Theo is back with a solo episode of This Past Weekend after spending some time on tour. He talks about visiting Texas, New England and Louisiana, bald eagle crimes, writing messages on your sheets, finally meeting Billy Conforto’s brother and more. He also reflects on the Nashville shooting, talks about ways we can find purpose, and responds to some of your voicemails.
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We're adding an eighth show in Austin on June 10th.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m.
local time.
You'll be able to get those.
So don't go and pay those overpriced retailers sale amounts.
And that goes the same for Miami.
For other cities we're going to be coming to, I'll add a show or I'll come back through.
But let's don't give those guys all that cash.
Those guys are crooks.
I'd rather come back.
We'll also, we will be adding at some point Europe and Australia.
I just don't know when yet.
So thank you for your patience there.
It just, we don't know.
So we're looking at it.
It's a lot.
And we don't want to go and just have to hurry it up.
We want to enjoy ourselves when we come.
New York City, Las Vegas, Uncasville, Connecticut, and Toronto all still have tickets.
Always get your tickets at theova.com slash T-O-U-R.
Thank you very much for your support to any show you've come to.
We love you.
What's up, guys?
My name's Theo, and I'm a human.
I am, what's going on?
I've been running around a lot, been, you know, on the go.
You know, I mean, just, I feel like the Lord just put that Go Selene in me.
You know, that 91 octane or whatever.
And I've been burning, boy.
I've been go, go, going.
And sometimes it's hard to get a moment to, well, it's hard to get a moment these days.
You know, I think about that a lot.
And it's hard for me to like get a moment where it's like, okay, this is a moment that's not, where I'm not being pulled or pushed or interrupted or overwhelmed or, well, overwhelmed's okay, but where I'm not being like, where I'm not needing or wanting anything except for some of my own time.
Like I just want to have enough peace or whatever going on so I can evaluate where I am.
Sometimes things are so busy, so hectic, you don't even know what's going on.
You haven't even looked at, you know.
Sometimes you're so busy, you don't even look at, you know, you'll take your pulse in the evening and you died in the morning.
You didn't even know it because you just been, you just kept, you know, you were just running on fun, but you kept going.
You're like, damn, well, you died and you run into a buddy.
He's like, oh, damn, you're dead.
You're, dude, you got to lay down.
You're dead.
You know, you died earlier.
But that's what it's like these days.
Things get so busy that, you know, I don't know if I'm living sometimes or if I'm doing a to-do list.
And then I don't know whose to-do list it is sometimes.
I don't know if it's my own things that I want to be doing.
Is it things that I feel like people want me to be doing?
Like whose expectations am I living up to?
Or am I chasing?
Or am I trying to fulfill?
That's what I wonder sometimes.
And I can just ask myself, well, hey, who's, is this your dream you're doing?
Is this your goal you're doing?
Is this, and it can be anything, anything you're doing throughout your day or, you know, if in your plans or in your week or something that you're a current, you know, job or undertaking, a relationship even.
It could be anything that you're doing or committing yourself to.
And I just ask myself sometimes, who's, whose goal is this?
Whose expectation?
Is this mine?
Is this my parents?
Is this a God?
What am I doing?
And for whom am I doing it?
And so I think, yeah, some of the getting some moments of time where I have to myself, you know, I just, I need that to touch base with myself and just to look at the charts.
You know, it's like sometimes you don't look at your chart.
You don't look at your own, you don't take enough inventory of yourself.
And you don't, yeah, you don't even know what's going on.
You finally look at your chart and you're like, yeah, damn, you know, I took a wrong turn four months ago, but I just didn't even, you know, I didn't stop and look at where I've been because I just think that if I keep going, I'll get some, I'll get, I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm kind of rambling.
But sometimes these days you get so busy, you don't even, you know, by the time you look at your chart, you were supposed to, you died a week ago.
And you're just out here damn ghost and doing stuff, making wagers online and, you know, going, buying stuff at Trader Joe's and shit.
And you're supposed to be deceased.
And you're like, oh, damn, I didn't even, I was so busy, you know, living or doing that I didn't even realize I was damn gone.
That's how busy you can get these days.
It feels like.
Anyway, sorry if that was kind of a down, or I didn't mean to be a Debbie downer or whatever, but I just, yeah, I think I've just been running so much.
It's, I'm trying to get a little bit of, take some inventory of myself.
Let's See, what's going on with you?
How are you?
What's up?
So, and I've been a little, I think I've been a little bit burnt out.
You know, I got to get a week off sometime soon.
I'm going to take a vacation.
And a vacation, that's just where, I mean, that's kind of where you tell you tell time to kind of hold your nuts, bruh.
So yeah, let me do that.
Let me think about what I've been...
I feel, you know, I've been worried recently about my own ego.
I've been worried a lot about my own ego.
Just because the ego, it's such a sneaky thing.
It's like your shadow, but it's on the inside of you.
And its goal is to...
Is to trick you to think that you're having self-confidence.
That's what I think.
Let me see.
What is an ego?
A person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
The part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for a sense of personal identity.
Yeah, I think I've just been worried about my ego a little.
You know, I think things have just kind of gotten busier and stuff.
And so I just worry about it.
You know, I want to try and be, you know, I can just feel it flare up here and there.
Like, oh, why isn't this this way?
Or why, you know, expecting things to be perfect, expecting, and it's not like I deserve them to be perfect, but it's still, it's an expectation that things should be.
Or things, why aren't things going smoothly?
You know, so I just, I just want to have awareness of that.
Because that's the work, man.
If you have, if your ego is leading the drive, it's not even you.
That's not even, it's you, but it's you just, you're working for this.
You working for a damn dirty landlord, brother, if your ego is running the show.
So anyway, that's been something that's been going on.
What else?
Yeah, I want to take a vacation.
So I'm going to do that sometime.
And yeah, just still battling, trying to stay off the vapes.
It's been a war.
I had five days at one point, and then I seceded.
I seceded to the union or whatever.
I don't know what I seceded to, but I gave up and I just damn hit that bitch, son.
And I've been on them, bro.
God, I've been on them.
Dude, I mean, if you wrote damn vapes in here, dude, inside of it, right out, if you wrote, if you wrote, if you wrote vapes in here on the outside of a wishing well and you came there at night with a flashlight and looked down in there, I'd be in there.
And I'd be damn just wishing for vapes.
And so, anyway, that's what's been going on, dude.
I just wanted to touch, just check in of things that have just kind of been on my mind and heart a little bit.
And yeah, we'll get into some episode, man.
It's been an exciting few weeks.
I'm sorry that I haven't gotten to be here with you guys for one-on-one hanging out.
Let's get into it and then we'll and then we'll be into it.
Praise God, baby.
Gang.
A long time ago I was in love with a girl And I think I took that love a little too far You can see the cigarette burns on the wall And all the empty bottles in the hall If the water gets too rough you know who to call
Comes you baby And I can see the way he looks in your eyes Come on baby A soul so lost with his foolish lies Come on If you even have to ask baby I'm surprised I'm so surprised Sometimes you gotta leave your lover If you wanna learn to love again
Little black love Fly all around the kitchen Little black love Little black love Little black love That's him right there.
That's Eddie 9 Volt.
And he is, baby.
God, baby.
He's that damn.
He's that mulatto canary right there, baby.
Eddie 9 Volt.
He's got all the colors in his throat.
You damn.
I mean, you could just damn beat a 64 pack of crayons right out of his tonsils, I bet.
He's just, he, God, he's got it in him.
Eddie 9 volt little black flies.
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What's been up with you?
What's been up with you?
You know, if there's something going on with yourself, if there's something you feel like you've been keeping or haven't sharing or something like that or something that's been burdening you, you know, you can always hit the hotline.
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Put it in there.
And some of them we get to, some of them we don't.
We listen to all of them.
May take a while.
But sometimes it's nice to just get something out of you.
To get something out of your chest.
I'm upstairs.
I wanted to put that on you for everybody that came out the past few weeks and sat out in the balconies up there in the John Wilkes booths.
You know, just if anybody, if you're up in there in that balcony, a lot of things happen up there.
People back there doing dice, you know.
Somebody back there selling organic ketamine, somebody.
You know, they'll have somebody there that's on ketamine.
And then they'll be just, you know, pulling dandruff off of and selling just organic damn ketamine right off a dude.
They're just, you know, bagging up a dandruff off of some dude that's in a K-hole and slanging that shit.
Bam.
Next thing you know, somebody else is in the bathroom.
They're damn, they're in there, you know.
And they're doing, you know, dandruff and ketamine, you know, ketamine that's cut with dandruff.
You're like, well, dang, this guy.
You know, next thing you know, the guy's out there just ejaculating outside of a damn sports clips or whatever.
Wherever you get your hair cut.
Dude, I remember one time when I was, God, I don't know.
I was probably, well, I was real, we were poor, so I don't know if it really matters what age you are when you're that poor.
When you're as poor as we were, I don't think it, nobody, it don't matter.
You could be two, you could be 11, 14, all the same shit's happening around you.
People are smoking.
Somebody's touching somebody illegally.
The water's going to be shut off.
It's the same type of shit.
So age is really, you know, knowing every year is kind of something I think that wealthier people do.
You know.
Oh, Weston is seven, you know.
Meanwhile, little fucking Ricky, bruh.
Lil' Ricky, who's, you know, ambidextrous in his own neck because he get, you know, because somebody in his family shouldn't have been making love, bruh.
Lil Ricky, he, he, he, he, uh, he might be three, he might be 15, dog.
He's over there just smoking dorals and chilling, baby.
And it don't matter.
You don't know where he's coming in.
He wets the bed.
That's how he, you know, he'll leave me.
He'll wet the bed and leave a message in this pit, in the urine on the sheets.
I need help.
It'll say on it.
I mean, these, that's where I'm from.
Where the desire for just damn for just for, you know, you'll piss what you need right into the damn bed, milk.
I used to piss that into the sheet.
You know, lunch, I'd write, just piss, you'd wake up and I'd roll over and pull back the top sheet and I'd just cleanly pissed.
Just damn, just wiener calligraphy come right out of me, lunch right on the sheet, damn.
So if you were a therapist, you could have pulled off that top every week.
You could have seen what I needed.
Lunch, field trip signature on document.
That took me, that'd take me three nights to urinate that into the thing.
But mom would be gone.
I wouldn't have nobody be there to sign it for me.
So I'd have falsify it.
Hug from dad.
Piss that into the shit, you know.
But that's where I'm from, where you, what are we talking about, Jesus?
I don't know.
Something about children.
Sorry, yeah, I'm all over the place.
I'm all over the place.
That's where I am right now.
That's how I feel.
And I want to be able to come to this show with how I feel every week.
I feel all over the place.
And I'm not complaining, but I want, you know, I want to be able to, it's sometimes interesting because if you have some success and people see you doing well, then they, you can't share how you're feeling.
You know, it's interesting.
But oh well, that's not my problem.
You know, I just want to be able to share how I'm feeling no matter what.
And yeah.
But I'm not trying to get into self-pity.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself.
Damn, what was I talking about?
When I was growing up.
Oh, so my mother one time took me to get a haircut.
And she took me to get a haircut.
And this lady named Miss Bobby, I think her name was Miss Bobby.
Miss Billy, Miss Bobby.
She had a male name.
You know, and I think they wanted her to be a man.
I mean, they had, I remember she, pictures of her, she was, when I met her, she was probably 90 or 89. She might have been 89. But she, um, and she was a barber, you know, or she at least she owned the barber clothing.
And where I'm from, that was, if you own, if you had the outfit, bro, that was it.
You didn't need a diploma.
You know what I'm saying?
If you, where I'm from, if you had a, if you had overalls, you had a, you farmed.
You know, you might live, you might live in an apartment, but you got, you know, three corn bushes out front and you doing corn once a year.
You know, you could have like, if you owned a name tag, you just, and it said your name on it, you walk in any damn Shonys and just start working.
It didn't matter.
You wasn't on staff.
It didn't matter.
You wrote, you walk in that bitch.
You write on there, Ricky's daddy, or whatever on the time card.
You clock in it.
As long as you had a name tag, then you were bam qualified, baby.
That's where I'm from.
And yeah, I'm from Three East McGee Street, baby, Covington, Louisiana.
Where we burn shit in the ditches, baby.
That's what we did over there.
You want to know who I am?
That's who I am.
Where we go out there and do, we do, you know, we'd get a little water on us or something, and we'd run and jump back and forth through the smoke.
If people were burning trash, we'd jump through the smoke back and forth.
Just, you know, kind of just this smoky little double Dutch where you just jumping from side to side till your whole body, you were black.
We just be down.
I mean, we'd be down.
We had black face, black body, black neck.
I mean, black, I'd even, if you were naked, that wiener get a little black.
Now that far, it kind of, that was, you know, you had to, there you enjoyed that.
But we be down.
I mean, I mean, the cops was, that's how, but we got dark.
We jumped through that smoke all the damn cops would show up.
And, but that's where I'm from, baby.
That's where I'm from.
And maybe I'll have to take my address out there so people don't go over there to those people's home.
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Yeah, but Miss Bobby, I think her name was Miss Bobby.
So she was a haircutter, or she had the uniform.
So at one point, the bus driver originally cut our hair.
And he drove bus one, Mr. Ray was his name, and he pulled the bus over once every couple weeks, and he cut everybody on that bitch.
Everybody got the same cut on that bitch, everybody.
So, but something happened to him.
Something happened to him.
I think he, I don't remember, I think he might have been changing a tire and got hit by a vehicle or something, you know, natural causes or whatever, you know, whatever natural causes were back then.
Something happened to Mr. Ray.
And so we had to go to Miss Bobby or Miss Billy.
I can't remember her name, Bobby or Billy.
And they wanted her to be a man.
You could tell.
You saw old pictures of her.
They'd always, her daddy had dressed her up like a man when she was a kid.
And they wrote even, you know, you'd see somebody write man, man in here on her back.
You know, somebody would write that on her back.
And, you know, she'd have a picture of her in college and somebody written man in here on her back.
I think that might have been the original trans was somebody just writing, you know, man in here, man in here on her back.
And we got it.
Everybody got the point.
You didn't have to get the sex.
You didn't have to do all of that.
So it really saves a lot of money, which I think that's nice.
You write man in here on each arm.
You show that to me when I roll up.
I get it.
All right, Bridget, I'll call you Bradley.
I get it.
Boom.
That's it.
We don't need, you know, we don't need a lot of other insanity around it.
If you trans and out, we've all, everybody, damn.
Sometimes I feel like a little bitch.
You feel me?
Sometimes I feel like three-tenths of a bitch.
You know, and I kind of see what I, you know, I'll let it pass or something.
I remember, I don't know.
I guess I don't have a lot in.
I never put on panties or nothing.
But anyway, so let me get through the story.
So she was the haircutter, and I was over there one time, and my mom would drop me off because that old lady, she was real chatty.
She'd talk to me.
She'd damn, she'd talk to you.
By the time she got done talking, you know, it was, she was 91. If she'd 90, she'd 90. It was just like, dang, man.
So she kept talking.
And so mom would drop me off there.
Mom would drop me off there.
And I got the cut.
I get that trim.
But one time I was in there, she had a stroke, right?
And she's laying on the ground with the scissors, you know, and I'd never been around somebody that had a stroke.
I didn't know what it was.
And so I just sat there, man.
You know, I feel bad about it.
I was well-behaved, but I sat there for probably 15 minutes.
And I thought she was just being real quiet or something.
Or I don't know what I thought.
Maybe she was doing hide and go seek, but she just forgot to hide and thought she was hiding or something.
I don't know what I thought at that age, but I remember just being in that room and it was quiet as could be.
And then her son came or something.
And he's like, what the hell happened in here?
and he called me a f**k it.
And anyway, what else, man?
Sorry, I'm just going off on it.
That's where I'm at.
I'm all over the place.
I just got back from Medford, Massachusetts, over there at the casino ballroom.
And that was an interesting venue for comedy.
I appreciate everybody that came out.
The setup of it isn't ideal for comedy, but a nice staff over there, beautiful, and a lot of beautiful people that came out.
And, God, it was freezing.
It was bizarre and freezing over there.
And yeah, next time we'll try to find a venue that's a little more suited for comedy.
I think for rock and roll or for, you know, if you're going to see like a little peep reenactment or, you know, if Disney does like little peep on ice or whatever, then I think it's great.
But I think for comedy, for me, it was tough because I like everybody to be able to see me in the front.
And this was, it came around the sides a little bit.
So, but I was thinking about that.
I was like, how do I, the second night, I was like, how do I adjust the show so everybody can see perfectly?
And anyway, we did our best.
And I just want to thank everybody who came out there, who came out in Houston, who came out previously before that in Boston, down here in Corpus Christi.
Yeah, it's just been a lot of places.
I didn't get to do as many pop outs into the lobby to thank people.
We tried some this weekend.
The lobbies were small.
in Houston, we did one night or two nights we came out, and it was just pretty chaotic.
So we're just trying our best.
You know, I'll try my best to pop out there afterwards for people that are kind of hanging around.
But I just want to let you know that because some people would send me a DM and be like, you know, I didn't, and be like, well, we came out, you just, you know, we, we'd, you had already been gone by the time we got out there.
Sometimes we didn't get to do it.
But we try, and I just want to let you know that I think about that.
What else?
Oh, Billy Conforto's brother came out, and his name is Chuck, Chuck Mintz.
Named after the candy, I think, but they spell it different.
They spell it different.
And everybody, a lot of you guys know Billy Conforto, and you remember him.
And man, he was, you know, Billy was a first, he was a homosexual kind of prize fighter slash busboy.
That was a lot of, you know, I would say those were his domains, really.
And he would, you know, he'd damn, you know, he'd hand job a male waiter and he'd have, but at the same, with the other hand, he'd be, you know, cleaning up a four top.
So he'd be polishing off a one top and a four.
He'd be, you know, he could do a bottom and a four top at the same time.
That's who he was.
And when I met him, he, we were working at like a fine dining type of place, but nobody ever came in there.
So we were just doing whippets mostly.
And we did so many whippets one time, he's just told me that he was gay.
And I think that that, and that was the first gay human I'd ever met.
And anyway, he and I became good friends over the years and he would sell, he sold, he sold a lot of good weed.
I think it was good.
Now, I'll say this.
He had, Billy also had a lot of attack animals.
He had attack animals.
And if you don't know what that is, go up to an animal and if you get attacked, then now you know.
So he had a lot of pit bulls and he would train them.
I mean, these things were, he'd be like, oh, it's the nicest dog, Dio, bro.
It's the nicest dog.
And then you go pet it and it would, it would fucking rearrange your fingers on your hand.
So he would get you, you get, you, you get high with him.
And then the dog would be so scary that I'd be on the furniture.
I'd be hanging from the ceiling fan.
So I think a lot of people, they would see that.
They'd be like, damn, that's the best weed in the world.
This dude's hanging, you know, this dude's doing interior design in the house.
He's, you know, he's living in one of the dresser drawers.
This guy's fucked up.
That must be the gas weed, right?
So anyway, but the truth was he had dangerous animals.
And if you bring an attack animal with you and you get somebody high, even on skunk weed, then suddenly your shit is the greatest shit they have.
Because if somebody sees, you know, somebody take a couple puffs of your stuff and then they run across the field yelling, help me, they're going to be like, damn, that's killer weed.
But really, that's just killer.
And he's a, you know, four-year-old American Pit Bull rescue.
So, but his brother came out, man, and that was beautiful to get to spend time with him.
That was in Baton Rouge.
I don't think I mentioned that.
And he brought his Billy Conforto's niece and nephew.
And it was good to see that their births weren't affected by drugs or anything.
You know, they were two able-bodied children and mentally able and very kind.
And it was just great, man.
It was great.
It was like I was there with Billy for a minute.
You know, it was pretty special.
And what else?
We reached out over there to do a special plaque or something for him in Louisiana.
And so far, the places that we've reached out there over there in Mandeville, we've have gotten denied so far.
So we're still seeing what we can do.
We want to do something a little bit like nicer.
Something, you know, you can't just do it.
If you call any place, they say, oh, you can do it.
Or everybody can't call and put up a, you know, a peach tree for, you know, somebody, for Boo Radley or whoever died because it would be all trees.
So you have to do something different.
So I don't know.
We'll figure it out.
But I just wanted everybody to know, and on the YouTubes, we got pictures of his family that came out.
What else?
I'm going to have a sip of water right now.
I'm going to take a moment for myself and have a sip of water.
Praise God, baby.
I'm upstairs.
What else, man?
I went on a little coffee date yesterday.
I met up with a gal and we had a little coffee and she showed up.
I think she was on some type of, she seemed like she was on stimulants.
I'll say that.
I think she was on damn stimulants, bro.
Because I was like, she was like trying to listen fast.
You ever talk to somebody and they just keep getting closer to you, bro?
Like they just like they just like they're not gonna hear your next word.
They're gonna try and fuck it, you know?
Like they just like, boy, you put that word out here.
I'm gonna fuck that thing.
Like that.
She would just seem like real stimulated.
So I think she was on some damn stimulus, man.
So I just ordered a salad and chatted with her for maybe 27 minutes.
Then we took a little walk around on the sun, went in the sun.
Because I like staying in the sun when I walk.
And then that was it.
Went our separate ways.
Oh, man.
I longed for the days when everything felt normal, when everything felt a little bit more categorized inside of me.
And specifically in my brain.
And so that's where I started noticing for myself.
I got to slow things down a little bit and give things a little bit of an opportunity.
But I got Zach here.
Zach's going to help me with the news today.
Producer Zach, how are we?
I'm good.
I need one second, but I'm good.
Okay.
Hold on, give me a second.
No, take a moment for yourself, man.
That's what we're talking about today.
But cut that audio off, if you don't mind, so we can have our moment too while you're having your moment.
You know, silence, that's going to become part of a premium.
I noticed that.
You go a place now and there's 17 screens going and there's a damn violin and there's somebody playing a somebody playing a machine gun.
I mean, there's all kind of stuff.
You know, it's hard to get a little peace these days.
And that's one thing that was nice up there in New Hampshire.
One thing that was nice was the Wentworth Hotel.
And, man, if you could bring that up, Zaki.
This place is, and I think a lot of people go there for the summertime.
But let me tell you, you want a good night.
You want some peace and quiet.
You want quiet and quiet?
Peace is like a little louder than quiet, right?
You want quiet and quiet?
That's it.
Wentworth Hotel.
Can you see it?
Here we go.
There we go.
Take a gander at it.
Now, I'll say this.
It's a little pricey.
It's not crazy, though.
But it's a little pricey.
But I think it's the kind of place where you're investing in what you get on your return.
I felt fortunate that we could stay there, and I really, really liked it.
But it's quiet.
I mean, they don't even.
It's quiet.
Let's think of something real quiet, Zach.
What is it?
Like a do you ever have a computer in your room and you're like going to sleep at night and the computer's running?
Yeah.
Like a little fan.
Like a fan in the computer, you mean?
Yeah, like a fan running in the computer.
Yeah, that's not that quiet.
Is that quiet or not quiet, you think?
You want to go quieter than that?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, what is as quiet as something can be?
What's the quietest you ever been, be honest?
I went to my friend John's house one time when I was a kid and he wasn't there and his parents were fucking.
So I just listened for a little bit and then I got out of there.
Wow.
What made you get out?
Was it a certain, did something, was there a certain, did they shift gears or something?
Did something, was there a part where you're like, okay, this is too much?
Because yeah, that's real quiet.
When you're trying to be so quiet that you are, yeah, if you're listening to somebody else mate or fight, if you're listening to like putting your ear to the wall, like the original reality television was putting your ear to the wall, right before they had all the shows, it was peeping, Tommin, or putting your ear to the wall.
And there'd be no, you'd, yeah, you would stop.
I remember literally I would squeeze my ribs like this to keep my heart from even making that sound that it makes.
So I could, I didn't want to miss one moment.
I didn't want that commercial break of my heartbeat to interrupt the, just the pristine, pure reality television I was getting by listening to my neighbors fight or have sex.
Or both.
I remember one time people were definitely, somebody kept punching somebody and then you could hear them just damn ejaculate.
So what was it?
What do you mean?
What were you saying?
You said, oh, and so what caused you to leave?
Oh, I just, you know, they were kind of going out and it was like my best friend.
Yeah.
And if I'm being honest, his mom was hot and that was kind of a factor in it too.
But, I mean, you know how that, like, you, I felt like I couldn't, it felt like illegal to be there.
Yeah.
Oh, it's hard to, it's, there's definitely, um, it's hard to listen to somebody you care about's mom getting plugged up by somebody.
Thank you.
Yeah, I appreciate that, man.
But yeah, there were, oh, I remember God.
The neighbor woman, if I got in the neighbor woman's hamper, I'd damn, I remember just, I would just stay in there, dude, and just smell all her clothes.
And I remember just wishing that she was my mom.
I remember that.
What else we got?
The news.
Hit us with some of it, Zach.
We got to get to some calls.
A lot of calls have come into the hotline.
985-664-9503.
Some we saw.
Pentagon did a new study, and it says 77% of Americans are too fat, mentally ill, or on drugs to join the military.
Okay.
Well, let me see about this.
77% of young Americans, go to the information here, and what do they say in there?
Pentagon study revealed that 77% of young Americans do not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight.
So they're not good out of the gate.
They would have to make an exception, right?
Okay.
Overweight, what else?
Drug use.
Drug and alcohol abuse is 8%.
Medical, physical health, 7% of it.
These are the percentage of people who didn't get in.
And mostly, though, it's overweight.
Okay.
And that's between the ages of, let's give real information here, please.
Go back down.
That's between the ages of 17 and 24. Okay.
Several key findings.
Go on more, please.
Several key findings were noted in the summary report.
For example, most ineligible youth, 44%, are disqualified for multiple reasons rather than in only one area.
Would you have any of these you think, Zach?
Yeah, I don't think I'd make the wait cut.
What is there a weight cut?
Do you know it?
I don't know what the number is, but I don't think I'm there, dog.
And that's okay, man.
And any of the other ones?
Because it says with one, you could probably get a waiver.
Well, I could get a waiver for the overweight and then I can lie about the mental, like if there are any, you can just kind of lie about all that stuff.
That's true, huh?
Yeah, the weight, you can't lie about it, you know?
So if you can just get a waiver for that, then what's the problem?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's weird.
You can't really dress in black enough to look like you're not on Lexapro or something.
You know?
Yeah.
But, okay, so the weight would keep you out and you would be able to lie about the… Yeah, and that's our military.
And I could get in shape.
I feel like it's, you know, like, couldn't they get us in shape?
Maybe so.
So that's the news, the largest increase.
And I'm not shocked.
Go back up to the top of it there, Bub.
Americans are too fat.
I mean, definitely.
There are some places you can, there's people that you can see people, and they are bigger than when they got here.
And even if you'd have took them as a baby and put them, did like age progression, they would have never got to where they are now.
There's people that are bigger.
And so that's, this also shows where we are in time, I think.
I think if we, it's been a while since we, you really felt like a calling as a regular person.
Look, there's no draft.
There's no anything that has to, you have to stay on your toes.
There's no mandatory service.
So, yeah, people like think you're going to get fat.
You're going to get mentally ill.
A lot of that goes in hand in hand, too.
I don't want to say that, but you know, your brain is part of your body.
If somebody cracked your body open, your brain's going to be in it.
And so if you got gristle on your body, you could have gristle on your brain.
It might show up differently.
That's why sometimes I feel like if there were a war, if there were a big, like something that would call everybody together and bring everybody like, okay, we're on the same team.
You almost wonder if the dark artists that are out there that are stirring the cauldrons, you know, that are putting the ingredients into all of this, if that's what they're aiming for.
What else we got, Zach?
NASA announced the first crew that's going to go to the moon for the first crew in 50 years, I should say, that's going to go to the moon.
This is them.
Okay.
We got a brother in there, definitely Lamar Odom, they're sending, and three whites.
Okay.
They're just going to fly around the moon and come back, so they're not going to land on it, FYI.
Oh, this sounds like John Glenn.
He did the orbit.
No, this sounds like Bang Bus is going to space or something.
But yeah, okay, great.
Another people are going around the moon.
Jesus Christ.
All right.
One of these guys is Canadian, too.
Okay.
Well, he's Canadian, too.
Yeah.
But what are we doing?
You know what I'm saying?
I feel like we've been around the moon.
Are we just trying to like, and is this NASA?
It feels like kind of like a soft way for NASA to kind of strike back against some of these more private firms that are going out there.
You know, they're sending a brother out there.
I respect that.
You know, Brothers in Space, how that's not a movie, I can't even imagine.
You know, like I've seen, you know what I'm saying?
You put six brothers either in space or at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
And that's solid gold.
But yeah, Brothers in Space has got to be, I mean, that would win movie of the year.
What else we got?
A Louisiana water plant employee arrested after peeing in the drinking water supply tank twice.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they give you one time where they warn you.
I remember one time when I was over there, something that I had fell in there.
I don't want to say it was like a, might have been my pager or something at the time.
We had pagers, you know?
Yeah.
And I think mine fell off into the thing and they weren't pleased.
But yeah, this is what you get when you let people work at the power plant.
What is it at the water plant?
You know, I worked 90 days.
I did community service working there.
City officials say they do not know if 57-year-old Michael Maston had urinated in the water supply other times in the past because the security archive only saves footage from the last 30 days.
Wow.
Well, I can tell you to zoom in on the guy right there.
Yeah, he has, brother.
That dude definitely.
This guy's just serving clear body piss right here.
Maston was allegedly seen in security footage leaving his office, turning the angle of the security camera, then urinating into the water supply.
Wow.
So he knows the camera's there.
Yeah, he just.
Wow, bro.
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Anything else in the news?
Bud Light is getting a lot of heat right now.
I don't know if you've heard this.
They did a collaboration with a trans activist, Dylan Mulvaney.
And I think people were wondering if this was fake or real.
It is real.
And Bud Light said that helps authentically connect with audiences.
And scroll down.
This is the collaboration can.
Is it real?
It is real.
I just don't understand.
I don't understand that as a marketing tool.
Unless maybe they know something that we don't.
Maybe they're trying to like, you start to think if there's bigger powers out there that are influencing, like they want more confrontative type stuff.
You know, I just don't understand the connection.
Like, unless you want, I don't know if Bud Light drink.
I just don't know if I'm a Bud Light, if I'm a beer, if I want to get something that's making me discuss like a topic that's argumentative.
Yeah, I would, I'd venture to say most of their clients aren't interested in that.
Right.
That's what they, yeah.
It's like, it's almost that like thing where it's like, why do you put it, if it's something, just let it be something.
Why does it have to be something that you use as a tool for marketing all the time?
I think they're just trying to get in the trans market.
You think so?
How many trans people are there?
Okay, this is a UCLA study from June 2022.
Nearly one in five people who identify as transgender are ages 13 to 17. 1.6 million people ages 13 and up identify as trans.
That's this number is right here.
What percent of humans are trans folks?
You know, 1.6 million people ages 13 and up identify as transgender.
And I guess, and that's what does it mean, identify, you know?
Do you think trans people drink Bud Light?
Oh, I bet.
I bet after you go home and you take off the lashes and then it's like, oh, Ron, what a fucking day over there outside of Claire's boutique.
You know, what a day.
What a fucking day over there.
Outside of the courthouse.
My God.
These heels are killing me, huh?
Let me put my Crocs back on and light up a Marlborough Red.
I think, yeah, I think for sure, dude, after you go home, look, after every man goes home from work and takes off the, whatever the job is, I don't care if the job is lipstick or whatever, you know, if you, whatever you do, if you do hair extension, whatever, yeah, you fucking definitely want a cold one.
So maybe they're on to something.
Maybe they're on to something.
I just wondered, does nature, what does nature do?
Because I wonder sometimes what is going on?
Are more people just identifying that they don't know how they feel genetically?
Or more people saying, I want another wiener or no vagina.
What are they saying?
Yeah, they probably just want to lose the given one and get a different one.
Damn.
And what do they do?
They fill the vagina in with what?
Wiener?
You know, something along those lines probably or close to it.
I think it's a little bit, I think they're getting better at it each year.
Wow.
Man, we got to have a, we should have a surgeon on to discuss that.
Okay, what else?
Yeah, I guess.
What do you think?
Do you think Bud Light drinkers are going to...
And now Bud Light's like, well, you like it.
You know, you can drink.
Maybe they're trying to normalize drinking it for trans people?
But it's really, you're going for a very small market.
1.7 million.
Right, but what's the other size of the world?
Well, I guess those are 13 and up.
We don't know how many of them can drink.
Yeah.
So what else we got?
I guess a couple migrants were arrested because they killed a bald eagle and they were planning on eating it.
And they didn't know that you're not supposed to eat the bald eagles.
Well, are these legal migrants or illegal migrants?
That's what you have to wonder.
Because if you don't, one of the things that should be on the test is can you eat bald eagle?
Yeah, I guess there were two Honduras nationals who were cited for unlawful possession of the eagle.
Yeah.
So just owning it or just possessing it.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
I mean, I think, look, it's one eagle.
Well, they're a protected species.
Who?
The illegal aliens?
Both, but the eagle.
It's crazy.
I wonder what gets more protection these days.
Isn't that crazy?
The guy's dead.
The eagle's dead.
Yeah.
So, interesting.
The eagle's dead.
Yeah, they ate it.
I mean, look, I've had rare animal in my day.
I've had things that I've had things I wouldn't even mention others.
But it is what it is, man.
And I say let them have one.
Let them have one.
Everybody deserves to taste a little bit of eagle, I think.
All right.
Is that all we got?
Yeah, I think so.
All right, and that's Zach from Cincinnati.
I wanted to take my glasses off to kind of just out of respect to think about this next part.
You know, they had a shooting here in Nashville last week, and it was, you know, I'd never been in something like that.
I'd never been that close to something like that.
I'd never been, I saw a couple brothers shoot each other.
One of them shot each other in the back one time outside of like, I want to say like a Dairy Queen, maybe.
Something like that.
One of those kind of shooty urban kind of restaurants.
But I'd never seen something like, I'd never been around something like this when this had happened, you know?
I'd never been around something like in the environment and you're, you're in traffic and people can't get, you know, you can't get somewhere, but you know, it's because all the parents in traffic are trying to locate their children.
And it's just, I mean, it's, you almost want to, you want to get in the way because you want to try and do something, but you can't, there's nothing you can do.
It's just such an abrupt, insane finality when that happens.
And I think I just, you know, my heart goes out to obviously all those people.
I think, you know, I keep those people in my prayers.
And, and, you know, and they say that prayers don't help, but prayers are for peace.
Prayers are for comfort.
It's just taking a moment outside of yourself to think of some comfort for someone.
It's just, it's saying, hey, here, this moment in my life that feels peaceful, I want to give it to you because you need it more than I do right now.
That's what a prayer is to me.
I don't think I'm not sitting there praying no guns or praying like don't people shouldn't shoot.
Like, I don't know.
Everybody looks at it differently.
I'm not trying to get into that discussion.
So I think what I was thinking of is just how do we get, how do you end up with people that do this type of thing?
How do you end up with these, you know, childhood shooters?
How do you end up with people that go into a school and do this?
And I think a lot of it is, to me, a lot of it is a societal thing.
And I'm not going to, everybody has their views.
I'm not challenging your view here.
This is just a space where I'm sharing what I think.
And I could be wrong.
That's totally okay.
But I feel and I think sometimes that people don't have purpose.
You have a country where, you know, it used to feel like if you worked at a, I mean, I'm going to go off on some different thoughts here.
So, if you worked at like a business, then you had a lot of middle-class businesses.
You had a small, a lot of smaller businesses.
And if you worked there, then if the company did well, you did well.
And so, you had a sense of purpose maybe through your work.
You know, you were going to move up the ladder.
You were going to be, you know, a foreman and then a manager and then maybe have some percentage share.
And then, you know, you were going to get to a place.
And now it feels, I think, like we've let a lot of our companies get to these big conglomerates.
And it's about the bottom line.
A lot of companies are beholding to their shareholders, but not to their sharecroppers, if you will, to the people working within the company.
So then what I'm saying is as a person, you may not feel any people, I feel like people can get a sense of purpose from their work.
So if you don't have that sense of purpose, then you can be pretty aimless, right?
And then if you don't have love, like if somebody doesn't love you or you feel unloved or you don't love somebody, like if you don't have a family or a husband or wife or children, then you may not feel like a lot of love, right?
And so having love gives you a sense of purpose.
So, and we have less families these days.
The familial structure is really kind of broken down in America.
You know, you have a lot of single parent homes.
You have a lot of two parents having to work.
So right there, we're kind of right there, there's a place where people were, I feel like people used to get a lot of purpose.
And now a lot, there's people that aren't getting purpose from their work.
And there's people that aren't getting purpose from their heart being fulfilled by someone else or them being the peace that fills someone else's heart.
So right there, man, you have a lot, you have people who don't have a lot of purpose.
And then there used to be a sense of America, we are this country.
We are these people.
We are united.
We are we care about our neighbor.
But that's been, a lot of that has gone by the wayside.
We've become a, you know, I feel like our political leaders have sold us out to the highest bidder.
I feel like it feels like it doesn't feel anymore like your politicians or your leaders have your best interest.
It doesn't feel that way.
And I'm not crying here.
I'm just trying to, I'm trying to see how do we get to somebody that does something like that.
That's what I've been thinking about.
Like, how do you get there?
How do you get to somebody that does a shooting of a school?
You know?
Because you got to get there somehow.
And it keeps happening.
So anyway, I think that a lot of it is purpose.
If you don't have a purpose, then you are at the whim of whatever could come along.
You're at the whim of whatever influence you, whatever influence you get or whatever ideology comes along that you can attach onto.
And so no job, no love, no real sense of honor or connection to your country.
So then, I mean, you're, and then on top of that, if you, if you find that you're the victim, if you start to say, well, I'm a victim, you know, it's my, you know, everybody else, I don't have any responsibility for myself.
It's all your fault.
It's all your fault.
Then you're going to find, not only are you going to find any ideology that comes along, which the internet is going to give, the internet creates an algorithm that gives you whatever you keep looking at, you get more of.
So if you look at pudding or something, you get all pudding, boy.
And then three years from now, wondering why you too thick, you can't be in the military now.
Because, buddy, you putting down.
You chose pudding.
And pudding chose you.
Because whatever vice it is, it'll choose you back.
So if you want to be someone who is, you know, you want to get involved with a alt-right or alt-left or you want to get involved with school shooters or anti-Christian or anti, I'm just trying to think something, some severe ideology.
You want to get, then the internet, the Twitter, whatever is going to keep serving you it.
So now you, next thing you know, you're down a rabbit hole.
And I think at that point, that's how you end up there, I think.
You end up in a place where I'm going to be seen.
I'm going to make sure they know who I am.
I'm going to make sure that they say my name or they hear my name or they see me.
Um...
Thank you.
And that's just, that's heartbreaking along the whole way.
You know, so I don't know.
I think I've just been having a lot of thoughts about that.
How do people end up there?
How do people get to a place where they would do that sort of thing?
Now, some people I think are just crazy.
And those are crazy people.
That's different.
But how does someone who's just been, you know, because next thing you know, you're on Twitter.
You get an anti-religious thing.
You're like, oh, I went to a religious school.
I also have trouble identifying in the world, maybe sexually.
So, man, I'm a victim.
It's all, man, you really.
And then your Twitter, your feed, your social media just keeps serving you more of that.
Hey, you're right.
You're right.
You're right.
And then, man, you're gassed up.
So I think a lot of it is a sense of purpose, you know, and having a sense of purpose.
And some of those sense of purposes, like the American one, I can feel.
I felt like when I was a child, it felt like, oh, we're part of this, you know.
But it doesn't feel like that a lot anymore.
But also, I got to recognize that I can still do things to try and make myself have a purpose, you know.
And you find purpose.
And, you know, I'm fortunate that people love me, my family, you know, that I have a job.
I have this podcast to come to.
I have some sense of purpose for myself, you know.
And a lot of you guys do, too.
I think we're kind of a purpose-filled group where we're trying to find that.
But I think that's something that I feel like that's for me, that's something I think that's part of that is that, man, when you don't have a purpose, the dark arts will, they are at your door.
They are waiting on the edge of your ear to come in and get your brain.
And those include like, you know, all the just the links, just the rabbit hole you can go down in that'll make you hate.
Because, man, you find a rabbit hole, when you get halfway to the bottom of that bitch, there's a HOA meeting of just hateful owners association halfway through some of these rabbit holes.
And it's just, it's just dangerous.
So anyway, let's hit some calls, huh?
Hey, Mr. Vaughan.
So lately, I have been coming home from work, and I like just to sit, like whether it's outside, inside, I like to grab a beer and I just sit in silence, like not do nothing.
But my wonderful girlfriend, whom I love very much, oh man, she talks.
She talks so much.
Oh, my God, dude.
First of all, I didn't believe you had a girlfriend.
I was not expecting that part.
That seemed like a surprise to all of us listeners, I would say that.
But that doesn't mean anything.
And what I'm trying to say is, yeah, if there's somebody that talks too much, dude, it's unreal.
It's unreal.
I have an early girlfriend that called me sometimes.
She talks, I don't even, she talks.
Oh my God.
If I even think about her calling, dude, I just get angry.
That's how I get because I don't want to listen to her.
I have people, there's people I won't go spend time with.
They talk to me.
Their wife talks to me.
We're not friends anymore.
We're not friends anymore.
You know, sometimes you got to put your spouse on a word count.
I don't care who they are.
You get 4,000 words this spring.
Do what you want with them.
But when it's done, honey, it's done.
And that's that.
Get a little step thing for words.
Oh, shit.
Cindy gots about seven prepositions left, boys.
That's all she's got.
And two nouns.
Come on over.
It's going to be a quiet time.
We're about to enjoy the game.
But yeah, I don't have a solution to it.
You chose her.
You chose someone.
So you're a lifelong listener, they call it.
And you just a damn, you know, you a damn word pervert, boy.
So you need to do something when she starts talking.
Get that wiener out.
Fucking start drinking your own spit.
Do something.
And it could go the other way, too.
If you have a chatty husband, dude, I was somewhere the other day.
We were in somewhere eating some meat and some guy wouldn't shut up.
It was, you can't enjoy.
Just you got to shut up at times.
And here I am talking into the second hour of a show.
So what do I know?
But let's see what else we got here.
Yo, I need some advice.
I'm down.
My name's Zach.
I'm down here in the Bouti, Louisiana area.
Gang, baby, that's it.
Boutique, baby.
I feel you.
Right over there by the airport, by the big bridges.
Right over there near Laplace, where your boy Billy Conforto used to live and die.
And some weird shit been going on.
I've been having two best friends forever.
And I think they fell in love with each other and turned gay.
And I just don't know how to handle it.
They acting weird.
Well, they're not acting weird, brother.
They're gay.
And they're being gay.
And that's people are doing it.
People are doing it.
You couldn't, I mean, these days you throw a damn frisbee.
It'll hit a gay dude.
That's how popular it is.
It's the new, you know, it's like doing the fries in the free chocolate freezy thing.
Remember when that came out?
That's same type of deal.
But it's men.
It's men doing it.
Yeah, I don't know what you do.
I think you'd be a supportive friend.
Get them a trip, get them a little vacation Or something if you're down there and you know, I don't know, I don't know how what do you do?
I mean, are you trying to see if they are in love or are you because love?
Here's the thing: love ends up trumping everything.
And even if it's gay love, gay love still ends in love.
So, now I don't know.
I mean, yeah, I don't know what you do.
I think you fucking dap them up.
But that's what's going on now.
Every people are being gay, buddy.
And you got it.
If you, I can't, but the odds, you have two best friends and they fall in love with each other, man.
And part of you is probably jealous a little.
That's what's the craziest part.
Because I remember if I had two other friends growing up and if they even hung out together without me, bro, that shit made me mad, dude.
It's like, oh, are you going to tell me fucking Terry and fucking Gerald were at the skating rink yesterday?
And I'm at my house jumping through the ditch smoke because people was burning trash in the ditch by myself playing BLM out there in the smoke and they're having a fun time.
It's tough.
But do you willing to do gay to get all of the friendship?
And that's where one of them said, hey, look, I'm about to secure the bag, dude.
And he's talking about nuts, son.
And that is gay men.
Praise God, man.
Thank you for sharing.
And I think, yeah, you just got to be cool with them.
Just chill, man.
Let them do it.
Let them do it and love them.
All right.
Let's take another one.
Theo, my name is Jamie.
I live in San Diego, California, and I just think something immediately needs to be addressed.
Oh, well, dang.
Let's hear it, Jamie.
Onward.
The president, Joe Biden.
Okay.
Okay.
Look, I think this is one thing I, Joe Biden is, he's a old man.
He has dementia.
It is not cool to do this to an old man.
That's what I feel like.
I don't care what your political stance is, your human stance.
You know, my father was 70 when I was born.
My father was an old man.
So I grew up with an old man and watching them and watching them and understanding their presence and their ability and their mobility, all of it.
And we all know that this man is not suitable for what we have him doing or what people are pretending to have him do.
Because at a certain point, there's no way this guy is making choices or making decisions.
It's impossible.
It's impossible.
He's looking at things.
He's ordering, you know, the other day he ordered an almond or something off the top of a building.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't understand what's going on.
This dude's petting visible cats and damn sniffing children, dude.
It's all just old people stuff.
He's not well.
So at a certain point, we're the kind of country that says, this is what we do with our old.
We take advantage of them to the point where we're even willing to let them be a shill, which I don't know what that is.
It's something, it's like a false front or something for whatever else is going on.
And I think that's pretty sick, man.
If you saw somebody doing this to an old person, you would think it was fucked up.
That's what you would think.
If somebody was doing this to you, if somebody was showing up at your grandfather's every afternoon and making him go in the front yard and say a bunch of shit and then making him go back inside, you know, when they treating him up with ice cream or something and they got, you know, or whatever, child sniffs or whatever, they got a little bag of fucking, you know, nine-year-olds, you know, Barrette sniffing or whatever.
I don't know.
But it would be, you know, good and well, it would be messed up.
So I think it's, I think it's, I think it's fucked up by the, uh, by all of us, by all politicians.
But also it's the Democratic Party.
Your candidate, you got to know this isn't cool.
It's just not cool.
It's not cool to do to an old person.
You know, I don't know what you would, it's like, it's like senior trafficking.
That's what y'all doing.
Y'all senior trafficking that man.
And I think it's messed up.
And it makes, it just reminds me.
And I think this makes me angry because it reminds me of, you know, you would see people take advantage of old people sometimes.
You know, I would see that with my dad sometimes.
People would take advantage of him because of his age.
Or they would manipulate him or use him in ways that he didn't see because he wasn't able-minded enough to notice.
And that shit made me angry.
And it's the same type of shit that these folks are doing on this more on this national, international scale and level.
You know, I don't know.
I'm sorry to let that get me keyed up, but that's real to me, man.
That's real stuff.
Someone shouldn't take advantage of a senior citizen like that.
They should.
It's not, it's not, it's, it's messed up.
It's messed up, and we're acting like it's regal.
Who the fuck are you kidding that this is a regal way to go about anything?
I don't know.
What else do we have, Zach?
Any other calls you recommend?
Sorry, I might need an afternoon off.
It's just been a lot, man.
You know, you go around, it's just a lot, baby boy.
What else?
Who's somebody that's having a tough time with something?
Hey, Theo, my name's Connor.
I'm from Sacramento, California.
What's up, Connor?
Thank you for calling, man.
Appreciate you.
I just want to first thank you for all that you do.
You know, I don't know if you realize how much you do for a lot of people.
You know, the way that you talk, you know, I relate with you so much, even though we have such different backgrounds and upbringings and all that.
But I really appreciate what you do.
And, you know, recently in my life, I'm a new college student.
Thank you, brother.
I appreciate the nice words, man.
It's very kind of you.
Onward.
You know, recently in my life, I'm a new college student, you know, starting my first year.
So a lot is changing in my life.
You know, my parents are splitting up like this past couple months.
And I broke up with my girlfriend recently.
And it's just in such a short amount of time, my life has changed so much.
And so I guess what I'm trying to say is even when my life or just your life in general is changing so much, I find it hard to motivate myself to get out of this low sort of F that I'm in.
So what I'm trying to say is when your life is changing so much and it's throwing so much at you so quickly, how do you stay motivated to really grow as a person?
Anyways, I hope.
Thank you, brother.
I appreciate the call.
And it's funny, that's kind of how this episode started out.
Yeah, I think for one, you got to find some moments of your own.
You have to take a step outside of things.
You have to find time to do that.
And that means, you know, I got to limit myself better on my phone, what I'm intaking, my attention, what I'm giving my attention to.
You know, people, we don't even have imaginations anymore because we don't need it.
The second my imagination used to start like this.
Your brain, you would have a moment of peace.
You'd sit somewhere and then your brain would get bored.
So your brain would start thinking of something or imagining something or creating something, right?
Because imagination is just where creativity does batten practice, right?
That's it.
And next thing you know, you would be imagining something and you would daydream or you would come up with a neat idea or you would come up with a dream or a goal or a realization, something that you needed to take care of that you hadn't.
But that all happened because you had that open space.
You had that time.
You had imagination.
Imagination did that.
Now, the second we get a little bit of free time, we go to something.
We go to a phone.
We go to TikToks.
You go to something.
You do a vaping.
You do a looking at a titty.
You do a something.
You do a something.
Because you can't handle that uncertainty.
What's next?
What's next?
But all that used to be next was imagination.
And we don't have that anymore.
We've replaced it with, let's just watch other.
Let's just watch others or let's find something to take up this moment.
So I'm sorry.
I don't even know where I trailed off there.
What was I saying to this guy, Zach?
Well, he was originally asking about staying motivated when life changes so much, so fast.
Right, okay.
So you got to get that moment for yourself sometimes.
You have to find it, right?
Because, you know, that imagination would give you fun ideas.
It would make your life fun, interesting.
You'd be able to conceptualize.
You'd be able to get a scope of your own life.
So that kind of helped sort things.
Now we're just always like in the experiential mode.
So we're not doing enough of the sorting to give us a good view of things.
And when you don't have a view of things, that can lead to depression.
You're like, oh, I don't know what I'm doing.
Yeah, because I'm not giving myself time to know what I'm doing.
I'm just doing.
So sometimes you need a little bit more time to know what you're doing to get a look at things if things are too hectic.
But yeah, I think to stay motivated, I think more than ever, we're at a time where you have to come to your own rescue.
You know, the dark arts of algorithms and screens and attention seeking advertisement.
You're depressed.
Don't you want these fucking Cadbury eggs?
That shit is at an all-time high.
And you got to, you have to, sometimes you have to come to your own rescue.
And that's the worst thing we want to hear.
Because I want somebody to blame for how I'm, how I'm feeling.
I want somebody to blame.
I don't want to have to put it on my, you know.
I don't want to have to put the cleats on me.
I just want to look at the shoe marks on me and blame them on and say, oh, holy, you know, Deborah did that.
Jonathan did them.
But I don't want to have to get up and make my own prince in the world.
So I think some of it can be that.
You know, parents do get divorced a lot of times when you get out of high school.
They've been waiting to get divorced.
So as much as that can be tough on you, I think try and recognize what their lives have been like.
Maybe just hypothesising.
But recognize that they might have held on for an extra three years because you were still in high school as a child.
So I don't know.
There's a lot there, but even if you have awareness, you're calling and thinking about, well, what do I do?
You know, how do I stay motivated?
What was the last part he asked about?
What do you ask about that?
Just not being able to, like waking up, not knowing the motivation.
It was, you know, parents got divorced, broke up with his girlfriend in college.
Yeah.
Yeah, you got a lot going on.
So I think recognize that and give yourself a little bit of space.
Yeah, you might not wake up with the best, with the with a sense of purpose every day, but if you do start to develop one for yourself, man, it's going to be helpful.
And you can, here's something that I've learned recently from a fellow, a buddy of mine.
And this is my buddy Thomas that used to own Grey Block Pizza.
And they were over there at 1811 Pico Boulevard on the way to the beach, Grey Block.
Get that hitter.
They was the original sponsor of this podcast.
And he told me the other day, he said, hey, man, and they make the blue cube baths now.
He sold the one company and went from doing pizza pies to doing ice plunges.
And he's the fellow that gave me that beautiful ice plunge at the house, that blue cube.
But he said, hey, man, each day when I wake up, I decide if the world is for me or if it's against me.
And that's pretty powerful because right there you're going to get a little bit of sense of purpose.
But having a good sense of purpose is so key, man.
And I believe the world is for you.
I believe that the world is for us.
I really do.
I think that there's predators out there.
You know?
There's dirty lungs out there with damn trumpets.
Tying the trumpets to their mouths.
But that don't mean that we can't fight, baby.
That's what I'm saying.
And I think having a sense of purpose is key, man.
And is the world for me or against me?
Because if I say the world's against me, then that's how my day is going to go.
This world is against me.
But if I say, man, the world is for me.
The world wants me to do well.
The world wants me to do better.
The world wants me to see someone and smile at them.
The world wants me to let someone go if they do something wrong.
Not real, like, look, not crazy.
If they do something, they get your shit, get their shit.
You know, or go get your shit back.
That's what I mean.
But yeah, the world is for me.
So anyway, I believe that the world is for you.
I believe that.
And every day you might not succeed in thinking that way, but over time you can.
I believe that you can.
So I just pray that you have some sense of purpose, man.
I pray that I do too.
Every day I don't, but some that, you know, but more often than not, I feel like I do.
And I'm grateful for that.
But if you're struggling, man, if you're going through something, man, just don't feel like you're alone.
You know, there's people thinking about you.
There's people you can't even see or feel in the distance that care about you.
So let's get out of here the way we came in.
Sorry, this is alone, but I hadn't gotten to spend time with you guys in a little while.
And this was important to me.
I'm going to take a week off at some point in the coming weeks.
And so I'm going to start to figure that out.
But you guys be good to yourselves, baby.
Let's go out the way we came in on Eddie 9 volt little black flies.
