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All right.
All rise.
That's what they say sometimes.
You know, if I was working at a courthouse, I would probably say that a lot.
All rise.
Somebody says it.
I don't know who.
Or if I worked at a bakery and I was like in there by myself all night, maybe I'd dress up in like a judge's.
The judge, that's who says it.
So if I worked at a bakery, maybe I would dress up in like a judge's outfit.
Because I know a girl named Gwendolyn.
And she works at a bakery and she's in there by herself.
If you want to kill somebody, dude, which you shouldn't, obviously, but if you wanted to, a baker is they get there at like 2.30 or 3. They in there bacon, wearing aprons, sexy, you know.
But anyway, I don't condone any of that kind of behavior, but what I'm saying is if you, if you were a baker, you could put on a judge's outfit and get right up by the oven by the glass and be like, all rise.
That's what I would do.
I mean, I'd be so damn bored.
You're in there all night just looking at bread, bruh.
Just breading around.
Doing that French bread where they braid the bread.
Whatever that is.
Dude, we had a handicapped brother boss growing up, this dude.
I don't remember what his name was.
I don't even know.
He might not have had a name.
And they would, and his legs, something, he didn't have any bones or in his legs or whatever.
And they would braid his legs around each other.
They had, you know, he was paraplegic.
And his legs were cornrowed.
And they still had some dope-ass sneakers on the end of them.
So, diversity, babe, you feel me?
Diversity.
Let's get into it.
All right.
I'm just sitting on your front porch wondering how could I be so far from my home?
Come on.
Welcome back.
And my mind is somewhere else.
But when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been blown.
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, in my bones, baby.
But it's gonna take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
Shine that light on me.
I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine on me.
And I will find a song I will sing it just for you.
All right.
I'm upstairs.
If you need me, baby, I'm up.
Yes.
Yes.
Man, that's one thing that's real magical about just the greatest excuse ever on earth.
Your wife needs you.
Somebody needs you.
A kid.
Your wife's kid.
Your kid also.
And you're like, I'm upstairs.
Okay?
Dad, I need, I'm upstairs.
The ultimate get out of jail free card.
If they ever even put me on trial, speaking of judges and rising and all of that, if they ever put me on trial, they'd be like, did you do it?
I'd be like, I was upstairs, guys.
Okay.
Have you ever been upstairs?
Okay, I was upstairs.
I'm upstairs.
They're like, sir, were you at the scene of the crime?
We found your footprints.
You found what?
I was upstairs.
You should have an upstairs on your house even in case you ever and somebody dies at your house.
Okay?
And it's probably going to be either your wife or husband if you have gay husband.
And because there's not a lot, you know, that's really, if somebody kills somebody, and I'm not saying to do any of this, but if somebody kills somebody, that's who they kill.
They kill the, you know, the person that they used to do sex with, usually.
And anyway, but you got to have the upstairs because otherwise there's no, you know, where I was downstairs, then, bro, you qualify.
You really, you right there.
You localated around the crime, baby.
You know that.
What's going on?
Not much per to usual, you know.
I was in La Jolla this weekend, which means, I don't even know what it means.
La Joya.
La Joya.
The Hoyas.
The Hoyas.
I don't know.
Maybe George, people that went to Georgetown or something.
I don't know.
The Hoyas.
Yeah, I was in the Hoyas.
And first of all, my favorite comedy club there, trying to get the new tour, the new material on track.
So many people came out, man, and it was fun, dude.
And it was fun just learning like the first show.
It just, it kind of built over the weekend.
So in the first show, it was a little bit, I didn't know the order I wanted some of the jokes to be in, some of the stories, you know, I'm trying to remember and I'm trying to record and write down the notes after.
And it matters my mood, too.
If my mood is a certain type of way, then I'm not going to do as well.
You know, my I want to be in a good mood so my material comes off in a good mood.
You know, that's Paramount or Tanamount.
I don't know which one it is.
It's Paramount or Tanamount.
Tanamount.
Tanamount sounds like she's a little thick.
You know what I'm saying?
But Paramount sounds like she, she's definitely, she went to Juvie for sure.
She went to Juvie and she definitely dated a couple brothers.
You know what I'm saying?
Gang, gang, boy.
Beige power, son.
But anyway, so yeah, it was, dude, but it's so much fun, man.
It's just such a fun spot to perform because the room is so simple.
It's a simple room.
And there's no, like, they're not selling a bunch of riblets or whatever, a bunch of, you know, grilling up a fucking lunchable or trying to, you know, get you over on some bullshit.
They got two items in there.
Three items, actually.
Drinks, popcorn, comedy.
That's it.
And usually they have a piano up front.
The guy, I don't think he died.
I thought he died, but they said he didn't die.
But I'm like, if he's not dead, dude, then where is he?
Because it's an older guy.
And Luis is his name.
Beautiful guy, too.
He's got a wife or he had a wife.
I don't know what's going on with him.
And she's a comedian as well.
And she's got some bangers on her.
She got them front yams, baby.
You know what I'm saying?
Them pangs.
All right.
All right, boy.
I'd love to stare right through the glass at them bad boys, you know?
I'm all scared, dude.
Bro, them thing, you'll be upstairs if you stand on them, you know?
And anyway, I don't even know what I'm saying.
But he plays the piano usually up there.
And what I like about that as opposed to a lot of clubs that are pumping in like, you know, Freddie Mercury or who's that other guy that's like Freddie Mercury?
Um, gee.
Jerry somebody?
The little guy, he's like, and the song might not have been theirs.
You know you want it?
What's that song?
Shit, I don't know.
Anyway, dude, they play the piano in there.
Bruno Marr.
They play the piano in there.
That's what I wrote.
Not Freddie Mercury.
I was thinking the, you know, I went Mercury, Mars.
That's where I was trying to get Mars, Bruno Marr.
Zuh, Bruno Mars.
And he, anyway, a lot of clubs pump that in there.
But at the La Jolla Comedy Store, they just, they play the piano.
So when you sit down as a, as you go there as a clientele, it feels like you're there for a piece of art.
You hear piano, you're like, oh, this is a, this has an artistic feel to it.
So I really like that.
I really like that.
And man, I just so much love, man, out of that area, out of San Diego.
And the city, dude, I know San Diego.
San Diego, dude, without Diego, I guess it means, you know?
And I don't know if that's if he's a missing person or what that whole deal.
What happened?
You know, he's basically probably, he's like the male Natalie Holloway of Southern California, I guess, or whatever.
But San Diego, I don't know if there's a better city out there.
I really don't.
You're outside.
There's people walking by.
It's diverse.
But this divide, everything can happen.
We went to the Padres game, bro.
Went to watch the Dre's over there.
And dude, it's everything going on.
There's some lady you could join.
You could join MS13 in one area.
There's people that are like MS14 through 18, like the high school group of it or whatever.
You know, there's MS30.
It's like dudes that are still alive, barely, but they aren't in the gang anymore.
And they're face painting like fryers on kids' cheeks over there.
And they all got dogs from the government to help them feel better.
And they got what else, dude?
You could buy jewelry.
You could catch a home run.
They got people.
I mean, they got a booth over there.
You could get breastfed horchata if you want.
They got beers, water.
Dude, it's just everything is going on.
You could buy a grill.
You could get barbacoa.
Just so much stuff.
They had the kid.
Well, they discontinued the kiss cam because of COVID, which is like, dude, come on, bro.
You know?
It should be you bring somebody you don't want to be with or don't really like and you got to kiss them, land them lips on them.
So, but dude, it's just a beautiful place.
If you haven't been to see a game there, to watch the Dreys play, baby, I don't know.
And then this boy, they got this man, used to be a boy, hits a Croninworth, I think.
Larry Croninworth, I think.
Bro, or Lawrence, maybe, or you.
I don't know what his full name was, but bro, bottom of the ninth.
I'm upstairs, bro.
All right, bro.
The place went bananas, dude.
I mean, just full potassium, dog.
People were losing their shit.
Somebody gave birth to the baby and put it back in, dude, so she could finish watching the end of the game.
People were hyped.
Everybody in there is just wearing these necklaces, these spinners.
I mean, it's everything.
And they just do such a good production of doing the game.
You feel like you're having fun.
Dude, the guy gave me a free franc at the Frank Center.
Free francs, bro.
Free francs, dude.
And then, oh, one of the beautiful part, man, for me was I went to get, to look at the Barbacoa store, and the guy working there, one of the guys working at the ballpark, was coming to the show that night.
So he's like, bro, I'm coming to see you tonight.
And, man, it was just awesome.
Just so much love there.
I just felt, I personally, personally felt so loved.
And just a good time, man.
A good time.
I stayed at a hotel.
It was a dump.
Dump.
I wouldn't have minded if it wasn't high priced, you know?
It was like the last room in town.
Dude, at one point, the guy came to my room and asked me if I had a wrench, bro.
Some guy working there asked me if I had a wrench.
I guess just, you know, that's cold.
I think that's cultural appropriation.
You know, just because of how I look, whatever the guy's like, hey, man, can I borrow a wrench?
Like, what?
Like, dude, can I borrow some clean water so I can put it in the swimming pool?
Oh, there was like hair coming up.
There was a Lotch Ness monster in that bitch, dog.
And even he wasn't doing well.
He had COVID, I think.
And I don't like to bag on places.
I love a Hampton Inn, you know.
But this place, man, it was just, I don't know what the, the staff was all nice.
I'm not saying that, but it just, I would not stay at this joint.
Just some dicey stuff.
They said it's haunted.
I was like, dude, it's, I don't know if that's haunted.
I think it's just the, I mean, my room smelled like, my room smelled like it had definitely been haunted by somebody doing dumps in it.
Somebody doing, you know, who's that guy with no head or whatever?
Itchabod Crane, bro.
Like he was doing dumps or horses were something.
Definitely.
Nice place.
Looks good in pictures, bro.
But anyway, I shouldn't really be complaining about that.
Oh, what else?
I got to go on Jocko Willink's podcast.
That was interesting.
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What else?
Oh, we had some news that happened, man.
Oh, dude, Patty Pemblett.
Patty Pemblett.
Let's start there.
A little bit of news for you.
If you're not familiar with this dude, he's British, brother.
I mean, and he's a hunter.
He looks like all the Beatles if they didn't, if they just went to the gym.
You know, he looks like Matthew, Mark, whose other guy?
John and which other guy?
The little guy.
Ringlet.
He looks like all the Beatles if you...
Yeah, Matthew, Mark, John, and Ringlett.
He looks like all the Beatles if they just went to the gym and did no music or drugs.
And then, so the fight was crazy, man.
He's real frenetic.
You know, he's got a lot of static energy.
You ever take something out the dryer and it makes all that crackling sound when you stretch it, when you pull it apart?
Take the sock off the sweater and it's like.
Or you ever slide your feet across the carpet at the library and then just go, shock a motherfucker.
Patty's got that, bro.
Patty's got that, dude.
The best was, though, after the fight, he starts just rattling off all kinds of quotes.
All the quotes, man.
I can strike.
I can grapple.
I'm the new king.
The new king is here, lad.
I can wrestle.
I can do the electric slide, man.
The red coats are coming.
Give me out of Sanya or give me death.
Float like a butterfly.
Sting like a big girl from Newcastle.
He just started going into any quote that had ever been.
It was like so much hype.
It was too much, you know?
And then he just started just rattling off random positive quotes.
He's like, give a man a fish in chips and he'll fish in chips for a day.
But teach a man to fish in chips and I'll beat the fuck out of every last one of you.
Like it just started to get, it started to just get insane.
And then he just went into like just Beatles quotes.
You know, he's like, blackbird singing in the dead of night.
Take this broken bastard I just beat and teach him to fight.
You pieces of shit.
I'm a legend.
I'm a king.
I'm John Wick.
I mean, he's just rattling off just.
I get by with a little help from my fists and I'll beat the living lips off of you, man.
You're going to know who I am.
Nothing's going to change my world.
Nothing's going to change my world.
Except all these cash and prizes, bitch.
I'll hard scoff your mother, son.
He did every hype thing you could do at once.
But suddenly, boom, I'm talking about him.
Other people are talking about him.
You know, he'll be Brendan Schaub's favorite fighter.
You know, it just, it gets how it gets, man.
You know, it's like, that's a unique thing about today.
You can create your own hype.
And Patty Pimblet, dude, he did.
He just, he literally just said everything that was like ever hypeful ever, you know?
So I'm here for it, man.
I'm here for Patty Pimblet.
I'm here to see how it goes down.
And he's also in, I believe, you know, I don't know that much about UFC and about fighting, but I love it.
It's become my favorite sport over the pandemic.
And he's in the 155 weight class.
Could it get any crazier in there?
Could it get any crazier?
So just the people he could be fighting down the line.
I mean, oh, it's so hype.
It's so hype, man.
What else we got?
You guys had some responses, too, to some of the chatter from last week about some of the stuff I talked about about the vaccine and about the Pledge of Allegiance teacher.
And I appreciate those.
And I'm going to get to those in just a few minutes.
I wanted to, oh, this is what else happened.
Joe Rogan had COVID, and he took ivermectin.
His methods included taking ivermectin, a dewarming veterinary drug, if you believe in veterinary, that is formulated for use in cows and horses.
While a version of the drug is sometimes prescribed to people for head lice or skin condition.
Now, look, I've had head lice.
I probably had headlice, I would say 13 times, maybe 14 times, maybe 13, maybe a baker's dozen.
All right.
Dude, I'm upstairs.
You upstairs.
When you have headlights, dude, you're upstairs all day.
You're itching the top floor, dog, you know?
So, so yeah, I noticed a lot of articles people trashing.
What does he do?
He does, you know, this guy, what is an idiot?
You know, he's taking this, taking this.
Why would he do it?
You know?
I've always found, I think it's brave to try something.
Whatever happened to that thing, hey, maybe this guy found it.
Maybe this guy, this worked for him.
I don't think he's out there saying it's going to work for everybody.
But also, the people writing a lot of articles trashing him about it.
Dude, he's such your daddy.
He's your daddy because you're only writing that article to get the links, to get the links, to get the people to link on it.
So you could get your money, get your little $50, $70.
And that's Daddy Joe making you money, boy, keeping you in business.
He's out there trying different things.
And Joe Rogan's not going to try something that's dumb.
Have you seen Joe Rogan?
There's many things he cares about.
One of them is his physical health.
Dude, the first time I ever even met him, he was coming out of a damn portal.
He'd been in, I swear to God, he'd been in some type of portal to a nether sphere, something where, you know, they put alien fat into your limbs or something.
I don't know.
I mean, just the guy's always trying something new.
So I think this is brave.
I think it's brave of him to try it.
And especially if it worked for him.
He got it for a couple days.
He got sick.
And he got better.
I think he beat it in three days.
And that's, look, this is one of the, and this isn't me patting Joe Rogan on the back.
You know, Joe Rogan, he's not my daddy.
You know.
He's my uncle, I think.
You know, Uncle Joey's my uncle.
Uncle Joe, Uncle Tom, Segura.
Not the whatever the other guy did, though I think was kind of, somebody did something bad.
But Uncle Bert, Uncle Sebastian.
I mean, those guys are guys that I would go to for suggestions.
I know if I needed some help, they would reply.
Uncle Jocko, you know, different guys.
Uncle Poirier.
But Joe Rogan's a smart guy that cares about his health.
So I just don't, I don't think like, oh, and it says, what does it say?
The FDA is urging people to stop taking the drug to fight COVID-19.
But my thing about the FDA is, and look, I'm an idiot.
Okay?
I'm just thinking out loud.
But is the FDA compromised?
That's what I worry a lot about the FDA.
Because I bought some of their meat, you know, and it's good, but it's not all.
It's not all 90% lean, that's for sure.
And is the FDA compromised?
Dude, everything's compromised.
I remember our school board was compromised growing up.
Dude, we had to drink bad milk for a year.
We were drinking sour milk because the guy there was banging the, what was that milk company boss called?
Yeah, the guy was banging the board, one of the boarding chicks, the superintendent or whatever.
So we're out there, dude, every day at lunch just sipping.
Man, this shit was on the cusp, bro.
I'll tell you this.
If you got that shit at about 11, it was still digestible.
If you got that little milk bag, that lunch bag, about 1140, oh, that shit just, it tasted like you were, it tasted like I had a little pickleback shot at the bottom of the bag, baby.
So I just wonder how compromised is it?
And I'm kind of a skeptic.
I am skeptical.
You know, I am skeptical of everything these days.
A lot of things are compromised.
That's money, man.
That's big business.
So I don't know, man.
But I think the fact that if Joe Rogan tries it, he's a brave dude.
He's tried a lot of things that have helped a lot of people.
You know, he really is kind of the, he's a guinea pig in a lot of ways.
And I think that's brave.
You know, he encourages me to want to try different things to see if they work for me.
Now, this could be risky.
I don't know everything.
I'm not telling people to go try Ivermectin.
I don't know that much about it.
But there's been a lot of people who have said, there's been a lot of talk about it helping people.
So I don't know.
I think he's brave enough to do it.
I would like to see that article more.
Hey, here's a guy who's brave enough, who's got a lot to risk.
I mean, he's got a wonderful life.
You know, he's got a comfortable, neat life where he's doing, you know, he's doing interesting things all the time.
But his health, he cares about it.
I know he does.
The first time I met him, he was coming out of a medical clinic in the elevator.
And I was just like, you know, I just met him and he was getting, he's doing something, doing stem cells.
You've got some new stem cell bubble gum or something.
You know, I mean, he's always.
So anyway, I think it's brave, man.
I think it's interesting and brave.
And maybe I'll get to talk to him about it firsthand one day.
What else?
What else do we have?
You know, let's get into some of you guys' calls, man.
We're not going to make this a super long episode today, and that's okay.
Going to take it easy.
And then I'll talk about going over to Jocko's, too.
Let me put the headphones on.
Yeah, it was fun this weekend.
Mike Clevenger came out.
And who else?
Mr. Frazier, Mr. Musgrove, some of the Dre's players came and watched the show on Sunday.
And Ari Manis was performing.
And he's a huge Padres fan.
I went with Ari and Brittany Schmidt, another comedian who was opening up.
And so, it was so cool.
I didn't know Ari was such a big Padres fan.
So, man, I got to sit next to somebody.
He was just sharing so much good information and telling me all these things.
And, man, it was awesome.
But if you have a chance to go watch them and watch the, and the guy hit it in the bottom of the ninth, Chris Chenoweth or whatever the guy's name was, man.
Dang City, dude.
I'm upstairs.
Bro, it was sick.
And we literally ran out to beat traffic, dude.
I think we made it to the parking lot before he made it around the bases, bro.
The second he hit that bastard, man.
Because we had to get back for the show.
But yeah, just exciting, man.
A great weekend over there in San Diego and La Joy.
And thank you guys for welcoming me.
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These guys don't F around.
Gang, baby, you know that.
And I'm grateful to them, man.
And I once broke into that guy's house and I drank a ton of water when I got in there.
They had a lot of clean water at their house.
And because they had one of those machines.
I never seen that thing with a big jug with the red and blue button.
And I'd drink a little bit of red and then you had a lot of blue real quick and my tongue would burn.
And I went in there and I shouldn't have done it, but I broke in there when they weren't home to drink all that water, bro.
They had that shit was, I'd never seen it, that tank, baby.
God, it was beautiful.
And then I got tired because I drank so much water.
I think my, you know, you can, your electrolytes get dizzy if you have too much water.
And then I laid down on his floor to take a nap and urinated all over the floor.
Hang on, dude.
*sniff*
And I feel bad, man.
They came in.
I think they thought I was dead.
I think they thought it was blood.
I was just laying there in this huge, just, oh, man.
But they were good to me.
And I'm grateful that they have a nice business now and that, yeah, and that they built us a nice website.
You can check mine out, theovon.com.
You can also go to theovon.com slash tour to get tickets.
There's still some shows on the new tour coming up.
There might be some tickets, a few left.
I'm going to start the tour over a few more practice dates in Peoria, Illinois, in a small town, smaller city over there.
You know, that area is near and dear to my heart.
My mother grew up over there, and, you know, I love my mother.
And we'll see if there's maybe not some good causes we can donate to while we're in town.
And they used to say if it'll play in Peoria, it'll play anywhere.
It was like the middle of America.
So I'm excited about that.
We got St. Louis.
Cincinnati still has some shows for the Saturday late show.
Cincinnati still has some tickets.
Man, a lot of these are sold out.
Chattanooga, Durham, Knoxville, Wilmington, Minneapolis, Wilkes-Bayer, Charleston, Richmond, Baltimore, Burlington, Albany, and Buffalo all still have tickets available.
We may put some new dates out.
We'll see.
I'm kind of monitoring my health at the same time, make sure I can handle it.
Going to get some blood work done tomorrow.
Make sure I'm staying upstairs and see what's wrong downstairs, dude.
Not in my wiener, but just in my, something's wrong.
Something's wrong in my body.
I don't know what's going on, but it's been happening for a few years now, and it's just debilitating.
There's some debilitating thing going on, and I've been trying to figure out what it is, and I haven't been able to yet.
So, not going to give up.
That's for sure.
What else?
We had some calls that came in from you guys, and I'm grateful for you guys calling in.
Here we go.
Right here, let's get into a couple of them.
Yeah, I'd spoken on the Pledge of Allegiance.
We had the teacher that didn't like the Pledge of Allegiance, and here were some thoughts.
Hey, Theo, my name's Alexis.
I'm just calling in Response to the girl who disrespected the flag, and I just wanted to say that.
Yeah, thank you for calling, Alexis.
Yep, and that was in response, yeah, to what we talked about last week, the teacher who wasn't real sure about the flag stuff.
And we'll put that video in right here.
Okay, so during third period, we have announcements and they do the Pledge of Allegiance.
I always tell my class, stand if you feel like it, don't stand if you feel like it, say the words if you want, don't have to say the words.
So my class decided to stand but not say the words.
Totally fine.
Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag.
It used to be there, but I took it down during COVID because it made me uncomfortable.
And I packed it away and I don't know where, and I haven't found it yet.
All right, onward, Alexis.
You know, my family came here from Cuba, and they were escaping a brutal dictatorship and a brutal government.
And I still have family there, so it hurts to see when Americans here can't appreciate the freedoms we have.
You know, I have plenty of family members back in Cuba who'd be willing to trade places with her, seeing as they can't post freely online, they can't speak their minds, and they're starving.
It's unfortunate to see, but I just wanted to share my thoughts.
So thanks.
Gang, baby, vienvenidos.
Cuba libre.
Yeah, it's interesting.
You know, it's interesting how our perspectives can be so different.
Yeah, I thought about this more afterwards.
You know, this teacher said that she felt like the American flag caused conflict in her class.
And, uh...
And I remember when I was a kid, we didn't love America.
You know, we were just in the country.
You know, I think everybody loved the Olympics when it came on.
We were all on the same squad.
The players were all excited to be playing for the country.
It felt like there was more unity.
But I remember we had a teacher, this lady, Barb Allinger.
And Barr Bollinger was all about the Pledge of Allegiance and dang red, white, and blue, just the freedoms.
You know, she taught us all about just America, the history.
Oh, the class was a history of America.
So we're just learning about all the articles and the Declaration, just all that kind of stuff.
You know, just high school level stuff.
But she is the one, because if anyone spoke ill about America, she put her foot down.
So I remember that it was, she used her space in our life as a leader, as a teacher, because not all teachers are leaders and they're not all seen that way, especially when you're a child.
But she chose to say, well, I'm going to use this as a way, see if I can bring these kids to all have some of the same appreciation that I have.
So I found that that was interesting.
Whereas this teacher seemed to just have kind of a different idea.
You know, she was just, I don't know, I just felt like that teacher had made it more about her.
But then also we live in a country, yes, where people have the different freedoms to think and feel and say whatever you want.
I mean, there's definitely way too many voices out there these days.
But that's easy for me to say as I publicly share my voice.
It's not hypocritical.
Since I understand it, I feel like it takes some of the hypocrisy out of it.
But I don't know.
I think it's interesting.
It's like, because I feel like if we can all find ways to come together, then it's more of a healing and it's more of a unified space that we're working from.
So if I am in a position of, if I can use, if I'm a teacher or something, I can use my platform to have my students say, and maybe they are creating the discussion more in that lady's class.
I don't know.
I think she lost her job or they put her on leave of absence.
But she'll still get paid probably.
And that's pretty lucky.
I bet, yeah, in Cuba, that's not the option.
You know, I remember going to Cuba.
I went to your country, Alexis, one time.
And when I was a student, we went over there.
And Fidel Castro came and spoke to us.
He came and spoke to our group.
We were students at Studiantas.
And it was just like three or four hours.
He spoke for three or four hours, dude.
He's basically like the Spanish Joe Rogan, bro.
But only he was talking.
You didn't get to say anything.
So it was just more of like, just not really like that.
But anyway, it was just him rattling off different information about how good things were going in Cuba.
It was a lot of propaganda.
And they did have like a lot of big, they had some, what did they have, lunch?
They had like a light lunch.
It was like a meat, couple meat trays, which was really bizarre, dude.
I mean, there's a couple thousand people in there listening, and there's some light charcuterie out front.
But I do remember going to the bookstore there, and the books all started with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
There was no history beyond that.
You couldn't get a history book before that.
It was as if them saying, this is where the history starts.
You know, with us and only us in our thoughts and views.
But yeah, I found that to be pretty interesting.
I remember people would come up by the windows and try to tell us secrets or ask us for help.
And we were just, you know, getting drunk college kids.
But beautiful place, beautiful people.
We went and saw some baseball.
And we had a really nice time over there for what it was.
I mean, we're just tourists, you Know we had another call that came in about the Pledge of Allegiance.
Here we go, right here.
Thank you for this call.
Hey, Theo, it's your boy Andrew from Minnesota, and I'm just calling on your thoughts about the flag, that lady's thoughts about the flag.
What's up, Andrew from Minnesota?
Thank you for calling, man.
And Minnesota is a good place to really be nice to people and agree with people, I feel like.
And also wear a coat while you're doing it.
Gang, baby.
So I got to be quick and get it all out there.
So I think the flag is a representation, a symbol of unity, liberty, and justice.
Now, I don't understand how anybody could think that that's a bad thing, and I understand you feel the same way.
However, there's been a lot of brainwashing going on, I think, and I think it's kind of obvious to a lot of people that that's been going on because we're surrounded by a bunch of other older countries that really don't like our idea of liberty and justice and unity.
So I think a lot of manipulation on the internet ever since it's been devised has kind of warped a lot of people's thoughts into maybe it's not such a good thing to support the idea of the flag because our government is not the greatest and our government does a lot of shady things.
Well, our flag didn't do that and our flag represents the land.
I think it's very simple when you think about it that way.
You don't have to hate the flag.
There's nothing wrong with the flag.
It's just a symbol that represents the land we're on and it's supposed to stand for unity, liberty, and justice.
Right.
Got you.
Okay.
Onward.
So if you, for some reason, you don't like that, the thing is that there's liberty in that word or in those three things.
You have the freedom to not like the flag.
You don't have to like the flag.
And so I think that you can practice freedom like that, like that.
So the lady that you were talking about, she rejected the idea of the flag.
And I think that maybe she shouldn't be reprimanded for that.
Perhaps, you know, everybody should have the freedom to understand where she's coming from and the freedom to reject her ideas.
So anybody that, you know, if they've got people, people have kids in their class, they don't like that, well, move them out of her class.
You have the freedom to do that.
And so we can practice freedom in that kind of way.
And we don't have to be so divisive and so hateful because I think the Sanskrit meaning of the swastika used to be something about peace and love.
It was a good religious thing.
Now I think that's been warped and we can see what happens to a symbol.
If enough hate is put onto it, it will become a hateful symbol.
So what will the American flag look like 100 years from now?
Will it be a peaceful unity, justice, liberty, or will it be something that's been warped through propaganda and through manipulation?
What will we choose right now?
Because we are standing on the ground, moving underneath this.
So I feel like people just need to possibly look at it from that way.
They don't have to.
They have the freedom to not.
They have the freedom to reject this entire idea.
And that's fine.
So that's my thoughts, and thank you for listening.
Gang, brother.
Yeah, no, I love your thoughts, man.
And I appreciate you being able to share your thoughts in a way that's able for me to understand them.
And sometimes it's hard to get the thoughts from my brain to my mouth.
But I appreciate you doing that.
Yeah, you're right.
I mean, yes.
So anyone has the freedom to share how they want.
And yeah, a lot of stuff is so divisive these days.
And a lot of people are using things to divide, like using tactics or making as much division.
I mean, the internet and social media, there's so much division on it.
And that's become of such a business.
And business has become...
Even our unity.
And separate and putting wedges in our unity, that has become a business.
And if you don't think that there are dark arts out there doing that, then I think you might be not thinking that good, to be honest.
Because that's one thing that's become so wild with social media and with the way that we communicate now is there's so much business attached to it.
And we are at a different time.
You know, we haven't been in a time for a while where our country was really fighting physically, hand to hand, so that other people could, so that we could feel, you know, so we would feel okay.
You know, where like you don't fall asleep at night as often as I used to as a child.
You felt a little bit more, or your parents certainly did, that there were men and women out there protecting your freedoms.
And yeah, maybe we all see the flag differently.
I see it as a reminder of freedom.
And my job is freedom of speech.
My job only is, but they don't even have my job in some countries.
And I think the thing that got me about that teacher's video, I feel like she just made it about her.
It didn't have too much of a big point.
It was just kind of this cutesy thing.
And I could be wrong.
But yeah, I wonder that.
I wonder that.
Remember, it felt weird during the campaigning or whatever.
It felt weird because you didn't know if you showed the American flag, it felt like you were, everybody felt like you were some right-wing nut job.
Or not everybody.
I mean, I was in L.A. predominantly at the time.
So in L.A., if I would have hung an American flag off my balcony, people would have, everybody would have asked, act like you're some right-wing nut job for hanging your country's flag.
That's bizarre.
but man, great points.
It's like, how are we, and what is influencing us?
What is making me think, oh, is this flag not good?
What is, um, and we're all so influenceable.
So, but really interesting, man.
I appreciate you guys sharing your thoughts, you know, and uh and and yeah, I thought everybody, yeah, people have the right to feel whatever they want.
And I don't know what that woman's life has been like.
Maybe she was brought, you know, people were always, maybe she lived next to a, near an Air Force or a barracks or something, and people were mean to her.
You know, maybe she feels like she hasn't gotten certain jobs because other people had different ties into certain communities or old boyism.
Man, I used to feel that way, bro.
I hated that shit growing up.
You know, we didn't have anything, man, and nobody, you know, and so I would see friends that got different opportunities and stuff like that, went on vacations and, you know, probably knew where they were going to go to school or had pictures at their house where their whole family looked like they were having a good time together.
And that shit all made me mad because that wasn't part of, I didn't feel like that could be something I could, I felt like that was something that was just reserved for certain people.
A country club type audience, you know, or something, country club type people.
So yeah, you don't know sometimes also where people are coming from.
But there is a business of division out there.
And Jordan Peterson said it well when we spoke.
He said, what is claiming your awareness?
What is claiming your awareness?
And the tools that are out there these days, they're so powerful that they'll get you and you don't even know they're getting you.
And if that's not the dark arts, man, what is?
We have one more call here about Pledge of Allegiance.
Maybe let me see.
Hey, what's up, Theo?
It's Drew from Alabama.
What's up, Drew?
Thanks for calling, man.
Alabama, dude.
I got a brother-in-law or something.
Brother, and I don't know.
Somebody fucked him.
And he was a male cheerleader over there at University of Alabama.
And praise God, bro.
Amen.
Let's go.
I'm listening to the gingerbread trap house episode right now.
And I got to the part where you're talking about the teacher that didn't want to put the point up.
And I just wanted to say thank you for saying what you said.
You know, thank you for having some balls.
saying that what she was doing was disrespectful.
You know, a lot of people, they got these big platforms nowadays.
They don't want to stand up for the flight.
They just want to go with what the mainstream is saying.
Steve, man, I appreciate that.
Tell us how it is.
Saying that she's enjoying all these freedoms to say what she wants to say and not having her students go for the American flag.
It just meant a lot to me to hear you say that.
Well, thank you, man.
I appreciate you sharing that with me.
And I don't know if I'm necessarily right about it.
I appreciate your support, you know.
But it is true that people have the freedom of different thought.
It's the same thing that this country was founded on.
People left Britain because Patty Pemberton was over there beating everybody off the docks.
That dude was whooping people's ass, bro.
Dude, if you got COVID-19, dude, I bet if you roll up right in front of Patty Pemberton, dude, he'll punch it right out of your damn solar system.
Dude, that dude's curing COVID, bro, with them COVID cures, dog.
He put him on that other, he popped that other guy up.
Aladdin or whatever the name was.
Jerry Aladdin?
I don't know.
Whoever he beat, bro, but damn.
Yeah, Patty Pemblett, I mean, sorry.
But Patty Pemblett, dude, that dude's out there.
Damn, baby.
He's that freelance chiropractor, son.
You know what I'm saying?
He'll get your chakras all tightened up, boy.
But that's that Patty Pimble recipe, son.
Papop.
Papop.
But, damn, what was I saying?
But no, look, I think, look, everybody has the freedom to think and feel how they want.
And that's how this country even got started.
People didn't like the feeling or the, they didn't like, they didn't feel free.
So I do think that we're seeing an evolution of that.
And what will our flag look like in 40 years?
You know, what will it look like?
And maybe sometimes I think it may need to, things need to evolve over time.
You know, I don't look at the flag and think it stands for like white people or that it stands for.
I never felt like it stood for rich people.
I always felt like it stood for us, I felt like.
But if you say if you're a Native American and you look at that flag, you know, or you see your grandfather look at it.
Or if you see your grandfather that was forced maybe even to serve in a military, not by his own choice, but because, you know, it was maybe the, you know, the land had been taken and it was but then maybe he was in the military and he met his wife and he created his family, whom he loves.
So now he's sitting there and looking at the history, but at the same time looking at the future of his lineage.
And I'm grateful that that guy has the freedom to feel and think of all those things in an open space.
So, yeah, I have to remember that it's not just whatever has been going on for me.
And I'm not calling you out or anything, brother.
I'm thankful for your call, Drew.
I really am.
And yeah, I don't know.
I used to like it because I felt like it made us all feel together.
I remember looking at my other friends, and they did a Pledge of Allegiance at the Padres game the other day.
And it was, I mean, that place is diverse as hell, dude.
You can't even get out of there, bro, without getting a neck tattoo, I feel like.
I don't think they let you back in your car without a neck tat.
And everybody in there was standing up and supporting the fight.
And it just felt nice.
It felt like some tradition.
And maybe that's just what I like.
I like tradition because it makes me feel okay.
It makes me feel comfortable.
All right, let's see if we got one more call that came in here.
Here we go.
Hey, Theo.
This is Ryan Cohen from Baltimore, Maryland.
I was listening to you.
Thank you for calling Ryan.
And I appreciate you listening, man.
Baltimore.
That's Black Maine, Daddy.
That's Black Maine, baby.
Onward.
Your latest podcast where you were talking about the lady who lost to her American flag and told her kids that she was okay with them not reciting the pledge or standing for it.
I love your show, man, but don't get me wrong, but I got to disagree with you here.
You asked, well, what has she done for freedom?
Like, she's selfish.
Like, what is she doing?
Like, it seems like it's all about her.
Well, I would argue that a country where you could go to jail for not reciting an oath doesn't sound very free to me.
I think the freedom that we're so proud of sometimes involves allowing people to say or do things that others might find disrespectful.
But really, I think that kind of freedom is something we all need because we all need to be able to express ourselves and maybe disrespect some people if it's something we need to say.
And I think that truly does help us all.
There's a lot to be proud of, definitely, in this country, but I think there's also stuff that we shouldn't be proud of.
And I think that kids should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves.
I appreciate your call, man.
Yeah, I agree with you, man.
I agree that kids should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves.
I agree with that.
Yeah, if somebody didn't say the oath and they go to jail, that seems that seems very, that would seem wrong, man.
You know.
And we don't have that here, fortunately.
And look, I think you're right.
It's like you also, you have people who don't want to take the vaccine or don't want to feel mandated to take the vaccine.
And that freedom.
You know, so yeah, it's really interesting to try and look at where it's interesting sometimes when I look at myself and I say, well, where do I want freedom?
But then where do I want to call the cult, be like, oh, well, I want more freedom over here, but I want, you know, I want people to say the pledge, but I want people to also, but I don't want to.
Man, I'm trying to think of what I'm trying to say right.
I just find it interesting, yeah, because sometimes I'll notice in my own head, where am I being hypocritical?
Or I want freedom for just what I think.
So, yeah, it's tough, man.
It's tough too.
And part of that is part of being a group and being in a place where you can be free to do these types of things.
I admired my teacher when I look back on my life because she took some kids who were just kids.
You're just trying to jerk off when you get home.
You know what I'm saying?
We were 13, bro.
Dude, I was saluting my ween weener.
I was downstairs, bro, every afternoon.
But she got upset if we didn't support the flag in her class.
You know, she got upset.
And yeah, I just felt like this teacher was just making it about herself.
I didn't really like her.
It just felt like there's a lot of teachers that are still trying to be kids a lot of times.
And I think that's just one of the side effects, too, of social media.
Everybody's just trying to make a damn TikTok dance.
You know, nobody's really working anymore.
We're all just screwing around making TikTok dances.
But yeah, it's a great point, Ryan.
Man, where do I want freedoms?
But where do I want, you know, how do I want to bend the freedom?
You know, how do I want to make that freedom worm kind of like not a freedom worm, but how do I want that, where do I want to put the lines for freedom and make it okay here, but a little more open here.
And it is interesting, man.
But yeah, I think I also missed the days when a teacher had a little bit more of authority.
And that was the rule, man.
I got spanked by my principal.
I got spanked by my principal.
And I saw him a couple months ago at a funeral.
Not his funeral, obviously, bro.
Impossible.
And I thanked him, dude.
And he told me he enjoyed it.
And I thought, damn, this dude could be a damn pedophile, But he isn't.
He's just a regular man that used to beat children, bro.
And I needed it.
So, speaking of beating children, dude, Patty Pimble beat that dude the other day.
Dude, Patty Pimble looks like he looks like somebody who got molested and then beat the hell out of every molester ever.
He looks like Charles Dickens, like fucking rogue-ass grandson who's here to settle the score.
That dude is upstairs.
We had some other calls, man, but this is a long first episode.
And we have a sit-in producer that's helping out today, Zach.
So I don't want to put too much on his plate.
But yeah, man, a lot of just, you know, and I'm just grateful we can be here and have a conversation.
And I'm grateful for you guys calling and being a part of my life and just caring enough, man.
You know, it's a unique world.
And this is it.
This is our life.
And I'm just glad that we're all coming to the surface of the water and at least just keep taking hits off the air, bro.
You know, we stay busy.
We stay active.
And you guys mean a lot to me, man.
I never tell you guys I don't think how much y'all mean to me.
You know, I never tell you how much you mean to me.
And, you know, I went for a run early.
I wasn't feeling super good because you know who I am, bruh.
And so I didn't want my feelings to dictate how my day was going to go.
So I said, well, if I go for a run physically, my feelings have to come with me.
So I put them matches on my back and I went for a run.
And while I'm out running, man, I run into a guy who's listening to my podcast, man.
And he said, hey, and next thing you know, I didn't want to run that much.
Neither did he.
I think he was almost done.
He said he'd been drinking the night before.
And we went for a run, bro.
This kid Drew, I think his name, I can't remember exactly.
But, well, let me look.
I don't want to be too lazy not to look because I know he was a nice kid, man.
Young fellow.
Andy is his name.
So not Drew.
Drew was the fellow that had just called in from Alabama, man.
But Andy.
And, you know, I just ran to him.
Next thing you know, we went for two miles, man, and he shared some story in his life.
You know, he said his sister just had a baby, the first nephew in his family.
And, you know, he just talked about some things.
He was making some choices, some changes in his life with moving around.
And it was just nice, man.
It was just nice.
And I'm so blessed to run into people a lot that are cool, that are good people, you know?
And that's a gift that you guys give me a lot.
And so I just want to say thank you.
I feel like sometimes I don't really, really say that.
You know, that, you know, I've had moments in my life where I could never get as alone as I wanted to get.
You know, I could never get as alone as I felt sometimes.
Like, I would isolate and be by myself.
And sometimes I could never get as alone.
I mean, though, you could put me in 40 coffins, bro.
Like one of those little Russian coffins where you keep opening it and the thing gets little and little and little and it's a woman.
It's like a little the Maastricht Sheikah dolls.
My mom used to have some of them.
And like, but sometimes I just, it's, you know, I could never get as alone as I wanted to get.
Or as alone as I felt.
I could never physically get as alone as I felt.
And I'm not whining or complaining.
I'm just sharing how I'm feeling, bro.
Or how I have felt.
And that's just a trick, man.
But, you know, the purpose for being here is to be is some type of connection.
It really is.
And man, as much as it's funny how God gifts because every time I think I want to be alone, he says, hey, put somebody else in your life.
Boom.
Even just a person you run and it's a person you talk to, a person you, a moment.
Not just me, but you, anybody.
You see somebody maybe hugs their child.
Or the other night a father and son came out to the comedy show, you know.
And man, that just made me feel, you know, I never got to do anything like that with my dad.
You know, I didn't really know by the time I knew him, he was disappearing, you know.
But I get to know my, I have a moment with my dad when I see that.
When I see a father and son, they're at the show and they, you know, it was the, I think it was the dad's birthday and the kid had brought him out.
And it was nice.
And I got a picture too, I remember I took with him.
I'll make sure to put it in the video on YouTube.
But I get to live little moments that I don't have and we all get to.
And those are the gifts, man.
I think we get them through each other.
And I get them so often through you guys.
And I am grateful, bro.
So I went to Jocko's, dude.
I went to Jocko's.
And, bro, Jocko, dude, he does his podcast out of like a damn.
Well, first I don't forget.
He does it like out of, it's like a bunker.
There's a gym.
There's a wrestling gym.
There's people.
There's like a birthing area I thought I saw.
There's a baby with a rattle with like a 30-pound rattle kettlebelling it on its back.
I mean, the baby's been alive for maybe 40 minutes.
Like they're doing some top-notch, bottom-notch stuff over there.
Okay.
They're doing some bottom-notch stuff over there.
Yeah, they're putting weighted blankets on infants.
Just a lot of senior citizens.
They're throwing a bunch of weighted blankets on them and, you know, tickling them and making them crawl.
There's a lot going on.
I mean, you get free barbed wire tattoos in the bathroom.
There's just, there's a lot going on over there at Jocko's gym.
I mean, there's some lady got some guy got pulled, put into some type of a, somebody hard scarfed and put him into some kind of a hold and damn fucking switched his gender on him.
The dude got up and had tits and put panties on and left, dude.
I mean, there's just somebody put somebody in a damn gender bender, brother.
They're doing all types of moves over there.
So Jocko's doing some top-notch, bottom-notch stuff over there.
But it was awesome, man.
And it was what I needed, you know, and I kind of didn't.
Sometimes I don't like going on podcasts because I haven't felt that good.
Even for the past two years, man, something is physically going on with me.
I don't know what it is.
And I've tried everything to get it.
It just won't stop.
There's something that's, you know, some condition.
I don't know what it is.
But it makes me not feel good.
And then I don't want to podcast when I'm not feeling good.
Because it puts me, you literally have to be so present.
You have to be you.
And when you don't feel like yourself, you don't want to share yourself because it's not the real you you're sharing.
It's it's like I don't know.
You know, it's hard to put yourself out there when you're feeling like about 50, 60% of yourself.
And I'm not complaining.
I'm not complaining.
I'm not, I don't need any self-pity.
You know, I stay, I do things to take care of myself in the meantime until I can feel better.
You know, I've done everything.
A lot of men, I don't know if it's mental health.
I don't know if it's, but it feels physical.
It doesn't just feel, it feels like this extreme fatigue that happens a couple times a day where I have to lay down.
And I haven't wanted to share that because I don't want, I'm not trying to be no damn, you know, one of Patty Pimble's victims, bro.
I'm trying to just, you know, I don't need any of that.
You know, everybody has stuff.
But yeah, I got to go in there with Jocko.
Dude, I'm going to put this picture up now.
You'll have to see it.
I'll try to put it on my Instagram, too.
So they have all kind of weaponry in there and a couple freaking nades on the table and all kind of shit.
Bullets and damn bone.
They had a human, damn, half a Cossacks on the table.
They got a lot of different bones on there.
Somebody's appendix in a bag.
They had a bag of dried appendix.
Jocko's over there putting in his mouth like big league chew.
There's a lot going on in the building.
And he's sitting over there just fucking chewing on half a cheek full of human appendix.
Sorry, but that's such a good funny thing to think about.
But anyway, I remember I left and he sent me a picture later in the day.
He goes, hey, man, I looked down at my table and I saw a couple weapons on it.
Which one do you think you left here?
And I'm not going to tell you.
I'll post it right now so you can look and get the joy for yourself.
I won't tell you what it was.
Oh, wait, but if you're on audio, you won't know, huh?
It's a comb.
One of them is just like a woman's, oh, fucking.
One of them is a woman's hair comb next to like three crazy machetes and knives.
And I was wondering where my comb had went, bruh.
It's not like a woman's comb.
It's kind of like a black dude would have that comb, you know, but not the pick comb, just a regular comb.
So I liked it, man.
It's a nice comb.
I thought I'm bummed I left it there, but it was just so funny he sent that.
But I got to go over there and spend time.
And this is one thing that I'm grateful to our military for.
I'm grateful that we live in a country where I can sit here and complain a lot of times.
Dude, I get whiny sometimes.
I do get some self-pity going on where I can complain about how I'm feeling.
I can talk about it.
When our fathers, our mothers, there wasn't time to do that.
They didn't have that opportunity.
You know.
And so that is a huge freedom.
Because some of us, if we didn't have it, people could take their lives.
You know, people couldn't handle it.
But they're able to, you know.
I mean, we live in a real comfortable place.
We're so comfortable.
I could sit back with some damn Cheetos or something.
I could sit back eating one of those red, white, and blue bomb pops complaining about how I feel.
And not just, and it's okay, just, you know, but that's a gift, you know.
And it's also a reality, you know, time has changed.
Things are evolving.
We're not, you know, we're in different spaces.
But certainly I'm also at an age, like I'm not like, you know, a 14-year-old kid who's never known anybody that really fought in any wars or had to, you know, lost something or lost loved ones or, you know, if you just are on social media and you're just like one of those social media activists or whatever, then yeah, it's easy to sit and just share stuff and just, you know, tweet and blast and talk shit.
But they didn't have that.
When I was young, they didn't have all this extra information.
And they say knowledge is power.
Knowledge, I think, is.
But just bullshit, random, bullshit information that we don't even know is true half the time.
That's not power, man.
And that's a lot of what's being created and manipulated a lot of times.
And then it's really taken away a lot of our power from ourselves.
You know, it's weird.
Like, cigarettes and stuff will get bans, but social media won't.
I don't see how we look back in 20 years and think that it was any good, but I don't know if we'll...
It's all become such a business, man.
It's scary.
But that's okay, man.
We got each other.
We were at the Padres game.
We ate three hot dogs and went for a run at the Veterans Administration today.
You got dudes out there carrying their legs in a freaking picnic basket out there, dude.
They got some wildcats.
So a lot to be grateful for, including you guys.
It's September.
Football is starting back.
There's a lot going on.
There's a lot going on.
But yeah, I just want to say thanks, man.
You know, we're doing it.
We keep going.
That's the number one thing we have to do is stay alive.
You know, that's the most important thing.
That's the most important thing.
And we can figure the rest of it out.
And we'll try to do it together.
You know, it's wild.
There's also so many more people in the world now.
You have so many more ideas.
And there's so many more.
You know, it's a business to make us get to disagree.
And it's the dark arts, man.
I wonder what fuels how I feel a lot of times.
You know, sometimes I'll ask myself, well, why do you feel this way about this?
And I can't tell.
Sometimes I can't tell if I just was influenced by something or if it's a real, sometimes I can tell if it's a real feeling I have, but I don't always know where my influences came from.
And were those pure, you know?
And one thing about getting older, I'll find that I feel like my influences from when I was younger are purer than influences that could just be happening to people younger now.
And then I start to see, oh, well, this is why grandparents and their kids and there's always these differences of, you know, things evolve and change.
But we stay alive and we just try to keep seeing it, you know.
And I don't know what I'm trying to say.
I've never really been good at goodbyes, man.
But gang, gang, man, you guys be good to yourselves.
Y'all deserve it.
I'm going to go out with this band, one of the greatest bands that was ever put together that didn't stay together.
Because, well, the differences.
Differences, addiction.
I don't know.
I don't feel like I'm talking out of shop on these boards.
I love that, you know.
But and maybe they will, you know, they still try.
I know they think in their hearts, you know.
They just had a new album that came out, but...
It's interesting, man, that even something as beautiful as music, it can...
It stops getting created.
...
And uh, when you're not together, when you're not on the same page, you know, we don't have to be on the same page, but even if we can at least stay in the same book, man, we could probably keep the tunes going.
This is Making It by Bishop Gunn.
This is Making It by Bishop Gunn.
Man, I love this band.
I ain't seen home in about a hundred days.
I can almost hear mama pray for my restless soul.
And I ain't made a dollar I ain't spent, but where it's going ain't killed me yet.
I still get where I'm bound to go.
Travis McCready, man.
Damn.
I'm making it.
I'm making wrong feel right.
I'm making it.
And it's here where I'm headed down.
I'm making good time anymore Most all of my plans slip right through my hands.
And wind up next to me, broken on the ground.
If this bottle was an hourglass, I'd say that I'm about an hour pass.
I should've put it down.
Damn, that's a lyric.
But I'm making it.
I'm making more feel right I'm making it and if hell's where I'm heading then I'm making good time I'm making good time I'm
making good time I'm making good time Come on
Between the lives that I've crossed And the friends that I've lost I'm left here alone in my sin Oh yeah But I'm in pretty good shape For the shape that I need Ben Lewis baby I'm making it I'm making it I'm making it I'm making it long To see
you right Yeah I'm making it I'm making it I'm making good time
Oh yeah Oh yeah I'm making it I'm making it I'm making it I'm making it I'm making it long To see you right Oh yeah Come on And I'm making it Drew Smithers baby And I'm making it I'm making it Drew Smithers baby And I'm making it I'm making it And I'm making it I'm making good time I'm making good time I'm making good time Come on Come on And
burn short And burn short And burn short And burn short I hate to see home in our hundred days.
I can almost hear mama pray for my restless soul I can almost hear mama pray for my restless soul Man, that's making it by Bishop Gunn.
And that's what we do.
We just keep making it, baby.
Drew Smithers, Ben Lewis, Travis McCready, and Bern Sharp, man, whose dad gave me a job on his farm when I was fresh out of college, and when I was in college, and he died of overdose.
And, you know, here I am 20 years later, getting to enjoy music made by his son.
And his son and I'm still really, really close.
And we just got to stay alive so we can just be a part of the little bit of music I think that God has in store for us.
I really believe that.
So I'm going to do my best, man.
That's all we can do, baby.
Gang, be good to yourself.
That's all we deserve.
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