This Past Weekend - #572 - Pickle Chili

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

Theo is back with a solo episode to talk about crashing a firefighter party in the Bronx, taking his mom to the Grand Ole Opry, and angering a guy with his chili toppings. He also responds to some of your voicemails and talks to a guy who survived falling 70 feet off a balcony.  ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ  Valor Recovery: To learn more about Valor Recovery please visit them at https://valorrecoverycoaching.com or email them at [e-mail]  ------------------------------------------------- Music: “There is a Light” by the Stonekeepers feat. David Manuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njJrEtlXBYw  ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [e-mail] Hit the Hotline: [phone] Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh, just clearing the winter out of my throat, baby. Be gone. Be gone, snow. Be gone. Ice. Or hail. Dude, what is hail? It's basically, it's like Italian snow or whatever.

I mean, that shit just fuck you up. It's like Memphis snow. It's like, what do we? What, it's definitely. I gotta look that up. What is hail? Because sometimes it's like you're relaxed and it's raining and then the rain's like, oh yeah, guess what?

Motherfuck. And it just fucking shows up. And it just starts like pinging off your car bouncing off your wife's shoulders and shit. It's bouncing off your steps on or whatever and makes you care about them. Hale is just, yeah, we've got to look into that and see what they're doing.

They're probably charging. us for it. You know, we're probably getting charged for that, I'm sure. Welcome to the episode. Happy Springtime, everybody. Good to be here with you today. What's happening? Oh, I'll tell you, dude, so, oh, I went to a little chili cook off around me. And, you know, I like, man, I'm lying. Chili is always, it's, it's suspect. Chili is a suspect soup, really. That's what it is.

It's just a bunch of, it's like the hail of soups. It's like, all right, all right, soup. I see what you doing. We ride here. It's just that kind of soup, you know. It's thickened up, baby. It's like soup got a BBL, baby, baby. That's chili.

And so I went to a little, I stopped. buy a little, they had a small chili tent cookoff area and they had four vendors or something in there just ladling booty gas edibles into small bowls for people. And so I get up there and I got me some chili and they had one place they were saying we got all the fixings, toppings and this and that. You know, you could put anything on that bitch. You could put cheese, onions, a little bit of GHB, and one place was offering. But I just said, hey, do you have pickles? And the guy just, I mean, this guy looked at me.

I mean, this dude, he was stirring this big pot of chili. He was just a damn, just a damn chili witch, you know? And he was just stirring a big cauldron of fucking booty goop, you know? And I said, yeah, do you have any pickles for? And he's like, you, you want pickles on your chili? And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's what I, because that's what I like. I just, I like, I like putting just pickles on there. And he's like, you want peckles on your fill?

And it was like he couldn't under, I was like, yes, yes, sir. And he's like, you want peck, you, you, you, you, you want peckles on your cellar? He couldn't handle it, man. The dude couldn't handle it. So I guess the moral of that story, you want to pack up? I don't know what the moral of that story is, dude. Who gives a dang?

The moral of the story is, sometimes you want things that people can't give you. I think maybe that's the moral of the story. I got this shirt on. This is a beautiful shirt this was given to me by the Bronx Fire Department and Baby Engine 43.

son, quato dose, baby, QD in the house. I'll tell you what happened. So I was walking down the street, I'd broken my toe, right? And so when you break your toe, you suddenly everything, you see everything a lot clear because you can't go fast. So you go very slow. You ever see that guy that's crossing the crosswalk, like backwards in a wheelchair by himself? And you're like, Jesus, dude. You know, you pray for him, but you're also a little bit pissed, you know.

You're like, dear God, help this motherfucker hurry up. Well, dude, when you break your toe, you go slower than that, dude. He is the hair, you are the tortoise. You go slower than that, dude. So I'm in New York City. I'm walking around and, you know, and I just broken my toe probably 48 hours before. And so that bitch was big and dark. And you could feel it had a little bit of heartbeat of its own, you know, like it had a damn bass track running through it.

And I'm wearing some hey dudes that I have that, uh, because it's easy to get in and out of them, the shoes. And anyway, I'm, you're just slowly going everywhere. You know, so you start meeting people and people are saying stuff at you and yelling, you know, hey, damn, you know, I love their podcast. Get out the street, faggot. Just different. Just New York. just New York hellos, you know, and, uh, and I'm walking past this one spot and this guy

comes up and he's like, hey, you want to, and he'd been drinking and he was either, he was Italian or he was, uh, like fast Polish, you know, or Polo, or, or he was, he was either Polish or, uh, slow Italian, one of the, you know what I'm saying, he was in that cross. And he's like, come on, hey. He was like, my cousin, Jeremy, just got promoted to, um, whatever the top of the fire department, like lead arsonist or whatever. So he brings, there's just a door. He, oh, we go inside and it's a huge.

It's like everybody's like, hey, you want some fire? It's like a fire department, party. And I think this guy, Jeremy or something had just won like hose of the month or whatever. Like, I think whoever's got the most PSI coming out of them, they give them. you know, a, you know, he'd done something, you know, it was an achievement for him. So all of his buddies are there and everybody, they're toasting and cheering and fucking like, hey, get look at this, mother, you know. And they're like, hey, if you ever have a fire, here's my number.

Like, dude, I'm not, if there's a fire. I'm not looking through my phone if there's a fire, you know. and I'm going to call Antonio up, you know, in the South Bronx. I'm calling the fire department. So they're just like, and then they gave me this shirt that we took some photos and they're like cheers and then all for me. They're like, hey, you want some matches, motherfucker. You know, keep us in business. Keep us in business.

They gave me like an eight pack of matches. Those like the cool looking, the old school, like regular looking matchbooks. They gave me this shirt to like, hey, it's flammable. But yeah, it was just like a great experience. So shout out to them. Shout out to all the fire departments out there. Congratulations to the guy that got the promotion. I dated a girl in junior high school, her dad.

Great guy. Threatened to kill me once. But outside of that, awesome. You know, he was a fire chief. And we used to go over there and watch him eat hot dogs and shit. And this was before a lot of firemen are getting in shape and stuff. Now, this is back when they were just over there just snort in Oscar Myers and shit and just squirting catch up on each other's backs, you know?

And just basically just gambling, a lot of them. But anyway, I'm not sure what I'm talking about, what I'm rambling about. But that was the first time at her dad's fire department that ever had chili in my life. that I ever had it. Somebody served it. I didn't know what it was. I had a little bit of it. And then I'd had it.

You know, that's how that all works, you know. But you won't pick a runny chili? You won't pick a runner's jelly. What else has been going on? Thank you to the people that have come out to the shows recently. We've done some dates. We went up to the Pacific Northwest. That was really amazing up there.

so the bill just the way the buildings are the people everybody a lot of people they look clean up there because it rains so much you just get cleaned even if you're just not even if you're dirty um yeah we did a huge show in seattle that was amazing i think it maybe was too many people i know that sounds like a i'm grateful everybody came but i just never been in a venue and it was a it was a big venue right and i just felt a little bad like maybe the people, like some of the seats, it was hard to hear. I don't know. I think some of that's just a fear of mine.

But I don't think that we will do that again. But it's just a learning curve. And, yeah, we had a nice time there, though. I got to see Max girlfriend. We got to go to the fish market. Dude, you go to the fish market. I'd never been to the... Seattle Fish Fair or whatever.

It's like a little circus or whatever that they have every day. And people come, there's dead fish, and you can look at them, right? And you can eat them. You know, it's pretty, it's pretty neanderthalic in a way. But so anyway, we go in Amir K, that's a guy that's touring with me, a great comedian. He like points at the guys running the fish fair. And so next thing you know, they do it. thing where you somebody throws a fish and somebody catches a fish. And so they let me catch the

fish and I fucking, you know, one toss, one kill. Homie, I gripped that bitch. And yeah, it was awesome. I didn't know you're not supposed to spike it after you catch it. So that, that was, I think, frowned upon or whatever, but I didn't know that. And, um, and I'd been watching too many of those gronk commercials or whatever. Anyway, I'm rambling. Um, what else is good? going on let's get into the episode how about that we got a bunch of calls that came in from you guys and i'm going to focus on those today uh i got one story i went to the um grand old operas 100th anniversary i'm going to talk about that and we're going to speak to a miracle today a gentleman named matt up there in canada calgary he's up there and he um he has he's a miracle and we're going to get to

have a moment with him. Let's go. Thank you for joining us. Whenever you're down, your stories and told me free. There is a light shining for you to see. We can be free to tops down to the deepest shadows. Um, you like pickles on your jelly. Be it was a good one of your head. Yeah, my mother came in town for my birthday, actually.

It was last week, and we said, thank you. If you're wishing me, happy birthday in your head. And if you're not, and you're just like, dude, keep talking. That's fine. She came in, and they had the 100th anniversary at the Grand Ole Opry. And my mom likes country music, and she likes older country music. and Blake Shelton was hosting the event and jelly roll was going to perform. And my mom likes both of them.

And so I was like, oh, well, that would be fun for my birthday. I'll have mom. I'll see if mom wants to come in and then we'll go. And so she came in and we went. And what was it? Like we got dressed up kind of. I didn't do a good job of it. What I wanted to wear didn't really fit once I put it on.

So it was just, you know, I just had to change it and wore a jacket, actually, that somebody had thrown on stage in Montana to a comedy shot. I wore that. But yeah, we went over there and it was nice. Who performed? Oh, Alison Krause performed. And, I mean, she has the voice of the evening that I heard. A lot of great voices in there. But my God.

that was just exceptional Clint Black we got to listen to um who's that other guy but don't rock did you Alan Jackson just it was awesome man

we got to sit there and listen to some music together and and you know there was kind of a point in like there was one point we were sitting there and um this is kind of I guess a childish thought or whatever but I was like you know I went I kind of

I kind of wish my mom would give me a little hug or hold my hand or something. I know that sounds crazy to say. I don't mean like hold my hand, but just kind of squeeze my hand. Just something, you know, like we don't see each other that much. And I don't know. This sounds crazy to say this kind of, I guess.

But I've said a lot of weird shit over the years. I just, I was thinking, man, it would be nice if she gave me some sentimental but physical sign like sign of affection. That's what I was thinking. right and so I'm sitting there next to her and uh and then I just reached over and grabbed my mom's hand that's what I did and and then we were just kind of held hands for maybe 30 seconds or something you know just put my hand on top of hers let her know that I care and it was just something like for me like a moment like that is interesting because a lot of

my life, I would just sit there and be like, man, I wish there was this moment of affection, but I wish somebody else would do it, right? Or I'm upset that they're not doing it, you know? And then I just did it. I just reached over and, yeah, my mom's an older lady, you know? And at some point, I got to be, no, that's not it. I don't have to, but I don't know. It was just like, like, well, if I want this, I can also get it for myself, you know? And it really had the same effect. Once I got over the fact of like, oh, I wish they would show the affection first, or I wish they would do the action to be the person providing the affection, which is probably what I thought of a lot when I was a child. But then this time I just reached and I just put my

hand on my mom's hand, you know, because she's getting older. She's. She's not the child now, but she's, you know, just where we're at in our lives, things are kind of even. And it still had the same outcome for me. It made me feel, okay, the second I got over that little moment of kind of jealousy or wishing, or not jealousy, but like, wishing somebody else had started the action. The second I got over that, I just had a nice moment where I got to sit there and just be with. my mother and watch country music, which is something that we both enjoy doing. And something that's important to me in my life, you know, to have moments with my mother where we're doing something that we like to do and we're doing it together.

You know, so I don't know if that sounds weird or whatever. And honestly, I don't care if it sounds weird, you know. I really don't. Part of me does still, but I think that part of me that, you know, that needs those type of moments is like, hey man, finally you're meeting, you're trying to meet just the universe, how you're taking some direction to do something for how you feel, you know? Instead of just, because I always in my life have been caught in this moment,

like, God, I wish they would do this, I wish this, I wish this. So I don't know, that was just kind of an interesting moment for me. And then I put my arm around my mom's shoulder and just, like, yeah, like she was, you know, like she was, you know, my mom and we were just having a nice time. And once I did that, I was getting the react, I was getting what I wanted out of the moment, you know, and I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't have made an effort. I'm not trying to say, hey, look at me. I'm just trying to say, like, for so long, I've always been the person, and I still am a lot of times. But this time I wasn't.

where I'm like, man, I wish somebody would do this so that I would be able to have a certain type of moment right now or so that to show me that they care. And I didn't really realize that if I do it myself, some I can still get some of that same result. So I don't know if that makes a lot of sense or not. And yeah, just I don't know. Yeah, sometimes you, you know, you may only. only want, you know, you may, sometimes you got to put your own pickles in the chili.

You know, that's what I'm saying, I think. I don't know if that sounds crazy, but sometimes if you want pickles in the chili, and that's the only way you're going to have the chili, sometimes you got to bring the pickles, man, because sometimes the world just serves chili. So, I don't know. But, yeah, I want to speak that out loud, too, because, you know, it's just important to me that I start to live in a place in my life where, um,

where I just don't let that uncomfortable moment of like, man, I wish they would do this. So this could be the outcome where I don't let that prevent me from, even if I'm upset at them or whatever, that I don't let that prevent me from maybe trying to take the action myself. I don't know. I know that doesn't apply to everything, but, um, anyway, enough about me, man.

enough about me. We got a lot of great calls that have come in today, and I want to get to some of those. And again, I do want to apologize that we haven't gotten to do these type of episodes a lot. I think about this all the time, you know, and I think that it's important, and sometimes it's just been tough.

And I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that it's been tough. And then, you know, you also have the opportunity to talk to guests, and you're like, you're like, man, I love to talk with this person. And so you just try to balance it. So just bear with me. I just want to let you know that this community is important to me.

And I'm trying to fine-tunes and things in my life a little bit better so things are more organized. So I'm able to spend my energy where I would like to be able to spend it. Anyway, I know I don't need to say that, but I just want you to know that. All right. We have some calls that came in and thank you guys for continuing to hit the hotline. And as always, the number is 985-664-9503. And we got a call right here. Here we go.

Hey, Theo. My name is actually Theo as well. Oh, hello, Theo. Good to meet the others. Onward. I got a situation here. I've been talking to this girl for like two years, and it turns out I got a pregnant. After that all happened, the word got around, and somehow it's,

turns out that she's my first cousin. Any advice would help? And thank you so much. Wow. Dang, brother. That's, uh, ooh. That's, you're going to be raising a dang lizard, homie. You can't, um, wow, brother, good golly.

That's like shooting fish in a family or whatever. I don't know, I mean, I haven't looked at a chart recently. I don't know the, um, the, um, the, genetic legalities of that but it do yeah i mean they say you know don't pee where or don't eat where you don't piss where your family is whatever whatever that old saying is dude you i feel like you've gone past that at this point and um god that thing's gonna have you're gonna need um yeah you're gonna need a uh fairier to come and put shoes on that thing. I'm just chirping you. I'm just chirping you, dude. Look, I feel you. Look, it's having a

child with a cousin, I think, at the very least, it's going to need glasses. That thing is going to need bifocals, brother, you know? I mean, you're just playing Russian roulette with your DNA right there. But at the same time, man, I don't want to scare you, you know, and I do believe, I'm kind of chirping you there still, but I believe that everything is going to be fine, you know. I believe that everything is going to be fine. I think monitor the child's gestation closely, make sure it's tracking, you know, make sure that it has everything it needs. Because it is, bring it up.

Can you, who can, can you have a child with your cousin or not? Let's, that's just a poll. That says 40% say yes. But do you have any information on that? Oh, I should look it up. Who the hell am I even talking to? Dear God, out of my mind today. Can you have child with one cousin?

Ooh, yes, it is physically possible for first cousins to have children, but it is important to understand that such relationships carry a slightly elevated risk of genetic disorders compared to unrelated parents, brother. So I'm just saying not everybody, you know, some people like things different, you know, Some people like peckers on their jelly. You feel me? So it's, yeah, I think you got to make sure that when that baby, right out the gate, put that baby on a damn, you know, let some other people look at it

and sign off on that bastard right out the gate, homie. And definitely I would make sure, you know, make sure it doesn't stand straight up when the moon is full and shit like that when it's real young. Just I'd keep tabs on it. I'd hit a couple high notes near it on the instrument and see if it, fucking see if its eyes turn red or anything, but you're just going to have to keep tabs on it because that's risky.

And look, a lot of people have good-looking cousins, let's say that. But not a lot of them are as brave as you, brother. So, yeah, I would just stay conscious of that and recognize you have an at-risk child,

hire a night nurse or lifeguard or whatever you got to get. Sometimes lifeguards will work overnight. They're cheaper. They're, you know, they know CPR. They don't know a lot of the shit that the nannies know, but they're still there. Got a whistle.

So, yeah, I think just, yeah, just stay safe, brother. And I would back off that type of behavior. You know, if you win this round of DNA roulette, brother, just, I'd leave the rest of the bullets in the chamber, baby, when it comes to family. Let's take another call here. And thank you to the last fellow, Theo, actually, dear God. I don't even realize that. Man, and look, hey, bud, I can't tell you to be honest with you if I'd have had a really good-looking cousin. TBD, homie.

So, the Lord don't give you what you can't handle, you know. But I'm just saying, yeah, just get out, you know, just meet somebody else, meet somebody. you know, because if you're dating your cousin, you're not even getting out there. But maybe you're getting married to your cousin. I don't look, brother. I don't know. I would ask probably a state official or somebody.

I would ask a pastor about this one. But yeah, let's get back to this call that came in. Hey, Dio. I'm in welding school right now. Well, you're in welding school. That's a good school. And I had a family member who started a welding school. business onward and i hate that shit like i genuinely hate that shit and so i've always said my

backup option is the military and i i'm at the point where i'm about to head down to the recruiters office in the in the coming weeks possibly but i just i just wanted to know what you think i should do because i hate wellton but i don't know if i want to sign away four years of my life you know what I mean and it's like I'm 18 so I'm young and I could get out after four years and still not even be 23

but I don't know it's just like a I don't know what to do should I stick with welding school and hate my life for the next few months or the next year and a half or should I quit that and go into the military

and then get a bunch of free shit and a bunch of discounts for the rest of my life Amen, brother. Thank you for asking and just for reaching out. Yeah, it's a good, you know, this is a great question because you're like, do I do a trade or do I go into the military? And especially, you mentioned one thing, yeah, going to the military and you get discounts. Like, I wouldn't go into the military just because you're going to get 15% off at Long John Silvers or whatever. that's not a reason to go into the military for four years just so you can get you know free left shoes at DSW shoes or whatever you know or 11% off of cheesy biscuits

over there at Red Lobsters you know you know that's not I would take that out of the equation and I would just look at do you like welding you're saying you don't like it but do you not like the school part of it. If you don't like this, I would find out what don't I like? Because that's sometimes we say that. I was like, I hate this. But what really do I hate about it? Do you hate that?

You're in school for it right now. Do you hate that you're having to learn it? Do you hate that you have to get up at certain hours to go learn it? Because you may love well and you may not be like being at class at 8 a.m. You know, and I'm not saying those things. I'm just asking you to or suggesting that you think, you know, try to figure out, well, what don't I like about it? Because sometimes I'll just be like, man, I hate that shit.

But I never really look at, well, why do I hate it? What don't? And then I might realize I don't really hate that. I hate this other thing that comes with that. But I do believe that if you get into a trade that you do not like, that you won't enjoy it. And I do believe that there's things out there that we can all do that we would enjoy doing. I believe that there's so many things. So, yeah, I would take a look at that, man.

I would take a look and just decide if you do not like welding and military is your backup, I think the military is a great idea, you know? I mean, you know, I don't think it's a bad idea, especially at your age. I wish I'd have gone to the military. I spent a lot of time just sitting around just trying to lick my own dick or whatever, you know, we're, you know, buying binoculars and shit and just fucking not doing shit or whatever, being a fucking shitty neighbor or whatever, pervert. But, you know, you, if you go into the military now, yeah, you're out in four years and you probably have a lot of skills.

You know, you may, it'll probably help you get up early, stay in shape. All these things that are going to really help shape the rest of your life, right? Now, some people may have went to the military and say, Theo, you know what the fuck you're talking about? Fucking honky, you little fucking queer, you little gun pussy or whatever. That's fine. They can say those things. And I don't, I haven't been. But for you, you're saying that that's what you've thought of as your backup eye.

option, you know. Now, you might, you know, I don't know how long the military will be there, you know, depending on what they keep having our military carry out and the different actions that they have them do. But I think it's an honorable thing. I have a ton of respect for our military. And, uh, and I don't think you would go wrong with that choice. Um, so that's kind of where I'm at with it, you know. And if you went in there, you know, you'd probably make a lot of great friends and you'd learn things about yourself that you like and don't. And then you'd be done and you're right.

You'd only be 22 and a half years old. 23 years old. You got, you have so much time. There's so much time. Man, I wasted a lot of time. And one of the things I wish I'd done as a military. Just because I think you don't also get those moments of camaraderie where you get to be around a bunch of other guys, you know.

So those are just my thoughts. Recognize I have never been in the military. But I do think you have time to do that and do countless other things. And if you don't like welding, you know you don't like it. Then maybe it is time for a backup trade to try or a backup option. What else is going on? Yo, I'm a girl, and I like girls. I had a girlfriend for a while, and recently I found out that...

Okay, so you're a girl. You like girls. And, okay, carry on. And recently I found out that my mom's gay, too. So now, I don't know if I'm gay anymore. Oh, big facts, sister. Okay. Oh, once our parents start doing something, we don't want to do it anymore. So I think that all checks out I think you're good I think just trust your instincts a little mom Here we got a call Let's hear this one

You know sometimes you land On hard times man And you're just trying to get You know food to eat And a place to sleep or whatever And I'm like You know I got a five gallon bucket of pickles And I'm going

I'm feeling a banana from the 7-Eleven, man. I'm going in there, and I'm pocketing these fucking bananas from the 7-Eleven. Yeah, those are free. How long can I laugh? Is what I'm thinking, I was just like,

could I last two months on a five-gallon bucket of pickles and stealing bananas from 7-Eleven? Because I'm eating bananas and pickles, that's all I'm fucking eating. That's all I got to eat, man. It's all I got to live upon. Live upon, man. Yeah, motherfucker. BLM, dude. Look, yeah, if life gives you pickles and bananas, bitch, mix them bitches.

Okay, fuck yeah, dude. I mean, there's only so long you can be trapped somewhere with pickles and bananas and not put them bitches together, dude. Make some binnacles, homie, you feel me? So, look, some picnanas, homie. I think that all checks out, brother. So I don't think there's any shame in it. You can always, once you get your feedback on you, go back to that 7-Eleven and give them money for those bananas. Let's hear a little more. You know, the world is a cruel place. The world is a cruel fucking place, man.

And I realize that, man, when you eating pickles and bananas just to survive. You like pickles on your bananas, boy. You like pickles on your bananas? You like pickles on your bananas. Well, it blows my fucking mind that we can give so much foreign aid to places when we have people who are eating pickles and bananas. Actually, pickles of bananas are pretty good, so that's not what I mean. But yeah, you would think we'd be able to help our own people that are starving first over here.

That's just kind of how I feel. I'm kind of an American. I'm a North America first kind of guy, I guess, because that's us and our neighbors. But what the fuck do I know? But yeah, man, honestly, you sound pretty healthy. you sound like you're doing pretty good you're gonna hit a couple of high notes dude i think you're fine i join a church choir have somebody make some tic-tok see if you can start selling tickets on the road brother you're gonna be fine but yeah sometimes we all get in tough moments

trying to think of something where i was kind of down to my last dime oh i do remember I'd get that block of damn hamburger meat. That bitch came in a missile. That bitch, they dropped that bitch off a C-130. That thing, you know what I'm talking about? It's shaped like a, like both ends are kind of a weaner, kind of like the front end of a weiner. God, that thing was heavy.

You had to carry it out like this, you know? And sometimes I'd mix it up by the damn Dura Flame log and accidentally put that bitch in there and just cook that bitch and having to spoon it out the fire to eat it. Call the fire department. Hey, take some matches, huh? But yeah, man, it sounds like you're doing okay. Let's...

What else is going on? What else can I tell you about that happened to me recently? Not much. Going to eat dinner with my neighbors. Looking forward to that. hitting the road for some more shows. Yeah, we went last week. Oh, Victoria Island,

which is a beautiful, fascinating little, it's like this cold white Hawaii off of the coast of Vancouver. But just great people, man, Canadians, and we're grateful to see them. I'm a Winnipeg Jets fan. Just letting everybody know that now, too. I don't want that.

to cause any issues between me and anybody else, but that's, I'm a Winnipeg Jets fan. So I think their jerseys are fire, and I like the, I like their, they're doing good. And that's good. So, okay, I think that works. What else? Let's take this call right here. Hey, Theo. I hope you're doing well.

I'm calling you today, see if I can get your perspective on something. My girlfriend of four years, she passed away five and a half months ago. She, it wasn't a not a surprise, but, you know, she had cancer. We thought that she had a little more time. But, yeah, since then, I've spent most of my time doing nothing, you know. I would visit her grade every day for months, which is good, I guess, for getting out of my apartment. But I would just let the time pass, you know. But recently I've started going back to school full time and working again.

And honestly, I feel like I'm just doing it because it's expected of me, you know, from people around me, my family. like peers. So maybe some people just expect me to move forward pretty fast, but, you know, I don't want to, you know. Well, thanks for the call, man. I'm sorry to hear about that. I can't even imagine that in the sense of losing a girlfriend or a partner spouse. You know, I've lost people that I've loved, you know. and it yeah it feels so impossible

because I think it's so many things at once it's like you know something is gone and then the finality and the the the viciousness of life is so evident and at the same time the preciousness of life and

and how beautiful life is that it could even exist. All that happens at the same time. And then it's not even about us, really, because they're the ones who has life has ended. So there's probably sometimes feelings of guilt that I had of like feeling bad. That's, I'd lost someone, you know, or not being able to separate the feelings into, okay, I'm in pain or I miss.

them or I'm just loathing in my own sadness. I'm getting into self-pity. Like all those types of things happened. I remember for me at the same time. And for one, it's just so much. And for two, it's hard to organize it and to even start to think and decide which feelings go where. I'd rather just sleep. I'd rather just hope that this goes away. I'd rather dream. I used to do that a lot. When my dad died, I would just try and dream a lot because I felt like if I was dreaming, maybe I had a chance to, like, see him or that my feelings could be different, or I could be living a completely different experience. So I think a lot of it is normal.

And I bet it's hard to get back into the flow of something when you've lost, like, a partner. Because you probably think a lot of your life as having that partner there with you. And I think practically, even if you're doing something, just even if you're doing something, just even If you don't feel it, just have the practice of it until your feelings and your emotional wellness catch up with your actions. Because one day they will, you know, and you'll be glad that you had started doing these things. Yeah, I don't really know what to say, man. Oh, I just appreciate you, like just telling us what's going on. Hmm.

Maybe some people could call in, actually. and share things that if you had some experience with the loss of a loved one and I would say a wife let's because this is a man calling I believe and so if you lost a wife or a girlfriend you know and they passed away and if you have just some maybe some experience with that if you could drop up call on the voicemail 9-8-5-664-9503 we will come back to that on our next solo episode. I don't know when it'll be. It'll be within the next month. But we'll come back to that and see if we have some answers. Maybe we can get some suggestions from other people. But yeah, man, I hate to even leave you on this call. But yeah, life is just, sometimes it's just a lot of freaking pickles on your

chili, isn't it? Love you, brother. Let's take another call. It's hard to say when somebody's going through something like that. You know, but that's just also the oddness of the world. It just keeps moving. You can't stop it. The world doesn't have any handlebars on it. Time just doesn't have any. It doesn't.

You can't get your hands into it. That's the most painful part sometimes of everything. Let's take a call here. Thank you. I'm not having a really hard time right now. I'm 16 years. I don't have a job nothing

I got my girlfriend pregnant okay she just turned 18 actually not too long ago I'm just kind of in this moment where I don't know what's coming for me in life

like I feel like I felt myself because I made stupid adult decisions at such a young age and it hurts me really bad and I honestly just don't know what to do. I'm kind of in this, like, moment where I feel like I felt everybody around me, including my parents, and I'm just not going to be the dad that I'm supposed to be.

And I'm just scared. I'm just looking for any advice. Well, at least she's not your cousin, brother. I'll start right there and people can say well that's just that's cool to be joking but hey one last thing the guys got to

kind of think about right now no man look first of all the fact that you're calling even to talk about this shows I think a level of maturity that is a lot of people wouldn't do so right

you're curious you're looking at what's going on you're evaluating where you're at and you're like well I want to get to a place where I feel either confident about this or I have some support in this. So how do I get there? Well, I'm going to reach out to other people and see what's going on. See if I can get some thoughts, some suggestions, even to somebody to listen to me. Yeah, that's young to be out there gunning like that, you know, just to be rooting through some

trap out there with no visor on, daddy, you know, with no hoodie on. Yeah, but that's the world we're in. So I wouldn't be, you are where you are. You could also look at it as that God has gifted you guys with an opportunity. I think people will probably be disappointed maybe in where you're at because they don't want to see you miss out on opportunities for yourself that could, that there might be less of if you have a child. That's probably what the disappointment is.

I don't think it's disappointment in you having a child. It's probably disappointment that, well, this may affect your ability to chase some of your dreams or ideas because you have a responsibility now. Now, I'm sure that as time goes on and this child comes into the world, it's going to bring a lot of love in everybody's life. So don't think about just that, man. Let me see what else did you say.

I feel like I felt everybody around me, including my parents, and I'm just not going to be the dad that I'm supposed to be. Well, we don't know if you're going to be the dad that you're supposed to be, you know? that's ways still to be to be determined you know we don't we don't know you that hasn't happened yet so don't future trip like that um shit the fact you care about this this much already i think you're probably going to be a pretty caring guy you know and you're going to have a while i'm

assuming a girlfriend or wife or her and her family as well are going to help support this child so you didn't mention that that that's going to be a fear um i think everything's going to be okay dude I think it's going to take some time. I bet it's super scary, bro. 16 years old. And you're having a child, that's, that's, that's, again, that's kind of scary. I think you got, you got to let this play out, man.

I think you have a chance to be a young dad. Now, that'd be cool. Think about that. You're going to get to do stuff with your kid that a lot of parents will not be able to do. So it gets to play tetherball, get to do probably some racing, quads, like some kind of high-speed shit that, you know, some parents kind of age out of when

their kids age into it. Probably be able to play video games, do some VR-type shit. So there's going to be interesting stuff. But all I'm saying is that don't let all the fear take away all the possibility, you know. Now, you're probably going to have to grow up pretty quick. And there might be a part of your adolescence you're going to miss out on. Or it's going to be different or trickier. in fact you're probably going to grow up pretty fast in some ways but maybe that's what god need you for

you know you just don't know we don't know what we're needed for in the future so just hang in there man this isn't the end of the world hell this is the beginning of a life you're responsible for so it's just i know it's got to be scary it's easy for me to say that you know i'm sure there's me moments where it's really scary. But try to squeeze into those moments of fear some possibility. Man, because that's cool, dude. You get to make a child. You get to have a child that you're going to take care of.

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Thank you. from time to time on this program we talk with miracles human beings that have that are the corn of the that are the cream of the death crop people that have come so close to the grave but managed to stay out of it big bosses we call them big bosses they call them in some um polynesian areas and today We're grateful to be able to talk with another miracle here. There he is. Big dog, Matt, how are you? I'm living the dream, man.

Living the dream. Amen, brother. Yeah, we'd love to get to talk to people who've had miracle experiences in their lives. And I just really appreciate your time today. How do you say your last name there, brother? Tyberg. Mateus Tyberg. Oh, this ankle makes me look so fat, but that's okay.

Oh, that's fine, man. My sister's fat. And that's perfectly fine. Mateus Tyberg, where are you located, brother? I live in Calgary, Alberta. Oh, yeah. Yeah, a lot of good people up there eating steaks and just, what are they doing? Mining for gold.

Is that the gold area? Gold oil. Yeah. Memphis gold. Memphis gold, yeah. Now, you've had quite. an experience in your life you've had a i've heard that you've had a couple miracles kind of occur in your life can you kind of take me through like some of that that situation yeah how did it start

well there's so many different situations i mean i've been out a party where i seen somebody that jumped me before so i told them let's run the fade or just apologize to me and i guess he didn't to do that. So he ended up chasing me and I tripped and I got stabbed 10 times at once. Oh. Lost two thirds of the blood in my body. My God, brother. I'm sorry to hear that.

Thank you for just telling us about that. Ten times, that's a lot. I mean, did they, do you, do you feel like that was a lot? You feel like it was too many? Like, how did you? Honestly, you can't feel it. because all of your nerves are on the top of your skin. So it just feels like you're getting punched,

but you're bleeding, you're leaking. Oh, God, brother. And how do you, how do you, and if two-thirds of you is gone, what do you do at that point? Were you able to call the authorities, or what do you do? Oh, one of my buddies was on the phone with EMS and Snapchatting it. He was Snapchat and also? Yeah.

Oh, dark times, but you got to make. content, you know? Yeah. And which hole do you plug? Say you have 10 stab wounds, I guess. They're referred to as by the government or whatever. Do you plug one up? Do you pick the most kind of active one?

What do you do there? Honestly, you don't really know what to hold on to, man. It was more or less my stomach hurt. So that's why I was holding my stomach But I was half dead by the time I got to the hospital So did you pass out? Oh, yeah Wow

And did you have any experience? You remember anything when you passed down? Like did you? I just remember because I was on Xanax too. So I woke up in the hospital And then, yeah, I woke up in the hospital. And then apparently you're only allowed two visitors at once and eight people come at once to come visit me

So then they kicked me out of the hospital Like three days after it happened Because what, you guys were partying a little too much or whatever? Yeah, pretty much And were you allowed to drink in the hospital or no? No, no, I wouldn't drink They were just mad because all my friends showed up at once I was okay

Wow, man Yeah, a lot of people don't live through something like that, man No, I've been hit. hit by the sea train. I've, oh yeah, the best one is, wait,

hold on, what, you got hit by a, well, what happened was, is my buddy knew this foreign exchange student. He gave money to these guys to try and buy them a pack of cigarettes. These guys are like 30 years old.

They just told them the fuck off for keeping your money. So I decided to go up and punch them as harder as I could in the head. And I didn't realize the police are there. so I'm getting chased by this guy's buddy with like a foot long knife I keep looking back still getting chased by the guy with the knife then I look back it's the cops chasing me so I'm at one end of a semi and the cop is at the other end of a semi truck yeah we're playing peekaboo

to see where I'm wearing a bright red Chicago Bulls jacket and I'm freaking hammered so Dude, that's a fresh outfit, baby. Scotty dripping, huh? Yeah. And what happened was I ended up getting arrested for assault. I got bail two weeks later. I'm at the same train station that I punched the guy at.

I'm hammered standing on the platform. And then I get sucker punched in the back of the head. And oh, who is it? The guy stole that kid's 20 bucks. And then he just ended up pushing me like that. and I fell onto the train tracks and the train was coming in so I didn't know what to do

I just throw my body above the yellow line and it caught my legs and dragged me like 15 feet they like ripped my shoes off ripped my pants in half Oh God, it's a pervert basically Yeah Who knew that train was a pedophile also That sounds like a bit much huh

Dude that's insane man And so were you drunk or were you already impaired when the train hit you? Or what kind of condition were you in physically just at that point in your life? Oh, yeah. I was an everyday alcoholic. We would all, all the boys would meet. Well, what, I got this question though. Sorry to interrupt you there.

But what kind of train driver would hit a, just hit a guy, would hit a drunk guy? Did you ever speak with the driver? No. Well, the thing is, is, The sea train's moving so fast, right? So it's coming to dock into the station to let everybody off. There's nothing he really could have done to... I don't know.

You can see a white dude most of the time, you know, no matter what's going on. But damn, brother, I can't believe that. And so you were stabbed ten times you've been hit by a train, but God had more in store for you, didn't he? What else happened? The biggest one was the balcony, because I ended up buying some cocaine that wasn't all cocaine.

So there was meth in it. Oh, yeah, right. Them moguls got some bounce to them, huh? Shit, man. Every time I look through the little hole in my door, there'd be four people outside with weapons trying to bust in. That's what I would see.

I'm dragging the couch. Like a diorama kind of. Yeah. I'm dragging the couch with the landlord on it to the front door to try and block it. Damn, brother. He told me to go to bed, so I went to bed and woke up. All I could do was get a glass of water.

I looked through that people in the door, and the same thing. People looks like people with guns are trying to bust in the apartment. So I tried to go from my balcony over to the neighbors, and I'm on the seventh floor. And who are the neighbors? Can we let's, who are they? There was nobody even in there. That's why I was trying to get over to the. And how far is that?

Is that a jump you're trying to make? Or did you have a kind of a rope set up or anything like that? Did you have a little treboschet, anything? Shit. Like, if you reached across, you could pass a beer to your neighbor. So it wasn't that far. Okay. I just was trying to leapfrog over.

I know it's kind of stupid, but when you're fucked up like that. Oh, it's a great idea. I mean, here's the thing. People don't realize that people that are wasted have done amazing. things. You know, one of the guys, have you heard of Lewis and Clark? Yeah, I think so. One of them was an addict, and they

discovered like a third of the North America, so let's don't, you can't always beat down on addicts. But so take me out there, you're on the balcony, you're high on cocaine, and what is your plan is to make that leap over to the other balcony? Yeah.

And then the shitty, I guess the shudiest attempt ever. And was it windy? Was it windy? Yes, it was. Yeah. Brother. Big Maddie, dude.

Taking on the freaking boreous twins, brother. Take it on the jet stream up there. Seventh floor Maddie, one shot. And how do you make that leap, dude? Take me through that. Are you wearing shoes? At first, I stood up right on the thing and held my hand on the wall. But I was wobbly.

Yeah, on the rail of it. So then I was wobbling, so I was like, oh, shit, I'm going to fall. So I, like, crouched down to try and, like, leap like that. Oh, yeah, get some build up a little bit of energy or whatever, what it's it called, potential energy. You crows down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, leap my, leapfrog my way down all the way, 70 feet.

What happened? Did you bounce off the rail or you even hit the other balcony? Oh, I didn't even hit the other balcony. I'm sorry, dude. Sorry to laugh. There's a glitch in the audio. Yeah, no, it's all good. It's pretty.

I laugh about it, dude. And now, man, you play stupid games. You win stupid prizes, you know? Yeah, but that's also, that's one way to look at it, man. But I think another way to look at it is that, uh, you're a miracle, you know? A lot of people do not get to live through stabbings, through train hittings, through falling. How far do you fall? 70 feet.

Okay. And take me, Jesus Christ, that's a lot. And take me through some of that, like when you first hit the, once you first realized you're not going to make the first balcony, were there lower balconies you could have grabbed? Not when, because damn, you fall so fast. I was 200 pounds at the time. And if you weigh 200 pounds and you go over 50, fall 50 feet, you go terminal velocity.

Really? So I hit, yeah, I hit the ground going terminal velocity for the last. twice. Big dog went down brother. God, dude. And so what were some of your thoughts

during that? Did you get into a certain position to absorb the impact? Or were you just kind of like letting, were you praying? What was going on? When I fell down, actually,

I've seen like some people on like the third or fourth or whatever floor it was. They were outside smoking on their balcony. Oh, that's pretty cool. I hit the ground. They look over at me. and I tell them to bring me some liquor because I know I go to the hospital.

I can't move my damn body and I was an alcoholic at the time. Wow. Who survives that, brother? I don't know, man. I've honestly almost died even more times than that. Like when I was a baby, I fell into a motel pool while my parents weren't there.

And I was drowned, pronounced dead. And I came back. So, yeah. Well, you must feel like God, And once you're here for a reason, brother. Yeah. What do you feel like that is after all this? I mean, that's countless times you've escaped death, man.

You know, a, you know, forced to swim as a baby. Train hitting. Stabbing, stabbing, or high, you know, high amount stabbing, 70 foot fall off of a balcony. Yeah, I've been stabbed other times, too. But I think, right, I understand what you're getting at, but I think, what do you feel like you're, do you feel like you have a bigger purpose? There's a reason. A lot of people are not able to go through all that, man.

You understand that's pretty miraculous. Do you understand that? Yeah. Amen, brother. And how are you doing today? What's your physical state today? I'm a tetraplegic, so I can, like, I can't feel or move anything chest down. I can move my arms, but my fingers.

are stuck like this. Oh, yeah, kind of like Muhammad Ali or whatever. Yeah. But at the end of the day, I don't ever complain about it because, man, I'm the one who wanted to do Coke,

and I can't blame that on somebody else. I mean... And you're a survivor, brother. You're a damn, you know what I'm saying? You're a damn gravity monkey, dude. Do you think you will ever walk again, brother? Um, probably not, but I'm okay with that. I don't really, I love watching YouTube.

There's so much people come up with stuff every day. Oh, yeah. Gives me something to do. Oh yeah, you can watch people walk on YouTube all day if you want and take it easy, you know? Yeah. But man, I just, yeah, I appreciate you just jumping on and I appreciate you paying attention to the show. And, yeah, we're going to come to Calgary, dude. You got to come out.

I'd love to get to meet you out there. Yeah, I'm coming. I already got my VIP tickets, so. Sweet, bro. Well, yeah, we'll have to catch up, dude. I don't want to touch some magic limbs you got on you, Daddy. I want to rub them bitches for good luck. Hell yeah. Where do you live these days, man? I live in, well, now I'm so crippled. I got to live in like a long-term care home. So I'm the youngest here. It's pretty much just older people. Any chicks in there or what?

No, not really. Any disabled chicks? You got to pray to meet the one you want. That's what my friend told me the other day. He said, are you praying to meet the woman you want to meet, you know? Yeah. So I got to start working on that. I kind of gave up because once you sever your spinal cord, man, you can't even bust a nut.

I've busted a nut since I fell from that balcony. Oh, damn. How long before you had fallen to have you busted a nut, you think? the day before. Amen, brother. Amen. Finish strong. Yeah, finish strong.

And look, man, you're going to bust one. We're going to, if we can do anything, if we hear of anything that, you know, could help you any elixirs or anything like that, we'll see what we can do, man. But yeah, dude, that's, that's what, if you can get hit by a train and still be alive or whatever, you can, you'll get another. nut out. Oh yeah. That would be nice. Amen, brother. Well, thank you so much, dude. Give my best to everybody up there in Calgary, bro. America's getting weird. We're probably all going to come up there soon, so save me room up there, big dog. Yeah, Calgary is probably the best, nicest city in Canada, I think. Dude, Canada's so great, man. And it's safe, too. That's the best thing about your stories I noticed is that you didn't get shot in one of them.

Yeah. I've been shot at, but. But that don't count. You got to come to America to get shot, brother. That's where we do it. They won't let me across the border. We'll see what we can do. Well, look, right now you're probably an insurance risk, I would guess.

Yeah. But yeah, dude, that's a good thing about Canada. They got knives. So you always stand a chance, you know. That's one thing I like. Yeah. Yeah, at least you're not getting shot and just killed it. Yeah, that's so bullshit and lame, dude.

I mean, look at you. If you got shot that first time, you wouldn't even, you wouldn't even get hit by a train. That's crazy to say, but you would, you know, the other stuff wouldn't even have happened. You wouldn't have had these other experiences, you know? Yeah. So, you're like the worst evil can evil in some ways, you know? Sorry, dude. That's not funny, but.

It's all good. It is funny, dude. I laugh at anything, man. If I didn't become a criminal before, I would have became a comedian, dude. I just didn't have any father figure in my life. So I was homeless 16 years old downtown selling weed. So not making good choices, but...

Well, you're alive today, man. Yeah, I do believe that you're here for a purpose. And even as sharing your story right here today, man, you know? Resilience is huge. And I think the future is bright. brother, I believe that, and I'm just glad I got to talk to you today. And we got our first Canadian miracle right there, Matt. How do you say your last name?

Tyberg. Matt Tyberg, right there, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't believe in miracles, you got to believe in them now. That's what I feel like. And Matt, thanks your time. I look forward to catching up within a couple months. All right, awesome. Sounds good. Have a great day.

All right. You too, brother. Cheers, man. Cheers. Matthew. you Tyberg right there. Let's see if we got one more call that came in here. Hey, Theo.

This is Willie Boones. What's up, pal? Willie Bones coming through, baby. Breaker Breaker 1-9, go through Bones. What's up, gang? Yo, man, I just got one question for you, man. I'm dealing with active addiction, with, you know, the blow or whatever.

Yeah, doing cocaine, brother. hear you, what's going on? And I'm just, I just want some tips or some advice, man, on how I can keep this shit. Like, there's that problems, man, I say I'm going to stop,

never do. I'm sure, you know, you went through the same shit there, but... Well, thanks for calling, Willie. The only things I know about this are I don't think you can quit cocaine

without quitting alcohol. That's... For me, that's what I've seen. I'm not saying that's everybody's case. I'm not... That's for me. For me, that's what I've seen. And then let me think about what else. Yeah, I think you have to get into recovery. Now, if you're pretty bad off, first, you need to go to a detox. And then once you're clean, then you need to get into a recovery program.

You know, maybe a 30-day or an impatient or then start to go to cocaine anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous meetings with a friend. If you don't like cocaine-inonymous meetings, I suggest Alcoholics Anonymous because there's more meetings and it's the same thing. cocaine and alcohol aren't the same thing, but addiction is the same. So if you can apply the same principles and you can talk to a sponsor about doing that. I wish I had some other cure for you. That's the only thing that I know that's ever helped me. So I wish you the best of luck, man. It's scary.

You know what I realized too about drugs? For me, I was just too much of a pussy to do them, really. Some people could get all fucked up and have a blast. I couldn't do that. I'd get all fucked up and squirrel or whatever. I'd hide in your fucking mailbox, bitch. UPS, boy. I'll hide in your cousin's ass, boy.

Take everybody's temperature in there, dog. Praise God, man. Thank you for calling, brother. And thank you guys again for all the support. We may add a few more shows to this tour. We're almost done with it. And I just want to let you know that. Thank you everybody that's come out.

I can't even believe it. What else can I update you on? Oh, we're figuring out some of our our stuff with the foundation and what we're going to do, been doing some calls with different people and just figuring out how to like make a positive difference in the in the world or in our community starting there. So that's something that's exciting. I want it to be in the recovery space.

I don't know what it all looks like. But in my spare time, I've been just discussing with other people who have done similar type things. And I just need to pray a little bit more and see if I can get more insight. you know, just to lead me to something. Because I, yeah. I mean, there's causes for sure. There's lots of things, but I want to, I want to, yeah,

I want to land in a space that I'm going to feel motivated to keep doing, you know? One more call that came in. Hi, Theo, it's Lenore from Florida. Hey, Lenore from Florida. Thank you for calling. I'm calling to wish you a happy birthday, because if I remember right, it's March 17th. Anyway, I'm sending you a big virtual hug. I want you to know you're a very special person, a shining light of not only laughs,

but of so much love and compassion. I hope you're doing whatever makes you happy today. Keep shining your light. Love you, Theo. Gang. Oh, thanks, Eleanor. That's sweet of you. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's just sweet of you to say.

I feel, you know, I think I feel a little more purposeful sometimes in my life these days, I think. I think there was this moment kind of even when I had, whenever we talked with Kat Williams on the episode and he said, well, I was talking about, well, I don't know about this. I don't know about that. And he's like, well, what don't you know? He's like, you're here. You're in this conversation right now. you're in this moment. So to keep second guessing everything,

you know, you're here. Right? Like, like, as I think there was something like, I don't know if we should talk about that. He's like, well, when are we going to talk about it? We have to talk about this is, we're here talking about it. You know, in a lot of my life, I've, I've, I've been standing in, you know, I've been standing in the, in the wall.

water, but not really ready to get wet. But it's like, but I'm in the water, you know, but it's like I'm waiting for this, you know. But there was this moment with him where he's just like, this is where you are. This is, and I don't mean me, but it's anybody, this is where this, if it's happening now, it's happening now, like, you know, because a lot of my, I'm always like, get old this and later and this. And it's like, you know, so I do feel sometimes a little more purposeful.

I don't know even what that means exactly, but I just, I don't know. I start to feel a little bit more okay where I am, you know, and that, yeah, I believe that, yeah, I believe that God's given me a lot of neat stuff, opportunity. Like, you know, I believe that you guys have helped me learn, like, how to express, like, my feelings and learn about, yeah, just thinking. and feeling together. We've done a lot of that on this program over the years. And yeah, I think at some point, you know,

there are positives from that, you know? And so I think, yeah, that's where I feel. I feel like a little bit like there's a reason that all this has kind of happened and that there's some positives and let's start to maybe see what those are.

And not just in me, but just like, yeah, what can be done as a group what what can uh start or be a part of starting um or what can we be a part of starting that could uh be of service you know i don't know i don't know exactly what i'm saying but but i'm able to say it now more than i felt like i was in the past and feel like that's where i'm supposed to be so you got to feel lucky to be alive you know lucky to get to see certain things and I think America's getting weird and interesting and it's getting like good versus evil type shit and I'm here for that shit you know I think we've all always wanted

to live in like in the uh griffindor versus slithering type shit type shit um so but anyway thank you thanks for the happy birthday wishes what did I do my buddy John Shahiti from um from from Happy Dad sent me a gift. I haven't even opened it yet. My, did my brother give me something? I don't know. My brother came in town too and his buddy's friend was up here visiting their kid. Their kid was in show choir at the Grand Ole Opry or at the Opry Mills. So I got to spend some time with them. What else do we do? Took mom to my favorite breakfast place. That was fun. Oh, my mom did give me a gift. She got me. an ounce of silver, you know.

My mom was never a gold digger. She was a silver digger, though. Shout out to silver diggers, dude. They don't end up with shit, but, you know. But they're not gold diggers, dude. But my mom, like, you know, she's ready for, like, the end of things, right? So she's ready. She's like, when the banks go awry and all the, you know, everything falls apart online,

you can have, you could have real silver and you can trade it for stuff. So she got me, like, an ounce of silver. That was really cool. I never had that. And what else? Oh, I got a pair of boots. I bought myself a pair of boots that I really like. And what else did I do?

Oh, I texted some of my friends that had the same birthday. I'm trying to think. Oh, I had to work. I had a podcast that I did with a hostage negotiator. That was pretty cool. So got to do that. And did that? Is that when I did that?

Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I did, man. I did the things, yeah, that I like to do on my birthday. I think I went and worked out. I got to podcast. I got to listen to some music with my mom. And it was great. And I'm grateful to be here with you guys today. And yeah, thank you, Lenore, for the sweet message. And thank you. I don't know what that was. And thank you, everybody, for the support. And, yeah, the hotline is always, if you need it, 9-8-5-664-9-5-0-0. three. And, yeah, there's a light out there for all of us, man.

You know, for all types of people. And life sometimes, you know, you just don't get it the way you want it, but it's still, I don't know, sometimes you've got to meet it halfway, man. Sometimes you've got to put your own pickles on your chili, brother. But there's a light for all of us. You guys be good to yourselves, baby. You deserve it, man. No reason told

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