You're not alone in this.

Barth frames the sudden technical trouble as spiritual opposition, saying he had prayed before the show and is trying to listen to what Jesus has been telling him to do.

“That's what I said when I was praying before the show... especially really good like what Jesus has been telling me to do, I'm just listening.”

Responding to Jimmy's powerful testimony, Barth says he needed to hear it and describes the struggle as a daily choice, with the devil trying to interfere.

“Every day is a choice bro... see where the devil came in... Jimmy you're the reason why we do this.”

After Jimmy shares how the live helped him, Barth reflects that the hard, chaotic changes in his own life often turned out to be blessings, even when he had to talk to God about not understanding them.

“It's a blessing but it's still like, alright God, I really liked this place.”

Barth tells Jimmy he believes in Jesus, still needs prayer himself, and believes the prayer he prayed for Jimmy that night may have helped.

“I kind of believe in aliens too but I also believe in Jesus... there's still stuff that I need prayers for... I prayed for you that night.”

Barth recognizes Jimmy's openness to forgiveness and offers to make up his own prayer for him, while the group discusses praying for God to plant seeds in Jimmy's life.

“You first sound like a Jesus feller to me... I'm going to make up my own prayer for you.”

In a discussion about churches, money, and religion, Barth explains why he thinks many people reject Christianity: not because of Jesus, but because of how some churches and religious leaders present it.

“The problem is because a lot of times the people who deliver it in these certain churches... that is a reason that the devil is able to turn away a lot of people.”

Barth recalls the moment eight years ago when he surrendered to sobriety, prayed to God for a sign, and felt called to dedicate his life to helping others who struggle like he did.

“I started praying to God for tails… and he told me if it's tails, you dedicate the rest of your life to helping people who… have been like you.”

When a guest says she gets upset when people talk badly about Jesus, Barth reminds her that Jesus has always been persecuted and that even after His return, some people still doubted.

“He’s been persecuted forever... even when he came back people didn’t even believe that he came back.”

In a Bible discussion about the Red Sea, manna, and Israel wandering in the desert, Barth reflects that if God is feeding you every day, there is no point in worrying.

“He’s been feeding me every day, so what’s the point of worrying about it?”

While discussing Job, Barth and the group talk about how hard times can make people want to curse God, but God is the one who brings people out of turmoil.

“When times get hard... first thing you want to do is curse God... God is the one that’s supposed to bring us out.”

After a guest shares that memorizing Scripture helps her grief and sleeplessness, Barth connects personally, saying his mom always pointed him to Psalm 91 when he was stressed because it is a psalm of protection.

“My mom would always say... ‘Read your Psalm 91, Mike.’ That’s a song for protection.”

Barth’s room offers to add a guest’s painful anniversaries to the prayer book, promising prayer for her brother and mother after she shares about suicide and loss.

“We’ll pray for your brother and for your mother.”

Barth opens the show by reading from a prayer book and naming people and needs he is praying for, including stress, healing, recovery, kindness, and peace.

“I always start off the show reading a few prayers from the prayer book... we're praying for Lola's parents... overall healing... he prays for people to have kindness and peace.”

Introducing distance healing, Barth says he appreciates that Kristen connects it to Jesus, and he shares his belief that listening to Jesus can eventually heal what hurts.

“If I listen to everything he tells me... at some point all the stuff that hurts right now will be healed.”

When Kristen asks permission for the Father to work through her for his healing, Barth sincerely welcomes it.

“Door is wide open.”

While recounting being kept from visiting his hospitalized father, Barth says he had a nurse mark the correct window so he would know where to pray.

“I had a nurse put a cross or a smiley face so I knew at least which window to pray for.”

Barth describes fear threatening his sobriety during COVID, then says God got ahold of him and pushed him to create a recovery Zoom group instead of giving up.

“Then God got ahold of me again... why don't you do something about it?”

Barth frames his view of corruption in the medical and business worlds through his faith, referring to being a man of God and to the second coming.

“That is a man of faith and of God that understands who the god of this world is until the second coming.”

Barth says his nightly room repeatedly brings together people who need to meet, suggesting their lives have been guided to that moment.

“Every night I do this room there's something that's two people together who need to meet.”

Barth explains that he could have sought another investor to fix his finances and possibly save his marriage, but says God told him not to, and that what made no sense then is beginning to make sense.

“But God told me... none of it makes sense at the time but it starts to.”

Barth shares his sobriety testimony: after a days-long bender and feeling he was failing as a father and husband, he pulled into an ER parking lot and addressed God, sensing a choice to detox, quit drinking, and spend his life telling other

“I said all right God... I'm not going to be a good father... I think it's time.”

Barth continues the testimony, describing how the coin landed on tails, he entered the hospital, detoxed, and woke up to an elderly woman named Hope who reminded him of his deal with God and told him he would need to trust Him and lean in w

“She said didn't you make a deal with God... You have to trust him. You have to lean in especially when it doesn't make sense.”

After Johnny raps about preaching truth, planting seeds, and the Holy Ghost, Barth warmly affirms the faith-filled performance and says he appreciates a man using lyrics to glorify God.

“I love a man that can use lyrics to glorify.”

While describing the turning point in his sobriety, Barth says he felt God come to him with a command to fix his life, and in return to help many other people who also needed fixing.

“God came to me and said, ‘Listen, fix this, but you’re gonna owe me a lot of people that need fixing.’”

Barth says continuing the late-night conversations has cost him personally, but he keeps doing it because he believes God directs him each night: what to do, who to talk to, and what to say.

“Every night God tells me to do it and tells me who to talk to and tells me what to say, and I just listen.”

After a guest connects Satan, Job, and the biblical idea of dust, Barth responds that they had studied that connection recently, reflecting on the scriptural theme of being made from dust and returning to dust.

“We studied that actually not too long ago... from dust to dust.”

While responding to a grieving father sharing a photo of his son, Barth notes that they are collecting and writing down prayers during the night before moving toward closing the show.

“We got a lot of prayers that we're writing down tonight.”

After Taylor offers to close the show with prayer, Barth affirms it, asks whether anyone has specific prayer requests to put in the prayer book, and says he values having someone pray publicly to end the show.

“I was gonna see if anybody had a specific prayer we need to get in the book... That's why I like to close the show with you... I just think it's cool when people can pray in public like that.”

While singing, Barth shares a faith-centered lyric about eternal love and God being both within a person and above them.

“The bond is eternal, so is the love. God is inside you and up above.”

Barth says that meeting his successful mentor was something that happened by the grace of God, and introduces the story as part of a journey he is grateful for.

“I have a mentor who is extremely successful, and that by the grace of God I got to meet him.”

Barth describes being unhappy with his direction, then says God clearly told him to get up and drive to Daytona, framing the trip as the start of a bigger ride God was taking him on.

“God told me on this Friday morning... He said, Barth, get your ass up and drive to Daytona for the Daytona 500.”

Barth reflects on the Daytona weekend working out in surprising ways and says that when God tells him something is going to happen, something happens.

“This will tell you what kind of when God tells me I'm gonna have like a weekend or something's gonna happen, something happens.”

Barth opens the show by sending out prayers for people in the community, including requests for peace, healing, comfort, strength, and open doors.

“We're praying for her family... she's a paraplegic with sepsis... I'm praying for Pop's Danny that he gets comfort, peace and strength.”

Barth reflects on the exact moment eight years ago when he surrendered his drinking, prayed to God, and felt called to dedicate his life to helping people like him.

“I started praying to God for tails because I had already committed and he told me if it's tails then you dedicate the rest of your life to helping people who are or who have been like you.”

Barth shares his sobriety testimony: after checking himself into the ER to stop drinking, he says he prayed with God and felt called to spend his life helping others avoid the same rock bottom.

“I had a prayer with God and he told me... you got to do everything you can to go try and help other people not get to where you were.”

Barth responds to thanks for helping in a painful conversation by deflecting credit, saying God brings the right people into the room at unexpected times.

“Well listen, it's not me. God brings people in here on the most random nights.”

After thanking Katrina for sharing her painful situation, Barth brings out his prayer book and asks what they can write down for her in prayer.

“I got this little prayer book we have... Is there anything we can write down for you?”

When Danny calls Barth a unique person and a child of God, Barth affirms it warmly and thanks him.

“You're a child of God. That's right... Thank you for that.”

After Danny says Barth has a light about him, Barth turns the moment toward prayer and explains his little book where he writes down things to pray for people about.

“I got this little book I call Proof God is Real and everybody I meet we write down something we can pray for them about.”

After Danny shares part of his testimony and insists he is being truthful, Barth says he believes him and asks what he can write down to pray for.

“Danny, I believe you, brother... You got something you want us to pray for?”

Barth opens the show by running through the prayer list, celebrating answered prayers and giving credit to Jesus, saying Jesus can do anything.

“That's four check marks in the top seven... that's pretty good odds for Jesus. Actually, he can do anything.”

While reading the prayer list, Barth highlights a Bible verse shared by Monica and says they need to pull up Proverbs later.

“Here was a good Bible verse... God gives wisdom and knowledge to protect Monica... Proverbs 17:36.”

Barth continues the prayer list with requests for healing, recovery, grief, happiness, and specifically a prayer that every mother can find Jesus, ending with his son praying for his safe travels.

“Craig's recovery... every mother can find Jesus... Bart Jr... he's praying for safe travels for me.”

Barth explains that he is keeping a prayer list for people, notes that there have already been check marks, and adds Pamela's request for people's health.

“We're keeping up with people. And so far we've got some check marks. So it's working.”

Barth reflects on the painful anniversary of learning he was getting divorced, saying he prayed about it a lot and experienced acceptance in God's hands and plans.

“And prayed about it a lot... it was reaffirmation of the acceptance... God's hands, God's plans.”

Barth explains that after his divorce, instead of falling into the bar scene or going wild, he stayed grounded by doing what he believes God told him to do and showing up for others at night.

“The only reason I can attribute to it other than just doing whatever God told me to is doing this at night.”

After describing how the hard anniversary was easier than expected, Barth credits God with making the day as painless as possible and connects it to his continued sobriety.

“God made this day as painless as he could... I'm 2,913 days since the last time I got fucked up.”

In a warm, joking exchange with Steven’s mom, Barth says they pray for her every day and asks what specific prayer she wants for the week, adding good health to the list.

“You know we pray for you every day... Is there a specific prayer that we can pray for you this week, mama?”

Barth follows up on a prayer request from earlier in the week, asking for the update after they prayed that a medical procedure would show no tumor.

“When we started this little book the other night, praying that your procedure... would not show a tumor. Can you give us an update on that?”

Barth adds Joker to the prayer list, asking God to help his project finish well so he can be home with his family more.

“Let's give him number fifty two and just pray this project finishes up great... that I don't have to be on the road and I could be with my family more.”

Barth explains that he wants prayer requests to be specific so they can follow up on answered prayers, describing the list as a record showing God is real.

“I'm making a book of proof God is real... we're trying to get as specific as possible because we've already got lots of prayers that have already been answered.”

Barth turns a cancer concern into a specific prayer request, asking for a great treatment and saying people can bring as many prayer needs as they have.

“Can we just find a really great treatment for Kindness’s friend?... you will get as many prayer requests as you need, honey.”

As Emma describes leaving a domestic violence relationship and unexpectedly finding a healthier relationship, Barth frames the timing through faith in God’s plan.

“God's hands, God's plans, never your demands.”

After Emma explains that she is working through rehab for an incomplete spinal injury and trying to walk again, Barth affirms that he is putting her recovery on the prayer list.

“Oh yeah, I'm already making notes.”

Barth responds to Muffin Man’s daughter needing a liver by sharing his own testimony: his liver should not have recovered, but people prayed for him and he sees his survival as proof of God.

“I'm proof God is real. I should not be here. End of story.”

Barth places Muffin Man’s daughter Renee on the prayer list, connects her liver crisis to his own past struggle with alcohol, and leads the room to pray for her transplant and healing.

“He's number 56... we're gonna pray that Renee, his daughter, gets this liver transplant.”

Barth explains the prayer book they have started, where they write down specific prayer needs and track them as evidence of God working.

“A little proof God is real. You're number 57 for the week.”

While talking with a caller about losing their fathers, Barth shares how thoughts of heaven help him process grief and believe that reunion and joy are still ahead.

“That's what I know heaven's gonna be like... that's when the real fun begins.”

Barth recognizes a deep conversation about grief and loss as something God may be using that night to help him heal and keep going.

“I think maybe God's... helping me out a lot.”

After an interruption during a vulnerable story, Barth frames the moment spiritually, saying that when God is helping people talk about how they get through pain, opposition can show up.

“Anytime God's having somebody talk about something where he's the reason why you get through it, the devil will sneak... in.”

When a caller says he wants to start a prayer list, Barth invites him into theirs and reflects on how meaningful it has already been to see what comes from prayer.

“Join in ours... It's amazing to already hear what has come of it.”

Barth shares that numbers and frogs have become signs from God and his dad, including a moment when he was praying about the name for his addiction and mental health platform and felt God answer through a frog.

“numbers are my thing and they're also my signs from God and my dad... I was like praying about it... I just hear this frog go Revos... alright God I heard that.”

Barth says he was mentally battling whether the late-night live show should be his focus, but after praying he saw a tiny frog that felt like God telling him this work was just beginning.

“the 7 to 15 miracles that can only be explained by God happen every night... I was like praying walking around... this baby frog... he was telling me like this is just the beginning.”

In a warm, funny faith moment, Barth talks about heaven, greeting God, and being reunited with every dog he ever owned, then affirms the acronym FROG as 'fully rely on God.'

“when you walk in heaven after you high five the big guy... every dog you ever owned will be running up to you... that's my heaven.”

After hearing Light Work describe her dream of opening a healing center for animals and people, Barth says they will pray for that vision.

“So we're going to pray for your healing center... animal.”

Barth writes Nancy's request in the prayer book, asks what specific prayer she needs, and assures her they will pray for her restoration with faith and expectation.

“We are gonna pray this prayer for you and believe it and receive it and know that it is done.”

Barth asks Commando if there is anything he can pray about and uses the prayer book to take down a request about reconnecting with his son.

“Anything I could pray for you about? We got this little prayer book here.”

Barth talks about the prayer list and notes that Barth Jr. asked for prayer for his safe driving as he prepares to travel.

“For me, for my safe driving. So that's pretty cool prayer.”

Barth follows up with Tony about his upcoming surgery and notes that they have been praying for his sleep, celebrating that Tony got six hours of rest.

“Surgeries October 23rd and we've been praying for you sleep. You sleep any better last night?”

Barth encourages Tony through grief and family pain by framing life as a moment in eternity and urging him to seek God's miracles and signs, explaining that this helps him find gratitude.

“All you have to do is look for God's miracles and they're there and look for the signs.”

Barth turns the close of the live over to Taylor for prayer, making prayer part of how the community ends the conversation together.

“Taylor's gonna take us out with our prayer.”

Barth shares a testimony about a dream of his late grandfather showing him rings and a pocket watch, later seeing those same items given to family on Christmas Eve, and says the experience brought comfort because he believes according to th

“I know according to the Lord that we will be together as family”

Barth opens the show by reading through the prayer list, celebrating answered prayers, and affirming that Jesus can do anything.

“That's four check marks in the top seven—that's pretty good odds for Jesus. Actually, he can do anything.”

While reading the prayer list, Barth mentions a Bible verse shared by Monica and says they need to pull up Proverbs later.

“Here was a good Bible verse given by Monica the other night... Proverbs 17:36.”

Barth continues the prayer list, including a request that every mother can find Jesus and prayers for safe travels.

“That every mother can find Jesus was given by Jenny George.”

Barth asks Pamela if she is on the prayer list, explains that they are keeping a prayer book with answered prayers, and adds her concern for people's health.

“We've got this little book... we're keeping up with people. And so far we've got some check marks. So it's working.”

Barth reflects on a painful anniversary connected to his divorce, sharing that he prayed about it and felt acceptance through God's plan.

“Prayed about it a lot... It's kind of like it was reaffirmation of the acceptance... God's hands, God's plans.”

Barth explains that after moving post-divorce, he could have gone wild, but credits following what God told him and doing the show at night with helping him stay grounded.

“The only reason I can attribute to it other than just doing whatever God told me to is doing this at night.”

After getting sidetracked, Barth returns to the question of how he handled the difficult day and says God made it as painless as possible, then shares his sobriety milestone.

“God made this day as painless as he could.”

Barth warmly tells Steven’s mom that they pray for her every day, adds her to the prayer list, and asks what specific prayer she wants for the week.

“You know we pray for you every day... Is there a specific prayer that we can pray for you this week, mama?”

Barth checks back on a prayer request from earlier in the week, reminding Kindness that they had prayed her procedure would show no tumor, and she reports there was no tumor or obstruction.

“When we started this little book the other night, praying that your procedure you're having on Tuesday would not show a tumor... Can you give us an update on that?”

Barth adds Joker’s work project and desire to be home with family to the prayer list, saying they will pray it finishes well and follow up on how it went.

“Let's give him number fifty two and just pray this project finishes up great.”

Barth explains that he wants prayer requests to be specific so they can track answered prayers, saying he is making a record as proof that God is real, then adds a prayer for healing and treatment for ovarian cancer.

“I'm making a book of proof God is real... we've already got lots of prayers that have already been answered.”

As Emma describes an unexpected new relationship after leaving abuse, Barth frames it with a faith saying about trusting God’s plan rather than forcing outcomes.

“God’s hands, God’s plans, never your demands.”

After Emma explains she uses a wheelchair and is working through rehab, Barth agrees to put her recovery on the prayer list and says he is already making notes.

“Oh yeah, I'm already making notes.”

When Muffin Man encourages Barth that he is on the right path and that God has his burdens worked out, Barth receives it sincerely and says he needed to hear it.

“Well thank you, I needed to hear that. I really did.”

After hearing that Muffin Man’s daughter needs a liver and has stopped drinking, Barth shares his own testimony that his liver healed and says he is living proof God is real because people prayed for him.

“I’m proof God is real. I should not be here. End of story.”

Barth puts Muffin Man’s daughter Renee on the prayer list, connects her liver crisis to his own past struggle with alcohol, and says they will pray for her transplant and healing.

“We’re gonna pray that Renee, his daughter, gets this liver transplant.”

After Taker says he is praying for Muffin Man’s daughter and that people can do nothing without the Lord, Barth adds him to the prayer book, calling it a way to track proof that God is real.

“A little proof God is real. You’re number 57 for the week.”

While bonding with a guest over losing their fathers, Barth talks about signs of their dads’ presence and describes heaven as the place where the real joy begins after earthly grief.

“When it’s all said and done and you finally get to heaven, that’s when the real fun begins.”

After Brink says he does not talk about his grief with anyone, Barth says the vulnerable conversation feels like God helping him that night.

“I think maybe God’s — this is my night because he’s helping me out a lot.”

While telling a painful story about his father, Barth interprets the disruption as spiritual opposition and says God is the reason people get through moments like this.

“Anytime God’s having somebody talk about something where he’s the reason why you get through it, the devil will sneak a fuck face like that guy in.”

Barth recalls being barred from seeing his hospitalized father, so he sat outside the window where a nurse put a smiley face, giving him a place to pray toward.

“I at least knew like where to pray to.”

When Brink says he wants to start a prayer list and put Barth on it, Barth invites him into their prayer list and reflects on the amazing things already coming from it.

“Join in ours. Yeah, we want you on ours and then you can start your own.”

After James shares and connects with the room, Barth warmly affirms him, says they are glad he came up, and promises they will be praying for him.

“That was amazing. And we're definitely going to be praying for you for sure.”

Barth explains that numbers have become meaningful signs from God and his dad, reassuring him when he is doing the right thing or when things are going well.

“Numbers are my thing and they're also my signs from God and my dad, if things are going good or... that I'm doing the right thing.”

Barth shares that while praying about what to name his addiction and mental health platform, he heard a frog sound like it said “Revos,” which he took as God confirming the name.

“I was like praying about it sitting outside... I just hear this frog go Revos. I was like alright God, I heard that.”

Barth talks about struggling mentally over whether the late-night live show should be his focus, then describes God showing up through nightly miracles and a tiny frog after he prayed, which felt like a sign that this is just the beginning.

“Then the 7 to 15 miracles that can only be explained by God happen every night... I was like praying walking around... this baby frog... like he was telling me, this is just the beginning.”

Barth asks Light Work what specific prayer request they can add to the room’s prayer book, then commits to praying for her animal-and-people healing center vision.

“What can we put you down for on our little prayer book thing?... So we're going to pray for your healing center.”

While responding to Nancy's thoughts about marriage after hardship and abuse, Barth affirms that marriage should not be ownership but oneness and a covenant made before God.

“It shouldn't be an ownership, it should be oneness and a covenant before God.”

As Nancy describes feeling like part of her died after Chuck passed, Barth gently points her toward gratitude to God for the 25 years of love they shared.

“Thank God for those 25 years of goodness and love.”

Barth turns Nancy's painful story into a prayer request, explains that they keep a prayer book, and tells her they will pray in faith for her to get herself back together.

“We are gonna pray this prayer for you and believe it and receive it and know that it is done.”

Barth asks Commando if there is anything he can pray about, explains he is writing it in the prayer book, and receives the request that Commando would see his son again.

“Anything I could pray for you about? We got this little prayer book here.”

Before getting back on the road, Barth looks through the prayer list and notes that Barth Jr. had already added a prayer request for Barth's safe driving.

“For me, for my safe driving. So that's pretty cool prayer.”

Barth follows up on Tony's previous prayer requests, including surgery and sleep, and celebrates that Tony slept better after they had been praying for him.

“We've been praying for you sleep. You sleep any better last night?”

Barth encourages Tony through grief and family pain by framing life as part of eternity, saying that noticing God's miracles and signs helps him find gratitude and keep going.

“All you have to do is look for God's miracles and they're there and look for the signs.”

He shares a testimony about dreaming of his deceased grandfather, later seeing the rings and pocket watch from the dream given to family on Christmas Eve, and says the experience brought comfort because he believes, according to the Lord, t

“I know according to the Lord that we will be together as family, especially if we're good.”

He invites Taylor to close with a prayer, and the prayer thanks Heavenly Father, asks for blessing and comfort, and ends in the name of Jesus Christ.

“Our dear Heavenly Father, I am thankful for this day... I say these things in the name Jesus Christ, amen.”

Barth shares a faith-based view that even when a career path seems wasted or does not work out, God may be using that season to prepare someone for what is next.

“I'm a big believer... that's just something that God wanted you to waste your time doing while he's got something else waiting.”

After Jolene shares her story and mentions her family and upcoming trip, Barth invites her to be added to their prayer list and asks what they can pray for, settling on safe travels.

“If you would like a prayer or anything we would love to put you on our prayer list... Can we pray about safe travels for you?”

Barth records Jolene's request, saying they will pray for safe travels on her trip with her mother and cover her grandchildren in prayer.

“We're praying for safe travels... and then she also included that, you know, just covering her grandchildren in prayer.”

Barth tells Monica that he keeps a book of people he meets and writes down specific things to pray for them, then asks what he can pray over her life.

“Everybody we meet, we write down something we can specifically pray for them for... What can I write down for you?”

After Monica shares that she is still grieving her fiancé, Barth asks to add that healing process to the prayer list, focusing on peace in her heart.

“Can we put that down on a prayer as well?”

Barth briefly shares that his divorce has been a painful test, and that when life does not make sense he tries to lean into God more.

“God will give you a test and it's about how you get through it. And maybe lean into him a little more is what I do, especially when things don't make sense.”

Barth describes the conversation and connection with Monica as a divine moment and expresses sincere gratitude that she is there.

“I cannot tell you what a divine thing this is. This is crazy. I love it. I'm so thankful you're here.”

Barth explains that the purpose of his late-night conversations is something God is telling him to keep doing: creating space for real people to share honestly, help listeners, and ultimately point back to Jesus as the one who makes things

“This is what my goal is and what God's telling me I need to keep doing... My best friend, that feller Jesus, is what's gonna make it all right as long as you trust him.”

Barth warmly and humorously describes what he imagines heaven will be like, beginning with greeting Jesus, being reunited with animals he loved, and joking about heaven’s freedom and Jesus turning water into wine.

“Clearly the first thing that happens after a high five Jesus... all the dogs and animals I ever had, they're gonna run up to you.”

Barth connects the guest’s testimony of turning his life over to God with his own transformation, sharing that his turning point was through addiction.

“In the exact way how you said you experienced it, I was like yep, that's what happened. Mine was with addiction.”

Barth reflects on the freedom of waking up and accepting himself as God made him, and no longer living by other people’s opinions.

“It's that finally waking up and being just okay with exactly how God made you.”

Barth frames the discussion with a reverent, warm reminder that Jesus gets the first and last word before moving the conversation to the next guest.

“Jesus always has the last word... and he also always has the first word.”

He shares that they keep a prayer book for specific needs, writes down Holly's request, and says the answered prayers are proof that God is real.

“This is gonna be proof God is real. We've already seen some miracles in this thing come true.”

He thanks Holly for sharing her testimony and encourages her that God can use painful experiences so others can hear the good word.

“When God puts you through things like that, a lot of times it is for your testimony. So keep sharing it.”

He warns not to let a disruptive argument derail a meaningful conversation about Jesus, framing the interruption as spiritual opposition.

“This is what the devil does: a good conversation that Jesus wants to be heard... some fella's going to sneak in there and throw a wrench in it.”

He reflects on how people have effectively been in church through the long conversation, emphasizing that church is more than a building.

“I don't know if you realize it, but you've kind of been in church here for five hours.”

He explains that their role is to live as a testimony, plant seeds of faith, and love people consistently through the nightly conversations.

“We're to plant seeds... We are called to live our life as a testimony, what the Lord has done in our lives and through us.”

He warmly invites Monica to return and share her whole testimony when there is more time, showing the importance he places on personal witness.

“I want you to come in... and I want you to share your whole entire testimony.”

He pauses the discussion to read the prayer list and invite people on stage and in the chat to share requests they can write down and pray over.

“If anyone has a prayer request in the chat, I can take screenshots and we will write them down.”

After a sarcastic prayer request, he frames the pushback as spiritual resistance that comes when people gather close to Jesus.

“You put a bunch of people together... close to Jesus... the devil find a way to get one last smack.”

While reflecting on divorce, mental health, and hard life events, Barth says his faith helps him trust that everything happens for a reason and will make sense eventually.

“I'm always a big God guy. Everything happens for a reason. And you know, it'll make sense at some point.”

Barth asks Stud Muffin if he is a believer, hears about survival through serious illness, and frames the hardships he has lived through as a testimony.

“what a testimony that all of you have been through. That's a pretty amazing testimony to carry.”

Barth explains that they keep a book of specific prayer requests, asks Stud Muffin what they can pray for, writes down his rib issue, and says they will be praying for him.

“we write down like something targeted or specific potentially that we can pray for you about”

When Craig describes severe alcohol withdrawal and asks to be added to the prayer list, Barth immediately agrees while also urging him to seek medical help.

“please put Craig on your prayer list tonight — 100, but let me ask you a question: do you have health insurance?”

Barth urges Craig not to delay getting help and makes sure his prayer request is clearly stated for the prayer list: Craig and his recovery.

“Don’t come back up here tomorrow night and be like, ‘We have to write him on the prayer list again’... ‘Craig and my recovery.’”

Barth asks Jenny whether she is a believer and explains that the live has a prayer list where they write down requests, pray over them, and later follow up on how God answered.

“we have started a prayer list... we can pray about it and then we'll ask for you to come back and let us know if that prayer was answered”

Barth affirms the faith atmosphere of the live, connects the moment to Jesus, and describes the prayer book as evidence of God working through answered prayers.

“This is a book of like proof God is real”

After Jenny gives a personal prayer request for her father with MS, Barth frames her finding the live as providential rather than random.

“It's not random. That's God. No coincidence.”

During a light discussion about TikTok growth and what pushes the room out to new viewers, Barth jokes warmly that he believes Jesus is the real reason they are being seen.

“I think we get pushed out by Jesus personally.”

While discussing alcoholism and rock bottom, Barth reflects that he was able to choose recovery before it destroyed him, expressing gratitude to God for that grace.

“I was able to pick my rock bottom before my rock bottom picked me. Thank God I got lucky.”

When Tony says he is nervous about upcoming surgery, Barth asks the date and explains that he keeps a book of people they meet and what to pray for them about.

“We got a little book right here. Everybody we meet, we write down something that we want to pray for him about.”

After Tony shares his recovery story, Barth says the room works because people honestly testify about what saved them, and he adds that Jesus was the reason sobriety finally clicked for him.

“Jesus is the reason that it finally clicked — at least it was for me.”

After Wendy talks about not being able to deny what saved her, Barth affirms her testimony and says he reminds himself to live as proof of that change.

“Just keep being the proof. That's what I tell myself.”

Barth stops the conversation to enforce his rule against saying 'GD,' showing a sincere boundary around using God's name casually.

“You know that's my only rule. No GD. No GD.”

Barth explains his prayer book, asks people for specific prayer requests, and says he is tracking answered prayers as proof that God is real, including Tony’s upcoming surgery.

“I'm making like a little proof God is real book just to put them on the wall.”

Barth adds Steven to the prayer book and frames the request as especially meaningful because Steven is an atheist.

“What can I pray for you about? And yours is going to be extra special... because you're atheist, right?”

Barth reflects on moving past bitterness after a relationship ends, saying he tries to put it behind him, focus his energy elsewhere, and give it to God.

“I think it's for me putting it in the rearview mirror and putting my energy towards other stuff and just giving it to God and passing it on.”

Barth brings up the show's prayer book and invites the guest to share something they can pray for, leading her to ask for prayer over the grief of putting down her pet.

“All right we've got this little prayer book. Anything we can put you down for?”

In a joking debate about Bill Nye, Barth contrasts Bill Nye's atheism with Barth's own Catholic identity.

“He's a atheist and I'm Catholic. That's right.”

After an edgy song, Barth says they are a person of faith and Catholic, explains they are not offended, and frames the show as welcoming everyone the way Jesus does.

“I am a woman of faith. I am Catholic... We're friends with all. We look at everybody just the way that Jesus does.”

While talking about listening instead of speaking too quickly, Barth uses a God-centered saying about having two ears and one mouth.

“That's why God gave me two ears and one mouth... you listen.”

Barth closes by checking for prayer requests to add to the show’s prayer list, even as the moment turns playful with a Willie Nelson joke.

“Huggy did you have a prayer we could put down for you?”

Barth encourages a Marine grieving betrayal to see the painful breakup through the lens of God's will, sharing from his own recent divorce and urging him to trust God's plan even when it makes no sense.

“God's hands, God's plans, never your demands—and you gotta trust Him even when it doesn't make sense.”

Barth tells the Marine that God may place people in life for a reason but not forever, and reframes the Marine's prayer by pointing out that God brought him safely back to his son.

“Even though you were praying to come back to her and your son, God did fulfill part of that prayer. He brought you back to your son.”

Barth notices Justin in the chat, says he has been praying for him all day, and offers condolences and care during a difficult time.

“Justin, you don't have to come up, but just know I've been thinking about you a lot... I've been praying for you all day.”

In a brief faith-tinged aside during the military discussion, Barth affirms that Christ is the only one worthy of ultimate submission.

“The only person you shouldn't kneel down to is Christ.”

Barth frames the Marine’s deployment with faith, telling him to trust the God-given voice inside him, listen to it, and come home safely.

“The dude is going to go with that thing he feels inside of him called God that's telling him where to go and what to do.”

After the conversation turns intense about deployment, Barth reiterates that his advice is to follow the gut feeling he understands as God’s guidance.

“I told him to go with that gut feeling he knows God.”

Barth responds to a harsh, hurting caller by saying he needs prayers, then later says they will pray the Marine’s family-visit situation works itself out.

“That's a feller that needs some prayers.”

When the Marine explains losing college football opportunities after a felony charge, Barth offers a faith-based encouragement that God’s plan is still at work.

“God's hands, God's plans. Never your demands.”

Barth brings Jesus into the conversation about Richard’s alleged bank robbery and wealth, prompting a faith-based response that quotes Scripture about the danger of riches and what money cannot buy.

“Say Taker, what would Jesus say to Richard right now?”

Barth shares that he used to think he was hiding his smoking, until he went to church to sing and became embarrassed when people noticed the cigarette smell.

“One day I went to church and I sing... somebody smelled like cigarettes. And I was embarrassed.”

When Redneck Mark brings up missing the old Clubhouse chatter days, Barth jumps in with a shared memory from their own lives: they once ran a room together for 30 straight days, 24 hours a day.

“We did a room for 30 days straight, 24 hours.”

After Jimmy explains that Barth's live helped him keep going, Barth says helping people like Jimmy is exactly why they do this, then connects it to his own last five years of upheaval, moving around, losing jobs or places, and realizing tho

“Everything that has happened to me in the past five years... has led me to like this moment.”

Jimmy says he only came back to thank Barth for listening when he was at his lowest. Barth relates by saying he still has lingering darkness too, even eight years after his last drink, and says praying for Jimmy may have helped.

“I still haven't got rid of all mine. It's been eight years since my last drink.”

Barth and Redneck Mark reminisce about how long they've been doing social audio together, going back to the COVID era. Barth turns it into a relatable story for nervous listeners, saying it took him time to get comfortable speaking too.

“It took me a while being on social audio to get comfortable enough to even talk.”

While showing the archive of recovery-related moments, Barth pulls up his own sobriety story: eight years earlier, at 1:11, he flipped a coin, prayed for tails, accepted he could never drink again, and walked into the hospital with a danger

“I flipped the coin. Tails. I walk in and finally surrender to the fact that I can no longer or ever have a drink again.”

After guests ask for an early link to Barth's new tool, he explains from his own experience why he built it: as a content creator with years of footage, the thought of finding the best moments felt overwhelming and frightening.

“I didn't build this just for me... the thought of going through it and finding the best stuff is fearful.”

Huggy refuses to come on camera because people mocked his haircut; Barth relates by pointing to his own visible flaws and how people in the room make fun of his face, using self-deprecation to reassure Huggy that the teasing is not rejectio

“Get on camera. I'm gonna love you even without hair. Look at me.”

Huggy argues he has not really insulted people and feels judged; Barth answers with a personal show story that multiple people have threatened never to come back because of Huggy, but Barth defended him because he knows what it feels like w

“I've gone to bat for you. Why? Because not many people went to bat for me.”

Jen shares that after her brother’s suicide and struggling with bipolar sleeplessness, memorizing Psalm 91 has brought her peace. Barth relates with a personal memory that his mom would tell him to read Psalm 91 whenever he was stressed or

“My mom would always say like if I was feeling stressed out or if I was going through something, she's like, ‘Read your Psalm 91, Mike.’”

While reading prayer requests, Barth mentions Katie’s money stress and Little Squo’s slip-up after 45 days, then relates it to his own recovery history, saying he’s had many slip-ups but has been eight years without one while staying humble

“hey I've had about 30 of them but I haven't had one in eight years but I can change anytime”

After Commando asks Barth what role he plays in his friend group, Barth answers personally: he’s the encourager, the worrier who thinks through worst-case scenarios, and the one who usually ends up picking up the tab.

“I'm always the kind of like encourager... and I'm usually always the one that gets to pick up the tab”

During the hunting and meat debate, after guests argue over killing animals versus buying from corporations, Barth relates it to his own life by explaining what meat he eats, that he doesn’t kill it himself, sometimes buys deer from a neigh

“I like pork beef chicken and I don't unalive none of that... I got a neighbor that unalive some deer in the winter time and I buy some of it”

Kristen senses a deep sorrow that Barth has learned to live with; Barth says she is dead on and explains that three major events in five years created that ache, beginning with the story of his father’s COVID hospitalization.

“You're dead on... it's just been three major events in five years that would be tough for anybody.”

After Kristen reacts to his father being put on remdesivir and a ventilator, Barth explains that he knew what that meant, documented every call, wasn’t allowed to visit because he was unvaccinated, and kept bringing his dad their favorite I

“I wasn't allowed to go see him because I wasn't vaccinated... bringing In-N-Out Burger because that was our favorite.”

Continuing the hospital-visit story, Barth says he realized he would regret not trying to see his dad, so he went to Walgreens, jokingly bribed the nurse for 'the one with saline,' got the card, then lost it when the hospital still refused

“I said, give me the one with saline in it... she took the money and I got a shot.”

When Kristen jokes about the toilet-paper shortage and fear during COVID, Barth connects it to his sobriety: his men’s recovery group was locked down, he feared relapse, but instead of driving to the liquor store he went home, prayed, and s

“Somehow my truck didn't drive itself to the liquor store... God got ahold of me again.”

After Kristen asks for clarity about whether his wife’s family bribed her to divorce him, Barth explains that they took her out of the will unless she left him, and says money became the wedge that helped destroy the marriage.

“It literally came to: you either leave him and stay in the will... or you're out of everything.”

Kirsten describes a profound spiritual journey since 2017, feeling guided by God through overwhelming spiritual experiences. Barth says he can relate and tells his own story of hitting bottom in 2018 after a multi-day drinking bender, pulli

“I can completely relate and understand because I had that moment September 19th 2018 when I pulled up to the ER in Memphis Tennessee.”

Kirsten says she had bizarre experiences pulling into fast-food drive-throughs where nobody responded, including a KFC at lunchtime. Barth turns it into a relatable joke from his own life, comparing it to every Popeyes he has ever visited.

“It sounds like you went to any Popeye's I've ever been to.”

Dustin says he’s accepted losing everything and getting beaten down while living on the road; Barth relates with his own time doing road sales as a heavy drinker, explaining how hotels and isolation can wreck your head and why changing peop

“I used to do the on the road sales thing when I was a raging gutter drunk... I know what it's like being in a hotel and the loneliness that comes with it.”

Baxter talks through making more money while DoorDashing, and Barth connects by admitting he also drives Uber for extra money while rebuilding, then shares how he went from a country-club lifestyle to his parents’ attic and worked his way b

“I drive Uber to make extra money... I went from the country clubhouse to my parents' attic but I've gotten all the way back out.”

While talking to Baxter about wasted potential and what holds someone back, Barth reveals the thing that held him back was drinking, then gives a vivid personal account of his daily intake and the morning-after ritual he used just to functi

“I quit drinking a case of beer, fifth of whiskey and ten airplane shots of vodka a day.”

Baxter says he graduated high school only to later learn he had failed his last exam and had been pushed through. Barth jokes about the diploma, then relates by saying school was mostly just a piece of paper to him too, and that he did just

“I did just enough to get by including college.”

Baxter talks about feeling stuck, complacent, and unsure why he should work or keep climbing. Barth answers with his own memory of being sunk so low that the climb back felt impossible, and says what helped him was listening to guidance eve

“I can remember the feeling of being... sunken... the fucking climb back up is gonna be impossible.”

After Baxter struggles on mute and the room talks about planting a seed, Barth says he recognizes that place because he has been there. He explains that this is why he stays up late doing the show: he quit drinking eight years ago, still th

“He is and I've been there. That's why I do this... I quit drinking 8 years ago and I'm still doing this shit every night up late.”

Monica says a seed has to be buried in darkness and struggle toward the light. Barth connects that to the seed that changed him: a woman from high school openly posting about quitting drinking while he was still drunk-posting, deleting thin

“There was a girl that I knew in high school... she started posting on Facebook that she quit drinking 37 days ago.”

Chelsea shares how her brother’s drug addiction shaped her compassion for people in addiction and why she hates dehumanizing labels. Barth responds with a personal reset, saying nights like this selfishly help him remember how bad his drink

“I call it my alcoholic amnesia: remember all the awesome shit that happened and I'll forget all the bad.”

After Katie and Scott/Zach connect over the grief of losing a child, Barth frames the moment by sharing that when he goes through issues, talking to a stranger without fear of judgment has always helped him.

“One thing that has always helped me when I go through issues is talking to a stranger where I'm not afraid to be judged.”

After Scott/Zach thanks everyone and people offer condolences for losses, Barth asks whether saying 'I'm sorry' feels okay, then compares it to his own sobriety milestone and how 'I'm proud of you' can oddly bother him.

“I'll have eight years removed from my last drink this Saturday and they say we're proud of you... that bothers me for some reason.”

Taylor closes the room with a public prayer, and Barth responds with admiration, joking from his own life that when he gets asked to pray at Thanksgiving he starts stuttering.

“I just think it's cool when people can pray in public like that... I get asked to say it like Thanksgiving, it's like I start stuttering.”

After Scott/Zach says his biggest prayer request is sleep because he is exhausted from days of barely resting, Barth shares that after heavy nights like this his own brain keeps replaying the conversations, and he uses music to help settle

“My brain won't stop until I literally... replay it back.”

A guest says they came up because of ADHD, and Barth responds by using his own just-happened ramble as proof: he meant to explain why he sang a whole song without looking at the camera, but the story spun off into multiple directions.

“I started off the story with why I sang an entire song without looking at the camera... then turned into...”

The guest says Barth hit their trigger words — Prevo, racing, and credentials — and Barth connects with his own racing-bus story about being at Darlington in a Roger Penske Prevo that his friend bought, even imagining it as a podcast setup.

“We were in for Darlington... in a Prevo, and it was Roger Penske's old Prevo that my friend bought.”

A caller brings up Washington, Utah, and major hikes; Barth shares that hiking was always in his heart, but he chose motherhood first, then started climbing after his kids graduated and after an osteoarthritis diagnosis made him feel urgenc

“I've always had hiking in my heart but I decided to be a mom first... I got diagnosed with osteoarthritis last year.”

Izzy gets embarrassed after dropping the homemade tooth piece; Barth reassures her by showing his own tooth issue and making the point that imperfect teeth are just part of being human.

“Look, I'm going to show you mine... every time I smile I look like I'm missing a tooth there.”

Izzy is told her DIY denture process could go viral; Barth relates it to his own experience getting tens of millions of views for simple hair-content videos and says even negative comments can turn into money.

“I have 49 million views on one of my videos... and it's for dumb shit like how I open my color tubes.”

After Izzy shows another temporary fake tooth, Barth shares that he once asked his dentist to pull a tooth and give him a flipper, but was pushed toward expensive braces instead.

“I don't have six grand for braces. Just pull that bad boy out and give me a cute little flipper.”

While discussing possible uses for Izzy's temporary tooth idea, Barth connects it to his own photo-shoot experience, saying families have canceled shoots because a child lost a tooth.

“I've had a lot of people cancel photo shoots because the kid lost tooth.”

While coaching Dalton on karaoke and riffing on “Colt 45,” Barth turns it into a funny personal memory: Afroman was his first concert, and in college Barth helped him check into a hotel and ended up smoking with him.

“I'll never forget the time I got smoking doobie with Afroman.”

After the room turns reflective and someone is about to share a near-death story, Barth asks to tell his first: on the anniversary of getting sober, he describes waking in the hospital, nearly choosing death, and realizing he had to stop dr

“I finally had realized I was just allergic to alcohol because whenever I drank I broke out in handcuffs.”

The caller says her husband became a complete opposite person, and therapists told her the man she knew at the beginning never existed. Barth relates by saying substances can make people into different people, sharing that his ex-wife used

“I used to hear Jekyll and Hyde used to explain me when I was drinking by my wife at the time.”

Pamela asks how Barth's day was, and he shares that he had been dreading the yearly reminder of the day he found out he was getting divorced, but prayer helped it pass with acceptance instead of spiraling.

“I thought about this day coming for probably... since it happened, because there'll be a yearly reminder of the day that I found out I was getting a divorce.”

Pamela suggests the show may be filling Barth's cup rather than just distracting him, and Barth relates it to moving after divorce: people assume he'd be out partying, but doing the nightly lives helped keep him from that path.

“I would have probably been doing [that] if I didn't handle this year like I did... the only reason I can attribute to it... is doing this at night.”

A guest compares Barth's dry humor and show vibe to old Howard Stern, and Barth shares that he once bought a lifetime Sirius subscription when Howard moved there, though he stopped listening after COVID.

“I got a lifetime subscription to Sirius because I joined when Howard moved over there.”

A caller asks Barth about his Substack, and Barth shares that a major health development in his household lasted months and drained his creativity, explaining why he took a break before returning to writing.

“We did have a really big health development in this household that lasted for about four months and it sucked the creativity out of me.”

After a guest shares that her lifelong best friend’s ovarian cancer was caught at stage 2, Barth connects it to his own mother’s stage 3C ovarian cancer journey, explaining the chemo, trial medication, GLP-1 combination, and how her remaini

“My mom was diagnosed with stage three C ovarian cancer right before you get to stage four.”

When the guest says she’ll stay with her friend during cancer treatments, Barth relates as someone who cared for his mom through treatment, sharing that preparing her mentally for day three being the worst helped her get through it.

“What saved my life is you telling me day three was gonna be the worst because then I could prepare for it mentally.”

After Muffin Man says the Army wouldn’t take him because he was colorblind, Barth immediately relates: he’s colorblind too, and as a kid he badly wanted to be a fighter pilot. He jokes that with his photographer reflexes and instincts, he w

“Me too. I wanted to be a fighter pilot growing up so bad... And then I found out I was colorblind.”

Muffin Man says his daughter stopped drinking and needs part of her daughter’s liver; Barth relates it to his own alcohol-damaged liver and says prayer and healing are why he is alive.

“I am a testament of that. Trust me, I know it can. I'm proof God is real. I should not be here.”

Taker asks how Barth likes living in Florida; Barth shares that his divorce finalized a month ago, he does not know anyone there yet, and he is trying to build a fresh start while traveling back for his son's football.

“My divorce went final a month ago... so I'm getting a fresh start down here.”

Brink Life says losing his dad was the worst thing in his life because his dad was his best friend; Barth shares that he lost his own father and best friend in 2021, the photographer who shaped his career.

“I know the feeling, feller. I lost mine in 2021... I literally was my best friend. I talked to him every day.”

Brink describes dreaming about his dad and waking up reaching for the phone to call him; Barth says he has done that too, and jokes about expecting his dad to be waiting in a restaurant.

“All right, so I'm not the only one that's done that. You ever walk into like a restaurant and just think he's gonna be sitting at the table?”

After bonding over wanting their dads to still appear, Barth explains how his recent years stacked grief on grief: losing a business, losing his dad, fighting alcohol, moving back in with parents, and then divorce.

“The past five years for me it's just been nothing but losing shit... you eventually lose everything... and then you're later end up getting a divorce.”

Brink talks about raising his six- and eight-year-old daughters with 50/50 custody; Barth relates as a father in a custody situation, saying being a dad is what he is good at and that he drives seven hours every weekend for his kids.

“That's the only thing I've ever been good at... That's why I drive home seven hours every weekend.”

After the guest shares a spiritual sign connected to his late father and everyone sits with it, Barth says it triggered his own memories. He tells how numbers became signs from God and his dad, admits his Vegas/gambling history, then shares

“numbers are my thing and they're also my signs from God and my dad”

Lightworker tells how she got into Rottweilers through a boyfriend and ended up keeping the dog after the breakup. Barth turns it into a personal, funny 'me too' about losing his own dog in a divorce, then softens it by saying the kids like

“Women always get them. I lost my dog in the divorce. Well that's not true. My kids really liked it there.”

When Lightworker says animal abuse sends her from calm to furious and describes decades of rescuing and fostering dogs, Barth connects by sharing that his sister runs a nonprofit for elderly, unwanted dogs, including the rough-looking ones

“My sister has a nonprofit where she takes the elderly dogs, the ones that people want to get rid of when they're 12 years old.”

Lightworker explains her dream of opening a healing center where adoptable dogs sit in sessions because animals heal people deeply. Barth immediately relates with his own dog Einstein, calling him his 'don't get drunk dog' and saying he too

“My dog Einstein I called him my DGDD. My don't get drunk dog. Took him everywhere with him.”

Nancy talks about believing her husband's vaccine requirement contributed to his death and says she wants accountability from people like Fauci or Gates. Barth connects it to his own life with a brief 'me too' about his dad, agreeing that w

“My dad, yeah. It's just not right.”

Tony shares that he is still upset because his cousin had his father's ATM card, drained a small amount of money, and took another check after his father died. Barth tells him to let it go, then relates it to his own pattern of stewing over

“I'm a guy that will marinate over something and it will eat me alive for two three days.”

Pamela asks Barth how his day was, and he shares that it was the anniversary of the day he found out he was getting divorced. He had dreaded it, prayed over it, and was surprised that it became a reaffirmation of acceptance instead of a bre

“It was reaffirmation of the acceptance, I guess you could say.”

After a guest says this mission may fill Barth's cup rather than just distract him, Barth explains that after his divorce, living in a beach drinking town could have sent him to bars every night, but doing the show at night helped him handl

“That's why I do this.”

While Emily explains buying frozen mice to feed her pet snake, Barth riffs that the whole scene reminds him of an old website from when he was younger called 'Stuff White People Do,' turning her unusual pet story into a personal comedic mem

“There used to be this website when I was younger... called Stuff White People Do.”

A guest compares Barth's show to old Howard Stern, and Barth shares that he bought a lifetime Sirius subscription when Howard moved there, but stopped listening after COVID when he felt Howard got too political.

“I got a lifetime subscription to Sirius because I joined when Howard moved over there.”

When Steven says his mom watches Days of Our Lives, Barth relates with his own long-running fandom, joking that he has watched since the 1990s and even knows what a returning character likely means for the plot.

“I’ve been watching it since the 1990s.”

After Steven describes his mom surviving ovarian cancer nearly ten years and finding hope in new treatments, Barth connects personally: his own grandmother died of ovarian cancer at 42 before he ever got to meet her.

“My grandmother died of that. Yeah, I never met her. She’s 42. She died of ovarian cancer.”

Southern Spill brings up the Micah Miller case and says it connects to her South Carolina story; Barth stops everything to share a personal/professional side of himself: he loves news and politics, covers live events as a photographer, and

“I cover a lot of live actual news events being a photographer... I want to start doing is kind of tracking cases but be early on it.”

After Emma’s Ohio/Buckeyes background turns into college sports trash talk, Barth pivots into his own sports memory, saying he was in Omaha when Ole Miss beat South Carolina to win it all.

“I was in Omaha when Ole Miss beat the shit out of them to win it all.”

Muffin Man says the Army would not take him because he was colorblind, and Barth immediately relates with his own childhood dream of becoming a fighter pilot being derailed for the same reason.

“Me too. I wanted to be a fighter pilot growing up so bad... And then I found out I was colorblind.”

After Muffin Man talks about being in western Kentucky and the conversation brushes against military life, Barth connects it to his own family: his brother in Elizabethtown, a former JAG lawyer and Pentagon colonel, who may have been involv

“My brother... was a JAG lawyer... became colonel working at the Pentagon the last 10 years.”

Muffin Man says his daughter quit drinking but needs a liver transplant; Barth connects it to his own near-fatal liver damage from alcohol and says prayer and healing are why he is alive.

“I am a testament of that. Trust me, I know it can. I'm proof God is real. I should not be here.”

Brink Life says losing his dad was the worst thing and that his dad was his best friend; Barth shares that he lost his own father/best friend in 2021 and that they talked daily and worked photography together.

“I know the feeling feller. I lost mine in 2021... I literally was my best friend. I talked to him every day.”

Brink Life describes dreaming about his dad and waking up reaching for the phone to call him; Barth immediately relates, saying he has done the same kind of thing and imagines seeing his dad in ordinary places.

“All right, so I'm not the only one that's done that. You ever walk into like a restaurant and just think he's gonna be sitting at the table?”

Brink Life says he still feels haunted that he could not spend the time he wanted with his dying father; Barth says it is his same story, then tells how his dad got sick, was hospitalized, put on a ventilator, and Barth was kept from seeing

“The worst part of it was not being allowed in the ER ICU to see him... I'd go sit outside the window of his hospital.”

Brink Life talks about raising his young daughters through a 50/50 custody schedule; Barth relates as a divorced father, saying being around his kids became his main job and that he drives seven hours every weekend to be there.

“I know what it's like. That's why I drive home seven hours every weekend.”

James is worried about handling school-picture hair and whether to do pigtails or a French braid. Barth relates as a parent learning hair care himself, joking that he can braid and at least do pigtails evenly.

“Dude I'm a boss braider Well I'm learning to braid but I can do pigtails”

After Tex talks about loved ones crossing over and spiritual signs, Barth says it triggered his own memories: numbers became signs from God and his dad, and a frog croaking 'Revos' helped him name his addiction and mental-health platform.

“numbers are my thing and they're also my signs from God and my dad”

Christine explains that she and an ex split ownership of a Rottweiler and she got the dog after the breakup. Barth jumps in with a personal divorce joke about losing his own dog because the kids liked it there.

“I lost my dog in the divorce Well that's not true My kids really liked it”

When Christine says animal abuse sends her from calm to furious and talks about decades of rescuing, Barth connects it to his sister's nonprofit that takes in elderly, unwanted dogs others pass over.

“My sister has a non profit where she takes the elderly dogs the ones that people want to get rid of when they're 12 years old”

Christine describes wanting a healing center where adoptable dogs sit in sessions because animals heal people. Barth immediately relates it to his dog Einstein, who helped him stay sober and went everywhere with him.

“My dog Einstein I called him my DGDD My don't get drunk dog”

Tony talks about mental illness in his family and says he carries diagnoses like bipolar, anxiety, and depression. Barth answers with a brief 'me too' about having labels himself, then shares how he personally copes with pain and loss by lo

“I got a few of those labels too... once you start seeing it in little things... that is how I find gratitude.”

Tony shares that he still gets upset that his cousin allegedly took the little money his father left behind. Barth tells him to let it go, then relates it to his own tendency to obsess over grievances for days until he realizes the person o

“I'm a guy that will marinate over something and it will eat me alive for two, three days... pick your battles, feller.”

Siege talks about leaving the Army, getting an A&P license, and working on Blackhawks and Apaches. Barth connects it to his own family by mentioning that his brother was a Blackhawk pilot, though in a different era.

““My brother was a Blackhawk pilot, but not when you were in.””

Siege explains why he was angry about someone accusing him of having herpes when it was a nicotine stain. Barth responds with a personal show-memory story: in four years of interviewing random people, Siege angrily shaving his mustache on c

““I’ve done this for four years just interviewing random people… top three… when you just said shut the fuck up, grabbed a razor and just shaved your mustache.””

Barth’s agent pitches him a movie opportunity in New Orleans. Barth shares a personal career choice: he has been turning down previous opportunities because he wanted his first one to feel big, and this one finally feels right.

““You know I’ve been turning these down… I want the first one to be big. And this is right up my alley.””

Pam says they were talking about how Californians say “the five” and “the 405.” Barth relates by remembering that he grew up in California and his ex-wife used to tease him for saying highways that way after moving elsewhere.

““My ex wife… used to give me [grief] because I grew up in California… I call, ‘Get on the 55.’””

Monica starts explaining the Lumbee/Croatan history and asks if Barth has heard of the Lost Colony. Barth turns it into a personal comic aside, saying his ADD probably made him fall asleep during that part of history class, and that Monica

““I got the ADD and I’m sure I fell asleep in that part of history class… my history teacher was boring as shit.””

Monica explains that Hollywood flattened Native identity and that being Native is a birthright, not a look, even mentioning her own blue-eyed full-blooded daughter. Barth connects personally by sharing that his adopted daughter is part Cher

“We have adopted a daughter that was Cherokee. She's part Cherokee, half Black... and Hispanic.”

Monica says she stopped coloring her hair after her fiancé died and hasn’t dated while she mourns; Barth responds with a lighter ‘me too,’ saying he also quit coloring his hair three years ago and joking about his Cruella look before the gr

“Monica, I quit coloring my hair three years ago too. I have a Cruella look.”

After Monica’s grief over her fiancé is reframed as something everyone handles differently, Barth relates it to his own recent divorce, saying he found out during a beach family vacation and sees it as one of those tests where you lean into

“I was at the beach... on a family vacation, never thought that I found out the day Charlie Kirk died.”

When Monica says there is a God-driven connection happening with indigenous people, Barth shares that he built a mental-health and addiction platform in 2020 and nearly worked with Canadian First Nations to deploy it across many indigenous

“I developed a platform in 2020 that's geared towards mental health and addiction... uses machine learning to connect people.”

After Monica says her area was not hit as badly by Hurricane Helene as the mountains, Barth connects it to his own time on the ground after the storm: he arrived on day two, slept with the Bat Cave Fire Department, traveled with veterans tr

“I was at Hurricane Helene from day two for about 14 days... I'm a photographer and a storyteller.”

Monica explains that sometimes people laugh about trauma because otherwise they would cry. Barth answers with his own coping mechanism: laughter keeps him out of his head and away from drinking, and doing the show every night helps him proc

“I've known that laughter is the way to stay out of my own head and not go have another drink.”

After Monica frames life as a vacation God booked and talks about faith, Barth shares his own funny vision of heaven: high-fiving Jesus, being greeted by all his old pets who can finally talk, drinking beer without getting in trouble, snowb

“Maybe in heaven I won't be allergic to alcohol because on earth I always break out in handcuffs.”

The guest says they turned their life over to God about a year ago after living behind an illusion around sexuality. Barth relates it to his own life, saying he had the same kind of awakening, but his was about addiction.

“Mine was with addiction but uh nonetheless”

After the guest talks about judging yourself and waking up to who God made you to be, Barth shares his own emotional realization: he woke up one day and understood that other people's opinions of him were none of his business.

“It's none of my business what other people think about me”

After the caller explains his ex had mental-health issues and things went downhill after medication changes, Barth relates with his own long mental-health history: drinking, being put on Lexapro after getting sober in 2018, then discovering

“Just speaking from somebody that's dealt with mental health for a long time... I quit in 2018, I got put on something called Lexpro.”

When the caller says his son improved dramatically after a gene-based medication test, Barth expands with his own family trauma and mistrust of medication systems, including his father dying after COVID treatment and his belief that testing

“Combined with Big Pharma murdering my dad by giving him remdesivir and a prescription to a ventilator... I'm a little... I think something needs to be done.”

The caller says his dry heaves and DTs are getting heavy while trying to stop drinking, and Barth responds from experience: when he quit, he was drinking a case of beer, a fifth of whiskey, and shots just to stay level, warning that withdra

“The last time I quit drinking I was up to the case... and that was to keep level.”

Craig talks about prior rehab and using the VA for care. Barth connects by saying he has also been in and out of rehab, even though his substance was not alcohol, and asks what will be different this time.

“I was the same way… I was not on alcohol, but I've been in and out of rehab.”

Craig says detox is complicated because the ER once kept him 17 days, then keeps explaining why he cannot go yet. Barth relates from his own recovery, saying he made the same kind of creative excuses before getting sober, and uses his nine

“I'll have 9 years the 19th of this month, and I made a lot of fucking excuses before I got to September 19, 2018.”

Craig keeps delaying treatment until after court, divorce, his dog, Bronco, and baseball cards. Barth warns him about choosing rock bottom, says he has seen people die after similar conversations, then relates that someone once gave him the

“I'm offering you a fucking ride… My guy did it for me, except I tried to run away.”

After Craig leaves with a prayer request, Barth reiterates that Craig can DM him for a ride. He turns it into a personal, comedic aside about how he used to drive drunk people to treatment and entertain them with his own stories on the way.

“I haven't driven a drunk to treatment in like 6 months… I'm so fucking funny on the way to treatment, because you hear all my stories.”

Jenny says telling her divorce story is painful and risky, and Barth reassures her by relating his own recent divorce: a year earlier he believed he would be married forever, with only money arguments, and says sometimes marriage endings si

“a year ago today I thought I would be married to my wife forever”

After the group talks about grieving someone who is still alive, someone notes tomorrow is the hard anniversary of Barth finding out about his divorce. Barth shares that around this exact time a year ago Pearl broke the news to him, after y

“a year ago probably at exactly this time is when Pearl broke the news to me”

In a discussion about TikTok battles, gifting, and agency mechanics, Barth explains that he once invented a platform using the same gamification concepts, so he recognizes how the dopamine/adrenaline loop can target people with addiction is

“For people like me and some of the addiction issues I've dealt with, I have to like literally control myself from playing that.”

Baxter says he now waits until around 8:30 or 9 at night to drink, but 15 years ago it would have been 10 a.m.; Barth immediately relates with his own past, saying that eight years earlier he needed massive amounts of alcohol just to feel n

“Hey I know that was me 8 years ago I was up to a case of beer a fifth of whiskey and 10 airplane shots... just to even be normal.”

Baxter asks if Barth ever woke up after drinking and wondered what he had said or done; Barth shares that in addiction he measured progress by reducing the number of apology texts he had to send and rationalized switching alcohol types to k

“You've had to send like 20 texts to people apologizing for shit you did the night before... let's get that down to just like five times a month.”

After Baxter talks openly about drinking and rehab, Barth tells him that his own 'genius' did not unlock until he quit drinking thousands of days earlier, and that Baxter hurts him because Barth sees both his old self and Baxter's unrealize

“It hurts me because I see the old me and then I also see like your potential.”

Baxter says that whenever he tried to quit or went away to 'summer camp,' booze was still the first thing on his mind; Barth responds with a visceral memory of craving alcohol so badly he woke up with his mouth watering, and says he barely

“I know the feeling I know what it's like to wake up with your mouth watering... I was able to pick my rock bottom before my rock bottom picked me.”

Tony describes how drinking and drugs wrecked his life and health but says he has not touched alcohol since 2022; Barth connects it to his own recovery, saying that for him Jesus was the reason sobriety finally clicked.

“Jesus is the reason that it finally clicked, at least it was for me.”

Baxter talks about loving bars but hating the ride home, and Barth connects with his own affection for bar culture: he went to a bar the day before for nonalcoholic Coronas and bar food, wants his rooms to feel like talking to strangers at

“I went to a bar yesterday and had two of those Corona non alcoholic beers and some good bar food. I love going to bars.”

Half Rapid explains the kumquat name by saying she can be sweet or tart, and Barth turns it into a comedic personal aside about trying a kumquat in Massachusetts, not enjoying it, and wanting to try a Florida one instead.

“I've never enjoyed one to be honest... the one that I ate up in Massachusetts wasn't good.”

Half Rapid says she is divorced as of this year, and Barth immediately relates by joking about a 'divorce off,' then shares that his own divorce became official a month ago, that he was told his wife wanted a divorce a year ago, and that he

“Oh you want to have a divorce off? Mine went official a month ago.”

Wendy shares that her free-range rabbit Leo is litter-box trained and is her world; Barth relates with a memory of his friend's house-trained rabbit named Poo, who ran around indoors and played with a soccer ball.

“my friend had a house trained rabbit named Poo and he was running he used to play with a soccer ball in the house”

After the room jokes that old comedy would offend people now, Barth relates it to his own experience hosting: he sometimes says outdated or edgy phrases in long conversations and then gets DMs, including one objecting to him saying 'master

“I called it a master bedroom and got a message that I was being offensive for calling it that.”

While a guest riffs on Barth's supposed Bucky's-related job, Barth turns it personal and sentimental, saying the Bucky's cup is what brought that guest onto the stage two weeks earlier and let him meet someone he now calls a national treasu

“That Bucky's Cup is the reason you came up on this stage for the first time... and I got to meet the national treasure.”

As the room is winding down around 4:30 a.m. and people suggest he should sleep, Barth reflects on why he started doing late-night lives: it began as a way to avoid drinking at night and became a new mission to help callers talk through thi

“What started out four years ago... drinking... has turned into like a new addiction of how many people can I get something out of that they need to talk about.”

When a guest brings up Willie Nelson's non-alcoholic THC drink, Barth connects it to his own family history: his father was a famous Vegas photographer, knew Willie through a bus-driver friend, and Barth shows an old 1992 photo from when he

“That is my dad Larry Bay who was a famous photographer in Vegas... it's the first time I ever smelled marijuana.”

After someone jokingly asks if Barth smoked with Willie Nelson as a kid, Barth answers with his own substance-use timeline: he did not really smoke weed until after he quit drinking in 2018, aside from a few hazy college experiences.

“I never started smoking weed until I quit drinking September 19th 2018.”

After Barth mentions chronic pain and needing a shoulder replacement, a guest reacts that he seems too young for shoulder problems; Barth explains he has had two major surgeries, one delayed by COVID, and that the injury came from an intens

“It was a pretty intense game of dodgeball at my son's five year old birthday party.”

After Huggy Bear describes waiting months for shoulder surgery and healing badly, Barth relates it to his own repeated shoulder injury and surgery: the useless sling, being unable to sleep comfortably, reacting when his son threw things, an

“The first thing I thought about when it happened, I was like, not that fucking shoulder brace. It's a sling. It does absolutely nothing.”

Chelsea comes up to check on Barth because he 'had quite a day,' and Barth starts sharing his own wild morning story, laughing about footage from 10:30 a.m. and saying he wants the body-cam video because the encounter was so funny.

“I'm gonna screen record this story because I am going to be getting the body camera footage... It's so fucking funny.”

After guests react to Barth’s sweaty appearance in the footage, Barth adds a personal detail from the same incident: police left him in a car with no air while they investigated him.

“They left me in that car for 30 minutes with no air... while they investigate it.”

The callers riff on spray gravy, aerosol cheese, and Cheez Whiz as weird nostalgic foods. Barth jumps in with his own specific comfort-food memory: a 'courthouse dog' on a potato bun with sautéed onions and Cheez Whiz, the only place he’ll

“I used to get this thing I called it a courthouse dog... the sautéed onions and the fucking cheese whiz.”

A guest talks about craving old-school childhood food and making Kraft mac and cheese with hot dog weenies. Barth connects with his own childhood food memory, asking if anyone else ate little chicken nuggets with plain honey, then says that

“Did anybody ever do like chicken little chicken nuggets with honey... That was mine growing up.”

When Sir Charles says he’s from North Carolina and grew up around Boone, Barth immediately relates through his own life: he knows Boone well because he played football against App State there, clarifying with a self-deprecating note that it

“I played them in football... The JV team not the varsity one, but I played the JV team in Boone.”

After the room jokes that Barth is invited to the cookout but maybe only to bring plates, cups, ice, and trash bags, someone upgrades him to meat and brisket. Barth answers with his own past: he was on a championship barbecue team, then tur

“I actually am a champion barbecue cooker... when you were a gutter drunk like me you love a good excuse to drink.”

After the group looks at ribs and Sir Charles says beer-can chicken is called 'drunk chicken' where he’s from, Barth joins with his own cooking habits: he uses Spanish beer like Dos Equis, likes amber beer, puts beer on fajitas, makes fish

“I usually use Spanish beer... I put beer on my fajitas... I miss cooking.”

After the group jokes about weed and a caller says she has been in the back of a cop car high, Barth connects it to his own sobriety story: he says he never smoked weed until the day he quit drinking in 2018, after doctors had been telling

“The first day I ever smoked a doobie was the day I quit drinking.”

When Willie Nelson, Snoop, and secondhand weed smoke come up, Barth shares a childhood memory: the first time he ever smelled weed was on Willie Nelson’s bus with his dad, whose best friend had driven Willie’s bus for years.

“The first time I ever smelled weed was in Willie Nelson's bus with my dad.”

A caller talks about inheriting sentimental old country vinyl from her grandmother, including Dolly, Tanya Tucker, and Willie Nelson; Barth relates as a vinyl guy and tells a story about finding a Tanya Tucker record at Goodwill, texting Ta

“Goodwill thinks you're only worth a dollar twelve.”

As the group talks about chickens and someone asks Barth if he has ever been to a cockfight, he says they’re illegal but shares that he saw one in Mexico while touring with a Tejano band, describing it as eye-opening and upsetting.

“I was on tour with a band, a Tejano band at the time... it was very eye opening.”

After people discuss Barth looking different and losing weight, he shows old photos and opens up about how heavy drinking affected him, saying he used to drink a case of beer a day plus liquor and weighed around 240 when he quit.

“Look at that's a case of beer a day... with a whiskey and about 10 airplane shots of vodka bars.”

Diana reacts to Barth’s cop-car photo and asks what happened; Barth tells how, after moving to Florida and going to open a bank account, tellers mistook him for a wanted bank suspect, hit the alarm, and police cuffed him, searched his car,

“I said I kind of lost my appetite to open a bank account today, and I left.”

After the caller joked that college students now have the Uber or Lyft of shame instead of the walk of shame, Barth said it took him back to his own college days, then told how he recently photographed bid day for his old fraternity and fou

“Man, that takes me back to my college days.”

The caller asked Barth whether college kids tip well when he drives them around. Barth related with his own driving experience, explaining what he makes on big football weekends and how he started renting a limo sprinter van for large group

“When I started, I started renting this limo sprinter van, like sixteen to twenty people in.”

The driver/caller was talking about refusing late-night ride-homes from random drunk college kids because of vomit and chaos. Barth pulled up his own Uber-era video and told a story about driving a group of girls when one drunk girl started

“I was Uber in a group of girls who... all of a sudden start rolling down this hill on the sidewalk.”

The Marine said he was stationed at Camp Pendleton, and the conversation turned to Oceanside. Barth jumped in with his own connection, saying he grew up there, surfed every day, and remembered the local scene before joking about older women

“I grew up out there, fellas. That's where I surfed every day.”

The Marine shared that after being shot at on a border mission he came home to find his longtime partner had cheated, while their baby was with his mom. Barth related it to his own recent divorce after 18 years and framed it as maybe God re

“I just got my divorce just went final a month ago after 18 years.”

The Marine joked that U.S. marshals can jump out of a van and grab someone with a warrant. Barth answered that it felt like that had happened to him that same day, then told how a bank teller thought he matched a BOLO, hit the alarm, and he

“I had to get in cuffs and in the back of a police car for like 30 minutes and parade around my new town.”

The Marine described getting into a fight with a roommate after drinking and being pushed too far by the roommate's girlfriend. Barth related through his own sobriety joke, saying he stopped drinking because alcohol kept leading to handcuff

“I haven't had a drink in eight years. That's because I found out I was allergic to alcohol because I kept breaking out in handcuffs.”

Ryan says being deployed while he has full custody of his four-month-old son is tearing him apart because he fears missing him grow up. Barth relates as a parent, reassures him the baby will not remember this stage, and shares that with his

““The best years that I can remember for my kids was like four to like seven.””

Ryan explains he is from near Tyler, Texas. Barth connects it to his own football recruiting visit to Tyler, joking that his first impression of the town was seeing a naked man running from the cops.

““That was my introduction to Tyler, Texas.””

Ryan explains that overseas he may only be able to call on a satellite phone. Barth relates by mentioning a buddy/family friend currently deployed who calls regularly, then tells Ryan he needs to take Barth’s number with him so he can call

““I got a buddy over there right now because he calls all the time.””

A caller says they need a sponsor for a cigarette, and Barth answers with his own current quit-smoking attempt: he admits he is not ready yet, jokes about needing Zin as a sponsor, and explains he picked up nicotine pouches as his alternati

“I can't help you because I'm not ready... I'm gonna Zin peppermint nicotine.”

After the caller talks about being three months clean from cigarettes and the benefits of quitting, Barth brings it back to his own struggle: quitting drinking was sudden and decisive, but smoking has been harder, especially the coffee ciga

“I actually didn't even smoke till I went to summer camp the first time — or rehab as everyone else calls it.”

After the caller says a friend moved from cigarettes to vaping, Barth says he does not want to vape and shares one of his own smoking triggers: watching old documentaries where everyone is smoking makes cigarettes look cool again.

“All I do is watch old documentaries like World War Two... and everyone's smoking.”

While talking up Buc-ee’s clean bathrooms and post-bathroom shopping experience, Barth tells White Garrett about a real Buc-ee’s trip where he was taking his time in a clean stall, noticed his shoes were worn out, then walked out and bought

“The cleanliness of a Buc-ee shitter enticed me to take my time and notice that I needed to get some new shoes.”

After criticizing Buc-ee’s for being out of shirts and saying he wanted to buy his kid a sweatshirt, Barth connects it to his own experience wearing a Buc-ee’s sweatshirt at a NASCAR race, where it became a conversation starter and got stra

“I walked around a NASCAR race... and I just had a Buc-ee sweatshirt. I had more people stop me.”

The room debates how hungry someone would need to be to eat cats, cockroaches, or scorpions; when someone says people forget what real hunger is, Barth shares that he has gone days without eating, but even then cockroaches never looked appe

“I've been hungry hungry before, been like missed days eating... but I never thought I had cockroaches either.”

Cindy asks why the government has empty military-base housing while people are homeless. Barth connects it to a local Massachusetts base he knows, saying he has seen thousands of empty units and was struck that the place sat unused for deca

“When I heard that they went to EMS, I'm like, that place has been empty for 25 years.”

After someone says Grant comes into the room to blow off steam and have fun, Barth relates with his own Clubhouse origin story: he realized he could jump in directly and mess with his people, pushing buttons for fun.

“I went on Clubhouse and I was like, wait a minute, you mean I could join that shit directly? Let me go over here and mess with my folks.”

Mark jokes that Barth does not call or love him anymore, and Barth turns it into a personal catch-up: he says it is the first time he has heard Mark in months, talks about Vegas and Brad, and shares that he has been working like he is 30 ag

“I've been working like I'm 30 again.”

The group jokes about gambling luck and casino wins, and Barth shares a relatable personal pattern: even though there are casinos near him in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he says he does not go there at home, but when he is in Florida he

“I never go into a casino I come to Florida I want to go I want to hang at the Hard Rock”

Mark brings up how people tried to get the host removed after a Madison Square Garden comment about “slaughter.” Barth responds with his own recollection of being interviewed about it, explaining that he admitted saying it but meant it as c

“I said I'm 66 years old I've never killed anybody if that's what you're trying to make it to sound like”

As others challenge the claim that Haitians eat cats and ask for documentation, Barth answers with a personal example from his own life, saying he asked Haitian people he knows, including someone who works for him, and was told it happens e

“I have a Haitian that works for me today I said hey bro do Haitians eat cats”

After the room argues about political claims involving Haitians and cats, Barth turns it into a personal joke: he says he has two well-fed cats at home and jokes that if he ever ran out of food—or died—they would become part of the story to

“I had two cats in my house I never even thought about my cats being in meals”

Someone jokes about whether grown men can pack for themselves, and Barth answers with his own travel routine: his wife packs his suitcase every trip, his housekeeper unpacks it, and he avoids packing by leaving clothes where he travels beca

“My wife packs my suitcase every single trip. My housekeeper unpacks my shit.”

Grant says he only knows Matt Gaetz as a fan and that Gaetz never hit on his kids; Barth needles him by asking whether Sabrina has a boyfriend, then explains the joke through his own experience as a father worrying about daughters and boyfr

“No, I have a daughter and I know how it was with boyfriends.”

When a caller asks Barth, as a father of daughters, how he feels about the accusations against Matt Gaetz, Barth says he withholds judgment until guilt is proven because he has personally been accused of things with no truth to them, pushin

“I've had people accuse me of things that have no... tiny fabric of truth in it.”

After Jonathan notes that the DOJ declined to charge Matt Gaetz while the House Ethics investigation continued, Barth relates it to his own experience being secretly investigated for 28 months after claims were made against him, saying inve

“There was claims made about me three years ago... It lasted 28 months... and they came up with nothing.”

Barth recounts the night Cindy first joined the room while extremely drunk and injured. He compares her chaotic five-hour performance to the way he himself used to behave when drinking, making it a darkly funny but empathetic 'I've been the

“Cindy Lane went on to entertain us for five hours in a way that I used to entertain people back in the day.”

Cindy says she has been through treatment before, relapsed many times, and now knows she cannot drink again or she will die. Barth connects it to his own sobriety, saying he has collected almost five years and understands the shame of not r

“I've collected almost five year whatever days... not having to send 30 text messages saying you're sorry for whatever you don't remember.”

When Cindy puts her mother Elaine on, Barth explains that he understands Elaine's fear and frustration because Cindy was in the kind of drunken place he used to be in all the time. He ties it to his own recovery, with Cindy noting he has fi

“Your daughter was, you know, where I used to be all the time.”

Mark says he got banned from playing because his wife walked in and thought his roleplay was real; Barth jumps in to tell Nelson the full story of hearing Mark’s wife confront him mid-game, then learning he slept in the car afterward.

“all of a sudden we hear who the fuck are you talking to Are you talking to a woman”

Millie reacts to Barth’s photo by calling him disgusting and joking that he looks like he breastfeeds; Barth turns it into a personal riff, saying the picture was from when he was drinking, that he lost 75 pounds, and adding a story about P

“That's back when I was drinking. I lost 75 pounds. You damn right, Pearl breastfed both kids till 18 months.”