#581 - Big Guy

Theo is back with a solo episode to talk about Mother’s Day memories, the new American pope, and a wild situation he encountered at the masseuse. He also listens to some of your voicemails in response to a previous call-in about grief. ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: DoorDash: For a limited time, use code THEO50 to get 50% off, up to $15 value, when you spend $15 or more at local florists, convenience, grocery, and retail stores on DoorDash. ------------------------------------------------- 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 Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: 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: Andrew https://www.instagram.com/bleachmediaofficial/ Producer: Trevyn https://www.instagram.com/trevyn.s/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Easton https://www.instagram.com/eastonjsmith/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:15Theo Von?

  Mother's Day is right around the corner, and if you're undecided on what to get mom, maybe some flowers or a nice meal that she doesn't have to cook is just the break she needs. But for a limited time, use code Theo50. That's right, Theo50, to get 50% off, up to a $15 value when you spend $15 or more at local florists, convenience, grocery, and retail stores on DoorDash. And starting May 9th through Mother's Day weekend, your flowers order will unlock credit towards select gifts that take cooking, planning,

• 0:53Theo Von?

  and more off mom's plate. Make this Mother's Day special with DoorDash. Code Theo50. Terms apply. All right, here we are. Welcome to the month of May in the year 2025. Thank you for joining me here today. Thank you for letting me be a part of your life and you be a part of mine today. Happy Mother's Day. We'll start with that. We got a nice episode of, we got some Mother's Day stuff. We're gonna get into a little bit of light news and then

• 1:34Theo Von?

  we had a call a few weeks back about grief and loss and we had a lot of nice feedback calls and informative, heart, heart, heartish, heartfelt contributions. So we'll get into those in a bit as well. But yeah, Mother's Day, that's it. Cause your mom, people, your mama raised you. Think about that. Your mom, well, you were, gosh, you was doing nothing. Your little ass laying there.

• 2:12Theo Von?

  Doing nothing, boy. Hunting for a fucking hand tit. That's all you was doing. You was just hunting for that little hand tit with your little hands. You was a little slurp lord. And your mother raised you. First of all, if something came up to me and started sucking on my, on my breast, on my tit, or man, or whatever it's called, tit for men, or whatever, I would not then raise it. That is, you have to think about that. If something started sucking on your tit, would you take it off and then raise it? And grow it to its full form?

• 2:50Theo Von?

  Only a mother would do that type shit, boy. That's some next level. That's some next level behavior, mothers out there. Which your ass too. A lot of kids never washed they ass. We had a buddy. His legs just knew his pants so well. He, oh, he wore the same pants always. And so you knew good and well, so nobody was washing his ass, boy. Not a chance. Even his mom, and she tried. So you see her warm up some water on a stove in a stove pot. And to pull his pants back and just dump it right down the back of his pants. Hoping to even to get a half wash or quarter wash on his ass with that one water.

• 3:34Theo Von?

  But damn, your mother, your, our mothers did that.

• 3:39Theo Von?

  And when we couldn't read, imagine you sitting there with somebody, right? And they can't read. You know? And you gotta teach them to, you start with the first letter. And you show them that.

• 3:55Theo Von?

  And it's a picture of like an alligator and a little kid and the mom's like, what's that? And he's like, lizard, lizard. Or whatever. He can't even say shit. He don't even say nothing. He just look at you. And try to cop a quick hit off that tit. That's a dumb child. We were all dumb child.

• 4:15Theo Von?

  Our mother helped us out of that. Out of that cavern of knowing nothing. God. They did a lot of work.

• 4:25Theo Von?

  And then even on some, once you were in school, when you had to go to school and take a test. And you was, you was dumb, buddy. You was damn dumb. You was a dumb child. And your mother still hugged you and said, "You gonna do good on it."

• 4:46Theo Von?

  I remember my, my mom would be like, "You can do great on your test." I'd look at her like, "Really? I am?"

• 4:54Theo Von?

  You could, and she, "Yeah, you gonna do great." And I would leave out the door and I peek back in the window, you could see her just shaking her head like, "He gonna fuck it up."

• 5:03Theo Von?

  But that's crazy to, to send something, know something is gonna not do well on a damn, uh, spelling or whatever it's called.

• 5:13Theo Von?

  And send it out in the world and still hug it. And pretend like you, when they get back, "How'd you do?" You fucking know good and well how they did, mom. They didn't do shit, boy. They didn't do shit, bruh. Opening pants. Another batch of warm water on that ass. It's spring cleaning.

• 5:35Theo Von?

  Mother's Day, man, that's what it is. And that's what it ain't, man. Um, yeah, I wanna say Happy Mother's Day to my mother. I know she watches this show and I appreciate that.

• 5:47Theo Von?

  Man, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Uh, the ones that do it by themselves and, and some of y'all have help.

• 5:57Theo Von?

  And, uh,

• 6:00Theo Von?

  yeah, it's just this.

• 6:03Theo Von?

  We know you're doing it. Somebody's doing it.

• 6:07Theo Von?

  And it ain't us. It ain't us children. We get, we thought we, sometimes we think we did it ourself. We didn't do shit.

• 6:19Theo Von?

  So make sure to reach out to your mother. Hit her with a Happy, uh, Mother's Day. Get her something. We got, uh, one of our commercials, they got a good advertising, something beautiful. You get her some good items or something. Break her off something. Get your mother something. Drive over there. Give her a hug, boy. Keep your hands off that breast though, boy. You of age now.

• 6:40Theo Von?

  You have age, cuz that's always the craziest. You see them nine year old at the basketball game and he over there.

• 6:47Theo Von?

  And he up under his mother wearing a uh triple XL men's polo shirt. Just so that kid can get up under there and knobble off on that tit. And he fucking nine, bro.

• 7:01Theo Von?

  Dude, I remember they had this one kid, Lil Bubby was his name, and he would go slip up under his mom's shirt, his mom. I don't know if she was in a wheelchair, she was just.

• 7:13Theo Von?

  Just, just, just not, you know. Kinda looked like she was in a wheelchair type shit and she had them crazy breasts, them kind, you, it looked like uh. They cracked open and were kinda flooding out, like them bitches was. I don't even know if they are, at a certain point it was like she had them uh just god damn them thing, boy. She had them fucking beanbag, she had them, she had them damn.

• 7:47Theo Von?

  You know what I'm saying? She could find, somebody take a break right be- between her breasts, you'd find two men. Two factory workers over between her breasts. Getting a nap in and betting on the horse racing. Cuz she had them big break time tits, boy. She had them damn baby bags. She had a fucking damn a cow walk up and try to feed off of them bitches, she had them. Them front end loaders on her. What were we talking about? Uh. What were we talking about, Easton? Mother's Day. Mother's Day, that's it, man. That is it, sorry I went off on a tangent. Oh, but I remember they had this kid Lil Bubby and he would go over by his mom's uh.

• 8:28Theo Von?

  By his mom, he'd get up, he'd get him a damn candy bar and get up under that shirt and get on that tit.

• 8:36Theo Von?

  You'd see him and he'd have to pop his head out to catch more breath, to catch more air. He like, he stick his head out and then back under there, candying and titin', candying and titin'. Under there, damn nine years old, brother, you gonna do good on your test, son? No, he ain't. That kid's damn dumb, baby. Happy Mother's Day, um. Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna get my mo- well, I, I get my mother some, uh, I sent her a card. And I sent that thing on Monday, boy. So it's gonna be there, cuz for years, I'm that guy, send that late card, you know? I send that bit, she'll get that bitch on Father's Day, she gets that bitch.

• 9:20Theo Von?

  And she did both jobs anyway, so they should make that. They should make that Mother Father's Day card, the two in one hitter now. They should get that thing released out there. Cuz you've heard me say it before, man, the hardest working man I've ever met is my mother.

• 9:38Theo Von?

  Big facts, Happy Mother's Day to you, uh, and to your mothers, make sure to get that love line, hit her with that love line. Do something, get over there, tickle her. You know what I'm saying? Buy her a bra that says, "Keep out on it," in honor of those words. Cuz you too tall to be titin'. You know that shit, type shit, boy. What's going on, feeling a little injured today? I, I, I went, uh, picked up something at the gym, bam, injured, didn't even...

• 10:09Theo Von?

  And it was that kinda thing where your back locks up in your lung, like that, just... Where you... It's like the wind got knocked out of your back. And, you know, and your friend's like, "What's going on?" And you're like, you can't even talk, it just...

• 10:29Theo Von?

  You just, so, I just left, I don't know what they thought, I had cancer, whatever, but yeah, injured myself. Um, went to the massage place over here, and I go to the Chinese shop over there, that chop shop. It say right on the sign, chop shop, you know? And they selling fucking rice right out the back of that bitch, boy. They, they'll remodel your, uh, they'll remodel your spinal column, they'll fucking unjangle that bitch and then hit you with that damn two grams of rice when you roll out the door. They got that shit in there.

• 11:06Theo Von?

  And I got, whenever I go get that massage at the, uh, Chinese place, I get, I ask for the big guy. I want big guy.

• 11:15Theo Von?

  When I call him on the phone, he knows me. My buddy Yang over there, I call him on the phone.

• 11:21Theo Von?

  He say, you coming? I said, big guy.

• 11:24Theo Von?

  You got big guy? Sometimes he got him, sometimes he don't. Because I, I've had the second string, they said, big guy. Big guy gone. Big guy gone. That's what he said. I don't know what he meant. But I think he, he was trying to say, big guy gone, right? And I spot him a letter if he ain't got it all, bro. He from another country, you know? That's kinda guy, I'm, I'll fucking give you a vowel. Big guy gone. Gone. I got you. I got you with that E twin. So, yeah. He said, big guy gone. So I went in there and they had a second big guy in that bitch, bruh.

• 12:01Theo Von?

  The second, and he ain't that big, bro. He kinda, he just...

• 12:06Theo Von?

  He trying to like, make his neck long, just trying to look big or something, you know? He put on mittens and shit. Cause Asian, they try to trick you when you looking at them. They trick you, they visual. They're the fucking, uh...

• 12:20Theo Von?

  They're the, the bok choy David Blains, baby. Them bitches are fucking...

• 12:26Theo Von?

  They trick you, bruh. They'll put a piece of rice over each eye and tell you they sleeping. That's who they are. They tricked us like that. But... But I said, big guy. He said, I want big guy gone. But I showed up anyway. I took that second, that fucking other big guy, bruh. And he went, shit. This little motherfucker, this little fucking woodpecker, this... He couldn't do shit. He would fucking hammer, just trying to hammer on me, bro. He just put one of his arms out and was just like that, just woodpecking me with that elbow. Didn't do shit. I'm fucking still hurt.

• 13:04Theo Von?

  But anyway, what else? Big guy. I want big guy. Dude, I'll tell you this, bruh. So one time I'm in there and I was getting a massage at this other joint. I went to this other joint. And I'm in there, bruh, and... I, I do the massage where it's like this chair thing that you sit kinda forward on. Easton, can you bring that up for me, brother?

• 13:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got you.

• 13:29Theo Von?

  And we're borrowing Easton today. He's helping us produce and blessings to you, man. Um, and, and Easton works on, um, John Chris's podcast. What's it called?

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Net Positive.

• 13:39Theo Von?

  Net Positive with John Chris, if you want to tap in with him.

• 13:44Theo Von?

  What did I ask Easton? Do you remember?

• 13:46Speaker 03

  Pull up a chair picture?

• 13:47Theo Von?

  Get that massage chair, that front left, uh, forward leaning. Let's go with that.

• 13:54Theo Von?

  Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's the kind they have right there. They put your face in a little, um, it's like a little soft little toilet seat, but it's soft, but it's little. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your face on that and then they just start getting at you. Anyway, so, yeah, I'll go in. He's got one of those chair, chair massages. So I sit in there and big guy, big guy, big guy here, big guy gone, big guy here. Big guy starts rattling on me, doing his big guy shit, fucking leaving sweat on my back. I can feel it. Every now and then I know he's really popping back there. If I feel a bead of sweat hit my fucking neck. So he back there popping, right?

• 14:35Theo Von?

  And then I, there's, I look over, dude, in the chair next to me, there's a kid getting a massage, right?

• 14:45Theo Von?

  For, I didn't, I didn't know this could happen, right? It's like a, this kid looked kind of like the Rizler, right? Like, uh, probably nine, you're maybe nine and like, kind of Rubenesque, you know, uh, chubbish or whatever they call it, this chubbish little kid. And, and there's a guy just like, just like, just rubbing on over, just like massaging him, you know? And I didn't know a kid could get him. I didn't know. And I'm like, am I watching like a, like, what am I watching? Like, is this a kid getting a massage? Or is this like a, like, is it legal or, you know? I, I just didn't know, uh, yeah, I'm like, and like, how long do you watch?

• 15:29Theo Von?

  It's such a massage, like if, you know, but, yeah, this kid, but it was so crazy. This kid was getting a massage. Like this kid got a massage or was getting a massage, this kid. So they're massaging a kid. It's during the school day. So I'm like, what is, you know? What rich little kid skipped school to get a fucking massage, bro?

• 15:51Theo Von?

  Then anyway, so we're sitting there and at some point, somebody did a um fart, you know? Somebody did a and I think it was this kid, right? It was, it was crazy, dude. I'm, I'm there, it's already weird enough. Somebody's massaging a kid. I'm getting fucking big guy. Big guy is over there fucking working me in and, and the little dudes over here getting fucking chopped out. You know, this little fucking sixth, fifth graders or whatever. This little fifth graders, he's getting over there fucking chopped out by chimp chop, your boy, right? And I'm like, can you even massage a kid? I'm thinking, and then somebody just uh started a fart out of their body. And I think it was the kid, right?

• 16:35Theo Von?

  Cause I think, look, if you massage a kid, they're gonna fart. They gotta strike back somehow, cause it's illegal to touch them. So, and it sounded like, it sounded like, like, I don't know. It sounded like somebody was drinking milk and then just like, uh, it was just, it sounded like a, it just sounded like a ghost wearing booty cologne that had just climbed out of that child. And, and, and I'm not saying it was definitely the kid who was in there doing farts or whatever, but, you know, I don't know, you know? I'm no farting Luther King or whatever, but I have a dream that somebody farting in here.

• 17:21Theo Von?

  But there was another guy in there, so it could have been other guy, you know? Uh, whoever that was, Louis Fardicon. Nah, it's just a, it's just a activist joke. Anyway, um, no, yeah, it could have been this other guy in there, I don't know. Um, cause there was another guy in there, just a guy like worked at a bank or something or was like cheating on his wife. Some guy, right?

• 17:46Theo Von?

  And they were over there shining him up. They over there really getting into his shoulders and neck, you know? He had two kinda medium guys, he didn't have no big guy like I did.

• 17:58Theo Von?

  Uh, but they chopping in him and that and that and but at some point the room started to smell bad. Somebody chopped off a real fart. And it sounded like somebody had a like had put like milk on just like like their butt had been drinking milk and then just fart. Just did a fart, bruh. It was cra- you could he- it just sounded like uh like a like somebody had taken a tight foot out of a wet boot, you know? Out of a wet uh uh rubber boot. Just but anyway, what is that? Happy Mother's Day, bruh. That's what I'm telling y'all. I got a massage and you gotta take care of yourself when you get them.

• 18:41Theo Von?

  When I go into a massage place, first thing I say, no uh pop pop.

• 18:47Theo Von?

  I say no pop pop. Touch a wi- a tap on my wiener two times, pop pop. No pop pop for me. Uh.

• 18:57Theo Von?

  That's what I say when I say uh when I go into those places. Um, we got uh an episode. Oh, and that means don't touch me. Don't touch, no uh. Don't touch this, you know, don't don't wean, don't stay off my wiener. That's what I say, you know? Stay off my small guy, huh? Stay off my small guy. Big guy, no, no. Medium guy.

• 19:27Theo Von?

  But I tell them right when I walk in, don't jerk me off. I do that myself and I do it at home. I do it under. You know, I do it under with closed blinds or whatever, music on, music off, whatever. I don't jerk off with the fan on. I say that. Point blank. You see some dudes, bruh, I know I got buddies. You walk in their room, it smell in there like they been jerking out, oh wow. And the fan is on, bruh. Have some respect, bruh. Have you out there drying out your root or whatever and you out there popping off, bruh?

• 20:03Theo Von?

  You out there fricking earning pearls out of your own ween out there. So praise God, um. We'll get to an ad in just a second. We got a new Pope. Is that right there, Easton?

• 20:16Speaker 03

  That is correct.

• 20:18Theo Von?

  And what did you think about it? What's the news on him? You got any infor- in- information on him?

• 20:22Speaker 03

  He's the first American Pope.

• 20:24Theo Von?

  No way.

• 20:25Speaker 03

  He is. He's from Chicago, Illinois.

• 20:28Theo Von?

  Dog bears, boy. Wow.

• 20:33Speaker 03

  I'll pull up his name here. He's going by Pope Leo XIV and his name is Robert Prevost.

• 20:40Theo Von?

  Bobby Prevost, baby. And who do the Packers have? Aaron Rodgers, dude? It's a rap, bro. Jordan loved it, dude. Nobody. The Pope. Dang, dang.

• 20:56Theo Von?

  Dude, we got the Pope, huh?

• 20:59Theo Von?

  Go Cubs, go. Hey, Chicago, what do you say? We got the Pope today. Gang, boy. We right here. Big gay. Big gay.

• 21:15Theo Von?

  Damn, bro. Hope he stops the massaging of children. You know what I'm talking about?

• 21:22Theo Von?

  We shut it down, brother. I don't know if we can say that. And how do we know when they pick the Pope?

• 21:28Speaker 03

  So they, uh, I guess all the Cardinals, there's like a bunch of, I don't know, many. They all, uh, like silently, secretly, like you know that thing you did in school where you like to like close your eyes and raise your hand and the teacher counted? I guess it's like that where they like secretly vote.

• 21:42Theo Von?

  Oh.

• 21:43Speaker 03

  And they, they don't decide until I think it's like a two thirds majority. So.

• 21:46Theo Von?

  Like heads up, sovereign up or whatever?

• 21:49Speaker 03

  So they, if the Pope, I guess every day they do it. And if the Pope hasn't been chosen, they do like black smoke out of the chimney. And then if the Pope is get, does get chosen, then it's white smoke that comes out of the chimney.

• 22:00Theo Von?

  Oh, really? So how long did it take them to choose this Pope?

• 22:02Speaker 03

  I think just like two days. Cause yesterday it was black smoke and then, or two days ago was black smoke and then yesterday it was white smoke.

• 22:09Theo Von?

  Damn.

• 22:11Speaker 03

  It's only two days.

• 22:12Theo Von?

  Have we ever had a black Pope yet?

• 22:14Speaker 03

  No.

• 22:15Theo Von?

  Wow, bro. That's what we gotta get that black Pope, boy. Big gay. What about an Asian Pope? Have we had it?

• 22:26Theo Von?

  Oh, we gotta get a damn little Asian Pope, boy.

• 22:32Theo Von?

  Just a little bit of prayer fried rice, boy, you feel me?

• 22:36Speaker 00

  Your sausage McMuffin with egg didn't change, your receipt did. The sausage McMuffin with egg extra value meal includes a hash brown and a small coffee for just $5, only at McDonald's for a limited time.

• 22:48Speaker 01

  Price and participation may vary. Promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing.

• 22:51Theo Von?

  I want to say thank you to mom for having all the answers. She had them all. She didn't, sometimes they were wrong, yeah, but she had them all.

• 23:02Theo Von?

  Imagine something just asking you questions for 18 years and more. And you do your best to answer every one. Yup, that's a mom. But this year, we're answering for mom. And the answer is, we're going to give them flowers plus a real break. Because moms are at it 24/7. And flowers, it's nice, but you know what they really want is a break. From everyone's questions, from the endless to-do list, from moming. Oh, I still ask my mom so many questions. I will call and ask my mom what shoe size I wear.

• 23:46Theo Von?

  I wish, I could look in my shoe, I could do a ruler against my foot. But I will call my mom, and if she doesn't answer it when I call, I will just not know what my shoe size is for the day. Oh, if I was a mom, I would just put earplugs in, that's what I would do. I would tell my kids, I would have like one of those lights that taxis have above them, on the top of a taxi that says when it's available or not. I would turn the light off, not available. And then I would, what would I do if I were a mom? Oh, I would get in a big bubble bath.

• 24:24Theo Von?

  That's what my mom used to do. She would yell, she'd yell at us and say something. And say we weren't gonna be able to have something, then you would hear, you'd hear her slam her door. And then every now and then, you'd hear her get in that bubble bath, right there. And maybe crack open a cold beer or something. A cold little can of milk or whatever. You hear her crack it open, or get that bubble bath going. Suds so high, you couldn't see, hear, nothing, is she in there? I don't know what she, and I think she would just sit in there in the, in, in the bubbles and have a little sip of beer or cold milk. Something to get her through the day, man. So if I was a mother, I would do that.

• 25:07Theo Von?

  Oh, and I forgot to add, this Mother's Day, when you buy your mom flowers, you'll get up to $75 as a Dash Pass member, or up to $50 as a non-Dash Pass member, towards a family meal that mom doesn't have to cook. A fun activity, so mom can play without planning, or a self-care retreat, in case mom just wants some me time. Yep, that's Theo50, T-H-E-O, number five, number zero, to get 50% off, up to a $15 value, when you spend $15 or more, at local florists, convenience, grocery, and retail stores on DoorDash.

• 25:46Theo Von?

  And starting May 9th through Mother's Day weekend, your flowers order will unlock credit towards select gifts that'll take cooking, planning, and more off of mom's plate. Make this Mother's Day special with DoorDash. Terms apply.

• 26:05Theo Von?

  Alright, you know, one of the last episodes, the last solo episode we had called Chili Boy, or something like that.

• 26:14Theo Von?

  Was it Chili Baby, Chili Boy, Chili Baby? Chili, um, oh, Pickle Chili. And it was about a month ago, and a man called in who, uh, who had lost his, um, girlfriend to cancer. So, we're gonna take a quick listen, uh, to that.

• 26:36Speaker 04

  Hey Theo, um, hope you're doing well. I'm, uh, calling you today, um, see if I can get your perspective on something. Um, my, uh, girlfriend of, uh, four years, she, uh, she passed away five and a half months ago. Um, she, uh, it wasn't a, not a surprise, but you know, she, uh, she had cancer. Um, we thought that she had a little more time, but, um, yeah, um, since then I've spent most of my time, uh, doing nothing, you know? Um, I would visit her grave every day for, uh, months, which is good, I guess, for getting help.

• 27:15Theo Von?

  He goes and visits her grave every day, you would say, for months onward? Man, thank you for sharing this, brother.

• 27:21Speaker 04

  Of my apartment, um, but I would just let the time pass, you know? But, um, recently I've started, uh, going back to school full-time and, uh, working again. And honestly, I feel like I'm just doing it because it's, uh, expected of me, you know, from the people around me, my family and my peers. Um, I guess in other words, that is, I'm, I'm pretty young, but, um, so maybe some people just expect me to move forward pretty fast, but you know, I, I don't want to, you know? Um, yeah, um, I just, you know, sometimes you

• 28:03Speaker 04

  feel like, you're like, I feel like I was like left behind, you know? Um.

• 28:07Theo Von?

  Yeah, thank you for the call, brother. And, um, and we, we, we discussed this on a previous episode, but we had, we got some calls that came in and I wanted to listen to some of them here, uh, just so you can get an idea. As always, the hotline guy is it is nine eight five six six four nine five zero three. And, um, here's a call that came in about grief. We asked callers, uh, if they had any suggestions for that gentleman. And here's some of the responses that we got.

• 28:40Speaker 05

  Hey Theo, um, man, love your show, bro. Listen to you every day or every time you make a podcast. I'm actually listening to Pickle Chili right now, um, and I heard the caller call in about he lost a, uh, his girlfriend or whatever, and you asked some people to call in, give some ideas of how maybe he can handle this situation. And look, I actually lost my daughter five years ago to this day, um, from a brain aneurysm. And I guess the only advice I can say is like, man, don't let nobody tell you how long you should grieve. Uh, it's gonna be different for everyone, cause not every, not every, uh, situation is gonna be built the same.

• 29:21Speaker 05

  So, uh, do it at your own speed, man. Um, there's gonna be a lot of people that's gonna wanna get involved and tell you how you should do this, but you have to experience this the way that you need to experience this to make it right for you. Um, I have dreams about my daughter often, man. And it's like, it's funny, cause like in my dreams, I know she's passed away, and I know she's not with her. So while I'm dreaming, I try to, I just try to hug her and talk to her and make that dream last as long as I can. Um, you know, and look, bro, miss her. Miss her every day. I talk to my daughter.

• 29:59Speaker 05

  I'm, I, I miss, I mean, every night before I say a prayer, I talk to my daughter and I've been doing that since the day she's passed away. And look, last but not least, bro, um, this doesn't get easier. It, it really doesn't. It just becomes a new type of normal. If, uh, if that makes some sense, bro. Man, Theo, gang, gang. Love you, bro.

• 30:21Theo Von?

  Love you too, bro. Thank you, man. Man.

• 30:31Theo Von?

  Man, that's just...

• 30:35Theo Von?

  That's all, you know, it's, that's nice of him to call. He called out of Louisiana. I see that area code 337 over there. And you can hear the bayou in the back of his drool right there. Um, yeah, I remember after my dad was gone, even still, sometimes if I'm having like a tough day, whenever I go to sleep at night, I'll, uh, yeah, I'll hope that I get to see him or that he shows up, you know? And then sometimes it's like, gets to be further, sometimes it's like further and further between times and then, um...

• 31:09Theo Von?

  Yeah, and it just like you just wish some like you hope that somebody will be there. But then sometimes they are in your dream. And yeah. That's awesome, man. That's a really nice sentiment to share. Thank you for that call. Let's take another call here.

• 31:28Speaker 06

  Hey, Theo. Hey, man. Just wanted to call in in response, listening to the Pickle Chili Podcast and the guy.

• 31:39Theo Von?

  Thank you for listening, man. I appreciate that. Thank all you, all anybody who listened.

• 31:43Speaker 06

  I lost his girlfriend and after five months, wanted to respond to somebody that's been through that too. Lost my fiancee, high school sweethearts. Yeah, day before my birthday, she was in a car accident. And it's tough, man. It's somebody that you've been with for seven years. At a young age, I was 21, she's 20, so it's kind of rough. But just wanted to respond to him and let him know the things that have helped me and maybe it'll help him and somebody else. The biggest thing is I got all those, the same symptoms as him. You know, didn't want to do anything.

• 32:28Speaker 06

  You lose your purpose in life and some things that you touched on, Theo, you know, you want to dream. You want to feel all that again. And it's all true. But the thing that helped me the most is surround yourself with friends and family. And those things right there, the people that love and support you, I'm still close with her family. And those things help you get through it, man. So anytime I'm having those rough days and weeks and you just, like you said, get out. Surround yourself with people that love you. And your friends, go do some things with your friends. They're always there for you. And I got a dog, you know, and that really helped me get through that too, man.

• 33:13Speaker 06

  You always got somebody excited to see you when you get home. And that's it, man. That's really the answer. You'll never forget. You'll never move on completely. You hope to have a normal life. But the things that help you push through it are going to be just love. Surround yourself with people who love you.

• 33:37Theo Von?

  Amen, man.

• 33:40Theo Von?

  Yeah, there's a song, uh, uh, there's a song by this guy, Stephen Wilson Jr. Thank you for that call and thank you to the caller previously too. And thank you guys for both sharing, uh, your experience with loss. Yeah, there's this song, uh, Grief, is that, uh, by Stephen Wilson Jr. And it's, uh, grief is only love that has nowhere to go. And, um, and I thought about that. I thought about that since that gentleman called in, um.

• 34:15Theo Von?

  Because love is like, love is this feeling that it has to land on someone or an object. It has to land on a, on something, right? Like a person, place, it has to, it has to, love has to have a place to land if you love. Like you can love yourself, but, um, that's more like integrity and, um, confidence. And then it can even drift into ego or whatever. But when you really love, you love someone. You know? And so love is really, it's an outward thing. It's, it's not, it's yours, but it's, if it's active, it's not yours. It's, it's a, like a bridge almost, kind of.

• 35:00Theo Von?

  And then, um, yeah, once that recipient is gone, once that place where it was landing is gone, it's like, um, it almost becomes, it's crazy that something that is so wonderful can become so painful. Cause then you have the, all these same feelings, but they don't have the place to land.

• 35:22Theo Von?

  Um, yeah, I remember when my father died, I remember I just, I was at his funeral and it was like the most like scariest thing ever. There was people there that I didn't even, I didn't know any of them.

• 35:35Theo Von?

  And, uh, my na, um.

• 35:38Theo Von?

  This family that I just moved in with, the dad took me over there and uh, and some of our neighbors went with me and I just remember like uh, it was all these feelings that I think I didn't even know that I'd had that I wanted to be for my father and I didn't even know I had them. And now it was just like they were, they hit a dam, you know, they just would never have a place to go. And I just remember like, just so much tears and like crying and like it would be like going into the cracks of the floor and I just wanted to,

• 36:13Theo Von?

  I just wanted to be one of those tears. I wanted to just disappear.

• 36:22Theo Von?

  Uh, let's take some other calls, man, and we're not trying to make that like, I guess it can't help but be,

• 36:28Theo Von?

  like sad, but I think it's real, right?

• 36:34Theo Von?

  And it's real. This is, you know, life is real and it's full of real things. And I'm just glad we don't have to go through them alone. So that's a nice thought to have right now.

• 36:45Speaker 07

  Hey, D O. Um, I'm replying to the gentleman that had recently lost a girlfriend.

• 36:53Speaker 07

  I had lost my girlfriend back in 2018, so it's going on seven years now.

• 37:02Speaker 07

  It's tough and it sounds like he was looking for answers when, you know, the only thing that I could say is like, it sounds like he's on the right track. And if I was him, I would just choose to live through the memories that they shared together.

• 37:24Speaker 07

  I remember my girlfriend always telling me that, you know, she thought I was a good teacher. And so now I'm in a field where I'm able to teach people things and I just feel like every time I do, I just, it reminds me of her and there's just like, it's no longer a sadness anymore. There's a happiness in it and.

• 37:51Theo Von?

  Yeah. You know, it's funny, um, thank you. Sorry, I'm belting, I had a little bit of Celsius, but.

• 38:01Theo Von?

  Thank you for the call, man. Yeah, I remember my dad, like, one thing I, like, one of the only things I remember he said to me ever in my life was that I was a survivor. He used to always say that you're a survivor, you know? And maybe he knew that because he was so old that it was be something that I would need, I don't know. But it's like, it's like one thing that. I. Just feel like, you know, I relate to or something.

• 38:28Theo Von?

  You know, like, I'm gonna get through this, I guess, you know? So I think that's really magical that when you act out something that somebody who loves you told you you were. When you do those things. Um, that you are. Kind of servicing that relationship that's no longer there. You know? Like if she says that, where you said this part.

• 38:53Speaker 07

  I remember my girlfriend always telling me that. You know, she thought I was a good teacher and. So now I'm in a field where I'm able to teach people things and.

• 39:05Theo Von?

  Yeah, I could totally see that, man, that by then teaching that you feel like you're honoring her. And it makes you feel that same way that you felt when she told you it was something that you did really well.

• 39:20Theo Von?

  Yeah. It's interesting how we figure out how to, uh.

• 39:26Theo Von?

  How to keep going in the world, all of us.

• 39:32Theo Von?

  And that we want to, that's one thing that I think is amazing about life, uh.

• 39:37Theo Von?

  Is this will to survive, right? It's like you have a man that lost his daughter and he's. You know? And there's. It's like he wants to go and at least wake up and see the day every day because. You know, probably through his eyes, his daughter somehow gets to see the day as well, you know? I think there's just something in us that wants to survive so much.

• 40:02Theo Von?

  And I don't even know what to say about that or what I think about that thought.

• 40:08Theo Von?

  But thank you for that call, man. Thanks for sharing that. All right, let's take one more call.

• 40:15Speaker 08

  Hey, Theo. This is Tyler from Cincinnati.

• 40:19Theo Von?

  Hey Tyler, thank you for calling dude, Cincinnati over there. Will the Bengals have a decent defense? I don't know. All the money's on the offensive side of the ball. It feels like if they let Trey Hendrickson go. Now with that said, is it a Joe Burrow make or break year? We'll see about that, baby. Onward, brother.

• 40:40Speaker 08

  Um, I don't have personal experience with a loss of an immediate loved one, but I've walked next to someone who has and our church offers counseling around that. And one of the resources we use is this book called Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy. I highly recommend it to everyone who is dealing with loss and I buy it for anyone close to me that I hear has a loved one who they've lost and they've found some peace from that book. Yeah, hopefully that can be a resource to some people who are listening. Thanks, bye.

• 41:19Theo Von?

  All right, yeah, thank you for that suggestion, man. I know there's a lot of grief books out there and stuff. But just like, how do you go through it?

• 41:30Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's interesting, the young man who called earlier, the first call, the original call was saying that he felt like he got left behind.

• 41:42Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's just, it's all kind of fascinating.

• 41:46Theo Von?

  Even though it's so sad.

• 41:54Theo Von?

  I was, I was, the other day, this came up on my feed when I was thinking about grief.

• 42:04Theo Von?

  And it's Jim Carrey once said, or this site attributes it to him. "Grief is not just an emotion, it's an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw edges begin to mend. The pain softens, but the imprint remains, a quiet reminder of what once was. The truth is, you never really move on, you move with it. The love you have does not disappear, it transforms. It lingers in the echoes of laughter, in the warmth of old memories,

• 42:48Theo Von?

  in the silent moments where you still reach for what is no longer there. And that's okay. Grief is not a burden to be hidden. It's not a weakness to be ashamed of. It is the deepest proof that love existed. That something beautiful once touched your life. So let yourself feel it. Let yourself mourn, let yourself remember. There is no timeline. There is no right way to grieve. Some days will be heavy and some will feel lighter. Some moments will bring unexpected waves of sadness, while others will fill you with gratitude for the love you were lucky enough to experience. Honor your grief, for it is sacred. It is a testament to the depth of your

• 43:33Theo Von?

  heart. And in time, through the pain, you will find healing, not because you have forgotten, but because you have learned how to carry both love and loss together." Man, that's pretty powerful.

• 43:51Theo Von?

  Yeah, whenever I had heard that quote that, yeah, that grief is only love that has no place to go. It's a great song too, by Stephen Wilson Jr.

• 44:01Theo Von?

  I don't believe that the quote is his, but it's a, uh, it's a great song.

• 44:07Theo Von?

  Yeah, like you have memories and sometimes even just telling a funny story about someone

• 44:14Theo Von?

  that's gone can almost make you have the same feeling as if they are still alive sometimes.

• 44:25Theo Von?

  But,

• 44:28Theo Von?

  yeah, thank you guys for, anyway, listening to that. I know some of that stuff's kind of heavy and stuff to think about, but it's nice to take moments to think about people

• 44:37Theo Von?

  and just hear what, just be alive.

• 44:43Theo Von?

  Yeah, it's nice to just be alive.

• 44:47Theo Von?

  Yeah, I don't mean that, I just mean it's, um,

• 44:51Theo Von?

  I don't know what I mean, anyway. Yeah, thank you, everybody who made some calls and called in. There was a lot of nice calls and suggestions and we tried to put some together there.

• 45:05Theo Von?

  You know, I wanted to say something, there's been something that's just been kind of on my heart and so I feel like I should bring it up.

• 45:12Theo Von?

  There is, you know, we've had people on the podcast in the past to talk about it.

• 45:19Theo Von?

  And there's just a, there's a conflict that's been happening in the Middle East. People know about it.

• 45:29Theo Von?

  Between Israel and Palestine and some of the areas over there, the Gaza area they talk about. And, uh, and I just think it's, it feels to me, I don't know if I, it just, it feels to me like it's a genocide that's happening while we're alive here in front of our,

• 45:50Theo Von?

  in front of our lives.

• 45:54Theo Von?

  And I, I don't, sometimes I feel like I should say something. I'm not a geologist or geographer or anything like that, you know? So I don't know a lot of the, some of it I do know though. Like I know the basics of the issues over there, but for me, it's just like how I feel like you see all these photos of people.

• 46:18Theo Von?

  Just children, women, people, body parts, just people like putting their kids back together. And I just can't believe that we're watching that and that more isn't said about it. And so, I'm not saying anyone else needs to say anything, but I think I'm just that more isn't said about it by me. So I just, I wanna be able to speak up about that, that I think we're watching, probably like, you know, one of the sickest things that's ever happened.

• 46:52Theo Von?

  And, and I'm sorry if I kind of haven't said about it, I've tried to talk about it and learn about it. But I don't know, maybe I just wanna, I just wanted to say something, I don't even know what to do.

• 47:07Theo Von?

  You know, and it's crazy because our country is also complicit in, in, you know, it's in, in it. And has been for a long time and, and it's just kind of interesting because then you just realize, oh, well, I'm just a, yeah, I'm a member of this country, but I'm just, what we want sometimes doesn't matter. You know, and you just have to be a member of a place and your government is making other choices.

• 47:34Theo Von?

  So I don't know if I, I don't know if I said that correctly, or I don't even know exactly what I said, but I just, I just have, it's just like been making me really sick and I feel like I just needed to say something. That I think, you don't have to think that.

• 47:49Theo Von?

  I'm not asking you to do anything.

• 47:54Theo Von?

  But I just have to say that so I'm not sitting by,

• 47:59Theo Von?

  you know, there's that peace inside of me, like, why, why wouldn't you, can you say something? You know, there's people that can't even speak and you can say something, you know, and so that's how I, I just had to just speak up. Anyway, I think maybe it's starting to make it about me there at the end, but um, yeah, so just pray in for those people and just the grief that that is all gonna cause.

• 48:27Theo Von?

  You know, just like, what are we doing?

• 48:33Theo Von?

  But, um, and I know that this has happened to other ethnicities and other cultures. I know that it's happening to other places too. Um, I just don't see that as much. And so, uh, yeah, anyway. Um, anyway, that was kind of a downer ending, but

• 48:52Theo Von?

  Big guy!

• 48:56Theo Von?

  So, Mother's Day is a good day to just be reminded to love people, whether it's your mother, or a kid, or a puppy, or a, um, little alligator, whatever you got over there, you know, even if it's a memory, you know, get a picture out of somebody that was a member of your life, or that loved you. And spend a few moments with them, you know, or that's what I'm gonna try to do. You know, I got a couple pictures of my dad. I think there's a couple of memories that I keep of him that are like,

• 49:29Theo Von?

  that are just mine, it feels like, you know? Um,

• 49:36Theo Von?

  yeah, there's a couple of memories of him that I feel like are just mine. And so, yeah, I can just, you know, I can, you can spend time with those. You're the only two people that have those in the world is you and that other person. So that's a really,

• 49:51Theo Von?

  that's one of a kind. So that's really something cool that you can do. Um, but anyway, this is getting long. Uh, Happy Mother's Day. Thanks for letting me be a part of your life today. Thanks for being a part of my life today. Um,

• 50:08Theo Von?

  and

• 50:11Theo Von?

  I don't even know how to end this, what to do. I don't even have any music on today, so.

• 50:17Theo Von?

  Big guy! Eh, big guy!

• 50:22Theo Von?

  Eh, big guy! Uh, but yeah, anyway, quit listening to me. Text your mom, even if you hate her, text her and be like, hey, ma, love you.

• 50:33Theo Von?

  And then just send a wink emoji after it. That's a log, hey?

• 50:38Theo Von?

  It's a start, right? Uh, you guys be good to yourselves, baby. Praise God. Thank you. Oh, and Easton, thank you so much, Easton, for helping us out today. Dude came over. We never even met. We never even met. What are you getting your mom for Mother's Day, Easton?

• 50:54Speaker 03

  I think we, uh, me and my siblings went in on something. I don't really know what it is yet.

• 50:58Theo Von?

  Okay.

• 50:58Speaker 03

  I found out on Mother's Day as well.

• 51:00Theo Von?

  Type shit! Dude, the craziest is when you buy something with your siblings, right? They picked it out. They show up with it. Mom opens it. She likes it, but you don't fucking like it.

• 51:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's happened a few times.

• 51:11Theo Von?

  Yeah, that's crazy.

• 51:14Theo Von?

  That's like, dude, that's one of the cra- that's guy, that's why being a mom has to be so crazy. Something crawls out of your body, right? Hangs out in the kitchen for probably fifteen years, right? Um, and fucking, basically...

• 51:31Theo Von?

  I don't even, sorry, I don't, there wasn't an ending to that, but, uh... Yeah, dude, that would be the thing. Somebody got my mom one of those boat in a bottle things, ship in a bottle.

• 51:43Theo Von?

  You know what I'm talking about?

• 51:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:47Theo Von?

  Yeah, we all gave my sister some money and she was going, she was, she'd been using or whatever, or mountain climbing or whatever she called it. But she, um, we gave her the money. She shows up, we each gave her like eighty bucks. She shows up, she was supposed to have something nice for mom. She got her one of those fucking... Ship in a bottles, dog. Had no change with it.

• 52:10Theo Von?

  Like, bitch, get, give me that fucking change, bitch. Come on, big guy! Uh, alright, man. Thank you, Easton, bruh. Much obliged. Appreciate you. Um, and, uh, make sure to check out Net Positive with John Crist and, um, and Easton on there. And, um, you guys be good to yourselves, baby.

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