On this week's episode of the podcast, Patrick and Theo talk about what it's like to live in the dairy belt of Wisconsin, and the weird things they do to make it through the day. Plus, they talk about their Halloween costumes.
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00:03:18.900I mean, I feel like my skin just wants to just crawl off of my body and just go hide in a bedside table or in a little secret drawer or secret trap door.
00:03:35.300I mean, my skin is just like, are you really going to carry me around and do something else with me?
00:03:42.160Because I can't handle, I can't handle this.
00:03:46.060We, we, I just got back from Appleton.
00:03:48.780You know, we just got back from Appleton.
00:06:03.780And so, um, and so we can laugh with him.
00:06:06.700And he said, look, I'm going to be, you know, I'm going to be the fattest fella in the, you know, I'm going to be the fattest, uh, the fattest, uh, sugar hole in the enamel.
00:06:18.240You know, I'm going to be the fattest cavity.
00:06:22.240And he was, and he came out with his daddy and his daddy looked, uh, you know, like, um, somebody from, you know, the Hobbit a little bit, kind of a handsome sort of older gentleman, you know, very Midwestern, just a smile on his face.
00:06:39.320He had a built in smile, you know, like somebody was just kind of like, you know, like the Lord was just kind of tickling him under his chin.
00:06:45.840And they came out and they enjoyed themselves.
00:06:50.260And that big fella, he was wearing a bright green.
00:06:52.580Cause if you notice sometime when people get real large, a lot of the colors that they can wear are safety colors, bright orange.
00:07:00.560You know, you'll see some black people, they'll be real large and they'll wear bright orange, you know, or, you know, Shondressha, she'll have bright, bright green.
00:07:09.780And you're like, dang, what size is that?
00:07:11.760And this, this fella was, uh, no, no different.
00:07:16.200He came out and he had, uh, he had the, he had that safety green kind of like emergency kind of green.
00:07:24.400You know, if you, if, you know, if there's like police at night by the side of the road and they have flares and stuff and something bad happened.
00:07:31.080And then also they're wearing green vests, he had that color green.
00:07:35.240Cause when you get past three XL and stuff like that, all the colors they put on your safety.
00:07:41.560Cause I think, you know, it's, uh, cause you're probably a little bit of a, of a health risk.
00:07:46.100I think it's certain, you know, it's certain poundages, but it was good that he came out, man.
00:07:50.660And, you know, it was good that he came out cause everybody enjoyed it, man.
00:07:56.680I, and it was, it started to get chilly.
00:08:06.420They had these dudes, uh, that this kind of like, I don't know if they were fraternity dudes that spit in each other's mouths at like point blank range.
00:08:14.740So they said it was like a, you know, a trick that they did, but I didn't see the real, it didn't seem much, you know, like too much trickery to me.
00:08:25.800It just seemed like a couple of dudes just spitting in each other's mouths.
00:08:29.360You know, it seemed like something, you know, a bit of a dark art you'd find in one of the, in the crevasses of the internet.
00:13:42.120And so, I guess I just realized, like, and it was involuntary by me.
00:13:46.100It was like a territorial type of thing.
00:13:48.600So, when it comes to territory, you know, in the old days, I mean, you'd fight your, you'd fin your territory off.
00:13:54.460You'd protect your ground at all costs and that sort of thing.
00:13:57.080But we're not really having to do that right now in the history of the world.
00:14:00.440And so, so now what you're doing, what I would, apparently where I'm at as far as territoriality is, if I hear somebody clear their throat, you know, then I will, you know, do a body gas in order to kind of set the tone.
00:14:17.400So, but that, that, that's what happened.
00:14:30.280And the breakfast place was in a, the breakfast place was in a, it used to be a funeral parlor.
00:14:37.440And now they got, they got them omelets.
00:14:40.380And now they have omelets and they have, you know, they got all kinds of things you want to have at breakfast.
00:14:50.800Omelets, blueberries, French, French toast, and, you know, pancakes and all that.
00:14:57.940And I was enjoying it, just living it up.
00:14:59.880And, uh, and, and, and, and it's just wild to eat breakfast in a place where the deceased, where they used to have funerals.
00:15:07.140So that was one pretty cool thing that was in Appleton.
00:15:10.420Um, that said, I saw the leaves change in color, you know, mother nature just doing her last, you know, putting on her, you know, some last little fancy evening gowns before the, before winter sets in.
00:15:25.980Um, and I'm trying to think of what else I got into.
00:16:08.420Uh, then I'm going down to, um, I'm going to go have, uh, the holidays with my nieces and nephews for Halloween.
00:16:15.740You know, and get to see them going down to New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
00:16:18.820Speaking of Louisiana, we have, uh, uh, Dustin Poirier will be in the studio, uh, who he will be on this, on the guest episode this week.
00:16:28.500And he is a, he is, uh, the number three fighter, I believe, um, uh, UFC and, uh, and he's from Louisiana and really a, uh, a unique character and an honorable young man.
00:16:45.060And, uh, I'm excited to have somebody from my home state who is doing something much braver than me, man.
00:16:52.440I mean, he, he, he's brave to be a real fighter.
00:16:54.740You know, he can fight with his body, you know, and I'm at it, I'm out of here fighting, you know, I'm out of here going to, uh, self-help therapy and all of that.
00:17:02.800So, but we're all doing our own stuff.
00:17:05.240And so I'm honored to have him in this week.
00:17:07.400He'll be coming in, but y'all be in Phoenix and then I'll be in Buffalo the week after.
00:17:10.860If you have friends in Buffalo, send them out, you know, tell them to come on out and get a little bit of daddy's hitter.
00:17:17.800I was thinking, man, the spirits are all, all the spirits are going to be coming back because of Halloween.
00:17:23.000And that's pretty cool, you know, cause you know, it's wild to think that when you, when your body leaves here, when you die, your spirit is just kind of just milling around kind of like a, like the smoke coming off of a, uh, a cigarette, you know?
00:17:41.720And your spirit is just like, it's like the universe, uh, you know, it's like the, it's just, you know, your spirit is just this warm kind of full body kind of gas that's inside of you.
00:17:57.680And whenever you die, it seeps out of you.
00:18:00.240It comes out, it kind of peels off your skin, you know, cause it's real, real tight.
00:18:06.380Our spirit is real, real tight inside of us.
00:18:08.960And Halloween is that special time when all the spirits get invited to the school dance and they all, everybody comes out, all the spirits and you'll see spirits over in the distance.
00:18:21.020You know, a couple of spirits out back behind the gym, smoking a giant, you'll see, you know, you might have a spirit, uh, you know, touching some, uh, you know, trying to, you know, undo another spirit's brassiere and trying to, uh, grab onto them, those spiritis.
00:18:37.900So you feel me, you have all, you know, you just have spirits being spirity and this, that time of year.
00:18:44.920And so I was thinking about people that I lost that, you know, they had a buddy of mine, little Freddie and little Freddie, he was a manager at a, um, he did, you know, management, supermarket management and assistant management.
00:18:58.560And he, he passed away this year, you know, and he had a, he was a buddy of mine down in Baton Rouge and he had a little mustache.
00:19:07.700And one thing I'll tell you about, uh, little Freddie, man, he loved that mustache.
00:19:28.860A lot of men now do not know how to treat their mustaches.
00:19:33.280You know, you'll see a guy eating yogurt with like kind of a sharp spoon, right, just right up and putting it right up by his mustache.
00:19:42.000Or you'll see somebody, you know, maybe they're doing arts and crafts and cutting, doing some clipping or something, or, you know, uh, doing some scrapbooking with the scissors right by their mustache.
00:19:53.600And they'll cut some mustache hair while they're trying to make a little ornament or something.
00:19:57.820And he, and, but just, just men that don't know how to treat, you know, that front body, that front body, little, that third eyebrow, you know, the mustache.
00:20:13.380And, and Freddie, this, this man, Freddie, he treated his mustache well.
00:20:19.660Dude, he used to do this thing where he would put, he would put like Neosporin, he'd get like a quarter tube of Neosporin and just put it all on it.
00:20:29.080I mean, just look like he had just given a blow job to a damn, uh, uh, uh, Banshee or something.
00:20:37.260You know, look like he just given a blow job to somebody that worked at, um, at, uh, at, uh, Slumberjay or something, or, you know, one of those big oil companies, Petroleum.
00:20:48.180Cause he just, he'd have a whole, just quarter tube of Neosporin just lodged up in that mustache and let that thing soak up at night.
00:20:58.240And then, and then in the morning he'd clean it off.
00:21:00.580And my God, that thing just fucking glistened, boy, it would be hard pressed right up against his face and real slick looking.
00:21:09.600You'd see him in the front yard with a hose washing his mustache.
00:22:15.600And I'm not saying it's all women, but it's become like a fad out here.
00:22:21.760It's become like, and you see a lot of young people.
00:22:25.380I see, you know, a lot of these young girls, I feel like get led into that.
00:22:28.220You know, you, uh, you, uh, you know, they, it's like, I can't even explain it, but it's like, they just are waiting.
00:22:39.500All they're doing, they, the only reason they even want to spend time around a man or even listen to a man is just to call him out whenever he says something just gets ridiculous.
00:22:48.940So it's nice to be in a regular place in America where you could, where I can say, oh, thank you, sweetheart.
00:22:54.960And someone, and, and, and a woman isn't going to berate me because what I listen for, when I talk to people, you know, I listen for the, the, the, the sound of what's in their heart.
00:23:08.760And I, and I hope that they would do the same for me.
00:23:10.880And usually people know, you know, if somebody's being mean or somebody's being nasty or somebody's trying to pull the, just like the deepest whisker that's just tied into your, you know, just tied deep, deep into your nuts, into that nudie, nudie bag.
00:23:30.860And I just try to be nice and it's nice to be in a, it was nice to be in a place where you could just be friendly with somebody without having to get the, the exact, uh, without saying young lady or ma'am or, and just getting looked at like you're a piece of shit just because somebody's so lonely that they have nothing better to do than look at you that way.
00:23:51.540And that's just what you see a lot of out here.
00:23:53.440I felt like in Los Angeles, you know, in LA, it's a lot of people whose dreams aren't coming true.
00:24:46.260We had a conversation about, um, you know, you heard a lot about learning, uh, you know, just hitting lows, but coming back from them and finding your own power.
00:24:57.760Man, it just brought a tear to my eye just listening to that guy.
00:25:01.640He is, his story, I mean, it's just so powerful.
00:25:10.080I think Maurice should go into politics.
00:25:11.840I, you know, I don't know if I've met a man really that I know who has, uh, such an uncanny ability to articulate his emotions.
00:25:20.340Um, but with, and to listen and interact without judgment, you know, he really stays away from judgment and that allows him to see what's going on so much better.
00:25:35.120You know, and we got to talk, it was just fun and we talked about different stuff, you know, I mean, I thought the conversation, I was kind of surprised it got into race, but you know, you never know when that's going to happen.
00:25:46.420And that's okay, but hopefully we'll have, uh, have him back and have, you know, those guys from business and biceps back again in the future.
00:27:51.640And I want to also let any young men out there know that live in the Los Angeles area.
00:27:58.000If there's some experience that you are having trouble with, um, if you are struggling with something and, uh, and would like to be possibly involved in, you know, in, in figuring it out in real time, uh, on this past weekend and doing something in person.
00:28:14.700Maybe, um, hit the hotline 985-664-9503 and let us know about your struggle.
00:28:23.440It can be, it can be anything, anything that's going on in your life.
00:28:27.060If you're feeling, you know, anything that's got you down, something that's, or that's got you, uh, off or something that's got you confused or uncertain.
00:28:35.100Anything, uh, out there if you're living in the Los Angeles area.
00:29:49.800And y'all know that shit is just children running around, you know, throwing fake grenades at each other and eat, you know,
00:29:55.700eating MREs behind the gymnasium and shit and playing with wooden guns and all of that.
00:30:00.560No disrespect, but, you know, fuck it, that's what that shit is, you know, people giving each other buzz cuts and low-key closet homosexuality.
00:30:08.800But the young man that called in, and we'll go back to his call in just a sec, so I'll play his call for you from last week.
00:30:16.820He was uncertain about whether or not he should, um, actually go in the military to appease his family.
00:30:22.700He was unsure about what he wanted to do.
00:30:24.600You can listen to a piece of that right here.
00:30:29.980Um, I'm an Air Force ROTC cadet in college, and I'm trying to figure out this whole life thing.
00:30:35.380Having a hard time pretty much balancing everything and trying to figure out if this, going into the military is exactly what I want to do.
00:30:42.340And now let's get back to this gentleman's, uh, response and suggestion for him.
00:30:47.220I'm just going to say that I was in a similar position when I was at Clemson University.
00:30:52.620I decided to go the National Guard route, but I actually decided not to go to officer, and I went enlisted.
00:30:59.380And to be quite honest with you, I regretted it.
00:31:02.480You know, just like Theo says, if you have the opportunity, you know, go for it.
00:31:08.040Because that's one of those things that's going to be with you for the rest of your life, and, you know, you serve honorably in your country.
00:31:13.600You know, America's a great place, regardless of what people say, you know.
00:31:21.200America is a great place, regardless of what people say.
00:31:24.360And it's a shame that a lot of people have big platforms, and they choose and live in America, and make great money off of it, and choose to speak so ill of it.
00:31:34.040And that kind of stuff breaks my heart, man.
00:31:37.360But, uh, but, but let's finish, uh, this call that's coming in here.
00:31:41.100He's saying, you know, if you can go and get it done, and you are heavily considering it, then maybe it's worth it.
00:31:48.000You know, you will have that time, and it is extremely, I do think it's honorable.
00:31:56.560So, if I could, obviously, that's easy for me to say.
00:31:59.500But, you know, there's something inside of a man, or this man, anyway, that will always feel a little less than for not having served his country.
00:33:30.680But, yeah, we're going to send you all of those responses, Jesse, all 30 or 40 of those that came in.
00:33:35.580So, you will have a vast array of suggestions from different military members and people who have been in and out of ROTC that you can listen to.
00:33:46.400So, but, yeah, I think, you know, whatever you choose, just try and make a choice.
00:33:53.400That way, you're not just living in that gray area because living in the gray can be kind of, I mean, it can feel, you know, kind of eore-ish, if you will, man.
00:34:27.480You know, one of my, sometimes in my dark art brain, I will lay there and think at night that somebody's trying to do some real intricate flooring in there.
00:34:36.540And I make them laugh and they fuck it up.
00:34:38.620So, so then, then I picture somebody walking through their kitchen the next day and one of the tiles is just a little bit off and they're thinking, man, whoever did the flooring in this place fucking sucked.
00:35:38.940That's the thing that I've always been jealous of, my friends who went into the military early, is that they are up and at them every day, achieving their goals for the rest of their life.
00:35:49.280And it would not have been possible without the choices that I made way back when to join the military and the discipline that I got while I was in there and, you know, just all those experiences.
00:35:58.980But just use your heart and your nuts as your guide and you know what you want to do before you ever ask for advice.
00:36:06.020But you can't go wrong with the military.
00:36:08.720Just make sure you read the contract, pick the right jobs, medical jobs are cool.
00:39:01.280I was talking about commitment and how.
00:39:05.000Yeah, I feel like if I commit to something or one of the my feet, one of my fears of the reason why I struggle sometimes.
00:39:11.500With commitment is because if I commit to something, then like my story ends, you know, and I'm locked into like a reality, you know, locked into like a way of life.
00:39:29.360And I never, as a child, I didn't feel comfortable being locked into a way of life.
00:39:36.700Have you considered that, you know, having deep experiences with someone else, whether it's a friend or girlfriend can be.
00:39:46.160A woman, at least, give me that credit, Onward.
00:39:49.720Some of your richest memories, you know, because when I look back on everything, as near and dear to me, it's what, you know, I experience and share with someone else that is really the best memories to me.
00:40:12.300It's almost like something didn't even really happen if it didn't happen with someone else.
00:40:25.940You know, if something happened just to you, it's almost sad.
00:40:32.520You know, it's almost like the world only really, you only really get points in your heart for things that happen involving someone else, you know.
00:41:19.600You know, I think I still have a lot to like kind of, you know, figure out and work on in some of that world.
00:41:24.500You know, because it's funny because recently I've been thinking, man, maybe I'll, you know, just kind of, you know, maybe I'll just be, you know, kind of a loner in that regard for the rest of my life, you know.
00:41:42.420I'm not trying to be melancholy or melancholy, whichever one it is.
00:41:46.320But just that, you know, at a certain point, it's like you just get, it's like I don't want to, I get tired of dealing with that type of, you know, the bother to create connections that I've really struggled to have sometimes.
00:42:00.260And so sometimes it's like, you know, maybe that's not the best use of my time is to spend it trying to figure all of that out sometimes.
00:42:10.640And maybe just, you know, focus on, you know, trying to help others and not, you know, maybe not even think, you know, not worry about my own stuff as much.
00:42:21.900If I find more progress, then maybe I would feel differently.
00:42:26.300But, but yeah, man, look, I appreciate your well wishes, dude.
00:42:32.040And I appreciate you thinking about that kind of stuff with me.
00:42:35.640You know, I think I'm a late bloomer, you know, and I'm kind of still, you know, I'm just kind of still learning.
00:42:43.880I got that tadpole, you know, I got that tadpole in me.
00:42:48.180So I got that baby heart, you know, I got that baby heart.
00:42:52.700But, all right, let's take, let's hit this other call that came in onward.
00:42:56.860Hey, this is Austin Mullen from Owensboro, Kentucky.
00:43:49.080I used to roll my pants up all the way up to my fucking, right by my nuts, man, when I first started smoking.
00:43:55.660You know, just to feel that fucking full body pulse when that nicotine hit my arteries, bro.
00:44:00.200That shit would fire down my legs, dude.
00:44:03.820And you could just feel that blood, just that nicotine just running up and down those fucking, you know, them long, naughty, naughty white stalks.
00:44:13.000You know, them fucking Boo Radley goalposts that I called legs.
00:44:16.960And them pale fucking aficionado, you know, them, them, just them pale parallel bars that I called legs.
00:44:26.580And that nicotine would just hit, just, just race down each one of them.
00:44:32.380You know, like Tony Stewart driving an electrical current, just, and I'd roll my pant legs all the way up.
00:44:40.900You know, just to feel that full fucking body fervor of that nicotine just, God, you could feel it just ride right back up your ass when it came up.
00:44:51.200I don't have any advice, per se, but I just want to say, like, I'm right there with you because, like, I don't know what to do, man, because I feel like I'd have to change who I am as a person when I quit smoking cigarettes.
00:45:04.340And, like, I just don't know if I'm ready for that yet, but I want to quit because they made me feel terrible.
00:46:03.620When you're in, like, more areas that are, you know, don't have as much access, then, yeah, like, you're not going to be doing as much cocaine, maybe, as you would be in New York City.
00:46:13.980Whereas in Owensboro or a smaller town, you know, you might be just, you know, having cigarettes and liquor.
00:46:19.360I don't really know what to do, so I was wondering if you had any concerns or comments or tips on how to not feel that way, like, smoking is part of my lifestyle.
00:46:31.840You know, I think there is something there.
00:46:34.960Like, you know, part of it is it's nice to go relax.
00:46:38.120You know, it's nice to sometimes sit out and have a cigarette and get you that puffy, you know, and play Magic Dragon with yourself out in the front yard, you know, and look and wink at the neighbor's wife and do that kind of shit.
00:46:51.860And, you know, you know, maybe pull your zipper down and flash that cack meat real fast or something and be wild.
00:46:59.960But the problem for me is when I get addicted.
00:47:05.000When I'm then, but then, so then it's like I'm not just enjoying one cigarette.
00:47:09.000Then next thing you know, I've enjoyed two cigarettes.
00:47:11.580And the third cigarette I'm not enjoying.
00:47:15.000And the second one I didn't really enjoy.
00:47:17.620And the second half of the first one I didn't really enjoy.
00:47:20.960So that's when it gets tricky is when it starts to become an addiction because the first half of the first one, yeah, that's me.
00:47:27.740It's kind of my, maybe it's part of an identity in the evening.
00:58:35.740You might want to take yourself to the damn ICU and have them hook that fucking machine up to you, the beep, beep, beep, and see if you got any upsy-daisies in you.