Name: Theo Remembers Working In The Trades
Uploaded: 2021-07-29T01:16:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Remembers Working In The Trades' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Remembers Working In The Trades' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-29. Transcript available.

I like welding, man. I do like it. I used to work at a piping. I used to work
at a piping company and my job was washing off all the clevis hangers and the
pipe fitter stuff and just organizing it.
I had to paint. They had this kind of rubber stuff, this sealant you had to put
on things. Every now and then, this song by Sugar Ray would come on the radio.
And Sugar Ray also sounds like a nickname of like a gay man.
But anyway, every time this band Sugar Ray would come on the radio and they had
a song called I Just Want to Fly.
You ever heard this song, Riley?
I have not.
Well, you got to get out more, Bubby.
And it would come on and the welders would stop their welding and they'd make
us subservience.
We were a couple of us, me and this, my tall friend, Billy, he got bit by a
shark and he died actually.
Not at the same time.
He died later from something else.
Aneurysm or pills, but God bless him and I miss him.
He was tall and he was an asshole.
My friend, Billy, was a complete asshole, but he also was nice.
You know, he also was funny and we had a nice time working together and we work
up.
This other little fella named Soldier.
Soldier, this black gentleman and he was, he had on about 90 do-rags and he
didn't do shit.
That's the irony.
He would come to work and not do shit.
Like how you can have on 90 do-rags and you ain't doing shit.
But we had a good time, man.
But anyway, when the song would come on, I just want to fly or cry, maybe it
could have been, I just want to cry.
Fly.
I just want to fly.
By Sugar Ray's, the welders would make us dance.
You know, and they'd threaten us with the torches and they'd make us dance.
But very Lord of the Flies-ass kind of shit.
But we made the most of it and I really loved it, man.
I loved going over there.
I loved the sense of community.
You know, I loved, there was drug use if you wanted it.
And I didn't mind that.
So yeah, I think getting a trade, doing some welding, you get to wear neat hats.
Welders have neat hats.
You know, some cool little deals and their wives get mad at them a lot.
I remember that.
A lot of the fellas would talk about how their wives were always mad at them.
And we'd have good lunches, get you a little big po' boy sandwich, man.
Go over there by Sweet Gerald's.
They had a gay fella over there on the West Bank of New Orleans, a little
sandwich place
over there named Sweet Gerald's.
God damn, it was good.
The roast beef was wet, bro.
Sweet Gerald, I'll say this.
He had a look in his eye like he's sweet in the meat personally.
You know what I'm saying?
And that was, that made you kind of cringe a little, you know, when you
swallowed.
But after you, you know, once you had a couple mouthfuls of it, you didn't, you
weren't
complaining anymore.
But praise God, brother.
Thank you for sending in that question.
Hope you enjoyed that video.
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