E458 Flea Market

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Podcast Summary: This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von - Episode E458 Flea Market

Overview In this solo episode, Theo Von reflects on various topics including personal memories from school days, pop culture references, humorous anecdotes, and listener voicemails. The episode captures Theo's unique storytelling style and humorous take on life experiences.

Key Themes and Discussions

Back to School Memories

School Clothing Rituals: Theo reminisces about preparing for the school year, emphasizing the excitement of new clothes and the anxiety of fitting in.
Bus Ride Challenges: He shares humorous stories about the challenges of getting to the bus stop, managing heavy backpacks, and the social dynamics on the school bus.
Nostalgia for School Days: Reflects on the significance of school as a place for social interaction, learning, and personal growth.

Pop Culture Commentary

Morgan Wallen's Haircut: Theo makes light of country singer Morgan Wallen's new hairstyle, adding a humorous, supportive tone.
Thoughts on the Barbie Movie: Offers his perspective on the film, humorously distancing himself from it as an adult male.
British Superheroes: Critiques the lack of compelling superheroes in British culture, comparing them unfavorably to American heroes.

Humorous Anecdotes

Flea Market Encounter: Shares a funny story about an interaction with a semi-homeless man who humorously mispronounced "flea market".
School Bus Dynamics: Recounts the social hierarchy and the awkwardness of finding a seat on a school bus.
Interpersonal Relationships: Reflects on various childhood interactions with peers that highlight the complexities of growing up.

Listener Engagement

Voicemail Responses: Theo engages with listener voicemails, sharing laughter and insights into their stories.
Grocery Store Anecdote: Responds to a caller who humorously discusses waiting in the frozen food aisle to see women.
Cultural and Relationship Challenges: Offers advice to a caller dealing with relationship issues and racism in family dynamics.

Personal Reflections

On Life and Change: Theo expresses a philosophical take on life, emphasizing the continuous nature of growth and learning.
Empathy and Support for Others: He takes a moment to express concern for those affected by recent natural disasters, highlighting the importance of compassion.
Mental Health Awareness: Discusses personal struggles with anger and social anxiety, encouraging listeners to seek help and stay engaged in their mental health journeys.

Promotions and Sponsorships

Listens to sponsorship messages from brands such as Celsius, Manscaped, Ibotta, and Keeps, addressing various lifestyle products and discount offers.

Conclusion Theo Von combines humor, nostalgia, and thoughtful commentary in this episode, allowing listeners to connect with his personal experiences while also reflecting on broader societal themes. The blend of humor and sincerity makes for an engaging and relatable listening experience.

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0:27All right, I have some new tour dates to announce We just added a third show in Milwaukee on September 9th at the Riverside Theater. Tickets for that are on sale now. They'll also be in Oakland, California, Akron, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Nevada. Some of those have new shows. Those are all at Theovan.com slash T-O-U-R. And thank you so much for your support. New merch for you merch heads out there. We've got some new shorts. that's right the rat life shorts in blue salmon and sand we've also got the new tie-dye be good to yourself tees in aqua creamsicle and indigo get that and more only at theovonstore.com morgan wallen uh cut his hair he cut his hair and we don't know why.

1:28We don't know why, but we are, we're praying for him. We're with him still. So, okay. We love him.

1:47Good day. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good time. Good tidings to you wherever you are. Man, happy August to you. Mid-August. Can you believe it? Can you believe it that school's back in? Can you believe it that life is just continuing to happen? Life just keeps happening. Life is like, hey, guess what? And you're like, what? And it's like, bam, more life. It just never stops giving you more life. That's life. Unlimited life. Hey, you want another scoop of life, boy?

2:40And we are happy to be alive, though I am. I'm happy to be alive because this is it. You know, I make that choice some days. Some days I don't. but some days I say this is it and how am I going to handle it the other night a guy was giving me directions and I'd pulled over and I was talking about something and he was explaining where something was and he goes it's right over there behind that and they had a lit up sign it said flea market that's what the letters on the sign would say but some of the letters had were burned out and this guy was um i don't want to say homeless but i would say semi-homeless or hadn't you know this guy probably i bet this guy hadn't been home in probably probably 12 or 14 months so he was like a street baby and so he was trying to give me he tell me where this place was that he'd went to.

3:46And he goes, it's right over there behind that. And he sees the big sign on this kind of building space that says flea market. But some of the letters were burned out. So it just said F L M and then K E T. Those were the letters you could still see. So instead of just deducing that it said flea market, the guy's like, well, it's, you know, it's right over behind the, um, the, um, right. It's right. If he goes, If you go right behind, you see that, uh, that.

4:43And I'm just thinking like, how does this guy not know that this sign says flea market? just the I mean he was like you just go behind the flim flim cut just go you go right around there and you'll be there he said and you'll get there and I sorry I don't know that just made me laugh flim cut you gotta go if you go right behind the flim cut you'll get there that's where it is it's behind the

5:30so flea market flea market anyway i don't know what that all meant um good to be with you happy school time i know a lot of you uh a lot of you you have children going back to school or you're going back to school. Some of you have never been to, some of you can't read and that's why you listen to things. But God, do you remember it? Do you remember it going back to school? It was such a big time. I remember first you get your clothes. The big thing was getting school clothes, you know, you get school clothes and you would set them on the bed. You had to see how they looked. How does this with that?

6:21Dude, sometimes I would even, I would lay down on the bed and I would lay my clothes on top of me instead of just, cause I, you didn't want to put them on. You, you didn't want to break those. You didn't want to be in them until that first day of school. and so then you know you would get i would lay there in bed and just have them on me how do i look i'd make my brother come in the room how do i look i'd have them all just laid on me you know almost like i was just um deactivated or whatever deceased i'd just be laying there with all my new stuff on me how do i look

7:10and then that first day when you wore the clothes that was something crazy boy you put them on you're like this is it we're ready and we had to get to the bus stop that's something we had to do for for school we had to get to that bus stop and you know if you because my mom would be gone My mom would leave a note, hey, I went to work, or I've left you guys. It'd be something, a note kind of like that. There's peanut butter in the fridge, it would say. Just something where you were like, okay, we don't have a chance, you know. And then I'd put my book bag, and I'd have to run to the bus. Our bus was probably about two good real blocks away.

7:58You had to go two full blocks to get to that bus stop. Maybe two and a half blocks. And I don't know if you have, maybe some of you guys have done like a 10K or a 6K or whatever. Hell, maybe some of you have done a couple grams of K, of ketamine, some fish scale and just laid on your back, semi-erect on a stranger's balcony. I don't know. Some of that doesn't matter. But what I'm saying is if you've ever been in like an adventure race, if you've ever done a 10K or a Tough Mudder or, you know, a March of Dimes or a WOD, a CrossFit WOD, you know, those are tough things to do. but nothing is tough as being let's say a fifth grader with a heavy backpack who is running to get to the bus stop to not miss the bus who is running to not miss the bus because here's what starts happening you get going and you're going and you're doing good You're like, bitch, I'm going to learn.

9:14Okay. I'm going to learn soon. Boy, flip my cut. I'm going to learn. But then that heavy backpack, it starts going. It's too heavy. It starts kind of wobbling too fast behind you. So now the backpack kind of has like an energy of its own. And you have to basically, you almost have to stop, let the backpack come to rest and then get going again. you know because you look like a fucking you look like a penguin that's just you know that's done a gram or something that's grammed out baby um so that was always the most hectic was whenever you were late for the bus but you had that huge heavy backpack and it would just like it would start be like it would come around to the sides you it was so like like it was crazy when you were seeing your backpack it would swing all the way almost in front of you on each side as you, as the different legs of yours move forward, you know, because it was just getting out of control and you have to stop and let it settle down.

10:16And then you start going again. Um, so that was always, that was harrowing to get into the bus. That was a, that was the toughest thing. And then here's the crazy part. As you were approaching the bus stop, you didn't want to run because you didn't want people at the bus stop seeing you run to learn because that was the most nerd shit you could be doing like oh this dude running to learn we're gonna this guy is not this dude is a narc you know this guy is trouble this guy wants a future that was frowned upon so you would have to like hurry but as soon as people like were looking you couldn't you had to stop hurrying like i don't care if i miss it i don't need to learn you know i'm saying bro education is for dummies man so uh so then you had to kind of slow it it It was just this crazy, like, in our neighborhood, it was just this crazy thing to get over there, you know?

11:27It was this crazy thing. And I remember one time somebody stood in an ant pile at the bus stop, and somebody's daddy came out and put gasoline all over him to help him out or whatever. but that was a crazy thing I remember about getting back to school it was just such a harrowing time going back to school was just such like a you know you were going back to school it was your that was where the world happened that was where you touched society that's where you learned where you had a chance at meeting a a spouse or something, you know, or a whatever. That's where it all, it was like, that was the Greek, the center of existence.

12:22That was the nucleus. That was the core of your earth at the time going to school. And yet then you'd get on the bus. That was, oh. Dude, I remember I'd get on the bus and it was scary. at like you got on the bus and first i remember our bus was it was black and white children on our bus so first you had like these two chick they were both pregnant in each of the first seats the first seats was for chicks that was pregnant or semi-pregnant you know what i'm saying um and so you had i remember one time we had these chicks we had tiffany and we had large and both to them they had been somebody lit them up with that seedling baby you know what i'm saying that zygote baby

13:22somebody freaking you know put that baby that uh somebody put that goldfish in the bowl on them babies so you had them two then in the next seat you had like this brother this dude he had knocked both of them up so he was right there you know this dude fucking inmate crandall i think was his name this bro he was you know and that's a crazy name for somebody but that was the name they they knew about the jump this dude where he was headed bro so that was it that you know that was it so you had and i remember that dude for 50 cents he'd let you see his wiener or he would just show you his wiener for no money so he wasn't like the best businessman but but you had to see a little bit of wiener if you wanted to get past that second row of seats right and that you know that's just what it was like on the school bus so you had to you see the girls you kind of do a little prayer for them and the offspring or potential offspring you'd see inmate Crandall you fucking nod at him maybe peeked at Wayne if he was showing root you know and then the next seat it was like a mixed kid right and that was like okay this is because when you were on the bus you kind of were walking past the seat so fast it was hard to make choices where do I sit am I cool am I not cool it was almost like it was like where God put you in a filing cabinet or where life puts you in a filing cabinet of how cool or whatever your status was in the world at that moment.

15:05Like, do you sit by the kid who's playing a Game Boy or a Switch, you know, a Game Boy at the time? Would you, okay, do I sit by him? That dude's a nerd. Do I sit in this seat? Sometimes you sit in a seat and they'd have a, you know, some weird kid in there, you know. My mom's missing, you know, and you're like, oh, fuck. dude you know and the kid's got fucking rope burns on his wrists and shit and you know you're like what are you is everything okay at the house and he's like we love houdini you know he's just saying like you know we watched david blaine videos or just something whatever somebody told you know his captors told him to say or whatever and then um you get to the next row and it was like two girls that had just gotten their first thing of fucking lipstick right and their moms was on pills and so they were they were just like just had made their lips like as big as just I mean they just as big as mine and you're like okay do I sit by the jocks the jocks seem real cool they're you know I don't know I don't sit there it was kind of where you figured out where you sit you know you know do I sit by you know the girls no it's hard it was like oh god that's a cute girl she's kind of quiet you know then there was some kid like who had a broken arm or something like i'm not fucking sitting by old bad luck hansen right there that dude but that was always a crazy time i remember getting onto the school bus and being like okay where do i sit am i cool am i not cool and you couldn't get to the back of the bus was like the old kids.

16:53So you had to, so if you weren't old, you had to figure that out before you got to the back, you know, and finally you duck in somewhere where just somebody seems safe enough or cure or just nervous enough or uncertain enough as yourself.

17:10And you'd sit down and you make sure, okay, I got my book bag. I'm okay. I got my shoes on. I got my hands on everything's fine you know and you'd sit there and you'd just look forward and then the bus driver they would just somebody would you know call the bus driver

17:35and and I don't want to say it but I said it and that's what somebody would call the bus driver and then she would stop She would stop Because I think she questioned her sexuality And she would pull that bitch over And that's when it got insane You know And it was like I just want to go to school I can't fucking live like Mad Max Every morning Just because I want social studies But god that was harrowing man That was harrowing getting to school And then remember you would sorry it's just school time so i'm just reminiscing in my head remember you would the night before whatever you talk to your friends okay we're gonna meet we meet by the overhang by the tree we meet right there we meet at 8 10 right that's when we get it's like smooth as could be everybody knows what to do but then you would walk you'd start walking up and everybody's meeting at the same spot and you're like, I don't know what to do.

18:48And then some kid runs up and it's like some kid named Damien or whatever. And he's like, our house burned down. And you're just like, what in the hell is going on?

19:05It was just a lot, man. The first day of school was a lot and everybody had their new clothes on. You were so scared about who was going to look at you, who was thinking about you. Make sure you walk normal, left, right. Seem cool. Seem cool. Are you cool? No, you're not. Pretend you are, bitch. That was the kind of shit that was going on in my head. Seem fucking cool, motherfucker. What is wrong with you, you little bitch, huh? I will chew your ass cheeks off of the back of your wiener, you little bitch. that's kind of what like the voice in my head would be like it would be like seem cool and i remember one year i had so much acne dude my whole face was just acne and like if i smiled like four pimples would pop it was it was i was afraid to make any like crazy facial things.

20:09Like any, I don't know what they're called. Like, what's it called when you're like, you go like, you know, like, ooh, you know, or

20:21exclamations, I guess. So, what else do I remember about back to school?

20:30If you guys have some back to school moments that you really reflect on. Why don't you hit the hotline with them? Maybe I'll try to make a special clip next week that we can put out that's just about that. But yeah, I remember that back to school, it was just nothing like it. It was just so, it was such a, the buildup to it was just insane. And getting there and, and sitting in your desk, okay, I'm safe. I'm in my desk, you know and you just I never wanted to be alone I always wanted to be with somebody with a buddy walking with a friend because if you were alone it felt like you were susceptible to anything but if you were with some friend you felt pretty okay not here by myself god I just remember all of that mmm flim flim flimket flimket yeah just drive around the flimket flimket do you mean flea market

21:41um what's up yeah i know morgan walling cut his hair and we can't handle it and we don't know how to deal with it but you know what it's not our thing it's his hair and he can do what he wants with it and we just i don't know we don't know how to feel about it because it's something new but that's okay what do we have in the universe is happening today um i want to thank you guys i want to thank you for just for coming out the places people have come out recently um I get man some of them have just We went up through like a bus tour Through up to Atlantic City In Uncasville Connecticut

22:32Uncasville And I think that's that British came over and did that Uncasville The British dude And I know we gotta get over there and perform in Britain soon But Can you believe being British has to be wild you know because you don't really you don't have any superheroes you don't have really any superheroes you have you have Paddington Bear right which I kind of get he's like this kind of like little just like oh hey you know kind of little oh kind of I'm Paddington you know he's like whatever you know he does his thing or whatever and then who else sherlock holmes so fucking if those are your superheroes no wonder we left to start america we're like y 'all got paddington and fucking uh watson's daddy over here watson's pimp fucking s lock homie we out.

23:41I'll get on a boat to nowhere if those are my superheroes, dude.

23:50But what else are we talking about? Oh, the news.

23:57Oh, Barbie. People seeing Barbie movie. And somebody asked me, they said, hey, buddy, you seen Barbie? you seen Barbie movie and I said no I haven't seen it because well I'm an adult male I'm an adult male and I'm not seeing Barbie movie because I'll tell you why I think it is for children or gay children or child gays or whatever I don't know I don't want to offend anybody I do not know the terminology

24:38and it's Barbie and I'm an adult man so I don't want to see it and people are like yeah but maybe you should know I don't want to know about look when I was a child if a man saw a Barbie movie then your mom was going to leave that man and that's how you got a stepdad people were like hey what happened to your dad well he saw the barbie movie and my mom read between the lines and realized he was probably rubbing dudes off by the shonies and so now we're getting a stepdad um what else in the news little tay is not dead uh i don't care i don't care if little Tay's dead or not dead honestly I don't know little Tay I don't know little little whisper little little little pussy I don't know any of these people okay I don't know who they are every week one of them's dead or not dead you know many they're like oh many Ricky's dead year mini ricky died oh little muskrat took a couple you know somebody popped him with that chopper you're like oh damn little muskrat gone damn every other week you see you know little titty got pop they got little titty he was at a donut shop or something in memphis and somebody fucking rolled up on him with a bazooka full of COVID and fucking killed him.

26:29Every week it's somebody. A little nickel or something. Or twisted, you know, twisted biscuit. They got him. Yeah, they got biscuit. Yeah, he was, they called him, he was walking to his car and somebody fucking popped off on him. Little dick ball. They got little dick balls. You saw him? They got little dick balls again. Oh, bro. Damn. Tiny Benny. They got Tiny Benny. Boy, you seen that? Yes. He was at an ATM over there behind the Wendy's and some goons rolled up on him. They got Tiny Benny. R.I.P. Tiny Benny. Every week it's some tiny little mini baby getting pucked off. Quit naming yourself little tiny mini baby.

27:27Oh, they got little Dunk. They got mini Patrick. They got him. Oh, they got baby Zaire or somebody fucking. Every fucking week, little tiny mini baby Diane. Can we get one week where they don't kill somebody named little tiny mini baby? God damn, bro. No one likes a weird beard. You see somebody, sometimes you say, dang, what's in your beard, boy? You got a sparrow living in there? What is that? I heard something chirping. I heard something eating a worm. Well, Manscaped now sells beard products. Keep that beard clean. Keep it tidy. The leaders in below-the-waist grooming change the game. They're headed north of the Mason Dickson.

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31:03And it wasn't my daddy. I didn't know that man. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

31:14But God, what a beautiful place. We had a great, we had a great time there. Then went over to Memphis and did some shows over there. Memphis is, you know, it's, it's Memphis, baby. You know, you'll be, you know, somebody, they'll, you'll be having a fish. You'll order you a cut of fish somewhere and have two bullets in it. Like, damn, bro. This thing got popped out. They pop, pop, pop, pop, pop it. You get you a little carp and it'll let, you know, somebody just beat it to death. Like, God. They killed this. They have brass knuckle wounds on the side of it. Went to Graceland. And that was pretty impressive.

32:01You know, it was just beautiful to see. You know, Elvis, I mean, as much as he spent his life, you know, and he reaped a lot of rewards. He had a beautiful home there and a place for his mother to be. And it was just fascinating to see just kind of this place that was peaceful to him. you know apparently he didn't Elvis didn't drink much so uh and when he was at home he didn't party much in Graceland it was just a kind of a place to relax his family was there his mother and um and grandmother I believe lived there so that was a place that he was kind of like a respite for him a relaxation type of place and um yeah so that was just just incredible to see what was hip and what was vibey at that time.

32:57It's a great thing. It's a great little tour if you get to go see it. Then his grave is right there. I didn't realize that. You go through this man's home and then you step out and he's right there. He's there next to his family. Just powerful. Just how much he committed to entertainment. We had a great time over there in Graceland. Um, you know, I want to take a moment to, uh, to just express my, my sadness for, uh, Maui and for Hawaii and for Lahaina and the township there that really was just devastated by these fires. Um, I've gotten to spend some time over there. It's a beautiful place and, um, it's just heartbreaking.

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33:48You know, it's heartbreaking. It's really interesting how this happened or why or because a lot of there's not a lot of natural fires over there. A lot of it's usually man made or man calls, you know. And so I don't know. That doesn't, I guess, super matter. Just the fact that I know there's a lot of people over there who are struggling or who have family that are struggling. And just uncertain, uncertain that they had something occur. And now they don't know what to do. You know? They used to be so sure probably of things. And now some of the things are vague. They don't know. You know? And just that uncertainty.

34:35It's just got to be really tough. So just thinking of those folks today. And just taking some time to open my heart up to the world. and share those feelings that just maybe I can take some of the pain that any of them are feeling or any of us can. I think that's what I try to do sometimes when I'm praying for a group or thinking about other people. I say, hey, God, I'm healthy enough today. If they have extra pain, let me have some of it, if you can take it off of those folks. I think it's what we all kind of do when we're praying. That's what prayer kind of is to me. It's like saying, hey, I know there's too much here probably for someone to handle.

35:20How can, is there something I, give me a scoop of it. You know? Give me a scoop of it, daddy.

35:31And, but yeah, gonna hopefully find some places to donate online as some of that stuff gets a little clearer as to like safe places to donate. Because a lot of scammers come out. But anyway, just letting the people of Maui and Hawaii and Lahaina know that they're being thought of. And I know that they are by many. So anyway, just wanted to express that.

35:59Yeah, I mean, one of the wild things in Lahaina, they have this big beautiful banya tree.

36:09Banya tree in the Lahaina fire. it's just it's just it's this tree that i mean it's got 40 trees built into a tree it's like a tree's like hey watch me work that's what it's just like it's unbelievable when you see this tree you're just like god how did it do it it the the branch will go up and then the branch will come down to the ground and do it just it'll become another tree into the ground it's like um it's like a bunch of trees uh it's like a bunch of trees just being buddies it was an unbelievable it was like a group of trees it was like tree six mafia dude it was you were like how is this a gang what is this is unreal um yeah it was just unbelievable if you can look at this tree there's some pictures of it right here if you're on the youtube and just i'd never seen a tree like this i didn't know what tree could do this kind of thing and so that was very impressive um but anyway it's just an example of the ability of nature over there when you get so close to nature and you're right up on that nut that's what Hawaii is boy you're balancing on nature's nut I mean it is fucking natural boy you put your ear up to the ground and that bitch will tell you a fucking secret you know it's just Hawaii there's no you are in the dang you are in in the in the damn vulva of creation right there.

37:50I mean, Hawaii, it's unbelievable. It's the only place where you could fall down on the ground and get better. Like that's how much nature, that's how rich the soil is. You'll fall down and get up and you're stronger than you were. Like, God, damn. You know, it's just that kind of a place. And if you see the footage over there, anyway god I mean this looks like the end of the earth

38:24I mean of course a lot of these videos too they try to make it seem so much crazier but I mean this is unbelievable this looks like post-apocalyptic or something I mean if you haven't seen this it's unbelievable yeah just heartbreaking man really really heartbreaking and I'm sorry, I'm not trying to bring people's day down, but just trying to, you know, say, let us take a moment if you have, you know? And I'm not trying to tell you what to do. Everybody's got their own things to think about and pray for. But that's something that I've been, just has been on my heart and on my mind. All right, let's take a call right now.

39:02As always, the hotline is 985-664-9503. Here we go. Hey, Cleo, man. man you know i just came to watch your show when chattanooga had a great time it's landing gillard hey thank you for coming over there to the nougat you know dem nougat boy everybody was out there and um beautiful city beautiful growing city if you are looking for a place to get in you can't get in early there still but you can still get in pretty early i think it's going to be one of the I think it's been one of the biggest cities 30 years from now Chattanooga boy get your nougat so onward and I just wanted to tell you something you know I've been compared to you a lot and I know I love you man oh praise God brother I love you too man and I love you like a straight person loves another straight person buddy and that's how I choose to love you from a distance and in separate rooms, buddy, but I do love you.

40:12Thank you, buddy. Let's hear more. But the thing is, you know, my dad, he used to take me to the grocery store, and when I would go, I'd sit in a cold food aisle, and I'd wait for women to walk by while my parents were grocery shopping, and I'd just sit in there, and I'd wait for women to walk by. Oh, yeah, buddy. You's a pervert. That's what you are. And that's okay, buddy, because... Me too. Let's hear more. Every time a woman walks by in the cold food section, you get to see their nipples get hard. Oh, God. You wouldn't really know what to do, but I just wanted to ask you if you ever did that before or if you had anything like that.

40:52Thank you, buddy. Oh, buddy. When them frickin' when them sprouters, boy, when that lady just just launched them front stems. Homie, that's what I'm talking about. them long freckles, baby, them nipples. Yeah, I like seeing them. God, when they get close by that cooler and they'd pick up that sack of tater tots, boy, and you'd see them damn, you'd see them tater tips. Boy, them nipples start looking. And the nipple, when it pops out, boy, if you a man nearby, you think that thing's looking for you. you're like, hello? Yeah, when she would launch them fucking, them little titty straws, boy, them napples.

41:45I liked them, buddy. I liked seeing them. And it was, yeah, it was exciting, buddy. If you're lurking in the cold food section, a little pervy, but kind of chill. That'd be the crazy part if you saw one in your mouth just still pursed up.

42:08sometimes you just don't have you you got the letters but you ain't got the words baby cat boy um yeah i love seeing them i'm glad you like seeing them dude i'm glad we can talk about it in a safe space like this as two adult men that are not we're not lurking in frozen food anymore I don't need to do that you know I don't need to fucking write dirty messages in the condensation in those things over there by the ice cream just write you know you want it you know and people see that they're like god damn boy or you know let me love on that low monkey. You'd see a scribble that into a damn into the condensation in a frozen food section.

43:08And you see a beautiful lady. How happened upon that? Hey, mommy? Let me love up on that low monkey. Praise God, baby. Thank you, brother. Thank you for that call, and I'm glad you seem to be doing well. Let's take this call, see what we got. Hey, Theo. My name's Grace. I'm... Grace. I love that. I love that. And some people at different churches, they don't respect people from other churches, and that is called gracism. When people have gracism, they don't want... they ain't offering grace to everybody. No, they're not. So, onward. an alabama girl but currently living in hawaii um and i'm actually coming to your show in chattanooga and bringing my filipino boyfriend with me oh damn boy mommy popping that pinot out huh that filipino and i've always wanted to create a wine called filipino grigio and how that hasn't been done and how that you know that that that there's not a pinot out there a Filipino Filipino how there's not a Filipino hey hey hey hey Filipinos hey hey hey hey some kids they confuse jalapenos and Filipinos they're like hey I want the hot dog with a couple of Filipinos on it you know some people are like yeah I want that hot dog with the Put two Put you You know Couple of them Filipinos on there Hey bro Hey cut Hey cut Hey cut Let me get a hot dog With a You know Put some of them Filipinos On that bitch Pinos on that bitch Pinos on that bitch Okay sorry ma 'am I'm losing it today I was in the cold plunge earlier To be real honest And so I'm fucking i'm feeling alive and i'm grateful for that um and then we're going to go down to alabama to visit my family but what's the best way to introduce my filipino boyfriend to my family everybody's very white and um i don't know i'm super nervous about the whole i guess interracial thing as bad as that sounds like my family's not racist but still just like a different culture Oh, yeah, I know what you mean, honey.

45:47Yeah, it's not, it's just a little bit of daytime racism, baby, what you're talking about. That's nothing, you know, nothing violent, nothing crazy, just, you know, every now and then, you know, it's like you got something stuck in your teeth. You didn't even have any meat, but you just have, like, what is that? Damn. Is that an N word? You know what I'm saying? You just, you don't know. Sometimes you're like that hat, you know, that's from previous cultures. Sometimes we still get things stuck in our teeth just because other people been having beef, you know. um but yeah i think the best way probably to introduce a filipino to some whites well uh god i think first of all reveal do a gender reveal that's what i would do hide him behind a tree let everybody in your family guess what ethnicity is going to be and then run him out there you know now the crazy thing that happens sometimes if you run out because look those a variety of Asians.

46:53We know it. They're making more Asians. Every time you crack open a book, there's another, you know, or you crack open a tunnel somewhere in Vietnam and they got six, you know, two and a half new Asians in there. You're like, damn. You know, they're always reconfiguring. They're always moving a molecule here. You know, carrying the one, moving the decimal. You know, you got Korean, North Korean, uh, uh uh guatemalan filipino asian north asian korean you got vietnamese chinese chimpanese um who else oh malaysian what that all of a sudden you got malaysian you got something in front of Asian. You know, you got Vietnam Asian, you got Chin Asian, you got Negresan.

47:57Now, if you meet somebody that's Negresan, that's new. There's some of them. But there's all there's there just you never know things are. God is doing so much that they're just unlimited. Asians have been I've met so many new Asians. it's unreal it is unreal boys um and all of them beautiful beautiful asians so that's what i would do i would do a uh ethnicity reveal where you put them in a box or put them behind a tree um and then you let your family guess what ethnicity is going to be and then get one of those smoke things and maybe it makes, I don't want to say yellow smoke. I mean, that's, you can't do that.

48:49That's racist. Um, just, you know what? Don't do the smoke thing. Have him come out from behind the tree and say, here he is. Uh, yeah. But if people guess, make sure they don't guess anything real racist. That's, that's going to be uncomfortable, you know? So, but yeah, I I think you can handle it, and I'm excited for you guys. And, you know, I think having a little Asian baby is beautiful. You know, I used to have a lot of dreams, and there were Asian children in them. And nothing was illegal in it, and it was cool, man. you know there's just something about an asian where you are you want to just you want to

49:45you want to do that to them boy you want to get it right up on him hey buddy i love you i love you you want to treat them well so but no i appreciate it and i think uh yeah and Filipinos they are the I mean they're just so good they're so good I read somewhere I think it was graffiti or something but it was like if you break open God's heart that there's probably 30 Filipinos in there splitting an orange or just dividing up a bag of fruit or something. You want to keep your hair? Morgan Wallen lost his hair. We all, you know, who did it? Why they did it? Why they did it? Keeps, helps men keep their hair.

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53:31Hey, Joey. And we did a show out there in Edmonton, Canada. And the smoke came and they canceled. we had to move it by a whole day and to everybody that came there for that first day and we didn't get to perform for you I'm very sorry that was a tough one that was a tough one and that was a wild show I'd never been in front of that many folks um learned a lot Edmonton is real into Edmonton is you know that was they want to be a big city so much they want to but and they are They're respected. They are, you know, they're up there at the north. They're like as north as you could get. And they want to have crime.

54:16They're like, we, somebody got stabbed last, last year. They say stuff like that. and there's always sirens going on there's like siren like fire trucks go by and police but there's nothing's going on that's the crazy like i think they just hire all these sirens to go like and the cops will be like we gotta go there's a murder there's a embezzlement you're like what really there's nobody here who's doing it but there's constantly like whoa some guy jumped off a building nobody did just there's they want to be they want it's like they want to have some violent crime but they don't have enough of it so but a beautiful place wonderful people um okay let's hear more i just want to know if you've been tips on masturbation, you know.

55:20I've been having some trouble lately, you know. I just want to know if you have any tips, gang gang. You've been handing that yam, huh, Joey? You've been handing that yam, huh, big dog?

55:38You've been, uh, you've been burping that sweet potato? Huh, Bubba? Huh, Bubba? You been burping that sweet potato, boy? Oh, you been burping that sweet potato?

55:56You been petting that fucking little chicken tender, eh? Yeah, you been petting that chicken tender, huh? Yeah, look, I'll tell you this, man. A lot of times I'm bored. I'm restless. and I'll jerk off and it's sad but look I'll tell you this every time you jerk off you take a part of you you take the fucking cellular most bright most the most the most the core of you you take it and you spray it into the dirt you tell mother look I don't care look this is what I think If you hold on to that gasm, baby, if you gather your gasms, baby, and hold them bitches close, you will have a power inside of you.

56:54You will have some integrity inside of you, boy. And next time you burp that yumsicle, you're going to put it somewhere where you mean it. Put it, womb it. get you a love and womb it up.

57:17Who knows why we have a lot of the problems we have these days because most of our best nuts is in the plumbing.

57:31One city had too much nut in it. Where was it? City. you you

57:44I don't know. It might be urban legend or whatever. or even just a white legend. I don't know who started it, but I don't think we're supposed to be jerking off, brother. I've never jerked off and been like, man, way to go, bro.

58:07I think about it like this, and what if you saw an animal somewhere? Some kind of animal. What if you walked up on a lion, bro? The lions are tough, man. They're brave. They're fierce. Right? They rule. They rule. And you walked up on a lion. And you saw him jerking off. Right? He's got his mane off. It's sitting on a nightstand or something next to him. You know, he's probably just had a thing of frozen yogurt.

58:49there's other women in the distance who'd love to meet him but he just jerked off over there somewhere and you're watching him look at a screen and jerk his body off and bust that fucking and bust that freaking that little sugar nougat right out of him and just bust that just

59:26it would make you sad, man. It would make you sad. And I think that's the same thing that God or not. I'm not trying to put like a godly pressure, but I think that's the same thing that the eyes of the universe see when they look at us sometimes. Like, damn, bro. and I think it does something to us over time it weakens us I really do I'm not blaming anybody's shit I spent my whole 20s breaking these nuts off for nobody for different plumbing anyway we've gone off the rails here today here's a call we had come in what's up Theo this is Tristan from North Carolina Tristan And thank you, brother, for calling North Carolina beautiful.

1:00:14That's where Caleb Presley used to live and play quarterback. Let's just say it like that. Onward. I was wondering, is it gay to sleep with a shirt but nothing below the waist?

1:00:34is gay is gay to sleep with a dude that's the real litmus test I think onward let me know alright later okay got that one easy

1:00:53hey Theo I'm from Arkansas man and hey brother and thank you for calling in, man. And it's a beautiful state. My buddy Justin is from Arkansas and he likes to gun down them goblers. Last night we let the liquor talk. Onward. They got this new law where you have to get on pornography. You got to verify your identity, you know, to get on there. And I'm 30, so I'm old enough. But I just really don't want to put my, you know, all my information on these sketchy porn sites. So I was just wondering if you had any contact information for that guy that drew them good titties, man. If you could, just let me know.

1:01:37Get back with me, please. Yeah, well, I'll tell you, the original website, baby, is your imagination. And that's the one, if you want to brew up a batch of damn knockers, baby, that's it. That'll do it. That's the one to use, man. That's the internet God gave us right there, is that imagination. It really is. you know and that was the internet that we had before we had the internet and I think it's interesting I was just talking about this on that previous call and I'll try to be more serious here about it or something or for some reason I'm feeling more serious suddenly um because I've had this same instance you know I was keyed on the only fan and I was trying to get on there and it said you well we need your information I said whoa whoa Whoa, whoa, buddy.

1:02:23Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm just trying to, you know, daddy's trying to, you know, I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to, you know, robust, you know, I'm just trying to robust myself, you know, or really, you know, I'm trying to see something, you know, but it's funny. I didn't want to put my information in. So I said, oh, I can't do this. I don't want anybody knowing. I don't want one of these sketchy sites knowing my information. But I'm willing to blast my DNA, which is the greatest information I have of myself. I'm willing to leave that in a damn neighbor's yard. If it means getting that nudie off, you know, if it means churning up that ism.

1:03:10That foodman kicked. So that's I found it interesting, too, man. I don't think there's a way around it. I think it's good if I'm, you know, I think it's good. I think pornography really, and I'm not saying I haven't watched, I'm not saying I haven't seen it in the past week, cuz. Cuz you know.

1:03:37But I think it has definitely done a lot of harm to men. And I think it's going to be something that, it's funny because would you want your kid on there? there are people like, if I catch my kid on porn, I'm going to whoop his butt. But then they'll be on porn. Now, I'm not pointing at these people saying I'm any different. I'm just saying it's interesting. So it's a lot. There's some lines out there that we as men, we got to start to, we got to start to, you know, we got to put that steam in the kettle. Because there's something else that happens when you keep all your men in the boat, you sail with a, you feel like a tribe.

1:04:29When someone looks in your eyes, you are of what you're supposed to be of. You know, I just don't know. I don't know if a little bit of the world gets sad if we're just squeezing out. you know if we're just you know frost and invisible strudels out in the world but um anyway i'm okay with the porn laws i'm okay with blockers on my phone and computer because those help me you know give me a little bit of a space before i'm about to go do something naughty to myself god anyway what else do we got uh let's see if we can get another call here

1:05:18what's up christopher from dallas and thank you for calling brother appreciate you onward

1:05:30okay a black guy thank you for calling buddy uh a brother i don't know bruh uh chris thank you for calling, bud. Quick question, man. I've been kind of going through some things. Trying to find meaning. Right now, I've been trying to build my life, start my life, you know, and I really can't find the funds and it seems like I don't know where to look. I don't know where to look to get that starter pack, you know, because life creates, you know, family and house and stuff like that. I feel kind of bummed out, super anxious about it, a lot of anxiety. I just want to see what kind of words you got from me.

1:06:20Keep my head high. Keep my head high. Keep everything going up and up. Gang, baby, thank you for calling, Chris. You know, we got a guy coming in who knows a lot about meaning. He's a smart guy. this guy John Verveke is going to come in and talk. I'm going to get to sit down with him. I'm a little nervous because he's very smart. Or he has a lot of information. You know, we all judge. Smart can be a relative term. But yeah, having meaning is important. You know, and I think there is a, and if we want meaning these days, we have to find it in ourselves. And also in having a sense of community. I think there's two searches that a man goes on.

1:07:11There's one is his own search. How do I have meaning? It's scary to ask yourself too. Man, do I mean anything? Do I mean anything to myself? Man, that's a scary one, isn't it? Do I mean anything to myself?

1:07:36Man, that's interesting. If I'm thinking to myself, man, do you mean anything to yourself? Wow. I think my answer, or what I'm feeling right now, I feel like I haven't, at times, I haven't meant anything to myself. But I'm not trying to make self-pity. I feel sorry to myself, not for myself, I feel sorry to myself that I had chosen or that I was feeling that way.

1:08:20Because...

1:08:26Man, I'm having trouble getting the because. maybe I don't have a because right now I just feel like man I'm sorry that that I I know it's weird to think that I'm talking to myself but hey man I'm sorry that I that I didn't that you didn't mean man I'm getting a little confused but I'm trying not to do I mean something to myself there's been times where I didn't mean anything to myself

1:09:06and I think at the time I didn't know how to mean something to myself I didn't even know that I didn't I just felt a certain way

1:09:17that I think it was just low self-worth you know I wasn't worth a lot to myself

1:09:31and now I think that I feel a little bit I feel less of that I'm able to say back to my previous self hey man I'm sorry that I'm sorry you felt that way because that's not the truth

1:09:49the truth is you've always meant something to you you just weren't able to access it or weren't aware of it.

1:10:00I don't know. That's a really interesting question. It's got me... It's hard to show you what I'm thinking sometimes or to know if you're able to follow clearly with what I'm thinking or feeling because I'm trying to feel it and say it at the same time. That's hard for me sometimes. Um, but if you're thinking on this on a different level, first of all, I'm glad you're making this call because you're thinking about it. Yeah. What do I mean? It's something we need to ask ourselves. You know, what do I, I'm glad you're making me think of what do I mean to me? Do I mean anything to someone? Am I doing something where I deserve to mean something to someone?

1:10:46Am I creating a realistic environment for meaning?

1:10:54I've struggled. I've definitely struggled with that. Now, if you're meaning how do I get started in my life, I'll tell you the best way. If you're poor, because I grew up right there, bro. If you poor, walk outside. Look next door, bro. Hey, bitch. That's me, bro. That's where I live. Right there. That was right there. I'm not saying no flex. I'm not just saying, but this is how you get out of that. There's the number one job way I find to get out of that is go get you. If you don't have no possibility, like if you're smart and you're going to have, or if you, I don't want to say smart. If you do well at school, that's one way, right?

1:11:41You can do this. You can get you a job. That's one way to get out. Here's another way. If you're not that, if you don't love school, if that's not really your thing, You still want to get out of there, but you don't want to do something illegal. Get you a pressure washer, bro. 100%, cut. Get you that little spray rig, bro. Go around, drive to the nice neighborhood. The one you go trick-or-treating at, you know what's good. Go door-to-door. Make you some nice flyers or something. Say you pressure wash, right? Pressure wash is costly. It costs you a few hundred bucks, man, to get things washed up, shined up.

1:12:20wealthier people that have something nice a lot of times they want to take care of their nice stuff so they'll hire you to do it that's the best method that i've seen in my life of somebody who didn't have that's one method i've seen i'm sure there's countless others but one that i would recommend if you poor but you got some work ethic how do i get to this next how do i be a business owner and look you're not going to pressure wash your whole life but that's gonna get you started but that's the best thing let me tell you how pressure washer how much how much for a decent pressure washer oh bro they got the nice one right here this 3200 psi hell yeah bro that'll fucking part your hair bro that'll part your scalp that shit dang though that thing's 30 30 330 so you can get you a low-end hog runner for uh for 300 you win the game now you might want to get an llc after you do your first couple runs if you get somebody to work for you you might want to get some insurance but out the gate man if you get up and start working with this thing you can make some money so that's my current tip people may say And if you got a good way that's not drugs or selling a puss or wiener and you want to tell somebody how to get out of the poor neighborhood or get out of poverty, have some meaning.

1:13:56It's a small way to have meaning. But anyway, brother, but those are some ways that I've, you know, that is one way that I've seen if you're looking for some way to get out. But otherwise, if you're just looking generally for meaning, how do you get a house? Some of that stuff will come, but how to create meaning is a great question. How to create meaning for myself. I think it's something I'm still figuring out. I'm going to think more about it, though, and try to talk about it again.

1:14:34And thank you for the call. What's one other call that came in here? Let's see about this. Hey, CO. This is Donnie from Tucson, Arizona. Donnie from Tucson. And I got busted for drugs and had to go live with my mother there for six months. And I went to Santa Rita High School over there. And kids were fist fighting. Oh, you want to box on me? I'll fucking fight you dog And the Mexican kids always talk like this dog Looking straight at the sky I'd be like dude are you talking to me And be like Fuck yeah I'm talking to you dog Like any they could have been talking to anybody bro These dudes were talking to fucking astronauts dog Dog I'm talking to fucking uh Um Fucking Lance Armstrong dog The first guy to walk on the moon I'm like dude you mean that's Neil Armstrong dude you're like yeah whatever motherfucker you want a fucking box so I went over there to Santa Rita High School where they had alarms everyday cause there was Mexicans fighting and doing um Mexican fighting and I had to lay down on the ground cause the alarm would go off the uh it was riot alarms you had to lay down and eat a burger while you were laying down so So that was lunch every day.

1:16:03Onward, anyway. Sorry, I'm making this about me. I just had a question, man. So I've been in a relationship with this girl for three years, and she just cheated on me. And I relapsed, man. I started taking Xanax again, and she's the reason I got off of it. But after I found out she did that, another man was touching her. I don't know. I just lost it, man. And I don't know what to do. I've taken two weeks off of work right now, and I'm trying to get back on my feet, but I just can't stop thinking about it and can't focus anymore, man. I'm just feeling very lost, you know? I'm only 22, and I don't know what to do.

1:16:51I hope you hear this, man. I know you get a lot of calls. Gang, brother, I appreciate it, man. Thanks for the call, and I'm sorry that you're going through this moment.

1:17:04Yeah, that's tough because then you got two addictions really. And it sounds like the addiction really, I'm no scientist, you know it. I'm no medicine man or therapist. But a lot of times I thought I had a drug problem, but a lot of my drug use was instigated by interactions with women. Right? So a certain thing would happen with a woman. I would feel some rejection or I would feel some type of way or I couldn't communicate and then I would do using drugs. So I really had kind of two addictions. I had an addiction to a relationship staying in a certain space. And if it got out of that space, I was off the rails.

1:18:01And then to help myself, I would use a drug to help put some control. Because some things about drugs, some drugs, it's like I just want to control how I feel right now. It's about control. It's about sometimes being fucked. Yeah, it's like the byproduct of that, but I want to control how I feel right this instant. It's about control. That's why I didn't love drinking. I like cocaine, bitch. I want to fuck. I want to fucking fuck.

1:18:39That's what I'll, you know.

1:18:43Anyway, I don't know if I'm, I don't know if I'm being of any service here. Let me listen one more time. After I found out she did that, another man was touching her. I don't know. I just lost it, man. I don't know what to do. I've taken two weeks off of work right now, and I'm trying to get back on my feet, but I just can't stop thinking about her and can't focus anymore, man. Right. So right there, you're saying I can't stop thinking about her. So that's really the impetus of the issue. You know? man I think there's there's you know there's there's groups called sex and love addiction intimacy addiction that kind of thing you may reap something from it you know it's people that you know they call it sex and love addiction but a lot of times it's just you know I remember if a woman broke up with me or treated me some type of way man I couldn't fucking breathe brother it shook me because the only way I valued myself was if I had some if there was a value from a woman that's the only way that I valued myself and the second that got uncertain or they didn't value me or they valued somebody else oh gosh brother I was I didn't have a chance man I didn't have a chance because I didn't have anything else that was holding me up.

1:20:13The only thing that was holding me up was what you felt about me or if you thought I was okay. That's the only thing that was my legs. And once that was gone, man. Now, this was at a different time in my life. But I can really relate to that, man. I'm sorry that you're dealing with that. Now, AA still helped me. and that may be a great place for you to start would be to hit some AA meetings man you can start with those on Zoom you can even keep your camera off in some of them so if you just want to sit there and listen and listen for the similarities not the differences that's what people say when you go into those rooms I'm not trying to preach at you I'm not trying to tell you what to do but yeah God that's a harrowing pain too

1:21:08because I think I always, when I was, it was always so hard. It felt like to get a woman to care about me. And once one did, man, it was, Oh, you know, it was just, it was a lot. Anyway, I'm getting into a little, I don't know if it's self pity, but I'm getting into a little something that's, you know, I just want to, um, make sure that I'm keeping it focused on you, but, uh, I love you brother and keep your head up and, uh, you can do it, but you have to take some action. You have to take some action. Okay, or that kind of stuff will stick around. That same behavior will happen the next time that you have a relationship that happens.

1:21:50All right, let's take another call here. Hey, Theo. It's Gavin Hance from a little bit lower from Albany, New York. Gavin, up there in Albany, bro, Albany, or Albany. And that's where they used to have the Albany, a lot of racing dogs are bred up there and born. So if you like to play the pups, you can do it there. Let's hear more. And today I had an incident. I'm a Christmas tree farmer. And today I had an incident with being... Oh, yeah, boy. You damn God's gardener, baby. Dang, brother. You're Santa's Johnny Appleseed, homie. You damn growing Christmas trees, baby. that's what's up i salute you god we need more people like you all these other bullshit ass trees bitch if every tree was a christmas tree god how good would we feel onward today an incident with bees and i got stung and i went to epileptic shock and i epileptic shock baby hell yeah i used to listen to james brown baby and that shit would fucking do it to me onward I was alone.

1:23:05I come breathe. I was passed out on the ground. I feel good.

1:23:12And the only thing that I had going in my ears. I feel good. Knew that I would. Get back. Was through my headphones was your podcast. And I was like, I got to live for this. I got to stay alive for this. And I just want to thank you because you helped me control my breathing, be able to call 911. And I'd say you saved my life. So thank you very much. Have a great one. Amen, brother. That's what's up, brother. Flip my cat. Wow. Flip my cat. Yeah, man. Well, I'm glad you're alive, baby. Yes, we narcan, dude. I'm just glad you're alive, brother. And that's it, dude. Sometimes you want to have something that's just keeping you at a comfortable level.

1:24:04And I'm glad it was a low-key episode where we were able to just be there for you as you laid there. And fucking just took it from those bees. And I hope they weren't men. That's the gayest thing, I think, about getting stung by bees. It's like, was that a male? I don't know if you've ever had that where you just, fucking two of them sting you. And you're like, God, was that two men? Like somebody at least check that thing, you know, check that thing for that little, for that honey clam, baby, that check that B for some cooter, you know, but anyway, I don't know. That shouldn't matter. It shouldn't matter.

1:24:44God does what he wants. Yeah, look, I don't know where else we go from this.

1:24:54There's, you know, there's a lot of great calls that have come in. I tried my best sometimes, you know. People want different things out of different calls. It's always great to think together. Things in my own life I've been dealing with. I've been struggling still, just worried about my own ego. That can be very scary. I've been dealing with some social anxiety a little bit.

1:25:23And some anger. Sometimes I'm still battling anger, a lot of anger. And I'll notice that my anger isn't attached. It doesn't attach to the right thing. Something will come up and an unnecessary amount of angst and anger will be attached to that. And it's like, man, this ain't, Hey buddy, this anger doesn't fit right here. You know? And so I'm having to kind of look at that and talking with my therapist about that. Like, why is, what am I doing here? You know? And having to talk to myself, hey, buddy, you shouldn't be this upset about this thing. So there's something in here that isn't correct, right?

1:26:01Or isn't not correct, but it's not aligned the right way. So let's look at this and figure it out. But I love the call about meaning. Yeah, some great things for you guys to think about and give us some suggestions. If you have a good suggestion to one, if you're, if you grew up in poverty, you grew up in a poor place, what's a good way to get to another level? Um, I know people say real estate and stuff like that. And, but some of that, you, you got to get to a level where you can afford that kind of money. That's still, you know, having some money to put into something like a, you know, even 10 or 20 grand to put onto a, uh, an apartment or home or that, that we got to get, we're talking a step before that.

1:26:45and we don't want to sell drugs or pills or DIY abortions or anything like that. We want to play within the rules as much as we can. You know what I'm saying? We want to praise God. All right, man. I love you guys. Be good to yourselves. And we're going to go out here. You know, sometimes we don't even know the letter. Sometimes we got the letter. we can't even say the words sometimes we don't have it all figured out i think this is a perfect episode for me for that you know there's a perfect episode when i asked the guy for you know he was trying to tell me how to get to the place and he's just uh uh

1:27:32you just suddenly you just don't have the words uh but you try they come in they get filled and And you're like, oh, damn, flea market. Well, damn. Flea market. Flea market. Yes, it's flea market. You know, we just try to stay alive and stay hopeful until the vagueness clears. Or until we're giving a stronger sign, you know. Yeah. So I hope you guys are able to do that. If there's something you're struggling with, I hope you're able to just stay in there. And hold the line. until you get a stronger answer. And I believe that if I ask for a stronger answer, I will get a stronger answer. You know, I really believe that.

1:28:20Thank you, guys. Thank you for the support. Hope you guys have a wonderful week. Good luck to everybody with their children starting school. I know a lot of the moms, the second they get that child out the door, boy, they put on that Cardi B or that Shania Twain. Cardi B is just a single woman Shania Twain. That's all that is. You know that.

1:28:45But, yeah, good luck to all you parents who are sending your children off. And praise God, all you young bucks and young lassies that are starting up, getting your schooling going still, stay alive. You know, do your best. Back off the fentanyl. We don't need it. And, yeah, anyway, I don't know. I don't know what I'm talking about. Thank you guys for being a part of this podcast and just for being along on some of this journey. It's just been so exciting and interesting. And I hope we continue to get to learn more as our lives evolve. And you guys be good to yourself, baby. Gang.

1:29:41Cornerstone 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 ABC Wednesday Shifting Gears is back He has a risen Tim Allen and Kat Dennings return In television's number one new comedy What was it? With a star-studded premiere including Jenna Elfman, Nancy Travis and... Hey, buddy! A big home improvement reunion. Welcome. Oh, boy. That guy's a tool. Shifting Gears. Season premiere Wednesday, 8, 7 central on ABC and stream on Hulu.

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