E546 Sand Hands

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Speaker 1 Good day.

Speaker 1 Good day.

Speaker 1 How are you?

Speaker 1 How are you?

Speaker 1 How are I?

Speaker 1 How are us?

Speaker 1 Good to see everyone. Good to be here with you.
Happy Thanksgiving. Happy November.
Happy existence.

Speaker 1 You know, that's something as well.

Speaker 1 This year went, baby. this year.

Speaker 1 That thing is,

Speaker 1 this year was just hooked to a dang laser beam.

Speaker 1 I feel like, what was that?

Speaker 1 You almost had to slow down the film to even remember the summer.

Speaker 1 It was just,

Speaker 1 this thing was just,

Speaker 1 this took the HOV lane this year.

Speaker 1 Life got roller skates on. Damn it.

Speaker 1 Life's got just roller skates on.

Speaker 1 I couldn't even make an accurate police report

Speaker 1 on

Speaker 1 April. I couldn't tell you what she looked like, what she was wearing.

Speaker 1 The officer like, well, can you tell me April, tell me, you know, how tall I look. I don't know, damn it.

Speaker 1 It just all

Speaker 1 went so fast.

Speaker 1 You know, and now, I don't know if it's just that life feels faster now, but you can't even get your hands on it.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's like just trying to grab sand.

Speaker 1 You can get some of it, but then it just,

Speaker 1 it ends up just,

Speaker 1 you just, you just realizing you can't get it.

Speaker 1 You can't get that grip on it, boy.

Speaker 1 It's like trying to just do a,

Speaker 1 what's it called the guy you go to and you go in his shop or whatever and it's

Speaker 1 he pretends like he has a secretary or whatever, but he doesn't and then you go in there and he lays you down and he like

Speaker 1 he asks you like a question or something, but you're so nervous that you're gonna get touched or whatever.

Speaker 1 What is that? Dang it.

Speaker 1 Um

Speaker 1 chiropractor.

Speaker 1 It's like trying to be a chiropractor on sand.

Speaker 1 You know, you just, you can't move it. You can't control.
You just, you think you can and then

Speaker 1 there's nothing.

Speaker 1 Anyway, I'm rambling. I'm just saying it's been a long year.

Speaker 1 And I'm happy to be here with you today. And yeah, just thank you guys for just your patience on doing solo episodes.
I wanted to tape this yesterday, but.

Speaker 1 I just, my, I was just so damn rattled.

Speaker 1 You ever wake up and you're just damn rattled?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's just like a couple pigeons are just living in your ass.

Speaker 1 You're just like, what in the hell?

Speaker 1 And everything's a problem. Somebody, you know,

Speaker 1 somebody comes to the door and they just, you know,

Speaker 1 this guy came to the door and he was offering pest control or whatever.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, you know, I think they just came because I think I have like 11 pest control guys because I, you know, I forget and the next thing, you know

Speaker 1 hell I'll be in my living room reading a book and one of them will just damn just

Speaker 1 will just spray for will just spray for lice right in front of me he'll spray for lice right across my damn forehead sometimes

Speaker 1 because I forget you know I always forget when they're gonna be here

Speaker 1 you you have that one afternoon you're doing a cook-off and they show up with those

Speaker 1 with those uh

Speaker 1 those chigger grenades or whatever and they're humming those bitches you know, and your family's out there. You're trying to put mustard on something, and the baby's got damn bug gas in his eyes.

Speaker 1 It's just,

Speaker 1 I just forget. Anyway, the guy came, and

Speaker 1 he had just a

Speaker 1 the bug guy. He's like, you know, we can come.
We can come 17 times a year. That's what he said.
And I was like, dude, I don't want.

Speaker 1 When I get married, I don't want my wife coming here 17 times a year.

Speaker 1 You know, so that's not

Speaker 1 a sales tactic I wanted to hear.

Speaker 1 But the guy had the biggest mustache I'd ever seen in my life.

Speaker 1 And the only thing I could think the whole time he's talking to me is, you need to go spray up in that bitch.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 there is not a

Speaker 1 chance in hell

Speaker 1 you're not running some kind of damn bug motel right up under your snout, daddy.

Speaker 1 There ain't a CNH, baby, chance in hell.

Speaker 1 You ain't got a couple of fucking word lice

Speaker 1 running around up in that,

Speaker 1 in that, up in that trap house you got above your lip, daddy.

Speaker 1 So it just, you know.

Speaker 1 I said, I think I work good. You know, we got guys, I got seven guys spraying right now.
You know, I could barely talk to the guy. Some guy was spraying right in front of me.

Speaker 1 But yeah, just everything's happened so fast. I just get confused.
Everything's happened so fast. And

Speaker 1 here we are.

Speaker 1 And it's November. And it's,

Speaker 1 it's like that.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure it's like that for everybody. It's like,

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 1 Some of you, your kid is eight, you know,

Speaker 1 your kid

Speaker 1 is aged this year. Like, man, I can't believe it.
You know, Genevieve's four now.

Speaker 1 Or your dad, got to get a hip, got to get a new hip or new

Speaker 1 neck or whatever.

Speaker 1 You're like, now, it's already time next week.

Speaker 1 Ricky's getting that new neck.

Speaker 1 You know, it's just...

Speaker 1 Things happen fast, you know.

Speaker 1 Man, it was only seven months ago that

Speaker 1 we laid my grandmother to rest. You know, just it's just all these things and life just keeps lifing.

Speaker 1 You know, and it's just,

Speaker 1 yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot for everybody.
And it's marvelous at the same time. It is existence.
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 But I'm grateful to be here with you guys today.

Speaker 1 And just grateful to be taking a moment to think about our lives and what they've been like.

Speaker 1 I want to say thanks.

Speaker 1 It has been a while since we've had a solo episode. I'm still going to try to do

Speaker 1 more.

Speaker 1 I'm finally having a little more time to start to take care of myself right now. And so that's feeling really good just to be able to relax some.

Speaker 1 What's going on? We had some shows in a lot of places. Thank you guys.
It came out out there. We just got off the road out in the Midwest, baby.
OH.

Speaker 1 We did it out there

Speaker 1 on OSU's campus, Grand Rapids, Michigan, baby. Let's go.
All over. We went up to

Speaker 1 where else? Oh, up in Montana.

Speaker 1 I think I do owe a little bit of maybe an apology to

Speaker 1 what's that place called? It's like a place where they have

Speaker 1 people.

Speaker 1 Oh, Chicago State. No, it's Colorado State.

Speaker 1 Colorado Springs. I may have

Speaker 1 just Colorado Springs in Casper, Wyoming. When I got there, I was dehydrated, man.

Speaker 1 I mean, I was just,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 you could hear my eyes open.

Speaker 1 You know, I opened my eyes and they,

Speaker 1 you could just like, it was loud,

Speaker 1 you know, click, you know, like somebody just hard R'd around. You know, I saw a cat look over at me like somebody just been hard Ring at it.

Speaker 1 And it was just so dried out.

Speaker 1 The weather there, it just,

Speaker 1 the wind up there

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 nasty up there.

Speaker 1 The wind, it'll, you open your eyes for a second, the wind will get in there and clean them bitches out.

Speaker 1 Next thing you do, I was having to lick my hand and rub it into my eyes.

Speaker 1 Spitting in my hand and rubbing it in my eyes.

Speaker 1 And you know, you're looking at everybody through damn spit eyes or whatever.

Speaker 1 And the ladies, they're like, oh, look at this little bitch with his damn spit eyes.

Speaker 1 Oh, honky got them spit eyes.

Speaker 1 But I was just dry as hell. Even the animals up there are dry.
You see a damn animal up there, a dog up there. Casper Wyoming, that thing up there, just

Speaker 1 he just, somebody, you write water on the ground and a dog come lick on the word.

Speaker 1 People think it's thirsty as hell up there.

Speaker 1 I saw a plant. It had grown up my leg and was trying to

Speaker 1 drink out of my, had me a little

Speaker 1 canteen

Speaker 1 i saw a vine stood somewhere for 30 seconds a vine grew up my leg and it had opened the top of my canteen

Speaker 1 yet now

Speaker 1 everything's thirsty as hell up there

Speaker 1 my it yeah it just it was super dry it was dry and i just wasn't ready for it i was so dry i could like um i don't know i can't even explain it to you you know i definitely did my best but they gave you oxygen tanks.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, but all the oxygen tank is just a can of just more dry.

Speaker 1 So you hit that bitch, and now you're just

Speaker 1 everything,

Speaker 1 even the animals, they would sound like they were dried out. Like,

Speaker 1 they had a cow, one cow. I saw him.

Speaker 1 Like, what?

Speaker 1 He's like,

Speaker 1 but he was so draw.

Speaker 1 So that was just a, but beautiful country, beautiful place. I just, I was shocked at how dehydrated I got IVs up there.

Speaker 1 It just took me a little bit to get on my feet, man. It was a lot.
That was like probably one of the more hectic times that I'd had this year

Speaker 1 of just health, healthiness, you know, and being alive and being like that.

Speaker 1 I went out to Montana, but all that area, Colorado Springs, and thank you for everybody coming out and

Speaker 1 Casper. I can't even believe it.
I mean, we're to Montana. Wow.
That whole, all of those regions.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's where Mother Nature just

Speaker 1 tries on her clothes up there, baby. It's beautiful.
Everything you see is beautiful. You know, it's just, it's remarkable.
So to even get to go to that part of the country that people came out.

Speaker 1 thank you guys so much

Speaker 1 to all the places that we went, man. I got to go to La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it's one of the greatest little city town places I've been.

Speaker 1 I didn't, man, you always, I think some people in your head, you have ideas of a place that's kind of perfect, you know.

Speaker 1 And they got, you know, somebody's walking their kid home from school or or whatever.

Speaker 1 And the kid's just got a bunch of snot on his face or whatever. But the parent leaves it.

Speaker 1 Just, you know, because there's something kind of beautiful about it.

Speaker 1 You know?

Speaker 1 Especially when you were poor, dude. If your nose was running, I'd let that bitch fly, cup.

Speaker 1 Because people are always looking at you when you're poor. People always look at you like you ain't got nothing.

Speaker 1 And that's when

Speaker 1 my nose was running I'd be like oh yeah I got this bitch

Speaker 1 I got this snot

Speaker 1 so there is something very beautiful about that

Speaker 1 but we were we were there in La Crosse

Speaker 1 or La Croisset

Speaker 1 they say it

Speaker 1 or a lot of gay dudes or they say it like

Speaker 1 hey I'm in La Crosse

Speaker 1 but just beautiful I mean just to get to see some of America man and to get to see a lot of you folks. And we try to do some meet and greets after the shows.
And just we did everything that we could.

Speaker 1 I promise you that. So thank you guys so much for the support.
And

Speaker 1 yeah, Thanksgiving's just coming in. Trevin, how are you feeling today?

Speaker 2 I'm good, man. A little chilly.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. It's brisk out, huh? That's for sure.
And you think it's going to get worse this year? What are they saying there? And if you're looking at the

Speaker 1 diameter or whatever, the air diameter or the

Speaker 1 weather. What are they saying? Yeah, the weather.

Speaker 2 Yeah, about the same. Gonna get a lot colder, man.

Speaker 1 God,

Speaker 1 get ready.

Speaker 1 BLM, baby. Burr lives matter, son.
It's gonna get brisk out.

Speaker 1 What else has been going on?

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll tell you, you know what? Something that I thought was really special that was, I got to be around or be a part of,

Speaker 1 or be around, really.

Speaker 1 So, SNL uh saturday night live was going on and bill burr was going to be on it

Speaker 1 you know and uh and bill burr is there's nobody like him there's no i mean there's nobody like him he is he is himself and he is one of one and

Speaker 1 i wanted to go see i'd never been to s n l i'd never been over there and seen it you know

Speaker 1 And so myself,

Speaker 1 who came with me? Oh, my buddy Kevin and

Speaker 1 John Farley was there.

Speaker 1 And that's Chris Farley's brother. And

Speaker 1 it was just like, man, to be at SNL, you know, where Chris Farley and Spade and Nealon and Carvey and all of the like

Speaker 1 Rock,

Speaker 1 Sam, just all these wizards of,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 possibility, you know, Sherry

Speaker 1 O'Terry,

Speaker 1 who's the lady that puts her,

Speaker 1 she's always taking her own temperature or whatever and smelling it. Who's that lady?

Speaker 1 Her.

Speaker 1 She, you know, just

Speaker 1 to be at SNL, Saturday Night Live, to be on that stage, just to be there watching.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 John Farley was there, Chris Farley's brother. And it was the first time he said that he'd been back there since his,

Speaker 1 since he'd been there with Chris.

Speaker 1 And that was just,

Speaker 1 I don't know, it was just like,

Speaker 1 it just,

Speaker 1 it was just kind of, it felt special, you know,

Speaker 1 because I just can't imagine that. I can't imagine having a brother that is,

Speaker 1 you know, so, well, first of all, it's your brother. So they're very important to you.
But then also they're such an

Speaker 1 entertainer.

Speaker 1 And then you go back to the place where they,

Speaker 1 one of the places that they're most known from, you know, and

Speaker 1 yeah, that was just, it was magnificent, man, just to be able to be there with him. And he told so many stories.

Speaker 1 And I was kind of bummed that they didn't bring him out on the stage and let him tell a story out there at SNL.

Speaker 1 The stories he was telling backstage were better than half of the

Speaker 1 things that were happening on the tube, I thought. I mean, but also that's, you know,

Speaker 1 I mean, it was just crazy to hear a guy talk about, you know, his brother, Chris Farley, and all the these little moments that they'd had backstage and just these funny things and um

Speaker 1 here I'll say this when it when it came down to listening to him or watching some of the sketches I couldn't help but listen to some of the things that he was saying because it was yeah it just was like uh walking through time

Speaker 1 and walking through um

Speaker 1 Time that really meant something, you know, time between brothers. And so, yeah, that was pretty exceptional.
But yeah, I was like, SNL should have had him out there. Like, bring bring this guy.

Speaker 1 It's the first time he's been back since his brother. It's like the closest Chris Farley will get to being there.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 yeah, it was just, I don't know. So,

Speaker 1 but that was, it was great. I'm not trying to tell, you know, I don't know.
I'm not talking too much or whatever. I don't know.

Speaker 1 But yeah, that was just, it was, that was something neat to be a part of. And

Speaker 1 what else? I went with my butt. My friend has a son.
And

Speaker 1 we took him to the swing set. And then,

Speaker 1 what else is going on? Oh, I watched the CMAs, Country Music Awards the other night because, you know, I live in Nashville. And so you have to watch it or

Speaker 1 people won't look you in the eyes

Speaker 1 for the next year. And so.

Speaker 1 You know, I was checking it out and Caleb Presley was on there doing presentation.

Speaker 1 Lainey Wilson was on there. So it's like, you know, I got a peep at.
I wanted to to see if Jesse Murph was going to be there.

Speaker 1 Jelly Roll was there. That whole gang, baby, Jelly Roll, Yellow Wolf.
I think they had damn Jelly Wolf there. And it's just that that is just a St.

Speaker 1 Bernard with a couple face tats on him, you know, but that whole like musically recovering honky vibe, you know, that's really powerful. And Yellow Roll.
I saw damn Yellow Roll. And it was

Speaker 1 Bobby Lee was there.

Speaker 1 So it's just, you know, yeah, he's doing music now. So it it just, you know, it's just, there's a, anyway, it was a very diverse group over there.
And

Speaker 1 what am I talking about? Damn it.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 but I watched because I wanted to see if

Speaker 1 Red Clay Strays were going to win. They were up for vocal group, which what does that even mean? Kind of it's all music, you know, but

Speaker 1 they didn't win.

Speaker 1 Old

Speaker 1 Dominion won it, right?

Speaker 1 And Dominion, no no disrespect, right?

Speaker 1 I haven't heard a lot of, you know, I don't think,

Speaker 1 first of all, if you look at old Dominion,

Speaker 1 Dominion is a brother's name.

Speaker 1 And it's, you know,

Speaker 1 show me 30 Dominion's and I'll show you,

Speaker 1 you know, how to get.

Speaker 1 how to get to Memphis. You know what I'm saying, bro? It's like, let's be realistic, baby.

Speaker 1 That's Elvis' neighbors, homie. Okay.
So,

Speaker 1 and so that was the, I'm like, damn, they don't even, somebody's hiding. They're hiding, they're hiding a brother amongst the four or five of the guys that they have in the group or whatever.
But,

Speaker 1 yeah, I just wanted to see Ray Clay Strays win. And I thought it was just a chance for

Speaker 1 CMAs, like, dude, you have a vibe that, you know,

Speaker 1 and no disrespect to

Speaker 1 OD, baby, but you have a vibe. Ray Clay Strays,

Speaker 1 they sing, they sing prayers, man.

Speaker 1 They sing things that I can't, they sing prayers that I can't even make

Speaker 1 that I can't even make the words to. They sing those, and I just feel like that's part of such a movement.
And so, yeah, I think I really wanted them to win that

Speaker 1 award.

Speaker 1 But also, then, Red Clay Strays, are they a country group?

Speaker 1 And you could argue that it's all of it.

Speaker 1 Are they

Speaker 1 gospel?

Speaker 1 You know? I mean, they're music. And it doesn't need a space to fit in.

Speaker 1 You don't need to put every

Speaker 1 foot in a shoe, but it's like, well, yeah, what are they?

Speaker 1 But it's a lot of

Speaker 1 vibrant prayer, I feel like, coming out of those boys.

Speaker 1 And I'm partisan as well. or partisan or whatever.

Speaker 1 Anyway, that's some of the stuff that's been going on um recently and a lot more some of it i can't remember um

Speaker 1 but yeah or just see ma's i felt like they had a chance to pull some new blood in there

Speaker 1 and uh

Speaker 1 and i just didn't see that you know but

Speaker 1 but what do i know i don't know shit

Speaker 1 you know i'm just a loud honky over ha that's all i am

Speaker 1 what else um grand rapids beautiful place. Beautiful place, man.
Just,

Speaker 1 yeah, just to see a lot of places where people are just thriving and people are saying, hey, this is our community and we're going to keep it like it is, man.

Speaker 1 That's something that really felt great to witness.

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Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 what else? It's Thanksgiving, guys. That's what it is, you know.

Speaker 1 And that's the week it is. And

Speaker 1 it's a time,

Speaker 1 you know, Thanksgiving, it's

Speaker 1 it's wild that our, that our calendar, that even

Speaker 1 our calendar, right, our setup, our framework,

Speaker 1 our time-based

Speaker 1 framework for our society

Speaker 1 and for civilization has a stop time in it to give thanks.

Speaker 1 It's interesting that even time

Speaker 1 Says, hey, hold on. I need you to give some thanks.
I need you to, you have to have some gratitude here

Speaker 1 you know and i think that that to me that's pretty fascinating that that is a speed bump that's been put into uh our calendar it's just built in there you know it's a comma

Speaker 1 that says hey care right

Speaker 1 care about the things that have happened to you

Speaker 1 You know, find things to have gratitude for.

Speaker 1 And see, I want to think about those today and just things that I'm thankful for.

Speaker 1 I'm thankful,

Speaker 1 yeah, being able to whisper. That's a big one.

Speaker 1 I'm so thankful for that

Speaker 1 because otherwise everybody in your family would just wouldn't know how you felt about them.

Speaker 1 So I'm just so thankful that

Speaker 1 God lets us whisper, you know.

Speaker 1 I'm thankful

Speaker 1 for my family, you know. I'm thankful that my sister makes me laugh a lot and that she likes to laugh.
I like listening to her laugh sometimes. She's ridiculous and that makes me laugh.

Speaker 1 I'm thankful my nephew talks to me. You know, I wish he kind of hit my line more, but I guess he's busy or whatever.
Sure, whatever, dude.

Speaker 1 But he's a child, you know, and it's like, I just got to be an adult and just take care of myself.

Speaker 1 But,

Speaker 1 oh, I'm thankful that urine isn't hotter than it is when it comes out of your body. That would be,

Speaker 1 that would, that would be crazy, bro. If you were all, you know, if it urine just came out like even 10 degrees hotter, bro.

Speaker 1 Because you'd go in the bathroom and they'd have one dude in there about to urinate, and everybody else would be supporting him. And like, you come on, Richard.

Speaker 1 Come on, Richard.

Speaker 1 Blast that shit, homie.

Speaker 1 And he'd be like, it's going to hurt.

Speaker 1 Shut the fuck up, Richard. Piss, bitch.

Speaker 1 And people were like, whoa, chill out, dude. He's fucking,

Speaker 1 it's hot, you know? And people, and then there'd be a gay dude just kind of holding his back for no reason, just or even pushing on his butt. That's the weird thing, dude.

Speaker 1 If you're doing a group piss, right, and everybody's supporting one guy who has to piss, and the dude that's pushing up on the dude's

Speaker 1 on the guy's butt,

Speaker 1 That guy is not just trying to be helpful. I know that, boy.
So, yeah, I'm grateful that PP is at that, or urine or whatever they want to call it, is at a

Speaker 1 manageable temperature. That's a big one.

Speaker 1 I'm grateful that God,

Speaker 1 that God lets me try. You know, I'm grateful that God lets me try.

Speaker 1 You know, that

Speaker 1 every single thing isn't final

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 yeah I'm grateful for that I'm grateful that

Speaker 1 that my arms are you know they're not the best I think they're not the best length I got I got medium length arms but I know that they're good enough to hug good enough I wouldn't win a hug title or whatever I don't know if there is a title Yeah, what else?

Speaker 1 Let me think. I'll think about some things throughout the show, throughout the episode today.

Speaker 1 Things that I'm thankful for, man. I'm thankful that I have some shoes on right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm thankful.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll keep thinking about it. But let's get into some calls, man.
You guys have been hitting the hotline, and I haven't been there.

Speaker 1 But I just want to thank you for hitting it. And as always, the hotline is 985-664-9503.

Speaker 1 And let's get to a call right here. Here we go.

Speaker 3 Theo, I just was just wanting to get your thoughts.

Speaker 3 I'm 28, this guy out of the Navy. I live in Orange County, California.

Speaker 1 Thank you for your service, brother. We appreciate you.

Speaker 1 Onward.

Speaker 3 It's tough making friends as an adult.

Speaker 3 My whole life, I've always ended up with black friends. I played basketball, and

Speaker 3 Navy,

Speaker 3 out of 200 white guys, five black guys ended up being friends with a black guy.

Speaker 3 But I want some white friends or like Asian friends. I just wanted your advice.
Like, how does that happen? Or do I just stick with this? Hey, that's, this is how it is.

Speaker 3 Like, black friends are my thing.

Speaker 1 No, brother. I don't think that, you know, I don't think, I think you can get all types of friends.
That is for sure, man. You know,

Speaker 1 I think,

Speaker 1 you know, basketball is a gateway drug to

Speaker 1 just a brotherific type shit.

Speaker 1 Go out into your neighborhood right now,

Speaker 1 dribble a basketball in the street,

Speaker 1 see if a couple brothers don't show up.

Speaker 1 You know, that's that just, you hear a basketball banging on that street, that's the Michael Jordan mating call, cup.

Speaker 1 You know, that's how it is, man. You put a rim up anywhere and you're going to get...

Speaker 1 Some black friends, man.

Speaker 1 That's not a racial thing. That's just facts.
You put a basketball rim up anywhere

Speaker 1 and you're going to have some brothers show up. You put that bitch up in the ocean.

Speaker 1 You'll have a

Speaker 1 couple wet brothers out there just double drowning out there. So you have to think if you want to get different types of folks, you have to put out different types of

Speaker 1 activities.

Speaker 1 You know?

Speaker 1 So if you want to get more Asian friends, you might want to do a

Speaker 1 Asian people like hide and go seek.

Speaker 1 That's easy, man.

Speaker 1 You know, and that's wild, bro. You know, look at an Asian, look at any resting or sitting Asian, resting Asian, or A, you know, AARs or whatever, Asians at rest.
Look at one.

Speaker 1 Bring up a couple, right?

Speaker 1 Go to any of these folks and say, you keep counting, I'll go hide.

Speaker 1 Because Asians got that clock in them, dog.

Speaker 1 So that's something you could do to meet some Asians right there, man.

Speaker 1 And also, it's okay to be a white guy that has black friends.

Speaker 1 That's a, you know, and I know you're not saying there's anything wrong with it, but you know, they had, and when I was, you know, when I was getting into life or whatever, they had a lot of wiggers out there.

Speaker 1 And no cap, bro. Wiggas used to be the thing, bro.

Speaker 1 You know, Thomas Jefferson was a wigger, bro. Real talk.

Speaker 1 And people don't want to, you know,

Speaker 1 people don't want to say that shit, but he was, man.

Speaker 1 But now they got blonkies even. They got blonkies out there.
You got a lot of black dudes that want to be white or, you know, or having white, more white stuff go on in them, you know?

Speaker 1 I mean, I saw a brother crying in his car the other day outside of a Jimmy John's.

Speaker 1 That's the whitest shit you could do. That's our shit.

Speaker 1 So it's all good. What I'm saying is the portal is always open, guys.
There's no NIL money to have a new friendship in another ethnicity, man.

Speaker 1 That is, we, you know, we're all bound to be beige in a couple of generations anyway.

Speaker 1 So, right now, if you want to meet someone of a color or of an ethnicity,

Speaker 1 then now is the time, baby bear.

Speaker 1 Because in two or three generations, everybody's going to be beige, mauve, off-mauve, you know, cookies and crumb.

Speaker 1 People are going to be all batched out

Speaker 1 and uh

Speaker 1 genetic modified or whatever. You're going to have a Monsanto

Speaker 1 taupe friend.

Speaker 1 You're going to have an off-brown,

Speaker 1 white bottom,

Speaker 1 speckled trout,

Speaker 1 Korean Mexican,

Speaker 1 black lady.

Speaker 1 You're going to have it all, man. So if you want to enjoy specific ethnicities now, now is the time to do it because genetically, we're all heading to one color.

Speaker 1 We're going to be just one little off-brown, semi-white, matte finish,

Speaker 1 gray baby bear of Christ, brother. Praise God, man.
What else do we have?

Speaker 1 Let's take another call right here.

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 4 Hi, Theo. Me and my family want to invite you to our Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner.
This is Tonya Gillen.

Speaker 4 It will be up in Gallatin, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 Oh, up in Gallatin.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you for the invite there.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 we think you could fit in really well with our family, and you would just bring lots of conversation.

Speaker 4 And I think it's going to be some really good food. I can lift up some really good mashed potatoes.
So,

Speaker 4 and I'm making a pasta.

Speaker 1 That's really good. Anyways.
Okay. Y'all them carb dogs up there.
All right. That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 I cannot make it.

Speaker 1 I appreciate it, though. Very sweet of you.

Speaker 1 I am. You know what? Here.
I'll call you and tell you I can't make it.

Speaker 1 See if this works.

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Speaker 1 What's up, you little potato maiden? How are y'all over there? This is Theo.

Speaker 1 Just calling you back. I want to let you know that I can't make it over there for the Thanksgiving up there in Gallatin.

Speaker 1 But I appreciate it. And hope you guys have a wonderful time up there.
And just thanks for thinking of me and thanks for inviting me. That was very nice of you.
And yeah, that's about it. All right,

Speaker 1 I'm going to go now.

Speaker 1 yeah i'm heading i'm going down to lafayette louisiana baby

Speaker 1 dustin poirier you know they every year they they they uh

Speaker 1 they they they put uh cooking utensils into his uh into his fighting gloves and he gets out there and he'll beat up a damn meal for you son Everything he serves, you got a black eye.

Speaker 1 The black-eyed peas got two black eyes, bro. He's like, dang, some of them had broken ribs on them.
Look, I didn't even know peas had ribs.

Speaker 1 You know, he'll give you a little turkey leg or something, and it's in a cast.

Speaker 1 He beating the shit out of everything, bro. A turkey neck and a neck brace.

Speaker 1 That's how he does it, bro. He beat the eggs with his own hands, bro.
I see him. You'll see him in the yard

Speaker 1 out there. He got on his fighting trunks.

Speaker 1 He just, you know.

Speaker 1 just putting a bunch of hand action into a damn mixing bowl.

Speaker 1 You know, it's just crazy, man. I never seen anybody do it like that.

Speaker 1 You'll see him out there fucking calf kicking a rump roast, bro.

Speaker 1 You're like, what is going on?

Speaker 1 But that's where I'll be, man. That's become a little tradition for me, and it's a blessing.
I'm excited about it.

Speaker 1 And then we have a large show down there. It might be our largest show ever over at the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Speaker 1 And grateful to be from over there. Just got my mother a home over in

Speaker 1 Baton Rouge. My mom just moved back home.
So when we got her a house over there, and I'm just grateful to that. Thank you, guys, for the support over the years.
And

Speaker 1 she hasn't complained about it yet, which is just damn unreal.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 what else? Let's take another call. What are you thankful for, Trevin? You got anything that pops into your head, brother? Oh, every day, bro.
Thankful

Speaker 1 to wake up.

Speaker 2 Thankful to, you know, have a job. Thankful mostly for my beautiful wife.
Shout out to Gabby and our family.

Speaker 1 And yeah, the health.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's it. That really is true, huh?

Speaker 1 Having some health, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And taking care of it, too. That's another thing because I'll take, man, I'll take something for granted in a heartbeat.

Speaker 1 I'll take my heartbeat for granted in a heartbeat. That's great.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 something else going on out in the world today.

Speaker 1 What else? We got a call that came in right here.

Speaker 3 Hi, Theo. This is Michael from Tennessee.
Hey, Michael. I just want to say, I've been thinking about turkey and ham.

Speaker 3 We didn't have ham at Thanksgiving because apparently ham's a Christmas thing, and I love honey ham. And all they have is turkey.
Turkey's dry and bland as shit. No honey.
So I didn't fuck with it.

Speaker 3 So I just want your opinion.

Speaker 1 Okay, brother. I see you there.
I see you having a lot of feelings about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, turkey or ham. Hmm.

Speaker 1 Well, ham, ham,

Speaker 1 ham is ham.

Speaker 1 You know, ham, it just,

Speaker 1 it gets home and it's like, where's your mother?

Speaker 1 You know, that's ham.

Speaker 1 But turkey,

Speaker 1 turkey, turkey, Turkey's a little more risky, I think. You know, it's a little

Speaker 1 more perverted, I think. Low-key, bro.
Turkey, you know, it's like,

Speaker 1 what you want to do to me?

Speaker 1 Want to put me in a sandwich? Want to put me in the fridge?

Speaker 1 You want me now? You want me left over?

Speaker 1 What do you want?

Speaker 1 So, turkey kind of looking at you like that, I feel like

Speaker 1 ham looks like it's been smoking or whatever. Like, all right, that, you know, it'll party, but it's fucking, you know,

Speaker 1 you know, it's going to, it can't, it won't be able to drive itself home. Ham, you know.

Speaker 1 But turkey, because it drinks, ham drinks, ham drinks. But turkey is like, it could be anywhere.
It could be turkey.

Speaker 1 Turkey, you'll see, you'll see turkey in a high heel.

Speaker 1 You'll see turkey in in a high heel. That bit, you know.
So that's how I feel, I guess, about that.

Speaker 1 What else? Got a couple more calls that came in here.

Speaker 1 Oh, here's a news story right here.

Speaker 1 Police find two-kilogram garden gnome made entirely of MDMA. Wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's it, man.

Speaker 1 That's how it is now, baby, baby.

Speaker 1 They got aliens in the ocean. They got MDMA in the garden gnomes.
Okay?

Speaker 1 Tape your eyelids to your ass cheeks, homie.

Speaker 1 And stay alert.

Speaker 1 Because they ripping everybody out here.

Speaker 1 Praise God, baby. What else do we have?

Speaker 1 We got another call that came in right here. Here we go.

Speaker 1 Let's see you home for Christmas.

Speaker 3 Yo, Theo, this is Harley from Portland, Oregon, man.

Speaker 1 What's up, Harley? And had a great time up there. We did a show out there in Portland,

Speaker 1 which is a great city. Let me say that.
People are always like, there's Antifas up there,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 you know, LARPing in the park.

Speaker 1 It's just a bunch of leftover Antifa and BLM activists and people, you know, adults wearing baby diapers up there, LARPing in the park and sword fighting and doing makeshift renaissance fairs up there and shit, and damn George Foreman grilling every meal and shit.

Speaker 1 But I thought it was an amazing city.

Speaker 1 I never, I just hadn't, it was just, it really shocked me how, how special it was. Yeah, this naked guy pushing himself, you know, pushing himself in a, you know,

Speaker 1 and he's like, you know, has a boat oar and he's going down the street in a

Speaker 1 adult baby carriage or whatever. But it's, there's, it's awesome.
I thought it was really, really groovy. I really like Portland, Oregon.

Speaker 1 What'd you have to say, brother? Sorry I interrupted you there. Let's hear more.

Speaker 3 I really appreciate the way that you peddle your tickets,

Speaker 3 the way that you...

Speaker 1 encourage people to not use technique sites because you know you don't want to you don't want people paying more than they should to come see you i understand that and i really respect that yeah totally well a lot of times what happens is people will look up a ticket right want to go to the show this city this date or whatever and then other secondary sites that are reselling tickets will put them

Speaker 1 will pay more to get their searching higher on Google and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 And so then you click there and you're not really paying an original, you don't even have an option at a regular price ticket if there's still any available onward.

Speaker 3 but then I go to your your website man and I see that

Speaker 3 theovon.com slash tour is redirected to ticket master

Speaker 1 and I'm just curious man you know the the people absolutely hate ticket master oh yeah and I'm one of the people brother I hate them I hate them it's a they've been running this scam forever

Speaker 1 So I don't know how we get a politician that is going to break up the monopoly that's very obvious. I don't know how you get that done.

Speaker 1 You know, I would love to have a ticket broker on this year. Maybe we can find, start delving into the dark depths of all that.
Because, yes, it's a monopoly. It's sick.

Speaker 1 It's sick that you could take three of your friends to a show, but now you can only take one because the fees are astronomical. We don't see any money from the fees.
Artists don't.

Speaker 1 You know, it's just the same people. It's these big companies.
Who owns Ticketmaster? You look that up for me

Speaker 1 live Nation Entertainment.

Speaker 1 So there you go. Ticketmaster is a wholly owned subsidiary of Live Nation,

Speaker 1 which is headquartered in Beverly Hills.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I think one of the issues,

Speaker 1 who's the owner of Live Nation, I wonder?

Speaker 1 Vanguard.

Speaker 1 Well, here's this is fucking hilarious. Zoom in on this a little bit.

Speaker 1 Liberty Media Corporation is the largest shareholder of Live Nation Entertainment, owning 30% of the company. Other major shareholders include Vanguard owns 8.3%.

Speaker 1 BlackRock Advisors owns 5.5%.

Speaker 1 So there you go. It's the same people that own everything.
So that's why you're getting fucked because they own everything.

Speaker 1 They own the building that the show is in sometimes and then they own the website. And

Speaker 1 they don't care. They don't care.

Speaker 1 That's the bottom line. They don't care.
They don't care that it takes more money out of your pocket.

Speaker 1 And mine if I buy tickets somewhere.

Speaker 1 They don't care. They want money.

Speaker 1 That's all they want.

Speaker 1 So yeah, that shit hurts my heart, man. Nothing I can do about it, man.
You know, and maybe one day there'll be a better way to do it.

Speaker 1 I know Zach Bryan tried a unique method through

Speaker 1 AXS, I think, ticketing.

Speaker 1 But it hasn't shown up yet or a way that's definitely, definitively saves people that money.

Speaker 1 But yeah, those people are robbing people. And that's what it is.

Speaker 1 But we have a government that continues to allow that sort of business behavior,

Speaker 1 especially when they have a monopoly on the market. Yeah, that's just, those are my feelings.
To me, it feels like it's bullshit. To you calling, I'm sure to everybody listening.

Speaker 1 I'd love to have an extra $40

Speaker 1 from ticketing fees to go get me a sodi or something. Get me a little butterfanger or something.
Get mom the payday or whatever that she likes eating. She can't even hear the fucking show.

Speaker 1 She's over here. Cheaper to get her a ticket than put her in dang hospice or whatever.

Speaker 1 You know, she's over here, you know, listening to whatever we're watching, you know, Metallic on Ice or whatever over here, you know, or Ice Spice on Ice or whatever.

Speaker 1 Who knows what the hell they're doing now?

Speaker 1 You know, now it's, they have a new Anxiety on Ice as a new performance for kids. Like,

Speaker 1 what are we even fucking taking our kids to? It's Big Pharma Anxiety on Ice. Brought to you by Live Nation and Pfizer, dude.
That's what we're fucking doing. I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah,

Speaker 1 people at least aren't blind to it. Praise God, brother.
Thank you for the call. And yeah, I'm sorry about it too, man.

Speaker 1 Let me hear what you have to say. I'm sorry.
And

Speaker 1 I personally would not go see a show just because it's being sold strictly through ticket managers.

Speaker 3 So I was curious if there was some kind of way that we could get away from these big corporations. And

Speaker 3 hopefully by getting away from them, you know, you could get more of a percentage of ticket sales.

Speaker 1 Yeah, totally. I mean, those venues, they could give away to something.
They could do something.

Speaker 1 You know, they also, yeah, they charge people for parking a lot of times. Or it's just, that's, but some of it is business, but that part I believe is egregious.
That's how I feel.

Speaker 1 But no, as of right now, I don't know another way.

Speaker 1 You know, I could look into it, though. Maybe one day I'll have, you know,

Speaker 1 I could own venues with other people and we could just do the shows there at our own venues and we wouldn't sell tickets and we wouldn't

Speaker 1 gouge people on those prices. Or maybe you'd find one politician that would just run simply on the fact that they're going to say, hey, fuck those guys.
We're not going to let them do it.

Speaker 1 We're going to figure out a way. So it's just those greedy companies and dirty lawyers, I believe.

Speaker 1 But also, there may be stuff I don't know about it. They may need an extra $42 a ticket

Speaker 1 to send you that email.

Speaker 1 So I might be off.

Speaker 1 What else? Sorry, am I getting negative there?

Speaker 1 Let me think about what else I'm thankful for, man. I'm thankful that

Speaker 1 I have buddies that check in on me.

Speaker 1 I need to do a better job of that, or I would like to do a better job of that in the coming years checking in on people

Speaker 1 and checking in on myself. You know, I want to make sure I do a better job of that.

Speaker 1 What else am I thankful for?

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm thankful my buddy Jeremy just had a new baby, his third son.

Speaker 1 Him and his wife, Natalie, just had a child, and they just have a blessed, just,

Speaker 1 man, him and my buddy Curtis, they, they run a

Speaker 1 speed and strength

Speaker 1 training, a training group over here in Nashville. And it just,

Speaker 1 those guys are like,

Speaker 1 they're like the best part of my week when I get to be over there and just laugh with everybody. And we have so much fun and they really uplift a lot of, a lot of the community here.

Speaker 1 And so yeah, that's something I'm thankful for that he had a healthy son.

Speaker 1 What else am I thankful for?

Speaker 1 I'm thankful I got to go to my buddy Scott's wedding this year. I'm thankful I got to see my friend the other night.

Speaker 1 I'm thankful that God lets me think about other people and that I can try hard, that I can

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 that if there's patches where I go through where I get stuck in myself, that I can come out of those. You know, we're not so

Speaker 1 every thought doesn't have to be a sentence, like a life sentence, you know, or that every feeling isn't like a life sentence, even though there are moments sometimes where they think it feels like they might be, they're not.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 1 I'm thankful you can see somebody that'll change your vibe, you know, or change, you can hear a song that'll change your energy, and you can choose to hear those things too.

Speaker 1 Uh,

Speaker 1 what else? Yeah, I'm thankful that some of the the mistakes I've made haven't

Speaker 1 put me in places that

Speaker 1 make

Speaker 1 things very tough on me from day to day. You know, that's been a lot of grace from God in those spaces.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 1 What do you think about, Trevin? Anything else? Any other gratitudes coming into your head?

Speaker 2 Thankful for friends. Like you said, being able to be able to think about, you know,

Speaker 2 being grateful in itself. You know what I mean? Being able to take the time to.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm thankful God lets me see different things or whatever, see animals, bro.
I would hate that shit.

Speaker 1 If you were at the zoo and your people are just telling you what the animals look like or whatever. And then the guy starts touching you on the back or whatever.

Speaker 1 You're like, this guy's a pedophile or whatever.

Speaker 1 You know, who am I even with, dude? That's the kind of scary shit that's out there.

Speaker 1 What else do we got?

Speaker 1 Let's see.

Speaker 1 Oh, here we go right here. Gang shit.
Let's hear this one.

Speaker 1 They say homeful.

Speaker 1 Hey, Theo, this is Big Red here.

Speaker 1 Big Red, baby.

Speaker 1 Let's hear more, daddy.

Speaker 1 I mean, I just want to preface by saying I'm I'm not racist, but um

Speaker 1 all right.

Speaker 1 Onward. Um

Speaker 1 lately I've been hanging out with you know some brothers and I've I've sneezed a couple times, but um you sneezed, okay? You've been sneezing.

Speaker 3 I I've noticed that I've been sneezing around outside

Speaker 3 and um

Speaker 3 and I just I I they don't say bless you and I don't know if it's like a me thing I don't know if like you it's like

Speaker 3 I don't know if it's like hard to look tough like saying bless you like

Speaker 7 I don't know I've been trying to say bless you in the mirror in a tough way and it's I gotta admit it's it's a really hard task to do like

Speaker 1 Okay, I think I see what you're saying. You're saying a lot of brothers, they don't say bless you when you sneeze.
Well, I mean, I think that's just a, that's just life, bro.

Speaker 1 I mean, brothers been through a lot of shit historically, man.

Speaker 1 Brothers and female brothers, too, the sisters, they've been through some shit, man. Get a history book, dog.

Speaker 1 So they ain't worried if somebody can't handle a little pollen or something. Somebody sneeze.
That ain't, they're worried somebody goes into prison.

Speaker 1 You know, that's when they drop some bless you's on them.

Speaker 1 They worried they can't get the pain out of the culture. That's when they, that's some, they'll, they'll, they'll yell a bless you.

Speaker 1 They save some of their bless you's for Sunday as well.

Speaker 1 But they, it's, it's white folk. We, you know, we, somebody sneeze, bless you, Ernie.

Speaker 1 Bless you. Bless you, Nathan.

Speaker 1 That, that's because

Speaker 1 we, that's,

Speaker 1 you know, black folk, they, just because somebody can't handle sitting near a tulip or something. Or somebody get a little activated, their lungs flare up around a fern.

Speaker 1 That ain't,

Speaker 1 that's a little bit more white trauma than it is a black trauma, I think, you know. Something white dudes like, oh, them azaleas, I can't breathe.
Like you, the floral George Floyd or something, man.

Speaker 1 Get your shit together, man.

Speaker 1 Get your, and don't bother a brother to say, bless you, because your white ass having trouble with some dandelion dander.

Speaker 1 Okay, get it together.

Speaker 1 Your soft ass can't breathe for half a second. You want God to help you.

Speaker 1 Come on, man.

Speaker 1 Come on, man.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I think that's just, look, man, that's a cultural thing. And I think you got to let that lie where it lies, baby.
That's what I believe. Praise God, man.
Thank you for the call, though.

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Speaker 1 You know, I do want to say, though, it's that, you know, it is that time of year where we can try to do more for others.

Speaker 1 That's one of my things I was thinking about yesterday i was like how can i make next year uh

Speaker 1 how can i do more you know and we all want to right we all want time i hear that so many times from people like hey how can i be a partisan how can i do you know and so yeah i've been thinking about that a lot and i'm gonna um

Speaker 1 i i want to figure that out you know just ways to yeah we have we all want to find ways to give back to help our our neighbor you know um

Speaker 1 and this is the time of year for that to be on our hearts. I think.
Or I don't know. I'm not trying to preach at you.
This is the time of year where that's on my heart.

Speaker 1 You know, how can I,

Speaker 1 yeah, how can I think about somebody else? Because what a relief it is when you're trapped in yourself to have a moment where you're thinking about somebody else.

Speaker 1 You're like, oh, thank you, God, letting me think about somebody else, man.

Speaker 1 What else? Let's take a couple more calls here on the way out.

Speaker 1 Let me me take this one right here.

Speaker 3 Hey, Theo.

Speaker 3 I love the show.

Speaker 3 I'm calling with an issue. I'm 20 years old.
I've been drinking every single day since I've been 17.

Speaker 3 There's been times where I stopped drinking for a week, and I always fall back into the same thing.

Speaker 3 And I hate myself for it.

Speaker 3 Everything pulls me down. I'm just wondering if you have any advice for me.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I notice myself, man. Thanks for calling, bro.

Speaker 1 I notice myself when I get, when I'm doing something I don't want to be doing, when I'm doing something I don't want to be doing, and then I've said to myself, hey, I don't want to do this anymore.

Speaker 1 And then I keep doing it. I can't help but do it, right? That's addiction.
You can't help it. You're doing it.

Speaker 1 Which isn't you. That's not you making that choice all the time.
It is, it's addiction. It's a disease, right?

Speaker 1 So just the same as if somebody had cancer, you wouldn't say to them every day, oh, damn, you have cancer. You keep choosing to have cancer.
No, they have cancer.

Speaker 1 It's the same with addiction. You are, you don't want to do this.
You are doing it. Right.

Speaker 1 You can't stop that cycle.

Speaker 1 And then here, this is what I've noticed for myself. Then shame starts building up because now not only am I addicted, now I am

Speaker 1 now

Speaker 1 ashamed because I keep breaking my own promise to myself,

Speaker 1 right? Now I'm losing my integrity. So now not only am I dealing with addiction, but I'm also dealing with

Speaker 1 shame.

Speaker 1 And man, when those two dogs get together,

Speaker 1 good luck getting a frisbee through the yard, brother. Them some growlers, daddy.

Speaker 1 But that's the only, people ask me a lot

Speaker 1 about addiction stuff. The only answer I ever know that has helped me has been

Speaker 1 going to recovery, going to Alcoholics Anonymous, starting there, going to a meeting.

Speaker 1 Because the first thing they ask you in there is that,

Speaker 1 my life, is your life unmanageable? That's the question.

Speaker 1 Is your life unmanageable?

Speaker 1 Nothing has to be about alcohol or any is your life unmanageable

Speaker 1 Because that's a way where you get to choose for yourself. Nobody's making a diagnosis of you being an alcoholic.
You decide.

Speaker 1 But it's like, is life unmanageable? And that's a very fair question to anybody.

Speaker 1 And if the answer is yes, then there's more,

Speaker 1 then you take it from there and there, you know. But I would recommend go to three AA meetings, some different ones.

Speaker 1 Listen for the similarities and don't listen for the differences.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 it's easy to be like, ah, this shit,

Speaker 1 that ain't, you hear one thing, like, that ain't for me, you know? So, yeah, man, I'm sorry that you're dealing with that.

Speaker 1 But that's really the only, I don't have a magic button or a magic solution, you know. And then once you're in there, you can maybe get some sponsorship or something.

Speaker 1 They can help you decide if you should get treatment or that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 Now, if you're drinking every day for that long, you may need treatment to detoxify yourself. But

Speaker 1 thinking of you, brother. And thank you for calling, man.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 What else?

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 4 Let's hear it. What up, Dio?

Speaker 4 Hi. Hey, I got a question for you, Dio.
My name is Jocelyn, and I have a son here. He's 10 years old with Down syndrome.

Speaker 4 Just any advice that you would give to him personally would be much appreciated. And we think you're great.
Keep doing what you're doing, bro.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you, Jocelyn.
That was very sweet of you to call.

Speaker 1 Happy Thanksgiving to you and to your child right there. And I'd say

Speaker 1 to your child, I'd say, hang in there, young king.

Speaker 1 Okay?

Speaker 1 You little freckled sparrow of the heavens. Hang in there.

Speaker 1 Hold the line, baby boy.

Speaker 1 Because young DS lords like yourself

Speaker 1 are heroes

Speaker 1 and you are beloved.

Speaker 1 You are God's thank you card. There's not

Speaker 1 any of us in existence that doesn't that doesn't see somebody with Don Syrup

Speaker 1 and feel something, you know. You make a candle, a candle just light up inside of everybody.

Speaker 1 Y'all are the ones. Y'all are the ones braving the genetic nether realm

Speaker 1 to see what's on the other side. Y'all are the Lewis and Clarks Clarks of DNA.
Okay, the Harriet Tubman of afflictions. That's y'all, young king.

Speaker 1 And every year we're getting closer to winning this war.

Speaker 1 I'll say that out loud. We will battle with Down syndrome until it's all the way down.

Speaker 1 We will not relent.

Speaker 1 So keep hugging your mom and keep being a bumblebee of hope for all of us.

Speaker 1 And keep smiling because when you smile, when people with dance syndrome smile,

Speaker 1 we all smile somehow.

Speaker 1 Because we all have that

Speaker 1 just a

Speaker 1 not a not a D S, but a D O S E

Speaker 1 of it inside of us.

Speaker 1 And I believe that, you know, and that's why we can relate. And I love you, and I love your mom.
And I wish y'all a happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 And keep teaching the rest of us how to love better.

Speaker 1 You know?

Speaker 1 Because I was right there in it. I was right there in just in the grips.

Speaker 1 And I was able to just break my foot free as a child.

Speaker 1 And I love you guys, man, baby. Praise God, man.

Speaker 1 What else? Any other call that came in? Here's a young lady that called.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 here we go. One more call.

Speaker 4 I'm struggling.

Speaker 4 It's just hard

Speaker 4 going back and forth trying to find a job with an addiction. It's really hard.

Speaker 4 I can't seem to put the alcohol down

Speaker 4 and it's funny as it

Speaker 4 I listened to your podcast because of how you talked about Coke.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 I've been struggling

Speaker 4 with putting it down.

Speaker 4 And I just get to the point where I just

Speaker 4 get so deep, you can't get out of it. And I know that you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 Man, it just shit breaks my heart, kind of, you know. That's tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it just, I don't know what it makes me feel. I mean, it just, I guess, yeah.
I mean, it just, yeah. I don't know.
It makes me sad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess it makes me like, um,

Speaker 1 what does it make you feel like?

Speaker 2 Well, I think it's, I think it's powerful that they feel like they could reach out to you to talk about it with someone who can relate. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think there's a part of it's like you wanna

Speaker 1 you can just tell when somebody's hurting, you know.

Speaker 1 Let me see. Uh,

Speaker 1 they better just call her. Is that crazy, you think, Trevin? Do it.

Speaker 2 I think it would make her day.

Speaker 1 Let's just call her. Let's see.
We can even ask her if we.

Speaker 1 I don't care if we put this on or not. We can just let me see.

Speaker 1 Hello. Hey, what's up?

Speaker 1 It's Theo.

Speaker 6 Theo.

Speaker 1 Theo Vaughn, I got you. Did you call? I don't know if this is the right person.
Did you call our... I just, I'll have like a voicemail thing.
I just didn't know if you called it the other day.

Speaker 6 Is this really Theo Vaughn?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it is. Who's this?

Speaker 6 Holy shit. You actually listen to it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, sometimes it takes me a while, dude. It freaking takes takes me a while.
But we just happened to

Speaker 1 start listening. Just like

Speaker 1 we've been listening for the past couple of weeks to try and do like

Speaker 1 an episode to come out next week. And so, yeah, today I was listening to him and I just heard your message.
And it just like,

Speaker 1 yeah, you know, I struggle with shit. So I just thought I would just say what's up or, you know.

Speaker 6 Dude, I just had a wreck like two days ago.

Speaker 1 And oh, what happened?

Speaker 6 I don't know how I didn't die. I was not paying attention.
And I got, I like rear ended, but I was flying and I shouldn't have.

Speaker 6 And it totaled the fuck out of my car. I don't know how I died.

Speaker 6 I just came out with a small concussion and nobody else was hurt.

Speaker 1 And did you have insurance?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's getting taken care of, but it's just been a shitty week. I got cheated on, too.

Speaker 6 That's awesome. I can't believe you actually listened to my voicemail.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, it just shook me.
You know, I mean, it just made me, you know, it seemed like you're having a, going through a tough time. And I've been there for sure.

Speaker 6 I'm going on 19 hours of no drinking.

Speaker 1 Let's go. That's awesome.
Dude, 19 hours is big.

Speaker 6 I know, it's a lot for me.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is. I'm happy for you.
That's awesome. What do you think?

Speaker 1 So what time of day or what kind of happens that you start to, you feel like you start to fall apart a little bit or make you drink?

Speaker 6 Well, it was really the start of my job I started a job last year

Speaker 6 we ended up having to work like it was a mandatory seven days a week and it's been like that the whole time I started and I finally they fired me in October that and that's when shit really started to fall apart I started showing up drinking on the job and stuff it was just getting really rough

Speaker 6 burnt out

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you just drinking to get by, huh?

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I went through a couple of relationships. I tried to make relationships and just got shit on.
It's just, it's been a rough year, really. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dang.

Speaker 1 And where do you got family over there or no?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I live with my mom and my dad.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice. You have any children?

Speaker 6 Oh, no. I'm 24.
I'm still living a little bit of life at 20.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, look, I think you got some blessings right there. And then

Speaker 1 you don't have a responsibility outside of yourself. You got to take care of.
That's nice, you know? Yeah. I mean, except for your folks, you know.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you ever

Speaker 1 go to AA meetings or anything?

Speaker 6 No, I have never thought about it. I got put on

Speaker 6 medication a while back, but I got off of it, and I think that kind of made it worse because I like cold turkey.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that can be tricky.

Speaker 6 But I felt like the medicine was just making me more depressed, but it could be from the drinking too, while drinking on it. So I've never had like talked to a therapist or anybody about about it.

Speaker 1 Well, what do you feel? I mean, do you feel like you drank too much? Do you just feel like you feel bad? I mean, or do you just feel like maybe you just had a tough couple days? No judgment either.

Speaker 1 I'm not judging you.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I just

Speaker 6 I've been through. I know there's people out there that go through worse things.

Speaker 6 I have was in a relationship for a few years before I moved back in with my parents and

Speaker 6 it was abusive. And I lost, I had a I was pregnant and I lost my baby and I think that's where it all started

Speaker 1 it's just really hard yeah I bet that's tough huh you probably just

Speaker 1 I don't know what did it

Speaker 1 did you start yeah like what did you start feeling you think

Speaker 6 I just felt like I couldn't do nothing my kid anymore i think that's where it all started like to fall apart for me and i kept trying to like get back up and it just kept bringing me back down.

Speaker 6 And then I just picked up alcohol. And it's funny because I used to never want to drink.
Not even when I turned twenty-one. And

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 6 It's just a lot of baggage, I feel like.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, if I just can't feel if I feel like I just can't do good anymore, that's a horrible feeling.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry that you I was you know sorry you that you've been dealing with all that.

Speaker 6 I'm trying to get back up on my feet, get another job i think that's not working and stuff like that is really you're just sitting at home thinking in your head all the time i don't i have one friend and i love her to death she always tries to help me but i'm kind of a hardhead and i don't listen to her oh yeah yeah yeah we can't yeah it's hard yeah don't try to help me

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 Well, dang, yeah, I wish there was some way that I could help out. You know, I wish there was something I could do to be supportive.

Speaker 1 yeah I mean do they have therapists in your town do you think even going to somebody like that would help I'm just trying to think of something that might help you get a better

Speaker 1 you know or do you need to get a new job do you think you could even work right now what do you think is going on

Speaker 6 I don't I don't even I don't know how to start I don't know if uh

Speaker 6 I've always like been around people that tell me therapy doesn't work and you don't need to go to pay somebody to tell them about your problems because they don't care you know stuff like that so I guess I kind of just stuck that in my head that I didn't need to go talk to people about it, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I kind of just hold it in until I explode.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, I just don't know if that's good or not. I don't know if it's good for anything to hold anything in that long, you know.

Speaker 6 No, it's not. But I've always grew up where you don't talk about your emotions that much.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 yeah, dude.

Speaker 1 Oh, God. If I, if you felt something in my neighborhood, somebody'd call you a dang f ⁇ , to be honest with you, you know?

Speaker 1 And no offense, I didn't say that. I think it's a

Speaker 6 no, that is exactly how it is, Danny.

Speaker 1 But damn, yeah, I feel you there.

Speaker 1 Well, how about this? Maybe I'll just is it our, I'll check back in with you in like a week or something to see how things are going.

Speaker 6 Okay, that it really helped me calling. Like, you actually heard me.
Like, it just felt made me feel better.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I know what that's, yeah, I can relate to that, man, for sure. Yeah, just sometimes you just need somebody to listen.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true, man. I feel that.
I feel that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I feel that. I definitely feel that.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 It feels good to get it out, but, you know, some people just don't want to hear about spots. They're always like, well,

Speaker 6 I'm dealing with this. I'm dealing with that.
everybody's dealing with shit.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but sometimes you just need somebody to hear you out and not make you feel crazy for it,

Speaker 1 yeah. And you're right, sometimes we just want somebody to listen, you know.
We just want something to be, you know, we just want a place to put something.

Speaker 1 There's obviously different things you could go do to try to get help for yourself, you know, or if you wanted to. You have insurance or no?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do. Okay, cool.
So, you could, if you wanted to try therapy, then you could try it at least. You know, I know it takes time to like try and figure that out, but that is a thing.
And then,

Speaker 1 yeah. But yeah, how about this? I'll just, yeah, I just want to just, I'll check back in like in a week or something and just see how you're doing.
Is that okay if I check back in?

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's fine. Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, have a good time over there.
What y'all going to do for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 Shit, I don't know.

Speaker 1 What are your parents doing?

Speaker 6 They're cooking some food. A real family out.
I'm not on good terms with my brother right now, so it's going to be kind of awkward.

Speaker 1 Damn, I wish I could figure that out before he gets over there.

Speaker 6 Everybody tells me to apologize. I need to stop holding the grudge.
I know I do.

Speaker 1 I'm working on it. Yeah, I feel you.
Sometimes that stuff's hard. You know, it's hard.

Speaker 1 Maybe, yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I feel you. I'd struggle with that.
I got the same issues with some of my family. It's tough.
You know, it's family's tough.

Speaker 1 but yeah if i can't swallow my pride for my family you know at least do it for myself for others you know because it don't have to be about me on thanksgiving that's what i started thinking the other day

Speaker 6 yeah

Speaker 1 you know i don't i i don't deserve to ruin other people's day just because i have feelings a certain way you know i i should be able to figure that out i'm not telling you that i'm just saying that to me really

Speaker 6 Gotta be humble and grateful.

Speaker 1 Well, I just, I should be able to approach somebody in my family at the end of the day, day, say it were the last minute on earth.

Speaker 1 What do I want that family member to think?

Speaker 1 I want them to think, oh, I was holding something against them, you know, that I couldn't figure out, you know, like, no, I would want my family member to think that I love them, you know. And so

Speaker 1 I got to figure that out, even if it's for a short-term basis, you know, because I don't know. I just don't want, yeah, I don't want to be

Speaker 1 always a part of the problem, you know.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 But, All right.

Speaker 1 Well, I got to finish off because I'm about to go watch some football.

Speaker 1 All right. What's your first name?

Speaker 1 Well, I appreciate you calling, and I just hope you hang in there. And,

Speaker 1 yeah, just don't feel alone, you know, because that's, that isn't true.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I know.
I have family that supports me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you just have people that are like you. I think sometimes you just have to go find.
You have to, it's hard. Sometimes we got to, we got to, we got to find them, you know?

Speaker 1 here

Speaker 1 so but anyway i hope i'm not trying i don't sound like i'm trying to preach at you do i

Speaker 6 no no i needed this actually i needed to talk to somebody about it

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 anything else you're feeling

Speaker 1 no i'm just gonna

Speaker 1 drink a bunch of water and keep going there you go stay hydrated baby that's what you can do all right emily happy thanksgiving all right happy thanksgiving you have a good one. Okay, you two.

Speaker 1 Take care.

Speaker 1 Wow, sweet girl.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man. It just, that's wild.
That's so funny. It's the same things I'm dealing with.
I got some family. It's just like, it's tough.
But then what do I want to do? I want to go.

Speaker 1 I want to bring all this shit or tell my family members like, well, I don't want to be there if they're there. And then I'm just making a storm.

Speaker 1 And the truth is, there's a part of me inside of me that wants to be around my family. It wants everything to be okay, you know.

Speaker 1 But there's another part of me that wants to have things my way.

Speaker 1 That's really what it is for me.

Speaker 1 Even if the other person wronged me or I don't like their energy or whatever, I can't figure this shit out for two hours,

Speaker 1 you know.

Speaker 1 And then what's my part in it? I'm a saint, no.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I'm a Saint Bernard with a couple of face tattoos, baby. I'm fucking jelly wolf, you feel me? So

Speaker 1 don't make me pop the troll.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is my brother. Let me see if I can get a couple of him to say a couple things he's thankful for.

Speaker 1 Big Z.

Speaker 7 What's up, bruh?

Speaker 1 Not much. I'm recording my podcast right now, brother.
How are you?

Speaker 7 Good, good. Just checking in on you, bro, and seeing

Speaker 7 checking in on you after the other day.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, i appreciate it man yeah i was just talking to some girl had been

Speaker 1 she like called her hotline she'd been having a tough time

Speaker 1 oh really yeah she just yeah she was having a tough time so i just gave her i just called over there and was talking to her for a little while oh from the show

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 7 oh nice yeah so you got the you've been doing the hotline more now someone said that to me the other day I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 Sometimes it's hard for me to feel comfortable. It's like I don't like to do it when I don't or do solo.

Speaker 1 You know, sometimes i do my podcast just by myself

Speaker 1 yeah yeah yeah i don't like to do it if the um if i don't feel comfortable you know like if i feel agitated or something or i'm stressed out

Speaker 7 yeah well that's fine that makes sense to me yeah i mean

Speaker 1 yeah yeah because it just feels like i can't be i don't feel like my you know i just feel like a um

Speaker 1 like i'm just going through the emotions or whatever you know but yeah you kind of caught up another stuff yeah but it was just yeah but some girls girls called, she'd just been struggling with the brain.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 7 That's pretty quote. That's pretty crazy.
You kind of did a little 12-step work on your podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just to listen to her, she was talking about, I don't know.

Speaker 1 She reminded me of just, it's funny because we both had some of the same things, which was like being around family during the holiday, just stuff like that, too. We ended up talking about.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah. I need to call that hotline, man.
I always forget about that. You guys can call in sometime.

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. Well, actually, you can help us right now.
We're finishing the episode.

Speaker 1 If you have a couple things you're thankful for, we're just going to think of a couple of them on the way out of the episode if you got a couple.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. What am I thankful for?

Speaker 7 Oh, that's such a big question.

Speaker 1 I know it is.

Speaker 7 I guess, I mean, I'm definitely thankful for

Speaker 7 my family.

Speaker 7 You know, you and everyone else in our family for sure.

Speaker 7 I'm really thankful for my friends and the friendships that I've been developing.

Speaker 7 I mean, I'm thankful for

Speaker 7 potential, you know? Just like being able to

Speaker 7 just get up in the morning and,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 7 go for another day. I'm thankful for

Speaker 7 really thankful for the

Speaker 7 time I get to be a parent.

Speaker 1 You know, um, oh, yeah, that's a good question.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I love parenting. I love raising my children

Speaker 7 what is that here yeah I used to have this

Speaker 7 this hypothetical like it's a little bit derogatory but I can tell you if you want yeah all right

Speaker 7 all right so if you're on an island and you can't you can't masturbate

Speaker 7 right you can't okay that's the example you have no arms just you can't do it okay you have legs though

Speaker 7 Well, you, yeah, but if you can use them to masturbate, then no, because you can't masturbate in this example. Okay,

Speaker 7 there's no way you can do it. There's no way you can do it with one leg.
You have one leg and no arms.

Speaker 1 Aww. Gotcha.

Speaker 7 And you're just

Speaker 7 laying naked on the beach on this deserted island, right?

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 And, but you have a strong libido.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 7 And you're a heterosexual male, like you, like you. I mean, like you probably are.
I don't know for certain, but you probably are a heterosexual male. So you're a heterosexual male.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 you have a strong libido. You can.
And then all of a sudden, there's another man on the island.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 7 So here's the question.

Speaker 7 Do you eventually have sex with this man?

Speaker 1 No, I don't think you do.

Speaker 7 Now, for me, it's a hell yeah.

Speaker 1 God.

Speaker 7 Hell yeah. I mean, really?

Speaker 1 I don't mean like a...

Speaker 7 Well, yeah, think about it. Which, if you can't masturbate, you can't.

Speaker 1 But y'all date for a long time first, or is there any, or how does it even.

Speaker 7 No, one day you're out there just laying on the beach because you can't walk you only have one leg you can get up and laid out

Speaker 7 well you could you could knee over you could knee over you could hobble over and then kind of from the distance here comes this what man walking and he's got two legs oh yeah big spender huh

Speaker 7 big spender he's got a shirt he's got a shirt but you can see his chest and

Speaker 7 You guys just strike it up.

Speaker 1 You're talking about it.

Speaker 7 Just listen, this is the example. You make a little bonfire together.
You roast weenies. You have a little weenie roast.

Speaker 1 Wait, hold on.

Speaker 1 You can't even walk, but suddenly you're a damn Weeblow scout, dude.

Speaker 7 No, bro. Look, he carries you over to the fire and lays you down.

Speaker 1 Oh, God.

Speaker 7 Breasts up. Breasts up.

Speaker 7 Lays you down. And then, so I'm just saying eventually,

Speaker 7 eventually...

Speaker 7 You'd have sex even though you're not even though you're a heterosexual male.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 All right, man. i'm gonna give you a buzz back all right that's what i'm thankful for all right bro i love you all right i love you too man wow

Speaker 1 it's got me thinking too man you're like

Speaker 1 you'd have to go on dates with the guy you know what i'm saying you're like and you'd have to know people aren't coming to get you

Speaker 1 you can't just

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying, Trevin?

Speaker 2 You'd be having sex with the guy and then you hear a helicopter over there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't be, if you just are stuck on an island for two days and you hook up with a dude, then you're just a gay guy,

Speaker 1 which is fine, but don't be like, oh, the island or whatever.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Just an island boy.

Speaker 1 Dang, bro. And that's why our family has trouble during the holidays.
I'll tell you that, man.

Speaker 1 That is why they do.

Speaker 1 Blessings to everybody out there, man. Thank you guys for being a part of my life.
Thank you for letting me be a part of your life.

Speaker 1 Thank you for just this year. It's been crazy, man.
The past couple of weeks were really crazy. Like,

Speaker 1 yeah, I kind of was like losing my mind. I went on Joe Rogan's show and I was just having a tough time on it.
I just was like, I think I got real scared like after like the election and

Speaker 1 people making podcasts, like they're like podcasts swayed the election. And I don't believe any of that.

Speaker 1 I believe people do what they want to do, you know, and and then they make out to be this big right-wing fat people emailing me about fascism or whatever. And

Speaker 1 just a lot, just like,

Speaker 1 yeah, just because I voted for my buddy. Bobby Kennedy's my friend.

Speaker 1 That is my friend. I know.

Speaker 1 In fact,

Speaker 1 he's

Speaker 1 he's a good, he's a, just a, he's somebody I trust. He's my friend, right? I'll vote for my friend.

Speaker 1 You think my friend is gonna run for freaking president of the United States and I'm not gonna vote for him, dude? Or for,

Speaker 1 you know, minister of health or whatever, or whatever it is called. It's called

Speaker 1 Deadpool 7 or whatever he's called now, or whatever.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 the CBS warlord, or I'm not even sure what they're calling him now.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I'm going to vote for my friend. And I don't really care what anybody thinks about that.
I don't think.

Speaker 1 And I wouldn't think it's weird if you vote for your friend. I don't give a fuck who anybody votes for.
But yeah.

Speaker 1 So, but I don't know. Yeah.
I think just a lot of stuff like kind of freaked me out in the past couple of weeks. And I was just been feeling overwhelmed.
And

Speaker 1 yeah, and then we all go through shit. And then the years going fast and whatever.
I'm not making a pity party.

Speaker 1 I'm just happy to take a breath,

Speaker 1 I'm just happy to take a breath. Happy to be alive.

Speaker 1 And maybe I do feel like I have to explain myself. I don't know.
And maybe, you know, I don't, I don't know. I'm just, I don't know what I'm doing.
Okay. So

Speaker 1 you won't come to my house or office. I don't even have an office, but you won't come to whatever and see like a board, like a, you know, chalkboard or whatever.

Speaker 1 with arrows on it or whatever or like mitt you know it says you know

Speaker 1 secrets or, you know, just like,

Speaker 1 so anyway, I don't even know what I'm talking about. Who cares, man? I've talked enough.
I've wasted enough of your time today. As always, the hotline is 985-664-9503.

Speaker 1 And yeah, the holidays, man, you got to think

Speaker 1 they're coming up. Let me try this one.

Speaker 1 No, that's Jesus Christ. I'm going to beat somebody's ass outside of a bed, bath, and beyond if I have to hear that.
Let's try this.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 it's close. It's a bit much.

Speaker 1 That's my brother. I can't listen to that anymore.

Speaker 1 He's trying to get me to go on a cruise, I bet.

Speaker 1 There we go.

Speaker 1 A little too slow.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's taking a bath by yourself, dude. That's when it gets really crazy.
If you're young and you jerk off to that, dude, you obviously

Speaker 1 wear like a nice jacket when you do it, you know.

Speaker 1 Just remind everybody, be good to yourselves, man. Be good to others.
Do let's do it. We'll just keep doing what we can do.
I'm excited about the end of the year we have coming up.

Speaker 1 We will take a week off at some point

Speaker 1 for no episode. and uh and yeah that's what's that's all that's going on and um happy thanksgiving to you trevin you too brother yeah thank you for being here riley mao um ben becker um

Speaker 1 all of the producers that have helped uh zach powers colin reiner nick davis uh cameron george um we got a whole gaggle of guys and uh and people who have over the years uh happy thanksgiving to you guys and um thank you guys for uh being a part of my life and and um

Speaker 1 and the support. And you guys be good to yourselves, baby.

Speaker 1 Santa, tell me where you show yourself to me.

Speaker 1 Help me find who my baby will be

Speaker 1 tonight.

Speaker 1 That's all I need

Speaker 1 Somebody that I'll only