This Past Weekend - E389 Belated Bunny

Episode Date: April 19, 2022

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All right, let's get into it Good day everyone and welcome to another episode of this past weekend What's going on happy belated Easter if you did it if you did Easter man Then you probably know what I'm talking about if you enjoy Easter Mm-hmm Don't let the Lord lick you we're the good Lord what they used to say don't Don't I Don't know what they said, but here we are

Um happy Easter happy belated Easter and let's get into this episode Oh That's a little slow boy that'll make you down kill yourself at a wedding right there that thing sounds a little That's a little slow. I'm sorry. I'm trying to find some Easter soon Easter Easter music And Easter don't have a lot of good music. That's another thing, you know Easter don't have a lot of good music most of it's at church. You got to go to church to hear it Let's try one more here we go Oh

That drum comes in That drum comes in and doesn't even help Yeah, that's a little that's bad when the drum comes in and doesn't even help you know That sound like a little maybe like an elementary school band at a um on the titanic or something like damn You know the second they start up this this band is going down boy Oh, yeah Yeah, you could hear the water I mean you could you could see the water rising outside of the classroom windows right there that thing That's a real sinker's anthem right there. I think

What is it? I'm trying to find it there one more good track for Easter music here. Let me see what I can do for us Try to find one more There we go, baby That's got a little more lift in it. Whenever you're down Out in the cold Faithless and dark Your story's untold Come take my hand and walk there with me

I know a place where we can be free. Let's go, baby. There is a light Shining for you Guiding your way Helping you through In shadows and gloom Are all that you see We'll find a place Where we can be free

Come on now Come on, can't you see you will be free can't you see See Can't you see you will be free and that's a beautiful little tune right there I just found that and that is there is a light by the stone keepers And that band they play some stuff. It seems like uh Uh, something you could wash a baby to really that's what you want. Let's hear them again. It's just instrumental here with this hitter Come on now

Oh, yeah, tuck your junk, baby. Tuck your junk and feel something Hmm, you don't need a bra, ladies. Let the lord hold you tits ladies. Come on And big fellas Come on Hey, you go that's something you could wash a dang baby to right there You could just see the water going over his little back Yeah, that's something you could wash a baby to right there, you know even wash under his thick little arms right there You know just get it up and just damn you just want to just clean that little sucker out get the devil out from under his arms

When I was young they used to tell you that if you stank real bad, I see you got the devil under your arms boy And as a kid you'd smell under your arm. You're like dang something is going on under there I do have something non-well Festering under me You know I do have something uh, you know, I got a little dark arts garden under each pit Under each flapper under each lifter under each arm What's going on? Yeah, I hope you had a beautiful Easter time. I had a nice time myself. I hope you were uh

You know, wherever this this um episode finds you today if you're in your car if you're sitting at home, maybe Having your little soup or something You know, maybe on a lunch break And you got a sandwich And some people look some people cut their sandwiches And that that that's me. I cut my sandwich up You know, I do the four cut Some people do their sandwich. They don't do any cut that is bite into it just blindly

just no There's not a real game playing. It's very Very Those people that's a real question mark fella right there or strong woman Somebody who don't they're the sandwich it is but it's more of that attack dog style, you know her I'm just gonna get in that bitch get in there But I like that more that one that's been more dissected You know, you always knew how much somebody mom loved them when they were a kid if they if that sandwich had been really

Clipped up You know and sometimes you know, yeah, because your mom your mom if you if your mom really loves you cut that thing You know nice and And then you had them, you know Them regular boys out there and they eat that bitches, you know That thing look there's no plan to get into that thing That sandwich looks like it doesn't even want you to get into it. Sometimes if you look at it that way And that's certainly when I was yeah when I was young I had that kind of thing was

That thing was uh Didn't have a lot of entry points on it a lot of those sandwiches we had What's going on man, uh Yeah, there's always that person at lunch that pulls that bad bastard out You like damn boy this dude This dude was going through some stuff That sandwich doesn't have anything going on with it

And sometimes some people's mom would cut the heart in the middle be like damn They must be rich, bro If somebody had that heart cut in that sense like they must be rich And sometimes they were that's like that that's the real kicker. They are sometimes they were um Yeah, happy belated easter man. Hope everybody had a nice time. I hope everybody got to at least sit and spend time with the love one You know got to be around somebody that they cared about and And uh do something joyous

I went down to louisiana Which is a beautiful place down there, man It's a slower place You get down to louisiana man a half hour will take 45 minutes I ain't nobody in a rush to get through that. Yeah Somebody start a sentence at 11 a.m. And finish it up at about 12 20 like damn Dang boy, mr. Eddie really got a gift of gab they say But it's a real you know, it's just a slow going

You see somebody start yawning somebody start yawning about 4 15 in the afternoon and they won't stop till about five Just that's it's a slow pace It's just that you know, it's that kind of place. Um Things take time And people even a hug takes time you hug somebody thing on last a minute or two you could Take a small nap if you want You know, you hug somebody it's just people there's not as much of a hurry There's a little more patience. There's a little more peace

Dossility You know, there's something nice about that There's something nice about the relaxation of it and it's sweaty too down there though You get down in the louisiana you get down into some of these rural areas, baby, you know what I'm talking about a sweat He is can be Sometimes it's hard to hug some people now If they look thick or if they got a little bit of oil in their skin or you know Or if they too small you can't even get a hug on somebody if they real bony right now, I can't

You can't it's impossible Mitchell you can't really get a good snatch on them Because everybody's sweating down there people so sweaty You know, you see people try to shake hands they 20 times a hand slide right off Can't even somebody put a watch on it can't get it on down Because of the sweat pouring out of people You know, there's just a lot going on down there, but we had a nice time We had a real nice time man

It was uh What was it? It was You know when I was in high school. I went and lived with a different family and The fellow that raised me that man her who was part of my life. He turned 80 years old And he getting older baby now So we went down there and had his birthday and I was really nice and then uh Went over to my brother's house for Easter And they had some good food over there baby

What they have they had um They had um Them little uh wiener Blah uh It's like wiener blanket at uh It's not like a it it's like a little wiener blanket uh

It looked like a piece of bread put a rear naked choke on a damn uh little wiener You know what i'm talking about it's look like um Yeah, it's like uh You know what i'm talking about it's just like a little It's like a little wiener is wearing a little uh french bread as like a cape I don't know what it's called But they had a whole little stack of images and I got in there And they had those finger sandwiches somebody brought a tray at him

And I cracked in at him and some of those You know the meat the the the the the more the afternoon goes on that meat gets a little hard And that's kind of when you find out who you are as a man I think is uh The later in the afternoon you're willing to eat a finger sandwich Because you see some dudes get real dicey with it too some guys will only roll in later in the day 5 p.m. Or something around sundown and it was a 1 p.m. Party And them bitches it gets real hard on the outside On those little fingers sound a little bit of ham on that bastard

You know a little bit of ruts beef somebody just And some men they go tongue first into that bit some of those older men that shit is like damn, bro Y'all need to lock that man up Or at least go through his hard drive that dude is on to see he's been doing you know that guy's got something going on in him Because his tongue is out here. He's out here tongue first into the world looking for something But if you see somebody go tongue first into the hard side of a finger sandwich Dear god, baby lock them up. That's what I say

Lock them up. Um But yeah, we had a nice time and we had a really nice time. Uh, what else do we do? Um, I'll tell you I'll tell you I wanted I got some new tour dates. I want to tell you too. So don't forget I'm excited to let you know. Uh, we got an extra show added in los angeles on may 7th That's coming up over there at the will turn And then we got albuquerque new uh new mexico And that's may 18th may 19th in midland may 20 in lubeck, texas In may 21 dallas texas. We've added another show there

So get your friend or somebody get somebody you love and bring them grab somebody by the hand and say hey, babe We're gonna go get involved in something good We also have savannah georgia june 2nd augusta Georgia june 3rd and montgomery alabama june 4 as well as columbus georgia june 5 Uh, and some uh, those are all available thio von.com slash tour And some new dates down in florida We are we have june 23rd in hollywood florida june 24

fort meyers florida down there military area. I'm guessing And june 25 over in datona beach florida If you come over there bring them sunburnt titties out with you And bring that skin cancer with you, baby in datona Everybody out there smoking on them door aisles and huffing on winstons You'll see a newborn come out and he got his uh He'll have a little lighter in his hand hunting a door owl That's datona beach florida june 2 5 june 2 6 down there in lakeland florida

And those florida tickets are available first to patreon On tuesday april 19th Um, and they'll we'll send you the code on patreon and then the uh my presale starts wednesday april 20th And that code is rat king at 10 a.m. Locally you can get those um And that starts on wednesday so Yeah, as well. We have uh, we've got some new stuff We got the bobble heads on sale and the gang gang hoodies are out now as well

And you can find all those online And just thank everybody for the support You know, uh, and thank you for supporting this podcast and being patient with this podcast And just being a part of of this group um Yeah, i'll get back into a little bit more about easter You know, I went and spent some time with my family and uh, and we really enjoyed ourselves But I also want to get into the news a little bit the news right here

um a man a man an adult male Told his employer not to celebrate his birthday And uh, he was awarded $450,000 after he received an unwanted party And that's where we are folks. It says a kentucky man with anxiety disorder Asked his employer not to celebrate his birthday because it would trigger a panic attack. Damn, bro

Damn and now he could have had a rocky birth. That's the thing you get you don't know And sometimes you do know when you shake somebody's hand you look in the eye You can see all the way back to the womb, baby Straight back to that mom hole and you can see that they really struggled on the way out Some babies they come out that bitch fat They they don't want it, you know, it's been a tough time. It's been a long nine months. They did They've been in there a Shaw shanked out, baby. They couldn't handle it inside of their mom Because sometimes you don't know what's going on in the womb

Because the others, you know, we see the the the the human side But the backside of the womb that's the lord's that's you know That's the lord's lobby dog. That's that bts. We don't know what's going on in there So that baby could have been in there, you know, it could have been caged up Could have been they could have had ms 13 back in there They could have had a couple brothers in there shanking out doing dice You don't know what it's been like in there. It could have been a, you know Some vatos running a fake church, you know, you don't know what the backside

Of the womb has been like for a baby What the lord's side has been Because that sonogram that just picks up You know, that's just it picks up the earth side So damn, bro, you know, you know, so some babies they come right out that bitch And they don't want to be in the world really and sometimes you see a man and so when he That birthday just brings all that back. It triggers it You know when some people these days they got a lot of fire bitches out there. They can't handle seeing a little bit of fire

So you put more than four candles on a on a sugar treat. They fucking They lose their edge, you know So maybe that's what happened. I don't know it says um Anxiety disorder man asked his employer not to celebrate his birthday and would trigger panic When the company when the company ignored kevin burling's request And at a surprise lunchtime celebration, he got upset had a panic attack and left work

Now this the part if you panic in that much, I don't know if you could where you drive off or do you walk off? If he walked off, I believe it But if you really panicked out you can't operate a damn dodge neon or not, you know, you can't If you really shook, I don't know, you know, it's hard to really I wouldn't get into a motor vehicle A day after the celebration burling Was called into a meeting where he was confronted and criticized for his reaction Damn, they probably lit him up. You can't you can't handle this birthday kevin. Uh, uh kevin You can't handle a surprise party son

This confrontation triggered another panic attack the lawsuit said he was fired days later damper Uh, uh burling sued alleging disability discrimination and retaliation on march 31 a jury awarded him 450 grand He suffered an adverse employment action because of his anxiety disability. Damn That's where we are people people can't handle a surprise party People can't handle a surprise And I I think I look I got a side with the company here, man I got a side with the company because mr. Burling if you it's your birthday, man, you were the one that was born, bro Okay

So These people are trying to honor that's what they do at an office if there's a kitchen With a table in it at a business Then the only thing people do in there is use the microwave Or do surprise cakes for other people in the office, man You got to know that shit If you even go there to work

You got to know that people want to they want to And it's not even about you. It's about the other people at work. They want a 12 minute break To have some bad cake from albertson's Okay, they want to have an extra 11 or 8 minutes during one day of the week To surprise they probably don't even know your name mr. Burling So it's really a chance for you to kind of show out So when you I think when you go into a group setting and you say look, I don't want to do the thing that y'all do And then they do it and you go to the car with the panic attack, man

It's your birthday. You were born, bro I think you got to come to term. I think you got to talk to your mother about it Or you got to talk to somebody about it Because if they candle you up and get that sugar That's a that that that's all it is man. Yeah, can you even imagine where kevin's like don't throw me apart? Look guys, don't throw me a party Okay I mean it guys do if somebody

Buddy secretly comes around the corner With the cake for any reason I'm out of here Like what happened to him that he can't handle like what kind of trauma happened to him I just I don't understand how you can't handle a dessert And ta-da at the same time. I just don't I don't get it. I don't get it, but that's where we are But that's where we are And a day after the celebration

Burling was called into a meeting where he was confronted and criticized Hey, bro We was trying to surprise you And he couldn't take it man and he triggered another panic attack That's the fun it's like is it just panic attack or are you just upset maybe that's another thing We've gotten into a place where even if you're just a little upset people call it a panic attack So damn, but he got that 450 grand Watch him throw himself a huge birthday party now too

Watch kevin burling go hard, bro Dang he suffered adverse employment action. You can sue for anything now Imagine suing because people wanted to show you love on your birthday Maybe he hated those people Maybe he hated working there I bet that's what it was Because if you hate working somewhere Then when those people are celebrating or trying to get a little bit of a 12 minute break because of your life

Because you were born You're gonna say no no we shutting it down. I bet that's what happened. Damn boy But everybody knows his name now kevin burling's got 450k on him. So Somebody gonna surprise that dude with a weapon or something. I mean, that's a lot of money What else we got in the news michigan kinder gartner Michigan kinder gartner brings Jose Cuervo margaritas to snack time made students woozy That's michigan, bro. Have you been to michigan? That's michigan, dude

That's mixed that's mexican michigan really that's all they're doing A kindergarten class accidentally consumed tequila during snack time One of the kids bought a bottle of ready-to-drink. Jose Cuervo margaritas to grand river academy So, you know if academy is in and it's rich children in her backpack. She brought it rich Several students drank it bro thoughts probably one kinder gartner felt woozy and a little dizzy Some a little lightweight after having four or five sips from a dixie cup this sounds like a This sounds like a morgan walling concert. Are they what was going on here? But

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th e o to receive your first month for free. All right. Um Yeah, Easter came through, you know, and uh And jesus came back You know, he's that real I mean, he's the hide-and-go-seek champ really When you think about it Um And I really like Easter

You know, I like the tradition. I like you go and you see you get you a little cut of ham on the plate And get you a ham medallion or whatever they got over there Your cut some people do it different Some people cut the ham into Easter shape or something you might get a little rabbit ear Of ham or you might get you a little You know, some of them some of you'll cut A piece of ham even into like a little chickadee You're like damn, it's a chicken and ham

You know, but it's really just ham Um And I like a lot of the traditions that come along, you know, I like Easter I like seeing the different colors and you drive by a church and there's some kids out there And you know a couple of kids sometimes for their brothers. They're fighting one. I'm punching the other one But still they look nice You know the girls have their little dresses on and they're You know, the mom is talking to somebody and saying bye

We had a nice time and the girls are sitting there just hanging on her dress. They're all ready to go back to the house You know, I just like driving but I like just seeing things like that I like going to a service and people are singing and But I like the tradition of it, man And I like the fact that Jesus comes back. I like the fact that he somebody shows back up to check on you Yeah, Jesus is like that bookmark in time You know, he's that recur. He's that

That You know, he shows back up. He's hey, I haven't forgot about you Hey, I haven't forgot about you. You know, I like that I like that, man Because time is just Time has no Feeling You know, I mean time is sometimes so it's so painful

Because it doesn't time don't stop for nothing Time don't stop for nothing Not a birth not a death not a uh Surprise part time not a car crash not a fire not a Time don't stop for nothing You know how cold you got to be to not stop for nothing You got to be as cold as can be You got to have the north pole in your nuts. You got to have a damn polar bear

Living in your heart And that's time man Time just keeps going Going And so I that's why I like traditions. I like things that are like little things that give you Just little bookmarks And I like that Jesus pops back and he said hey, I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna be I'll be back, you know I'll you know, I'm still here

I Like that He's like the terminator You know, he's like this one thing that says hey time. I'm gonna He's almost like this little bit of like a trump card for time He's like, all right time. I see you but Just know that I got my own superpowers and I can cut, you know I can come back and change the game

So that's one thing that I find real inspiring about the about the Easter story is that there's some It's it provides some comfort because time is not uh Time is uh, I mean time don't even stop to tie its shoe. It don't even know if it has shoes on It don't know if it's in sandals or boots if or if it even has legs Time don't even stop to look down to see what it's rolling on If it's on damn wooden wheels or 24s or Or ankles it does it doesn't it just keeps going

You know, it's just like a just a It's just like a just a Thoughtless wind But we need it And that's why I like the Easter story. That's why I like, uh, Jesus Christo popping back through and saying hey Just letting y'all know when I when I'm ready to come back and do my magic I'm gonna come back and do my magic, you know, it's nice that somebody pops in It's like when you're playing and you're a kid and somebody sticks her head in the door and it's like hey

Letting y'all know I'm here So I like that, you know, I like that every year somebody rolls back through and says hey time I see you doing your thing but just letting you know I can do mine as well And that's a beautiful story there um And our family is I don't know what religion we were growing up. I don't know we

I don't know. I mean we live close to a church. We were six Baptist or something. I think our seventh Baptist I don't we live right by a church And somebody definitely am I saying got molested but Somebody you know somebody in our family probably got molested So we're whatever religion that is baby, you know what I'm saying and uh And yeah, I like traditions. I like traditions because the more we lose traditions. Um, the more we lose Contact with uh Our forefathers and stuff

It really is, you know, and I know some people are like well, a lot of traditions are just business Uh, right, but it's not about that really it's about the fact that you celebrate something that someone else celebrated that you You try and tell like this relentless thing this Time that doesn't even get You know time doesn't even give it gives you life, but you're like it's so It's so hard to really make an imprint in time. It's almost impossible

But for me, I feel like small things like traditions and celebrating certain things every year It's a little bit like saying, uh I'm gonna try to put my stake in the ground here. Yeah, I don't remember what religion we were, man, uh Growing or what? Denomination, um But I remember one Christmas somebody Had driven through a fence in our area somebody had a fence And somebody had driven through it

because people You know get jealous and shed and drunk and like all this motherfuckers got a fence You know and somebody drove through that bitch and um And so they I went over there one time and was hanging out with one of the kids over there And we started making stuff out of wood And I made my sister this um Like a thing to keep her dolls in or something that's probably about maybe 11

So then I remember I'm walking home one night and I passed this family's house They had they had a rental home right on the corner And this man that lived there was Elvis impersonator And he had four children, I think and they all stayed in the yard and wore like I think they were Pentecostal. They wore Clothes all the way down past their feet. I mean it looked like there was just look like they were sleeping bags with heads, you know the whole family And uh, the daddy was in the garage making one of the children a shirt out of wood Um, and he was alcoholic And I went in there and I remember and

Tried to help him put that together for his son for Christmas And his son used to vomit on the bus And I don't even know if you ever got an education. I don't know what the hell class even went to. I just remember The only thing I remember about the kid is that he had uh He was losing his hair at a young age and then they used to vomit on the bus He was basically like a 50 year old man like and he was almost like an older alcoholic the kid, but he was just a kid All right, let's get into a few questions and stuff that came here As always the hotline is nine eight five six six four nine five zero three

Um, if you're having trouble with something or you're struggling with something feel free to hit the hotline Uh, if you have a question if you have a response or a reply or a replication about something on the show Uh, feel free to hit it. You know, it's uh, it's an open air wave gang What's up CEO it's michael, uh I don't know if you remember me or not, but I called a little over a year ago on the spill the dunce build the dunce

Thank you for calling michael from the spill the dunce. I'd have to go back and check that out man But I appreciate you calling brother homeward I just relapsed and uh, you called me back then and talked with Kind of lifted my spirits up And uh, I'm sorry. I'm out of breath. I'm at work, but uh, so anyway

It's been a little over a year now and uh I'm still clean No relapses I'm happy and I've I've ever been everything's good. So I just wanted to give you an update and let you know everything is good and I think a lot of it has to do with That you calling me that day It meant the world to me and I just wanted you to know that you're a good dude, man Well, thanks bro. I appreciate the nice message man. Um

You know, that's sweet of you to say man, uh You know, I think it's a lot of that goes to you For just taking care of yourself. It's tough and to try something new and try something different. It's tough and um Yeah, and thank you for just reaching out and saying the nice words, you know, I'm happy for you You sound uh good And that's nice. That's a nice way to sound brother. Amen Let's hit another call or two that came in

um Here we go this one actually this is kind of in the same vein Hey, my name is robert I just wanted to want to call in say hey, let's know I appreciate you man. I've been listening to you for the last last few years and Honestly, I don't know why I'm really know why I'm calling Thanks for calling robert and that's long for robbie people say robbie or rob bob Uh robo they call him sometime Uh robert

I think it's french actually robert robert Somebody that's roberting. It's not a verb onward um I think you're really relatable As far as human being the human being so I wanted to get your opinion uh

kind of on my first real stint of sobriety right now and I'm about to come up on my 90 day mark And the first part was really easy even now. I'm starting to have these conversations in my head Where I'm negotiating with myself, you know, maybe I'm not an alcoholic I'm trying to work through my stress and stuff and I'm getting closer and closer to talking to myself and reaching for the bottle again I just wanted to get your opinion and see if there's anything that can really be Thanks for the call man, um

Yeah, I think you're you what you're expressing is what a lot of people express if they are about to um Go out of their program, you know and not uh Be sober so It's a risk. It's a it's a tough. It's a risky place to be in Because yeah, there will be things that will call you back into the world. It's happened to me many times, you know

I'm just recommitting myself now to my program and um I just hit a meeting this morning uh And there's a lot of old people in this meeting and some of them like start falling asleep and like One guy I think was in the war. I guess I don't even know what war It could have been but he'll like And other guys are just old so they just have sounds kind of come out of them, you know like

You know like some of them and then uh Uh, you know old people sometimes like like a gas will just come out of their arm, you know, they just their body's just kind of You know, it's like a hot spring kind of almost at a certain point where they're just little You know, they'll move their elbow and it'll just like a get like a not like a An exhaust or it just their fault, you know, it's just a lot of old people are making all these sounds around me It sounds there's a lot of sounds in there um

But anyway, yeah, I just was just thinking about that but um Yeah, look the only thoughts I have or is this it's really tough to recommit yourself once you start going down that slope You know, um You know, I've tried a lot of different things over time Uh, thinking that I didn't have some sort of problem or not knowing what my problem or not knowing what my Not problem, but difficulty was uh so

I mean, it's all your own choice you know, nobody can tell you what to do but It's definitely you're I've seen the crossroads a bunch and I've been there myself where you kind of lean in or you're leaning out um You know, but I applaud you on 90 days brother. Congratulations, man. That's awesome. And I just wish you the best whatever you're doing You know and nobody knows if you are an alcoholic or if you have the that thing or some Form of it is set for you. You're the only one that knows You know

So Love you, baby. Take care of yourself brother gang um What else we had some other good calls that came in here, uh, oh Yeah, let's hit this one Hey Theo, this is brendon, uh out of new hampshire by way of boston and um, I was just calling in because I feel I really can relate Some of your family troubles, man. Like

So you've been talking about your mom Um I have a similar issue with my mom. I uh, you know, I'm not going to get into it because it's not pretty but Sometimes your your trust goes away and um, my dad was he was never really, you know In the scene he was doing his own thing. He's like he's a hyper intelligent in individual and um, he wasn't there for me, but I have my My my trust broken from my mom made me feel like I had no one really so I looked up to my older brother

And um, I was just wondering, you know Is forgiveness in us because I try to forgive so much but then oftentimes I dwell on you know, why Why are they wronged me and this goes for my brother my dad my mom? Yeah, this is a good call man. I appreciate it. Uh, thank you for calling and um, It's funny. This is kind of right where I am. You know, I was during the holiday during Easter I got to see my mother and see my brother and um, my mother's gonna be moving to Arizona and uh You know, this may have been the last time I get to see her in

Um in Louisiana You know and uh, and she's moving to Tucson, Arizona um And she also oh she trying to get a weapon too So if anybody does tactical sales or tactical training out there that can help like a older woman do it um hit up the producer email because we got to get mom, uh We got to get that thing on you know

So, um And she had to be a piece that she could handle, you know, so uh, that would be awesome if somebody could could um You know help help with that. It'd be cool. Um Yeah, uh It's tough because it's like, yeah, how do how long do I hold a grudge? You know And then Because at a certain point your parents are just getting older and you're missing out on whatever there is There is there

Um And yeah, I think I I believe And it's one of the reasons why i'm trying to recommit myself to my program is because I believe that forgiveness is the only Answer I believe that Letting go of whatever that hurt is You know, sometimes I felt so hurt as a kid I felt the I hold on to that hurt because sometimes it's the only relationship I had

with my mother was, uh That I was angry at her You know and it's all I had it's all it's the only thing that I had so it was like so hard to let it go It's been hard to let it go Because the only thing that I had Uh Was my anger Or my uncomfort or my pain it was so hard to let it go

So it's like a blanket, you know, it's a It's like I know this isn't good for me, but somehow it keeps me warm a little You know the only thing I had we know when I was young and I'm not Talking about self pity here or anything like that. I'm just I'm trying to really examine this like Why we hold on to those things? Because yeah, all I all I for a long time all I had was my just my anger And my I was wronged my that that you know, it's somebody's all I had was that and when you have that from a young age with a parent it's Um

That's past like it's not even you holding on to it as a conscious adult. It's this fucking It's this inner child that's got this claws on him. You know, he got them grips them mitts, baby And so it's hard to let go of some of that Um, but I just I just believe that the only way to do it the only way to really get free is to have some forgiveness, you know And uh people do the best they can You know, I saw my mother this weekend and uh And all any of us are is just kids that are just getting older

You know and just trying our best in the world Um And sometimes it takes time you can't really force it, you know, but Uh, but I think we can get into practices that help us get closer to forgiveness and um And that's where I want to be Because at a certain point I'm tired of Of uh Of the grudges I'm even if I'm not the one making them even if they're from a young

I've got to talk to myself or have a relationship enough with my heart That's like hey trust me enough to walk us through this And with my higher power To say hey god help me get help me walk through this You know help me You know, I have felt unloved or I have felt wronged or I have felt this help me Try again Try again to give this person a chance to love me because if not

I miss out twice I miss out as a child When I didn't wasn't able to make a choice when I when when When I had it was all survival instincts that I had to to operate from Um, but I miss out as an adult when I am able to make a choice And uh And as hard as it is I don't want to miss out on getting to love my mother twice

You know, um And I don't know if that makes a ton of sense or not and I don't even know if I care if it does Uh You know, it's been for me. It's been a long journey with this kind of stuff and and trying to navigate it and and that's okay You know, um That's okay, so but I wish you well there brother and uh And just know that there's other people out there that are on this journey with you in some ways It could be a mother. It could be a father. It could be could be a sibling

And it could be ourselves Sometimes a lot of it for me is about forgiving Myself You know when you are A lot as children you think it's your fault, you you know, you take some risk But you take so much responsibility for yourself that if something isn't right then of course, it's on me. It's on me Um But if stuff's on you for so long, it's on me. It's on me. It's on me

You can handle that for a while, but I think at a certain point you're right. It's all on you And it's just you and it gets kind of lonesome, you know And I'm not saying that in a self-pity way. I'm just saying that and like You know, I want my life to be filled with other people and um And so that's hopefully that is a direction that I can uh head in you know with the help of others and with the help of a higher power You know, I've been there before and uh Uh

And I think I can be there again But gang gang baby take care of yourself. Oh, yeah, and I got this new gang gang hitter right here too There's a baby blue and it's a large And the large one's a little big on this one so I don't know if I'd go medium. I feel good in here Uh I feel like somebody should have washed under this baby's arms though. That's for damn sure

And if you can't get well brother, you can always get you one of them weighted blankets If you can't get well, you could always get you a weighted blanket Because that's like that's one thing I know to some people they you got that you know They get that weighted blanket. They got a feel And I'm one of those people shit. I don't know what I'm talking about. I like to get that little hmm Make me feel like a little peanut Just tidy me up

I always want to be wrapped up and you know Smothered covered chunked baby put me like that I want to I want them covers right up to my neck. I want it all I got to be tight tight That's how I like to be You know, but I had a friend that was visiting recently and they're like, oh, yeah the weighted blanket She said the weighted blanket in your guest room is great

I said, I didn't know I had a damn weighted blanket in there and uh And that's where I guess, you know, maybe we're all headed that way I think the word we there's so much anxiety in the world now everybody's gonna have a weighted blanket weighted hat You see somebody in a damn weighted hat, but it can't even walk I'm just trying to get to work My nephew got me this heavy one, you know, and it do just trudging along barely He's nine minutes late to work over there

at amazon It's up, you know, everybody get everything weighted gloves. You can't even shake a hand anymore, but you don't know no anxiety People can have a scene they're gonna have a service friend That's what that's what I'll probably be I'll be that emotional support friend I'll be that emotional support friend. I won't be the friend that the the chicks bang That dude will come in. He'll be that real hit man. Probably a little vato or something or a brother, you know somebody with some tats and uh, you know, maybe a blade on them but um

I'll be that emotional support friend that kind of comes in and just kind of chats with you while you're making dinner, you know That's what I'll be But that it's getting weird in the world You know or is it are we just getting separate? I don't know what it's getting But the shit's got me curious And I hope elon buys twitter dude. That's what I hope and sinks that shit hole Because those people have fucked with free speech more than anybody in the entire world And I hope somebody shuts that shit down

I don't know how we ever got into some of this situation. I do not know but I I do man. I hope elon buys twitter and uh Uh, untweets that hole in business. That's what I hope Better help is customized online therapy that offers video phone and even live chat sessions with your therapist So you don't have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to It's much more affordable than in-person therapy Give it a try and see if online therapy can help lower your stress. That's right Better help if you are in need of someone to talk to or be with you don't want to be alone

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You know in a lot of media it's all owned by the same couple of organizations and types of people and um And you're not you're not allowed to say certain things You know, I know on twitter they shut down Certain political views and political uh stories. They won't even let them be shared on there Uh, whereas other ones they will You know certain schools of thought and and ideas they won't allow And others they will And it's a dump

It's a dump and it's just about power and control um And people are sick of it people are I mean it's literally making people sick You know you take away somebody's voice and it uh Uh for some of it it's all it's the only thing you have that's yours You know and I've been a victim of it or not a I've been a I've been a contributor of it myself and being afraid to even say what I really want to say sometimes Being afraid to speak up for myself afraid that I won't be able to That I lose my ability to even have a job or have a space

You know um and that's scary I mean that is uh It's fucked up So any chance I see where somebody Who wants to even the score a little bit? Is trying to make that happen I like that because you put so much pressure on You make things so unfair for so long

I just don't think it's gonna end well and Um And I don't know what exactly that means but But damn I mean you're gonna see you know if people can't speak at a certain point they're gonna They're gonna fight for their voice I think Um So more power to them

You know I think uh Twitter's long been a shit hole It's long been a shit hole And so I hope Elon flushes it Uh what else here man a lot of great calls that have come in you know and I hate to not be able to get to all of them Uh

Let's take another Call Do you want what dude? Yeah, it's branded out of amarillo Brandon baby out of amarillo That's a spanish animal, baby And that's a good place down there. I think I've never been onward Getting excited to see that uh that dallas show boy

Man, really excited you're coming down here to texas. Just wanted to call. Let you know who's listening out here Man, I'm a commercial painter out here. You talking to my earbuds every day, dude Gives me through the day keeps my mind out of the out of the dark arts. You feel me, but uh, Man, just appreciate everything getting excited to see it Gang baby. Thanks, brandon. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that too down there in dallas at the wind spear and it's a beautiful venue Uh, what else do we have to say here? What else is going on? Gang gang. Hey Theo, what's up, man? Uh Just getting ready to do a little pre pre-easter egg hunt with the kids to them

Uh single dad, so I don't get to have them every weekend. But anyways, I was just wanted to ask you and your listeners like uh What are some things that they did uh, your parents? Melodies did for Easter, but we always uh hit eggs and you find them some have chocolate some have I guess other things but um A big thing I guess in Asian culture, Thai culture, we had uh Our parents hired money in the plastic age, so some of them would have pennies I think one of them I found had a ten dollar bill which Actually was cold when you were late, you know

or Oh, yeah, baby. That's beautiful And y'all did it and y'all Thai You guys are Thai because you sound white. You shocked everybody when you tied us when you tied out there um Yeah, what did we do? You know, my mother would make Easter baskets You know and hide them Um

And what else will we do we probably had to clean usually my My mom made us clean a lot, so I didn't mind cleaning because you get the fumes baby. I put those you get those fumes going in the bathroom I'd be in there pouring bleach I'd pour bleach in the toilet and stir it with that uh cleaner thing a little cleaner stick and just Just get that hit, baby That hot bowl hit son

Get that Easter that freaking resurrection, bro right up in my lungs, baby Let the Lord show up in your lungs So yeah, I think we would clean on Easter And we would probably just play spend time with our neighbors You know people would burn stuff in the ditch around then because it was spring cleaning So you'd see a lot of ditch fires and we would uh After the fires would down down, you know go down a lot of us would get wet and get out in there and

Get the ash on ourselves do ash Wednesday ash Thursday ash Sunday ash Tuesday We'd be out there damn ashed out, you know I mean we'd look you almost look black to a lot of people some some I remember a black mother in neighborhood Told us to fucking get in the house. We're like, we're not even your kids So we'd get all done, you know, we just party with whatever was in the ditch usually Because springtime people did spring cleaning people throw stuff in the ditch and then burn it So you either get a pile of ash or you get stuff that wouldn't burn yet Get you half a shif a robe or something

Get that bitch going, you know, you sit out there and play office or you know, get you half a desk or something You play a doctor or You know, uh Uh Uh Playing parent who you do play different games out there business games But we enjoyed it man. We really enjoyed it and I'm glad the Thai people you guys did it too I don't know what you guys were up to on Easter. You know, I know you guys like to chop up those eggs and put them in the uh

Um That shrimp stir fry and I like that. Thank you for that One of my favorite things about Asian culture is how they chop that egg up and sneak it in a meal They'll sneak that bitch in anything son That's Easter all the time when you're Asian. They hide egg in anything they'll hide egg in any damn meal It'll be june or it'll be august and you'll find egg and something That's beautiful

Uh, let's get one more call here What up the uh, it's murph from Marigato, Ohio What's up murph out there in Ohio? And we're happy you're alive baby gang Just wanted to call in listen to bird neck and And your eye off the talk man. It's dopest buck because It really resonates with me. I had issues with my mom and

She's an addict and People don't really understand how that disconnects you from modern-day adulthood, but Hey, man shout out. You're doing big things. You're helping people to hear it from someone like you is very humbling and Feels cool, man. I appreciate you later dog

Oh gang bro. Thank you for the nice words, man. You know, I'm sorry a lot of these calls are about me. I guess today uh And I'm sorry that your mother suffers from addiction, man. Oh You know that breaks it breaks my heart honestly, um It's just so powerful. It's so powerful people don't know People don't know And when you do struggle from it the pain that an addict feels That they can't love somebody that they have trouble. Love it that they have trouble connecting. I mean

I don't know what's the tougher side of the coin To be the one that doesn't get the connection to be the one that can't even give it You know, there's just there's some break in how we're doing things there's some disconnect that we don't see overall We're missing something as a specie and uh And I'm sorry. I'm sorry that your mother dealt has dealt with that and that you've had to deal with that man I bet you're an awesome guy and uh awesome son. And yeah, we'll just keep it going. How about that gang?

All right, let's hit one more here. And thank you guys. There's always a hotline nine eight five six six four nine five zero three Apo it's actually from albany, george. Uh, just had a quick hey, ashley and I used to date him my first girl uh first girlfriend named ashley actually and um and it was a woman and uh Beautiful gal sweet gal and uh, anyway, you're a man and I'm happy you're here too as well, brother gang baby onward question for you My assistant at work has been taking really long bathroom breaks

Dude goes like maybe three times a day for like an hour in a time I mean it but I had the time at work. Uh, it seems like he's In the in the toilet, but uh, I just was wondering. Uh, what should I say? Should I say something to him or I don't know. It's just kind of weird and I just thought your tape would be good on it All right. Anyway, love uh, love the show and I just gang baby. Thank you. I didn't mean to cut you off, dude, but uh But I did on accident or not even if I did it on accident, but um Um, yeah, bro. First of all, obviously this could be kevin burling dog. Okay. This could be kevin burling in there He got that surprise party in his bottom, bro

You know what I'm saying? He got that ta-da In his colon dog. He can't might not be able to handle the work environment And this is the kind of employees you get these days. Some guys they come they clock in they shit You have a dude at work for six hours. He's shitting for four hours, bro And you gotta pay him and then he wants uh child support You're like child support. He's like, yeah, I'm dropping these kids off at the pool, son And he'll take it a damn court. That's kevin burling dog This is the this is the issue with the this is the issue with today, man

You can't even find somebody that wants to show up and do work People pay want you to pay them the shit That's the world we live in People saying hey, give me 30 dollars an hour, bro. I'll open my ass up over at your office. You're like, what? And they want our medical They want medical when dental They want dental, bro And all they doing is shitting

They want dental, bro If all you doing at work is doing booty and you want dental, bro. That's messed up and you know it is It just I don't know when it ends man, and I don't know how you handle it You can't say nothing. They'll sue you Say they won't let you won't let them do bowels at work You won't let them have a bm a natural bm at work You'll be on their bm suppressor they call you or that booty oppressor They saying you caging up their bowels

You know They out there faking Crohn's disease and doing all of that. It's just It's hard to be an employer these days Because people want you to pay them the shit You hear me people want you to pay them To shit man And some of it is because of this Japanese stuff the only fans They got women on there to get paid to do it a man sees that

And now we clocks in over there with you He works over there a snap all or whatever over construction stuff You know, he's over there at the caterpillar plant And he's over there, you know Doing booty over there and wanting you know, but pay body out there You know by pay body hour It's a tough world man. It's a tough world for people just trying to navigate it But uh, don't give up on yourselves if you are

um It's just a weird world and I think we have to laugh at it We got to laugh and say man that world is weird The world is weird and I need to laugh at it more Because I let it get too serious for me And uh When I laugh at it, it takes the it takes that stinger off the off of life when I laugh at it, so

But at least big Jesus Christ will just pop by and let us know he's still in the game At least he just stopped by and let us know. Hey, don't forget about your dog, you know That time trumper, you know one way to to beat the system So All right, we're gonna find our way out of this episode here. Uh, and we'll kind of it will come in a little bit This is uh, the unacoustic version of stone keepers There is a light from stone keepers and david man. Well We got david spade in studio next week and also i want to if you have if you know someone who has a very unique job and a unique personality

Um hit up the producer email. We're looking right now to Find somebody who's worked in trauma trauma cleanup or uh, you know crime scene and um People that's doing hoarding that type of cleanup You know, uh, we're looking for somebody in that position That's in somewhere in the central east area or in the los angeles area And then we're looking also maybe somebody that's run a pawn shop Or managed a pawn shop or a renaissance fair Those are some unique jobs. We like to investigate

So if you know someone in one of those realms Um, who has a unique personality, we want somebody who's good at sharing their story and and at uh talking and Being communicative, you know, we don't want no kevin burling out there You know, we don't want to know somebody, you know, you hit them with a candle and a cake and they fucking can't handle it You know, then they're in the shitter for an hour. We don't want that We want somebody who's just got light bowels and enjoys the birthday song

You guys be good to yourself man. You deserve it, baby gang. I'll see you guys in uh In one of those cities I'm coming to uh soon. Thank you Whenever you're down Out in the cold Faithless and dark Your stories untold Come take my hand And walk there with me. Come on. That's a little gossip

I know a place where we can be free. There is a light shining for you Guiding your way Helping you through Got that b.o. Son Are all that you see We'll find a place Where we can Hmm

I got some b.o. Baby Thank you guys I'm shining in the darkest night. Can't you see you will be free I have been far I had them wide Searching for views Somewhere to hide Now I am free

Open and pure A fearless and brave All right It's getting a little bit gay for me, dude, honestly, but Whatever, uh Praise baby, you guys be good. Thank you guys for being a part of the episode. Thank you guys for being a part of my life Uh, we'll see y'all next week be good to yourself. Maybe you deserve it gang