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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · Theo Von

📅 2026-03-14 ⏱ 75 min episode · ~3 min read 📝 Transcript · 12,682 words

The making-of-Busboys story is a genuinely candid account of self-funding a movie after everyone said no, and the busboy voicemails — especially the secondhand oyster — are the show at its funniest.

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In this episodeDavid SpadeBusboysTim DillonNate DiazJay PharoahTrevor WallaceJimmy GonzalezMichelle OrtizBrent MorinAdam EgetThe Comedy StoreJoe Dirt

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“I believe that if we don't speak up now that our children won't have the chance to speak up.” Theo Von · at 20:55 — open in the transcript →
“I don't even want to go through the gate, because I'm coming up through the dirt, son.” Theo Von · at 48:18 — open in the transcript →

▸What this episode covers

Theo opens solo with a St. Patrick's Day riff — the childhood 'Hey Patty' who dressed up in her mama's lipstick to take the garbage out becomes the episode's running catchphrase — and a travelogue from Albuquerque, where he watched his friend Diego's sister Abby Pavia play in the state basketball tournament at the Pit and learned that every conversation in New Mexico eventually arrives at 'have you tried the green chilies?'

The check-in section is unusually raw. Theo is taking a deliberate break from dating and interacting with women to work on himself and his relationship with his higher power, admits he's stopped praying and isn't sure why, and wonders aloud whether he's scared that taking care of himself would mean having to change. He also addresses why he doesn't speak up about every cause people ask him to — burnout, not knowing enough, the algorithms that 'ruin you' — before making an exception: an extended, emotional statement of his fear and distrust of the Israeli government and America's relationship with it, which he frames as him exercising a voice he worked hard for, right or wrong.

The centerpiece is Busboys. Theo and David Spade bonded over both having bussed tables in Arizona, wrote a movie together starting during COVID, and when directors, agencies and studios wouldn't back it, put up their own money — a roughly $3 million budget — and shot it themselves, losing their first day to the California fires. The cast includes Tim Dillon, Nate Diaz, Jay Pharoah, Trevor Wallace, Jimmy Gonzalez, Michelle Ortiz and Brent Morin; tickets go on sale March 16 at busboysmovie.com ahead of an April 17 release, with more theaters unlocking as the first hundred sell out. He frames the whole thing as a bet on making things outside the gatekeeper system.

It closes with listener voicemails from fellow busboys: a 16-year-old redhead propositioned on behalf of a customer's wife, a Denny's worker who claims a graduation party beat him up over all-you-can-eat pancakes, a barback who did two hours of real work a night for a year and a half, the legendary secondhand-oyster story — a regular who sucked the flavor off his oysters and spat them back — and Jason V's saga of chauffeuring Plinko, an unlicensed, kid-hating clown paid in alcohol, which leads to selling cable descramblers out of Detroit Rick's van.

▸Key takeaways

01Busboys, the movie Theo Von wrote and self-funded with David Spade, opens April 17, with tickets on sale March 16 at busboysmovie.com.
02Directors, agencies and studios all passed on Busboys, so Theo Von and David Spade put up the roughly $3 million budget and shot it themselves.
03The Busboys cast includes Tim Dillon, Nate Diaz and Jay Pharoah, and the shoot lost its first day to the California fires.
04Theo Von and David Spade bonded over both having bussed tables in Arizona and wrote the script together starting during COVID.
05The check-in is unusually raw: Theo Von is on a break from dating to work on his relationship with his higher power, and admits he has stopped praying.
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1:17and we'd be like, hey, Patty, and she would smile, bro. She'd smile. I mean, she would get all shy sometimes and even hide but she would stop pulling the can and hide behind it so she'd be hiding behind that garbage can but we'd be like hey hey patty just kind of you know being sweet to her or whatever just not really flirting but just you know just hey patty and her and uh And she would just be so shy and nervous Boy hey patty And she'd be pulling That can out there to the curb But she'd smile so big when we Kind of like be flirting at her you know And her lipstick man she'd smile so big She'd get lipstick on her ear lobes Bruh She was like that happyed out And there's something nice about that, seeing somebody get joyed out. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Who was St. Patrick? Let me look it up real quick. Who was St. Patrick? Because I've been to some St. Paddy's, boy. I've been, dude, one time I was out, I remember down in Rochester, downtown over there, and people are getting blasted. They're just like, St. Patrick, St. Patrick.

2:33They don't even know, you know, hey, Patty. People don't even know what's going on, dude. People out there just eating cigarettes. And just, dude, they had one dude, he had his kid in a, one of those wagons, like a little wagon, he had a one-year-old, just, or maybe a half of one-year-old, that bitch probably, you know, just however much half of one is, and that was him, the baby, just a little damn manger, this motherfucker had like a little to-go manger, just, it's, just some hay around that bitch, and he'd stacked a bunch of to-go manger. Just some hay around that bitch. And he'd stacked a bunch of to-go orders on top of that baby, bro. Just to keep them warm, bro. A baby stay warm. Touch a baby, bro. On its back or whatever. Touch it again in an hour. I bet you that bitch still warm. But yeah, this dude, he was just rolling home, bro. He had like six or seven to-go orders stacked on that sleeping baby, bro. A bunch of garbage plates stacked on a damn four-month-old. What do we got here? St. Patrick. And this is on perplexity. That's what I'm using. St. Patrick was a fifth century Christian missionary and bishop. He was born in Britain. At age 16, he was captured by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave

3:53where he herded animals for about six years before escaping back to his family. Let's go, Paddy. Hey, Paddy. After returning home, he eventually trained for ministry and later felt called back to Ireland as a missionary. Okay. Patrick spent years traveling through parts of Ireland, preaching, baptizing, founding churches, and ordaining clergy. He is traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Armagh and became the leading figure associated with Ireland's conversion from paganism to Christianity. Dang, he was that dog. He was that Lord Dog, brother. We ride here. Hey, Benny. He was that Lord Dog. The famous story that he drove the snakes out of Ireland is considered a legend, often read symbolically. Since there is no evidence Ireland had native snakes Wow. So there's no snakes in Ireland, huh? They're all working in politics in Israel, I guess. Or America. Anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody who's celebrating. Got my green on. Got my green on. Got my green on. Uh, what's cracking, dude?

5:09Not much, bro. Um, just got back from Albuquerque. Albuquerque. They put so many Kirk's in it, you know. By the time you're done saying it, you're gone. You already left. You're like, damn, I don't need, you know, by the time you're done saying it, you're gone, you already left, you're like, damn, I don't need, you know, I was there, but I couldn't say it fast enough, because they had too many, have you tried the green chilies, bro, if you haven't been to, then you donque then you don't you don't know what it's like bro when you get there it's freaking it's very latino you know it's like a lot of like essays who never wrote any essays bro you know what i'm saying like that it's like a like but it's also like a lot of hard-working good people there uh a lot of kindness bro you. You know, Mexican culture, bro. They freaking, it's a blast, dude. They have a blast, bro. You know, and that most of our labors in America, most of the hardest workers are Mexicanos. Not all of them. I'm not saying that. And everybody's kind of taking their turn over time. If you look through history, all cultures have taken their time of being hard workers. Um, and some, you know, some are more prevalent now than others,

6:31but it's for sure. They got a lot of Latinos there. Latinos, Latinos, and bros, but you got a lot of construction babies down there. Children born out on even, you know, you'll see in the street, they'll have two kids, even just, even the children are involved in trades, you know. I saw two kids just throwing a piece of drywall back and forth. You'll see a homeless dude, he'll have a sign, but it's written in drywall and it's really edged really well. And, you know, he's got a baseboard at the bottom of his sign you know like even shit like that you're like damn this you'll see a dog house there just the shingles are done really well there's just like a latino guy just drinking under one of the eaves of the home um but yeah man it's a place you you grow to love man but i'll say this about Albuquerque, bro. They don't like doing two stories on nothing. Everything is just one story, bro. One, just like only one story. It's almost like for a long time, they maybe didn't have a ladder. And then finally they got a ladder because there'll be like 50 miles of just one story houses, just like ranch style home. Just, um, have you tried the green chilies everywhere you go to eat? We went to a

7:53place. Um, I went to watch my friend, uh, Diego's sister was playing basketball out there in the state tournament. And so we went to watch her game and, uh, it was cool. It was at the pit where the Lobos play, where the New Mexico basketball team plays, and they won their game. They lost their second game, but you'll get them next year. That's the vibe, and yeah, it was just great, bro. We went to a place to eat called Frontier. Oh, it was so good, bro. It was just so fucking good. Hey, Patty. But they also, it's like, no matter who you talk to there, they're just like, yeah, have you tried the green chilies? They'll have a dude in a coma or whatever, and he'll finally, like, start to say something. They'll be like, he's going to talk, and he'll be like, have you tried the green chilies? It's all anybody cares about, bro. You could be going to jail and they'll be like, have you tried the green chilies? It's all anybody cares about, bro. You could be going to jail and they'll be like, how do you plead? And they'll be like, I've tried the green chilies. It's just, there's something about it, bro. That's just their thing, bro, the green chilies over there. So, but that was, it was a blast just to get to go over there. We just went for the day, caught the game, and came back home. What else is going on? Well, personally, I guess there's,

9:15oh, we're gonna, we got a, this episode, we're gonna talk to some busboys. We're gonna talk about the Busboys movie. The tickets for the movie go on sale March 16th So that's going to be wonderful We have some busboys that have just called in And left voicemails We put an all call out for that So that's what's popping Have you tried the green chilies? It's fucking crazy over there, dog. You'll see a kid in the street just fucking throwing a drill, just throwing a drill to his friend. It's a construction area, bro. The whole place, a lot of people there work in construction, but the place looks like it could probably use a little bit of construction. So it's just a dichotomy over there, you know? But a lot of great people. We had a blast, man. And unique people, bro. Unique. I could see why they say a lot of times UFOs landed out there because they got some, they got people that's halfway to space out there. And now, but they got some people that's halfway to space. Hey, Patty, have you tried the green chilies, Patty?

10:32Like, dude, she chills. She's just bringing out the recycling bin. She's shy. Yeah, we'll get into that in a second. What's going on, dude, with me? I got to check in, man. It's been, it's like, I don't know. I don't want to get into like a complaining culture. Nobody wants to hear that shit. What's going on? I started a thing where I'm taking a break from dating and interacting with women. So that's been going pretty good. It's nice. I just wanted to, uh, just take a break from like, um, I just wanted to have time to focus on myself and my heart and my relationship, uh, with my higher power. So just to try and get some just things on track better. And, um, you know, I think like in the world, like you're like a magnet, right? Everybody is like a magnet. I think that's just my thoughts. And, and you attract certain things and your magnet gets attracted certain places. And sometimes it's a great spot. Uh, but sometimes you got to just check in on the magnet, make sure the magnets work and see what's going on with the magnet. So yeah, that's what I wanted to do. Um, you know, cause I've been attached to some good metals over the

11:52years here and there, uh, some precious metals, but I think I just need to take some time just to kind of look at the magnet and just see what's going on. Yeah, and I just wanted to try and work on my relationship with my higher power. You know, I've just been recently, I've just been kind of sometimes, I don't know, like I just hadn't really been praying that much recently. And I was talking to my therapist about it yesterday I couldn't figure out exactly why I think sometimes sometimes I don't want to do everything I'm supposed to do to take care of myself and that may not make sense to some people or whatever, and that's fine, but it's like, yeah, sometimes I just, I don't want to do ever, like, you know, I'll be doing like so many, like I'll be doing good things for myself, taking care of myself this way and this way and this way. And I know it's impossible for us to do everything to take care of ourselves. We don't want to live like as like slaves to like, you know, exactly

13:07what we're, you know, every article that comes out or everything we hear, you know, that kind of thing would be impossible for me. But, but yeah, sometimes I just don't want to do all the things I'm supposed to do to take care of myself. Sometimes I'm want to like, well, I'm not doing that. Or there's always one that I'll kind of leave out or I don't know I think I can't understand I can't explain exactly what I'm saying but I'm trying to um yeah I I don't know I just sometimes I don't want to do everything that I'm supposed to do take care of myself does that make any sense to you Trevin it does yeah and you're saying like you're trying to now kind of check in and like recenter yeah and i was just like why am i not praying like what am i again like i'm not against praying you know i mean i want a better relationship with my higher power i think i think honestly part of me scared if i do if i do the things i'm supposed to do for myself, then I'm going to have to change. Yeah, that I'm going to have, not changing in a bad way or anything, but just that things could be different. You know, and I won't have, I don't know. There's always a part of me that wants to be able to say,

14:24I'm not doing that. You know, I'm't have, I don't know. There's always a part of me that wants to be able to say, I'm not doing that. You know, I'm not doing, you know, I'm not doing that. No, I'm gonna do things my way, you know? So I don't know what it is, but, uh, but that, that's been something. Um, and so I was grateful today, like even before this episode, I was just asking God for some help. You know, I was just saying, I just feel kind of sometimes some, sometimes exhausted in some ways. I feel like I can't figure out sometimes what I'm supposed to do. Um, just like in the world, like with work and stuff I can, but I, you know, it's just like, yeah, what does God want me to do? And maybe that's it. Maybe I'm just scared sometimes of asking the God that and trying and getting like a real answer. Yeah, what does God want me to do? And then it's like, you know, and this sounds kind of, I don't know if it sounds lazy or what it sounds, but sometimes I get tired of being the one to always have to take care of myself. You know, I just, I get tired of being,

15:41it's like, oh, okay, here we go again. I got to be, you know, I got to come to my own rescue. And I know that that's the truth, but sometimes I just get kind of tired of it. You know, and I'm not trying to say anything. Like, I'm doing great, but that's just kind of some real ways that I'm feeling. Um, I'd been doing good about pornography and Matt looking at pornos and Hey Patty and, uh, and masturbation or jerking off or touching your cock, buddy. Um, but then I've, I slipped up yesterday. So I think part of me has some negative feeling about that, you know, not negative, but just like, you know, but then I've, I slipped up yesterday. So I think part of me has some negative feeling about that, you know, not negative, but just like, you know, I think I get tired of getting like, man, I'll get to like four or five days, you know, sometimes I've gotten a long time I've had months and, but you know, and then I'll just like, I don't know. So it's all good. Just trying to be like, just say what's going on with me. And yeah. And yeah, that's it. Sometimes you just, you jerk off cause it's almost St. Patrick's day, but that's not a good reason, dude. You can't be like, I'm jerking off cause it's almost St. Patrick's day. That's fucking crazy, bro.

17:01That's crazy. Hey, Penny. Uh, so that's some of what's going on with me But I'll say this It has been nice taking a break from like Dating and social interaction With women has been nice Because there's been times where it's like Yeah I have some more time to myself I have some more time to think Yeah and it gives my brain a little bit more like been times where it's like, yeah, I have some more time to myself. I have some more time to think. Yeah. And it gives my brain a little bit more like space to be like, okay, hey, what's going on? You know, and to kind of check in with myself. So, yeah, I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful that, yeah, just that I can work on the magnet, you know. So that's been happening. What else? You know, people message me a lot of times or will tell me, hey, why don't you talk about this thing? Or why don't you talk about Iran or Iran? Because people say it different. And a lot of people will ask me about, hey, will you talk about this? Or will you say something about this? This is going on. A lot of different causes that are dear to people's hearts and minds. And I understand that. And I wish there was, that I could talk about everything.

18:19Sometimes I don't know enough. Sometimes I don't, sometimes I'm burnt out from absorbing, like, you know, you absorb so much horrible stuff that's out there that's happening. And it just like, it ruins you. It ruins you. It's like, and, and there's algorithms that are set up, it feels like to ruin you. So it's not that I don't care about certain things. It's just that, you know, I have to take care of myself. I have to make sure that I'm living and surviving and make sure that my life is okay. And that the people that I'm responsible for through work and family that, you know, that I'm upholding my place in their lives, you know, so I think that's it. And not that anybody's asking me to answer about that, but I'm sure a lot of people deal with that where it's like people like, why, why don't you speak up about certain things or why don't you know? And some of it's just, it's too much. Some of it's, it's too much. Some of it, I don't know enough about it. So I try to, I try to speak up where I can. I try to speak up when I feel compelled. And sometimes I feel compelled and I'm, I don't know exactly what to say. I don't

19:37know enough information. So I want to have people on to learn more. And sometimes we have guests set up in advance. And so it's like certain guests aren't the space to have a certain conversation with people. So, um, yeah, I'm not beholding to anyone about anything like that. Um, but I do want to say that and yeah, I'm doing the best that I can. Um, maybe in time I'll be able to, uh to have more information about certain topics and do better. I can do better to learn. Um, and I try my best. It's hard to know also what is a clean information and, and that's a scary thing. So yeah, I'm not apologizing or anything. I just, I want to speak up about that, that I also have to take care of me, um, and show up in the spaces that I'm supposed to show up as a human. And also not to like, you know, I don't, it's tough when you attach, when you, you know, it's just, it's at times it's a lot. And I'm sure a lot of people feel that way, that it's a lot. Um, But I do see things and I do pray about things. It doesn't mean that I don't know about them. You know, and yeah, and that's where I'm at with that.

20:55You know, I have spoken about this before, but I do have a lot of uncomfort about America's relationship with Israel, the Israeli political leaders. That's what I mean. I just, I believe that that group is, it is, it just feels like a satanic regime. It doesn't seem – it feels like they just want to cause pain. They just – I mean these – they don't even know where all the bodies from Gaza are, and they're already moved on to other places that they are attacking and that America is associated now with their attacks. And I don't – I believe that that will come here one day. I don't believe that the Israeli leaders, that they have any intention to stop that. I don't see that they have any care for the American people. It doesn't seem like that. I've never heard that spoken. And I believe that if we don't speak up now that our children won't have the chance to speak up.

22:18Either by law. Or by worse. And that may sound crazy to some people, and that's fine if it does. If it does sound crazy to you and you think I'm crazy on that point of view, that's okay. I don't, you know, I may disagree with you, but that's okay. You know, I do want to, you know, I worked hard to be able to have a voice for myself. And so I hope at least you just respect that. Or I hope at least you just see that. Like, at least I'm trying to say what I want to say. And I don't understand our government's relationship with Israel's leaders and with Israel's government. I don't understand it. You know, I just, it feels like there's this war machine and then our soldiers are put into these spaces and they're just there to serve in America that they believe in. And it's no knock against them or anything like that. It's just – I just don't – it just feels like it's causing a lot of pain and fear. And, yeah, I don't understand our – I don't understand Trump's relationship. I don't understand our political – like why we are so beholden to this government, this Israeli government that just seems to be obsessed with control.

23:43And it feels like, like blood loss. Like they just like, it's not enough. Like after what happened in Gaza, I don't see, to me, I don't, I don't see how there could be any other view. Um, but if someone else has a different one, that's okay. That's their point of view. I'm just happy to be able to speak up for myself, even if I'm wrong. Even if I'm wrong, there's a part of me that, even though I feel scared sometimes, that I'm happy to be able to speak up for myself and say that, you know, because it's, I've, yeah, having a voice has always been important to me. And I'm sure it is to a lot of people. And they're making laws now, there are bills being presented where we won't even have a chance to have a voice at some point. There's surveillance infrastructure that's being put into place. There's a lot of things happening right now. And some people are like, well, it's too much for me to get involved in. I understand that. I understand that. But yeah, I believe that if we don't speak up now, and it may already be too late, but if we don't speak up now, that one

25:01day our kids will not be able to. And it's disappointing to me, too, that a lot of our religious leaders haven't said anything. I don't understand it. I don't understand that. But there's a lot of stuff I don't understand, you know? And I think this has been going on for a long time. I do not understand Trump's infatuation or beholding to this government. But they've had, you know, Israeli government's been involved in America for a long time throughout countless political party leaders. So it's nothing new. It just feels very extreme right now. And it feels very scary. That's what it feels like. And I don't understand how our relationship with them is helping America. But that's just me. That's just my thoughts. All right, let's move on. I just had to say that. So I know some people was like, dude, it's too political, whatever, but that's, I have to speak up for myself. You know what I'm saying?

26:21I've worked hard in my life to have a place for a voice And you may not even want everyone to hear my voice again That's okay But I have to speak up for myself Even if I'm wrong And it's just a lot That's a lot of fear I see Just everyday People around me Like what's going on here? People from different parties too That like this candidate or like this candidate, what the fuck is going on? I have no idea. I have no idea, but it's, it seems super scary. That's the feeling scary. You know, the, the industrial war complex, just like everything, you know, the fact that, um, we know that our foods are poisoning us just all, we know that the healthcare that when, after your food poisons you, you go to get hell, you go to get healthcare and you get screwed there. It's just, it's fun. It's crazy. It's crazy. And then we get sedate. You start looking at a marriage, do you get people get sedate? It's like, as long as I have my vape and I'm able to watch like some kids do the stanky leg video or something, it's like, then I'm fine.

27:39You know, it's like, we've just like slowly gotten sedated. It's pretty wild. And who knows what will happen. But shit went from like kind of seemed like kind of mundane in the world to fucking high speed, it feels like. But then you can't get so wrapped up in it that that's all you're thinking about and all you're talking about either. Because then that is giving, that's like, that's what they want, you know? They don't want us to live. You know, they don't want us to live. They want us to be alive, but they don't want us to live. But anyway, I know that all that stuff is a lie, but that's just shit that's been on my mind, hey, Patty, do you try the green chilies, bro, I tried them, I freaking, dude, I was there, you're there, you're in Albuquerque for 11 minutes, and some guy's coming up, he's fucking got illegal green chilies, he's like, bro, these bitches aren't even supposed to be here, it's just like, dude, I've tried the green chilies. I've tried them, and they're great. They're great. And we went to a place called El. Can you look it up, Trevin?

28:54It's kind of by the airport, I think. El Modelo. Look it up. Is it that one? Yeah, bro. El Modelo. And it wasn't beer. I thought I'd go in. It was just people swimming in a bunch of, like, bro. El Modelo. And it wasn't beer. I thought I'd go in. It was just people swimming in a bunch of like Modelo beer or whatever. Some guy doing the backstroke, you know? Oh, shit. Put some drywall on here. I'm drowning. But it was just like the sweetest ladies working in there. I mean the best, bro. And it was just good, bro. It just felt like, dang, it felt like when you walked in there, it felt like your grandmother loved you right when you walked in, homie. Even the gangbangers, they were taking off their face tattoos before they walked in, bro. There was like a lot of respectado for El Modelo. But it was, yeah, I had a good time over there. And shout out to my friend Abby Pavia. She's a great basketball player. And she's got a big heart. And it was great to watch her team play. Now let's get into it, dog.

30:14Dude, St. Patrick's Day, have you tried the green beer? Damn, St. Patrick was a slave, bro. Did we say that, Trevin? I don't think so. It says right here let me see at about age 16 St. Patrick was captured by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave where he herded animals for around 6 years before escaping back to his family dang bro and then he went back to Ireland said I'm gonna change the game, dude. That's wild. Have you tried the Catholicism? That's what he was doing over there. St. Patrick spent years traveling through parts of Ireland, preaching, baptizing, baptizing, bro. Dog, don't stay under too long, homie. You'll be late for work. Founding churches and monasteries and ordaining clergy. Dang, he was out there in the streets pushing something that meant something to him. His own surviving writings are the Confessio. Condemning violence against Irish Christians. Amen. Right now, get up to 15% off select storage solutions. Put heavy-duty HDX totes to good use,

31:33protecting what's important to you. The solid, impact-resistant design prevents cracking, and the clear base and sides make items easy to find even when the totes are stacked. Find select shelving and tote storage up to 15% off at the Home Depot to organize every room in your home, from your garage to your attic. Visit HomeDepot.com. How doers get more done. Okay, I want to talk about busboys. And we got some callers. We had busboys that called in. And I'm going to tap into my, you know, you know what I'm saying? I was a busboy for probably seven years. I busboyed a couple of places a couple of times. I worked with a couple of sisters one time over there at the first Mexican restaurant in our area. And these two girls named April and May, uh, they were the chefs and they were, anytime you came back to get food or whatever, they got furious at you because they was doing some other shit or whatever, smoking or whatever. And, uh, and so, yeah, you'd have to go out to the tables and shit was late and shit like that. And people left or whatever. Anyway, they invited me to their house one day to party, asked me to bring some beer. I brought some beer over there and a dog bit me

32:52and everybody there drank all my beer and I fucking had to leave early. But what else? I worked at Tucson, Arizona. I was a busboy down there. I was one of the first busboys to use creatine ever in the history of bus busing. I was probably, I think I was one of the top seven bus boys South of Phoenix, probably for a little while. And I say that with my whole, whole chest. I'll say that with my whole chest. I say that shit pure as day. I was out there, boy. I was out there. I was on the tables. Bread on six. Butter on 11. Cleanup on 43. Shit diaper. Some kid, they had a shit diaper over there. Some kid, they brought him in there. I don't even think they ate. They just brought the kid in there to shit in his diaper. And somebody, I fucking wrapped a towel around that bitch and sent him out. But I was doing it, bro. I was on the front lines of food use and dishware, dirty dishware. I was on the front lines of that shit. So I know the trenches. I know what it's like to go back there and have to look at the dishwasher and you bring one more tub and you love that motherfucker because he's in the

34:10heat, bro. The steam coming off that fucking water hose spigot thing. He's blasting, bro. That motherfucker got shit hanging off his eyebrows and shit. He got pieces of fucking damp tortilla hanging out of his eyelashes and that bitch is still back there blasting them bitches. Getting the platos limpio. You know what I'm saying? And you can't even look him in the eye when you drop off that last bus tub. Damn, bro. That's the pain of a real bus boy. Somebody who's got the tables and the trays and the tubs and the plates in their heart. When you know, bro, like, I can't bring this to my dog one more time. And sometimes I tag him out. I say, man, like, we a tag team, bro. You know? It's like the world wash, like the world washing federation, bro, the WWF, let me limpio a tub for you, daddy, get out there and get you a cigarette, and then suddenly he'd have a little pocket of Camarones or something on shrimps, and he'd get out there and eat them bitches by himself, just to rebuild his conscience and stuff so he could get back, I mean, that's a dude, that's a Vietnam right there for some people.

35:27So shout out to all the dishwashers too, man. And that last tub, sorry we brought it in there, bro. We know how it felt. But we all had to get the job done. So I want to say that, but we had some calls from busters that have been in the game over the years. People called in. We got to go to a couple calls calls of those. But first I do want to talk about the, uh, about the movie. I just want to tell you straight up that bus boys, the movie will come out on April 17th. So that's when you'll be able to go to see it. But our tickets are going to go on sale March 16th. So, um, yeah, I guess like, you know, first of all, I got to do this movie with David Spade. And I say this movie like, trust me, there's a big part of me that's just I cannot even believe that we did this. Right. And we did this ourselves. Right. That's what I want to say. You know, I went to Hollywood and you go pitch TV shows and you do all these meetings. You're always waiting to hear back. You're always in this cycle of bullshit. And it's always somebody that was nothing like me deciding if they thought I had the ability or the talent or the capability or if my voice should be heard. Right?

36:43It was always the same type of people over and over again. Some schmuck who had never fucking done a day, a moment of comedy in his life, some business fuck, whatever. You know, you go to all these things and it's, for me, it was a waste of time. For some people, it's great. It's their stairway to their dreams or to different opportunities and stuff like that. And I had a great time. Like I met a lot of great people. Um, and I got to develop my standup, which was the best thing because standup was the thing that I liked the most because nobody could give that to their kid. You know, you go audition for some role and then some, some producer's kid gets it or somebody's son or some bull, you know. But stand-up, they can't do that. Stand-up is you. Nobody can give that shit. Look, I'm going to get my son the opportunity. Fuck your son. You know what I'm saying? You can't withstand it, but you got to get up there and do your job. Now, some people may not like my stand-up, may not think I'm any good at it. That's fine with me. But you have to get up there and do your job. Nobody, it's a fucking, it's a thin line. And that's one thing I always want. I always wanted my voice. I don't want to do your shit.

37:58I don't want to do your fucking, I don't want to go play some role where you have me playing this stupid redneck. And it's just like, cause you don't even understand that maybe people where I'm from are diverse of thought and are more intricate and aren't just racist fucking people. You know, I wanted more than I like. I just I don't know. I thought their system was outdated, to be honest with you. And though they, you know, there's always these articles, Hollywood, it's accepting everybody. That's it's not, it's not. And I'll say that firsthand. So I just want you to know where some of my energy was coming from and why eventually I started to do podcasting because I just wanted to have my own voice. I don't want to read your lines. I don't even believe, I'd have meetings with people and I would tell them about my life or about how I see things and they would say, it wouldn't fit this narrative. It would, you know, it wouldn't fit this narrative. And so I got tired of fucking waiting for them and yeah and then so when I got into podcasting it was a place where we could have our own voice and I think some of this movie just kind of

39:15followed suit um you know I became friends with David Spade through uh Adam Egett who worked at the comedy store and um And it was great. You know, I still remember the first time that I went to dinner. I met David at the comedy club a few times, and then we went to dinner one time, and he gave me a Joe Dirt hat, dude, and it was the best. Because I remember seeing Joe Dirt when I was younger, and it was just like, I didn't know it was, I thought it was a documentary. You know, because our TV was fucked up. And so some of the audio was different. And, uh, and I thought it was a documentary about this kid who had gotten left at the Grand Canyon by his parents. And, um, and it gave me just such like an affection for this, for him, you know, just like, uh, um, yeah. Cause I think I felt like that as a kid. Anyway, I felt like I got left at the grand Canyon, even though I was right there, a bedroom over from my mother, you know, just like, you know, how I felt it matched with how I felt. But, um, anyway, a lot of that's a lot of emo shit, but so David and I became friends and, uh, and he, he, he's been a great friend, you know, he's got a big heart. Um, he's welcomed

40:34me into circles. He's taken me with him to like fancy parties where they have fancy silverware and there's fucking, you know, uh, people are stealing shit from the place. Like that's how nice the shit is there. Like I've been to a lot of places where nobody's stealing shit. Cause people are like, oh, this shit's trash. I already got this shit at home. I ain't stealing more just shit. But I've been to places where they got really nice shit with him. I met John Hamm with him. I met Jon Hamm. Yeah, just. So anyway, just getting to know him was a blessing. And then we started, it was during COVID, we started writing a movie together. And David, even this, I'll say this. He, you know, I ran out of gas one time, and he brought me gas, and he almost got hit by a damn Kia Sophia, I mean, fucking so close to hitting him and killing, I don't know if it would have killed him, I don't know, he's not the biggest guy, but he could have challenged it, but I don't, I don't know, but he brought that shit out ran across the interstate and shit bringing me fucking gas so i mean just nice shit man um

41:52and so we started writing this movie because we um and and one thing that we found that we had in common was that we both worked as busboys in Arizona. I worked in Arizona under, they had this guy, Sam Fox. He's a restaurateur. He's a friend of mine. He had, this was his first restaurant. And I worked there as a busboy. And David had worked as a busboy over there in Phoenix. And so we had this relationship of bussing in the desert, man. Even when there's water shortages and shit like that, bro. Imagine you got to clean up 20 tables and you ain't got no water, cut. Who are you now? Who are you now? I was still a bus boy. So I stayed in that shit, man. I stayed in that shit. That was our Iwo Jima, cut. And so that's where I was, man. And so we kind of bonded on that type, man. I stayed in that shit. That was our Iwo Jima cut. And so that's where I was, man. And so we, we, we, we kind of bonded on that type of shit. And then we started writing this movie. Yeah. And, and nobody really wanted to help, you know, and that's fine. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying what it was, right. I wanted to let you know where we were at mentally, what was going on with us and our brains and stuff. Nobody really wanted to help. We couldn't, um, we reached out to some directors that we liked.

43:07They didn't want to deal with it. Uh, our agencies didn't really help. You know, there was some emailing back and forth and some light shit, but nothing really like we're going to take these guys and we're going to believe in them. You know, we're going to really take these guys and do something there wasn't any of that and I say that that's true um and so we got to a spot where it was like damn we gotta make this or just go by our ways and we'd spent a lot of time together and made it and written it so far and all of that and so we just put up our own money you know we put up our own money. You know, we put up our own money and, um, and then next thing, you know, dude, we were making a real movie and this is crazy. I didn't think it was real until I showed up that day on set to shoot. Cause it had just all been emails. It had been David and I writing and we would go meet at his place. And sometimes we would get Jimmy John's and sometimes we wouldn't, which I didn't understand, but, um, but I would get it on the way home or whatever sometimes. But, um, but yeah, we, you know, we, we made this, but, um, we, we, we realized that we had to pay for it, right? We have to fund, we, so we put our money in and I didn't realize until the day that we got to set this set,

44:26I call it, look, I'm not locked in on all the terminology and shit. So I call it that. I know it sounds highfalutin or whatever, but until we got to the movie site the first day and there was like trailers, there was like a woman with makeup or whatever, hair conditioner or whatever, you know, Hey Patty, have you tried the green? Yes, I have. Um, and, and we, and we were making a movie and it was crazy that other actors were there that we'd look, you know, we did all of this stuff. And so that's, what's, that's what we're making, right? That's what we put together and we did it. We created a movie, you know, and we made something and it was crazy because you get to the end and I was like, fuck, what did we do, dude? I was so scared. And then you go through the editing and you do all this shit and you start to realize, okay, this is how it is. And so that's what's coming out is our movie that we made completely by ourselves that these people said no to. I don't care. Fuck them. You said no to me your whole life because, you know what I'm saying? I'm glad you're not on board now. So that's where we're at.

45:44And I think it's good, man. There's some funny spots in it. It was a huge learning curve. I'm not saying it's the greatest movie. I mean, it's like a $3 million budget or something. And yeah, I learned a ton. Like if I could go back and do, there's a lot of things I would probably adjust. Like I just learned a lot. Um, I learned a lot, man, about how it would operate, just all these different things. So that was a blessing. Uh, it was the most expensive course of education I've ever learned in my life. But if you go see this movie, I just want you to know that that's what it is, right? It's something that we made. We made it outside of the system. And thank you, David, for, you know, let me do this with you. There's some scenes in there, dude, that David does that are so good. And it's kind of, man, it's just like Tim Dillon's in it. Um, Nate Diaz, Chris Avila, um, Jay Pharaoh, uh, Trevor Wallace, Jimmy Gonzalez, uh, Michelle Ortiz, uh, Lindsay Normington, Tiago Martinez.

47:00Have you tried to bring Chili's Tiago? Steve Little, Sky Bree, Brent Morin. There's a lot. There's a lot. I'm missing a ton of wonderful folks. So yeah, all I'm saying is that's what this is. This is a movie that we made that is outside of the system. And we want you to go see it to support this type of thing because we can do more in the future and we want you to go see it to support this type of thing because we can do more in the future and we can do it better and we can help fund movies that other people want to make that the gatekeepers don't see, you know? And that's fine. I don't need a gate, you know? I don't even want to go through the gate, because I'm coming up through the dirt, son. I'm through the mud, dog. You keep that bitch latched, dog. I'll be in the yard. And that's how I've always been. And so that's where I'm at. That's where we're at with this. Yeah, so thank you if you go to see it. It's not like, what's that movie? Dunkirk or whatever. It's not like that, okay, so don't think it's like that, it's different, it's not like Sarah Marshall, it's not that, right, this is a movie

48:18about two dudes trying to be alive, trying to become waiters. That's what it's about. With some love stories in there and some other type shit. But you feel me. But it's got that busboy mentality in it. You know? I'll be a waiter or I'll get my shit some other way. But we eatin'. Even if I work at the restaurant, bitch, we eatin', so that's the movie, it's gonna be out, I can't believe it, it's kinda scary, too, because if nobody goes and sees you, you're like, oh, shit, alright, but that's okay, too, right, I mean, it'll bum me out, but that is okay, you know, I'm proud of, like, what we've done, I'm proud that we did something, you know, I feel lucky I got to we've done. I'm proud that we did something. You know, I feel lucky I got to do something with David Spade, man. Like, you know, I don't even deserve that kind of stuff. And I don't mean that in a negative way about myself, but yeah, he's just such an immense talent. And to be able to just be around him and spend time and the fact that we ended up down this road together and here we are, um, it's been a blessing. And yeah, I can't even, but like, it's weird to say like, yeah, I'm in a movie. I mean,

49:35anybody could be in a movie. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Kim Kardashian was in a short one with some cock in it. So anybody could be in a film, but, um, but yeah, that we made this and that our friends showed up to help us make this man, you know? Uh, yeah. And just the actress and actresses in it. But I think, I know there's some funny parts in it. I know you'll laugh. I'm curious. I think I'm just super curious. Like what is okay to do in a movie? What is, you know, what could we do differently? I mean, dude, we got the first day we started shooting, got moved by a week at the last minute, like two days before we got moved by a week because of the fires that were out in California. Um, that were like a year and a half ago or whatever. Uh, well, whenever the, uh, Pasadena fires and the, um, Palisades fires. So that was, I mean, just, there was so many things that were like, is this going to happen? But it happened. And, um, yeah. So yeah, there's some, yeah, like there's just, it's just like like I hope you'll find some joy in it. It's a fun. It's lighthearted. It's goofy. It's dumb. It's fun.

50:55And yeah, it's a dream come true to be able to do it. And I promise you that if this one goes well, we will find other things to make. If I'm not if I don't do good and I'm not the one to be in the other things, that's fine. But we'll create other projects that are funny, that people want to see, you know, because that's really what needs to happen. You know, at least to respect other people's point of view of comedy, you know, you know, and to just to care, like, you know, I don't even, I don't even know if I mean voices that aren't out there, but it's just like, you know, there's shit that's different. And, yeah, I just I promise that we'll make other cool stuff, whether we're in it or not. But we'll write it or we'll do something, you know. So, yeah, that's where I'm at, you know? So let's get this thing out there, bro. But just one more time. Tickets, uh, will be on sale, uh, Monday, March 16th. You can buy them at busboysmovie.com. So you'll be able to get those busboysmovie.com. If they don't have it in your area, that's okay. It'll notice what area has been looked up. And then as soon as these

52:12first, I think a hundred theaters fill up or something, if we can sell those, then it's going to let us sell more. So it's an experiment, you know, it's an experiment and I appreciate you guys as patients. I've spent so many hours editing, going through, watching. You know, there's so many choices that you are a part of in this and I learned a ton. And yeah, and just yeah, thank you so much. I can't even believe it. It's just crazy to even get to do it. Whether people hate it or love it, I don't give a shit what the critics think. Fuck them. The critics don't know shit, you know, the critics don't know shit. Remember that the critics don't know shit. The critic is some schmuck who's sitting over there who never did shit. That's the critic. That's the critic. Some guy with a pen and a fucking, he probably didn't even have a dip in, he probably didn't even have a zen in his cheek, to fuck him, the critic don't know shit, I hope the critics hate this shit, fuck them, look, I'm a critic now, hey, critics, y'all fucking suck, there, boom. I just did your whole

53:27job in fucking four seconds, bitch. All right, now let's get to some calls from some busboys, some players that been in the game. Boy, you know what I'm talking about. Let's go, bro. And look, I want other busboys to call in. Some of these are good, and so I want some other busboys to call in too and hit the hotline. I like to throw these in from time to time just to respect the culture and keep it going. The hotline, as always, is 985-664-9503, or you can go to the website, theovon.com. There's a place you can leave, send a video on there as well if you want to send send a video version of you and we can put that in the show. Um, so those are the two ways where you can get in touch and communicate as well. If something's going on in your life and is big or small, uh, or if you just want to say something, or if you're scared about something, you want to get it off your chest. Um, if there's something that you feel like, um, me bringing up on here could be of help or service. I'm going to try to do a better job of doing more solo episodes. It's been hard for me. For some reason, this doing solos, it takes a lot of stress. It creates a lot of stress in me. I don't know what it is. It could just be what's going on right now and just the busyness of life. I don't know. It used to be a little easier for me, you know.

54:44Have you tried to hear this? But it's just gotten tougherness of life. I don't know. It used to be a little easier for me, you know. Have you tried to hear this? But it's just gotten tougher over the years. And so, but maybe that will change. But yeah, I do want to be able to continue to have just more of a personal relationship. And maybe that's something I need to pray about and can pray about. So anyway, love you guys. The hotline, 985-664-9503. Uh, let's get to some calls. Hey Theo, this is Jacob from Cincinnati area. What's up Jacob? Nice to hear from you. Uh, sorry you guys just lost Trey Hendricks in there. I saw that. Um, but blessings onward, baby. Um, I saw your Instagram story Talking about busboys So I used to be a busboy Back in high school Thank you for your service brother My sophomore And my junior year At a pretty high end restaurant And I think the craziest thing That happened to me there Well I saw some tits once But that's not I mean That's normal shit bro That's street shit You could see a tit anywhere, bro. Close your eyes. Open them bitches. Might see one. Onward. I don't know, man. I'm more of a butt guy myself, but. Bro, a butt is just a big tits on the back, bro, with no nipples, with no milk in them.

56:01That's all a butt is. Let's hear it. I, uh, this one day i was working i agreed at this table and this lady was mad she's like can i have a lobster bisque i said yeah let me grab my waitress real quick and she started ripping my ass she's like you don't need to go tell her this and tell her that just go get me the lobster bisque and i was like all right well you know some time goes by and she gets up to go to the restroom. So I go over there to check on the brother. And he says, hey, man, how old are you? I said, I'm 16, sir. He's like, oh, never mind. I said, well, why do you ask? He said, my wife loves redheads. I forgot to mention that. But I'm assuming that he wanted me to have sex with his wife in front of him. And, you know, I don't think I would have done it. Maybe for the right price and shit. But, yeah. Anyways, D.R., I love you, man. Love you, too, brother. Praise God. And he almost got, um, you almost got sex trafficked or whatever there by an urban couple, and you know, that's the kind of shit uh, that's happening, bro. When you had high-end shit, anything

57:17could happen, bro. You might get sex trafficked or whatever. When you had a low-end place, well, if you had a, you know, if you're working at a subway or something like that, or more of like a lower tier fast, you're lucky if somebody tries to touch your ass or whatever or something. Or somebody tries to fucking put their hand in your pants real fast and pull it out and get a quick sniff of your dick, boy. But if you at a high-end place, you might actually get traffic, not some fucking hand-sniffing dick monkey over there trying to rub on you or whatever, but what I'm saying is this, dude, yeah, they wanted that ginger, boy, they wanted that fucking little firework, you feel me, they wanted that fucking spicy candle, but that's okay, bro, that's the kind of shit, when you work high-end shit, you at least get job opportunities, bro. I always tell my friends, if you're working in a high-end place, you might get a job opportunity, bro. Hey, bro, thanks for your service, bro, type shit. We out, boy, BLM, dude. GLM, too, kind of. All right, let's hear this. Hey, what's up, Theo? Love from New Jersey. This is Charlie. I was a busboy at my brother's steakhouse,

58:33and the best part about being a busboy is you can be fed. You got a lot of food in the back there, so you can snag on the food. And, you know, being a busboy might not be the best job, but be the best busboy you can be. Bro, what are you, fucking Richard Nixon or something? Dude, we're just trying to freaking clean up the tables, twin. You feel me, dog? But I got you. But you don't always get food in the bag, dude. I worked at this one place, and they would have soup, but we could only eat it when it was really hot, bro. If the shit got too kind of cooled off, the dude wouldn't let us eat it. So he like watching kids eat that hot soup or whatever. That guy was a per, uh, maybe a pedophile or whatever, but, but we didn't know him that good. We was employees, you know? Um, but yeah, but yeah, I feel you. Do you worked at your brother's steakhouse and you got fed, bro? It sounded like you was just over there hanging out, boy. That's fucking gentrification, bro. All right, let's take another call here. Hey, Theo. This is Ryan. So I used to bus tables at this seafood place, and there's this old guy who came in all the time. We're talking late 70s, quiet, always sat at the same two-top by the window. Every single visit, he ordered the same thing, a dozen raw oysters and iced tea.

59:54Now, if you've ever been a busboy, you know the rule nobody says out loud. You know, if a table leaves and there's food that looks untouched, you know, it's fair game. Yeah, you can have a little. So the guy finishes up, pays, leaves, and goes over and, you know, I go over to clear the table and there's still a couple oysters there still sitting in the shelves and they look perfect. Oh, bro, them bitches don't look perfect, bro! Going near somebody else's oysters, dude, that's crazy, bro. Let's hear it. Lemon wedge, cocktail sauce, the whole setup. Honestly, it looked like he barely touched them. Oh, bro. Dog, I don't care if somebody even just a little bit touched an oyster, bro. I ain't even showing up at that thing. Now, a scallop, bro. A scallop is just a fucking big gay oyster rush Just basically like a bear in the gay community or whatever but amongst shellfish. Let's hear more Scallops they suck and I'm hungry. I've been running around for like six hours So I look around the dining room real quick Nobody's paying attention. I grab one the oysters hit a little lemon and just slurp it right down there I'm preparing the plates a couple minutes later. I'm back in the kitchen and one of the servers goes hey did you

1:01:09clear that old guy's oysters table i'm like yeah and she goes did he do his weird thing again now i'm already nervous and i'm like what weird thing and she goes oh he doesn't actually eat them he just sucks on them for the flavor and spits them back in the shell. Man, when I tell you the entire kitchen turned to look at me, because by that point the oyster was long gone. The dishwasher just starts laughing and goes, bro, you ate a secondhand oyster. And the whole – the worst part about it was just everybody knew this guy did that. Like it was just a known thing about him. Nobody told me this. So that's the day I learned important restaurant rules. If a food's still sitting on a customer's plate, there's probably a reason. Bruh, you can't be eating nobody's oyster like that, bruh. Dang, bruh. I can't even imagine that. Oh, it makes my fucking lungs hurt right now hearing you say that, you bastard. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? Why would you do that? I just don't understand why you would do that. God.

1:02:30Oh, oh. Bro, that's bad, dog. My buddy used to be like that boy, my boy Josh. We used to work over there at Morton's Seafood over there on the Chufuncta River down there in Louisiana, Madisonville. And we were busboys back then and shit, and we was always, like, trying to finish off a little bit of food or that. And sometimes the shrimps, I didn't notice, the shrimps, if they eat, if somebody eats a peeled shrimp, sometimes a little bit gets kind of kept down by the tail over there, and he would peel off that last little outside part and just get that last bit of snack off that thing. He was like that, though. He was like that, bro. He was a real. He got his GED. Let's hear another call on it. Yo, Theo. This is Jackson. I got a crazy story for you. I was a busboy at a... I mean, the worst Denny's you could possibly imagine. Oh, which one was it? Every single one? Let's hear more. I'm talking like just people throwing stuff everywhere. It was a mess. We know who you're talking about when you say people as well, but let's hear more. But this one time, this whole group of people, 15 people came in. They seemed nice. They seemed real nice. Apparently it was a graduation. And one of the boys just graduated and the rest of

1:03:59the guys were very happy. They decided that they were going to order the all-you-can-eat pancakes. Just one of them. And I had to explain to 15, 17-year-olds that you can't buy just one all-you-can-eat pancakes. You gotta buy 15 all-you-can-eat pancakes. Let's just say they beat my ass and I had to give them all-you-can-eat pancakes. I don't even believe that story. They beat your ass at a Denny's. But first of all, that might be true. Nobody would even notice. But you just gave them all-you-can-eat pancakes? I don't even believe that. Thank you for the call. Do you believe that, Trevin? I mean, shit happens at Denny's, bro. They beat his ass, and then he's continued to work for the day? Tears in his eyes. I don't know. I appreciate the call, Jackson. I just do not believe it. Is it wrong for me to say that, Trevin? No, I mean, it's a fair assumption. Okay. And I'm sorry you got hurt if you did get hurt. But I don't think you did. All right. Theo, my brother, I used to be a busboy slash kind of barback for this steakhouse in Nashville. And I worked there for like, I don't know, a year and a half. And basically,

1:05:17I would just kind of pick up dishes from the table sometimes and, you know, cut fruit for the bartender stuff. But I would, you know, I would clock in at like three 30 in the afternoon and I would leave at like 10 30 at night. And I maybe worked, I mean, I maybe did two hours of work while I was there. And so after about a year and a half working there, the manager pulls me into the office one day and he goes, Hey man, we're going to eliminate your position. We don't really think that we need a bar back. And I said, you don't. I wasn't even mad. I was like, yeah. I was like, I've been working here for a year and a half, and I don't really know what I do, to be totally honest with you. And I've always imagined that that's what it would be like to work for the federal government. So, yeah, that was my experience. Amen, man. That's from a guy, Ethan Anderson. Thank you, bro. Yeah, that's a dude. I agree. I mean, they just voted to let pet like perverts keep spending money out of a slush fund or whatever the government, our government has sold us up the river, brother. So I'm just glad that you had a job even for a little bit. That'll be it. One day we'll be in a museum even if you had a job just for a week or something. I'll be like, oh, tell us about what it was like. There'll be three people left. That's

1:06:34great, man. That's great stuff, bro. I said, you don't. Alright, let's see what else we got here. There's a great one too that I'm gonna play after this I uh I've been a busboy on and off for a while currently on type shit big dog stay in the game bro stay in the freaking game dude just wear knee braces or whatever if things are getting bad stay in the game the wildest story I had was probably I was working at P.F. Chang's, and I found someone's panties under the table, and I had to get to the back of the kitchen. But, you know, thanks. You had to get them to the back of the kitchen for what, huh? What did they want them? Some perv back there huffing on them bitches, boy. Been there, daddy. We've all been there, huh? To be young. Hey, Penny. Have you tried the green chili? All right, let's get one more here Yeah, dude The things you'd find under the table, bro

1:07:49I found a molar under one table one time We had a dude left his ashes His buddy's ashes or whatever From a thing A fire Death burning thing or whatever Funerals Trying to think Yeah, panties or whatever, funerals, trying to think, yeah, panties or whatever, bro, and if that's at P.F. Chang's you was at, that shit's popping, though, P.F. Chang's was nice, though, at a certain time, bro, that shit was nice, all right, let's get one more here, I love this one. I think we'll probably finish on this one for now. We'll see. And we might do some more next week, next time we do a solo. I like this. I like kind of seeing what kind of people were doing what. Bus boys, tell me about it. Bus girls who was out there. Now, we didn't have a lot of bus girls, bro. The bus boys had to try to flirt with the hostesses, but we were kind of too low class for them, so really the waiters got the hostesses really to date them. So busboys was always out. That was the thing about being busboys. You were always on your own, bro. You were always this outsider group. You weren't really the kitchen. They didn't respect you to cook. They respected you to carry the food from the cook to the table. That was it. They respected you to have the food for about seven or eight seconds.

1:09:06That's as much respect as they gave you when you was a busboy. They didn't respect you to cook it. They didn't respect none of that shit. They didn't respect you. They said for seven seconds, you could carry this over there. That's how much respect they have for you. Onward. Here's a call right here. This is from Jason V. Hi, Theo. I used to be a. Here's a call right here. This is from Jason V. Hi, Theo. I used to be a busboy at a couple different restaurants. The first restaurant was the Burger Bar in Stockbridge, Michigan. It was owned by my Uncle Danny, who was a Vietnam War veteran. He loved Asian women. He used to tell me growing up all the time he's like get you an oriental woman Jason they cook they clean they don't talk back he owned the burger bar and I worked with him and the manager of the burger bar was my mom so I worked with my mom uncle Danny was the owner and my mom was the manager and my mom had a relationship with her first cousin steve that was the son of my uncle danny and steve was in the outlaws motorcycle club his road name was push rod and i eventually got out of that environment and i grew up and i got my own car and i became a bus boy at the ground ground in jackson mich. I worked a few days a week there,

1:10:26and I worked on Kids Night, which was Tuesday night, and they used to have this clown come in, and this clown was named Plinko. Plinko was in his fucking late 40s or 50s or some shit, and he was named after that Price is Right game because he and his mom were like really close and she fucking died of cancer or some shit. And he just called himself Plinko the Clown. Plinko didn't have a driver's license. I don't know if Plinko was ever legal to drive in the state of Michigan. And I used to have to pick him up for work. My boss would give me like an extra $20 if I would pick up Plinko. And I formed a relationship with him. He would buy me booze all the fucking time. He would let me smoke cigarettes. And I would pick him up and he'd put his clown makeup on as we were driving to the ground round. And he would, basically, I don't think the ground round paid Plinko. I think they paid him in fucking alcohol because he would just get fucking hammered and he would make these kids like these fucked up balloon animals like not even balloon animals like balloon items like he had like a fucking hatchet he would make and like a balloon machine gun and he would just be sitting in the back as i was busting tables and he would be drinking and he would be like i fucking hate kids and i gave plinko a

1:11:46ride home and after i quit the ground round plinko actually hooked me up with this dude that he was friends with and his name was detroit rick and we used to sell cable to scramblers out of the back of detroit rick oh yeah cable to scramblers, dude. That shit was hype. Big industry. Onward. Van. It was like a cash only thing. I made a lot of money. Then after that, I joined the Army National Guard and I became a recruiter for the National Guard. I hope this information helps. Thank you for your service, Jason V. That's, dude, that is, thank you, bro. Thank you. I was losing hope in humanity and in myself and you just restored it with a good story. I appreciate that. Sometimes that's, sometimes that's all we need, you know? Yeah. Thank you, bro. That is, thank you for your service, Jason V. And for your service as an Army National Guardsman. That's it. That's it for today. Happy St. Patrick's Day. You know, try the green chilies. Try them on St. Paddy's Day. Try them for St. Paddy's.

1:13:02Put them in your St. Paddy's food. That's a green additive. What else? That's about it. You know? Hang in there. We'll keep our heads up. We keep doing our best. We live to fight another day. Busboysmovie.com. That's where you can go get a ticket if you like. Busboysmovie.com. That's where you can go get a ticket if you like. busboysmovie.com. Yeah. Anyway, God bless you guys. Be good to yourselves because you deserve it. You know, you do. We have to be good to ourselves and one day at a time. You know? One day at a time, whatever's going on. If something's tough in your life, you don't have to, you don't think I have to deal with this my whole life or I can't do this my whole life or I can't do this. Just all you, all you just can I do this today? That's been helping me recently. Can I do this today? Can I get through this today? Um, but yeah, uh, thank you guys for paying attention and, um, I appreciate the support and, um, gang, gang. Have you tried the green chilies? Now I'm just floating on the breeze And I feel I'm falling like these leaves

1:14:26I 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

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