Name: Stephen Wilson Jr Created Dentastix?
Uploaded: 2026-01-01T16:30:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stephen Wilson Jr Created Dentastix?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stephen Wilson Jr Created Dentastix?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-01. Transcript available.

I used science and songwriting at the same time
because I have a lot of training in science.
I went and got a science degree.
I worked.
Would you go to Purdue?
No, I went to MTSU.
Oh, you did?
Yeah, and I worked at Mars, the food company in R&D for them
as a food scientist.
No way.
Mars candies?
Yeah.
Research and development for them?
Yeah.
And y'all make Snickers, huh?
They do, but I actually worked in pet food for them,
which is based out here in Nashville, the Nashville area at least.
You were snacking on that, huh?
Yep, that's me right there.
Shit, I wouldn't even go to work if that's all they had in the damn snack bowl.
Yep, and they did.
They had, like, buckets of Snickers.
I put on, like, 30 pounds.
Oh, I was talking about pet food.
Oh, yeah.
I'm like, if I ate that much pet food, I'd wear a damn helmet, too.
That's insane.
People did eat pet food there.
I saw it.
Would some people try a little, got used to it?
Yeah, I'd see some people do it.
Sometimes, like, you know, you'd see some high-level people do it, too.
It's like, you don't need to do this, dude.
Oh, shit, that's just Cracker Jack Russell, you know?
Yeah, they're just trying to, like, you know, get down, you know,
get down with us a little bit.
Oh, yeah, some people love animals so much.
They'll have a, you know, there's people that,
even videos of people that will snack with them and have those little treats.
Yeah, I don't advise it from a microbiological perspective.
Really?
Because I have a micro degree as well.
I wouldn't eat raw cat food, like, wet cat food.
I mean, it does go through, like, a cooking process.
That shit makes my wiener soft, brother.
I'll tell you that out the gate.
But I did see dudes eat it.
Would you?
Yeah, like, with a spoon, like, wet cat food, eat it.
Why?
I think it was a flex.
No.
It was a flex, yeah.
Is there one type that's the good type?
Take me through some of that.
No, it's all as far as, like, cat food to eat.
Yeah, it gets you a little snack.
No, I don't want to try none of it because I knew what was in that.
And I knew, like, what was in, like, proteins and all that that goes into those
foods.
And I understood all the kill steps and stuff were there.
But I also know that my digestive tract is far different from felines or canines.
And we ain't made to eat what they're made to eat in.
So, yeah, I didn't really, I did not partake.
But, yeah, you'd see a dude, like, take a big spoonful of cat food and then,
like, drive off in his Lamborghini.
Because, you know, it was usually, like, a high-level person.
Yes.
Like, it was a power move.
It was impressive, though.
I was like, damn.
Dude, I was just talking to my friend this morning at breakfast about things
that the powerful do
and why they operate certain ways.
Because it's like, yeah, what can I do?
How weirder could this get if you have everything?
If the basic, like, I need to make money to survive.
I need to feed my family.
Or once you have, like, I have seven wives living in different cities.
I'm going to live in a jet or I live in a, some people might be living on other
planets now.
They don't even know.
Got their own islands.
Yes.
Then what, yeah, at this point, yes, I'm having cat food.
But I want the greatest cat food ever.
I want cat food that cats can't even afford to eat.
Yeah.
And sometimes they pretend, like, they could discern between, like, hmm, they're
not going
to like this.
I was like, you're not a cat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're not, like, how do you, you know.
Or he eats and he's like, that's for cats.
He's, like, saying, like, he's basically stating he's eaten so much of this
food.
He can now discern between what will work and what will not.
He's like, oh, that's good.
Oh, yeah, this is.
Oh, that's good, huh?
Oh, that's good.
But they're going to love this.
Yeah.
The Himalayan cats are going to love this.
It's a tilapia aftertaste.
What was a product that you guys made while you were there?
Do you remember one product that kind of came through it?
Yeah, it's called Dentistix Fresh.
It's still on the market.
I see it out there.
And it's for animals?
Yeah, it's for dogs.
It's basically a teeth cleaning dental chew.
Oh, it's pretty cool.
Very digestible.
There it is.
That's my baby right there.
Oh, yeah.
I've seen that before.
Yeah, that was one of my products that I launched from start to finish.
And, yeah.
That's cool.
It's cool.
It's cool to see it kind of out there still doing its thing.
Yeah.
At the end of the show, you hum some of those out in the audience.
Yeah.
I probably need to start chucking them out there.
Like take a bite out of them.
I'll catch one, dude.
I'll catch one in my mouth.
No, I would eat one of those if I had to, but I wouldn't eat none of that cat
food.
That's fair.
And, look, I love to hear that.
That's mostly like flour.
That's mostly wheat flour and got, you know, it ain't got the same ingredients
as cats.
Did you ever pitch a product that they didn't like or are you allowed to pitch
products?
You did?
Yeah, I did.
I pitched a lot of products.
But at the end of the day, I was the geeky scientist and they're like, you need
to make
what you need to make.
And they have a much, I think, a greater understanding of what the market
requires than some of us
geeky scientists do.
I had my own lab and I would come up with these new things and new designs and
pitch them.
You know, in my free time and there was a lot of creativity to it.
And, you know, that was, you know, there's actually a lot more creativity to
analysis than
you think.
And there's a lot more analysis to creativity than you think.
I think the two can work very well together.
And like back to what I was saying, but like when my dad died, I was able to
kind of apply
science and songwriting because I was like so devastated.
Like I was kind of able to metaphorically put a lab coat on and go into
researcher mode.
And that's kind of where the songs came from.
I just started like looking at my pain from another perspective, like trying to
look at
it from the outside in, like as a, an observer.
And then just kind of documenting my findings as I went.
Like I spent four years making this record, Son of Dad.
And like two or three of those years were research years.
Just me documenting everything I was going through.
Wow.
And, um, and keeping, you know, meticulous records like scientists do.
But I was channeling that into songs instead of like, you know, a pet food
product, but
I was still using the same methodology, like, cause I, I had to be true to it
because that's
the thing about science.
It's just a truth detection tool.
It's not an ideology or a paradigm.
It's just a, it's just an effective tool if it's used correctly.
It's like a metal detector.
Yeah, exactly.
Or a chainsaw.
Even if you use it great, it can be great, but you use it right.
It can be great.
If you use it wrong, it might cut your damn hand off.
Like science created the atomic bomb.
It's also created cures for incurable diseases that we thought.
Um, it's, it's a beautiful thing, but at the end of the day, it's just a tool
for detecting
truth.
And I used it like that.
So I would have this question and I'd have my observations and then I'd create
a hypothesis,
as you would say, uh, which would basically be a song, a song title, an idea.
And I would go out and test it in the world.
I'd play in front of seven people here, 10 people there, seven people here,
seven people
there.
And I would get instant data, like feedback, feedback, which is data that in
the scientific
field, we can spend six months before we, it can be six months before you get
your first
result from an experiment.
So I was getting instant results.
So I love that part of it.
Um, you know, yeah.
I think that instant feedback is, I mean, yeah, it helps, you know, what's
going on.
It's even like working with the jokes, you know, and getting them out there.
Absolutely.
It's pretty fascinating how like the parts of your life, like to be a scientist,
to have
like a methodology to then use it to channel your emotions and look at them.
You look at your emotions, look at your life, look at the path of things, you
know, to put
like, to almost like take a template of science and apply it to something as
emotional as music.
Yeah.
I kind of joke around calling myself a song scientist, but that's essentially
what it is.
I mean, because, you know, user biases is, is like, it can, can so easily
contaminate your
results and contaminate your entire experiment, experiment and experience.
And so I really was trying to use user bias because I was trying to authenticate
something
in one of my own emotions and experiences, but also take user bias out of it
because
at the end of the day, you got to find the truth.
And just because you don't like the results doesn't mean they're not true.
And that's where user bias like gets in the way because you want the results to
be different.
Maybe you really like this song, but you're not getting the results that you
thought it
was going to get.
So you start, you start adjusting your formula and then before you know it, you
got conclusive
results, either conclusively, this is not the truth or conclusively, this is
the truth.
And then you run with the truth, whether it's good for you or bad for you.
And that's.
Yeah.
I was just looking at this right here.
It says user bias refers to cognitive tendencies that distort how individuals
perceive, interpret
or respond during research.
What are examples of user bias?
For example, you, you think that this is going to work for whatever reason, you
have a hunch
like that this, whatever thing is going to work.
And you've now like attached an emotion to it because you almost need it to
work now.
Now, now it's more about you than it is about the truth.
Like, so when you go into like an experiment, it doesn't need to work out for
you.
Like your feelings have to be completely separate from that.
If you're doing true research.
If you're going to be a true researcher and using the scientific method the
proper way.
So, you know, that's, I guess when you get into a song, especially a song about
your dad
or a song about loss, it's easy to be like, well, it needs to be like this.
It needs to say this or it needs to say that because that's what's going to
make me feel
good.
But that's may not be the truth.
Thank you.