This Past Weekend with Theo Von - November 25, 2024


E546 Sand Hands


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 30 minutes

Words per Minute

157.16463

Word Count

14,162

Sentence Count

1,334

Misogynist Sentences

33

Hate Speech Sentences

46


Summary

On today's episode of the Rocky and Bullshit Podcast, Rocky talks about the craziest thing that has ever happened to him and how he handled it. He also talks about how he almost got into a fight with a police officer and how it almost cost him his job.


Transcript

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00:00:31.920 Good day.
00:00:33.880 Good day.
00:00:37.280 How are you?
00:00:39.500 How are you?
00:00:41.200 How are I?
00:00:43.000 How are us?
00:00:47.040 Good to see everyone.
00:00:48.820 Good to be here with you.
00:00:49.980 Happy Thanksgiving.
00:00:50.960 Happy November.
00:00:52.360 Happy existence.
00:00:54.940 You know, that's something as well.
00:00:58.080 This year went, baby.
00:00:59.640 This year, that thing is, this year was just hooked to a dang laser beam.
00:01:07.020 I feel like, what was that?
00:01:10.220 You almost had to slow down the film and even remember the summer.
00:01:14.480 It was just fast.
00:01:18.920 This thing was just a, this took the HOV lane this year.
00:01:24.480 Life got roller skates on.
00:01:26.700 Damn it.
00:01:28.560 Life's got just roller skates on.
00:01:30.660 I couldn't even, I couldn't even, I couldn't even make an accurate police report on, on, on, on, on April.
00:01:40.540 I couldn't tell you what she looked like, what she was wearing.
00:01:44.000 I, the officer, like, well, can you tell me, April, tell you, tell me, you know, how tall I look.
00:01:50.060 I don't know, damn it.
00:01:51.120 It just all went so fast.
00:01:58.280 You know, and now, I don't know if it's just that life feels faster now, but you can't even get your hands on it.
00:02:04.380 I mean, it's like just trying to grab sand.
00:02:10.340 You can get some of it, but then it just, it ends up just, you just, you just realizing you can't get it.
00:02:21.300 You can't get that grip on it, boy.
00:02:23.640 It's like trying to just do a, um, uh, what's it called?
00:02:30.840 The guy you go to, and you go in his shop or whatever, and it's, he pretends like he has a secretary or whatever, but he doesn't.
00:02:38.200 And then you go in there, and he lays you down, and he, like, he asks you, like, a question or something, but you're so nervous that you're going to get touched or whatever.
00:02:48.400 What is that, dang it?
00:02:50.920 Um, chiropractor.
00:02:54.560 It's like trying to be a chiropractor on sand.
00:03:00.240 You know, you just, you can't move it.
00:03:03.260 You can't control, you just, you think you can, and then there's nothing.
00:03:08.840 Um, anyway, I'm rambling.
00:03:11.420 I'm just saying it's been a long year, um, and I'm happy to be here with you today.
00:03:16.720 And, uh, yeah, just thank you guys for just your patience on doing solo episodes.
00:03:21.020 I wanted to tape this yesterday, but I just, my, I was just so damn rattled.
00:03:27.040 You ever wake up and you're just damn rattled?
00:03:29.680 I mean, it's just like a couple pigeons are just living in your ass.
00:03:35.380 You're just like, what in the hell?
00:03:39.620 And everything's a prompt.
00:03:40.900 Somebody, you know, somebody comes to the door and they just, you know, this guy came to the door and he was offering pest control or whatever.
00:03:51.380 And I'm like, you know, I, I think they just came because I think I have like 11 pest control guys because I, you know, I forget.
00:03:59.000 And then next thing, you know, hell, I'll be in my living room reading a book and one of them will just, damn, just, we'll just spray for, we'll just spray for lice right in front of me.
00:04:08.460 He'll spray for lice right across my damn forehead sometimes.
00:04:11.460 Cause I forget, you know, I always forget when they're going to be here.
00:04:16.580 You, you have that one afternoon, you're doing a cook off and they show up with those, um, with those, uh, those, uh, chigger grenades or whatever.
00:04:27.880 And they're humming those bitches, you know, and your family's out there, you're trying to put mustard on something.
00:04:33.480 And the baby's got damn bug gas in his eyes.
00:04:37.060 It's just, I just forget.
00:04:39.560 Anyway, the guy came and, um, he had just, uh, the bug guy, he's like, you know, we can come, we can come 17 times a year.
00:04:51.120 That's what he said.
00:04:51.640 And I was like, dude, I don't want, when I get married, I don't want my wife coming here 17 times a year.
00:04:57.400 You know, so that's not a sales tactic I wanted to hear, but, uh, but the guy had the biggest mustache I'd ever seen in my life.
00:05:09.620 And the only thing I could think the whole time he's talking to me is you need to go spray up in that bitch.
00:05:16.720 Cause there ain't, there is not a chance in hell.
00:05:23.000 You're not running some kind of damn bug motel right up under your snout, daddy.
00:05:27.400 There ain't a CNH, baby, chance in hell.
00:05:34.740 You ain't got a couple of fucking word lice running around up in that, uh, in that, up in that trap house you got above your lip, daddy.
00:05:46.380 So it just, you know, I said, you know, I said, I think we're good.
00:05:51.300 You know, we got guys, I got seven guys spraying right now.
00:05:54.140 You know, I could barely talk to the guy.
00:05:56.060 Some guy was spraying right in front of me.
00:05:58.420 Um, but yeah, just everything's happened.
00:06:02.000 So I just get confused.
00:06:04.240 Everything's happened so fast.
00:06:05.920 And, um, and here we are and it's November and it's,
00:06:11.060 it's like that.
00:06:18.640 And I'm sure it's like that for everybody.
00:06:20.340 It's like, okay.
00:06:23.460 Some of you, your kid is a, you know, your kid is age is been a, is aged this year.
00:06:29.640 Like, man, I can't believe it.
00:06:30.800 You know, Genevieve's four now.
00:06:35.400 Or your dad, has it got to get a hip, got to get a new hip or new neck or whatever.
00:06:42.020 You're like, now it's already time next week.
00:06:44.120 Ricky's getting that new neck.
00:06:50.380 You know, it's just things happen fast, you know, man.
00:06:55.780 It was only seven months ago that, uh, we laid my grandmother to rest.
00:07:01.020 You know, just, it's just all these things and life just keeps lifing, you know?
00:07:07.080 And it's just, um, yeah, it's a lot.
00:07:10.020 It's a lot for everybody and it's marvelous at the same time.
00:07:13.300 It is existence.
00:07:15.480 That's what it is.
00:07:17.240 Um, but I'm grateful to be here with you guys today and, uh, just grateful to be taking a moment
00:07:23.660 to think about our lives and what they've been like.
00:07:27.600 Um, I, uh,
00:07:31.020 I want to say thanks.
00:07:32.120 We, it has been a while since we've had a solo episode.
00:07:34.820 I'm still going to try to do more.
00:07:38.920 Um, I'm, I'm finally having a little more time to start to take care of myself right now.
00:07:43.760 And so that's feeling really good just to be able to relax some, um, what's going on.
00:07:49.860 We had some shows in a lot of places.
00:07:51.420 Thank you guys.
00:07:52.260 It came out out there.
00:07:53.240 We just got off the road out in the Midwest, baby.
00:07:56.080 Oh, H we did it out there.
00:08:00.260 Um, on OSU, this campus, Grand Rapids, Michigan, baby.
00:08:05.120 Let's go all over.
00:08:07.340 We went up to, well, Oh, up in Montana.
00:08:11.140 The, I think I do owe a little bit of maybe an apology to, um, um, what is that place called?
00:08:22.400 It's like a place where they have people, um, Oh, Chicago state.
00:08:32.440 No, it's, uh, Colorado state, Colorado Springs.
00:08:37.280 I may owe us, uh, just Colorado Springs and, um, Casper, Wyoming.
00:08:43.240 When I got there, I was dehydrated, man.
00:08:47.360 I mean, I was just, I mean, I, you, you could hear my eyes open, you know, I opened my eyes
00:08:55.400 and they, you could just like, it was loud, you know, you know, like somebody just hard
00:09:02.160 R'd around, you know, I saw a cat look over at me like somebody just been hard R'ing at
00:09:07.940 it and it was just how so dried out the weather there.
00:09:13.840 It just, the wind up there is nasty up there.
00:09:21.400 The wind, it'll, you open your eyes for a second, the wind will get in there and clean them bitches out.
00:09:32.260 Next thing you, I was having to lick my hand and rub it into my eyes, spitting in my hand
00:09:39.760 and rubbing it into my eyes.
00:09:42.800 And even, you know, you're looking at everybody through damn spit eyes or whatever.
00:09:47.000 And the ladies, they're like, oh, look at this little bitch with his damn spit eyes.
00:09:54.120 Oh, honky got them spit eyes.
00:09:59.800 But I was just dry as hell.
00:10:03.700 Even the animals up there are dry.
00:10:06.220 You see a damn animal up there, a dog up there.
00:10:09.400 Casper, Wyoming, that thing up there, just, he just, somebody, you, you write water on the ground
00:10:15.740 and a dog come lick on the word.
00:10:19.020 People, things thirsty as hell up there.
00:10:22.140 I saw a plant, it had grown up my leg and was trying to, uh, drink out of my, uh, had me a little, uh, canteen.
00:10:32.000 I saw a vine stood somewhere for 30 seconds, a vine grew up my leg.
00:10:35.880 And it had opened the top of my canteen.
00:10:39.640 Yet now, everything's thirsty as hell up there.
00:10:45.620 My, it just, it was super dry.
00:10:48.620 It was dry.
00:10:49.860 And I just wasn't ready for it.
00:10:51.360 I was so dry.
00:10:52.300 I could be like, um, I don't know.
00:10:54.160 I can't even explain it to you.
00:10:56.280 You know, I definitely did my best, but they gave you oxygen tanks.
00:11:00.360 But the, all the oxygen tank is just a can of just more dry.
00:11:06.200 So you hit that bitch and now you're just, everything, even the animals, they would sound
00:11:13.440 like they were, were dried out like, they had a cow, one cow.
00:11:20.320 I saw him like, what?
00:11:25.960 He's like, but he was so dry.
00:11:30.360 No draw.
00:11:33.060 So that was just a, but beautiful country, beautiful place.
00:11:36.180 I just, I was shocked at how, uh, dehydrated I got IVs up there.
00:11:41.380 It just took me a little bit to get on my feet, man.
00:11:43.500 It was a lot.
00:11:44.440 That was like probably one of the more hectic times that I'd had this year.
00:11:47.980 Um, uh, just health healthness, you know, and being alive and being like that.
00:11:55.280 Um, I went out to Montana, but all that area, Colorado Springs.
00:12:00.360 And thank you for everybody coming out and, um, and, and Casper, I can't even believe it.
00:12:06.240 I mean, we're to Montana.
00:12:09.340 Wow.
00:12:09.840 That whole, all of those regions.
00:12:12.160 I mean, that's where mother nature just, just tries on her clothes up there, baby.
00:12:18.800 It's beautiful.
00:12:19.800 Everything you see is beautiful.
00:12:23.440 You know, it's just, it's remarkable.
00:12:26.260 So to even get to go to that part of the country that people came out, uh, thank you guys so much.
00:12:32.020 To all the places that we went, man.
00:12:34.060 I got to go to, uh, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
00:12:38.840 And it's, uh, it's, uh, it's one of the greatest little city town places I've been.
00:12:47.280 I didn't, man, you always, I think of some people in your head, you have ideas of a place that's kind of perfect, you know?
00:12:53.820 And they got, you know, somebody's walking their kid home from school or whatever.
00:13:01.000 And the kid's just got a bunch of snot on his face or whatever.
00:13:04.620 But the parent leaves it.
00:13:07.460 Just that, you know, because there's something kind of beautiful about it.
00:13:12.100 You know?
00:13:13.300 Especially when you were poor, dude.
00:13:14.640 If your nose was running, I'd let that bitch fly, cut.
00:13:17.760 Because people were always looking at you when you were poor.
00:13:23.280 People always look at you like you ain't got nothing.
00:13:27.840 And that's when, when, when, when my nose was running, I'd be like, oh yeah, I got this bitch.
00:13:35.080 I got this snot.
00:13:39.400 So there is something very beautiful about that.
00:13:41.640 But we were, we were there in, uh, La Crosse.
00:13:45.620 Or La Crosse.
00:13:46.620 They, they say it.
00:13:49.320 Or a lot of gay dudes, or they say it like, hey, I'm in La Crosse.
00:13:54.540 Um, but just beautiful.
00:13:57.080 I mean, just to get to see some of America, man.
00:13:59.560 And, uh, to get to see a lot of you folks.
00:14:01.380 And we try to do some meet and greets after the shows.
00:14:04.100 And just, we did everything that we could.
00:14:05.540 I promise you that.
00:14:06.360 So thank you guys so much for the support.
00:14:08.860 And, um, yeah, Thanksgiving's just coming in.
00:14:11.640 Trevin, how are you feeling today?
00:14:14.640 I'm good, man.
00:14:15.700 A little chilly.
00:14:16.940 Oh yeah, it's brisk out, huh?
00:14:18.780 That's for sure.
00:14:20.160 And you think it's going to get worse this year?
00:14:21.820 What are they saying there?
00:14:22.880 And if you're looking at the, uh, diameter or whatever, the air diameter, or the, the weather.
00:14:31.840 What are they saying?
00:14:32.440 Yeah, the weather.
00:14:34.040 Uh, yeah, about the same.
00:14:35.200 Going to get a lot colder, man.
00:14:36.420 God!
00:14:37.320 Get ready.
00:14:37.840 BLM, baby!
00:14:41.380 Burr lives matter, son.
00:14:44.000 It's going to get brisk out.
00:14:45.700 Um, what else has been going on?
00:14:48.940 Oh, I'll tell you.
00:14:49.760 You know what's something that I thought was really special?
00:14:51.780 That was, uh, I got to be around or be a part of, um, or be around, really.
00:14:57.440 Um, so SNL, uh, Saturday Night Live was going on and Bill Burr was going to be on it.
00:15:03.560 You know, and, uh, and Bill Burr is, there's nobody like him.
00:15:08.400 There's no, I mean, there's nobody like him.
00:15:10.980 He is, he is himself and he is one of one.
00:15:14.640 And I wanted to go see, I'd never been to SNL.
00:15:18.480 I'd never been over there and seen it, you know?
00:15:22.320 And so myself, who came with me?
00:15:26.100 Oh, my buddy Kevin and, um, and John Farley was there.
00:15:30.600 And that's Chris Farley's brother.
00:15:32.140 And, uh, and it was just like, man, to be at SNL, you know, where Chris Farley and
00:15:39.360 Spade and Nealon and Carvey and all of the, like, uh, Rock, um, Sam, just all these wizards
00:15:47.960 of, uh, you know, um, possibility, you know, uh, Sherry, um, Oteri, um, uh, who's the lady
00:15:59.640 that puts her, she's always, uh, taking her own temperature or whatever and smelling it.
00:16:05.400 Who's that lady?
00:16:07.960 Her.
00:16:08.920 She, you know, just, um, just to be at SNL, Saturday Night Live to be on that stage, just
00:16:13.580 to be at there watching and, and, um, and John Farley was there, Chris Farley's brother.
00:16:19.300 And it was the first time he said that he'd been back there since his, uh, since he'd
00:16:26.480 been there with Chris.
00:16:28.720 And that was just, I don't know.
00:16:31.540 It was just like, it just, it was just kind of, it felt special, you know, cause I just
00:16:38.680 can't imagine that.
00:16:39.380 I can't imagine having a brother that is, you know, so, well, first of all, it's your
00:16:45.300 brother.
00:16:45.780 So they're very important to you, but then also there's such a, uh, uh, uh, entertainer.
00:16:52.080 And then you go back to the place where they, one of the places that they're most known from,
00:16:57.460 you know?
00:16:57.800 And, um, yeah, that was just, it was magnificent, man, just to be able to be there with him.
00:17:02.680 And he told so many stories, uh, and I was kind of bummed that they didn't bring him out
00:17:08.200 on the stage and let him tell a story out there at SNL.
00:17:13.140 The stories he was telling backstage were better than half of the things that were happening
00:17:18.920 on the tube.
00:17:19.720 I thought, I mean, but also that's, you know, I bet it was just crazy to hear a guy talk
00:17:26.040 about, you know, his brother, Chris Farley and all the little moments that they'd had
00:17:31.480 backstage and just these funny things.
00:17:33.480 And, um, here, I'll say this when it, when it came down to listening to him or watching
00:17:38.040 some of the sketches, I couldn't help, but listen to some of the things that he was saying
00:17:42.440 because it was, yeah, it just was like a walking through time and walking through, um, time
00:17:51.180 that really meant something, you know, time between brothers.
00:17:53.900 And so, yeah, that was pretty exceptional, but yeah, I was like SNL should have had him
00:17:58.060 out there.
00:17:59.260 Like bring this guy's the first time he's been back since his brother.
00:18:03.360 It's like the closest Chris Farley will get to being there.
00:18:07.800 And, um, yeah, it was just, I don't know.
00:18:11.600 So, uh, uh, but that was, it was great.
00:18:13.520 I'm not trying to tell, you know, I don't know.
00:18:14.800 Am I talking too much or whatever?
00:18:16.300 I don't know.
00:18:17.300 Um, but yeah, that was, it was just, it was, that was something neat to be a part of.
00:18:21.280 And what else I went with my butt, my friend has a son and, and we took him to the swing
00:18:29.460 set and then, uh, what else is going on?
00:18:33.020 Oh, I watched the CMAs, uh, country music awards the other night because I'm, you know,
00:18:37.540 I live in Nashville and so you have to watch it or you, people won't look you in the eyes
00:18:43.820 for the, for the next year.
00:18:47.000 And so, you know, I was checking it out and Caleb Presley was on there doing presentation.
00:18:54.720 Um, Laney Wilson was on there.
00:18:57.940 So it's like, you know, I got to peep it.
00:18:59.480 I wanted to see if Jesse Murph was going to be there.
00:19:01.760 Uh, jelly roll was there.
00:19:03.660 That whole gang, baby, jelly roll, yellow wolf.
00:19:06.840 I think the head damn jelly wolf there.
00:19:08.980 And it's just a, that, that is just a St. Bernard with a couple of face tats on him.
00:19:13.440 You know, but that whole like, uh, musically recovering honky vibe, you know, that's really
00:19:18.220 powerful and yellow roll.
00:19:20.460 I saw damn yellow roll and it was, um, Bobby Lee was there.
00:19:27.320 So it's just, you know, yeah, he's doing music now.
00:19:29.600 So it just, you know, it's just, there's a, anyway, it was a very diverse group over there.
00:19:33.760 And, uh, what am I talking about?
00:19:36.780 Damn it.
00:19:38.200 Oh, but I watched cause I wanted to see if, um,
00:19:42.060 red clay strays were going to win.
00:19:44.820 They were up for vocal group, which, what does that even mean?
00:19:48.420 Kind of, it's all music, you know, but, um, they didn't win.
00:19:53.800 Old, uh, Domignon won it, right?
00:19:58.520 And Domignon, no disrespect, right?
00:20:01.280 Uh, I haven't heard a lot, you know, I don't think, first of all, if you look at, uh, old
00:20:06.480 Domignon, they, Domignon is a brother's name and it's, you know, show me 30 Domignons and
00:20:18.080 I'll show you, you know, how to get, how to get to Memphis.
00:20:23.680 You know what I'm saying, bro?
00:20:24.500 It's like, let's be realistic, baby.
00:20:28.360 That's Elvis's neighbors, homie.
00:20:30.080 Okay.
00:20:30.480 So, and so that was the way I'm like, damn, they don't even, somebody's hiding.
00:20:35.620 They're hiding, they're hiding a brother amongst the four or five of the guys that they have
00:20:40.240 in the group or whatever.
00:20:41.240 But, um, yeah, I just wanted to see red clay strays win.
00:20:45.400 And I thought it was just a chance for C, you know, CMAs like to hear you have a vibe,
00:20:50.580 you know, and no disrespect to, um, to OD, baby, but you have a vibe.
00:20:56.980 Red clay strays, they, they sing, they sing prayers, man.
00:21:03.060 They sing things that I can't, they sing prayers that I can't even make.
00:21:09.260 That I can't even make the words to, they sing those.
00:21:12.100 And I just feel like that's part of such a movement.
00:21:14.540 And so, yeah, I think I really wanted them to win that, um, award.
00:21:20.460 But also then red clay strays, are they a country group?
00:21:23.980 And you could argue that it's all of it.
00:21:30.360 Are they gospel?
00:21:34.920 You know, I mean, they're music and, and it doesn't need a space to fit in, you know,
00:21:39.020 you don't need to put every, uh, foot in a shoe, but it's like, well, yeah, what are they?
00:21:45.000 But it's a lot of, uh, it's a lot of vibrant prayer.
00:21:51.500 I feel like coming out of those boys and I'm partisan as well, or partisan or whatever.
00:21:58.240 Um, anyway, that's some of the stuff that's been going on, um, recently and a lot more.
00:22:05.020 Some of it I can't remember.
00:22:06.100 Um, but yeah, or just CMAs, I felt like they had a chance to pull some new blood in there.
00:22:12.760 And, uh, and I just didn't see that, you know, but, but what, what do I know?
00:22:19.740 I don't know shit, you know, I'm just a loud honky over here.
00:22:24.200 That's all I am.
00:22:25.260 Um, what else?
00:22:27.420 Um, Grand Rapids, beautiful place, beautiful place, man.
00:22:31.940 Just, uh, yeah, just to see a lot of places where people are just thriving and people are
00:22:36.620 saying, Hey, this is our community and we're going to keep it like it is, man.
00:22:39.960 That's something that, that really, uh, felt great to witness.
00:22:44.620 Well, now it's that holiday season.
00:22:47.760 It's time for family and food.
00:22:49.760 And let's be honest, a little bit of chaos,
00:22:52.860 but hopefully the most chaotic thing that happens this year is you slurping down a little
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00:24:11.940 Um, what else?
00:24:15.540 It's Thanksgiving, guys.
00:24:17.020 That's what it is, you know?
00:24:18.740 And that's the week it is.
00:24:20.400 And it's a time, um, you know, Thanksgiving.
00:24:26.380 It's wild that our calendar, that even our calendar, right?
00:24:32.840 Our setup, our framework, our time-based framework for our society and for civilization has a stop
00:24:47.420 time in it to give thanks.
00:24:50.200 It's interesting that even time says, hey, hold on.
00:24:56.100 I need you to give some thanks.
00:24:57.660 I need you to, you have to have some gratitude here.
00:25:02.240 You know, and I think that that, to me, that's pretty fascinating that that is a speed bump
00:25:06.960 that's been put into, uh, our calendar.
00:25:10.420 It's just built in there.
00:25:11.300 You know, it's a comma that says, hey, care, right?
00:25:18.140 Care about the things that have happened to you.
00:25:21.200 You know, find things to have gratitude for.
00:25:24.460 Um, and see, I want to think about those today and just things that I'm thankful for.
00:25:29.760 Um, I'm thankful.
00:25:33.600 Um, yeah, being able to whisper, that's a big one.
00:25:38.400 And I'm so thankful for that because otherwise everybody in your family would just, wouldn't
00:25:45.640 know how you felt about them.
00:25:48.620 So I'm just so thankful that, that God lets us whisper, you know, um, I'm thankful, uh,
00:25:57.520 for my family, you know, I'm thankful that my sister makes me laugh a lot and that she likes
00:26:03.820 to laugh.
00:26:04.360 Uh, I like listening to her laugh sometimes.
00:26:06.440 Um, she's ridiculous and that makes me laugh.
00:26:10.420 Um, I'm thankful my nephew talks to me, you know, I wish he kind of hit my line more, but
00:26:17.080 I guess he's busy or whatever.
00:26:19.440 Sure.
00:26:19.720 Whatever, dude.
00:26:20.940 Um, but he's a child, you know, and it's like, I got, it's got to be an adult and just,
00:26:25.540 just take care of myself.
00:26:27.220 But, um, oh, I'm thankful that urine isn't hotter than it's is when it comes out of your
00:26:32.980 body.
00:26:33.320 That would be, that would, that would be crazy, bro.
00:26:38.300 If you were, you know, if it urine just came out like even 10 degrees hotter, bro.
00:26:44.780 Cause you'd go in the bathroom and they'd have one dude in there about to urinate and everybody
00:26:48.520 else would be supporting him.
00:26:49.640 And like, you come on, Richard, come on, Richard, blast that shit, homie.
00:26:58.460 And he'd be like, it's going to hurt.
00:27:00.420 And he'd be like, shut the fuck up, Richard, piss bitch.
00:27:04.500 And people were like, whoa, chill out, dude.
00:27:07.660 He's fucking, it's hot, you know?
00:27:11.060 And people, and there'd be a gay dude just kind of holding his back for no reason, just
00:27:15.240 or even pushing on his butt.
00:27:17.420 That's the weird thing, dude.
00:27:18.620 If you're, if, if you're doing a group piss, right?
00:27:21.000 And everybody's supporting one guy who has to piss and the dude that's pushing up on the
00:27:25.780 dude's, on the guy's butt.
00:27:28.580 That guy is not just trying to be helpful.
00:27:33.660 I know that boy.
00:27:34.680 So yeah, I'm grateful that pee pee is at that or urine or whatever they want to call it is
00:27:39.540 at a, um, manageable temperature.
00:27:43.100 That's a big one.
00:27:44.720 Um, I'm grateful that God, um, that God lets me try, you know, I'm grateful that God lets
00:27:52.960 me try, you know, that, uh, every single thing isn't final.
00:28:02.060 Um, yeah, I'm grateful for that.
00:28:05.340 I'm grateful that, um, that my arms are, you know, they're not the best.
00:28:10.420 I think they're not the best length.
00:28:11.960 I got, I got medium length arms, but I know that they're good enough to hug good enough.
00:28:17.080 I wouldn't win a hug title or whatever.
00:28:19.320 I don't know if there is a title.
00:28:20.680 Yeah.
00:28:20.880 What else?
00:28:21.400 Let me think, I'll think about some things throughout the show, throughout the episode
00:28:23.960 today, uh, things that I'm thankful for, man.
00:28:26.540 I'm thankful that I have some shoes on right now.
00:28:29.420 Um, yeah, I'm thankful.
00:28:33.380 Uh, yeah, I'll keep thinking about it, but let's get into some calls, man.
00:28:36.200 You guys have, uh, been hitting the hotline and, and I haven't been there.
00:28:40.560 Um, but I just want to thank you for hitting it.
00:28:43.500 And as always, the hotline is 985-664-9503.
00:28:50.580 And let's get to a call right here.
00:28:54.140 Here we go.
00:28:56.140 So, yo, I just want to get your thoughts.
00:28:59.880 Um, 28, this guy out of the Navy.
00:29:01.980 I live in Orange County, California.
00:29:04.120 And thank you for your service, brother.
00:29:06.080 We appreciate you.
00:29:07.880 Onward.
00:29:08.320 It's tough making friends as an adult.
00:29:11.320 Um, my whole life, I've always ended up with black friends.
00:29:14.940 I play basketball and maybe out of 200 white guys, five black guys, I end up being friends
00:29:21.720 with the black guys.
00:29:22.880 But, uh, I want some white friends or like Asian friends.
00:29:27.720 So, I just wanted your advice, like, how does that happen?
00:29:31.540 Or do I just stick with this?
00:29:32.980 Hey, that's, this is how it is.
00:29:34.420 Like, black friends are my thing.
00:29:36.940 No, brother.
00:29:37.740 I don't think that, you know, I don't think, I think you're going to, you can get all types
00:29:41.740 of friends.
00:29:43.040 That is for sure, man.
00:29:44.620 You know, um, I think, uh, you know, basketball is a gateway drug to, just a brother-ific type
00:29:58.040 shit.
00:29:59.460 Go out into your neighborhood right now, dribble a basketball in the street, see if a couple
00:30:07.500 brothers don't show up.
00:30:09.960 You know, that's that, just, you hear a basketball banging on that street.
00:30:13.480 That's a, that's the Michael Jordan mating call, cut.
00:30:17.080 You know, that's how it is, man.
00:30:18.940 You put a rim up anywhere and you're going to get some black friends, man.
00:30:25.180 That's not a racial thing.
00:30:26.700 That's just facts.
00:30:27.820 You put a basketball rim up anywhere and you're going to have some brothers show up.
00:30:34.460 You put that bitch up in the ocean.
00:30:36.300 You're going to have, you'll have a couple, couple wet brothers out there just double drowning
00:30:41.100 out there.
00:30:41.720 So you got, you have to think if you want to get different types of folks, you have to
00:30:45.360 put out different types of, uh, activities, you know?
00:30:50.780 So, so if you want to get more Asian friends, you might want to do a, um, Asian people like
00:30:56.700 hide and go seek.
00:30:58.460 That's easy, man.
00:30:59.480 You know, and that's wild, bro.
00:31:02.540 You know, look at an Asian, look at any, uh, resting or sitting Asian, resting Asian or
00:31:08.140 a, you know, AARs or whatever Asians at rest.
00:31:10.900 Look at, look at one, bring up a couple, right?
00:31:16.180 Go to any of these folks and say, you keep counting.
00:31:19.900 I'll go hide.
00:31:20.940 Cause Asians got that clock in them, dog.
00:31:32.900 So that's something you could do to meet some Asians right there, man.
00:31:36.360 And also it's okay to be a white guy that has black friends.
00:31:39.900 That's a, you know, and I know you're not saying there's anything wrong with it, but
00:31:42.420 you know, they had, and when I was, you know, when I was getting into life or whatever, they
00:31:46.820 had a lot of Wiggas out there and no cap, bro.
00:31:50.660 Wiggas used to be the thing, bro.
00:31:52.200 You know, Thomas Jefferson was a Wiggas, bro.
00:31:55.540 Real talk.
00:31:57.120 And people don't want to, you know, people don't want to say that shit, but he was, man.
00:32:02.700 But now they got blonkeys even.
00:32:04.580 They got blonkeys out there.
00:32:05.860 You got a lot of black dudes that want to be whiter, you know, or having white, more white
00:32:11.400 stuff go on in them, you know?
00:32:14.260 I mean, I saw a brother crying in his car the other day outside of a Jimmy John's.
00:32:19.800 That's the whitest shit you could do.
00:32:21.560 That's our shit.
00:32:23.640 So it's all good.
00:32:25.320 What I'm saying is the portal is always open, guys.
00:32:27.680 There's no NIL money to have a new friendship and another ethnicity, man.
00:32:32.860 That is, you know, we're all bound to be beige in a couple generations anyway.
00:32:37.840 So right now, if you want to meet someone of a color or of an ethnicity, then now is the
00:32:44.140 time, baby, better.
00:32:46.240 Because in two, three generations, everybody going to be beige, mauve, off mauve.
00:32:50.560 You know, cookies and crumb.
00:32:54.200 People going to be all batched out and Jeanette modified or whatever.
00:33:01.460 You will have a Monsanto taupe friend.
00:33:06.020 You will have an off brown, white bottom, speckled trout, Korean, Mexican, black lady.
00:33:21.300 Hey, you're going to have it all, man.
00:33:24.480 So if you want to enjoy specific ethnicities now, now is the time to do it.
00:33:29.300 Because genetically, we're all heading to one color.
00:33:34.320 We're going to be just one little off brown, semi-white, matte finish, gray baby bear of Christ.
00:33:45.500 Brother, praise God, man.
00:33:46.860 What else do we have?
00:33:49.340 Let's take another call right here.
00:33:52.180 Here we go.
00:33:54.740 Hi, Theo.
00:33:56.000 Me and my family want to invite you to our Thanksgiving dinner.
00:34:01.500 This is Maria Gillen.
00:34:03.060 It will be up in Gallatin, Tennessee.
00:34:05.900 Oh, up in Gallatin.
00:34:07.660 All right.
00:34:08.540 Thank you for the invite there.
00:34:10.540 And we think you can fit in really well with our family.
00:34:14.900 And you would just bring lots of conversation.
00:34:18.900 And I think it's going to be some really good food.
00:34:21.700 I can whip up some really good mashed potatoes.
00:34:24.660 So, oh, and I'm making pasta.
00:34:27.680 That's really good.
00:34:28.180 But anyways.
00:34:28.920 Okay.
00:34:29.720 Y'all them carb dogs up there.
00:34:31.620 All right.
00:34:31.980 That's beautiful.
00:34:33.600 I cannot make it.
00:34:36.460 I appreciate it, though.
00:34:37.580 Very sweet of you.
00:34:40.120 I am.
00:34:40.900 You know what?
00:34:41.320 Here.
00:34:41.620 I'll call you and tell you I can't make it.
00:34:44.460 See if this works.
00:34:47.620 Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system.
00:34:53.760 Is not available.
00:34:55.580 At the tone, please record your message.
00:34:58.180 When you have finished recording, you may hang up or press one for more options.
00:35:03.680 What's up, you little potato maiden?
00:35:05.700 How are y'all over there?
00:35:06.820 This is Theo.
00:35:08.120 I'm just calling you back.
00:35:09.200 I want to let you know that I can't make it over there for the Thanksgiving up there in Gallatin.
00:35:14.740 But I appreciate it.
00:35:17.000 And hope you guys have a wonderful time up there.
00:35:19.780 And just thanks for thinking of me.
00:35:21.020 And thanks for inviting me.
00:35:22.000 I was very nice of you.
00:35:22.940 And, yeah, that's about it.
00:35:25.220 All right.
00:35:25.560 I'm going to go now.
00:35:27.720 Yeah, I'm heading over.
00:35:31.180 I'm going down to Lafayette, Louisiana, baby.
00:35:34.780 Dustin Poirier.
00:35:35.980 You know, every year they put cooking utensils into his fighting gloves.
00:35:44.380 And he gets out there and he'll beat up a damn meal for you, son.
00:35:48.220 Everything he serves, you got a black eye.
00:35:50.160 The black eyed peas got two black eyes, bro.
00:35:52.740 You're like, dang, some of them had broken ribs on them.
00:35:55.920 Look, I didn't even know peas had ribs.
00:35:59.020 You know, he'll give you a little turkey leg or something.
00:36:01.960 And it's in a cast.
00:36:03.960 He beating the shit out of everything, bro.
00:36:06.220 A turkey neck and a neck brace.
00:36:09.580 That's how he does it, bro.
00:36:11.440 He beat the eggs with his own hands, bro.
00:36:13.600 I see him.
00:36:14.560 You'll see him in the yard out there.
00:36:17.440 He got on his fighting trunks and he just, you know,
00:36:21.580 just putting a bunch of hand action into a damn mixing bowl.
00:36:25.920 You know, it's just crazy, man.
00:36:27.740 I've never seen anybody do it like that.
00:36:29.640 But you'll see him out there fucking calf kicking a rump roast, bro.
00:36:34.600 You're like, what is going on?
00:36:38.140 But that's where I'll be, man.
00:36:39.940 That's become a little tradition for me.
00:36:41.920 And it's a blessing.
00:36:43.180 I'm excited about it.
00:36:45.020 And then we have a large show down there.
00:36:46.720 It might be our largest show ever over at the Cajun Dome
00:36:48.900 in Lafayette, Louisiana.
00:36:53.740 And I'm grateful to be from over there.
00:36:55.840 Just got my mother a home over in Baton Rouge.
00:37:00.400 My mom just moved back home.
00:37:02.620 So when we got her a house over there,
00:37:04.300 and I'm just grateful to that.
00:37:06.800 Thank you guys for the support over the years.
00:37:09.480 And she hasn't complained about it yet,
00:37:11.980 which is just damn unreal.
00:37:16.340 So what else?
00:37:19.380 Let's take another call.
00:37:20.640 What are you thankful for?
00:37:21.600 Trevin, you got anything that pops into your head, brother?
00:37:23.700 Oh, every day, bro.
00:37:24.720 So thankful to wake up.
00:37:27.800 Thankful to have a job.
00:37:30.420 Thankful mostly for my beautiful wife.
00:37:33.020 Shout out to Gabby and our family.
00:37:35.520 And yeah, the health.
00:37:38.560 Yeah, that really is true, huh?
00:37:41.740 Having some health, man.
00:37:44.220 Yeah.
00:37:45.240 And taking care of it, too.
00:37:46.780 That's another thing.
00:37:47.620 Because I'll take something for granted in a heartbeat.
00:37:50.520 I'll take my heartbeat for granted in a heartbeat.
00:37:54.740 That's crazy.
00:37:58.580 Oh, something else going on out in the world today.
00:38:03.440 What else?
00:38:04.780 We got a call that came in right here.
00:38:06.740 Hey, Michael.
00:38:10.960 I just want to say, I've been thinking about turkey and ham.
00:38:15.580 We didn't have ham at Thanksgiving because apparently ham's a Christmas thing.
00:38:20.420 And I love honey ham.
00:38:22.120 And all they have is turkey.
00:38:24.540 Turkey's dry and bland as shit.
00:38:26.480 No honey.
00:38:27.560 So I didn't fuck with it.
00:38:29.660 So I just want your opinion.
00:38:30.920 Okay, brother.
00:38:31.820 I see you there.
00:38:32.620 I see you having a lot of feelings about it.
00:38:35.860 Yeah, turkey or ham.
00:38:37.580 Hmm.
00:38:39.740 Well, ham, ham.
00:38:42.960 Ham is ham.
00:38:45.940 You know, ham, it just, it gets home and it's like, where's your mother?
00:38:51.380 You know, that's ham.
00:38:52.380 But turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey's a little more risky, I think.
00:39:01.660 You know, it's a little, it's a little more perverted, I think.
00:39:05.660 Low key, bro.
00:39:06.820 Turkey, you know, it's like, what you want to do to me?
00:39:13.300 Want to put me in a sandwich?
00:39:15.060 Want to put me in the fridge?
00:39:18.300 You want me now?
00:39:19.640 You want me left over?
00:39:20.840 What do you want?
00:39:25.360 So turkey kind of looking at you like that, I feel like.
00:39:30.720 Ham looks like it's been smoking or whatever.
00:39:33.340 Like, all right.
00:39:34.480 You know, it'll party, but it's fucking, you know.
00:39:38.060 You know, it's gonna, it can't, it won't be able to drive itself home.
00:39:42.460 Ham, you know.
00:39:44.720 But turkey, because it drinks, ham drinks.
00:39:47.980 Ham drinks.
00:39:48.640 But turkey, it's like, it could be anywhere.
00:39:52.420 It could be, turkey, turkey, you'll see, you'll see turkey in a high heel.
00:39:58.600 You'll see turkey in a high heel.
00:40:00.580 That bit, you know.
00:40:01.820 So that's how I feel, I guess, about that.
00:40:03.880 Um, what else?
00:40:06.600 Got a couple more calls that came in here.
00:40:10.900 Um, oh, here's a news story right here.
00:40:14.340 Police find two kilogram garden gnome made entirely of MDMA.
00:40:20.980 Wow.
00:40:22.340 Yeah, that's it, man.
00:40:23.620 That's how it is now, baby, baby.
00:40:27.540 They got aliens in the ocean.
00:40:29.380 They got MDMA in the garden gnomes.
00:40:33.580 Okay?
00:40:35.180 Tape your eyelids to your ass cheeks, homie.
00:40:38.920 And stay alert.
00:40:40.080 Cause they ripping everybody out here.
00:40:48.400 Praise God, baby.
00:40:49.680 What else do we have?
00:40:51.200 Hmm.
00:40:53.400 Uh, we got another call that came in right here.
00:40:56.540 Here we go.
00:40:58.300 And stay home for Christmas.
00:41:01.500 Yo, Theo.
00:41:02.660 This is Harley from Portland, Oregon, man.
00:41:04.720 What's up, Harley?
00:41:06.280 And I had a great time up there.
00:41:07.580 We did a show out there in Portland, uh, which is a great city.
00:41:11.640 Let me say that.
00:41:12.520 People are always like, there's Antifa's up there.
00:41:16.500 You know?
00:41:18.160 You know, LARPing in the park.
00:41:21.360 It's just a bunch of leftover Antifa and BLM activists and people, you know, adults wearing
00:41:27.580 baby diapers up there.
00:41:29.720 LARPing in the park and sword fighting and doing makeshift renaissance fairs up there and
00:41:34.620 shit.
00:41:34.960 And damn George Foreman grilling every meal and shit.
00:41:39.320 But I thought it was an amazing city.
00:41:42.660 I'd never, I just hadn't, it was just, it really shocked me how, how special it was.
00:41:47.820 Yeah.
00:41:48.080 There's a naked guy pushing himself, you know, pushing himself in a, you know, and he's like,
00:41:54.440 you know, has a boat or, and he's going down the street in a, um, a, uh, adult baby carriage
00:42:02.780 or whatever.
00:42:03.960 But it's, there's, it's awesome.
00:42:07.080 I thought it was really, really groovy.
00:42:09.300 I really liked Portland, Oregon.
00:42:11.440 Um, what'd you have to say, brother?
00:42:13.920 Sorry, I interrupted you there.
00:42:15.020 Let's hear more.
00:42:15.440 Um, I, I really appreciate the way that, that you peddle your tickets, the way that
00:42:22.640 you, uh, encourage people to not use secondhand sites because, you know, you don't want to,
00:42:28.420 you don't want people paying more than they should to come see you.
00:42:30.880 I understand that.
00:42:31.500 And I really respect that.
00:42:32.500 Yeah, totally.
00:42:33.900 Well, a lot of times what happens is people will look up a ticket, right?
00:42:37.140 Want to go to the show, this city, this date or whatever.
00:42:40.480 And then other secondary sites that are reselling tickets will put them, will pay more to get
00:42:48.420 their searching higher on Google and stuff like that.
00:42:52.200 And so then you click there and you're not really paying an original, you don't even have
00:42:56.120 an option at a, at a regular price ticket if there's still any available onward.
00:42:59.660 But then I go to your, your website, man, and I see that, uh, theovan.com slash tour
00:43:06.360 is redirected to Ticketmaster.
00:43:10.040 And I'm just curious, man, you know, the, the people absolutely hate Ticketmaster.
00:43:14.880 Oh yeah.
00:43:15.560 And I'm one of the people, brother.
00:43:16.660 I hate them.
00:43:17.960 I hate them.
00:43:18.760 It's a, they've been running this scam forever.
00:43:22.340 So I don't know how we get a politician that is going to break up the monopoly.
00:43:27.640 That's very obvious.
00:43:29.060 I don't know how you get that done.
00:43:31.780 You know, I would love to have a ticket broker on this year.
00:43:34.300 Maybe we can find, start delving into the dark depths of all that.
00:43:38.220 Cause yes, it's a monopoly.
00:43:39.880 It's sick.
00:43:41.320 It's sick that you could take three of your friends to a show, but now you can only take
00:43:45.720 one because the fees are astronomical.
00:43:48.800 We don't see any money from the fees.
00:43:50.920 Artists don't.
00:43:51.580 You know, it's just the same people.
00:43:56.900 It's these big companies who owns Ticketmaster.
00:44:00.500 You look that up for me.
00:44:01.600 Live Nation Entertainment.
00:44:11.340 So there you go.
00:44:12.500 Ticketmaster is a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Nation, which is headquartered in Beverly
00:44:18.640 Hills.
00:44:19.820 Yeah.
00:44:19.940 Well, I think one of the issues, who's the owner of Live Nation?
00:44:23.160 I wonder.
00:44:31.000 Vanguard.
00:44:32.840 Well, here's, this is fucking hilarious.
00:44:35.600 Zoom in on this a little bit.
00:44:36.840 Liberty Media Corporation is the largest shareholder of Live Nation Entertainment, owning 30% of
00:44:43.000 the company.
00:44:44.380 Other major shareholders include Vanguard, owns 8.3%.
00:44:48.660 BlackRock Advisors owns 5.5%.
00:44:52.000 So there you go.
00:44:55.880 It's the same people that own everything.
00:44:58.060 So that's why you're getting fucked because they own everything.
00:45:01.200 They own the building that the show is in sometimes, and then they own the website.
00:45:06.860 And they don't care.
00:45:09.700 They don't care.
00:45:12.600 That's the bottom line.
00:45:13.800 They don't care.
00:45:15.220 They don't care that it takes more money out of your pocket.
00:45:20.520 And mine.
00:45:21.320 If I buy tickets somewhere, they don't care.
00:45:25.500 They want money.
00:45:28.160 That's all they want.
00:45:30.920 So yeah, that shit hurts my heart, man.
00:45:32.660 Nothing I can do about it, man.
00:45:33.820 You know, and maybe one day there'll be a better way to do it.
00:45:37.220 I know Zach Bryan tried a unique method through AXS, I think, ticketing.
00:45:44.440 But it hasn't shown up yet, or a way that's definitely definitively saves people that money.
00:45:50.000 But yeah, those people are robbing people.
00:45:54.000 And that's what it is.
00:45:55.820 But we have a government that continues to allow that sort of business behavior, especially when they have a monopoly on the market.
00:46:03.460 Yeah, that's just, those are my feelings.
00:46:05.020 To me, it feels like it's bullshit.
00:46:06.340 To you calling.
00:46:07.520 I'm sure to everybody listening.
00:46:08.540 I'd love to have an extra $40 from Ticket and Fees to go get me a soda or something.
00:46:14.480 Get me a little Butterfinger or something.
00:46:16.600 Get mom the payday or whatever.
00:46:18.060 She likes eating.
00:46:19.260 She can't even hear the fucking show.
00:46:20.800 She's over here.
00:46:22.440 Cheaper to get her a ticket than put her in dang hospice or whatever.
00:46:26.920 You know, she's over here, you know, listening to whatever we're watching.
00:46:31.220 You know, Metallica on Ice or whatever over here.
00:46:34.660 You know, or Ice Spice on Ice or whatever.
00:46:36.640 Who knows what the hell they're doing now.
00:46:39.140 You know, now they have a new Anxiety on Ice as a new performance for kids.
00:46:43.140 Like, what are we even fucking taking our kids to?
00:46:47.620 It's Big Pharma Anxiety on Ice brought to you by Live Nation and Pfizer, dude.
00:46:53.040 That's what we're fucking doing.
00:46:54.140 I mean, yeah, people at least aren't blind to it.
00:46:58.380 Praise God, brother.
00:46:59.640 Thank you for the call.
00:47:00.600 And yeah, I'm sorry about it too, man.
00:47:01.680 Let me hear the end.
00:47:02.200 Let me hear what you have to say.
00:47:03.080 I'm sorry.
00:47:03.980 And I personally would not go see a show just because it's being sold strictly for ticket
00:47:09.980 matter.
00:47:10.940 So I was curious if there was some kind of way that we could get away from some big corporations
00:47:16.360 and hopefully by getting away from them, you know, you could get more of a percentage of
00:47:22.640 ticket sales.
00:47:23.980 Yeah, totally.
00:47:25.320 I mean, those venues, they could give away to something.
00:47:27.640 They could do something.
00:47:29.600 You know, they also, yeah, they charge people for parking a lot of times or it's just that's
00:47:34.800 but some of it is business.
00:47:36.140 But that part, I believe, is egregious.
00:47:38.040 That's how I feel.
00:47:38.800 But no, as of right now, I don't know another way.
00:47:41.760 You know, I could look into it though.
00:47:47.240 Maybe one day I'll have, you know, I could own venues with other people and we could just
00:47:51.900 do the shows there at our own venues and we wouldn't sell tickets and we wouldn't gouge
00:47:58.760 people on those prices.
00:47:59.840 Or maybe you'd find one politician that would just run simply on the fact that they're going
00:48:04.100 to say, hey, fuck those guys.
00:48:05.960 We're not going to let them do it.
00:48:06.920 We're going to figure out a way.
00:48:08.440 So it's just those greedy companies and dirty lawyers, I believe.
00:48:13.100 But also there may be stuff I don't know about it.
00:48:15.860 They may need an extra $42 a ticket to send you that email.
00:48:22.680 So I might be off.
00:48:24.820 What else?
00:48:27.900 Sorry, am I getting negative there?
00:48:32.000 Let me think about what else I'm thankful for, man.
00:48:33.940 I'm thankful that I have buddies that check in on me.
00:48:38.660 I need to do a better job of that or I would like to do a better job of that in the coming
00:48:42.820 year of checking in on people and checking in on myself.
00:48:48.120 You know, I want to make sure I do a better job of that.
00:48:51.460 Oh, what else am I thankful for?
00:48:54.320 Oh, I'm thankful my buddy Jeremy just had a new baby, his third son.
00:49:01.000 Him and his wife Natalie just had a child and they just have a blessed, just, man, him
00:49:08.340 and my buddy Curtis, they run a speed and strength training, a training group over here in Nashville
00:49:16.520 and it just, those guys are like, they're like the best part of my week when I get to be
00:49:23.360 over there and just laugh with everybody and we have so much fun and they really uplift a
00:49:28.060 lot of the community here.
00:49:30.080 And so, yeah, that's something I'm thankful for, that he had a healthy son.
00:49:33.660 What else am I thankful for?
00:49:40.920 I'm thankful I got to go to my buddy Scott's wedding this year.
00:49:43.720 I'm thankful I got to see my friend the other night.
00:49:45.780 I'm thankful that God lets me think about other people and that I can try, that I can, you
00:49:55.040 know, that if there's patches where I go through where I get stuck in myself that I can come
00:49:59.560 out of those, you know, we're not so, every thought doesn't have to be a sentence, like
00:50:04.500 a life sentence, you know, or that every feeling isn't like a life sentence.
00:50:08.460 Even though there are moments sometimes where they think, it feels like they might be, they're
00:50:12.340 not.
00:50:15.760 I'm thankful you can see somebody that'll change your vibe, you know, or change, you
00:50:19.820 can hear a song that'll change your energy and you can choose to hear those things too.
00:50:28.220 What else?
00:50:28.800 Yeah, I'm thankful that some of the mistakes I've made haven't, haven't put me in places
00:50:34.780 that, uh, make things very tough on me from day to day.
00:50:40.940 You know, that's been a lot of grace from God in those spaces.
00:50:45.440 Um, what else?
00:50:49.340 What do you think about, Trevin, anything else, any other gratitudes coming into your head?
00:50:55.580 Thankful for friends, like you said, being able to be able to think about, you know, being
00:51:01.900 grateful in itself, you know what I mean?
00:51:03.620 Being able to take the time to, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:51:09.200 I'm thankful God lets me see different things or whatever, see animals, bro.
00:51:12.640 I would hate that shit if you were at the zoo and your people are just telling you what
00:51:15.500 the animals look like or whatever.
00:51:17.640 And then the guy starts touching you on the back or whatever.
00:51:20.040 You're like, this guy's a pedophile or whatever, you know, who, who am I even with, dude?
00:51:25.660 That's the kind of scary shit that's out there.
00:51:27.720 Um, what else do we got?
00:51:31.040 Uh, um, oh, let's see.
00:51:40.300 Um, oh, here we go right here, gang shit.
00:51:43.860 Let's hear this one.
00:51:45.720 They stay home for...
00:51:46.720 Hey, Theo, this is, uh, Big Red here, and...
00:51:52.300 Big Red, baby.
00:51:54.600 Let's hear more, daddy.
00:51:55.720 Um, I mean, I just want to, uh, preface by saying I'm, I'm not racist, but, um...
00:52:03.720 All right.
00:52:10.160 Onward.
00:52:10.640 Um, lately I've been hanging out with, you know, some brothers, and I've...
00:52:15.640 I've sneezed a couple times, but, um...
00:52:19.040 You sneezed, okay?
00:52:20.380 You've been sneezing.
00:52:21.760 I...
00:52:22.320 I've noticed that I've been sneezing around outside, and, um...
00:52:28.520 And I just, I...
00:52:30.040 They don't say bless you.
00:52:31.700 And I don't know if it's, like, a me thing.
00:52:33.560 I don't know if, like, you...
00:52:35.380 It's, like...
00:52:36.640 I don't know if it's, like, hard to look tough, like, saying bless you.
00:52:40.680 Like, I don't know.
00:52:42.480 I've been trying to say bless you in the mirror in a tough way, and it's...
00:52:45.680 I gotta admit, it's a really hard task to do, like...
00:52:50.040 Okay, I think I see what you're saying.
00:52:51.680 You're saying a lot of brothers, they don't say bless you when you sneeze.
00:52:54.200 Well, I mean, I think that's just a...
00:52:56.020 That's just life, bro.
00:52:57.980 I mean, brothers been through a lot of shit historically, man.
00:53:01.460 Brothers and female brothers, too.
00:53:05.140 The sisters, they've been through some shit, man.
00:53:08.020 Get a history book, dog.
00:53:10.560 So they ain't worried if somebody can't handle a little pollen or something.
00:53:14.580 Somebody sneezed.
00:53:15.560 That ain't...
00:53:16.280 They're worried somebody goes into prison.
00:53:19.100 You know, that's when they drop some bless yous on them.
00:53:22.860 They worried they can't get the pain out of the culture.
00:53:25.500 That's when they'll yell a bless you.
00:53:30.360 They save some of their bless yous for Sunday as well.
00:53:34.260 But they...
00:53:34.800 It's white folk.
00:53:36.200 We, you know...
00:53:37.080 We somebody sneeze.
00:53:38.400 Bless you, Ernie.
00:53:40.260 Bless you.
00:53:41.060 Bless you, Nathan.
00:53:43.620 That's good.
00:53:45.400 That's...
00:53:46.120 You know...
00:53:47.840 Black folk, they...
00:53:49.440 Just because somebody can't handle sitting near a tulip or something.
00:53:52.240 Or somebody get a little activated, their lungs flare up around a fern.
00:53:57.300 That ain't...
00:53:59.080 That's a little bit more white trauma than it is a black trauma, I think.
00:54:03.120 You know?
00:54:03.980 Some white dudes like...
00:54:05.460 Oh, them azaleas.
00:54:06.740 I can't breathe.
00:54:08.400 Like you the floral George Floyd or something, man.
00:54:11.060 Get your shit together, man.
00:54:13.580 Get your...
00:54:14.260 And don't bother a brother to say bless you because...
00:54:17.240 Because your white ass having trouble with some dandelion dander.
00:54:22.460 Okay?
00:54:23.020 Get it together.
00:54:25.260 Your soft ass.
00:54:26.700 Can't breathe for half a second.
00:54:28.460 You want God to help you.
00:54:29.980 God.
00:54:30.480 Come on, man.
00:54:33.000 Come on, man.
00:54:34.140 So...
00:54:35.240 I think that's just...
00:54:36.780 Look, man.
00:54:37.320 That's a cultural thing.
00:54:38.620 And I think you gotta let that lie where it lies, baby.
00:54:42.400 That's what I believe.
00:54:43.520 Praise God, man.
00:54:44.660 Thank you for the call, though.
00:54:45.760 Thank you for letting me think out loud with you.
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00:56:22.100 Thank you.
00:56:23.980 You know, I do want to say, though, it is that time of year where we can try to do more for
00:56:28.220 others.
00:56:28.420 That's one of my things I was thinking about yesterday.
00:56:30.080 It was like, how can I make next year, how can I do more?
00:56:36.440 You know, and we all want to, right?
00:56:37.880 We all want time.
00:56:38.600 I hear that so many times from people like, hey, how can I be a part of this?
00:56:41.800 How can I do, you know?
00:56:43.720 And so, yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot, and I'm going to, I want to figure that
00:56:50.020 out, you know?
00:56:50.940 Just ways to, yeah, we all want to find ways to give back to help our neighbor, you know?
00:56:57.220 And this is the time of year for that to be on our hearts, I think.
00:57:02.480 Or I don't know, I'm not trying to preach at you.
00:57:03.700 This is the time of year where that's on my heart.
00:57:06.900 You know, how can I, yeah, how can I think about somebody else?
00:57:13.200 Because what a relief it is when you're trapped in yourself to have a moment where you're thinking
00:57:18.080 about somebody else.
00:57:18.780 You're like, oh, thank you, God, letting me think about somebody else, man.
00:57:22.760 So, what else?
00:57:25.860 Let's take a couple more calls here on the way out.
00:57:29.380 Let me take this one right here.
00:57:33.340 Hey, Theo.
00:57:34.700 I love the show.
00:57:37.620 I'm calling with an issue.
00:57:39.880 I'm 20 years old.
00:57:41.700 I've been drinking every single day since I've been 17.
00:57:44.100 I mean, there's been times where I stop drinking for a week, but I always fall back into the
00:57:51.120 same thing.
00:57:52.560 And I hate myself for it.
00:57:55.080 Everything pulls me down.
00:57:57.060 I'm just wondering if you have any advice for me.
00:58:01.100 Thank you.
00:58:01.320 Yeah, I noticed myself, man.
00:58:03.820 Thanks for calling, bro.
00:58:04.940 I noticed myself when I get, when I'm doing something I don't want to be doing, when I'm
00:58:11.240 doing something I don't want to be doing, and then I've said to myself, hey, I don't want
00:58:14.820 to do this anymore.
00:58:16.440 And then I keep doing it.
00:58:17.980 I can't help but do it.
00:58:19.660 Right?
00:58:19.940 That's addiction.
00:58:20.720 You can't help it.
00:58:21.540 You're doing it.
00:58:23.640 Which isn't you.
00:58:24.540 That's not you making that choice all the time.
00:58:26.400 It's addiction.
00:58:27.540 It's a disease.
00:58:29.280 Right?
00:58:29.500 So it's the same as if somebody had cancer.
00:58:31.660 You wouldn't say to them every day, oh, damn, you have cancer again.
00:58:34.540 You keep choosing to have cancer.
00:58:36.120 No.
00:58:36.900 They have cancer.
00:58:39.280 It's the same with addiction.
00:58:40.520 You are, you don't want to do this.
00:58:42.620 You are doing it.
00:58:44.260 Right?
00:58:46.040 You can't stop that cycle.
00:58:50.200 And then here, this is what I would notice for myself.
00:58:52.660 Then shame starts building up because now not only am I addicted, now I am.
00:58:59.300 Uh, now I am, um, ashamed because I keep breaking my own promise to myself.
00:59:07.540 Right?
00:59:08.220 Now I'm losing my integrity.
00:59:10.460 So now not only am I dealing with addiction, but I'm also dealing with, uh, with, with shame.
00:59:16.500 And man, when those two dogs get together, good luck getting a Frisbee through the yard,
00:59:22.880 brother.
00:59:24.000 Them some growlers, daddy.
00:59:25.140 Um, but that's the only, people ask me a lot how, you know, about addiction stuff.
00:59:30.500 The only answer I ever know that has helped me has been, uh, going to recovery, going to
00:59:36.640 Alcoholics Anonymous, starting there, going to a meeting.
00:59:39.340 Because the first thing they ask you in there is that, um, my life, is your life unmanageable?
00:59:47.600 That's the question.
00:59:50.100 Is your life unmanageable?
00:59:51.940 Nothing has to be about alcohol or anything.
00:59:56.360 Is your life unmanageable?
00:59:59.760 Because that's a way where you get to choose for yourself.
01:00:02.780 Nobody's making a diagnosis of you being an alcoholic.
01:00:05.900 You decide.
01:00:06.780 But it's like, is life unmanageable?
01:00:10.380 And that's a very fair question to anybody.
01:00:14.560 And if the answer is yes, then they, there's more, then you take it from there and there,
01:00:20.080 you know?
01:00:20.540 But I would recommend go to three AA meetings, some different ones.
01:00:24.600 Uh, listen for the similarities and don't listen for the differences.
01:00:28.200 Because it's easy to be like, ah, this shit, no, no, that ain't, I, you, you hear one thing
01:00:35.340 like, that ain't for me, you know?
01:00:36.720 So, yeah, man, I'm sorry that you're dealing with that.
01:00:40.140 Uh, but that's really the only, I don't have a magic button or a magic solution, you know?
01:00:45.780 And then once you're in there, you can maybe get some sponsorship or something.
01:00:49.220 They can help you decide if you should get treatment or that sort of thing.
01:00:52.440 Um, now, if you're drinking every day for that long, you may need treatment to detoxify
01:00:56.740 yourself, but, uh, thinking of you, brother, and, um, and thank you for calling, man.
01:01:02.340 I appreciate that.
01:01:04.420 Uh, what else?
01:01:08.680 Here we go.
01:01:10.920 Let's hear it.
01:01:11.580 What up, Theo?
01:01:13.340 Hi.
01:01:14.400 Hey, I got a question for you, Theo.
01:01:16.120 Uh, my name's Jocelyn, and I have a son here.
01:01:18.860 He's 10 years old with Down syndrome.
01:01:20.960 Uh, just any advice that you would give to him personally would be much appreciated.
01:01:26.740 And, um, we think you're great.
01:01:30.140 Keep doing what you're doing, bro.
01:01:31.700 Thank you.
01:01:32.440 Thank you, Jocelyn.
01:01:33.480 That was very sweet of you to call.
01:01:35.840 Um, happy Thanksgiving to you and to your child right there.
01:01:40.400 And I'd say to your child, I'd say, hang in there, young King.
01:01:45.100 Okay.
01:01:46.060 You little freckled sparrow of the heavens.
01:01:48.580 Hang in there.
01:01:50.220 Hold the line, baby boy.
01:01:51.800 Because young DS lords like yourself are heroes and you are beloved.
01:02:01.180 You are God's thank you card.
01:02:04.460 There's not any of us in existence that doesn't, that doesn't see somebody with Down syndrome
01:02:09.920 and feel something.
01:02:13.740 You know, you make a candle, there's a candle, just light up inside of everybody.
01:02:19.400 Y'all are the ones, y'all are the ones braving the genetic nether realm to see what's on the other side.
01:02:28.420 Y'all are the Lewis and Clarks of DNA.
01:02:30.880 Okay, the Harriet Tubman of afflictions.
01:02:35.260 That's y'all, young King.
01:02:38.460 And every year we're getting closer to winning this war.
01:02:43.240 I'll say that out loud.
01:02:45.540 We will battle with Down syndrome until it's all the way down.
01:02:51.800 We will not relent.
01:02:53.620 So keep hugging your mom and keep being a bumblebee of hope for all of us.
01:03:03.520 And keep smiling because when you smile, when people with Down syndrome smile, we all smile somehow.
01:03:13.520 Because we all have that, just a, not a DS, but a D-O-S-E.
01:03:24.000 Of it inside of us.
01:03:26.240 And I believe that, you know, and that's why we can relate.
01:03:29.680 And I love you and I love your mom and I wish y'all a happy Thanksgiving.
01:03:35.240 And keep teaching the rest of us how to love better.
01:03:38.800 You know?
01:03:40.040 Because I was right there in it.
01:03:41.520 I was right there in it, just in the grips.
01:03:44.700 And I was able to just break my foot free as a child.
01:03:49.820 And I love you guys, man, baby.
01:03:51.180 Praise God, man.
01:03:53.620 Um, what else?
01:03:56.140 Any other call that came in?
01:03:57.480 Here's a young lady that called.
01:04:00.520 And here we go.
01:04:03.680 One more call.
01:04:05.340 Okay.
01:04:05.680 I'm struggling.
01:04:12.840 It's just hard going back and forth trying to find a job with an addiction.
01:04:18.740 It's really hard.
01:04:22.040 I can't seem to put the alcohol down.
01:04:25.400 Um, and it's funny that it is, I listened to your podcast because of how you talked about coke.
01:04:36.700 And, uh, I've been struggling with putting it down.
01:04:42.960 Um, if I just get to the point where I just, I get so deep, you can't get out of it.
01:04:50.760 And I know what you know what I mean.
01:04:52.200 Man, it just, it breaks my heart, kind of, you know.
01:04:56.540 It's tough.
01:05:03.200 Yeah, just, I don't know what it makes me feel.
01:05:05.260 I mean, it just, I guess, yeah.
01:05:06.740 I mean, it just, yeah.
01:05:08.100 I don't know.
01:05:08.540 It makes me sad.
01:05:09.160 Yeah, I guess it makes me like, um, what does it make you feel like?
01:05:21.440 Well, I think it's, I think it's, uh, powerful that they feel like they could reach out to you to talk about it with someone who can relate.
01:05:28.600 You know what I'm saying?
01:05:29.400 Yeah.
01:05:30.320 Yeah, I think there's a part of it's like you want to, you can just tell when somebody's hurting, you know.
01:05:35.740 Let me see, uh, maybe let us call her.
01:05:39.700 Is that crazy, you think, Trevin?
01:05:41.020 Do it.
01:05:41.940 I think it would make her day.
01:05:43.640 Let's just call her.
01:05:45.120 Let's see.
01:05:46.300 We can even ask her if we, I don't care if we put this on or not.
01:05:49.460 We can just, let me see.
01:06:03.020 Hello?
01:06:03.820 Hey, what's up?
01:06:05.740 Who is this?
01:06:06.880 It's Theo.
01:06:07.580 It's Theo.
01:06:10.820 Yo.
01:06:11.880 Theo Vaughn, I got you.
01:06:13.020 Did you call, I don't know if this is the right person.
01:06:15.160 Did you call our, I just, I'll have like a voicemail thing.
01:06:18.160 I just didn't know if you called it the other day.
01:06:20.840 Is this really Theo Vaughn?
01:06:22.380 Yeah, yeah, it is.
01:06:23.340 Who's this?
01:06:24.180 Holy shit.
01:06:25.280 You actually listen to it?
01:06:26.940 Yeah, sometimes it takes me a while, dude.
01:06:29.140 It freaking takes me a while.
01:06:30.260 But we just happened to start list, just like, we've been listening for the past couple weeks
01:06:36.260 to try and do like an episode to come out next week.
01:06:39.820 And so, yeah, today I was listening to him and I just heard your message.
01:06:42.600 And it just like, yeah, you know, I struggle with shit.
01:06:46.100 So, I just thought I would just say what's up or, you know.
01:06:50.120 Dude, I just had a wreck like two days ago.
01:06:54.140 Oh, what happened?
01:06:55.760 I don't know how I didn't die.
01:06:57.480 I was not paying attention.
01:06:59.180 And I got, I like rear anything, but I was flying and I shouldn't have.
01:07:04.060 And it totaled the fuck out of my car.
01:07:07.280 I don't know how I died.
01:07:08.620 I just came out with a small concussion and nobody else was hurt.
01:07:12.460 And did you have insurance?
01:07:13.320 It's been a, yeah, it's getting taken care of, but it's just been a shitty week.
01:07:19.100 I got cheated on too, so.
01:07:20.820 Oh, that's the worst.
01:07:23.000 I can't believe you actually listened to my voice, man.
01:07:26.400 Yeah, well, it just shook me, you know.
01:07:28.520 I mean, it just made me, you know, it seemed like you're having a, going through a tough time
01:07:31.720 and I've been there for sure.
01:07:35.060 I'm going on 19 hours.
01:07:37.200 Of no drinking?
01:07:37.820 Doing sober right now.
01:07:39.380 Let's go.
01:07:40.700 That's awesome.
01:07:41.400 Dude, 19 hours is big.
01:07:44.580 I know, it's a lot for me.
01:07:46.960 Yeah.
01:07:47.780 Yeah, it is.
01:07:48.600 I'm happy for you.
01:07:49.340 That's awesome.
01:07:49.960 What do you think, so what time of day or what kind of happens that you start to, you feel
01:07:55.280 like you start to fall apart a little bit or make you drink?
01:07:58.940 Well, it was really the start of my job.
01:08:01.240 I started a job last year and we ended up having to work like, it was a mandatory seven
01:08:06.400 days a week and it's been like that the whole time I started and I finally, they fired me
01:08:11.440 in October and that's when shit really started to fall apart.
01:08:16.180 I started showing up, drinking on the job and stuff.
01:08:19.700 It was just getting really rough, burnt out.
01:08:22.820 Yeah, so you just drinking to get by, huh?
01:08:27.280 Yeah.
01:08:28.380 Oh.
01:08:28.880 I went through a couple of relationships.
01:08:30.740 I tried to make relationships and just got shit on.
01:08:33.560 It's just, it's been a rough year really.
01:08:35.780 Yeah.
01:08:37.000 Dang.
01:08:38.100 And where do you got family over there or no?
01:08:39.860 Yeah, I live with my mom and my dad.
01:08:43.500 Oh, nice.
01:08:43.860 Do you have any children?
01:08:45.820 Oh, I'm 24.
01:08:47.760 I'm still living a little bit of life, I'm trying to.
01:08:50.640 Oh, well look, I think you got some blessings right there and then so you don't have a, you
01:08:54.080 don't have a responsibility outside of yourself you got to take care of.
01:08:56.620 That's nice, you know?
01:08:57.620 Yeah.
01:08:58.220 I mean, except for your folks, you know?
01:09:00.740 Yeah.
01:09:02.320 Do you ever go to AA meetings or anything?
01:09:07.100 No, I've never thought about it.
01:09:08.640 I got put on medication a while back, but I got off of it and I think that kind of made
01:09:15.320 it worse because it's like cold turkey.
01:09:17.380 Oh yeah, that can be tricky.
01:09:20.140 But I felt like the medicine was just making me more depressed, but it could be from the
01:09:23.700 drinking too while drinking on it.
01:09:25.880 So I've never had like talked to a therapist or anybody about it.
01:09:32.840 What do you feel?
01:09:33.780 I mean, do you feel like you drank too much?
01:09:35.860 You just feel like you feel bad?
01:09:37.660 I mean, are you, or do you just feel like maybe you just had a tough couple of days?
01:09:41.000 No judgment either.
01:09:41.960 I'm not judging you.
01:09:43.220 Yeah.
01:09:43.800 I just, I've been through, I know there's people out there that go through worse things,
01:09:50.780 but I have, was in a relationship for a few years before I moved back in with my parents
01:09:56.760 and it was abusive and I lost, I had a, I was pregnant and I lost my baby.
01:10:03.640 And I think that's where it all started.
01:10:08.560 It was just really hard.
01:10:10.740 Yeah, I bet that's tough, huh?
01:10:12.020 You probably just, I don't know, what did it, did you start, yeah, like what did you start
01:10:17.240 feeling you think?
01:10:19.700 I just felt like I couldn't do nothing or kill it anymore.
01:10:24.500 I think that's where it all started like to fall apart for me and I kept trying to like
01:10:28.740 get back up and it just kept bringing me back down and then I just picked up alcohol and
01:10:33.980 it's funny because I used to never want to drink, not even when I turned 21.
01:10:39.460 Yeah.
01:10:40.860 It's just a lot of baggage, I feel like.
01:10:44.060 Oh, yeah.
01:10:45.860 Oh, if I just can't feel, if I feel like I just can't do good anymore, that's a horrible
01:10:49.440 feeling.
01:10:50.860 Yeah.
01:10:51.960 I'm sorry that you, I'm sorry that you've been dealing with all that.
01:10:56.660 I'm trying to get back up on my feet, get another job.
01:11:01.420 I think that's not working and stuff like that is really, you're just sitting at home
01:11:06.120 thinking in your head all the time.
01:11:07.660 I don't, I have one friend and I love her to death.
01:11:11.060 She always tries to help me, but I'm kind of a hard head and I don't listen to her.
01:11:14.620 Oh, yeah.
01:11:15.940 Yeah, yeah.
01:11:16.560 We can't, yeah, it's hard, yeah.
01:11:17.800 Don't try to help me.
01:11:19.160 That's the last thing I have.
01:11:22.920 Well, dang, yeah, I wish there was some way that I could help out, you know.
01:11:25.920 I wish there was something I could do to be supportive.
01:11:30.020 Yeah, I mean, do they have therapists in your town?
01:11:31.700 Do you think even going to somebody like that would help?
01:11:33.500 I'm just trying to think of something that might help you get a better, you know, or
01:11:37.600 do you need to get a new job?
01:11:39.200 Do you think you could even work right now?
01:11:40.820 What do you think is going on?
01:11:43.600 I don't, I don't even, I don't know how to start.
01:11:47.020 I don't know if I, I've always like been around people that tell me therapy doesn't work
01:11:52.820 and you don't need to go to pay somebody to tell them about your problems because they
01:11:56.320 don't care, you know, stuff like that.
01:11:58.280 So I guess I kind of just stuck that in my head that I didn't need to go talk to people
01:12:02.620 about it, I guess.
01:12:03.820 Yeah.
01:12:04.200 I kind of just hold it in until I explode.
01:12:07.780 Yeah.
01:12:10.080 Well, yeah, I just don't know if that's good or not.
01:12:11.980 I don't know if it's good for anything to hold anything in that long, you know.
01:12:15.240 No, it's not.
01:12:16.740 But I've always grew up where you don't talk about your emotions that much, so.
01:12:20.800 Oh, yeah, dude.
01:12:24.160 Oh, God.
01:12:25.180 If you felt something in my neighborhood, somebody would call you a dang f**k, to be honest
01:12:29.200 with you, you know.
01:12:30.320 Yeah.
01:12:30.960 And no offense, I didn't say that.
01:12:32.460 I think it's a, it's a guy.
01:12:33.740 No, that is exactly how it is, don't you?
01:12:36.720 But damn, yeah, I feel you there.
01:12:41.220 Well, how about this?
01:12:42.060 Maybe I'll just, is it, I'll check back in with you in like a week or something to see
01:12:45.980 how things are going.
01:12:47.940 Okay.
01:12:48.300 That, it really helped me, Colin, like you actually heard me, like, it just felt, made
01:12:53.700 me feel better.
01:12:55.620 Yeah.
01:12:56.220 Well, I know what that's, yeah, I can relate to that, man, for sure.
01:13:00.820 Yeah, just.
01:13:01.160 Sometimes you just need somebody to listen.
01:13:03.320 Yeah.
01:13:03.660 Yeah.
01:13:09.200 Yeah, that's true, man.
01:13:10.360 I feel that, I feel that.
01:13:11.680 Yeah, I feel that, I definitely feel that.
01:13:19.800 Yeah.
01:13:21.000 It feels good to get it out, but, you know, some people just don't want to hear about your
01:13:25.460 thoughts.
01:13:26.140 They're always like, well, I'm dealing with this, I'm dealing with that, everybody's
01:13:30.380 dealing with shit.
01:13:31.260 Yeah.
01:13:32.080 But sometimes you just need somebody to hear you out and not make you feel crazy for it.
01:13:37.180 Yeah, and you're right.
01:13:39.900 Sometimes we just want somebody to listen.
01:13:42.240 You know, we just want something to be, you know, we just want a place to put something.
01:13:46.800 There's obviously different things you could go do to try to get help for yourself, you
01:13:49.880 know, or if you wanted to.
01:13:51.080 You have insurance or no?
01:13:53.420 Yeah, I do.
01:13:54.220 Okay, cool.
01:13:54.740 So you could, if you wanted to try therapy, then you could try it at least.
01:13:57.780 You know, I know it takes time to like try and figure that out, but that is a thing.
01:14:01.640 And then, yeah, but yeah.
01:14:04.760 How about this?
01:14:05.520 I'll just, yeah, I just want to just, I'll check back in like in a week or something and
01:14:09.440 just see how you're doing.
01:14:10.380 Is that okay if I check back in?
01:14:12.460 Yeah, that's fine.
01:14:13.760 Okay, cool.
01:14:16.000 All right.
01:14:16.660 Well, have a good time over there.
01:14:17.840 What y'all going to do for Thanksgiving?
01:14:20.640 Shit, I don't know.
01:14:23.540 What are your parents doing?
01:14:24.680 I'm not on good terms with my brother right now, so it's going to be kind of awkward.
01:14:34.200 Damn, I wish y'all could figure that out before he gets over there.
01:14:38.540 Everybody tells me to apologize.
01:14:40.140 I need to stop holding the garage.
01:14:41.680 I know I do.
01:14:42.580 I'm working on it.
01:14:44.300 Yeah, I feel you.
01:14:45.420 Sometimes that stuff's hard, you know?
01:14:47.120 It's hard.
01:14:49.500 Maybe, yeah.
01:14:50.420 I don't know.
01:14:52.000 I feel you.
01:14:52.840 I struggle with that.
01:14:53.640 I got the same issues with some of my family.
01:14:55.840 It's tough, you know?
01:14:58.180 Family's tough.
01:15:00.600 But, yeah, if I can't swallow my pride for my family, you know, at least do it for myself,
01:15:05.620 for others, you know?
01:15:06.660 Because it don't have to be about me on Thanksgiving.
01:15:08.560 That's what I started thinking the other day.
01:15:11.300 Yeah.
01:15:12.280 You know?
01:15:12.860 I don't deserve to ruin other people's day just because I have feelings a certain way,
01:15:16.940 you know?
01:15:17.340 I should be able to figure that out.
01:15:18.960 I'm not telling you that.
01:15:19.760 I'm just saying that to me, really.
01:15:23.640 You got to be humble and grateful.
01:15:26.380 Well, I just, I should be able to approach somebody in my family at the end of the day,
01:15:30.080 say we're the last minute on earth.
01:15:33.920 What do I want that family member to think?
01:15:36.640 I want them to think, oh, I was holding something against them, you know, that I couldn't figure
01:15:41.100 out, you know, like, no, I would want my family member to think that I love them, you
01:15:44.860 know?
01:15:45.040 And so, I got to figure that out, even if it's for a short-term basis, you know?
01:15:50.360 Because I, I don't know.
01:15:51.560 I just don't want, yeah.
01:15:52.760 I don't want to be always a part of the problem, you know?
01:15:58.700 Yeah.
01:15:59.580 But, all right.
01:16:00.880 Well, I got to finish up because I'm about to go watch some football.
01:16:03.760 All right.
01:16:05.480 All right.
01:16:06.160 What's your first name?
01:16:09.540 Well, I appreciate you calling, and I just hope you hang in there, and, yeah, just don't
01:16:13.840 feel alone, you know, because that's, that isn't true.
01:16:19.040 Yeah.
01:16:19.440 I know.
01:16:19.900 I have family that supports me.
01:16:21.660 Yeah, and you just have people that are like you.
01:16:23.220 I think sometimes you just have to go find, you have to, it's hard sometimes we got to,
01:16:26.480 we got to, we got to find them, you know?
01:16:30.760 Yeah.
01:16:31.500 So, but anyway, I hope I'm not trying, I don't sound like I'm trying to preach at you, do I?
01:16:36.780 No, no, I needed this, actually.
01:16:39.080 I needed to talk to somebody about it.
01:16:42.000 Yeah.
01:16:43.500 Anything else you're feeling?
01:16:46.920 No, I'm just going to drink a bunch of water and keep going.
01:16:52.000 There you go.
01:16:52.720 Stay hydrated, baby.
01:16:53.860 That's what you can do.
01:16:55.500 All right, Emily.
01:16:56.060 Happy Thanksgiving.
01:16:57.740 All right.
01:16:58.460 Happy Thanksgiving.
01:16:59.280 You have a good one.
01:16:59.900 Okay, you too.
01:17:00.680 Take care.
01:17:01.980 Bye.
01:17:02.240 Wow, sweet girl.
01:17:09.480 Yeah, man, it just, that's wild.
01:17:10.980 That's so funny.
01:17:11.800 That's the same things I'm dealing with.
01:17:13.100 I got some family, just like it's tough.
01:17:15.540 But then what do I want to do?
01:17:16.960 I want to go, I want to bring all this shit or tell my family members like, well, I don't
01:17:21.140 want to be there if they're there.
01:17:22.500 And then I'm just making a storm.
01:17:24.500 And the truth is, there's a part of me inside of me that wants to be around my family.
01:17:31.340 It wants everything to be okay, you know?
01:17:34.240 But there's another part of me that wants to have things my way.
01:17:41.560 That's really what it is for me.
01:17:44.040 Even if the other person wronged me or I don't like their energy or whatever, I can't figure
01:17:47.580 the shit out for two hours, you know?
01:17:51.740 And then what's my part in it?
01:17:54.000 I'm a saint.
01:17:54.960 No.
01:17:56.720 Sometimes I'm a Saint Bernard with a couple of face tattoos, baby.
01:18:00.940 I'm fucking Jelly Wolf, you feel me?
01:18:02.660 So don't make me pop the trunk.
01:18:06.640 Oh, this is my brother.
01:18:09.360 Let me see if I can get him to say a couple of things he's thankful for.
01:18:15.760 Big Z.
01:18:17.900 What's up, bro?
01:18:19.120 Not much.
01:18:19.600 I'm recording my podcast right now, brother.
01:18:21.600 How are you?
01:18:23.500 Good, good.
01:18:24.280 Just checking in on you, bro.
01:18:25.600 And seeing...
01:18:27.100 Checking in on you after the other day.
01:18:29.400 Oh, yeah.
01:18:29.860 I appreciate it, man.
01:18:30.980 Yeah, I was just talking to some girl.
01:18:33.020 She called her hotline.
01:18:34.340 She'd been having a tough time.
01:18:36.900 Oh, really?
01:18:37.700 Yeah, she just...
01:18:38.740 Yeah, she was having a tough time.
01:18:40.300 So I just called her over there and was talking to her for a little while.
01:18:44.560 Oh, from the show?
01:18:46.300 Yeah.
01:18:47.580 Oh, nice.
01:18:48.500 Yeah, so you got the...
01:18:49.720 You've been doing the hotline more now?
01:18:51.200 Someone said that to me the other day.
01:18:53.000 I'm trying to.
01:18:53.900 Sometimes it's hard for me to feel comfortable.
01:18:55.660 It's like I don't like to do it when I don't...
01:18:57.580 Or do solo...
01:18:58.900 You know, sometimes I do my podcast just by myself.
01:19:02.720 Yeah, yeah.
01:19:03.520 Yeah, I don't like to do it if I don't feel comfortable.
01:19:06.960 You know, like if I feel agitated or something or I'm stressed out.
01:19:10.420 Yeah, well, that's fine.
01:19:13.880 That makes sense to me.
01:19:15.540 Yeah.
01:19:15.700 I don't mean...
01:19:16.700 Yeah.
01:19:17.540 Yeah.
01:19:17.960 Because it just feels like I can't be...
01:19:19.200 I don't feel like my...
01:19:19.920 You know, I just feel like a...
01:19:21.240 Like I'm just going through the emotions or whatever, you know.
01:19:26.320 Yeah, you kind of caught up in other stuff.
01:19:28.080 Yeah.
01:19:28.560 But it was just...
01:19:29.080 Yeah.
01:19:29.380 But some girls called.
01:19:30.360 She'd just been struggling over.
01:19:31.280 Oh, nice.
01:19:34.280 That's pretty...
01:19:34.920 That's pretty crazy.
01:19:35.860 You kind of did a little 12-step work on your podcast.
01:19:39.640 Yeah, just to listen to her, she was talking about.
01:19:42.060 I don't know.
01:19:42.660 She reminded me of just...
01:19:44.100 It's funny because we both had some of the same things, which was like being around family
01:19:48.040 during the holiday.
01:19:48.920 Just stuff like that, too, we ended up talking about.
01:19:52.520 Yeah, yeah.
01:19:53.580 I need to call that hotline, man.
01:19:55.020 I always forget about that.
01:19:55.960 You guys can call in sometime?
01:19:57.840 Yeah, dude.
01:19:58.700 Well, actually, you can help us right now.
01:19:59.760 We're finishing that.
01:20:00.400 If you have a couple of things you're thankful for, we're just going to think of a couple
01:20:03.120 of them on the way out of the episode, if you got a couple.
01:20:07.760 Oh, man.
01:20:08.720 What am I thankful for?
01:20:11.860 Oh, that's such a big question.
01:20:13.360 I know it is.
01:20:14.960 I guess...
01:20:15.660 I mean, I'm definitely thankful for my family, you know, you and everyone else in our family,
01:20:23.940 for sure.
01:20:25.260 I'm really thankful for my friends and the friendships that I've been developing.
01:20:30.400 I mean, I'm thankful for potential, you know, just like being able to just to get up in
01:20:44.040 the morning and, you know, go for another day.
01:20:48.340 I'm thankful for...
01:20:49.340 I'm really thankful for the...
01:20:52.340 that I get to be a parent, you know?
01:20:55.620 Oh, yeah.
01:20:56.240 That's a good one.
01:20:57.960 Yeah.
01:20:58.300 I love parenting.
01:20:59.480 I love raising my children.
01:21:07.060 What is that here?
01:21:07.820 Yeah, I used to have this hypothetical, like, it's a little bit derogatory, but I can tell
01:21:13.420 you if you want.
01:21:14.720 Yeah, all right.
01:21:16.160 All right.
01:21:16.700 So, if you're on an island and you can't masturbate, right?
01:21:23.140 You can't.
01:21:24.080 Okay.
01:21:24.440 That's the example.
01:21:25.420 You have no arms.
01:21:26.560 You can't do it.
01:21:27.720 Okay.
01:21:28.180 You have legs, though?
01:21:30.960 Well, yeah, but if you can use them to masturbate, then no, because you can't masturbate in this
01:21:34.980 example.
01:21:35.380 Okay, I see.
01:21:36.080 So, no matter what...
01:21:36.800 There's no way you can do it.
01:21:37.720 There's no way you can do it with one leg.
01:21:38.900 You have one leg and no arms.
01:21:40.880 Oh.
01:21:42.040 Got me.
01:21:42.300 Yeah, and you're just laying naked on the beach on this deserted island, right?
01:21:46.140 Okay.
01:21:46.820 But you have a strong libido, right?
01:21:50.160 And you're a heterosexual male, like you.
01:21:52.660 I mean, like you probably are.
01:21:53.980 I don't know for certain, but you probably are a heterosexual male.
01:21:56.220 So, you're a heterosexual male.
01:21:57.400 Yeah.
01:21:58.380 And you have a strong libido.
01:22:00.520 You can't, and then all of a sudden, there's another man on the island.
01:22:03.200 Oh.
01:22:03.520 So, here's the question.
01:22:06.120 Mm-hmm.
01:22:06.640 Do you eventually have sex with this man?
01:22:10.700 No.
01:22:11.160 I don't think you do.
01:22:12.980 Yeah, for me, it's a hell yeah.
01:22:15.400 God.
01:22:16.720 Hell yeah.
01:22:17.380 I mean...
01:22:18.060 Really?
01:22:18.480 I don't mean like a...
01:22:19.600 Well, yeah, think about it.
01:22:20.800 Which, if you can't, if you can't masturbate, you can't have sex.
01:22:23.180 But do y'all date for a long time first, or is there any, or how does it even...
01:22:26.520 No, one day, you're out there just laying on the beach, because you can't walk.
01:22:30.780 You only have one leg.
01:22:31.940 You can get up and hop over there.
01:22:32.900 Right, you just lay it out.
01:22:34.460 Well, you could knee over.
01:22:35.880 You could knee over.
01:22:36.680 You could hobble over.
01:22:38.240 And then, kind of, from the distance, here comes this man walking, and he's got two legs.
01:22:44.100 Oh, yeah.
01:22:45.200 Big spender, huh?
01:22:47.200 Big spender.
01:22:47.740 He's got a shirt.
01:22:48.600 He's got a shirt, but you can see his chest.
01:22:50.240 And you guys just strike it up, you know?
01:22:53.200 What are you talking about, dude?
01:22:55.220 Yeah.
01:22:55.780 Just listen, dude.
01:22:56.720 This is the example.
01:22:57.220 You make a little bonfire together.
01:22:58.640 You roast weenies.
01:22:59.880 You have a little weenie roast.
01:23:01.260 Wait, hold on.
01:23:02.140 How can you...
01:23:02.800 You can't even walk, but suddenly you're a damn wee blow scout, dude?
01:23:09.640 No, bro.
01:23:10.320 Look, he carries you over to the fire and lays you down.
01:23:13.040 Oh, God.
01:23:13.720 Breasts up.
01:23:15.200 Breasts up.
01:23:16.520 Breasts up.
01:23:18.320 Lays you down.
01:23:19.100 And then, so I'm just saying, eventually, eventually, you'd have sex, even though you're not, even though you're a heterosexual male.
01:23:27.700 All right.
01:23:29.320 All right, man.
01:23:29.820 I'm gonna give you a buzz back, all right?
01:23:31.520 That's what I'm thankful for.
01:23:32.400 All right, bro.
01:23:32.720 I love you.
01:23:33.180 All right.
01:23:33.380 I love you, too, man.
01:23:34.660 Wow.
01:23:34.940 Bye.
01:23:40.720 It's got me thinking, too, man.
01:23:42.480 You're like, you'd have to go on dates with the guy.
01:23:45.920 You know what I'm saying?
01:23:46.480 You're like, and you'd have to know people aren't coming to get you.
01:23:52.280 You can't just...
01:23:53.660 You know what I'm saying, Trevin?
01:23:56.360 You'd be having sex with the guy, and then you hear a helicopter over the top.
01:23:59.960 Yeah, dude, totally.
01:24:02.200 Yeah, you can't be...
01:24:03.360 If you just are stuck on an island for two days and you hook up with a dude, then you're just a gay guy.
01:24:08.700 Which is fine, but don't be like, oh, the island or whatever.
01:24:14.880 Wow.
01:24:16.120 Just an island, boy.
01:24:19.880 Dang, bro.
01:24:20.680 And that's why our family has trouble during the holidays.
01:24:23.460 I'll tell you that, man.
01:24:25.300 That is why they do.
01:24:28.440 Blessings to everybody out there, man.
01:24:30.260 Thank you guys for being a part of my life.
01:24:32.200 Thank you for letting me be a part of your life.
01:24:33.860 Thank you for just this year.
01:24:37.440 It's been crazy, man.
01:24:38.780 The past couple of weeks were really crazy.
01:24:41.140 Like, yeah, I kind of was like losing my mind.
01:24:44.360 I went on Joe Rogan's show, and I was just having a tough time on it.
01:24:47.300 I just was like...
01:24:48.620 I think I got real scared, like, after, like, the election and people making podcasts...
01:24:55.120 Like, their, like, podcasts swayed the election, and I don't believe any of that.
01:24:59.120 I believe people do what they want to do, you know, and then they make out to be this
01:25:04.660 big right-wing, people emailing me about fascism or whatever, and just a lot...
01:25:11.500 Just like...
01:25:13.260 Yeah, just because I voted for my buddy.
01:25:16.740 Bobby Kennedy's my friend.
01:25:19.700 That is my friend.
01:25:20.960 I know...
01:25:21.620 I, I, in fact, uh, he's, he's a good, he's a, just a, he's somebody I trust.
01:25:30.860 He's my friend, right?
01:25:32.180 I'll vote for my friend.
01:25:33.720 You think my friend is going to run for frickin' president of the United States, and I'm not
01:25:37.240 going to vote for him, dude?
01:25:39.080 Or for, uh, you know, minister of health or whatever, or whatever it is called.
01:25:44.820 It's called, um, Deadpool 7 or whatever he's called now or whatever.
01:25:50.320 You know, uh, the CBS warlord, or I'm not even sure what they're calling him now.
01:25:56.660 Um, but, yeah, I'm going to vote for my friend, and I don't really care what anybody thinks
01:26:02.440 about that, I don't think.
01:26:04.700 Um, and I wouldn't think it's weird if you vote for your friend.
01:26:07.720 I don't give a fuck who anybody votes for, but, yeah.
01:26:11.500 So, but I don't know, yeah, I think just a lot of stuff, like, kind of freaked me out
01:26:14.540 in the past couple weeks, and I was just been feeling overwhelmed, and, um, and yeah.
01:26:20.180 And then we all go through shit, and then the year's going fast, and whatever.
01:26:23.520 I'm not, I'm not making a pity party.
01:26:27.940 I'm just happy to take a breath, man.
01:26:31.160 I'm just happy to take a breath.
01:26:32.880 Happy to be alive.
01:26:36.160 And maybe I do feel like I have to explain myself.
01:26:38.220 I don't know.
01:26:38.860 I mean, you know, I don't, I don't know.
01:26:40.660 I'm just, I don't know what I'm doing, okay?
01:26:42.980 So, you won't come to my house or office, I don't even have an office, but you won't
01:26:48.620 come to whatever and see, like, a board, like a, you know, chalkboard or whatever, with
01:26:54.980 arrows on it or whatever, or, like, you know, it says, you know, secrets or, you know, just
01:27:02.320 like, so, anyway.
01:27:05.240 I don't know what I'm talking about.
01:27:06.400 Who cares, man?
01:27:07.000 I've talked enough, I've wasted enough of your time today.
01:27:09.280 As always, the hotline is 985-664-9503.
01:27:15.540 And, yeah, the holidays, man, you got to think, they're coming up.
01:27:20.760 Let me try this one.
01:27:23.160 Nah, that's, Jesus Christ.
01:27:25.440 I'm going to beat somebody's ass outside of a bed, bath, and beyond if I have to hear that.
01:27:29.540 Let's try this.
01:27:37.000 Okay.
01:27:42.480 It's close.
01:27:43.260 It's a bit much.
01:27:45.860 That's my brother.
01:27:46.740 I can't listen to that anymore.
01:27:49.180 He's trying to get me to go on a cruise, I bet.
01:27:54.280 There we go.
01:28:03.300 A little too slow.
01:28:07.740 Oh, yeah.
01:28:09.500 That's taking a bath by yourself, dude.
01:28:11.240 That's when it gets really crazy.
01:28:12.740 If you're young and you jerk off to that, dude, you obviously wear, like, a nice jacket when you do it, you know.
01:28:20.160 Just remind everybody, be good to yourselves, man.
01:28:48.300 Be good to others, dude, let's do, we'll just keep doing what we can do.
01:28:51.900 I'm excited about the end of the year we have coming up.
01:28:54.360 We will take a week off at some point for no episode.
01:29:00.080 And, yeah, that's all that's going on.
01:29:03.700 And happy Thanksgiving to you, Trevin.
01:29:06.820 You too, brother.
01:29:07.840 Yeah, thank you for being here.
01:29:09.020 Riley Mao, Ben Becker, all of the producers that have helped, Zach Powers, Colin Reiner, Nick Davis, Cameron George.
01:29:20.820 We got a whole gaggle of guys and people who have over the years.
01:29:25.740 Happy Thanksgiving to you guys.
01:29:27.620 And thank you guys for being a part of my life and the support.
01:29:34.640 And you guys be good to yourselves, baby.
01:29:36.180 Gang.
01:29:36.580 And you guys be good to see you guys.