This Past Weekend - E358 All Rise
Episode Date: September 8, 2021Theo talks about his weekend in San Diego, going on Jocko Willink’s podcast, the rise of Paddy Pimblett, the Joe Rogan Covid Experience and the side effects of too much social media. Plus, Theo ...listens to some voicemails about last weeks discussion of the American flag and the current state of the Pledge of Allegiance. New Merch: http://theovonstore.com New Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour Podcastville mugs and digital prints available now at https://theovon.pixels.com Music: "Baptise Me" - Robert Randolph and the Family Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3A_coTcUek&t=0s “Makin’ It” - Bishop Gunn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqi6QYs3jg&t=0s Support our Sponsors: Modiphy: visit https://www.modiphy.com/theo and get a $250 credit when you subscribe for your world-class website Bridge Credit Solutions: https://bridgecreditsolutions.com/theo Liquid Death: https://liquiddeath.com Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to tpwproducer@gmail.com. Hit the Hotline 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: http://bit.ly/TPW_VideoHotline Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/groups/thispastw... Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEK... Producer: Nick Davis https://instagram.com/realnickdavis Producer: Sean Dugan https://instagram.com/SeanDuganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Discussion (0)
Today's episode is brought to you by liquid death all right all rise
That's what they say sometime. You know if I was
At a
Working at a courthouse, I would probably say that a lot all rise
Somebody says it. I don't know
Or if I worked at a bakery and I was like
In there by myself all night
Maybe I dress up in like a judge's the judge. That's who says it
So if I worked at a bakery, maybe I would dress up in like a judge's outfit because I know a girl named Gwendolyn
And she works at a bakery and
She's in there by herself
If you want to kill somebody do what you shouldn't obviously but if you wanted to a baker is
They're get there at like two thirty or three
They in there bacon
Wearing aprons sexy, you know
But anyway, I don't condone any of that kind of behavior
but what I'm saying is if you if you were a
Baker you could put on a judge's outfit and get right up by the oven by the glass
And be like all rise
That's what I would do. I mean I'd be so damn bored you're in there all night
Just looking at bread, bro, just breading around doing that French bread where they braid the bread
Whatever that is do we had a handicapped brother boss growing up this dude, I
Don't remember what his name was. I don't even know. He might not have had a name and
And
They would um and
His legs something he didn't have any bones or in his legs or whatever and they would braid his legs around each other
They had it, you know, he's paraplegic and his legs were a corn road
And they still had some dope ass sneakers on the end of them
So
Diversity babe, you feel me
Diversity, let's get into it. All right
I'm just sitting on your front porch wondering how could I be so far from my
Oh, I'm on
Welcome back and my mind is somewhere else, but when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been
Oh
Now I'm just holding on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be
on a song
But when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind
I found I can feel it in my bones in my bones, baby
But it's gonna take a little time
For me to set that parking brake and let myself
I'll sit and tell you
Shine on me
And I will find a song. I will sing it just for you
All right
I'm upstairs
If you need me, baby
Man, that's one thing that's real magical about um, just the greatest excuse ever on earth your wife needs you somebody needs you a kid
Your wife's kid your kid also
And you're like, I'm upstairs
Okay, then I need I'm up stairs
The ultimate get out of jail free card
If they ever even put me on trial
Speaking of judges and rising and all that if they ever put me on trial, they'd be like did you do it?
I'd be like I was upstairs guys, okay
Have you ever been upstairs? Okay? I was upstairs
I'm upstairs
They're like sir. Were you at the scene of the crime? We find your footprint. You you found what I was a
upstairs
You should have an upstairs on your house even
Just in case you ever and somebody dies at your house
Okay, and it's probably gonna be either
Your wife or husband if you have gay husband and
Because there's not a lot, you know
That's really if somebody kills somebody and I'm not saying to do any of this
But if somebody kills somebody that's who they kill they killed the you know the person that
They used to do sex with
usually and
Anyway, but you had you got to have the upstairs because otherwise there's no, you know where I was downstairs then
Bro you qualify you really you write you right there you located around the crime, baby
You know that
What's going on not much per the usual you know I
I was in a little Hoya this weekend
Which means I don't even know what it means la yo la Hoya
la Hoya
The Hoyas the Hoyas I don't know maybe George people that people that went to Georgetown or something
I don't know the Hoyas
Yeah, I was in the Hoyas and
First of all my favorite comedy club there trying to get the new
Tour the new material on track so many people came out man, and it was fun, dude
And it was fun just learning like the first show it just it kind of built over the weekend
So in the first show is a little bit. I didn't know the order. I wanted some of the jokes to be in
some of the stories
You know, I'm trying to remember and I'm trying to record and write down the notes after
And it matters my mood to it my mood is a certain type of way then
I'm not gonna do as well, you know my I
Want to be in a good mood so my material comes off in a good mood
You know, that's paramount or tan amount. I
Don't know which one it is it's paramount or tan amount
Tan amount
Tan amount sounds like she's a little thick, you know what I'm saying, but paramount sounds like she
She's definitely she went to juvie for sure
She went to juvie and she definitely dated a couple brothers, you know what I'm saying gang gang boy
beige power son
But anyway, so
Yeah, it was do it was but it's so much fun man. It's just such a fun spot to reform because the room is so simple
it's a simple room and
And
There's no like they're not selling a bunch of riblets or whatever a bunch of you know
grilling up a fucking lunchable or trying to you know, get you over on some bullshit
They got two items in there
Three items actually
Drinks
Popcorn comedy, that's it and
Usually they have a piano up front the guy. I don't think he died. I thought he died, but they said he didn't die, but
I'm like if he's not dead do then where is he because it's an older guy
And
Louise is his name
Beautiful guy, too. He's got a wife as or as he had a wife. I don't know what's going on with him
But and she's a comedian as well and she's got some bangers on her. She got them
Them front yams, baby, you know what I'm saying in
All rise
All rise boy. I'm freakin stay right through the glass at them bad boy, you know
I'm over there, dude. Well, that thing you'll be upstairs if you stand on him, you know, but she and anyway
I don't even know what I'm saying, but
But he plays the piano usually up there
And what I like about that as opposed to a lot of clubs they're pumping in like, uh, you know Freddie Mercury or
Um, who's that other guy that's like Freddie Mercury? Um,
G gerry somebody
The little guy he's like
and
The song might not have been theirs
You know, you want it?
What's that song? Um, shit. I don't know. Anyway, dude, they play the piano in there
Bruno Maher
They play the piano in there
That's what I wrote not Freddie Mercury. I was thinking the play, you know, I went Mercury
Mars that's why I was trying to get Mars Bruno Maher
Zuh Bruno Mars and he
Anyway, a lot of clubs pump that in there, but at the La Jolla comedy store. They just see they play the piano
so when you sit down as a
You go there as a clientele
You feels like you're there for a piece of art your piano you're like, oh, this is a
This has an artistic feel to it. So I really like that. I
Really like that
And man, I just so much love man out of that area out of San Diego and
The city dude honest San Diego
San Diego do without Diego, I guess it means, you know
And I don't know if that's like if he's a missing person or what?
That whole deal what happened, you know, he's basically probably era. He's like the male Natalie Holloway of Southern California, I guess or whatever, but
But San Diego, I don't know if there's a better city out there. I
Really don't
You go you're outside. There's people walking by it's diverse, but this the vibe everything can have we went to
The Padres game bro went to watch the Drays over there
And dude, it's everything going on. There's some lady you could join you could join MS 13 in one area
There's people that are like MS 14 through 18 like the like high school group of it or whatever
You know, there's MS 30
It's like dudes that are still alive barely, but they aren't in the gang anymore in their face painting like
Friars on kids cheeks over there and like a written and every they all got dogs from the government to help them feel better and they got um
What else dude you could buy jewelry you could catch a home run
They got people. I mean they got a booth over there. You could get breastfed horchata if you want. They got beers water
Dude, it's just everything is going on you could buy a grill you could get barbacoa
Just so much to they had the kid they
Well, they discontinued the kiss cam because of COVID which is like dude. Come on, bro
You know
It should be you you bring somebody you don't want to be with or don't really like and you got to kiss them land on land
Them lips on them
so
But dude, it's just a beautiful place if you haven't been it to see us a game there to watch the Draze play, baby. I
Don't know and
then
This boy they got this man
used to be a boy
Hits a Cronin worth. I think
Larry Cronin worth I think
Bro or Lawrence maybe or you I don't know what his full name was but
Bro bottom of the ninth
I'm upstairs bro. All right, bro the place went bananas dude
Bananas dude. I mean just full potassium dog people were losing their shit
Some lady gave birth to the baby and put it back in dude so she could finish watching the end of the game
people were hyped
Everybody in there is just wearing these necklaces
These spinners they got I mean it's
It's everything and they just do such a good production of
Doing the game
You feel like you're having fun
Dude, the guy gave me a free Frank at the Frank. Oh
Center free Franks, bro
Free Franks Dave
and
Then oh the one of the beautiful part man for me was I went to get
To look at the barbacoa store and the guy working there one of the guys working at the at the ballpark
Was coming to the show that night. So he's like, bro. I'm coming to see you tonight
And man, it was just awesome. Just so much love there. I
Just felt I personally personally felt so loved and
And just a good time man a good time
I
Stated a hotel that was a
I wouldn't mind if it wasn't high-priced, you know, it was like the last room in town
Dude at one point they the guy came to my room and asked me if I had a wrench, bro
There's some guy working there asked me if I don't I guess just
You know, that's cold. I think it's cultural appropriation
You know, just cuz how I look whatever the guy was like, hey man, can I borrow a wrench like what?
Like dude, can I borrow some clean water so I could put it in the swimming pool. Oh, there was like hair coming up
There was a Lachness monster in that bitch dog and even he wasn't doing well
He had cove it I think and I don't like to bag on place. I love a Hampton Inn, you know
But this place man, it was just I don't know what the the staff was all nice. I'm not saying that but it just I
Would not stay at this joint
Just some dicey stuff they said it's haunted I was like dude, it's I don't know if that's haunted. I think it's just
The the I mean my room smelled like my room smelled like it had definitely been haunted by somebody doing dumps in it
Somebody doing you know
Who's that guy with no head or whatever it's a bad crane, bro
Like he was doing dumps or horses were something definitely
Nice place looks good in pictures, bro, but
Anyway, I shouldn't really be complaining about that. Oh
What else I
Got to go on Jocko Willings podcast that was interesting, you know
You know actually you know what I'm gonna talk about that let me talk about
We had some responses you guys called in about some responses to last week's episode
Some thoughts that you had on different things and I want to get into those and I also want to let you know though
That bridge credit solutions is different
And this is true man. This is a company that helped me. I was I was trying to get a home. I
Was trying to buy a home and be a homeowner
You know and a homeowner like land and stuff like that not like
Somebody trying to love men that is men
So I got hooked up with this company through a friend of mine from recovery actually and
And they they my credit had bad dings on it. I've forgotten to pay a couple things, bro
I've forgotten to pay for a I missed some payments on the television and I missed some payments on I
Missed about seven payments on a
On a Honda Accord
So anyway bridge credit solutions is different
They are backed with a hundred percent money back guarantee for any items
They cannot that cannot be removed from your credit
You will not find that anywhere in the credit repair industry, you know exactly what you're paying for at the beginning of the repair
No open-ended monthly fees. It's written in the contract. What work is to be done and how much you're paying?
You will need to have bridge report access prior to scheduling your audit
We cannot go over your credit report without this. It costs just one dollar
No job is too big or too small bridge credit solutions caters to all types of clients no matter their financial situation
These guys helped me get my credit score high enough so I could buy a home. I couldn't buy a home. I
Said I want a home. They said what about that Honda, bro? You didn't pay for the Honda from July to freaking
Christmas I said well bitch what?
All right
Since y'all gonna be tattletailing on everybody
But bridge credit solutions. They're an upstairs business, baby. That's right
They will guarantee removal of certain negative items in as quick as 24 hours
Schedule your free credit audit in three easy steps and get a free three bureau credit report
$25 value with 30 days of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. That all sounds like a lot
But look I'm telling you if there's something in your life that you would like to do and your credit is affecting it
Bridge credit solutions comm slash
thEO
Go there to schedule once scheduled a bridge credit strategist will contact you to review your report with you
I got a text the other day man out of the blue
And I'm happy to share this man. It's really made my weekend
This is real man
Hey, buddy
I followed your advice to get my credit rebuilt through the guy you were advertising
Mine was as low as it got six months ago and today I bought my little family a house
You're really out here. Thanks so much brother all the best to you and man. This is just cool
You know and I'm gonna put this picture out the baby looks like it definitely does not want to be living with the parents, but
But man, this was awesome and I feel the same way, you know, uh bridge credit solutions comm slash
thEO
They won't take advantage of you if they can't help you then it's not gonna cost anything. Yeah
What else so we had some news that happened man, oh do patty pamblet
Patty pamblet. Let's start there a little bit of news for you. If you're not familiar with this dude
He's British brother. I mean and he's a hunter. He looks like
Um, he looks like
All the Beatles if they didn't if they just went to the gym, you know, he looks like Matthew Mark
Who's other guy John and
Which other guy the little guy ringlet he looks like all the Beatles if you uh
Yeah, yeah Matthew Mark John and ringlet. He looks like all the Beatles if they just went to the gym and did no music or drugs and
Then uh, so the fight was crazy, man. He's real frenetic
You know, he's got that. He's got a lot of static energy
You ever take something out the dryer and it makes all that crackling sound when you stretch it when you pull it apart
Take the sock off the sweater and it's like
Or you ever slide your feet across the carpet at the library and then just go shock a mother
Patty's got that bro
Patty's got that dude. Um
The best was though after the fight. He starts just rattling off all kinds of quotes all all the quotes, man
I can strike I can grapple. Um, um
I'm the new king. The new king is here lad. I can wrestle. I can uh
I can do the electric slide, man. Um, the red coats are coming. Give me out of Sanya or give me death
Uh float like a butterfly
Sting like a big girl from Newcastle. Um, he just started going into any quote that had ever been
It was like the so much hype
It was too much, you know, and then he just started just rattling off random positive quotes
He's like give a man a fish and chips and he'll fish and chips
He's like give a man a fish and chips and he'll fish and chips for a day
But teach a man to fish and chips and I'll beat the fuck out of every last one of you
Like it just started to get uh
It started to just get insane and then he just went into like just Beatles quotes, you know, he's like, uh
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take this broken bastard. I just beat and teach him to fight you pieces of shit. I'm a legend. I'm a king
I'm John Wick
I mean, he's just rattling off. Just uh
Just just just just um, I get by with a little help from my fists and I'll beat the living lips off of your mind
You're gonna know who I am
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world except all these cash and prizes, bitch
I'll hard scoff your mother son
He did every hype thing you could do at once
um
But suddenly boom, I'm talking about him other people are talking about him
You know, he'll be Brennan Shaw's favorite fighter
um
You know, it just
It gets how I guess man, you know, it's like that's that's a unique thing about today. You can create your own hype
And patty pimblet dude, he did he just he literally just said everything that was like ever hyped forever, you know
So I'm here for it, man. I'm here for patty pimblet. I'm here to see how it goes down and he's also in I believe
You know, I don't know that much about UFC and about fighting, but um,
But I love it. It's become my favorite sport over the pandemic
and um
And he's in the 155 weight class
Could it get any crazier in there? Could he get any crazier?
So just the people he could be fighting down the line. I mean
Oh, it's so hype
It's so hype man
What else we got you guys had some responses to to um to some of the chatter from last week about the uh, the
Some of the stuff I talked about about the vaccine and about the pledge of allegiance teacher
And I appreciate those
And I'm going to get to those in just a few minutes
um
I wanted to oh, this is what else happened
Joe Rogan had covid
And he took a ibermectin
His methods included taking ibermectin a de-warming veterinary drug
If you believe in veterinary
That is formulated for using cows and horses
Um while a version of the drug is sometimes prescribed to people for head lice or skin condition
Now look, I have had half I've had head lice. I probably had head lice
I would say 13 times
Maybe 14 times. Maybe 13. Maybe a baker's dozen. All rise
Dude, I'm upstairs. You upstairs when you have head lice, dude, you're upstairs all day
You're itching the top floor dog, you know
so
um
So yeah, I noticed a lot of articles people trash and what does he do? You know, this guy, what is an idiot? You know, he's taking these taking this
Why would he do it? You know
Dude
I've always found I I think it's brave to try something
Whatever happened to that thing. Hey, maybe this guy found it. Maybe this guy this worked for him
I don't think he's out there saying it's gonna work for everybody
Um, but also the people writing a lot of articles trashing him about it
Dude, he's such he he's such your daddy
He's your daddy
Because you're only writing that article to get the links to get the links to get the um
People to link on it so you could get your money get you a little $50 $70
And that's daddy Joe
Making you money boy keeping you in business
He's out there trying different things and Joe Rogan's not gonna try something that's dumb
Have you seen Joe Rogan? If there's if there's if there's there's many things he cares about one of them is his physical health
Dude, I were the first time I ever even met him. He was coming out of a dam
A portal he'd been and I swear to God he'd been in
Some type of portal to a nether sphere
He'd been and I swear to God he'd been in some type of portal to a nether sphere something where
You know they put alien
Fat in your limbs or something. I don't know. I mean just the guy's always trying something new
So I think this is brave
I think it's brave of him to try it and especially if it worked for me got it for a couple days
He got sick
And uh, and he got better. I think he beat it in three days
And that's that look
This is one of the
And this isn't me
Pat and Joe Rogan on the back
You know Joe, he's not my daddy
You know
He's my uncle I think
You know uncle Joe, he's my uncle
Uncle Joe uncle Tom
Segura
Not the
Whatever the other guy did that I think was kind of he's somebody did something bad but
He's somebody did something bad but
Um
Uncle Bert uncle
Uh
Yeah guys uh
Uh
Sebastian
I mean those guys are guys that I would go to for suggestions. I know if I needed some help
Uh, they would reply uncle Jaco
You know different guys
Uncle Poirier
But Joe Rogan's a smart guy that cares about his health
So I just don't I don't think like
Oh and it says what does it say the FDA is urging people to stop taking the drug to fight COVID-19
Um
But my thing about the FDA is and look
I'm an idiot
Okay
I'm just thinking out loud
But is the FDA compromise that's what I worry a lot about the FDA
Because I bought some of their meat
You know and it's good but it's not all
It's not all 90% lean that's for sure
And is the FDA compromise dude everything's compromised I remember our school board was compromised growing up
Do we had to drink bad milk for a year we were drinking sour milk because the guy there was banging the um
The uh what was that milk company by is called uh
Yeah the guy was banging the board one of the boarding chicks the superintendent or whatever
So we're out there dude every day at lunch just sipping man
This shit was on the cusp bro I'll tell you this if you got that shit at about 11
It was still digestible if you got that little milk bag that lunch bag about 1140
That shit just it tasted like you were it tasted like I had a little pickle back shot at the at the bottom of the bag baby
So
So I just wonder how compromised is it and I'm kind of a skeptic I am skeptical
You know
I am skeptical of a uh
Of a net of everything these days a lot of things are compromised
That's money man that's big business
So I don't know man but I think the fact that if Joe Rogan tries it
He's a brave dude he's tried a lot of things that have helped a lot of people
You know he really is kind of the he's a guinea pig in a lot of ways and um
And I think that's brave
You know he encourages me to want to try different things to see if they work for me
Now this could be risky I don't know everything I'm not telling people to go try ivermectin
I don't know that much about it
But there's been a lot of people who have said uh there's been a lot of talk about it helping people so
Uh I don't know I think he's brave enough to do it I would like to see that article more
Hey here's a guy who's brave enough who's got a lot to write I mean he's got a wonderful life
You know he's got a comfortable neat life where he's doing you know he's doing interesting things all the time
But his health he cares about it I know he does
The first time I met him he was coming out of a medical clinic in the elevator
And I was just like you know I just met him he was getting he was doing something doing stem cells
You've got some new stem cell bubble gum or something you know I mean he's always
So anyway I think it's brave man I think it's interesting and brave and maybe I'll get to talk to him about it first time one day
Um what else
What else do we have
You know let's get into some of you guys' calls man
I'm not gonna make this a super long episode today and that's okay gonna take it easy
Um and then I'll talk about going over to Jocos too
But let me put the headphones on yeah it was fun this weekend Mike Clevenger came out
Uh and um who else Mr. Frazier, Mr. Musgrove
Some of the Drays players came and watched the show on Sunday
Ari Manis was performing and he's a huge Padres fan like I went with Ari
And Brittany Schmidt another comedian who was opening up and um
And so it was so cool I didn't know Ari was such a big Padres fan
So man I got to sit next to somebody he was just sharing so much good information and telling me all these things
And man it was it was awesome
But if you have a chance to go watch them and watch the uh and the guy hit it in the bottom of the ninth
Chris Chenoweth or whatever the guy's name was man
Dang city dude I'm upstairs
Bro it was sick and we literally ran out to beat traffic dude
I think we made it to the parking lot before he made it around the bases bro
The second he hit that bastard man
Cause we had to get back for the show um
But yeah just exciting man a great weekend over there in San Diego and La Jolla
Thank you guys for welcoming me
Um one more ad that's all we got in this one more ad
Uh to a friend of mine my friend Tim I grew up playing basketball for his dad this fella
And um
And I remember they it gave me a lot of confidence playing basketball when I was maybe 11 starting
You know I didn't get into it I didn't know they had it
And I got into it and now he runs this wonderful company and they built our website
They just built my friend Megan's website
She's a therapist in Bend, Oregon and they just started her website
Um but they did ours and we really like it and we're grateful to them
Modify is the company the last website you'll ever need
Modify it's a warm blanket of awesome that's right
If you don't like to spend a lot of money or want to do it yourself
Modify can help no cost to build no contract
45 day turnaround unlimited revisions and support
Easy editing tools
Free redesigns satisfaction guaranteed
All for just $2.49 a month
Now it really seems to be too good to be true doesn't it
It seems too good to be true $2.49
They're going to assure you and they fix it up they fix your logo bro they fix this that due to buttons
You want to revamp they'll help you do that
You know they'll figure it out you're communicating with them
To learn more about the last website you'll ever need
Visit Modify.com slash Theo and get a $250 credit
When you subscribe for your world-class website
Again that's M-O-D that's Modify with a P-H M-O-D-I-P-H-Y dot com slash T-H-E-O
These guys don't f around
Gang baby you know that
And I'm grateful to them man and I once broke into that guy's house
And I drank a ton of water when I got in there they had a lot of clean water at their house
And because they had one of those machines I never seen that thing with a big jug with the red and blue button
And I drink a little bit of red and then you have a lot of blue real quick and my tongue would burn
And I went in there and I shouldn't have done them
I broke in there when they weren't home to drink all that water bro they had that shit was
I'd never seen it that tank baby God it was beautiful
And then I got tired because I drank so much water I think my
You know you can your electrolytes get dizzy if you have too much water
And then I laid down on this floor to take a nap and urinated all over the floor
And I feel bad man they came in I think they thought I was dead I think they thought it was blood
I was just laying there in this huge just
Oh man but they were good to me and
And I'm grateful that they have a nice business now
And that they built us a nice website
You can check mine out theovon.com
You can also go to theovon.com slash tour to get tickets
There's still some shows on the new tour coming up
There might be some tickets a few left I'm going to start the tour over
A few more practice dates in Peoria, Illinois in a small town smaller smaller city over there
You know that area is near and dear to my heart
My mother grew up over there and
You know I love my mother and
We'll see if there's maybe not some good causes we can donate to while we're in town and
And they used to say if it'll play in Peoria it'll play anywhere
It was like the middle of America
So I'm excited about that
We got St. Louis Cincinnati still has some shows for the Saturday late show
Cincinnati still has some tickets
Man a lot of these are sold out
Chattanooga, Durham, Knoxville, Wilmington, Minneapolis, Wilkes Bayer, Charleston, Richmond, Baltimore, Burlington, Albany and Buffalo
All still have tickets available
We may put some new dates out we'll see
I'm kind of monitoring my health at the same time
Make sure I can handle it
Going to get some blood work done tomorrow
Make sure I'm staying upstairs
And see what's wrong downstairs dude
Not in my wiener but just something's wrong
Something's wrong in my body I don't know what's going on
But it's been happening for a few years now and it's
Just debilitating
There's some debilitating thing going on
I've been trying to figure out what it is and I haven't been able to yet
So not going to give up
That's for sure
What else we had some calls that came in from you guys
And I'm grateful for you guys calling in
Here we go right here let's get into a couple of them
Yeah I spoke on the Pledge of Allegiance
We had the teacher that didn't like the Pledge of Allegiance
And here were some thoughts
Hey Theo, my name is Alexis
I'm just calling in in response to the girl who just did the flag
And I just wanted to say that
Yeah thank you for calling Alexis
And that was in response to what we talked about last week
The teacher who wasn't real sure about the flag stuff
And we'll put that video in right here
Okay so during the third period we have announcements
And they do the Pledge of Allegiance
I always tell my class
Stand if you feel like it
Don't stand if you feel like it
Say the words if you want
Don't have to say the words
So my class decided to stand but not say the words
Totally fine
Except for the fact that my room does not have a flag
It used to be there
But I took it down during COVID
Because it made me uncomfortable
And I packed it away and I don't know where
And I haven't found it yet
Alright, onward Alexis
You know my family came here from Cuba
And they were escaping a brutal dictatorship
And a brutal government
And I saw her family there
So it hurts to see when Americans here
Can't appreciate the freedoms we have
Because you know
I have plenty of family members back in Cuba
Who would be willing to trade places with her
Seeing as they can't host freely online
They can't speak their minds
And they're starving
It's unfortunate to see
But I just wanted to share my thoughts
So thanks
Gang, be bienvenidos Cuba Libre
Yeah, it's interesting
You know, it's interesting how
Our perspectives can be so different
Yeah, I thought about this more afterwards
You know this teacher said
That she felt like the American flag
Caused conflict in her class
And
And I remember
When I was a kid
We didn't love America
You know, we were just in the country
You know
I think everybody loved the Olympics
When it came on
We were all on the same squad
The players were all excited to be playing
For the country
It felt like there was more unity
But I remember we had a teacher
This lady, Barbara Ballinger
And Barbara Ballinger was all about
The pledge of allegiance
And dang
Red, white, and blue
Just the freedoms
You know, she taught us all about
Just
America, the history
Oh, the class was
History of America
So we're just learning about all the articles
And the
Declaration
Just all that kind of stuff
You know
Just high school level stuff
But she is the one
Because if anyone spoke ill about America
She put her foot down
So I remember that it was
She used her space in our life
As a leader
As a teacher
Because not all teachers are leaders
And they're not all seen that way
Especially when you're a child
But she chose to
Say, well, I'm going to use this as a way
See if I can bring these kids to all
Have some of the same appreciation
That I have
So I found that that was interesting
Whereas this teacher seemed to just have
Kind of a different idea
You know, she was just
I don't know, I just felt like that teacher
Had made it more about her
But then also we live in a country, yes
Where people have the different freedoms
To think and feel and say
Whatever you want
I mean, there's definitely way too many voices
Out there these days
But
That's easy for me to say
As I publicly share my voice
It's not hypocritical
Since I understand it
I feel like it takes some of the hypocrisy out of it
But
But I don't know
I think it's interesting
It's like, because I feel like
If we can all find ways to come together
Then it's more of a healing
More of a unified space
That we're working from
So if I am in a position of
If I can use, if I'm a teacher
Or something, I can use my platform
To have my students say
And maybe they are creating their discussion
The discussion more in that ladies class
I don't know
I think she lost her job
Where they put her on leave of absence
So, but she'll still get paid probably
And that's pretty lucky
I bet, yeah, in Cuba
That's not the option
Did I remember going to Cuba
I went to your country, Alexis, one time
And when I was a student
We went over there
And Fidel Castro came and spoke to us
He came and spoke to our group
We were students, Estudiantes
And
And it was just like three or four hours
He spoke for three or four hours, dude
He's basically like the Spanish Joe Rogan, bro
But only he was talking
You didn't get the same thing
So it was just more of like
Just not really like that
But anyway, it was just him
Rattling off different information
About how good things were going in Cuba
It was a lot of propaganda
And they did have like a lot of big
They had some, what did they have lunch?
They had like a light lunch
It was like a meat couple of meat trays
Which was a really bizarre dude
I mean, there's a couple of thousand people
In there listening
And there's some light charcuterie out front
But I do remember going to the bookstore there
And the books all started with
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
They didn't have, there was no history beyond that
You couldn't get a history book before that
It was as if them saying
This is where the history starts
You know, with us and only us
In our thoughts and views
But yeah, I found that to be pretty
Pretty interesting
I remember people would come up by the windows
And try to tell us secrets
Or ask us for help
And we were just, you know, getting drunk college kids
But beautiful place, beautiful people
We went and saw some bezbol
And we had a really nice time over there
For what it was
I mean, we're just tourists, you know
We had another call that came in
About the Pledge of Allegiance
Here we go right here
Thank you for this call
Hey Theo
It's your boy Andrew from Minnesota
And I'm just calling on your thoughts about the flag
And that lady's thoughts about the flag
What's up, Andrew
From Minnesota, thank you for calling, man
And Minnesota's a good place to
To really be nice to people
And agree with people, I feel like
And also wear a coat while you're doing it
Gang, baby
So I gotta be quick and get it all out there
So I think the flag is a representation
A symbol of unity, liberty and justice
Now I don't understand how anybody can think that
That's a bad thing
And I understand you feel the same way
However, there's been a lot of brainwashing going on
I think and I think it's kind of obvious to a lot of people
That that's been going on
Because we're surrounded by a bunch of other older countries
That really don't like our idea of liberty and justice
And unity
So I think a lot of manipulation on the internet
Ever since it's been devised
Has kind of warped a lot of people's thoughts
Into maybe it's not such a good thing to support
The idea of the flag
Because our government is not the greatest
And our government does a lot of shady things
Well, our flag didn't do that
And our flag represents the land
I think it's very simple
When you think about it that way
You don't have to hate the flag
There's nothing wrong with the flag
It's just a symbol that represents the land we're on
And it's supposed to stand for unity, liberty and justice
Right, got you
Okay, onward
So if you for some reason you don't like that
The thing is that there's liberty in that word
Or in those three things
You have the freedom to not like the flag
You don't have to like the flag
And so I think that you can practice freedom like that
Like that
So the lady that you were talking about
She rejected the idea of the flag
And I think that maybe she shouldn't be reprimanded for that
Perhaps, you know, everybody should have the freedom
To understand where she's coming from
And the freedom to reject her idea
So anybody that, you know, they've got people
Or people have kids in their class
They don't like that
Well, move them out of her class
You have the freedom to do that
And so we can practice freedom in that kind of way
And we don't have to be so divisive and so hateful
Because I think the Sanskrit meaning of the swastika
Used to be something about peace and love
And it was a good religious thing
Now I think that's been warped
And we can see what happens to a symbol
If enough hate is put onto it
It will become a hateful symbol
So what will the American flag look like
A hundred years from now?
Will it be a peaceful unity, justice, liberty
Or will it be something that's been warped
Through propaganda and through manipulation
What will we choose right now?
Because we are standing on the ground
Moving underneath us
So I feel like people just need to
Possibly look at it from that way
Or they don't have to
They have the freedom to not
They have the freedom to reject this entire idea
And that's fine
So that's my thoughts
And thank you for listening
Gang brother, yeah
No, I love your thoughts, man
And I appreciate you being able to share your thoughts
In a way that's able for me to understand them
And sometimes it's hard to get the thoughts
From my brain to my mouth
But I appreciate you doing that
Yeah, you're right
I mean, yes
So anyone has the freedom to share how they want
And yeah, a lot of stuff is so divisive these days
And a lot of people are using things to divide
Like using tactics or making as much division
The internet and social media is so much division on it
And that's become of such a business
And business is become
And everything has become a business
Even our unity
And separate and putting wedges in our unity
That has become a business
And if you don't think that there is
There are dark arts out there doing that
Then I think you might be not thinking that good
To be honest
Because that's one thing that's become so wild with social media
And with the way that we communicate now
Is there's so much business attached to it
And we are at a different time
You know, we haven't been in a time for a while
Where our country was really fighting physically
Hand to hand
So that other people could
So that we could feel
So we would feel okay
You don't fall asleep at night
As often as I used to as a child
You felt a little bit more
Or your parents certainly did
That there were men and women out there
Protecting your freedoms
And yeah, maybe we all see the flag differently
I see it as a reminder of
I see it as a reminder of freedom
And my job is freedom of speech
My job only is...
But they don't even have my job in some countries
And I think...
The thing that got me about that teacher's video
I feel like she just made it about her
It didn't have too much of a big point
It was just kind of this cutesy thing
And I could be wrong
Um...
But yeah, I wonder that
I wonder that
Remember, it felt weird during the campaigning or whatever
It felt weird because
You didn't know if you showed the American flag
It felt like you were...
Everybody felt like you were some right-wing nut job
Or not everybody
I mean, I was in L.A. predominantly at the time
So in L.A.
If I would have hung an American flag off my balcony
People would have...
Everybody would have asked...
Act like you're some right-wing nut job
For hanging your country's flag
That's bizarre
Um...
But man, great points
Like how are we...
And what is influencing us
What is making me think, oh, is this flag not good
What is...
Um...
And we're all so influence-able
So...
But really interesting, man
I appreciate you guys sharing your thoughts
You know, and uh...
And...
And yeah, I thought everybody...
People have the right to feel whatever they want
And I don't know what that woman's life has been like
Maybe she was brought, you know
People were always...
Maybe she lived next to a...
Near an Air Force barracks or something
People were mean to her
You know, maybe she...
Feels like she hasn't gotten certain jobs
Because other people had different
Uh, ties into certain communities
Or old boyism
Man, I used to feel that way
But I hated that shit growing up
You know
We didn't have anything, man
Nobody...
You know, so I would see friends
They got different opportunities and stuff like that
Went on vacations
And...
You know, uh...
Probably knew where they were gonna go to school
Or had pictures at their house where their whole family looked like
They were having a good time together
And that shit all made me mad
Because that wasn't part of... I didn't feel like that could be something I could...
I felt like that was something that was just reserved
For certain people
Um...
A country club type audience, you know
Or something country club type people
Uh...
So yeah, you don't know sometimes also where people are coming from
But there is a
Business of division out there
And Jordan Peterson said it well
When we spoke, he said, what is...
What is claiming your awareness?
What is claiming your awareness?
And the tools that are out there these days
Are so powerful
That they'll get you and you don't even know they're getting you
And if that's not the dark arts, man
What is?
Um...
We have one more call here about Pledge of Allegiance
Maybe let me see
Hey, what's up, Theo?
It's Drew from Alabama
What's up, Drew? Thanks for calling, man
Uh...
Dude, I got a brother-in-law or something
Brother-in...
I don't know, somebody...
Somebody fucked him
And um...
He was a male cheerleader
Over there at University of Alabama
And...
Praise God, bro
Amen, let's go
I'm listening to the
Gingerbread Trap House episode right now
And I got to the part where
You're talking about the teacher
Who didn't want to
Put the flag up
And I just wanted to say thank you
For saying what you said
You know, thank you for having some balls
And saying that what she was doing
Was disrespectful
Because you know, a lot of people
They got these big platforms nowadays
They don't want to stand up
They don't want to stand up for the flag
They just want to go with what the mainstream
Saying and stuff
But not you, man
Telling how it is
Saying that she's enjoying all these freedoms
And saying what she wants to say
But not having her students
Go for the American flag
And just meant a lot
To hear you say that
Well, thank you, man
I appreciate you sharing that with me
And I don't know if I'm necessarily right about it
I appreciate your support
You know
But there is, it is true that
People have the freedom of different thought
It's the same thing that this country was founded on
People left Britain
Because Patty Pemberton
Was over there beating everybody off the docks
That dude was whooping people's ass, bro
Dude, if you got COVID-19
Dude, I bet if you roll up
Right in front of Patty Pemberton
He'll pump it right, he'll punch it
Right out of your damn solar system
Dude, that dude's curing COVID
With them COVID curers, dawg
He put him on that other
He popped that other guy up
Aladdin or whatever the name was Jerry Aladdin
I don't know
Whoever he beat, bro, but damn
Uh
Yeah, Patty Pemberton, I mean, sorry
But Patty Pemberton, dude
That dude's out there
Damn, baby
He's that freelance chiropractor, son
You know what I'm saying?
He'll get your shock results
But that's that Patty Pemberton recipe, son
Pa-pop
Pa-pop
But uh, damn, what was I saying?
But no, look, I think
Look, everybody has
The freedom to think and feel how they want
And that's how this country even got started
People didn't like
The feeling or the
They didn't like, they didn't feel free
So I do think
That we're seeing an evolution
Of that and what will our flag look like
In 40 years
You know, what will it look like?
And maybe sometimes I think
It may need to, that things
Need to evolve over time
You know, I don't look at the flag and think it stands
For like white people
Or that it stands for
Um
I never felt like it stood
For rich people
I always felt like it stood for
Us, I felt like
But if you say if you're a Native American
And you look at that flag
You know where you see your grandfather
Look at it
Or if you see your grandfather
That was forced maybe even to serve
In a military
Not by his own choice
But
Because
You know, it was
Maybe the, you know, the land
Had been taken and it was
Um
But then maybe he was
In the military and he met his wife
And he created his family
Whom he loves
So now he's sitting there and looking at the history
But at the same time looking at the future
Of his lineage
You know, and
And I'm grateful that
That guy has the freedom to feel
And think of all those things
In an open space
So yeah, I have to remember
That it's not just whatever
Has been going on for me
And I'm not
Calling you out or anything brother
I'm thankful for your call Drew, I really am
And um
Yeah, I don't know
I used to like it because I felt like
It made us all feel together
I remember looking at my other friends
And they did a Pledge of Allegiance
At the Padres game the other day
And that place is diverse as hell dude
You can't even get out of there
Bro without getting a necktatt too I feel like
I don't think they let you back in your car
Without a necktatt
And
Everybody in there was standing up
And supporting the fight and it just felt
Nice, it felt like
Some tradition
And maybe that's just what I like
I like tradition because it makes me feel okay
It makes me feel comfortable
Um
Alright let's see if we got one more call
They came in here, here we go
Hey Theo, this is Ryan
Calling from Baltimore, Maryland
Um, I was listening to you
Thank you for calling Ryan
And I appreciate you listening man, Baltimore
That's Black Maine daddy
That's Black Maine baby
Onward
Your latest podcast where you were talking about
The ladies who lost their American flag
Uh
And told her kids that she was okay with them
Not reciting the pledge
They're standing for it
Um, I love your show man
But don't get me wrong
But I gotta disagree with you here
Um, you asked
Uh, you're like uh
What has she done for freedom
Like she's selfish, like what is she doing
Um, like she's uh
It seems like it's all about her
Well
I would argue that a country where
You could go to jail for not reciting
And though it doesn't sound very
Freedomy
I think that the freedom that
We're so proud of sometimes involves
Uh, allowing people to say
Or do things that others
Might find disrespectful
But really I think
That that kind of freedom is something
We all need because
Um, we all need to be able to
Express ourselves
And maybe disrespect some people
If it involves
If it's something we need to say
And I think that truly does
Help us all
There's a lot to be proud of definitely in this country
But I think there's also stuff
That we shouldn't be proud of
And I think that kids
Should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves
I appreciate your call man
Yeah, I agree with you man
I agree
That kids should be allowed to make those decisions for themselves
I agree with that
Um, yeah
If somebody didn't say the oath and they go to jail
That seems
That seems very
That would seem wrong man
You know
Um
And we don't have that here
Fortunately
Um, and look I think you're right
It's like you also have people who don't
Want to take a vaccine or don't want
To feel mandated to take the vaccine
And that freedom
You know so yeah it's really
Interesting to try and look at where
It's interesting sometimes
When I look at myself and I say
Well where do I want freedom
But then where do I want to call
To call be like oh well
I want more freedom over here but I want
You know I want people to say the pledge
But I want people to
Also
But I don't want to
Man I'm trying to think of what I'm trying to say
Right
I just find it interesting yeah cause sometimes I'll notice
My own head where am I being hypocritical
Where I want freedom for
Just what I think
Um
So yeah it's tough man
It's tough too
And part of that is part of being a group
And being in a place where you can
Be free to do these types of things
I admired
My teacher when I look back on my life
Because
She took some kids who are just kids
You're just trying to jerk off
When you get home
You know what I'm saying we were 13
Bro
Dude I was saluting my wien wiener
I was downstairs
Bro every afternoon
And uh
And but she
She got upset if we didn't
Um
Support the flag in her class
You know she got upset
And
I just felt like this teacher was just making it about herself
I didn't really like her
It just felt like there's a lot of teachers
That are still trying to be kids a lot of times
And
I think that's just one of the side effects too
Of social media everybody's just trying to make a damn
TikTok dance
You know nobody's really working anymore
We're all just screwing around making
TikTok dances
But yeah it's a great point Ryan man
Where do I want freedoms but where
Where do I want
To bend the freedom
You know
How do I want to make that freedom
Worm
Kind of like
Not a freedom worm but
How do I want that
Where do I want to put the lines for freedom
And make it okay here
But a little more open here
And it is interesting
Man um
But yeah
I think I also miss the days when
The teacher had a little bit more
Of authority
And that was the rule man
I got spanked by my principal
I got spanked by my principal
And I saw him
A couple months ago at a funeral
Not in his funeral obviously bro
Impossible
And I thanked him dude
And he told me he enjoyed it
And I thought damn it is
Dude could be a damn pedophile
But he isn't
He is just a regular man
That used to beat children bro and I needed it
So
Speaking of beating children dude
Patty Pimble
Beat that dude the other day
Dude Patty Pimble looks like
He looks like somebody who got molested
And they beat the hell out of every molester
Ever
He looks like Charles Dickens like
Fucking rogue ass
Grandson
Who is here to settle the score
That dude is upstairs
We had some other calls man
But this is the long first episode
And we have a
Sitting producer that's helping out today's act
So I don't want to put too much on his plate
But yeah man a lot of this
And I'm just grateful we can be here and have a conversation
And I'm grateful for you guys calling
And being a part of my life
And just caring enough man
Um
You know it's a unique world
And this is it this is our life
And
I'm just glad that we're all coming to the surface
Of the water
And at least just
Keep taking hits off the air bro
You know we stay busy
We stay active
And uh
And you guys mean a lot to me man
I never tell you guys I don't think how much y'all mean to me
You know I never tell you how much you mean to me
And
You know the fact I went on
I went for a run early I wasn't feeling super good
Because you know who I am bro
Um
And so I didn't want my feelings to dictate how my day was going to go
So I said well if I go for a run
Physically my feelings have to come with me
So
I put them matches on my bag
And I went for a run
And while I'm out running man I running
I was listening to my podcast man
And he said hey the next thing you know
I didn't want to run that much neither did he
I think he was almost done he said he had been drinking the night before
And we went for a run bro
This kid Drew I think his name
I can't remember exactly
But uh well let me look
I don't want to be too lazy not to look
Cause I know he was a nice kid
Andy is his name so
Not Drew
Drew was the fella that he just called in
About my man but Andy
And you know I just ran to him and next you know
We went for two miles man and he shared some story in his life
You know he said his sister just had a baby
The first nephew
In his family and
And you know he just talked
About some things he was making some choices
And changes in his life with moving around
And it was just nice man
It was just nice
And I'm so
Blessed to run into people
A lot that
Are cool that
Are good people you know
And that's a gift that you guys give me a lot
And
So I just want to say thank you
I feel like sometimes I don't really really say that
You know that
You know I've had moments
In my life where I could never get as alone
As I wanted to get
You know I could never get
As alone as I felt sometimes
Like I
I would isolate and be by myself
And I
And sometimes I
I could never get as alone
I mean
No you could put me in a 40 coffins
Bro like one of those little rushing coffins
Where you keep opening it and the thing gets little
And little and little and it's a woman
It's like a little the Maastricht Shike
Of dolls
My mom used to have some of them
And like
But sometimes I just you know
I could never get as alone as I wanted to get
Or as alone as I felt
I could never physically get as alone
As I felt
And I'm not whining or complaining
I'm just sharing how I'm feeling bro
Or how I have felt
And
That's just a trick man
You know
The
The purpose for being here
Is to be
Is some type of connection
It really is
And
And man
As much as it's funny how
God gifts
Because
Every time I think I want to be alone
He says hey
Put somebody else in your life
It's just a person you run
And it's a person you talk to
A person you
A moment you and not just me
But you anybody you see somebody maybe hugs
Their child or the other night a father and son
Came out to the comedy show
You know
Man that just made me feel
You know I never got to do anything like that
With my dad
You know I didn't really know by the time I knew
Him he was disappearing
You know
My dad when I see that
When I see a father and son there at the show and they
You know it was the I think it was
The dad's birthday and the kid
It brought him out
And it was nice and
I got a picture too I remember I took with him
I'll make sure to put it in the video
On YouTube
But I get to live
Little moments that I don't have and we all get to
And those are the gifts man
I think we get them through each other
And I get them so often through you guys
And
I am grateful bro
So
I went to Jocko's dude
I went to Jocko's
And bro Jocko dude
He does his podcast
Out of like a damn
Well first
I don't forget he does it like out of
It's like a bunker there's a gym
There's a wrestling gym
There's people there's like a
Birthing area I thought I saw
Um
There's a baby with a rattle with like a 30
Pound rattle kettlebelling it
Um on its back
I mean the baby's been alive for maybe 40
Minutes like they're doing
They're doing some top
Notch bottom notch stuff over there
Okay they're doing some
Bottom notch stuff over there
Um yeah they're putting
Weighted blankets on infants just a
Lot of you know
When your citizens they're throwing
A bunch of weighted blankets on them
And you know tickling them and making
Them crawl and all there's a lot going
On you know a lot I mean you get
Free bar wire tattoos in the bathroom
There's just there's a lot going
On over there at
Jocko's gym I mean there's
Some lady got some guy got pulled
Put into some type of
Somebody hard scarfed and put him
Into some kind of a hold and damn
Fucking switched his gender on him
Had tits and
Put panties on and left dude I mean
There's just somebody put somebody
Into a damn gender bender brother
Doing all types of moves over there
So Jocko's doing some top notch
Bottom notch stuff over there
But it was awesome man
And it was what I needed you know
And I kind of didn't sometimes
I don't like going on podcasts because I
Haven't felt that good even for the past
Two years man something is physically going
On with me I don't know what it is
I tried everything to get it
It just won't stop there's something
That's you know some condition
I don't know what it is
But it makes me not feel good
And then I don't want to podcast
When I'm not feeling good
Because it puts me
You little have to be so present you have to
Be you and you don't feel like yourself
You don't want to share yourself because
It's not the real you you're sharing it's
It's like
I don't know
You know it's hard to put yourself out there
When you're
Feeling like about
50-60% of yourself
And I'm not complaining
I'm not complaining I'm not
I don't need any self pity
You know I do things
To take care of myself in the meantime until
I can feel better
You know I've done everything
A lot of men I don't know if it's
But it feels physical
It doesn't just feel
It feels like this extreme fatigue
That happens a couple of times a day
Where I have to lay down
And I haven't
Wanted to share that because I don't want
I'm not trying to be no damn
You know one a patty pimples victims
Bruh
I'm trying to just you know I don't need
Any of that you know everybody has
Stuff
But yeah I got to go in there with Jaco
And if you're up now you'll have to see it
I'll try to put it on my Instagram too
So they have all kind of
Weaponry in there and a couple freaking
Nades on the table and all kind of shit
Bullets and damn bone
They had a human damn half a
Cossacks on the table they got a lot of different
Bones on there somebody's appendix
And a bag of they had a bag of dried appendix
Jaco's over there putting
In his mouth like big league choothers
A lot going on in the building
And
You know he's sitting over there just
Fucking chewing on half a cheek
Full of human appendix
Sorry but that's
That's such a good
That's a funny thing to think about
But anyway I remember I left
And he sent me a picture later
In the day he goes hey man
I looked down at my table
And I saw a couple of weapons on it
Which one do you think you left
Here
I'm not going to tell you I'll post it
Right now so you can look and get the joy
For yourself I won't tell you what it was
Oh wait but if you're on audio
You won't know huh
It's a comb one of them is
Just like a woman's oh fucking
One of them is a woman's
Hair comb next to like three
Crazy machetes and knives
And I was wondering where my comb
It went bro it's not like a woman's
Coma kind of like a black dude would have that comb
You know but not the pic comb
It's a regular comb so
I liked it man it's a nice comb
I thought I'm bummed I left it there
But it was just so funny he sent that
But
I got to go over there
And spend time and this is one thing
That I'm grateful to our military for
I'm grateful that we live in a country
Where I can sit here
And complain
A lot of times
I get winey sometimes
I do get some self pity going on
Where I can complain about how I'm feeling
I can talk about it
When our fathers our mothers
They wasn't time to do that
They didn't have that opportunity
And so that is a huge
Freedom
Because some of us if we didn't have
People could take their lives you know
People couldn't have but they're able to
You know
To feel comfortable place
And we're so comfortable
I could sit back with some damn Cheetos
Or something
I could sit back eating one of those red white
And blue bomb pops
Complaining about how I feel
And not just
And it's okay just you know
But that's a gift you know
And it's also a reality
You know time has changed things are evolving
We're not
You know we're in different spaces
But certainly
I'm also at an age like
I'm not like you know a 14 year old kid
Who's never known anybody that really fought
In any wars or had to
You know lost
Something or lost loved ones
Or you know
If you just are on social media
And you're just like
One of those social media activists
Or whatever then yeah it's easy
To sit and just
Just share stuff
And just you know tweet and blast
And talk shit
But they didn't have that when I was young
They didn't have all this extra information
And they say
Knowledge is power, knowledge I think is
Which is bullshit random
Bullshit information that we don't even know
Is true half the time
That's not power man
And that's a lot of what's being created
And manipulated a lot of times
And then it's really taken away a lot of our power
From ourselves
You know it's weird like cigarettes and stuff will get banned
But social media won't
I don't see how we look back in 20 years
And think that it was any good but I don't know if we'll
It's such a big business
That business really wins
It's all become such a business man
It's scary
But
That's okay man
We got each other, we were at the Padres game
We ate three hot dogs
And
Went for a run
At the veterans administration today
You got dudes out there carrying their legs
And a freaking picnic basket out there dude
They got some wild cats
So
Lots of be grateful for including you guys
It's September
Football starting back
There's a lot going on
There's a lot going on
Yeah I just want to say thanks man
You know we're doing it, we keep going
That's the number one thing we have to do is stay alive
You know that's the most important thing
That's the most important thing
We can figure the rest of it out
And we'll try to do it together
You know it's wild
There's also so many more people in the world
So you can have so many more ideas
And there's so many more
You know it's a business to make us
Disagree
And it's a
It's the dark arts man
I wonder what fuels how I feel a lot of times
You know sometimes I ask myself
Why do you feel this way about this
And I can't tell
Sometimes I can't tell if I just was influenced
By something
Sometimes I can tell if it's a real
Feeling I have but I don't always know
Where my influences came from
And where those pure
You know
And one thing about getting older
I find that I feel like my influences
From when I was younger are pure
Than influences that could just be happening
To people younger now
And then I start to see oh well this is why
Grandparents and their kids
And that there's always
Differences of you know things evolve
And change
But we stay alive and we just try to keep seeing it
You know
And
I don't know what I'm trying to say
I never really been good at goodbyes man
But gang gang man you guys be good to yourselves
Y'all deserve it
I'm gonna go out with this band
One of the greatest bands that was ever put together
That
That didn't stay together
Because
Well
Differences
Differences, addiction
I don't know
And I don't feel like I'm talking at a shop
On these boys man I love that you know
But
And maybe they will you know they still try
I know they I think in their hearts you know
They just had a new album that came out
But
It's interesting man
That even something as beautiful as music it can
It stops getting created
When
When you're not together
When you're not on the same page
So
You know and we don't have to be on the same page
But even if we can at least stay in the same book
Man we could probably
We could probably keep the tunes going
This is Making It
By Bishop Gunn
Man I love this band
Travis McCready man
Damn
I'm making it
I'm making it wrong
Feel right
I'm making it
And if here's where I'm headed then
I'm making good time
And most all of my plans
Slip right through my hands
And wind up next to me
Broken on the ground
If this bottle wasn't our glass
I'd say that I'm about an hour past the minute
I should have put it down
Damn that's a lyric
But I'm making it
I'm making it wrong
Feel right
I'm making it
And if here's where I'm headed then
I'm making good time
And most all of my plans
Slip right through my hands
And wind up next to me
And wind up next to me
And if here's where I'm headed then
I'm making good time
I'm making good time
I'm making good time
Making good time
Come on
Between the lives that I've lost
And the films that I've lost
I'm left here alone in my sleep
Oh yeah
But I'm in pretty good shape
For the shape that I'm in
Ben Lewis baby
I'm making it
I'm making it
I'm making it wrong
Feel right
I'm making it
I'm making it
I'm making good time
I'm making it
I'm making it
I'm making wrong
Feel right
I'm making it
Feel right
I'm making good time
I'm making it
Come on
And burn shot
I ain't seen home in about a hundred days
I can almost hear mama pray
For my restless soul
Man
That's making it by Bishop Gunn
And that's what we do
We just keep making it baby
Drew Smithers
Ben Lewis
Travis McCready
And Bernard Sharp man
Who's uh
Whose dad gave me a job on his farm
When I was fresh out of college
And uh
When I was in college
And he died of overdose
Um
And
You know here I am
Twenty years later getting to enjoy music made by his son man
And his son and I are still really really close and
Man we just got to stay alive so we could just be a part of the little bit of music I think that God has
In store for us I really believe that man
So I'm gonna do my best man
That's all we can do baby gang be good to yourselves you deserve it