This Past Weekend - #664 - Crooners Welcome

Episode Date: June 21, 2026

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And thank you, David Spade, for letting me just go on that adventure with you, champ. Amen. All right. What's going on, baby? um it's greasy but you know it's greasy dude i i was at um where was that some little area or something the other day in uh like a food area and they had a fella and he was selling food you know and uh mexican food and and he's like he puts it on my plate and it's like it was really like like it had like a lot of grease or something like

I think it was called Alpastor or whatever. And it was a new type of meat. Like 15 years ago they didn't have it, right? And then suddenly it's like on the meat, when you look at the meats or whatever on the section, on the menu, or sometimes they put a menu like up in the air, like at a restaurant or whatever. If you're over at a, you know, you stop in a little restaurant, a little Mexican restaurant, or you're at an um uh uh r b's or so they'll have on the menu they have a menu up in the a

or where everybody can read it at the same time because some places if it's a little some place they give you your own menu and some places they want everybody to read it together uh like group reading or something you know my family and stuff sometimes we'd go after a church and we'd all hold hands and read the menu together and uh people would yell f fatt's or whatever at us but That doesn't matter. Anyway, what am I talking about? Oh, so I was saying, dude, so the guy he, I'll order the food, the Alpastor. Because I'm thinking, oh, the pastor, right? This, you know, I'm thinking, yeah, I'm going to connect with the pastor. I don't know. We just come from church. I'm thinking like it's a religious thing. You know, I'm going to order Al Pastor or whatever. But it's Alpastor. It's Spanish, right? And in Spanish, and in, let me see what it means here. Pastor. macken dish, mackettish, mackettish, dish, marinated pork, and shaved off. It says also shaved off.

Vertical split, shaved off. So this is something that's, you know, it's shaved off. But anyway, the guy puts it on the plate and he's like, oh, it's greasy, you know. And it had like a lot of grease in it. He's like, man, it's really greasy. and he's looking at me like like I'm supposed to do something like I just bought it from you

he's acting like I made it like greasy or something I didn't make it greasy you served it to me he's like man it's really greasy huh it's greasy I'm like yeah it's greasy bro

it's greasy for sure but like I didn't want it like that and then I went and ate and I'm sitting there eating it And he looks over at me from behind the counter like, man, it's greasy, huh? And I'm like, yeah. I mean, you made it. You knew it was greasy when you give it to me.

But it's crazy. That's like, say you buy a car from me. And then before you come get it, I take all the windows out of it and shit. And I'm like, man, it's windy in here, huh? Like, yeah, like, you took the windows out, right? Like, yeah, yeah, it is windy. It shouldn't be, but you know why it is, right? Like, that was the thing.

And bro, some people don't even know that windows, they put them to stop the wind, right? People don't even realize. Because people were sitting in a car, they used to not have any windows in there. So you'd be sitting in a car and people would just be in there just cold, just like, oh. And then they put the wind O's in, and it stopped the O's, and it stopped the wind.

So I think for me it's just kind of like, how has my week been or whatever? You know, it's been life, bro. It's been life, bro. Sometimes it's like, it's South Pastor, bro. Sometimes it's greasy. You know, sometimes it's just life's just a second class. meet, bro. It's a second-class meet.

And that's okay, bro. You know, it's still an, uh, is still an entree, bro. It's still an entree. I'm a second-class meet. I'm a third or fourth-class meet sometimes, bro. But I'm still an entree, baby. Gang, I'm upstairs.

Amen, bro. Good to see you guys today. Good to be here. It's been a while, bro. Since we checked in on a solo episode, we had stage coach I hadn't checked in with y'all since we had a stage coach adventure and man that was a time bro

you know I got to go on stage at stage coach and you should it's in the name of the place right stage coach what do you think I'm expect when I get there you know so um but yeah I got to go on stage out there with Miss Ella Langley and boy I'll tell you it's I felt like a mountain lion out there. At first I was like really nervous, you know, because I had to do my lines.

But when I got out there, I did a couple lines. And then I looked around, I said, dang, I'm a mountain lion. And that's how I felt. I was just, I don't know. It was just like, you know, it was just like the Lord was just tossing chunks of magic to people and I caught one. That's what I felt like. It was pretty, yeah, it was pretty, it was an amazing experience just to get out there.

I'm not a singer, right? I'm not a singer by nature, right? If you ask me to sing, bro, it's greasy. You feel me, bro? That's how it is, bro. That's how it is with me. But I am, I did realize this, bro. I'm a crooner, bro.

I'm a crooner. Let me to see what a crooner is. crooner plural a crooner's a male singer who performs sentimental songs and jazz standards using a smooth low and highly intimate voice bro that's me because the song it would just like a singer might be like and this is what it's all about but the crooner bro he just comes in at the end bro he touches up he's like the kind of guy that does the bass boards in your house, right? He don't do all the painting, baby, but he'll come in and just, you feel me? It's like, it's a magical time at the county fair. And then the crooner comes in, and he's like, at the county fair. You feel me? That's him. So that's me, bro. You know what I'm saying?

I'm not the singer. I'm not the painter. I'm not doing all of that. I'm not doing the architecture. I'm not doing all that. But when they come in and they need that dog at the end, just to, do you know? You hear all those? That's called stair-step vocals. I'm trying to give another good popular song.

Fly me to the moon. Something from the past 700 years. Oh, sorry. Sorry. No, no, great. But that's like something. like, um, till you can't.

Like, like, here's one like, like, until you can't. To you can't. To you can't. That's Cody Johnson, like, until you can't. And then I come in like, mm-hmm,

eh, yeah, to you can. I push that octave further. To you can't. So I don't do all the singing. I just come in and do that bass board, baby. That's where they bring me in, bro.

I'm that low-lung monster, you feel me? I'm in a swamp, bro. They don't know I'm down there, and then I hit them with that, baby. I hit them with that Trace Atkins, baby. I'm that basement bad boy. You find me in the bottom of your lungs, baby, girl. So, yeah, so that's how I am.

I'm a crooner. and that's in I'm a crooner right there male singer who performs sentimental songs and jazz standards using smooth low and intimate voice bro so they got me out there bro but thank you miss langley for having uh having me out and that was a special time out there and uh i'm glad everybody got to uh see it it's scary to do something for the first time in front of a lot of folks that's what I'm realizing. So what else? Yeah, what else did we have?

Thank you guys. Thank everybody for just paying attention being a part of this podcast and this, this experience. Love you guys, bro. Let me just say that. And, yeah, what's happening? What else was going on since we lasted a solo? Oh, I got the, you know, people thought I was going to delete myself. I don't know how you can share that or whatever, say online.

That will, you know, people were saying that was going around. And that's a crazy thing to have going around, bro. Because, you know, because then when you see people, they think you are ghost and shit. You know, some black folks was like, oh, you want your ghost shit now, uncca. All right. Ghost, unc. And I'm like, damn, ghost unc, bro. Chill, bro.

Chill. bro but yeah that was crazy dude because I didn't even know that this had been happening and then people are like you know I get a text from a step step family and they're like um is everything okay

you know and then some of the text from other people have started escalating like uh damn remember when you was here bro dang it wasn't so long ago cut and they'll put a picture of us and they make it black and white bro like I'm like dude, that picture's from four days ago. And they put black and white and put a couple dubs on it, bro.

And then they throw a stud out there, bro. You know? I wish that haven't had a phone to call you. Just some of the texts you get, bro. It's like, dude, with everything that's happening, can I borrow your truck? And I'm like, what do you mean with everything that's happening, bro? And then they would put like a cough in it and then a truck emoji. I'm like, wow.

I'm like, yeah, you can, bro, but it don't have any windows, you feel me? It's breezy? It's breezy in there. Oh, man, bro. So, yeah, just grateful to God, bro, that we continue to rock and we do it. You know, so that's what's going on, bro. What else? Oh, I got to go to the rodeo, man.

I've actually been a two rodeos since I last did a solo episode. I've been over there at Franklin Rodeo. and I've been over there to the Music City rodeo. Both of them beautiful. And you know, you see a lot of these rodeo babies, these cowboys and cowgirls that are out there. You know, and I mean, you know, they had, who do we see out there?

We saw rocker Steiner's out there, Wakey Shala out there. And Wakey Shala, He broke a limb out there. He broke a limb. Lefty Holman, he was out there. Shorty Garrett. Shorty Garrett.

And you think it's going to be a brother and it ain't. Sam Peterson, man. I got to chat with him. You just get to be around these fellas, man. Cade Sonia. Sonier. Sonia. Cade Sonier.

Out of Louisiana, they out of Karen Crow. You're me, br. and they had another rider out there out of Baker, Louisiana. I can't remember the name, but I got to walk in the locker room and all of the um, the rodeo people are there, and the clown, he's happy when he's out there, but in the back he's putting on duct tape and he's stitching his own skin up because he's out there battling bulls, you know? He's out there.

He's front lines against the dark animal arts out there. But yeah, they got all the riders, they're all, every name. they're almost injured, bro, the names that they have, man. The names that they have, they're almost, you can tell they're almost going to, maybe going to be injured or something. It'll be, you know, they'll have shorty, lefty, broken Richardson, right? Pelvis Shatterford. You're like, pelvis Shatterford, bro.

I'm saying. Somebody get him a diaper, bro. Get him an adult diaper, bro. Lacerated armlegerdon. He's riding a day. wheelchair Montgomery, bro. Crutches, uh, Johansson. He's over there.

He's out of Utah. Yeah, they just, you know, that just, everybody's on the cusp, but getting injured out there. Because these guys, look, it's dangerous what these guys do and these girls. They're warriors. They're out there. They're warriors out there with animalia, and I love it. I love it, dude. They let us get right on the back of, uh, they let us get right on the back of the shoots.

You know, and who was out there, Dusty, right? Can you look that up for me? Is it the Wright brothers? Now, not the people that flew over there out of Kitty Hawk. I'm talking about the young. Yeah, this is some of them right here, Stetson, Rusty. I think there was only two of them maybe that were there. But, dude, they're some young bangers, bro.

They some young bangers, man. Some warriors. We've got to get a few of them on the podcast. up at some point. But just to get to see, we're right up on the shoot. And they were doing bear back horse, but also bronch. Can you, let me look up what bronc is, bronc riding. What is bronc riding?

Bronc riding is a classic rodeo event where a cowboy attempts to ride a bucking bronc. No, a bucking horse, aka a bronc, for eight seconds while holding on to a single rain with one hand. Oh, that's like trying to give you your ex-wife a hug if you over there at Applebee's or whatever. Say you're meeting up for you. You have a dual, you have a child that you co-parent. You're meeting up over there at Rips or Don's, you know, or Applebee's or something. And you try to hug your ex-wife for, boom. That's the new rodeo right there.

Hugging your ex-wife, bro. She ain't letting you stay on there for eight seconds. machine like you stay on there for two seconds, bro, lest she get that check. You know what I'm saying? That was my mother, but she'd make my dad sit in a car if he didn't have that money. You sit in a, we're going inside a D. You sit in a car. But there's nothing more altercative.

There's nothing more altercative, brother, than when they haven't, somebody hadn't paid that alimony or whatever, child support. But anyway, yeah, that's bronc riding. classic rodeo event right there. And my favorite part of rodeo, I'll say this, is the barrel riders. It's barrel racing, I think. And Miranda Lambert does it. She does it as a hobby.

If you're listening, I'll put some video on the episodes. You can see it. Man, them ladies. And when they hit that third barrel in the head in bag, bro, the place gets lit, bro. Let's go. Just singing your heart out, you know, just for some potential lesbian. you know, just who's giving it her all out there. Praise God, baby.

But yeah, I was right up on the shoot, man. I was right up on the shoot. And some of the animals, man, they just, like, dude, imagine the first person that ever saw a bull. Whoever saw a bull, he probably went right back to his friends and he said, hey, look, I saw this cow and it's not real happy. I saw a cow. This cow is not real happy. And some of the bulls, I was on the shoot and some of the bulls low key, bro,

seem a little bit zesty, bro, you know? One of the bulls, he's like, hey, can you fix my hair for me? You know? I was like, I don't have any lotion or anything. He's like, oh, just use your hands, bro. It's greasy, you know?

Because I've been jumping around. And one of the bulls straight up told me, he's like, bro, I like having you. young men on my back. I'm like, what? I'm like, who do I report this to, dude? He's like, yeah, bro, I like having these young men on my back for a little bit. He's like, but I get so excited that they fall off. I'm like, dang, bro. Bro. This horse needs to be in the Epstein files, bro. But, man, rodeo is a great sport. And there's something for the whole family, man. And you can sit there, you can enjoy yourselves, get you some peanuts, bro. Get you a little bit of water,

or a little Gatorade or something, some beer or something homemade, bro. Bring you a little deviled egg. Bring you a little DE out. If you've been keeping one in your pocket with a little piece of ice in there to keep it cool. What I want to say, the history of the rodeo, then we'll get into some calls.

We had some calls that came in. I just want to learn about the rodeo, and I want to have a specialist on to talk about the rodeo. The rodeo originated in the 16th century cattle culture of Mexico. It evolved from the livestock, roundup, and branding practices of a special. Spanish settlers and their Mexican ranch hands known as vaqueros. Oi my vicaro.

The term itself comes from the Spanish verb, roadier, meaning to encircle or roundup. The transition from ranch work to competitive sport took place in the American West following the Civil War. During cattle drives and roundups, cowboys and vacheros began gathering. informally to test their riding and roping skills. Impromptu contests between different ranchers and ranches started to spring up. Many historians point to Deer Trail, Colorado, hosting one of the earliest competitive cowboy contests in 1864. Vacero.

And shout out CJ Vaccari, who I went to school with growing up. I don't know if it's similar or close. I don't know. But he was a cowboy. I do remember that. I don't know if he rode or not. but he had it in his blood brother praise god amen but y'all would like to learn more about the rodeo i need to get like a rodeo special somebody knows the history of it i need to search for that um yeah

there's a lot of Latinos in there a lot of Mexican guys a lot of Brazilians um a lot of Canadians a lot of Australians when you see the lineups at these uh at these rodeos a lot of guys from Utah Wyoming Alberta different places over there you ever think about how something got it start like mountain dew for example i always thought it just kind of appeared one day you know just like a stork brought it from a beverage universe or something and then somebody saw it just sitting in a cooler just glistening uh but no it's it's actually it's straight out of tennessee you know that it's a real place real people it was two brothers working tirelessly to nail that citrus kick that we all know and love.

It came from folks with grit and independence doing things their own way, and somehow they bottled that. That attitude's still in it today. You hear that? That's attitude. Still bold, still unmistakable, still do. It's an American original that's been tasting great since 48, 1948. Red, white, and dew, right there, done.

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That's what they landed on. And honestly, I respect the confidence. You'd have to really believe in a guy. to name him that and put him up on the big screen. He's got one eye. He's got one eye too, yeah? Which I feel like if you've only got one eye, you've earned whatever name you want.

Nobody's going to argue with him. What are you going to do? Look him in the eyes. He's got the one. He already won. Anyway, he's in a movie. Him and his buddies, he's tried to make a monster picture,

and the whole thing went sideways. And now there's real monsters loose in Hollywood. What happens next? You just have to get a ticket and see. The film's called Minions and Monsters out July 1st. If you like Woody, you'll love Dick. Go see Dick with your family. There's genuinely just, there's no good way to say that.

I tried and here we are. Tickets on sale now. When I first moved into Tennessee, I would go to this coffee place. And I was trying, I was like, flirt. was like flirt with the girl that worked there. But bro, I was like, I, I just, I couldn't eat. Like, I was nervous, right? And so I was nervous to flirt with her.

But anyway, I remember she'd be like, well, do you want this with your coffee? And I would just take whatever extra thing. She's like, yeah, you want the foam on it, cold foam, fur, whatever they put on it. I'd be like, yeah, I'll take, yeah, give me a little bit. Cinnamon you want, yeah, yeah, you want cinnamon. Dude, I would leave out of there with like extra cinnamon, like in a little to go. Like just like I'd have like a $27 coffee in there. Dude, I had, I was buying all the roast from her.

She had like Ghana, the missing person roast or whatever that they came out with for that kid or whatever. I bought the, um, I bought the boating act, like this stuff they did a fundraiser for a boating accident. I bought that shit. I had so much coffee in my car. I had like the stuff from like Estonia, Zimbab, like the all the, shit. Middle East, you know, Madagascar or whatever. I had like coffee for kids or whatever. And they shouldn't even have kids aren't even supposed to drink it. And I was had like two pounds of that in my car. Dude, if I even, I had so much coffee that I bought from this girl.

Just to go talk to her. And at the end, like at one point, if I even got in my car and I cut the heat on, dude, it would just be like, it literally was turning into like a roaster in my car. And if I did the thing where you close the, so you don't get any outside of it. air conditioning, you know, just like to smell myself type of, whatever that setting is. Bro, and you just put, dude, it was, I would cut that on. I'd be awake for one month. Couldn't close, I, there was so much coffee in my car. I remember going through a drive-thru one time and somebody's like, oh, are you selling

coffee? And I was like, fuck no. What are you talking about? I'm just hitting on someone without some of the skills to do it. What do you mean? You know, if I, dude, I had, I had so much coffee, bro. If I even went and sat in my car, it would wake me up.

People would be like, dude, are you tired or whatever? I'm like, yeah, I am. I'm just going to go, I'd go sit in my car for 50 seconds. I'd come back in, and I'd be fine. I could work for another half a day. That's how it was. I was turt. Vandy, we freaking turn.

Shout out to my boy Diego Pavi over there in Baltimore, man. Blessings to him. bro. Yeah. What else is going on, bro? Let's take some calls, as always, the hotline. 985, 664-9503. I got this one right here. Hey, Theo. It's Michael from Utah. What's up, Big Mike? Hey, Mike. Onward? I've been with my girlfriend for about, you know, maybe eight months now. And I love her. I love her, man. And she loves. me and but the whole time we've been together i've been uh i've just been overtaken by all this jealousy man of kind of her past and she's told me some things that you know she did before we met

that you know don't don't exactly align with you know where i'm at or where i've been at you know and i've struggled to not hold it against her you know i've struggled to forgive and forget and just accepting love unconditionally you know and I don't know, man. Things that keep coming up and keep hearing things and kind of just hurts. And I know I probably do it to myself, but I'm just asking for maybe a little bit of your advice, man. What do you think? You know, maybe what can I do to just get outside of myself, you know, to stop putting myself in the center of the universe, you know, and just love.

Dude, that's a great question, man. Wow. What can I do to just love, bro? man if every if we if that was our national anthem man i bet we would all be in a different place or especially our international anthem as well um yeah i think you know there's some things like it's easy for me to say right like i i've made some mistakes in this realm man i was jealous you know i kind of created unrealistic expectations for people that they could never live up to you know And I would hold like old stuff against girlfriends.

Yeah, I've done that. Like stuff they can't even like, you know, people don't can't do time travel. They can't go change something. And so if I'm holding something like that against somebody, it's and I know that they can't change it, then that's, it really says something about me, you know.

And I need to make a choice. Do I either want to, can I not, can I really not live with it? Or am I just afraid? of like what other people will think you know if I date somebody that's had like different like past partners

or this or that what are they going to think? I was always like what would other people think of this girl I'm dating what would other people think of her? Man I lost some good opportunities

because of that now instead of what would I think what do I think and maybe she need bro maybe what if it's like, hey, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be the person so you don't have to, like, I wonder, does she even, did she even want to, like, live in someone? Like, if she was, like, out and about or if it's a girl and a guy was out and about, like, maybe they didn't even really want to be living that way.

And maybe now you're like this thing, you're this person, you're finally this person that's going to be like, I'm going to make sure they don't, like, I'm going to be there for them, no matter what, so they don't have to, they, they don't ever have to, like, put themselves out there like that again. They're going to be fulfilled, right? They're going to know that I'm here for them. You know, I don't know. Maybe, I don't know if that's crazy to say. I can't, I haven't had success doing that. But I'm just thinking, man, what if, what if we were like, what if we were the kind of boyfriends that it was like, oh, I'm not going to be like that. I'm not going to hold your passing at you. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to make sure that you have somebody that's going to be right

there. You know? I'm going to make sure you don't ever have to live that way again if you don't want to, that you don't have to operate in these certain circles if you don't want to. You know? I don't know. That's tough, dude. I was, yeah, I wasn't good at it, man.

I would just be, like, because it gave me something always this little, like, this little extra card of like, oh, why I can be upset, right? It gave me a chance to have one foot out of the relationship. That's the truth. That's the truth, bro. But imagine if you could be like, I'm going to be the person. This girl doesn't ever have to worry again.

They don't ever have to worry if they're going to have somebody's going to be there for them. They don't ever have to, like, give themselves away to an environment they're not sure about. They don't, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm going to be, I'm going to be this man that they've been needing. So, I don't know, man. I'm not preaching that. I'm just thinking out loud. What if the calendar did that to us?

right? What if the calendar, and I don't know who owns the calendar or whatever, probably Bezos or Lutnik or whatever, but what if the calendar, like you'd had a day years ago that wasn't good, right? Or you'd had a week years ago that wasn't even that good, right? And what if the calendar just suddenly like made you relive it like life's going a certain way and now the calendar is like, oh, I'm throwing in 2011 at you. It was a Wednesday. Remember that? bam. And you're like, what the fuck? This was so long, I got to do this.

So that's kind of like, kind of what I was doing when I was acting like that. I was like, what about this old thing, this old day, this old relationship? You know, why don't we live that shit again? Why don't we go through that shit again? Because I didn't want, I really didn't want there to be enough. I wanted a reason that this wasn't going to work. That's what I wanted. But it's not really what I wanted.

What I really wanted was I wanted it to work. But I was afraid. to commit to it. I was afraid to commit to it. So let me keep bringing these old things alone. Let me keep bringing these old hurdles. But one day somebody would get tired of jumping over those with you, bro, and then you're just standing there with a bunch of old hurdles and shit.

Like, just like a PE coach that's out of work that's been, you know, just using in their car at lunch or whatever. And that shit. So anyway, I don't know if that helps or not, bro. But man, yeah, what if you would have. we could all be brave enough, you know, to love the person that we love like we know they should be loved, right? I think that's what I mean, but what if we could all be brave enough to do that? But praise God, bro. Let's get another one, man. What we got here?

Hey, Theo. This is Jared from Indiana. What's up, Jared? And congratulations on your new Indiana Bears. Onward? Love your film. I was just wondering if you've got any advice for a man who never had a father, and now he's trying to raise three boys. The youngest one's one, and I named them after you. I love everything you do. I just, I don't know.

I want to be the father that I never had, but sometimes that egg-a-a-old's heart, man. I probably hear him in the background. But if you got any advice, Lordy, love your man. Oh, yeah, that loud one, that was me me, bro. The loud one, when the chatty one back there, the one back there selling dime bags or whatever, bro, selling QP, bro.

You know what I'm saying? Pushing weight, that was, that's me. Well, it's a thoughtful call to think about this, especially around Father's Day, just to think. Like, you know, I think what I would do, I would write down the stuff maybe that you feel like you didn't get. And then you'll kind of have your answers, I think. For me, I think some of it would have just been direction.

It would have been like maybe if my father would have put his hand on the back of my neck more. That's like a very fatherly son or parental type of thing, the back of the neck. and not even not looking at your children with judgment you know I was I was looked at with judgment a lot mostly judgment in fact probably 250% judgment so that's how I learned

the only way to operate in the world was judgment that was like the currency you know it was like oh I'm gonna judge you that's kind of how I showed affection was through I'm gonna judge you less if that sounds I mean, I don't know if that sounds real to anybody or not.

You think that's real, Halston? That's actually really interesting. But yeah. Why do you think that is? Oh, well, I think it made perfect sense because if somebody judges, if all I know, if all I look, if only, the only look I see in a parent's eyes is judgment,

then that's all I'm going to do of myself, and it's all I'm going to do probably of others, especially if it's like an intimate, if there's like intimacy or just communication. So, yeah, that's what I did. And it's a survival skill that can help you a lot because you're judging things. You get really good at judging this, judging out,

you know what I'm saying? You get really good. But it'll keep you alone too. It can anyway. So, but blessings to you, bro. Happy Father's Day to you. And I'm just thinking out loud too, bro. I don't know any of this.

I'm not a scientist. You know, but, but yeah. So, but blessings to you, bro. Tell a little the, I said, what's up, bro? Type shit. BLM, I'll see them in the streets. Boy, gang. Let me see what else we got here.

Hey, C.O. It's Mason. I just had a... What's up, Mason? Thank you for calling, brother. Question for you. You know, I kind of just wanted to see what you thought about it and what you did. You know, caught a little Wisconsin. there boy you know or Illinois maybe onward do uh the other day I walked into a gas station and there was a man who clearly had Down syndrome um he didn't look the oldest oh yeah the ops

and he was trying to buy some beer and I kind of read the situation and knew what was going on but the clerk actually he could tell he didn't know what to do and he you know he kind of looked at it He actually turned to me like, sir, what do you think of this? And I don't know if I should feel bad, but I told him it looked good. And he sold the clearly underage man with Down syndrome, alcohol. And I'm just wondering if I did the right thing, what you do in that situation. Thanks for you, you know, gang gang. Yeah, bro, of course, of course, dude.

If a guy has Down syndrome, give him a fucking drink. Give him a break, man. Cut his work hours a little bit. Like, yeah, dude, I remember when we were growing up, If a guy down syndrome, you'd give him a beer. You'd bring him. You'd even get some beer from inside if your dad wouldn't give you a whole can. You'd come and just give them and just let him just drink it out of your hands, brother.

Like, you got to support people. You know, people with Down syndrome love to drink beer because I think it has sugar in the, a lot of it's sugar-based. Why do Down syndrome people love beer? Oh, it just shows a picture of Ireland. So County Cork specifically, but, dude, it's like, I think, I don't, I believe, look, if somebody has down syndrome or if they might have it or whatever, I think you got to let them drink, bro. That's the type of place I'm from, you know, I almost had it. I was on the ropes.

And I think you've got to let people cook if they have it. And yeah, dude, when I was growing up, we would get a, we had a guy who. had, I don't know what he had. He had something, something pretty strong. And we'd send him, we'd give him $50, $60 go in there, bro. One time, bro, this kid Damien, dude. And, bro, one time

we'd give him the money to go in there and he fucking went out the back, dude, he went out the back, and ran up there to a senior center and broke down a bunch of the wall art and the windows in there. So, you know what I'm saying? We never got our money back, though. But the shit I'm talking about

is like, you don't know what's popping, bro. you don't know what's popping. So I don't think we should hold somebody back from having a good time. I do think the underage thing, but if somebody has down syndrome, bro, I say let them cook. You know what I'm saying? I say let them cook, bro. But yeah, I mean, should you feel bad about it? I don't know.

I mean, as long as y'all aren't making fun of the guy or doing something like that, as long as y'all aren't, you know, plus people want to feel included. Buying beer is kind of like a ritual when you're underage. I'm not saying, you know, I'm not sitting here condone it. Don't do it. I got to say that for legal reason. But people do it. You know, even down center people do it apparently.

So whatever, bro. You know, he probably, he might not even have down syndrome. He might just live too close to a data center, bro. You know what I'm saying? He might be all hopped up on data and shit. You know, little Ricky's on that data. So let's take another call here. Speaking of data centers, actually.

Hi, my name is Amy Tompkins. What I would love is if Theo Vaughn could talk about or even mention the fact that a Georgia company is building an AI data center right next to the Nashville Zoo and right next to an elementary school. So it's smack dab in the middle of these two innocent, beautiful creatures on God's Plains. these evil ghouls are coming in and destroying the air, the water, the environment, you know, the earth, everything that we have. I mean, these animals are already in a zoo, okay? And now we're going to come in and do this to it. So it's like, I'm just trying to do whatever I can to bring attention to this.

Amen. Thank you for calling. I agree, bro. Now the thing is they got data everywhere. I'll say this, dude, on behalf of everybody that's human. human and has a heart, fuck AI, bro. Fuck AI. I don't have any friends actual that are, that are ever like, hey, AI, how's AI?

You know what I'm saying? Nobody's doing that shit. We're already fine. We can already order our food fast enough. We can already watch a movie if we want on our phone. Like, we don't need anything else. I don't know who else needs more shit. I don't want any data, brother.

They got too much data. Now what happens? The kid, you know, the kids playing at school or whatever, and he falls in a fucking, they got a puddle of data outside of the data center or whatever. And he's got a bunch of data and shit on his shirt or whatever you can't, you know. He's got a bunch of like Love Island episodes that won't come out, you know, stained up for sure, especially the new season, a bit much. But it's like, you know, and how does that even work?

They got a data leak at the factory. He's at your kid, you know, little Ricky's got a bunch of data stuck in his leg or something. You know, he's got a bunch of fucking maps of like from the 1300s or whatever. Or he's got a bunch of Epstein files just stuck in his spinal column or something because of the, you know, the data. He's just got emails stuck in his scan or whatever. You know, it's just like, we don't want any data, bro. We don't want any. Nobody wants a data center.

Dude, nobody wants it. And the people that want them to me, brother, they seem kind of evil. It's like, what's going to happen? You know, you fall down and you get a bunch, you know, a bunch of loose data flies out of the factory or something now and your kid's got, you know, he's got five episodes of, of Dutton Ranch or whatever stuck in his neck or something. It's gotten crazy.

We don't want it. Nobody wants the shit. And so here's what I think. I really believe this. I think I really believe it. I don't know, but I believed it yesterday. I believe that some people know. how to live forever. They've cracked the code. And so suddenly they have to put the rest of us,

they have to lock us down. They have to. Because if everybody finds out about it, then everybody's going to be able to do it, right? There's got to be some people have to take, like, have to separate themselves. And I think this is how they're doing it. They're creating these data centers. It's all just going to, it's all, I think, going to be, I believe, this is my hypothesis theory that they're going to all it's all going to be locked in with uh these flock cameras or some company like this palenteer one of these companies is going to be owning all of this information they're going to put it all in it's all going to be we're all going to be locked down everybody you're not going to be able to live or do anything that feels human right

there's going to become this kind of score this sort of like social and even emotional sort of credit score and then AI is going to become it won't ever really but it's going to try to become like our new God right because I think people go to God for their feelings for their for help for hope right they lay their their their faults at the feet of Jesus for for hope right and it's all get you're going to have to like appease somehow you're going to get do well enough for the data center to grant you whatever you then need, right? Does that sound crazy, Alston? No.

So that's why they need, because what, does anybody thought, what, what data do they, we already have like we're sharing pictures, we're sharing phone, we all have video in the cloud, like we all have this stuff that, you know, there's millions of episodes of different movies and all it is in the, what do they need? They're asking for a lot of suddenly they need That's a lot of space to just need data everywhere So yeah, it's unbelievable, bro It's unbelievable.

I could talk more about it. I would love to know more people's thoughts about it But I don't give a fuck about it. I don't see what it's going to do for us. I don't understand to be human. I think we've let a lot of tarantulas that aren't humans start to take over society And we're seeing the repercussions

that and some of us we didn't let it happen but I believe that yeah the devil is alive bro the devil is alive and the devil is a liar bro um anyway I'm not trying to preach and I think some of it just makes me mad and it's scary they're putting it by a zoo it's like they're rubbing in our face like

you know what I'm saying because a lot of that is showing control they're putting it by a school or whatever some kid you know he's on he's like he's on the swing set and he just hits his head Like there's some data going through the air or whatever. And he hits his head on some fucking data or whatever. Now he's got a concussion.

And he just, you know, he just stuck, he's just stuck singing Spotify lyrics, you know, just a bunch of data. He's just sitting there, you know, reciting just Larry Fleet and the castelhoes at Luke Brian and Morgan Wall and Deep Cuts. It's like, it just, it's, you know, I don't know, bro. I don't know what's going to happen, man. And some girl today, she said, and when do we stand up? When do we...

It's a good question. I don't know. There must be something attractive in us just watching our demise. Like, we're, like, I don't know. I don't know if that makes any sense. Oh, I do want to get the president of Mexico on here. Ms. Claudia, a shine bomb.

I will come to Mexico City. I want to come down there. So I would love... Yeah, I would love to get the president of Mexico on. Just to learn. I want to learn, like, about... like the Mexican-American relationship from a Mexican point of view, from a leader there point of view.

Not, you know, I just want to learn more. I think it would be exciting. And so this is my beacon for that. You know, I'm trying to speak what I would like. And, yeah, I would love to know, like, how do our laws, like the laws that we make here, how does that affect things that happen in Mexico? What are, like, the truths about cartel stuff in Mexico? would love to know about, um, like, what are some of like the big long-term goals of Mexico?

Just things like that. It's interesting because I don't ever, I don't ever learn about it. I probably could, but it would be nice to learn in person. Um, so that is, um, something I would like to, I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to me. Amen. Um, what else? Oh yeah, eight, bro. Let's talk about Atlanta. Atlanta's got the most flock cameras, bro. Um, yeah, Speaking of also just going back real quick to the data center, the company behind the Nashville Zoo Data Center, the one that's near there, allegedly is DC Blocks. So let me look at them. Who owns DC Blocks? Primarily owned by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Owned by alternative investment.

Levine, John Wright. Firm-wide strategic direction is steered by managing partners David Gross and chairman such as Steve Pagalewka and Josh Beckenstein.

This is all AI overview. This is from Google AI. Atlanta-based DC blocks proposed building a 24-acre two-building data center campus at 648 Grassmear Park. That's unbelievable, dude. I go drive over there all the time. I go to a meeting not far from there.

Unbelievable. The Nashville Metropolitan Council passed an initial temporary moratorium that seeks to restrict larger-scale data centers from being built within a half mile of homes. Bro, the thing is that most of the flock cameras, now I saw one the other day. Just saw one the other day over there. I bought a donut shop, bro.

I was giving me a couple donuts. I was a little depressed at night. I pulled up. over there and they had some kids over there milling around but I waited on my car about seven, 11 minutes bro waited till they ate their mom came and picked them up because I just didn't want to be embarrassed

bro and then I walked in there got me a couple of donids bro and on the way out I saw a flock came out of my car eating donuts to get seeing a flop but Atlanta's got the most bro let me see flock group incorporated doing business as flock

safety as an American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition, video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems, bro. Dude, I saw a video the other day. It was like the block versus flock, bro. And it was a lot of gangsters and bangers out there in the streets. And what they were thinking of flock cameras, man. Because that's really where it's going to, you know, because a lot of, like, gangs, they, They own certain territory.

But now these flock cameras are coming in saying they own it. So that's, you know what I'm saying? That's the battle we're going to see soon, bro. Flock versus the block, bro. So, you know what I'm saying? Because otherwise, they're going to have surveillance on what? All of these bangers, bro? I'm curious, bro.

Ain't no blood. Ain't no crippling because of flock? Dang, bro. It's going to be interesting, man. Let's take another call. We got a lot of calls that have come in. Before we do that, here is what you can do as a citizen to oppose the Nashville Zoo data center. So you can sign the petition on change.org titled Nashville Zoo says no to propose data center.

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Hey, Charles, hey Chuck. From good old Orlando, Tennessee. I'm a certified with her. I am doing work on the new Titan Stadium right now. So I was just going to your thoughts on what do you think about them building this new stadium and what do you think about the old one not going to be there no more. Anyway, I just like your thoughts on that. Amen, brother.

Thanks for the call, dude. I think my thoughts are simple. I like the old stadium. I like it. I'm kind of a romanticist. I like, you know, I like old schooler stuff, traditional stuff a little bit. I think it felt a little bit more like, you know, The city felt a little bit more comfortable.

A little more you could just pull right up, you were right there. The new when it just feels like it's taken us to a new and bigger place. And I know that's where the city is headed. And I know I'm just a transplant here. So take my, I'm part of the problem, you know? So take my thoughts with a grain of salt. But I'm just saying, that's how I feel, bro. You know?

From one dub to another, bro. You know what I'm saying? It's black and white to me. Just like, uh, bro. You feel me, bro? Just like you, bro. you feel me cut? I just like that smaller feel.

It felt it fit a little bit more. Sometimes I worry that Nashville is just becoming more of like a tourist destination than it is a place, like a home. But then I don't know, you know, I don't have a family right now. I don't have those other elements that give it that. So those are just my thoughts, but that's how I feel. But at the same time, bless you boys for staying over there and building it. And I'm curious to see, yeah, this part of me is curious to see what it looks like.

But yeah, I don't know. There's something that felt like a little bit more like a... I like that old F-150, bro. That's the, you know, in my heart. My heart's an old is probably like an 88 F-150, bro. So I like something that would match with that. I like that old stadium right there. But thank you, brother.

Praise God. Stay safe, bro. Type shit. BLM, bro. And W-L-M. You know, you bow both. All right. One last call, man.

Hey Theo, this is Nate calling you. Yeah, I'm just feeling really grateful this morning. Hey, brother. Thanks for the call, Nate, onward. Five years ago today, I woke up, hungover for the last time. And, man, I'm much the better man than I ever imagine I could be. Yeah, I was just like, learn to live in the moment, be present, be right here, deal with my shit. work through my problems. And I feel free.

Sitting here today and I'm just feeling free, man. I'm feeling really, really free. I wonder if we just call him with some happy five years, you think? That'd be great. Yes, you've reached Nate. Give me a message and I will give you a call. What's up, Nate? It's Theo from the podcast.

You hit the hotline the other day. I just wanted to call them. Wish you a Happy Five Years, man. Thanks for just sharing with us. You know, just the positive energy, the possibility, you know. Like just the promises that you said that they talk about in the program that, like, you know, that the old stuff will fall away that you will. Hey, what's up, man? Hey.

What's up, bro? This is Theo. Is this Nate? Yeah, this is Nate. What's up, bro? I heard your voicemail on the hotline. I just wanted to call and wish you happy five years, dude. We're on the podcast right now, but I can keep it off either way.

But I just wanted to call and wish you happy five years, bro. Oh, no, that's cool, man, keep it on. Yeah, thanks. Thanks a bunch, man. That's a big deal for me. I'm real happy. I'm actually out walking on a date with my wife right now. Let's go.

Y'all take walks, huh? Well, you bet. Yeah, I like walks, bro. Yeah, we went out for some. went out for some supper now we're out on a walk got the five we got five kids all five kids are at home because my oldest is 16 and can hang out and watch them and yeah life's good brother bro supper and a walk y'all must be rich huh uh we ain't rich but we

i was just joking get out and get no yeah we got to get out and keep knowing each other hey dude that's a big yeah that's a great point bro dude i love taking walks i invited a girl on a walk not even too long ago. Yeah? Yeah, she kind of bailed the day of. But that's life, bro. What you're going to do, you know? Sometimes you just got to fight.

You got to keep finding somebody who wants to walk, bro. That's right. Someday you'll find the one that will keep walking with you forever. I got that one. Amen, bro. Amen to that, dude. Yeah. We don't want to bug your hold you up, man.

But I just want to say thank you, bro. It's nice you to call and share that, just that milestone. Just that fact that it can happen. for people and just sharing about some of the promises that can come true, man. Like, yeah. Did you believe it when you started that it could happen? No, man, because, you know, I drank for quite a few years, all through my, like, 20s and into my 30s. And I just kind of figured it's just like, I'm just going to keep drinking.

And then one morning, for me, it's different than for a lot of folks, I think. Like I woke up one morning and I was like, man, that's it. I'm done. But once you quit, once you went to meetings stuff, did you believe that it would be done? Or did you? I mean, it was hard, right? I mean, it was really, really hard. Like, it seemed like, you know, you'd get 30 days and then you'd get 60 days and you get 90 days.

It's like, man, I'm never going to have a year. And then all of a sudden, you blink your eyes and it's five years and you don't even think about the, you don't even think about what you're, at least for me, I don't think about what I'm addicted to anymore. It's just like I'm just, like I said, I'm just sucking life through the tailpipe, you know, it's just like I'm living at raw and it's just so rewarding, um, and free, free feeling. Whereas before it was like, you know, I mean, I think we have a lot of things in common where it's like my mom wasn't great to me and I was growing up and I was, I was running from a lot of different things. And here I am, you know, not running from anything anymore.

and just becoming a better man every day. So did I think it would? Yeah, no, I didn't, but here it is. And this is going to keep going. Amen, bro. Well, tell your wife that we said, hey, and thanks for putting up with you and putting up with anybody. And congratulations, bro.

Yeah, thanks, Steele. I appreciate it. And I appreciate you. Thanks for sharing your life with everybody. And, you know, the honest stuff. because that's where people grow when we're honest with each other and we just kind of have some vulnerability. So I appreciate that about you.

Yeah, thanks, man. Sometimes I get scared to share that stuff. I feel like it's like, I don't know. I feel different ways about it sometimes, but I don't know how else to be sometimes. You know, that's the weird thing. Yeah, you got to be you, and I think that's a beautiful part of you,

so don't ever let that go, man. Well, thanks, bro. I appreciate that. Yeah, bro. One day at a time, man. That's it, right? One day at a time. Amen, bro.

Enjoy your walk. Do congratulations, bro, and talk to you soon. Yeah, thanks, brother. All right, cheers, bye. Yeah, bye. Dang, bro, that's awesome, bro. Out on a walk with his wife. Hopeful.

I may have sounded hopeful. You know, possible. Gets home, has some kids over there. Things can be okay. Nothing's perfect, but things can be okay, right? So anyway, I don't know what we're doing, but we're going to keep trying to do it. And that's about all I got today, man. I got to run.

I got to meet my friend over there, get a little snack or something over there. And look at my friend as a new, they're selling a, my friend's selling a picnic table over there. So I'm going to go put a bit in on it. What else? That's about it. So you guys be good to yourselves, man. Thank you for paying attention. I had fun, bro.

I think I've been scared sometimes of doing solos. But I had fun today. And I hope we can do this again sooner. And yeah, just thank you guys. The hotline is always 985-664-9503. Houston, thank you for your patience today. Thank you for rolling with the punches of life serving us a little grease with the technical problems. Hey, bro.

You want to say it's great. Greasy. That's how it is. You think it's going to be smooth. And it is, bro. It's smooth, bro. But it's greasy. Praise God, bro. Be good to yourself. You deserve it, baby, gang. Now, I'm just floating on the breeze. And I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

I must be cornerstone that ground. I'll share this piece of mind I found I can feel it in my bones.