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes and they were
01:04:06.960
Like they probably like played with their, you know, vaginas or whatever.
01:04:14.040
And so my buddy and I went over there and I'm like, dude, we can't go over there, dude.
01:04:36.340
And she had had, she was dealing with a menstrual cycle.
01:04:44.080
She was dealing with a menstrual cycle that had come in or whatever.
01:04:46.880
And I just remember just, I mean, rubbing on her like a damn genie lamp.
01:05:03.820
And at a certain point you could see that it was like, hey, dude, this ain't the time
01:05:15.820
But yeah, riding, driving through a blizzard to ejaculate is insane.
01:05:38.940
And this is about the first time somebody ever touched your cross.
01:05:41.420
Because there's, there's, you know, there's some times in your life you remember.
01:05:54.300
Thanks, mom, for waiting your whole life to tell me stuff about you.
01:06:02.820
Uh, man, the first time that I got my genitals touched was, uh, I was about 13.
01:06:18.140
Uh, it seemed like after I hit puberty, he would always ask my mom to go out in the hallway.
01:06:25.920
And they'd fill me up and tell me to do different talks and stuff like that.
01:06:38.020
But if you stand in there and the guy is like, I'm going to hold your penis while you cough the star spangled banner or whatever,
01:06:48.140
You know, you know, if the guy's like, I'm going to hold your penis while you cough the lyric or, you know,
01:06:57.880
while you cough the beat to, um, forgot about Dre, then you got molested, you know?
01:07:07.320
And it's nothing personal and I feel sorry about it.
01:07:12.180
Um, but yeah, but yeah, man, you just got to take care of yourself, dude.
01:07:48.840
And I was chatting it up with this, uh, white guy, right?
01:08:04.800
And then he says that if I was a slave, he would buy me.
01:08:10.860
And the worst part about that story is that it turned me on a little bit.
01:08:23.920
Look, I mean, you know, I think, well, different things turn different people on.
01:08:31.620
There was a time in my life where I would put chocolate on women's back, you know,
01:08:36.860
And that shit would, you know, make me, would, you know, turn me on and make me want to just
01:08:43.320
fucking, just really, just rattle inside of them, inside of those women.
01:08:49.400
And there's, um, you know, I think if he said, if you were a, I mean, this is crazy to be saying.
01:08:57.880
If he's, if he said, if you were a slave, I would buy you.
01:09:16.480
I would find out the next chapter of this book.
01:09:27.680
But then, you know, I think there's some people that don't care.
01:09:30.080
You know, a lot of, some of that stuff, it just, it's so far in the past.
01:09:32.920
Some people are able to just look past it and they think that it's, it can be okay.
01:09:41.400
It was a mixed couple that showed up to our door.
01:09:46.580
And they were like in like a slave and like slave owner role or whatever.
01:09:51.520
And the, and the woman had the guy on a leash or whatever.
01:09:56.360
So, you know, I, some people, it might be like a party thing.
01:10:01.680
I don't know what kind of parties there are out there.
01:10:04.000
Like if there's like any like, um, like Harriet Tubba Palooza or whatever.
01:10:09.300
I don't know the kind of stuff that's happening.
01:10:15.400
I think some of them are taller than me, but some of them aren't.
01:10:22.560
I don't know anything, but I hope you guys are still in love or whatever, if you want
01:10:32.000
I hope you got emancipated if he was willing to do that, because it sounds like you guys
01:10:51.880
Uh, I figured you was the guy to call about it.
01:10:55.280
Uh, so I got a, uh, uncle who's, who's handicapped and, uh, he's in a wheelchair and I had to carry
01:11:06.340
Hopefully y'all, y'all ain't just dragging him around, you know, let's hear more.
01:11:15.660
And I touched his winger a little bit and I was just, I'm trying to, I'm trying to wrap
01:11:19.980
my head around the fact, you know, you know, that we make contact and, uh, just trying
01:11:27.200
to, I was just trying to figure out if I was, if I was, y'all, y'all didn't make contact.
01:11:36.980
If I go to a zoo or something and somebody's standing there looking at the pandas or whatever,
01:11:43.080
eating popcorn and I touch the guy's wiener, they don't have anything to do with him, that,
01:11:47.860
that guy, he's enjoying animals and eating, uh, carbs or whatever.
01:11:57.540
My uncle who's, who's handicapped and, uh, he's in a wheelchair and I had to carry him
01:12:05.340
in to the house cause he can't, he can't walk or anything.
01:12:09.160
And I touched his wiener a little bit and I was just, I'm trying to, I'm trying to wrap
01:12:13.480
my head around the fact, you know, you know, that we make contact.
01:12:20.000
So you was carrying him and he touched his wiener a little.
01:12:22.300
Now I'll say that if you carry him back out and touch his wiener and he keeps saying,
01:12:25.480
hey, carry me in, carry me out, carry me in, carry me out, carry me in, carry me out.
01:12:29.080
And then you got to change his, change his pants or whatever.
01:12:33.080
Then that's, that shit seems illegal to me, dude.
01:12:39.800
So, yeah, I think if it's, but if once a day you carry him from here to there or whatever
01:12:43.600
and touch his wiener a little bit or just mile, you know, keep him fired up or whatever
01:12:48.560
about the next day or whatever, I think that's fine.
01:12:51.560
But if you're carting him all over until he ejacks or whatever, and then you,
01:13:03.060
And I'm not judging you because I don't know you, but you've been touching that guy's wiener
01:13:10.880
And that's the scariest thing about touching a handicapped guy's wiener is they can't stop you.
01:13:17.400
So, if you want, you can do unlimited touches on it.
01:13:42.280
I'm just calling to say hey and tell you that I appreciate you.
01:13:53.800
And it's taking some time to share some of your life with us, man.
01:13:57.280
I work for a machine shop, but I took some advice that you gave when you had Dave Ramsey on.
01:14:07.560
You had suggested ways of, you know, making extra money.
01:14:14.160
And just as expensive as things are now, I got a family.
01:14:22.520
So, I just needed an extra way to make some money.
01:14:33.260
Like, I'm getting, you know, one or two jobs a weekend now.
01:14:39.000
So, I just wanted to call in and say thanks for the advice.
01:14:57.500
I'm sure I got a friend down there who could use some pressure washing.
01:15:00.120
So, I'm going to put another job on your calendar over there, my boy.
01:15:09.820
It's like, you know, it's that next step of how do I become my own boss?
01:15:19.820
And the pressure wash is just the most simple little thing.
01:15:22.840
But people don't want to go out and deal with it.
01:15:25.660
You know, I remember when I first moved to Los Angeles, I put up flyers.
01:15:32.900
People don't want to clean their refrigerators.
01:15:44.760
There's something sweated on the fucking glass or plastic in there.
01:15:54.900
I ever fucking get called people come killing my refrigerator.
01:15:57.680
Some lady, I went over to her house and she kept showing me her damn, her damn produce drawer.
01:16:07.620
Right over there off of damn Barrington, brother, out in Los Angeles.
01:16:16.380
I'm going to email myself right now so I don't forget.
01:16:19.640
I'm going to hit you up and I'll hire you for a gig.
01:16:28.000
It's the little things where you start to take control of your own life.
01:16:31.220
Or just try and like, okay, well, how do I be a boss of myself?
01:16:36.580
Some of it's kind of fascinating, I think, too, to be brave enough to do that.
01:16:47.740
Just wanted to let you know, I passed over the month mark yesterday.
01:17:15.640
That's the best thing about the program, dude, is when somebody gets a month or gets a year
01:17:19.700
and you just, you know that you've like, you've been there so you can feel that excitement so much, you know.
01:17:26.680
Just that feeling that something new is possible.
01:17:29.180
That feeling that something new is possible, that's the feeling, man.
01:17:38.260
That was the feeling I would get when I was stuck in like addiction or stuck in like mourning over like a relationship or something.
01:17:46.120
And you finally get that day, that one day where you feel like something new is possible.
01:17:56.760
It's hard to, you know, I'm almost kind of stealing your joy here.
01:18:07.300
You know, because to be a month away from the pain you were in, that's what makes me feel like.
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It's like to be a month away from that pain you were in, you know.
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And I'm not trying to read your life or anything.
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But just so many times you see guys and you can feel that just like that hope in them that, like, I'm a month away from the pain that I was in.
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And I think maybe I just even think about it for me, but it's something that a lot of us can relate to in program, dog.
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When you put it together, I will say this about the Lord.
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Once you do your shit, he kind of come around, bro.
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So, sometimes when you ain't doing your part, he, you know, the Lord kind of waits for you to start a little before he show up.
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I ain't judging him, but that's what the Lord kind of do, bro.
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I got a whole new meaning in my life, man, and I'm doing it for me, man.
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I just wanted to let you know that you're an absolute inspiration to me and many others, and I keep doing what you're doing.
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And you are too, man, and we're just trying to be, you know.
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You know, and I know it's weird to connect through a fucking radio or whatever, but I think we're so, like, I don't know.
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And I can hear in your voice, bro, that you're proud of you.
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And I think that's what I think really makes me feel something.
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You know, just hearing somebody be proud of themselves, just at a cellular level, to hear somebody be, man, I'm proud of myself, you know.
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You don't even have to say the words, but we can feel it.
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Let's hear one more about the first time somebody touched your genitalia.
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Talking about my first time someone touched my genitalia.
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And this is the first time I'm kind of drinking, too.
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So I obviously don't know the consequences of what that does to your genitalia.
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Oh, you don't know the consequences of what drinking does to your genitalia.
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I see this pretty girl, and I strike up a conversation, and one thing leads to another, and we're in the bathroom.
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Every now and then, your penis will file for unemployment.
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I remember when I was a kid, if a girl even tried to touch my wiener, I would just say, my wiener's super long.
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I would repeat that over and over again, almost to try to trick them.
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They were like, one girl, I remember her pulling it.
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It just doesn't seem like there's that much more of it.
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And so I think, yeah, there's a little bit of reverse psychology there when it comes to somebody touching your wiener, you know?
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And just, yeah, there's – it's such a time in your life.
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I want to say thank you to everybody that came out in Idaho and Utah, everybody that came out in England and Ireland.
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Everybody that's come out everywhere, I think one of the disappointing parts about not doing a lot of solo episodes is not being able to thank everybody for the different shows and different weekends.
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And, man, I even did a show in New Orleans, and I don't even know when I was on stage if I thanked the people that were from my hometown for coming.
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I mean, you know, sometimes you just don't know what's going on.
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You're just trying to keep your head above your shoulders, you know?
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But I just want to say thank you guys for bearing with me, and I'm trying to focus.
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The second half of this year, I want to start some type of a foundation or something
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and start to create ways to give back to people or groups or something.
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I don't know what it is yet, and I know we've talked about it for a while, but I just feel it in my heart all the time, you know?
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I have so many people that reach out and they're like, I just want to help people.
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And so, yeah, I don't know how to start putting that together or what it is.
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And some of it I think I'm just going to pray about, you know, and see what God shares with me.
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But, yeah, just thank you guys for just giving me just a lot, just something to do, you know?
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So thank you for being a part of my life and letting me be a part of yours.
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A young fella here, obviously, it sounds like, or a man with a very young vocal box.
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Personally, I think you're one of the funniest guys on the planet.
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It's almost like it's like a kid, like me calling from the past or something.
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You know, I wonder if that, I mean, I believe that's a real person.
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And obviously it's not me calling from the past.
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But I think it's interesting how voices come in to your life or, and it could just as well be you calling from the past.
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Imagine if little you could call from the past and say, hey, man, we love you and don't let anything bring you down.
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Okay, let's not play his name because that makes it not me, but let's play the rest of it.
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I am personally, I think you're one of the funniest guys on the planet.
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It's just kind of funny, you know, if I could sit there and think if a young me called, man, what would he say to the future?
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All right, let's take one more call that came in, man.
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This is your fan and supporter, Tommy Gill from Roanoke, Virginia.
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You came back here this past October and killed it, man.
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And I rocked that Rat King t-shirt everywhere I go.
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My brother has a Rat King t-shirt that he wears sometimes.
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And it's like it makes my day when he wears it, you know.
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You know, I know he wears it because he's proud of me.
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There's just something about it that makes me feel good.
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I felt like that was a tough show, kind of, to be honest with you.
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And I just wanted to share with another person in recovery and someone who understands.
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Because sometimes it's a little lonely out here, bud.
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I know we had another call a minute ago about it.
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And thank you so much for calling and sharing that with me, man.
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I'm sorry it took me a while to get to this call.
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But yeah, man, there's just something about it.
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So to do 30 days off of something, man, it's just so powerful.
01:29:15.440
And it's because it's you saying, hey, I want to have a say in how I behave.
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And there's no judgment against people that don't do it.
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It's just because some people don't need to do it.
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But fucking guys like us, Tommy, or the girls will be here soon.
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Just like it makes me – it feels like my heart just comes to the top of my fucking body
01:30:00.920
You know, we all got problems, but I think our problems are a little more manageable
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when we're not drinking and when we're not trying to suppress our feelings
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That's a young man who has a little bit of clarity and he's able to see his life
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a little bit more as when you're, like, viewing something, like looking out of a window
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as opposed to viewing it where you are looking out of a drain.
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I don't know what your life was like before, Tommy, but I just think it's, like,
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for all of us, you know, you're not looking from the complete bottom up anymore.
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You're looking out of a window or, you know, a third-story window.
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Just something you can get a little bit of a view and you can realize that everything's okay,
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Just filling us in, dude, because, yeah, it's moments like this, man,
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that make other people think that they can keep going, and me too.
01:31:15.720
You know, it makes us all think that we can keep going, you know.
01:31:22.680
Because I believe that God picked us to live out here in this life,
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And I don't know what it means yet, and that's okay.
01:31:31.800
But there are moments when I connect with other people, like in little moments,
01:31:36.500
that I almost feel like I find the meaning of what it means to be alive, you know.
01:31:43.160
It feels like I get a little closer to it every time I make an important connection with somebody
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I'm not trying to glorify myself or anything, but just every time there's a moment
01:31:57.340
It could be somebody waiting at the airport, you know.
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Sometimes you get to some airports, and you see somebody waiting for their loved one to get home
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And you'll see somebody waiting there with flowers.
01:32:08.980
Or you'll see a guy waiting for flowers for a girl that he cares about.
01:32:13.920
But when you see it, there's like a moment like that, you know.
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Or if somebody's walking with their kid and the kid looks at you, you know,
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and you smile or wave at the kid, you know, and you're not a pedo or something,
01:32:24.560
you're a regular guy, just happy to wave at a child.
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You're like, oh, that me, it just, there's little glories like that,
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little moments like that in life that make you feel like, okay,
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Anyway, sorry to get into all kinds of shit today, but what do you expect, dude?
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We're going to go out on this show the way that we come into it, baby,
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because we didn't do it right on the way in, but we're going to go out right on the way out, baby.
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I'm just sitting on your front porch, wondering how could I be so far from my home.
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And my mind is somewhere else, but when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been blown.
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Now I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
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Oh, but when I reach that mind, I'll share this peace of mind.
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A little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.