#664 - Crooners Welcome

Theo is back with a solo episode to talk about unique rodeo names, the time he tried to impress a barista, and when things get greasy. He also responds to some of your voicemails. Busboys streaming now at https://www.busboysmovie.com Watch on Prime Video ➡️ https://amazon.com/dp/B0GYQGKX1H Watch on YouTube TV ➡️ https://bit.ly/4gwoy1p Watch on Apple TV ➡️ https://bit.ly/4eCINIe Nashville data center petition: https://www.change.org/p/nashville-zoo-says-no-to-proposed-data-center ------------------------------------------------- Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Perplexity AI: Ask anything at https://pplx.ai/theo Mountain Dew: Look for American Dew limited-time packaging or find it in stores near you at http://mountaindew.com Sonic: The $7 Big Deal Meal includes a SONIC Cheeseburger®, Small Premium Chicken Bites, a Medium Drink, and your choice of Medium Tots or Fries for just $7! https://www.sonicdrivein.com/menu/categories/limited-time/value/7-big-deal-meal/ Minions and Monsters: Go see Minions & Monsters July 1st. Blue Chew: Discover your options at http://BlueChew.com! Buy two months and get the third for FREE with promo code THEO. Watch on Spotify. Spotify subscribers get fewer ads on our episodes. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn Bishop Gunn - Shine ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: [email protected] Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Mail stuff to: PO BOX 40137, Nashville TN 37204 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend X: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Andrew https://www.instagram.com/bleachmediaofficial/ Producer: Halston https://www.instagram.com/halstonrays/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:30Theo Von?

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• 1:16Theo Von?

  It's greasy.

• 1:19Theo Von?

  But you know it's greasy. Dude, I was at, um... Where was that? Some little area or something the other day in like a food area. And they had a fella, and he was selling food, you know? And Mexican food. And he's like, he puts it on my plate, and it's like, it was really like, it had like a lot of grease or something like... I think it was called Al Pastor, or whatever. And it was a new type of meat.

• 1:50Theo Von?

  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 like at a 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...

• 2:15Theo Von?

  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. Uh, like group reading or something. You know, my family and stuff, sometimes we'd go after church and we'd all hold hands and read the menu together. And, uh, people would yell f***s or whatever at us, but that doesn't matter. Anyway, what am I talking about? Oh, so I was saying, dude, so the guy, he, I'll order the food, the al pastor. Cause I'm thinking, oh, the pastor, right? This, you know, 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, it's a religious thing, you know, I'm going to order, uh, al pastor or whatever.

• 3:00Theo Von?

  Uh, but it's al pastor. It's Spanish, right? And in Spanish, let me see what it means here. Pastor. Uh, making, popular making dish, uh, making dish, marinated pork and shaved off. It says also shaved off. Vertical split shaved off. So this, this is something that's, you know, it's shaved off. But anyway, the guy puts it on the plate and he's like, oh, it's, it's greasy, you know? And it had like a lot of grease in it. He's like, man, it's really greasy. And he's looking at me like,

• 3:43Theo Von?

  like I'm supposed to do something like, I just bought it from you. He's, he's acting like, like I made it gr- like greasy or something. I didn't make it greasy. You served it to me. He's like, man, it's really greasy, huh? It's greasy? I'm like, yeah, it's greasy, bro. It's greasy for sure, but like, I didn't want it like that. And then I went and ate it. I'm sitting there eating it and, uh, and he looks over at me from behind the counter like, man, it's greasy, huh? And I'm like, yeah. I mean, you made, you made it. You knew it was greasy when you give it to me. But it's crazy. That's like, say you buy a car from me.

• 4:27Theo Von?

  And then before you come get it, I take all the windows out of it and shit. And I'm like, man, it's, uh, it's windy in here, huh? Like, yeah, like you took the windows out, right? Like if, yeah, um, yeah, it is windy. It shouldn't be, but you know why it is, right? Like that was the thing. And bro, some people don't even know that windows,

• 4:53Theo Von?

  they put them to stop the wind.

• 4:57Theo Von?

  Right? People don't even realize, because people were sitting in a car, they used to not have any windows in there. So you'd be sitting in a car and people would just be in there just cold, just like, oh. And then they put the wind O's in. And it stopped the O's and it stopped the wind. So I think for me, it's just kinda like, how was my week been or whatever?

• 5:24Theo Von?

  It's, you know, it's been life, bro. It's been life, bro. And sometimes it's like,

• 5:31Theo Von?

  it's south pastor, bro. Sometimes it's greasy. You know, sometimes it's just, life's just a second-class meat, bro. It's a second-class meat. And that's okay, bro. You know, it's still a, uh, it's still an entree, bro. It's still an entree. I'm a second-class meat. I'm a third or fourth-class meat sometimes, bro. But I'm still an entree, baby. Gang, I'm upstairs. Amen, bro. Good to see you guys today. Good to be here. It's been a while, bro, since we checked in on a solo episode. Um, we had Stagecoach. I hadn't checked in with y'all since we'd had a Stagecoach adventure.

• 6:15Theo Von?

  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, um, but yeah, I got to go on stage out there with, uh, Miss Ella Langley. And boy, I tell you, 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,

• 7:00Theo Von?

  I don't know. It was just like...

• 7:04Theo Von?

  You know, it was just like the Lord was just tossing chunks of magic to people and I caught one. That's what I felt like. It was pretty, uh, yeah, it was pretty, it was, it was an amazing experience just to get out there. I'm not a singer, right? I'm not a singer by nature, right? If you ask me to sing, bro, it's greasy. You feel me, bro? That's how it is, bro. That's how it is with me. Um, but I am, I did realize this, bro. I'm a crooner, bro. I'm a crooner. Let me 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

• 7:50Theo Von?

  intimate voice, bro. That's me. Because the song, it would just like, a singer might be like, "And this is what it's all about." But the crooner, bro, he just comes in at the end, bro. He touches up, he's like the kind of guy that does the bassboards in your house, right? He don't do all the painting, baby, but he'll come in and just, "Ooh." You feel me? It's like, "It's a magical time at the county fair." And then the crooner comes in and he's like, "At the county fair." You feel me? That's him! So that's me, bro. You know what I'm saying? I'm not the singer, I'm not the painter, I'm not doing all of that.

• 8:34Theo Von?

  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, "Ooh." "Do you know..." You hear all those? That's called stair-step vocals. Uh, I'm trying to think of another good, popular song.

• 8:58Speaker 02

  "Fly me to the moon."

• 9:01Theo Von?

  Something from this jet, from the past 700 years.

• 9:04Speaker 02

  Oh, sorry.

• 9:05Theo Von?

  Sorry, no, no, no, crazy, but that's like something like...

• 9:11Theo Von?

  Um.

• 9:14Theo Von?

  Till you can't, like, like, here's one like, like, uh, 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.

• 9:32Theo Von?

  Till you can't. I push that octave further.

• 9:38Theo Von?

  Till you can't. So I don't do all the singing, I just come in and do that bassboard, baby. That's where they bring me in, bro. I'm that low lung monster, you feel me? I'm in 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 Atkins, baby. I'm that basement bad boy, you find me in the bottom of your lungs, baby girl. Um. So, yeah, so that's, so, so, so, so that's how I am, I'm a crooner.

• 10:11Theo Von?

  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.

• 10:23Theo Von?

  So they got me out there, bro, but thank you, Ms. Langley, for having, uh, having me out. And that was a special time out there. And, uh, I'm glad everybody got to, uh, see it. It's scary to do something for the first time in front of a lot of folks. That's what I'm realizing.

• 10:39Theo Von?

  So what else? Uh. Yeah, what else did we have? Um, thank you, guys, thank everybody for just paying attention, being a part of this podcast and this, uh, this experience. Um, love you guys, bro. Let me just say that. And, uh.

• 10:58Theo Von?

  Yeah, what's happening? Uh, what else was going on since we last did a solo? Oh, I, I got the, you know, people thought I was gonna delete myself. I don't know how you can share that or whatever, say, online. Um, that, well, you know, people were saying that was going around. And that's a crazy thing to have going around, bro. Because, you know, because then when you see people, they think you a ghost and shit. You know, some black folks was like, oh, you on your ghost shit now, unca? Aight, ghost un. And I'm like, damn, ghost un, bro, chill, bro, chill. Bruh.

• 11:40Theo Von?

  Yeah, that was crazy dude cuz 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, um, is everything okay? You know, and then some of the texts from other people started escalating. Like, uh, damn, remember when you was here, bruh? Dang, it wasn't so long ago, cuh? And they'll put a picture of us. And they make it black and white, bruh. 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, bruh. And then they throw a stud out there, bruh. You know, I wish I haven't had a phone to call you, uh. Just some of the texts you get, bruh, it's like, dude, with everything that's happening, can I borrow your truck? And I'm like,

• 12:26Theo Von?

  what do you mean with everything that's happening, bro? And then they would put like a coffin and then a truck emoji.

• 12:34Theo Von?

  I'm like, wow. I'm like, yeah, you can, bro, but it don't have any windows, you feel me? It's, it's breezy, it's breezy in there. Oh, man, bruh, so, yeah, just grateful to God, bruh, that we continue to rock and we do it. You know, so that's what's going on, bruh. Um, what else? Uh, oh, I got to go to the rodeo, man. I've actually been to two rodeos since I last did a solo episode. I've been over there to Franklin Rodeo. And I've been over there to the Music City Rodeo. Both of them beautiful. And, you know, you see a lot of these, um, these rodeo babies, these, these, uh, cowboys and cowgirls that are out there.

• 13:19Theo Von?

  You know, and I mean, you know, they had, who, who did we see out there? We saw, um, Rocker Steiners out there, uh, Wakey Shala out there. And Wakey Shala, uh, he broke a limb out there, broke a limb. Lefty Holman, he was out there, Shorty Garrett. Shorty Garrett, and you think it's gonna be a brother and it ain't. Sam Peterson, man, I got to chat with him, just, you just get to be around these fellows, man. Cade Sonier, Sonier, Sonier, Cade Sonier, out of Louisiana, out of Karen Crower, me, bruh.

• 14:00Theo Von?

  They had another rider out there, 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 taking, he's front lines against the dark animal arts out there. But yeah, they got all, all the, all the riders, they're all, every name, they're almost injured, bro. The names that they have, man. The names that they have, they're almost, you can tell they're almost gonna be, maybe gonna be injured or something. It'd be, you know, they'll have Shorty, Lefty,

• 14:40Theo Von?

  uh, Broken, uh, Richardson, right? Pelvis, uh, Shatterford. You're like, Pelvis Shatterford, bruh? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Somebody get him a diaper, bruh. Get him a, an adult diaper, bruh. Lacerated, um, Arm Leggarden. That's, he's, he's riding a day. Wheelchair Montgomery, bruh. Crutches, uh, Johansson. He's over there. He's out of Utah. Yeah, they just, you know, that is just, everybody's on the cusp of getting injured out there. Cause these, uh, look, it's dangerous what these guys do and these girls. They're warriors. They're out there, they're warriors out there with animal, and I love it. I love it, dude. They let us get right on the back of, uh,

• 15:26Theo Von?

  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, uh, these are, yeah, this is some of them right here. Stetson, Rusty. Um, I think there was only two of them maybe that were there. But dude, they, they, boy, they some young bangers, bruh. They some young bangers, man. Some warriors. We gotta get a few of them on the podcast, uh, at some point. But just to get to see, we're right up on the chute and, and they were doing bareback horse, but also bronc. Can you, let me, let me look up what bronc is.

• 16:10Theo Von?

  Bronc riding. What is bronc riding?

• 16:16Theo Von?

  Bronc riding is a classic rodeo event where a cowboy attempts to ride a bucking bronc. No, a bucking horse. AKA a bronc for eight seconds while holding on to a single rein with one hand. Oh, that's like trying to give you your ex-wife a hug if you're over there at Applebee's or whatever. Say you're meeting up for you, you have a dual, you have a child that you co-parent and you're meeting up over there at Rips. Or Dawn's, you know, or Applebee's or something. And you try to hug your ex-wife or boo, that's the new rodeo right there. Hugging your ex-wife, bro.

• 16:56Theo Von?

  She ain't letting you stay on there for eight seconds. She ain't letting you stay on there for two seconds, bruh. Unless she get that check, you know what I'm saying? That was, that was my mother, but she'd make my dad sit in a car if he didn't have that money. You sitting and we going inside, you sit in a car. But there's nothing more altercative, there's nothing more altercative, bro, than when they haven't, somebody hadn't paid that alimony or whatever, child support. But anyway, yeah, that's bronc riding, a classic rodeo event right there. And my favorite part of rodeo, I'll say this is the barrel riders. It's barrel racing, I think. And Miranda Lambert does it. She does it as a hobby.

• 17:40Theo Von?

  If you're listening, I'll put some, I'll put some video on the episodes so you can see it. But man, them ladies. And when they hit that third barrel and they heading back, brother, 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 all out there. Um, praise God, baby. Uh, but yeah, I was right up on the chute, man. I was right up on the chute. And some of the animals, man, they just. Like dude, imagine the first person that ever saw a bull. Whoever saw a bull, he probably.

• 18:21Theo Von?

  He probably went right back to his friends and he said, hey, look, I saw this cow. And it's not real happy. I saw a cow. This cow is not real happy.

• 18:39Theo Von?

  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, he's 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?

• 19:08Theo Von?

  I'm like, who, 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. What I want to say, the history of the rodeo, then we'll get into some calls. We had some calls that came in.

• 19:54Theo Von?

  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.

• 20:16Theo Von?

  The term itself comes from the Spanish verb, rodear, meaning to encircle or round up. The transition from ranch work to competitive sport took place in the American West following the Civil War. During cattle drives and roundups, cowboys and vaqueros, vaqueros, began gathering informally to test their riding and roping skills.

• 20:43Theo Von?

  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 Vaquerry, who I went to school with growing up. I don't know if it's similar or close, I don't know, but he was a cowboy, I do remember that. I don't know if he rode or not, but uh, but he had it in his blood, brother, praise God, amen. But yeah, I would like to learn more about the rodeo. I need to get like a rodeo special, somebody knows the history of it, I need to search for that. 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 Australians.

• 21:27Theo Von?

  When you see the lineups at these uh, at these rodeos, a lot of guys from Utah, Wyoming, Alberta, different places over there. You ever think about how something got its start?

• 21:40Theo Von?

  Like Mountain Dew, for example. I always thought it just kind of appeared one day, you know? Just like a stork brought it from a beverage universe or something. And then somebody saw it just sitting in a cooler, just glistening, just glistening. But no, it's, it's actually, it's straight out of Tennessee, you know that? It's a real place, real people. It was two brothers working tirelessly to nail that citrus kick that we all know and love. It came from folks with grit and independence, doing things their own way, and somehow, they bottled that. That attitude's still in it today. You hear that? That's attitude.

• 22:24Theo Von?

  Still bold, still unmistakable, still do. It's an American original that's been tasting great since 48, 1948. Red, white, and dew, right there, done. Limited edition. It's a hometown story in a can. Next time you grab a Dew, just know it's more than, than just a drink. It's an American original. Mountain Dew, tasting great since 48. They got a new minion now. His name's Dick. And I know how that sounds, but that's the name. That's what they landed on. And honestly, I respect the confidence.

• 23:05Theo Von?

  You'd have to really believe in a guy to name him that and put him up on the big screen. He's got one eye. He's got one eye too, yeah? Which I feel like if you've only got one eye, you've earned whatever name you want. Nobody's gonna argue with him. What are you gonna do? Look him in the eyes? He's got the one. He already won. Anyway, he's in a movie. Him and his buddies tried to make a monster picture and the whole thing went sideways. And now there's real monsters loose in Hollywood. What happens next? You just have to get a ticket and see. The film's called Minions and Monsters out July 1st. If you like Woody, you'll love Dick. Go see Dick with your family.

• 23:48Theo Von?

  There's genuinely just, there's no good way to say that. I tried and and here we are. Tickets on sale now. Oh, when I first moved into Tennessee, I would go to this coffee place. And um, and I was like flirt, I was like flirt with the girl that worked there. But bruh, 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 foam on it? Cold foam, fur, whatever they put on it. I'd be like, yeah, I'll take, yeah, give me a little bit.

• 24:33Theo Von?

  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 act, like the stuff they did a fundraiser for boating accident. I bought that shit. I, I had so much coffee in my car. I had like the stuff from like Estonia, Zimbabwe, like the, all this shit, Middle East, you know, Madagascar or whatever. I had like coffee for kids or whatever. And they shouldn't even have, kids aren't even supposed to drink it. And I was, I had like two pounds of that in my car.

• 25:16Theo Von?

  Dude, if I even, I had so much coffee that I'd bought from this girl just to go talk to her. And at the end, like a, a, 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, but 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, there was so much coffee in my car. I remember going through a drive through one time and somebody's like, oh, are you selling coffee? And I was like, fuck no. What are you talking about? I'm just hitting on someone without some of the skills to do it.

• 26:00Theo Von?

  What do you mean you might 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.

• 26:14Theo Von?

  People would be like, dude, are you tired or whatever? I'm like, yeah, I am. I'm just gonna go, I'd 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.

• 26:28Theo Von?

  Vandy, we freaking turnt.

• 26:31Theo Von?

  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 9856649503. I got this one right here.

• 26:48Speaker 03

  Hey, Theo. It's, uh, Michael from Utah.

• 26:53Theo Von?

  What's up, Big Mike? Hey, Mike. Onward?

• 26:57Speaker 03

  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 for the whole time we've been together, I've been, uh, I've just been overtaken by all this jealousy, man, of kinda 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, you know, and I've struggled to not, hold it against her, you know, I've struggled to forgive and forget and, and just accept and love unconditionally, you know? And,

• 27:36Speaker 03

  I don't know, man, things, things just keep coming up, I keep hearing things and, kinda 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,

• 27:48Speaker 03

  to just get outside of myself, you know, to stop, stop putting myself in the center of the universe, you know? And just love.

• 27:55Theo Von?

  Dude, that's a great question, man. Wow. What can I do to just love, bro?

• 28:02Theo Von?

  Man, if every, if we, if that was our national anthem?

• 28:07Theo Von?

  Man.

• 28:10Theo Von?

  I bet we would all be in a different place, or, or especially our international anthem as well. Um.

• 28:18Theo Von?

  Yeah, I think, you know, there's some things, like, it's easy for me to say, right? Like, I ha- I've made some mistakes in this realm, man. I, I was jealous. You know, I kinda created unrealistic expectations for people that they could never live up to.

• 28:34Theo Von?

  You know? And, 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 could, people don't, can't do time travel, they can't go change something. And so if I'm holding something like that against somebody, it's, and I, and I know that they can't change it,

• 28:55Theo Von?

  then that's, it really says something about me, you know? And I need to make a choice. Do I either wanna, can I not, can I really not live with it? Or am I just afraid of, like, what other people will think?

• 29:10Theo Von?

  You know, if I date somebody that's had, like, different, like, uh, past ris- partners or this or that, what are they gonna think? I was always like, what, what, what would other people think of this,

• 29:22Theo Von?

  uh, girl I'm dating? What would other people think of her? Man. I ca- I, I, I lost some good opportunities because of that.

• 29:31Theo Von?

  Now, instead of what would I think?

• 29:34Theo Von?

  What do I think?

• 29:38Theo Von?

  And maybe she need, bro, maybe, what if it's like, hey, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be the person, so you don't have to, like, I wonder, does she even, did she even wanna like, live in some, 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 wanna be living that way.

• 29:56Theo Von?

  And maybe now, you're like this thing, you're this person, you're finally this person that's gonna be like, I'm gonna make sure they don't have, like, I'm gonna be there for them no matter what, so they don't have, they, they don't ever have to like, put themselves out there like that again. They're gonna be fulfilled, right?

• 30:14Theo Von?

  They're gonna know that I'm here for them. You know, I don't know, maybe, I don't know, I don't know if that's crazy to say. I can't, I haven't had success doing that, but I'm just thinking, man, what if, what if we were like,

• 30:27Theo Von?

  what if we were the kinda boyfriends that it was like, oh, I'm not gonna be like that?

• 30:32Theo Von?

  I'm not gonna hold your pass against you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure that you have somebody that's gonna be right there. You know? I'm gonna make sure you don't ever have to live that way again if you don't want to, that you don't have to operate in these certain circles if you don't want to. You know?

• 30:51Theo Von?

  I don't know, that's tough, dude. I was, yeah, I wasn't good at it, man. I would just be, like...

• 30:59Theo Von?

  Cause it gave me something, always this little like, this little extra card of like, oh, why I can be upset, right?

• 31:08Theo Von?

  It gave me a chance to have one foot out of the relationship. That's the truth.

• 31:13Theo Von?

  That's the truth, bro.

• 31:17Theo Von?

  But imagine if you could be like, I'm gonna be the person, this girl doesn't ever have to worry again. They don't ever have to worry if they're gonna have somebody that's gonna be there for them. They don't ever have to, like, give themselves away to an environment they're not sure about. They don't, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be this man that they been needing.

• 31:40Theo Von?

  So, I don't know, man. I'm not preaching it, I'm just thinking out loud.

• 31:46Theo Von?

  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 Lutnik or whatever. But what if the calendar? Like you'd had a day years ago that wasn't good, right? Or you had a week years ago that wasn't even that good, right?

• 32:07Theo Von?

  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 gotta do this?

• 32:26Theo Von?

  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?

• 32:37Theo Von?

  Why don't we go through that shit again?

• 32:42Theo Von?

  Cause I didn't want, I really didn't want there to be enough, I wanted a reason that this wasn't gonna work. That's what I wanted. But it's not really what I wanted. What I really wanted was I wanted it to work. But I was afraid to

• 32:57Theo Von?

  commit to it.

• 33:00Theo Von?

  I was afraid to commit to it.

• 33:04Theo Von?

  So let me keep bringing these old old things along. Let me keep bringing these old hurdles. And well, but one day somebody will get tired of jumping over those with you, bruh. 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.

• 33:24Theo Von?

  So anyway, I don't know if that helps or not, bruh. But man, yeah, what if we could all be brave enough?

• 33:31Theo Von?

  You know, to love the person that we, that we love?

• 33:37Theo Von?

  Like we know they should be loved, right?

• 33:41Theo Von?

  I think that's what I mean, bro. What if we could all be brave enough to do that?

• 33:46Theo Von?

  But praise God, bro. Let's get another one, man. What we got here?

• 33:51Speaker 04

  Hey Theo, this is Jared from Indiana.

• 33:55Theo Von?

  What's up Jared and congratulations on your new Indiana Bears onward.

• 34:01Speaker 04

  Um, love your show. Um, I was just wondering if you've got any advice for a man who never had a father? 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.

• 34:31Speaker 04

  But sometimes it a, a, it gets hard, man. Uh, I could probably hear him in the background, but uh, if you got any advice for me, love you, man.

• 34:42Theo Von?

  Oh yeah, that loud one, that must be me. That must be me, bro. The loud one, the chatty one back there. The one back there selling dime bags or whatever, bro. Selling QP, bro. You know what I'm saying? Pushing weight, that was, that's me. Um, but it's a, it's a thoughtful call to think about this, especially around Father's Day, just to think like, you know, I think what I would do, I would write down the stuff maybe that you feel like you didn't get. And then you'll kind of have your answers, I think. Um, for me, I think some of it would have just been direction. It would have been like, uh, maybe if my father would have put his hand on the back of my neck more, that's like a very, um,

• 35:24Theo Von?

  fatherly son or parental type of thing, the back of the neck. Uh, and not even, not looking at your children with judgment. You know, I was, I was looked at with judgment a lot. Mostly judgment. In fact, probably 250% judgment. So that's how I learned that the only way to operate in the world was judgment. That was like the currency. You know, it was like, oh, I'm going to judge you. That's kind of how I showed affection was through, I'm gonna judge you less.

• 36:00Theo Von?

  If that sounds, I mean, I don't know if that sounds real to anybody or not. You think that's real, Halston?

• 36:04Speaker 02

  That's actually really interesting.

• 36:07Theo Von?

  But yeah.

• 36:10Speaker 02

  Why do you think that is?

• 36:12Theo Von?

  Oh, I think it makes perfect sense because if somebody judges, if all I know, if all I look, if only the only look I see in a parent's eyes is judgment. Then that's all I'm gonna do of myself and it's all I'm gonna do probably of others, especially if it's like an intimate, if there's like intimacy or just communication.

• 36:30Theo Von?

  So, yeah, that's what I did. And it's a survival skill that can help you a lot because you're judging things. You get really good. At judging this, judging that. You know what I'm saying? You get really good. But it'll keep you alone too. It can anyway. So, but blessings to you, bro. Happy Father's Day to you. And I'm just thinking out loud too, bro. I don't know any of this. I'm not a scientist.

• 36:56Theo Von?

  You know? But, uh, but yeah. So, but blessings to you, bro. Tell little Theo I said, "What's up, bro?" Type shit. BLM. I'll see him in the streets, boy, gang.

• 37:09Theo Von?

  Let me see what else we got here.

• 37:12Speaker 04

  Hey, Theo. It's Mason. I just had a-

• 37:14Theo Von?

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

• 37:16Speaker 04

  Question for you. You know, I kinda just wanted to see what you thought about it and what you-

• 37:21Theo Von?

  You know, caught a little Wisconsin there, boy. You know? Or Illinois, maybe onward.

• 37:28Speaker 04

  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.

• 37:37Theo Von?

  Oh, yeah, the ops.

• 37:39Speaker 04

  And he was trying to buy some beer and I kinda read the situation and knew what was going on. Uh, but the clerk actually, he could tell he didn't know what to do. And he, you know, he kinda looked at it. He actually turned to me like, "Sir, what do you think of this?" And, and I, I don't know if I should feel bad.

• 37:58Speaker 04

  But I told him it looked good and he sold the clearly underage man with Down syndrome alcohol. And I'm just wondering if I did the right thing, what you do in that situation. Uh, thanks, Theo. Gang, gang.

• 38:09Theo Von?

  Yeah, bro, of cour- 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 give him a beer. You 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 gotta support people.

• 38:34Theo Von?

  You know, people with Down Syndrome love to drink beer because I think it has sugar in the, it's a lot of it's sugar based. Why do Down Syndrome people love beer?

• 38:52Theo Von?

  Oh, it just shows a picture of Ireland.

• 38:55Theo Von?

  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 gotta let them drink, bro.

• 39:09Theo Von?

  That's the type of place I'm from. You know, I almost had it. I was on the ropes. And I think you gotta let people cook if they have it. And yeah, dude, when I was growing up, we would get a, we had a guy who had, I don't know what he had. He had something, something pretty strong and we'd send him, we'd give him fifty, sixty dollars, go in there, bro. One time, bro, this kid Damien, dude. And bro, one time we give him the money to go in there and he fucking went out the back, dude. He went out the back and ran up there to a senior center and broke down a bunch of the wall art and the windows in there. So, you know what I'm saying? We never got our money back though, but the shit I'm talking

• 39:51Theo Von?

  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.

• 40:09Theo Von?

  You know what I'm saying? I say let them cook, bro. But yeah, I mean, should you feel bad about it? I don't know. I mean, as long as y'all aren't making fun of the guy or doing something like that, as long as y'all aren't, you know, uh, plus people want to feel included. Buying beer is like kind of like a ritual when you're underage. I'm not saying, you know, I'm not sitting here condoning it. Don't do it. I gotta say that for legal reason, but people do it.

• 40:36Theo Von?

  You know, even Down Syndrome people do it apparently. So whatever, bro. You know, he probably, he might not even have Down Syndrome. He might just live too close to a data center, bro. You know what I'm saying? That motherfucker, he might be all hopped up on data and shit. You know, little Ricky's on that data. So, let's take another call here. Speaking of data centers, actually.

• 41:01Speaker 05

  Hi, my name is Amy Tompkins. What I would love is if Theo Von 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 it's 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 gonna 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.

• 41:46Theo Von?

  Amen. Thank you for calling. I agree, bro. Now the thing is, they got data everywhere. I'll say this, dude, on behalf of everybody that's human and has a heart, fuck AI, bro. Fuck AI. I don't have any friends, actual, that are ever like, "Hey, AI, how's AI?" You know what I'm saying? Nobody's doing that shit. We're already fine. We can already order our food fast enough. We can already watch a movie if we want on our phone. Like, we don't need anything else. I don't know who else needs more shit.

• 42:25Theo Von?

  I don't want any data, bro. They got too much data. Now what happens? The kid, you know, the kid's playing at school or whatever and he falls in a [bleep]. 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. Bit much. But it's like, you know, and 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,

• 43:10Theo Von?

  you know, the data? He's just got emails stuck in his skin or whatever? You know, it's just like, we don't want any data, bro. We don't want any, nobody wants a data center, dude. Nobody wants it.

• 43:22Theo Von?

  And the people that want them to me, brother, they seem kinda evil. It's like, what's gonna happen? You know, you you fall down and you get a bunch, you know, a bunch of loose data flies out of the factory or something now and your kid's got, you know, he's got five episodes of uh, of Dutton Ranch or whatever stuck in his neck or something. It's gotten crazy. We don't want it. Nobody wants the shit. And so here's what I think. I really believe this. I think I really believe it. I don't know, but I believed it yesterday. I believe that some people know how to live forever. They've cracked the code. And so suddenly, they have to put the rest of

• 44:04Theo Von?

  us, they have to lock us down. They have to. Because if everybody finds out about it,

• 44:14Theo Von?

  then everybody's gonna be able to do it, right? There's gotta be some people have to take, like, have to separate themselves. And I think this is how they're doing it. They're creating these data centers. It's all just gonna, it's all, I think, gonna be, I believe, this is my hypothesis, uh, theory, that they're gonna all, it's all gonna be locked in with, uh, these flock cameras. There's some company like this Palantir, one of these companies gonna be owning all of this information. They're gonna put it all in. It's all gonna be, we're all gonna be locked down. Everybody, you're not gonna be able to live or do anything that feels human.

• 44:48Theo Von?

  Right? There's gonna become this kinda score, this sort of like, social and even emotional sort of credit score. And then AI is gonna become, it won't, it won't ever really, but it's gonna try to become like our new God. Right? Because I think people go to God for their feelings, for their, for help, for, 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, you're gonna have to like,

• 45:20Theo Von?

  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?

• 45:34Theo Von?

  So that's why they need, because what, does anybody thought, what, what data do they, we already have like, we're sharing pictures, we're sharing phone, we all have video in the cloud, like, we all have this stuff. That, you know, there's millions of episodes of different movies and all of this in the cloud. What do they need? It's a, they're asking for a lot of, suddenly they need. That's a lot of space to just need data everywhere.

• 46:02Theo Von?

  So yeah, it's unbelievable, bro. It's unbelievable. I could talk more about it. I would love to know more people's thoughts about it, but I don't give a fuck about it. I don't see what it's gonna do for us. I don't understand to be human. I think we've let a lot of tarantulas that aren't humans start to take over society. And, uh, and we're seeing the repercussions of that. And some of us, we didn't let it happen.

• 46:26Theo Von?

  But I believe that, yeah, the devil is alive, bro. The devil is alive and the devil is a liar, bro.

• 46:35Theo Von?

  Anyway, I'm not trying to preach and 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? Cause a lot of that is so showing control. They're putting it by a school or whatever. Some kid, you know, he's on, he's like, he's on the swing set and he just hits his head like there's some data going through the air or whatever. And he hits his head on some [__] data or whatever. Now he's got a concussion.

• 47:02Theo Von?

  And he, you know, he just, he just stuck singing Spotify lyrics, you know, just a bunch of data. He's just sitting there, you know, reciting just Larry Fleet and the cast of those and Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen deep cuts is like, it just, it's, you know, I don't know, bro.

• 47:20Theo Von?

  I don't know what's gonna happen, man.

• 47:24Theo Von?

  And some girl today, she said, and when, when do we stand up? When do we? It's a good question.

• 47:32Theo Von?

  I don't know, there's some, there must be something attractive in us just watching.

• 47:40Theo Von?

  Our, like, we're like, I don't know. I don't know if that makes any sense.

• 47:46Theo Von?

  Oh, I do want to get the president of Mexico on here. Um, it's cloudy as shine bomb. Uh, I will come to Mexico City. I want to come down there. Um, so I would love, yeah, I would love to get the president of Mexico on. Um, just to learn, I want to learn like about, like, uh, the Mexican-American relationship from the, from a Mexican point of view. From a leader there point of view. Not, you know, I just want to learn more. I think it would be exciting. And, um, so this is my beacon for that. You know, I'm trying to speak what I would like.

• 48:19Theo Von?

  And, uh, yeah, I would love to know like how, how do our laws, like the laws that we make here, how does that affect things that happen in Mexico? What are like the truths about cartel stuff in Mexico? I would love to know about, um, like, what are some of like the big long-term goals of Mexico? Just things like that. It's interesting because I don't ever, I don't ever learn about it. I probably could, but it would be nice to learn in person. Um, so that is, um, something I would like to, I'd like to have that opportunity if you would grant it to me. Amen. Um, what else? Oh, yeah. Bro, let's talk about Atlanta. Atlanta's got the most flock cameras, bro. Um, yeah, the, uh, speaking of, speaking of, uh, also just going back real quick to the, um,

• 49:04Theo Von?

  data center, the company behind, uh, the Nashville Zoo Data Center, the one that's near there, allegedly is DC Blocks. So let me look at them. Who owns DC Blocks?

• 49:21Theo Von?

  Primarily owned by Post Road Group and Bain Capital Credit. Owned by Alternative Investment. Jonathan Levine.

• 49:31Theo Von?

  John Wright.

• 49:34Theo Von?

  Firm-wide strategic direction is steered by managing partners David Gross and chairman such as Steve Pagliuca and Josh Beckenstein, Beckenstein.

• 49:46Theo Von?

  This is all AI overview. This is from Google AI. Atlanta-based DC blocks propose 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.

• 50:05Theo Von?

  Unbelievable. The Nashville council, the Nashville Metropolitan Council passed an initial temporary moratorium that seeks to restrict larger-scale data centers from being built within a half-mile of homes.

• 50:18Theo Von?

  Bro, the thing is, the most of the flock cameras now, I 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 7, 11 minutes, bro. Waited till 8. Their mom came and picked them up, because I just didn't want to be in Paris, bro. And then I walked in there, got me a couple of donuts, bruh. And, uh, and on the way out, I saw a flock camera. I was sitting in my car eating donuts, seeing the flock.

• 50:51Theo Von?

  But Atlanta's got the most, bro.

• 50:55Theo Von?

  Let me see. Flock Group Incorporated, doing business as Flock Safety, is an American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition, video surveillance, and gunfire locator systems, bro. Dude, I saw a video the other day. It was like the block versus flock, bro. And it was a lot of gangsters and bangers out there in the streets. And, uh, and what they were thinking of flock cameras, man. Because that's really where it's gonna, you know. Because a lot of like gangs, they own certain territory. But now these flock cameras are coming in saying they own it. So that's, you know what I'm saying? That's the battle we gonna see soon, bro. Flock versus the block, bro.

• 51:42Theo Von?

  So you know what I'm saying? Cause otherwise they're gonna have surveillance on what? All of these bangers, bro? I'm curious, bro. Ain't no blood, ain't no Crippin' cuz of flock? Dang, bro. It's gonna be interesting, man. Um, let's take another call. We got a lot of calls that have come in.

• 52:01Speaker 02

  Before we do that, here's how you, what you can do as a citizen to oppose the Nashville Zoo data center. So you can sign the petition on change.org titled Nashville Zoo says no to proposed data center.

• 52:14Theo Von?

  Okay, great. And we'll put the link to that in here. We'll put it in here in the YouTube information.

• 52:20Speaker 02

  Cool.

• 52:22Theo Von?

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• 53:08Theo Von?

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• 53:49Theo Von?

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• 54:33Theo Von?

  Visit BlueChew.com for more details and important safety information. We thank BlueChew for sponsoring the pod and the bedroom. Let me just do one more call here.

• 54:43Speaker 06

  Hey Theo, this is Charles Holland, Chuck Holland.

• 54:47Theo Von?

  Hey Charles, hey Chuck.

• 54:49Speaker 06

  I'm a good old Orlando, Tennessee. I'm a certified wigger. I am doing work on the new Titan Stadium right now. So I just want your thoughts on uh, what do you think about them building this new stadium and what do you think about the old one not gonna be there no more? Anyway, I just like your thoughts on that.

• 55:11Theo Von?

  Amen, brother. Thanks for the call, dude. I think my thoughts are simple. I like the old stadium. I liked it. I'm kind of a romanticist. I like, you know, I like old schooler stuff, traditional stuff a little bit. I think it felt a little bit more like uh,

• 55:28Theo Von?

  the city felt a little bit more comfortable. The more you could just pull right up, you were right there. The new one, it just feels like it's taking us to a newer and bigger place. 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?

• 55:54Theo Von?

  It's black and white to me, just like, uh, bruh, you feel me, bruh? 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

• 56:11Theo Von?

  than it is a place, like a home, but then I, what do, I don't know, you know? I don't have a family right now, I don't have those other elements that give it that. So, those are just my thoughts, but that's how I feel. But at the same time, bless you, boys, for staying over there and building it. And I'm curious to see, yeah, this part of me is curious to see what it looks like. But yeah, I don't know. There's something that felt like a little bit more like a... I like that old F-150, bruh. That's like, you know, in my heart, my heart's, you know, is it probably like an 88 F-150, bruh? So, I like something that would match with that, I like that old stadium right there. But thank you, brother, praise God, stay safe, bruh. Type shit, BLM, bruh. And WLM, you know, you bow both.

• 56:55Theo Von?

  All right, one last call, man.

• 56:59Speaker 06

  Hey, Theo, uh, this is Nate calling, yeah.

• 57:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, I'm just feeling really grateful this morning.

• 57:06Theo Von?

  Hey, man, brother, thanks for the call, Nate, onward.

• 57:09Speaker 06

  Five years ago today, I woke up hungover for the last time.

• 57:14Speaker 06

  And, man, I'm much the better man than I ever, ever imagined I could be.

• 57:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, I've just like learned to live in the moment, be present, be right here, deal with my shit,

• 57:33Speaker 06

  work through my problems.

• 57:37Speaker 06

  And I feel free, sitting here today, and I'm just feeling free, man, I'm feeling really, really free.

• 57:43Theo Von?

  I wonder if we just call and wish him happy five years, you think?

• 57:45Speaker 02

  That'd be great.

• 57:50Speaker 06

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

• 57:59Theo Von?

  What's up Nate? Uh, it's Theo, uh, from the podcast, dude. You hit the hotline the other day. I just wanted to call and wish you a happy five years, man. Um, thanks for just sharing with us, you know, uh, just the positive energy, um, the possibility, you know? Like just the, uh, the promises that you said that they talk about in the program that like, you know, that, um, that the old stuff will fall away, that you will... Hey, what's up, man?

• 58:29Speaker 06

  Hey.

• 58:30Theo Von?

  What's up, bro? This is Theo. Is this Nate?

• 58:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, this is Nate.

• 58:34Theo Von?

  What's up, bro? I heard your, uh, voicemail on the hotline. I just wanted, we 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.

• 58:48Speaker 06

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

• 58:58Theo Von?

  Let's go. Y'all take walks, huh?

• 59:01Speaker 06

  Well, you bet.

• 59:01Theo Von?

  Yeah, I like walks, bro.

• 59:04Speaker 06

  Went out for some supper. Now we're out on a walk. Got the five, we got five kids. All five kids are at home because my oldest is 16 and can hang out and watch them and yeah, life's good, brother.

• 59:15Theo Von?

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

• 59:19Speaker 06

  Uh, we ain't rich, but we...

• 59:23Theo Von?

  I was just joking.

• 59:25Speaker 06

  Get, no, yeah. We gotta get out and keep knowing each other.

• 59:29Theo Von?

  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.

• 59:37Speaker 06

  Yeah?

• 59:38Theo Von?

  Yeah, she kind of bailed the day off, but that's life, bro. What you gonna do, you know? Sometimes you just gotta find, you gotta keep, you gotta, gotta keep finding somebody that wants to walk, bro.

• 59:49Speaker 06

  That you'll find the one that'll keep walking with you forever.

• 59:51Theo Von?

  Hey.

• 59:51Speaker 06

  That one, so.

• 59:52Theo Von?

  Amen, bro. Amen to that, dude.

• 59:54Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 59:55Theo Von?

  Well, um, we don't want to bug you or hold you up, man, but I just want to say thank you, bro. It was nice you to call and share that, uh, just that milestone. Um, just that fact that it can happen for people and, uh, and just sharing about some of the promises that can come true, man. Um, like.

• 1:00:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:00:11Theo Von?

  Did you believe it when you started that it could happen?

• 1:00:15Speaker 06

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

• 1:00:39Theo Von?

  But once you quit, that once you went to meetings of, did you believe that it would be done or did you?

• 1:00:46Speaker 06

  I mean, it's, it's, it was hard, right? I mean, it was really, really hard. It's like.

• 1:00:49Theo Von?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:50Speaker 06

  I, it, it seemed like, you know, you'd get thirty days and then you'd get sixty days and you'd get ninety days. It's like, man, I'm never gonna have a year. And then all of a sudden, you blink your eyes and it's 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.

• 1:01:32Theo Von?

  Amen.

• 1:01:33Speaker 06

  Becoming a better man every day. So, um, did I think it would? Yeah. No, I didn't, but here, here it is. And this is gonna keep going, so.

• 1:01:40Theo Von?

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

• 1:01:52Speaker 06

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

• 1:02:06Theo Von?

  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.

• 1:02:16Speaker 06

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

• 1:02:22Theo Von?

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

• 1:02:28Speaker 06

  Yeah, one day at a time.

• 1:02:29Theo Von?

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

• 1:02:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, thanks, brother.

• 1:02:36Theo Von?

  Alright, cheers, bud.

• 1:02:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, bye.

• 1:02:39Theo Von?

  Dang, bro. That's awesome, bro. Out on a walk with his wife. Hopeful. I mean, it sounded hopeful. You know, possible. Gets home, has some kids over there. Things can be okay. Nothing's perfect, but things can be okay, right? So, anyway, I don't know what we're doing, but we're gonna keep trying to do it. And, uh, that's, that's about all I got today, man. I gotta run. I gotta meet my friend over there, get a little snack or something over there. And look at, um, my friend has a new, uh, they're selling a, um,

• 1:03:19Theo Von?

  my friend's selling a picnic table over there, so I'm gonna go put a bid in on it. Uh, what else? That's about it. So, you guys be good to yourselves, man. Thank you for paying attention. Um, I had fun, bro. I, I, I think I've been scared sometimes of doing solos. Um, but I had fun today and I hope we can do this again sooner. And, um, yeah, just thank you guys. The hotline is always 985-664-9503. Uh, Houston, thank you for your patience today.

• 1:03:49Speaker 02

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

• 1:03:55Theo Von?

  Hey, bro, you wanna say, "It's greasy"? That's how it is, bro. You think it's gonna be smooth and it is, bro. It's smooth, bro, but it's greasy. Uh, praise God, bro. Be good to yourself. You deserve it, baby gang.