Transcript of #664 - Crooners Welcome New

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Drachen heiß zum besten Preis. Jetzt ab 2,98 € im Monat. Hier auf wowTV.de. Streaming war noch nie so wow. I wanna share with you that you can now officially buy or rent Busboys: The Movie on Apple, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and Fandango at Home. You can also go directly to busboysmovie.com for a 48-hour rental there. And if you want something special, they got a DVD. It's limited edition. Only 1,000 of those exist, and you can grab those at busboysmovie.com as well. Um, and thank you, David Spade, for letting me, uh, just go on that adventure with you, champ. Amen. All right, what's going on, baby? Um, it's greasy, but you know it's greasy, dude. I, I was at, um Where was that? Some little area or something the other day in, uh, like a food area, and they had a fella and he was selling food, you know, and, uh, Mexican food. And, and he's like, he puts it on my plate and it's like, it was really like, like it had like a lot of grease or something. Like, I think it was called al pastor or whatever, and it was a new type of meat.

Like 15 years ago they didn't have it, right? And then suddenly it's like on the meat when you look at the meats or whatever on the section on the menu. Or sometimes they put a menu like up in the air at a, like at a, uh, restaurant or whatever. If you're over at a, um, at a, you know, you stop in a little restaurant, a little Mexican restaurant, or you're at an, um, uh Arby's or so, they'll have on the menu— they have a menu up in the air where everybody can read it at the same time. Because some places, if it's a little— someplace they give you your own menu, and someplace they want everybody to read it together, uh, like group reading or something. You know, my family and stuff, sometimes we'd go after church and we'd all hold hands and read the menu together, and, uh, people would yell fuck or whatever at us, but that doesn't matter anyway. What am I talking about? Oh, so I was saying, dude, so the guy, he— I'll order the food, the al pastor, because I'm thinking, oh, the pastor, right? This, you know, I'm thinking, yeah, I want to connect with the pastor.

I don't know, we just come from church. I'm thinking like it's a, it's a religious thing, you know. I'm gonna order, uh, al pastor or whatever, uh, but it's al pastor. It's Spanish, right? And it's— and then let me see what it means here. Pastor, uh, making Poplar McIndish, um, McIndish marinated pork and shaved off. It says also shaved off, vertical split, shaved off. So it's— this is something that's, you know, it's shaved off. But anyway, the guy puts it on the plate and he's like, oh, it's, it's greasy, you know, and it had like a lot of grease in it. He's like, man, it's really greasy. And he's looking at me like, like I'm supposed to do something. Like, I just bought it from you. He's, he's acting like, like I made it like greasy or something. I didn't make it greasy. You served it to me. He's like, man, it's really greasy, huh? It's greasy. I'm like, yeah, it's greasy, bro. It's greasy for sure, but like, I didn't want it like that. And then I went and ate it. I'm sitting there eating it, and, uh, and he looks over at me from behind the counter like, man, it's greasy, huh?

And I'm like, yeah, I mean, you made— you made it. You knew it was greasy when you give it to me. But it's crazy, that's like, say you buy a car from me, and then before you come get it, I take all the windows out of it and shit. And I'm like, man, it's, uh, it's windy in here, huh? Like, yeah, like you took the windows out, right? Like, if— yeah, um, yeah, it is windy. It shouldn't be, but you know why it is, right? Like, that was the thing. And bro, some people don't even know that windows, they put them to stop the wind. Right? People don't even realize because people were sitting in a car, they used to not have any windows in there. So you'd be sitting in a car and people would just be in there just cold, just like, oh. And then they put the wind O's in and it stopped the O's and it stopped the wind. So I think for me it's just kind of like, how has my week been or whatever? It's been, you know, it's been life, bro. It's been life, bro. Sometimes it's like, it's al pastor, bro.

Sometimes it's greasy, you know. Sometimes it's just, life's just a second-class meat, bro. It's a second-class meat, and that's okay, bro. You know, it's still a, uh, it's still an entrée, bro. Is still an entree. I'm a second class meat. I'm a third or fourth class meat sometimes, bro, but I'm still an entree, baby gang. I'm upstairs. Amen, bro. Good to see you guys today. Good to be here. It's been a while, bro, since we checked in on a solo episode. Um, we had Stagecoach. I hadn't checked in with y'all since we had a Stagecoach adventure, and man, that was a time, bro. You know, I got to go on stage at Stagecoach, and you should. It's in the name of the place, right? Stagecoach. What do you think I'm expecting when I get there, you know? So, um, but yeah, I got to go on stage out there with, uh, Miss Ella Langley, and boy, I'll tell you, it was— I felt like a mountain lion out there. At first I was like really nervous, you you know, because I had to do my lines. But when I got out there, I did a couple lines, and then I looked around, I said, dang, I'm a mountain lion.

And that's how I felt. I was just— I don't know, it was just like, you know, it was just like the Lord was just tossing chunks of magic to people, and I caught one. That's what I felt like. It was pretty, uh, yeah, it was pretty— it was a, it was an amazing experience just to get out there. I'm not a singer, right? I'm not a singer by nature, right? If you ask me to sing, bro, it's greasy. You feel me, bro? That's how it is, bro. That's how it is with me. Um, but I am— I did realize this, bro. I'm a crooner, bro. I'm a crooner. Let me see what a crooner is. Crooner, plural. A crooner is a male singer who performs sentimental songs and jazz standards using a smooth, low, and highly intimate voice. Bro, that's me. Because the song, it would just like— a singer might be like, and this is what it's all about. But the crooner, bro, he just comes in at the end, bro. He touches up. He's like the kind of guy that does the baseboards in your house, right? He don't do all the painting, baby, but he'll come in and just, "Ooh." You feel me?

It's like, "It's a magical time at the county fair." And then the crooner comes in and he's like, "At the county fair." You feel me? That's him. So that's me, bro. You know what I'm saying? I'm not the singer. I'm not the painter. I'm not doing all of that. I'm not doing the architecture. I'm not doing all that. But when they come in and they need that dog at the end just to— "Do you know—" You hear all those? That's called stair-step vocals. I'm trying to think of another good popular song. "Fly me to the moon." Something from this— from the past 700 years. Sorry, sorry, no, no, no, crazy. But that's like something like, um, 'Til You Can't. Like, like, here's one. Like, like, uh, 'Til You Can't, 'Til You Can't, 'Til You Can't. That's Cody Johnson. Like, 'Til You Can't. And then I come in like 'til you can't. I push that octave further. Till you can't. So I don't do all the singing, I just come in and do that bassboard, baby. That's where they bring me in, bro. I'm that low lung monster, you feel me? I'm in the swamp, bro.

They don't know I'm down there, and then I hit them with that, baby. I'll hit them with that Trace Adkins, baby. I'm that basement bad boy. You find me in the bottom of your lungs, baby girl. Um, so yeah, so that's so, so that's how I am. I'm a crooner, and that's it. I'm a crooner right there. Male singer who performs sentimental songs and jazz standards using smooth, low, and intimate voice, bro. So they got me out there, bro. But thank you, Miss Langley, for having, uh, having me out, and that was a special time out there. And, uh, I'm glad I'm glad everybody got to, uh, see it. It's scary to do something for the first time in front of a lot of folks. That's what I'm realizing. So what else? Uh, yeah, what else do we have? Um, thank you guys. Thank everybody for just paying attention, being a part of this podcast and this, uh, this experience. Um, love you guys, bro. Let me just say that. And, uh, yeah, what's happening? Uh, what else was going on since we last did a solo? Oh, I got the— you know, people thought I was gonna delete myself.

I don't know how you can share that or whatever, say online. Um, that would— you know, people were saying that was going around, and that's a crazy thing to have going around, bro, because, you know, because then when you see people, they think you a ghost and shit. You know, some Black folks was like, oh, you on your ghost shit now, unca? All right, ghost, unc. And I'm like, damn, ghost, unc, bro, chill, bro, chill, bro. But yeah, that was crazy, dude, because I didn't even know that this had been happening. And then people are like, you know, I get a text from, um, uh, stepfamily, and they're like, um Is everything okay? You know, and then some of the texts from other people started escalating, like, uh, damn, remember when you was here, bro? Dang, it wasn't so long ago, cut. And they'll put a picture of us and they make it black and white, bro. Like, I'm like, dude, that picture's from 4 days ago, and they put black and white and put a couple doves on it, bro. And then they throw a stud out there, bro, you know. I wish I'd ever had a phone to call you, uh, Just some of the texts you get, bro.

It's like, dude, with everything that's happening, can I borrow your truck? And I'm like, what do you mean with everything that's happening, bro? And then they would put like a coffin and then a truck emoji. I'm like, wow. I'm like, yeah, you can, bro, but it don't have any windows, you feel me? It's, it's breezy. It's breezy in there. Oh man, bro. So yeah, just grateful to God, bro, that we continue to rock and we do it, you know. So that's what's going on, bro. Um, what else? Uh, oh, I got to go to the rodeo, man. I've actually been to two rodeos since I last did a solo episode. I've been over there to Franklin Rodeo and I've been over there to the Music City Rodeo. Both of them beautiful. And you know, you see a lot of these, um, these rodeo babies, these, these, uh, cowboys and cowgirls that are out there, you know. And I mean, you know, they had— who do we see out there? We saw, um, Rocker Steiners out there, uh, Wakey Shala out there. And Wakey Shala, uh, he broke a limb out there and broke a limb.

Lefty Holman, he was out there. Shorty Garrett Shorty Garrett, and you think it's gonna be a brother and it ain't. Sam Peterson, man, I got to chat with him. Just, you just get to be around these fellas, man. Cade Sonnier, Sonnier, Sonnier, Cade Sonnier out of Louisiana. They had a Karen Crowe, yeah, me, bruh. They had another rider out of Baker, Louisiana. I can't remember the name, but I got to walk in the locker room and all of the, um, The rodeo people are there, and the clown, he's happy when he's out there, but in the back he's putting on duct tape and he's stitching his own skin up because he's out there battling bulls, you know. He's out there, he's taking— he's front lines against the dark animal arts out there. But yeah, they got all the— all the riders, they're all— every name, they're almost injured, bro. The names that they have, man, the names that they have, they're almost— you can tell they're almost gonna be— maybe gonna be injured or something. It'd You know, they'll have Shorty Lefty, uh, Broken, uh, Richardson, right? Pelvis, uh, Shatterford. You're like, pelvis Shatterford, bro?

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Somebody get him a diaper, bro. Get him an adult diaper, bro. Lacerated, um, Arm Leggerton. That's— he's, he, he's riding today. Wheelchair Montgomery, bro. Crutches, uh, Johansson. He's over there. He's out of Utah. Yeah, they just, you know, that is just— everybody's on the cusp of getting injured out there because these— look, it's dangerous what these guys do, and these girls, they're warriors. They're out there, they're warriors out there with Animalia, and I love it. I love it, dude. They let us get right on the back of, uh, they let us get right on the back of the chutes. You know, and who was out there? Dusty Wright. Can you look that up for me? Is that the Wright Brothers? Now, not the people that flew over there out of Kitty Hawk. I'm talking about the young, uh, these are— yeah, this is someone right here, Stetson, Rusty. Um, I think there was only two of them maybe that were there, but dude, these boys, they some young bangers, bruh. They some young bangers, man. Some warriors. We got to get a few of them on the podcast, uh, at some point.

But just to get to see— we're right up on the chute, and, and they were doing bareback horse but also bronc. Can you let me— let me look up what bronc is. Bronc riding. What is bronc riding? Bronc riding is a classic rodeo event where a cowboy attempts to ride a bucking bronc— no, a bucking horse. Aka a bronc, for 8 seconds while holding on to a single rein with one hand. Oh, that's like trying to give your ex-wife a hug if you're over there at Applebee's or whatever. Say you're meeting up for your— you have a dual— you have a child that you co-parent, you're meeting up over there at Rips or Don's, you know, or Applebee's or something, and you try to hug your ex-wife. That's the new rodeo right there. Hugging your ex-wife, bro. She ain't letting you stay on there for 8 seconds. She ain't letting you stay on there for 2 seconds, bro, unless she get that check. You know what I'm saying? That was my mother, bro. She'd make my dad sit in a car if he didn't have that money. You sitting there, we going inside to eat, you sit in the car, bro.

There's nothing more altercative. There's nothing more altercative, bro, than when they haven't— somebody hadn't paid that alimony or whatever, child support. But anyway, yeah, that's bronc riding, a classic rodeo event right there. And my favorite part of rodeo, I'll say this, is the barrel riders. It's barrel racing, I think. And Miranda Lambert does it. She does it as a hobby. Uh, if you're listening, I'll put some— I'll put some video on the episode so you can see it. But man, them ladies, and when they hit that third barrel and they head and bag, bro, the place gets lit, bro. Let's go! Just singing your heart out, you know, just for some potential lesbian, you know, just who's giving it her all out there. Um, praise God, baby. Uh, but yeah, I was right up on the chute, man. I was right up on the chute, and some of the animals, man, they just— like, dude, imagine the first person that ever saw a bull. Whoever saw a bull, he probably, he probably went right back to his friends and he said, hey, look, I saw this cow and it's not real happy. I saw a cow, this cow is not real happy.

And some of the bulls, I was on the shoot, and some of the bulls lowkey, bro, seem a little bit Zesty, bro, you know. One of the bulls is like, hey, can you fix my hair for me, you know. I was like, I don't have any lotion or anything. He's like, oh, just use your hands, bro, it's greasy, you know, because I've been jumping around. And one of the bulls straight up told me, he's like, bro, I like having young men on my back. I'm like, what? I'm like, who do I report this to, dude? He's like, yeah, bro, I like having these young men on my back for a little bit. He's like, but I get so excited that they fall off. I'm like, dang, bro, bro, this horse needs to be in the Epstein Files, bro. But man, rodeo is a great sport, and there's something for the whole family, man. And you can sit there, you can enjoy yourselves, get you some peanuts, bro, get you a little bit of water, a little Gatorade or something, some beer or something homemade, bro. Bring you a little deviled egg, bring your little D.E. out.

If you've been keeping one in your pocket with a little piece of ice in there to keep it cool. But I want to say the history of the rodeo, then we'll get into some calls. We had some calls that came in. I just want to learn about the rodeo, and I want to have a specialist on to talk about the rodeo. The rodeo originated in the 16th century cattle culture of Mexico. It evolved from the livestock roundup and branding practices of Spanish settlers and their Mexican ranch hands, known as Vaqueros. Oi, mi vaquero. The term itself comes from the Spanish verb rodear, meaning to encircle or round up. The transition from ranch work to competitive sport took place in the American West following the Civil War. During cattle drives and roundups, cowboys and vaqueros, vaqueros, began gathering informally to test their riding and roping skills. Um, impromptu contests between different ranchers and ranches started to spring up. Many historians point to Deer Trail, Colorado, hosting one of the earliest competitive cowboy contests in 1864. Vaquero. And shout out CJ Vaqueri, who I went to school with growing up. I don't know if it's similar, close, I don't know, but he was a cowboy.

I do remember that. I don't know if he rode or not. But, uh, but he had it in his blood, brother. Praise God. Amen. But yeah, I would like to learn more about the rodeo. I need to get like a rodeo special. Somebody knows the history of it, I need to search for that. Um, yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in there, a lot of Mexican guys, a lot of Brazilians, um, a lot of Canadians, a lot of Australians. When you see the lineups at these, uh, at these rodeos, a lot of guys from Utah, Wyoming, Alberta. Different places over there. You ever think about how something got its start? Like Mountain Dew, for example. I always thought it just kind of appeared one day, you know, just like a stork brought it from a beverage universe or something, and then somebody saw it just sitting in a cooler, just glistening, just glistening. But no, it's, it's actually, it's straight out of Tennessee. You know that? It's a real place, real people. It was two brothers working tirelessly to nail that citrus kick that we all know and love. It came from folks with grit and independence, doing things their own way, and somehow they bottled that.

That attitude's still in it today. You hear that? That's attitude. Still bold, still unmistakable, still do. It's an American original that's been tasting great since '48. 1948. Red, white, and dew right there. Done. Limited edition. It's a hometown story in a can. Next time you grab a dew, just know it's more than, than just a drink. It's an American original. Mountain Dew, tasting great since '48. They got a new Minion now. His name's Dick, and I know how that sounds, but that's the name. That's what they landed on, and honestly, I respect the confidence. You'd have to really believe in a guy to name him that and put him up on the big screen. He's got one eye. He's got one eye too, yeah, which I feel like if you've only got one eye, you've earned whatever name you want. Nobody's gonna argue with him. What are you gonna do, look him in the eyes? He's got the one. He already won. Anyway, he's in a movie. Him and his buddies tried to make a monster picture and the whole thing went sideways. And now there's real monsters loose in Hollywood. What happens next? You just have to get a ticket and see.

The film's called Minions and Monsters, out July 1st. If you like Woody, you'll love Dick. Go see Dick with your family. There's genuinely just— there's no good way to say that. I tried, and, and here we are. Tickets on sale now. Uh, when I first moved into Tennessee, I would go to this coffee place, and, um, and I was trying— I was like flirting. I was like flirting with the girl that worked there. But bro, I was like, I, I just— I couldn't eat. Like, I was nervous, right? And so I was nervous to flirt with her. But anyway, I remember she'd be like, well, do you want this with your coffee? And I would just take whatever extra thing. She's like, yeah, you want the, um, foam on it? Uh, cold foam, fur, whatever they put on it. I'd be like, yeah, I'll take— yeah, give me a little bit. Cinnamon, you want? Yeah, yeah, you want cinnamon, dude? I would leave out of there with like extra cinnamon, like in a little to-go, like just like— I'd have like a $27 coffee in there, dude. I had— I was buying all the roasts from her.

She had like Ghana, the missing person roast or whatever that they came out with for that kid or whatever. I bought the, um, I bought the boating— like the stuff they did, a fundraiser for a boating accident. I bought that shit. I had so much coffee in my car. I had like the stuff from like Estonia, Zimbabwe, like the— all the shit, Middle East, you know, Madagascar or whatever. I had like coffee for kids or whatever. And they shouldn't even have— kids aren't even supposed to drink it. And I was— I had like £2 of that in my car, dude. And I— if I even— I had so much coffee that I bought from this girl just to go talk to her. And at the end, like, at one point, if I even got in my car and I cut the heat on, dude, it would just be like— it literally was turning into like a roaster in my car. And if I did the thing where you close the— so you don't get any outside air conditioning, you know, just like to smell myself type of whatever that setting is, bro. And you just put— dude, it was— I would cut that on, I'd be awake for 1 month.

Couldn't, couldn't close my— there was so much coffee in my car. I remember going through a drive-through one time and somebody's like, oh, are you selling coffee? And I was like, fuck no, what are you talking about? I'm just hitting on someone without some of the skills to do it. What do you mean, am I buying coffee? You know, if I— dude, I had, I had so much coffee, bro. If I even went and sat in my car, it would wake me up. People be like, dude, are you tired or whatever? I'm like, yeah, I am. I'm just gonna go— I go sit in my car for 50 seconds, I'd come back in and I'd be fine. I'd be— I could work for another half a day. That's how it was. I was turnt, Vandy. We freaking turnt. Shout out to my boy Diego Pavia over there in, uh, Baltimore, man. Blessings to him, bro. Yeah, what else is going on, bro? Let's take some calls. As always, the hotline: 985-664-9503. I got this one right here.

Hey, Theo, it's, uh, Michael from Utah. What's up, Big Mike? Hey, Mike, onward. Um, I've been with my girlfriend for about, you know, maybe 8 months now, and, uh I love her. I love her, man. And she loves me. And for the whole time we've been together, I've been, uh, I've just been overtaken by all this jealousy, man, of kind of her past. And she's told me some things that, you know, she did before we met that, you know, don't exactly align with, you know, where I'm at or where I've been at, you know. And I've struggled to not hold it against her, you know. I struggled to forgive and forget and just accept and love unconditionally, you know. And I don't know, man, things just keep coming up. I keep hearing things and kind of just hurts. And I know I'd probably do it to myself, but I'm just asking for maybe a little bit of your advice, man. What do you think? You know, maybe what can I do to just get outside of myself, you know, to stop, stop putting myself in the center of the universe, you know, and just love.

Dude, that's a great question, man. Wow. What can I do? To just love, bro. Man, if every— if we— if that was our national anthem, man, I bet we would all be in a different place. Or especially our international anthem as well. Um, yeah, I think, you know, there's some things like— it's easy for me to say, right? Like, I had— I've made some mistakes in this realm, man. I was jealous You know, I kind of created unrealistic expectations for people that they could never live up to, you know. And I would hold like old stuff against girlfriends. Yeah, I've done that. Like stuff they can't even— like, you know, how could people— don't— can't do time travel. They can't go change something. And so if I'm holding something like that against somebody, it's— and I know that they can't change it, then that's— it really says something about me, you know? And I need to make a choice. Do I either want to— can I not— can I really not live with it, or am I just afraid of like what other people will think? You know, if I date somebody that's had like different, like, uh, past partners or this or that, what are they gonna think?

I was always like, what would other people think of this? Girl I'm dating? What would other people think of her, man? I lost some good opportunities because of that. Now instead of what would I think, what do I think? And maybe she need— bro, maybe what if it's like, hey, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be the person so you don't have to— like, I wonder, does she even— did she even want to like live in something? Like if she was like out and about, or if, or if it's a girl and a guy was out and about, like maybe they they didn't even really want to be living that way. And maybe now you're like this thing, you're this person, you're finally this person that's going to be like, I'm going to make sure they don't have— like, I'm going to be there for them no matter what, so they don't have to— they, they don't ever have to like put themselves out there like that again. They're going to be fulfilled, right? Um, they're going to know that I'm here for them, you know. I don't know, maybe— I don't know, I don't know if that's crazy to say.

I can't— I haven't had success doing that. But I'm just thinking, man, what if, what if we were like, what if we were the kind of boyfriends that it was like, oh, I'm not going to be like that. I'm not going to hold your past against you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure that you have somebody that's gonna be right there, you know. I'm gonna make sure you don't ever have to live that way again if you don't want to, that you don't have to operate in these certain circles if you don't want to. You know, I don't know, it's tough, dude. I was— yeah, I wasn't good at it, man. I would just be like— because it gave me something, always this little, like, this little extra card of like, oh, why I can be upset, right? It gave me a chance to have one foot out of the relationship. That's the truth. That's the truth, bro. But imagine if you could be like, I'm gonna be the person— this girl doesn't ever have to worry again. They don't ever have to worry if they're gonna have somebody's gonna be there for them.

They don't ever have to like give themselves away to an environment they're not sure about. They don't— you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be this man that they've been needing. So I don't know, man, I'm not preaching at you, I'm just thinking out loud. What if the calendar did that to us, right? What if the calendar— and I don't know who owns the calendar or whatever, probably Bezos or Lutnick or whatever— but what if the calendar, like, you'd had a day years ago that wasn't good, right? Or you had a week years ago that wasn't even that good, right? And what if the calendar just suddenly like made you relive that? Like, life's going a certain way and now the calendar is like, oh, I'm throwing in 2011 at you. It was a Wednesday, remember that? Bam. And you're like, what the fuck? This was so long. I got to do this. So that's kind of like kind of what I was doing when I was acting like that. I was like, what about this old thing, this old day, this old relationship? You know, why don't we live that shit again?

Why don't we go through that shit again? Because I didn't want— I really didn't want there to be enough. I wanted a reason that this wasn't gonna work. That's what I wanted. But it's not really what I wanted. What I really wanted was I wanted it to work. I was afraid to commit to it. I was afraid to commit to it. So let me keep bringing these old, old things along. Let me keep bringing these old hurdles. And well, but one day somebody will get tired of jumping over those with you, bro, and then you're just standing there with a bunch of old hurdles and shit. Like, just like a PE coach that's out of work that's been, you know, just using in their car at lunch or whatever, and that shit. So anyway, I don't know if that helps or not, bro, but man, yeah, what if we could all be brave enough you know, to love the person that we, that we love like we know they should be loved, right? I think that's what I mean, bro. What if we could all be brave enough to do that? But praise God, bro.

Let's get another one, man. What we got here?

Hey, Theo, this is Jared from Indiana.

What's up, Jared, and congratulations on your new Indiana Bears. Onward. Um, love your show.

Uh, I was just wondering if you've got any advice for a man who never had a father and now he's trying to raise 3 boys. Uh, the youngest one's 1, and I named him after you. I love everything you do. I just, I don't know. I want to be the father that I never had, but sometimes it gets hard, man. Uh, you can probably hear him in the background, but, uh, if you got any advice for me, love you, man.

Oh yeah, that loud one, that must be me. That must be me, bro. The loud one, the chatty one back there, the one back there selling dime bags or whatever, bro. Selling QP, bro, you know what I'm saying? Pushing weight. That was— that's me, um, bro. It's a— it's a thoughtful call to think about this, especially around Father's Day, just to think like, you know, I think what I would do, I would write down the stuff maybe that you feel like you didn't get, and then you'll kind of have your answers. I think, um, for me, I think some of it would have just been direction. It would have been like, uh, maybe if my father would have put his hand on the back of my neck more. That's a very, um, fatherly son or parental type of thing. The back of the neck, uh, and not even— not looking at your children with judgment. You know, I was, I was looked at with judgment a lot, mostly judgment. In fact, probably 250% judgment. So that's how I learned that the only way to operate in the world was judgment. That was like the currency, you know?

It was like, oh, I'm gonna judge you. That's kind of how I showed affection, was through, I'm gonna judge you less. If that sounds— I mean, I don't know if that sounds real to anybody or not. You think that's real, Halston? That's actually really interesting.

But yeah, why do you think that is?

Oh, I think it makes perfect sense, because if somebody judges— if all I know, if all I look— if only the only look I see in a parent's eyes is judgment, then that's all I'm gonna do of myself, and it's all I'm gonna do probably of others, especially if it's like an intimate— if there's like intimacy or just communication. So yeah, that's what I did. And it's a survival skill that can help you a lot because you're judging things. You get really good at judging this, judging that, you know what I'm saying? You get really good. But it'll keep you alone too. It can anyway. So, but blessings to you, bro. Happy Father's Day to you. And I'm just thinking out loud too, bro. I don't know any of this. I'm not a scientist, um, you know. But, uh, but yeah, so, but blessings to you, bro. Tell Othello I said what's up, bro type shit. BLM, I'll see him in the streets, boy gang. Let me see what else we got here. Hey, Theo, it's Mason.

I just had a—

What's up, Mason? Thank you for calling, brother.

Question for you. You know, I kind of just wanted to see what you thought about it and what you—

You know, caught a little Wisconsin there, boy. You know, or Illinois, maybe.

Onward. Do— the other day I walked into a gas station and there was a man who clearly had Down syndrome. He didn't look the oldest. Oh yeah, the ops. And he was trying to buy some beer. And I kind of read the situation and knew what was going on. But the clerk actually, you could tell he didn't know what to do. And he, you know, he kind of looked at it and he actually turned to me like, "Sir, what do you think of this?" And I don't know if I should feel bad, but I told him it looked good. And he sold the clearly underage man with Down syndrome alcohol. And I'm just wondering if I did the right thing. What you do in that situation. Uh, thanks to you, Dale. Gang gang.

Yeah, bro, of course, of course, dude. If a guy has Down syndrome, give him a fucking drink. Give him a break, man. Cut his work hours a little bit. Like, yeah, dude, I remember when we were growing up, if a guy had Down syndrome, you'd give him a beer. You'd bring him— you'd even get some beer from inside if your dad wouldn't give you a whole can. You come and just give him and just let him just drink it out of your hands, brother. Like, you gotta support people. You know, people with Down syndrome love to drink beer because I think it has sugar in the— it's a lot of it's sugar-based. Why do Down syndrome people love beer? Oh, it just shows a picture of Ireland, so County Cork specifically. But dude, it's like I think— I don't— I believe, look, if somebody has Down syndrome and if they might have it or whatever, I think you got to let them drink, bro. That's the type of place I'm from, you know. I almost had it. I was on the ropes. And I think you gotta let people cook if they have it. And yeah, dude, when I was growing up, we would get a— we had a guy who had— I don't know what he had.

He had something. Something pretty strong. And we'd send him, we'd give him $50, $60, go in there, bro. One time, bro, this kid Damien, dude, and bro, one time we give him the money to go in there and he fucking went out the back, dude. He went out the back and ran up there to a senior center and broke down a bunch of the wall art and the windows in there. So you know what I'm saying? We never got our money back though. But the shit I'm talking about is like, you don't know what's popping, bro. You don't know what's popping. So I don't think we should hold somebody back from having a good time. I do think the underage thing— but if somebody has Down syndrome, bro, I say let them cook, you know what I'm saying? I say let them cook, bro. But yeah, I mean, should you feel bad about it? I don't know. I mean, as long as y'all aren't making fun of the guy or doing something like that, as long as y'all aren't You know, uh, plus people want to feel included. Buying beer is like kind of like a ritual when you're underage.

I'm not saying, you know, I'm not sitting here condoning it. Don't do it. I gotta say that for legal reason, but people do it, you know. Even Down syndrome people do it, apparently. So whatever, bro, you know, he probably— he might not even have Down syndrome. He might just live too close to a data center, bro. You know what I'm saying? That motherfucker, he might be all hopped up on data and shit. You know, Lil Ricky's on that data. So let's take another call here. Speaking of data centers, actually.

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

Thank you for calling. I agree, bro. Now the thing is, they got data everywhere. I'll say this, dude, on behalf of everybody that's human and has a heart, fuck AI, bro. Fuck AI. I don't have any friends, actual, that are ever like, hey, AI, how's AI? You know what I'm saying? Nobody's doing that shit. We're already fine. We can already order our food fast enough. We can already watch a movie if we want on our phone. Like, we don't need anything else. I don't know who else needs more shit. I don't want any data, bro. They got too much data now. What happens? The kid, you know, the kid's playing at school or whatever and he falls in a fucking— they got a puddle of data outside of the data center or whatever. And he's got a bunch of data and shit on his shirt or whatever. You can't, you know, he's got a bunch of like Love Island episodes that won't come out, you know, stained up for sure, especially the new season. A bit much. But it's like, you know, and what, how does that even work? They got a data leak at the factory.

Now he's at your kid, you know, Lil Ricky's got a bunch of data stuck in his leg or something, you know. He's got a bunch of fucking maps of like from the 1300s or whatever. Or he's got a bunch of Epstein files just stuck in his spinal column or something because of the, you know, the data. He's just got emails stuck in his skin or whatever, you know. It's just like, we don't want any data, bro.

We don't want any.

Nobody wants a data center, dude. Nobody wants it. And the people that want them, to me, bro, they seem kind of evil. It's like, what's gonna happen, you know? You, you fall down and you get a bunch, you know A bunch of loose data flies out of the factory or something now, and your kid's got, you know, he's got 5 episodes of, uh, of Dutton Ranch or whatever stuck in his neck or something. It's gotten crazy. We don't want it. Nobody wants the shit. And so here's what I think. I really believe this. I think I really believe it. I don't know, but I believed it yesterday. I believe that some people know how to live forever. They've cracked the code. And so suddenly they have to put the rest of us— they have to lock us down. They have to, because if everybody finds out about it, then everybody's going to be able to do it, right? There's got to be— some people have to take, like, have to separate themselves. And I think this is how they're doing it. They're creating these data centers. It's all just gonna— it's all, I think, gonna be I believe this is my hypothesis, uh, theory that they're gonna all— it's all gonna be locked in with, uh, these Flock cameras or some company like this, Palantir.

One of these companies is going to be owning all of this information. They're going to put it all in. It's all going to be— we're all going to be locked down. Everybody, you're not going to be able to live or do anything that feels human, right? There's going to become this kind of score, this sort of like social and even emotional sort of credit score And then AI is gonna become— it won't ever really, but it's gonna try to become like our new God, right? Because I think people go to God for their feelings, for their, for help, for hope, right? They lay their faults at the feet of Jesus for hope, right? And it's all good. You're gonna have to like, appease somehow. You have to get— do well enough for the data center to grant you whatever you then need, right? Does that sound crazy, Alston? No. So that's why they need— because what does anybody thought— what, what data do they— we already have, like, we're sharing pictures, we're sharing phone, we all have video in the cloud. Like, we all have this stuff that, you know, there's millions of episodes of different movies and all of this in the cloud.

What do they need? It's a— they're asking for a lot of— suddenly they need— that's a lot of space to just need data everywhere. So yeah, it's unbelievable, bro. It's unbelievable. I could talk more about it. I would love to know more people's thoughts about it, but I don't give a fuck about it. I don't see what it's gonna do for us. I don't understand to be human. I think we've let a lot of tarantulas that aren't humans start to take over society. And, uh, and we're seeing the repercussions of that. And some of us, we didn't let it happen. But I believe that, yeah, the devil is alive, bruh. The devil is alive and the devil is a liar, bro. Um, anyway, I'm not trying to preach on it. I think some of it just makes me mad and it's scary. They're putting it by a zoo. It's like they're rubbing in our face, like, you know what I'm saying? Because a lot of that is so showing control. They're putting it by a school or whatever. Some kid, you know, he's on— he's like, he's on the swing set and he just hits his head.

Like, there's some data going through the air or whatever, and he hits his head on some fucking data or whatever. Now he's got a concussion, and he, you know, he just— he's just stuck singing Spotify lyrics, you know, just a bunch of data. He's just sitting there, you know, reciting just Larry Fleet and The Castellos and Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen deep cuts. It's like, it just, it's, you know, I don't know, bro. I don't know what's gonna happen, man. Um, and some girl today, she said, and when do we stand up? When do we— it's a good question. I don't know, there's some— there must be something attractive in us just watching are demig— like, we're like— I don't know, I don't know if that makes any sense. Um, oh, I do want to get the president of Mexico on here. Um, it's Claudia Sheinbaum. Uh, I will come to Mexico City. I want to come down there. Um, so I would love— yeah, I would love to get the president of Mexico on, um, just to learn. I want to learn like about like, uh, the Mexican-American relationship from the— from a Mexican point of view.

From a leader there point of view. Not, you know, I just want to learn more. I think it would be exciting. And, um, so this is my beacon for that, you know. I'm trying to speak what I would like. And, uh, yeah, I would love to know like how do our laws, like the laws that we make here, how does that affect things that happen in Mexico? What are like the truths about cartel stuff in Mexico? I would love to know about, um, person. Like, what are some of like the big long-term goals of Mexico? Just things like that. It's interesting because I don't ever— I don't ever learn about it. I probably could, but it would be nice to learn in person. Um, so that is, um, something I would like to— I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to me. Amen. Um, what else? Oh yeah, hey bro, let's talk about Atlanta. Atlanta's got the most flock cameras, bro. Um, yeah, speaking of it, speaking of, uh, also just going back real quick to the, um, data center, the company behind, uh, the Nashville Zoo data center, the one that's near there, allegedly is DC Blocks.

So let me look at them. Who owns DC Blocks? Primarily owned by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Owned by alternative investment. Jonathan Levine, John Wright. Um, firm-wide strategic direction is steered by managing partners David Gross and chairmen such as Steve Pagliuca and Josh Beckenstein. Beckenstein. Um, this is all AI overview. This is from Google AI. Atlanta-based DC Blocks proposed building a 24-acre, 2-building data center campus at 648 Grasmere Park. That's unbelievable, dude. I go drive over there all the time. I go to a meeting not far from there. Um, unbelievable. The Nashville Council— the Nashville Metropolitan Council passed an initial temporary moratorium that seeks to restrict larger-scale data centers from being built within a half mile of homes. Um, bro, the thing is that most of it— most of the, uh, flock cameras now— I saw one the other day Just saw one the other day over there by the donut shop, bro. I was getting me a couple donuts, bro. I was a little depressed at night. I pulled up over there and they had some kids over there milling around, but I waited in my car about 7, 11 minutes, bro.

Waited till they— their mom came and picked them up because I just didn't want to be embarrassed, bro. And then I walked in there, got me a couple donuts, bro. And, uh, and on the way out I saw a flock came. I was sitting in my car eating donuts, get seeing a flock. But Atlanta's got the most, bro. Let me see. Flock Group Incorporated, doing business as Flock Safety, is an American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition, video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems, bro. Dude, what I— I saw a video the other day, it was like the Block versus Flock, bro. And it was a lot of gangsters and bangers out there in the streets. And, uh, and what they were thinking of— flock cameras, man. Because that's really where it's gonna, you know, because a lot of like gangs, they, they, they own certain territory, but now these flock cameras are coming in saying they own it. So that's, you know what I'm saying, that's the battle we gonna see soon, bro. Flock versus the block, bro. So that, you know what I'm saying, because otherwise they're gonna have surveillance on what, all of these bangers, bro?

I'm curious, bro. Ain't no blood, ain't no Crippin' 'cause of Flock. Dang, bro, it's gonna be interesting, man. Um, let's take another call. We got enough— we got a lot of calls that have come in.

Um, before we do that, here is how you— what you can do as a citizen to oppose the Nashville Zoo data center. So you can sign the petition on change.org titled Nashville Zoo Says No to Proposed Data Center.

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Hey, this is Charles Holland, Chuck Holland. Hey, Charles. Hey, Chuck. From, uh, good old Orlando, Tennessee. Um, I'm a certified wigger. I am doing work on the new Titans Stadium right now, so I just want your thoughts on, uh, what do you think about them building this new stadium and what do you think about the old one not going to be there no more? Anyway, I just like your thoughts on that.

Amen, brother. Thanks for the call, dude. I think my thoughts are simple. I like the old stadium. I liked it. I'm kind of a romanticist. I like You know, I like old schooler stuff, traditional stuff, a little bit. I think it felt a little bit more like, uh, the city felt a little bit more comfortable, a little more— you could just pull right up, you were right there. The new one, it just feels like it's taking us to a new and bigger place. And, and I know that's where the city is headed, and I know I'm just a transplant here, so take my— I'm part of the problem, you know. So take my thoughts with a grain of salt, but I'm just saying, uh, that's how I feel, bro. You know, from one dub to another, bro, you know what I'm saying? It's black and white to me, just like, uh, bro, you feel me, bro? Just like you, bro, you feel me, Cut? It— you— I, I just like that smaller feel. It felt— it fit a little bit more. Sometimes I worry that Nashville's just becoming more of like a tourist destination than it is a place like a home.

But then I— what do I— don't know, you know? I don't have a family right now. I don't have those other elements that give it that. So Those are just my thoughts, but that's how I feel. But at the same time, bless you boys for staying over there and building it. And I'm curious to see— yeah, this part of me is curious to see what it looks like. But yeah, I don't know, there's something that felt like a little bit more like a— I like that old F-150, bro. That's the, you know, in my heart, my heart's, you know, is it probably like an '88 F-150, bro? So I like something that would match with that. I like that old Stadium right there. But thank you, brother. Praise God. Stay safe, bro. Type shit BLM, bro, and WLM. You know, you, you about both. All right, one last call, man.

Hey, Theo, uh, this is Nate calling. Yeah, um, yeah, I'm just feeling really grateful this morning.

Uh, amen, brother. Thanks for the call, Nate.

Onward. 5 years ago today, I woke up hungover for the last time. And man, I'm, I'm much the better man than I ever, ever imagined I could be. Um, yeah, I've just like learned to live in the moment, be present, be right here, deal with my shit, work through my problems. Um, yeah, feel free Sitting here today and I'm just feeling free, man. I'm feeling really, really free.

I wonder if we just call him, wish him happy 5 years, you think? That'd be great.

Yes, you've reached Nate. Uh, give me a message and I will give you a call.

What's up, Nate? Uh, it's Theo, uh, from the podcast. Dude, you hit the hotline the other day. I just wanted to call and wish you happy 5 years, man. Um, thanks for just sharing with us, you know, uh, just the positive energy, um, the possibility, you know, like just the, uh, the promises that you said that they talk about in the program that like, you know, that, um, that the old stuff will fall away, that you will— Hey, what's up, man? Hey, what's up, bro? This is Theo. Is this Nate? Yeah, this is Nate. What's up, bro? I heard your, uh, voicemail on the hotline. I just wanted— we just wanted to call and wish you happy 5 years, dude. We're, we're, we're on the podcast right now, but I can, I can keep it off, uh, either way. But I just wanted to call and wish you a happy 5 years, bro.

Oh no, that's cool, man. Keep it on. Yeah, thanks, thanks a bunch, man. It's a big deal for me. I'm real happy. I'm actually out walking on a date with my wife right now.

And let's go, y'all take walks, huh?

Well, you bet. Yeah, I like— yeah, we went out for some— went out for some supper. Now we're out on a walk. Got the 5— we got 5 kids. All 5 kids are at home because my oldest is 16 and can hang out and watch them. And yeah, life's good, brother.

Bro, supper and a walk. Y'all must be rich, huh?

Uh, we ain't rich, but we— I was just trying to get out and get the snow. Yeah. We gotta get out and keep knowing each other, you know what I mean?

Dude, that's a big— yeah, that's a great point, bro. Dude, I love taking walks. I invited a girl on a walk not even too long ago. Yeah, yeah, she kind of bailed the day of, but that's life, bro. What you gonna do, you know? Sometimes you just gotta fight. You gotta keep— you gotta keep finding somebody who wants to walk, bro.

That's right, someday you'll find the one that'll keep walking with you forever. Hey, I got that one, so Amen, bro.

Amen to that, dude. Yeah, well, um, we don't want to bug you or hold you up, man, but I just want to say thank you, bro. It's nice of you to call and share that, uh, just that milestone, um, just that fact that it can happen for people, and, uh, and just sharing about some of the promises that can come true, man. Um, like, yeah, did you believe it when you started that it could happen?

Um, no, man, because, you know, I, I drank for quite a few years, uh, all through my like 20s and into my 30s. And, um, I just kind of figured it's just like, I'm just gonna keep drinking. And then one morning, for me it's different than for a lot of folks, I think, like I woke up one morning and I was like, man, that's it, I'm done.

And once you quit, once you went to meetings, did you believe that it would be done, or did you I mean, it's—

it was hard, right? I mean, it was really, really hard. Like, yeah, I— it seemed like, you know, you'd get 30 days and then you'd get 60 days, then you get 90 days. It's like, man, I'm never gonna have a year. And then all of a sudden you blink your eyes and it's 5 years, and you don't even think about the— you don't even think about what you're— at least for me, I don't think about what I'm addicted to anymore. It's just like, I'm just— like I said, I'm just sucking life through the tailpipe, you know? It's just like I'm living it raw, and it's just so rewarding, um, and free, free feeling. Whereas before it was like, you know, I mean, I think we have a lot of things in common where it's like my mom wasn't great to me when I was growing up, and I was, I was running from a lot of different things. And here I am, you know, not running from anything anymore and just becoming a better man every day. So, um, because I think it would Yeah, no, I didn't. But here, here it is, and this is going to keep going.

So amen, bro. Well, tell your wife that we said hey and thanks for putting up with you and putting up with anybody. And, uh, and congratulations, bro.

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

Yeah, thanks, man. Sometimes I get scared to share that stuff. I feel like it's like— I don't know, I feel different ways about it sometimes, but I don't know how else to be sometimes, you know? That's the weird thing.

Yeah, you got to be you, and I think that's a beautiful part of you. So don't, don't ever let that go, man.

Well, thanks, bro. I appreciate that. Uh, yeah, bro, one day at a time, man. That's it, right?

Yep, one day at a time. Amen, bro.

Enjoy your walk, dude. Congratulations, bro, and, um, talk to you soon.

Yeah, thanks, brother. All right, cheers, bud.

Yeah, bye. Dang, bro, that's awesome, bro. Out on a walk with his wife, hopeful. A man sounded hopeful, you know, possible. Gets home, has some kids over there, things can be okay. Nothing's perfect. But things can be okay, right? So anyway, I don't know what we're doing, but we're gonna keep trying to do it. And, um, that's, that's about all I got today, man. I gotta run. I gotta meet my friend over there, get a little snack or something over there, and look at, um, my friend has a new, uh, they're selling a, um, my friend's selling a picnic table over there, so I'm gonna go put a bid in on it. Uh, what else? That's about it. So you guys be good to yourselves, man. Thank you for paying attention. Um, I had fun, bro. I, I think I've been scared sometimes of doing solos, um, but I had fun today, and I hope we can do this again sooner. And, um, yeah, just thank you guys. The hotline is always 985-664-9503. Uh, Houston, thank you for your patience today.

Thank you for, uh, rolling with the punches of life serving us a little grease with the technical problems.

Hey bro, you want to say it's greasy? That's how it is, bro. You think it's gonna be smooth and it is, bro. It's smooth, bro, but it's greasy. Uh, praise God, bro. Be good to yourself. You deserve it, baby gang. Like these leaves, I must be cornerstone. Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found. I can feel it in my bones, but it's gonna take a little