This Past Weekend - E296 Taut Baby

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

Taut BabyNew Merch - https://theovonstore.com Everything currently 25% offTheo records his first episode from Nashville.This episode is brought to you by:Blue Chew: https:// BlueChew.com and use code THEOManscaped: https://Manscaped.com/theoMint Mobile: https://www.MintMobile.com/theoMusic - Intro: “Time is no Stranger” - Stevie StarlightItunes: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/time-is-no-stranger/1517002225?i=1517003033Hit the Hotline : [phone]Video Hotline: http://bit.ly/TPW_VideoHotline Find TheoWebsite: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovonFacebook: https://facebook.com/theovonFacebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovonYouTube: https://youtube.com/theovonClips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEKV_MOhwZ7OEcgFyLKilwProducer Nickhttps://instagram.com/realnickdavis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

today's episode is brought to you by gray block pizza gray block pizza you know what it is baby boy get that hitter man my neck hurts oh my neck hurts sometimes I feel you know like just I mean just like every I feel just like all my emotions and hopes and fears and everything are just thumb wrestling in the back of my neck that's where I keep a lot of tension you know that's how I you know I'm kind of a tension man some people refer to me as a tension man you know when I was born the doctor said oh he's taught this baby's real taught you know you couldn't you know wasn't like a super man you know some children they

real malleable they'll come out foot first head first they come out you know sometimes they'll put a foot out and put it back you know don't hang a foot out and then pull it back in like they're doing you know the hokey pokey from you know from birth you put your left foot in the world you take your left foot you know and then their shoulder first lean with it rock with it and then fat Joe rolls right out of a womb you know that's how some babies are but that wasn't me you know I was they I remember reading and you know my mother kept a lot of scripture and everything about my birth and different child memories and stuff

like that even when she didn't have a camera I remember there were some pages I have a baby book and my mother would draw a picture of me having a good time or draw a picture of me crying out on the porch but I remember what it said in there when I was born oh he the doctor said he's you know 11 pounds whatever but he's taught he real real this baby is damned real taught you know like he just a little well done and that's kind of how I've always been were you breach birth Riley I was not all right man well let's there's different ways to do it let's get into the episode

well There you go Break it down Come on, break it down, Stevie. Time is no stranger in your home by yourself. Come on, Stevie Starlight, ladies and gentlemen. This time, there's no danger, cause you found someone else. And ladies and gentlemen, right there, that's Stevie Starlight.

With time is no stranger. And that's off his new album, Unnaturally Happy. And you can go get that album and we'll put a link on there. So you can grab that and get that sound inside of you. Yeah, I was that taught baby. I was that taught baby. I've always been that taught baby. You know, just, just taught.

You know, just, you know, I remember my mother was a, my mother's always had Riley Miles here. How are you today, Riley? Doing well. It's great to be here again. Yep. We're having you back, man. And, you know, it's a trial basis. And I hate to say that, you know, to you like that, but that's life. Right. Exactly. You know, life's a trial basis.

And how old are you? I am 22. Okay. So, so you're 22 years into the trial of life, really. True. Right. And, and so, yeah, we're going to see and just see how people react to you. And, you know, but, you know, we're happy to have you back for an episode. And, and we'll see how people kind of react to you. It's great to be back.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, do you have any birth defects or anything like that? Um, can't say I have. Um, I mean, I'm a musician, like I said. But no, when you were born, were you missing anything to give any birth defects? Um, dang, dude, I'm not sure. I don't think so. Okay. So straight up full birth. Yeah.

Wow. Must be nice, man. That's how it is these days. When I was young, I'll tell you this story. When I was young, people were born, you'd have a buddy missing a, uh, you know, you'd have a, you'd have a buddy missing a clavicle. You know, you'd have a friend, you know, it wasn't crazy to shake somebody's hand and only feel four on them. Right. You know, it was a different time. Somebody, people were uneven.

Right. Somebody missing half a Cossacks or half of a damn, you know, have a square occipital, orbital entrance, you know, somebody, you know, have a damn square eye. It was just different times. People had rabies. Uh, what else? They had people had diseases. Uh, you know, I grew up, they had just the tail endopoleo. You'd see somebody dragging themselves down, you know, dragging, you know,

maybe they had a cane or a cane that somebody got on my cane. That was too short. And so they, you know, somebody out there short can just barely might as well just, I mean, look like, you know, might as well just drag themselves. If you're short cane, it looks like you're doing damn magic. Like you're out there just, you know, right? Is it cosmeticus or whatever? But anyway, you never had asthma or anything, huh?

I have not. God, man. Living in luxury, living in luxury. We're coming out here again. This is, um, episode two from the central East and happy to be here with you today. Uh, what's going on? You know, I've been doing the MMA. That's what's really going on, man.

And my body just feels, I mean, it's, it's so you get in there. And yeah, I'm still fighting the women. I'm fighting the women and it's, uh, and they are paying. I'm glad some of these women weren't my mother because my mother put a good at, you know, put a good a whooping on me. You know, she beat, I mean, my mother kind of lady, she beat both cheeks. She'll make you put on your pants afterwards to make sure they're both red. Not one of these one cheek wonders.

A lot of these moms, they, you know, they get one cheek red and they give up. Mmm. I'm, I'm gonna burn up both of your little bottom hill sides, baby. That's how she was. You know, she's a hard worker. Uh, but what was I talking about? You know what I was talking about, man? By chance?

I don't know. Um, you were talking about what's current and you were, um, and doing MMA. Oh yeah. Thank you. So you're in there and you got a man in your lap and you in a man's lap and it's really, I mean, it's just so, it reminds me of monkeys. When you see monkeys in a zoo or a penitentiary or something, if you've ever been in one of those, you know, animal prisons in, um, uh, Bali.

You know, in Bali, they have so many monkeys that a lot of them have gone. They put them in the detention, the bad ones, they put them in the detention centers. Have you seen any of this, uh, Raleigh? I have. Yeah. And so when you look at that kind of stuff and you see the bad ones, what do you, you support that kind of thing? I mean, they're, they're monkeys.

Yeah. I support all monkeys, whether they're, whether they're bad or not. Yeah. And well, yeah. I mean, I guess that's one way to do it. But for me, if you're already a monkey, that's risque for me. And then if you are a bad one, at that point, you know, I'm not trying to take one of God's animals out of commission, but we gotta, we gotta thin the herd a little bit.

You know, you're a bad monkey and they're having detention centers for you. It's too much for me. For me at a certain point, you gotta stop the bus. But, um, anyway, but yeah, you get out there, you do when you give me a may and I'm over there and there's like, you know, people are being really helpful. It's definitely, you know, they'll have somebody will show you the same move 30 times. And I'll be in there for, for, for an hour. And all I learned was, I don't know.

I can't even explain to you what I learned, like how to roll over. Okay. You know, it's almost, uh, something you would see a strong baby do. Everybody's behaving like animals. They're behaving like it reminds you when you see the chimpanzees, when you see the little mon, you know, the mon, the monotontos, you know, the crazy monkeys, whatever. You know, that's how they're doing. Some are sitting on the side, just kind of watching a couple of them are rolling around.

You're grabbing each other's feet, neck, you know, that sort of thing. Um, and it's wild, man. The tips of my fingers are all sore, almost like I've been playing the guitar. But the instrument that I'm playing really is, it's, you're playing like another person really, but the instrument that I'm playing is, it's almost like I'm playing my own. I want to say confidence, but I've been, it's like I'm, it's like give these little scars from playing your own. I can't really think of it, but that's what, that's what it is.

You're just on the grant. You're just learning this thing over and over again, you know, when you're doing the MMA. So have you taken any classes like that, Riley? Do you have a, uh, do you have a, um, extracurricular thing that you do? I do. Um, I was in Taekwondo for many years as a, as a teen. Wow. And how, uh, did you guys train often or were you under a certain sense or whatever?

Um, yeah. So it's this one location by my house in Anaheim and, um, I would go there almost every day after school and just train like constantly. Um, and I made it up to black belt. Damn, really? Yeah. That was my like top goal. I made it to Eagle Scout, I made it, a lot of people don't make it to Eagle Scout.

I made it to Eagle Scout. I made it to black belt. Now, is there, in the Eagle scouting process, is there a, is there a letting, is there like a moment where it's like, okay, you guys are all lined up and they say, okay, you know, William, you're going to be an Eagle Scout. Teresa, you're going to be one, you know, you know, the Anthony, you're going to be one. And then you guys kind of stepped forward and I, I, I kind of picture these other kids, you know, you know, this guy couldn't make a, you know, couldn't make the whatever you

wish, you know, a edible shovel or whatever, you know, the different merit badges. He couldn't do it. And so he has to, is there a separation of the, you know, of the haves and the have nots at a certain point? Honest. Um, not really a separation, but it's more like, um, like, hey, if they don't want to, you know, it's, it's totally their problem. They don't have to.

Um, but I know a lot of people, a lot of people try to get to that point, like at the very beginning, I know they want, that's why they joined scouting because they want to become an Eagle Scout. Oh yeah. But later on, once they like go through all of the hard work and all the merit badges, they're all like, you know, I, it's too much. I give up. I have too much on my plate or like, I just don't want to do this anymore.

Yeah. It was Navy SEALs for fourth graders. It's Navy SEALs for fourth graders. Right. Essentially. Is there, um, is there a, is everybody cut out to be an Eagle Scout? If I want to say yes and no, um, yes. If they have their minds set to it, then yeah, they can be an Eagle Scout.

It's not, it's not too hard to the point where it's impossible. It's always possible. You just have to just, just believe you have to apply yourself and right. Apply yourself. Work for it. Okay. And is there a special? Was there, is there a finishing cause I'm just wondering how is there a, cause what

I'm picturing is a moment, there's a night somewhere, there's a campfire, there's a tent and there's like, you know, a man comes in, everybody's wearing kerchiefs and everybody, which I like that style. You know, I like the Eagle Scout style. First of all, I like the, I like kind of the flair. It's almost like a bear grills meets TGI Fridays kind of in a weird way. You know how they have like a lot of the, you know, the medallions in that. Right.

And what I'm, I just picture that there's a night or a, by a campfire or something or an extended cab tent where people are saying, you know, I'm, I'm going on and you're not, you know, and you're, I'm going into this other tent. I'm a, I'm, I'm an Eagle now and, and you are what we blow is under Eagle. Um, no, we blows is the bridge from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Okay. And that's where you guys lose a lot of people too, huh? Right.

A lot of people, and I've actually lost a lot of friends from the, not friends. I mean, you could say it. Well, I mean, they're still my friends, but I've lost them, like going from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts because they didn't want to transition on, um, but I mean, you know, it's totally their choice. I mean, they're, they're doing well now. Um, I see all the, are they, I mean, yeah, you see them on Facebook, but you see them in the field of life.

Do you see them using the skills that you guys have learned, you know, that's what, because that's where it matters, man. You know, uh, that's what I'm saying. When I was young, you, you came out of the womb. Yeah. A lot of people had to, you know, you had to boatknot your own damn umbilical cord. Right. You know, there wasn't a man in there.

Now they cut your umbilical cord. They'll give a, you know, the mail up, you can mail, they got a website, they'll mail a piece of it, teach you your grandparents, that kind of stuff, you know, a little fricking, uh, you know, that utero caviar or whatever they're calling it now. And they all get together on a zoom call and all for your grandparents, you know, you know, do a shot of, uh, you know, Greek whiskey or whatever and, you know, eat the babies and what, you know, everybody, you know, eat the umbilical cord at the same time. You know, there's all these little group chats or whatever, but when I was young, it was

different. That's what I'm trying to tell you brother. Right. Um, but that intro song was Stevie Starlight, man. That's unnaturally happy. And uh, and man, he's been with us since the beginning of this show and he sent me a nice email the other day, just checking in, um, yeah, what's going on, man? This week was this past week has been good.

It's been good. It's been, you know, I had some moments where I was really like, you know, what am I doing? How am I going to kind of make this work? This feels uncomfortable. Um, you know, uh, had a, had a day where I didn't want to do anything. You know, was really feeling, uh, down in the dumps, um, you know, and thankfully there's more, I have moments in that day where it's like, okay, just, you know, yeah, maybe half the day hasn't gone well, but let's get the other half.

Let's salvage this other half of this day and let's go. Um, you know, one of the beauties of, of, uh, just so the past few years has been meeting guys and being able to come into worlds, um, you know, like, you know, Joe Rogan, you meet Joe Rogan, you get into his universe and know him and you get inspired. And then you start, you know, following guys like David Goggins and reading their books and Jaco Willink and, um, and, uh, Cam Haynes and, and, uh, and you start getting, I guess it's like inspirational type of guys. You have Dustin Poirier coming and sit down, you know, um, and you just, it, it's interesting.

I start to realize that I, I almost, thankfully, I almost know too many people now who don't give up to give up like for like a full day sometimes. If that makes any sense, it's just like, uh, it, it's like, oh, if you stack your deck of cards with enough cards that, you know, if you take some of the fives out of your deck and you throw in a couple of extra jacks, you know, something with a sword, you throw in a couple of extra jokers, you know, couple of extra beefy jokers, you know, some riddler, some juggler using, using test 200 or something. And now you got a deck of, you know, you got a deck of cards that are a little bit stronger.

It's a little bit more like inspirational, I guess. Yeah. I guess I've just found myself getting more into, you know, I know enough inspirational people almost personally, um, where yeah, it's just interesting. It almost makes it harder for me to give up on myself a little bit. Um, so I don't know what I'm saying really there, but what I was saying was I was just, yeah, sometimes you have tough times, but I got some calls that were welcoming. Um, oh, a man called me the N word.

I'll say that. And it was a black man, a black man called me the N word and I just, I just said, Hey man, you know, it's our time, brother. That's what I told him. I said, it's our time to shine, baby. You know, BLM daddy, we can't be putting each other down. Um, so, you know, it was just interesting. How do you, how do you deal with kind of inverse racism a little bit?

Have you ever had to deal with anything like this, Raleigh? Um, some, uh, sometimes a little with, um, racism with being Asian and all, um, as a child, I mean now never. I mean, even if I do, I kind of laugh it off as a joke because I mean, I honestly couldn't care less what people think about that. Like I'm not, I'm not too sensitive about racism, racism to Asians. Yeah. Um, but.

And Asians handle things differently, man. Right. You guys are really kind of like, you guys kind of bob and weave with the racism, I feel like. Right. You know, and if, you know, you guys, you know, you look at Asians, there's, and there's also all different, what I don't like is get specific with the racism, these Asians. You know, I've said it.

I've definitely said it. I'll be honest with you. Oh yeah. Everyone has. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure you probably said, you know, if people are behaving a certain way, I mean, I stereotype all the time and I like, I like it sometimes. It doesn't mean my heart is bad.

Right. There's such a difference between somebody who's out there sharpening a sword, writing, you know, you know, some writing a name on it, like writing a black man's name or a white man's name or an Asian man's name or something on it, you know, this, you know, this sword is for, you know, the Darius or something, you know, it's like, that's crazy. But if you're just like, oh man, dude, these Asian people are driving me nuts. If say if you're stuck somewhere at a festival or something like an Asian festival, that's not, is that racism?

If everybody's Asian at the festival? Not really. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to look at, I believe that we all are going to be, I believe in beige power. That's what I say. I believe we're all hurtling towards one color eventually tone. I mean, you and I are probably the same skin tone.

Yeah. About, yeah. Getting there. Closer. I mean, we're almost the same damn skin tone, man. Right. You know, it's also, yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about, but, but yeah, the guy called me the N word.

I don't know what to do, you know, and honestly, part of me, I was pretty excited. I'll be honest with you. You know, I quit using the N word probably about four years ago when everybody else did fully. I mean, I would never actively, you know, but people would, you know, if I saw it in a, sometimes people would do met, you know, like you'd be playing that game of where you draw something out of a hat and you try to act out the movie, you know what that game is rally, you've ever played that in your town?

Um, yeah. Shrades. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely good. Shrades. And, uh, are you good at charades? No.

Not at all. Oh, wow. I wish I was. And what I would see was, uh, people would write it in there, right in a racial slur or something. And so you'd pick it out and you start acting it out and you're like, oh, shit, this isn't even a movie. You know, this is racism.

Right. So, you know, you'd see that old trick, but anyway, uh, but yeah, I just didn't know how to react. You know, I didn't know how to react to that. And so I just, I figured one day we're all going to be the same thing. So I tried to channel that energy from the future and say, Hey man, you know, just accept the net. It's our time, baby.

You know, we're out here, brother. That's what I said. And I tried to handle it as good as I could, you know, because there's no, there's no correct way to handle that kind of thing. There's no correct way to handle that kind of thing. Um, what else do we have going on, man? Uh, what else is happening? What did you do this week?

Are you getting anything exciting? Um, just then editing some music videos. Pretty much it. And do you eat? What do you like to give? You eat regular meals and everything. Right. Sometimes I mean, I sometimes like skip breakfast or lunch because I'm just too busy editing.

I'm too much in the zone or I'm just, you know, laying back watching TV. Now I find, now this is one thing, and I'll get into a little bit of racial discussion here. I find that Asian people are good. They are very good at dropping into something and just staying in the pocket. You go to some of these, you know, I've been to, uh, I've probably been to maybe seven Asian countries or whatever, and you'll go into some of these bank, these buildings where there's just thousands of, uh, Asian people playing video games until they die.

Some of them. Like it's just the uncanny ability to drop into something and stay there. I've honestly, I haven't really thought about that for, I mean, for being from Asians. I've never really thought, I mean, I think that's honestly just like it could be anybody. Um, I have a few friends that are like that and I mean, they're definitely not Asian. They're, you know, they're white. But would you be better than them, could you beat them if you guys run a contest? Honestly it kind of depends.

Um, I'm not one of those like those gamers, like those Asian gamers that you see that are like. Right there. Right there. Asian gamers. Right. Exactly. I'm not one of those guys.

I mean. Are you a diehard Asian? Would you say or not? And this is just. I'm pretty much the widest Asian you will meet. Wow. Yeah. I mean, well, I mean, not in terms of my looks, but of my physical appearance, but like how

my mindset works. I didn't know you were Asian. Really? Yeah. Oh. Well, I am. All right. Let's take a call right here.

Hey Theo man. It's Nathan from Nashville. Now it makes me really excited to hear that you might move down here and I just want to offer a perspective. Thank you for calling Nathan. I appreciate that brother. It's sound like you're reading. Does it sound like he's written this and is reading it?

Did you pick up on that Riley? Sounds like it. Yeah. Thank you. About a year or so ago, I was kind of obsessed with moving to LA in my van with the idea of laying it all on the line for my dream. And maybe by doing this, God would, you know, buy the ticket to the dream at the price of the ultimate sacrifice, you know, but a lot of my mentors here said they're like, dude,

just slow down. You're kind of where you need to be. And I just want to let you know, man, like Nashville is changing and growing. If you moved down here, you'd kind of be at the floor, the ground floor of a movement. Well, first of all, thank you, man. I appreciate this call, young fella. And I'll say this, man, definitely is getting a van and driving somewhere apart. Is that laying it on the line?

I guess in a lot of ways it is. You know, you definitely, you could easily get fleas, you're probably going to at least have a pet at some point. I don't trust the person that has the van, but not the pet that lives in it with them. At least that guy, I feel like is a little bit more non-murderer, you know, because you can't murder. If you, if you, if you have a place, if you have a van, you're not going to bring some a person home and murder them with the animal right there.

That, because then there's two good degrees of what's going on. Because you being murderer and there's the animal watching that, you know, there's, there's just, so when I see a man with a van with no animal, now a bird, it doesn't count. I'm talking dog. A bird doesn't count. A cat doesn't even count. A cat is just a, it's just a freaking four legged bird. And, but when you get that animal, if you get a van with an animal, that guy, you know,

that guy'll try to screw you probably or do sex with your, give you, you know, and make you a little grilled cheese or something. And maybe have you listened to a little bit of widespread panic or something like that and freaking, you know, he'll want you, you know, he'll do some henna tattoos on one of your ass cheeks, but he's not going to murder you. But I feel like you get into a van that has no animal in it. That's a murder town right there. What do you think, Riley?

You had any experience with anything like that? I have not, honestly. What else is going on, man? I'll say this, uh, I appreciate the call. I appreciate the call you calling and saying that good things are here, things are happening. Let's hear a little bit more of whatever you had to say, brother, give you an example. My band is a psychedelic gospel funk group and oddly enough, we've been kind of welcomed and embraced.

And, um, again, just things are moving and changing. It's not just, well, yeah, but I, one way to get welcome and embrace it, if you have, if your band does everything, you know, we're a country, uh, you know, we're country, Zydeco, uh, emo, uh, drywall. Can we play here? And it's like, yeah, we, you know, sure you can, you know, as long as you refinish the kitchen, you can play wherever you want. Like, if you have two, if you have so many options to a band, you know, if you're like,

oh, we do acoustic acapello, uh, Jamaican, um, sort of, it's like kind of like a six-nine Dixie Chicks mashup, then people were like, uh, they can't say no. So I think to challenge yourself, brother, try one type of music, because if you got that Christian disco funk trap house, chopping, screwed, Paul wall meets, uh, Paul Simon, hell, I don't even want to, at that point, I might as well just damn, you know, drive my car into a damn Amoeba music into an abandoned record shop. But thank you for the sentiment of this call, man. And sentiment, when you think of sentiment, it's almost like sentiment and mint.

Somebody put them together. Let's hear the rest of this. And oddly enough, we've been kind of welcomed and embraced and, um, again, just things are moving and changing. It's not just country. Right. It might not be known for comedy, but man, we could sure use a king down here and, you know, music and, and comedy go together like peanut butter and jelly.

My friend. Well, I appreciate it, man. I appreciate it, man. Music and comedy are interesting. You know, a lot of comedians will end up getting into music. Raleigh Mowdy, you know that? I do now. A lot of comedians will get into music, you know, Sinbad is a famous kind of black Asian

kind of comedian and he does music now. He has a band, Steve Martin, famous white man, uh, you know, he might have been Italian. I don't know what he was, but he also, he did music. He does music. Now he plays a banjo Jim Brewer does music. He does music and he was, you know, he definitely, I mean, he, you know, he barely, he seems like, yeah, you know, he's kind of a rescue kind of man. He, um, a lot of, a lot of comedians get into music.

I think it's because at a certain point, sometimes you get, I think it's why anybody does anything or changes it up. You know, your voice and your, your humor become an instrument. And then after a while, you're like, I want to, I want to play a different instrument. You know, I wish I could play the piano. I wish I, you know, because your voice and your humor, it's just a, it's just the end, it's just an instrument that's in you. Some people's instrument in them is, is their voice, you know, to sing.

Some people is, um, you know, uh, do, you know, um, speed, you know, deaf signaling. You know, what, what is that called? What's talking about rallying hand, hand gestures, um, what's the name of it? I think it's deaf signaling, but, but they have speed competitions now for deaf signaling. You know, you'll see, you know, the four people are trying to rattle off, you know, half of, you know, half of, um, you know, flowers for Algernon or something that just reading as fast as they can with their hands. But everybody's has a different, you know, people have a different playing a different

instrument. Some people may do bow and arrowing and you just get, sometimes you get tired of guitar, you know, I don't want to do, uh, you know, I don't want to sing. I want to try something else. I want to try something else. So I think that's why a lot of comedians sometimes will get into music eventually because they want to play something else than the instrument they've been playing, which is their sense of humor.

It's just a refined instrument. That's all it is. It's just like singing, but it's just a little different. I mean, I, at least four times a day, I think about playing the piano. I just, I'd like to play it, um, so, but, but yeah, thank you for the nice call, man. Um, and we're actually, I'm going to, uh, I'm going to tell you right now, I will be performing September 26th in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And you can get those tickets, uh, Theo Vaughn.com.

You can check those out right there and I appreciate the support out there. I haven't been to Iowa. I haven't been over there with the dark arts tour over to Iowa and, and, um, oh, I got to tell you about this real quick. Today's episode is brought to you by blue chew, blue chew. You got to get your body going. You got to get, if you want an erection, you got to get one. That's the thing.

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What's up Mr. Vaughn you beautiful bastard listen to the latest episode man here you're talking about Nashville and if I if I know anything about that I had imagined that you're you're stressing and overthinking it bro but I think you probably have the core your fans probably some of the most loyal fans in the industry I know that I got nothing but love for you man I know that a lot of others do it doesn't matter where you go with Bangladesh or Boston bro we're all here for you it don't matter where you go so know that know that you're your fan base is loyal we won't call you everywhere and if you go to Nashville man you're a little closer to me in the Andy Louisville area so spread your wings bro discomfort

is where we get our greatest achievement that is when we kind of shake things up a little bit so spread your wings little birdie fly much love on me gang bro yeah man you're right man leaning into the fear you know leaning into the fear man you're really that's a really nice message man I appreciate I appreciate you saying that and yeah you know I'm really I just I am so lucky to have people that care you know and people remind me all the time constantly through this podcast and just nice people that I met and yeah it never ends man um you know it thanks man that's nice you to say dude uh yeah leaning into that discomfort what's over here it's so hard to sit sometimes with you with your discomfort it's so hard

to sit there and hear the sounds of your truth or your truth just echoing to you yes uh thank you man thank you for that that's nice it's just it's a sweet message man you know we have a lot of nice people listen to this podcast rally now all right um oh I remember this man you know Halloween is coming up and I remember that uh Riley I wanted to ask you what you thought about that do you guys practice that what is some of your experience with that um honestly uh I don't have an opinion I don't honestly all right um do you remember ever being costumed as a child did anybody dress you up and kind of trick you out at different areas for sugar you know what I'm talking about Halloween but

you know I'm talking about yes okay for sure um but have you experienced it did you did you were you costumed up what do you mean by that did you dress up or yes okay and what were some of the outfits or the different styles or something oh man um anything that really right that kind of stands out in your life that you enjoyed I remember I was spongebob okay spongebob was great um I remember I was a three legged man and no one could tell which one was the right leg or was the fake leg so that was pretty funny that's a dirty grandpa's trick right there too you know yeah um that sounds fun though it was really fun I I actually enjoyed I always love Halloween um I've been you've seen the blues brothers right yes so

I've been elwood blue actually no I haven't actually a lot about that yeah I'm sorry you should watch it um but yeah I used to be Asian elwood blues um I was did you watch the office yes okay remember Asian gym it was like one of the later episodes or one of the later I didn't watch all of it yet I'm actually on season one oh gotcha okay well it's fantastic um there was one episode where he um where Jim tried to trick um Dwight mm-hmm and like have like an Asian gym and trying to trick Dwight into being like no like that's really me I've I've been here the whole time oh um so I was Asian gym oh I like that I met Jim one night at a club one time really at a yeah and he was drinking and chasing women I remember

and really hard up for a little bit of cooch man at the time so was I and I could see in his eyes just something that I saw in myself you know and yeah I just I just remember that but um yeah I remember Halloween was so big and we're young man mom would get us out there and man we would sometimes you know like uh I remember my sister was in like a cast or something one time for something she lost a battle with a you know some ants or something or you know you know she tried to get artsy with a with a group of wasps and came in second place you know and um and so she was in one of those kind of full body soft cast where they really just trying to get that aloe vera on you where they kind of they almost have

to embalm you know like uh like a mummify you with aloe vera strips of lotion and you know in wax paper or whatever but um I remember we took her around one time we had to take her like a little wheelbarrow to go get the candy uh we were one time we tried to be light we thought light was like the really bright white thing so we covered our bodies with the flower and went door to door like that um my brother went through a phase kind of like uh he he would take a mirror and he would like wheel it up to their door and and they'd be like what are you what are you you know he'd be like you don't want to look at who you really are you know he was like uh he was just going through a phase you know you

know I'm the scariest thing you know yourself you know your truth like that kind of kind of Edgar Allen Poe kind of Benjamin Franklin shit um but god I remember it though I remember just going door to door and there was always a lot of pedophiles out there was always a lot of pedophiles out living their life and doing their thing and that was there you'd see them out with no kids you know dressed up like a pedophile you're like oh this is this is interesting so um but yeah man leaning into the fear I'm gonna lean into the fear man lean into the uncomfort you know I didn't even know about you know having Riley back what it was like and what you know we're you know just figuring this all out and and you

know even last week we kind of talked at the end of the episode about you know I just like I'll try and something new it's hard to try new things sometimes why does comfort feel so man it's weird because comfort it's a good thing right it's a positive word it's a positive feeling but it's such a too much of it is is you know it's it can be a hampering this is you know what I'm saying Riley no exactly I totally get what you're saying have you been uncomfortable in your life before oh many times for sure whether it's you know just being on stage during one of my band performances oh you're in a band oh yeah I was in you were in band right yeah I was in marching band concert band jazz band pet bands damn I yeah I love

being in band and what's the heaviest instrument you could carry you think I actually I think the heaviest one was I was I remember I was in drum line and I was carrying the you know the quads the like the drum the oh yeah for drums right the four or five drums yeah I carried that that was really heavy then again like right now I'm five five I was like maybe four eleven or something or like five feet and it was it was tough because smoke a blunt to that man watching a little you know a smaller unique person of color kind of carry a drum set dog right I'll get high out of that I mean I was the only Asian I was the smallest guy on the team why it was it was tough but I did it you're fierce almost really right and

it was actually kind of too heavy to the point where I actually had to move to a different instrument so I went on the smallest bass drum there was you know how there's like there's like different sized bass drums in drumline I was the smallest bass drum oh wow that beautiful little baby bass huh exactly damn and could you hit it pretty hard with the sticks how many sticks do you get two one on each side oh hell yeah yeah yeah yeah because we had a guy in ours that only got one stick I remember really yeah because the band was barely funded the band was basically stuff they made in woodshop that would make a sound so you'd have five or six dudes we had this real this kid named Brian St. Pierre out there and he was really

like the first kind of black white kid ever the first white kid ever to act like a black kid and they'd never seen it before and so he was a mentally handicapped courses and everything but he they gave him half a drum you know and he'd get he'd get halfway through a song and he'd be fist fighting somebody at the concession stand for a damn airhead or something that that kid was really real POS POS man real POS um let's take another call that came in right here man hey my name is Kyle Sickle my phone number is 8499 I just called in actually I live right around Nashville Tennessee I realize my message is probably a little long something I wouldn't really listen to I just want to let you guys know like reiterate

if you guys are ever around the town Nick, Theo, you know any of the uh King and Sting family I got some good places all around Nashville some family some property I'd love to show you guys around show you a good time really now as right now this guy sounds either like a super nice guy or murderer I like to show you around the property if I'm a woman if I'm drunk outside of a bar that's death we have a big private lake let's you guys come fish catch some big old bass instead of teens baby bass and really have a good time uh hit me up my name is Kyle Sickle around Nashville Tennessee alright Kyle wow I appreciate that man it's really nice of you and I will hit you up and I would love to come out there

and catch a bass you know you ever reeled in something big rally male um I haven't um I I mean I love going fishing I am super bad at it um I haven't done it as much I did it when I was in scouts um that's when I would always fish with a few of my friends um fellow scouts and um and do you guys have like a no man left behind kind of thing like that like what is their what's the mantra yeah um yeah man we are always like we leave no man behind we leave no trace behind um that was actually yeah that was actually our thing um our scout motto not our motto um I forgot what it was called one of our sayings um leave no trace behind um and our scout slogan that's what it is and that basically means like we leave

no trash we leave everything better than how we found it it's like if we're at a campsite you know if there is a few you know pieces of plastic on the ground you know we'd pick it up throw throw it out on the way out leave it better than how we found it wow amen man um yeah thank you for the fishing offer you know that's a nice that's really nice man and I will hit you up and I will come fish you know I appreciate that uh that'll make me feel more you know at at home here and getting into the MMA has made me feel more home you know just going in just keep going back even though it's like yeah go in and some of the people recognize me and say you know they're super friendly but it also makes

you feel a little uncomfortable when people not that they're trying to make you feel uncomfortable with just um there's just a different it's like it's cool but it's also it's like okay you know I want to take the class I want to be when you I start thinking that they think differently of me and so then I start it's just in in my head you know um so anyway all all all they've been is really welcoming and and yeah just starting to feel a little bit more confident about like when I was young I was just so I just didn't have any confidence man you know I just didn't have any man who got you in a taekwondo really um I've I actually kind of wanted to do it myself um I just wanted to learn martial arts self-starter they call

it right and I just wanted to from the very beginning I've always wanted to earn black belt that's the same thing with scouts from the very beginning joining cub scouts I've always wanted to become an eagle scout that was like my thing and I had to make it um so I did the same exact thing for um taekwondo praise god I loved it I'm glad I did you know there's something real powerful about having self-control is real powerful right you know because I'm the other end of that where I've struggled with oh Jesus Christ I struggled sorry sorry um I'll just struggle I've struggled with it you know I'm sure to you know so doing masturbation and that kind of stuff I really struggle with that you know it's hard it's

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wireless bill to 30 bucks a month at mint mobile dot com slash Theo you know I was my fingers are hurting from I think becoming a man that's what I'm feeling like and I know that sounds crazy but you know I think I've been before these you know I'm doing MMA and I've been to four classes now and I know look I'm not saying that I know anything I know absolutely nothing but I just I don't know it's weird my hands always feel like I don't know what to do with them and then suddenly just a little my hands feel like a little bit more like they're gonna be okay that's all that's the only little thing I just start to notice that my hands will they'll be okay like I can't explain it just they feel a little more confident

that don't mean try me I don't want somebody to you know come at me or hit me with a sword or shoot me or nothing or you know do something you know do anything but yeah just feels interesting but that's what they feel it's the same feeling if you've been practicing a guitar and you get those things on your fingers what are they called rally do you know calluses yes it's just like that I remember one year we got into some racial stuff at Halloween my dad had gotten some cinnamon sticks you know when somebody I think maybe like a Cuban person or something had left him somewhere I don't know someone got him he got him but or he might have got him my dad used to go to South America a lot

and do some stuff I don't know what he was doing he might have been probably running around in my mom but I don't know I was you know I was a child and anyway so we were all excited with the cinnamon stick so we were like oh let's go let's do Halloweening as cinnamon cinnamon sticks family and so we got everybody out there dude and this is back when you could do something darker without getting raced out you know nowadays I've jumping some yellow paint and run out there and people say oh you're you're being hateful to Asian people I jump in red paint they say oh you're being hateful to Native Americans I jump in you know I try to do a little bit of cinnamon sticking as a family and they say oh you're

being hateful you know this you're being black hateful to blacks black people or black culture and back then nobody it wasn't like that people were you could be a cinnamon stick at Halloween you know and I remember a day when in America you could be a cinnamon stick at Halloween and not get called out for racial injustice people were like you hate you are you being hateful like I'm being cinnamon that's all I'm being and every cinnamon everybody loves cinnamon you know and I long for a day like that in this country again you know I really long for a day like that but the disease I feel like is lightening up I feel like people are I don't know what's going on you know I don't know I feel like with the disease

Corvid or long aids some people call it I can't I am I'll just I am shocked that we shut down the world but we didn't really know what to do I think we didn't really know there's no people can you can't Monday morning quarterback a pandemic but I feel like we should have let it seems like people that are highly susceptible should have been given maybe a government stipend give them something to help them get set stay safe and let the rest of the world operate that's what I feel like we should have tried to do but one thing about being a free country is some of you everybody has their everybody wants to do their own thing and they can you know they can all right let's take one or two more calls here we go a few

more this is Mike Jenner calling just want to say hey man thanks for all you do I'm a recovering addict two years sober over two years sober gang man congratulations Mike two years maybe dosonios maybe them Spanish years daddy you got them off of that methamphetamine crazy shit mmm I never did any meth man you know I always wanted to smoke crack honestly I never did smoke any crack and I always wanted to to know what it was like have you had a high drug experience rally I've not you you will know me as the most innocent man I mean you know I'm a Christian Eagle Scout so I'm like the most innocent guy that you will probably ever meet what's a high stimulant you've been on what's something heavy you've been on um

I want to say the highest thing would probably be when I got my wisdom teeth pulled out other than that I mean what were you on brother on that gas what they have you on it was asked you out yes oh hell yeah it was crazy there's videos of that where you can watch Asian people getting gasped out it's like a because a lot of Asian people do are sorry I'm generalizing in there's a lot of unique Japanese videos where they do different artistic stuff with laughing gas have you seen any of that I have yes but see I'm not I remember when I got my wisdom you know how wisdom are people who get their wisdom teeth pulled out and they're like slowly waking up afterwards they're like you know they do funny stuff all the time that

wasn't me I remember that like my arm like my arms were up on the seat but and I have pictures my mom took pictures of me like that it was funny but other than that I didn't really do anything funny like I was conscious enough to know like like I saw I still remember seeing the camera on me I'm like put that away no yeah I mean other than that I didn't really do anything too funny it was an it was an interesting experience I got to say hell yeah man yeah look man getting gasped out and doing that and getting your teeth pulled out that's a that's the only thing see if every time people got high they had to pull their teeth out that should be the rule people want to do crack you want to do a little bit of math

and finance then they rip a molar they freaking taking in size around every time you do so every time you you know get gassed up you know or get blotched out on some Percocets they pull another tooth and once you're toothless no more drugs for you that's how it should be done would you throw out a couple more teeth to get one you know to go another round you think well that I'm currently getting an implant put in and oh yeah boy and I had to basically there's this one this one oral surgeon he there's like this tooth that wouldn't come down so he was trying to pull it down that that took about a year and it didn't come down so I went to a different orthodontist and he was like no no I was supposed to go

over then down so then we were like okay so we wasted a whole year going down so we tried going over and down but that wouldn't work after a year later because of the first guy that was trying to pull it down so then they had to end up taking it out and it was like a shark tooth it was really curved it was really weird hmm so then yes I got it taken out dorsal exactly I got it taken out and then now I'm trying to it's like I think you're five or something of this something crazy like it's been since high school praise God get one tooth out of you yep and so now we are trying to get or I'm trying to get an implant of where it's I think so the space is it was too big for two teeth but too small

for three teeth so I think we're just gonna do three small teeth going in oh wow so it's gonna be interesting for sure three small teeth man it's been years of doing this but it's almost done hey everybody's got their Vietnam baby you know that's the wild thing man let's finish this call up right here but I mean I just wanted to say shit fucks with your emotions two years over and I'm still feeling the emptiness I'm trying I got a full time job a great job I'm a great employee I haven't missed a day of working over a year and a half I love it I love my job I'm outside all day that saved my life but then I feel empty then when I'm not working I feel empty yeah you know I can really relate to that

you know sometimes I notice I'll get I just have to keep doing work I can't sit there and not do work because then it's like if I don't have work then I'm almost just kind of left with who I am or something so I just lean so heavy into work man let's hear more anyway people got it worse than I do I know that all I gotta say is gang gang gang bra congrats on your two years man and um yeah you know life is a game it's a survivor's game I mean it's a survivor's game man and sometimes it's you know sometimes I don't want to take care of myself really sometimes I get tired of taking care of myself I just want to let somebody else do it you know where I just want to but that's where you pull it

up that's where we get that's where we get G up you know have a half a red bull or something you know so now you don't have the right word you don't have there's nothing to say sometimes it's just we just keep battling man that's it we keep it cruising you know we do our own thing all right we got one last call here man and uh I want to thank all the callers and and um nine eight five six six four nine five zero three as always is the hotline you can call and be a part of this show um all right let's take one more call right here hey CEO this is Darren I'm calling from Indiana was up Darren Indiana's it's uh Spanish for in Indiana Indian oh Indian I did not know that yeah uh I just wanted to say that I really

support your move out of the Los Angeles metropolis I've lived there I came from Toronto I lived in Los Angeles now I'm living in Indiana you know it's just a whole other view of America I know you grew up more rural in Louisiana but man I think you need to reconnect with that because might while you might be scared the benefits far away the fear you just you look around you're like oh whoa what's that I could play the grass oh whoa what's that that's a leaf on a tree these are things you forget about when you're in LA this is endless there's no way to escape it like other than going to the ocean you know and then you'll drown yeah that's true you know LA it's just it's a it's a never-ending you know it's a

never-ending and look it's not a move you know it's a test drive and but thank you for the well wishes man a lot of well wish calls came in you know a lot of people just saying hey you know it's exciting and you know stay positive and you know I had that trouble last week at big lots and you know ran into some issues over there and and so you know but you know I'm just rolling with the punches man you know and I'm trying to find things that that that will connect me because it's real easy for me to get disconnected you know it's easy for me to be disconnected man so so I'm trying to find little things to connect me and to just be a part of my own life man to stay active in my own life to get up each

day and say alright this is you know and if I lose half the day to say hey man let's make a comeback here in the second half you know we can do it you know we can do it we just gotta keep going it's all we can do Riley now do you think yes sir it's all we can do you heard him ladies and gentlemen thank you guys for joining us this week I'm gonna go out on the same way that we came in man you know out here riding into the apocalypse of time with with Stevie Star like time is no stranger again September 26 I will be in Cedar Rapids Iowa that's outdoors trying to get back on doing some dates and gonna hopefully tip a Netflix special here soon so we want to I gotta do the material I got up for the

first time the other night in Nashville and we'll talk about that next episode about what that was like I'm gonna go back and get up tonight and yeah just just keep going you know just keep going so congratulations on the guys that hit a couple years of sobriety and anybody else that's out there struggling and anybody that's struggling in silence man it's there's nothing tougher man then then then then struggling in silence but you can do it man woman everyone thank you for being here Riley thank you for having me on alright let's go out with a little bit of Stevie Starlight time is no stranger the fire the gender reveal fire is still burning and shout out to all the firemen and fire women

out there fighting that blaze and I think it's consumed like 70,000 acres or something now and you know and they still don't know if it's a boy or a girl isn't that crazy really it's so frustrating for a day to never come look what's happened to me this is Stevie Starlight