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Get all your tickets@the ovon.com T O U R and thank you so much for your support. Put a bow on it. Put a bow on it. That's the end of the year, baby. In the books. That's it. Wrap it up. They used to have a fella in our neighborhood when I was growing up and he had affliction, you know, and they, nobody knew what he had, you know, but he had. And his daddy kind of had it. Whatever his daddy had. His daddy, you know, it got worse when he had it when he was born and like damn, he's got it. And I remember at the holidays they'd put a bow on him, put a big bow on him and let him be out in the yard and let him pick up some of the driveway gravel, make wishes on it and throw it over to over the fence over there by their house. But what are we talking about? Good to see everyone. Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you. Happy holidays. Happy black Christmas. I know that there's some people celebrate that black Christmas. I don't remember what it's called and I don't want to offend anyone but that. You know what I'm saying? That chocolate that shock a lot Christmas, baby. That Hershey's Christmas. You know what I'm saying? Get book, get book. And. And they got all the Christmases and everybody Happy Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. And the end of the year is here. I can't believe it. I can't believe that that we got the end of the year already. I just remember everything was kind of. It was a crazy year. It started off, you know, shit was weird and then things got kind of trans or whatever. And then suddenly it's Christmas. And here we are. We have some great Christmas music too. I want to just take a second so we can hear a couple of these tunes. So we have them and just put us in the mood right here today at the end of 2024, right here. Let's hear a little something. And that's all this. That's Christmas Bells by Mike Franklin. And that's forever. That's that autism Christmas, baby. That Christism, baby. Let's hear a little more of it. Santa's coming. Hello, Santa. Santa. China. And that's a little bit of Asian Christmas too. That's that Bobby Lee lunch whistle, baby. You know what I'm saying? That's that Bobby Lee mating call right there. And you could see Bobby Lee just. Just looking up in the distance behind a big stack of like a big rice wall or something. Boy, you can see him looking up. And that's beautiful there, right there. It's called Christmas Bells by Mike Franklin. And you gotta love music this time of year. Something that really keeps you together, keeps your mind together. I'll put on a song sometimes. If I can't, you know, if I can't handle, I'll damn put on a song and I'll put a pacifier in my ass and just pray to God, brother. Let's hear one more song here. This is called Christmas Wonders by Howard Harper Barnes. Amen. And this sounds like rich people driving a shop or whatever, you know, and they're. The kid has clean hair. You know, when the kid has clean hair and has a lunch that has a lunchbox that has actual lunch in it, you know, I remember my lunchbox. Sometimes it would just have a little piece of paper in there. It'd say you on it, you know, and then some silverware in that bitch too. So it'd make a, you know, it make that sound, that very industrial sound. When you were running with it, you would hear the silverware in there and then you. Nice piece of paper in there or something like get, you know, or something like that inside of it. Let's hear a little bit more. Oh, we are rich. We have gas in our car. It's a Volvo. Late for the store. The mall, it's closing. Let's get some steak for the kids. We're rich. Bum bum. Are we almost out of gas? No, we're not. We're rich. That's what that reminds me of. Rich people going to the mall with their clean hair and their kids or whatever. That ain't the Kind of our was just like jingle Bells. You'd have some guy out there smoking Jingle Bells. Ah, they need to throw a. Throw a. And he. And he throw a mill of light against the wall. He'd be like, where's your mother? Where's your mother? Like, mom, who is that? Mom, Is that Santa? He's like, that's. No, that's your. And it would be your dad or your stepdad or your. The mechanic who y'all owed money to. Dude, I remember the mechanic. One time we owed him something. He came and got that bitch right back off the car, bro. He. I don't know if it was a damn spark plug or it was a motor joint or whatever. He was a damn clevis clamp or something for a steering pendulum. And he came and pulled that bitch right out of there. Dude. Yeah, that car barely worked after that. You had to turn the radio up to get it to go left. Every time that. If you wanted that to go left, you had to fucking crank up some Aerosmith and pray some. Two people had to be praying in the back. It ran on four hands power. You had to have four. Four hands pushed together, praying straight to God. Crank up that aerosmith. Bam, son. 90 degree right turn. That's how we did it back then. And that's what that song reminds me. That's Christmas Wonders by Howard Harper Barnes. Beautiful tune there to get you ready for the holidays. Let me see what else we got here. Here's one right now. And this is Christmas in the Club. Let's hear it. Oh, oh, Prancer, Prancer in this dancer on that reindeer, Reindeer skirt On Pluto, on Ricky, on Mario, on DeAndre in the clerk we all reindeer. That's a mildly urban tune, I believe there. And that's Christmas house music by Dylan Stitz. All right, and we may have one more Christmas tune here to bring you guys into the. Into the world. Bro. We got a little something right here. And this is called Trap Beat Christmas Past by Cushy. Bring it up in my headphone. Cushy snowfall all the way. Rocky. Rocky got that on him. And that is Trap Beat. Christmas passed by Cushy with a little bit of ensemble in the background. I added some vocals there. That was. Rocky got that on him at the end. And everybody remembers Fella. I grew up with his son Rocky. And he was mentally. He was just. He was. Well, he wasn't mentally. He was unmental or, you know, he just. His. His was kind of. You know, he was that. He was just. The Lord's side item and he, he, but he had that thing on him. Maybe he had that piece. He had that frickin Draco on him. Boy, Rocky got that cock on him. And I remember one year around the holidays everybody was just shocked at the, at the size of the stump on that beautiful young fella. Even his father, even his father was. And that's what it's, that's what it's all about. What's going on? Sorry, don't know what I'm talking about. We've just, we're in the Christmas time of year and I want to thank the everybody who's just listened to the podcast this year and made a part to be a part of it. We, you know, we've had the most successful year as a podcast. It depend on what you determine success by. But we've had the most prolific year I think, you know, and that's a blessing just to have it like that. And what's going on today? I got to go over to Vanderbilt University over there with coach Clark Lee and hang out with some of the players over there and watch them practice. They got a beautiful facility, you know, and it was just, you know, I felt lucky to be in the building. This is the SEC football school. And just to watch them go and just how it all. They have like the different periods for when like the team switch and practice different parts of the game plan and different formats and everything when a football format and just so just to witness all of that was pretty awesome, you know. And just to be in, in Nashville as that team is building and putting really just putting that anchor down, baby. This was the year that they really kind of I think put that stamp win on the program and just a great season over there. And so that was great just to just to go get to do that. And I wish them the best over there against Georgia Tech with Diego Pavia, the Latino ninja and that guy just, you know, there's a. He is one of a kind man and that whole team is. It's just they got a family over there and so I think that's what I like the most. Just being able to be around a group of people and you know, as you get older and as life changes, you don't get a lot of groups like that. You don't get a lot of team like that in your life as much. So I think you know, even just to get to see that and be around it for just like we went over there for maybe an hour and a half or something and yeah, it was Just. It was cool, man. I'm not trying to brag about it or anything, and some. You know, but it was just. I just thought it was. It was just cool. So thankful to them what's been happening in the world. We got a couple of things, people, right here. It says New Jersey drones. Oh, God. What is this? They got a call that came in about it. Let's hear this. What is it? Onward. Hey, Theo, what's up? What's up, brother? Thanks for calling, brother. Just wanted to call, ask what you think about the drones in New Jersey. Just wanted to hear your thoughts on that and have a good day. The drones in New Jersey? Yeah, I've seen it. People are like, look, hey, hey, Samantha, get the. I get out of here. She's breastfeeding some little Rutgers fan or whatever. And he's like, samantha, get the. Get out of here. Put your tits away and get out of here. The drum. They got the drums. Some guy's got fucking salami grease in his eyes. He can't even see that good. He's all fucking. Just geeked up on Mortadella or whatever. Like, hey, Frankie, you seen his drones? And people saying they're from Africa online, African drones. And bit that would be. They'd be paper airplanes. Africa ain't making no drones, bro. They making soup. They got. They got. They're dealing with different issues, grassroots issues over there, you know, they made Zambian drones over there. It's probably people like, it's aliens, you know? I don't care. I don't care what it is. I don't care, dude. I don't care if it's aliens. Good. Y'all keep talking about them bitches every week. Bring them on. I hope it is something from another world that probably. Hopefully it's coming to help the jets. Whatever it is. That's all it is. Hopefully. Whatever. Them drones, I hope they should go. I hope they go straight over there and help the jets over there, because they could use some support. I know that the New York jets could use a damn drone or something. On defense, they didn't. They need some free. They need it. But, yeah, that's what people are saying, that the drones over there. Hey, Gina, get out here. Gina's inside. She's finishing off a tattoo she got. She getting a tattoo on her arm. A. You know, she finally. It's like her. The third character from Boondock Saints or something on her arm. Or it's some ch. Or it's some chick from Marist, you know, with a jersey. Mike's brassiere. You know, she's nine mint juleps into the slot, and she's figuring things out. It's the drones. You know, I just. I. You know, it's probably one of those frats just dropping pills into people's drinks. That's the way that's how they're doing it now, ladies. It's. It's the drones. It's probably some pike with a. With a remote on his phone. Oh. So I don't know that's what's going on out there, but, yeah, that's what's happening in my world today. That's kind of it. You know, the year has happened so fast. I feel like I'm not getting enough time to prepare to be. To do. You know, it's almost like you want to finish everything off and do everything, and. And then I got to remember, you know, you can only do what you can. Right? You can only do what you can. And, you know, instead of trying to make it to five houses in one day on Christmas or Christmas Eve, like, make it to two or three and spend some quality time there and say, hey, next year I'll come and see you guys, you know, Or I'll see you at Easter, or I'll see you here, or I'll see you the day after. You know, sometimes we try to stack everything on the one day. Yeah. So that's what's happening. That's some what else is happening in the news, London's Christmas tree this year is pathetic. This says, Let me see. Oh, that Mitch. That dang boy. London, the bridge is falling, dude, that bitch gonna fall as well, baby. Gosh, man, that thing looks like it got too many vaccines, brother. That thing. Wow. London, y'all. Didn't. You guys must have give all your money to foreign countries as well, bro. That thing barely lit up. Go. That thing missing some branches. A bird wouldn't land in that bitch. I know that. You'd be lucky to find a. Maybe a penguin roll up under it, but you could. I bet you couldn't find 60 birds that would live in that bitch. That thing looks like Section 8 for swans over there. You got you missing some branches on it. That looks like when you get one of those haircuts at one of those schools. You ever been, like, the school where they cut it and they have the person up front, it's his first time. He's like. It's like a school. It's a hair school. They had it in our town when I was young. And for 50 cents, they cut your hair or they cut it for free. If you fucking walked in there. They didn't give a shit. They was just happy to let any. You practice on it, bro. You come out that bitch looking like a damn girl. Everybody. You get like a six year old lesbian. I don't care what she was a male, female, bichon, anything that put a. I don't care if you was Australian shepherd, you look like a damn six year old lesbian in there. They put damn sideburns on your. Right on the front of your head. They, they didn't, they didn't know what they was doing in there. I think it was an Aveda Roberts or something. It was called Evader Roberts Hair Cafe or whatever you go in there, 50 cents. And it was some dude. It was. He'd been a substitute teacher three weeks earlier at my school. And now he's in here and he's shaking hands. You know, hi, I'm, you know, I'm Reginald or whatever. And he changed his name and it's Reginald, bitch. You're Reginald, all right. I don't know. I'll, you know, I'll pretend with you for 45 seconds, but you're Reginald from social studies, sir. And then he'd try to trim your up or whatever. He'd take you. They wash your hair, dude. To try to drown you in there. Drown you in the sink for 50 cents. You barely make it out. That dude just scary to be a part of some of that. What were we talking about, Trevin, you remember the London Christmas tree? Oh, yeah. So I can relate to, you know, not getting what you pay for there. London or getting what you pay for, you know, that's what you get, baby. What else do we have? Pornhub will block access for Floridians on January 1st. And I say this, you know, I applaud this. I have friends that work in pornography or that do it and stuff like that. And that's fine. This is not a judgment against any of those people or any people that are involved in sex work. But no one in Florida will be able to access pornhub, the most traffic pornography website in the world as of January 1st. And honestly, I think that it's good, you know, I think watching per porno has. It's not, It's. It makes for me. It makes a lot of shame inside of me. Anytime I'm busting myself out or just, you know, or, you know, doing, you know, anytime I'm just, you know, just larping that freaking ranger or whatever or just making my Body talk and do just, you know, anytime I'm just, anytime I'm doing pornography, I don't feel good about myself. That's the truth. I don't feel good about myself. You know, it makes me feel ashamed, kind of. It makes me feel weak. It makes me feel ashamed of myself. And those aren't ways that I want to feel. And I believe it takes away. Because I've seen this happen with so many of my friends and myself. I think it takes away your desire to connect with the opposite sex. You know, and then like, you go home and you don't have the energy for your wife. You don't even have the attraction because you, you're basically just taking the attraction out of your body. You know, God puts like magnets in our body or mother Nature. God or godmother nature, whatever. She keeps changing her name. I have no idea. But she's probably just hiding, you know, trying to hide from the courts or whatever. But she, they and God or whatever, they put like a magnet in your body and that creates the attraction. So when I'm taking all my energy and I'm putting it just in a pornos on the Internet or whatever, I'm just, I'm gifts given. All of my energy, my good, beautiful human nature energy, I'm giving it away, you know, and, and then it makes me feel ashamed. It makes me feel just. It doesn't make me feel good. That's what I'll say. And so I don't want to do that. And so I'm glad that they're starting to crack down and, and not they're starting to. But we, we, we need some help. I, I think that's what I think. I think we need some help. Yes. People should be able to watch whatever they want or look at whatever they want. But also, I don't think we should just let things, everything just be available. I don't think so. And some people might say, well, that's like communism or something. I don't know. That's like a restriction. That's fine. Look, I've watched enough porno to know that you don't, you don't need it. Now, it's easy for me to say because I got to see some of it, but, you know, and I'll sit around a fire and tell you what it was like, if that's what you need. But, but I'm happy. I think we need to go back to the days of drawing. So you have to sneak in, you know, sneak into your brother's room and Sneak a drawing of some cooter out from under a aquarium and it's a little bit wet and it's got some fish flakes on it or whatever on the sketch. But that's how you get it, you know? So I think there needs to be a little more. More barrier to entry in the sex. Yeah. And look, that's how I feel about it. And that's okay if you feel differently, but I've watched it have an effect on my own life and I. And I'm. I'm glad it won't be as accessible. I think, man, that's okay if you feel differently. I'm not saying what I feel is right and that's okay, but I'm just tired of like, I feel like it takes. Your masculinity is trying to. And it's like these systems that use these algorithms against us, it knows. It knows you're addicted to it. So it's like I'm a serve you that addiction right here and it is up to ourselves to be able to prevent ourselves from looking at it. 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This one off that scissor, baby. This one sipping, boy. Wow. This one definitely on the clock. Hiding at work. I've seen this one before. Dang. This one off that henny, baby. Damn, boy. Let's see one right here. Oh, this one hiding, too. I seen this one at work at lunch, hiding out in between a couple boxes or whatever. And this one got a little eight ball on him too. What is that, a eight ball? No. What is that thing called? Trevin? Snow globe. Snow globe. Thank you. But yeah. And then this one right here. Sketch sent me this one. There's one. And that's Cat Williams. And that's Cat Williams and Cam Newton hanging out right there. We caught them on the edge of the store over there by the appliance area. Air condition, H vac, all that. So they. They over there mingling or whatever, talking shop. Okay, what else we got? We got some more art. Tick Tock is on the verge of getting banned. The supreme court will hear arguments over the law that could ban Tick Tock in the U. S. If it's not sold. Who is the owner of Tik Tok? I want to see if he would come on here. I think it's Chao Shane or something. I think it's Chao Shane. Shao Zi Chu. Shit. Yes. Shall Zhu Shu. Yeah, we got to get him in here because I want to know what the truth is. And I would like to say to you, shall I choose? If you're willing to come on, maybe we would love to have you in here just to learn a little bit about it right here. The supreme court said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The law, enacted in April, said a January 19 deadline for TikTok to be sold or else face a ban in the United States. A popular social media platform has more than 170 million users in the U.S. the high court will also hear arguments from content creators who rely on the platform for income and some TikTok users. President elect Donald Trump, who once supported a ban but then pledged during the campaign to save TikTok, has said his administration would Take a look at the situation. Trump met with TikTok CEO Sha Zi Chu on Friday. The case pits free speech rights against the government's stated aims of protecting national security. The government ain't protecting national security. I think at this point we can all recognize they don't really have our security in their sights. You know what I'm saying? They let, they'll let anybody. They don't want somebody getting your information off tick tock. But they'll let somebody just come across the willy nilly come into the country willy nilly. And I say that only because we've met with border patrol agents and we've. That's the truth. There's no. You can sugarcoat it any way you want. So I don't believe that. I believe that they don't want people sharing the truth about the genocide in Palestine and that's why that they're doing it. I believe that that's what it is. And TikTok is one of those places where people can still do that and they want to own it. They want to own it. Dude. Suppressing. Yes, suppressing. Thank you so much. Yes. And I think, yeah, I mean, and people say thank you. And, and people say like, well, we don't want China to have our information. All these every. They all have our. What are they? I don't understand sometimes what, what that means, you know, like, what do you have my information. I have like six pieces of information. There's no way you don't have them. I've put them into some of the probably shadiest sites on the web. You got them? You know, I don't even. People have our information. What do you might. I'm scared they're going to get my doordash order. They've got. They have our information. So then it's just, what don't they want us to see? Right. What don't they want us to see? Because if they can control what they. What we see, they'll control what we know or what we believe. Maybe. I don't know. Do I sound crazy? I don't know. Doesn't matter. While both are. And. And there is a. And there's a difference between the TikTok in China and the TikTok in USA. While both, it says right here, while both are owned by the same company, Bite Dance. TikTok in China called Duyen Du Yin D O U Y I N Duyin is significantly different from the version available in America with a much stricter focus on child friendly content, including educational videos and Stricter time limits due to stricter Chinese government regulations regarding online content for minors. Whereas the American version is considered more open and has a wider variety of content with less restrictions on viewing time. It's more open as a wider variety. So I understand, like, they want to keep, like the Chinese government probably keeps theirs more informative. And then, you know, America is just, we've like the fat, we like the funny, you know, it's just like we don't want to learn as much. It's not as much of our nature. A lot of us, you know, we're more tempted by the other stuff. And so that's what we kind of consume and enjoy. But that seems like a crazy. But I just don't buy the content thing. I just don't buy that they're getting going to get our information. We gonna get my shoe size, my address in college or something, you know, what are you gonna get? What vitamins I'm taking. What are you gonna get? That's what it's like, you know, we don't. They're gonna get our. What is what information? I can't think of anything that haven't already put into a computer probably. So I think they have our information. But what do I know, dude? I don't know, dude. I'll smoke a bag of my own and nuts, homie. I don't give a shit, boy. I will eat the fucking shingles off your house. Yeah, I will. All right, what else do we have? We got some calls that came in. Any more news? Oh, Columbus Funeral Home the first operate in America with a liquor license. Columbus, Ohio. A North side funeral home could soon serve mourners in a new way. Alcohol. Wow. Welcome to Ireland. That's what we're talking about. Funerals. Evergreen Funeral cremation and reception is set to open next year. They applied for liquor license and could soon be serving people during services. That's nice. The mission is to make the process of a very difficult time a little easier. My role in this position is to be kind of a party planner for the dead. That's what Hunter Triplett told wsyx. Triplet wants to shed the business's reputation of being dark and morbid by offering manageable prices and the option for mourners to raise a toast to a lost loved one with a bar. That's fair. Interesting. We will be serving alcohol when people are on the premises and remain on the premises. Yeah, because imagine that somebody leaves a funeral car accident deceased. So these people are kind of. I don't know. That's called Double Dip and or whatever. It seems like it. So. But hey, that's the kind of America we should, you know. But we got a ban Tik Tok because it's getting your information. What else? Oh, New York considering special hotline just for CEOs to report alleged threats to their safety after the Brian Thompson killing. For those of you who do not know it, Brian Thompson was the, he was the matriarch or whatever. The Brian Thompson not. That's not the right word. He was the CEO of United Health Care. I believe it's called United Health Care. He was gunned down in the middle of Manhattan earlier this month. And so New York Governor Kathy Hockel is considering a creating a special hotline just for CEOs to report alleged threats to their safety. A hotline. That sounds like some CEO is going to call a hotline. I think they know now like they should all they would all call it because it feels like they just got. They. There's no point in the hotline. You got it. They. There's the threat to the safety is there? You know, somebody's been popping off. Somebody pulled that Draco out on somebody, you know, because they wouldn't do to cut. You know, they was wrenching somebody's mother over to medical bills and stuff. You knew it was going to happen. I feel like. And I feel like this is where we're starting to get in society, where you're going to start to see vigilantism. Now. Some people can just say it's murder. Some people can say it's vigilantism, you know, and it could be both. That's the thing as well. But you're just going to see. Yeah, at a certain point that's going to happen. You know, you're seeing people take things into their hands because institutions like the government or won't do it. That's what you're starting to see. You're seeing it everywhere. You know, you started to see it during COVID when Dave Portenoy was handing. They were helping out, they were helping out small businesses while the government, while Covid people were. They were shutting them down. So you started to see private people or regular people taking action to do things that you would think that the your government would do. Right. And I think at a certain point you would think that your government would keep you safe from toxic insurance programs. And they aren't. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. So you think about the stress and all that causes. It's horrible. It's horrible. But meanwhile, we have billions of dollars to give somewhere else. It's just fucking. People are sick of things. And then you start to see people take things into their own hands that their government should be doing for them. So how do you guys feel about vigilantism or, you know, I don't. Is that a crazy thing to say? I mean, obviously it is murder. It is a crime, so that is no doubt. But sometimes there are crimes that people do because they don't. There's no choice. You know, we give that excuse when people rob a Sony's or whatever, or you rob a Taco Vesper, whatever. Some guy selling fucking Mexican off of the back of a damn bird scooter or whatever. Some fucking lime, some fucking little Lyme monster, you know, slanging that shit, homes. You know, slinging that shit. But anyway, I'm fucking rambling. I think I'm getting a little bit into the news, but I'm just, I'm interested. What do you guys think about vigilantism? Do you think this is just murder? Do you think that we're going to see more of that as time goes on? Yeah, because at some point, if something bends enough, the fucking shit is going to start to get weird. And I kind of. I like weird shit. You know what I'm saying? I like weird shit, bro. I've been involved in some misconnections with the devil, brother. But I love how the government thinks a hotline is going to help, bitch. That's the same thing you gave to people that were having problems with the insurance company in the first place. You gave him a call, a hotline. His mom, your mom's mom's been on, on hold with insurance for two hours now. She got to call another hotline to complain about it. Get. That's what I say, bro. That's what I say. And when, when, when people start to realize the truth, bro, gets. It's. That's wild. That's what I say, man. Damn. This got me agitated. And I'm between insurance companies right now, so I better calm down, dude. And that's the truth. I think my new policy goes in on the first or whatever. So. Anyway, let's get to some calls, man. Sorry I've been rambling. I know I've been kind of vocal about shit, but maybe I'm not sorry. I don't give a fuck. I. I don't know what I'm doing, dude. I don't know. It's been a long year and does make me agitated sometimes. I've had Three coffees today. You know, I watched a sec team play football. I'm feeling hyped. Um, we got a video call in right here that came in. As always, the hotline is 985-664-9503. And there's. You can submit videos as well through the website. Here we go. You want potty? And what do you say after that? Gang, gang, gang, gang. Maybe there's a young kid right there, and if he parties or whatever, if he does pissing or does booty work, they let him say gang, gang. And that's beautiful. Praise God. Good to see these young fellas right here. What up, Theo? My name is Dallas. What's up, Dallas? Good to see. Good to hear you, brother. Let's hear more. I'm driving home right now. What I do for a living is I. I set up Christmas lights for people. So some might call me a. A spreader of joy. You know, I'm a joy spreader. Spread that holiday greeting. Okay, brother. Thank you. Yeah. And putting the lights up, I looked into. It's a little pricey. I looked into it. It's a little pricey. I'd rather just get home and wish they were up for about a month and then just. Then it's January or whatever. But I do feel you. And I get jealous when I see homes that have them up. And when I. If I get a wife next year, I don't work as much. I'm gonna put some up, but onward, man. I'm sorry I'm making this about me, brother. Let's hear more. But what I'm. What I'm trying to get to is that, you know, I do it all morning, all night long. Sometimes I'm getting home at 3 in the morning and doing that again at 7 in the morning. So it's long days. Yeah, brother. Well, you can't. You know, if you're trying to change the whole mood of a neighborhood, it's going to take time, man. You know what I'm saying? Romano's Macaroni Grill wasn't built in a day or whatever they say, man. I don't know what that saying is. Onward. And I feel like I'm giving all the joy, but I don't have the joy being replenished within my. My temple, my body. So I don't know. I just. What. What is your advice on how to. I'll tell you how. You got to do a little peep in time and, baby, you right there. You right there, brother. You know what I'm saying? You Right, the. The devil just put you on the windowsill, boy. You elf on a shelf of lust, brother. You. You got an excuse to be on the ladder. You know how hard it is to climb up that ladder with no excuse to be in someone's yard, brother. And you just tell them you're bird watching or something. You're just staring into their fucking window. Yeah, dude, you have. You're getting paid to peep in time, brother. What are you talking about? Change your attitude. Start lurking and slurping, homie. You know what I'm saying? Get tipped out, big dog. You feel me? Skirt. How much is that doggy in the window? Get over there and get you some, boy. Oh, we that ladder, boy. Get out there, brother. You know what I'm saying? Slurp, daddy. All right, let's hear another call that is coming about Christmas. Destiny from Mississippi. Hey, Stephanie from Mississippi over there. And I'll be going to Natchez, Mississippi actually for a night to spend time with some family that I used to live with over there. My buddy Richard Sharp. His family and just blessed to get to see them again. Gang, onward. I'm sitting here wrapping my brain, trying to figure out what I should get my 8 year old son for Christmas. I mean, you were a boy once, you were 8:1. So. Yeah, I just wanted to know your thoughts about that. Thank you, man. Love you. Bye. Love you too. Thank you so much for calling. That's a good question. What do you get an eight year old boy? Hmm. And he's just a boy probably. I wonder how tall he is. How long is an 8 year old? Let me look that up really quick. How long is an 8 year old? Soccer game. What? That's ridiculous. Who's looking up that? It says between 47 and 54 inches tall. How tall? How long is that? How long? How much is that? 50ft or sorry, 50 inches is 4ft. Okay, so we're looking at 4ft tall. Something that's 4ft tall. What do you get it? That's a damn wiener dog. It's, you know that you got living with you. Yeah, an eight year old. You know what? I think there was some things my mom would get us that were fun things, but then she would get us things that were like kind of of creative, like thinking things as well, you know. And I really liked that. Like we would get like puzzles or different type of stuff. Clay. One year we didn't have any money. My mom got us a couple. She got us everybody these two liter sodas. These big old and big Dogs. You remember them when they first came out with them and one year they came out with a damn 3 liter soda. Bring that up. God dang, boy. When they. Bro, you rolled into my neighborhood with a three liter soda, bro. We right here. You don't want it anyway. We ride here. We ready, bro. That was a gang banger. So that you know, that's the kind of. I get that little bastard a three litre soda, baby. Shake that up. But I think also some jewelry. Get him something, man. I'mma. I'mma ice my family out probably with some stuff from Kohl's or maybe some backwoods shirts or what, you know, different. What is it called? A full body fits. Maybe some backwoods fits or something. So yeah, I think. But that an 8 year old, I like something though that he has to think or something. Something you can also maybe do with him. There's got to be like a fun, like a good game or something. Or a shovel too. Or a treasure map. Get him like a. A something. Maybe hide something for him and get him that treasure. Get him a treasure, a shovel, treasure getter. Because yeah, then you have him dig up something and maybe it's nothing, right? But oh well, that's life, huh? That's life, shorty. Better learn it now. Work hard, bro. You ain't getting. But no, I think also a big hug. Maybe take him to a nice movie. Oh, what about this? What if you get him like a gift card to some a movie theater and then he gets to pick out some movies he wants to go see. So maybe that could be something where you get to read the movies to him and be like, well, these are the movies they have for your age. And then he gets to pick one and choose it and then it's him making a choice and feeling like he has a choice in if you guys get to spend time together or not. I think that would have been something that I probably would have enjoyed, you know, or you know, my mom took me to Wendy's once when we were kids and I remember that. And that's nice. That was something nice as well. Destiny is that lady's name. And yeah, and just Merry Christmas to you and your son. I'm glad you guys get to do some fun stuff together. What's something else? I think something like that is nice where he gets a say so in it and then it's a choice he made. So you know, that kind of builds up his ability to think and ask. Like, okay, well what are the choices? Right? Maybe, what do I know? 8 year old kid might not. He might. You know. He might want to just sip, tranq or whatever and sit in the. And sit in a fucking sedan in the parking lot. I have no idea what kids are doing now here. We got a call that came in right here. As always, a hotline. 985-664-9503. What's up, Theo? This is Wells from South Carolina. Had a question for you. I was just wondering. We. Me and my buddies went to a casino up here at Kings Mountain, one of the Native American casinos, and you guys went to a Native American casino. Okay, thank you. I was just astounded by the amount of Asians here. Not to be racist or anything, but, like, the amount. It's not racist to see Asians, brother. Let me tell you that. It's not racist to see Asians. You see Asians, what are you going to do? Not see them or whatever? Pretend you're, you know, Rip your eyes out of your head? No, it's okay to see Asians, brother. Let's see more. Sorry. Let's hear more. Amount of Asians that were at this casino were just insane, dude. I mean, you know, it was pretty cool, but have you ever experienced that Asians are prolific gamblers? Yeah, I've seen a lot of that, man. Hi$. The one guy was yelling. I remember there was a. It was a basketball or something. I remember walking through a casino one time, and then a Asian fellow over there. Hi$ hi$. He kept yelling, hi$ and yeah, they love it. Asians like that. Risk. They like. They like to fucking risk, man. Because I think Asians, they don't. They're. They just. They. They like the. They like the wrist. They like the smoke. They like the smoke. And they like the risk, you know? Hey, what's up? You know, hey, I'm Asian, so. Yeah, dude. They. Yeah, Asians, bro. Hey, what are you doing, huh? I'm gambling. Hey, you know. So, yeah, Asians love that, bro. Hey, bro, put four Asians in a box. What do you got? People that gamble. Praise God, baby. Here we go. We got a call that came in right here. Onward. Hey, Theo Vaughan. My name is Miles. I have a brother. Hey, Miles. And thank you for calling, and I'm glad that you have a brother, man. Let's hear some more. That acts really gay. How do I ask him if he's gay without pissing him off? Thank you, bro. Well, I think you could do it in a gift way. You know? You could do it in a. In a gift way, like a note or Like a. You hide it. You put a note in a package, a little note, or, you know, when you write it, draw it or whatever, and it's a. And it says. It says, like, are you. And then it just has, like, two guys hugging or whatever, you know? But then he's just gonna think. He's gonna think that you. That he's just. You're just asking if he's in the Navy or whatever. So you got. I'm trying to think of how do you do it? I think you just gotta tickle him or not until he tells you if he's gay or not. That's what my uncle would do. You just. Because, you know, because that's how you even get gay. Somebody just tickles you so damn much. Your whole spirit just kind of just spoils into just wanting to meet some guys somewhere. So I think you got to figure it out, brother. I don't. I don't know, dude. Why do you. Why would you even call and ask me that? I don't know. I mean, I appreciate you calling. Sorry, I shouldn't. I shouldn't say that. I appreciate you calling, man. You know, and I'm sorry you're dealing with that, but I'm glad you care. I remember I thought my brother would try to make love to me when we were children. You know that. And. And I'd be scared. And so at night, I remember I'd put. I had me a little bag, a little sack of jingle bells, you know, a couple J bells. And I'd lay down at night, and I'd balance some J bells on my body. And. And so if he tried to come get me, it would, you know, it would. It would. You know, you could bar. You'd set off the alarm, you know. So what else? Oh, what do I want for Christmas? I am getting a book that I know I asked for. I got a couple vitamins. I'm getting this mic arm maybe fixed. What else? I'm trying to maybe take a little trip to the beach or something, but I don't know yet. And, yeah, I'm going to spend Christmas in Louisiana, so I'm excited about that. In Baton Rouge and Covington, Mandeville, New Orleans, just around the hood. So grateful for that, to see some of my friends and family. So those are things that are going on with me. Let me play a call right here. Hey, what's up, Theo? I'm a huge fan. I listen to your podcasts at work all the time. Thank you, brother. Thank you for checking it out. And, yeah, I feel fortunate that we get to keep doing this. My question is, I was in the military for five years, and I was in Japan, and I had a fiance of five years. And when I came home, I found out she cheated on me a year ago. Should I give her another chance? Since, I mean, I wasn't home all the time, I'd come home once a week every year. Or should I just move on? Thanks, gang. Gang. You know, I think that's a great question. I think you got to look at the reality of it. If you're home once a week for a year, that's tough. Now she broke her word. Some people are young, and at certain times they just. Their word isn't really as strong because they are still putting their word together. And I'm not justifying everybody's behavior. Everybody's behavior. I'm not justifying my own behavior even. But there's definitely a different, you know. You know, you're still. You're learning some things. And people say, well, you said you're learning in your 20. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you're learning how to be in a longest. All that stuff. You're figuring it out. Sometimes you're afraid to hurt somebody's feelings, and that's why you don't tell them, even though that's it's selfish, because it has hurts them in the longer way. But you don't know that you're. You're feeling. You're figuring it out sometimes. So I think it's possible I've had friends that have forgiven the loved one or significant other for sexual indiscrepancies. And then they package it up and now you can hear them. You know, you'll invite. I won't even invite them over because they'll be in there thumping, brother. They'll be in there just slurping. So I think that's part of it. But, yeah, I think, look, you can always try it and see how it goes. But the weird thing, and I've done this where you forgive somebody, but then you keep bringing that shit up that isn't good. It feels good, but it's not cool. So that's the thing you can't do if you forgive. You have to forgive, man. You have to forgive because otherwise you're just letting somebody hold. You're just. You're basically holding a card. You're saying, I'm going to hold this card that I can use whenever I want, want. And that's even. That's worse than choosing to forgive or not to forgive, you know, that's you then saying, I want this power. I want this power to control how the situation goes constantly. And I'll notice that in my own life over certain times. Sometimes I'll. I want to keep a level of communication. I want to keep a enough distance where I can kind of like if I think somebody might be, like, have an issue or might be upset about instead of bringing it up and talking and getting it out, I'd rather almost. Sometimes this is not the best part of me that wants to do this, but there's a part of me sometimes that would it almost rather let them be unsure, you know, because it let them be unsure if our relationship is okay. Because it gives me some sort of power, you know, it gives me some sort of control, perceived control in my own head. And. And that's a sick part of me that operates that way. And it's not always or anything, and it's definitely been more in the past, but I have noticed that behavior in myself at times. If I'm not doing well or not taking care of myself, I'd rather keep things on thin ice. Because. Because I'm used to. I'm. That's why I do well, you know, I'm okay on thin ice. How you gonna be out here? You know, it's that kind of. So. But holding the grudge or. Yeah, holding a grudge type. But yeah, man, I wish you the best luck. I think it's nice you to call and ask about it, man. And. And also we all figure things out as we go, so don't be too hard on yourself either, you know? Let me hear one right here. Oh, there's a bug on this wrapping paper. It's okay. Does Blue Chew work? That's a question we all want to know. Does Blue Chew work, baby? Does it give you that Randall. Hey, got that Randall on me? Well, if you're asking that question, we want you to know that Blue Chew is putting their money where their mouth is by giving you one month free. Bam. Wiener. Bluechew is an online service that delivers the same active ingredients as Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra. Hey, girl. But at a fraction of the cost and in chewable form. The process is simple. 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Look at these aliens, bro. Aliens are doing alien. They blink their eyes and your missing. They're. They're. They're doing. They're on another level. You think they're out here just. Just running around, just on, you know, 97 octane over here, just. Just peeking in neighborhoods and shit over here. Looking at a bunch of above ground swimming pools, just watching people just singing Bruce Springsteen in above ground swimming pools over there outside of Trenton or whatever. Get fracked bad stringing up these lines. Anyway, onward. Hey, Theo. Been going through a little bit of a rough patch. Lost my job, lost my house about a year after getting a divorce. Okay. Rough patch. Lost your job and your home, man. I'm sorry to hear that. And it's been about a year since your divorce, so I'm fighting for my kid right now. Things just been getting easier, man. I'm not. You're in a court battle for your child, you're saying, and things aren't getting easier. My ropes in. I just need to figure out how to be a person again. Been through rehab three times last time. Seems to be sticking pretty good, so there's that. But, man, why does it seem like everybody gets to be happy but me? I'm just at a loss with it, man. I Worked hard my whole life. Keep going and going. Everything just keeps slipping and slipping and I just, I don't know what to do anymore, man. Things are just getting way out of control for what I can handle. Amen, brother. I appreciate you reaching out and just saying, hey, seeing what's going on. Yeah, dude, I'm definitely, you know, God, I've felt down in the dumps. I think everybody has at some point, you know. And yeah, when the chips keep falling the other way, you know, when the Asian guy keeps winning. All the gambling stuff. Full house. Yeah, man, I, you know, I'll tell you a couple things, man. They just said I've had notice in myself. So there was times, there was times when I only noticed the rough in my, in my life. I only noticed it. I'm not saying this happened to you, but that self pity became my alcohol. Anytime I needed this. I just feel sorry for myself. Well, let me open up another can if I feel sorry for myself. I'm not saying this, what you're doing at all. This just reminded me of this for myself. And I mean that wholeheartedly, bro. I would just slurp a six pack of self pity. That was my drug. This is wrong. I can't not, you know, and once when that hit me, I was like, oh shit man, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm washing myself in bath water. I'm get, I'm doing the things I'm supposed to do to take care of myself. I'm getting this stuff off of me and out of my system. But then I'm, I got a straw in my own bath water and I was sitting there just slizurping on my own sadness all the time. Now I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but I noticed for myself that my, that self pity became a drug for me. What else, man? Let me think of something else. You know, that's a lot, man, because a lot of what you're saying has real like emotional attachment to it. You're trying to get your kids, you out of your house. You know, you're, that's a lot of upheaval and I think some of that probably just takes time, you know. Um, but yeah, I'm sorry, man. That's also a lot. That's a lot. And so I think just give yourself some grace to be, you know, to not also put the pressure on yourself to feel great, you know, It's a lot of tough stuff going on. You know. The other day I was upset about something I wanted to call and just fucking rearrange the tits on somebody. I wanted to switch them bitches, put the FM one on the AM dial and vice versa. I was just pissed at this lady. But instead I just sat in my car for a little bit, I breathed. That's why God gave me this big note and he's like, breathe, motherfucker. What are you doing? You out here? Just. Just taking chances. I'm showing you, you know, do eight ball air bubbly. We need, you know, G up. And I had me a couple Charleston shoes there I found in my corridor and ate them. And. Oh, and then I just went to a. A meeting. And after that, after that, I even called my brother. I say, man, I can't. I'm about to lose. You know, if I call this person right now, I'm gonna lose my mind. He said, well, wait till late, till later, because I was attaching all this other shit to how. To my day. I was attaching all this old. These feelings and stuff to my day into that. Next thing, I was bringing a whole trailer full of bullshit and I was gonna hitch it to this one moment about the way things had gone down with this. This woman. This. It wasn't like a dating. It was a work, work thing, but it was all me. It was all my shit, you know, that I was bringing extra to what would have just. And then when I finally was chill later on, it was a normal conversation and it was actually positive. So it could be positive. I don't know what I'm telling you, man. I'm just telling you. I'm just. Yeah, man, I'm sorry that you're dealing with that. And it's a tough time of year and it's the holidays and. But you're not alone, man. You know, we're only alone when we find ourselves alone. We got to remember to get out there too. Nobody's going to come and just help us be unalone. We have to do it, you know, and they say that old saying, you know, nothing changes if nothing changes, you know, so if I want something to be different, I have to do something different. And I'm not preaching at you. I'm listening. I'm basically just talking to myself. Right on. But, yeah, man, I love you and keep your head up and next year will be a different year, you know, Next year will be a different year. And don't leave before the miracle happens. You know that saying. That's what they say, but. Merry Christmas. Thank you for being a support, supportive of this podcast. Thank you for letting me be a part of your life. I'm going to make some New Year's resolutions. Something. Nothing too heavy, just some things, like some goals for the new year. You know, we want to do more ways to give back, and I'm excited about that. We're finally putting a foundation together, so that's really exciting. And so we're going to be able to find ways to do that. And what else, I think to just learn more from people that can help us learn, you know, I want to learn more and get more information and learn more about myself, too, you know, and. And try not to do everything by myself, you know, that's one of my things I struggle with sometimes. I just want to do it all alone. But the saddest thing I realized, when you do everything alone after it's done, there's nobody to talk to about it. There's nobody to share with. There's no, you know. But anyway, not trying to end on a dour note. Oh, yeah, we went out Christmas, Carolyn, the other day, you know, I'd been wanting to get out and do it, and it was just some guys from the gym. We put a little squad together and went out there and hit the streets, and we had a couple bangers, a couple songs. We. We had to give up in just in the middle of it. There was one church group that was having a dinner. They invited us in for some cookies and select meats and stuff, and it was good, man. It was. We did a good job. We did a good job out there. We just put some songs together and just walked the streets and just went up to people's doors and knocked and. Yeah, people were happy. They had. Somebody had a dog that saw us as well. And so people and animals were really enjoying it. And one. When Alzheimer's saw us, and then I don't know if she saw us or not. We was there, but we enjoyed it, man. And anyway, I just want to wish everybody a merry Christmas. You guys take care of each other. Take care of your loved ones. Sorry if I sound preachy today. I feel really preachy. I don't mean to. I got to go do some work after this, and that's okay. You know, sometimes I struggle with, like, I'll get up and I'll be like, I have to do that. I have to do this. Instead of, like, you know, I get to do this. People say that all the time, but it's like, I really have to take that moment more and try to see. Look at my own perspective. Like, this Is life, you know, this is life, and you get to do it. And so how do I want to feel about it? Right? Yeah. And that's something I gotta. I. How do I. How do I want to feel about it? And sometimes I'll still choose. I want to feel pissed about. I want to feel bad about it, you know? And then it's like, well, why. Why do I want to feel that way? I want to feel bad about it. I want to feel pissed about it. Because then it's really just me advertising. I want you to feel how I feel. Right? That's kind of what it is. There's something inside of me that I want you to feel. You know, it's like, oh, it's not fair that I have to feel bad. You should feel. So I'm going to bring that energy out of myself. And I think more often than not, if I can try to get a little bit more around, like, well, let me find a good part of me. Let me find a part of me that's hopeful, that's grateful, that has a. That's that fighting chance. Let me find that part of me inside of me and bring that part to the front of me, because that's also a part of me that. That's just as. Just as the part of me is that wants you to see, like, the part. That part of me that. That has pain. There's a part of me that has pride, you know, and that has hope. And that is a part of me, too, that I. Sometimes I don't summon that part of me enough to the front of myself, and I'm not. There's no judgment, and I'm just kind of thinking and realizing it. Like, I almost want to bring sometimes a little bit of a victimhood. I don't know if it's a victim, but I want you. I just. I want somebody to recognize, you know, something, you know, I want to, you know, but. But there's also a part of me that's like, I got this, you know, I can do this. You know, I'm okay. I can handle this. I love myself. I love some. Someone. I love someone. So these are my hopes, these are my dreams. Let me walk out into the world with that. Let me bring that. Let that be the mirror that people see when they come up to me. And then I'll probably get more reflection out of the world than I would like than when I show up the other way. But anyway, man, I love you guys and just thank you for coming out to the shows this year. And Being so supportive and. Yeah, and be good to yourselves, man. You guys deserve it. Go out on one. This is also. These are all from Epidemic. Sounds is where we get our music from. You can listen to these bangers in there. And this is the Christmas Spirit by the Snowy Hill Singers. And you guys be good to yourselves. What a fun year I think we tried to have, you know? And I just pray that we can have a good one next year, too, you know? We got this, baby. Praise God, baby. Gang, I hate that. Let me get one more. That was an antithesis of what I just said. Why? Sorry, dude. All right, let's hear this one, guys. Love y'all. Oh, yeah, baby. Turn them lights off, baby. Turn them on. Actually, I gotta find my shoes. Oh, God, boy. Oh, yeah. Let me put some lotion on your legs, big daddy. I remember this old guy in our neighborhood let us lotion his legs up. Or his son would let him. His. This old. This man would let us lotion up his dad's legs. His dad had been in. In the war, I think, or in a fire or something. He would let us put the lotion on him when we're young. This reminds me of that. All right. That ain't it either. Jesus Christ. That's sad. See, one more that we got here. Let's try this one. Oh, yeah. Hey, what's up? Not much, dog. I want to go gambling. I gamble. I gamble. Hawaii 5O. Merry Christmas, everybody. This is the Peaceful Christmas Waltz by Von Meyer. Von Meyer. No relative of mine. In a special, this sounds like somebody kind of dancing their way up to heaven. Just on the different stairs. And that may be my buddy, Donny Ater. Big. I like to say peace and blessings to my buddy, Donny Ater. He's headed to heaven. And he sold Big Rig truck and tractor supplies over there on the Louisiana border, baby. God bless you, brother. Merry Christmas, everyone. Gang.