
Ive been pulled over with felonies in my trunk...but THIS is the most nerve racking thing Ive ever done.
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Thomas Dopasola
So you can. Perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. The. Is that crickets? Oh, that sounded disgusting.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, they do sound gross.
Thomas Dopasola
I thought cricket sound different. Are you sure that's a cricket?
Marty O'Neill
Our cricket sounded violently loud and aggressive, like he was trying to get the way. Yeah, he didn't sound like that.
Thomas Dopasola
Sounds more like a bad wheel on a shopping cart.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, it does.
Thomas Dopasola
Right? Sorry, guys. That's how we started this episode off. What's up? Hello. Welcome back to the Dope As Usual podcast. My name is Dope as y'all. This is Marty O'Neill.
Marty O'Neill
What's up, folks?
Thomas Dopasola
What's up? Hello. We're back solo episode two Josh's in a row. And we're back. This is the Dope As Usual podcast. Thank you for being here. It is Tuesday and if you're watching right now when it's dropping, it is about 12:32 in the afternoon. Thank you for being here. Our drop date, Tuesdays 12:30. That is our time. Thank you for being here. Unrestricted drops Mondays around 11.
Marty O'Neill
Drop it when we can.
Thomas Dopasola
Sometimes earlier around 11am dope as usual.com dozusualpodcast.com unrestricted. Go ahead and get that un. It's unrestricted.
Marty O'Neill
We got a fresh new design on the site, so hopefully it's really simple and easy to understand. Let us built it.
Thomas Dopasola
And just in case you didn't know, Marty builds it all. It's just me and him. He does all the feedback goes computing folks. Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing.
Marty O'Neill
I'm not a web developer.
Thomas Dopasola
You know, it's funny, I did a live this morning. I was at somebody's house. The two people that came left the person's house left to go do something in the room. And I was just sitting in a room with three cameras. I don't know how to use anything. So I was like, all right, I wonder if any of it's on. And I'm just sitting there just like, all right. On my live. Kind of like when Wayne quits the show and Garth sits there and like, and we're back and cars. Just that that was me this morning. Welcome back to the Dopa's Usual podcast. We usually say a bunch of up and that is probably bleeped because it's way too early. 10 minute nice guy clock we've been doing since season one. What we do is we try not to cuss or say something violently, disgusting, horribly or horrible in the first 10 minutes. You know, trying to smoke and do this. But the past year, if you haven't noticed some sometimes cuss words bleep because they have to be a little bit. Sometimes we're trying our best. It works and it doesn't work.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, and by the way, the Josh Kesselman episode. All right, we. This was the biggest file we've ever dealt with. We experienced some technical issues. So the first half of the episode, I believe is edited on Spotify because otherwise it was going to take up another full day of exporting and uploading and I had to move on from the episode. But otherwise Spotify is fully uncensored.
Thomas Dopasola
Sorry. Well, what happened was we sent Josh. If you saw in the, in the episode, we sent Josh the file and his lawyer said, hey, he probably can't say that, like legally.
Marty O'Neill
After we got scheduled the premiere, the.
Thomas Dopasola
Premiere was set with likes, people, people, people doing comments. There was already people in the live chat and they had to take it down and re. Upload a different version. A five hour show took hours, hours to upload and Spotify had to be split in two parts. That's how long it was. So thank you for being here. Appreciate it. That's the catch up. All right, let's get right into it. Yeah, let's talk. Today is the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was all right. It was pretty cool. I took hella dabs just because I just kept sneaking to my office and sneaking off to my office constantly.
Marty O'Neill
You had your whole family in town?
Thomas Dopasola
You. Yeah, it's the first time ever. Guys, my grandma, my scary grandpa, my uncle Carlos, his kids, my dad, my little brother, my mom's sister, my sister and Rosie and I.
Marty O'Neill
Have they all been into your old house at least? This is the first time down in la.
Thomas Dopasola
Well, after, after the wedding, they came over the next day.
Marty O'Neill
Gotcha.
Thomas Dopasola
Some. Most of them. But this is the first time we've ever done Thanksgiving outside of my grandma's house ever, Ever anywhere, no matter who it is. So what it is is my, my grandma Grace. You guys know my Mexican ass grandma. My grandpa Greg, the Mexican ass grandpa. They. They do everything at their house. Always. That's. That's where we go. But my dad has five brothers and one of them pissed my grandma off and doesn't talk. And then they're like, all the kids aren't coming over this year because they're all fighting. And then all my cousins that are grown up don't go visit my grandma. Go visit grandma. What the is wrong with you guys? So nobody visits my grandma. She's like, nobody comes over. I'm like, they all live in Town. Come say hi to Grandma. Anyway, it's okay, guys. I know we all get busy, but go visit Grandma, dude. What the. So she's like, nobody comes over, and she's like, I'm fine. He's not coming over. He's mad. And then my Uncle Abel just recently moved to Florida. Uncle Greg was with his wife down here for the first time, not coming. So you guys meet by yourself and just. My, like, my dad. Why don't you guys just be here and then shout out to Ken Flores. I opened for Ken Flores the night before. That's why I didn't go. And that's why we planned them coming here.
Marty O'Neill
And so which uncle did I meet?
Thomas Dopasola
Michael? Carlos. He's the ones younger than me. That's the younger one.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, wow.
Thomas Dopasola
The one all the stories.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, that's him. The one with the cops. And that's my Uncle Carlos.
Thomas Dopasola
Remember I told you one of these got tall? Yeah, that's him. Isn't that a trip? Yeah, that's the youngest one. It's my dad's youngest. That's my dad's brother. It's 20 year difference. It's crazy, bro. Yeah, like, my little brother's 11, huh?
Marty O'Neill
Your dad looked hella proud coming in.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, he was all stoked.
Marty O'Neill
He was stuck in the front. It was an epic night.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, dude. So we Ken if you guys saw the last Ken Floors episode, He asked me, hey, you should open for me the night before Thanksgiving. That's why we did this. I wrote all my stuff out before I knew that my dad was coming. Yeah, so, like, the last 10 minutes is about my dad being a drug addict.
Marty O'Neill
So funny.
Thomas Dopasola
So. All right, let me explain. Let me explain it, guys, real quick. Before we get into it, I just want to say thank you, Ken. I even told him backstage, like, you know, I always want to do this, but I'm never going to do it unless someone makes me do it. I'm never gonna willingly go. Let me go do the scariest thing I could possibly think of. And if I don't, doesn't do well, Let me go show myself that I can't do what I always wanted to do. So I was like, you know what I mean? Because if I fail, like, damn, I waited all that time just.
Marty O'Neill
You never think about that? What if I fail at this?
Thomas Dopasola
If I fail and I don't like it, I'm gonna not like the thing I like the most. Yeah, I'll still watch stand up all day.
Marty O'Neill
It's scary trying to take that next level up to like, what you want to do?
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. So I wrote everything out, guys. The past week, I haven't been thinking of anything. I haven't filmed a weed video. I haven't done anything. I haven't done a live nothing. Because I'm like, no, I need to only think about this. You know what's crazy? I got it down now. I could tell you every single word from, like, almost 20 minutes everywhere.
Marty O'Neill
So much more prepared than at our last, like, live podcast, for instance.
Thomas Dopasola
Well, the live podcast, I wrote it 40 minutes before because we were so, so busy and that wrote it. I had my stuff out, but I, like, pieced it and try to make it weave for where we were and change a few things to make it go, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's the area. I don't know. I'm trying. I guess the communities would do that, you know, Like Boston. I always. I've had so much stand up. I was trying to take the pieces that I like, like, all right, let me try to be at least demograph or geographically where I'm at. So I wrote it all out, guys. Here it is. I'm gonna break it down for you. I wrote it all out, and then I found out my dad was coming. And then as I'm writing it, guys, I realized this. You. I, I. I wrote everything out. And as I'm saying it, there's so much more than what I wrote. So those. Right. Those words are only the start of what I'm actually talking about, I guess, because I can't write out, move my arms this way, do this, feel like that. Give this face. How? How? I can't write that much or let alone remember all of that. That's dumb. So as I was reciting it the night, the day of. In the morning, I was in the sauna sweating my ass off, and I was just kind of doing it, and I realized, like, oh, no. And I started writing so much more in between. And that's why it kind of got longer, because I thought I was like, oh, no, no, I should talk about this and weave it to that. And then what I did is I watched a story time where I mentioned this story. That's the word I'm looking for. Because I have. Story times are edited sets. If they're paste, you can put that on a screen. Like, oh, yeah. If there's a hologram, it's a set.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
It's just fun. It's a story. I try to, like, take pieces of that and not do story time and just do pieces and try to add, like, what I think, like, what I would look like on stage. Anyway, I wrote it. We got there. I got there mad early. It's the day before Thanksgiving, so I'm like, traffic's gonna be terrible.
Marty O'Neill
Really wasn't.
Thomas Dopasola
It wasn't bad at all. And my dad hit me up. I am taking off from Merced in my head. I'm like, if you don't make it. Yeah, it's all right, man.
Marty O'Neill
Did you think he was actually gonna show up or.
Thomas Dopasola
I did, actually, because he had my.
Marty O'Neill
Little brother, so you can't just flake because of Thanksgiving.
Thomas Dopasola
No, yeah, because he had my little brother coming up, so he's not gonna be like, yeah, I just dropped him somewhere.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Maybe when I was a kid, he would just dropped us somewhere. But, like, now he has to be responsible.
Marty O'Neill
Was your little brother at the show?
Thomas Dopasola
No, he's only 11.
Marty O'Neill
Oh.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's only 11. So I wrote everything out. I get there, and when I get there, Ken's already there, like three hours early. So I'm like, oh, perfect. I told Rock I'm not going to smoke. And I started smoking a donut because I forgot. I'm sitting there halfway through it. Like, what's my first line? Oh, yeah, okay, got it. And as soon as I got it, it was kind of like a song you were talking about. So I'm reciting it. I'm thinking of it. I'm thinking of it, and I'm going. And then the room starts. People start to get let in. And, oh, my God, that was a big room. I didn't get scared of how many people. I just got overwhelmed with. This is like a ship worth of people.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. It's the biggest comedy club in Orange County. Probably 600. It's up there at the Irvine Improv, and it's brand new.
Thomas Dopasola
They said it's 10 more than or 14 seats more than Irvine Improv.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, there you go.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, it was sold out. 100 everything. Every ticket, 600 people. Let's go. So when I peaked to give Rosie my watch because I don't want to wear that on stage, I looked and went, oh. Oh, my God. And as I saw you guys, oh, Jesus Christ. I looked like that. I can't see the back of the room. I didn't get nervous. Don't. Don't waste 600 people's time. That's all I thought. Like, come on, man. And then I went backstage. Ken started introducing me, and when he can't introduce me, when I walked out, I looked and went, all right, cool. This is gonna be fun. And then right when I grabbed the mic, I was like, oh, my God, I gotta do this.
Marty O'Neill
Like, anxiety dread hit me out of nowhere.
Thomas Dopasola
Went, oh, I gotta do this. And then I thought, I've never taken a mic out of a stand. I went, I've. I've seen this.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
And I just yanked it because there's a string on my cord. I'm like, pretend like you've been here.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
And I kind of like, as soon as I started talking, that was it. I was so stoked. Oh, my God.
Marty O'Neill
But that moment probably took eternity to roll out, though, in, like, slow motion. I felt relief that I didn't have to do other than just sit there. For sure. True.
Thomas Dopasola
You don't have to film. You don't got to choreograph nothing, dude.
Marty O'Neill
Just chilling.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, man, you're not got me a.
Marty O'Neill
Long island or two. We were chilling. Thank you. Ken, you comp the booths for a little bit? We got free food in the booth.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, I was like, I paid that. I paid the waitress all the bills.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, yeah, no, we paid for the drinks.
Thomas Dopasola
Okay. I was like, oh, that pocketed it.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Okay, never mind.
Marty O'Neill
No, we got some delos. We got some.
Thomas Dopasola
Got some Nillos.
Marty O'Neill
We were chilling.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. So Marty, April, Rosie, and shout out to Jay. Jay is a. At all meet and greets, at all the events, Every.
Marty O'Neill
Every event we've ever.
Thomas Dopasola
Every time I've been to event, we're. He's always there smoking with a bong. So I'm like, oh, Jay's a man. And then the booth next to us for my dad, my Uncle Carlos, and whoever else was there.
Marty O'Neill
Your aunt was there too, right?
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, yeah, sorry. And you were. My Aunt Pepper on this side. I was gonna say my aunt Pepper was there, but no, she was sitting with you guys, and OG and Mindy were there. I didn't know they could have just sat in the front. But I get up there, and I'm talking for, like, a couple seconds. And what it was, I told Marty. He's like, I'm not. I don't talk. I don't have a response. I don't wait for a response. When I film, there's nobody here. So it was weird waiting for a response. And when I was, like, saying the things I thought were funny, and then I heard some. I heard people laugh. Oh, okay. That works. And I kept talking, and then some dude started talking to his friend in the front door table, but they were asking, like, you want to Sit here, sit there. Not like being rude, but I thought they were talking to me. I'm. I'm looking up, so I just see people in the front. They're standing and they're talking. Like, what's up? Like, what's up? He go, no, you're good, man. I went, oh, all right. And I didn't know where I was. And I stared off and went, that right there. Exactly. I just went, yeah, growing up's weird, man. Just trying to do the title of the chapter I was doing. I was trying to like. I took a step to the right, step to the left. Like I said, it's getting weird. I'm getting to the age. And I'm like, no, you forgot where you work at. This guy. And I went, no way, dude. I have no notes, so that's scary. Oh God, no. And so I went, no, the first time. I'm forgetting this. And I would go to the next part right now. Nobody noticed though. Cuz it was all within four, like two seconds.
Marty O'Neill
No, no, it was completely seen.
Thomas Dopasola
You didn't see it. I know you didn't see it. Because I tried to move.
Marty O'Neill
Literally have no notes, no phone. If you. No notes, no phone. No, no, nothing to bail you out. You can't.
Thomas Dopasola
Nothing, Marty.
Marty O'Neill
You can't be like, sorry, sorry, this. I'm new at this. And pull out your. And get back going, nothing.
Thomas Dopasola
So I wanted to go. So I would go to the next part and I started talking about the next exact chapter in my head. And then when I went back after. That's exactly the next line. That's why I space him. Like, something's after that. Like, no, the next part's after that, fool. Not. There's no more lines. Because every time I wanted to change an idea, I made it italic, underline and bold. So I'm like. I knew it was a dark line because I remember everything by picture. So I'm like, about right here and I know there's a dark line. The dark line means change topic or. Or like, boom. Done with that. This episode is brought to you by Hay Day. Looking to escape all the festive chaos, turn holiday hecticness into harmony with Heyday, the mobile game that helps you harvest calm one crop at a time. Reclaim your me time. Relax, decorate and enjoy farming bliss as you tend to your animals and harvest crops as part of a welcoming, stress free community. Join over 20 million players. Just tap or click on the banner now to download Hay Day for free today. I'm like, where is it? What was my Fucking. Oh, God. What was the bold line? And I went, oh, God. And I just skipped. And when I skipped, it was fun. Everything was working. I wrote because I knew it was a Mexican ass crowd, and the Mexican crowd worked pretty well. And I'm like, oh, all right. I got him. All right, all right.
Marty O'Neill
When the first dude came out, he's like, where's all my white people at? Just one.
Thomas Dopasola
There was literally probably three black dudes. Four black, four white people, and 593 Mexican people. Maybe 15 Salvadorians undercover. Other than that. That's it. Dude. Dude. And some white people working. And.
Marty O'Neill
And the weight staff.
Thomas Dopasola
And the weight staff. Yeah. And I said. I said I was saying. And I got into the story. As soon as I got in the story, I don't know what happened. I'm like, oh, I just got comfortable. As soon as I started talking about drugs and, like, thinking about how I wrote it, and then all the movement stuff that I did, like, during the dad part, I don't want to give it away. I wrote it in the sauna. I was like, no. You know, be funny.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. I started school.
Thomas Dopasola
I started scooting myself.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
And I'm like, oh, everybody started a lot. Because look it up there, guys. I was so nervous. Not nervous, just so, like, say it. Exactly why I wrote that. And get off that. I wasn't waiting for laughs, and I wasn't waiting to hear stuff. I wasn't waiting. So in the end, halfway through my. Were people laughing. Keep going. And then I heard the guy in front, dirty cackle, gross. Laugh. And I heard him hit the table, and I heard the drink. Oh, let's go. And I started talking that. Because I wasn't looking at you guys. I look like I was, and I was not.
Marty O'Neill
You weren't registering people's faces?
Thomas Dopasola
Only in the front. Only in the front.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, so you're judging everything by the.
Thomas Dopasola
Just the front people. Yep. Because the lights were so bright right after your booth. And then I looked over. I saw you guys for a second, and I just kept talking. And then I got into the story. As soon as I got into the story, I started paying attention and calming down. And then I heard. When I said something I don't want to give away, but I heard it said a certain part that I thought was hilarious. I heard the laughs go to the back. Like, I heard it go. Because it's so far.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
And then I said something, and I've heard people laughing. I was waiting for it to stop, to start saving my laugh. And I heard in the back. Like a echo. But, yeah, because it's such a big room that the laughs in the back travel take.
Marty O'Neill
It takes a second to head back.
Thomas Dopasola
Yes, dude. Because I heard it's like, that sound like a laugh track. It's not a fake because it's so far. Then I was talking, and then I started sweating my ass off as soon as I started getting into my story, because I knew, like, I wasn't there. I was in the story. Like, I was gone thinking about it, and I was. Anyway, as soon as I got into the story, it was so fun. And as soon as I got into, like, the pieces that transitioned to the story and they worked, it's like, thank God that that worked, because that's the stuff. I'm not new. I've never done that. I've told stories my whole life. Never done the transitions and then the relatability into the story that makes you not feel like, what else? This is what I want to talk about. Grandparents, right? Like, I didn't want to do that Seinfeld. So I was trying to weave it into my little brother in terms of Mexican ass fools. And then getting older my. Oh, it worked fucking seamlessly. And then I got toward the end where I started getting all gross, and then I heard the middle row, row, like, laugh. Oh, my God, this is so insane. And then I finished it. And then right when I finished it, guys, I forgot my last line. I said my last line as if it was my last line, and it didn't get a big enough reaction as I thought. I was like, oh. So I said something else. I said some horrible.
Marty O'Neill
Took it up a notch.
Thomas Dopasola
And then that was like. Then that was. People laughed their ass off with that and went, get off. And my hands, like, get off now. Don't keep talking like they're laughing loud. Bye. Thank you very much. And I said. I put the mic back, and I heard everybody, like, clap and laugh, like.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, that was smooth.
Thomas Dopasola
I wish I would have looked out, but I didn't. When the lights went back on so I could see the back of the room, I couldn't see more than, like, 80, 100 yards. And that was it.
Marty O'Neill
And these were not our fans. These were Ken's fans.
Thomas Dopasola
I only got, like, four people coming up at the end after the whole crowd. Only, like, four people. Like, that's perfect. Not our fans, dude. I had, like. I had, like, six dudes come up. What's the name of your show? Like, all right, cool. That was. I was hilarious.
Marty O'Neill
What a G move from Ken by the way.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah.
Marty O'Neill
So sick to do that. So sick to just extend that invitation.
Thomas Dopasola
That was so sick, dude. Oh, I. I went in the back, and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna light this donut, smoke it to here, and then go watch Ken set. I was like, I gotta calm my ass down. I went out, and right when I got back there, I was smoking it down, and I went out, and right when I went. I forgot to tell you guys yet? My dad's there. My dad showed up. He's there on top early. Dad was there, and in my head, I'm like, please don't drink. Please don't get faded, man. Please don't. And I got. And right when I got to the table, my. Oh, there's a bunch of empty glasses. But, you know, it's all right. You're having fun. He's, like, clapping. He's into the show, like, this is fine. This drunk you is perfect. The first thing he said to me when he doesn't know that the half the show is about addictions. The first thing he says to me as I get off stage, I walk up to him, hey. And he goes, I can't believe you remember that. Like, yeah, man, I remember that. He goes, that's crazy. Yeah. He's like that. It's true. True story. I know, Dad. I know it's true. And then we started watching the show. Then my Uncle Carl's was there, and he looked at me like, he's drinking, but, like, I'm trying to keep control. And in my head, I'm like, oh, no. I know. Ken's got about 30 minutes left. My waitress. Tell him it's the. It's past the time. I was like, please tell him it's past the time. And my dad was like, hey, can you guess what? You can give me a beer. Okay. Be right back. And I walked over to the waiter, and right when I got there, my dad was still looking at me. I'm like, oh. He's making sure. I actually said, hey, can you Reading your lips? Yep. In case. He was like, don't try to. I would have did it.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Don't try to control my. You know, I mean, but he was being cool. He was laughing his ass off. Ken was talking about the scary dad. And he kept looking at my Uncle Carl's. My grandpa's so mean. And the waitress came up like, oh, that was last call. And she comes back five minutes later with, like, three beers. You. You. Thank you for being a great waitress and getting him the Drinks in. But this is the one time it didn't need to happen. And my dad's drinking the beers, and I'm like, you know what? It's cool. He's chilling. And then Ken started saying, oh, once again, before you got off like dope as you all about this. Came on stage. And then everybody's clapping, and I look like, oh, thank you. Because I'm on side on the. By the booth. I'm just standing behind my dad's booth. It's right where the camera pit is. And then I turn. Thank you. And I look at my dad. My dad's like this feeling like a celeb. Yeah. And I was like, oh, thanks, dad. Yeah. And my dad's a little. I don't. I don't know my dad drunk. Unless it's all the way or that's all. I've never seen my dad, not just socially, just chilling. Oh, my God. God. Like bad drunk. I've never seen him drunk outside of his own home. Never been anywhere really where he drinks ever. Because I was a child and he stopped drinking till now.
Marty O'Neill
Gotcha.
Thomas Dopasola
So, like, I didn't go to my dad. Didn't go to the bar or to the restaurant. How do we have a beer? He'll drink 14 of them. And we can't leave. So he doesn't drink. Like, he doesn't have. And plus, I never was with my dad and have custody of me. Like, it was. I never saw my dad drink anything except for one place at Chef Chevy's when I was a kid. He drank a couple drinks. That was the only time ever. I was like, in probably third grade. So anyway, I'm like, oh, my God. I've never seen my dad drink a beer. When I was 21, when went to a football game, he ordered a beer. I was like, oh, no. He's like, it's for a picture, man. It's not for me. He gave it to his. His wife.
Marty O'Neill
I was like, oh, like, being self aware about it.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. But, you know, now he's drinking. But he was a perfect amount of drunk. So the show ends, People are walking out. I'm there at the front bruise, and people come by like, yo. That's when they're like, what was the name of the show? That was. That was great. I could hear my dad because I'm talking to the guy and he walks up because I got another fan came up, and I can hear my dad. It's about me, stories about me. I was like, yeah, that's my dad, man. He Goes, oh, you're his dad. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. True story. Stories about me. And then some other guy walked up to, like, wait to take a picture with me. Because as I was talking to a fan and I could hear my dad go, hey, it's my son. He goes, yeah, you want a picture of me? You want a picture of me? And he took a picture with the guys. Get your phone. He took a picture of the guy. It was Pedro the blind guy.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
His wife Monica, is also blind. I told my dad the next day, he's like, they're blind. I go, you didn't notice the cane and dark glasses?
Marty O'Neill
They're both blind.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, they're both blind. So when the meet and greet they had, someone had to lead them off the stage. And every time I put my hand out to shake her hand, she knew it was there. She kept going like that. As I moved my hand, she would move her hand like, whoa, are you lying to me? Or you just got the intuition? So did Pedro. I would put my hand out. He would put his hand out right away. I'm like, how did you know? Maybe it's a break in silence of conversation and it's ending. So he knows it's usually a handshake. I was like, you guys are both blind. You guys knew it was about shake your hand. It's crazy. So my dad's taking pictures with people. I could hear him just, like, faded, but like, ah, yeah, yeah. And he's talking to people. And I can wrote. Yep, true story. That's a true story. I was like, yeah, damn. This fool's like the old boxer that comes to ringside goes, yeah, that's how it felt. And then real quick, I'm sorry, but I gotta. I gotta show it. We'll show it. I'll send it to you, Marius. You can see it. I know my dad was like, drink. I get it. But this is the scariest face that makes me. Oh, my God. That makes me feel like a kid and I'm scared.
Marty O'Neill
You wanna pull it up on the screen?
Thomas Dopasola
That scares me.
Marty O'Neill
That's the last thing the dude saw before his face got bit off.
Thomas Dopasola
Live, where I told you, my woman dad's on. Like, he's gonna start fighting you. But then he was smiling two seconds later in the live photo. Yeah, he smiled. He's just. That's his resting, like, face. That's it. Remember, sometimes I do that. Now you see it. I'm not exaggerating. And I do it accurate. My little brother Johnny does it My sisters do it. They're just sitting there and doing nothing.
Marty O'Neill
Uhhuh.
Thomas Dopasola
My sister Shereen does it. I do it when I'm haven't seen that face in a long time. My dad was juiced though, dude. He was very excited. It was awesome. He left. I'm like, yeah, dad, we're leaving right now. I'm like, carlos, get him out of here. Cuz he's faded. He doesn't need to keep drinking. And then as he's walking, he goes, carl said he wants to go around LA tonight, hang out. I go, what? He go, no, I don't. He goes, ah, all right, all right, we'll leave. Like, damn, dad, you try to blame it on him so you can go out, dude. My little, my little brother's at the house. We gotta get back. And then he leaves about an hour 20 before us. And I pull up one and a half minutes behind him. I actually see him as I'm going through my guard gate. I'm like, wait, where were you? No, you know, that's the first thing I think, like, oh, no, you're staying. And I forgot you're sleeping at my house. I forgot. I got to go. Oh, he's sleeping here. I completely forgot. I don't have. I haven't dealt with a blackout, my dad, since I was like 12, where I had to sleep in the same house. It's been a long time. And I was just getting like, oh, no. And we got there, it was like.
Marty O'Neill
You'Re gonna have to babysit them or it's gonna be worse.
Thomas Dopasola
Worse. Or just babysit is the best. Yeah, it was awesome. My dad didn't drink anymore from that moment was up, but fucked up in the terms of like, fun. He's just talking about this and that, just talking. And as we were leaving, he had a full beer. He's like, do you have to kill this before we leave? I go, do. You don't gotta kill. He goes, I don't want to kill that. Like, let's go. This is a great night, dude. That's all I kept thinking like, and you didn't fuck it off, dad, let's go. And yeah, we stayed up for like hour. We were just all. Just chilling at the house because my grandma, grandpa stayed in a hotel so my dad could be normal. You know what I mean? But.
Marty O'Neill
But all the drama going on didn't affect Thanksgiving and went good.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, like all everything else with my family, all of them stayed. They all stayed in Merced. It was nothing. But the people that aren't doing or don't actively have something happening. My little sisters couldn't come because they both. They had work the. The next morning, so they couldn't make it down anyway, so it's my damn little brother.
Marty O'Neill
Sick.
Thomas Dopasola
That was cool, dude.
Marty O'Neill
That's awesome.
Thomas Dopasola
It was surprisingly awesome. And then Rosie cooked everything. It looked like a picture. She cooked everything. My grandma was stoked yesterday. I got my grandma. Grandpa may have to get ice. Do you guys want to go in the car? I was like, I haven't showed you the car yet. And I got my damn. Dude, all the stories. My grandpa being a menace is so weird. Where we live is kind of windy. He has his cane. He opened. We opened the door to get him in, and the wind took his ass almost to the ground. Had to hold him up like a. Like a piece of wood and hold him up. Damn this. Who used to beat all your asses? He slept in the car for three hours. Didn't want to get out because he's afraid. He's claustrophobic. He's afraid of, like. But it's like, my house is not small, dude.
Marty O'Neill
And you're in a little car, like, reverse claustrophobic.
Thomas Dopasola
No, he's claustrophobic. So he didn't want to go my apartment. And now that he's getting older, he's using as excuse of, like, whoa, who's in there? Ah, I'll be here. I'll be here. And I went, hey, grandpa, you want anything? Because I'll be right here as he told me, so I'm gonna be right here. All right. You want anything to drink? Goes. Okay right now. And then he slept for three hours in the front seat in my driveway.
Marty O'Neill
Dude, I was trying to do that for Thanksgiving. After we ate, they're all trying to go in the pool. And I'm like, oh, but you have.
Thomas Dopasola
A pool, man, this is sick. You have to use it.
Marty O'Neill
I know you have to, man.
Thomas Dopasola
You can't not. Man, you have a sick backyard. It looks like a resort. Yeah. Your mom, your sister, your grandma. One in three women in the US Will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. The American Cancer Society is dedicated to changing these odds through innovative research, advocacy, and patient support. With your help, the American Cancer Society Society is working to end cancer as we know it for everyone. Visit cancer.org to make a life saving gift today. It's coming along, but sorry. Oh, that's why I enjoy. But anyway, my grandpa, me and my Uncle Carlos were just talking shit about my grandpa. Like, this fool came all the way out Here to sit in the car. Come on. And as we say, come on. This fool walks in the house. I cannot believe I saw my grandpa Greg walk into my house. Like, you came in the house. Let's go. All right. Came in, sat down, and then I was like, grandma, you want to go to the store? She's like, come on. He's like, all right, I'll go with you. What the. You're gonna get in my car. Let's go, dude. And we got his ass in the car. And he looked. And I remember I looked. And he went, what is it? This is beautiful. He touched. He goes, what, Grandpa? Touch that button? And it took 94 minutes for him to figure out which button I'm at. The top left. Just the top on the left. Holy. It took a long time. He speak. He speaks English. He knows what top left does. It just took a long time. My grandma repeated in Spanish 60 times. He hit it, and it started laying him down. And then his legs kicked out and the front seat laid. He just started, oh. I'm like, yeah. Grandpa pressed that into the tray, pulled out the tray. He's looking. And I started opening all the wind wind things. I started showing the smells. And then all the speakers came out, and he just sat there like this. What? And then my grandma was like, what is this? I took him to the store, and I took him to the store. I went to get ice. I came out. There was hella fools, like, taking, like, from the car, like, staring at the car. And my grandma's like, all these people are staring at your car. I'm like, yeah. Grandma's like, it's very rare. Like, it's not. You don't see these often. And I try to tell him, like, the only other guy that has one is a Mexican. He was my neighbor. My grandpa was like, what? It was the best ride of all time, dude. I think he was just like, wow. Our offspring that I made is if this worked. You know what I mean? And he told my dad later on the night, he goes, hey, I had so much fun getting in Thomas's car and coming to see his house that I need to get out of the house because I'm just waiting to die. He's like, I just sit there every day going, this is it. It's the last day. Because the doctors told me, you can't get mad. You have an aneurysm. You can't raise your blood pressure. But he has a horrible anger problem, so he sits in his room and just waits for death. Dude doesn't want no one to bug him. Nothing. Oh, pissed that he can't do nothing about it because he told the doctors fuck off for five years. And they're like, you told us for five years, bro. We can't do anything. It's too close, too far, it's a clot. So like, you be happy and lay there, just chill and live your life. So you can't like get pissed. He can't get mad at everybody. So he's just like, ah. But he told my dad's like, I'm so glad I got out of the house.
Marty O'Neill
I bet.
Thomas Dopasola
No, my grandpa doesn't say anything besides anger. I'm so glad it's not his vocabulary, dude.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
That happened yesterday. That full ate all the food that we. Oh my God. He came and sat in for like what, two more hours?
Marty O'Neill
Does he have a concept of like, newer things like. No, he's super old school. So he wouldn't know what the.
Thomas Dopasola
He finally stopped caring that I, that I bought the car. Because I know when I bought my other car, he goes, you need to start suffer a little bit. And you get a bigger later. He always suffer a little bit. That's what he always think I've been.
Marty O'Neill
Doing this whole time.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, he doesn't get it. He doesn't get it. But now it's like, oh, grandpa, it's okay. Because my grandma heard her. She said, this is cost how much our house was their property. She's like, this is how much the house was. But in the 70s, in 1974, it's different, bro. You know what I mean? But I, I didn't tell my grandma was like, it's an expensive car, grandma. I think she just assumed or googled it. But I heard her say, it's my grandma. Like, holy, dude, this is real.
Marty O'Neill
Did you hide all your bongs and paraphernalia?
Thomas Dopasola
Of course. Took all my pictures, pretended that this fool was 10 years old. Basically took everything out that possibly could be.
Marty O'Neill
It's funny. Babies and old people.
Thomas Dopasola
Babies and old people. I hide the weed. Exactly. I had to take my paintings down because my uncle Carl's brought his children and they like to be children.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
If you push your fingers through my painting, I'm going to levitate out of here and Because I can't be mad as you're a kid, but I'm out of myself for later.
Marty O'Neill
The ones that look like frosting and it's over.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. One of the children fell down nine steps, head over heels, smacked his face on the ground. I went oh, who's watching him? Dude, having guys. So that's all I did yesterday was guard my little cousins from hurting themselves for about six hours. And then one of them realized that he loves me spinning him. And then my back started seizing. But he doesn't know that my back seizing. So he got so pissed off when I told him no. He even talked to me.
Marty O'Neill
I said, damn.
Thomas Dopasola
Pissed. Threw himself on the ground and screamed for so long. Anyway, kids having kids. Especially kids that aren't yours. Different.
Marty O'Neill
Very different. April's trying to talk me into having another damn kid. No, I know.
Thomas Dopasola
You know, you should do. You should get a vasectomy without telling her.
Marty O'Neill
That's where I'm at in life.
Thomas Dopasola
You should. Really, really, Really. I know it's gonna be cool, but we. We can't handle another job.
Marty O'Neill
It's not even my child.
Thomas Dopasola
It's not even my family. They have so much going on. Could you imagine if Marty had to go again? Going to preschool? Oh, you just got. Emmy's a whole person now.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, that's true.
Thomas Dopasola
She can function. She likes bangs. She, like, cuts her bangs and she looks like Matilda. Yeah, she has an aesthetic, dude, you can't. But if you do, how about this? Here's a deal. If you have another kid, you gotta move a little closer. If Marty lived closer, guys, we would be able to do so much more easier. Is that we can do it now, but having him drive two hours home is not cool.
Marty O'Neill
It's exhausting. Just when I imagine driving an hour and a half to work, just mentally getting ready for some. It's exhausting.
Thomas Dopasola
And then driving hour and a half back after like, oh, that was a.
Marty O'Neill
Well, in two years, my oldest daughter's graduating high school and Cam's gonna be graduating to go to middle school.
Thomas Dopasola
So you think it could be a change?
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, I mean, we definitely want to buy another place and we want to make.
Thomas Dopasola
We want to flip show bass, man. See, you have all the amenities of Orange county and the cleanliness, except with accessibility of. We're in the entertainment business.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, that's true.
Thomas Dopasola
That's all. That's the only downfalls. No, we do podcasts. No, you're more in the edit. You do super. A superstar commercial.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, I know. When I. When they. Because those call times at the commercials I work on are like, okay, cool. Be deep out. And north LA by 7am so you're leaving at four, three days in a row.
Thomas Dopasola
If you. I guarantee if you lived here, you could do 30% more that you wanted by far. And we can have three fools right now in that room editing clips from last week while we're filming this episode right now.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Incredible.
Marty O'Neill
Yes.
Thomas Dopasola
Because what's happening now, guys? I'm looking for another Push Trees warehouse. I'm gonna move Push Trees closer to my house because we don't have an employee. We used to have my cousin Ralph, but he moved away. So now it's just me and Rosie. And Rosie comes over here twice a week, far as hell. So we're gonna put. The papers are coming soon. All right. The papers are almost here. Papers are going to take over this side of the warehouse and this is going to stay the podcast. So we're not going to move our set, but Push Trees is gonna move. I'll just keep a big ass stack of sick Push Tree stuff out there for. Guess I'm coming here anyway. Like, I'll just stock it all the time, easy.
Marty O'Neill
And then so hopefully by even next week coming to very soon, we're getting this new PC, we're gonna start live switching.
Thomas Dopasola
We might even go live once I.
Marty O'Neill
Get good at it. We might just go live and put all our focus on just the social content and just have a live podcast. Who. Who would want that?
Thomas Dopasola
But could you go back and switch some stuff, like after the live.
Marty O'Neill
Not if it's. I mean, I could, but I'm saying it's like, what if.
Thomas Dopasola
What if we're sitting here with Adam Sandler and I'm talking, you switch to me and Adam Sandler, you go back and you miss a whole good face. He mangle. We missed the face because it was on my stupid face.
Marty O'Neill
It would have to be on the clips.
Thomas Dopasola
That's fine. As long as we have it. I think.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, we'll have it. Yeah. You know, we get in, you know, one or two guys in there going live, having people come up here and just work every day is incredible must. Especially now the Push Tree is moving out.
Thomas Dopasola
Incredible, dude. So that's. That's it. We could do a lot. But the thing is, it's gonna be hard for us. We go a lot. We. Our episodes drop Tuesday at 12:30. Right. So we have to go live Tuesday at 12:30.
Marty O'Neill
Idea. It would be all over the place. I bet it would.
Thomas Dopasola
And that's why Rogan doesn't post the same time every week.
Marty O'Neill
There's no way you could do that with guests and everything. So it would be like a. It would be sometime during the week. It would go live.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh.
Marty O'Neill
But then we'd have probably quadruple the clips because I Wouldn't.
Thomas Dopasola
Or we probably do two episodes a week.
Marty O'Neill
We could definitely do.
Thomas Dopasola
We could do two episodes a week because there's no more edit. Marty's three days a week. Josh episode was five hours with six cameras. 30 hours of footage to up to import.
Marty O'Neill
It was too much.
Thomas Dopasola
30 hours to import and then you gotta stack it. Crashing his computer. Kept crashing his computer. Crash. Spotify.
Marty O'Neill
Too big for Spotify.
Thomas Dopasola
We go hard over here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 cameras going right now.
Marty O'Neill
And then I wrote Spotify and asked them to accept different file types. And they're working on it. So everybody, all the new Spotify creator for creators, people, you're welcome because I saved you half your storage.
Thomas Dopasola
Let's go. So that's the thing, guys. And we could just phone it in and go like, oh, let's cut it down to three cameras. Let's go 1080 instead of 4K. Then you wouldn't get this nice smoke going.
Marty O'Neill
It was a goddamn nightmare. But I had to. I'm not even getting into it.
Thomas Dopasola
If we could. If we could go live, guys, we could do two episodes a week.
Marty O'Neill
Especially if we do unrestricted live, too.
Thomas Dopasola
We do two episodes a week, man.
Marty O'Neill
Triple. Triple the overall content output.
Thomas Dopasola
Double. I mean, and then you don't have to tune in and be in the premiere because it's live. If you catch the live, it's more.
Marty O'Neill
Like, oh, let's go live chat going right here on our phones or something. So we can, like.
Thomas Dopasola
And we just know when it's locked in, like 12:30. Be there.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Oh, I like that. That's exciting. Getting something.
Thomas Dopasola
It is exciting.
Marty O'Neill
Is exciting.
Thomas Dopasola
You know what's crazy? That I'd never say after going on stage and doing all that and realizing like, oh, this is it. This is what you do. Oh, this is the. It's like, no lie. I've never done a rail that made me feel like that ever. That was a. Oh, what the difference?
Marty O'Neill
Audience. Wow. I like when there's even like April and Rosie in the back just laughing.
Thomas Dopasola
You can hear it.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, that's nice.
Thomas Dopasola
But no, like. No, just. Not that. Just going, oh, this is why fools do this.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, they're addicted to this feeling.
Thomas Dopasola
I was up till three in the morning smoking bowls. I could not sleep. I was in the car, just juice. Just an hour and a half after, just. Just driving, waiting to get home. Just. I was just like. I felt. I don't know, it felt. It felt like when I. After I. When we come out for football into the first play, it's about to be. Kick off my. Oh, my God. Let's. Let's go. It's the beginning of the game. That's how I felt the whole time up there.
Marty O'Neill
You're doing what you're supposed to be doing.
Thomas Dopasola
That shit's so fun. So the reason I'm saying that, I've never thought I'd be confident in something, and I'm so much more confident in speaking in front of anybody live. Yeah.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
After TED Talk and TED Talk, I was confident after the live show, like, well, these are our fans. Of course they're gonna be stoked.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Then doing the improv, and people are laughing like, oh, the only person's not a comedian here. And they're laughing. Okay. And then doing this improv show with that room. I'll never forget how big that room is.
Marty O'Neill
Having your first three live shows be venues where it's like 500 people, 400 people, 600 people, that nobody probably ever in comedy has had that before.
Thomas Dopasola
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Marty O'Neill
The. The impressions you were doing over more goddamn hilarious.
Thomas Dopasola
The second I did the first twacked face, I heard. That's when I heard the cackle laugh in the middle. And then I heard the.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Hearing a laughter and then travel is the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. It's like a clap at A river. And he goes, it's like the wave at. At a football game. It took a second when I heard the laugh hit the back. I went, people are laughing. Y'all shut up. But I heard it traveled in the background.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, man. Because I heard the people in the laugh, they laugh longer than these people did. So it like, gotcha. I don't know how to describe that. Never experienced that in my life.
Marty O'Neill
When else do you ever hear that sound?
Thomas Dopasola
Never. Never.
Marty O'Neill
Perspective. Honestly, never.
Thomas Dopasola
Exactly. And those speakers are next to me, so I hear my own voice louder than anything.
Marty O'Neill
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Marty O'Neill
Okay, you don't.
Thomas Dopasola
It was odd. I've never performed anything, so I've never been on stage enough to hear the speakers in your own voice projected by you.
Marty O'Neill
Was there a spotlight blasting in your face or.
Thomas Dopasola
No, it was pretty. It was bright. It was bright. But let's move on. There's no way we're here that long. It's insane.
Marty O'Neill
Here we go.
Thomas Dopasola
Let's talk about something drama. I don't know. Whatever that noise is, we have to start. When we do story times, we break for guests like we did story time. We got to bring the in the video over them. Remember that? So here we go. Breaking news. Maybe we'll do a breaking news in the weed industry drama. Here we go. I'm going to get. I don't know if you've heard about all of it. I'm going to give you every single thing I know. And if I'm wrong, I don't give a. It's what I read.
Marty O'Neill
It's fair.
Thomas Dopasola
Okay? Also, I'm not a news outlet, but I did enough research and read enough to know the gist. And then in the comments, you let us know if I missed anything. I'm gonna give you personal experience. So here we go. Boom. Carta is focus too. I heard about him a long time ago. I got a focus too. I used it. I'm like, wow, this thing works pretty damn good. It's actually pretty cool. I like it. Puff cos I never Liked them. They never worked for me until recently. They never really worked for me. I didn't get a fat hit. I couldn't get it. A chug. Do you have a joint? Another joint?
Marty O'Neill
I'll take one.
Thomas Dopasola
Thanks.
Marty O'Neill
Thank you. Cbx.
Thomas Dopasola
Thanks. Cbx. So the card, I use it, a lot of people think I'm like, I'm sponsored and I get paid. If I was paid by everything I like to use, I'd be balling out of control. I've gotten paid from Carter to do a review. Like a. Like a. Like an unboxing. Like, I. Like I do.
Marty O'Neill
It was like three. Two years ago.
Thomas Dopasola
Two years ago. And I went on first smoke of the day with it because I was using it so actively. Like, damn. Well, how much they pay you to bring that? Like, dude, you think I should have got paid to bring. I brought it everywhere because I was so stuck on it. And you know me, I go through phases of. I'll bring a bong with me every day until, like, it's dirty and I forget about it and I go, oh, yeah, I used to bring bongs every day. Then I just. Joints and then it's donuts. Like, then it's dab for a long. For first three months straight. I just. I don't know. Sometimes it's. I don't know. You know, I just smoke it. So I was bringing the car to everywhere, and everybody's talking shit. Like, dance was getting paid. Now they think about it. Damn, I should have asked, but I wasn't. I wasn't asking. I just liked it. And when I like something and the people are nice, I'm with it. Ask a lot of people I've worked with. Did I charge him for everything? No, I don't care. Unless you want me to make a video and go do that and, like, pay my. My video people. I'm not. I don't care about payment. Like, Ken kept trying to pay me for the show after. I'm like, yo, it's. It's cool. It goes, oh, no. I promise you, this is the one time in life, like, it's cool. I don't want anything. I just wanted to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Goes, no, it's fine. No, it's fine. And then we just kept going back and forth. He goes, we'll talk about it later. Go, yeah, we'll talk about it later then. And the improv paid me a check, and it has an improv on it.
Marty O'Neill
So I'm gonna go frame that.
Thomas Dopasola
I was like, they're like, we have to by law. Oh, cool. Let's go. I don't care if it's five cents, let's go. And you know, Carter, Puffco doesn't really work for me. There was a thing online, remember I taught. We talked about before where I was like, oh, the. The owner of PuffCo was saying that I was bad mouthing the company. It sucks, blah, blah, blah. But then I talked about it because I. I never said anything. I've never said that before. I just said I couldn't get a hint out of it. That was years ago. So people always ask, like, like Fulcrum. Fulcrum brings me Puffco stuff every time he comes. I'm like, oh, thank you very much. It's over there. Sometimes we use it. Sometimes people use it. There we go. Carta is in a lawsuit with Puffco. That's what I know of now. Carta is in a lawsuit with Puffco because Puffco, I believe it's the atomizers. I think they made up the atomizer. And you know, Focus is using atomizer. I don't know all the legalities, guys. This is only from what I've seen and read online. And what I've seen and read online might not be the real court thing, but this is years ago or a year ago on why they're going through it. I talked to Focus personally and they're like, yeah, we're going through this big thing with Puffco. Blah, blah, blah, blah. They asked me, just being transparent, they asked me to do a video for Puff for. For Carter a couple months ago about crowdfunding. And I don't really know what that is. Like, it's like raising money. Yeah, they had to explain it to me. They're like, yo, can you do a video about our crowdfunding to get people to invest? And I was like, no, you want me to, like, get people to pay for your company, but you're gonna pay me to do a video? I feel a little morally weird. They kept offering me, but I was like, I think I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna pass. I like to do reviews. I'll get high, but I'm not gonna sit here and go, hi, Eric Estrada here. Do you want to buy some land? Like, I'm not doing that. Like, those come around. Like, it felt odd to me, so I didn't do it. And then it came out that the. The lawsuit's over. So as far as I know, Puffco, they settled, but puffco won. That's as far as I saw It Puffco won. I see people that like Puffco posting. I see people that like car to posting. And they all are basically saying the same thing. It's like saying yeah, I lost the game. And just being transparent about it and then going, well, I mean we, we. We didn't win. So you lost. If you want to put it that way.
Marty O'Neill
It didn't go down as a win.
Thomas Dopasola
A master of the custodial arts or a janitor, if you want to be a dick about it. That's how I felt like so. So you lost the lawsuit. So what I saw is Poco lost. I mean Carter lost from what I saw. I saw Goblin posting about it. I saw a bunch of other people post. I saw the Focus two people posting about it. The only thing is like I didn't like Puffco products because they didn't work. It's when they've been on my channel that I didn't think they hit hard enough. But now with the atomizer, the big Puffco I told you about the Puffco Pro or whatever, the big thing shreds. Shreds hard as.
Marty O'Neill
That's what Rocco was saying earlier.
Thomas Dopasola
That's what I used the whole day at puffcon with. With a. I was like, wait, what I looked at. He's like, yeah. What do you. What do you mean? I was like from a video or something. Oh, you guys are tripping. Okay. Yeah, it shred. That's what I was using with ot. That thing rips, dude. So I still have my puff cos I still. I mean I still have. I have Buffco. I still have my card is what I'm saying is I don't give a. I don't care. I don't get paid by any of these people. And if I did and they wanted to pay me to side with them, they can keep their money. I don't give a. I cut my stizzy contract because I didn't. They wouldn't come out and publicly say what was going on with those test results. So I gate all their money back. I cut the contract. I don't care about the money. I don't give a. I was broke my whole life. It's okay to not make more money. We still are small, still haven't made up for the micros. Probably never will. We lost money. It's okay. We're going to lose act. We're actively losing money. But it's. It's not. It's okay at the. When I'm old, like damn, I'm so glad I made A billion point two. Or could I be like, oh, I made a lot of money. It wasn't a billion dollars, but it was sick. Or it's like I did everything and I don't know, it's just. It's just odd. It's a weird time like that.
Marty O'Neill
But also, if you would have kept going the other direction, maybe things don't work out as well. Also, like, you don't know.
Thomas Dopasola
I. I always think that.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Like, if I never got deleted, where would I be? Oh, we talked about the Josh. Like, dude, I'm probably just taking it for granted not having to work as hard, you know? It's weird. All I know is this. Don't give a puffco Ribs, Carter ribs. If you pick sides. Remember, you don't get paid by any of them. You don't have an investment in the companies, so don't be rocking it like it's Republican and Democrats and like, you got to pick a side. If you pick one, you're whack. And this is better than that. Is the hash still good?
Marty O'Neill
These are hash vehicles we're talking about.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, it's just like the. The vehicle for your hash. It's okay. Have both.
Marty O'Neill
We're warming up this wax with this.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. What the hell, dude? It's totally okay. But I see people arguing about it. Like, arguing about it. Don't give a. Don't care at all. All I gotta say is that stand up was fun as and I can't wait to do it again. That's all I keep thinking about.
Marty O'Neill
Have you been going, like, super hard with your dab rig? Yeah, like, lately. Of course, that's been your main thing versus anything else.
Thomas Dopasola
I only use Carters and puffcos if I have to. I say that in the videos. Like, I'm not going to use this. That like, as my daily. But when I was using it constantly, it's because I was not home and I was ripping it constantly because I wasn't home.
Marty O'Neill
What about your new bong?
Thomas Dopasola
My new bong? My new bong? Yeah, I. Okay, so this is the thing. I can't do those mountains like these fools do. And I've been practicing in the last three I did. Made me feel disgusting.
Marty O'Neill
When you say mountain, you just mean mountains.
Thomas Dopasola
Like when you pack a bowl like Luke and them, and they go higher than the bowl and they pack it, so you gotta, like, burn it down with a torch.
Marty O'Neill
It's like a.
Thomas Dopasola
Gotcha. It's like three balls in one.
Marty O'Neill
Like, ground up. By hand?
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. No, by grinder.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, Jesus.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. So I got a new piece, guys. It is Lion's glass times sovereignty. It's called 4 by 4 or 44 by 4. I don't know. It's got a bunch of fruit, oranges, slices. It's story time. Orange. It's about 18 inches high. Bad ass. That's all. I don't know what else. I'm trying to describe it. It's so sick. That's all.
Marty O'Neill
You had hella options and you're happy you ended up getting that one.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, I mean, the one I really wanted. Do you want. Did I tell you how much it was? It was $15,000.
Marty O'Neill
Jesus Christ.
Thomas Dopasola
I went up to him like, oh, how much is it?
Marty O'Neill
What?
Thomas Dopasola
No, not happening. I'm not doing that to myself. My rig, I spent 4k on, and that hurt my heart, but it was worth seven, so. Okay, if I want to sell to get my money back at least, and with this orange bomb, I want to sell it, I'll get my money back at least.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, but not for 15k.
Thomas Dopasola
No, I bought way too. Not even. Even half of that. Hell no. This is just a little investment pieces. I wouldn't spend that much money on a bong. I want to keep forever. Or maybe I will. I don't know. All I know is this. It was a panic buy because I walked up and they were like, you were. Everyone's waiting on your pick. I was like, that one. So I really wanted. I told the guy the budget. I was like, I want to spend half of what I spent on that. I was like, My most I want to spend is this. And it was half of that.
Marty O'Neill
They rushed you into doubling it?
Thomas Dopasola
I missed the regular bong auction, and I was only at the heady section, so they were like, hey, everybody that doesn't really want to hurt their heart by the first section. But everybody's like a glass collector. They resell. So I get it. I mean, I'm just smoking out of it. I'm keeping it clean as hell. I got distilled water, I got zeps. I clean it after every use. Every time I'm done using it, I wash it out so there's no spots to get stuck on it. Like, if I'm done, I don't leave it out all day. Yeah, I'll hit like five, four bowl. Everybody gets done with this bone. All right, we'll clean it out. Cuz keeping it clean is. Is vital. That's what she said. Anyway, new piece. All right, new pieces. How long have we been here for real?
Marty O'Neill
Hour seven that's.
Thomas Dopasola
What I feel like. It's not true. Anyway, we told Marty today we got to set a timer today because we really have to do an hour and a half. We've been saying that for three years. I get it. Very repetitive, redundant at this point. But we drop a day earlier now. I mean, we drop a. We filmed it three days late because Thanksgiving and the improv, we've been having.
Marty O'Neill
Shows, we've been traveling, we've been having holidays.
Thomas Dopasola
It's one of the first times we didn't, like, have a bunch of notes ready to go. Because I've got to be honest, guys, Thanksgiving was last night. I had the improv. I haven't been doing anything. Like I said, I have been lagging this whole week, but in, like, a prep way. Love the podcast. Like, that was so important that I had to be prepped this. I'm not sitting in front of hundreds of people.
Marty O'Neill
So what's next as far as live comedy goes?
Thomas Dopasola
I think I'm just gonna start doing little shows here and just start doing.
Marty O'Neill
Open minds Yourself, basically.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah.
Marty O'Neill
It's easy.
Thomas Dopasola
Dm. Like, hey, guys. You guys, Any spots around eight? Like, actually, we do. Cool, perfect. I'm gonna come up. Can I do 15 minutes? Yeah, like, oh, yeah. Do you want to be paid? No. They're like, perfect. And you posted it. Shout out to the improv for reposting my.
Marty O'Neill
Wow, that poster was so sick of you and Ken too. The little side by side shows her poster.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, the flyer.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
There was a poster at the show.
Marty O'Neill
There should have been.
Thomas Dopasola
You should have stole me one. Yeah, that was cool. That was pretty sick.
Marty O'Neill
Did you listen to Kendrick's new album yet?
Thomas Dopasola
I'm seven songs deep. I'm about 48 minutes in. Anthony Jell's next new Stand up special. I will say it right now. That's probably one of the best joke writers I've ever seen in my life. The way this fool sets this up is like when we hear Boldy James say some, and you're like, what does this fool just say? And when he says that, goofy, like. But not a bad goofy, but like, some funny. Yeah, like, wow. I think just, like, hysterical because he's talked about. I won't give it away to watch. He talks about how something was a closer. And he says it. I'm like, that was pretty funny. And he keeps it going. Go, oh, that's why you're a professional. Oh, my. I'm sitting there like, that was so hard to write. I can't how what he's just a different type of humor.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
All of it is is fictional. None of it's real.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
You can do whatever you want when.
Marty O'Neill
It doesn't happen really opens it up. He's fall.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh my God. He's funny. Anyway guys, I I'm. I'm just happy. I'm stoked. I'm genuinely stoked. I feel like I'm more of an adult. Like I actually went and did something that I am not down for and not in my comfort zone in any way, shape or form. One thing I will say is I really really I always say all the time and I'm actively still help trying but I really gotta not be fat. Trying to do the breath control up.
Marty O'Neill
There was hard to not get like out of breath.
Thomas Dopasola
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Marty O'Neill
You can see.
Thomas Dopasola
And it's just this improv behind me. I look like a weaker. It's like a. It's like the butterfly effect of, like, that face on the street. If I was with my homies doing drugs.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
That's the face I'd be making right now. It looked nasty. It's like a peek into a different universe.
Marty O'Neill
Tweaker Thomas.
Thomas Dopasola
Tweaker Thomas, Thomas and friends. What are we gonna build today? We're gonna steal steel, Copper wire. Yeah, I like that. Hey, boots. Oh, that's Dory Explorer still. Damn, Marty. People sucking them down over there. Jesus Christ. Here. I know we're not gonna be here that long, but just keep going. All right, We've been talking. I noticed this. Here we go. Talking. Talking. This is a conversation that you're a part of. This is a conversation you're in. I mean, this conversation you're not a part of. Conversation you're in. But I don't think it matters. I watch a lot of shows like that, and I like them both. So. Addressing the camera. Yes. There's options.
Marty O'Neill
All right, so we got the Bills game coming up.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, yes, we gotta.
Marty O'Neill
I heard Rosie ordered a bunch of.
Thomas Dopasola
Did she?
Marty O'Neill
That's what I heard. It'd be sick to see.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, poss. You know, I'll wait. I'll wait. Let's not even talk about. I wasn't talking about Nico. Let's just wait. Coming up very next week, I believe we got Tommy G coming back. Got Tommy G in the house next week. Boy, I'm. I'm juiced. We're gonna wrestle him right on the table.
Marty O'Neill
I'm excited for this one.
Thomas Dopasola
He was, I feel like first guest in the. In the set. That other set.
Marty O'Neill
That was a weird episode because it was our first interview, like, with a team. Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
I was doing. When we were doing the ad reads, and I would keep saying, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
That's when I realized, like, oh, this is different.
Marty O'Neill
We were, like, proving ourselves as, like, interviewers, and. But we needed the Tommy G episode here in our show. Just, like, normal.
Thomas Dopasola
I'm excited for that one.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. And. And there was a bunch of, like, technical issues on that one, too. That annoyed me.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. So a whole lot. Okay, so I want to talk about one other thing. When I was about eight years ago, thca powder was super, super, like, boutique. Is it dispensary. Thca powder. And they used to do things called. You guys remember moon rocks?
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Right when I moved here, they were cracking.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, they're still. They're still doing good. But a lot of moon rocks that aren't, like, on a wreck brand, a lot of moon rocks. People, like, put some in there. Yeah, People say moon rocks are a way to cover up your trash weed. I put, like, venom OG when I made my moon rocks. Don't you want the most fire we possible? Like, it's. That's like. It's cool, you know, like, oh, let's make this stuffed burrito. Let's put the worst cheese in there. But the beans are good.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Like, oh, so you're gonna ruin it. So moon rocks are nug. You coat it in wax or like, you know, hash. Like, wax distillate. A lot of people use distillate. And you cake it with keef. Some people do thca powder, so it's all white, you know, TCA powder. Looks like, like old dogs dried up dog. We. We introduced it on the dopest like. Like last now, like nine, ten months ago. Gone in seconds, literally. I couldn't believe how fast it went. And you know, there's a lot of people out there, like, that's. It's trash. You're covering up trash. I mean, dude, you can cover up trash. Anybody can. But what about, like, the percentage of people that are not covering up trash?
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, you don't have to.
Thomas Dopasola
You have to. A lot of people assume the worst because that's what they would do. True. And they can't fathom somebody else not being like them.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
And that's really what it is, you know, people, all that behind the scenes, they're. Dude, now there's no way they're like that. But no, it's because you couldn't. And you can't fathom that someone actually would do good. Like, a lot of people think I'm bullshitting on stuff, dude. If I smoke weed for a living, the universe loves my ass. I do good things as much as I possibly can when no one's looking. It's an example. The fuck. It's a pretty good example of it. So, like, just. You could just. You can't trust that some people are just. They do good shit.
Marty O'Neill
It's possible.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah. So we're about to reintroduce it again because we. I didn't want to do too much of it. We were gonna drop like eight strains. I decided to drop only two. Two or three. So I don't want this to have a bad effect in the terms of people saying, oh, they Got hell of this stuff. And so thca powder, even though people were. It was sought after. And now that it's thca with thca powder, people, a lot of people don't get it. Like, it's just. It's just. I'm not here to explain it. Google it. But we're reintroducing. We call them snow caps. We're reducing those again, so we'll be back soon. But I have four packs in my house for samples. And it's just white nugs every time someone goes in. What is that? Oh, it's powdered on top of them. Like, oh, wow, that was old. I'm like, no, it's not old. Funny, you know. So, yeah, that's coming back. But other than that, I'm really excited for what's to come. It's about to be December. I could I start with Rosie's trainer and I. Or that training place next. Not next week. The next week should be cool, Man. My back is getting better.
Marty O'Neill
I just put up my home gym, the start of it. I woke up this morning, came on the stairs. Cam was lacing his shoes up. He's like, I'm going out for a run outside.
Thomas Dopasola
By himself?
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, he just run. Runs the neighborhood now.
Thomas Dopasola
By himself, apparently without telling you guys. I guess you think he's kidnapped.
Marty O'Neill
It's a good point.
Thomas Dopasola
He should tell you that he's leaving the house.
Marty O'Neill
He definitely. I'm hoping he would have come up and told us.
Thomas Dopasola
He needs to, because that's so scary.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, for sure.
Thomas Dopasola
Your child's just gone.
Marty O'Neill
He does have a phone when I have his location and. But he. I'm assuming he would have came up and told us, but 21.
Thomas Dopasola
I do what I want.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Well, you know, he's got freedom.
Thomas Dopasola
He comes back with cat scratches. Like, when your cat goes out into the neighborhood, just know what comes back. Beat up. Yeah, right. Some of his fur is missing. And she does this.
Marty O'Neill
Him and his friends got, like, little ramps set up in the woods, like in the little trails that they got their bikes going. He's got a mountain bike now, so.
Thomas Dopasola
He has a real child.
Marty O'Neill
But then he comes back and he's like, hitting weights for the first time ever. Now he's, like, squatting the Olympic bar. He's hitting the curl bar. I had him doing decline presses, like, all that. He was, you know, I mean, it was his first time really actually lifting real weights.
Thomas Dopasola
He's 11, 10. 10. That's right.
Marty O'Neill
But he's into it. He's like, I was. He's hang timing himself. Hanging on the chin up bar. Got to like 35 seconds. He's like, bro, forearms. So ridiculous. His coach, he's. He does the indoor soccer now, which is way more fun than regular soccer. And he was just like banging in goals. You saw the video. He made an edit. Highlight, Real edit of his. Of himself.
Thomas Dopasola
This fool made his own edit of himself. But his don't have the confidence. A fraction of the confidence.
Marty O'Neill
It was sick. I want to hire him as editor if he could.
Thomas Dopasola
I mean, like a mixtape cover picture.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, all little sound effects. Come on, man, that's too easy.
Thomas Dopasola
Tell them to bring me my money.
Marty O'Neill
Nice.
Thomas Dopasola
This is air traffic control. You're cleared for takeoff.
Marty O'Neill
Nice. Coach was like. His coach took him to one of their games out in la. And he's like, your kid is Jim Carrey. Like, he doesn't ever stop. Your kid's like the funniest kid I've ever been around. I'm starting to realize it. At some point, his goofy, silly personality just stuck and it never turned off. It's just him full time now.
Thomas Dopasola
Awesome. And he's athletic. Oh, he can turn into a career. Yeah, he just goes on stage and beats people's asses. That doesn't laugh. And then gives him health. Health advice. But yeah, he's silly as young Christian McCaffrey.
Marty O'Neill
For real. I hope I really got to start lifting because pretty soon he's getting tall.
Thomas Dopasola
He'll start making you take out trash. You do everything.
Marty O'Neill
Keep my dominance established around this house.
Thomas Dopasola
You just always say you can't battle me though. Right? But can you battle me?
Marty O'Neill
You got bars.
Thomas Dopasola
And then he does.
Marty O'Neill
He really might.
Thomas Dopasola
That'd be disappointing. Wait, we started this up this year on time. I say it says episode 49. 20. 24. It would be 48, because we have four episodes of the year left. Right. But anyway, three, three. 52 weeks. But either way, we've never had, like, it work on time.
Marty O'Neill
Well, it's because I. I started. I started it like, I think, but.
Thomas Dopasola
It'S just crazy to see it and go, we're 52 episodes. Oh, yeah.
Marty O'Neill
It lines up perfect for the first time.
Thomas Dopasola
For the first time. This is technically season three.
Marty O'Neill
And it's. It's. Yeah, I guess you're right. Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
Is it technically season three? Season four starts next month. Well, in January.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Sick.
Thomas Dopasola
Let's go. All right. Also, I don't know if you guys have noticed it, but we're starting to get. Not age restricted anymore. But you're not getting your notifications. We're doing everything we can. We see it, we notice it. We're like, oh, the views took a dip right there. The comments didn't, though. It's okay. We'll get back to it. We'll get back. We're in the doghouse right now.
Marty O'Neill
We're trying to get YouTube not to hate us.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, we're in the doghouse big time right now, guys. So that's. That's just. It is what it is. Nothing else to say. We will get out of it. And there we go. Hopefully doing some more stand up. And they're like, oh, you know, just pothead kids. You actually do something. Because we do actually do something now. What the. But it's just this. If I didn't have my other YouTube channel, I think they would be all right with this.
Marty O'Neill
I think a million percent.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, but what are you gonna do? It's okay.
Marty O'Neill
It's all right.
Thomas Dopasola
That's all right.
Marty O'Neill
On Spotify.
Thomas Dopasola
It's all right.
Marty O'Neill
Spotify is getting up there too.
Thomas Dopasola
It's rivaling.
Marty O'Neill
And when it was, we did the late upload. I really noticed a lot of people like, yo, where's Spotify?
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, me too.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
All the chat. Where's the Spotify upload? Where's Spotify? Let's go.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
But thank you guys so much. Officially. How long have we been here?
Marty O'Neill
120.
Thomas Dopasola
All right, what else? What else? Do you have any. You have anything else in mind?
Marty O'Neill
I'm. We're doing the dvr, the Chiefs Raiders game. So I'm looking forward to. Hate watching the Chiefs tonight. Who was it last night? Oh, the Lions barely pulled out a little victory last.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, I saw that. I saw that. Shout out to my bookie. We're going on some vlogs this next year.
Marty O'Neill
Big shout out to my bookie. Did you see the game where, like, it was. I think it was the Bears game. I could be wrong. Bears and Cowboys, where they went, yo, they could have kicked a field goal to tie the game. And 7 seconds left and they had a timeout and they missed. That was some right there, boy. That made me.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Damn, dude. I don't. I feel like I'm in like a little days. The past couple. Like. Like a lost little haze. The past couple days.
Marty O'Neill
It's not live shows. A lot of brain power.
Thomas Dopasola
Maybe that's what it is. I feel like this right now.
Marty O'Neill
When's your car?
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, I did a live all this morning. Smoked hella balls this morning. Sorry. That's maybe what it was. I feel like this right now. I only spoke three joints, man. What the. Okay, sorry.
Marty O'Neill
When's the car getting on the road.
Thomas Dopasola
With the system and the Monte Carlo? It's done.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, it's all ready to go. It's like on the road. I haven't seen you ever drive it or heard anything about it.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, because. Nice guy. But they didn't do my car right. Like, they didn't finish the dash where it's supposed to be finished under the hood. The parts aren't new. Like, the steering wheel column goes up and down a little bit because the pin's not all the way. Like it's broken. And when I was like, hey, what's up with this? Oh, yeah, the pin broke. I went, so what's happening? I still need to get the side done where he. Where they made my part. And it looks like someone made it. My plaques weren't plaques. They were stickers. And I ripped them off in front of him.
Marty O'Neill
Whoa. Oh. So, like, they tried.
Thomas Dopasola
It's. It's my. It's my own fault. Remember I said. I. I just. All right, yeah, that was. That was my turn. But you can. I don't do that anymore. It's over. Like, yo, No, I can't. You gotta fix it right? It's my own fault. And that's the last thing that will ever happen. It's my own fault. I haven't driven this car. And right at the edge of my hood, there's two pieces of paint chipped. They just didn't even paint it right. It's been in the garage and there's two pieces of paint shipping.
Marty O'Neill
Damn.
Thomas Dopasola
Part of my body kit is not glued all the way on.
Marty O'Neill
So they're just overall really half assed it.
Thomas Dopasola
And they janky. You know what it was? I went, don't worry, man. Take your time. Blah, blah. And when they're like, here's a deposit. Go. No, here's in full. Don't worry. Just get it done. And they go, this fool doesn't give a. He just wants. He has add another hundred bucks on there. Another hundred bucks on this bill. That's what they're doing. And I gotta stop doing that. I know. That's what happened. The interior is nice. The trunk is nice.
Marty O'Neill
It would be the opposite.
Thomas Dopasola
Thank you. Thank you. Like, no, I want you guys to be paid in fools. You're like, oh, dance. We'll pay. Let's crush. Knock this out. No, what they did is like, oh, yeah. Pay for the next job with that. We'll Sit him for a week because he doesn't care about the time. He said, take your time.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
So like, now I'm paying for everything in full and I'm getting pushed back and you're half assing it because you realize, oh, homework's due tomorrow. Oh, my God. I haven't wrote this essay at all. And that's my car. My car's the essay that got rushed at lunch. Dude, I'm the essay that got typed at the library in the morning. My car.
Marty O'Neill
Looks like it was funny just hearing you call yourself a essay.
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a harsh time. That's the first time that's ever. The only essays I like are the ones with headers and footers. I don't even know if they have footage, but I know they have headers. The only essays I associate with are typed. I don't know. I gotta think of something. Only S's I associate with don't have records. There we go. I like that better. Yeah. So my car is just kind of chilling. He was supposed to come this morning to re put my alarm back on because my alarm is draining all my power and it won't start. And then I forgot I had to do this today, so he didn't come today.
Marty O'Neill
Damn.
Thomas Dopasola
Rocco's biting on a metal piece of cat.
Marty O'Neill
He's just chewing.
Thomas Dopasola
He's going to wreck his teeth. That's insane. He's just sitting there biting on a metal glass bottle. Says gnawing on it. Dude. Oh, my God. That was insane to see. He open it. That's what it is. Yeah. My car, my own fault. So that's the last time where I don't take control of every single thing that I'm doing an aspect and let's let it be. That's it. It's my fault. I'm done. Never again. I'm good off that, so I agree. No more. I was about to get this other car and then I realized that I'm not. I'm not like the Rock and I'm not a. I came across this really good deal and I was like, wait, how much do you want for this thing? And I'm gonna do. I told you about the Urus. I was about to get that and I went, what am I doing? Who am I? And I just didn't do it. It's the Lamborghini truck. I almost got it. It looked at it. Oh, my God. Yeah. Remember, we're not buying cars. Yeah, you're buying it. It's always payments. It's always payments. So don't think like your favorite rapper. Like, damn, you bought a Lambo. Like, yeah, he put a down payment.
Marty O'Neill
And, you know, monthly bill.
Thomas Dopasola
Paid a monthly bill, Lambo. Unless you're a billionaire millionaire, you know, with eight figures, nine figures a year. Yeah. Anyway, I almost did it because it was the no down payment, and all I had to do is pay the payment. Oh, my God, I almost did it. But I'm. No, I'm not doing that. I need to revalue my life. It's probably BLEEP that too. God.
Marty O'Neill
I did a little side by side for anybody out there wondering. I did, like, an ABC test comparison between the Denali, the Escalade, and the Tahoe, only to come to realize they're all the same exact truck. Like, literally. If you go ahead and Google, Google, the interior of those three trucks are the newest ones. And tell me it's not the same thing. You might have a slightly different engine, but. What are we talking about?
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, I don't know about cars enough, but Marty's new car is badass.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, we got the new Tahoe.
Thomas Dopasola
It's sick. New SUVs are always badass. That's why I'm just. I feel so stupid about doing that. Dumb. So anyway, back to what we were saying. Not doing that. My car's pissing me off. That's it.
Marty O'Neill
So what do you.
Thomas Dopasola
You're gonna Monte Carlo? I have to get the alarm back in, guys, and then bring it to.
Marty O'Neill
A whole new person to finish it off.
Thomas Dopasola
I was gonna send it to OT's guy. I'm not gonna tell you what's OT's car set up, but that trunk is shocking. It's interactive. It's gonna win shows. Oh, these cars. Unbelievable looking. But we send it to Houston, get it done there because it's cheaper. $2,000 to Houston or spend. How much more to get it done by some guy? I'm gonna get it done again.
Marty O'Neill
Damn it.
Thomas Dopasola
And just sit in my garage so they'll make it nice. It's basically done. They just got to redo. Like, it's caused some cosmetic stuff. Dude. Anyway, yeah, I got my car. I can't even drive it. It's dead. And, like, Kendrick Lamar's GNX album just came out. All of our cars skyrocket, dude, I'm telling you. Because mine, it's like the GNX little brother of mine. But if you got a Grand national right now, that album just made you.
Marty O'Neill
There's only like 500 of them. Right? I don't Know, I read that on Twitter.
Thomas Dopasola
Well, two of my neighbors got one where I live, so. And I'm over here. Oh, Monte Carlo. Like, dang. Nice car, guys. Holy. Mine doesn't run at all. Yeah, I just got to fix.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, it's stickers.
Thomas Dopasola
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're stickers from Hot Wheels. They were vinyl stickers, bro, Instead of.
Marty O'Neill
Like, the metal vinyl stickers. Damn.
Thomas Dopasola
Hey, hey. Here we go. Okay, I'm sorry. The next time we get in here, I'll. You guys can be like, why is this fool doing cocaine again? I'm not, but I'll just be more awake. I promise. Right now, I'm in a brain fog, and I need to snap out of it. I had to fly to Santa Rosa tomorrow morning, but we'll see. It's national hash hole day, and I would like to go be the judge. And they keep asking me. Yeah. And they keep asking me to be a judge. Dare I go? I don't know if I can make it. John just left.
Marty O'Neill
Oh.
Thomas Dopasola
So I can't ride with him now. So I'll figure it out. I don't know, but thank you, guys. Dope as usual. Under dope as usual. Unrestricted. We're about to do right after this. We got some for you, got some stuff to talk about. And watch.
Marty O'Neill
Wasn't there a clip that you wanted to do?
Thomas Dopasola
Oh, my God. Almost an hour and a half. I know. I'm about to ramble after this, so this clip, real quick, before. Let me give you the. Let me. And then. And rewind it. I think this is real. This is from Broward County. Broward, where John's from Florida.
Marty O'Neill
Okay.
Thomas Dopasola
This police department, sheriff's department, when they capture people, do drug busts, do anything, they make tick tock clips and Twitter clips. Well, those. They'll break down what the guy did in front of the guy as he's being booked into the car, arrested, and it's the funniest I've ever seen. I've seen, like, six of them now. Go ahead.
Marty O'Neill
Let me run this through here.
Thomas Dopasola
Okay, hold on, guys. Hold on, hold on. Pearson.
Marty O'Neill
Earlier today, Elijah thought he's gonna drive.
Thomas Dopasola
Through St. Lucie county in a stolen vehicle and get into a car crash. Working closely with the Florida Highway Patrol, not only on the sea, but on land. Elijah's now in custody. Our message is this. The criminals not in St. Lucy. You have it. I feel like it's real, dude.
Marty O'Neill
If this is real, it's kind of like. I feel like it's real. You're kind of Judging this dude early. Right?
Thomas Dopasola
Like the other ones are like, they show like. So he had this in the car. This in the car. This in the car. He thought he's gonna come through our town and deal drugs. Well, it's just so good how they do it in front of him. I hope it's real. If you guys can leave a comment, help me out.
Marty O'Neill
Somebody let us know.
Thomas Dopasola
I'm pretty sure that's real.
Marty O'Neill
There wasn't anything too insane about it. Other.
Thomas Dopasola
No, no. The other ones I've seen.
Marty O'Neill
Earlier today, Elijah thought he's gonna drive.
Thomas Dopasola
Through St. Lucie county in a stolen vehicle and get into a car crash. Working closely with the Florida Highway Patrol thing. He just went outside with no shirt. You like he's got no shirt on. He didn't take it off on the high speed chase.
Marty O'Neill
I've never found myself driving without a shirt on.
Thomas Dopasola
Where was he gonna go? He can't even go in the store.
Marty O'Neill
I mean, it's Florida. That might just be a thing.
Thomas Dopasola
Maybe.
Marty O'Neill
Look how happy this.
Thomas Dopasola
He's juiced.
Marty O'Neill
Dude, I've never seen a bigger smile.
Thomas Dopasola
Florida Highway Patrol, not only on the sea, but on. Elijah's now in custody. Our message is this to criminals not in St. Lu, bro.
Marty O'Neill
You're calling this guy a criminal, but he hasn't been convicted yet. Unless he's a repeat. I mean, looking at this fool, I'm sure maybe they.
Thomas Dopasola
I'm sure they know what's going on, but I think. I think it might be real, man.
Marty O'Neill
I'm going to say that's probably real.
Thomas Dopasola
I'm going say it's real. Don't know, but police.
Marty O'Neill
Get off Tik tok. Come on.
Thomas Dopasola
Or do that. That's funny. That's really funny. Make a Twitter to where you.
Marty O'Neill
Well, I guess that is a deterrent if you don't want to get embarrassed. If they have a huge ready.
Thomas Dopasola
There's no deterrent for any type of threat of any kind of violence or criminal. How many people do horrible things every day and go, oh, I got caught, man. I knew the consequences.
Marty O'Neill
That's why I ran everybody in jail.
Thomas Dopasola
Everyone in jail knew what they were doing. Exactly. There's no deterrent. There's a life in prison and people still shoot each other on Cameron.
Marty O'Neill
It's true.
Thomas Dopasola
Anyway, this episode's called Brain Fog and that's where I'm at right now. But I want to say thank you for being here. Marty. What? 132, 33. Felt it, guys. Thank you for being here. Hopefully this cuts out to about 1:30 on the dot. It'll be the first time ever. And if not, it's okay. Tell your friends about the show because the certain platform we're on right now is not letting anyone know that we have episodes out Tuesday, 12:30 every week. Every single week for over 2, 198 weeks. No, 199 weeks is this episode.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, we gotta.
Thomas Dopasola
Next episode's a 200th episode. We have to make sure. But consistent for 200 episodes.
Marty O'Neill
You know what that takes.
Thomas Dopasola
Let's go. It can't be. We started February 21, 22, 23, 24. Oh, it's coming up on 25. Oh, so two. Oh, yeah, 208. Because that'll be February and that'll be exactly four years of episodes.
Marty O'Neill
It makes sense.
Thomas Dopasola
Chop this table and a half. Wow. Okay.
Marty O'Neill
Took 200 episodes to really dial in.
Thomas Dopasola
Dial in the set.
Marty O'Neill
But I think we did it. We're getting there.
Thomas Dopasola
And just piss off all the platforms off just enough. So thank you, guys. Thanks for being here.
Marty O'Neill
I just got a notification yesterday from Facebook saying, hey, you're not blocked anymore. Basically, they're like, we'll recommend you now.
Thomas Dopasola
Wow. Instagram gave me a 305 day suspension on live. Why did they pick that day? It's such a dumb amount of days.
Marty O'Neill
I saw that. That's pretty.
Thomas Dopasola
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Okay, let's get out of here, Marty. Let's hop straight into Dope as usual, Unrestricted dope as usual. Podcast.com. check it out if you want to see one extra episode a week. Completely unrestricted. That's why we call it that. Show whatever we want to talk about, whatever we want. We just can't show it on this. On YouTube, bro. We'll get kicked off. And that's just the fact. So thank you guys so much for being here. From Marty and I. This has been Brain Fog, La Brea Improv. Super stoked, hyped as hell. That was tight. Whatever you want to call it.
Marty O'Neill
Last thing, what'd you eat for Thanksgiving?
Thomas Dopasola
Everything but brisket. That's what you mean. Oh, I don't know. Like the regular white people.
Marty O'Neill
Nice. Hey, Rosie's macaroni and cheese, green beans with the crumbly on the top. You got some biscuits going. You got some corn. That was about it.
Thomas Dopasola
The sweet potato stuff.
Marty O'Neill
Okay.
Thomas Dopasola
Stuffing, mashed potatoes and stuffing.
Marty O'Neill
Mashed potatoes and stuff. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Thomas Dopasola
All the regular things. Yeah. Rosie made a bunch of crazy things. I just don't eat it as much as I used to, man.
Marty O'Neill
I. I'm just I was so butthurt because, like, I tried to save the Mac and cheese for last. So I ate the things everything else we just mentioned first. And by the time I got to it, I was too eat the damn Mac and cheese.
Thomas Dopasola
I found a new pan of Mac and cheese that no one touched this morning untouched because Rosie made two and I dug right into it. I've never dug into a it says unless it's hometown buffet and I'm a little fat piece of getting the first one. Other than that, I've never done that before. It's pretty cool. All right, thanks, guys. Thanks for being here. Appreciate it. I need to snap out of this.
Marty O'Neill
We got a lot of deals going on, discounts around this time of the year.
Thomas Dopasola
So dope as usualpodcast.com sponsors. You can click sponsor or slash sponsors and it gives discount codes for every single sponsor that we have.
Marty O'Neill
That's the best thing to do.
Thomas Dopasola
And a link support the show and the link right to it. Appreciate you guys. Shout out to my book again, sending us on vlogs next year. Super hype. Thank you guys so much for being here. We appreciate it. Marty, let's get here, guys. Guys, as always, this has been the dope as usual podcast. This is Marty O'Neal. My name is Thomas Dopasola, whatever it is that you want to call me. All right, thanks for being here, guys. This was fun. Have a dope ass day. Perfect. Perfect.
DOPE AS USUAL Podcast: Episode Summary – Under Pressure
Release Date: December 3, 2024
In the "Under Pressure" episode of the DOPE AS USUAL Podcast, hosts Thomas Dopasola and Marty O'Neill engage in a candid and humorous conversation, delving into personal anecdotes, family dynamics, the challenges of live performances, and the intricacies of maintaining a successful podcast. The episode is marked by raw honesty, relatable humor, and insightful discussions about balancing personal life with professional commitments.
The episode kicks off with Thomas recounting his unique Thanksgiving experience. Unlike previous years spent at his grandmother's house, this year marks the first time his extended family gathered outside their usual venue.
Thomas explains the complexities of his large Mexican-heritage family, highlighting familial tensions that often prevent extended relatives from gathering together. Despite these challenges, the event unfolds with a mix of humor and heartfelt moments.
The hosts share amusing stories about family members, including Thomas's intimidating grandpa and mischievous uncle Carlos, painting a vibrant picture of their lively household.
A significant portion of the episode revolves around Thomas's recent foray into stand-up comedy. He describes the immense pressure and exhilaration of performing live in front of a large, predominantly Mexican audience.
Despite meticulous preparation, Thomas faces unexpected challenges during his performance, including a moment of panic when he forgets his lines. However, his ability to improvise and engage the crowd salvages the act, leading to a successful and memorable show.
Thomas's recounting is peppered with humorous insights about handling stage fright, managing audience reactions, and the rewarding feeling of connecting with listeners through comedy.
The conversation shifts to the behind-the-scenes aspects of running a podcast. Thomas and Marty discuss technical hurdles they've encountered, including file size issues and platform restrictions.
Thomas shares a recent experience with a particularly large episode featuring Josh Kesselman, detailing the complications of uploading extensive live footage to Spotify, which ultimately necessitated splitting the episode into two parts.
The hosts also touch upon their strategies for increasing podcast accessibility and maintaining consistency despite these challenges.
Thomas and Marty reflect on their podcast's impressive metrics, including over 60 million views and a global, engaged fan base. They discuss plans to enhance live streaming capabilities and potentially increase their episode output.
The hosts brainstorm ideas for expanding their content, such as introducing more live interactions, increasing the frequency of episodes, and leveraging new technology to improve production quality.
They also highlight the importance of adaptability and innovation in sustaining the podcast's growth trajectory.
Throughout the episode, Thomas and Marty incorporate sponsorship segments seamlessly into their conversation, maintaining the episode's flow while promoting their partners.
Notably, Thomas provides a heartfelt endorsement of Manscaped, detailing the benefits and personal experiences with the products.
These sponsorship mentions are thoughtfully integrated, ensuring they complement rather than disrupt the conversational tone of the podcast.
The hosts delve deeper into personal stories, offering listeners an intimate glimpse into their lives. Thomas shares tales of managing family responsibilities, such as babysitting his younger brother and dealing with his grandpa's grumpy demeanor.
Marty contributes by recounting the dynamics of managing a household with active and energetic children, highlighting the balance between work and family life.
These stories are laced with humor and relatability, making the hosts' experiences resonate with a broad audience.
As the episode progresses, Thomas and Marty discuss future projects, including upcoming guest appearances, potential vlogs, and plans to enhance their podcast's technical infrastructure.
They tease future episodes featuring prominent guests like Tommy G, expressing excitement about deepening their content and expanding their reach.
Additionally, they explore the idea of incorporating more interactive elements into their podcast, such as live switching and real-time audience engagement.
The hosts emphasize their commitment to evolving the podcast to meet the growing demands of their audience.
Interspersed with humor, the hosts touch upon personal health journeys, including Thomas's efforts to manage a busy schedule and maintain physical well-being.
Marty shares insights into his own fitness routine, highlighting the importance of maintaining a balance between physical and mental health amidst a hectic professional life.
These discussions underscore the hosts' dedication to personal growth and self-improvement, resonating with listeners striving for similar balance in their lives.
Thomas and Marty place significant emphasis on their relationship with listeners, encouraging engagement through comments and feedback. They address platform challenges, such as YouTube restrictions, and express gratitude for their audience's unwavering support.
The hosts advocate for listener participation in shaping future content, fostering a sense of community and shared purpose.
This proactive approach ensures that the podcast remains responsive to its audience's needs and preferences.
As the episode draws to a close, Thomas and Marty reflect on their accomplishments and outline their aspirations for the future. They celebrate reaching significant milestones, such as approaching their 200th episode, and express determination to continue delivering engaging and authentic content.
The hosts reiterate their commitment to overcoming challenges, maintaining consistency, and expanding their podcast's reach across various platforms.
Their final words are a heartfelt thank you to their dedicated listeners, emphasizing the importance of community support in their ongoing journey.
Thomas Dopasola [04:13]: "It's the first time ever we've ever done Thanksgiving outside of my grandma's house ever, ever anywhere."
Thomas Dopasola [11:30]: "I've never done that. I've told stories my whole life. Never done the transitions and then the relatability into the story that makes you not feel like, what else?"
Marty O'Neill [43:19]: "Before we get started, go to manscaped.com forward/yolo or use our discount code. Yola at checkout is 20% off plus free shipping."
Thomas Dopasola [38:06]: "What are we gonna build today? We're gonna steal steel, Copper wire. Yeah, I like that."
Thomas Dopasola [73:00]: "For the first time. This is technically season three."
Thomas Dopasola [61:26]: "This shit's so fun."
These quotes encapsulate the hosts' humor, dedication, and the dynamic nature of their conversations throughout the episode.
The "Under Pressure" episode of the DOPE AS USUAL Podcast offers listeners an engaging blend of personal stories, professional insights, and relatable humor. Through discussions about family gatherings, live performances, technical challenges, and future aspirations, Thomas Dopasola and Marty O'Neill create a rich narrative that resonates with a broad audience. Their authentic approach and commitment to growth ensure that the podcast remains a beloved platform for entertainment and connection.
For those interested in tuning in or revisiting this episode, visit dopeasusualpodcast.com to explore more content and stay updated with their latest discussions.
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