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I mean, just dude, I went to a funeral of a Mexican guy.
He climbed out of the casket, dug his own grave hole, and then got back in the casket, man.
I mean, just no complaining, grind, grind, get the job done, man.
I'll be honest.
I'm not saying other people don't, but if I have, if I got to do something, for example, I need to build a picnic table or a, you know, an edible seating structure, you know, table.
And I got, I got nine people to help me do it.
If six out of the nine people are Mexican, bruh, on the lay, Papa, we getting it done.
I'm telling you that, dude.
I'm telling you that we're going to be eating lunch early as a group.
Yeah, because that table's going to be a finie, baby, finished.
I just want to, I just, you know, that's been on my heart.
It's been on my heart that Mexican people just, dang.
You know, it's just, I mean, it's inspiring when I see it.
Just the, you know, look, I saw a Mexican guy cut down a tree, make it into wood, bars, bars of wood, and then use the wood to make a, he built a damn tree with it.
I mean, that's how they just, it's nonstop, man.
And es inspira, inspiracional.
Papa.
Man, I'm so excited to be here today, and I'm so excited that I'm not alone, that you're here with me.
We got a special episode.
Let's get into it.
Let's get into it.
Yep.
I think I won't play it again, baby.
Let me shine.
I'm just sitting on your front porch, wondering how could I be so far from high.
And my mind is somewhere else.
But when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been.
Now we got it.
Come on.
Now I'm just floating on the breeze.
And I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
I must be cornerstone.
Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind.
I found I can feel it in my bones.
But it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
Shine that light on me.
Let's go.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Oh, yeah.
Shine on me.
This will make it grab you.
And I will find a song I will sing it just for you.
Woo.
Ooh!
Man, that song, that's one of those, you know, that song honestly make me grab my nuts a little.
Man.
And I squeeze them when I grab them.
I'll be honest with you.
I don't want to lie about this.
That song make me grab my bag, baby, and just and just put a little dang elbow just make them make those make that make those fellas whistle, bruh.
I squeeze that bag.
You could hear one of your nuts go, and you nut, dude.
When you nut, you got to think about that.
When you squeeze your nuts, they don't know what's up.
One of them's like, and you always got that one scared nut.
He kind of hides in the back like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, shit.
That's coming.
Oh, shit.
And the one just stays up there, and he kind of brave, but he still feels that squeeze.
But that's that bag grabber, baby, right there.
That's Bishop Gunn with shine.
And I'm happy to be here today with you.
And I really am.
You know, I'm just feeling damn.
Never ends that email.
It never ends.
And that's one of my damn pet peeves, bro, besides pets, is just miscellaneous emails.
You know what I'm saying?
It's nighttime, right?
Who's sending me something?
Remember, Best Buy used to send those emails at like 12 p.m.
Oh, you need a new seven disc changer.
Stop on in.
Who needs this first generation iPod?
You can, dude, it runs on your pulse.
Long as you're alive, you can listen to some damn goo-goo dolls.
What?
What?
And it's midnight.
You trying to finish a school paper or finish a, you know, doing a contract or something, a business, you know, document, a damn X-File or whatever it's called.
But Best Buy would be right on time with that email at midnight.
Hey, you need an oven.
Don't you and Melanie need an oven?
Like, bitch, it's fucking mid.
We ate four hours ago.
And y'all emailing me about these convention ovens, man.
Just That's the problem with email.
It's like somebody knocking on your door that doesn't own a watch and don't know how the sun works.
Hey!
No, that's what I'm saying.
No.
I um, yeah, I'm just saying that some songs that make you squeeze your body like that.
And the reason they do it is because you're trying to, if a man, I'll say, I want to say this correctly, if a man squeezes himself on his nuts, he's, it's almost like I'm saying, hey man, I want to put a little more life into the world.
Because you're trying to, you just like, something makes you bring you so much joy.
I just want to, you know, I want to get as much, I just want to squeeze a little more into the, I just, I want more life to hear this.
You know, I want all, I want everything in my bag to come to the top, top of me.
I want all the hidden little semens inside of me and seeds and little, you know, birth hopefuls to swim out to the front of my skin and just absorb whatever I'm absorbing.
I want them to feel, I want them to hear the music.
I want to hear one of them little, you know, a little semen or something, a little, whatever they're called, little, one of them little nut parakeets, you know, one of them little slippery heroes.
I want them to just, I want to just see his little, him putting his little ear or whatever up to the dang edge of my stomach on the inside and hearing the, I want them to be out there.
That's why I'm saying, hey, wake up, fellas.
Get out here and listen to what I'm enjoying.
Oh, but I'm glad to be here with you today.
I hope you're having a wonderful day here.
It's the beginning of September.
And this, you know, man, I'll say this.
This was the first week I started to feel like I was pretending with the pandemic.
Anybody else feel that?
Yeah, like I just, I started to feel like I was like I have this mask, I wear it, and I do the mask, I wear it.
You know?
But I started to feel like it started to feel real Truman showy to me.
I just had this moment.
I was like, is it, what's going on?
It just felt like I'm pretending.
I don't know if anybody else had that feeling.
And I don't know everything of what it is, you know.
I just felt like, am I pre?
I don't know.
You know, when you pretend something, you feel like you're pretending something.
If you pretend to be a wolf, you know, then you might do some things.
You might piss on the floor or whatever, you know, eat out of a little dish or something.
If you're real young, if you like a little, but if you like a young wolf or whatever you're pretending, you know.
But if, but you're just pretending.
But you know you're pretending.
Oh, I'm pretending to be a wolf right now.
I'm crawling on four legs and I'm, you know, mom's not home and I'm peeing over here behind this little, you know, shift robe that she keeps a dictionary on.
But so I don't know.
I just had this feeling the other day.
Like, am I pretending that this is all real?
It was interesting.
Just had that feeling.
But, you know, I wanted to think about, I wanted to think about, you know, we sent a lot of people to space.
And they'd have sent two fellas to space, two, I think, white guys probably.
I don't know.
You know how America is these days.
Hey, we got to get rid of these white dudes, right?
They'll send us anywhere.
But they just sent two white, they sent two guys from Florida into space.
And that right there is just, you know, I don't understand why are we going to space all the time?
We can't handle shit here.
You know, two out of seven Americans can't swim.
And we out there getting in the deep end of the galaxy with no floaties on, bro.
You see what they send these dudes out there in?
This thing like a damn 84 Chevy Blazer sometimes, the thing they send these dudes out there.
You know, I just don't understand what we're doing.
It's so lit, like, I'm not saying it's not fun to think about what's out there, but I just, all the, just sending people to space.
We send two dudes out of Florida.
A couple spring break addicts every time.
Down here in Florida, we blasting two bad boys out there.
It's like, come on.
Going to space.
The moon, that's the thing.
Oh, we had a couple fellas on the moon.
Dude, being on the moon is kind of like that guy that gets on your, like at a pool party who gets up on the roof of the house.
He's like, come on and look at me.
Bruh, you ain't doing much up there, buddy.
There ain't nothing up there for you, man.
And it seems like a cool idea.
He's climbing up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then he gets up there.
It's like, man, there's no vending machines.
There's only the opportunity for real failure.
You know, there's only, you're going to end up in the white section of World Star hip-hop videos, Daddy.
I'm just saying, man, it's time to get back to the roots.
We got to focus on our own little space that's going on here.
That's what I need to do.
I know that, man.
I got to focus more on my own.
I'm out here doing all of this, well, you know, letting my thoughts go off to Mars and do this and that.
And that's good.
It's fun.
But, man, I need to get back to the roots.
And that's what I wanted to do today, man, with this episode.
you know, when the podcast started out, we used to really do some stuff for single moms, and I know a lot of listeners were raised by single moms and stuff out there, and that's always had a big place in my heart and a lot of your hearts as well.
And so, you know, today we wanted to reach out to some of the some of the single moms that we've met over the years of being a part of this past weekend and touch in with them and see what's going on in their lives.
You know, this is a busy time in their lives with the, they got children going back to school.
You know, they got, you know, they're sitting here during, they got a damn, you know, they got the disease in the air or wherever.
And so it's a good chance to be able to check in with these beautiful ladies.
So let's get into that now.
Right now, let's get into it.
We got a Zoom, actually.
This is going to be live.
We got a Zoom coming in here with Breezy from Utah.
And let's see if we can get her on here.
And we went to an escape room over there.
Man, and I'm so thankful that I'm thankful that we're getting to do this today.
I really am.
I really am.
During a lot of this pandemic, I just, man, I got scared.
You know, I got really scared about my own business.
And, you know, I was just, I just worked so hard to get to be in a, in a space with comedy where I could really survive and make a living.
And then this happened.
And so I started to get real scared.
And honestly, man, I got real angry a lot of times.
And just and it just didn't make me feel good.
And it's hard for me to make other people feel good when I'm in a place of just anger.
You know, and especially a lot happened in society on the news and stuff.
It makes you...
Oh, here's a reason to be angry.
Here's a reason to be angry.
But I don't want to be that.
I just don't.
I don't want to be it.
You know, it got me getting angry at people that I care about.
Just angry at...
Just...
It's not worth it.
So here we got a beautiful lady right here.
Hey, Breezy, can you hear me?
What's going on?
How are you?
Oh, I'm really good.
How are you doing?
I'm doing pretty well.
You look lovely today.
Thank you.
I'm getting ready to take the kids to a movie.
Oh, okay, at a movie theater?
Yes, they're only playing older movies.
We're going to go see the original Back to the Future.
Ooh, that'd be nice for them, huh?
That's, yeah, one of my favorites.
Show them what it was like back in the day when a man had to wear a puffy vest and still look like a decent man, you know?
Yes.
What's been going on?
So you are, you guys have been during this pandemic, how's it been?
Because you have three children, right?
I have three.
My son just left today.
He's moving to Wyoming to finish his senior year with his best friends, with his dad.
Oh, wow.
Was that kind of sad or how did you feel about it?
I had a good cry.
One down, two to go.
And is he a decent kid?
Is he pretty decent?
Oh, my kids are the best kids.
You have no idea.
I don't know how they wound up so good.
They're really, really good-hearted, amazing, respectful kids who make good decisions.
I don't know what happened to them.
It wasn't me.
Wow.
Are you sure they're kids?
Because that doesn't sound like kids at all.
They're not normal kids, I'm telling you.
So what did you guys do during this?
Was it pretty rough out there for you guys during the quarantine and all this kind of stuff?
How was it over there in Utah?
It was rough.
Work got really hard.
I lost my hours.
Unemployment wasn't paying for a minute.
I wound up joining OnlyFans.
I started my own OnlyFans.
And since then, everything's been better.
We don't have everything open yet, so we're still just stuck inside.
But time saw hard for a minute, but everything's flicking up now.
And it's starting to open up a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
So wait, so yeah, obviously things, yeah, things got tougher.
People, so you open up an OnlyFans, like a provocateur, female provocateur kind of environment.
Exactly.
Wow.
Okay.
I wasn't sure at first if it was something that I wanted to do, but it's been really successful, and I made it to the top 8%.
Oh, wow.
So, yeah, so this is just, you needed some, look, you got to be able to survive.
You have three children.
Yeah, I support that.
I probably won't look at it.
That's okay.
Okay.
But don't ask me what's on it because you're going to have to pay for it if you want to know.
Okay.
Yeah.
Look, my imagination can probably, I mean, I have no idea.
I'm sure it's wonderful.
I think it's really cool that you are figuring out ways to make things happen during this, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
Really, really good.
And yeah, I'm just, I'm kind of torn because I know, like, I try not to venture into the wilds of the web.
It's not for everybody, so that's okay.
I respect that.
And I respect that you have it, and I know that we can still support it and not, and, and, and I don't have to go there out of, you know, not out of.
I wish everybody thought like that.
What is it?
Well, yeah, what is it?
Do you feel like sharing that?
Is that okay?
Yeah, no, absolutely.
I just, I share nude photos, explicit photos, and sometimes video clips.
Oh, wow.
No, no, no.
Is there a link or something where people are just, that's what I'm meant?
No, no, no.
I can guess what it is.
Is there a link?
I don't want a link.
I'm just saying if people, look, here's what I'm saying.
I support the fact that moms got to do what moms got to do.
And look, it's a tough time.
I love it.
I'm glad that you are finding ways to provide.
And if we have listeners that even, I'm not going to tell those young fellas to get out there and watch it, but if they want to support it, where can they support it?
They can go to OnlyFans.
You can search me on Instagram, on OnlyFans, and on TikTok under Havana Gypsy.
All the same name.
Any of those three, and you can find my OnlyFans through those other social media.
Havana Gypsy, huh?
Mom's out here, OnlyFans.
And so.
And was that something that do your kids know about that?
My kids know about it.
They haven't seen it, but they do.
Well, yeah, they all know about it.
Even my youngest now knows.
Wow.
My daughter's in the, she's behind the camera.
My middle's here with me.
And yes, she knows about it.
Oh, well, look, that's wild.
I mean, look, I love it.
You know, people put their artwork out there.
You know, beauty is a form of art and the female body is a form of art.
And I love it.
Absolutely.
So what about, is there more pressure now that the sun is gone?
Like, who's going to step up and be kind of like the next in command there at the house?
My daughter's like, she knows it's her.
She's my second hand anyway.
Before him even, I always called her to help me with everything.
So she's here with me.
Oh, and Emily Emma is here.
You know, they're all just really good help.
They'll help me.
They all hug me when I need it.
They're good kids.
Man.
God, I love that.
I wish they would have raised me, I feel like.
There's still time.
There's still time.
And I still need to be raised as well, I think.
So did your family, you feel like, get closer over this pandemic?
Do you feel like it was kind of a tough, did you feel like it didn't help?
What were some things that kind of happened as a family unit?
Me and my kids or me and my siblings.
Yeah, maybe you and your kids.
The kids and I, we've been, I mean, same.
I've been home more because part of my nightlife, my going out, you know, having friends and having things to do.
And so that's all closed down.
So I've been at home, you know, more.
But we really, we just do the same thing we've always done.
You know, we just hang out at home.
We'll put on movies and kind of just hang out.
That's what we do.
But we have been going roller skating.
They opened the roller skating rink back up.
So we've been doing that too.
I love that.
God, I love that.
And does your daughter kind of meet men at the roller skating rink or does she do dating or what's her, does she do?
She just had a boy.
How old is he?
How old is he?
18. 18-year-old pick her up the other day and they went to see a movie.
Oh my God, don't tell me he was a comedian.
Was he a comedian?
I think I know him.
That was her first kind of date.
And that was fun.
But no, have you met anybody at the skating ring?
Awesome.
She's had a few friends at the skating rink, but no boys.
And were you nervous about her going on this date?
How did that, was that kind of a fun thing?
What was that like?
No, I wasn't nervous.
She had fun.
They just hung out.
She actually knew him from school.
He graduated last year.
So she knew him from school.
So I wasn't nervous.
As long as she knows him and feels comfortable enough to go with him, she's got her phone.
She can call me if she needs anything, and she knows that.
So I wasn't nervous.
She had a good time.
Dang, that's cool.
You guys are like this future family, I feel like, in a strange way.
You guys have a lot going on.
It just seems just, I don't know.
Maybe I'm just living a boring life.
Well, hopefully whenever, yeah, when comedy opens back up, we'll have to come in and check in and get to bring you out to another show.
I hope you do.
I would love it.
Yeah, we certainly will.
And yeah, we're going to send something over to you.
Want to do something nice?
You can do something fun with the kids or the one less kids now.
But, well, look, it's nice to see you.
And I hope you guys have a wonderful time at the movie.
It's so good to see you, hear from you.
You're an awesome guy.
I had a lot of fun on our singles night outs.
Yeah, we'll have to do it again.
Any love interests over there?
Any love during the pandemic for mom, or what's that like?
Listen, I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay, we'll leave it at that to be content.
There might be something just barely starting.
We'll see.
Okay, well, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for that.
Awesome.
Well, thank you so much, Breezy, for just checking in and chatting with us.
And I hope you guys have a wonderful whatever it is, a month, a day, a year, everything.
Thank you.
It's good to hear from you.
All right, you two.
I'll talk to you soon.
All right.
Bye, Theo.
Okay, bye.
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So look.
Look, it's the 21st injury.
You know what I'm saying?
These ladies out there, mom's got to survive.
She's got three little ones.
I'm going to support.
Look, we put our support behind single moms.
And so you can support Breezy.
You know, and that's, you know, it's different times.
You know, mama got to earn the bread.
That's it.
That is it.
Look, at least she's out there making money, too.
Dude, I remember some mechanic feeling my mom up for free.
So this ain't that, baby.
Those days are over.
So maybe Nick, I would have Nick get us a membership, but dang, me or him doesn't need any of that in our lives, really.
And I'm not saying I don't, I just, I got, dude, I open my eyes and I see damn, you know, 30, 50 vaginas and titties and booties.
BHs, man.
Buttholes, you know what?
So I got enough of that in my head in my dang jug floating around.
So I'm trying to log off of my own thoughts half the time.
But, but yeah, I am envious of that relationship, just having that, an open relationship with your kids.
You know, I think I am envious of that.
I think there's some things that, well, I don't know.
Maybe there's something you want kids to know, some things you don't.
But, man, I remember, I kept everything a secret when I was a kid.
Everything.
Everything was a secret.
I would get, you know, I remember I'd get me a little bit of money doing odd jobs or something.
Real odd.
You know, we had this old lady by us.
We used to steal her cats.
And then we would keep them long enough till she, you know, we'd help her write up a wanted poster.
You know, wanted little caramel.
You know, wanted little quagmire, you know, $2 on there.
And then we put the poster up outside two days later, bring that little bastard back and get the money.
And I don't know if she knew we were doing it or not.
She had to have known.
I mean, I don't know.
She might have had Alzheimer's.
I mean, she might have had this back.
They didn't have Alzheimer's then.
They said, oh, that, you know, oh, that bitch is nuts.
That's what they would say.
And I didn't say that.
I wouldn't say something like that.
But they'd be, you know, somebody drive by, oh, that bitch is nuts.
And I wouldn't say it, man, because I don't say, you know, I wouldn't say that kind of stuff.
I was a child.
And plus, I was, you know, you know, I was extraditing cats or whatever it's called.
You know, laundering cat money.
You know, living that wildlife.
So who am I to judge a single mother out there laundering cat money?
You feel me, gang?
Gang, baby.
Oh.
Let's get into another call.
We got another single mom on the line.
And I remember we went.
Well, I'll just get on with her.
What's going on with you?
We had such a good time with you and your sister when we went on the go-karts.
That was such a blast, I thought.
I know.
We and her were just talking about it, too.
We did.
We had such a good time.
We're just getting ready for school, all this craziness.
I don't even know what's going on anymore.
I know.
I just had this feeling yesterday, like, what is going on anymore?
People are wearing, some of these masks aren't even re like, like, what is going on?
I know.
It's, I feel like, well, it is what happened.
My kids went on spring break and haven't been back to school since.
So it's been like one really long, drawn out spring break.
And have they, do you feel like they want to go back to school or are they, do they feel like school doesn't even exist anymore?
What's it kind of like from their perspective?
It's been, it was really hard at the beginning because they didn't understand.
Like explaining to them that I think at first they were like excited they didn't have to go.
They were okay with it.
Then they realized that it's not a vacation.
Like you have to do school and we can't go anywhere.
You can't see your friends.
And probably in the first month, everyone just went, it stirred crazy.
Like, and it got depressing.
We couldn't go to the, I couldn't take them to the store.
And I had to keep explaining to them that we really can't go anywhere.
You can't go anywhere.
I can't go anywhere.
Yeah, this is, we're stuck together.
And this is how it's going to be for a while.
So it's been like waves of like, oh, you're excited.
And then it gets depressing.
And yeah, now it's like, I still don't know what to tell them because school is going to be two days in person and three online.
So it's like, it's not even going to go back to the way it was.
Wow, it seems so bizarre.
I feel like I can't plan for anything.
And then they moved school back to, it was supposed to start this coming up week, and then they moved it back to September 8th.
So I've been getting to a point where I forget it's happening and I get in a panic like, is school starting tomorrow?
Like, did I miss something?
So yeah, it has been really confusing.
Every day I'm like, holy shit, is tomorrow Christmas?
Like, is it today my mom's birthday?
Like, I never, I don't know what any, yeah, every day, it's just everything.
It's like, oh, shit, I got to do this.
I don't know what's going on.
Yeah.
Do I need a flu shot?
Am I supposed to go to the emergency room?
Like, what do I do today?
I almost forgot what grade they're in.
Like, who cares?
Give them all diplomas and let them work at Home Depot.
I mean, the last time they went into school, they had no idea this was going to be the last day of elementary school.
It was their last day of middle school.
Right.
And nobody knew.
We just thought, oh, we're going on spring break.
And then all of a sudden, yeah, you're not coming back.
Do you feel like there could be mental effects from that?
Or do you feel like that they're pretty resilient?
Like, I would, it almost feels like you don't even get to tell your friends bye and stuff.
I guess you're going to see them again, but it seems bizarre.
I feel like my mental health has been impacted quite a bit.
And yeah, I felt it started to make me really sad because I could see the shift in their behavior.
Like I could see, especially my older kids, because I have a 16-year-old daughter and my son is about to be 15. Those two, I think it's been the hardest for those two.
Wow.
Well, and my youngest boy has autism.
And this dude likes things to be the same.
He likes to know what to expect.
And when he likes structure and all of a sudden there's none.
So getting back into a regular pattern, they've done, they did a really great job at home, though.
I mean, for having five of them, they did, I was impressed by how good they did, but they were, I could, they were starting to get sad.
And then that makes me sad because it's like, and I can't do anything.
You cannot fix it.
I'm like, oh, we could go on a walk.
How many times can you walk around the neighborhood?
Yeah, without being a peeping tom.
Yeah.
That's my question, you know.
Yes.
Yeah.
And you don't want to be a family of peeping toms.
That's the most embarrassing thing you could be.
Like, check out the weirdos are coming around again.
The crazy lady with all the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're all flashers now.
Has it gotten, do you feel like, where do you feel like y'all's morale is right now?
Like, are they excited at least to be going back for the two days?
The kids, like A through H are going on one block of time.
And then the other kids are going, so alternate shifts.
So the, my kids will go Tuesday and Friday.
God.
Yeah.
Everybody does homeschool on Wednesday.
Then the other, so if their friends have different last, you know, the last name doesn't fall, they don't get to go to school with their friends.
And then for me, my anxiety has been off the charts.
Like, so, yeah, it's been the more, I don't even know.
I don't even know what to call it anymore.
Like, I don't know how to feel.
I don't know what to do or what to think.
It is the most bizarre, long, drawn out thing I've ever.
It's, yeah, and I don't know what to, I tell the kids all the time, like, my mom didn't do this.
My mom's mom didn't do this.
We're figuring this out together.
Don't be mad at me because I am, it's new.
I'm trying.
I don't know what else to do.
Yeah.
So, yeah, it has been, it's been really overwhelming.
And I think I was okay until, because I kept telling myself that school's going to start and things are going to go back to normal.
And then as soon as they started making the announcements about school, I realized that this shit is never going away.
And it's, it might be worse because expecting them to be like this at school, like I just feel bad for all of them.
It's just such a, it's a weird space to be in.
It is.
For them, for me, yeah, I don't know what to do.
And I don't want the right thing to do is like, I don't want anyone to be sick.
I don't want my kids to get sick.
But at the same time, you have to live.
Like, this is not.
I agree.
Sometimes it doesn't feel like living.
It's like, and hopefully we'll get to some better meeting.
We're surviving.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're, yeah, we're surviving.
I agree.
I agree.
Sometimes I'm like, man, I'd rather just take my chance and just live.
we'll deal with it when it if it happens.
I'll be careful when it happens.
You just deal with it.
I think, too, my kids had a lot of health problems when they were younger.
So I've been through a lot of nasty stuff anyway.
So I feel like I can handle quite a bit.
And we'll just, it's, I've lived one day at a time for so long that I can do it.
Like, we'll just see what happens and we're going to be okay.
But not, it's the unknown.
If you, you can serve me anything, like any big load of shit, but if I know what I'm dealing with, I can get through it.
Yeah.
Not knowing what I'm dealing with, it's, I don't like it.
Yeah, there's something about they don't let you, yeah, they just, they just keep serving you shit, but they're not really letting you, you know, bring your diapers every day.
They used to let us bring our diapers every day, and they're just not doing it.
They're not.
Yeah.
Give me some tools to navigate this shit.
And I'll do it, yeah.
But don't, don't let, as a mother, don't have me wake up every day and not, yeah, that's a lot of pressure.
I didn't really realize how much that is on a mom, especially when you start to think about how it's affecting your kids and the life you want them to have just as just as humans, as human beings.
It's hard enough with kids now, I think.
Social media, their friends, the ages that they're at, because all of my kids are like, it's like a puberty sandwich.
They're either coming through it, coming out of it, or going into it.
Praise God, man.
That shit is wild.
A feelings factory.
Oh.
So, yeah.
Seriously.
So we're going through that now.
Like, one of them will go to bed at the sweet angel and they'll wake up and I don't know who this jerk is.
Yep.
That's puberty right there.
And then you throw this on top of it and it's like, wow.
That's 100% purbity right there.
Yeah.
Your son wake up with a damn mustache and suddenly, you know, he says he works at a coal mine.
You're like, you don't.
Yeah.
Who is this man?
Anyone else?
Yeah.
His voice, and he'll be, he'd be so embarrassed, but when his voice started to change, I would seriously be like, who is the man in the hallway?
Who is it?
Because I didn't recognize it for so long.
That's it.
And he'll like grow an inch every other day.
Every time he comes out of his room, I'm like, this is a new, nice to meet you.
I know.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Puberty, man.
It's that freaking game.
That's a dirty game show, man.
It's wild.
When you get into puberty, that shit's wild.
Well, look.
Well, and I feel like I'm losing every day.
It's just.
Well, you're not.
I think you...
Well, we want to send you like just a little gift of something nice you can go do whenever you do have all the kids you know whenever anybody's not going through anything real crazy I can go do something fun and yeah just good to check in and just see your face and just I know I was so excited this it like made my whole it makes this whole thing so much better it's like a thank you it breaks it up some yeah but whenever I come you guys got to take me wall go out and
do something again that was a lot of fun oh my gosh I would that would be so amazing me and Maggie talk about it often and yeah she's she'd have to come too so oh let's get that's what I'm saying let's get some real car you know what I'm saying let's rent a couple Honda cords and get some real wheels going it's grown-up time yeah that's what I'm saying let's freaking roll up a joint and get some real wheels going later kids yeah yeah see you
later kids you're gonna have to stay in the trunk um well look Francesca good to talk to you and you look lovely and and please tell your sister that we said hey as well and and thanks for just jumping on and chatting with us and just being a part of our day it really is nice no I appreciate it I've been thinking about you guys too and thank you for thinking of me it like it really made my weekend oh you're welcome us too hearing you say that really made my day so thank you so much y'all take care and
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an environment where you don't they don't even tell you if you have any tools in your box every day.
And to show up, man, that is, just for anybody, it doesn't matter if it's a mother or what's going on.
It just, man, I'm lucky to be talking with these women today.
I'm lucky to be reminded of what it takes.
I really am.
Oh, awesome.
We have Nikki.
And Nikki and I met in San Jose, and she brought her lovely friend out, and we went out to get some ice cream, frozen yogurts.
And she's the owner of Trim Scene in Arcata, California.
Hey, Nikki.
Hey.
Hey, what's up?
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm doing good.
You look so pretty.
Oh, thanks.
Yay.
It's good to see you.
It's always a treat when I get a message from you or Nick.
Oh, that's sweet of you to say that.
Thank you.
Yes, nice to see you as well.
What's going on up there?
Well, I'm not in Humboldt right now.
I'm in Ohio.
Oh, okay.
What happened?
Tell me.
So nothing really happened.
I just kind of always had a plan once my oldest graduated high school, which happened in June.
So yay, I got one down.
Yeah.
That I would come back.
You know, my family is all here.
And so kind of do like a back and forth thing.
Almost like you were talking about with your Nashville.
But it's scary.
Yeah.
How's it been?
Has it been, did you have a lot of expectations?
Has it been harder than you thought?
Has it been, like, what ways has it been tough and what ways has it been good?
Well, it's been tough just saying, you know, just leaving my routine, my business.
Yeah, trim scene is, you still trimming?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, good.
So I still have the business.
And then, you know, I'm going to go back every couple months.
So it's nice to still have my foot in California because, you know, California, we love California.
I know.
Look, there's a lot of nice things.
So yeah, it's nice to be able to do both.
Right.
And, you know, it's hard just acclimating.
Just, you know, I'm not in my own home at the moment.
Although, like, I'm in contract.
I might buy my first home.
That's kind of a big scary deal.
And, you know, just being around family, I already see it paying off in ways of like my sons being around my dad who like, you know, they've not been raised around him.
I've been across the country and just getting knowledge and learning things from him that I can't give them, you know, and just a broader spectrum of exposure.
I think, I think it's going to be good, even though it can be scary.
Wow, it's so brave.
Yeah, no, it's funny you say that similar to kind of like doing with trying out Nashville.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's scary, but all I can do is just kind of be hopeful with it and make the most out of it.
And also then I can be excited about it.
It's like there's two ways I can do it.
Every day I wake up wherever I am.
I can either, you know, give in to kind of the tough parts of it, or I can be like, man, I'm excited about possibility.
I'm learning so much about reframing.
I love it.
It works, I think.
I like that.
Yeah.
I think it does work.
Yeah, it's so true.
It's like, I think sometimes if I say if, oh, I have to do this, and then if I can change it sometimes to say I get to do this, no matter what it is, then it can really, really just help me have a different experience.
I think a lot of people, it's so funny, a lot of my friends have been messaging me about moving and going back to, you know, some of their hometowns or places where their family lives.
I'm having a lot of friends who are doing that right now.
Well, I think with everything going on in the world, right, it's like, it's comforting.
It's comforting to be supported.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a good way to say it.
It really is.
Yeah, there's something that's, it's almost like the rat race has kind of been exposed like for like, what am I, you know, I don't mind being a rat, but what am I really racing for?
Right.
No, I totally get that.
And just, yeah, it's brought a lot of things of like, what is important?
What is really important?
What do I want my days to look like?
What do I, what do I want?
You know, like, what's up with any new love interests over there in the Ohio world or what's that been like?
Well, it's hard to date in COVID times, right?
Dude, a friend of mine, he went on a date with a woman and she had, he, she made him, he had to pick her up and she sat in the back seat of his car with a mask on, okay?
Then that's not even the worst part.
They went to a restaurant and she sat at a different table than him.
Extra safe.
Yeah, extra safe.
I think I would feel comfortable like meeting outside at a park, you know, you know.
Yeah, take it slow.
If the guy's not dead after the second date or you're not dead, I think after that, you guys are safe.
Right.
If we survive two weeks, then we're good.
Yeah, I like that.
Well, you look, I mean, you look absolutely stunning.
Who's doing your hair right now?
I'm doing, oh, actually, you know what?
I did get a haircut since I've been here because I used to work here.
I haven't lived here in 12 years, but I still have friends in the industry here.
So I went and saw my friend Brett, Brett at Hair Love in Columbus, Ohio.
Oh, I like that.
I had the most relaxing weekend.
I went camping.
I, I mean, I Just, I didn't have kids all weekend, so I like drove through all these little towns.
I stopped where I wanted, and like, oh, it was so nice to recharge and to like make yourself do those things.
Like, it doesn't come easy to like take time out to just do whatever you feel like doing because, yeah, you're in the grind, and you know, and then it's a snowball, and it's, it's hard to like stop yourself, right?
Yeah.
No, it is.
It's like, yeah, it's like, what do I want to do?
Like, it's been so long since I really asked myself, like, what I really, what do I want to do?
You know, am I just doing stuff or do I, do I have some dream or some, or an ambition or just a, do I not want to do anything for a little while?
Like, um, so yeah, it's just so interesting that this is going on because there's, there really are some positives in all of this, you know, that I don't even know if we know what they are all the time, but but I know I do know that they're there.
Right.
Well, isn't that like supposed to be the thing where like some of the worst experiences of your life ended up being like, you know, some of the best.
Yeah.
The blessing.
I learned that.
Oh, yeah, they always say that.
That old cheesy saying, but it's kind of, you know, it's kind of true.
Yeah, my buddy used to say, if somebody serves you a certainbody serves you a Satan sandwich, at least you still got a sandwich, you know?
Right, right.
Reframe it.
Yeah.
At least you still got that sandwich.
Well, look, we wanted to send something just like a nice gift and just like so you could just do something like just small and fun for yourself and just let you know that we're thinking of you.
And I'm just proud of you.
I feel like it's cool.
Like it kind of makes me feel a little bit, it just reminds me about my own little adventure and like, you know, I got to stay positive.
Oh, sorry.
You just went quiet and I didn't hear what you said after you said you were proud of me.
Oh, dang.
I'm going to need you to repeat that.
Okay.
Let me see if I can remember.
No, it just reminds me that I have to remember that I can do this instead of like, because a couple times a day I'll get scared like, oh, you know, is everything going to be okay with, you know, having a studio here, having a studio somewhere else?
And what if I have a couple of guests and it doesn't work out and I feel uncomfortable in the town and then I don't know anyone?
And, you know, and just trying to be, but, but, but those, but I can also look at things like, hey, I'm going to get to go and, you know, maybe try some Brazilian jiu-jitsu that I've been wanting to do.
Or I've been, you know, maybe I can start some new patterns because I'll be in a new place.
You know, maybe it'll be easier for me to be out of my little goldfish bowl.
It'll make me, you know, see how, you know, maybe I can try a different swim stroke, you know, since I'm not just stuck in the same bowl, you know.
I feel you.
I feel you.
I'm learning so much about myself, even just being around family that I haven't spent this much time with in ages and just tuning into some deep ancestral something.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm just seeing like just similarities in like the way we act and stuff, which I've like never noticed before.
And just like getting back to our roots.
We're all getting back to our roots, I think.
Right.
No matter what the natural color of them is, I think we're all getting back to our roots.
Right.
Yeah.
Know thyself, I guess.
I don't know.
It's good.
It's good.
Well, I mean, you are just dang lovely.
And if there's anything we can do to support like the business or a new business on social media or something like that, just make sure to check in and let us know.
And we'll be happy to do that.
Oh, thank you, Theo.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, and don't feel weird about it either.
We want to help out.
Okay, I won't.
Good.
I appreciate that.
But I'm glad I got to hear your voice again.
And I'm just glad that we got to chat a little bit.
And I'll try and do a better job also of keeping in touch sometimes because, you know, it's just, you know, we don't realize sometimes when we reach out to people that everybody wants to be reached out to.
You know, it doesn't matter who it is.
If it's an old friend, if it's a new friend, you know, everybody wants to be, you know, thought of by other people.
So I'm glad that you took the time today to spend some time with us.
Of course.
Thank you.
Like I said, it's always a treat.
It's so exciting.
I love checking in with you guys.
Well, that's sweet of you to say.
And Nikki, we'll be in touch.
And I'll check in with you more often.
And you guys be good over there.
And thanks for your time.
Yay.
Thank you.
Good luck, Theo, with all of your things that you're doing.
And I love you and appreciate you.
I love you, too.
And I look forward to seeing you in Columbus or in Arcata whenever I get near it.
Okay.
Okay.
Bye.
Bye.
It's so funny that Nikki does hair and that we're talking about roots, man.
You know, that's small.
That small ball, but that's big court.
And just the bravery.
Man, I'm so lucky.
I'm so lucky to get to talk with these women and just to know these people.
We had a couple of other moms that sent in stuff and two other, not sent in stuff, that we checked in with.
And so we want to get to their videos right now.
They made videos because mom schedules can be busy and it means a lot that they even did this.
So we have one right here from Raquel.
And Raquel, we did, we met up and she is a professor in Chicago and she brought, she has a daughter and she brought out her friend to the, we did painting.
We made some paintings.
Oh, here they are.
Hold on.
And there we go right here.
And that's a painting right there.
I think it's a lithograth or something.
I don't know.
It's definitely a painting, though.
But we made some paintings and had a little contest, a fun painting contest before the show at the Laugh Factory in Chicago.
It was about a year and a half.
It was like really the first weekend of the dark arts tour.
And so, Yeah, anyhow, lucky to have this video from Raquel right here.
Here we go.
What's up, Theo?
This is Raquel reaching out to you, thanking you, as always, for the check-in and for the wonderful notes and surprises I get we receive from you throughout the year.
You are so thoughtful and kind.
Oh, you're very welcome.
That's very sweet of you to say that.
And really nice of you to make this video.
This looks so beautiful where you are.
I'm here in Chicago at Lake Michigan doing what we do when it's 91 degrees.
We come to the lake.
Fortunate to have a child-free day.
My daughter is with friends that are included in our little bubble.
She's out in the suburbs at an outdoor swimming pool or somebody's house, so that's good.
Oh, yeah.
Mom got that day out.
I love hearing this.
This is really nice.
Lake Michigan.
I didn't realize it was that.
I mean, that's clear water.
That's beautiful.
I'd get under that water.
That's nice.
And Raquel looking sultry out there, too.
You got the bathing suit.
Mom's out there having a good day.
I like this.
Let's hear more.
And we have survived COVID thus far, like everybody else.
You know, the struggles are real.
The isolation, the six feet apart, the masking up and all that good stuff.
But we've been doing it.
I'm happy to say she goes to an independent school, so she is going to be going back to school after Labor Day with about 10 other kids in her little pod.
Our school gave us the choice of, you know, being remote or in person.
And we chose the in-person option.
I love that.
And so she will be going to school in person.
I will continue working from home.
And then in November, we'll see what's going on here at her school.
It's all a grand experiment.
It's all a grand experiment.
So that's what's good with us.
We are doing really well.
We're doing well.
I hope you and yours and your family and all your fans are doing well too.
So thank you, Theo.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Enjoy.
Raquel, I think you definitely win the award for having the best time of the day so far for some of the moms we've been chatting with.
And I'm happy to hear that your daughter is going to be enjoying herself and getting to go to school and have some friends and have that interaction.
And yeah, the struggle is real.
You know, I think it's been real for a lot of people.
But thank you for taking the time to share that message.
And I'm glad you're getting to have a day to yourself or somewhat to yourself.
I know a mom's job is never really their own or time is never really their own, but really sweet of you.
And I'm glad that we still get to keep in touch.
And we want to do something nice.
We'll be in touch about that.
And just thank you for being a part of our lives here on the episode and on the podcast and with this family.
We got one more check-in video right here.
And this is from Emily from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Let's hear from her.
Hey, Theo, it's Emily from Wisconsin.
We met almost two years ago now in Minneapolis for Single Mom's Night Out.
That's crazy, and I do remember that.
And I have some photos too, and I'll drop those into this as we go through your video, okay?
I'm not too anxious about the fall with kids going back to school because my son will be five.
So he would be in 4K this year.
And I'm just not going to send him because I'm not okay with a lot of the things going on right now with requirements for wearing masks for school-age kids.
And it's just something that I don't want to support because I don't believe in it whatsoever.
Well, I love that.
I love that you, yeah, I'm sure it's tough for, you know, moms have to stand by what they feel is best.
And so that's what a mom is.
And so I'm glad to see you trusting your instincts.
I hope other parents are making the same decisions and doing the best that they can, but I understand it's not always the easiest.
No dating for me during this time, so I don't have any good tips or tricks, but I can say that I moved in with my boyfriend last year, the end of last year, and this has really been a time to force us to work on things and address some things that I probably wouldn't have in the past.
I maybe would have just dipped and run or fallen the negative, but I really relied on him for support, and he's been really helpful with my son and with my job and everything else.
Wow.
That's really amazing to hear that.
And I think I remember you were in chiropractor, I believe.
And yeah, I mean, I think being together and in those relationships, and you got to figure it out.
I mean, it's like a damn UFC right now for relationships.
It is.
They close the cage and you're in that octagon.
This is real bare knuckles these days.
So I'm glad to see that you're doing well with that.
COVID's been great, actually, financially, just emotionally, spending time with my family.
And my company is opening a second location next week that will be mine to run.
So I achieved one of my goals and dreams for my life to have my own clinic.
So I'm really excited.
Thank you so much for all that you do.
Shout out to my brother who's been sober over a year and he just loves and digs your podcast.
Same with me.
Gang Gang.
Gang Gang.
Thank you, Emily.
Thank you for the video.
Congratulations on your business.
That's amazing.
You know, one thing I do remember about you is that you were very go-getter.
You know, and go-getters get.
They Do.
They really do.
Congratulations to your brother.
You know, just, you know, it's obviously that you really care about him.
And I think he even texted me about.
I think we even texted about him once.
But yeah, I saw you also in Vegas.
My mind got blurry towards the, like, before COVID, like the six months before COVID, I don't even know what I was doing a lot of times.
But congratulations to your brother.
Congratulations to you.
We want to send something nice, you know, so you could go do something fun on behalf of the podcast.
But that's so cool.
You're opening your own clinic.
Man, that's awesome.
And it sounds like a lot of great things are happening in your life.
And thank you for sharing them with us.
It sounds like you deserve them.
Man, I'm just so I didn't realize how lucky I am to know so many cool chicks.
Yeah, I just feel so lucky.
And we didn't get to reach out to all the single moms, but we did what we could, and we just wanted to put together an episode.
And so I'm glad we're able to make this happen.
And thank you to all the moms for being a part of our, just a part of our lives in a little bit of a way.
You know, I think one thing that I'm reminded of by all of these women is just, I guess I just feel grateful that they all cared enough to still communicate and be a part of the show and be a part of my life and our lives.
And it's cool.
You know, I really just wanted to kind of get back to the roots of things that made this podcast feel good to me when I started.
You know, and one of those things has been, you know, connecting with, you know, when I was a kid, I never got to, I never really, you know, you can only talk to, you can only do so much for your mom because you're a kid.
You know, you don't get to be a man for your mother when you're a child.
You just get to be a kid.
And so often I think, you know, you want to be able to be more, but you're just a child.
And so it's nice now as an adult that I can get little pieces of, well, I don't know what it is.
I guess it's selfish in some ways, but it's nice as an adult now that I'm able to, no, it's not, well, it is selfish, I guess.
But it's nice that I'm able to interact with mothers who were at the point that my mom was when I was a kid and just let them know that people care, you know?
Because I think, you know, when I was a kid, I think I probably wanted someone to let my mother know that and I and no, and there wasn't somebody around to do it.
And I couldn't do it.
You know, I was a kid.
It just wouldn't have been, I wasn't thinking that way.
I was just a child.
You know, and I couldn't, our relationship wasn't like that, you know.
This is just today for me, just a nice reminder of, you know, you think about space.
They got people in space and we go looking out there.
And you think, you know, they put a man in a damn, you know, half of a Toyota Camry and shoot him out there.
And, you know, a third of the time, the damn thing, the engine, you know, blows out on the way up.
Just looking into the nothing.
We're just looking into the nothing.
And that's good.
But sometimes, you know, it's just a nice reminder, you know, to get, just to touch hold of the things that are holding on to us.
You know, to check in with our mothers, to check in with our fathers.
To check in with our stepmothers or our stepfathers or our pseudo-mothers even.
You know, we got a bunch of secondhand moms here.
You know, I bet you if you were a TPW fan or listener, you could walk up to any of these single moms and tell them hello and you'd have a special place in their heart and vice versa.
Um...
And that's just powerful.
It's just, you know, it's just a reminder that, you know, it's, I don't even know if it's a reminder, but it's, you know, sometimes we're out there looking.
I'm out there looking so hard for stuff.
And we got, you know, we out there in outer space.
We're out there on Saturn.
Meanwhile, we got women here in Eau Claire.
We got people here in Columbus and Arcata.
You know, we got people here in Chicago.
We got people here in Utah.
You know, sometimes it's nice just to know that or just to remind, remember that some of that connection that we're out there hunting all the time is, you know, it's already there.
You know, it's our roots.
And, yeah, it just, and it's, you know, it's nice as a child, I couldn't, you know, I couldn't do things for my mother.
I couldn't tell, I couldn't be a man and tell my mother how I felt.
And now I get to be a man and I can look back and I can connect with people that are in the same space and just be a part of just letting these women know that they're loved.
That's all.
And they're not asking for it.
They're not, I mean, we pick these ladies out of the damn ether.
But they just return it right back, you know.
And I just feel grateful, I think, just to know.
I don't know.
I don't know what I feel exactly but I do I feel good so You know, I feel good that, you know, when I was a kid, there was, you know, I couldn't, I couldn't let my mother know that I cared as much.
You know, I couldn't, I couldn't help out.
I didn't have any means to help a little, even if she wasn't asking for it, to help a little.
You know, I didn't have the voice.
I didn't have the voice as a child to say, you know, hey, Ma, you're doing a good job, Rampro.
You know, I just, we didn't have that connection.
You know, we didn't have it.
But I can take that same template, that same missed opportunity that I, you know, and I can apply it now.
You know, and that's one of the gifts of just existence is to be able to fill in these spaces of our past with the people of right now.
You know, if you didn't get to be good to your sister, go be good to someone else's sister, you know?
I don't know.
I don't know what I'm saying, I guess, but sometimes I don't have to look real far to find what, you know, I don't have to look as far as I think.
And, yeah, I'm just really inspired.
I'm inspired by these moms.
And I'm inspired by dads, too.
I know there's single dads people say that get on me by, but, you know, I can't, you know, we do what we can, man.
And just a lot of beautiful, cool, badass chicks out there.
and we get to know him a little bit.
That's cool, man.
We're going to go out today on a hit, man.
You know this, man.
And he might even be able to, you know, in Nashville, maybe be able to get him to do some live tracks or do something special.
Who knows?
I believe he lives over there.
And this song, man, this one gets me every time, you know.
Because I like to play, dude.
Of course, I could play something upbeat for you, but you know, I want something that's going to damn rinse you, baby.
I'm trying to freaking get them eyeballs empty, dog.
You know, daddy.
But this is The Devil God in Me.
And this is by Evan Bartells.
Man, I love this song.
And I love you.
And thank you for being a part of my week.
Thank you for being a part of my life.
Thank you for supporting this little adventure of this podcast.
And yeah, and thanks for just for listening and thinking with me today.
And I'm just thinking about just getting back to my roots, you know.
You know, I don't want to forget the things that made me care about doing this in the first place or forget the things that I care about.
You know, when this whole pande happened or whatever, I think I just got scared.
And I think when my career got busy, I got scared.
Who am I supposed to be?
What do I do now?
Who am I?
Started worrying more about the business.
But just lucky to have reminders.
And I'm glad we put some reminders in place in the beginning.
So that I can remember, because nothing makes me really, really, really, really, nothing makes me feel better, I think, than caring about other people.
It's just sometimes you got to remember, you got to work that muscle.
So anyway, I'm rambling.
But be good to yourself.
You know, you deserve it.
And if there's a relationship in your past that you weren't able to have, just remake it.
You know, remake it somewhere else.
You know, we're all just wandering around.
We're all loose ends.
And we just got to tie on to each other, man.
We can do it.
This is Evan Bartels, The Devil, God, and Me.
Oh, Mother, may I open
my eyes Cause there's a great big world waiting right outside Mother
Mother may raise my voice We the people have that choice Mother may rest my head Though I did not try my best Amen Mother
may sip the wine Though I did not tear the vine Old Day You can come for
me Oh days But you can't comfort me The devil I do have your name Tell
them baby, come away stuck in my ear and I'm to blame Oh, I beg you let me be Come on man,
come on the crown of lies I wear in shame What I would give to drag it I wear in shame baby You can come for
me But you can't comfort me And
you can check out the rest of that tune man that's Evan Bartel's The Devil God and Me and you can listen to the rest of that beautiful hit at Evan Bartel's go look him up his the link to his album A Promised Land and The Devil God and Me the link to them albums will be in the information But yeah,
it's funny when we're talking in the beginning about grabbing your bag, you know And then we're also talking about getting back to your roots and there's no stronger source of roots on a man than there's no other bag amen to that ladies and gentlemen I'm Jonathan Kite and welcome to Kite Club a podcast where I'll be sharing thoughts on things like current events stand-up stories and
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