Name: This Past Weekend: All Call | Nicole, Alex, and Dustin
Uploaded: 2018-05-17T22:30:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'This Past Weekend: All Call | Nicole, Alex, and Dustin' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'This Past Weekend: All Call | Nicole, Alex, and Dustin' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-17. Transcript available.

This past weekend.
One more call here. Here we go.
My name is Nicole. I'm 34. My boyfriend is 40.
And he's struggling really hard with alcoholism.
And I know you've struggled.
Thanks for calling, Nicole. I'm sorry to hear about your boyfriend.
Sorry to hear about that. What's up?
I tried everything. Nothing's working.
I think your passiveness and your non-judgmental way of going about things is
maybe something, I don't know, new we could try.
We've been best friends for 15 years.
And I finally gave him a chance and it's ruining it.
Yeah, alcoholics will ruin a lot of stuff.
And I hate to say it, there's nothing that you can do.
You could go to Alcoholics Anonymous.
You could go to Al-Anon, which is different than AA.
Al-Anon is a program for people that have lived with or had alcoholics affect
them in their lives.
It teaches you what happens to you when an alcoholic is in your life.
Because alcoholics a lot of times will affect everyone around them.
And that also is not the exact technical definition of Al-Anon, but that's my
own definition.
But I'll say this.
He's not your responsibility.
You're your responsibility.
And I don't know how old you are or what's going on, but I think you've got to
take responsibility for yourself.
You've been friends for 15 years.
You know, if he's an alcoholic, he's not going to be able to take care of
himself.
And he's not going to be able to take care of you.
So I think, you know, I think you need to keep a distance maybe.
I think you should keep a distance.
You know, sometimes, you know, the good thing about being a friend of an
alcoholic is that you have a chance to actually really affect them.
And you'll know what's right or not.
But you can't expect to, if you're trying to fall in love with an alcoholic or
get them to shape or shape and, you know, turn your life into a heart shape.
I just don't know if that's feasible, you know, and I don't think that it's a
safe idea.
They say when you get into AA, you shouldn't even get in a relationship for the
first year.
Let's go to another call.
Here we go.
Hey, Theo.
This is Alex from Boston.
So this past weekend, I went up to upstate New York for my sister's graduation.
And it was kind of uncomfortable because I had to sit with my parents.
And as my sister was graduating, her boyfriend actually came and sat next to us.
And so my sister is 19.
And her boyfriend is 39 years old.
Wow.
That 19 and 39.
You know, it can happen.
My mother was 32 when I was born.
My father was 70.
So there's a 38-year difference.
So I could meet a nine-month-old right now, you know, and not be interested in
a creepy
way, but, you know, be looking out for the future.
And that would be the same, you know, when that nine-month-old turned 32, that
would be
the same equivalent of my mother and father.
But let's hear more right here, Paul.
So 20-year difference.
And this has been going on for a while.
And needless to say, my dad was pretty pissed.
You know, the dude was trying to make small talk with us the whole time.
And it just didn't go so hard, man.
So, you know, I just had to sit there and I was just like, come on, man.
He's trying to ask me about how I'm doing and all this shit.
And it's just like, come on.
And I don't really know what to do about that whole situation.
Yeah.
If anyone has any suggestions on what I should do here or what I can do, I
really appreciate it.
Thanks, Paul.
I appreciate it, man.
You know, that's a good question, man.
If there's any listeners out there who think, you know, have some suggestions
for Paul, what
he should do.
His sister's 19.
She's dating a 39-year-old.
You know, they're sitting at a sporting event.
And this man, this adult male, is trying to chat him up, trying to get into his
ears with,
you know, with thoughts and ideas and questions.
This past weekend.
We got a write-in right here.
This came in through the, this past weekend, hotline.
And you can check that out at theovan.com.
And there's podcast.
You just click on the podcast.
And there's ways to submit to the podcast.
Here's what this person said.
I'm hitting the, excuse me.
I'm hitting the hotline with something from deep down in all the feelers.
Here's the deal.
I'm a 31-year-old secret.
At the time I was conceived, my gay mother was doing coke with my birth father.
She wanted a kid.
He was married with kids already, but my mother promised him that I'd be kept a
secret.
31 years later, still a secret.
Would you seek these people out if you were me?
Would you let the cat out of the bag to potentially meet your real brothers and
sisters?
Look forward to hearing your input, my friend.
Thanks for the laughs in that beautiful head of gender-neutral hair.
Dustin.
Thanks for checking in, Dustin.
You know, you were conceived by a gay mother and a father on cocaine.
Boy, I bet you were probably born in about maybe eight weeks, huh?
31 years later, you're still a secret.
So you have very little family on your mom's side, but you have five siblings
who aren't aware of your existence due to the secret.
On your father's side, what would I do?
I don't know.
You know, I don't know what I would do, man.
I think I would try to find out, would you be reaching out for them?
Are you reaching out to, you know, to have drama in your life?
Are you reaching out to spill the apple cart?
Are you reaching out because you actually want them to know?
You know, I would try to get at what's the real reason you're doing it.
I would ask yourself the real reason.
I mean, you can always be patient.
You know, you can never ask them too soon, or you can never tell them too soon.
So you could always wait and do it, you know, when you know for sure.
One of my problems is I overreact and I'll do things really quick that I should
wait and take time to do.
So, but this is a good question.
If people have some thoughts, they can hit in for, they can hit in on this.
They can hit in, they can hit on this and drop their comments or questions to 985-664-9503.