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Theo Von
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That's right, Theo50 to get 50% off up to a $15 value when you spend $15 or more at local florists, convenience grocery and retail stores on DoorDash and starting May 9 through Mother's Day weekend, your flowers order will unlock credit towards select gifts that take cooking, planning and more off Mom's plate. Make this Mother's Day special with DoorDash code THEO50. Terms apply. All right, here we are. Welcome to the month of May in the year 2025. Thank you for joining me here today. Thank you for letting me be a part of your life and and you be a part of mine today. Happy Mother's Day. We'll start with that. We got A nice episode of. We got some Mother's Day stuff. We're going to get into a little bit of light news. And then we had a call a few weeks back about grief and loss. And we had a lot of nice feedback calls and informative heart, heart, heart. Ish, hard, heartfelt contributions. So we'll get into those in a bit as well. But yeah, Mother's Day, that's it. Because your people, your mama raised you. Think about that. Your mind. Well, you were, you was doing nothing. Your little ass laying there doing nothing, bull hunting for a hand tit. That's all you was doing. You was just hunting for that little hand tit. But your little hands, he was a little slurp Lord. And your mother raised you. First of all, if something came up to me and started sucking on my, on my breast, on my tit or man or whatever it's called, tit for men or whatever, I would not then raise it. That is, you have to think about that. If something started sucking on your tip, would you take it off and then raise it and grow it to its full form? Only a mother would do that type shit. Boy, that's some next level, that's some next level behavior. Mothers out there, which, yes to a lot of kids never wash day ass. We had a buddy, his legs just knew his pants so well. He all. He wore the same pants always. And so you knew good and Wilts and nobody was washing his ass. Boy, not a chance. Even his mom. And she tried telling you see her warm up some water on a stove in a stove pot and to pull up at. Pull his pants back and just dump it right down the back of his pants, hoping to even get a half wash or quarter wash on his ass with that warm water. But damn, your mother, your mothers did that. And when we couldn't read, imagine you sitting there with somebody, right, and they can't read, you know, and you gotta teach them to. You start with the first letter and you show them that. And it's a picture of like an alligator and a little kid. And the mom's like, what's that? And he's like, lizard, lizard or whatever. He can't even say shit. He don't even say nothing. He just look at you and try to cop a quick hit off that tit. That's a dumb child. We were all dumb child. My mother helped us out of that, out of that cavern of knowing nothing. God, they did a lot of work. And then even on some. Once you were in school, when you had to go to school and take a test. And you was. You was dumb, buddy. You was damn dumb. You was a dumb child. And your mother still hugged you and said, you're gonna do good on it. I remember my would. My mom would be like, you can do great on your test. I'd look at her like, really? I am. You could. And she, yeah, you gonna do great. And I would leave out the door and I peek back in the window. You could see her just shaking her head like, he gonna fuck it up. But that's crazy to. To send something, know something is going to not do well on a damn spelling or whatever it's called, and send it out in the world and still hug it and pretend like you when they get back. How'd you do? You know good and well how they did, Mom. They didn't do, boy. They didn't do, bro. Opening pants. Another batch of warm water on that ass. It's spring cleaning. Mother's Day, man. That's what it is and that's what it ain't, man. Yeah. I want to say happy Mother's Day to my mother. I know she watches this show, and I appreciate that, man. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, the ones that do it by themselves. And some of y' all have helped. And, yeah, it just says, we know you're doing it. Somebody's doing it. And it ain't us. It ain't us children. We get. We thought. We sometimes chill. We think we did it ourself. We didn't do. So make sure to reach out to your mother. Hit her with a Happy Mother's Day. Get her something. We got a. One of our commercials. They got a good advertisement. Something beautiful. You get her some good items or something. Break her off something. Get your mother something. Drive over there. Give her a hug, boy. Keep your hands off that breast, though, boy. You of age now. You of age. Cause that's always the craziest. You see him 9 year old at the basketball game, and he over there and he up under his mother wearing a triple XL men's polo shirt just so that kid can get up under there and nobble off on that tit. And he nine, bro. Dude, I remember they had this one kid, Lil Bubby was his name, and he would go slip up under his mom's shirt, hit mom. I don't know if she was in a wheelchair. She was just, just, just, just not, you know, kind of looked like she was in a wheelchair type. And she had them crazy breasts. Them con you. It Looked like they cracked open and were kind of flooding out at like them was. I don't even know if they are. At a certain point it was like she had them just got. Damn them thing, boy, she had them. Bean bag. She had them. She had them. Damn. You know what I'm saying? She could find somebody take a break right between her breasts. You found two men, two factory workers over between her breasts getting a nap in and betting on the horse racing because she had them big break time tits, boy. She had them damn baby bags. She had a demo cow walk up and try to feed off of them. She had them, them front end loaders on her. What were we talking about? Were we talking about Easton, Mother's Day? Mother's Day. That's it, man. That is it. Sorry, I went off on a tangent. Oh, but I remember they had his kid, Lil Bubby and he would go over by his mom's, by his mom. He'd get up, he'd get him a damn candy bar and get up under that shirt and get on that tit. You'd see him in there, he'd have to pop his head out to catch more breath, to catch more air. He'd be like. He stick his head out and then back under there. Candy and tit, candy and tit under there. Damn. Nine years old, brother, you're gonna do good on your test, son. No, we ain't a kid. Damn dumb baby. Happy Mother's Day. Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna get my. Well, I'll get my mother some. I'll send her a card. And I sent that thing on Monday, boy, so it's gonna be there because for years I'm that guy send that late card, you know, I send that bit, she'll get that bitch on Father's Day she gets that bitch. And she did both jobs anyway. So they should make that. They should make that Mother Father's Day card. The two in one. Hit her now. They should get that thing released out there. Cause you've heard me say it before, man. The hardest working man I've ever met is my mother. Big facts. Happy Mother's Day to you and to your mothers. Make sure to get that love line. Hit her with that love line. Do something. Get over there, tickle her, you know what I'm saying? Buy her a bra that says keep out on it and honor those words because you too tall to be titting. You know that type shit, boy. What's going on? Feeling a little injured today. I went picked up something at the gym. Bam. Injured. Didn't even. And it was that kind of thing where your back locks up in your lung like that. Just. It's like the wind got knocked out of your back and you know, and your friend's like, what's going on? And you're like. You can't even talk it yet. You just. So I just left. I don't know what they thought I had cancer, whatever, but. Yeah. Injured myself. Went to the massage place over here, and I go to the Chinese shop over there. That chop shop, you say right on the side. Chop shop, you know. And they selling rice right out the back of that boy. They. They'll remodel yourself. They'll remodel your spinal column. They'll fucking unjang at bitch and then hit you with that damn 2 grams of rice when you roll out the door. They got that shit in there. And I got out. Whenever I go get that massage at the Chinese place, I get. I asked for the big guy. I'm one big guy. When I call him on the phone. He knows me, my buddy Yang over there. I call him on the phone, he said, you coming? I said, big guy. You got big guy. Sometime he got him some time. He don't, because I've had the second string. They said, big guy. Big guy gone. Big guy gone. That's what he said. I don't know what he meant, but I think he was trying to say big guy gone, right? And I spot him a letter if he ain't got it all, bro, he from another country, you know. That's kind of guy I am. I'll give you a vow. Big guy gone, gone. I got you. I got you with that E twin. So, yeah, he's a big guy gone. So I went in there and had a second big guy in that bro, the second. And he ain't that big bro. He kind of. He just. He trying to, like, make his neck long. Just trying to look big or something, you know. He put on mittens and shit. Because Asian. They try to trick you when you're looking at him. They trick you. They visual. They're the fucking. They're the. The bok choy David Blaines, baby. Them bitches are fucking. They trick you, bro. They'll put a piece of rice over each eye and tell you they sleep. And that's who they are. They tricksters like that. But. But I said, big guy. He said, big guy gone. But I showed up anyway. I took that second, that other big guy bro, and. And he wasn't shit this little motherfucker, this little fucking woodpecker. This he couldn't do. He would fucking hammer. Just trying to hammer on me, bro. He just put one of his arms out, was just like that. Just woodpecker me with that elbow didn't do. I'm still hurt. But anyway, what else, big guy? I want to be gay, dude. I'll tell you this, bro. So one time I'm in there, and I was getting a massage at this other joint. I went to this. This other joint, and I'm in there, bro, and I. I do the massage where it's like this chair thing that you sit kind of forward on. Easton, can you bring that up for me, brother?
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Easton
Yeah, I got you.
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Theo Von
And we're borrowing Easton today. He's helping us produce. And blessings to you, man. And. And Easton works on John Chris's podcast. What's it called?
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Easton
Net Positive.
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Theo Von
Net Positive with John Chris, if you want to tap in with him. What did I ask Easton? Do you remember?
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Easton
Pull up a chair picture.
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Theo Von
Get that massage chair, that front, forward leaning. Let's go with that. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's the kind they have right there. They put your face in a little. It's like a little soft, little toilet seat. But it's soft, but it's little. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your face on that. And then they just start getting at you. Anyway, so, yeah, I'll go in. He's got one of those chair. Chair massages. So I sit in there and big guy, big guy, big guy here, big guy gone. Big guy here. Big guy starts rattling on me, doing his big guy shit, fucking leaving sweat on my back. I can feel it. Every now and then, I know he's really popping back there. If I feel a bead of sweat hit my fucking neck. So he back there popping, right? And then I. There's. I look over, dude, in the chair next to me, there's a kid getting a massage, right? For. I didn't even. I didn't know this could happen, right? It's like a. This kid looked kind of like the Rizzler, right? Like probably nine year, maybe nine, and like kind of Rubenesque, you know, chubbish or whatever they call it, this chubbish little kid. And. And there's a guy just, like. Just like, just rubbing on over. Just like massaging him, you know? And I didn't know a kid could get him. I didn't know. And I'm like, am I watching like a. Like, what am I watching? Like, is this a kid getting a massage or is this like a. Like, is it legal or, you know, I just didn't know. Yeah, I'm like. And like, how long do you watch? It's such a massage. Like if. You know. But yeah, this kid. But it was so crazy. This kid was getting a massage. Like, this kid got a massage or was getting a massage, this kid. So they're massaging a kid. It's during the school day. So I'm like, what is. You know, what, rich little kid skip school to get a fucking massage, bro? Then. Anyway, so we're sitting there, and at some point somebody did a fart. You know, somebody did a. And I think it was this kid, right? It was. It was crazy. Dude, I'm. I'm there. It's already weird enough somebody's massaging a kid. I'm getting fucking Big guy. Big guy is over there working me in and. And the little dudes over here getting chopped out. You know, this little sixth, fifth graders or whatever. This little fifth graders, he's getting over there chopped out by Chim Chop, your boy, right? And I'm like, can you even massage a kid? I'm thinking. And then somebody just started a fart out of their body. And I think it was the kid, right? Because I think, look, if you massage a kid, they're gonna fart. They gotta strike back somehow because it's illegal to touch them. So. And it sounded like. It sounded like. Like, I don't know, it sounded like somebody was drinking milk and then just like. It was just. It sounded like. It just sounded like a ghost wearing booty cologne that had just climbed out of that child. And. And I'm not saying it was definitely the kid who was in there doing farts or whatever, but, you know, I don't know. You know, I'm no Fart and Luther King or whatever, but I have a dream that somebody fighting in here, but there was another guy in there, so it could have been other guy, you know, whoever that was. Louis Fardicon? No, it's just a. That's just a activist joke. Anyway. No, yeah, it could have been this other guy in there. I don't know, because there was another guy in there. Just a guy like worked at a bank or something or was like cheating on his wife. Some guy, right? And they were over there shining him up. They over there really getting into his shoulders and neck. You know, he had two kind of medium guys. He didn't have no Big Guy, like I did, but they chopping into him and. And that. And. But at some point, the room Started to smell bad. Somebody chopped off a real fart. And it sounded like somebody had a. Like, had put, like, milk on. Just like. Like their butt had been drinking milk and then just fought. Just did a. Fought, bro. It was cr. You could. It just sounded like some, like a. Like somebody had taken a tight foot out of a wet boot, you know, out of a wet rubber boot. Just. But anyway, what is that? Happy Mother's Day, bro. That's what I'm telling y' all. I got a massage, and you got to take care of yourself when you get them. When I go into a massage place, first thing I say, no pop pop. I say, no pop pop. Touch the wing, a tap on my wiener. Two times. No pop pop for me. That's what I say when. I say when I go into those places, we got an episode. Oh, and that means don't touch me. Don't touch. No, don't touch this. You know, Don't. Don't wean. Don't. Stay off my wiener. That's what I say, you know, Stay off my small guy. Huh? Stay off my small. Gay. Big guy. No, no, medium guy. But I tell him right when I walk in, don't jerk me off. I do that myself, and I do it at home. I do it under. You know, I do it under with clothes, blinds or whatever. Music on, music off, whatever. I don't jerk off with the fan on. I say that point blank. You see some dudes, bro, I know I got buddies. You walk in their room, it smell in there like they've been jerking and the fan is on, bruh. Have some respect, bro. Have you out there drying out your root or whatever, and you out there popping off, bro. You out there freaking earning pearls out of your own Wayne out there. So praise God. We'll get to an ad in just a second. We got a new Pope. Is that right there, Easton?
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Easton
That is correct.
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Theo Von
And what do you think about it? What's the news on him? You got any information on him?
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Easton
He is the first American Pope.
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Theo Von
No way.
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Easton
Yes, he is from Chicago, Illinois.
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Theo Von
The Bears boy. Wow.
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Easton
Pull up his name here. He's going by Pope Leo xiv. And his name is Robert Prevost.
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Theo Von
Bobby Prevost, baby. And who do the packers have? Aaron Rodgers, dude. It's a rap, bro. Jordan love that dude. Nobody. The Pope, dude. We got the Pope, huh? Go, Cubs, go. Hey, Chicago, what do you say? We got the Pope today, gang boy. We right here. Big gay. Big gay. Damn. Bro hopes he hope he stops the massaging of children, you know? What I'm talking about, we shut it down, brother. I don't think we can say that. And how do we know when they picked the Pope?
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Easton
So they, I guess all the cardinals, there's like a bunch of, I don't know how many. They all like, silently, secretly, like, you know, like thing you did in school where you let it, like, close your eyes and raise your hand and the teacher counted. I guess it's like that where they, like, secretly vote.
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Theo Von
Oh.
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Easton
And they, they don't decide until I think it's like a two thirds majority.
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Theo Von
So like, heads up, sovereign up or whatever. Yeah.
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Easton
So they. If the Pope, I guess every day they do it. If the Pope hasn't been chosen, they do like black smoke out of the chimney. And then if the Pope is get. Does get chosen, then it's white smoke that comes out of the church.
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Theo Von
Oh, really? So how long did it take him to choose this Pope?
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Easton
I think just like two days. Because yesterday it was black smoke, and then. Or two days ago is black smoke. And then yesterday it was white smoke. It's only two days.
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Theo Von
Have we ever had a black pope yet?
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Easton
No.
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Theo Von
Wow, bro. That's what we got to get that black pope boy. Big gay. What about an Asian pope? Have we had it? Oh, we got to get a damn little Asian pope boy. Just a little bit of prayer. Fried rice boy. You feel me? I want to say thank you to mom for having all the answers. She had them all. She didn't sometimes they were wrong yet, but she had them all. Imagine something. Just asking you questions for 18 years and more and you do your best to answer every one. Yep, that's a mom. But this year we're answering four mom. And the answer is we're going to give them flowers plus a real break. Because moms are at it 247 and flowers. It's nice. But you know what they really want is a break from everyone's questions. From the endless to do list, from momming. Oh, I still ask my mom so many questions. I will call and ask my mom what shoe size I wear. I wish I could look in my shoe. I could do a ruler against my foot. But I will call my mom, and if she doesn't answer it when I call, I will just not know what my shoe size is for the day. Oh, if I was a mom, I would just put earplugs in. That's what I would do. I would tell my kids I would have, like, one of those lights that taxis have above them on the top of a taxi that says when it's available or not. I would turn the light off, not available. And then I would. What would I do if I were a mom? Oh, I would get in a big bubble bath. That's what my mom used to do. She would yell. She'd yell at us and say something and say we weren't gonna be able to have something. Then you would hear. You'd hear her slam her door. And then every now and then you'd hear her get in that bubble bath right there and maybe crack open a cold beer or something, A cold little can of milk or whatever. You hear her crack it open or get that bubble bath going. Suds so high you couldn't see here nothing. Is she in there? I don't know what she would. And I think she would just sit in there and in the bubbles and have a little sip of beer or cold milk. Something to get her through the day. Man. So if I was a mother, I would do that. Oh, and I forgot to add this. Mother's Day, when you buy your mom flowers, you'll get up to $75 as a Dash Pass member or up to $50 as a non dashpass member towards a family meal that. That mom doesn't have to cook. A fun activity so mom can play without planning or a self care retreat in case mom just wants some me time. Yep, that's Theo. 50 T H E O number five. Number zero to get 50% off. Up to a 15 value. When you spend $15 or more at local florists, convenience grocery and retail stores on DoorDash. And starting May 9th through Mother's Day weekend, your flowers order will unlock credit towards select gifts that'll take cooking, planning and more off of mom's plate. Make this Mother's Day special with doordash terms apply. All right. You know one of the last episodes, the last solo episode we had called Chili boy or something like that? Was it Chili baby Chili Boy. Chili baby Chili. Oh, pickle chili. And it was about a month ago and a man called in who. Who had lost his girlfriend to cancer. So we're going to take a quick listen to that.
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Caller 1
Hey, Theo, hope you're doing well. I'm calling you today, see if I can get your perspective on something. My girlfriend of four years, she. She passed away five and a half months ago. She. It wasn't. Not a surprise, but you know, she. She had cancer. We thought that she had a little more time, but. Yeah, since then I spend most of my time doing nothing. You know, I would visit her grave every day for months, which is good, I guess, for getting out.
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Theo Von
He goes and visits her grave every day, you would say, for months onward, man. Thank you for sharing this, brother, of.
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Caller 1
My apartment, but I would just let the time pass, you know. But recently I've started a going back to school full time and working again. And honestly, I feel like I'm just doing it because it's expected of me, you know, from, like, people around me, my family, my peers. I guess another reason that is I'm pretty young, so maybe some people just expect me to move forward pretty fast, but, you know, I don't want to, you know. Yeah, I just, you know, sometimes you feel like you're like. I feel like I was, like, left behind, you know.
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Theo Von
Yeah. Thank you for the call, brother. And, and we, we. We discussed this on a previous episode, but we had. We got some calls that came in and I wanted to listen to some of them here just so you can get an idea. As always, the hotline guide is. Is 985-664-9503. And here's a call that came in about grief. We asked callers if they had any suggestions for that gentleman, and here's some of the responses that we got.
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Caller 2
Hey, Theo, man, love your show, bro. Listen to you every day or every time you make a podcast. I'm actually listening to Pickle Chili right now, and I heard the caller call in about he lost a. His girlfriend or whatever. And you ask some people to call in, give some ideas of how maybe he can handle this situation. And look, I actually lost my daughter five years ago to this day from a brain aneurysm. And I guess the only advice I can say is, look, man, don't let nobody tell you how long you should grieve. It's going to be different for everyone because not every. Not every situation is going to be built the same. So do it at your own speed, man. There's going to be a lot of people that's going to want to get involved and tell you how you should do these, but you have to experience this the way that you need to experience this to make it right for you. I have dreams about my daughter often, man. And it's like, it's funny because, like, in my dreams, I know she's passed away and I know she's not with her. So while I'm dreaming, I try to. I just try to hug her and talk to her and make that dream last as long as I can, you know? And look, bro, miss her. Miss her every Day I talk to my daughter.
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Caller 3
I'm.
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Caller 2
I. I miss. I mean, every night before I say a prayer, I talk to my daughter. And I've been doing that since the day she's passed away. And look, last but not least, bruh, this doesn't get easier. It really doesn't. It just becomes a new type of normal if. If that makes some sense.
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Theo Von
Bro.
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Caller 2
Man. Theo. Gang.
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Theo Von
Gang.
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Caller 2
Love you, bro.
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Theo Von
Love you, too, bro. Thank you, man. Man. Man. That's. That's all, you know, it's. That's nice of him to call. He called out of Louisiana. I see that area code 337 over there, and you can hear the bayou in the back of his throat right there. Yeah. I remember after my dad was gone, even still, sometimes if I'm having, like, a tough day, whenever I go to sleep at night, I'll. Yeah. I'll hope that I get to see him or that he shows up, you know, and then sometimes it's, like. Gets to be further. Sometimes it's like, further and further between times, and then. Yeah. And it just, like, you just wish some. Like, you hope that somebody will be there, but then sometimes they are in your dream and. Yeah. That's awesome, man. That's a really nice sentiment to share. Thank you for that call. Let's take another call here.
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Caller 4
Hey, Theo. Hey, man. Just wanted to call in in response, listening to the Pickle Chili podcast and the guy.
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Theo Von
Thank you for listening, man. I appreciate that. Thank all you all.
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Caller 4
Anybody who listened that lost his girlfriend and after five months, wanted to respond as somebody that's been through that, too. Lost my fiance, high school sweethearts. Yeah. Day before my birthday, she was in a car accident. And it's tough, man. It's somebody that you've been with for seven years. At a young age, I was 21. She's 20, so it's kind of rough, but just wanted to respond to him and let him know the things that have helped me, and maybe it'll help him and somebody else. And the biggest thing is I got all those. The same symptoms as him, you know, didn't want to do anything. You lose your purpose in life. And some things that you touched on, Theo, you know, you want to dream, you want to feel all that again, and it's all true. But the thing that helped me the most is surround yourself with friends and family and those things right there, the people that love and support you. I'm still close with her family, and those things help you get through it, man. So anytime I'm having Those rough days and weeks, and you just, like you said, get out. Surround yourself with people that love you and your friends. Go do some things with your friends. They're always there for you. And I got a dog. And that really helped me get through that too, man. You always got somebody excited to see when you get home. And that's it, man. That's really the answer. You'll never forget. You'll never move on completely. You hope to have a normal life, but the things that help you push through it are going to be just love. Surround yourself with people who love you.
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Theo Von
Amen, man. Yeah, there's a song. There's a song by this guy, Stephen Wilson Jr. Thank you for that call and thank you to the caller previously, too. And thank you guys for both sharing your experience with loss. Yeah, there's this song, grief. Is that by Stephen Wilson Jr. And it's grief is only love that has nowhere to go. And. And I thought about that. I thought about that since that gentleman called in, because love is like. Love is this feeling that it has to. Lands on someone or an object. It has to land on something, right? Like a person, place. Love has to have a place to land. If you love, like, you can love yourself, but that's more like integrity and confidence, and then it can even drift into ego or whatever. But when you really love, you love someone, you know, and so love is really. It's an outward thing. It's not. It's yours, but it's. If it's active, it's not yours. It's like a bridge almost, kind of. And then. Yeah, once that recipient is gone, once that place where it was landing is gone, it's like it almost becomes. It's crazy that something that is so wonderful can become so painful because then you have all these same feelings, but they don't have the place to land. Yeah, I remember when my father died. I remember I just. I was at his funeral and it was like the most, like, scariest thing ever. There was people there that I didn't even. I didn't know any of them. And my Nate, this family that I just moved in with, the dad took me over there and. And some of our neighbors went with me. And I just remember, like, it was all these feelings that I think I didn't even know that I'd had, that I wanted to be for my father. And I didn't even know I had them. And now it was just like they were. They hit a dam, you know, they just would never have a place to go. And I just remember, like, just so much tears and, like, crying and, like, it would be like going into the cracks of the floor. And I just wanted to. I just wanted to be one of those tears. I wanted to just disappear. Let's take some other calls, man. And we're not trying to make, like. I guess it can't help but be, like, sad, but I think it's real, right? And it's real. This is, you know, life is real, and it's full of real things, and I'm just glad we don't have to go through them alone. So that's a nice thought to have right now.
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Caller 3
Hey, Theo. I'm replying to the gentleman that had recently lost a girlfriend. I had lost my girlfriend back in 2018. So it's going on seven years now. It's tough. And it sounds like he was looking for answers when, you know, the only thing that I could say, it sounds like he's on the right track, and if I was him, I would just choose to live through the memories that they shared together. I remember my girlfriend always telling me that she thought I was a good teacher. And so now I'm in a field where I'm able to teach people things. And I just feel like every time I do, I just. It reminds me of her. And there's just like, it's no longer a sadness anymore. There's a happiness in it. And.
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Theo Von
Yeah, you know, it's funny. Thank you. Sorry I'm belching. I had a little bit of Celsius, but thank you for the call, man. Yeah. I remember my dad, like, one thing I. Like, one of the only things I remember he said to me ever in my life was that I was a survivor. He used to always say that you're a survivor, you know, and maybe he knew that because he was so old that it was be something that I would need, I don't know. But it's like. It's like one thing that I just feel like, you know, I relate to or something, you know, Like, I'm going to get through this, I guess, you know? So I think that's really magical that when you act out something that somebody who loves you told you you were, when you do those things that you are kind of servicing that relationship that's no longer there, you know, like, if she says that where you said this.
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Caller 3
Part, I remember my girlfriend always telling me that, you know, she thought I was a good teacher. And so now I'm in a field where I'm able to teach people things.
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Theo Von
And, yeah, I could totally see that, man. That by then teaching that, you feel like you're honoring her, and it makes you feel that same way that you felt when she told you it was something that you did really well. Yeah. It's interesting how we figure out how to. How to keep going in the world, all of us, and that we want to. That's one thing that I think is amazing about life, is this will to survive. Right. It's like you have a man that lost his daughter, and he's. You know, and there's. It's like he wants to go and at least wake up and see the day every day because, you know, probably through his eyes, his daughter somehow gets to see the day as well. You know, I think there's just something in us that wants to survive so much. And I don't even know what to say about that or what I think about that thought, but thank you for that call, man. Thanks for sharing that. All right, let's take one more call.
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Caller 5
Hey, Theo, this is Tyler from Cincinnati.
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Theo Von
Hey, Tyler, thank you for calling. Dude, Cincinnati over there. Will the Bengals have a decent defense? I don't know. All the money's on the offensive side of the ball. It feels like if they let Trey Hendrickson go. Now, with that said, is it a Joe Burrow make or break year? We'll see about that, baby. Onward, brother.
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Caller 5
I don't have personal experience with a loss of an immediate loved one, but I've walked next to someone who has, and our church offers counseling around that. And one of the resources we use is this book called Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy. I highly recommend it to everyone who is dealing with loss. And I buy it for anyone close to me that I hear has a loved one who they've lost and they've found some peace from that book.
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Theo Von
Yeah.
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Caller 5
Hopefully that could be a resource to some people who are listening.
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Theo Von
Thanks. Bye. All right. Yeah. Thank you for that suggestion, man. I know there's a lot of grief books out there and stuff, but just, like, how do you go through it? Yeah, it's interesting. The young man who called earlier first, the original call, was saying that he felt like he got left behind. Yeah. It's just. It's all kind of fascinating, even though it's so sad. I was. I was. The other day, this came up on my feed when I was thinking about grief. And it's. Jim Carrey once said, or this site attribute attributes it to him. Grief is not just an emotion. It's an unraveling, a space where something once lived. But is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw edges begin to mend. The pain softens, but the imprint remains, a quiet reminder of what once was. The truth is, you never really move on. You move with it. The love you have does not disappear. It transforms. It lingers in the echoes of laughter, in the warmth of old memories, in the silent moments where you still reach for what is no longer there. And that's okay. Grief is not a burden to be hidden. It's not a weakness to be ashamed of. It is the deepest proof that love existed, that something beautiful once touched your life. So let yourself feel it. Let yourself mourn. Let yourself remember. There is no timeline. There is no right way to grieve. Some days will be heavy, and some will feel lighter. Some moments will bring unexpected waves of sadness, while others will fill you with gratitude for the love you were lucky enough to experience. Honor your grief, for it is sacred. It is a testament to the depth of your heart. And in time, through the pain, you will find healing, not because you have forgotten, but because you have learned how to carry both love and lost together. Man, that's pretty powerful. Yeah. Whenever I had heard that quote that. Yeah. That grief is only love that has no place to go. It's a great song, too, by Stephen Wilson, Jr. I don't believe that the quote is his, but it's a. It's a great song. Yeah. Like, you have memories, and sometimes even just telling a funny story about someone that's gone can almost make you have the same feeling as if they are still alive sometimes. But, yeah, thank you guys for anyway, listening to that. I know some of that stuff's kind of heavy and stuff to think about, but it's nice to take moments to think about people and just hear what? Just be alive. Yeah, it's nice to just be alive. Yeah. I don't mean that. I just mean it's. I don't know what I mean. Anyway, yeah, thank you everybody who made some calls and called in. There was a lot of nice calls and suggestions, and we tried to put some together there. You know, I wanted to say something. There's been something that's just been kind of on my heart, and so I feel like I should bring it up. There is. You know, we've had people on the podcast in the past to talk about it, and there's just a. There's a conflict that's been happening in the Middle east people know about it between Israel and Palestine and some of the areas over there, the Gaza area, they talk about. And I just think it feels to me. I don't know if I. It just. It feels to me like it's a genocide that's happening while we're alive here in front of our. In front of our lives. And I don't. Sometimes I feel like I should say something. I'm not a geologist or geographer or anything like that, you know, So I don't know A lot of the. Some of it I do know, though. Like, I know the basics of the issues over there, but for me, it's just like, how I feel. Like, you see all these photos of people, just children, women, people, body parts, just people, like, putting their kids back together. And I just can't believe that we're watching that. And that more isn't said about it. And so I'm not saying anyone else needs to say anything, but I think I'm just. That more isn't said about it by me. So I just. I want to be able to speak up about that, that I think we're watching probably, like, you know, one of the sickest things that's ever happened. And. And I'm sorry if I've kind of haven't said about it. I've tried to talk about it and learn about it, but I don't know, maybe I just want to. I just wanted to say something. I don't even know what to do, you know, and it's crazy because our country is also complicit in. In. You know, it's In. In it and has been for a long time. And. And it's just kind of interesting because then you just realize, oh, well, I'm just a. Yeah, I'm a member of this country, but I'm just. What we want sometimes doesn't matter, you know, and you just have to be a member of a place and your government is making other choices. So I don't know if I don't know if I said that correctly or I don't even know exactly what I said, but I just. I just have. It's just, like, been making me really sick, and I feel like I just needed to say something that I think. You don't have to think that I'm not asking you to do anything, but I just have to say that. So I'm not sitting by. You know, there's that peace inside of me. Like, why wouldn't you. Can't you say something? You know, there's People that can't even speak and you can say something, you know, and so that's how I just had to just speak up. Anyway, I think maybe it's starting to make it about me there at the end. But. Yeah, so just praying for those people and just the grief that that is all going to cause, you notice, like, what are we doing? But. And I know that this has happened to other ethnicities and other cultures. I know that it's happening to other places, too. Um, I just don't see that as much. And so. Yeah, anyway, anyway, that was kind of a downer ending, but. Big guy. So Mother's Day is a good day to just be a reminder to love people. Whether it's your mother or a kid or a puppy or a little alligator, whatever you got over there, you know, even if it's a memory, you know, get a picture out of somebody that was a member of your life or that loved you and spend a few moments with them, you know, or that's what I'm going to try to do, you know, I got a couple pictures of my dad. I think there's a couple memories that I keep of him that are like. That are just mine, it feels like, you know. Yeah, there's a couple memories of him that I feel like are just mine. And so, yeah, I can just, you know, I can. You can spend time with those. You're the only two people that have those in the world is you and that other person. So that's a really. That's one of a kind. So that's really something cool that you can do. But anyway, this is getting long. Happy Mother's Day. Thanks for letting me be a part of your life today. Thanks for being a part of my life today. And I don't even know how to end this, what to do. I don't even have any music on today, so. Big gay. But yeah. Anyway, quit listening to me. Text your mom. Even if you hate her, text her and be like, hey, Matt, love you. And then just send a wink emoji after it. That's. Hey, look. Hey, it's a start, right? You guys be good to yourself, baby. Praise God. Thank you. Oh, and Easton, thank you so much, Easton, for helping us out today. Dude came over. We never even met. We never even met. What are you getting your mom for Mother's Day, Easton?
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Easton
I think we. Me and my siblings went in on something. I don't know what it is yet. Okay, I'll find out on Mother's Day as well.
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Theo Von
Type shit, dude, the Craziest is when you buy some of your siblings, right? They picked it out, they show up with it. Mom opens it, she likes it, but you don't fucking like it.
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Easton
Yeah, it's happened a few times.
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Theo Von
Yeah. That's crazy. That's like. Dude, that's one of the. That's guy. That's why being a mom has to be so crazy. Something crawls out of your body, right? Hangs out in the kitchen for probably 15 years, right? And basically, I mean, sorry. I don't know if there wasn't an ending to that, but, yeah, dude, that would be the thing. Somebody got my mom one of those boat in a bottle things. Ship in a bottle. You know what I'm talking about?
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Easton
Yeah.
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Theo Von
Yeah. We all gave my sister some money, and she was going. She was. She'd been using or whatever, or mountain climbing or whatever she called it. But she. We gave her the money. She shows up. We each gave her, like, 80 bucks. She shows up. She was to have something nice for Mom. She got her one of those ship in a bottles, dog. It had no change with it. Like, get. Give me that change. Come on, big guy. All right, man. Thank you, Easton bruh. Much obliged. Appreciate you. And make sure to check out net positive with John Crist and Ann Easton on there. And you guys be good to yourselves. Baby gang. Now I'm just floating on the breeze and I feel I'm falling like these leaves I must be cornerstone oh but when I reach that ground I'll share this piece of my I found I can feel it in my bones but it's gonna take.