This Past Weekend - E546 Sand Hands

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angie. When you use Angie for your home project, you know all your jobs will be done well, from roof repair to emergency plumbing and more, done well. So the next time you have a home project, leave it to the pros. Get started at angi.com. All right. Good day. Good day. Um, how are you?

Starting point is 00:00:24 How are you? How are you? How are I? How are us? Good to see everyone. Good to be here with you. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy November. Happy existence. You know, that's something as well. Um, this year went, baby, this year. That thing is... This year was just hooked to a dang laser beam. I feel like, what was that? You almost had to slow down the film to even remember the summer. It was just, just, phwoosh. This thing was just a, uh... this took the HOV lane this year.

Starting point is 00:01:08 Life got roller skates on. Damn it. Life's got just roller skates on. I couldn't even, I couldn't even make an accurate police report on April. I couldn't tell you what she looked like, what she was wearing. The officer was like, well, can you tell me, April, tell me how tall, I don't know, damn it.

Starting point is 00:01:37 It just all went so fast. You know, and I don't know if it's just that life feels faster now, but you can't even get your hands on it. I mean it's like just trying to grab sand. You can get some of it, but then it just, it ends up just, you just, you just realize and you can't get it. You can't get that grip on it, boy. It's like trying to just do a, what's it called? The guy you go to and you go in his shop or whatever.

Starting point is 00:02:19 And it's, he pretends like he has a secretary or whatever, but he doesn't. And then you go in there and he lays you down and he like, he asked you like a question or something, but you're so nervous that you're going to get touched or whatever, but what is that? Dang it. Chiropractor. It's like trying to be a chiropractor on sand.

Starting point is 00:02:45 You know, you just, you can't move it. You can't control, you just, you think you can and then there's nothing. Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm just saying it's been a long year and I'm happy to be here with you today. And yeah, just thank you guys for just your patience on doing solo episodes.

Starting point is 00:03:06 I wanted to tape this yesterday, but I just, I was just so damn rattled. You ever wake up and you're just damn rattled? I mean, it's just like a couple pigeons are just living in your ass. You're just like, what in the hell? And everything's a prop. 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. And I'm like, you know, I, I think they just came because I

Starting point is 00:03:40 think I have like 11 pest control guys, because I, you know, I forget. 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. He'll spray for lice right across my damn forehead sometimes. Cause I forget, you know, I always forget when they're going to be here. You have that one afternoon you're doing a-off and they show up with those, with those chigger grenades or whatever, and they're humming those bitches.

Starting point is 00:04:16 And your family's out there, you're trying to put mustard on something. And the baby's got damn bug gas in his eyes. It's just, I just forget. Anyway, the guy came and he had just a, the bug guy, he's like, you know, we can come, we can come 17 times a year. That's what he said.

Starting point is 00:04:37 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. You know, so that's not a sales tactic I wanted to hear, but, but the guy had the biggest mustache I'd ever seen in my life. 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. Cause there ain't, there is not a chance in hell you're not running some kind of damn bug motel right up under your snout daddy.

Starting point is 00:05:14 There ain't a CNH baby, chance in hell. You ain't got a couple of fucking word lice running around up in that uh, in that trap up in that trap house you got above your lip daddy. So it just you know, I said I think I work good you know we got guys I got seven guys spraying right now you know. I could barely talk to the guy some guy was spraying right in front of me. But yeah, just everything's happened so fast. I just get confused. Everything's happened so fast. And here we are. And it's November and it's...

Starting point is 00:06:01 It's like that. And I'm sure it's like that for everybody. It's like, okay. Some of you, your kid is, you know, your kid is age, is been, is aged this year. Like, man, I can't believe it. You know, Genevieve's four now. Or your dad is it got to get a hip, got to get a new hip or new neck or whatever. You're like, now it's already time next week. Ricky's getting that new neck.

Starting point is 00:06:35 You know, it's just things happen fast, you know. Man, it was only seven months ago that we laid my grandmother to rest. It's just all these things and life just keeps lifin'. And it's just, yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot for everybody. And it's marvelous at the same time. It is existence. That's what it is.

Starting point is 00:07:04 But I'm grateful to be here with you guys today. And just grateful to be taking a moment to think about our lives and what they've been like. I want to say thanks. It has been a while since we've had a solo episode. I'm still going to try to do more. I'm finally having a little more time to start to take care of myself right now. And so that's feeling really good just to be able to relax. What's going on? We had some shows in a lot of places.

Starting point is 00:07:36 Thank you guys. It came out out there. We just got off the road out in the Midwest, baby. OH. We did it out there on OSU campus Grand Rapids, Michigan, baby. Let's go. All over we went up to, where else? Oh, up in Montana. I think I do owe a little bit of maybe an apology to, what is that place called? It's like a place where they have Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

Starting point is 00:08:09 um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um just Colorado Springs and Casper, Wyoming. When I got there, I was dehydrated, man. I mean, I was just, I mean, you could hear my eyes open.

Starting point is 00:08:39 You know, I opened my eyes and they, you could just like, it was loud. You know, you know, like somebody just hard-awe-ed around, you know, I saw a cat look over at me. Like somebody just been hard-awe-ing at it. And it was just how so dried out. The weather there, it just, the wind up there is nasty up there. The wind, you open your eyes for a second,

Starting point is 00:09:09 the wind will get in there and clean them bitches out. Wee-wee-wee. Next thing you do, I was having to lick my hand and rub it into my eyes. Spitting in my hand and rub it into my eyes spitting in my hand and rub it in my eyes and even you know you're looking at everybody through damn spit eyes or whatever and the ladies they're like oh look at this little bitch with his damn spit eyes oh honky got them spit eyes but I Pew, pew, pew, pew.

Starting point is 00:09:47 But I was just dry as hell. Even the animals up there are dry. You see a damn animal up there, a dog up there. Casper Wyom and that thing up there, just, he just, somebody, you write water on the ground and a dog come lick on the word. People think thirsty as hell up there. I saw a plant, it had grown up my leg

Starting point is 00:10:10 and was trying to drink out of my, had me a little canteen. I saw a vine stood somewhere for 30 seconds, a vine grew up my leg and it had opened the top of my canteen. Yet now, everything's thirsty as hell up there. It was super dry. It was dry.

Starting point is 00:10:35 And I just wasn't ready for it. I was so dry I couldn't, like, I don't know, I can't even explain it to you. You know, I definitely did my best, but they gave you oxygen tanks. And I'm like, but the, all the oxygen tank is just a can of just more dry. So you hit that bitch and now you're just, you, everything, even the animals, they would sound like they were,

Starting point is 00:11:00 were dried out like moo. They had a cow, one cow cow I saw him like what but he was so dry so that was just a but beautiful country beautiful place I just I was shocked at how dehydrated I got IVs up there. It just took me a little bit to get on my feet, man. It was a lot. That was like probably one of the more hectic times that I'd had this year,

Starting point is 00:11:34 just healthness, you know, and being alive and being like that. I went out to Montana, but all that area is Colorado Springs. And thank you for everybody coming out and, um, and Casper. I can't even believe it. I mean, we're Montana. Wow.

Starting point is 00:11:55 That whole, all of those regions. I mean, that's where mother nature just, just tries on her clothes up there. Baby is beautiful. Everything you see is beautiful. You know it's just, it's remarkable. So to even get to go to that part of the country that people came out, thank you guys so much to all the places that we went man. I got to go to La Crosse, Wisconsin and it's, I, it's, uh, it's one of the greatest little city town places I've been.

Starting point is 00:12:32 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, and they got, you know, somebody's walking their kid home from school or whatever and The kids just got a bunch of snot on his face or whatever, but the parent leaves it Just that you know because there's something kind of beautiful about it You know especially when you were poor dude if your nose was running I'd let that bitch fly cut your nose was running, I'd let that bitch fly, cut. Cause people were always looking at you when you poor, people always look at you like you ain't got nothing.

Starting point is 00:13:13 And that's when my nose was running, I'd be like, oh yeah, I got this bitch. I got this snot. So there is something very beautiful about that. But we were there in LaCrosse. Or LaCrosse, they say it. Or a lot of gay dudes, they say it like, Hey, I'm in LaCrosse.

Starting point is 00:13:41 But just beautiful. I mean, just to get to see some of America, man. And to get to see a lot of you folks. And we try to do some meet and greets after the shows and just, we did everything that we could. I promise you that. So thank you guys so much for the support. And yeah, Thanksgiving is just coming in.

Starting point is 00:13:57 Trevin, how are you feeling today? I'm good, man. A little chilly. Oh yeah, brisk out, huh? That's for sure. And you think it's gonna get worse this year What are they saying there? And if you're looking at the Diameter or whatever the air diameter the The weather what are they saying? Yeah the weather

Starting point is 00:14:19 Yeah about the same gonna get a lot colder man. God you're ready BLM baby burr lives matter son. It's gonna get brisk out What else has been going on? Oh? I'll tell you know what something that was I thought was really special that was I got to be around or be a part of Or be around really so SNL Saturday Night Live was going on and Bill Burr was gonna be on it. And Bill Burr is, there's nobody like him.

Starting point is 00:14:54 There's, I mean, there's nobody like him. He is himself and he is one of one. And I wanted to go see it, I'd never been to SNL. I'd never been over there and seen it, you know? And so myself, who came with me? Oh, my buddy Kevin and John Farley was there. And that's Chris Farley's brother. And it was just like, man, to be at SNL,

Starting point is 00:15:23 where Chris Farley and Spade and Nealon and Carvey and all of the like, uh, Rock, um, Sam, just all these wizards of, uh, you know, um, possibility, you know, uh, Sherry, um, oh, Terry, um, uh, who's the lady that puts her, she's always taking her own temperature or whatever and smelling it, who's that lady? Her, she, you know, just to be at SNL, Saturday Night Live to be on that stage, just to be there watching.

Starting point is 00:16:02 And John Farley was there, Chris Farley's brother, And it was the first time he said that he'd been back there since his, uh, since he'd been there with Chris. And that was just, I don't know. It was just like, it just, it was just kind of, it felt special, you know, cause I just can't imagine, I can't imagine having a brother that is You know, so well first of all, it's your brother. So they're very important to you. But then also there's such a Entertainer and then you go back to the place where they one of the places that they're most known from you know, and um one of the places that they're most known from, you know, and yeah, that was just, it was magnificent, man,

Starting point is 00:16:47 just to be able to be there with him. And he told so many stories. And I was kind of bummed that they didn't bring him out on the stage and let him tell a story out there at SNL. The stories he was telling backstage were better than half of the things that were happening on the tube I thought. I mean, but also that's, you know, I've been, it was just crazy to hear a guy talk about, you know, his brother, Chris Farley and all the little moments that they'd had backstage

Starting point is 00:17:17 and just these funny things. And here, I'll say this, when it came down to listening to him or watching some of the sketches, I couldn't help but listen to some of the things that he was saying. Because it was, yeah, it just was like walking through time and walking through time that really meant something, time between brothers. And so yeah, that was pretty exceptional. But yeah, I was like, SNL should have had him out there.

Starting point is 00:17:45 Like bring this guy, this is the first time he's been back since his brother, it's like the closest Chris Farley will get to being there. And yeah, it was just, I don't know. So, but that was, it was great. I'm not trying to tell you, you know, I don't know. I'm not talking too much or whatever, I don't know. But yeah, that was just,

Starting point is 00:18:05 that was something neat to be a part of. And what else? I went with my bud, my friend has a son, and we took him to the swing set, and then what else is going on? Oh, I watched the CMAs, Country Music Awards the other night, because I'm, you know, I live in Nashville.

Starting point is 00:18:24 And so you have to watch it, or people won't look you in the eyes for the next year. And so I was checking it out, and Caleb Presley was on there doing presentation. Laney Wilson was on there, so it's like, I gotta peep it, I wanted to see if Jesse Murph was gonna be there, Wilson was on there. So it's like, you know, I got to peep it. I wanted to see if Jesse Murph was going to be there. Uh, Jelly Roll was there.

Starting point is 00:18:49 That whole gang, baby. Jelly Roll, Yellow Wolf. I think they had damn Jelly Wolf there. And it's just a, that is just a St. Bernard with a couple of face tats on him, you know? But that whole like, uh, musically recovering honky vibe, you know, that's really powerful. And Yellow Roll, I saw damn Yellow Roll. that whole like musically recovering honky vibe, you know, that's really powerful. And Yellow Roll, I saw damn Yellow Roll

Starting point is 00:19:08 and it was Bobby Lee was there. So it's just, you know, yeah, he's doing music now. So it just, you know, it's just, anyway, it was a very diverse group over there. And what am I talking about, damn it. Oh, but I watched, cause I wanted to see if, um, red clay strays were going to win. They were up for vocal group, which what does that even mean?

Starting point is 00:19:34 Kind of it's all music, you know, but, um, they didn't win old, uh, Dominion won it. Right. And Dominion, no disrespect, right? Uh, I haven't heard a lot of, you know, I don't think, first of all, if you look at old Dominion, Dominion is a brother's name and it's, you know, show me 30 Dominions and I'll show you, you know, how to get, how to get to Memphis. You know what I'm saying, bro?

Starting point is 00:20:10 It's like, let's be realistic, baby. That's Elvis's neighbors, homie, okay? So, and so that was the way, I'm like, damn, they don't even, somebody's hiding, they're hiding, they're hiding a brother amongst the four or five of the guys that they have in the group or whatever. But, um, yeah, I just wanted to see Ray Clay Stray's win. And I thought it was just a chance for, you know, CMAs like to hear you have a vibe, you know, and no disrespect to, um, to OD baby.

Starting point is 00:20:41 But you have a vibe. Ray Clay Stray's, they, Strays, they sing prayers, man. They sing things that I can't, they sing prayers that I can't even make. That I can't even make the words to, they sing those. And I just feel like that's part of such a movement. And so yeah, I think I really wanted them to win that award. But also then, Red Clay Straes, are they a country group?

Starting point is 00:21:12 And you could argue that, it's all of it. Are they gospel? You know, I mean, they're music and it doesn't need a space to fit in, you know. You don't need to put every foot in a shoe, but it's like We are what are they? but it's a lot of

Starting point is 00:21:35 It's a lot of vibrant prayer I feel like coming out of those boys and I'm partisan as well or partisan or whatever Anyway, that's some of the stuff that's been going on I'm partisan as well, or partisan or whatever. Anyway, that's some of the stuff that's been going on recently and a lot more, some of it I can't remember. But yeah, just CMAs, I felt like they had a chance to pull some new blood in there. And I just didn't see that, you know? But what do I know? I don't know shit. You know, but, but what do I know? I don't know shit.

Starting point is 00:22:06 You know, I'm just a loud honky over here. That's all I am. What else? Grand Rapids, beautiful place. Beautiful place, man. Just, yeah, just to see a lot of places where people are just thriving and people are saying, hey, this is our community

Starting point is 00:22:23 and we're gonna keep it like it is, man. That's something that, that really, uh, felt great to witness. Well, now it's that holiday season. It's time for family and food and let's be honest, a little bit of chaos, but hopefully the most chaotic thing that happens this year is you slurping down a little bit of oyster dressing. However, if things don't go as planned, like a holiday mishap that leaves you seriously hurt, your injury could be worth millions.

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Starting point is 00:23:52 or pound law, pound five two nine from your cell. This is a paid advertisement. What else? It's Thanksgiving, guys. That's what it is, you know? And that's the week it is and and It's a time You know Thanksgiving is

Starting point is 00:24:13 It's wild that are that our calendar that even Even our calendar right are set up our framework our time based Framework for our society and for civilization has a stop time in it to give thanks. It's interesting that even time says, hey, hold on, I need you to give some thanks. I need you to, you have to have some gratitude here. You know, and I think that that to me,

Starting point is 00:24:49 that's pretty fascinating that that is a speed bump that's been put into our calendar. It's just built in there. You know, it's a comma that says, hey, care, right? Care about the things that have happened to you. You know, find things to have gratitude for. And see, I want to think about those today and just things that I'm thankful for.

Starting point is 00:25:16 I'm thankful. Yeah, being able to whisper, that's a big one. I'm so thankful for that because otherwise everybody in your family would just wouldn't know how you felt about them. So I'm just so thankful that God lets us whisper, you know. I'm thankful for my family, you know. I'm thankful that my sister makes me laugh a lot and that she likes to laugh.

Starting point is 00:25:50 I like listening to her laugh sometimes. She's ridiculous and that makes me laugh. I'm thankful my nephew talks to me. You know, I wish he kind of hit my line more, but I guess he's busy or whatever, sure, whatever, dude. But he's a child, you know, and wish he kind of hit my line more but I guess he's busy or whatever sure whatever dude But he's a child, you know, and it's like I just gotta be an adult and just just take care of myself but um, Oh, I'm thankful that urine isn't hotter than it's is when it comes out of your body. That would be That would that would be crazy, bro

Starting point is 00:26:23 If you were all you know, if it urine just came out like even ten degrees crazy, bro. If you were, you know, if urine just came out like even 10 degrees hotter, bro. Cause you'd go in the bathroom and they'd have one dude in there about to urinate and everybody else would be supporting him. And like, you come on Richard. Come on Richard. Blast that shit, homie.

Starting point is 00:26:44 And he'd be like, that's homie. And he's like, that's kind of hurt. Shut the fuck up Richard. Piss bitch. And people are like, whoa chill out dude. He's fucking, it's hot. You know? And people, and there's going to be a gay dude just kind of holding his back for no reason. Just, or even pushing on his butt. That's a weird thing, dude. If you're doing a group piss, right, and everybody's supporting one guy who has to piss, and the dude that's pushing up on the dude's, on the guy's butt, that guy is not just trying to be helpful.

Starting point is 00:27:19 I know that, boy. So, yeah, I'm grateful that PP is at the, or urine or whatever they want to call it, is at a or urine or whatever they want to call it is at a Manageable temperature. That's a big one I'm grateful that God That God lets me try, you know, I'm grateful that God lets me try, you know that Every single thing isn't final.

Starting point is 00:27:49 Yeah, I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful that my arms are, you know, they're not the best. I think they're not the best length. I got medium length arms, but I know that they're good enough to hug. Good enough. I wouldn't win a hug title or whatever. I don't know if there is a title. Yeah, what else? I'll think about some things throughout the show, throughout the episode today. Things that I'm thankful for, man. I'm thankful that I have some shoes on right now.

Starting point is 00:28:17 Yeah, I'm thankful. Yeah, I'll keep thinking about it. But let's get into some calls, man. You guys have been hitting the hotline and I haven't been there. But I just want to thank you for hitting it and as always the hotline is nine eight five six six four nine five zero three and let's get to a call right here here we go I just want to get your thoughts 28 28, this guy's a Navy.

Starting point is 00:28:47 I live in Orange County, California. Thank you for your service, brother. We appreciate you. Onward. It's tough making friends as an adult. All life, I've always ended up with black friends. I played basketball and maybe out of 200 white guys, five black guys, I ended up being friends with a black guy.

Starting point is 00:29:08 But I want some white friends or like Asian friends. So I just wanted your advice, like how does that happen? Or do I just stick with just, hey, this is how it is. Like black friends are my thing. No, brother, I don't think that, you know, I don't think, I think you can get all types of friends. That is for sure, man, you know? I think, you know, basketball is a gateway drug

Starting point is 00:29:39 to just a brotherific type shit. Go out into your neighborhood right now, dribble a basketball in the street, see if a couple of brothers don't show up. You know, that's that. Just, you hear a basketball banging on that street, that's the Michael Jordan mating call, cut. You know, that's how it is, man.

Starting point is 00:30:04 You put a rim up anywhere and you gonna get some black friends, man. That's not a racial thing, that's just facts. You put a basketball rim up anywhere and you gonna have some brothers show up. You put that bitch up in the ocean, you gonna have a couple wet brothers out there just double drowning out there. So you have to think if you want to get different types of folks, you have to put out different types of

Starting point is 00:30:33 activities. You know? So if you want to get more Asian friends, you might want to do a Asian people like hide and go seek. That's easy, man. You know? And that's easy, man. You know? And that's wild, bro. You know, look at an Asian,

Starting point is 00:30:49 look at any resting, or sitting Asian, resting Asian, or AARs or whatever, Asians at rest. Look at one. Bring up a couple, right? Go to any of these folks and say, you keep counting, I'll go hide. Cause Asians got that clock in them dog. So that's something you could do to meet some Asians right there, man.

Starting point is 00:31:22 And also it's okay to be a white guy that has black friends. That's a, you know, and I know you're not saying there's anything wrong with it, but you know, they had, and when I was, you know, when I was getting into life or whatever, they had a lot of wiggas out there. And no cap bro, wiggas used to be the thing, bro. You know, Thomas Jefferson was a wigga, bro, real talk. And people don't wanna, you know people don't want to say that shit but

Starting point is 00:31:46 he was man but now they got Blankey's even they got Blankey's out there you got a lot of black dudes that want to be whiter you know or having white more white stuff going on in them you know i mean i saw a brother crying in his car the other day outside of a jimmy john's That's the whitest shit you could do that's our shit So it's all good. What i'm saying is the portal is always open guys. There's no nil money To have a new friendship in another ethnicity man. That is we you know, we're all bound to be beige in a couple generations anyway So right now if you want to meet someone of a color or of a ethnicity, then now is the time, baby bear. Cause in two, three generations,

Starting point is 00:32:33 everybody gonna be beige mauve, off mauve, you know? Cookies and crumb. People gonna be all batched out and genet modified or whatever. You will have a Monsanto, uh, uh, taupe friend. You will have an off Brown, uh, white bottom, um, speckled trout, uh, Korean Mexican black lady, you're going have it all man. So if you want to enjoy specific ethnicities now, now is the time to do it because genetically

Starting point is 00:33:16 we're all heading to one color. We're gonna be just one little off-brown, semi-white, matte finish, gray baby bear of Christ, brother, praise God, man. What else do we have? Let's take another call right here. Here we go. Hi, Theo. Me and my family want to invite you to our Thanksgiving dinner.

Starting point is 00:33:47 This is Maria Gillen. It will be up in Gallatin, Tennessee. Oh, up in Gallatin. All right. Thank you for the invite there. And we think you could fit in really well with our family and you would just bring a lot to conversation. And I think it it's gonna be some really good food. I can whip up some really good mashed potatoes.

Starting point is 00:34:10 So, oh, and I'm making a pasta. That's really good. Anyways. Okay. Y'all them carb dogs up there. All right. That's beautiful. I cannot make it.

Starting point is 00:34:22 I appreciate it though. Very sweet of you. I am you know what here I'll call you and tell you I can't make it. See if this works. Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. Is not available. At the tone please record your message. When you have finished recording you may hang up or press 1 for more options. What's up you little potato maiden? How are y'all over there? This is Theo. I'm just calling you back. I want to let you know that I can't make it over there for

Starting point is 00:34:57 the Thanksgiving up there in Gallatin. But I appreciate it and hope you guys have a wonderful time up there and just thanks for thinking of me and thanks for inviting me I was very nice of you. And yeah, that's about it. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna go now Yeah, I'm head no, I'm gonna go down to Lafayette, Louisiana baby Dustin Poirier, you know, they every year they they they they they put cooking utensils into his fighting gloves. And he gets out there and he'll beat up a damn meal for you, son.

Starting point is 00:35:33 Everything he serves you got a black eye. The black eyed peas got two black eyes, bro. He's like, dang, someone had broken ribs on them. Look, I didn't even know peas had ribs. You know, he'll give you a little turkey leg or something and it's in a cast. He beating the shit out of everything, bruh. Turkey neck in a neck brace. That's how he does it, bruh. He beat the eggs with his own hands, bruh. I see him. You'll see him in the yard out there. He got on his fighting trunks and just, you know,

Starting point is 00:36:07 just putting a bunch of hand action into a damn mixing bowl. You know, it's just crazy, man. I never seen anybody do it like that. You'll see him out there fucking calf kicking a rump roast, bro. You're like, what is going on? But that's where I'll be, man. That's become a little tradition for me and it's a blessing, I'm excited about it.

Starting point is 00:36:30 And then we have a large show down there. It might be our largest show ever over at the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana. And grateful to be from over there. Just got my mother a home over in Baton Rouge. My mom just moved back home. So when we got her a house over there and I'm just grateful to that.

Starting point is 00:36:52 Thank you guys for the support over the years. And she hasn't complained about it yet, which is just damn unreal. So what else? Let's take another call. What are you thankful for? Trevin? You got anything that pops into your head, brother? Oh, every day, bro. Thankful to wake up. Thankful to, you know, have a job. Thankful mostly for my, you know, beautiful wife. Shout out to Gabby and our family and yeah, the health.

Starting point is 00:37:24 Yeah, that's it. that really is true, huh? Having some health, man. Yeah. And taking care of it too, that's another thing. Cause I'll take, man, I'll take something for granted in a heartbeat. I'll take my heartbeat for granted in a heartbeat. That's crazy.

Starting point is 00:37:44 Oh, something else going on out in the world today. What else we got a call that came in right here? Hey Michael. I was thinking about turkey and ham. We didn't have at thanksgiving because apparently ham's a christmas thing and i love honey ham and all they had was turkey turkey's dry and bland as shit no honey so i didn't fuck with it so i just want your opinion okay brother i'll see you there i see you having a lot of Yeah, turkey or ham. Hmm. Well, ham, ham, ham is ham. You know, ham, it just, it gets home and it's like, where's your mother? You know, that's ham.

Starting point is 00:38:39 But turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey's a little more perverted I think. Low key bro. Turkey. You know it's like what you want to do to me. Want to put me in a sandwich? Want to put me in the fridge, you want me now, you want me leftover, what do you want? So turkey kinda looking at you like that, I feel like ham looks like it's been smoking or whatever, like alright, you know, it'll party but it's, you know, it'll party, but it's, you know, you know, it's gonna, it can't, it won't be able to drive itself home. Ham, you know, but tur,

Starting point is 00:39:31 cause it drinks, ham drinks, ham drinks. But turkey is like, it could be anywhere. It could be turkey, turkey, you'll see, you'll see turkey in a high heel. You'll see turkey in a high heel. You'll see turkey in a high heel. That bit, you know. So that's how I feel, I guess, about that. What else?

Starting point is 00:39:52 Got a couple more calls that came in here. Oh, here's a news story right here. Police find two kilogram garden gnome made entirely of MDMA. Wow. Yeah, that's it man. That's how it is now baby, baby. They got aliens in the ocean.

Starting point is 00:40:14 They got MDMA in the garden gnomes. Okay. Tape your eyelids to your ass cheeks, homie. And stay alert because they raping everybody out here praise God baby what else do we have we got another call came in right here let's see see home for Christmas

Starting point is 00:40:46 Yo, Theo Harley from Portland, Oregon man. What's up Harley and had a great time up there. We did a shot there in Portland Which is a great city. Let me say that people are always like there's Antifa's up there, you know You know LARPing in the park. It's just a bunch of leftover Antifa and BLM activists and people, you know, adults wearing baby diapers up there, LARPing in the park and sword fighting and doing makeshift Renaissance fairs up there and shit.

Starting point is 00:41:21 And damn George Foreman grilling every meal and shit but I thought it was an amazing city I'd never I just hadn't it was just it really shocked me how how special it was yeah there's a naked guy pushing himself you know pushing himself in a you know and he's like you know has a boat or and he's going down the street and a A adult baby carriage or whatever But it's there's it's awesome. I thought it was really really groovy. I really like Portland, Oregon What'd you have to say brother sorry I interrupted you there let's hear more I Really appreciate the way that that you pedal your ticket the way that you peddle your tickets, the way that you encourage people to not use tech and sites because you don't want people paying more than they should to

Starting point is 00:42:15 come see you. I understand that and I really respect that. Yeah, totally. Well, a lot of times what happens is people will look up a ticket, right? Want to go to the show, this city, this this date or whatever and then other secondary sites that are reselling tickets will put them will pay more to get their searching higher on Google and stuff like that and so then you click there and you're not really paying in a rigid you don't even have an option at a regular price ticket if there's still any available. Onward.

Starting point is 00:42:46 But then I go to your website, man, and I see that theovon.com slash tour is redirected to Ticketmaster. And I'm just curious, man, you know, the people absolutely hate Ticketmaster. Oh, yeah. And I'm one of the people, brother. I hate them. I hate them. It's a they've been running this scam forever.

Starting point is 00:43:07 So I don't know how we get a politician that is going to break up the monopoly. That's very obvious. I don't know how you get that done. You know, I would love to have a ticket broker on this year. Maybe we can find start delving into the dark depths of all that. Because yes, it's a monopoly, it's sick. It's sick that you could take three of your friends to a show, but now you can only take one because the fees are astronomical. We don't see any money from the fees, artists don't. You know, it's just the same people,

Starting point is 00:43:42 it's these big companies. Who owns Ticketmaster? You look that up for me. Live Nation Entertainment. So there you go. Ticketmaster is a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Nation, which is headquartered in Beverly Hills. Yeah, well, I think one of the issues, who's the owner of Live Nation, which is headquartered in Beverly Hills. Yeah, well, I think one of the issues,

Starting point is 00:44:07 who's the owner of Live Nation, I wonder? Vanguard, well, here's, this is fucking hilarious. Zoom in on this a little bit. Liberty Media Corporation is the largest shareholder of Live Nation Entertainment, owning 30% of the company. Other major shareholders include Vanguard, owns 8.3%, BlackRock Advisors owns 5.5%.

Starting point is 00:44:40 So there you go. It's the same people that own everything. So that's why you're getting fucked because they own everything they own the building that the show is in sometimes and then they own the website and They don't care they don't care That's the bottom line they don't care they don't care that it takes more money out of your pocket And mine if I buy tickets somewhere. They don't care. They want money. That's all they want.

Starting point is 00:45:16 So yeah, that shit hurts my heart man. Nothing I can do about it man. You know, and maybe one day there'll be a better way to do it. I know Zach Bryan tried a unique method through a AXS, I think, ticketing, um, but it hasn't shown up yet or a way that's definitely definitively saves people that money. Um, but yeah, those people are robbing people and that's what it is. And, uh, but we have a government that continues to allow that sort of business behavior, um, especially when they have a government that continues to allow that sort of business behavior especially

Starting point is 00:45:47 when they have a monopoly on the market. Yeah that's just those are my feelings. To me it feels like it's bullshit. To you calling I'm sure to everybody listening. I'd love to have an extra $40 from ticketing fees to go get me a soda or something. Get me a little butterfinger or something. Get mom the payday or whatever she likes eating. She can't even hear the fucking show. She's over here. Cheaper to get her a ticket than put her in dang hospice or whatever. You know, she's over here, you know, listening to uh, whatever we're

Starting point is 00:46:15 watching, you know, Metallica on ice or whatever over here. You know, or ice spice on ice or whatever. Who knows what the hell they're doing now. You know, now they have a new anxiety on ice as a new performance for kids. Like what are we even fucking taking our kids to? It's Big Pharma Anxiety on Ice brought to you by Live Nation and Pfizer, dude. That's what we're fucking doing. I mean, yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:41 People at least aren't blind to it. Praise God, brother. Thank you for the call. And yeah, I'm sorry about it too, man. Let me hear the end. Let me hear what you blind to it. Praise God, brother. Thank you for the call. And yeah, I'm sorry about it too, man. Let me hear the end, let me hear what you have to say. I'm sorry. And I personally would not go see the show just because it's being sold strictly through ticket manager.

Starting point is 00:46:56 So I was curious if there was some kind of way that we could get away from these big corporations and hopefully by getting away from them, you could get more of a percentage of ticket sales and that's... Yeah, totally. I mean, those venues, they could give away to something, they could do something. They also, yeah, they charge people for parking a lot of times, but some of it is business. But that part, I believe, is egregious.

Starting point is 00:47:23 That's how but some of it is business, but that part, I believe, is egregious. That's how I feel. But no, as of right now, I don't know another way. Um, you know, I could look into it though. Maybe one day I'll have, you know, I could own venues with other people and we could just do the shows there at our own venues and we wouldn't sell tickets and we wouldn't, uh, gouge people on those prices. Or maybe you'd find one politician that would just run simply on the fact that they're going to say, hey, fuck those guys. We're not going to let them do it.

Starting point is 00:47:52 We're going to figure out a way. So it's just those greedy companies and dirty lawyers, I believe. But also there may be stuff I don't know about it. They may need an extra $42 a ticket to send you that email. So I might be off. What else? Sorry, am I getting negative there? Let me think about what else I'm thankful for, man. I'm thankful that I have buddies that check in on me. I need to do a better job of that or. I need to do a better job of that or I would like to do a better job of that in the coming years checking in on people.

Starting point is 00:48:30 And checking in on myself. You know I want to make sure I do a better job of that. What else am I thankful for? Oh My buddy, uh, Jeremy just had a new baby. His third son, him and his wife, Natalie just had a child and they just have a blessed just man, him and my buddy, Curtis, they, they run a, uh, speed and strength, um, training, a training group over here in Nashville. And it just, those guys are like They're like the best part of my week when I get to be over there and just laugh with everybody and we have so Much fun and they really uplift a lot of a lot of the community here And so yeah, that's someone thankful for that. He had a healthy son

Starting point is 00:49:21 What else am I thankful for What else am I thankful for? I'm thankful I got to go to my buddy Scott's wedding this year. I'm thankful I got to see my friend the other night. I'm thankful that God lets me think about other people and that I can try hard, that I can, you know, that if there's patches where I go through where I get stuck in myself, that I can come out of those, you know, that if there's patches where I go through where I get stuck in myself that I can come out of those. You know, we're not so, every thought doesn't have to be a sentence, like a life sentence, you know?

Starting point is 00:49:52 Or that every feeling isn't like a life sentence. Even though there are moments sometimes where they think, it feels like they might be, they're not. I'm thankful that you can see somebody that'll change your vibe, you know, or change, you can hear a song that'll change your energy and you can choose to hear those things too. What else? Yeah, I'm thankful that some of the mistakes I've made haven't, haven't put me in places

Starting point is 00:50:20 that make things very tough on me from day to day. You know that's been a lot of grace from God in those spaces. What else? What do you think about, Trevin? Any other thing else? Any other gratitudes coming into your head? Thankful for friends. Like you said, being able to think about, you know, being grateful in itself, you know what I mean? Being able to take the time to. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:50:53 Yeah, I'm thankful God lets me see different things or whatever, see animals, bro. I would hate that shit if you're at the zoo and your people are just telling you what the animals look like or whatever. And then the guy starts touching you on the back or whatever Like this guy's a pedophile or whatever You know who am I even with dude? That's the kind of scary shit. That's out there What else do we got? Um, oh

Starting point is 00:51:32 Oh, here we go right here gang shit, let's hear this one they say homeful Hey, Theo, this is a big red here and big ridge, baby Let's hear more daddy Yeah, I mean, I just want to preface by saying I'm not racist but... Alright. Onward. Lately I've been hanging out with some brothers and I've sneezed a couple times but... Sneezed, okay? but um he sneezed okay you've been sneezing I I've noticed that I've been sneezing around outside and and I just I they don't say bless you and I don't know if it's like a me thing I don't

Starting point is 00:52:19 know if like you it's like I don't know if it's like hard to look tough, like saying bless you, like, I don't know, I've been trying to say bless you in the mirror in a tough way, and I gotta admit, it's a really hard task to do, like. Okay, I think I see what you're saying. You're saying a lot of brothers, they don't say bless you when you sneeze. Well, I mean, I think that's just life, bro.

Starting point is 00:52:43 I mean, brothers been through a lot of shit historically, man Brothers and female brothers to the sisters. They've been through some shit man get a history book, dog So they ain't worried if somebody can't handle a little pollen or something somebody sneezed that ain't they're worried somebody goes in a prison You know that they that's when they drop some bless yous on them They worried they can't get the pain out of the culture. That's when they that's some though. They'll yellow bless you They save some of their bless yous for Sunday as well But they it's it's white folk. We you know, we somebody sneeze bless you Ernie Bless you bless you Nathan

Starting point is 00:53:28 That that's good That's it You know Black folk they just cuz somebody can't handle sitting near a tulip or something or somebody get a little activated their lungs flare up around a fern that ain't That's a little bit more white trauma than it is a black trauma I think you know some white dudes like oh them

Starting point is 00:53:51 azaleas I can't breathe like you the floral George Floyd or something man get your shit together man get you and don't bother a brother to say bless you because your white ass having trouble with some dandelion dander okay get it together your soft ass can't breathe for half a second you want God to help you come on man come on man so I think that's just look man that's a cultural thing and I think you got to let that lie where it lies baby. That's what I believe. Praise God, man. Thank you for the call though. Thank you for letting me think out loud with you. Is pornography causing a problem in your life?

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Starting point is 00:56:14 That's one of my things I was thinking about yesterday. I was like, how can I make next year, how can I do more? You know, and we all want to, right? We all want time. I hear that so many times from people like, hey, how can I be a part of this? How can I do more? You know, and we all want to, right? We all want time. I hear that so many times from people like, hey, how can I be a part of this? How can I do, you know?

Starting point is 00:56:29 And so yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot and I'm gonna, I wanna figure that out, you know? Just ways to, yeah, we all want to find ways to give back, to help our neighbor, you know? And this is the time of year for that to be on our hearts. I think, or I don't know, I'm not trying to preach at you, this is the time of year where that's on my heart. You know, how can I, yeah, how can I think about somebody else? Because what a relief it is when you're trapped in yourself to have a moment where you're thinking about somebody else you're like oh thank you God letting me think about somebody else

Starting point is 00:57:07 man. What else? Let's take a couple more calls here on the way out. Let me take this one right here. Hey Theo, I love the show. I'm calling with an issue. I'm 20 years old. I've been drinking every single day since I've been 17. There's been times where I stopped drinking for a week. I always fall back into the same thing and I hate myself for it. Everything pulls me down. I'm just wondering if you have any advice for me. Yeah, I noticed myself, man, thanks for calling, bro.

Starting point is 00:57:50 I noticed myself when I get, when I'm doing something I don't want to be doing, when I'm doing something I don't wanna be doing, and then I've said to myself, hey, I don't wanna do this anymore. And then I keep doing it. I can't help but do it, right? That's addiction.

Starting point is 00:58:06 You can't help it, you're doing it. Which isn't you. That's not you making that choice all the time. It is, it's addiction. It's a disease, right? So it's the same as if somebody had cancer, you wouldn't say to them every day, oh, damn, you have cancer again.

Starting point is 00:58:20 You keep choosing to have cancer. No, they have cancer. It's the same with addiction. You are, you don't want to do this, you're doing it, right? You can't stop that cycle. And then here, this is what I would notice for myself, then shame starts building up because now not only am I addicted, now I am ashamed because I keep breaking

Starting point is 00:58:50 my own promise to myself, right? Now I'm losing my integrity. So now not only am I dealing with addiction, but I'm also dealing with shame. And man, when those two dogs get together, whew, good luck getting a Frisbee through the yard, brother. with with shame and man when those two dogs get together good luck getting a frisbee through the yard brother them some growlers daddy um but that's the only people ask me a lot how you know about addiction stuff the only answer i ever know that has helped me has been uh going to recovery going to to Alcoholics Anonymous, starting there, going to a meeting.

Starting point is 00:59:27 Because the first thing they ask you in there is that, my life, is your life unmanageable? That's the question. Is your life unmanageable? Nothing has to be about alcohol or anything. Is your life unmanageable? Because that's a way where you get to choose for yourself. Nobody's making a diagnosis of you being an alcoholic.

Starting point is 00:59:51 You decide. But it's like, is life unmanageable? And that's a very fair question to anybody. If the answer is yes, then there's more, then you take it from there and there, you know? But I would recommend go to 3AA meetings, some different ones. Listen for the similarities

Starting point is 01:00:12 and don't listen for the differences. Because it's easy to be like, ah, this shit, nah. That ain't, you hear one thing like that ain't from me. So, yeah, man, I'm sorry that you're dealing with that But that's really the only I don't have a magic button or a magic solution, you know And then once you're in there, you can maybe get some sponsorship or something They can help you decide if you should get treatment or that sort of thing Now if you're drinking every day for that long, you may need treatment to detoxify yourself

Starting point is 01:00:43 but Thinking of you brother and and thank you for calling man I appreciate that. What else? Here we go. Let's hear it. What up yo! Hi! Hey I got a question for you. My name is Jocelyn and I have a son here. He's 10 years old with Down syndrome. Just any advice that you would give to him personally would be much appreciated. And we think you're great. Keep doing what you're doing, bro. Thank you. Thank you, Jocelyn. I was very sweet of you to call. Happy Thanksgiving to you and to your child right there. And I'd say to

Starting point is 01:01:27 your child, I'd say hang in there, young king. Okay? You little freckled sparrow of the heavens, hang in there. Hold the line, baby boy. Because young DS lords like yourself are heroes and you are beloved. You are God's thank you card. There's not any of us in existence that doesn't see somebody with Don Sinra and feel something, you know. You make a candle just light up inside of everybody. You make a candle just a candle just light up inside of everybody. Y'all are the ones, y'all are the ones braving the genetic nether realm to see what's on the other side. Y'all are the Lewis and Clarks of DNA. Okay, the Harriet Tubman of afflictions. That's y'all That's y'all, young king. And every year we're getting closer to winning this war. I'll say that out loud.

Starting point is 01:02:31 We will battle with Down syndrome until it's all the way down. We will not relent. So keep hugging your mom and keep being a bumblebee of hope for all of us. And keep smiling because when you smile, when people with Down Syndrome smile, we all smile somehow. have that just a not a not a DS but a D-O-S-E of it inside of us and I believe that you know and that's why we can relate and I love you and I love your mom and I wish y'all a happy Thanksgiving and keep teaching the rest of us how to love better. You know? Because I was right there in it.

Starting point is 01:03:27 I was right there just in the grips. And I was able to just break my foot free as a child. And I love you guys, man. Baby, praise God, man. What else? Any other call that came in? Here's a young lady that called. And here we go, one more call.

Starting point is 01:03:50 Okay. I'm struggling. It's just hard going back and forth trying to find a job with an addiction it's really hard I can't seem to put the alcohol down and it's funny that is I listened to your podcast because of how you talked about coke and I've been struggling with putting it down. I just get to the point where I just, I get so deep you can't get out of it and I know what you know what I mean. But I'm really Man it just shit breaks my heart kind of you know, it's tough

Starting point is 01:05:00 Yeah, just I don't know what it makes me if I mean it just I guess yeah, I mean it just yeah I don't know makes me sad Yeah, I guess it makes me like, what does it make you feel like? Well, I think it's powerful that they feel like they could reach out to you to talk about it with someone who can relate. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, I think there's a part of it

Starting point is 01:05:24 it's like you wanna, you can just tell when somebody's relate, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, I think there's a part of it's like you wanna, you can just tell when somebody's hurting, you know? I think we can all tell when somebody else is having a tough time, you know? And we, maybe I'll just call her. Is that crazy, you think, Trevin? Do it.

Starting point is 01:05:40 I think it would make her day. Let's just call her. Let's see. We can even ask her if we, I don't care if we put this on or not. We can just, let me see. Hello? Hey, what's up?

Starting point is 01:06:01 Hello? Hey, what's up? Who is this? This Theo Theo Vaughn I got you did you call you I don't know if this is right person did you call our I just I'll have Like a voicemail thing. I just didn't know if you called it the other day Yeah, yeah, it is who's this holy shit you actually listen to it Yeah, sometimes it takes me a while dude it freaking takes me a while, but we just happen to um start lists just like we've been listening for the past couple weeks to try and do like a

Starting point is 01:06:35 An episode to come out next week and so yeah today I was listening to him, and I just heard your message, and it just like Yeah, you know I struggle with shit, so I just thought I would just say what's up or, you know. Dude, I just had a wreck like two days ago and- Oh, what happened? I don't know how I didn't die. I was not paying attention and I got, I like rear-ended him, but I was flying

Starting point is 01:07:00 and I shouldn't have. And it totaled the fuck out of my car. I don't know how I died. I just came out with a small congestion and nobody else was hurt. And did you have insurance? Yeah, it's been a shitty week. I got cheated on too. So I can't believe you actually listened to my voicemail. That's a lot. I can't believe you actually listened to my voice. Yeah. Well, it just shook me. You know, I mean, it just made me, you know, it's too much. You're having to go through a tough time and I've been there for sure. I'm going on 19 hours of no drinking over right now.

Starting point is 01:07:37 Let's go. That's awesome. Dude, 19 hours is big. I know it's a lot for me. Yeah. Yeah, it is. I'm happy for you. That's awesome. What do you think? Uh, so what, what time of day or what kind of happens that you start to, you feel like you start to fall apart a little bit or make you drink? Well, it was really the start of my job. I started a job last year. We ended up having to work like it was a man in 27 days a week and it's been like that the whole time I started and I finally they fired me in October that's when shit really started to fall apart I started showing up

Starting point is 01:08:15 drinking on the job and stuff it was just getting really rough burnt out yeah so you just drinking and get-by, huh? Yeah, I went through a couple relationships. I tried to make relationships and just got shit on It's just it's been a rough year really. Yeah dang and where do you got family over there now? Yeah, I live with my mom and my dad. Oh nice. You have any children. Oh I'm 24. I'm still living a little bit of life at currently. Oh, well look, I think you got some blessings right there.

Starting point is 01:08:51 And then so you don't have a responsibility outside of yourself, you got to take care of, that's nice, you know? Yeah. I mean, except for your folks, you know? Yeah. Do you ever go to AA meetings or anything? No, I have never thought about it. I got put on medication a while back, but I got off of it. And I think that kind of made it worse because I like cold turkey.

Starting point is 01:09:15 Oh yeah, that can be tricky. But I felt like the medicine was just making me more diverse, but it could be from the drinking too, while drinking on it. I've never had like talked to a therapist or anybody about it mm-hmm what do you feel I mean do you feel like you drank too much you just feel like you feel bad I mean there you just feel like maybe just had a tough couple days no judgment either I'm not judging you yeah I, I just... I've been through... I know there's people out there that go through worse things. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 01:09:49 But I was in a relationship for a few years before I moved back in with my parents, and it was abusive, and I lost... I had a... I was pregnant, and I lost my baby, and I think that's where it all started. It was is really hard Yeah, I bet that's tough. I'll you probably just I don't know what it is

Starting point is 01:10:13 Did you start? Yeah, like what did you start feeling you think? I? Just felt like I couldn't do nothing More I think that's where it all started to fall apart for me. And I kept trying to get back up and it just kept bringing me back down and then I just picked up alcohol and it's funny because I used to never want to drink, not even when I turned 21.

Starting point is 01:10:37 Yeah. It's just a lot of baggage, I feel like. Oh yeah. Oh, if I just can't feel it, if I feel like I just can't do good anymore, that's a horrible feeling. Yeah. I'm sorry that you, I'm sorry that you've been

Starting point is 01:10:52 dealing with all that. I'm trying to get back up on my feet, get another job. I think that's not working and stuff like that is really, you're just sitting at home thinking in your head all the time I don't have one friend and I love it is that she always tried to help me But I'm kind of a hard head and not listen to you. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, we can't yes. Oh, yeah, don't try to help me Well, dang yeah, I wish there was some way that I could help out, you know? I wish there was something I could do to be supportive.

Starting point is 01:11:26 Yeah, I mean, do they have therapists in your town? Do you think even going to somebody like that would help? I'm just trying to think of something that might help you get a better, you know, or do you need to get a new job? Do you think you could even work right now? What do you think's going on? I don't even, I don't know how to start. I don't know if I I've always like been around people that tell me therapy doesn't work

Starting point is 01:11:50 And you don't need to go to pay somebody to tell them about your problems because they don't care You know stuff like that So I guess I kind of just stuck that in my head that I didn't need to go talk to people about it I guess yeah, I kind of just hold it in until I explode. Yeah. Well yeah I just don't know if that's good or not. I don't know if it's good for anything to hold anything in that long you know. No it's not but I've always grew up where you don't talk about your emotions and it's so. Oh yeah dude. Oh god if I if you felt something in my neighborhood, somebody call you a dang faggot, to be honest with you, you know?

Starting point is 01:12:29 And no offense, I didn't say that. I think it's a... No, that is exactly how it is, don't you? But damn, yeah, I feel you there. Well, how about this? Maybe I'll just... Is it alright? I'll check back in with you in like a week or something to see how things are going Okay, that it really helped me call and I actually heard me like it just felt made me feel better Yeah, well, I know what that's I yeah, I can relate to that man for this. Yeah. Yeah, that's true, man. I feel that.

Starting point is 01:13:09 I feel that. Yeah, I feel that. I definitely feel that. Yeah. It feels good to get it out. But some people just don't want to hear about your problems. They're always like well I'm dealing with this, I'm dealing with that, everybody's dealing with shit.

Starting point is 01:13:35 Yeah. But sometimes you just need somebody to hear you out and not make you feel crazy for it. Yeah and you're right sometimes we just want somebody to listen. You know we just want something to be you know we just want a place to put something. There's obviously different things you could go do to try to get help for yourself, you know, or if you wanted to. You have insurance or no? Yeah, I do. Okay, cool. So you could, if you wanted to try therapy, then you could try it at least. You know, I know it takes time to like try and figure that out, but that is a thing. And then, um, yeah, but yeah. How about this? I'll just, yeah, I just wanna just,

Starting point is 01:14:05 I'll check back in like in a week or something and just see how you're doing. Is that okay if I check back in? Yeah, that's fine. Okay, cool. All right, well have a good time over there. What y'all gonna do for Thanksgiving? Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:14:21 What are your parents doing? They're cooking some food. we're all family over the house. I'm not on good terms with my brother right now, so it's going to be kind of awkward. Damn, I wish I could figure that out before he gets over there. Everybody tells me to apologize. I need to stop holding the grudge. I know I do. I'm working on it. Yeah, I feel you. Sometimes that stuff's hard, you know? It's hard.

Starting point is 01:14:47 Maybe, I don't know. I feel you. I struggle with that. I got the same issues with some of my family. It's tough. Family's tough. But yeah, if I can't swallow my pride for my family, at least do it for myself, for others,

Starting point is 01:15:04 because it don't have to be about me on Thanksgiving. That's what I started thinking the other day. Yeah. You know, I don't, I don't deserve to ruin other people's day just because I have feelings a certain way, you know, I should be able to figure that out. I'm not telling you that. I'm just saying that to me really. You gotta be humble and grateful. Well I just I should be able to approach somebody in my family at the end of the day say over the last minute on earth. What do I what do I want that family member to think? I want them to think oh I was holding something against them you know that I couldn't figure out you know like no I would want my family member to think that I love them you know

Starting point is 01:15:43 so I gotta figure that out even if it's for short-term basis, you know, because I don't know I just don't want yeah I don't want to be Always a part of the problem, you know Yeah All right. Well, I got to finish up cuz I'm about to go watch some football All right, what's your first name? Emily. Emily.

Starting point is 01:16:07 Well, I appreciate you calling. And I just hope you hang in there. And yeah, just don't feel alone, you know, because that isn't true. Yeah, I know I have family that supports me. Yeah, and you just have people that are like you. I think sometimes you just have to go find. You have to.

Starting point is 01:16:23 It's hard sometimes. We got to find them, you know Yeah, so but anyway, I hope I'm not trying I don't sound like I'm trying to preach at you do I You know, no, I needed this actually I needed to talk to somebody about it Yeah Anything else you're feeling? No Yeah. Anything else you're feeling? No, just a glass of water. We'll keep going. There you go. Stay hydrated, baby. That's what you can do.

Starting point is 01:16:53 All right, Emily. Happy Thanksgiving. All right. Happy Thanksgiving. You have a good one. Okay. You too. Take care. Wow. Sweet girl. Wow, sweet girl. Yeah, man, it just, that's wild. That's so fun to you. That's the same things I'm dealing. I got some family, it's just like, it's tough.

Starting point is 01:17:13 But then what do I wanna do? I wanna go, I wanna bring all this shit or tell my family members like, well, I don't wanna be there if they're there. Then I'm just making a storm. And the truth is there's a part of me inside of me that wants to be around my family. It wants everything to be okay, you know, but there's another part of me that wants to have things my way. That's

Starting point is 01:17:39 really what it is for me. Even if the other person wronged me or I don't like their energy or whatever, I can't figure the shit out for two hours. You know? And then what's my part in it? I'm a saint? No. Sometimes I'm a Saint Bernard with a couple of face tattoos, baby. I'm fucking Jelly Wolf, you feel me? So don't make me pop the trunk. Oh, this is my brother. Let me see if I can get a couple of him to say a couple of things he's thankful for. Big Z. What's up, bro? Not much on recording my podcast right now, brother. How are you? Good, good. Just checking in on you, bro. And seeing checking out on you after the other day.

Starting point is 01:18:27 Oh yeah. I appreciate it, man. Yeah. I was just talking to some girl. I've been, she like called her hotline. She'd been having a tough time. Oh, really? Yeah. She just, yeah. She was having a tough time. So I just gave her, I just called her over there

Starting point is 01:18:40 and was talking to her for a little while. Oh, from the show? Yeah. Oh, nice the show? Yeah. Oh, nice. Yeah, so you got the, you've been doing the hotline more now? Someone said that to me the other day. I'm trying to, I just,

Starting point is 01:18:52 sometimes it's hard for me to feel comfortable. It's like, I don't like to do it when I don't, or do solo, you know, sometimes I do my podcast just by myself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't like to do it if the, if I don't feel comfortable, you know, like if I feel agitated or something or I'm stressed out. Yeah, well, that's fine. Makes sense to me. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:19:15 Because it just feels like I can't be I don't feel like my see, you know, I just feel like I'm like I'm just going through the motions or whatever, you know. Yeah, you kind of caught up in other stuff. But it was just, yeah. But some girls called, she'd just been struggling with it. Oh, nice. That's pretty crazy. You kind of did a little 12-step work on your podcast. Yeah, just to listen to her, she was talking about. I don't know. She reminded me of just... It's funny because we both had some of the same same things which was like being around family during the holiday Just stuff like that too. We ended up talking about Yeah, yeah, I need to call that hotline man. I should forget about that. You can call in sometime

Starting point is 01:19:55 Yeah, dude. Well, actually you can help us right now We're finishing that if you have a couple things you're thankful for we're just gonna think of a couple of them on the way Out of the episode if you got a couple Such a big question I know it is I guess I mean I'm definitely thankful for my family You know you and everyone else in our family for sure I'm really thankful for my friends and the friendships that I've been developing. I mean, I'm thankful for potential, you know, just like being able to just to get up in the morning and go for another day. I'm thankful for really thankful for the I get to be a parent. You know, oh, yeah, that's a good one.

Starting point is 01:20:56 Yeah, I love parenting. I love raising my children. What is that here? Yeah, I used to have this uh This hypothetical like it's a little bit derogatory, but I can tell you if you want. Yeah. All right All right. So if you're on an island You can't you can't masturbate Right, you can't okay. That's the example. You have no arms, you can't do it. Okay. You have legs though?

Starting point is 01:21:27 Well, yeah, but if you can use them to masturbate, then no. Because you can't masturbate in this example. Okay, so no matter what- There's no way you can do it. There's no way you can do it with one leg. You have one leg and no arms. Aww. Got you. And you're just laying naked on the beach on this deserted island, right? Okay. But you have a strong libido All right, and you're a heterosexual male like you like you I mean like you probably are I don't know for certain

Starting point is 01:21:52 But you probably are heterosexual males. So you're heterosexual male. Yeah, and You have a strong libido you can't and then all of a sudden there's another man on the island. Oh So here's the question. Mm-hmm. Do you eventually have sex with this man? No, I don't think you do. Now for me it's a hell yeah. God. I mean. Really? I don't mean like. Well yeah think about it. Which if you can't, if you can't masturbate you can't. Do y'all date for a long time first or is there, or how does it even? No, one day you're out there just laying on the beach because you can't walk.

Starting point is 01:22:28 You only have one leg. You can get up and hop over there. You just lay down. Well, you could knee over. You could knee over. You could hobble over. And then from the distance, here comes this man walking and he's got two legs.

Starting point is 01:22:42 Oh yeah. Big spender, huh? Big spender, he's got a shirt, he's got a shirt, but you can see his chest and... You guys just strike it up, you know, you start to make a little... What are you talking about, dude? Just listen, dude, here's the example, you make a little bonfire together, you roast weenies, you have a little weenie roast. Wait, hold on, you can't even walk, but suddenly you're a damn wee blow scout dude. No bro look he carries you over to the fire and lays you down. Oh god.

Starting point is 01:23:12 Breasts up, breasts up, breasts up. He lays you down 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. Alright. Alright man, I'm gonna give you a buzz back, alright? That's what I'm thankful for. Alright bro, I love you. Alright, I love you too, man. Wow! It's got me thinking too, man. You're like, you'd have to go on dates with the guy. You know what I'm saying? You're like, and you'd have to know people aren't coming to get you.

Starting point is 01:23:48 You can't just, you know what I'm saying, Trevin? You'd be having sex with the guy and then you hear a helicopter over top. Yeah, dude, totally. Yeah, you can't be, 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. Which is fine, but don't be, 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.

Starting point is 01:24:12 Which is fine, but don't be like, oh, the island or whatever. Wow. Just an island, boy. Dang, bro, and that's why our family has trouble during the holidays, I'll tell you that man. That is why they do. Blessings to everybody out there man. Thank you guys for being a part of my life. Thank you for letting me be a part of your life. Thank you for, just this year it's been crazy man. The past couple weeks were really crazy. Yeah, I kinda was like losing my mind.

Starting point is 01:24:42 I went on Joe Rogan's show and I was just having a tough time on that. I just was like, I think of was like losing my mind. I went on Joe Rogan's show and I was just having a tough time on that. I just was like, I think I got real scared like after like the election and, uh, people making pod like they're like podcasts swayed the election. And I don't believe any of that. I believe people do what they want to do, you know? And, and then they make out to be this big right wing fat people emailing me about fascism or whatever.

Starting point is 01:25:06 And just like, yeah, just because I voted for my buddy. Bobby Kennedy is my friend. That is my friend. I know Bobby. In fact, he's a good, he's a, just a, he's somebody I trust. He's my friend, right? I'll vote for my friend. You think my friend is gonna run for fricking president

Starting point is 01:25:34 of the United States and I'm not gonna vote for him, dude? Or for, you know, minister of health or whatever, or whatever it is called, it's called Deadpool 7 or whatever he's called now or whatever, you know, the CVS warlord, or I'm not even sure what they're calling him now. But yeah, I'm gonna vote for my friend. And I don't really care what anybody thinks about that. I don't think.

Starting point is 01:26:03 And I wouldn't think it's weird if you vote for your friend, I don't give a fuck who anybody votes for. But yeah, so, but I don't know, yeah, I think just a lot of stuff like kind of freaked me out in the past couple weeks and I was just been feeling overwhelmed and, and yeah, and then we all go through shit and then the year's going fast and whatever.

Starting point is 01:26:21 I'm not, I'm not making a pity party. I'm just happy to take a breath, man. I'm just happy to take a breath, happy to be alive. And maybe I do feel like I have to explain myself. I don't know. I mean, you know, I don't know. I'm just, I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, so you won't come to my house or office. I don't even have an

Starting point is 01:26:45 office, but you won't come to whatever and see like a board, like a, you know, chalkboard or whatever with arrows on it or whatever, or like mitt, you know, it says, you know, secrets or, you know, just like, so anyway, I don't know what I'm talking about. Who cares, man? I've talked enough what I'm talking about who cares man I've talked enough I've wasted enough of your time today as always the hotline is nine eight five six six four nine five zero three and yeah the holidays man you got to think they're coming up no that's Jesus. I'm gonna beat somebody's ass outside of a bed, bath, and beyond if I have to hear that. Let's try this.

Starting point is 01:27:39 Okay. It's close. It's a bit much. That's my brother. I can't listen to that anymore. He's trying to get me to go on a cruise, I bet. There we go. ["Sweet Home Alone"] A little too slow. Oh yeah. That's taking a bath by yourself, dude. That's when it gets really crazy.

Starting point is 01:28:10 If you're young and you jerk off to that, dude, you obviously wear like a nice jacket when you do it, you know? Just remind everybody be good to yourselves man, be good to others, we'll just keep doing what we can do. I'm excited about the end of the year we have coming up, we will take a week off at some point for no episode. And yeah, that's all that's going on and happy Thanksgiving to you, Trevin. You too, brother. Yeah, thank you for being here.

Starting point is 01:29:08 Riley Mao, Ben Becker, all of the producers that have helped, Zach Powers, Colin Reiner, Nick Davis, Cameron George. We got a whole gaggle of guys and people who have over the years. Happy Thanksgiving to you guys and thank you guys have over the years happy thanksgiving to you guys and thank you guys for being a part of my life and and the support and you guys be good to yourselves baby I'm going to make a simple and easy-to-make cake. First, make the dough.

Starting point is 01:29:58 I'm going to make a round shape. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple Christmas tree. I'm going to make a simple and easy-to-make cake.

Starting point is 01:30:33 I'm going to make a simple and easy-to-make cake. I'm going to make a simple and cute flower. I'm going to make a flower that looks like a flower. I'm going to make a simple and easy-to-make cake.

Starting point is 01:31:13 I'm going to make a simple and easy-to-make cake. I'm going to make a simple and easy and easy and easy and easy and easy and easy

Starting point is 01:31:37 and easy and easy and easy and easy and easy I really wanna believe you got plans for me Santa, tell me when you show yourself to me Help me find who my baby will be I'm going to make a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

Starting point is 01:32:13 little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a Santa, tell me when you show yourself to me Please help me find who my baby will be Santa, tell me when you show yourself to me Help me find you my baby Who my baby, who my baby

Starting point is 01:32:42 Who my baby, oh my baby, oh my baby will be tonight

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