This Past Weekend - Keep Moving Forward | This Past Weekend #135

Episode Date: October 1, 2018

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Starting point is 00:01:01 www.charlottecounselingandwellness.com to get started today. you You think that's scary? Is that scary music? Let's see if we have something scary. that sound like some ghosts or uh you know that sound like maybe a couple of ghosts or um like their parents are out of town and they're throwing a party, you know. That's what that sounds like. Let's hear another scary, scary sound. And... Ooh. Uh-oh. What's gonna happen?
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Starting point is 00:03:54 how will i ever find all my friends on on insta goose um what's up, guys? Welcome to This Past Weekend. Thank you guys for being here. I'm just thinking about how spooky it's getting in the world. Because it's Halloween time. You know, it's Halloween, man. Halloween. Man, I used to love, do you remember Halloween? Remember how much fun, dude, remember, remember how much fun you had?
Starting point is 00:04:34 Remember how much fun you had? Halloween. What are you going to be? What are you going to be? For like a couple of weeks when you were in like elementary school, middle school, what are you going to be? What are you going to be? I'm going to be? What are you going to be for like a couple of weeks when you were in like elementary school, middle school? What are you going to be? What are you going to be? I'm going to be a princess. I'm going to be a coal miner. I'm going to be a firefighter. That was always a big one. I'm going to be a firefighter. You know, and it was just like, and the costumes used to be way more normal. Way, like, oh, Daniel is a bat.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Oh, that's good job, Daniel. You know? Oh, Lawrence is, he's a coal miner in a wheelchair. Oh, good job, Lawrence. Selena is pregnant. Oh, that's interesting, bud. Way to go, Selena. You know, you just, you see that little girl, she come to the door, she, you know, that's her idea of creativity.
Starting point is 00:05:31 She's seven years old. She got a pillow in her, you know, and lipstick on. You're like, okay, she's, you know, maybe seeing a little too much at the house, you know. But that was, that was, that was then, that was, that was Halloween, dude, and then I remember you would get the candy, and I always liked them Snickers, them baby Snickers, you know, out here in, in, in Los Angeles, they give all, you know, the costumes are, you know, out here, it's not even, it's not even, you know, it's like Jackson is a hashtag. Lorenzo, well, he refuses to dress up this year because he believes that Halloween is, you know, it's not fair to ghosts. Like,
Starting point is 00:06:22 actual ghosts aren't getting the credit they deserve. Yeah, well, fuck that, bruh. Halloween is a great opportunity to get an empty bag or anything empty. Dude, I remember one time running around our neighborhood with a plant pot. Because it just seemed like the biggest thing around. Fill it up. I didn't care what you put in it. Dude, I remember one guy just poured half of a beer out into mine. I'm like, yeah. Dude, I loved getting them little Snickers. And I love putting on my costume. Look, I found these sounds. Remember,
Starting point is 00:07:00 listen to these Halloween mask sounds, okay? These were sounds that your mask made maybe when you put the mask on. All right, here we go. Remember that? Okay, now what about this one? Listen to this one. Now, if you had some money, that. Now, if you had some money, that second one, you had a little bit of money because they had that hard, that plastic. It was like getting back in your mother's womb.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Just once you go, whatever that and that thing was always like a wolf or like a, you know, a donkey head or a, you know, it could be anything. It would be, but it was something like severe, like a big lizard head. If you got into that thing, you weren't. That was it for the night. I didn't like those things because I always felt trapped. You know, I remember one time being in a costume and I couldn't get that thing off, man. You know, I remember one time being in a costume and I couldn't get that thing off, man. And I could see out of the eyes and I could see the world like so clearly, but no one could hear me because the plastic was too thick.
Starting point is 00:08:16 So I quit talking to people. And it was sweaty. And it was scary because I couldn't like my peripheral vision was gone. So I couldn't see around me that good. And I could just see. And it was just like I was watching the world happen a little bit more. And I thought for a second, man, honestly, I thought that was like, I wonder if this is what it feels like to have like autism or Down syndrome.
Starting point is 00:08:41 You know, like you're in there and you can see, like it all seems really, really clear. But you're in there and you can see. Like it all seems really, really clear. But you're like sweating. And people can't hear you or you can't like communicate as well. Because, you know, you got on these, you know, you got so much extra on you. You know? Remember that? Getting into that one. This is another one. There's one more sound. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:09:10 That's kind of similar. Similar one. But yeah, Halloween. Man, Halloween. And you would run, bro. You would have that candy. Dude, I remember this. I wanted candy so bad. I remember grabbing like my wiener
Starting point is 00:09:30 and just squeezing it. That's how bad I wanted candy. And I wanted that snicker, man. Every time I wanted that snicker, that's exactly, give me this. Or did they have the snicker? No.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Somebody had a sucker. What is that? Bitch, I'll get that at the bank. I'll get that at a dang, at a bank. I'll get that at a Whitney Bank. That's what they used to have in Louisiana, that Whitney Bank. It's crazy, man. It was so much fun. Dude, and I remember my mom had that station wagon. And the station wagon, dude, you could hide in the old school. Now they got these little Subaru Legacy. You know, we had the station wagon. This thing was that World War II hitter. You know what I'm saying? If you got far enough into the back, you could hear soldiers fighting. That shit, that fifth row. You know, they had the back seat.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Then they had this big extra long area. That was straight up Dunkirk back there. People were losing their lives back there. And my mom, they had the station wagon. It had a thing. It dropped down. Because this is when I was probably, let me think, five or six. And the station wagon had a back thing.
Starting point is 00:10:56 It was like a tailgate. It was a tailgate. And it would just drop down. It was heavy, bro. If it came down, you didn't put it back up till maybe springtime or until a different time of year. You know, it was, that thing was heavy and we would all get on there and hang, we would all get up. We'd stand on there and be all dressed up in our costumes. You know, everybody would be keyed up and just, you know, somebody would be, somebody would just be like, I'm a, I'm a, like a, a bloody ghost. And they would just, you know, have blood all over them and maybe have a bed sheet kind of tied around them.
Starting point is 00:11:34 They actually just looked like a Greek person that had been, you know, in a domestic dispute. You know, you'd have some horrible fucking costumes. You know, now it's a little bit more like the parents dress the kids, I feel like. When I was young, you dressed... Dude, you just... I remember you put a little bit of dirt on you. Like, I'm a piece of sod. You put a little bit of...
Starting point is 00:12:01 Maybe some grass in your hair. But it was fun, man. And we'd all get on the back of that. We'd get on the back of mom's station wagon. And she'd let us stand on the tailgate. She'd let us stand on the tailgate. Because I lived in America in the 90s. And you could stand on the tailgate.
Starting point is 00:12:19 And you could hold on to the top of the station wagon. And mom would drive around the rich people's neighborhood. And I'd be on the back of the station wagon and mom would drive around the rich people's neighborhood. And I'd be on the back of that, just waiting. You see a house where it looked like they had somebody sitting out front, like a senior citizen or something in a rocking chair. And they were all dressed up and they had like maybe some decorations. And be like, oh, these motherfuckers got that snicker. These the people that got the snicker.
Starting point is 00:12:49 Because when I was young, that's all you wanted, man. Some people during Halloween, they were giving out the little, they used to have these black, these candies. They were like, it was just a, it was kind of like somebody had, they were orange and black. It was just wrapped up and it was barely wrapped up. Some of the candy was kind of leaking out the back end, you know. Some of the candy had a little bit of side boob kind of, you know, a little brown kind of side boob popping out of the wrapping. You know, these little candies, they came in little wrappers, little, you know, little blankets, little duffel bags for candies. You know, wrappers, wrappers, little blankets, little duffel bags for candies, you know, wrappers, wrappers.
Starting point is 00:13:27 And they would give you these and it was chewy. It was the unknown candy. It was like the tomb of the unknown diabetes. It was just a chunk of, you were like, oh, is this chocolate? of, you were like, oh, is this chocolate? Is it caramel? Is it apple? And you would just eat it. And by the time you even kind of maybe had an idea what it was, it was gone and you had no idea what it was. And it was actually absolutely just nothing, just garbage straight up. Just that, I mean, it was, I mean, it could have been a polio vaccine. I have no clue what it was. I mean, it could have been, I just remember it got your sugar up and got you amped up to go another couple blocks, you know? And I remember a couple of them, if you had two or three of the orange ones in a row, you couldn't turn your neck for a little bit. That shit would get my neck all
Starting point is 00:14:20 tight, make my veins really start, you know, make my veins kind of dance together and kind of get to know each other a little bit. Maybe even doing, you know, make it, make it feel like your neck didn't want your neck would get tight. If I had too many of them little, because they were just unknown candies. They didn't have a name to them. They were cheap and they just, it was just enough to get you to that next house and see if they had a little thing of Smarties, bro. Rich people always had Smarties or, you know it, little Snickers.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Dog, on Halloween, bro, dude, I would train all month in October at the house stretching, you know, getting beat up by my brother, you know, pissing my mom off off let her hit me with that leather because I was going to be ready for October 31st when daddy little daddy hit the night time for those about to rock we salute you hit the night time going looking for that snicker and they call me and they see me they see me and they know I'm hunting that snicker. And I'd be out there. And we'd be on the back of moms.
Starting point is 00:15:31 And I've told this story, I probably told it last Halloween, I'd be on the back. We'd all be lined up on the back of us, one of us. You know, somebody's just easy, easy, easy costumes. Somebody's a turtle, you know. Little Ronald's a turtle, you know. Little Ronald's a turtle, you know. Little Nathaniel, he's a goat. And he got real goat hair. His dad put real honey and goat hair on his back to make him look authentic. And he's a real little goat boy. And they put little fake horns on his
Starting point is 00:16:00 head, you know. And they squeezed him maybe into a, they might've squeezed him into a mask. I don't even know. They might've squeezed him in one of those tight hitters. And little fangles all keyed up. And maybe they even, maybe his daddy had a little bit extra time off of work in October and he put real wood on the bottom of his shoes and he nailed it into the bottom of his shoes or super glued it onto the bottom and painted it black. So now little Daniel got real hoofs and he, you know, maybe he's out there and he have on, you know, children's underwears or, you know, or even sometimes in Halloween you put on a baby diaper.
Starting point is 00:16:41 You put a diaper on your body, you know, in case you wanted to piss or something because you wouldn't, you know, we went hard at Halloween. There wasn't, and we were on enemy territory. We're out there trick-or-treating by the rich. Do you trick-or-treat in my neighborhood, dude? You get probably, you get a rash for sure. Bed bugs, you get probably, I mean, they have registered, a lot of registered sex offenders by us. So, you know, none of these freelance boys, I'm talking people in the union, you know, them real hitters.
Starting point is 00:17:15 So you wouldn't really, you know, a lot of people by us didn't even have calendars. You stop by dressed up, you know, they might think you're a real animal. If you come by, a little faneuil rolls up as a goat, bro, they might fucking grill that boy up. You know, we having a little bit of, we having some rack of faneuil back here next weekend. We having a barbecue. But yeah, man, we would go and faneuil would have, he'd have maybe real goat hair on him. You know, his dad would put honey on the back of his legs and honey on his back. And then they had real goats. So they'd get real hair off these goats. You know, his dad would put honey on the back of his legs and honey on his back, and then they had real goats.
Starting point is 00:17:46 So they'd get real hair off these goats. Because that's free. If you have goats, that hair is yours if they're cool with it. And you put it on, and then you're like, damn, that boy looks fucking, he's a real swaggy piece out here. And we'd all be on the back of the, and we'd have those diapers on because we weren't going back home. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:18:06 If you, the diaper was because if you wanted to urinate or, you know, or make duty, and you could do it right there and still trick or treat because this was our, this was our Vietnam, bro. October 31st,
Starting point is 00:18:23 it was us against the world. It was us against these candy makers and these people that had front doors. And these people that had jack-o'-lanterns. And it was us and we was going to get ours. We was going to get them baby snicker. And man, it was epic. And we'd all be on the back of that fucking, on the back of mom's car with that, with that, uh, with the tailgate down and she's rolling, bro. She's cruising
Starting point is 00:18:53 cause she's pissed. Cause my mother was always pissed. Think about a time when my mother has been alive. She was pissed then I promise you. And we're on the back and mom would roll up by the yard and we would run and jump off that tailgate into the yard as that car was going, just like right out the back of a C-130, man, shout out to all of our service men and women, just right out in the yard and tumble roll into the yard. Lose half your fucking candy in the roll. Whatever. Onward. Onward. Hold the line.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Forward. And we'd roll out onto the ground. You know, your brother, and then your sister would come off at the last minute. She only two years old. And the fucking, and that mom car still rolling, just coming to a stop.
Starting point is 00:19:49 And my sister just fall off that bitch. She couldn't even jump. Her legs didn't have that jump ability in them yet. They was just, you know, just them fucking little pushers. She would just kind of push herself and then just fall. And she'd fall right off the tailgate into whoever's yard it was, some rich person's yard. And she'd fall right off the tailgate into whoever's yard it was, some rich person's yard. And then it was just every step you could get through the dark grass to get up to that front door. And you would just ring that damn bell.
Starting point is 00:20:16 You would knock. Dude, I would ring and then knock. And if they weren't there within half of a second, I would ring again. Trick or treat! And you would fight over who got to say trick or treat. Remember that? Rolling up close to the door, you'd have a six minute fist fight over who gets to say trick or treat. And then you get there and then they open it up. And sometimes inside you see people having fun.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Families, you know. Maybe they're watching TV or tickling each other. Maybe the dad, if he's rich, he might be throwing a piece of popcorn up in the air. Catching it in his mouth, you know. Maybe the kid, you see he got a nice pair of extra shoes or cleats by the door, whatever. Maybe the kid, you see, got a nice pair of extra shoes or cleats by the door, whatever. They got calendars, legitimate calendars from the actual year it was on the wall. And the mom is right there, and she got the big bowl, and she's dressed up like a little cat or like a female lemur or something kind of sexy, you know, like a little deer.
Starting point is 00:21:27 And she got that bowl. And, man, you hope that snicker was in there. God, I loved Halloween. And then it was on to the next one. And you make the street, and then there weren't as many, you know, you didn't see as many porch lights on. You'd be like, all right, let's get back in the car. Let's get back on mom's tailgate. Go, mom! And mom's complaining.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Who gives a go? Go! You're back there yelling, bro, half your candy. You don't even know. You're getting your brother to look at something, stealing half of his shit. You got all the candy bags tied around your sister's neck. At this point, she's just a sugar mule she's just mulling sweets she's two years old building up thighs by the end of Halloween night by November 1st
Starting point is 00:22:13 she got thighs that look like a damn quarter horse look like a pony that was raised in quicksand and is still alive she got them big strong thighs and she just got nine bags of candy tied around her. And she just mule and sugar and you guys back on the tailgate again, you're going and you see another person's yard and we'd run and we jump off. And I never forget what happened, man. Little Daniel jumped off and some
Starting point is 00:22:46 people every now and then some real fucker has to have a hydrant in the front of their yard. And you know what's great about them? They don't put lights around the hydrant.
Starting point is 00:23:03 They don't put any. It's just a hydrant in the front of the yard. And this person had painted their hydrant brown so it would match their house. What a real Albert fuckstein. So we all running off. We jump into the yard. One, two, three. Just parachuting off the back of mom's tailgate and little Daniel. Little Daniel, that little goat boy. He's all shook up. He's
Starting point is 00:23:31 hopped up. He's had maybe about fucking 65 rolls of Smarties and 15 of those unidentifiable brown and black candies. He got so much. And those things, you couldn't even get them. It would just get stuck in your teeth. Remember that? Remember those? That's all they were.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Those things, the orange and black ones, they just get. All it was was something that kind of tasted like coffee and would get stuck in your teeth. Come on. But little Daniel, bro, he'd run and jumped off. And in the dark, you thought it was yard because we'd all hit yard. And Daniel fucking just landed right into that fire hydrant. Just imagine flying through the air. Halloween on your brain.
Starting point is 00:24:19 65 rolls of Smarties in your system hopped up. Won't be able to close your eyes for a month. You got so much glucose rolling through you. You got real honey hooked goat hair on your back. Your daddy made you fucking wooden hooves. You got pine hooves nailed into the bottom of your Reeboks. And you got on a diaper full of urine and possibly number two. Depends on how fired up you were.
Starting point is 00:24:49 And you got a fucking damn goat mask on your face. And out of nowhere, just bam! Out of the pitch black of fire hydrant. You jump off of a tailgate into pure darkness and you hit a fire hydrant. You jump off of a tailgate into pure darkness and you hit a fire hydrant. And that boy was never the same. Never the same. But that's Halloween, man. God, I love it and I miss it.
Starting point is 00:25:24 And I'm happy to be here, man. Crazy. But different back in the day. People, you could dress up as an apple. You know, an Indian. They had a black kid came to our door as an indentured servant. Like, whatever. People didn't care.
Starting point is 00:25:41 People wasn't like, oh, this means this. This means whatever. This is a kid. They want to dress up, let them dress up, you know, I, you know, I, I, people know I've been Peppermint Pat before, and I'll get a, you know, a cotton, you know, some cotton body cover and stuff, and, you know, shirts and that, and pants, and I'll put little peppermints all over them, and people are like, who are you, And I'm like, I'm Peppermint Pat. And they're like, who is that? And I'm like, who? It's no one. It's Peppermint Pat. You know what I'm saying? I'm that breath, you know, I'm that, I'm that, I'm that sugary little freshener. I'm that sugary freshener. I'll put, you know, my finger, I'll put two, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:23 I'll brush my hands along your, along your cheeks and make your breath smell nice. Peppermint Pat, not a real person, but in my mind it was real. Remember Halloween was also a chance, I remember it was a chance to go door to door in your neighborhood and see what the fuck was going on. Remember that? You get to some people's house, you're like, damn, they don't have any furniture? I remember we opened one, one person opened their door, it was just a garage. Their whole house was just a garage.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Like, what are y'all, y'all sleeping in that Ford Explorer? The hell is going on? But you kind of got to see what was going on in different people's lives, man. It was interesting. It was really, really interesting. But happy early Halloween. I'm excited.
Starting point is 00:27:12 You know, I get excited for the holidays and I get excited. You know, I love the holidays. You know, I love things that bring people together. And I think that the holidays is one of those things. And I think we all need it And I think we all need it. I think we all need it. I want to make a couple of little announcements. You know, the King and the Sting podcast is coming.
Starting point is 00:27:33 If you want to submit some artwork for that, you know, you can email us through the website. Or you can send Brendan Schauber, myself, a DM. And, you know, we're just looking for some cool, we want neat artwork. King and the Sting, K-A-T-S. That's it. If you want to submit something, be a part of it. Take a shot at it. There's no guarantees or anything, but we are looking for neat ideas.
Starting point is 00:27:59 This podcast is going to be user-driven, so you'll be able to submit videos for King and the Sting. podcast is going to be user-driven, so you'll be able to submit videos for King and the Sting that you can present themes, you can have stuff for us to discuss or to battle against each other, like Domino's vs. Pizza Hut. We used that example before. Or Dolphins vs. dolphins versus children that are on swim teams. It could be anything. And you'll be able to present those opportunities to us. Outer space versus inner space. Chakras versus planets.
Starting point is 00:28:39 You'll be able to present any of those things and we'll break them down. So it's all going to be user-driven and we're excited about that. And that's going to be King and the Sting podcast. And it's coming up soon. We don't know when, but probably within about the next, I would say within two weeks, we should have the first episode out. What else is going on? I want to just say thank you for the people that are on Reddit and subreddit. Somebody sent me an email the other day and just said that a lot of people have been on there and it's been really exciting and an exciting you know people commenting and being a part of that as well the facebook group for this past weekend is uh you know is is is uh is tremendous and we have a lot of those people that'll come out to shows and support and help um sell merch and
Starting point is 00:29:23 and just uh be a part of things, man. And I just feel, man, I meet so many nice people. You know, I feel honestly so lucky. I meet so many nice people that come out and they want to talk about this past weekend or they want to talk about an experience that they had or they want to talk about a struggle that's going on in their life. And I want to listen and I want to be a part of that as much as I can. You know, I really appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:29:51 I really, really appreciate it. I think we're going to be able to do some neat stuff together. And I know I keep saying that, but slowly those things come into fruition. I'm going to Charlotte this weekend, and I'll be there. If you have any friends in Charlotte, tell them to come on out. It's not sold out, but it's getting close. And that's October 4th through 6th at the Comedy Zone. And we're going to try, I got Ari Maness coming. And Ari was an original sidekick on this podcast for a few episodes a while back. And he's been a nice friend over the years. And
Starting point is 00:30:20 he's a very funny comedian. He's going to come and help. We're going to do the, we're going to do the money for the, uh, cleaning lady in the room, in the hotel room. You know, I know those women work hard and, uh, and for years I didn't tip those ladies when I would leave a hotel room cause I didn't have any money. And now, you know, I'm able to leave that five, $10, that $20 or, you know, meet her the hallway and just say thank you and leave a little bit of money. So we're going to be we're going to our goal is and we may fail at this. Our goal is to hide money in the hotel room like before she's going to come in and clean. Just basically say, do you want to be on a, like I guess a hidden camera game show maybe, and then see how it breaks down where she, you know, it's going to be like, okay, you have one minute. We hid money in the room, cash, and now you have this much time to find it. And then we're going to have cameras that social, we'll be able to watch her try and find the money, which I think it'll just be a different experience for her.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Being in a hotel room and being able to mess it up and look for cash. So that should be fun, man. That should be a fun experience. I don't know if that's the best way to do things or what it is or what our plan is, but our plan is just, you know,
Starting point is 00:31:40 to help a, help a lady that probably works really hard, make a little bit extra cash. So I want to thank our Patreoners for supporting us and contributing to make those types of things happen. So we use the money to be able to fly Ari there and have him help produce it over the weekend. So I'm pretty excited. What else? Any other announcements? I think that's kind of what's going on think that's kind of what's going on.
Starting point is 00:32:08 That's kind of what's going on. What did I do this weekend? Oh, I went and got that PRP. So some of you guys know, you know, about a year or so ago, I got hair restoration. They take part of your hair hair and your hair is just, you know what your hair is just like, uh, your hair is just, it's like a, it's like a pieces of fabric that grow out of your body. And it's really remarkable when you think about it, that your body is almost like a planet and you know how a planet has like a
Starting point is 00:32:46 forest here and like a pond here and they have water here. Your body is just like that. Your body is like a planet, you know, in some place that have a forest at the top and have a, you know, a little forest around your, around your wiener. And on a planet, a wiener would be like a volcano. And then they have, you know, you have lakes and like whirlpools, and those are like your eyes and mouth that you would, those would be on a planet. It would be like a lake or a sinkhole or a geyser. Your mouth might be a geyser if we're on, you know, the synonym of it for, you know, your body being a planet. know the synonym of it for you know your body being a planet your butthole would be maybe a uh crater or a like a dirty wishing well if somebody had a real dirty wishing well in some town or something like that but i say that just because like hair is basically like you know so
Starting point is 00:33:40 i got that hair surgery and they took you you know, they basically did reforestation and reforestation is when you take a little bit of a forest and you move it somewhere else. I don't know if you've ever, like, I remember one time I stayed at a double tree and I stole all the plants out of the lobby and put them in my hotel room over the weekend or over like two weeks. I was there for two weeks working on a television show and I took the big, big, beautiful plants one out. I mean, these is, you know, these plant pots were three feet across, four feet across, and I've got them all. And I got them on a dolly and got
Starting point is 00:34:08 them up to my room. So my room looked like a jungle, you know, the lobby looked a little sparse boy, but, uh, but, but my room looked like a jungle and that's called reforestation when you move plants around and that's what they do. So I got the hair surgery a while back. They took hair out of the back of my head because I'm full back here. I got something. When I drive by, you can see animals coming to the edge by the highway because they see this bad crop I got rocking. I'm that crop rocker.
Starting point is 00:34:47 I got soybean, sugar cane hanging off the back of my headpiece. My skull, bro, if they ever do my skull at science, at a science place or a scientific center, they're never going to be able to get the hair off the skull. That's how much shit is in there. A lot of my hair starts in my spine, grows up through my brain, out my head bone or my skull and into the world. But animals, they sense that they know when they see that, you know, when they see that gumption rocking through, when they see that I got the balls to grow the falls, daddy.
Starting point is 00:35:24 gumption rocking through when they see that I got the balls to grow the falls, daddy. And anyway, for a year ago, I got the hair transplant. They take the hair out and they put some of it in the front and I wasn't losing my hair. I just, you know, I've said this before. I love surgery. You know, I love little surgeries. I like being in there. They make you feel taken care of. You get there, they care about who you are. You know, they write down your information. And they have like a nurse that checks on you. It just made me feel really cared for. And so that's what I always liked about them. And so anyway, you have to go back in though, once a year and, and, and they take stem cells, they take blood out of your arm, and they basically pick an all-star team out of your blood in a machine that picks all-star. Basically, they get all the Dominique Wilkinses out of your blood.
Starting point is 00:36:13 They send the Lonzo Balls elsewhere, but they take all the Kobe Bryants and the Chris Mullins and the Penny Hardaways, the Ant Fernies. And they take all of those, those all-star teams, and they inject them into your scalp. And then it makes your hair stay fresh and keeps that moisture going. So that's what I did. That's what I did. So if you saw on my Instagram that I was doing this treatment, it's called PRP. And that's what they do. And one of the funny, and they, it's after you get the hair transplant, which I did last year, they put some of my mullet
Starting point is 00:36:51 right in the front. So some of the front, front of my hair, even though I don't know if you could tell at all, cause I can't even tell, I mean, fuck, it might not even have been effective, but some of the front, front of my hair is actually the back of my hair. And so to just be able to know that if you, you know, you got that hockey haircut, been effective. But some of the front of my hair is actually the back of my hair. And so to just be able to know that if you got that hockey haircut, you got that mole mole, you got that thing that when you break it out of a cap or out of a hat, if raccoons see it, it makes them want to fuck. That's the kind of hair I have. Dude, I'll take my shit for a walk at night. All the raccoons
Starting point is 00:37:24 that are just looking through dumpsters, or there's always that one weird raccoon that's in the recycling bin, like, you know, looking at a book or something. Remember that? That raccoon is a, what is wrong with that raccoon? That, you know? But they have, but that, but when I walk by at night with my hair out, you see those animals fucking.
Starting point is 00:37:46 So I know that I have something going on out here on the top of my head, and I want to take care of it. And that's what the PRP treatment is. They inject it back in. This doctor that I met in Los Angeles is great. He's a great dude. He's really cool. He used to do liver transplants. And my sister had a liver transplant when I was young.
Starting point is 00:38:03 We bonded on that aspect. And then we went from there, but that's what's going on. I'm excited about King and the sting. What else happened? Uh, we had, um, let's get into a few calls, man. Let's get into a few calls. I want to let you know that this episode is brought to you by gray block pizza, a few calls. I want to let you know that this episode is brought to you by Gray Block Pizza. Gray Block Pizza and Bronx Born Pizza, which is in Bend, Oregon. Gray Block, which is in Los Angeles on Pico Boulevard. My friend Ruben sent me a picture on Instagram the other day of he and his wife over at Gray Block while they were visiting Los Angeles. I was grateful for that. Thank you for sharing that with me. One of my good friends
Starting point is 00:38:45 is the owner of that place. But yeah, I loved Halloween growing up. I loved Halloween. I just loved being young. And I loved that time when you could, you weren't, everything wasn't so judgmental. You know, we let people breathe a little bit. We let people be human. You know, and you got to be human enough so that it actually meant something on Halloween when you got to be a beast or you got to be a scientist or you got to be a bumblebee or a rat. It got to, it meant something because it's like you were like, oh, tonight I get to creep out. I'm enough of a human that I get to creep out. I get to be a creep now.
Starting point is 00:39:39 I get to be something that is scary. something that is scary. And there was value in that because it was the one night you could do it. But now people out here fucking trick or treat. Some people are so angry out in the world they Halloween in every day. Every day they leave their house
Starting point is 00:40:00 as a Frankenstein. And Frankenstein was a man, I don't know if he was Jewish or German, Stein? Steen or Stein, one of them, I think one or the other. But yeah, he was like maybe a Jewish man or a German man that had bad skin, I think. And I think he also got electrocuted by his friend and they, I think, shared an apartment.
Starting point is 00:40:27 I'm not exactly sure. But it was fun back then. Because you could, it was a night to be something different. It was a night to be something different. And I loved it, man. I loved Halloween. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.com. It is professional and affordable counseling. And if you need counseling or you're considering counseling, you're afraid to maybe go
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Starting point is 00:41:50 What else? Let's get into some calls here. This, we have, last week we had a guy who called in and he'd been having some issues, you know, and he called in at the end of the podcast and he was struggling with addiction and with some, you know, and he called in at the end of the podcast and he was struggling with addiction and with some, you know, because the addiction is the dark arts and that's Voldemort living in the nape of your neck. And imagine having something evil just living in your neck, casting spells, casting spells inside of you, spells that you carry out a lot in your life, even though you don't want
Starting point is 00:42:22 to. And we had a man that called in last week, a father. You know, he was five days sober, and he'd been struggling with some issues with his wife and feeling like he was going to lose his child. And we had a couple of responses that came into that, and we'll tap into one right here. This is Jasmine.
Starting point is 00:42:42 Onward. Hey, Theo. I'm Jasmine. I'm from Calabasas California and this is uh Jasmine is uh thank you for calling Jasmine and this is on our video you can see this on YouTube you will be able to see the actual video and you can submit videos to the website through uh theovon.com as well onward calling in because I heard the last guy, Devin, from Montana, going through some dark times with alcohol. And I have not drank alcohol in 10 months now. And I'm just, ah, dude, I'm living the best life now.
Starting point is 00:43:15 Oh, congratulations, Jasmine. She says she's 10 months now off of alcohol. And alcohol is liquid fire batter. I mean, if you don't know what alcohol is, if you're a child or something and you're listening to this, which honestly I recommend, dude. You know what I'm saying? This could be that dangerous thing that kids listen to sometimes this show.
Starting point is 00:43:34 But alcohol is basically like pouring fire, basically like pouring the devil's sweat right into your dam, just into your soul holster. Onward. So maybe some insight on early recovery. Time is going to feel really long right now. I was a blackout drinker,
Starting point is 00:43:54 and now I have to live through all those hours, and I'd be like, oh my God, this is so long. But it gets better, and it goes back to normal, and it's just the first few months um two your brain is going to do everything it can right now to regulate itself without alcohol so you're going to feel a lot of feelings it's going to feel really like maybe irrational erratic um my tip is write that shit down or put it in a voice memo or something but get it out of your brain because if it stays in your brain it's going to feel like it's your personality or it's
Starting point is 00:44:29 it's a trait that you have and it's not it's it's just what's going on right now wow those are uh that's really true that's yeah if you it's wild how your thoughts like yeah you feel like that's the truth and especially a lot of times you're going through early recovery, you're in there struggling. And even if you're just in regular life, sometimes you get haunted. You get the ghosts, man. And especially when you're taking off a time off of alcohol or getting into sobriety. You got a lot of time to kill. That's time before where you was at the bar.
Starting point is 00:45:02 You was ordering that, you know, you know, that Rumpelmintz Canadian tuck away. You know, with that splash of lime lime or something. That's when you were having nine beers or something, you know, petting your buddy's cat or whatever. Or, you know, trying to touch a mousetrap, getting real high and trying to touch a mousetrap and be that brave finger, you know, Napoleon Bonaparte of finger fronts. So it is. It's a lot of free time. And you got to be careful with your free time. But like she's saying, if you're writing this stuff down, you're getting it out of your head.
Starting point is 00:45:41 Because a sheet of paper can really be your head in front of you. And it's hard to look at your head when you are in your head. So if you can write things down and put your head out in front of you, then you can really get a different perspective. But congratulations, Jasmine, on 10 months. And that's some sweet suggestions there for Devin. Yeah, he was really, really struggling. And I got to get in touch with him, actually.
Starting point is 00:46:10 I'll have to make sure to see how he's doing. What else? Let's keep it cruising here. We had another call, actually, with a suggestion for Devin. And let's get into that one. Here we go. Hey, yo, what's up, Bubba? This is Devin down in Georgia, man. In Paulton County. Oh, Devin and let's get into that one. Here we go. Hey, yo, what's up, Bubba? This is Devin down in Georgia, man.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Paulding County. Oh, Devin from Georgia. And this is Devin for Devin because the guy who called in last week was Devin. Onward. Gang, gang. I was calling in, man. I was listening to your last episode. There's another guy named Devin. He's going through some things, dude. From one Devin to another, man.
Starting point is 00:46:42 I'm just telling him, bro, you can make it. I use This Past Weekend and The Church. I use a lot of your guys' podcasts, man. Get through every day. dude from one devon to another man just telling her you can make it i use uh this past weekend and the church i use a lot of you guys podcast man get through every day but after four years and not getting to see my daughter man i got it last weekend i get to go to every soccer practice i love it man it's worthwhile keep doing what you're doing theo and devon hold in there man you got it wow excuse me Excuse me there. Wow. Four years until he got to see his daughter. You know, he gets to go to soccer practice.
Starting point is 00:47:13 And he said, hold in there. And that's it, man. That's it. Look, this might be your Halloween. Like Jasmine's saying, you're going to have these ghosts in your head. You know, you're going to have that Frankenstein or Stein. You know, you're going to have, you know, somebody's dress, you know, little Selena dressed like a pregnant. You're going to have these things in your head.
Starting point is 00:47:34 They're going to be haunting you. And you got to hold the line. You know, you got to jump in it. You know, you're in the grass now. You know, you ain't still out there running and jumping in the dark hydrants like Daniel. Like little goatee Daniel. You got an opportunity. You're in the grass and you just got, you have to trudge along.
Starting point is 00:47:59 Devin, you have to trudge along to get to that front door to get that snicker. I know that's kind of a crazy correlation and I'm not, I don't really, you know, it's just a silly correlation, but what I'm saying is that other people can do it. This man, Devin, did it down in Georgia. Dude, if he can do it in Georgia, you can do it in somewhere else. Because different places are just different places, dude. It's different pieces of land. And you can do it, man. You know, but it's nice to know that you have people out there that are thinking about you right now.
Starting point is 00:48:27 And you got this, Playboy. You got this. And we got to check in with each other. I'm going to check in with you as soon as this show is over. The hotline is 985-664-9503. You can always call the hotline and leave your thoughts, suggestions, feelings, what's going on in your life. You know, we're out life. We're out here. We're out here.
Starting point is 00:48:48 And thank you guys for calling and being a part of this show. Let's take another call here. Onward. What's up, Theo? Alvarez calling out of California. What's up, Alvarez, man? Onward. Just wondering what you think about I got fired last week.
Starting point is 00:49:17 I'm a maintenance mechanic, electrician, AC guy, certified welder. So I'm on this boom lift. They call me down and tell me to go work on this toilet, which I usually don't do. Toilets full of feces at a place, bro, that they had, you know, I used to work at this place called Ducko's when I was young, and it was like a burger joint, and it was only in business for probably two months, which I don't even know you could be in business for two months. I mean, that seemed like almost not even a business. It seemed like somebody just having people stop by and then getting a little bit of their money and that's it. But so Duckos, they had burgers and cheeseburgers and they had the famous four and that's what
Starting point is 00:49:54 it was called and it was four pieces of meat, cheese on the top, cheese on the bottom. And that was the big thing. I was like, oh, we're going to put cheese on the bottom of the burger, that famous four. And dude, people would get sick from it, I guess. I don't know if something's wrong with the meat or something's wrong with the bread or just something's wrong with fucking ducko and the whole joint. So I'm in there, bro. I was a counterboy.
Starting point is 00:50:16 But that's the funny thing. Look, when there's only two people and employees and one of them is the boss, they hire you as the counterboy. Next thing you know, you in there. Next thing you know, you in there in the toilet with that you know that plunger and you in there just fucking ratatouille next thing you know you working in that boo-boo kitchen you working the toilet shift
Starting point is 00:50:36 because they don't have anybody else and the owner want to act like he's never dealt with you know like he's never dealt with feces and, like he's never dealt with feces. And even though the crazy thing is he's the one making the food and selling it. He's the one making people sick. And now I'm having to work in the back streets of this establishment. In the seedy underbelly of his own customers.
Starting point is 00:51:00 And dude, it was the smallest little restaurant. Had three tables. So people would order from me, go sit down, get sick, then go use. And the bathroom, there was no. Sometimes you get a bathroom, there's like a little waiting area. You open a door, there's another little room or a hallway and then the bathroom. This shit was just door, toilet. No.
Starting point is 00:51:24 And it was just gender neutral, anybody could go in there, like a mule could go in there if it wanted to, and so you would hear, it was just so bizarre, bro, you would, people would be sick in there, and it's like, I'm literally trying to take an order, and like 11 feet away from me through some very, very limited plywood. Very, very limited plywood. You could hear somebody making just some damn, you know, just that body belt. Just, you know, making a belt out of his bottom. And just sweating and feeling really, really airy, man.
Starting point is 00:52:03 You're feeling airy. Bro, your booty gets Jamaican, bro. Sometimes you're in there sweating so hard. Don't with me. Onward. Like, there was a sign on the door, don't use it. And some dude did that. I see no toilet paper.
Starting point is 00:52:16 All I seen was feces. Oh, that's a booty terrorist, bro. I've been in there, somebody. Dude, I was at a Falcons game one time time And they had a urinal with the bag over it You know they do that They put that plastic bag This dude Turned his butt around
Starting point is 00:52:33 You know cut a little hole in that bag He had a sharp object or something A little shiv or a piece of bone in his pocket He cut a little thing in that plastic And boo booed right into the deal. Unbelievable people living out in the world. Onward. So I'm like, I'm not doing that. He said, the supervisor goes, if I have to do it, we don't need you here. I do a lot for you, Joe, because I also go to school at night trying to get my long-term goals, get my master's in
Starting point is 00:53:00 social work. Oh, congratulations, man. I love hearing that. Alvarez, I love hearing that, brother. That's what you want to do. Social work, man. Because you want to help other people, you know? Onward. Try to help. I'm 11 years clean.
Starting point is 00:53:18 Trying to go that route, you know, right now. Okay. So he helps me out when I have to intern. I'm doing some interning at a drug clinic. But I'm like, I help you too. I work I work 16 hours it's equal I'm not saying anything I'm just not cleaning a toilet filled with shit I'm not doing that he got all mad fires me so now I'm without a job it's been about three four days and I started getting depressed I start getting weird like a man needs to work
Starting point is 00:53:39 but I don't know what you think or what other guys think out there I talked to some friends they're like you should have just did it but I thought that's where's the line I have a three-year-old daughter someday I'm't know what you think or what other guys think out there. I talked to some friends. They're like, you should have just did it. But I thought that's where's the line. I have a three-year-old daughter. Someday I'm going to tell her you got to do what you feel is right. Self-respect is very important. But, you know, not having a job is a horrible, horrible feeling. I got some things lined up.
Starting point is 00:53:57 But hope to hear it on the podcast, man. I'm all about you, bro. Well, thanks for calling. That's a tough spot because, yeah, you have the child. I think, you know, bro. Well, thanks for calling. That's a tough spot because you have the child. I think, you know, you take a couple of options. I think you can always go back to him if you still feel like, you know, sometimes it's about being the bigger man, you know, and maybe it was, you know, in that day, sometimes you're feeling a certain way. You could always go back and say, look, I made a mistake. You know, I could have done it differently. I could have said,
Starting point is 00:54:24 I could have just taken the direction. I just felt like that was out of line for me, I made a mistake. You know, I could have done it differently. I could have said, I could have just taken the direction. I just felt like that was out of line for me. I've been there. You know, they had a dude, I used to wash dishes at this fancy place called Dakota's when I was growing up. And sometime they had an assistant manager or something in there.
Starting point is 00:54:39 He tried to make me eat a little bucket of limes, lime slices. And I don't even, I barely knew this man. He was always trying to pretend he was French and shit, but he wasn't. And he was probably an idiot or an idiot. That's French, I don't know. But anyway, he tried to get me to eat this thing of limes
Starting point is 00:54:57 and said I had to do it because I was an employee. Man, fuck that, bro. I ain't eating this. You know, they probably had 60 lime slices in there. And I was a child, man. I was probably 16. I never had more than even one lime slice. And this man trying to get me to eat 60 lime slices. And I had to quit. So sometimes you gotta stand up for yourself and you gotta be a man. And that's okay, man. There's something going on in this
Starting point is 00:55:24 world where it's like you can't be a man these days. So you can stand up for yourself and you got to be a man. And that's okay, man. There's something going on in this world where it's like you can't be a man these days. So you can stand up for yourself and you can even go back to even more manly if you want to do it or as manly. You could go back to the dude if you feel differently in a few days and say, hey, I could have handled that differently. Would you consider us working again? That way is still you're meeting somebody halfway. working again. That way it's still, you're meeting somebody halfway. You're not giving in. You know, it's nice to be able, I mean, it's the, you know, the most manly thing to do sometimes is to fucking get over that little hurdle. But in the moment, yeah. They got you down there
Starting point is 00:56:00 cleaning out somebody else's, you know, dirty fucking booty aquarium. Psh aquarium. Come on. Get out of there. I'd be out. I'd be out. So I don't blame you. You know, hold it down, you know, for as long as you can. And then when you have to, you know, if you feel like, you know, maybe take a look at some other opportunities. You said you're going back to school. So I'm sure it's probably, you know, I'm sure you're in some tight confines there with work. I would, if you're okay with it, I would probably re-approach the man if you think you, and it sounds like you guys had some mutual respect for each other. That's what it really sounds like. So I'd re-approach the man and see
Starting point is 00:56:38 about that. And your boys might ride you a little bit when you get back to work or whatever, but in the end, I think that they, it sounds like you're the kind of dude that guys on the work shift respect. And I think that they would respect you. You could just say cleanly like, look, I needed a couple days to cool off, man. Because the booty work around here was a little too hot for daddy to be down there doing, you know. Suddenly you out there and you just some little boo-boo ratatouille. And you, you know, just out there working out in some, you know, in somebody else's porridge tank.
Starting point is 00:57:11 Come on. But thank you for calling, man. And I love the fact that you're moving forward, that you have a plan in your life. You want to do social work. You have a daughter you're already thinking ahead about, that you want to tell your daughter that you stood up for yourself, that you're not afraid to be, stand up for i love that i love that man it's really really a powerful message and i appreciate you calling in oh man what else let's
Starting point is 00:57:35 go on man onward uh let's take another call right here oh we had a uh another video call that came in let's get that hitter right here hi Hi, Theo. My name is also Theo. Oh, that's beautiful. So from, you know, Dos Teodoro, onward. And I am 30 years old. I am from Kansas City. Kansas City. I'm trying to come out there soon. Onward. I'm a musician, just a professional multi-instrumentalist, and I am also a transgender man. I've been transitioning from female to male. Okay, you're going female to male. Okay, onward. First off, I just wanted to say thanks for your podcast.
Starting point is 00:58:20 Thanks for putting yourself out there, because I've been listening to you for maybe about less than two months, and it's really been helping me a lot. Oh, that's sweet of you to say that. I appreciate you saying that. Onward. Through my mental health problems that I've been dealing with this year. So thank you for that. Oh, I can imagine. If you transition it from one sex to another,
Starting point is 00:58:45 I can't even imagine the mental health part of it. Jeepers. Dude, I can't even, you know. I watch an episode of Sex and the City, and I can barely hold it together sometimes. So, onward. I was curious. Being a transgender guy,
Starting point is 00:59:00 So, onward. I was curious. Being a transgender guy, I do not know the first thing about being a dude. I don't. I don't know how to approach the social aspect of it, even though that's exactly how I feel. and so I was wondering if you know maybe you had any advice or any of you know especially advice on how not to like seem creepy or weird because I know people are gonna start thinking that now they don't generally think that of women but they will think it of men and I really don't want to come across like that so So that's pretty much it.
Starting point is 00:59:46 Thanks again. Yeah, thanks for calling. No, this is super interesting. How do you get, yeah, how do you be a dude? Well, you showed up at a really wild time, young lady. I don't know if I, I mean, I almost want to say right now, it might be safer to go back across the river, you know, it's a scary time to be a man right now. Um, but at the same time, I'm going to do it, you know, and you're going to do it. And, uh, I commend you. That's got to
Starting point is 01:00:21 be really, really brave. You know, I've never been, you know, I've locked my keys in my car, you know, but I can only imagine if you locked your, you know, if you feel like God kind of locked your gender keys, you know, in the vehicle and you got to pop that lock and, you know, and maybe renegotiate the ignition a little, you know. They, to be a guy these days, I mean, I think first of all, you got to get some cool, some kind of, maybe some nice slacks, you know, and some nice pants. I think a hat, if you like to do a hat, some guys do a hat.
Starting point is 01:01:09 I think these days guys are a lot more supportive of each other than they used to be. I don't think you have to do steroids anymore, so you don't have to do that. I think getting into sports is super good, even if you just watch as a fan playing some fantasy sports. It might not be something that you like, but I guess, I guess you're asking for things that I think make it easier to associate with other men. So those are some of them, being able to talk about sports, being able to, you know, UFC, that kind of stuff. At first, I didn't like watching UFC. I don't like watching people really beat each other.
Starting point is 01:01:39 But then you start to see that a lot of these men are heroes and that they have goals and they have ambitions. And the fighting is just the way that they, it's just their, it's their physical process of chasing their dreams. And so I started to really enjoy it more when I look at it like that. How else to be a guy? I would say maybe spit on the ground sometimes. You could do chewing tobacco if you want. I don't recommend it because you could get hooked into the tobacco world, but I used to do it for a while.
Starting point is 01:02:15 I worked on a farm, and I didn't feel like that much of a guy. I had to guy up a little bit. And so I'd stuff a couple socks in my junk area by that fucking, you know, my junk area by that fucking, you know, by that little meat tongue, you know, that low tongue that you got, that wiener. And I'd put a couple socks in there and start doing chewing tobacco because I was trying to bulk out and man up a little bit. I've done a lot of things to try to seem manly over the years. So how do you welcome over to the boys side? I mean, it's wild. This is like the craziest game of Red Rover I've ever been in. You know, let me catch your name again at the beginning. It was also Theo. Oh, fuck. At least maybe I'm not egotistical enough that I don't remember in this sense because it's my own name. But Theo, welcome. You know, wow, I get to welcome a Theo
Starting point is 01:03:01 to the man, to being a man, being an adult male. Look, it's tough these days, though. You're not, especially you're a white guy. So, you know, they're going to blame you for everything. You know, even if you didn't do something, you could be blamed for it. But people, the media right now does not like you, so you got to be careful. So just be careful. Be cognizant of what's going on. I don't know if it's a safe time to look a woman in the eyes. A lot of women out there in certain cities, most of America you still can. Some places it's a
Starting point is 01:03:37 little dangerous. So I would just be a little bit weary out there. But welcome over to the man side. We can use some good men over here. And it's nice to see that they got But welcome over to the man side. You know, we can use some good men over here and it's nice to see that they got women coming over to this side, you know, because we've had a, we've lost, we've had a lot of men slip over onto the other side. You rarely see that bad, you know, that bad boy coming back over here, but red Rover, red Rover, send Theo right over and all aboard and welcome. Thank you for calling in. And that's got to be a brave journey. You know, I've done some different things in my life.
Starting point is 01:04:10 Community college. You know, I got poison ivy. You know, I had my penis hole kind of enlarged when I was young. I've tried to learn Spanish about six times. But I've never been through anything like that. And I bet that that's the about six times, but I've never been through anything like that. And I bet that that's the Mount Olympus, really. You know, you're doing it all.
Starting point is 01:04:32 You're doing it all. Boy, that remodel, huh? Whoo! Red Rover, Red Rover sent Theo right over. And look, if you learned anything while you were over there, get over here and tell us. Because they're taking these men out right now. If you even, I'm thinking about mailing my dick to another country and going and getting it later. So you might be coming across at the wrong time.
Starting point is 01:05:00 But no matter what, we're happy to have you. And that's a wild journey you're on. And, um, and I love you Theo and welcome Theo. This is crazy. It's like, I'm almost like I'm talking to myself. Uh, okay. Let's take another call here. What do we got? What's up Theo? It's Ernesto and I'm in London. Whoa. Ernesto from London, huh? Onward. Just came back from the Chris D'Elia show. It was all right.
Starting point is 01:05:31 And we were sitting here, and we were thinking. We had an idea for a show for you. And it goes, D'Eovan describes a video for someone with visual disabilities. So they can't see. So you have to describe the video for them like as a helpful gesture. Okay, so wait. So I describe a video for somebody with visual difficulties
Starting point is 01:05:55 like blind syndrome. Okay. So I have to describe a video for them or can I describe anything? That's what I want to know. That's the thing, you know. I would love to describe a video for them. Or can I describe anything? That's what I want to know. That's the thing, you know. I would love to describe things. Imagine being a describer.
Starting point is 01:06:11 Imagine being a seeing eye dog for a blind person, but you're a seeing eye person. Which I think is better. You know what's kind of fucked up? I'll say it. We give blind people a dog. Hey, guy, you can't see anything? Here's a dog. How about a real person that walks around and helps them out?
Starting point is 01:06:29 You know, you got a bathroom, buddy. You got one, you know, a kid needs to go to the bathroom. You send him in pairs. But a blind guy needs to go for the rest of his life. And you tie a damn, you know, a Bichon or a, you know, a little baby Australian shepherd to his hand. An Australian shepherd, I think, is actually could handle the job, a Bichon. Dude, if your CNI dog is a fucking Bichon, bro, you're not going to make it. You're not going to make it far.
Starting point is 01:06:57 Maybe you might make it to like a, you know, a place like a French restaurant. But look, I could do it, man. I'd love to describe something to a blind person, a marshmallow. Come on. Dude, I would love to describe a cliff. Imagine describing a cliff, like not like a man named Clifford, but like a scary place where you can walk and then you keep, and if you keep walking, then you're not, then it's, that's it. Imagine being like, I wonder if blind people, because if I get by the edge of a cliff, my whole body just like is like,
Starting point is 01:07:32 do not go anywhere right here. I wonder if that happens with blind people. You know, I want to get, actually, you know what? If you know someone who is blind in the Los Angeles area, and I'm 100% serious here, please hit the hotline, 985-664-9503. You know, because I'm tired of wondering what it's like. I'm tired of having questions for blind people and not being able to talk to them because people, oh, it's insensitive. You can't ask a blind person about being blind.
Starting point is 01:07:57 I can't. Why not? Yes, I can. If you know a blind person that lives in Los Angeles or even California, we'll fly them down. We'll get them around here. I'd love to be able to have the opportunity to talk to someone who has that ailment and see what's going on. And I don't mean that in a jovial way because I don't know if I'll see forever. When I think about my life, honestly, I don't always know if I'll have my sight. You know, sometimes when I think about 30 years down the road or even 10, 12, 13 years, I don't know if I, I don't know if my eyes work the same as they do now. So we would love to have somebody on that has that ability. But yeah, being able to describe
Starting point is 01:08:42 things to a blind, I would love to maybe be able to do that if I had enough extra time to do that type of work but I think it's a beautiful job being able to get somebody out there or even little uh you know even get like a little blind they have those you know those sex uh those goats that do sex and then faint which I fashioned a lot of lot. I fashioned my sexual style over because I get so nervous. I'd hold my breath during sex and then just get so keyed up. I'd fucking just be unconscious. Onward, let's take another call. Hey, Dio, what's going on?
Starting point is 01:09:16 It's Brendan from Atlanta. I just wanted to call and let you know that you're the man, bro. call and let you know that you're the man bro and you don't need to you don't need to feel like you need to do anything bigger for us exactly what you do helps us in the community that watching you each and every day you know thanks for calling Brendan from Atlanta let's hear more I'm a little nervous right now. That's okay, man. Don't feel nervous, dude.
Starting point is 01:09:50 I appreciate you calling. I think it's nice of you to call. I think it is. Yeah, I could imagine it's probably kind of nervous. But if we ever meet each other in person, don't feel nervous around me. And if you do, just tell me that. Because I don't want anybody to ever have to feel nervous around me. I'm not special.
Starting point is 01:10:10 You know, I'm not a special person. You know, I'm just somebody that's just trying to be a fucking person. And it's really hard these days to be a person. It's hard to be a young man. It's hard to be a young man if you struggled and don't even know how to be a man sometimes. You know, in this, the environment we're trying to learn in. But by being here, by you calling in, bro, that's, I really appreciate it. Let's hear more.
Starting point is 01:10:35 You know, we don't even notice the bullshit. You know what I'm saying? We don't even notice, like, what you say. You feel like you might not be having a good show or you feel like some things might just go wrong. We just want to see you, bro. You know what I'm saying? So keep on keeping on gang gang. You already know what it is.
Starting point is 01:10:54 And I hope that you're having a good day today, bro. You know? All right. Bye. Thanks, Brendan, man. Thanks for that. Yeah, I second guess myself a lot. Bye.
Starting point is 01:11:02 Thanks, Brendan, man. Thanks for that. Yeah, I second-guess myself a lot. You know, I think I've always had a lot of trouble my whole life in making decisions. I don't know. I'm not very – you know, nobody ever taught me how to make a decision when I was young. I was making my own decisions. And so I created my own reasoning in my head for why things go the way that they do or why I choose. And sometimes, a lot of times when I was young, it was selfish reasons.
Starting point is 01:11:26 And I didn't realize it was selfish reasons. I just needed to survive. I needed to get by. I needed to be able to get some sleep at night. And so you do whatever you have to do to get into a comfortable place inside of yourself. And sometimes you create dirty stairwells or misguided. You create stairwells that don't always connect to floors and stuff. You create your own little belief system inside of you that makes you be able to function and survive.
Starting point is 01:11:56 And yeah, so now I'm an adult and I'm still have this, you know, some of the contracting work inside of me is a little shoddy because I fucking did it all myself as a child. Or I did it with strange influences and, you know, so yeah, I guess I just get nervous sometimes and, you know, and I do feel pressure as I get older. And I feel pressure as this podcast gets bigger listenership, you know, because I don't want to fail. I don't know if I, this is interesting. It's like, I don't, I don't, I don't think it's that I don't want to fail myself. I just, you know, it's something
Starting point is 01:12:35 I want this podcast to always feel small, you know, and, and,, and because to me, a lot of times it feels kind of one-on-one in some ways, you know, like I'll be, I'll be honest. I don't know who you are, Brendan, but in my head, I picture you call, I picture maybe a young black guy or a mixed guy. Maybe in a Honda. Honda Accord, bro. LX. Maybe ducked off somewhere behind a subway
Starting point is 01:13:14 or Quiznos, bro. Fuck subway, dude. How every subway has a B rating on the door. And every now and then you see a roach by the meter, a bug and you pretend like you don't. Come on. But yeah, maybe ducked off somewhere and calling into the hotline. So now that could be totally fictional. I don't know. You could be, I mean, who knows?
Starting point is 01:13:35 You could be a woman. Who knows? But I appreciate you calling man. Thanks for saying that. Yeah, I guess I just want to be I don't want to waste somebody's time. That's what I don't want to do. So I don't want to waste somebody's time. That's what I don't want to do. I don't want somebody listening to the show and be like, this dude's wasting my fucking time. That's what I don't want. For some reason in my life, I've always felt like that.
Starting point is 01:13:56 I just am like, I hope I'm not wasting somebody's time. I think maybe when I was young, I think my mom was so busy and had to work so much that, you know, I felt like I was always under the gun emotionally or even with time-wise with her. So I, maybe that's why I feel that way now. Like, I just hope I'm not wasting somebody's time. I always feel that way a little bit, but thank you for calling, man. I appreciate you. And the ATLL I hope to be able to come there in the spring
Starting point is 01:14:25 and thanks for your support you know I'm going to fuck up on this podcast I'm not going to I'm going to say shit people don't agree with I don't even know you know I don't even know sometimes but we got men coming over to our side we got another Theo in the books now so this is shit
Starting point is 01:14:41 we heating up boy we got this army, baby. Let's go to another call. Onward. Hey, Theo. Gang, gang. This is Derek Allen calling from Vancouver, Canada. Dirty Derek from Vancouver, son.
Starting point is 01:14:57 You that snowy bad boy. You that indomitable cat daddy. You up there in the snow. And snow, think about snow, dude. Think about if a lake just jumped up into the air and made itself cold as fuck and then fell on everybody. That's savage, bruh.
Starting point is 01:15:20 Mother Nature ain't. Mother Nature is slithering. Everybody out here looking at the flowers in June, thinking this bad bitch is all Gryffindor. And then suddenly, come February, Mother Nature lifting fucking lakes into the sky and ice and those things out and shattering them bitches and dropping them on the people's lives and that's what you get in canada thank you for calling onward i was calling looking for some advice pretty much so i've been talking to this lady you know she's traveling across canada coming across to to live here in my province she's from ontario oh yeah and in canada a lot of times, these ladies up there, they got some mad bitches up there.
Starting point is 01:16:07 They travel. They got, you know, little dogs in front of them. These Iditarodders. And these Iditarodders is when you have a bunch of... Have you ever seen 101 Dalmatians? It's a movie. It's like this angry lady. She's a fucking...
Starting point is 01:16:24 I think she's like a coat salesman or like a fashion designer. And she kidnaps a bunch of animals from the fire station. And they strike back, bruh. Those little, those dogs strike back and they're angry and everything. Apparently, some of these women, they use husky animals up in Canada, and they're forward-moving, and that's how a lot of women will travel around Canada because, I guess, it's safer than air travel or something. I'm not sure. I'll have to look into it. It's called Iditarodding. Onward. Anyways, I met her before. I met her a few months back because I was over doing work over there.
Starting point is 01:17:00 Okay, so you met this girl. Opening up a shoe store together, you know. Ooh, that Al Bundy. Dude, and a shoe. Think about it. If you got a shoes. I mean, nowadays you probably have to stand 11 feet away while a woman tries the shoe on. But back in the day, boy, you used to.
Starting point is 01:17:17 You could get up there. Touch that heel. Maybe. Ooh, this little piggy went to market, you know. This little piggy had none. Remember that piggy? What the fuck was that piggy doing? This little piggy had roast beef.
Starting point is 01:17:37 What the fuck, bro? I got to investigate that shit. Let's hear more, boy. You that Al Bundy of the North, son. There was some tension when we were working together. So anyways, so now she's driving over and uh so i get to talking and she'll be talking about some of that raunchy stuff you know we're getting getting in some dirty tap yeah and that's dark arts especially in canada bro it's probably not even that raunchy it's like oh do you ever uh maybe put on a maybe a hat that's a little too tight. Oh, have you ever been making chocolate milk
Starting point is 01:18:09 and instead of one scoop of powder, you put two scoops of powder? I'm just joking. Love Canada more. Some dirty chat. And she goes, she asked me how many ladies I've been with. So I answered three, which is commendable, I think. Three is the male answer.
Starting point is 01:18:24 You go three or you go seven. That's it. Three, if you're under 24, you go three. If you're in your 30s, you go seven. And if you're between 24 and 30, bro, you don't know what the fuck's going on anyway. So just wait till you get to one of those ages and figure it out. More? I'm a 25-year-old guy. Oh, yeah. So, well, you sound like a nice guy. Yeah, 25 is a kid. Yeah, an American 24.
Starting point is 01:18:50 So that's a Canadian 25. More? And then to which she replies, she goes, oh, I was with three as well, multiplied it by seven. So now I'm thinking, oh, this is 21 guys. That's a lot of guys, you know. So anyways, you know, I'm trying to be an adult about this. She's a cute girl.
Starting point is 01:19:07 She's a couple years younger than me. You know, that's pretty much my story, man. Thanks, Theo. Keep doing your thing, man. Love the podcast. Dang, 101 dickmations, huh? She's been taking in. Just make sure she don't have any spots on her pup, bro.
Starting point is 01:19:22 That's all I'm saying. You know, it's interesting. This makes me think, is sex still, what's the value of it? Does it still have the same emotional value as it once had? And I think to some people it does and some people it doesn't. And some people just, their perspective of sex is totally different. To some people, you know, some people you never have sex. You don't, it's not a, you know, it's like this hidden oracle to you. And some people who have sex all the time, it's more
Starting point is 01:19:51 of a comfortable thing. If you're nervous about your body, then sex is one way to you. Or if you're comfortable about your body, sex is another way. If your parents, you know, grew up in the 60s, they may be very sexual or be very open about stuff, and you may have been raised that way. Whereas if your parents grew up in a rural town or with a church where things is real, they got pictures of snakes and stuff on the wall and everything, then people might be a little bit more risque about playing freeze tag with your crotch, with another crotch.
Starting point is 01:20:29 So it's different. Everybody's sex is different. So she can make it 22 and you can make it four if y'all want to be like that. But what I do like is that you're willing to not judge her on that. It's a different time now. And people are just different. Some people are in America, they might not have sex their whole lives. They might not
Starting point is 01:20:55 do anything. A lot of these women out in, you know, a lot of women nowadays, they just fill in their vaginas with cement and hiring an attorney to stand out front. They're not even letting any, they're just filling their vaginas with cement and hiring an attorney to stand out front. They're not even letting any. They, you know, it's crazy. So, look, I'm just glad you're having an open conversation with this girl. She sounds fun, bro. You know, she sounds fun. Come over to the house.
Starting point is 01:21:22 You know, water her dogs a little bit. Maybe she'll teach you some things. She's like the Danica Patrick Cox out there. She's been doing laps around the old, you know, Dick Stadium. So I think it's cool, man. She sounds cute. Isn't that crazy? Any girl sounds cute, bro.
Starting point is 01:21:42 Hey, let me tell you about this girl. Oh, she fucking sounds hot. Does she have a friend? That's every dude. Let's hear more. Onward. Another call. Another call.
Starting point is 01:21:52 Yo, CEO. Big T-Dog. What's up, T-Dog? Onward. This is your other T-Dog, Trey, from Portland, Oregon. What's up, Trey, from Portland? Onward. You know, I've been, you know, as the only black man in Portland
Starting point is 01:22:06 other than the Trailblazers and probably one of, like, three black people to listen to your show. Yeah, I'm trying to think. I think we have more than that. I bet we probably have about 5,000. But, onward. Listen to the podcast. I've been noticing
Starting point is 01:22:21 you say that, like, you're talking about how it's so hard for white people right now. Like, it's like, on one hand, you know, I understand where you're coming from. I get all the minorities and the LGBTQ, WXYs and Zs are coming out of the woodwork looking for trouble. But on my other hand, I mean, at least you guys don't have to worry about, like, sitting in your house playing Madden. I mean, at least you guys don't have to worry about, like, sitting in your house playing Madden.
Starting point is 01:22:48 Some drunk off-duty cop comes in and shoots you in the face. Or you get pulled over and you're out there just trying to get them hitters. Yeah. And then you ended up getting hit. Yeah, that's true. You're trying to grab a couple of burgers. You hit a couple of black guys. And I bet it is a lot more nerve-wracking.
Starting point is 01:23:04 I was thinking about that. Imagine if if black drivers cars ran on nervous energy dude that's the net when is Elon Musk coming out with that car for black drivers the car that runs on nervous energy dude cuz they must feel it when you're driving around I've thought about that onward by the police yeah I don't have to worry about that so I get you feel like everybody's coming down on you for being a white straight male, but try being black. I'm not saying go out and put on blackface, but just try it sometime.
Starting point is 01:23:33 I guarantee you it's not the same thing. Preach peace, love and understanding for everybody. And I get where you coming from, but let's not take away from the fact that stuff out here is hard for us colored folks, man. Pimping ain't easy. Living color folks man pimpin ain't easy living ain't easy breathing ain't easy but i want you to breathe easy because i love you you're out here doing the lord's work homie love you amen bro i love you man i appreciate
Starting point is 01:23:57 you calling in yeah you know what i can't even imagine there's some things i can't even imagine, there's some things I can't imagine, you know, about being black. I can't imagine growing, I can't imagine being, like you said, like the only, like if you're one of the only black people in an area where it's a lot of white people. Like, cause I get, if I go into a place that's a lot of black people, I get nervous. You know, I just get, I don't get, and I guess I get nervous because some of my experiences have been different. You know, when I was growing up, I had a lot of friends that were black. And then also we get beat up by black kids. You know, especially when you're poor, it doesn't matter. You know, if you're white or black, those people like to fucking fight.
Starting point is 01:24:37 And a lot, there's a lot of ignorance at low levels of poverty. And, and so there was a lot of fighting, man. poverty and and so there was a lot of fighting man you know and it would be crazy because i remember i'd be doing habitat for humanity and building houses for some of the black families or whatever that the kids had fucking beat my ass you know and had to you know just manage all that stuff itself in my head because i didn't have any you know my parents weren't i didn't have any, you know, my parents weren't, I didn't have an outlet emotionally with my parents to talk about that kind of stuff. But I have thought about, I've thought about, and I'll never know what it's like to go into a place, especially if it's a white area and be a black guy. Yeah, or how nervous that would make me feel maybe. And I think it's probably different for different people these days.
Starting point is 01:25:29 You know, I find I have some black friends that are a lot more chill or a lot more relaxed or chill in certain environments and some that aren't. And also, it's probably the environment too like if you took me into like a black neighborhood that was more impoverished then i would probably feel more nervous than if you took me into like a wealthier area wealthier black area you know like at the lenox mall i was fucking nervous because i was like damn i'm the poorest fucking person in here and that and it was all black people in there um but yeah i can't imagine what it's like when you're driving or something, or you show up at a place and people think you're going to do something just because you're black. I bet it's scary.
Starting point is 01:26:20 I've had two friends in New Orleans in my lifetime, two black friends that have been murdered. I bet it's scary. I've had two friends in New Orleans in my lifetime, two black friends that have been murdered. And by other black men, by black on black crime, one guy they never found, a person, I say guy,
Starting point is 01:26:36 I don't know if it was a guy who did it. But I can imagine it's been dangerous. I can imagine it's been dangerous, man. You know, next time I want to be Mexican, I think. And then after that, I would be black. I think black for me is still a little bit too dangerous. But I appreciate you helping me think about that. You know, because what's funny is when I was growing up in Louisiana,
Starting point is 01:27:03 you don't see like, you just see like, oh, you get this, there's this energy in you, you don't see that, you don't see that black people don't have the opportunities, you don't see that, and you don't see it, because you also, and I guess I was a child, you just don't see that, and this was also in the 80s and 90s, and now as I get older, you're like, oh, well, yeah, there weren't any black doctors in my town because they didn't have the opportunities. But now I think I see a lot more stuff in the world where there's more opportunity for diversity, you know, even on commercials. And I was thinking, you know, what's funny is I thought about that. I was like, man, I work hard to get to Hollywood.
Starting point is 01:27:53 I work hard to get into an environment where I can live out some of my dreams. You know, Hollywood, they're always like, oh, we're so liberal. Come here and chase you. It's like it's just that thing. Anybody can be here, and your voice is welcome. be here and your voice is welcome. And yeah, and I've just, a lot of times I've felt like because of having a, you know, more of a rural accent or being where I'm from and being white recently more that I'm not welcome. You know, where I got here in Hollywood, it's like, oh yeah, everybody's welcome, but not me. Because of the way I sound or because of the color of my skin, because of the color of my skin.
Starting point is 01:28:26 I would think that sometimes. And you know what it made me think? It was like, wow, this is, it made me realize this is what it must have been like to be black in a lot of instances. You know, to be sitting somewhere and think, man, because of the color of my skin or the way I sound over the phone or the way I look, my hair, that I'm not going to be welcome or I'm going to be typecast a certain way. You know, I can imagine this. It's the first time I was like, oh, wow, this must be what it has been like
Starting point is 01:29:07 for a lot of black people over the years. And I'm not saying I have a no, but for a second it gave me a perspective switch for a moment, like, damn. People don't want me in auditions, don't want me in interviews,, don't want me in interviews. Think I'm writing articles that make me seem bad because they don't know me, because they don't know my voice or my behavior or this or that. Or they just think, oh, he's from Louisiana.
Starting point is 01:29:41 He looks this way, he sounds that way. He's that, that must be what he is. Yeah, man. I can't imagine that. And then to still have to go to work every day and have that in the back of your head, that, that people aren't going to give you those opportunities. It's wrong. You know, and I think some of that comes from a wrong time. I think that that kind of stuff, I hope, is getting better in the world.
Starting point is 01:30:12 I believe that it is. From what I see when I go around, I believe that it is. Even when I look at just even advertisements on television and you see now that you'll see, and I reference this a lot, but like an advertising for Disneyland or Disney World, you'll see it be more of a diverse commercial. And that's good. And here's why. Because if a kid is sitting on his couch somewhere, no matter what color he is or what his parents are, and he looks at the television, he's like, oh, I can do. Oh, that's for me, too.
Starting point is 01:30:43 And he looks at the television, he's like, oh, that's for me too. You know, when I think back to being at preschool or something and thinking that, you know, I'm sitting on a carpet and I'm sitting next to a kid, a black kid, and we're watching the same cartoons and every time on the cart, or the same commercials and every time on the commercial, the toys and everything, it's always white kids playing with them. Man, I wonder if that kid thinks inside of him, man, I don't deserve those toys or i'm not i shouldn't have those um yeah it's just heartbreaking you know it's heartbreaking to think and hollywood to hollywood's done a shit hollywood is you know they that's another thing they try to chant you know act like they've been supportive the whole time. You look at this guy, Jeffrey, what's his name, recently, when someone took a picture of the man at Trader Joe's. And I think the person that took a picture of him was just kind of shocked.
Starting point is 01:31:36 And then they wrote newspaper articles that made it bigger than it was, the media blowing it out of proportion. But then I think back, who owns the rights to that? His on-screen rights. Who owns the rights to that? His on-screen rights. Who owns the rights to that man? You know, sometimes I think about this, and I'm not comparing the two, but when you think of, like, modern-day slavery or modern-day ownership, you know, that shit made me, I was like, how is it, you know, this man,
Starting point is 01:32:03 you're telling me that a guy who everybody in America knows from these shows, and maybe the residuals from those shows you just don't make so much over time. And maybe because Bill Cosby went to jail and those things went off the air. But man, I saw that, I was like, who owns the rights? I bet you it's a white person sitting somewhere in a house in Hollywood that owns the rights to this man's likeness on television. You know, that fucked him over out of some bad contract 25 years ago. And that shit was like,
Starting point is 01:32:36 where's that? Where is the social media police on that? Somebody owns the rights to that man, to his likeness, not to him as a human. You could see the power in him. You know, people knowing who he is. And he has the fucking, the chutzpah to stand in there and stack vegetables, bro. And that's pride and that's humility. And that is, you know, I'm guessing he's,
Starting point is 01:33:06 I don't know if he's a father, but I hope he is because that's the kind of man I would like to be my father. You know, that's the kind of man I would have liked to probably have taught me things when I was young. You can do this. You know, you can be yourself. You don't have to look a certain way or you know no matter what you can be yourself you don't have to wear a mask you don't have to not know who you are you can fucking stand there
Starting point is 01:33:38 and look somebody no matter who they are what they're thinking of you and stack your vegetables you know or do your work, or whatever it is, you know, clean that shit or whatever it is, you know. But no, I appreciate you calling. I appreciate you making us think about this.
Starting point is 01:33:56 Because here's the thing. One of the biggest issues, I think, in America is perspective. When I was young, sometimes I would see black people in my area, and it would just seem like, oh, a lot of them, oh, they don't care. They don't care about their lives. They don't, you know, they don't, you know, they don't want, they don't want to work hard. They don't want to do this. They don't want to do that. And you would see the kids, a lot of the kids, a lot of, you know, I've said before, a lot of the black kids in my area that by a certain age, they weren't even in school after eighth grade. I mean, I would say 60% were out of school completely.
Starting point is 01:34:32 Out of school. And when you're young, you just, you don't know. But not when you're, when you're in that area at that time, not today. At that time, you'd be like, well, they don't seem like, they hate school. They don't care. They don't want to learn. You know? Ignorant.
Starting point is 01:34:51 But then once now I get older and I look and I'm able to see like, oh, well, these, I know what it's like to grow up in that environment. Where you don't have the, you know, the role model ship. You know, you don't have the ability, You don't have some of the opportunity. The role model ship is what's huge. Imagine being a kid, you don't even know anybody at a certain age that's been to college. How the fuck do you think you're going to end up going? You don't think you're allowed at Disney World. It's not even going to be an idea of yours to go.
Starting point is 01:35:34 So yeah, I mean, it's interesting, man. And I like thinking about this kind of stuff. And I like the fact that I'm open to have different ideas about it. And I like I think that, look, everybody has a different experience. And different, you know, an experience in Oregon will be different than an experience in Louisiana. And that's another thing that I think is people's lives are different. You know, somebody talking about racism in one city is going to be totally different than the racism in another city. And I also think that there's too much, you can't blame just white. There's a great deal of racist people of all cultures and all ethnicities, black, Mexican, I'm sure there's hella racist Native Americans. Dude, I know some racist black people.
Starting point is 01:36:30 I know some racist white people. But as long as we act like it's just a one-person thing, you know, we'll be in a tough, I think we're not going to get past it. You know, I think in time we will get past it. We're also in this generation now where everything is like, we're new to these cameras and these phones and these abilities, so it's frenetic.
Starting point is 01:36:52 A lot of that's going to disappear. Not disappear, but it's going to become part of the main way we are. And so I think it'll calm down some. But yeah, I don't not think that black people have had a tough time. I don't not think that. I think in some areas probably tougher than, in some areas tougher than others. I think. Just my thoughts.
Starting point is 01:37:14 I might be totally fucking wrong. Probably am. But I'm not going to be afraid to talk about it. And I don't think anybody should be afraid to talk about something. But yeah, if I had never gotten into it, if I'd never had the life path that I've had, different places, different things, seen stuff. I don't know if I ever would have been able to see that as clearly. And been able to have, you know, be able to see both perspectives and different perspectives. But it's fascinating.
Starting point is 01:37:47 Life's fascinating. And we're here. And we're in a country that has a ton of opportunity. And I think that that's beautiful. And I think, but I think we got to find a solution. We have to move forward. We got to keep moving forward. But I love your attitude, man.
Starting point is 01:38:03 I appreciate you calling in. All right, let's take two more calls, man. And let's shut love your attitude, man. I appreciate you calling in. All right, let's take two more calls, man. Let's shut this thing down, man. Here we go. Hey, Theo. My name is Jimmy. I'm 21 from California.
Starting point is 01:38:15 And I'm a huge fan. You've been helping me get through some shit. And that's kind of what I'm calling about. I just want to throw it out there. Thanks for calling, Jimmy. Onward. In April, I was in a motorcycle accident that put my femur through my tibia, shattered my tibia. Ooh. Sorry, man. That shook me down for a second. More? And I lost a lot of my grounding there.
Starting point is 01:38:44 I was a wildland firefighter before that had happened. I was on my way to start working in a higher position. I lost my girlfriend after the accident. I don't know. I've been lonely since the accident. Wow, so you were in a motorcycle accident and severely disabled afterwards. Onward? I have no funds, like no money. I don't know, my whole life just kind of turned around after this, you know, and it's been hard to get back on my feet. My leg still
Starting point is 01:39:20 doesn't work properly yet. I don't know if I'll ever get back on my feet the way I was before. I don't know. I'm kind of going through an identity crisis through this whole thing. I just want to know what you're picking on this. I've been drinking alone a lot lately. I just don't really know who to turn to at the moment. Well, I appreciate you calling, man. Thanks for calling in. Yeah, I'm sorry that you're having to deal with this. I can imagine that in that depression, you know, I never had a handicap like that. You know, I never had a physical handicap, but I've had emotional handicaps.
Starting point is 01:39:56 And I know what it's like to stay indoors for years and not want to do stuff and to feel less than and to feel like people don't want to, like you're not deserving of a good life. And that stuff builds on itself too. Depression is like a moss. In the dark, it builds. And indoors, in a wet indoors, when you keep your body like a, when you keep your life like the bottom of a wishing well, it gets, you know, moldy and mossy. And in depressions like that, it'll grow on itself. It's like, you know, like that kudzu over there in Atlanta, Brandon.
Starting point is 01:40:41 Over there in Atlanta, Brandon, sorry. But Brandon was the previous caller. That's why I said that. But yeah, man, who to turn to? I mean, the truth is you got to turn to yourself, bro. You know, and people will help you shoulder the load, and you can turn to friends, and you can turn to family. You know, and those are tertiary things that are going to help you, I think.
Starting point is 01:41:11 But in the end, man, it's going to have to be that turn to yourself. And you don't have to put a timeline on that or anything. And look, and also, I don't know. I don't know. I've never been in a motorcycle accident. I don't ride motorcycles because of accidents. That's why. You know, I used to go speak about organ donation because of my sister, and the number one organ donors are motorcyclists. Now, do I get jealous every time I'm in traffic and see a motorcycle zip through? Yes. Do I
Starting point is 01:41:43 commend and do I respect the men that can be out there and just be like, get your motor running. They got a hot piece of ass on the back. Yes. Or even just a little, even if it's a puppy back there still can be a beautiful little fucking little baby Doberman that looks like it's down to fuck, you know? But yes, I feel that. Yeah. I'm jealous of that. But yeah, you got to turn to you, bro. You got to turn to you. You know what?
Starting point is 01:42:17 I was listening to this podcast the other day called Business and Biceps. It's out of Maurice Claret. You guys remember Maurice Claret from Ohio State University, I believe. And he has a podcast now with John Fosco. I was just listening to it. It's called Business and Biceps, but this is a clip from it that I pulled. Let me find it here because I was hoping to be able to use. Here we go. And we have a generation where people just feel sorry for themselves. This is Maurice Card. And I'm not saying that this is you, but I'm going to try to tie these in a little bit if I can.
Starting point is 01:42:53 Hold on. John thinks his sad story is more important than Corey's sad story. I think my sad story. Everybody got one. Everybody got one, bro. And don't nobody give a fuck, but you can walk around thinking that your sad story or the circumstance that you come from uh is a valid reason is a valid reason to justify right you know why you're feeling what you do or if somebody should give you a break nobody gives
Starting point is 01:43:16 a fuck bro you know i'm saying and and and and like as hard as it is to swallow for most people and as much as we think that you know we care, I say nobody cares besides your mother. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, true that. And your pastor on Sunday, and he's getting paid to care. And that's from, yeah, the podcast is called Business and Biceps, and that's Maurice Claret. He's on there, John Foss. They got a couple of guys out there, and they're Midwest you know they are they're midwestern dudes and
Starting point is 01:43:45 they're hard hitters you know and um and maurice is talking about how nobody cares about your sad story on here and and i you know i don't know i don't i'm not saying i disagree right i love his perspective i respect his perspective i mean this is a man, this is a man who you want to talk about the Dex act against him in the world. I mean, physically, no. I mean, when you look, if you can't, I don't think you can talk about, uh, you know, a black guy and say that physically they have the Dex act against them. That is dude. I don't know. Every time I see a black, you ever seen a black guy, you know, with his shirt off, you're like, damn, that dude. It's like he's just living in a Lamborghini.
Starting point is 01:44:29 And you show up with your white body. It's a little, you know, it can be a little, I mean, at least my white body. But this is a man who's been through it all. This is a man who's been through it all and turned his life around Maurice Claret. And so to hear him say that, that, you know, nobody gives, let's listen one more time. And we have a generation where people just feel sorry for themselves. John thinks his sad story is more important
Starting point is 01:44:59 than Corey's sad story. I think my sad story, everybody got one, bro, and don't nobody give a fuck, but you can walk around thinking that my sad story, everybody got one, bro. And don't nobody give a fuck, but you can walk around thinking that your sad story or the circumstance that you come from is a valid reason to justify why you're feeling the way that you do or somebody should give you a break. And so, you know, this doesn't pertain exactly to the motorcycle accident. But it's like, yeah, at some point we got to look to ourselves. We have to look to ourselves.
Starting point is 01:45:30 Because in the end, it's really all you got. You got a mother that cares about you, hopefully. And if you don't, you got a father that cares about you, hopefully. And if you don't, you have a brother or sister that does. And if you don't, then you got me. You got the rest of the this past weekenders. I mean, you have people that will. You can find people that will, but you got to meet the world halfway. We have to.
Starting point is 01:45:56 I was getting into drugs and getting into cocaine problems and stuff like that and I didn't get any better until I went to get better. problems and stuff like that. And I didn't get any better until I went to get better. You know, I can't sit around, you can't sit around forever and think that it's going to change. The only thing, the only thing that makes change is change. That's it. Change doesn't just fucking happen. It doesn't just happen. There has to be a catalyst. And now you can sit and wait forever for a catalyst if you want. You can wait for Mother Nature to pick a lake up and bust it into ice and make snow. Or you can get
Starting point is 01:46:36 out there and just put on some ice skates and fucking turn your whole world into ice if you want. You can get out there. But it's one of the, you know, it's like it's going to be a lot easier for you to start that fire than to sit and wait for a fucking fire to show up. Come on.
Starting point is 01:46:58 But I love you, man, and I hope that you know, I haven't never had that physical impairment and I can't imagine what it's like. But I hope that you feel better. And I wasn't trying to be mean or anything, but I don't want you sitting there feeling bad. And I don't really know any other way to inspire you from here or any other way to be supportive than by saying fucking get going. And you sound like a nice fucking dude. You sound like a good person.
Starting point is 01:47:24 And I think that the world needs you, bro. Because there's some shady fucks out there. Gang, bro. Let's take one more call. What's up, Theo? It's your boy Jordan from Mobile, Alabama. What's up, Jordan? Down there in Mobile. And that's
Starting point is 01:47:39 that Alabama guy. Dang, that Crimson Tide is good, aren't they? They are just good. Onward. I'm calling to let you know who listened. Yeah, when I was 17, I had a boy, my first and only child. At 18, I got married. Then not long after that, I got paralyzed from the neck down from getting caught up in a mosh pit. Kind of messed things up for me.
Starting point is 01:48:03 I was up in the hospital for six months. Jesus, man. I'm sorry to hear that, brother. And dude, shout out to anybody that was ever injured in mosh pits in the 90s. I can't. Dude, I remember there would be a band in town. It would be like Electric Puppy Corpse. And you'd be like, what?
Starting point is 01:48:23 It would be like Dick Down Falcons. They're playing at night at the fucking crispy crust hole. You'd go in and all it would be would be a mosh pit. It was six or seven bad musicians.
Starting point is 01:48:40 One time I remember going to one, everybody played the drums. Nobody even sang. It was seven guys all on drums. Three guys were on the same drum set from different angles. And it was one guy screaming in the corner. I think something was actually wrong with him. I think his leg was trapped in something.
Starting point is 01:48:57 And then it was some guys. And then it was just people mosh pitting. And mosh pitting, it was back in the day, it was just people mosh pitting and mosh pitting. It was back in the day. It would just be people fighting indoors somewhere. And it was kind of sanctioned by music. Like the music was the referee when the music would slow down. That's when the fighting would stop and you'd pull the bloody people out and whatever and put people's teeth back in.
Starting point is 01:49:19 I remember putting somebody fucking molar in the back. Not even mine, but it took. And I remember one dude, he would light his hands on fire and just come rolling through the mosh pit. By the end of the night, his fucking, he would just have smoke
Starting point is 01:49:33 coming off the ends of his arms. Mosh pit. I can't, shout out to everybody who's been injured and handicapped mentally and physically from mosh pits in the 90s. Dude, I salute you.
Starting point is 01:49:46 You know, it was an insane time. You'd be like, come see. It'd be like Jonda's Piss Toasters. They're playing tonight at the Holiday Inn. You'd be like, come see. Come see Unseparated twins gasoline fire fuck oh they're playing
Starting point is 01:50:11 you know at that abandoned shed next to the Ramada and you go in there no lights people beating each other in the dark to drums and someone screaming into a microphone for help and that was that was I think they called it mosh pitting. But shout out.
Starting point is 01:50:29 Onward. And I'm sorry, man, you got paralyzed from the waist down. I'm not trying to make this not about you, but I'm just trying to share that. So that was pretty rough. I ended up getting, you know, put me on medicines I ended up getting addicted to. And it was pretty rough.
Starting point is 01:50:43 And I know a lot of people that call in and deal with anxiety and depression, and I've dealt with that due to this injury. And I finally come through it. I'm off of all the medicines. I've learned to walk again. Wow.
Starting point is 01:50:55 Dude, this is awesome, man. And our producer, thank you. This is a great call. This is a great call. Congratulations, bro. God, I can't even imagine not being able to move and then they put you on painkillers that are highly addictive you didn't stand a chance man I don't think onward it wasn't
Starting point is 01:51:19 easy but I just want to get the message out there that it is possible to change your attitude. And even when life throws crazy things at you, just, you know, stick with it and keep moving because that's what it's all about. You stay down and out. It ain't going to get better.
Starting point is 01:51:38 Hmm, man, this is crazy because, uh, you know, we might just stop after this because this is, yeah, man, you know, it's tough. Look, coming from you, that's what I need to hear.
Starting point is 01:51:52 You know, I've been dealing with just some little things myself here and there, but it's been making me feel just uncertain and unsure. You know, and sometimes even when things are going well, there's something inside of me that wants to fuck them all up. sometimes even when things are going well, there's something inside of me that wants to fuck them all up. But man, you know, how am I going to complain today when I know you're dealing with this? You can't even move. And now you can. And now you're back, bro.
Starting point is 01:52:21 Now you trick-or-treating again, son. You trick-or-treating again, son. You trick-or-treating, bro. You was that coal miner in the wheelchair, and now you that fucking... Now you're pregnant Selena, bro. Now you about to deliver in this world. Let's hear more. Why not just try to look forward
Starting point is 01:52:43 and do the best you can do? And, yeah, I really don't know what else to say. I love you, man. And keep it up. Man, when a guy who can, who was handicapped from the ways down, and he's telling me to keep it up. He's calling to encourage me.
Starting point is 01:53:08 Wow. Thanks, man. I needed that, dude. I mean, how big is that? That's his situation. He's thinking about moving forward. How do we move forward? How do you move forward when you are
Starting point is 01:53:26 paralyzed? You know, when you are addicted, this fucking guy, that's one guy right there in Alabama. You know, a place that's tough to live. I don't care what color you are or what, if you have a head or you don't have arms or whatever, you're in a wheelchair, you're electrocuted. You fucking have wings poking out of your back. You're like Daniel, you're a damn hoof boy. You know, your daddy turned you into a fucking little deer. You know, it's a tough, look, that's a tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough existence that this man has had. And he's moving forward, bro.
Starting point is 01:54:05 I love it. I love it, man. Man, I'm happy to be here to be a part of this. Whatever paralyzes you, bro, if you're feeling down, you know, if your paralyzation has come from, you know, decades and generations and centuries of your people being not given opportunity. If your paralyzation comes from self-doubt and depression, sexual inadequacy,
Starting point is 01:54:42 anger, No inadequacy. No anger. You know, issues where you felt like you didn't get the love you needed as a child. Whatever it is, it's like, look, man. You heard fucking Maurice fucking Claret say it, bruh. And we have a generation where people just feel sorry for themselves. And we are feeling sorry for ourselves. And that's okay. We can feel it. We can feel it. We're here feeling it. That's what we're doing. And it's feeling sorry for ourselves and that's okay. We can feel it.
Starting point is 01:55:05 We're here feeling it. That's what we're doing. And it's not all what we're doing. We're conversing. We're figuring it out. But we can keep moving. We can keep moving forward. There's a guy who's fucking paralyzed moving forward, bro. We can all do it. So
Starting point is 01:55:22 it's going to be really awkward right now to lead us out of here with this scary music, but you can always hit the hotline, 985-664-9503, thank you to everybody that called, you know, and if this podcast ain't for you, brother, then it ain't for you, if it is for you, it is for you, I want to wish everybody a happy Halloween. And I want to wish everybody... And I want to wish myself more patience with others. And I want to wish the same thing for you.
Starting point is 01:55:58 And I want to wish people that are struggling with something that they can start to un-struggle with it. And feel power back inside of themselves. And I want to wish that for myself too. And that's okay. And I believe that we're good people. And I believe that if we're not that we still can be and they say a leopard never changes its spots
Starting point is 01:56:30 and I don't believe that I do not believe that at all because I don't have the same spots I used to have man I mean I might have a whole new rash but it's not the same spots let's listen to this Halloween music And I might have a whole new rash, but it's not the same spots. Let's listen to this Halloween music. And that's not good enough.
Starting point is 01:57:01 Awkward way to end the episode, but that's life, boys. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's weird. Sometimes it's whatever. As always's weird. Sometimes it's whatever. As always, you can hit the hotline, 985-664-9503. I want to thank you to everyone that called in. I'm very grateful to have callers that care enough to, A, share their lives, Enough to A, share their lives. And B,
Starting point is 01:57:34 Fuck, I don't know what B is yet. And B, share their thoughts. Yeah, share their lives and their thoughts. I'm grateful for that. Ooh. Halloween's coming, bro. What you want to be? I want that snicker.
Starting point is 01:58:03 I want that Snicker. Ooh, sometime now I would settle for a little Baby Ruth guy. Damn, bruh. A Baby Ruth, bruh. I don't know who Baby Ruth is, man, but I want to put that little bad girl in my mouth. You feel me, gang gang? Let's see if this is scary. You guys be good to yourselves, man.
Starting point is 01:58:32 You probably deserve it. And thank you guys for being here with me this week. I'll see you guys on Thursday's episode. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Jonathan Kite, and welcome to Kite Club, a podcast where I'll be sharing thoughts on things like current events, stand-up stories, and seven ways to pleasure your partner. The answer may shock you. Sometimes I'll interview my friends. Sometimes I won't.
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