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Thomas Dopas
Perfect, Perfect, perfect, perfect. What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Dope As Usual podcast. My name is Thomas Dopas. Yo, whatever you want to call me. This is my co host, Marty o' Neill.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
Mario, Neil. Yeah, two soft ass intros. What's up, guys? How you doing? Welcome back to the Dope As Usual podcast. If you're watching this. I am. This is the first time we've ever banked an episode. We never bank episodes because just we try to do that at the beginning. Like, yo, that's what people do, right? Do like two episodes, three episodes.
Marty O'Neill
People do do that. People have 10 episodes in the bank.
Thomas Dopas
I don't like it.
Marty O'Neill
No, it feels, doesn't feel right.
Thomas Dopas
We're talking about this thing that just, hey, you know what else is in the news? You know what happened? And it's like, dude, that was three weeks ago. When did you film this? Yeah, don't like doing that. But we're doing that now because I'll probably. I like that I have to go to Europe or I'm in Europe currently right now. So if you see me in London. Yeah, that's me. Or Amsterdam. Hello, Berlin. I will also be there at the Mary Jane Festival. Come check it out. It's the biggest cannabis event in the world. And then we're going to France after that. I mean to Paris, obviously in France, but we're going to Paris after that. So if you see this fat Mexican guy like that looks like.
Marty O'Neill
We'Re talking about like five flights, four hotels, I don't know. Rosie handle all that or did you get like a truck?
Thomas Dopas
We all did it. No, me, Rosie did it all. It's terrible. We're stopping in London for a couple days and then we're flying. We could take a train, but it goes over the ocean. Not doing that.
Marty O'Neill
So what are some prejudices that you expect to see when you get there?
Thomas Dopas
I'm not very good with learning cultures, so I haven't left. I don't know other languages. So me going, just tell me how much it is. I'm going, can I use my card? Can I just use my card? Visa works all over the world. Correct. I'll just be using my card because I don't know what to do. Like Joe Dirt with all the oil. I'm new, I don't know what to do. I'm just dropping money. Like the first time I went to Mexico and I was like, I'm giving everybody like 15, 20 in tips, right? Like no, full and pesos. No, I'm doing dollars like, oh, oh, am I up? Every time everybody did anything for him, I was like, here, here. Right? You're supposed to tip people. Like, dude, no, not $20. Every time I spent like 400. This is back when I was like, I'm scraping all this money together because you go to John's destination wedding.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, yeah.
Thomas Dopas
I had to put the damn flight on a credit card. I was like, dude, I got a 40 flight. What are you doing to me? I still did it. I was like, I'm tipping everybody. And they were like, dude, what? Oh, my God. I don't have money as it is, you bastard. I spent how much money on tips in the first two days, Stupid. I thought. I thought that's what you're supposed to do. Anyway, yeah, I'm going to London and I can't wait to see Brown. People talk crazy. I talked about this. Oh, I can't wait to hear from fools that look like me.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, you should just do the accent. Really. Just lean into it.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, hi. The whole time I just sound like an American doing, like an English accent. Hello.
Marty O'Neill
Host your vlogs.
Thomas Dopas
Like, that was yellow and I'm here to do. I just sound like my nose plugged and I sound like a beto. Yeah, it's not like the Beatles. That's all. It sound like a high version of the Beatles. Well. Oh, hell no. How much is a pound derogatory word.
Marty O'Neill
For joints in London? Like, they do cigarettes, Trans girls smoking, transition.
Thomas Dopas
If you don't know what cigarette in London means, just Google it and then go, oh, then you'll know why Marty said that. Let's go. Here we go. Bunch of. It means guys that drive. Like, that's what. That's what they call fools and cigarettes in England. Every time someone passes you the drives.
Marty O'Neill
Like when you get there, are you automatically gonna have to manage, like, being stressed out and anxious, or will you just be cool and enjoying yourself?
Thomas Dopas
Just chilling. I got no obligations.
Marty O'Neill
Nice.
Thomas Dopas
I'm going like six days early.
Marty O'Neill
Oh.
Thomas Dopas
Leading into the event and then staying two days after.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, gotcha.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah. So we can. Yeah. No, no, no. I'm not going over there just to go to the event and like, all right, I'm here. I'm gonna stop on the way. Anything. And break up the long ass flight. I'm down.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
So that's what we're gonna do. It should be cool. So I'm currently there. Come say hi.
Marty O'Neill
Did you make sure they got, like, vegetarian food on this flight?
Thomas Dopas
I don't probably. I'm gonna drink myself I just want to sleep the whole flight. Oh, that was terrible. No, I just want to sleep. I just want to sleep. I don't want to look at anything. I don't care about looking out the window. I don't care what movies on. I'll probably watch Bullet Train, because I always do. It's like a movie and then. Yeah, I can't wait to be off this flight. It's tomorrow.
Marty O'Neill
So when do you get to. When do you get there?
Thomas Dopas
I leave at 2pm here. I land at 8am there.
Marty O'Neill
The next day.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, I think if that's the next day, doesn't make sense. We're going to travel with the sun.
Marty O'Neill
So are you, like. Did you have to line up, like, everything, or are you just, like. When we get there, we'll Uber to the hotel. Like, Uber works there. Like.
Thomas Dopas
That. Rosie. Rosie definitely took care of. Because I'm not gonna be able to drive there. I'm not driving on the right side.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, yeah.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, it's not gonna do it. I don't trust myself. I'll just Uber or walk. Taking not one strange, like, smidge of weed. I'm taking nothing.
Marty O'Neill
That's a good idea.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah. Not taking a. I'm cleaning up my bag, making sure everything's out of every pocket, that nothing needs to be taken. I'll find it there if I really need it. My chest's been hurting anyway. My lungs, like. I'll take a break, dude.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, damn.
Thomas Dopas
If I have to, I'll take a break. It's just gonna be a different experience over there anyway. Hanging out and looking at. I can't wait to eat beans and toast. I love babies. Let's go. All right, let's. Let's move on. I'll be in line then. Okay, ready? Okay, guys, so I think I want to start this off with a story. But for that story, I want to show you exhibit A. Marty, can you please bring up the one video? Watch this. Maybe mute it, because it has a. Has a. So look at that guy. He an inspector on a house. Look how hard he's twee. Look at him. Unless this is a skit.
Marty O'Neill
It'S like he's playing a, like, metal banshee, right? He's so into what he's doing.
Thomas Dopas
The way he ties his shoes, the boots he has on. This looks real.
Marty O'Neill
And the way the dude's, like, kind of, like, scared to film them all in his face.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, look at that. So. So this leads me into my story.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, okay. This is. If you like clips like this, we Do a segment called what the Is this Full of smoking. I'm unrestricted.
Thomas Dopas
That's a true statement.
Marty O'Neill
This gentleman would be a candidate for this category. Thank you, sir.
Thomas Dopas
Yes, sir. All right. Oh, wait, this is out. We now have pre rolls. Finally on the dopa shop. Let's go. Finally have pre rolls. Awesome worker art.
Marty O'Neill
These things are chunky and heavy duty. So what would you say this fool is smoking?
Thomas Dopas
I gotta be honest. I think he's just on meth. His coke doesn't do that. That. That hard to you. His body's uncontrollable, dude. Okay, that's my dad job. I see the bottom teeth poke out. Oh, that's my dead. Y' all. Catch y' all.
Marty O'Neill
Can we real quick drop a quick disclaimer about the sensor and the episodes, what we're doing out there?
Thomas Dopas
We're just gonna stop censoring them. Dude, we keep getting age restricted anyway. We were trying to censor him just maybe the first 30 seconds. Yeah, or like the first two minutes.
Marty O'Neill
We don't want to do it. You guys don't want to listen to it. We're trying to appease YouTube and not get the channel completely just blackballed. Demonetized.
Thomas Dopas
Kidding.
Marty O'Neill
And it doesn't seem to really matter.
Thomas Dopas
No matter how much we've viewed it. So here we go. Are you ready for the story? Are you ready for the story? I'll sit back a little bit. It's better than this camera. There we go. Here's here. Ready, Vlad? TV angle. What's this? And I swear, dog, I wasn't on probation this time, but I did kill him. Don't post this. Like, dude, they've been posting some crazy incriminating on that channel. The people say the craziest. Kids say the darndest things. Dude. That's how I feel like, dog. You know, say that. So you see that tweak face, jaw? This leads me into my story. Okay, so last weekend. I'll get into the whole weekend later. But last weekend, I was going to an event, so I called an Uber, like some people do. I called an Uber because Rocco's flash is on, or his thing is so loud. Click, click, click, click. So I called an Uber, right? This is what happened. Let's just say this. This is called why I only do Uber black now. So I'm like, I'm going all the way to almost by lax. And it was $138. Went, oh, my God. That's how uber Black is at 220. It went, oh, Lord, no. I'm going normal. Picked it a nice old man. Oh, nice old man. Cool. Canceled on my ass three minutes before he got to my house. Went, all right, you jerk. So, boom. Another guy. I went, okay. Younger, sportier, car. He'll get me there faster is what I'm thinking. They get in the car, and he's a normal guy. Hey, what's up, man? No reception here. Like, yeah, yeah, that's just pretty bad. And we get eight. Eight rolls of tie. Like, one, two, three, eight rotations. Thank you. Rolls of tires. Thanks for the road. Thank you. And I'm like, is this full tweaking? I'm looking at him like, is this full tweaking? I'm sitting, not behind him. In the past. I'm gonna. I'm in the back seat. I'm behind him. I could see the side of his face. And you know when you're the side of someone's face, they have glasses on. You can see their eye under the glasses. Unless of the wraparound softball coach glasses. I can see his eye, and I can see him like. I'm like, all right, maybe it's a twitch. I had a teacher that had that twitch. I don't judge him. Then I'm like, this fool's tweaking. I don't live that far from the freeway. I get on the freeway, and by the time we get to the free, I'm like, I might have to get out. I don't want to be around. I hate being around tweakers. Not even that dangerous. It was the fact that I'm like, I don't want to be around a tweaker this long. It's an hour drive. I don't like tweakers. I hate looking at it. Ah. Anyway, we're driving. He has his phone on that little Uber stand they all have right there in the middle, right? And I'm watching him. I could see him. He touches his phone to look at the map, but what he really does is presses down so he could see all of his text real quick, and he throws them back up. It takes, like, two seconds. And he's doing this, touching it. 4, 5, 6, 7. Doing it again. Changing the song. Changing the song. Earpods in. Changing the song. And he's just doing. And he's touching everything. And then he's touching the little knob on his steering wheel that does the volume, but he's not flicking the volume. He's just touching it like this. I'm watching him like, I'm gonna. I want to sock this fool for allowing yourself to be a driver right now. Like, looking like this. I was just mad, like, would you even realize what you look like? You're pissing me off. And I'm looking at him, looking at his eyes. He's just. Oh, my God. I can see him just touching, like, the outer shell of the logo on his steering wheel. Looking over his right shoulder, constantly. Ready. I'm not going to describe it all. He's changing lanes so rapidly that I'm like, this o. All right. Damn. All right. It's not dangerous, but okay. And then we get out of the traffic, and then this fool hits 84, and I'm like, if you hit 85 on my dog, let me the out of here or slow down. Why are you going this fast? And he slows down. I'm like, I'm letting it be real nice. He's cutting in and out of lanes, like, all right, it's cool. You're getting me there faster. I'll shut up. And then he just starts, like, scratching his arm, right? I'm gonna be him for a minute. Glasses on, open his text. And every time we slow down, this full hops on his phone. I'm like, is he texting? There's no way he's texting while we're driving. Not tweaking. I look, I'm like, I can't see because he's using his left hand. I'm like, you little bastard. It's all right. I'm in the car. I'm about to be late for this event. Like, if I wasn't late, I would have got out already. You. The guy canceled on me, so I had to wait another eight minutes. I'm about to be late, and I have the tickets. So I'm like, ah. And Omar's texting me, like, you close. Like, oh, my God. I'm nine. I'm not. I was 19 minutes late. Anyway, we're going. I'm like, all right, now we're on the 405. I'm getting so frustrated that I'm still allowing myself to be in this car. And I'm like, I've done a lot. And this right when we hit the 405 going toward. Toward Beverly Hills, I'm like, I've worked so hard to do so many things, and I'm cheaping out on my safety of my life. What am I doing? Am I uber black? Only, dude, only from now on. Anyway, we're driving. I look down, and I'm like, he's been watching a podcast this Whole time. Oh, it's in the corner of his screen. I didn't notice it. That's where you got the earpods in. There's no way you've been watching. That's why he keeps looking down like you've been watching us this whole time. That's why he's just moving around. It's like he was touching everything. He had this drink, and he kept touching it. I could see his straw, and it was not even touching his lips. Most of the time, he's just. And putting it down. He wasn't even drinking half Marty. You know what you could see?
Marty O'Neill
Serial killer.
Thomas Dopas
He was just tweaking. And he looked like a normal. He looked like Aaron. Normal dude. Like, scruffy beard, normal guy. Normal guy. And I'm like, I'm gonna suck. This guy was so mad. And I was thinking, as soon as we pass this traffic, I'm gonna go, hey, man, let me out. I feel sick. Everybody get out my hay. You need to go home. I can't ride with you no more. You're tweaking. And I got McCall Uber Black. I was like, if I could, but it would have added 10 more minutes. I'm like, no, no, no, I'll wait. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. Every time. I'm like, hey, can you pull over? I feel sick. Just so I wouldn't make him feel like, what do you mean? I'm driving weird and him freak the out on me or something. Yeah, it's like, nah, let's just not do this. Let me just pretend like I'm gonna throw up. Oh, yeah, get out of my car. All right, bye, man. And let's just go by, hey, dude, don't let this guy drive anymore. This guy's a nuisance and a menace. Not done. We're driving. We're driving. We're driving. We get out of the traffic, so we're going normal speed. As we're going normal speed. I look down. I'm just staring at this guy because I can't look at my phone in the back seat of a car. I get sick every single time. I don't know why. So I'm just pissed looking at this guy. Like, I can't believe I'm letting myself do this. If I crash, this is my fault for cheaping out on the only thing that matters is my safety. What am I doing? We start going faster, and we're like 70. We're the fast lane. All right, we're cool. We're cool. I look down and this fool has no shoes on. Now, when did he take them off? I don't fucking know. He has no shoes on. I looked. He had shoes on when I got in. He slipped them off when he was bending. I thought he was scratching earlier. He was taking his fucking shoes off while we're driving.
Marty O'Neill
He's driving barefoot.
Thomas Dopas
He has socks on. I'm like, wait, how do you want to know? You want to know how I didn't know he had shoes on? You know how I found out? Like, you don't have shoes on? I looked down, and his left leg is now curled under his body, under his right leg that's driving. And he's scratching his foot, like, touching and popping his toes. If you had no shoes, if no socks, had to throw the up. And I said, they're just like, I couldn't hate this more than right now. I hate him. I hate him. But get me there. I'm like, we got 17 minutes to get there, and I'm gonna be 19. Or I'm gonna be 19 minutes, Sam, to be late. We go to WWF. I got the tickets. Omar's sitting out there like, you here? Like, no, I gotta get there. No, he's texting me like, I'm here. I'm in the front. Like, no hurry. We're getting there. He's actually driving pretty aggressively. I'm like, all right, at least he's tweaking a good way. At least he's progressively and productively tweaking on me. And he's touching his foot. He keeps touching the knob, and he takes one of the knobs off like it broke. And he kind of like. And kept. Did you just take the COVID off a knob? This fool's twag. He kept drinking. Then he started drinking his drink. And I'm sitting and I'm texting Rosie, I can show you the thread. I might have to get out. Fuck this guy. Because I was, Rosie, getting sick from looking down on my phone, like, oh, God, I can't text right now. And then I'm driving. We get there, we're pulling up, like, two miles from the event center. I'm like, my GPS says we're going, like, a mile past the fucking event. And he goes, oh, yeah. It says you're going way off of the other way. I go, dog, you weren't gonna tell me? And why did it do that? I was going to the Intuit Dome, and it sent me, like, to Sofi, like, around the block. Anyway, I was talking. I'm like. He's like, it's wwf. And he just Went into normal guy. Hey, yeah, I love wwf. When I was a kid, I used to go. I'm like, do you have like a nervous nerve system thing? Because you're not talking twacked nothing. He didn't talk like a tweaker. I don't know what the. This fool was smoking like our segment. What the is this? Yeah, I don't know.
Marty O'Neill
What kind of shape was the car in?
Thomas Dopas
Perfect.
Marty O'Neill
He's probably just a tweakery kind of guy.
Thomas Dopas
I've never seen someone move like that. Ready? You know what he move like. Stick your tongue out. Try to keep a still. Try to keep your tongue still. You'll see it do this. He's gonna see your tongue start to change the station to Spotify. And you just see your tongue start texting people and scratching its foot and popping. That's. Yeah, your tongue does this. That's what his body was doing. It wouldn't stop. It was horrible.
Marty O'Neill
He wasn't in control. It was just doing its own thing.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, my God, dude, he's like. You know what he reminded me of in Men in Black? Edgar. Edgar Igar's skin suit comes up a lot. That. That was him.
Marty O'Neill
I gives a. Actually sugar and water.
Thomas Dopas
Sugar water. More, more, more. Edgar, you look. Yeah.
Marty O'Neill
Goofy ass, way angry.
Thomas Dopas
She just passed away, I think.
Marty O'Neill
Really?
Thomas Dopas
Yeah. Appreciate.
Marty O'Neill
Sir Ananda Lewis. MTV days just passed away.
Thomas Dopas
Recipes. Who?
Marty O'Neill
MTV's VJ from 2000. 2000. Lewis.
Thomas Dopas
I remember her. That's sad. She must be young and satisfied. But you know what? That's why I always get uber blackness. And I'll talk to my accountant, be like, yo, man, you got to help me with these fees. I'm over it, Marty, is what I'm saying.
Marty O'Neill
I'm waiting for. Wait for the uber black joke.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, no. Oh, okay, okay. And that's why I only get uber Black. It's always loud during the movie that I'm watching back there, but it's always super cool. What else can you say?
Marty O'Neill
Pull up a NAS.
Thomas Dopas
My Uber Black. It's always like 12 minutes late, but it's really, really nice inside. But it always ask me. Clock in for me. I'll be right there. My dog. I'm waiting on you. What other Uber Black stor. Uber Black. 12 minutes late, but it'll get you there. That's the slogan. That's incredible. Get. Get mad. Get mad. I don't give a. That's funny. Oh, that's. That's good. Uber Black will have a. The driver will always have a headset on it always be an old man in a suit that's not buttoned. Oh, you see, we should do. People don't know truckers enough. But there's a lot of trucker types, like, growing up at the truck stop, you know, I mean, just there's a certain, like. Oh, that's. You mean that kind of trucker or that kind of truck. You know, people do types of Mexican, like dudes or types of trucker, but only like 12 dudes will get it because just there's not that many. There's not a trucker community. But I'm saying, like, I'd laugh. That's all I'm saying. I think that's what we're getting at, man. Uber black. That's just classic. Can you write that down and send it to me? Uber Black. 12 minutes late, but it'll get you there.
Marty O'Neill
So maybe homeboy wasn't even tweaking them or for sure he was.
Thomas Dopas
I think what it is is because his. His brain was so like, oh, oh. Like this the whole time, guys.
Marty O'Neill
The car.
Thomas Dopas
Like that, with the way cat's heads move. That's how he was driving all over the road. It was bad, dude. So bad that I've saved his tip and rate till I have the time to sit and go. Let me really process what I need to say about this man.
Marty O'Neill
Damn.
Thomas Dopas
This man should not be on the road.
Marty O'Neill
Damn.
Thomas Dopas
He was a menace and a danger to society. Super cool conversation. I think he's on drugs because he's on pills. And the way he was scratching and moving and touching and just. He looked like my homie. Which leads me to this next part. He looked at my homie that disappeared the way he was up. But his eyes were fine. They were just moving because I could see past his glasses. Anyway, I don't know. It was crazy. What's up, guys? Taking a moment to talk about one of our longtime sponsors. And this is my bookie. Remember, bet on anything, anytime, anywhere with my bookie. With you. Use our code. Dope. As usual at checkout, my bookie's doing a 10 casino chip. It doesn't sound like much, but turn it into more. And a 50 match all the way to a thousand dollars. NBA just ended. NFL still far away. But right now, as you're watching this, I'm in Europe, where everyone loves soccer. So go bet soccer. If it's soccer season, I have no idea. I'm from America and we watch football. Remember from the last ad? You don't have to be in Vegas to feel like you're in Vegas. Remember that you can bet with a live dealer right now. It's insane. If you want to play poker right now, you can feel like you're in Vegas without having to deal with all the Vegas stuff. And remember, use code dope as usual and you're gonna get the deal bonus chip of $10. And then you're gonna get a 50% matchup all the way to a TH000. My bookie has been a trusted name in the online sports betting for years. Reliability, fast payouts and 247 customer support. Nothing shady, just fair odds and have fun. If you're seasoned like John in betting or if you're new like me. My book is easy for anyone to play. Remember to use our code when you do the checkout and you're going to get 50% added. What's up guys? Taking a moment from this episode to talk about a brand new sponsor. And as you can see right here, it's a sponsor you guys been bugging for years. It's finally here. Shout out to Puffco for sponsoring the dope as usual podcast. The reason this is the back of the box is is. I don't want to show you the front yet. I just want to talk about it for a minute. Shout out to Puffco. We are the first people on earth to see this besides the people that made it. And that means we're going to be the first people to rip it. So this color is Daybreak. It's perfect. It's like storytime. Orange red. You guys know I'm just getting into the glass terms. It looks awesome. It looks like a piece of crystal. I love it. 3D XL chamber real time temperature control XL capacity chamber XL joystick. Customizable LED lights. A Puffco connect app so you can heat up, preheat, do every single thing from the convenience of your phone. When it comes to e rigs, this is the closest you're going to get to an actual, actual dab. Besides using your rig. This entire collection from Puffco. The Daybreak edition. The Daybreak colors drops on the 24th. Get ready. Go to puffco.com yeah, my hash is good.
Marty O'Neill
Didn't we have a possible sighting on your homeboy? Did we talk about that? That?
Thomas Dopas
Well, that's what I was going to bring up.
Marty O'Neill
Wow. Segue.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, Segue. Here we go.
Marty O'Neill
Okay, now what do you got there?
Thomas Dopas
What's the same one you got? Skywalker?
Marty O'Neill
Nice.
Thomas Dopas
He's the dopest joints boy. You guys, you know the story. My dealers, my dealer. Story time. Is a very popular story time of mine. All right. Before while when YouTube used to just love people, they used to put me on the front page. I never hit trending. They used to put me on like, the front page of like, oh, recommended. I would watch 40, 000 views in like 15 minutes. Just skyrocket. Like, wow. YouTube loved me. I remember one month I get 106, 000 subscribers. It just kept going up every day, every fresh. Wow. Un age restricted videos crush. That's when I was a real youtuber. Now I'm just a weed duber. They're like, you dog. Anyway, when did we get back? Here we go. So I did a story called my dealers. And in that story, there was a guy named John. It's not his real name, but there's a guy named John. Let's call him Jay. Because now, you know, John Hash house is gonna be too confusing. Let's call him Jay. So j from that story, remember, used to love pills. He disappeared, all that. And then about two years ago, I went to a fighting event and thought I saw his girlfriend. Remember I saw her phone. There's a little blonde kid on. I was like, no, what the hell? So remember I said I was getting a haircut here? Downtown on sunset. I'm like, is that Jay?
Marty O'Neill
Right?
Thomas Dopas
I saw this homeless guy. I'm like, wow, that guy looks like Jay. How cool. I haven't seen him in six years. He's been missing for six. It's been 14 years since my homie's been missing. A decade and a half is crazy. No sign of him. Family still has no idea where he's at. Nothing, right? So here's the story time, guys. I was getting my haircut. I was like, wow, that guy looks just like Jay. That's so cool. Cool haircut. There's a window right there on sunset. You can see everybody walk by. Then he bends over, picks up a cigarette butt. He's right outside the window. I can see him. He smiles. I'm like, jay. And I'm like, that's him. And the guy's cutting my hair. I don't want to be rude. I'm like, I'll stare. I'll just look where he's walking. I'll look where he's walking. Soon he stops, like, give me a second. Give me a second. I walked to the window. I'm like, wait, this fool's gone. I got in my car because he finished up. Circle the block, circle the block, circle the block for like 15 minutes. Could not find him. Went down every little. Besides a home, there's nowhere he could have gone, so I don't know where he went. That was like six years ago, right? Maybe five years ago. Nothing since my homie that I brought down here to try to get better. He's not better. He's all. He's outside, so I don't talk to him. It's crazy enough I had a dream last night I was having nightmares. I had a dream last night that my friend's other Jay's little. Little brother, the one I don't talk to that much, was in my dream last night. And I talked to him about this right here. Weird. So this is what happened. So I've heard nothing, right? I heard nothing about him. I was scrolling on tick tock at like 3am Rosie was out of town. I don't sleep really when Rosie out of town, just scrolling, smoking, taking hella tabs. And I come across this video and it's this guy filming like a drug addict. And he's like, hey, what's up, man? The drug guy's like, oh, what's up, dude? Like, kind of like bad. He's like, oh, I see that. He's like, oh, I see what you're doing. He gets like all sad. He goes, oh, you hit that hella hard. Hell yeah. And the drug addict guy goes, what? Yeah. He's like, oh, you're cool with it? He was all embarrassed, like, oh, my bad. And he's, oh, you're good. He's like, damn, fool, you ripped that. He goes, oh, okay, okay. As soon as he went, okay. And I heard his voice and I saw his teeth, I'm like, that's Jay. I screenshotted. I went through every picture I could possibly find in this fool ever. I went through everything. I matched up his teeth, I matched up his hands, his face, everything. His lip, like showing pieces. The ear thing got me. You know when people wear hats and you know those fools that tuck an ear? It's very rare, but you got a homie that tucks an ear in their hat. OG does it.
Marty O'Neill
1 in 25 homies.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, very rare. One group has it, but one group usually got one. Or a cousin, you full tucks his ear in his. My homie does that. And this drug addict fool also had the same ear tucked, had the same teeth, had the front smack like someone beat his ass, but had the same exact lineup of teeth. Had the same smile. And the same druggie. The same. Oh yeah. His voice gets a little wh. He's like, all Up. And when the guy talked, I'm like, jay. So what I did is I DM the guy that took the video. DM'd him. The guy was being very standoffish. So let me tell you what happened. Hey, what's up? This video of this guy, and it won't let me send pictures on Tick Tock for some reason. My. Hey, I'm gonna send you pictures of this guy. I think it's the person in your video. He goes, oh, I know that guy. What's the name? You know? And I was like, I'm not gonna put his name out there like that in case it's not him or my homies name. I don't know. I felt weird. Like, let's just say the first letter of his name is this. I gave him the letter and he goes, oh, that's not him. But I go, dog, my friend's been missing over some serious shit. He's not gonna give you his real name. He goes, all right, I don't know if that's him, dude, because I know this guy. I go, dude, please, please, just at least tell me where he's at so I could talk to him. He goes, all right, hold on. Get my phone number. I get his number. I text him all the pictures that I have of him when we were younger. Like, show that guy this. And if it's the same guy, he texted like, I'm like, doe his mom has missing poster signs. Please help me. That's not. I was like, come on, dude. Like, his family still has missing poster signs of him. It's been 15 years. Help me out. Like, this would be incredible to find him. And now the money that he owed, I'll pay for it. The money he owed to that fool that we were real scared about that we think shot him. I'll just cover it now. It's a lot of money when we were hustling packs, but not that we're. Now that I'm doing other shit, I'll pay for it. Leave him alone. Now he's back home, right? Why wouldn't I? That'd be incredible, dude. I hit him up and he's like, all right, I really want to get somebody back home to their mom if that's what's going on. So send me the pictures and the name. So send to the name and I send him the pictures. Fool will not respond. He will not respond to me at all. Text him 20 times. DM'd him hella times. Comment he's still posting on Tick Tock. Just Ignoring me.
Marty O'Neill
So how do you take that?
Thomas Dopas
That it's him? My homie went, oh, nah, that's tell. Don't talk. Don't respond to that guy. That's it. And that's him, you know, Made me happy. Is that motherfucker's out there still living life. He looked happy in the video. I'll say that he was on one, but he looked happy, dude. He's like, oh, yeah, all right. Yeah. The way he was talking, like, oh, man, he's probably got friends out here. Like, they're all drug at. It was right down the street from here. That's what bugs me. I'm like, dude, I don't know. And I see the big building behind it. I can't. I don't know what building it is. I showed Omar. He knows every. He's like, not from that angle. I can't tell you a building. Oh, man. And they even tagged this, the city or the area? Damn, dude.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, gotcha.
Thomas Dopas
So I got nothing. He won't answer the text. He won't answer nothing. As if I'm right. Called one of my homies, FaceTimed him, showed him everything. About 20 seconds of silence. He goes, yeah, that's Jay. I know. He goes, yeah, pretty positive that's him. Yeah, it is, right. Goes, holy, dude. Because his dad, I don't know. Last time I talked to his dad, I'm kind of good. His mom, I don't have her number. I should go stop by and see what's up, because his little. Little brother has his head on his shoulders. And I'm sure he would like to help get this situated, but not without that guy.
Marty O'Neill
They still have, like, active hope. They're still.
Thomas Dopas
Ah, I think he's gone. I think he's gone for sure. It's been too long. He hasn't been back ever.
Marty O'Neill
So you're gonna show them that when I see him.
Thomas Dopas
I don't want to send that, but. Hey, what's up, dog? It's been a minute. Is this. Is this your brother? J? Could you imagine that? No, that's up, dude. Anyway, that happened.
Marty O'Neill
Well, I mean, Jesus Christ.
Thomas Dopas
And you. I showed you all the pictures, the comparison to close ups and, like, it's his fate. It's him just kind of twacked and older. You got the same everything, dude. Everything's the same. I even matched up the way he was leaning. Everything. I'm looking at, like a forensic scientist and is him. I know it is. It's so cool to know, like, oh, this fool's Alive.
Marty O'Neill
You just came across this randomly?
Thomas Dopas
It had two 800 views, middle of the night, like 200 likes on it. It's a random video from some. And it said, hyping tweakers. That's what it said. I like to hype them up. Cuz he walked. Hey, I see what you're doing. He was like, oh. He goes, that was hard. You ripped. He goes, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, all hyped up. I'm like, that's. As soon as he face me, we go, what? That'd be like me not seeing you for every. That's Marty. What are you trying to tell me? Yeah, he's missed a front tooth, but that's it.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, hell no, dude. I'm too good at that. And looking at people's faces and going, that is my phone. It's so.
Marty O'Neill
It's been weird. You said 15 years.
Thomas Dopas
She disappeared three years after me and Rosie got together. Me and Rosie got together in 2011. We're right out of high school or in college. Basically, he's five years old to be four years older than me. It looked a lot. I mean, unless he has somebody that looks identical to him. Either way, I'll go to my grave thinking that. Yeah, I mean, either way, for the next 50, 60 years, I'll be thinking that. Why would I say that when I'm an old man? I'll be thinking about how I know he's not shot in a mountain.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah. Because it's like a little burden you just carry around.
Thomas Dopas
I think about all the time worry and just. Oh, man. I think about all the time, dude. It's like, oh, man, that feels so tight. Because I don't have that many homies I talk to. So when I do really cool. We do crazy stuff. Like, I don't talk to anybody about it. Am I gonna talk to.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, I know.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah. I don't talk to anybody.
Marty O'Neill
It was weird. All right, so that's. I find myself being. Because I got you in April. You guys already know everything. I drop bombs on my kids. They don't give a. They're like, at this point, it's lost its hit. I'm just riding home, like, all right. I mean, I guess I'll just.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel you, dude.
Marty O'Neill
I know, because I'm like. I mean, you. My calling your homeboys, drop all this on them. Then they're like, it takes a special homeboy to really be able to, like, be happy for Stokes and, like, not just be like, sick. That just be that, yeah, that's true.
Thomas Dopas
I'm just hype, man. I'm trying to be cool.
Marty O'Neill
Exactly.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, I feel you. Let me drink some as well.
Marty O'Neill
I used to try to get everybody asked about whatever I was into. I had to realize other people aren't like that. They don't want to hear that.
Thomas Dopas
Yes, that's true. All right, here we go.
Marty O'Neill
Cracking with you guys. Let us know where you watching from, what you've been up to. If you really love the show, check out unrestricted. You can post us directly. Get on the show. All types of fun stuff.
Thomas Dopas
So I got into this a little bit unrestricted, but I want to get into this fully now that everything is here. Somebody was like, I was on the way the. The tweaker Uber driver. So here's another little story. This is full of a bunch of. Here's another little story. This story consists of, like, 24 hours. Are you ready? A surreal 24 hours. We talked about Unrestricted a little bit, like, laugh acting, all that. But this is the show, like, show we all tune into. If you're on Unrestricted, you are a die hard fan.
Marty O'Neill
We try not to talk about major updates and Unrestricted.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, but I had to, like, just talk about it real quick because I was so, so stoked. But here we go. I know we didn't talk about this roadie episode because it hadn't happened yet. Here we are. Here we go. O.T. maxi. O.T. has an album dropping a, I believe next month. I'm not sure. I don't know what it is. Maybe next month and next month. I don't know. Don't quote me on that. But it's now. I'm dropping a while back. He's like, yo, check the song out. Check this out now. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Thanks. I want to listen to this. He goes, all right, I want you to help me with skits. Oh, cool. I think we talked about a little bit. He's like, oh, hell yeah, I'll help you with skits. Like, no, I want you to write the skits on my album and, like, be on the album. Like, what? Oh, hell yeah. And then if you watch my vlogs, like, yo, I got a line talking about you. I'm like, oh, sick. So on his new album, I think probably the top four of the hardest songs on that album, a three to me on it. He's got like a line talking about getting high with me. Basically, I was like, oh, hell yeah. That's sick, dude. So the other morning, OT Hits me up last Friday. Oh, Wow, A week ago. Hits me up and he's like, hey, damn, it's only been a week. Oh my God, this week has been so long. We filmed four podcasts this week. I did three videos and I'm about to do another one after this. Okay, here we go. Jesus Christ. My brain is.
Marty O'Neill
And took the trip down to O.C.
Thomas Dopas
That was Monday. Oh my God, here we go. Boom. Story time. Crazy 24 hours. Here we go. Oh, tit hits me up. He's all, hey, oh, tits hit me up. OT hits me up. He's like, hey, what are you doing? I'm like, hey, I'm just getting ready to have the Laugh Factory tonight. He goes, oh, hell yeah. I'm doing a video. I want you to be in it. A quick cameo. I go, oh, let's run it. So I go meet up with ot. I get there and it's just me and like the. Anyway, the video's going on. He goes, for this one, it's just gonna be me and you. You're gonna walk it. Anyway, there's like a whole thing where I walk in, you don't know who it is. I say, hey, what's up to this fool? We do a whole nother part. It's like a whole part where I'm in the background and he's like rapping in the front. You see me in the background smoking, you can obviously tell it's me. It's in a creepy ass looking spot. Anyway, I'm just smoking there, hanging out, chilling, right? And usually before like comedy sets, I'm like super not nervous. I'm just super nervous to like make sure I remember my stuff. Not nervous to perform, to remember I've only done six or seven sets. Five different sets in those. They've not all been the same, so I haven't memorized them all. I don't practice until the day of damn near. Because I'm like so busy like right now. If I had a set tonight, whenever we practice from four to six, I've been busy all week.
Marty O'Neill
I.
Thomas Dopas
What the hell? I have never, I've not had any time. So I'm like, oh, you know what? Usually I would say no, but like, I'm gonna do the video because I need to practice. I'm like, I'll print my stuff out, I'll practice on the way. I go to ots, I'll have an hour in between, Hour and a half to do the video. Then I have to go straight to the Laugh Factory because I'm doing a Laugh Factory. I Did two sets on this, this night. So what happened is, did the video sick. Go get changed. Head to the Laugh Factory. So do a 7:30 show, guys. Here it is. Do a 7:30 show and a 9:30 show. I'm gonna do the same set twice. I want to practice it. I wrote a new five minutes in the beginning. So I'm like, all right, let me. Let me get this right. You know what I mean? Let me, Let me get this down. So I'm sitting there pacing in the back, like 8 mile. I'm like, all right. I'm just pasting in the green room, like outside the green room. So I'm not just sitting there in everybody's face. They're all seasoned comedian veterans. And they're like, is this full on? Type his up. Just pacing. So I walk out of the room. So I'm just bugging everybody. I'm sitting there. I'm like, all right, cool. Going through my. My head. I'm not even looking at my notes. I'm like, I got it. I'm going through it. I look up, like, for real random. I look up. It's like, oh, Fluffy in the green room. I'm like, hey, what's up, man? How you been? And he's like, how you doing? And in my head I'm like, oh, he does not remember me whatsoever. Oh, God. That's fine with me. I'm busy. I got to. That's what I'm thinking. Like, I got to do. It's fine. I'll talk to you later. So everybody's talking to him. They're all talking in the groom. I can hear. And I'm just outside of it, just going over my shift, like 15 minutes. And like, yeah, fluffies. I shoots Fluffy. But also, I got to do. I can't be. Not all right, you know, I mean, I gotta get ready. So I'm like scrolling over my stuff. I go back in the room, Green room. Just like, chill for a sec. Everybody's talking. And Fluffy looks over me, goes, you got me high as dope as you usual. Like, yeah. He's like, oh, okay, guys. He looks at everybody, goes, this guy got me higher than I've ever been in my entire life. He's like, I still have weed. It stuck on my office. It stuck up my car. My house smells like weed. He's like, I still have weed. He's like, I can't believe. He's like, this would get me put away in any foreign country. It's like, how much weed I still have.
Marty O'Neill
He still has weed. Two years ago.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, I know. Oh. He goes, I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you off the bat. It's because I was high as hell. Don't worry, dude. It was, like, a long time ago. It's like, I remember everybody. He goes, no worries.
Marty O'Neill
He's taking one puff off the pen at a time.
Thomas Dopas
It was just a sheer smoke in the room that day, I think.
Marty O'Neill
Oh, yeah. He didn't even smoke.
Thomas Dopas
He just got boxed. Anyway. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, okay, cool, cool. So I kind of like, all right, cool. I'm good. I see you remember my stuff, and then you know what happens, Marty? I'm like, wait, am I about to perform in front of this fool right now? Oh, man, that's no pressure. Fuck it. Still gonna do what I was gonna do. But also, I have one of the biggest comedians of all time about to look at my set after I walk out of the room and go, you guys seen him perform yet? No. All right, I'm gonna check this out. It feeds directly into the green room. Big screen in there. You can watch everybody set. You hear it over the intercom.
Marty O'Neill
You hear it all beautiful.
Thomas Dopas
There's not. Not. There's no way. You're not listening to everybody. Word and breath.
Marty O'Neill
You thought you were just going out to a nobody show.
Thomas Dopas
No, Just like a GL Factory. It's a Friday night, but not actually in the back. Fluffy's doing this. Yeah. Like, I don't know if they really watched it. I don't know. But I'm just like, all right, I forgot about that. So I go out, have a lot of fun. I forget two little punch. Not punch lines. Like two little pops. I realized that as I step off stage, go. Oh. Because I just wrote him, like, downstairs. I just put him in my. Oh, right there.
Marty O'Neill
You looked a lot more comfortable just on your feet.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, I wasn't pacing as much. And if I was moving as for a purpose, I'm not trying to pace. I don't touch anything. I just have the mic. That's why I move the mic stand immediately. So I'm like, don't even get your arm on that. Because I do that all the time. I stand there and I start leaning on it. I start using it for nothing. Like that.
Marty O'Neill
You're kind of, like, talking, like, as if we're just, like, standing in the parking lot. Just like.
Thomas Dopas
Exactly. That's exactly what it might. I'm starting to look at everybody in the face now. That's why I talked to that fool nice suit. That pit bull, black guy. That fool's dressed tight. So I'm trying to talk to the crowd more. Anyway, goes great. My. Oh, cool. As soon as my set's done, I do it every time I go and sit down with everybody, I'm like, I want to watch the show. I love the I want to see show. Even if I wasn't doing this, I'm still trying to watch this.
Marty O'Neill
We had the a blanking scene, so.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, yeah, you did. Marty had his flash on. I could see it from this state.
Marty O'Neill
I couldn't turn it off. I was trying to.
Thomas Dopas
Technological wizard over here can't get the flash off. Find you your whole what you ate yesterday off of you calling his phone by accident. Would you. Oh, yeah, His Uber eats the seat. Damn, he ate fish yesterday. I can't get the flash off. So I go up there and I'm like, all right, cool. I'm gonna go back downstairs and sit there. Just. Just, you know, hang out with those fools while they're down there. I shouldn't be just. I did my set. I'm not hanging out with anybody in the group. I go back down. It's just fluffy. I'm like, oh, what's up, man? So I'm talking to him. We're talking about some random. I asked about Ken Special. Are you watching? He goes, I actually watch it. When I get home, I have it queued up. Like, oh, let's go. Yeah. And then. Because Ken Special came out that day. And then he's like, all right, let's talk. What's up? Stand up. You weren't doing it when I met you. Now you're. You're going for it. How many have you done? He's like, asking me like, so, what's this? What's your goals? What's the throat? And he's like. And I told him. I was like, I remember from the show. He's like, no politics, no sports, no religion. If you don't want to split your audience, I'll deep dive into all of. I don't care. But he's like, if you don't want to split your audience. I'm like, you're not wrong. He's right a hundred percent. Sometimes religion is funny, and I have to make fun of it sometimes. We'll see. Anyway, he's talking. He's like, giving me like, yo, you should do this. If you're gonna do this, you gotta start doing that. I'm like, ah, that makes a lot of sense. He's just giving Me like, fundamentals of like, yo, if you just try to do this. And I'm just talking about, yeah. So I'm going up there. I'm doing a different set. I'm doing this. I'm like, so what do you do? I'm asking, so what do you do when you go up there and you forget where you're at? And he's like, I'll try this. And that guy John Polbert's like, what I do is I do this if I forget some, because it happens. I go, ah. I was like, today I fake drink water and looked at my notes. I left my phone open a little, like, light low, just in case. And I got the first word of every idea. First line. I went. So I was drinking. I was like, oh, sorry, guys. Thank God. That's why I fake drank water the first set. Because I was like, oh, no. I lost where I was.
Marty O'Neill
Were you there for the polar bear dude? You want complete, like, Chippendales?
Thomas Dopas
Of course. It was incredible. Got some good pictures of it.
Marty O'Neill
Didn't expect bro to be naked by the end of his show.
Thomas Dopas
That was funny. That was funny as hell. So he just gave me, like, some pointers, and we're just chilling. We're talking. That was. It was like a very useful, like, a very, very productive moment of, like, huh. I'm not trying to talk, but I realized, like, the only one in this room that didn't ask for a picture with you in my head, I'm like, good. It's more about getting my done that I need to get done more than, like, yo, Fluffy. Because Fluffy's awesome. Rock. We got great pictures of Fluffy, but Fluffy's not gonna be there when I'm on stage going, what did I. What's next? You know? I mean, like, I need to get my down. So I was just, like, going over my. In there. Not anything's wrong. Like, people. Oh, you get a picture. Yeah. I would take a picture with Fluffy if I wasn't nervous, like, doing all my. In my head. Yeah. I was in a different. But I just noticed. I'm like, oh, hell, yeah.
Marty O'Neill
Next time you guys were on some comedian.
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, I was just trying to, like, all right, so what about this? All right, cool. I'm gonna just soak that up for a minute. And then he's like. I was like, all right, man, I'll see you later. And he's like, oh, thanks. I'll see you soon. I'm like, oh, nice. Let's go. It's like, all right, good night. Dude, I with you. Good. I was like, all right, yeah, you will, because I'm gonna be back. Because I got more to do. I got more people to make mad. People just get mad for nothing. Anyway, what a night. That was sick as hell. The second we were done, drove back to my house, OT and every single person that he was with came to my house. We dabs like 5am Within 30 seconds of me being there, Chuck had. OT's dad had me working out. I was dripping sweat in my same outfit I was wearing on the stage, just fully clothed, just dripping sweat at my own house. But it helped. My back didn't feel better. Anyway, he had me on some shit. Everybody's doing push up contestants. Well, this is a weird. What do. What would you. Oh, it wasn't a pizza party this time. It was a whatever party.
Marty O'Neill
Anyway, Hanging out with OT and his homeboys is like.
Thomas Dopas
So it's fun.
Marty O'Neill
Like 14.
Thomas Dopas
It's like being 14, but no one's gonna get in trouble.
Marty O'Neill
No.
Thomas Dopas
If the cops get called, you go, this is my house. We're not even loud. Why are you at my door? How'd you get in past the gate is what I want to know. They didn't call me. That's what I would say. Like, that. You're not on the list.
Marty O'Neill
How are you at my door calling security on you?
Thomas Dopas
Yeah, I'm gonna call security. You're not allowed to be here, dude. For real. It's not your jurisdiction. Yeah, it's so fun. Anyway, it's like five in the morning. We dabs. I was up to about 8 because, you know, I just. It is what it is. Anyway, I slept till about 11, and then I woke up and went, WWE, let's go. And oh, and ot had to be at the first event at 11am they left my house at 5, an hour away.
Marty O'Neill
Damn.
Thomas Dopas
To get up. They slept for an hour and a half on tv. Just on TV the next morning, two hours later. So they went to the first event, and then Ratchet man also went to the first event. So Ratchet man was already in the parking lot of the Spot. So he's waiting for me. That's when the tweaker driver. I'm like, oh, I can't ruin this fool's day. He's already hyped up. He's there. I got. I can't. I'll risk my life, dude. Just drive, man. Drive safe, please. And I was just thinking, like, if he crashes, I'm gonna curl up. Like, this guy's crazy. I was thinking of all these things, like, I can't pull over. It's wall to wall trap. I'm. I'll lose 30 minutes. Just wait for my Uber.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, easy.
Thomas Dopas
So, dude, so we get there, I meet Ratchet Man. Guys, I will say this. We were like eight rows from the ring, right? It was really close. You can't see a thing. If you go to wrestling, get one level up. Like, like eight rows high, dot flat by the ring is cool. Only if you're in the front row. Everybody's in the way. And everybody wants to stand up to see. You can't see a damn thing.
Marty O'Neill
That's super annoying.
Thomas Dopas
Oh, my God. All the chairs are together. You can't move the chairs to space out. Everybody was like this. And the smoke they do for each walkout smells like you cough on it. Sorry, I'm complaining. I'm only talking about the show. I was like, what the. Besides that, I walk in and, oh, my God, it was incredible. Guys. I've never been to a wrestling event. It was so cool. Everybody was happy and cheering and doing their chance and hyped. Everyone was so juiced. It was. Oh, and if you saw us on Pay per View, that was me and Omar. I got hell of a dms. Like, is that you? I'm like, it is the push tree shirt, man. But yeah, they're doing like, let's do some fire relief. Like, you know, they pan to a family. This family. But it was on Pay per View, said the Thomas family. And in between everybody, like, this is a big ass gap. It's me and Omar just doing a bunch of dumb because I was like, oh, I see his camera. We got to be in that gap. I know camera angles and that's right on us. And then I looked at the DMs. Is that you? Is that you? I see you with ratchet man. And OG's was having his a party at his house. And his drunk ass homie Tony was like, hey. Because I guess he's a wrestling fan. I think I just saw Thomas on tv. Like, nah, dude. He's like, he's at the. But he's coming to the party. Why would he be on tv? So he was with some big burly guy. Oh, Ratchet man. It's a big guy with long hair. And then I text Rosie the picture of me and this full on pay per View. I was like, oh, it was. It was on tv. That was funny as hell. Besides that, dude, I' ma say it now. The guys were way more entertaining. I'm not Trying to be a dick. But I remember China and Sable wrecking when I. It wasn't as violent as I thought it was for the girls section. I thought there was gonna be violence. It's not like I, I thought. I remember it maybe because I haven't watched this in so long.
Marty O'Neill
They just said slap hands.
Thomas Dopas
They don't. No, no, they were fighting. They're fighting, they're good. They're acrobats. I was like, come on, dude, where's the fake blood packet? Or you know, I was waiting for him. I was like, oh, maybe that's ecw.
Marty O'Neill
They still slam each other in the husband like chairs.
Thomas Dopas
Oh yeah, they're doing a bunch of. But I will say the Mexican luchador guys are the high flyers now. It was sick, dude. Oh, and this guy Omar is a huge WWF fan. So wwe, there's this guy painter or Penta or some out. He looked at Omar the crowd and did this thing. Omar, his pants, dude. 30 year old man. Did you see? I was like, I myself too. That was sick. I felt like I was 14 again, dude. Just John Cena came out with Logan Paul. Well, everybody hates Logan Paul. Anyway. Wwf boom. Like nothing ever happened. I didn't just get a random child nosebleed. I didn't feel good. Like 3 days ago, as you know from the, from the last unrestricted, blowing my nose and coughing like a monster. This morning I woke up, coughed so hard, blew my nose like, oh, nosebleed. It so happened to happen in the middle of me speaking. So back to talking about like nothing happened. I didn't just squirt blood out of my face. That sucked. I used to get bad ones when I was a kid. Bad ones. I'll tell you that story. Let me tell you that story after. Remember Nosebleed, ender story. Boom. WWE's real sick. Get a car, we go home. And then that night we're supposed to film the skits, do the audio in the studio, the skits for OT's album. So I get there, have my ideas and bootleg. Thank God, bootleg Kev was there because he really made it funnier than what it was going to be like. His ideas adding in was great. So yeah, we direct, we like, we're sitting there, we're doing the skits, we're thinking of ideas, we're listening to the album, we're doing everything and it's going good. We're recording. And the first voice you hear on the entire any of the skits is this fool. We needed a younger sound and do we're like, rocco, get in here. And it's. The first voice you hear is Rocco, besides OT's voice on the album. It's hilarious how. What a random turn of events.
Marty O'Neill
So opening up the otl.
Thomas Dopas
It's ridiculous, actually. So we're doing the skits. Everything's going great. It's more like little kid summer camp night. Everybody's just getting high and doing stupid and then going, all right, let's record. So this is what happened. One of the. Dude, there was a bunch of fools there. It wasn't just ot. There's a bunch of other people that invited people. Invited people that invited people. There was like 20 people in this room at one point. Some of those. There was a couple girls. And some of those girls love balloons. And they had a bunch of those huffing balloons. I wasn't fully aware that in the booth where we were recording, 20 yards away, you know, I could see through glass. See through the glass. I see the engineer. Good. I can hear her. She's talking. Hits the button. Hey. What? You guys ready? All right, let's go. You know about this stuff? I don't know. I've never done this before. So I'm looking at her like, we're good. I think she can hear us. I didn't know everyone can hear us. I'm going in, talking so much about these girls. Like all the, the, the, like the hoe looking girls. I'm not trying to say your hoes, but like, it's 2:00am you're not an artist. Why are you here? Okay, you're trying to chill, okay? Not for me. Hit that balloon a little hard. Anyway. Other people are doing balloons too. I'm not just saying that. Anyway, I was talking mad and I was wondering why people were looking over my. Coincidence. Coincidence. And then Kev starts going in on one of these girls talking. Look at this video. And she turned. What? You can see her? Like, oh, everyone can hear us. Kev is a recording guy. He has a studio. He knows better. He knew. That means he knew. I wasn't aware. You know, when you're talking about some. Something, you're like, oh, yeah, they can't hear me. It's fine. But that's kind of how the truth. I wouldn't tell you the truth to your face, but. Hey, why are you sucking this balloon? It's 2am why are you here? What are you trying to accomplish tonight? What do you do that you can be here? You got nothing to do tomorrow? The. How many roommates do you have in A one bedroom Is what I'm asking how many Only fans accounts between all your roommates. If that's what it felt like. Like, how do you survive? You're here. Anyway, I was just talking. Everybody could hear me.
Marty O'Neill
For how long?
Thomas Dopas
The whole time. Anyway, we ended up bringing one of these dumbass girls in was like, hey, say this because we needed the girl's voice. We end up trashing it. But still, it was funny. Anyway, guys, we're doing the skits. We're doing all the stuff, and we're like, it worked. I'm listening to him like, this is gonna work. This is funny. So I played, like a little teacher. I'd play another little role in it. You'll hear my voice, you'll know it's me. And then the album itself is just so hard. Like, I'm really. I'll give you the whole thing with the skits in it. It's really tight.
Marty O'Neill
Everything was done when he did the skits.
Thomas Dopas
They pushed the album back a month already. Two weeks ago. Two weeks, they pushed it back, waiting for us to do the skits. Every time OT Comes down, we get hella high. I didn't know he was waiting to drop his album based on us not getting wrecked and doing the skits. He's been here three times in a month. We finally did it this last time.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
Feet, text me, dude, we push this back out back too much. What do you mean? Because we pushed it back waiting for these kids go, dude, I didn't know. Yeah, let's wrap it up, dude. Come on, hurry up. Let's get this album. That's. I was like, come on, we. I got Bravo. The bag chaser was there. He was doing a song with OT I watched this song come to fruition. Just there. I'm smoking a joint. Oh, she starts freestyle, and he starts freestyle. They start passing back. They start passing back. Oh, she starts doing, like, some chorus, and everybody's like, oh, that was hard. He's like, all right, that's the chorus. Like, that's a hard ass. That's how you guys make songs. So talented. Ass fools. I'm watching these fools make up, and everybody's all up and. And probably bad. Chester said some to Drody. That is so damn. I never listened to his music. What he rapped to Drody was so hard. Two seconds later, I'm like, dude, you got to say that. He goes, don't say what? So I already forgot what I said, man. What? I'm just talking. That was a throwaway. Incredible. You guys are amazing. What the, dude? And I was in there helping with the chorus or with the. With the backups. Like, the. Because we had a girl doing this. I was sitting in there, like, trying to get her to, like. I've never done that before. I was like, all right, take a space. Take a breath. Half a pause. Drag the s longer. Say it this way. I'm like, try it like this. I'm like, oh, this is fun. So we did that for, like, an hour and a half to, like, almost 4 or 5 in the morning. Got that whole part of the song done, and I left. Like, did we just. That was hard. Like, try to, like, tell people how to say things. Like, oh, it sounds better this way. Try it like this. We good? Got it. All right, cool. Move on. Move. Oh, dude. It felt. He's, like, directing.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, I love it.
Thomas Dopas
It was great. I loved every part of it. Love directing the skit with Kev. Loved it. Like, we're sitting there. Try it this way. A little higher. Go again. Run it this way. So I'm sitting there, like, going off the notes. I go one more time. Like, we're just trying to get it in downright. There's like. I'm excited. Very excited to hear it. I'm super stoked.
Marty O'Neill
Did that big video end up happening? This video, the one that he was doing with the big feature.
Thomas Dopas
I. I don't know what the outcome of that one was, but I know they reshot.
Marty O'Neill
Okay.
Thomas Dopas
So I'll leave it at that, because I don't know what. What that is, what that entails besides that. Let me go through my notes. Ooh. We'll leave you off with this, guys, because we're about to leave, and as we leave, I have to go to another country, which is insane. Oh, my God. Everything look like Marty. Like, whoa, you sound. You don't sound like Marty, but you look like Marty out here in Amsterdam. And I didn't know Ireland. You had to cross Ireland to get. Geography is terrible culture. I didn't know Ireland was so close to Europe, to the. To England. I thought it was below it. I didn't know it was right in terms of it. What if I didn't do the English? We don't learn about anybody but ourselves out here. Geography is not my. I guess. Anyway, here we go. I'll leave you with this. My friend Ryan linked me up with somebody, and this person is the only person in the world with this technology, besides the government. So I'm going to be doing something soon. The most IMMERSIVE thing I've ever done in my life. You guys know what VR is and what AR is? It's a little different. So right now, they're doing a lot of stuff with huge, huge artists. So basically, if you want to put on this headset, we want to put this app on your phone. Or if you have a headset, you can watch a concert wherever. Like, right now. Ready? Watch Travis Scott concert. Yeah. Put your headset on. Doom. It's either him and it's really him. It's not a hall, it's not a render. It's something he really performed at their studio to get this done. And if you want to do VR or ar, it's anywhere you're. At last. I was on Santa Monica Boulevard with a headset, walking around. This looking at a concert happen in front of me. Blew my mind. People like, yo, you're dumb. It's VR. Hold on. Then we went to VR, then this other artist popped up, and the whole. It's like the sphere in Vegas, but to yourself. I saw aliens taking buildings apart while this girl's performing her song. I looked around and everything. I'm standing on the top of a broken building. It was so immersive. It was incredible. But then I watched another concert by this, like, country artist, and it's him sitting there. I walk around him and his guitar player. Here they are. I can see Santa Monica Boulevard and cars going. A guy going by for Uber eats, like, on the bike. Rosie's right here. The restaurant I just ate's there. And I walk around this guy as he's playing his music and singing, and he's. You can hear it. And I went and got close to him, and I could see the dust on his hat. I look up like, oh, he's a hell of lint on his hat. I can see the. I could. I just can't touch him. I put my hand on his shoulder, and it just stopped. Didn't do it. But I was like, this is as if this person's right in front of me at any given moment. They're doing comedy things. I'm gonna do a story time, and that's what I'm doing. And some other stuff for our papers. Imagine being able to watch how to Roll a Joint with Me. And then you can just come and stand over my shoulder and look exactly what I'm doing.
Marty O'Neill
That's pretty sick.
Thomas Dopas
You can see every. You can go underneath, or you can.
Marty O'Neill
Like, walk around the room.
Thomas Dopas
Every angle. Every possible angle. But underneath my shoes, you can lay down and look up at me as I'm rolling. Joy. Just look at the technique underneath. Or story time. And I'm moving around like as if I'm on stage. Could you imagine that? Walking around as we're talking? Walking around, me and me just jump. Scare you sometimes. Just ah. In case somebody is next to me. Anyway, he's gonna stop there. I met with them yesterday. We're doing that fully.
Marty O'Neill
So what do you need?
Thomas Dopas
I just got. Just gotta fly to their facility and perform.
Marty O'Neill
No, I'm saying like, what do you.
Thomas Dopas
That's, that's. That's the thing. It's gonna be. It's. I don't want to get too into it because I want. I want them to explain some vlog it. And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go there and do my whole. And then show the video in the vlog. Like, this is what we just did and this is what we created. Do a full story time. But imagine this. Ready? Yeah. You can walk around your story time, but what about VR story time where it's me and as you go. So I'm in class. Class builds behind me. People walking around, people throwing airplanes. Like, so I'm in class. Ah, airplane. So I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh my God, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be here. My friends, like, I have drugs and it pops up and it's all VR. Real close up on drugs.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah, yeah.
Thomas Dopas
Like a movie.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
But the AR augmented is. You can just see the person perform. The other one is a full movie to yourself. I looked around, Marty turned around, did this, everything. I couldn't see anything but this world.
Marty O'Neill
I gotta try that.
Thomas Dopas
But I'll be in it.
Marty O'Neill
They're just in the room with you?
Thomas Dopas
Yeah. Crazy, right?
Marty O'Neill
And you can design it like anything you want.
Thomas Dopas
So like Rock and Roll hall of Fame. Instead of having Freddie Mercury, it's a real Freddie Mercury hologram of him just performing. Talk about his whole existence. It's the future.
Marty O'Neill
Yeah.
Thomas Dopas
I told Mike. So like in the intros of futuristic movies, when they're going by stuff like, oh, yeah, that's normal to us. Pops up an anime. Hello. Male here. And it's a hologram. That's what this is. But the future. But now we're gonna see it start. Yeah, it's a Demolition Man. This is insane. And we're gonna have like the first we guys stuff on there. Yeah.
Marty O'Neill
All right.
Thomas Dopas
Before we get out of here, go watch Cheech and Chong's last movie. I just watched it. What a great movie. Great documentary. It was incredible. Go watch it, because we're never getting another one of them. They will never be redone, guys. So go watch Cheetah, Sean's last movie. Go watch Ken Flores special on Hulu. Do me a favor, go watch it on Hulu. It's awesome. Ken Flores on Hulu. Just type it in and. Yeah, if I'm. If you're in Europe and you see a guy looks like me, it's probably me. Come say hi. Let's get out of here.
Marty O'Neill
Wild. We come back, we got back to back huge guests.
Thomas Dopas
Insane. Actually, I won't talk about till they're done. Thank you guys for being here. We appreciate you.
Marty O'Neill
Appreciate you guys. Thanks for watching, telling a homie all that type of stuff.
Thomas Dopas
All right, guys, thank you for being here. This has been the Dope as Usual podcast. This is Marty. My name is Thomas, Dope as yolo, whatever you want to call me. And we're gonna get out of here. Thank you for being here. Have a dope ass day. Perfect, perfect.
DOPE AS USUAL Podcast – Episode Summary: "Wild Tweaker Tales, Insane Stories & More!"
Release Date: June 24, 2025
Hosts: Marty O'Neill & Thomas Araujo
The episode kicks off with Thomas Dopas and Marty O'Neill discussing their first-ever banked episode. Unlike typical podcasters who record multiple episodes in advance, the duo prefers spontaneity to keep conversations fresh and relevant. Thomas shares exciting news about his current travels in Europe, planning visits to London, Amsterdam, and Paris. He invites listeners to catch him at the Mary Jane Festival in London, touted as the world's largest cannabis event.
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [04:02]: "I just want to sleep the whole flight. I'll probably watch Bullet Train because I always do."
Thomas recounts a harrowing experience with an Uber driver who exhibited extreme erratic behavior, raising red flags about his potential drug use. From frequent lane changes to aggressive driving, the encounter left Thomas feeling unsafe and anxious throughout the hour-long ride. Despite attempts to manage the situation by suggesting safer transportation options, the driver's behavior remained unsettling until they safely reached their destination.
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [16:11]: "Serial killer."
Delving into a more personal narrative, Thomas shares his ongoing quest to locate his long-missing friend, Jay. Six years after Jay's disappearance, Thomas spots someone who remarkably resembles him in a TikTok video. Despite reaching out and verifying physical attributes, Jay remains unresponsive. The segment highlights the emotional toll and unwavering hope Thomas and Jay's family maintain in finding him.
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [35:32]: "I've saved his tip and rate till I have the time to sit and go. Let me really process what I need to say about this man."
Transitioning to lighter topics, Thomas discusses his collaboration with artist O.T. Maxi on skits for O.T.'s upcoming album. Balancing podcast recordings, video shoots, and live comedy performances, Thomas narrates a particularly busy 24-hour period filled with creative endeavors. Highlights include a memorable interaction with comedian Fluffy at the Laugh Factory, contributing to skit development, and the challenges of synchronizing multiple projects simultaneously.
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [46:38]: "It was incredible. Guys. I've never been to a wrestling event. It was so cool."
Towards the episode's end, Thomas introduces groundbreaking Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology that promises to revolutionize content consumption. He envisions immersive experiences where listeners can "walk around" storytimes, observe performances from every angle, and interact with holographic renditions of artists. Thomas expresses enthusiasm about integrating this technology into future podcast episodes, offering listeners a deeply engaging and interactive experience.
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [69:25]: "You can see every. You can go underneath, or you can."
The hosts take brief intermissions to promote their sponsors:
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Thomas Dopas [27:05]: "This color is Daybreak. It's perfect. It's like storytime. Orange red."
As the episode concludes, Marty and Thomas express gratitude to their listeners, encouraging engagement through social media and inviting fans to share their experiences. Thomas hints at upcoming VR integrations, teasing more immersive content in future episodes. The hosts sign off with their signature enthusiasm, wishing listeners a "dope ass day."
Notable Quote:
Thomas Dopas [72:28]: "He looked happy in the video. I'll say that he was on one, but he looked happy, dude."
Authenticity in Content: The hosts prioritize genuine, timely conversations over pre-recorded episodes, ensuring relevance and engagement.
Personal Narratives: Thomas shares deeply personal stories, showcasing vulnerability and fostering a strong connection with listeners.
Innovative Integrations: Introduction of VR and AR technologies indicates the podcast's commitment to evolving and enhancing the listener experience.
Community Engagement: Through sponsor promotions and interactive segments, the podcast fosters a sense of community among its global fan base.
Final Thoughts:
"Wild Tweaker Tales, Insane Stories & More!" encapsulates the essence of the DOPE AS USUAL Podcast—blending personal anecdotes, humorous escapades, and forward-thinking innovations. Whether navigating the unpredictability of travel, grappling with unresolved personal quests, or pioneering immersive technologies, Marty and Thomas deliver content that is both entertaining and thought-provoking.