Bones Unfiltered Podcast : Special Needs Edition # 1, Featuring Brandon Warren

This episode is a special edition of our podcast, featuring our guest Brandon Warren, who shares his personal story and the challenges he's faced in his life.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Bones Unfiltered Podcast. I'm your host, Bones. And uh, real quick, I know I'm a few minutes early before we get started with my special guest today, which is my son Brandon Warren. Um, I just want to tell y'all real quick, um, this is the first episode of the Bones Unfiltered podcast. We kind of developed it. We finally came up with a name we thought was fitting. And just to let you all know, part of the reason that I feel that the name is fitting, and I didn't come up with it. I didn't come up with a logo either. I have thankfully I have people that help me uh learn, which is very helpful. But I think unfiltered is is very good for me because it's kind of a play on on the word unfiltered, because as you all know, I got a potty mouth, so mine is definitely not a podcast that I generally um like to have, you know, wouldn't want k small kids in. Pardon me. So but it's also like that cough, very organic. I haven't learned nor have the I guess the uh programs to edit software yet. So what you get is what you get. It's gonna be live, there's gonna be mistakes, there's gonna be screw-ups, there's gonna be um late entries, there's gonna be trouble with connectivity, and I'm not gonna edit anything. So it's as organic as it's gonna get. Um, and so that's why I think unfiltered is also very fitting in that nature, too, because it's it just shows how raw things are. We're gonna still be covering music probably on Tuesdays, um, but also we're gonna expand the podcast and we're gonna touch different things. Like I'd mentioned before, I want to do like maybe small businesses. I've got people, buddies that are comedians and stuff like that, maybe have them on, maybe sports, you know, uh figures. Uh, there's one that I'd like to have on, but the timing wasn't very good with uh him making the transfer to the Louisville Kings. Um, so he had to, I think they go to Dallas for training and whatnot. So anyway, pardon me. The unfiltered name was very fitting. Because, you know, I here I am doing podcasts at 10 a.m. A lot of people would be like, well, that's it, that's a bonehead thing. Most people were at work, you know, it'd better do it at eight or nine o'clock at night. And you know, it might be, but the way I see it is I'm not necessarily doing this to try to become some superstar. So it's like it really doesn't matter if mine takes off. This is fun, enjoyable. I've got a lot of people that tune in to this podcast a lot, and I really enjoy it. Can you hear me still, son? Yeah, oh okay. I I got a feedback on that. So so anyway, now that it's about 10, I just kind of wanted to touch on why I thought Unfiltered was a good name. Um, shout out to Pamela Little. Uh hey, son.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

Okay, it stopped. I I was gonna say I keep hearing feedback with you. I don't know why. But uh hopefully that's not gonna be a problem. I don't think it will. So, anyway, um, that's why I think I wanted to give a shout out to Pamela Little. She helped me with the logo, which is on my Bones Enterprises LLC. So if you haven't seen it, please check that out. Please give it a like, give it a follow, because growing my page and helping me jump through these algorithms and stuff is what's eventually going to also allow to help with um some small monetizations that can help me further develop this podcast to where I can become a little bit more professional. Um you get more effects, you get more abilities to stream to different locations. If you have um you subscribe to the service, but you know, when you're when you're not generating a a lot of money to justify that cost, then you get what you get, which again kind of all revolves back around to this unfiltered raw nature. So it's not necessarily a bad thing. You don't get all the bells and whistles and the cool effects and backgrounds that you would get, but you still are gonna get, I think, a fun show. Now, Miss Cindy, welcome. Um to to my uh Euros, I guess, I guess it'd be Euros, right? Um, my son here uh is Brandon Warren. Um, the reason I'm having him on is I got a hare-brained idea and I don't know how it's gonna go over with people. So we're gonna try it with him. I even talked to another buddy, his name is uh John Heath, and um he's one of the other Special Olympics people that I deal with. But my son is in Special Olympics, and I think the Special Olympics are also an organization that you don't always hear a whole lot about. And the special needs community, I don't know of any podcast at all where they have a podcast where they bring on special needs individuals. Now, there's some challenges behind that. You know, my son here, Brandon, is a TBI patient, uh, traumatic brain injury, for those who don't know. And he also has some physicalities because he had a stroke at birth. So, but you know, with my special needs kids uh at my different special Olympic vents that I coach, uh you have kids with Down syndrome, you have kids with autism, you have kids with fetal alcohol syndrome, you have, you know, I mean, there's behavioral issues, some mental, some just no mental at all. It's all physicalities. So, I mean, it's it's a very eclectic melting pot of people, but I think a lot of times these people get left out of things because they're different. So now the the worst challenge for me, then why I hesitated on this a little bit, and I don't have to worry about this so much in the morning. Matter of fact, Hayden Redman, he just dropped dropped in here, and Hayden is another one of my special Olympics kids. So maybe one of these days, you know, or maybe here in a little bit, we'll get Hayden in too if he's interested. I don't know. I don't know if I'd have to check. My only my only hang ups are you get, you know, you would want to check with family, obviously. Um but the bigger thing is is people are cruel online. I mean, hell, they're shitty as hell to me and other people. You know, people make fun, leave nasty comments. And I don't know why people choose to do that. If you don't like something, just move on. But people don't. And the only hang up I had with doing Special Olympics was having these kids out. Is the good thing is I can see comments like Uncle D's in right now. What's up, my brother? And uh Miss Cindy's in and Hayden's in. I can see who they are and I can see their comments. And good morning to you, Hayden. Um, but the the good thing is, Brandon, you can't see him, can you?

SPEAKER_02 7:18

No.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Okay, so if somebody were to leave a snide comment, he's not gonna know. Now, my son, you know, I I brought you up with thick skin, didn't I?

SPEAKER_02 7:28

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Can you tell kind of tell everybody what what did I kind of do to you growing up to kind of and what did I explain to you? Do you remember? He would like push on me and make fun of me and make fun of you, wouldn't hit you or nothing.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

Not like put your hands on me and say, uh, look at your arm, look at your arm, stuff like that. Uh I would teach you big skin.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

Yeah, but I why did I tell you I did that?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Because uh in life I would get picked on, and exactly you wanted me to have thick skin. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

So I wanted, you know, I wanted him to have thick skin. And uh, and I would make fun, like show him your arm, your affected arm. So, like that little arm is one I would kind of touch on and say, look at your you know, little T-Rex arm and stuff. And people thought I was being terrible, and they were like, Oh my god, I can't believe you would you would joke about your kid like that. And I'm like, Well, I'm not I'm not making fun of him for real, but I'm preparing him for what he's gonna get when he goes to school because kids are cruel. And early on, you know, these kids, all of them have so many disabilities, I can only fathom what they go through in life. And I know what I went through when I was younger as a kid, and I didn't have any disabilities, and to think, try to put myself in what he would experience going through life is like, oh my gosh, you know, it's it's got to be terrible. So so I would tease him, and I still tease you too, don't we? And you tease me back too, you know. We make fun of each other all the time. But the good thing about making fun of each other is um my son is now how old are you now, son?

SPEAKER_02 9:08

I will be 27 March 23rd.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

That's right. So, and he's got very, very thick skin, don't you? Yeah, yeah. He don't let anybody, nothing gets him down, nothing bothers him. So that's also part of the reason, too, why I wanted to have him on first was to kind of test the waters on this because, like I say, people are so cruel that uh it really wasn't so much like him seeing a nasty comment, but what I what kind of made me is make me baby step this with special needs is the fact that you know a lot of families would want to be in maybe and watch their kid on a podcast. I mean, how many how many podcasts have you seen where they really have strived to actually try to include the special needs community? They really haven't. And at least not that I've seen. I'm not saying I'm some pioneer of this, but I was like, I don't really recall giving a platform for special needs to say how great they are, you know, because they are great. And if you've never seen Special Olympics, then you need to find a Special Olympics in your hometown, and you need to go and you need to watch because I'm talking the greatest sportsmanship, the kindest people on earth are at these Special Olympics events. So if you've never seen it, I think everybody should have to go because I think they make the world a better place. Not people like me, it's them, it's the special needs community. I mean, if you've never been around a Down syndrome kid, oh my gosh, they are like the most loving humans on earth. So fun-loving, happy all the time. It's a sight to be seen. And they they deal with more adversities than almost any of us that are currently watching. So my hats are always off to all of these men and women that are in Special Olympics, men and women that have to deal and go through life with different physical ailments. Um I always pray for them and uh and pray that God watches over them, but they do a lot for people like me too. So, son, uh, why don't you introduce yourself to everybody? What's up, Kate?

SPEAKER_02 11:25

I am my name is Brandon Warren, and I am the son of bones, and I am the oldest. And I have been through a lot in my uh lifetime. When I was first born, I had a stroke, and I had a right hemispherectomy, and I've had uh 13 to 14 shunt revisions.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Do you know why can you tell them why you had a right hemispherectomy? Do you remember why?

SPEAKER_02 12:00

I uh stopped breathing at birth and they uh pulled cut part of my brain.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

Well, they you had you stopped breathing at birth. That that's not why you had the right hemispherectomy. That's what caused your stroke, though. Um more so than not. Um, but do you remember why you we had to go have the right hemispherectomy of your brain?

SPEAKER_02 12:24

I was having so many cert uh seizures a day.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

There you go. Absolutely, buddy. You were having a bunch, weren't you? Oh yeah. And when we had to we had to go. Do you remember where we went? St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri, at the Barnes Children's Hospital, which is a phenomenal place, by the way. If any of y'all have ever been there, they're they're very good with the uh neurological department. So uh, but he went, he had a right hemispherectomy of the brain because he was having between about 60 to 100 seizures a day every day. And we went through all meds, all this, this, that, and the other to try to get him fixed up, and nothing was working. So finally, the end result was luckily his seizures were firing from the same node in his brain. So we were able to go to St. Louis, we were able to have the right hemispherectomy, which essentially they just disconnected that whole little section around that node that was firing where that seizure was firing. They disconnected their brain around that. And by the grace of knock on wood, by the grace of God, um, he's been seizure-free since then. Now, it did develop some issues. You became hydrocephalic, which is fluid on the brain, um, increased proteins in this cerebral spinal fluid because of the surgery, which then caused another problem, which was he started having shunts that because they had to put a shunt in his head to drain the fluid down to the peritoneum space in his abdominal area. When they did that, they uh the problem with that was his proteins got so thick in his cerebral spinal fluid that it was clogging the shunt a lot, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

And then, like he said before, we had how many revisions? I don't even remember. It was like 18 or 13 to 14. Oh, it was 13 to 14, and it was 18 to 20 overnight stays, yeah. Different hospital visits for shunts getting clogged, and sometimes they were able to get it unclogged, and then other times they had to actually physically go in surgery to either replace the filter, or eventually what had to happen was because they kept failing us, he ended up with two. One we could pump manually ourselves, the other one was programmed. So he went through a lot. Now, knock on wood, by the grace of God. Um he's actually been doing fairly well here recently. So we've got a little bit of a break from him. Uh David, David Martin, one of my old partners, and his buddy and his son, his son is autistic. He's in the room right now. Welcome, Dave. Dave, um he said he remembers it was 14. So that was a lot. Uh, but his son has autism, and uh his son is just it's it's incredibly gifted. A real quick story about David Lee. That uh we were at a uh I forget whose house we I think we were at one of our bosses' house for a party, and they had this piano, and all of a sudden, this beautiful music started flowing from this piano. We look over and it's David Lee playing this piano, and I was like, damn, Dave, I didn't know your son knew how to play the piano. He's like, I didn't either. It's just like it's so it's so amazing how autistic children are. It's just a sight to be seen. Um, but anyway, I digress. Let's get back to it. But uh, but Brandon, that's good. I mean, that's pretty good, pretty good memory of everything that you've got going on. Can you tell him what after your stroke, what did you what did you lose the ability of?

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Uh lost the ability to loot use my left arm and lose lost use my left leg properly.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

That's right. That's right, which has made it difficult. And there for a while he was starting to put on weight because he wasn't as active as he should have been. And and what did we ended up finding that that Special Olympics? Special Olympics, that's right. And what's the acronym for Special Olympics of Kentucky? Do you know? Uh SOACE. SOAKE, that's right. So if you hear us say the word Soaky, it's just to shorten down Special Olympics of Kentucky. But uh the Special Olympics have different acronyms, obviously, for different states, probably, but uh, but that's what we call ours. And we found Special Olympics for Brandon, which helped get him off the couch. It also helped with him socially being interactive with others, um, which is a really good thing because some of these kids, Special Olympics is all they have, they don't have anything else. So it's like that gives them that sense of purpose. You know, like technically, Brandon wasn't supposed to work, and we finally just let him start working. He doesn't work much, he can't, but um, but he's a door greeter at Academy Sports, and we did that to give him a sense of purpose, and he's you're really good at it, aren't you, son? Yes, yeah. Can you tell him tell him a little bit about your uh work, about how long you've been there? Give him a little insight on that.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Um I've been with Academy since 2019. And I am one of the longest senior employees they got.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

That's right. You sure are, aren't you, buddy? Yes, yeah, and besides door greeting, what's what's something else you like to do?

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Uh walk outside, collect the trash, and help customers and get the carts.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

That's awesome, buddy. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Well, the one story I remember we it was kind of comical. Um, he got a you he he had one boss at one time that kind of gave him an attaboy. It was like, man, Brandon does a really good job. Like everyone loves this kid when they come into the store because he is. When he walks in, he doesn't miss a beat, he greets everybody and he is just happy. But it we had to curb him because when he first started door greeting, they were like, he does a great job, but all of a sudden we'll look around and he'll be gone. And we're like, Well, why is he leaving his post? Well, some patients are I say patients because I'm medical field, sorry. Some people, patrons would walk in and they would ask Brandon. He would greet them and then they would say, Hey, where is uh the shoe department? And he would be like, Oh, well, hey, follow me. And he would leave his post. Well, the next thing you know, the kids literally shopping with these people, taking them to every item they want to find in the store all the way back to the cash register. And his boss is like, dude, your customer service is outstanding, it is beyond outstanding. But we can't be leaving our post and help one person shop when you got to greet everybody that's coming in. So it was a comical story, but it was a very proudful story for me because I was like, Yeah, that's my boy. He takes care of people, and that's what I try to do too. I try to take care of people. So now, Brandon, tell tell everybody a little bit about um what special Olympic events that you liked that you participate in currently, and which ones do you like the most and why?

SPEAKER_02 19:45

I uh participate in basketball, softball, and bowling. And I like basketball the best, and then my second has to be softball.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Second has to be softball. That's awesome, buddy. Yep. It's it's good, it's a really good program. I've been coaching, I'm now kind of doing assistant coaching. I've kind of backed off a little bit. I was doing head coaching for basketball, assistant coaching have been for softball. And bowling, I kind of just I kind of finally stopped on that because it's the bowling is it's they want you to get it done so fast now because the problem that we have in the state of Kentucky with Special Olympics is in my opinion, and I could be wrong, is they I think it's hard, they the lack of volunteers because everything I do for the Special Olympics is free. Um and I've been working for them now, you know, volunteering for what, eight, eight years, Brandon. I think. I think it's about eight years now, seven, eight years, something like that. Well, I think they have a hard time finding people that are willing to just volunteer their time. So I they kind of rush bowling now to the point where I'm like, eh, there's really no sense in being a coach for bowling. The kids have to get it done so fast. And then once they do go do the games, you can't, the coaches can't be with the the athletes. So to me, what's kind of the point besides signing them in? But um, but yeah, those are the events that we do. Um Special Olympics, though, for those who don't know it, they have a plethora of different stuff. So you have flag footballs, you have equestrian stuff, you have uh bocce, you have um uh soccer, you you have a whole whole lot of events. So if you if you're out there listening and you have a special needs child and you're like, wow, there's there's somewhere that I can take my kid to get some exercise, get some socialization, uh definitely check up So Soaky, and they probably have got something that your uh your child or adult Uh would enjoy. And I call my kids kids all the time, but hell on our team, half of our kids. I I mean we got one one young man with Down syndrome that's just a couple years younger than me. I mean, he and I I tease him all the time about how old he is. Because again, like I say, some people may not agree with the teasing, but I think teasing and uh teasing them a little bit helps to thicken that skin because this world is a cruel place we live in. And people say nasty comments to people that aren't handicapped, but boy, when you when if somebody sees you and they can tell that something's uh not right, then they want to hone right in on that. And I think it's terrible to do to anyone. But I think what I've done for you, I don't think it blew up in my face. Nope. You know, we would rough house and we would make fun, and we we had a good time, but and I would always tell him, now you know I'm just joking, I'm just doing this to thicken your skin because you know that was my biggest fear was him going away to school. It's like, are is he gonna be bullied? Is he gonna be head on because he's different? Is he gonna be picked on because he's not mentally he can't, he's not as sharp as maybe somebody else is, but hell, I'm not as sharp as plenty of other people either. So, you know, there's nothing wrong with that. Uh Big Johnson's in. What's up, my brother? Big Johnson's been in quite a few things. Uncle D's still in here, um, and uh and Hayden is still here. Uh, we do have a hard time finding volunteers. So see, even Hayden said it uh because of how rude some of the parents are with the volunteers. Well, and you know, and that's that's frustrating to hear too, sometimes, because when people are volunteering their services, you know, even us as parents of special needs people have to understand that that uh things don't always go according to plan. And when you're dealing with volunteers, you you you can't expect the moon. I mean, these people are learning too, they don't know what's going on. You got to cut them some slack. There's gonna be mistakes that are gonna be made. Um it big Johnson said it is an evil and cruel world today. I never thought I would see such hatred and division on our own land. And I I I agree with that, Big. I agree with that 110. I mean, it's um and we on my years with EMS, I saw how people treated each other and how heinous that we could be uh towards each other. And a lot of times I just don't understand it. I mean, people get mad and and they and then they convince other people to that weren't offended by that or or done wrong to also don't well don't like that person because I don't like them. And people buy into this shit, you know. It's uh it it's just a sad world we live in. But but that's why I got to thinking, and it it's probably a dumb idea, but I got to thinking, you know, what if we give a platform for like people like Hayden and Brandon and a lot of my other uh soaky kids that I'd like to have on. Um yeah, some people would look at it and say, well, this podcast ain't gonna be riveting. I mean, you're dealing with people that that some people that I could have on here may not even be able to formulate a really good sentence. But the thing is, is giving them this platform to speak and letting them experience a podcast and being on one. Yeah, you know, they may not be on Joe Rogan's, they're just on mine, which is nothing. But uh, but the thing is it's still a podcast, they still get to experience kind of what it's like to be on a podcast, and a lot of them would think it's just neat for their parents to see them on a little TV thing like this. So that's why I decided I I want to maybe do it, maybe do Special Olympics once a month, and maybe have somebody on. Because, like I say, there's a lot of red tape. Uh, some kids I would not ask to be on without talking to their folks first. There are some that live alone, make their own decisions, then that's one thing, but there's some that you would have to clear and make sure because you know their family needs to be present and they could and they could be. So I mean, there's a lot more red tape than just doing like what we did yesterday with with having some bands, band talk. And then, of course, if I end up doing small business talk and stuff like that, um, because I'd like to do that, you know, like my buddy that's in here now, Dave Martin, you know, he's got a special needs kid. He'd be perfect to have in here, but also he uh he does realtory now, he's a retired veteran. Um he's got a lot to talk about, and he's got that that realtory business that he could talk about that um if you know maybe have a show on something like that. Those are a lot easier to put together, I think, because there's not as much red tape. You don't have to worry as much about something going wrong. Because if somebody gets in this room and they make fun of me about my teeth or my hair or whatever, I just look stupid. Well, okay, whatever. You know, I don't care. You you like me or you don't, but uh, but I would hate for you you're smiling because I made a comment about my teeth, aren't you? Yeah, I see you, buddy. You were thinking about throwing a teeth joke at me, weren't you?

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

Yeah, see, and that's what I get for ribbing him is he ribs the hell out of me, too, which is good. I like that banter back and forth. Uh uh yeah, oh yeah. See, Uncle D, we talked about the uh micro uh wrestling federation, you know, those undersized, uh small performances they have struggles that they go through too. Um, because they're you know midgets and whatnot. And uh I think I think they're just outstanding. But uh I think it's neat. I think if we all are the same, how boring of a world would this be? Welcome, Val. It's good to see you. Miss Val's in here. Um Brandon, is there anything you would like to add? Because I could see if somebody like if Hayden's interested in dropping in, I could try to send him a link and see if he wants to get in here and say a few things about um about his special Olympics experience. What do you what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 28:34

Yeah, that's fine. But before I go, I do want to No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

You don't have to leave. You're not you're not going anywhere. No, no, no, you I'm just seeing if there is there something that you would like to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 28:46

I would just want to give a shout out to Lorenzo Malden, who uh now plays for the Louisville Kings.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Yep, let's give a shout-out to Lorenzo. Yeah, he's one of them that acted like he may want to be on the podcast, however, um due to all the the uh travel that he had to go back, trainings and stuff that were being held in Dallas. The timing wasn't good. So maybe after the season we'll have uh Lorenzo on because he is a beast of a dude, man. He and he is so cool, he's very nice. But uh we do welcome him back to Louisville. He was a Louisville football player. For those that don't know, he was a uh I want to say he was a defensive back for uh Louisville back during the Charlie Strong era. Uh he was here for four years. Uh he was a transplant from California, I think. I think I think it was California. I'm pretty sure it was. I could be wrong, though. But uh, but yeah, we we do welcome Lorenzo back. He's uh he's a hell of a defensive player, that's for sure. Hell of a hell of a good dude. Uh Uncle D said uh steel strength and steel. That's right. It sure the hell does, brother. And that's why, you know, a lot of people didn't understand me making fun of my son off and on, but I did it because, you know, and I would always tell him I'm picking on you, I'm making fun of you just to get you that thick skin. And I think that's what they need to get by in this crazy ass world we live in. But um, Hayden, would you want to get in? Or or would you need to talk to your folks first? I think you live alone. Or you are on your own, but or we can do Hayden at a different time. But Brandon, um, is there any anything else that you want to talk about that you can think of off the top of your head? Uh no, sir. No. Alright. Is there any hobbies that you like to do that you want to tell everybody that you enjoy doing? Oh tell them about your video gaming. Explain to them how you do that. That's a neat story.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

I uh when I was younger, uh what due to my disability the the uh Xbox company didn't have an Xbox that was capable for a one-handed person. So I ended up learning how to play Xbox with a two-handed controller by doing it with one hand and I kick ass doing it.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

You do kick ass. Yeah. Yeah, there was one day that he decided he wanted me to play one-on-one fight to the death match on what was it, Halo or something. And uh, but he's like, I want to play against you, dad. And I was like, I'm gonna kick your ass, dude. I'm gonna take you down. And he goes, No, because you gotta play my way, and that with one hand. Yeah, he raped the shit out of me, man. Golly, I was I was a lost ball in high weeds. But I'll tell you what, it is a sight to be seen. This kid can get on there with one, he can do a two-handed Xbox controller with one hand, like uh something I have never seen. So it is so that's what's really interesting about the, like I say, the whole David Lee thing earlier about playing the piano. It's like it's amazing how these kids and can pick things up with disabilities. It's like, yeah, they may be hindered one way, but it's like they get a heightened sense another way. It's really, it's really a sight to be seen. Um keep what's the big Johnson says, keep kicking ass and taking names, Brandon. And he does, yeah. What's your gamer tag on on uh uh Xbox? Do you know? I don't even know. Termed Halo 18. Termed Halo 18. That's right. Yeah, now Val says, My son Joshua, he loves playing video games. I do too. I like I still like playing them. I'm like a 52-year-old kid. I love it. I love getting on there. You know, I play some games with my other son that there's there's a couple games we play now, but that him with one hand is just not doable. It's I don't think it'd even be possible, but but yeah, back when he first started, I reached out to Xbox and and I said, Hey, you know, is there do y'all have a controller that's like a joystick for one hand person? You know, somebody's handicapped, and they're like, No. And I'm like, well, shit, you know, that sucks. And that's again, that's all of these things that I've gone through with him over the years of finding out, it's like, well, no, we don't have that yet. And of course, now, you know, now they do, obviously. Um people are starting to realize it, but it's like, you know, the handicapped people need stuff too. And um, and you know, the thing about Special Olympics that pardon me, that bothers me the most. Well, it doesn't bother me, but you know, I did a post not too long ago talking about cancer and you know, people donating. I mean, you you see it all the time. You see these celebrities, they donate to cancer awareness here, cancer this, and cancer, cancer, cancer, cancer. Well, that's all good. I mean, no, everybody hates cancer. Cancer sucks. And everybody donates to cancer, but that's like a billion-dollar industry with donations. And I'm like, you know, if I were to ever become famous and I was making shit tons of money, like, you know, some of these A-lister celebrities were, and I was donating to charity. Well, I'm not, I'm not gonna donate. No offense to cancer. I hate cancer, but I'm not donating to cancer. Why? Because that's a billion-dollar industry, they get tons of money. I want to, I would want to donate to Soaky or to the Special Olympics as a whole, uh, to where maybe they could, you know, maybe if I ever made that kind of money to where it's like you have them have a building made that's specifically for handicapped kids. Because the problem that we face in the state of Kentucky, and I don't know if it happens elsewhere, but the problem we face in the state of Kentucky is uh is you have regular fall ball and spring ball for children, and and you see ballparks all over your cities, everywhere, and they're always packed to the gills, but they get to play in spring and fall. That's just that's just the way the spring and fall ball works, right? But when your special needs, you can't play it spring or fall. Why? Because, well, you those fields that we need to also play our games because we don't have our own structures in our own fields, that well, they have to play when they're available. So you're taking children that have no disabilities and they're playing spring and fall ball, but then you're taking handicapped people and like say for softball, they're playing in when we start late May through August. Yeah, so the hottest time of the year is when you want the most vulnerable people we have physically, some of them anyway, not all. But you know, people with disabilities are out in this extreme heat, all because we have to take what we can get. And thank God they at least take what they can get so these kids have a sense of purpose and have a sense of social interaction uh with people that are that are also going through the same kind of stuff they are. But um, but to me, it's like, man, wouldn't it be nice to become so rich that where when I donate, it's like I want to have a structure made that's specifically for Special Olympics. And Special Olympics, like this this arena or whatever, is used solely by the handicapped, they can use it whenever the heck they want to use it. They don't have, you know, they could do like say you we'd have our own fields. Well, so we could do softball in the spring and fall if we wanted. We don't wouldn't have to do it in the hottest time of the year because we have to take what we can get. No, because those fields, like if I were to become famous, which ain't gonna happen, but if I were to become famous and then I had that kind of money where I was able to help create something like that, then my stipulation would be this is to be used by the special needs community, period. They get it when they want it. It's not gonna be overtaken by others, and then we get the scraps. No, it's their home, it's their place, it's their their basketball courts, their softball courts, their their structure halls for their dances and their fun activities that they have. Um, to me, that's what I would like to see. Excuse me. Hey, what's up, Wolf? Welcome. Um, I'm interested in music conversation. I'm interested in music conversation with Brandon. Set thoughts for possible music review with Bones featuring Brando. Well, I mean, even Brand, that's interesting. Even Uncle D um is kind of interested in your musical side of things. So you never know. We we could always do that. Have you in, you know. Uh, why don't you tell tell Uncle D, tell him um, tell him what kind of music you listen to?

SPEAKER_02 38:27

I listen to all sorts of stuff. I go from John Legend to Kid Rock to Bullet for my Valentine to Green Day to all sorts of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Dude, you just said John Legends. Now, I don't know how this is gonna work because guys, remember, this is unfiltered podcast. I don't have cool gear and set up yet. I'm it's baby steps. I'm growing, I'm learning, I've got a long way to go. Um, but I'm gonna try to stream that song. He said John Legends, and I tell you, it was really neat. My son learned when did you learn the signing of John Legends song in school? When did you learn that?

SPEAKER_02 39:13

It was 2015.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Back in 2015. He was taught how to sign the song uh All of Me by John Legends. Now, what I'm gonna try to do, would you would you sign that for them? Absolutely. Can you set your can you prop your phone up where you can get away from it far enough where they can see you? Where you can do it?

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

Okay. You are you okay doing that? Absolutely. Okay, I know you always enjoy doing it. All right, so I'm gonna try, let me try to pull this song up. And I I'm gonna hold the the song has to go through my mic because, like I say, I I suck and don't have cool equipment to where I can't stream it in streamlessly and all that good shit. Uh I'll get there eventually. But um let me see if I don't know if this is gonna work. We're if it works, it works. If it don't, then yeah, oh well. Um hang on, just give me a second. Because you when you said that all of me, when you said John Legends, I was like, you know what? I always loved when you did this. So let's see. Let's see if this'll work. Um Well shit. Where in the hell did just I just had it? Where the hell did it go? All right, let's see if this works. Now, Brandon, you're gonna have to give me insight on how this sounds because I may it may be muffled, it may be may sound like shit, and if it does, then we'll just get we'll give this up and we'll try it again another time.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 40:51

Okay. But again, that's what Bones Unfiltered Podcast is all about. It's raw, it's organic, there's gonna be screw-ups, there's gonna be dumb shit said, it's no. That sounds good. Can you hear it good?

SPEAKER_00 41:08

Yeah, okay, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

You do your thing. You may have to stand up so they can see you. That was fucking awesome, buddy. Thank you. Just to let you know, my eyes got they just got rid of you allergies. I'm proud of you though, buddy. That was awesome. You know, I love when you do that. It's awesome how you took a while to remember that, but you did it. That's really cool. Uncle D once, I need to learn how to send out. I don't know how the hell you send a sh link where they can share it. I don't know how to do that yet. We'll figure I'll figure the shit out, I promise. Um but anyway. Can I say something? Heck yeah, you can, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 46:15

When I started filming this, that video, my teacher had us looking down like I was one of the statues from Washington, DC, and he said, I look the most oppressed. And that's what I was shooting for. The most uh oppressed or or the most depressed. Oh, depressed. Because he looked, he was like, You look the most oppressed, like someone killed your puppy in front of you.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

Well, you did a good job with that song, buddy. But uh that's that's definitely uh one of my favorite things that he does when he does that. It's really cool. Man, I think we had a good show, dude. It's been it's been a lot of fun. I mean, we still can keep going, it's only been 45 minutes. Um, it says Brando was working out his arm. That's right. He was, man. You were working out that arm. Yeah, I tease him about his arm. Show him show him your little T-Rex arm, man. It's so it's so funny because it you can't you can't really tell with him sitting there in the chair. But if you were to draw a line down his body, one side of his body looks like his mother, the other side of his body, the one that looks like a stick, that looks like me. So he's got a tiny, tiny leg. You got a little peg leg too, don't you?

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

Yeah. And I ain't afraid of it. And you ain't afraid of it. Heck no, you're not, buddy. And I love it. And I love that we can I love that we can joke with each other. I can joke with you about your arms and your legs, and you know that I love you, and I do it because I I just want to have fun with you and building that thick skin, and it worked. But you know, you do it, you you do it back to me, which also helps me, you know, because you know, I gotta have some thick skin too, don't I? So, you know, it helps, you know. But I'm I'm glad that worked. I didn't think it was going to. I know it was kind of generic. It's like, ooh, he held a phone up and played a song. It's like, wow, what technology, you know. So my podcast is just that fucking awesome. Oh, sorry. I was, you know, I almost made it through a whole podcast without saying the F-word, but I just I can't help it, man. It's my favorite word. I slipped once, but I did I was trying to curb my mouth because I know my mouth is is very pottyfied, uh, which is another reason why the uh unfiltered is perfect. Uh, because there's some guests that I have on there. It's like, uh, we can cuss all we want to. This this is for 18-year-olds or older. Um, but on this podcast, I was trying to just see how I would do. I did, I did pretty good. I I curbed my my mouth a little bit. But uh but Brandon, I appreciate you being the first one. I don't know if I was trying to see if Hayden's in. He never answered if he wanted to drop in, because I would have brought Hayden in. Um bones, oh, I gotta go holler at me whenever you want me on, and I'll be down to join you. So he so he he couldn't do it today, but that's okay. But Hayden is uh one of uh one of the players that um I deal with that uh I would love to have on the show again. There are several. Uh I've got one that I've got to talk to us folks about first, but um his name is Jeremy, and Jeremy just absolutely he just loves me, and I love him too. He's such a good kid. Uh well, and I say kid, but again, that young man is almost as old as I am. So I tease I call him the old pap all of the bunch, and you know, and I call him mouth because his mouth doesn't, he's kind of like me. His mouth never shuts the hell up, it just constantly runs. So I I'm like I always call him mouth when we're at at the ball fields and stuff. You know, you know, shut up, mouth, and stuff. But all of these kids, and and what I love about him is they are the most genuine humans. Like, I've got one on our team, his name's Joe. And Joe, like, I can set my watch to Joe, but I know when Joe texts me, I know what time it is. Why? Because he texts the same time every day, almost, almost to a T. He texts me every single day, doesn't miss a beat, and he may ask me the same things every day, but it's like, man, you know, it's so moving that you have somebody that that's not in your immediate family like that, that actually thinks of you every single day, you know. Most people don't get that, but with these kids, you do. So uh let's see, Brandon. What is Brandon's favorite music? Miss Cindy wanted to know what's your favorite music. So if you had to choose all of them, all genres of music, what do you think is your favorite?

SPEAKER_02 51:12

Rock.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

Rock now, what and now out of rock, do you think you can break it down for Miss Cindy even further? Do you like do what is your favorite rock group? A C D C. ACDC, hell yeah. See, I raised you right. I knew I did. And for those of y'all and some cool little uh let's see if you remember this. I was on a movie set, and the crafty was being run by a woman, uh, two women actually, that were from Australia. And uh they were both just they were so much damn fun. We we hung out, we had they were they took care of people. It was a great time on this movie set, and um they were telling me what ACDC is actually referred to in uh Australia, and I thought they were pulling my leg, but no, it's actually true. Do you remember what they call them in Australia?

SPEAKER_02 52:10

I do not.

SPEAKER_01 52:11

Aka Daka. So for those of y'all you may or may not know that, it's an interesting tidbit of information. It's very odd, but um, but there was all sorts of stuff, like especially areas that they uh little little townships or or cities or town, you know, whatever inside Australia that I I would pronounce one way the American version of it, and they'd be like, that's not how we pronounce it. And they would tell me, you know, so it was it was really interesting kind of seeing how the culture was different there. Uh let's see, bones. I got oh no, no. Okay, I already read that. Let's see if there's any questions that I've missed on somebody who may still be in here. Uh, let's see. Leonard Skinnard, possibly. Uncle D, heck yeah, Leonard Skinnard is the shit. Now he definitely he definitely knows some Skinner too. Like you you listen to the Southern Rock and you listen to the country. Oh, yeah. Uh let's see, what's it say? Play the last rebel, Leonard Skinnard for Brando later bones. I will. Heck yeah, absolutely. I don't, you know, honestly, uh Uncle D, I don't think I've ever played that one for him. I don't think. Um, let's see. He worked his fingers, bending them straight. Yes, yep. Let's see. Signings, great way for Brandon to use that left arm. Heck yeah. He said uh T-Rex arm looks strong today. That's right, buddy. Heck yeah. Heck yeah, man. And Miss Bow said that's awesome. Miss Bow, she's another one that's always in here. Uncle D's always in. Uh Big Johnson, he's he's new, but he's been coming in to all the podcasts. He's a cool cat. And then uh, of course, I've got some that don't say anything that are in here, maybe uh that drop in. Um these are all fans that I've I've met and that have that are really not even fans anymore now. They're just friends. Like I look at them as as friends, and um because I see like Miss Val, I see her on everything that I do. And her support is absolutely moving, and I I just can't thank them enough for that. Um Wolf, let's see, Wolf sent me an attachment. Let's see if I can see it. Uh oh oh, she must have she must have streamed that or something for me. I I don't know. I'll have to I'll have to pull that up later and look even further. But but anyway, um now let's see. Uh how old is is your son Brandon? Brandon, tell tell Valerie again how old you are.

SPEAKER_02 54:46

I am 26, going to be 27 in a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_01 54:51

Heck yeah, buddy. Heck yeah. Can you tell them how long you've been working at Academy Sports?

SPEAKER_02 54:56

I've been with Academy since 2019.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

2019 Academy. You can tell them what you do for those who who kind of who kind of maybe came in late.

SPEAKER_02 55:07

I am just the door greeter. So I greet customers as they come in and direct them to where they need to go.

SPEAKER_01 55:14

Well, let's get something straight. You're not just the door greeter because you you are the reason when people walk in that store whether they're gonna have a good experience or not. When they see you, you're the first face they see, and when they see that smiling face, and you're like welcome to Academy Sports, and you can tell them which where they need to go and whatnot, then they know they're gonna have a good experience. So your job's not just a door greeter, dude. You do your job's pivotal, that's why you got it. Big Johnson says, Thanks. You're pretty fucking cool as well. Well, I appreciate that, brother. I really do. And uh hopefully someday we get I'll get to meet Big Johnson because he's cool. Um anyway, there's gonna be you're gonna have a lot of different family that are gonna watch this tonight. Your grandparents wanted to be on the live today, but they couldn't because they had some errands that had to be done early on, so they are gonna watch you tonight, son. Uh, of course, they also got to figure out how to get back into Facebook because they're you know they're older than me, so obviously. So they they're just like me that technology's not the the strongest suit. But uh I'm accepting Academy Sports gift cards. I bet you are. Let's see. Look at your phone. All right, Wolf said, look at your phone. Let's see. Maybe I can see it on my phone better. I'm trying to pull it up. Now, Brandon, what is uh why don't you tell them what's what's one of your favorite movies that you like, man? I like Deadpool. Aw, that's so damn sweet. Thank you, Wolf. Wolf, she she sent stars, dude. That's the first stars I have ever gotten. Oh, cool. And I don't even think I got it. I think it's because of you. Yeah, yeah. So it's so the truth comes out. You know, your dad, you thought you thought you had a cool dad. You really don't. Really, you're the cool guy. And uh my podcast should have been the the Brando Podcast, you know. And I could have been your sidekick boner, you know. The brand podcast. The brand podcast, that's right. So what movie did you say? I'm sorry, because I was I was The Avengers The Avengers. Oh, that's good, man. Has good checks. Yeah, everything Marvel does pretty pretty righteous, right? Oh, yeah. Especially when it comes to Deadpool. Y'all, so is Deadpool your favorite on Marvel character?

SPEAKER_02 58:00

Oh, Deadpool's my favorite. Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:03

Is it because he cusses?

SPEAKER_02 58:04

No, he's just a badass.

SPEAKER_01 58:06

Oh, is he is he just a badass? He is a badass. That is true, man. Deadpool is legit. Uh, let's see. Let's see. Wow, that's awesome. I have three kids. This is Valerie speaking, but my son Joshua is going to be 24 in October. My son Joshua uh is disability. He has a disability of confusion. So, and and Brandon, excuse me, Brandon does too, Val. He's um, you I know you came in, I think you came in later. He is um an actual TBI patient, traumatic brain injury. So there are some things that Brandon he forgets, or it sometimes it takes a while for us to go over stuff to get it into long-term memory. And uh part of the reason that happened with him was when we were in St. Louis having um no, no, no, when we were here after his brain surgery, he became hydrocephic like I spoke of earlier. And his shunts kept clogging and clogging and clogging. And we we had 14 surgeries in one year uh that were all revisions. Well, the last revision, um I think it was the last, the last revision that he had. Uh they the good thing was they tried to go through the same scar tissue to minimize, obviously, just destroying his body and having scars everywhere. They tried to reutilize the same areas. It probably helped from for nerve uh issues as well, in regards to those nerves have been severed and whatnot. It was probably less painful each each surgery. I don't know because I didn't go through it. You probably don't remember, do you, son? No, no, probably not. But um the last surgery he had, they they told us, they said, uh, well, we we had a complication, and it was not their fault. I mean, it it is what it is, it happens with surgery. Things sometimes go wrong. And he had they tried to replace the shunt, and when they did, it collapsed around the tubing of the shunt that goes to the peritoneum, and it wouldn't allow it to drain. So that's when we had that's when we eventually came with the second shunt because we had to find a way to stop this one programmable shunt that kept clogging. So what they ended up doing was they put a second shunt in on the opposite side of his head. Now they said it was going to be risky because we had to go over the good side of his head. So they were like, it's gonna be risky, but we need to put a shunt in there because that way they could use the brain as a filtration system to try to thin out that cerebral spinal fluid, though that that high proteins in its uh cerebral spinal fluid to where it would drain better into that peritoneum space. And um we ended up getting the programmable shunt. Actually, I think we did that before. So he had both, and finally, when they were trying to replace that one, when it collapsed around that tissue and they went to put another one in, they caused a small brain bleed. Well, when they did, that's when his TBI pretty much happened because that's when um he lost his short-term memory, and he didn't lose it completely, but it's like we have to go over things a lot before it finally crosses over that threshold to the long-term status to where he can retain that information. Just like that, like what he did with with the whole signing thing, it took a long time to get him to remember that. Now, luckily, once he remembered it, he's locked it. But it was rough, wasn't it? It was rough. But uh, so seeing him still remembering that, it's just it it it hits me. It hits me hard. Uh let's see. Well, she said, You're a good-looking young man. Thank you. Yeah, that's very nice, Miss Val. And Uncle D says uh handy enabled, never disabled. Damn, that's a killer line, man. I like that line. I do too. Handy enabled, but never disabled. That's a really cool ass line. I like that, Uncle D. That's cool. Oh, man. But um, it says, Oh, Big Johnson, I've got to run. Have a great weekend, Bones and Brandon. Keep kicking ass on the Xbox. Hell yeah. Be good, big Big Johnson. Thanks again, man, for brother, for the support and coming in. I really appreciate it. Can you give Big Johnson a big shout out?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:42

Thanks, Big Johnson.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:45

That's another, and that's uh I love his name too. It's so fun to say. It just makes it comic. I'm like a child. It's just like like a kid saying the word poop or fart. It's so funny. It's just fun. Isn't it fun? I mean, if you go through life and you can't have fun with that, then it's just like, you know, what are we even doing here? You know what I'm saying? Uh yours to use. Thanks. Thanks, Uncle D. I do like that. Handy enabled, but never disabled. That's a really that's a really cool line. I wish I would have come up with that. Um, somebody sent us, he sent you 20 stars. Damn, dude. I should have had you on a long time ago. I've never had any stars, man. Never. I have your ass in here, and now now I got now I got these high expectations. I gotta compete with your ass. God dang it, man. I'll tell you what, buddy. It says, uh, you're more than welcome, Brandon. Love y'all like family. Thanks, Big Johnson, man. I really appreciate that. Thank you so much. He was the one, Big Johnson's one. Big uh Big D did. So, yeah, so I you know, thank thank all of you all for that. Um the stars were unexpected. Um, that you're I y'all are the first. I mean, I've never experienced stars yet. I've been working on trying to get everything, you know, with Facebook, you got to go through a bunch of hoops, and um, I've been trying to grow my page. So that being said, um definitely if you like what you hear with podcasting, uh even hell, even these musicians. I, you know, I'm gonna be doing music probably on Tuesdays. I'm gonna start doing a podcast uh for the musicians, especially the ones that are in our booking agency that are that are gonna be uh that were nominated to for the award show this year. Um I get luckily uh it's nice I got chosen to um be the presenter of the entertainer of the year this year, which is a really cool honor for me. Um I'm really just moved that I got chosen to do that. Um But um see I just had a stroke. You might want to call you might want to call an amulet, son. Where the hell was I going with that? Um oh yeah, it was about monetization and all that stuff. So, but anyway, with Facebook, you have to you have to jump through a lot of hoops. And one of the hoops and some of the things too is it's like likes and follows. And a lot of people forget to do that, and it don't cost anything to do it. Um, so you know, if you can, if you like what you hear, go to Bones Enterprises. If you're not following me and you're not liking it, then please do because those likes and those shares, they help so much. Um, they're gonna help grow this page because, like I said, eventually, I'm not looking to make I'm not looking to be famous because I know it's not gonna happen. Let's face it, I'm 52, I'm halfway to death. Ain't nobody want to see a fossilized turd uh as a podcast host. But but here you go, you got one. Um, but um I don't know what every now and again your phone does that. It's weird, I can hear myself. Um but anyway, um, but at least if a if if people like what they hear and they start seeing it, and I get a little monetization coming in each month, if it's enough to cover, pardon me, if it's enough to cover the um monthly fee for like StreamYard, well then I can start paying for that to where I can have maybe learn how to do some different stuff. I would like to eventually learn how to do a podcast where I sit down and we can do it and then edit it. That way, if there is problems, but on the same token too, I kind of look at it as man, I kind of like how it's organic. I kind of like how it, you know what? So what if you fuck up? So what if you say the wrong thing? So what if you, you know, like you drop your phone or you know, you gotta get up in the middle of this and go take a piss. It's organic, it's real. It doesn't get any more real than this, it's not scripted, it's just all ad-libbed. We just make up this shit as we go. And he answers. Now, him, you did take the liberty, which I thought was cute. He came up to me and he says, Hey, I just want to let you know I need a few minutes. I need to uh I want to prepare some notes. And I said, You want to prepare some notes? And he did. Like, can you show him your note page? Yeah, show him your note page. I mean, he sat downstairs and he did, he wrote out an entire page of notes. He said that way if his memory forgot something, he could pick up where he left off. So I just love you, buddy. You're awesome. I love you too. But uh, let's see, let's let's see. My stupid phone. It's a John. Yeah, big Johnson. Yeah, let's see. Uh Google Outdoors Again, Waterboro, Maine. It's director D's Howe and Howe's family. Not for profit, but for people with disabilities in and around Maine. That's cool. We'll have to look into that because we we love anything with with the special needs because they're I think they're the most outstanding people. And to be honest with you, they're the most real people. Um that you don't get any any more real than these kids because they don't they don't know how to be shitty. They're not shitty people, they're always happy. It's like, damn, it would almost be nice to to be able to be like that, to where they don't have very many stressors, they're always just super happy-go-lucky people, man. It's like, man, to go through life that happy would be awesome. And not have to deal with some of the other stuff. Being real is the best. Yes, it is, Miss Fowl. It is very much the best. And uh professional understand, yes. And uh let's see. Let's see if I missed anybody's comments. But Brandon, you did good, man, for the first show. What do you think, man? I'll be what what what did you like about the podcast?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:52

I just liked being on it and doing it with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:56

Did you? Is there something about it? Is there something about this experience? Like, since you've never done one before, like were you expecting something different, or did is there something that about my podcast you don't like that you think I should try to improve on? Nope. No, well, are you just being nice? No, I'm being serious. Are you gonna try you didn't want to hurt my feelings in front of all these people? No. Well, I appreciate it, and I appreciate you being my first, you know. Um the main reason I chose him is number one, he well, he's my boy, but number two, I didn't have to ask permission with him. You know, I you know, pretty much I I knew he'd be fine with it, and I'm his dad, so I'm okay with it. And uh so I'm glad that you and I like giving him the first of a lot of things. You know, there's there's some things that we can do and you know, like this. He's very active. Now, my other son, you know, my other son's got he doesn't have a disability, he's got a full-time job, he's worked second shift. I don't get to interact with him in podcasting, and he probably wouldn't give a shit anyway. He don't do social media, he don't do none of that stuff. My other son, Logan, and um my other son looks he almost looks just like me, don't he? Except he's got way better hair. His hair looks like Fabio's, it looks like Fabio's I was gonna say Robert Plant, but okay. Well, you know, you're thank god your brother's asleep. He'd be like, Fabio, what the hell? But I love how we pick on each other. I love it. I love the relationship that we have, I love the way that we've done things. Whether people agree with it or not, I don't really give a shit. Because as long as you're happy and you you've had you you've had a good lot. You've we've done a lot of fun stuff. Oh, yeah. And we try to incorporate him on everything that we do. Now, there's some just some things that we can't. Like maybe, you know, I don't know if my son's youngest is going to go with me to see Dropkick Murphy's on on Sunday or not, but um he may buy he may take one of the tickets and and go with us. But I told Brandon, I said, Man, uh, we had two tickets, but I was like, I can't take you because where we stand down there, his your your uh your ass would get mowed over. They would knock you to the ground, and and I don't want to see nothing happen and get him trampled on or whatnot. So so sometimes he's he he gets left out of things. But what we have always tried to do for him is always try to give him a little extra. And our youngest son, that's what I love about him, is he understood that because I told him, I said, you know, my youngest, I said, Man, these kids have gone through so much diversity or adversities, excuse me. They go through so much adversity that and they don't have the likelihood of having some of the really, really cool experiences or things in life that like my youngest will have. Because, you know, my my oldest here, he he can only have so much money, you know, and he he can't, he's not allowed to work very many hours, but he but he really he can. It just tires him out. It's it's it's rough standing, standing in braces on his feet and standing for hours at a time. So but he but he loves to work because he loves people and he he loves that sense of purpose. And I'm proud of you for doing that. Uh, your son is great. You should have him on again. He makes me smile. That's Miss Val. She's so sweet. Miss Val's so great. I hope to beat her one day in person, too, and her family, because I bet you they're just a a bunch of great people. And uh I've obviously met Uncle D. You haven't, but he's a cool cat, man. He's fun. And Big Johnson, I mean, again, tip my hat to him. I just met him in some podcasts, probably with Wolf a few weeks ago, I guess. And um this guy has been in every time I go live. This guy at least pops in, even if it's just for a few minutes. And like right now, we only got four people in here right now. But you'll be surprised. Like, I'm curious to see how many people watch your show. You know, because obviously, hell, you got stars. I didn't get stars, you did. So it's like, damn, man. I don't know what the hell I got. Uh what is it? What does a guy gotta do to get some stars around here, man? I guess I had to have I had to have you, and I'm gonna have to have you as my mascot. Maybe I'll be like Dr. Evil and I'll just have you sit in my lap when we do podcasts, and I'll just stroke your little head. You think we should do that? I guess we could. Do you think you'd fit in my lap? No, no, you're way too big for that now, aren't you? Oh, yeah. Oh, it says Brandon's music reviews featuring Bones Warren. Yeah, you could start your own podcast.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:52

I could.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:52

Yeah, you could talk about all sorts of shit, man. That'd be good times. All right. Well, other than that, it's been an hour and 13 minutes, I guess. If is there anything else you'd like to add before maybe we wrap this up? Nope. All right. Well, again, everybody, thanks for those who did drop in and watch this podcast. Um, again, this is my son Brandon. Um, he's my firstborn, he's my most expensive. Oh, yeah. Tell him that. Tell them what your initials are.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:23

My initials are BMW, so I'm the most expensive BMW my dad's owned.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:30

Yeah, and he's damn right. She put, shut up, bones. I'm usually on the podcast, not on my phone. I just saw you had some. But yeah, he is the most expensive beamer I have ever owned and will ever own. But uh, but uh, but you know what? But I wouldn't send you back to the dealership for nothing, buddy. You're the shit. Let's see. Reach out to the venue with questions about talking with Brandon again uh to attend dropkick murvies. Now I do know you are right about that. I mean, they do they do have the um um shit. What was I gonna say? Oh, the the handicap accessibilities and like certain areas. Like there's one place in Louisville, it's a hella, it's a cool ass venue, and it's it's not as super big. Its capacity's not huge, probably 700 maybe, but um just guessing. But it's called Mercury Ballroom. Well, we took Brandon one time um to see the Iron Maidens, not Iron Maiden, but the Iron Maidens. It's the all-female group. You want you want to tell them a little bit about your experience when we went to um the Mercury Ballroom to see the the pretty ladies play the uh Iron Maiden songs?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:52

All right, tell them a little bit about that because that was a fun experience.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:56

I uh I got the privilege to sit with a security guard and bye vow. And he was he was well uh he sat with me the whole time and he took very good care of me. If someone walked in my way, he was like, hey man, y'all gotta move. This guy's trying to watch the show. And he did. And he was like, my dad was like, Can I jump over the rope? He was like, Absolutely, but you're my uncle couldn't because we went with my uncle. But he was like, You have to, you can.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:33

And yeah, and every now and again I would step under just to check on Brandon and make sure everything was good. But yeah, I thought that place was really good. Bye, Val. It's great seeing you, honey. Thank you for stopping in. It was a pleasure as always. Um, but yeah, they took that that establishment took really good care of their handicapped people. I mean, I even heard uh that they had a rap show there at one time where they they knew they had a uh a deaf fan coming. So this establishment this shows how awesome the Mercury Ballroom is in Louisville, Kentucky, and how much they care about their handicapped uh uh populace that they they strive to try to give them a little bit of an edged experience. Um but uh they apparently hired in a uh an inter uh what uh a sign language interpreter to sign a rap show. I don't know how the hell you even do that. I don't even know how the hell they keep up, but they were signing this and this deaf person was in the crowd, and of course they're in the crowd, they can see what what's being said because they're watching the interpreter, but they can also feel they can feel that bass presence when it would you know thump in their chest and whatnot. So I just think the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville is probably it's one of my favorite places because of how awesome they take care of the handicapped community. And uh so my hat's off to the Mercury Ballroom. Sadly, I would try to get our our guy, James Lucer, into the Mercury Ballroom to perform, but sadly, I think it's all being booked now by Live Nation. And you all know how new I am to the music shit, so it's like I still don't have how the hell you get in with Live Nation to where you can talk to people and get shit done. I I guess you can't. I guess you have to become somebody big. You gotta be uh a Jason Aldean or a Taylor Swift before they even give a shit to look at you. So it kind of sucks, but um, because live nation shows, either that or I just haven't met the right person to network with to figure out how you get that done. Um but if we ever do get it done and we get a show, guess you'll be going to that one for sure. For sure. Security understands ADA protocols. Yes, they do, Uncle D. And they do a good job, man. I I couldn't believe they gave him his own security guy. I was like, I was like, holy shit. And they did, didn't they? And where they had him was right by the stage. So we were we were on the front row in the corner. I could drop under this rail. Um, but where they put him was actually where the backstage fan uh families and stuff or or or artists that weren't performing could walk out and they could stand and they could watch the presentation. And um, but it but even when they did, they came out from behind the backstage. If they stood stood in front of Brandon, that security guard was like, you gotta move. And uh you're blocking this this guy, and he he's he's gotta see. And that show was fun. We got to meet the girls, we got them to sign the the the postcard with all their headshots on it. Yeah. Um and uh, you know, so hats off to the Iron Maidens because they were they're a they're just a badass cover band. And they're sanctioned, I think I'm pretty sure they're sanctioned by um by the actual Iron Maidens band. So by the Iron Maiden band. So anyhow, um, but I guess we I guess we're coming close to the end of the rope. We're at uh an iron twenty. Um so I guess if there's not much more else to say, we can get ready if you want. You can go ahead and sign off if you want.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:21

I'm going to.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:22

Are you going to? All right, buddy. Well, well, buddy, I love you. Thank you so much, man, for thank you so much for being a part of the podcast. And I enjoyed it. And and we'll do more, we'll do more because apparently people liked you. And and hell, apparently they like you better than they like me. Which you know what? I would too. You're but you're way cooler than I am, buddy. But anyway, I love you, buddy. I'll see you in a little bit. I'm gonna get ready and wrap off, but I'll go ahead and uh and you can go ahead and sign off. And I'm gonna uh I'll do a final close and then I'll shut this down for the day. All right. Well, the everybody, that was Brandon Warren. He was number one for the first episode of the uh Special Olympics edition that I may do. I'm not 100% sure how many of these I'm gonna do, but um I hope the reception is well with it. But I I just really feel in my heart that giving our special needs community a platform to talk about themselves, I I don't care if you know the kid or not, let them talk about how great they are because they are stellar and they get a lot more negative than they do positive. So, you know what? If I can give them a platform and let them boast about themselves in life and let them experience what a podcast feels like, even though they're not on some super awesome podcast like Joe Rogan's or Jocko Willink or or or uh, you know, uh, you know, whoever. I mean, um Sean Ryan. I mean, there's so many kick-ass podcasts out there that I just love and respect the individuals. Um, maybe one day I'll be half as cool as they are, but um, but at least giving these kids a platform to maybe speak about themselves every now and then, I think it's something new and something different. And like I say, I don't know if anybody's ever let the special needs community have a podcast of their own. If so, I've never had the privilege of watching it. But uh, so I'm not saying I'm some pioneer of this shit, but since I have a special needs kid, I just thought it would be cool because that way they can go through life and experience some of the same neat experiences that other other people get to do all the time. And they don't always have to be fighting for the scraps or put in second place. So it was cool meeting him. Well, Phil, thank you. And uh I thank you all for tuning in so much. Thanks, everybody who did donate stars. Like I say, I wasn't expecting that. I don't even know. I I I still don't even understand or know how that shit works. I gotta get to it. But um, I guess I'll be signing off again. If you oh, I got a dog trying to get a part, she's trying to be a part of the process here. Um what was I saying? Oh, um, yes, again, please check out my guy, solo artist James Lucre Music. You can find him on Facebook at James Lucre Music. Please go, please like, please follow because your follows and likes are gonna help me grow this young man's page. We had to start, we had to start back at ground zero, but this young man's got some talent. Um, I definitely want you to check him out. We need to get our numbers up, that's gonna help us get gigs. So it doesn't cost you anything to follow anything that I do. Um, so just go in there and hit the follow button and give a like. Um, it helps us way more than you think. I mean, stars are awesome. Um, and they they'll help in the future for sure. But uh, you know, the big thing is is let's let's build this, let's get more people involved. And it'll help the artists, it'll help the podcast, it's gonna help everything. Also, again, Bones Enterprises LLC with the period, because my dumbass is so blind that when I was typing it, I guess I either hit a period or it added it like a sentence and I didn't remove it. So now we do have a spam fake page, I will point out, and it's Bones Enterprises LLC. And I said, Well, how the hell did they do that when I already own that shit? Well, after I went and looked, it's because I I guess I didn't have my glasses on and I couldn't see the period after the LLC. So you'll know it's my my uh page if you see my new logo, which if you haven't seen it, go to Facebook, check it out. Thanks to Pamela Little, my booking agent, for uh hooking me up on logos, the unfiltered name, we came up with that, and it I think it's very fitting. Um everything that I do is completely unfiltered, uncuffed. It's just it it is what it is. You either like it, you don't. And if you don't, I don't give a shit. And if you do, welcome. I want you here. Um, I hope you enjoyed the episode of the Special Olympics thing. If you didn't, that's cool. I plan on doing, like I say, we'll see how this goes. I plan on doing that. If you're a local business um or a business that just wants to be on a podcast and kind of talk about your business, especially these mom and pop shops, we need to help mom and pop shops out, man. You know, screw these big conglomerates like Walmart. We need to help these, you know, small mom and pop shops that are that that need the that don't get the same benefits that these big conglomerates get. So if they want to come on there and talk about their business, uh, you know, hit me up, send me an instant message on Messenger, uh, let me know. We can try to work in a day where we can do a podcast and have you on the show and let you talk about your business and explain to everybody and kind of kind of help make you known. And again, those follows you give me and you know, hitting that like button and those follows and share and share, share, share my stuff. If you do this, it also is gonna help grow my numbers to where when I do have people on for these podcasts talking about their business, we're gonna be able to reach even more people. Um, so let's work together instead of against each other. Also, again, you know, be kind to each other. Um, quit being shits, quit making fun of everybody, quit bashing people. If somebody does you wrong, you know, try to repair it. If they if they don't, it's time to move on. But don't um, but don't uh, you know, we are all human, we all screw up. I mean, Lord only knows I have screwed the pooch on a lot of shit, a whole lot. And I've tried to write wrongs, and sometimes people are receptive and sometimes they're not. Um, but also don't be the kind of person too to where if someone does a friend wrong that you're gonna alienate that other person just because you didn't you don't like your friend don't like them. Because, you know, unless they've done you wrong, how do they how do you know they're a bad person? You know, it could just be a misunderstanding, it could just be something that, you know, who knows? I mean, it could just been that somebody was having a bad day that day. Um, we all do, we all go through it. I'm no stranger to it. I've been doing a lot of self-help for myself trying to trying to become a better person, um, because I do have a lot of of flaws. Um PTSD's been hitting me really hard lately, and I don't know why from my whole EMS career. But um, but you know, I I strive every day to be better, and I don't want to be a shit to anybody, but I have been. And for those people that I've been a shit to, I just want to say I'm sorry. And uh, but anyway, love each other, be kind to each other. And my boy Stick Tite is on. Damn, I wish he'd got on earlier, brother. Brandon would have loved meeting your ass, man. But stick tight, everybody. Uh, if you don't know who stick tight is. He just got in the room here. Um, he said, Good morning, Bones Enterprises LLC. Stick tight is a kick-ass dude. He's he's from the Kentucky area. He's uh he's a musician. He runs with uh a kick-ass guitarist named Ronnie. I think his name last name's Hill. Is it right? Is that right, Stick Tight? But their band's called Stick Tight, but Stick Tight is Stick Tight. And um he he's been a very pivotal guy with helping me with stuff. I had questions the other day about buying gear because you know, one of the problems we're having with James Lucer music is we don't have our own sound. So we've been working on trying to obtain that. Well, that costs a lot of money, but also I'm like, I'm new to this. I'm green. So I was like, well, how in the hell am I supposed to know what the hell what's good and what's not? Well, that's I've I'm fortunate enough I know stick tight. I gave him a holler, and I tell you what, he took time out of his day to answer questions and let me know what he has going on. So big shout out to Stick Tight. If you don't know who they are, look them up. He is also nominated uh at our award show for I want to say it's band of the year. Um if you don't know Stick Tight, though, check them out. They do a whole lot of shows almost every weekend, and they're all over Kentucky and elsewhere, but uh they do hit hard and heavy in Kentucky. This guy he he teaches guitar at Guitar Center, I think once a week. He is a kick-ass guitarist. I mean, this dude can play the shit with his teeth behind his head. I mean, it's just like it's uh I mesmerize every time I watch this guy perform. He is and hit and he's such a cool dude, like so down to earth, so good to people. So check his band out. Um, if you like his band and you want to give him a vote, then again, go to my uh booking agents website. That's uh at Southern Lights Entertainment. So www.southernlightsentertainment.com. Go in there, you can see who all the nominees are. Um find stick tight, scroll down to them, give them a vote. You can vote now, you can vote often, you can um vote all the way up until September. Then we're gonna tally votes, and again, the award show will be in November 14th, 2026, at the historic Oak uh Grove Theater in Oak Grove, Tennessee. Excuse me, so definitely vote now, vote often. I don't know who the hell nominated me, but um at for but I I even nominated, so uh, you know, if you think I do okay, then you you can give me a like. I I don't see me winning because I don't have the experience yet. I was just moved to just get the nomination. I thought it was cool. Uh Stick Tight, my pleasure, brother. Thank you for the kind words. Well, it's uh I mean stick tight's just the shit, dude. I mean, it's just that's just bottom line. He's he's awesome, he's a hell of an engineer. He he we did a we did a gig with him one time at um at a festival, and he was the sound, he did the sound engineering and running it, and he'd he did a bang up job. I mean, he's just a jack of all trades for sure. So definitely check out stick tight. Thanks again, stick tight for dropping in. I really appreciate that, brother. Big time. And yeah, Donald Dyer, stick tight with the question mark. So, Donald, if you don't know, check him out, brother, because you'll like him. You'll dig this, you'll dig this cat. He's a cool dude, for sure. They got a they got a good thing going on. They they really do. And also Ronnie Hill is um he is on there for nominated for, which is again his guitarist that does rhythm guitar um for guitar. I want to say guitarist of the year, maybe. So definitely check out Ronnie, because Ronnie's uh he's a he's a cool cat too, man. He's really good, dude. The real stick type. Yes, he is the real stick type. And um maybe, hell, who knows? Maybe one day we'll um I'll have I'll be able to have stick tight on the show, and we'll have I would rather him explain how he came. It's a cool story, but how he came up with uh the stick type name. So uh, but more to come on that. Either that or you know, start following, and you may find out just from watching this young man because he's uh he's definitely going places, so check him out. Uh, I believe I know him from Tour Sound. You might. I don't know what Tour Sound is, Uncle D. I'm not real sure about that. Uh, I don't know if it's something I wasn't privy to or or if it's that may be out of my wheelhouse yet, but I'll learn it eventually. But anyway, well, it's now one hour and thirty minutes. I think it's a good time to go ahead and wrap this up. So again, everybody be good to each other. Thanks for tuning in for this uh Soaky Special Olympics edition of uh Bones Unfiltered Podcast. This podcast, again, it's gonna be all over the place. It's just it's there's no rhyme or reason. There's it's very unprofessional. I'm trying to be professional. I'm gonna get it there, but right now it's just it's all over the place. It's uh I'm kind of a special needs as well when it comes to the podcasting. So uh thanks for tuning in. Thanks for listening to my son Brandon. It made, you know, it made his day. He he when I told him this morning he was gonna be on the show, he just about let he lost it. And that's why I want to deal with some of the others because man again, these kids, the Special Olympics is sometimes the only thing they got. And they don't they don't get a whole lot of interaction. Like my son don't have a whole whole lot of friends outside of this house. He just don't leave. And and that's you know, that sucks. You know, that sucks when you don't have the ability to drive and go places and hang out with your friends and you you don't have the physical ability to go to, you know, maybe go to the show and be on the front row because you're not stable on your feet. I mean, when you have those kind of adversities, it sucks. So if I can do something to bring, make them feel like they get to experience some of the same things we do. I think that's a win. Now, maybe I'll be wrong. We'll find out, but you know what? If you're not failing, you're not progressing. So the way I see it is I'll try something. If it works, we'll go with it. If it doesn't, fuck it. We'll try something different. So again, that's it for this episode. Um I don't know what's next on the shoot, but we're gonna start setting up uh band stuff. I think I'm gonna move bands to maybe Tuesdays. Uh either that or maybe I'll keep them on Thursdays. I have to determine. I'll let you all know. But uh, we're gonna pick one day that's gonna be specifically just a kind of a musical podcast day, and then we're gonna do at least another day when I can. We're gonna do it. Um, like I say, it could be comedians, it could be small business, it could be just talking, just having an old friend from when I wrote wrote EMS, talking old times. Uh, who knows? But uh you either you'll either like it, or if you don't like it, then feel free to click away and enjoy your day. So again, this is Bones signing off for today from Bones Unfiltered Podcast. Have a great day. Peace.