#664 - Crooners Welcome

32:23I got to do this? So that's kind of like kind of what I was doing when I was acting like that. I was like, what about this old thing, this old day, this old relationship? You know, why don't we live that shit again? Why don't we go through that shit again? Because I really didn't want there to be enough. I wanted a reason that this wasn't going to work. That's what I wanted. But it's not really what I wanted. What I really wanted was I wanted it to work. I was afraid to commit to it. I was afraid to commit to it. So let me keep bringing these old things along. Let me keep bringing these old hurdles.

33:11but one day somebody will get tired of jumping over those with you and then you just stand in there with a bunch of old hurdles and shit just like a PE coach that's out of work that's been just using in their car at lunch or whatever so anyway I don't know if that helps or not bro but man what if we could all be brave enough to love the person that we love like we know they should be loved right I think that's what I mean, bro. What if we could all be brave enough to do that? But praise God, bro. Let's get another one, man. What we got here? Hey, Theo. This is Jared from Indiana. What's up, Jared?

33:57And congratulations on your new Indiana Bears. Onward. Love your show. I was just wondering if you've got any advice for a man who never had a father and now he's trying to raise three boys the youngest one's one and I named them after you I love everything you do I just I don't know I want to be the father that I never had but sometimes it gets hard man I probably hear him in the background, but if you got any advice for me, love you, man. Oh, yeah, that loud one, that must be me. That must be me, bro. The loud one, the chatty one back there. The one back there selling dime bags or whatever, bro.

34:51Selling QP, bro. You know what I'm saying? Pushing weight. That's me. Bro, it's a thoughtful call to think about this, especially around Father's Day, just to think like, you know, I think what I would do, I would write down the stuff maybe that you feel like you didn't get. And then you'll kind of have your answers, I think. For me, I think some of it would have just been direction. It would have been like, maybe if my father would have put his hand on the back of my neck more, that's like a very fatherly son or parental type of thing, the back of the neck. and not even not looking at your children with judgment you know I was looked at with judgment a lot mostly judgment in fact probably 250 % judgment so that's how I learned that the only way to operate in the world was judgment that was like the currency you know it was like oh I'm going to judge you that's kind of how I showed affection was through I'm going to judge you less if that sounds I mean I don't know if that sounds real to anybody or not you think that's real Halston?

36:05that's actually really interesting but yeah why do you think that is? oh I think it makes perfect sense because if somebody judges if all I know if all I look if only the only look I see in a parent's eyes is judgment then that's all I'm gonna do of myself and it's all I'm gonna do probably of others especially if it's like an intimate if there's like intimacy or just communication so yeah that's what I did and it's a survival skill that can help you a lot because you're judging things you get really good at judging this judging out not you know I'm saying you get really good but it'll keep you alone too it can anyway so but blessings to you bro happy father's day to you and I'm just thinking out loud too bro I don't know any of this I'm not a scientist um you know but uh but yeah so but blessings to you bro tell little tia i said what's up bro type shit blm i'll see him in the streets boy gang let me see what else we got here hey tio it's mason i just had a what's up mason thank you for calling brother question for you you know i kind of just wanted to see what you thought about it what you you know caught a little Wisconsin there, boy.

37:25You know. Or Illinois, maybe onward. The other day, I walked into a gas station, and there was a man who clearly had Down syndrome. He didn't look the oldest. Oh, yeah, the ops. And he was trying to buy some beer. And I kind of read the situation and knew what was going on. But the clerk actually, you could tell he didn't know what to do. and he you know he kind of looked at it he actually turned to me like sir what do you think of this and and i i don't know if i should feel bad but i told him it looked good and he sold the clearly underage man with down syndrome alcohol and i'm just wondering if i did the right thing what you do in that situation uh thanks for you you know gang gang yeah bro of course of course dude if a guy has down syndrome give him a fucking drink give him a break man Cut his work hours a little bit.

38:19Like, yeah, dude, I remember when we were growing up, if a guy had Down syndrome, you'd give him a beer. You'd bring him. You'd even get some beer from inside. If your dad wouldn't give you a whole can, you'd come and just give him and just let him just drink it out of your hands, brother. Like, you got to support people. You know, people with Down syndrome love to drink beer because I think it has sugar in the – a lot of it's sugar-based. Why do Down Syndrome people love beer? Oh, it just shows a picture of Ireland. So County Cork specifically. But, dude, it's like I think I don't – I believe, look, if somebody has Down Syndrome or if they might have it or whatever, I think you got to let them drink, bro.

39:07bro, that's the type of place I'm from, you know, I almost had it, I was on the ropes, and I think you gotta let people cook if they have it, and yeah, dude, when I was growing up, we would get a, we had a guy who had, I don't know what he had, he had something, something pretty strong, and we'd send him, we'd give him 50, 60 dollars, go in there, bro, one time, bro, This kid Damien, dude. And, bro, one time we give him the money to go in there, and he fucking went out the back, dude. He went out the back and ran up there to a senior center and broke down a bunch of the wall art and the windows in there.

39:48So, you know what I'm saying? We never got our money back, though. But the shit I'm talking about is, like, you don't know what's popping, bro. You don't know what's popping. So I don't think we should hold somebody back from having a good time. I do think the underage thing, but if somebody has Down syndrome, bro, I say let them cook.

40:10You know what I'm saying? I say let them cook, bro. But yeah, I mean, should you feel bad about it? I don't know. I mean, as long as y 'all aren't making fun of the guy or doing something like that, as long as y 'all aren't, you know. Plus, people want to feel included. Buying beer is kind of like a ritual when you're underage. I'm not saying, you know, I'm not sitting here condoning it. Don't do it. I got to say that for legal reason. But people do it. You know, even down-centered people do it apparently. So whatever, bro. You know, he probably, he might not even have down-centered. He might just live too close to a data center, bro.

40:48You know what I'm saying? He might be all hopped up on data and shit. You know, little Ricky's on that data. So let's take another call here. Speaking of data centers, actually. Hi, my name is Amy Tompkins. What I would love is if Theo Vaughn could talk about or even mention the fact that a Georgia company is building an AI data center right next to the Nashville Zoo and right next to an elementary school. So like smack dab in the middle of these two innocent, beautiful creatures on God's planet. These evil ghouls are coming in and destroying the air, the water, the environment, you know, the earth, everything that we have.

41:37I mean, these animals are already in a zoo. OK, and now they're going to come in and do this to it. So it's like I'm just trying to do whatever I can to bring attention to this. Amen. Thank you for calling. I agree, bro. Now the thing is they got data everywhere. I'll say this, dude. On behalf of everybody that's human and has a heart, fuck AI, bro. Fuck AI. I don't have any friends that are ever like, hey, AI, how's AI? You know what I'm saying? Nobody's doing that shit. We're already fine. We can already order our food fast enough. We can already watch a movie if we want on our phone. Like, we don't need anything else.

42:21I don't know who else needs more shit. I don't want any data, brother. They got too much data. Now what happens? The kid, you know, the kid's playing at school or whatever, and he falls in a fucking, they got a puddle of data outside of the data center or whatever, and he's got a bunch of data and shit on his shirt or whatever. You know, he's got a bunch of, like, Love Island episodes that won't come out, you know stained up for sure especially the new season a bit much but it's like you know and what how does that even work they got a data leak at the factory now he's at your kid you know little ricky's got a bunch of data stuck in his leg or something you know he's got a bunch of fucking maps of like from the 1300s or whatever or he's got a bunch of epstein files just stuck in his spinal column or something because of the you know the data he's just got emails stuck in his scan or whatever.

43:14You know, it's just like, we don't want any data, bro. We don't want any, nobody wants a data center, dude. Nobody wants it. And the people that want them to me, bro, they seem kind of evil. It's like, what's going to happen? You know, you, you fall down and you get a bunch, you know, a bunch of loose data flies out of the factory or something now. And your kid's got, you know, he's got five episodes of, uh, of Dutton ranch or whatever stuck in his neck or something. It's gotten crazy. We don't want it. Nobody wants the shit. And so here's what I think. I really believe this. I think I really believe it.

43:52I don't know, but I believed it yesterday. I believe that some people know how to live forever. They've cracked the code. And so suddenly they have to put the rest of us. They have to lock us down. They have to. Because if everybody finds out about it, then everybody's going to be able to do it, right? There's got to be some people have to take, like, have to separate themselves. And I think this is how they're doing it. They're creating these data centers. It's all just going to, it's all, I think, going to be, I believe, this is my hypothy, theory, that they're going And it's all going to be locked in with these flock cameras or some company like this Palantir.

44:37One of these companies is going to be owning all of this information. They're going to put it all in. It's all going to be, we're all going to be locked down. Everybody, you're not going to be able to live or do anything that feels human. Right? There's going to become this kind of score, this sort of like social and even emotional sort of credit score. And then AI is going to become, it won't ever really, but it's going to try to become like our new God. right? Because I think people go to God for their feelings, for their, for help, for, uh, hope, right? They, they lay their, their, uh, their faults at the feet of Jesus for, for, for hope, right?

45:17And it's all good. You're going to have to like appease somehow you're going to get, do well enough for the data center to grant you whatever you then need, right? does that sound crazy Alistair no so that's why they need because what does anybody thought what what data do they we already have like we're sharing pictures we're sharing phone we all have video in the cloud like we all have this stuff that you know there's millions of episodes of different movies and all it is in the clay what do they need it's a they're asking for a lot of suddenly they need, that's a lot of space to just need data everywhere.

46:02So yeah, it's unbelievable, bro. It's unbelievable. I could talk more about it. I would love to know more people's thoughts about it, but I don't give a fuck about it. I don't see what it's going to do for us. I don't understand to be human. I think we've led a lot of tarantulas that aren't humans start to take over society. And, uh, and we're seeing the repercussions of And some of us, we didn't let it happen. But I believe that, yeah, the devil is alive, bro. The devil is alive and the devil is a liar, bro. Anyway, I'm not trying to preach on it. I think some of it just makes me mad. And it's scary.

46:39They're putting it by a zoo. It's like they're rubbing it in our face. You know what I'm saying? Because a lot of that is showing control. They're putting it by a school or whatever. Some kid, you know, he's on the swing set and he just hits his head like there's some data going through the air or whatever. And he hits his head on some f***ing data or whatever. Now he's got a concussion. And, you know, he's just stuck singing Spotify lyrics. You know, just a bunch of data. He's just sitting there, you know, reciting just Larry Fleet and the Castellos and Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen deep cuts.

47:15It's like, it just, you know, I don't know, bro. I don't know what's going to happen, man. And some girl today, she said, and when do we stand up? When do we... It's a good question.

47:33I don't know. There must be something attractive in us just watching

47:40our demise. I don't know. I don't know if that makes any sense. Oh, I do want to get the president of Mexico on here. is Claudia Sheinbaum. I will come to Mexico City. I want to come down there. So I would love, yeah, I would love to get the president of Mexico on just to learn. I want to learn like about like the Mexican-American relationship from a Mexican point of view, from a leader there point of view. Not, you know, I just want to learn more. I think it would be exciting. and um so this is my beacon for that you know i'm trying to speak what i would like and uh yeah i would love to know like how how do our laws like the laws that we make here how does that affect things that happen in mexico what are like the truths about cartel stuff in mexico i would love to know about um like what are some of like the big long-term goals of mexico just things like that it's interesting because i don't ever i don't ever learn about it i probably could, but it would be nice to learn in person.

48:42Um, so that is, um, something I would like to, I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to me. Amen. Um, what else? Oh yeah. Eight bro. Let's talk about Atlanta. Atlanta has got the most flock cameras, bro. Um, yeah, speaking of it, speaking of, uh, also just going back real quick to the, um, data center. The company behind the Nashville Zoo data center, the one that's near there, allegedly is DC Blocks. So, let me look at them. Who owns DC Blocks? Primarily owned by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Owned by Alternative Investment. Jonathan Levine, John Wright. Um, firm-wide strategic direction is steered by managing partners David Gross and chairman such as Steve Pagliuca and Josh Bekenstein.

49:45Um, this is all AI overview. This is from Google AI. Atlanta-based DC Blocks proposed building a 24-acre two-building data center campus at 648 Grasmere Park. That's unbelievable, dude. I go drive over there all the time. I go to a meeting not far from there. Um, unbelievable. The Nashville Council, the Nashville Metropolitan Council passed an initial temporary moratorium that seeks to restrict larger scale data centers from being built within a half mile of homes. Um, bro, the thing is, most of the, most of the flock cameras, now I saw one the other day. Just saw one the other day over there about a Donnett shop, bro.

50:26I was giving me a couple Donnett's. Bro, I was a little depressed at night. I pulled up over there and they had some kids over there milling around, but I waited in my car about 7, 11 minutes, bro. Waited till their mom came and picked them up because I just didn't want to be embarrassed, bro. And then I walked in there, got me a couple of Donuts, bro. And on the way out, I saw a flock came. I was sitting in my car eating Donuts, seeing a flock. But Atlanta's got the most, bro. Let me see. Flock Group Incorporated, doing business as Flock Safety is an American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition, video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems, bro.

51:13Dude, I saw a video the other day. It was like the block versus flock, bro. And it was a lot of gangsters and bangers out there in the streets. And what they were thinking of flock cameras, man. Because that's really where it's going to, you know. Because a lot of, like, gangs, they own certain territory. But now these flock cameras are coming in saying they own it. So that's, you know what I'm saying? That's the battle we're going to see soon, bro. Flock versus the block, bro. So, you know what I'm saying? Because otherwise, they're going to have surveillance on what? All of these bangers, bro?

51:49I'm curious, bro. Ain't no blood. Ain't no cripping because of flock? Dang, bro. It's going to be interesting, man. um let's take another call we got enough we got a lot of calls that have come in um before we do that here is how you what you can do as a citizen to oppose the nashville zoo data center so you can sign the petition on change.org titled nashville zoo says no to propose data center okay great and we'll put the link to that in here we'll put it in here and uh youtube information cool what does the seven dollar big deal meal get you at sonic the real question is what doesn't it get you for the seven dollars you score a classic sonic cheeseburger medium fries or tots a medium drink plus premium chicken bites that's not a snack that's not a just grab something real quick.

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55:04And what do you think about the old one not going to be there no more? Anyway, I just like your thoughts on that. Amen, brother. Thanks for the call, dude. I think my thoughts are simple. I like the old stadium. I liked it. I'm kind of a romanticist. I like, you know, I like old schooler stuff, traditional stuff a little bit. I think it felt a little bit more like the city. It felt a little bit more comfortable. The more you could just pull right up, you were right there. The new one, it just feels like it's taking us to a new and bigger place. And I know that's where the city is headed. And I know I'm just a transplant here.

55:42So I'm part of the problem, you know? So I take my thoughts with a grain of salt. But I'm just saying that's how I feel, bro. You know? From one dub to another, bro. You know what I'm saying? it's black and white to me, just like, uh, bro. You feel me, bro. Just like you, bro. You feel me cut? I just like that smaller feel. It felt it fit a little bit more. Sometimes I worry that Nashville is just becoming more of like a tourist destination than it is a place like a home. But then I would do, I don't know, you know, I don't have a family right now. I don't have those other elements that give it that.

56:18So those are just my thoughts, but that's how I feel. But at the same time bless you boys for staying over there and building it and i'm curious to see yeah this part of me is curious to see what it looks like but yeah i don't know there's something that felt like a little bit more like uh i like that old f-150 bro that's the you know in my heart my arsenal is it probably like a 88 f-150 bro so i like something that would match with that i like that old stadium right there but thank you brother praise god stay safe bro type shit blm bro and WLM. You know, you bow both. All right, one last call, man.

56:59Hey, Theo. This is Nate calling you. Yeah, I'm just feeling really grateful this morning. Amen, brother. Thanks for the call, Nate. Onward. Five years ago today, I woke up hungover for the last time. And man, I'm just a better man than I ever imagined I could be.

57:25Yeah, I've just learned to live in the moment, be present, be right here, deal with my shit, work through my problems, and I feel free. I'm sitting here today, and I'm just feeling free, man. I'm feeling really, really free. I wonder if we just call and wish them happy five years, you think? That'd be great.

57:50Yes, you've reached Nate. Give me a message, and I will give you a call. What's up, Nate? It's Theo from the podcast. You hit the hotline the other day. I just wanted to call and wish you a happy five years, man. Thanks for just sharing with us, you know, just the positive energy, the possibility you know like just the promises that you said that they talk about in the program that like you know that that the old stuff will fall away that you will hey what's up man hey what's up bro this is Theo is this Nate yeah this is Nate what's up bro I heard your voicemail on the hotline I just wanted to call and wish you happy five years dude we're on the podcast right now but I can keep it off either way, but I just wanted to call and wish you a happy five years, bro.

58:48Oh, no, that's cool, man. Keep it on. Yeah, thanks. Thanks a bunch, man. That's a big deal for me. I'm real happy. I'm actually out walking on a date with my wife right now. Let's go. Y 'all take walks, huh? Well, you bet. Yeah, I like walks, bro. Went out for some supper. Now we're out on a walk. We got five kids. All five kids are at home because my oldest is 16 and can hang out and watch them. And yeah, life's good, brother. Bro, supper and a walk. Y 'all must be rich, huh? We ain't rich, but we got to get out and keep knowing each other. You know what I mean? Dude, that's a big, yeah, that's a great point, bro.

59:32Dude, I love taking walks. I invited a girl on a walk not even too long ago. Yeah? Yeah, she kind of bailed the day off. But that's life, bro. What you going to do, you know? Sometimes you just got to keep finding somebody who wants to walk, bro. That's right. Someday you'll find the one that will keep walking with you forever. I got that one. Amen, bro. Amen to that, dude. We don't want to bug you or hold you up, man, but I just want to say thank you, bro. It was nice of you to call and share just that milestone, just that fact that it can happen for people and just sharing about some of the promises that can come true, man.

1:00:10like yeah did you believe it when you started that it could happen um no man because you know i i drank for quite a few years uh all through my like 20s and into my 30s and um i just kind of figured it's just like i'm just gonna keep drinking and then one morning for me it's different than for a lot of folks i think like i woke up one morning and I was like man that's it I'm done and once you quit that once you went to meetings of did you believe that it would be done or did you I mean it's it was hard right I mean it was really really hard like yeah I it seemed like you know you'd get 30 days and then you'd get 60 days and you get 90 days it's like man I'm never gonna have a year and then all of a sudden you blink your eyes and it's five years and you don't even think about the you don't even think about what you're at least for me, I don't think about what I'm addicted to anymore.

1:01:05It's just like, I'm just, like I said, I'm just sucking life through the tailpipe. You know, it's just like, I'm living it raw and it's just so rewarding. Um, and free, free feeling. Whereas before it was like, you know, I mean, I think we have a lot of things in common where it's like, my mom wasn't great to me when I was growing up and I was, I was running from a lot of different things and here I am, you know, not running from anything anymore and just becoming a better man every day. So, um, did I think it would? Yeah, no, I didn't, but here, here it is and this is going to keep going. So.

1:01:41Amen, bro. Well, tell your wife that we said, Hey, and thanks for putting up with you and putting up with anybody and, uh, and congratulations, bro. Yeah. Thanks to you. I appreciate it. And I appreciate you. thanks for sharing your life with everybody and and you know the honest stuff because that's where people grow when we're honest with each other and we just kind of have some vulnerability so i appreciate that about you yeah thanks man sometimes i get scared to share that stuff i feel like it's like i don't know i feel different ways about it sometimes but i don't know how else to be sometimes you know that's the weird thing yeah you got to be you and i think that's a beautiful part of you so don't don't ever let that go man well thanks bro i appreciate that yeah bro one day at a time man that's it right yep one day at a time amen bro enjoy your walk dude congratulations bro and talk to you soon yeah thanks brother alright cheers bro yeah bye dang bro that's awesome bro out on a walk with his wife hopeful I mean it sounded hopeful you know possible gets home has some kids over there things can be okay nothing's perfect but things can be okay right so anyway i don't know what we're doing but we're gonna keep trying to do it and uh that's that's about all i got today man i gotta run i gotta meet my friend over there get a little snack or something over there and look at um my friend has a new uh they're selling uh um my friend's on a picnic table over there so i'm gonna I go put a bid in on it.

1:03:26What else? That's about it. So you guys be good to yourselves, man. Thank you for paying attention. I had fun, bro. I think I've been scared sometimes of doing solos. But I had fun today, and I hope we can do this again sooner. And, yeah, just thank you guys. The hotline is always 985-664-9503. Houston, thank you for your patience today. Thank you for rolling with the punches of life Serving us a little grease with the technical problems Hey bro, you wanna say it's greasy? That's how it is bro You think it's gonna be smooth? Then it is bro It's smooth bro But it's greasy Praise God bro Be good to yourself You deserve it baby gang Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be Cornerstone Oh, but when I reach that ground I'll share this peace of mind I found I can feel it in my bones But it's gonna take

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