April 21, 2022 • 46 mins
This week, the guys get silly and have a pillow fight with actor and regular Smosh cast member Keith Leak Jr. Subjects of discussion include Ohio, a fake name, a bloody chair, and a coin slot, and Keith opens up about his ongoing battle with cancer. He also reveals a secret you would never expect from an Angelino.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Straw media. Why the having a meltdom right now? Why
and why am I married?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You can't reach it? Can you check thoms?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
God?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, you do this every time?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
You know? Are I know what?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I've been wondering why it's been disappearing. That means on
all these episodes, I probably think that it's lit over
there and it's probably nothing show and nobody care.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I care the video quality integrity?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good God? Can you tell? We shot five episodes this
week and we had a two hour plan or meeting
with our entire wedding planning team earlier today.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He was over here moving pillows. Had me thinking, Oh,
this is my audio test. Yeah, I'm recording anyway. What's up, y'all?
Welcome to confess your mess I'm a mill Innis Junior,
joined by my loving fiance.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
If you don't know what this podcast is, we do
listeners submitted secrets every single week and we have a
celebrity guest, an influencer friend. We bring them on and
they break down these secrets with us. And we're very
excited about today's guests because they're one of the funniest
people that I know, and I I really mean that
I met this person when I worked at Clever. They
(01:15):
worked across the hall, and well, I guess when it
was the five before we all got laid off. H
wow came yeah, a whole whole situation as right. But uh,
but yeah, so we worked, uh, we worked across the hall,
and Keith Leak junior is who we have on the pop.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I have a question because in your your bio that
you sent, it says, first of all, I didn't know
your middle name was O'Brien, Keith O'Brien leaked the second.
So then my question is because I'm a junior, so
technically our second and junior interchangeable, Like, can I start
going by amil innis the second?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Let me explain something. So my my parents, my parents
shout out to Kelly and Keith Bick Keith they did
not like Junior. They straight up told me. They were like, yo,
like we don't like junior. Da da da da dah,
and I don't know somewhere around like I was trying
to figure out should I just go by Keith Leek?
I was like I can't cause I you know, my
dad is like kind of like an industry and like
(02:22):
all of that, and I want to like give you know,
respect to him, but I was like, Keith Leek junior.
I think that kind of has more like of a
rine than the second. I don't know, so I kind
of just I went with the junior and my mom
was like, why are you a junior?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
On that?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We did that on purpose?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Boy, Can I tell you a little bit of a
secret about a meal? And it's junior over here? Like
I never really understood this, and I don't think you
have an answer for me, but you're probably gonna snap
me right now. And I say this, but technically you
shouldn't even be a junior.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, I should know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your dad should be a junior because your grandfathers now
also a meal.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Actually that's incorrect, and I can give you an answer.
And the reason why is because the spelling of my.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Dad and my that doesn't make sense. So his grandfather
spelled the name A N E A L A Meal,
but then when his father was born, they changed.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Does your dad have the same middle name as you
as your middle name different exactly? So my grandfather was
a mil Dallas innis I am a mill not same
middle name nis junior and my father is a mill
same middle name and his senior.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So technically, hold on, hold on, hold on, y'all not
about to have me come on the show and say
you're not about to tell me a secret. The hell
is with you? I can I'm sure I can google
it and all I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I don't think you can find I'm pretty sure my
middle name is not online. It better not be. But okay,
So then my my final question with the name before
we actually get into the purpose of this podcast. So,
is your dad technically Keith Does he go by Keith
Leek senior?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yes, he does. It goes by Keith O'Brien Leek.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So I always wonder when you, like, was my dad
always a mill innis senior or did that come after
I was born?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It definitely comes after your both, Okay, that they're not like,
they don't have that that when you're born. That's when
they get that that senior.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Can't imagine somebody says I'm going to be a senior
and then they don't even end up having like the
son that they can pass that name off to when
they were a senior.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I can't even imagine, like what if you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Were a J. Gibson senior.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm still a little bit hung up on the O'Brien
middle name over it sounds very Irish. My family's a
quarter I.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yes, So I got a story for you there. So
I found out I went to the Leak family reunion
in North Carolina. A lot of my family stays out there.
I'm from Ohio. Yeah, here we travel, we go, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Jesus, Northwest Ohio, near Lina. He hates when I meet
people from Ohio.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Because, oh, it's like, I'm a babe, where are they from?
I'm from Like, okay, so I'm from Middletown.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, okay, hold.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
On, hold on, I need you to break it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Down the trash that part of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Listen, listen, listen. So, but it's like forty five minutes
away from Cincinnati and date, and my dad's from Dayton.
We I moved to Cincinnati when I went to the
performing arts high school I went to, so like I
spent time in a big like you know, a big city.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
High school to go to CPA.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh way.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, So my sister lives in in northern Kentucky but
works in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, I have FAUMD in Louisville. But my sister's down
in Union, Kentucky, right across the river by Fort Mitchell, Covington,
whole area, and we were just in Cincinnati having dinner
for my dad's seventieth a few months ago, a meal,
and I flew in for the weekend. But Middletown is
where my story starts because Middletown is where I went
to my very first theme park called Americana. I don't
(05:33):
even know if you're old enough to know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes, it was like a wooden roller coaster. Oh school, Yeah, yeah,
I was. I actually lived like five minutes away, a
five minute drive from there in Middletown.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Like that's so like my gay ass. When I was
an Emaculate Conception Elementary school, Catholic school, we took a
field trip there with our youth group one time and
went to Americana Theme Park, and I like played games
all day and won as many tokens or whatever as
I could to get a black silk screen. New kids
on the block, pillow. Nobody knew I was gay, humilidy,
(06:12):
but new kids on the block also trying of slapped
Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Come on, I know they weren't Tea.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Donnie Wahlberg, and that other one I forget who the
fifth one.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Was okay wow. So every single episode we like to
kick it off with AJ doing his segment.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah. So here's how this is gonna work. So in
order to trust you, Keith with our listener submitted confessions,
we want to know that you're down, that you can
actually reveal a little bit about yourself. Now you've brought
us a confession of your own that you're going to
reveal at the end of the podcast. This is not
that moment just yet. This is more like a bad
habit or a vice or something you just can't quit.
We like to call this one your mess, but yees.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Was not a back then the Tia and Samary like
that that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't know, I feel like I will I want
to be okay.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Oh well that worked out right, trust me, y'all even
have to compromise right now, said I that's do? I
like that? I like that?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right? What's your mess?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But yeah, dang, okay, I don't know if it's a yeah.
But like so my dog needs to get some more shots,
like it's the thing, but like she has had like
doggy play dates with other dogs. This is kind of
(07:40):
messed up. But this is the thing. She's fine. She
is fine, But like I just realized, this is the
first time that I'm saying this out here, and now
this is I'm putting it out there because I want
you all to trust me. I'm a really good dog
that Porchop loves me. Like por Chop is the cutest thing.
She's over there in her gated community right now. But
she got a whole round to herself. But like it's
been like I think, like a month. I haven't gotten
(08:02):
her shot check up situation together. And she had a
playdate like last week and I was like, oh my gosh,
you don't how the shots. And I was like, oh
my god, Like this is kind of like COVID and
like it just got real weird for me. So I
got to take her to get her shots because I
don't want to, like, you know, you know, I feel
kind of bad case.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So what you're saying is you an anti vaxxer. That's
what you just admitted here.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I got shots. I got my shots. I got I
got my shots last year. You're funny for that. I
had to. I had got okay, So not to like
bring down the move. But this year, and I like
to talk about it, I was diagnosed with cancer. I
was diagnosed with cancer, and at first I was weary
about the the the vaccine, of course, like a lot
(08:47):
of people are, especially people of color, And it just
got to the point where it's like, oh, you you
got cancer. And I was like, let me go ahead
get this shot just in case. Let me go ahead
get this shot, and you know, also for work as well.
And I'm okay, everybody who's against it. I really believe
in this vaccine. So like, uh yeah, I got it,
(09:09):
and I'm Poorky's gonna get her shots too, So let's
let's move on.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're definitely gonna get her shots. And you you are.
You are a good dog dad. You did post that
one to that one time though, didn't you end your
pork chop?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Okay, now don't start it off, because I'm just I'm
minding my business. I was taking her ound like this
is before she was getting her shots, and this is okay,
so this is another thing. This is before she got
her shots. But I wanted to walk her a little bit.
I wanted you just to walk her because she has
her paths in her gated community and everything. But I decided,
let me just walk her a little bit so she
gets used to it because she's gonna get her shots
(09:42):
in two days. Man, I'm walking her ass. I'm walking
her and like she decided she didn't want to walk anymore,
which is a problem for me. So I start running.
I'm like dogs, likely you run, So I'm running. So
I'm just like woo, and her little ash decides to
run under me. And and I heard, I heard, and
(10:06):
I was like, oh now, I heard her cry a
couple of times, you know, but it usually it was
it was prolonged this time, and that threw me off.
And I was like, my baby, my baby. I don't know,
like why I became like a southern mom, like, I
don't know. I was really confused. But I was just
like my baby, like no, so I knew something was wrong.
I had put her down. I came right home. I
(10:28):
put so this is my baby. I mean, you know,
sometimes you dropped your baby on the head.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I thought, I thought you put her down.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I dropped our dog Kingston on the head when he
was a buppy.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
You said you.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Ended your life. I had to haven't put down.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Is still in the gated community.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
She's over there. I might show her, you show her
in a little bit, but from there, I put her
down in her gated community. Once I got home and
she ended up, she said she cried. I was like,
something's broken. So the next day I took her to
the emergency room because I wanted to see if it
was like whatever, you know. And once I took her
to the emergency room, They're like, man, you fractured three
(11:10):
or her fractured. And I'm just like, God, damn it, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't know why just did that reaction.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I've noticed story, and you're like thousands of dollars later.
Dogs are expensive too. Dog broke our dog broke a
fingernail and it costs to seven hundred bucks one time.
So dogs are not fingernail.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It was bleeding profusely.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Y'all couldn't give her like some acrylic or something.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now that I'm looking back, I should have.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Listen, let me tell you something. This is going to
be really fun. We're going to get into our secrets,
and for this episode, we wanted to do fun, silly,
lighthearted secrets. I believe Frank, that's the theme that we
chose a different episodes. Silly. Uh So let's get into
the first secret. This is from anonymous male California. Y'all,
we can know this person.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Every time we can know this person there in California
or Ohio. One of us says, what we moved it?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I mean, I mean I was one of the largest states.
But hey, okay, some guys like tits, some guys like ass.
I secretly like belly buttons and the coin slot part
of the butt crack never told anyone. Wait, what is
the coin slot?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Coin slot like very top. I think that's probably the top.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, because when you put a coin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, oh, AJ likes that part.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's my favorite part of him, the entire body. That's
the favorite part.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It feels weird when he touches there. It's like a
very It's not a because it's weird for you and
it's weird for me. It's he likes that part. But
it's like my tailbones kind of there too, and like yeah,
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
When we were like when we used to like live
in trees and stuff like that, we had tails and
then they went away. Eventually we evolved. We all came
from Africa and god, I don't know which came first,
But we used to have tails probably, I mean, that's
what a tailbone is.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I know, I get that. But what they got to
do like touching that part's funny for you. Oh it
feels funny because there used to be a tail there. Okay, sorry.
I wasn't connecting the dots. It was like a strap.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I was with you. I was like, where is this going?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
In the trees I take. I take one anthropology class
in college twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay, so so they secret you secretly like belly buttons
and the coin slat part of the butt crack not
tn A Okay, yeah, are they saying that they don't
like tits and masks? M? I have follow up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's the first physical feature there you noticed Keith on somebody?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I would say, the smile. The smile is very contagious.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So is your so was your dog by the way,
so watch out get that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh I definitely think smiles. It's something about a smile
that like I'm like, oh this is nice, you know
what I mean. But the belly button part, okay, so
this is the thing. So you don't like that a meal?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right? A?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
J you that's what you like? It's this do you guys,
think this is going to be an issue later on,
like when y'all get married.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Don't worry. We started a couple of we have it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Tomorrow beyond counseling, I might need a little therapy. And
I'm from somebody who ain't had it the damn self.
So y'a magnet needs.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
No he the spot. The spot is fun. It's not
my favorite, my favorite spot. But so to this, to
this person, to anonymous male in California who we may
or may not know, thank you for sharing that. And
you know what you like is what you like? Yeah, okay,
anonymous female Minnesota. When I was in the seventh grade,
I snuck into my teacher's office to try and take
(14:27):
a test back before she graded it because I knew
I failed it. She had this tan colored swivel chair
and I was sitting in it looking for my test,
found the test, stood up and saw a dark reddish
brown spot on the seat. Wait a minute, and felt
weird between the legs, ran out, went to the bathroom
and realized I'd had my first period on my teacher's chair.
(14:48):
I never got caught, but I doubt she ever got
that stain out.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
WAITO, yo period and that's some period.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh my gosh, Cane, the embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Wow, listen, the Lord works in mysterious ways. You were
trying to change the score on your test, and.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
No, I even think she's trying to the teacher. I
didn't even great to guess. I think that's where she
was trying to break in and steal her test batch, don't.
She was trying to steal it before she even grated it.
So my question is, once you took it back, what
was gonna happen when your test was missing and she's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Going to change out some answers and put it back.
She probably realized I got some answers wrong and I
have to fix them real quick. She's going to swap
it out real quick.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
That's too risky, lot.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I just said that. I'm so glad that I was, like,
I love women, I like I grew up with girls.
I'm so glad I didn't like the periods. That is
next level, Like it's just like yours. It's cleaning yourself,
it's cleaning itself. But it's almost like your body hates
you with that, I know, right, like you hate your
(15:57):
body Like it's just a whole bunch I thank god
that I was. Yes, that's unfortunate. I have a friend
back in middle school. I won't say her name, of course,
but I remember we were at lunch and it's so
messed up because people kids can be really, really cruel.
But I remember she had like a blood spot on
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her like, you know, like on her area. You know,
we could see it and nobody said anything for a while,
and like it's like people came up to me and
pointed at it, and I was like, oh my god,
like what do you do? Like what do you do?
And like it had been out for like a good minute,
so like more than enough people seen it. But then
(16:39):
the incredible girl came around and was like, hey, and yeah,
I think about that all the time because it's just
like I grew up with a sister. My sister was
older than me. She definitely had her period. I could
have went up to this this young lady and told her, like, yo,
we got a little blood back there, you know, But
I did.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What you think about it all the time? Do you
ever consider it like message it? Hey, back when we
were apologize, do you remember that day you had that
little spot? Listen, I just want to say you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I had one of my best friends my freshman year
of college. Her name was Megan, and I can say
her first name because she actually is the reason for
the story. But we were at a party one night.
She had khakis on and she bled through and she saw.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Her that's not g.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
She literally owned that ship, and we started calling her Cooter,
and that was her nickname. To this day, we still
call her Cooter, and she she called herself that all
that was funny. She like owned the moment and kind
of like tried to get ahead of the joke. And
literally we're in our forties now when her nickname is
still Cooter.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
No, I feel like she cries about that. Sometimes they're
still calling me all these years later.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
One other thing about this story that's really interesting to me.
She said she went into her junior high teacher's office.
Do you did your junior high teacher? Did any of
your teachers have offices?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
She I think when she said off, Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Makes me think of like a college professor. I didn't
know high school school teachers.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Well, you know, some people go to like fancy school.
It might be like a private school. They got their classroom,
then they got their own private office.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Em.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, they got money, got it?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Okay. My last thing with this, I get what you're saying.
But the reason why I say it's so risky is
because there's already a risk going in there to take
the test out. But then you have to have a
risk when you're gonna like have the time to go
back in there and she's not there and put the
test back before she You know what I mean. It's
just a it's a lot of things you have to
calculate in order to make sure this plan works affect.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I ever tell you about the time I was in
high school in biology class, So listen to this. So
I didn't I didn't cheat often only when I didn't
feel like studying, and everybody cheated where I came from. Yeah,
of course. And so this girl, my one of my
very best friends, Katie, and she uh said she got
the test ahead of the quiz or the test whatever.
(18:55):
Getting ready to say somebody got it. So she got
the answers for me, and she got them to me,
and I wrote them all to I was like a C, C, B,
A D like that those sort of you know, tests,
And so I take the thing, turn it in. The
whole class gets a hundred, and I get like like
twenty eight or some like crazy money. How come everybody?
And he's going through and he's talking about the grades,
and he's like, AJ, he keeps me after class. Nicest
(19:16):
guy in the world, his name is mister Kennedy, keeps
me after class. And he's like, well, it would seem
that you had all the right answers somehow, but you
were off by one. And I was like, what what
do you mean? She thought it would be funny to
give me the answers and leave out the first one.
So my entire test was off by one, and he
knew it and busted me because of it. And she
(19:38):
ended up being a good friend of mine later and
was a friend of mine before that too, And even
like cause I was like one of like I wasn't
one of the cool kids. I was like kind of
like the middle right. It was like one of those
is kind of a nerd, but like I have his
friends with some of the cool kids, but I was
friends with some of the not cool kids. And as
she thought that she was going to get like such
a laugh out of everybody, and even like the like
the cool guys who like teased me and called me
(19:58):
gay J and made fun of me and like that,
like damn, kat no, no, thank you. That's really not
traumatic for me at all. My fiance is not wearing
his engagement ring and you're laughing at gay J. I'm
sorry they were like Katie, like damn, that was cold
devastated me.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So just like you're still traumatized by gay J, maybe
Couter is still traumatized by Cooter not. We're going to
take that quick commercial.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mess. Welcome back to oh I almost said the Morning Beat.
That's my radio show. I say it so many times.
Welcome back to confess your mess. Get it right, AJ,
it's Keith emil a J and her good friend Cooter
having a.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Just won't let it go meal, I don't have one. Okay,
let's get to our next secret from Gracie female Las Vegas.
I've been to Las Vegas. I might have passed by
you on the boardwalk. Is it a border you call
it the strip? Anyway? Last year, senior year of high school,
I thought it would be funny to give my family
golden retriever and inverted mohawk. So I used my dad's
(21:19):
clippers to shave a line down his spine. From head
to tail. Blamed it on my whole little sister, and
to this day, my parents still think that she did it.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Oh my god, you gotta come clean. It is about
time that you really you need to apologize to your
sister and oh yeah, the Golden Retriever as well. I'm sorry,
but like your sister, that's a messed up. I know,
y'all grown, Like I have been trying to like fix
some of the things I have, Like I have a
couple sisters. Yeah, and I've been trying to like fix
(21:49):
certain things that I messed up as a kid. And
I think it's so I remember my sister. We used
to like my mom is a jokester and where we
all joke and all play. And sometime times I could
tell that my my older sister, she would get the
the you know, just she would get the she would
get the worst of it. And I remember I had
I had been drinking with some friends and I ended
(22:10):
up calling my sister. I was like, I just want
to apologize to you because I realized that you didn't
deserve it. She's like this, funny, it was funny now,
I said, yeah, but you were really hurt. I've been drinking,
but like, I just won't dude it now that I'm sorry,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I was in high school. I used to blame it
on my little brother because I protect my sister. I
have a younger sister I protected forever. She shows me
a few apologies right now, that's neither here nor there.
But my younger brother, my stepbrother, I used to blame
him for two that stand out off the top of
my mind. One in the balls drinking. I'll get to
that one next. The first one, though, was when the
Internet came out and we got our first computer and
used to have to dial up. And I remember those days,
(22:56):
dial them and I looked up I think like gay
and like butt dot com or whatever, penis dot com.
I had no idea how the internet worked back then.
I was trying to look up gay shit, and I
was trying. I was curious. I was in high school.
I was going through my emotions and my parents found
gay dot com on there, and I blamed it on him.
He was like junior high. I was in high school.
(23:16):
I was like, I think it must have been Derek.
That was probably why he was doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Before.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'm gay as the day is long, he's married to
a woman to three your two kids now, god wow.
And then the second story. One time I was a
lifeguard to protect and save lives, right, And I was
a lifeguard and one summer the pool had been shut
down because they were building a new swimming pool. It
got like a multimillion dollar pool, like replacing the old one,
So we didn't have one for summer. But there was
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a pond outside of town that had a beach and
like it was roped off and there were lifeguard towers
out there and a concession stand in a big park
and people would go swim there in the summertime. So
they hired a few of us senior lifeguards, the ones
they really trusted who were really good at their jobs,
like me, to go out there and work in the
summertime while it was kind of sprinkling. One day, we
were like, this is stupid. Nobody's here. Nobody's going to
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swim the entire day. And usually if it rained, they
would like send you home. They didn't do it that day,
and my buddy Ryan and I were out there and
we're just sitting in this truck the whole time because
we're like, okay, we can't get out and sit in
the rain. So we're gonna sit in the truck while
nobody's here. We decided to go back to my place
because we have the refrigerator in the garage, you know,
like Grandma usually has the one in the garage with
all like the sodas and stuff. We had one in
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the garage that was full of beer. So I go
home and take a whole bunch of beer out, go back,
and we sit there and we throw back a few
while we're lifeguarding on the clock. And then my parents
I know, well and since since nobody was swimming, it
was a good time. If somebody something, can imagine something
would happened. Somebody drowns and I'm like drunk in a
truck like working for the city, and so they asked
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me what happened, and again blamed it on Derek, my
little brother got the brunt of so much.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Wow, don't I don't have any stories to relate to
incomes to siblings because my sister's eighteen years older than me,
so I didn't really grow up with her in the house.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So thank god I had.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You were so good then, Yeah, I was. I was
a pseudo only child. Yeah, We're not going to raise
my sister and I do love Donna. All right, here
we go. This is our final secret before we get
to keep's secret. Oh this is from Luke Male, Texas.
My name is Luke Jesse, Luke not short for anything. Wait,
(25:26):
you did not have to say that at well. When
I first met my girlfriend to seemed more sophisticated, I
lied and said my full name was Lucian. Okay, I
understand how why you do this? Okay? And I kind
of just forgot I did that. We've been together six
months and the other day I heard her tell her
grandma on the phone that my full name is Lucian,
and I realized I never told her it was a lie.
And now I'm like, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, Lucian? Is that is Lucian? Like Italian? What is
that Lucian?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't know. They, I mean they it does sound fancy. Loki.
That's not a bad name. Lucy. It spelled l u
c I A and that's how they spelt it.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, I don't understand what So was he nervous?
Was that the reason that like he did that?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh he's trying to sound cooler, maybe sound more saying.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
People honestly be real with you. I think people are
weird sometimes I'm not calling you weird, Luke, but like Luke,
like you did not have to switch up your name,
because then that's a whole lie that you have to
like continue down the line, like, look, we are talking
about this right now, Luke, It's time for you to
come claim man. And then what if this is actually
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Luke Skywalker. He's like, it's nothing else.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bro, Luke, you did the most and you did not
have to do that. And if you ever feel if
you ever feel like you're going into a relationship because
you're six months in. So this is for Luke or
anybody else who's listening, if you ever feel like you
have to go into a relationship and present somebody who
you're not, just actually, let's take it out of relationships,
just in life. If you ever and I feel like you, Keith,
me and mil you aj we all are really good
(26:55):
at this. If you are putting out a version of
yourself that is not who you are, you're going to attracting.
Get the things that are related to what you're putting Yeah,
as the time passes by, you might be attracting opportunity
or attracting people who are attracted to what you're putting out,
but then you realize that's not really me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And also you'll slowly become that version that you continue
to repetitively put out there, and then you're going to
be so like unsettled in your soul because it's not
going to be an alignment with who.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You actually alignment. God, I've been hearing the word alignment,
saying the word alignment a lot this whole week. So
this is like speaking to like my soul right now.
It really is, because, like you said, Emil, like we
do like we have to put on a certain version
of ourselves. But like I mean, like even doing it
for so long, I had to learn not to do
(27:46):
certain things. I'm like, hold on, that's not how That's
not me, So like why would I even play into
it right that? And it's just like I think, the
more I've done it, people just want to see who
you are and get to know you. So like, lou,
don't do that. Don't do that again, man, don't do
it again for future relationships. It's just like you said,
and you attract what you put out.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I'm glad. I'm really glad you brought that up though,
because obviously we've been like joking and fake bickering and
stuff on this podcast and everything, but just to get
serious for a little bit. It was a shock. It
was almost a year ago, or it might be over
a year, depending on when it comes out that you
did your announcement on Instagram. I don't even want to
call it an announcement, but you revealed that you had cancer.
(28:28):
And I will say as somebody who I know you.
I don't know you super well, but as somebody who's
followed you for years now and who knows your personality
and just what you do for a living, bringing people joy,
it was really hard to see that you were going
through something. You were very you know, vocal and open
to all of your followers about, you know, what you
(28:49):
were dealing with.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Now that you are.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
A year out of that situation, or since you revealed that,
I was saying.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Look, it's it's it's an ongoing fight, it's an.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
What has it been like?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
For you?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
How do you how do you maintain your joy when
dealing with something that can be so traumatic and so scary. Yeah, scary, It's.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Scary as hell.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
So when I first got diagnosed, it was it was shocking.
It was like, I'm like, I'm twenty nine. This is
a rare type of cancer, you know. I just like
my stomach was starting to it's a tumor. My stomach
was starting to protrude on one side, and I was
in pain. I thought I had like acid replace. It's
(29:37):
a whole like situation that happened before I was diagnosed.
Come to find out, I had a ten like almost
a ten inch like tumor just like growing, like after
I found out that I had that growth in everything.
Before I even found out I had cancer, my stomach grew,
and I like even took pictures maternity pictures because I
(29:57):
looked pregnant. I looked twelve months pregnant, not even like
possible to be twelve mnths pregnant, But my black ass
was twelve much's pregnant, this bitch. And I just remember
doing a maternity shoot and trying to make the best
of the situation because that's how I was brought up,
That's how my mom is. We like make jokes, but
we get serious and everything. And I have a really
great support system. So like I was very like positive,
(30:20):
But then it gets to a point where life happens,
and then you get to a point of I don't
want to say woe it's me, but you start to
also realize how how serious, like and severe it is,
because it's just like I might have to live with
this type of cancer for the rest of my life.
It grows back after even surgery, you know, chemotherapy pills,
(30:43):
Like why is this happening? Happening to me? Like why
do I deserve this? Like I'll be honest with you,
since we're here, this is a secret. Like last week
I did not want to I wasn't feeling good, y'all.
I was not feeling good. I did not want to
be around. That's the realness of it. Sometimes like everything
is cool and it's like I can do this. You know,
(31:05):
you're getting some good gigs over here, certain people are
noticing you, you know, like living a life out here.
But it gets to a point where, like, you know,
I have to go to I still work at Smash,
you know, I film with them, and sometimes I have
to go and I have to make people laugh when
I don't want to laugh when shit ain't funny, you
know what I mean? Granted I do have them, I support.
(31:26):
They're like, so like Keith, are you good? They're always
asking me if I'm okay. It's just more so what
I'm going through, like like how are you today? And
I'm like, I was like, but I gotta do it,
like let's go, like you know what I mean, Like
this gives me energy because I don't feel good today
and I've gone to some really really really dark places.
And I I when I made the announcement and when
(31:50):
I said it, I was like, I want to be transparent.
But then it's like a level of like I got
to keep some things to myself until I heal as well,
you know what I mean. I have like I know
some people who are doing some things and but they
haven't healed from it. It's just like I don't want
to talk about certain things unless I healed from it.
And I like I healed from last week. That's the
(32:12):
only reason I'm saying that I felt better. I had
my mom. She prayed with me, like I'm like a PK.
My dad is a minister, yet I'm out here really yeah,
we got a lot to talk about, but like just
deep down in church, like my dad's a minister is
a musician as well, and like I had been, you know,
(32:36):
going through my own journey, my own like my own
walk and seeing like what works for me and how
I honestly feel, and like it's something about my mom
just prayed for me and it felt so right, and
that was the it felt. It felt good, y'all. It
felt really good just to have somebody not even sometimes
(32:56):
I'll say this, like, you know, when I talk to
my mom about the situation or talk about her, she's
like giving me, you know, like she's talking to me
in a sense, it's like, Okay, well you gotta do this,
you gotta do this. This time, she did not give
me that energy because I couldn't handle it. She just
started praying and calling out to God and crying with me,
and it felt good. It was a good situation. So
(33:16):
it's up and down. Sometimes I feel good, sometimes I don't.
And it's beyond physically, it's like mentally, it's the mental part.
I'm not necessarily in pain anymore. Every now and again,
the pain comes, but like it's up and down, you know,
that's how I handle it. It's every day at a time.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Every day that suggests just you share that it's so beautiful,
and we will continue to pray for you, obviously, and
for continued healing and for a different outcome than you've
been told you're going to have. You know, maybe this
isn't something you have to live with forever. Maybe there
have been so many advances in medicine and things like
that recently because of COVID as a sort of silver lining.
So maybe that leads to something that leads to something
(33:55):
that leads to something that helps you. I receive it amen. Also,
it's interesting how mothers and also first ladies, because his
mom knows how to pray over our lives sometimes and
so if I ask her for prayer, I don't do
it often, but when I do, I reserve it for
the things that really really really need help with and
it always turns around very quickly. But it's also interesting moms,
(34:17):
I feel like, because moms tend to nag. I'm from
Ohio to moms are like they nag, right, And I
think I think sometimes it's an age thing, maybe right
around the age of thirty, or you hit your mid thirties,
or you go through something serious in life and something
switches and they see you as something different. Than just
their child for the first time and realize, oh, that's
(34:37):
not what my child needs right her to adjust right now.
And it sounds like your mom did that.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Right, she knew it was. It was a different feeling
that I like expressed to her, and she was like,
I do change the tactic because that's not don't she
do it? And if she would have did that, it
would have been done to clicked like, I don't got time,
you know.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Isn't it such a beautiful thing that when you get
to that that that part of the relationship with your parents,
like years of past and now you realize, like now
that you're getting older, you're finding new relationship to your parents,
because I didn't always have the relationship I have with
my mom and dad now, even a few years ago,
and even to that standpoint you remember this and I
won't reveal what she revealed, but when my mom was
(35:17):
here one time and she revealed something to us, and
I was like, WHOA, I'm so glad you told me
that because I suffered from that too. Maybe it's genetics
maybe like and we started to bond over this. So
then when I'm going through that, actually I'm very public
about it. It was about depression. Yeah, she kind of
opened up to us saying, like, you know, I get
depressed sometimes and my parents don't talk about that stuff.
And that was the first time that she ever opened up.
I think she prayed over me. I also struggle with depression,
(35:41):
and then, of course, I mean depression. A lot of
people struggle with depression don't even realize.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
I realize it then.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
But then trying to move out to this city and
make it in this industry from where we all come
from with Georgia, Ohio, Like, you're going to be depressed.
It's hard. Yeah, even if it looks like you're so
dope and you're killing it every day. Like chances are
the day that video dropped or the day we're on
a red carpet, or the day we're doing this thing
that looks really cool that's going up on our social
media that could have been weeks ago, and that day
(36:07):
I might actually be real down.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
And like the the extreme highs and extreme loads of
the industry. So you have those amazing, beautiful days and
then after that day happens, you know, you might be
fine the next day. Then the day after that you're like, oh, well,
we're back to the same.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I say that I said, and I guess it's a representation.
I said, the dope of your pictures are on your
social media and the more depressed you or I promise you.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It can be true. But also, but yeah, our pics
be kind of dope.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
To be trased.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
My pictures. My pictures are real nice and I might
be looking you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Do if you if you go to Keith's Instagram, I
will say, Keith always has dope? Do you just have
photographer friends?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Do I have you on the podcast?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Because you always have like amazing professional photos.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I'm like an artsy person kid like still like I
just like things that look cool. I like cool clothes.
I like it's honestly, moving to Cincinnati and like being
like around just so many Like just just seeing kids
express themselves gave me like I always just want to
be looked at as an artist. I want people to
(37:16):
see me as that. So that's it's very intentional, but
it's also who I am, you know what I mean?
It's just like what I like. I like things that
look good.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
How do we lose them?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Oh oh no oh oh no, phone die Frank.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I think Keith's phone died.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I think Keith is gone. I think Keith's phone is
no longer in service. And we're gonna wait just a
few minutes until it comes back, and then actually edit
that out because you know technology, but iPhones are terrible
about it.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, I guess we can just take a quick commercial break,
can come back.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Sure, So I'm so embarrassed?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Why is he so zoomed?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I love that going. I love is going side to side.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
I am embarrassed now, n't know y'all, don't tell nobody,
but god right, look, I was about to blame I
was I was about to blame my cancer. So my
cancer cut off my phone.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Listen, Keith is back and we're back from commercial break.
That's right, and it's the time we've been waiting for Keith.
It's time for you to confess your mess.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
All right, all right, So I'm gonna just get right
into it. This is a lot for me right now.
Very little people know this about myself. But I am
thirty years old and I don't know how to drive?
Wait what what? Wait?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I just.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I am thirty years Oh what and I don't know
how to maneuver a vehicle?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Wait? Wait, right now? Yeah, how do you get around?
You get around?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
We're everywhere? Whoa you guys. It is like it got
to the point where at first it was like a bit,
and it was like not even a funny bit. And
I've honestly gotten afraid to even like try to do it.
I didn't have the desire to do it for the longest,
and people were like, how do you ask it out? Uber,
Like I don't know the last time I've taken like
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actual public transportation. But no, no, like this is here,
I'm not making this.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
You're spending so much money on oh I mean cars
are expensive now too.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But yeah, all that money for gas, but you can't drive.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I don't know how. So we don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Listen, I don't know how. You need to tell what
was going on down in Middletown. So we both grew
up in Ohio and a and a half. We're going
for that learner's premisk.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Okay, I'll be honest with you. So, like most people
when they're like here's like my boys, everybody're like yo,
like I'm about to get this car, I'm like, all right,
think y'all just like pick me up. But this is
the thing. I don't happy.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
People don't pick me up anymore. Uber. I get a
now I have, I have been. I have spent fifty
dollars here sixty if I got to get around. I've
done it all, y'all. And I'm getting to the point
where I think of me confessing this right now is
showing me how dumb you know, and how ridiculous I
am by not doing it. Because it's not that I
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can't even afford a car. It's like, I just I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
How you know how to operate one.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
That's wow, Like am I crooked?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
No You're like, oh no, no, yeah, don't.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Think I mean you're a little offen. That's that's mostly about.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
The car waiting. Now your sideways again.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
I keep messing Up'm'm just hold it listen.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
So the thing is, though, if there was one time
where my car was years ago, my car is in
the shop at the Uber everywhere, and I was like,
I can't do this because when you have to run
multiple errands, you can't tell that Uber driver to wait
for you. You have to get a brand new Uber man.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And that's what I do it, and I do it.
I get around I definitely get around. People don't understand
how I get around. I was like, if I got
somewhere to be, call time, I'm gonna be there. Like,
I don't ask for rides. It's very, it's very it's
kind of scrubby. I'm gonna be real with you. It's
it's a little scrubby. You know. It's like sitting on
the passenger side of the best friends ride. You know.
(41:15):
But but but I wanted to make this. I was wondering.
I was like, Yo, what can I actually say? And
I knew that this would put some fire like under
my ass. Yeah, because I'm looking at like AJ's.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Like yeah, Like I'm like, I like this guy's vibe.
He's from Ohio's gonna get the energy. He's funny, he
shared his cancer story with us. He's so touching. He's
a preacher's kid. But you can't hard see that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Look aj A J. I'll never forget when I seen
you in the mill. I was going to church one
time and I seen you in the mill. I was like, oh,
J is cool, Like it's a cool guy. But I
just kind of I'm kind of embarrassed that I just
lost points with you. My Ohio Brethren some points. But
this is the thing I don't. I don't and I
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know this year I decided that I would actually put
in the effort to learn. This is the first time
I gotta speak my truth. I gotta speak my truth.
A lot of people don't know. I mean, people want
me to drive more than I actually want to. But
I am thirty years old, y'all. It's like, Okay, the
bit's been done for ten years, bro, Like, what the
(42:22):
hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
It's not much, man. You could do a whole series
on Keith learning how to drive.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
I don't watch it, not talked about it to people.
I done talked about it to people, and I thought
about it. But I'm like, you know what, I don't
even know if I want to put that like, Y'ALLM
not about to see me in those moments. Those moments
are going to be special. I don't love people to live, No,
they don't like me no more.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
No, I just can't wrap my brain around it.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Funny, we get like from people, we get all types
of secrets from our guests, and so sometimes they're super silly.
Sometimes we're like, oh that's cute, Like whatever, I really
didn't know what to expect in that secret, Like it's
secrets don't usually shut we talk about secrets, I say,
don't necessarily shocked me. It's very rare nowadays I get
a secret that shocked it was not expecting because I.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Could somebody can be like, yeah, I cheated on somebody.
That's a secret of mine, or like I have this
this phobia that makes sense to me. I can wrap
my brain like I'm physically trying to understand how you
could even be thirty and not drive a car. Like
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I'm like, I'm a living witness.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's doable.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
It's definitely doable. I do it. I do it all
the time.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You're definitely a preacher, living witness.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Well, when I fractured port CHOP's feet, when I fracture
her toes, we was up in that almost every day,
every a couple of times a week so she could
change her splint up in an uber lift Irat, I
was doing Uber mostly, but you know, I switch over
sometimes I look at the prices just to.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Be like, you know, you know, Lift tries to talk
to you like you like, make me like start a
friendship with you too. The drivers they talk right, I
like conversation, conversation.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Oh my gosh, you were absolutely fantastic, and uh, that
was such a fun episode. It started it started off,
you know, with a little a little bickering between the couple. Uh,
and then it ended in some heartwarming moments and then
a shocking secret.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Do you want to apologize right now?
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Is that we're trying so we're gonna see, we're gonna
acknowledge it. I apologize earlier again.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Look, can I just say this? Can I just say this.
I'm gonna go take some driving classes and y'all continue
to take some couples counselors.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
That deal. Deal. We are not writing with you anytime soon,
though calls for three years.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
It's my It's fine. I won't be riding with myself.
I'm like, I got some some some scares to say
hello though.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Oh yeah, we don't see pork Chops. Oh pork Chop
really is the cutest dog. Adorable pork Chop reminds me
of my sister's waving me your rest in peace dog
mister he was he was really.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Pork chops one Paul look funny though.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
All right, okay, so keith last thing before we let
you go. Every single episode, we'd like to do a
takeaway of the day. So from this episode, what would
you say is your takeaway of the day.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I love that you guys are getting married, but I
don't know if I can do I'm supported, I'm love it, Billows,
it's gonna be brought up. Look, I might need to
just be by myself.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Be a fortune.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Listen, it's been it's been almost a decade. So we
just have we have this stupid We just wore each
other down.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
I know that that is a takeaway that I got.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
We thank you so so very much, and best of
luck with everything and keep killing it. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Yeah, no, guys, thanks for having me. This was awesome hopefully,
like whenever you guys do something I love to be
a part of. I really respect everything that you guys
are doing, and like, thanks for dealing with me and
my mom my bullsh.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
No, you are hilarious and we will keep you in
our prayers and we appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Thanks. Keith. Confess Your Mess is a straw Head Media
podcast produced by Ryan Tillotson and Frank Driscoll. Thank you
so much, thanks for listening, and don't forget to subscribe.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
And share And if you have a secret you want
to share, go to confessor mess dot us to submit
Your secret could.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
End up in the shower.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Copy your man
Straw media. Why the having a meltdom right now? Why
and why am I married?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You can't reach it? Can you check thoms?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
God?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, you do this every time?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
You know? Are I know what?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I've been wondering why it's been disappearing. That means on
all these episodes, I probably think that it's lit over
there and it's probably nothing show and nobody care.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I care the video quality integrity?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Good God? Can you tell? We shot five episodes this
week and we had a two hour plan or meeting
with our entire wedding planning team earlier today.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
He was over here moving pillows. Had me thinking, Oh,
this is my audio test. Yeah, I'm recording anyway. What's up, y'all?
Welcome to confess your mess I'm a mill Innis Junior,
joined by my loving fiance.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
If you don't know what this podcast is, we do
listeners submitted secrets every single week and we have a
celebrity guest, an influencer friend. We bring them on and
they break down these secrets with us. And we're very
excited about today's guests because they're one of the funniest
people that I know, and I I really mean that
I met this person when I worked at Clever. They
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worked across the hall, and well, I guess when it
was the five before we all got laid off. H
wow came yeah, a whole whole situation as right. But uh,
but yeah, so we worked, uh, we worked across the hall,
and Keith Leak junior is who we have on the pop.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I have a question because in your your bio that
you sent, it says, first of all, I didn't know
your middle name was O'Brien, Keith O'Brien leaked the second.
So then my question is because I'm a junior, so
technically our second and junior interchangeable, Like, can I start
going by amil innis the second?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Let me explain something. So my my parents, my parents
shout out to Kelly and Keith Bick Keith they did
not like Junior. They straight up told me. They were like, yo,
like we don't like junior. Da da da da dah,
and I don't know somewhere around like I was trying
to figure out should I just go by Keith Leek?
I was like I can't cause I you know, my
dad is like kind of like an industry and like
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all of that, and I want to like give you know,
respect to him, but I was like, Keith Leek junior.
I think that kind of has more like of a
rine than the second. I don't know, so I kind
of just I went with the junior and my mom
was like, why are you a junior?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
On that?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We did that on purpose?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Boy, Can I tell you a little bit of a
secret about a meal? And it's junior over here? Like
I never really understood this, and I don't think you
have an answer for me, but you're probably gonna snap
me right now. And I say this, but technically you
shouldn't even be a junior.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yes, I should know.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Your dad should be a junior because your grandfathers now
also a meal.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Actually that's incorrect, and I can give you an answer.
And the reason why is because the spelling of my.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Dad and my that doesn't make sense. So his grandfather
spelled the name A N E A L A Meal,
but then when his father was born, they changed.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Does your dad have the same middle name as you
as your middle name different exactly? So my grandfather was
a mil Dallas innis I am a mill not same
middle name nis junior and my father is a mill
same middle name and his senior.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So technically, hold on, hold on, hold on, y'all not
about to have me come on the show and say
you're not about to tell me a secret. The hell
is with you? I can I'm sure I can google
it and all I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I don't think you can find I'm pretty sure my
middle name is not online. It better not be. But okay,
So then my my final question with the name before
we actually get into the purpose of this podcast. So,
is your dad technically Keith Does he go by Keith
Leek senior?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yes, he does. It goes by Keith O'Brien Leek.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
So I always wonder when you, like, was my dad
always a mill innis senior or did that come after
I was born?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
It definitely comes after your both, Okay, that they're not like,
they don't have that that when you're born. That's when
they get that that senior.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Can't imagine somebody says I'm going to be a senior
and then they don't even end up having like the
son that they can pass that name off to when
they were a senior.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I can't even imagine, like what if you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Were a J. Gibson senior.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm still a little bit hung up on the O'Brien
middle name over it sounds very Irish. My family's a
quarter I.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yes, So I got a story for you there. So
I found out I went to the Leak family reunion
in North Carolina. A lot of my family stays out there.
I'm from Ohio. Yeah, here we travel, we go, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Jesus, Northwest Ohio, near Lina. He hates when I meet
people from Ohio.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Because, oh, it's like, I'm a babe, where are they from?
I'm from Like, okay, so I'm from Middletown.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, okay, hold.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
On, hold on, I need you to break it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Down the trash that part of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Listen, listen, listen. So, but it's like forty five minutes
away from Cincinnati and date, and my dad's from Dayton.
We I moved to Cincinnati when I went to the
performing arts high school I went to, so like I
spent time in a big like you know, a big city.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
High school to go to CPA.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh way.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Okay, So my sister lives in in northern Kentucky but
works in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, I have FAUMD in Louisville. But my sister's down
in Union, Kentucky, right across the river by Fort Mitchell, Covington,
whole area, and we were just in Cincinnati having dinner
for my dad's seventieth a few months ago, a meal,
and I flew in for the weekend. But Middletown is
where my story starts because Middletown is where I went
to my very first theme park called Americana. I don't
(05:33):
even know if you're old enough to know.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes, it was like a wooden roller coaster. Oh school, Yeah, yeah,
I was. I actually lived like five minutes away, a
five minute drive from there in Middletown.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Like that's so like my gay ass. When I was
an Emaculate Conception Elementary school, Catholic school, we took a
field trip there with our youth group one time and
went to Americana Theme Park, and I like played games
all day and won as many tokens or whatever as
I could to get a black silk screen. New kids
on the block, pillow. Nobody knew I was gay, humilidy,
(06:12):
but new kids on the block also trying of slapped
Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Come on, I know they weren't Tea.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Donnie Wahlberg, and that other one I forget who the
fifth one.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Was okay wow. So every single episode we like to
kick it off with AJ doing his segment.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah. So here's how this is gonna work. So in
order to trust you, Keith with our listener submitted confessions,
we want to know that you're down, that you can
actually reveal a little bit about yourself. Now you've brought
us a confession of your own that you're going to
reveal at the end of the podcast. This is not
that moment just yet. This is more like a bad
habit or a vice or something you just can't quit.
We like to call this one your mess, but yees.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Was not a back then the Tia and Samary like
that that.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't know, I feel like I will I want
to be okay.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Oh well that worked out right, trust me, y'all even
have to compromise right now, said I that's do? I
like that? I like that?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
All right? What's your mess?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
But yeah, dang, okay, I don't know if it's a yeah.
But like so my dog needs to get some more shots,
like it's the thing, but like she has had like
doggy play dates with other dogs. This is kind of
(07:40):
messed up. But this is the thing. She's fine. She
is fine, But like I just realized, this is the
first time that I'm saying this out here, and now
this is I'm putting it out there because I want
you all to trust me. I'm a really good dog
that Porchop loves me. Like por Chop is the cutest thing.
She's over there in her gated community right now. But
she got a whole round to herself. But like it's
been like I think, like a month. I haven't gotten
(08:02):
her shot check up situation together. And she had a
playdate like last week and I was like, oh my gosh,
you don't how the shots. And I was like, oh
my god, Like this is kind of like COVID and
like it just got real weird for me. So I
got to take her to get her shots because I
don't want to, like, you know, you know, I feel
kind of bad case.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
So what you're saying is you an anti vaxxer. That's
what you just admitted here.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I got shots. I got my shots. I got I
got my shots last year. You're funny for that. I
had to. I had got okay, So not to like
bring down the move. But this year, and I like
to talk about it, I was diagnosed with cancer. I
was diagnosed with cancer, and at first I was weary
about the the the vaccine, of course, like a lot
(08:47):
of people are, especially people of color, And it just
got to the point where it's like, oh, you you
got cancer. And I was like, let me go ahead
get this shot just in case. Let me go ahead
get this shot, and you know, also for work as well.
And I'm okay, everybody who's against it. I really believe
in this vaccine. So like, uh yeah, I got it,
(09:09):
and I'm Poorky's gonna get her shots too, So let's
let's move on.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're definitely gonna get her shots. And you you are.
You are a good dog dad. You did post that
one to that one time though, didn't you end your
pork chop?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Okay, now don't start it off, because I'm just I'm
minding my business. I was taking her ound like this
is before she was getting her shots, and this is okay,
so this is another thing. This is before she got
her shots. But I wanted to walk her a little bit.
I wanted you just to walk her because she has
her paths in her gated community and everything. But I decided,
let me just walk her a little bit so she
gets used to it because she's gonna get her shots
(09:42):
in two days. Man, I'm walking her ass. I'm walking
her and like she decided she didn't want to walk anymore,
which is a problem for me. So I start running.
I'm like dogs, likely you run, So I'm running. So
I'm just like woo, and her little ash decides to
run under me. And and I heard, I heard, and
(10:06):
I was like, oh now, I heard her cry a
couple of times, you know, but it usually it was
it was prolonged this time, and that threw me off.
And I was like, my baby, my baby. I don't know,
like why I became like a southern mom, like, I
don't know. I was really confused. But I was just
like my baby, like no, so I knew something was wrong.
I had put her down. I came right home. I
(10:28):
put so this is my baby. I mean, you know,
sometimes you dropped your baby on the head.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I thought, I thought you put her down.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I dropped our dog Kingston on the head when he
was a buppy.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
You said you.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Ended your life. I had to haven't put down.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Is still in the gated community.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
She's over there. I might show her, you show her
in a little bit, but from there, I put her
down in her gated community. Once I got home and
she ended up, she said she cried. I was like,
something's broken. So the next day I took her to
the emergency room because I wanted to see if it
was like whatever, you know. And once I took her
to the emergency room, They're like, man, you fractured three
(11:10):
or her fractured. And I'm just like, God, damn it, I.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Don't know why just did that reaction.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I've noticed story, and you're like thousands of dollars later.
Dogs are expensive too. Dog broke our dog broke a
fingernail and it costs to seven hundred bucks one time.
So dogs are not fingernail.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It was bleeding profusely.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Y'all couldn't give her like some acrylic or something.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now that I'm looking back, I should have.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Listen, let me tell you something. This is going to
be really fun. We're going to get into our secrets,
and for this episode, we wanted to do fun, silly,
lighthearted secrets. I believe Frank, that's the theme that we
chose a different episodes. Silly. Uh So let's get into
the first secret. This is from anonymous male California. Y'all,
we can know this person.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Every time we can know this person there in California
or Ohio. One of us says, what we moved it?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I mean, I mean I was one of the largest states.
But hey, okay, some guys like tits, some guys like ass.
I secretly like belly buttons and the coin slot part
of the butt crack never told anyone. Wait, what is
the coin slot?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Coin slot like very top. I think that's probably the top.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, because when you put a coin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, oh, AJ likes that part.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
That's my favorite part of him, the entire body. That's
the favorite part.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It feels weird when he touches there. It's like a
very It's not a because it's weird for you and
it's weird for me. It's he likes that part. But
it's like my tailbones kind of there too, and like yeah,
like that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
When we were like when we used to like live
in trees and stuff like that, we had tails and
then they went away. Eventually we evolved. We all came
from Africa and god, I don't know which came first,
But we used to have tails probably, I mean, that's
what a tailbone is.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I know, I get that. But what they got to
do like touching that part's funny for you. Oh it
feels funny because there used to be a tail there. Okay, sorry.
I wasn't connecting the dots. It was like a strap.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I was with you. I was like, where is this going?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
In the trees I take. I take one anthropology class
in college twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Okay, so so they secret you secretly like belly buttons
and the coin slat part of the butt crack not
tn A Okay, yeah, are they saying that they don't
like tits and masks? M? I have follow up.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That's the first physical feature there you noticed Keith on somebody?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I would say, the smile. The smile is very contagious.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
So is your so was your dog by the way,
so watch out get that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh I definitely think smiles. It's something about a smile
that like I'm like, oh this is nice, you know
what I mean. But the belly button part, okay, so
this is the thing. So you don't like that a meal?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Right? A?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
J you that's what you like? It's this do you guys,
think this is going to be an issue later on,
like when y'all get married.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Don't worry. We started a couple of we have it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Tomorrow beyond counseling, I might need a little therapy. And
I'm from somebody who ain't had it the damn self.
So y'a magnet needs.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
No he the spot. The spot is fun. It's not
my favorite, my favorite spot. But so to this, to
this person, to anonymous male in California who we may
or may not know, thank you for sharing that. And
you know what you like is what you like? Yeah, okay,
anonymous female Minnesota. When I was in the seventh grade,
I snuck into my teacher's office to try and take
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a test back before she graded it because I knew
I failed it. She had this tan colored swivel chair
and I was sitting in it looking for my test,
found the test, stood up and saw a dark reddish
brown spot on the seat. Wait a minute, and felt
weird between the legs, ran out, went to the bathroom
and realized I'd had my first period on my teacher's chair.
(14:48):
I never got caught, but I doubt she ever got
that stain out.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
WAITO, yo period and that's some period.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh my gosh, Cane, the embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Wow, listen, the Lord works in mysterious ways. You were
trying to change the score on your test, and.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
No, I even think she's trying to the teacher. I
didn't even great to guess. I think that's where she
was trying to break in and steal her test batch, don't.
She was trying to steal it before she even grated it.
So my question is, once you took it back, what
was gonna happen when your test was missing and she's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Going to change out some answers and put it back.
She probably realized I got some answers wrong and I
have to fix them real quick. She's going to swap
it out real quick.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
That's too risky, lot.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I just said that. I'm so glad that I was, like,
I love women, I like I grew up with girls.
I'm so glad I didn't like the periods. That is
next level, Like it's just like yours. It's cleaning yourself,
it's cleaning itself. But it's almost like your body hates
you with that, I know, right, like you hate your
(15:57):
body Like it's just a whole bunch I thank god
that I was. Yes, that's unfortunate. I have a friend
back in middle school. I won't say her name, of course,
but I remember we were at lunch and it's so
messed up because people kids can be really, really cruel.
But I remember she had like a blood spot on
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her like, you know, like on her area. You know,
we could see it and nobody said anything for a while,
and like it's like people came up to me and
pointed at it, and I was like, oh my god,
like what do you do? Like what do you do?
And like it had been out for like a good minute,
so like more than enough people seen it. But then
(16:39):
the incredible girl came around and was like, hey, and yeah,
I think about that all the time because it's just
like I grew up with a sister. My sister was
older than me. She definitely had her period. I could
have went up to this this young lady and told her, like, yo,
we got a little blood back there, you know, But
I did.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What you think about it all the time? Do you
ever consider it like message it? Hey, back when we
were apologize, do you remember that day you had that
little spot? Listen, I just want to say you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I had one of my best friends my freshman year
of college. Her name was Megan, and I can say
her first name because she actually is the reason for
the story. But we were at a party one night.
She had khakis on and she bled through and she saw.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Her that's not g.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
She literally owned that ship, and we started calling her Cooter,
and that was her nickname. To this day, we still
call her Cooter, and she she called herself that all
that was funny. She like owned the moment and kind
of like tried to get ahead of the joke. And
literally we're in our forties now when her nickname is
still Cooter.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
No, I feel like she cries about that. Sometimes they're
still calling me all these years later.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
One other thing about this story that's really interesting to me.
She said she went into her junior high teacher's office.
Do you did your junior high teacher? Did any of
your teachers have offices?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
She I think when she said off, Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Makes me think of like a college professor. I didn't
know high school school teachers.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Well, you know, some people go to like fancy school.
It might be like a private school. They got their classroom,
then they got their own private office.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Em.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, they got money, got it?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Okay. My last thing with this, I get what you're saying.
But the reason why I say it's so risky is
because there's already a risk going in there to take
the test out. But then you have to have a
risk when you're gonna like have the time to go
back in there and she's not there and put the
test back before she You know what I mean. It's
just a it's a lot of things you have to
calculate in order to make sure this plan works affect.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I ever tell you about the time I was in
high school in biology class, So listen to this. So
I didn't I didn't cheat often only when I didn't
feel like studying, and everybody cheated where I came from. Yeah,
of course. And so this girl, my one of my
very best friends, Katie, and she uh said she got
the test ahead of the quiz or the test whatever.
(18:55):
Getting ready to say somebody got it. So she got
the answers for me, and she got them to me,
and I wrote them all to I was like a C, C, B,
A D like that those sort of you know, tests,
And so I take the thing, turn it in. The
whole class gets a hundred, and I get like like
twenty eight or some like crazy money. How come everybody?
And he's going through and he's talking about the grades,
and he's like, AJ, he keeps me after class. Nicest
(19:16):
guy in the world, his name is mister Kennedy, keeps
me after class. And he's like, well, it would seem
that you had all the right answers somehow, but you
were off by one. And I was like, what what
do you mean? She thought it would be funny to
give me the answers and leave out the first one.
So my entire test was off by one, and he
knew it and busted me because of it. And she
(19:38):
ended up being a good friend of mine later and
was a friend of mine before that too, And even
like cause I was like one of like I wasn't
one of the cool kids. I was like kind of
like the middle right. It was like one of those
is kind of a nerd, but like I have his
friends with some of the cool kids, but I was
friends with some of the not cool kids. And as
she thought that she was going to get like such
a laugh out of everybody, and even like the like
the cool guys who like teased me and called me
(19:58):
gay J and made fun of me and like that,
like damn, kat no, no, thank you. That's really not
traumatic for me at all. My fiance is not wearing
his engagement ring and you're laughing at gay J. I'm
sorry they were like Katie, like damn, that was cold
devastated me.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So just like you're still traumatized by gay J, maybe
Couter is still traumatized by Cooter not. We're going to
take that quick commercial.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Mess. Welcome back to oh I almost said the Morning Beat.
That's my radio show. I say it so many times.
Welcome back to confess your mess. Get it right, AJ,
it's Keith emil a J and her good friend Cooter
having a.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Just won't let it go meal, I don't have one. Okay,
let's get to our next secret from Gracie female Las Vegas.
I've been to Las Vegas. I might have passed by
you on the boardwalk. Is it a border you call
it the strip? Anyway? Last year, senior year of high school,
I thought it would be funny to give my family
golden retriever and inverted mohawk. So I used my dad's
(21:19):
clippers to shave a line down his spine. From head
to tail. Blamed it on my whole little sister, and
to this day, my parents still think that she did it.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Oh my god, you gotta come clean. It is about
time that you really you need to apologize to your
sister and oh yeah, the Golden Retriever as well. I'm sorry,
but like your sister, that's a messed up. I know,
y'all grown, Like I have been trying to like fix
some of the things I have, Like I have a
couple sisters. Yeah, and I've been trying to like fix
(21:49):
certain things that I messed up as a kid. And
I think it's so I remember my sister. We used
to like my mom is a jokester and where we
all joke and all play. And sometime times I could
tell that my my older sister, she would get the
the you know, just she would get the she would
get the worst of it. And I remember I had
I had been drinking with some friends and I ended
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up calling my sister. I was like, I just want
to apologize to you because I realized that you didn't
deserve it. She's like this, funny, it was funny now,
I said, yeah, but you were really hurt. I've been drinking,
but like, I just won't dude it now that I'm sorry,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I was in high school. I used to blame it
on my little brother because I protect my sister. I
have a younger sister I protected forever. She shows me
a few apologies right now, that's neither here nor there.
But my younger brother, my stepbrother, I used to blame
him for two that stand out off the top of
my mind. One in the balls drinking. I'll get to
that one next. The first one, though, was when the
Internet came out and we got our first computer and
used to have to dial up. And I remember those days,
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dial them and I looked up I think like gay
and like butt dot com or whatever, penis dot com.
I had no idea how the internet worked back then.
I was trying to look up gay shit, and I
was trying. I was curious. I was in high school.
I was going through my emotions and my parents found
gay dot com on there, and I blamed it on him.
He was like junior high. I was in high school.
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I was like, I think it must have been Derek.
That was probably why he was doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Before.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I'm gay as the day is long, he's married to
a woman to three your two kids now, god wow.
And then the second story. One time I was a
lifeguard to protect and save lives, right, And I was
a lifeguard and one summer the pool had been shut
down because they were building a new swimming pool. It
got like a multimillion dollar pool, like replacing the old one,
So we didn't have one for summer. But there was
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a pond outside of town that had a beach and
like it was roped off and there were lifeguard towers
out there and a concession stand in a big park
and people would go swim there in the summertime. So
they hired a few of us senior lifeguards, the ones
they really trusted who were really good at their jobs,
like me, to go out there and work in the
summertime while it was kind of sprinkling. One day, we
were like, this is stupid. Nobody's here. Nobody's going to
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swim the entire day. And usually if it rained, they
would like send you home. They didn't do it that day,
and my buddy Ryan and I were out there and
we're just sitting in this truck the whole time because
we're like, okay, we can't get out and sit in
the rain. So we're gonna sit in the truck while
nobody's here. We decided to go back to my place
because we have the refrigerator in the garage, you know,
like Grandma usually has the one in the garage with
all like the sodas and stuff. We had one in
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the garage that was full of beer. So I go
home and take a whole bunch of beer out, go back,
and we sit there and we throw back a few
while we're lifeguarding on the clock. And then my parents
I know, well and since since nobody was swimming, it
was a good time. If somebody something, can imagine something
would happened. Somebody drowns and I'm like drunk in a
truck like working for the city, and so they asked
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me what happened, and again blamed it on Derek, my
little brother got the brunt of so much.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Wow, don't I don't have any stories to relate to
incomes to siblings because my sister's eighteen years older than me,
so I didn't really grow up with her in the house.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So thank god I had.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
You were so good then, Yeah, I was. I was
a pseudo only child. Yeah, We're not going to raise
my sister and I do love Donna. All right, here
we go. This is our final secret before we get
to keep's secret. Oh this is from Luke Male, Texas.
My name is Luke Jesse, Luke not short for anything. Wait,
(25:26):
you did not have to say that at well. When
I first met my girlfriend to seemed more sophisticated, I
lied and said my full name was Lucian. Okay, I
understand how why you do this? Okay? And I kind
of just forgot I did that. We've been together six
months and the other day I heard her tell her
grandma on the phone that my full name is Lucian,
and I realized I never told her it was a lie.
And now I'm like, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, Lucian? Is that is Lucian? Like Italian? What is
that Lucian?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't know. They, I mean they it does sound fancy. Loki.
That's not a bad name. Lucy. It spelled l u
c I A and that's how they spelt it.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, I don't understand what So was he nervous?
Was that the reason that like he did that?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh he's trying to sound cooler, maybe sound more saying.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
People honestly be real with you. I think people are
weird sometimes I'm not calling you weird, Luke, but like Luke,
like you did not have to switch up your name,
because then that's a whole lie that you have to
like continue down the line, like, look, we are talking
about this right now, Luke, It's time for you to
come claim man. And then what if this is actually
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Luke Skywalker. He's like, it's nothing else.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bro, Luke, you did the most and you did not
have to do that. And if you ever feel if
you ever feel like you're going into a relationship because
you're six months in. So this is for Luke or
anybody else who's listening, if you ever feel like you
have to go into a relationship and present somebody who
you're not, just actually, let's take it out of relationships,
just in life. If you ever and I feel like you, Keith,
me and mil you aj we all are really good
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at this. If you are putting out a version of
yourself that is not who you are, you're going to attracting.
Get the things that are related to what you're putting Yeah,
as the time passes by, you might be attracting opportunity
or attracting people who are attracted to what you're putting out,
but then you realize that's not really me.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And also you'll slowly become that version that you continue
to repetitively put out there, and then you're going to
be so like unsettled in your soul because it's not
going to be an alignment with who.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You actually alignment. God, I've been hearing the word alignment,
saying the word alignment a lot this whole week. So
this is like speaking to like my soul right now.
It really is, because, like you said, Emil, like we
do like we have to put on a certain version
of ourselves. But like I mean, like even doing it
for so long, I had to learn not to do
(27:46):
certain things. I'm like, hold on, that's not how That's
not me, So like why would I even play into
it right that? And it's just like I think, the
more I've done it, people just want to see who
you are and get to know you. So like, lou,
don't do that. Don't do that again, man, don't do
it again for future relationships. It's just like you said,
and you attract what you put out.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I'm glad. I'm really glad you brought that up though,
because obviously we've been like joking and fake bickering and
stuff on this podcast and everything, but just to get
serious for a little bit. It was a shock. It
was almost a year ago, or it might be over
a year, depending on when it comes out that you
did your announcement on Instagram. I don't even want to
call it an announcement, but you revealed that you had cancer.
(28:28):
And I will say as somebody who I know you.
I don't know you super well, but as somebody who's
followed you for years now and who knows your personality
and just what you do for a living, bringing people joy,
it was really hard to see that you were going
through something. You were very you know, vocal and open
to all of your followers about, you know, what you
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were dealing with.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Now that you are.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
A year out of that situation, or since you revealed that,
I was saying.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Look, it's it's it's an ongoing fight, it's an.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
What has it been like?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
For you?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
How do you how do you maintain your joy when
dealing with something that can be so traumatic and so scary. Yeah, scary, It's.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Scary as hell.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
So when I first got diagnosed, it was it was shocking.
It was like, I'm like, I'm twenty nine. This is
a rare type of cancer, you know. I just like
my stomach was starting to it's a tumor. My stomach
was starting to protrude on one side, and I was
in pain. I thought I had like acid replace. It's
(29:37):
a whole like situation that happened before I was diagnosed.
Come to find out, I had a ten like almost
a ten inch like tumor just like growing, like after
I found out that I had that growth in everything.
Before I even found out I had cancer, my stomach grew,
and I like even took pictures maternity pictures because I
(29:57):
looked pregnant. I looked twelve months pregnant, not even like
possible to be twelve mnths pregnant, But my black ass
was twelve much's pregnant, this bitch. And I just remember
doing a maternity shoot and trying to make the best
of the situation because that's how I was brought up,
That's how my mom is. We like make jokes, but
we get serious and everything. And I have a really
great support system. So like I was very like positive,
(30:20):
But then it gets to a point where life happens,
and then you get to a point of I don't
want to say woe it's me, but you start to
also realize how how serious, like and severe it is,
because it's just like I might have to live with
this type of cancer for the rest of my life.
It grows back after even surgery, you know, chemotherapy pills,
(30:43):
Like why is this happening? Happening to me? Like why
do I deserve this? Like I'll be honest with you,
since we're here, this is a secret. Like last week
I did not want to I wasn't feeling good, y'all.
I was not feeling good. I did not want to
be around. That's the realness of it. Sometimes like everything
is cool and it's like I can do this. You know,
(31:05):
you're getting some good gigs over here, certain people are
noticing you, you know, like living a life out here.
But it gets to a point where, like, you know,
I have to go to I still work at Smash,
you know, I film with them, and sometimes I have
to go and I have to make people laugh when
I don't want to laugh when shit ain't funny, you
know what I mean? Granted I do have them, I support.
(31:26):
They're like, so like Keith, are you good? They're always
asking me if I'm okay. It's just more so what
I'm going through, like like how are you today? And
I'm like, I was like, but I gotta do it,
like let's go, like you know what I mean, Like
this gives me energy because I don't feel good today
and I've gone to some really really really dark places.
And I I when I made the announcement and when
(31:50):
I said it, I was like, I want to be transparent.
But then it's like a level of like I got
to keep some things to myself until I heal as well,
you know what I mean. I have like I know
some people who are doing some things and but they
haven't healed from it. It's just like I don't want
to talk about certain things unless I healed from it.
And I like I healed from last week. That's the
(32:12):
only reason I'm saying that I felt better. I had
my mom. She prayed with me, like I'm like a PK.
My dad is a minister, yet I'm out here really yeah,
we got a lot to talk about, but like just
deep down in church, like my dad's a minister is
a musician as well, and like I had been, you know,
(32:36):
going through my own journey, my own like my own
walk and seeing like what works for me and how
I honestly feel, and like it's something about my mom
just prayed for me and it felt so right, and
that was the it felt. It felt good, y'all. It
felt really good just to have somebody not even sometimes
(32:56):
I'll say this, like, you know, when I talk to
my mom about the situation or talk about her, she's
like giving me, you know, like she's talking to me
in a sense, it's like, Okay, well you gotta do this,
you gotta do this. This time, she did not give
me that energy because I couldn't handle it. She just
started praying and calling out to God and crying with me,
and it felt good. It was a good situation. So
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it's up and down. Sometimes I feel good, sometimes I don't.
And it's beyond physically, it's like mentally, it's the mental part.
I'm not necessarily in pain anymore. Every now and again,
the pain comes, but like it's up and down, you know,
that's how I handle it. It's every day at a time.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Every day that suggests just you share that it's so beautiful,
and we will continue to pray for you, obviously, and
for continued healing and for a different outcome than you've
been told you're going to have. You know, maybe this
isn't something you have to live with forever. Maybe there
have been so many advances in medicine and things like
that recently because of COVID as a sort of silver lining.
So maybe that leads to something that leads to something
(33:55):
that leads to something that helps you. I receive it amen. Also,
it's interesting how mothers and also first ladies, because his
mom knows how to pray over our lives sometimes and
so if I ask her for prayer, I don't do
it often, but when I do, I reserve it for
the things that really really really need help with and
it always turns around very quickly. But it's also interesting moms,
(34:17):
I feel like, because moms tend to nag. I'm from
Ohio to moms are like they nag, right, And I
think I think sometimes it's an age thing, maybe right
around the age of thirty, or you hit your mid thirties,
or you go through something serious in life and something
switches and they see you as something different. Than just
their child for the first time and realize, oh, that's
(34:37):
not what my child needs right her to adjust right now.
And it sounds like your mom did that.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Right, she knew it was. It was a different feeling
that I like expressed to her, and she was like,
I do change the tactic because that's not don't she
do it? And if she would have did that, it
would have been done to clicked like, I don't got time,
you know.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Isn't it such a beautiful thing that when you get
to that that that part of the relationship with your parents,
like years of past and now you realize, like now
that you're getting older, you're finding new relationship to your parents,
because I didn't always have the relationship I have with
my mom and dad now, even a few years ago,
and even to that standpoint you remember this and I
won't reveal what she revealed, but when my mom was
(35:17):
here one time and she revealed something to us, and
I was like, WHOA, I'm so glad you told me
that because I suffered from that too. Maybe it's genetics
maybe like and we started to bond over this. So
then when I'm going through that, actually I'm very public
about it. It was about depression. Yeah, she kind of
opened up to us saying, like, you know, I get
depressed sometimes and my parents don't talk about that stuff.
And that was the first time that she ever opened up.
I think she prayed over me. I also struggle with depression,
(35:41):
and then, of course, I mean depression. A lot of
people struggle with depression don't even realize.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
I realize it then.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
But then trying to move out to this city and
make it in this industry from where we all come
from with Georgia, Ohio, Like, you're going to be depressed.
It's hard. Yeah, even if it looks like you're so
dope and you're killing it every day. Like chances are
the day that video dropped or the day we're on
a red carpet, or the day we're doing this thing
that looks really cool that's going up on our social
media that could have been weeks ago, and that day
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I might actually be real down.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
And like the the extreme highs and extreme loads of
the industry. So you have those amazing, beautiful days and
then after that day happens, you know, you might be
fine the next day. Then the day after that you're like, oh, well,
we're back to the same.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
I say that I said, and I guess it's a representation.
I said, the dope of your pictures are on your
social media and the more depressed you or I promise you.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It can be true. But also, but yeah, our pics
be kind of dope.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
To be trased.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
My pictures. My pictures are real nice and I might
be looking you.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Do if you if you go to Keith's Instagram, I
will say, Keith always has dope? Do you just have
photographer friends?
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Do I have you on the podcast?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Because you always have like amazing professional photos.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I'm like an artsy person kid like still like I
just like things that look cool. I like cool clothes.
I like it's honestly, moving to Cincinnati and like being
like around just so many Like just just seeing kids
express themselves gave me like I always just want to
be looked at as an artist. I want people to
(37:16):
see me as that. So that's it's very intentional, but
it's also who I am, you know what I mean?
It's just like what I like. I like things that
look good.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
How do we lose them?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Oh oh no oh oh no, phone die Frank.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I think Keith's phone died.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I think Keith is gone. I think Keith's phone is
no longer in service. And we're gonna wait just a
few minutes until it comes back, and then actually edit
that out because you know technology, but iPhones are terrible
about it.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, I guess we can just take a quick commercial break,
can come back.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Sure, So I'm so embarrassed?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Why is he so zoomed?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
I love that going. I love is going side to side.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
I am embarrassed now, n't know y'all, don't tell nobody,
but god right, look, I was about to blame I
was I was about to blame my cancer. So my
cancer cut off my phone.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Listen, Keith is back and we're back from commercial break.
That's right, and it's the time we've been waiting for Keith.
It's time for you to confess your mess.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
All right, all right, So I'm gonna just get right
into it. This is a lot for me right now.
Very little people know this about myself. But I am
thirty years old and I don't know how to drive?
Wait what what? Wait?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
I just.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I am thirty years Oh what and I don't know
how to maneuver a vehicle?
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Wait? Wait, right now? Yeah, how do you get around?
You get around?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
We're everywhere? Whoa you guys. It is like it got
to the point where at first it was like a bit,
and it was like not even a funny bit. And
I've honestly gotten afraid to even like try to do it.
I didn't have the desire to do it for the longest,
and people were like, how do you ask it out? Uber,
Like I don't know the last time I've taken like
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actual public transportation. But no, no, like this is here,
I'm not making this.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
You're spending so much money on oh I mean cars
are expensive now too.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But yeah, all that money for gas, but you can't drive.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
I don't know how. So we don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Listen, I don't know how. You need to tell what
was going on down in Middletown. So we both grew
up in Ohio and a and a half. We're going
for that learner's premisk.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Okay, I'll be honest with you. So, like most people
when they're like here's like my boys, everybody're like yo,
like I'm about to get this car, I'm like, all right,
think y'all just like pick me up. But this is
the thing. I don't happy.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
People don't pick me up anymore. Uber. I get a
now I have, I have been. I have spent fifty
dollars here sixty if I got to get around. I've
done it all, y'all. And I'm getting to the point
where I think of me confessing this right now is
showing me how dumb you know, and how ridiculous I
am by not doing it. Because it's not that I
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can't even afford a car. It's like, I just I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
How you know how to operate one.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
That's wow, Like am I crooked?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
No You're like, oh no, no, yeah, don't.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Think I mean you're a little offen. That's that's mostly about.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
The car waiting. Now your sideways again.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
I keep messing Up'm'm just hold it listen.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
So the thing is, though, if there was one time
where my car was years ago, my car is in
the shop at the Uber everywhere, and I was like,
I can't do this because when you have to run
multiple errands, you can't tell that Uber driver to wait
for you. You have to get a brand new Uber man.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And that's what I do it, and I do it.
I get around I definitely get around. People don't understand
how I get around. I was like, if I got
somewhere to be, call time, I'm gonna be there. Like,
I don't ask for rides. It's very, it's very it's
kind of scrubby. I'm gonna be real with you. It's
it's a little scrubby. You know. It's like sitting on
the passenger side of the best friends ride. You know.
(41:15):
But but but I wanted to make this. I was wondering.
I was like, Yo, what can I actually say? And
I knew that this would put some fire like under
my ass. Yeah, because I'm looking at like AJ's.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Like yeah, Like I'm like, I like this guy's vibe.
He's from Ohio's gonna get the energy. He's funny, he
shared his cancer story with us. He's so touching. He's
a preacher's kid. But you can't hard see that.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Look aj A J. I'll never forget when I seen
you in the mill. I was going to church one
time and I seen you in the mill. I was like, oh,
J is cool, Like it's a cool guy. But I
just kind of I'm kind of embarrassed that I just
lost points with you. My Ohio Brethren some points. But
this is the thing I don't. I don't and I
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know this year I decided that I would actually put
in the effort to learn. This is the first time
I gotta speak my truth. I gotta speak my truth.
A lot of people don't know. I mean, people want
me to drive more than I actually want to. But
I am thirty years old, y'all. It's like, Okay, the
bit's been done for ten years, bro, Like, what the
(42:22):
hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
It's not much, man. You could do a whole series
on Keith learning how to drive.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
I don't watch it, not talked about it to people.
I done talked about it to people, and I thought
about it. But I'm like, you know what, I don't
even know if I want to put that like, Y'ALLM
not about to see me in those moments. Those moments
are going to be special. I don't love people to live, No,
they don't like me no more.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
No, I just can't wrap my brain around it.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Funny, we get like from people, we get all types
of secrets from our guests, and so sometimes they're super silly.
Sometimes we're like, oh that's cute, Like whatever, I really
didn't know what to expect in that secret, Like it's
secrets don't usually shut we talk about secrets, I say,
don't necessarily shocked me. It's very rare nowadays I get
a secret that shocked it was not expecting because I.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Could somebody can be like, yeah, I cheated on somebody.
That's a secret of mine, or like I have this
this phobia that makes sense to me. I can wrap
my brain like I'm physically trying to understand how you
could even be thirty and not drive a car. Like
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
I'm like, I'm a living witness.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
It's doable.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
It's definitely doable. I do it. I do it all
the time.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You're definitely a preacher, living witness.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Well, when I fractured port CHOP's feet, when I fracture
her toes, we was up in that almost every day,
every a couple of times a week so she could
change her splint up in an uber lift Irat, I
was doing Uber mostly, but you know, I switch over
sometimes I look at the prices just to.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Be like, you know, you know, Lift tries to talk
to you like you like, make me like start a
friendship with you too. The drivers they talk right, I
like conversation, conversation.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Oh my gosh, you were absolutely fantastic, and uh, that
was such a fun episode. It started it started off,
you know, with a little a little bickering between the couple. Uh,
and then it ended in some heartwarming moments and then
a shocking secret.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Do you want to apologize right now?
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Is that we're trying so we're gonna see, we're gonna
acknowledge it. I apologize earlier again.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Look, can I just say this? Can I just say this.
I'm gonna go take some driving classes and y'all continue
to take some couples counselors.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
That deal. Deal. We are not writing with you anytime soon,
though calls for three years.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
It's my It's fine. I won't be riding with myself.
I'm like, I got some some some scares to say
hello though.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
Oh yeah, we don't see pork Chops. Oh pork Chop
really is the cutest dog. Adorable pork Chop reminds me
of my sister's waving me your rest in peace dog
mister he was he was really.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Pork chops one Paul look funny though.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
All right, okay, so keith last thing before we let
you go. Every single episode, we'd like to do a
takeaway of the day. So from this episode, what would
you say is your takeaway of the day.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I love that you guys are getting married, but I
don't know if I can do I'm supported, I'm love it, Billows,
it's gonna be brought up. Look, I might need to
just be by myself.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Be a fortune.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Listen, it's been it's been almost a decade. So we
just have we have this stupid We just wore each
other down.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
I know that that is a takeaway that I got.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
We thank you so so very much, and best of
luck with everything and keep killing it. Man.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Yeah, no, guys, thanks for having me. This was awesome hopefully,
like whenever you guys do something I love to be
a part of. I really respect everything that you guys
are doing, and like, thanks for dealing with me and
my mom my bullsh.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
No, you are hilarious and we will keep you in
our prayers and we appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Thanks. Keith. Confess Your Mess is a straw Head Media
podcast produced by Ryan Tillotson and Frank Driscoll. Thank you
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End up in the shower.
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