#664 - Crooners Welcome

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1:21Dude, I was at, um, where was that 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 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, some places they give you your own menu. And some places they want everybody to read it together. 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.

2:38And people would yell f**ks or whatever at us. But that doesn't matter. Anyway, what am I talking about? Oh, so I was saying, dude, so the guy, I'll order the food to Al Pastor because I'm thinking, oh, the pastor, right? I'm thinking, yeah, I'm going to connect with the pastor. I don't know. We just come from church. I'm thinking like it's a religious thing. I'm going to order Al Pastor or whatever, but it's Al Pastor. It's Spanish, right? And in, let me see what it means here. Al pastor. Popular Mexican dish, marinated pork and shaved off. It says also shaved off. Vertical split, shaved off. So this is something that's You know it's shaved off But anyway The guy puts it on the plate and he's like Oh it's greasy you know And it had like a lot of grease in it He's like man it's really greasy And he's looking at me like Like I'm supposed to do something. Like, I just bought it from you. He's acting like, like I made it like greasy or something. I didn't make it greasy.

3:55You 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, 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 may, 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, it's windy in here, huh, like, yeah, like, you took the windows out, right, like, if, yeah, yeah, it is windy, it shouldn't be, but you know why it is, right? Like that was a 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

5:12And it stopped the O's And it stopped the wind So I think for me it's just kind of like How has my week been or whatever? You know, it's been life, bro. It's been life, bro. And sometimes it's like, it's salpastor, 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, it's a second class meet, and that's okay, bro, you know, it's still a, uh, it's still an entree, bro, it's still an entree, I'm a second class meet, I'm a third or fourth class meet sometimes, bro, but I'm still an entree, baby, gang, I'm upstairs, amen, bro, good to see you guys today, good to be here. It's been a while, bro, since we checked in on a solo episode. We had 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 expect when I get there, you know, so, but yeah, I got to go on stage out there

6:34with Miss Ella Langley, and boy, I tell you, it was, I felt like a mountain lion out there, at first, I was like really nervous, you know, because I had to do my lines. But when I got out there, I did a couple lines. And then I looked around, I said, dang, I'm a mountain lion. And that's how I felt. I was just, I don't know. It was just like, you know, it was just like the Lord was just tossing chunks of magic to people and I caught one. That's what I felt like. It was pretty, yeah, it was pretty, it was an amazing experience just to get out there. I'm not a singer, right? I'm not a singer by nature, right? If you ask me to sing, bro, it's greasy. You feel me, bro? That's how it is, bro. That's how it is with me. But I am, I did realize this, bro. I'm a crooner, bro. I'm a crooner. Let me just 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.

7:53That's me. Because the song, it would just like, a singer might be like, and this is what it's all about. But the crooner, bro, he just comes in at the end, bro. He touches up. He's like the kind of guy that does the bass boards in your house, right? He don't do all the painting, baby, but he'll come in and just. You feel me? It's like it's a magical time at the county fair. And then the crooner comes in and he's like At the county fair You feel me? That's him So that's me, bro You know what I'm saying? I'm not the singer I'm not the painter, I'm not doing all of that I'm not doing the architecture, I'm not doing all that But when they come in And they need that dog at the end Just to Do you know 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 jet from the past 700 years. Oh, sorry. Sorry. No, no, no. But that's like something like

9:09um till you can't like here's one like till you can't till you can't till you can't. That's Cody Johnson like till you can't and then I come in like till you can't, till you can't. That's Cody Johnson, like, till you can't. And then I come in like, till 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 baby That's where they bring me in, bro I'm that low-lung monster, you feel me? I'm in a swamp, bro They don't know I'm down there And then I hit them with that, baby I hit them with that Trace Adkins, baby I'm that basement bad boy You find me in the bottom of your lungs, baby girl So yeah, so that's how I am, I'm a crooner, and that's 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,

10:24bro, but thank you, Miss Langley, for having me out, and that was they got me out there, bro But thank you, Miss Langley For having me out And that was a special time out there And I'm glad everybody got to See it It's scary to do something For the first time In front of a lot of folks That's what I'm realizing So what else? Yeah, what else do we have? Thank you, guys. Thank everybody for just paying attention, being a part of this podcast and this experience. Love you guys, bro. Let me just say that. And yeah, what's happening? What else was going on since we last did a solo? Oh, people thought I was going to delete myself. I don't know how you can share that or whatever, say online. That, 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 want your ghost shit now, unca, all right, ghost unk, and I'm like, damn, ghost unk, bro, chill, bro, chill, bro, but yeah, that was crazy, dude, because I didn't even know that this had been happening. And then people are like, you know, I get a text from a step step family and they're like, is everything OK?

11:52You know, and then some of the text from other people started escalating like, damn, remember when you was here, bro? Dang, it wasn't so long ago. And they'll put a picture of us, and they make it black and white, bro, like, I'm like, dude, that picture's from four days ago, and they put black and white and put a couple doves on it, bro, and then they throw a stud out there, bro, you know, I wish I'd haven't 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 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, 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.

13:18And you see a lot of these rodeo babies, these cowboys and cowgirls that are out there. You know, and I mean, you know, they had, who did we see out there? We saw Rocker Steiners out there, Wakey Shala out there. And Wakey Shala, he broke a limb out there, broke a limb. Lefty Holman, he was out there. Shorty Garrett, Shorty Garrett. And you think it's going to be a brother, and it ain't. Sam Peterson, man. I got to chat with him. You just get to be around these fellas, man. Cade Sonier. Sonier. Sonier. Cade Sonier. Out of Louisiana, they had a Karen Crow. At a Baker, Louisiana I can't remember the name But I got to walk in the locker room And all of the um The rodeo people are there And the clown, he's happy when he's out there But in the back, he's putting on duct tape And he's stitching his own skin up Because he's out there battling bulls, you know He's out there He's front lines against the dark animal arts out there. But yeah, they got all the riders. Every name, they're almost injured, bro. The names that they have, man. The names that they have, you can tell they're almost maybe going to be injured or something.

14:38They'll have Shorty, Lefty, Broken Richardson, Pelvis Shatterford. You're like? Pelvis Shatterford. You're like, pelvis Shatterford, bro? You know what I'm saying? Somebody get him a diaper, bro. Get him an adult diaper, bro. Lacerated Arm Leggerton. He's riding today. Wheelchair Montgomery, bro. Crutches Johansson. He's over there. He's out of Utah. Yeah, they just, you know, that 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 Anna Melian. I love it. I love it, dude. They let us get right on the back of, 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 it the Wright brothers? Now, not the people that flew over there out of Kitty Hawk. I'm talking about the young. Yeah, this is some of them right here. Stetson, Rusty. I think there was only two of them maybe that were there. But dude, they some young bangers, bro.

15:54They some young bangers, man. Some warriors. We're going to get a few of them on the podcast at some point. But just to get to see, we're right up on the shoot. And they were doing bareback horse, but also bronc. 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, a.k.a. a bronc, for eight seconds while holding onto 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 child that you co-parent, and you're meeting up over there at Rip's or Don's, you know, or Applebee's or something. And you try to hug your ex-wife. Boom, that's the new rodeo right there. Hugging your ex-wife, bro. She ain't letting you stay on there for eight seconds. She ain't letting you stay on there for two seconds, bro, unless she get that check. You know what I'm saying? That was my mother, bruh. She'd make my dad sit in a car if he didn't have that money.

17:11You sitting, and we going inside to eat. You sit in a car. But there's nothing more altercative. There's nothing more altercative, bruh, than when 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. If you're listening, I'll put some video on the episode so you can see it. Man, them ladies and when they hit that third barrel and they head in bag bro the place gets lit bro let's go just singing your heart out you know just for some potential lesbian you know just who's giving it her all out there praise God baby but yeah I was right up on the chute man 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.

18:32I saw a cow. This cow is not real happy. And some of the bulls, I was on the shoot and some of the bulls, low-key, bro, seem a little bit zesty, bro. You know, one of the bulls 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 you a little DE out If you've been keeping one in your pocket With a little piece of ice in there To keep it cool. But I want to say the history of the rodeo.

19:48Then 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. Hoy mi vaquero. The term itself comes from the Spanish verb rodier, 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 began gathering informally to test their riding and roping skills. Impromptu contests between different ranchers and ranches started to spring up. Many historians point to Deer Trail, Colorado, hosting one of the earliest competitive cowboy contests in 1864. Vaquero. And shout out CJ Vaqueri, who I went to school with growing up. I don't know if it's similar

21:03or close. I don't know. But he was a cowboy. I do remember that. I don't know if he rode or not. But he had it in his blood, brother. Praise God. Amen. But 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. Yeah, there's a lot of Latinos in there, a lot of Mexican guys, a lot of Brazilians, a lot of Canadians, a lot of Latinos in there, a lot of Mexican guys, a lot of Brazilians, a lot of Canadians, a lot of Australians. When you see the lineups 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 actually 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.

22:20That 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 do 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 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 going to argue with him. What are you going to do? Look him in the eyes? He's got the one. He already won. Anyway, he's in a movie. Him and his buddies tried to make a monster picture, and the whole thing went sideways. And now there's real monsters loose in Hollywood.

23:37What 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, I was like flirt with the girl that worked there. But bro, I was like, I, I just, I couldn't eat. Like I was nervous. Right. And so I was nervous to flirt with her. But anyway, I remember she'd be like, well, do you want this with your coffee? And I would just take whatever extra thing. She's like, yeah, you want the, 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 roast from her, she had, like, Ghana, the missing person roast, or whatever that they came out with for that kid, or whatever, I bought the, um, I bought the boating, like, the stuff, they did a fundraiser

24:58for 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 all this shit, Middle East, you know, Madagascar or whatever. I had like coffee for kids or whatever. They shouldn't even have – kids aren't even supposed to drink it, and I had like two pounds of that in my car. Dude, if I even – I had so much coffee that I bought from this girl just to go talk to her. And at the end – like at one point, if I even got in my car and I cut the heat on dude, it would just be like, it literally was turning into like a roaster in my car. And if I did the thing where you close the, so you don't get any outside air conditioning, you know, just like to smell myself type of whatever that setting is, bro. And you just put, dude, it was, I would cut that on. I'd be awake for one month. Couldn't, couldn't close my, there was so much coffee in my car. I remember going through a drive-thru one time and somebody's like, Oh, are you selling coffee? And I was like, fuck no. What are you talking about? I'm just hitting on someone without some of the skills to do it. What do you mean? Do you have my buying? 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.

26:14People be like, dude, are you tired or whatever? I'm like, yeah, I am. I'm just going to 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 fricking turnt. Shout out to my boy, Diego Pavi over there in Baltimore, man. Blessings to him, bro. Yeah. What else is going on, bro? Let's take some calls. As always, the hotline, 985-664-9503 i got this one right here hey theo it's uh michael from utah what's up big mike hey mike onward um i've been with my girlfriend for about you know maybe eight months now and uh i love her i love her man and she loves me and but the whole time we've been together i've been uh i've just been overtaken by all this jealousy man of kind of her past and she's told me some things that you know she did before we met that you know don't don't exactly align with you know where i'm at or where I've been at. And I've struggled to not hold it against her. I've struggled to forgive and forget and just accept and love unconditionally.

27:34And I don't know, man. Things just keep coming up. I keep hearing things, and it kind of just hurts. And I know I probably do it to myself, but I'm just asking for maybe a little bit of your advice, man. What do you think? You know, maybe what can I do to, to just get outside of myself, you know, to stop putting myself in the center of the universe, you know, and just love. Dude, that's a great question, man. Wow. What can I do to just love, bro? Man, if every, if we, if that was our national anthem, man, I bet we would all be in a different place or, or especially our international anthem as well. Um, yeah, I think, you know, there's some things like it's easy for me to say, right? Like I, I've made some mistakes in this realm, man. I was jealous, you know, I've kind of created unrealistic expectations for people that they could never live up to, you know? And I, and I, and I would hold like old stuff against girlfriends. Yeah, I've done that. Like stuff they can't even like, you know, how can 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 and I know that they can't change it, then it really says something about me, you know?

28:59And I need to make a choice. Do I either want to – 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 a past partners or this or that, what are they going to think? I was always like, what would other people think of this girl I'm dating? What would other people think of her? Man, I lost some good opportunities because of that. Now, instead of what would I think? What do I think? And maybe she need, bro, maybe, what if it's like, hey, I'm going to be the person, so you don't have to, like, I wonder, does she even, did she even want to, like, live in someone, like, if she it's like, hey, I'm going to be the person so you don't have to, like, I wonder, did she even want to, like, live in someone? Like, if she was, like, out and about or if it's a girl and a guy was out and about, like, maybe they didn't even really want to be living that way. And maybe now you're like this thing, you're this person, you're finally this person that's going to be like, I'm going to make sure they don't like I'm going to be there for them no matter what. So they don't have to they they don't ever have to like put themselves out there like that again. They're going to be fulfilled. Right. They're going to know that I'm here for them.

30:16You 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 passing at you. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to make sure that you have somebody that's going to be right there. You know, I'm going to make sure you don't ever have to live that way again. If you don't want to, that you don't have to operate in these certain circles, if you don't want to, you know, I'm going to make sure you don't ever have to live that way again. If you don't want to, that you don't have to operate in these certain circles. If you don't want to, you know, I don't know. That's tough, dude. I was, yeah, I wasn't good at it, man. I would just be like, cause it gave me something always this little, like this little extra card of like, Oh, why I can be upset. Right? It gave me a chance to have one foot out of the relationship. That's the truth. That's the truth, bro. But imagine if you could be like, I'm going to be the person. This girl doesn't ever have to worry again. They don't ever have to worry if they're going worry if somebody's going to be there for them. They don't ever have to give themselves away to an environment they're not sure about. You know what I'm saying?

31:32I'm going to be this man that they've been needing. I don't know, man. I'm not preaching that. I'm just thinking out loud. What if the calendar did that to us, right, what if the calendar, and I don't know who owns the calendar or whatever, probably Bezos or Lutnick or whatever, but what if the calendar, like you'd had a day years ago that wasn't good, right, or you'd had a week years ago that wasn't even that good, right? And what if the calendar just suddenly like made you relive it? Like life's going a certain way and now the calendar is like, oh, I'm throwing in 2011 at you. It was a Wednesday. Remember that? Bam. And you're like, what the fuck? This was so long. I got to do this So that's kind of like Kind of what I was doing when I was acting like that I was like what about this old thing This old day this old relationship You know why don't we live that shit again Why don't we go through that shit again Cause I didn't want I really didn't want there to be enough. I wanted a reason that this wasn't going to work.

32:48That'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 things along. Let me keep bringing these old hurdles. 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, what if we could all be brave enough, you know, to love the person that we love like we know they should be loved, right? I think that's what I mean, bro. What if we could all be brave enough to do that? But praise God, bro. Let's get another one, 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. Love your show uh i was just wondering if you've got any advice

34:10for a man who never had a father and now he's trying to raise three boys uh the youngest one's one and i named them after you i I love everything you do. I just, I don't know. I want to be the father that I never had. But sometimes it aches hard, man. You can probably hear him in the background. But 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's me. Bro, it's a thoughtful call to think about this, especially around Father's Day, just to think. Like, you know, I think what I would do, I would write down the stuff maybe that you feel like you didn't get. And then you'll kind of have your answers, I think. For me, I think some of it would have just been direction. It would have been like maybe if my father would have put his hand on the back of my neck more. That's like a very fatherly son or parental type of thing, the back of the neck.

35:33And not even – not looking at your children with judgment. I was looked at with judgment a lot, mostly judgment. In fact, probably 250 percent 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 going to do of myself. And it's all I'm going to do probably of others, especially if it's like an intimate, if there's like intimacy or just communication. So yeah, that's what I did. And it's a survival skill that can help you a lot because you're judging things. You get really good at judging this, judging 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

36:52of this, I'm not a scientist, you know, but yeah, so, but blessings to you, bro. Tell Othio 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. 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. What you, you know, caught a little Wisconsin there, boy. You know, or Illinoisinois maybe onward do uh the other day i walked into a gas station and there was a man who clearly had down syndrome um he didn't look the oldest oh yeah the ops and he was trying to buy some beer and i kind of read the situation and knew what was going on. But the clerk actually, he could tell he didn't know what to do. And he, you know, he kind of looked at it. He actually turned to me like, sir, what do you think of this? And I don't know if I should feel bad. But I told him it looked good. And he sold the clearly underage man with Down syndrome alcohol. And I'm just wondering if I did the right thing, what you do in that situation.

38:08Thanks for your deal. Gang gang. Yeah, bro, 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'd come and just give him and just let him just drink it out of your hands, brother. Like, you got to support people. You know, people with Down syndrome love to drink beer because I think it has sugar in the – a lot of it's sugar-based. Why do Down syndrome people love beer oh it just shows a picture of Ireland so County Cork specifically but dude it's like I think I don't I believe look if somebody has down syndrome 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 got to let people cook if they have it. And, yeah, dude, when I was growing up, we would get a, we had a guy who had, I don't

39:25know 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 in the windows in there. So, you know what I'm saying? We never got our money back, though. But the shit I'm talking about is like, you don't know what's popping, bro. You don't know what's popping. So I don't think we should hold somebody back from having a good time. I do think the underage thing. But if somebody has Down syndrome bro I say let them cook You know what I'm saying I say let them cook bro But yeah I mean should you feel bad about it I don't know I mean as long as y'all aren't making fun of the guy Or doing something like that As long as y'all aren't you know Plus people want to feel included, buying beer is 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,

40:43you know, he probably, he might not even have down syndrome. He might just live too close to a data center, bro. You know what I'm saying? He might be all hopped up on data and shit. You know, little Ricky's on that data. So let's take another call here. Speaking of data centers, actually. Hi, my name is Amy Tompkins. What I would love is if Theo Vaughn could talk about or even mention the fact that a Georgia company is building an AI data center right next to the Nashville Zoo and right next to an elementary school. So a 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 earth, everything that we have. I mean, these animals are already in a zoo. Okay. And now they're going to come in and do this to it. So it's like, I'm just trying to do whatever I can to bring attention to this. Amen. Thank you for calling. I agree, bro. Now the thing is, they got data everywhere. I'll say this, dude, on behalf of everybody that's human. And has a heart.

41:59Fuck AI, bro. Fuck AI. I don't have any friends actual that are, that are ever like, Hey, AI, what do you, how's AI? You know what I'm saying? Nobody's doing that shit. We're already fine. We can already order our food fast enough. We can already watch a movie if we want on our phone. Like we don't need anything else. I don't know who else needs more shit. I don't want any data, brother. He got too much data. Now what happens? The kid, you know, the kid's playing at school or whatever, and he falls in a, 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, little Ricky's got a bunch of data stuck in his leg or something. You know, he's got a bunch of fucking maps of like from the 1300s or whatever. Or he's got a bunch of Epstein files just stuck in his spinal column or something because of the, you know, the data. He's just got email stuck in his scanner or whatever.

43:14You 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 going to happen? You know, you fall down and you get a bunch of loose data flies out of the factory or something now. And your kid's got, you know, he's got five episodes of Dutton Ranch or whatever stuck in his neck or something. It's gotten crazy. We don't want it. Nobody wants the shit. And so here's what I think. I really believe this. I think I really believe it. I don't know, but I believed it yesterday. I believe that some people know how to live forever. They've cracked the code. And so suddenly they have to put the rest of us, they have to lock us down. They have to. Because if everybody finds out about it, then everybody's going to be able to do it, right? There's got to be some people have to take, like, have to separate themselves. And I think this is how they're doing it. They're creating these data centers. It's all just going to, it's all, I think, going to be, I believe, this is my hypothesis, theory, that they're going to all, it's all going to be locked in

44:33with 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 going to become, it won't ever really, but it's going to try to become like our new God. Right? going to try to become like our new God, right? Because I think people go to God for their feelings, for their, for help, for, uh, hope, right? They, they lay their, their, uh, their faults at the feet of Jesus for, for, for hope. Right. And it's all good. You're going to have to like appease somehow you're gonna 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 we all have this stuff that, you know, there's millions of episodes of different movies and all it is in the cloud.

45:51What do they need? They're asking for a lot of suddenly they need. That's a lot of space to just need data everywhere. So, yeah, it's unbelievable, bro. It's unbelievable. I could talk more about it I would love to know more people's thoughts about it But I don't give a fuck about it I don't see what it's going to do for us I don't understand to be human I think we've let a lot of tarantulas That aren't human start to take over society And 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, bro. The devil is alive and the devil is a liar, bro. Anyway, I'm not trying to preach on that. 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 it in our face. Like, you know what I'm saying? Because a lot of that is showing control They're putting it by a school or whatever Some kid 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 f***ing data or whatever Now he's got a concussion And he He's just stuck Singing Spotify lyrics, you know, just a bunch of data.

47:08He'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 like, you know, I don't know, bro. I don't know what's going to happen, man. And some girl today, she said, when do we stand up? When do we... It's a good question. I don't know. There must be something attractive in us just watching our demise. I don't know. I don't know if that makes any sense. Oh, I do want to get the president of Mexico on here, Ms. Claudia Scheinbaum. I will come to Mexico City. I want to come down there. So I would love, yeah, I would love to get the president of Mexico on just to learn. I want to learn, like, about, like, the Mexican American relationship from the, from a Mexican point of view, from a leader, their 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, how do our laws, like the laws that we make here,

48:25how does that affect things that happen in Mexico? What are like the truths about cartel stuff in Mexico? I would love to know about 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 learn about it. I probably could, but it would be nice to learn in person. So that is something I would like to – I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to learn in person. Um, so that is, um, something I would like to, I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to me. Amen. Um, what else? Oh yeah. Eight bro. Let's talk about Atlanta. Atlanta has got the most flock cameras, bro. Um, yeah. Speaking of, uh, speaking of, uh, also just going back real quick to the data center, the company behind the Nashville Zoo data center, the one that's near there, allegedly is DC Blocks. So let me look at them. Who owns DC Blocks? Primarily owned by Post Road Group and bain capital credits owned by alternative investment jonathan levine john wright um firm wide strategic direction is steered by managing partners david gross and chairman such as steve pagliuca and Josh Bekenstein. Bekenstein.

49:46This is all AI overview. This is from Google AI. Atlanta-based DC Blocks proposed building a 24-acre, two-building data center campus at 648 Grassmere Park. That's unbelievable, dude. I go drive over there all the time. I go to a meeting not far from there. Unbelievable. The National metropolitan council passed an initial temporary moratorium that seeks to read strict, larger scale data centers from being built within a half mile of homes. Um, bro, the thing is that most of the, most of the, uh, uh, flock cameras. Now I saw one the other day, just saw one the other day. Just saw one the other day over there by the donut shop, bro. I was giving me a couple of 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 seven, 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 of donuts, bro. And on the way out I saw a flock Came out, sit in my car Eating Donuts 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

51:02And operator of security hardware and software Particularly automated license plate recognition, video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems, bro. Dude, I saw a video the other day. It was like the block versus flock, bro. And it was a lot of gangsters and bangers out there in the streets And what they were thinking of flock cameras, man. Because that's really where it's going to, you know. Because a lot of like gangs, they own certain territory. But now these flock cameras are coming in saying they own it. So that's, you know what I'm saying? That's the battle we're going to see soon, bro. Flock versus the block, bro. So, you know what I'm saying? Because otherwise, they're going to have surveillance on what? All of these bangers, bro. So, you know what I'm saying? Because otherwise, they're going to have surveillance on what, all of these bangers, bro? I'm curious, bro. Ain't no blood, ain't no crippling because of flock? Dang, bro. It's going to be interesting, man. Let's take another call. We got a lot of calls that have come in. Before we do that, here is what you can do as a citizen to oppose the Nashville Zoo data center. So you can sign the petition on change.org titled Nashville Zoo says no to proposed data center. Okay, great. And we'll put the link to that in here. We'll put

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54:55I am doing work on the new Titan Stadium right now, so I just want your thoughts on what do you think about them building this new stadium, and what do you think about the old one not going to be there no more? Anyway, I'd 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 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. The more you could just pull right up, you were right there. The new, when 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? 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.

56:13But then I don't 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 like, you know, in my heart. My heart's in, 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. Stay150, 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 bow both. All right. One last call, man. Hey, Theo. This is Nate calling you. Yeah, I'm just feeling really grateful this morning. Hey, man, brother. Thanks for the call. Nate, onward. Five years ago today, I woke up hungover for the last time. And, man, I'm just a better man than I ever imagined I could be. Yeah, I've just learned to live in the moment, be present, be right here,

57:30deal with my shit, work through my problems, and I feel free. Sitting here today and I'm just feeling free, man. I'm feeling really, really free. I wonder if we just call and wish him happy five years, you think? That'd be great. Yes, you've reached Nate. Give me a message and I will give you a call. What's up, Nate? It's Theo from the podcast. You hit the hotline the other day. I just wanted to call and wish you a happy five years, man. Thanks for just sharing with us, you know, just the positive energy, the possibility, you know, like just the promises that you said that they talk about in the program that, like, you know, that the old stuff will fall away, that you will. Hey, what's up, man? Hey. What's up, bro? This is Theo. Is this Nate? Yeah, this is Nate. What's up, bro? I heard your voicemail on the hotline. I just wanted to call and wish you happy five years, dude. We're on the podcast right now, but I can, I can keep it off either way, but I just wanted to call and wish you happy five years, dude. We're, 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 five years, bro. Oh no,

58:49that's cool, man. Keep it on. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks a bunch, man. That's a big deal for me. I'm real happy. I'm actually out walking on a date with my wife right now. And let's go. Y'all take walks, huh? Well, you bet. Yeah. I like walks, bro. Yeah, we went out for some supper. Now we're out on a walk. We got five kids. All five kids are at home because my oldest is 16 and can hang out and watch them. Yeah, life's good, brother. Bro, supper and a walk. Y'all must be rich, huh? We ain't rich, but we try to get out and get out and get no yeah we got to get out and keep knowing each other hey dude that's a big yeah that's a great point bro dude i love taking walks i invited a girl on a walk not even too long ago yeah yeah she kind of bailed the day off but that's life bro what you gonna do you know sometimes you just gotta fight you gotta keep You gotta keep finding somebody That wants to walk, bro That's right Someday you'll find the one That'll keep walking with you forever I got that one, so Amen, bro Amen to that, dude Yeah We don't wanna bug you Or hold you up, man But I just wanna say Thank you, bro It was nice of you to call And share that Just that milestone Just that fact That it can happen for people and uh and just

1:00:06sharing 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 thirties. And, um, I just kind of figured it's just like, I'm just going to keep drinking. And then one morning for me is 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 the, once you went to meetings of, did you believe that it would be done or did you, I mean, it's, 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 and you get 90 days. It's like, man, I'm never going to have a year. And then all of a sudden you blink your eyes and it's five years and you don't even think about the, you don't even think about what you're, at least for me, I don't think about what I'm addicted to anymore. It's just like, I'm just, like I said, I'm just sucking life through the tailpipe. You know, it's just like, I'm living 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.

1:01:35So, um, did 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 congratulations, bro. Yeah, thanks, Theo. I appreciate it. And I appreciate you. Thanks for sharing your life with everybody. And, you know, the honest stuff. Because that's where people grow when we're honest with each other and we just kind of have some vulnerability. So I appreciate that about you. Yeah. Thanks, man. Sometimes I get scared to share that stuff. I feel like it's like, I don't know. I feel different ways about it sometimes, but I don't know how else to be sometimes, you know, that's the weird thing. Yeah. You got to be you. And I think that's a beautiful part of you. So don't, don't ever let that go, man. Well, thanks, bro. I appreciate that. Yeah, bro. One day at a time, man. That's it, right? Yeah, one day at a time. Amen, bro. Enjoy your walk, dude. Congratulations, bro. And talk to you soon. Yeah, thanks, brother. All right, cheers, bro. Yeah, bye. Dang, bro. That's awesome, bro. Out on a walk with his wife. Hopeful. I mean, it sounded hopeful. You know, possible.

1:02:52Gets home, has some kids over there. Things can be okay. Nothing's perfect, but things can be okay, right? So, anyway, I don't know what we're doing, but we're going to keep trying to do it. And that's about all I got today, man. I got to run. I got to meet my friend over there, get a little snack or something over there, and look at my friend has a new – they're selling – my friend's selling a picnic table over there, so I'm going to go put a bid in on it. What else? That's about it. So you guys be good to yourselves, man. Thank you for paying attention. I had fun, bro. I think I've been scared sometimes of doing solos, but I had fun today, and I hope we can do this again sooner. And, yeah, just thank you guys. The hotline is always 985-664-9503. Houston, thank you for your patience today. Thank you for rolling with the punches of life, serving us a little grease with the technical problems. Hey, bro, you want to say it's greasy? That's how it is, bro. You think it's going to be smooth and it is, bro. It's smooth, bro, but it's greasy. Praise God, bro. It's smooth, bro, but it's greasy. Praise God, bro.

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