What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Vile Files. Thanks for tuning in. I am your host, Nick. Join by my producer, Chrissy. How are you doing, Chrissy?

I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Keep it together.

That's good to hear. Yeah. I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode. The world's been heavy lately.

It's been heavy. And I think if you're looking for a kind of an easy-going conversation with an absolutely wonderful guest, I think you really enjoy this.

Joe Thomas is our guest today, formerly of the NFL, and just all around great guy. If for those of you who are listening,

I get a smile on my face just thinking about it. Yeah. For those of you who don't know who Joe Thomas is, I think you're going to really love him after this episode.

I know Chrissy didn't know Joe before. Now she has a life-size poster of him hanging on his wall. It's just a little crush. I haven't had a poster yet.

Yeah. No, but Joe is a Hall of Fame or soon to be Hall of Fame NFL offensive lineman, but also a husband, a father, just a very interesting man.

And it's fun to hear kind of a little bit about his life and his ways of thinking and him as a husband and a father.

I think I fell in love with him even more than I already was, and I think you're all going to really enjoy listening to Joe. Before we get to Joe, though, I did want to tell you guys a story.

A story about the first time I was arrested by first and only only time I was I was detained.

So I was about 10 years ago. It was I was still living in Milwaukee and I was out. We're not to the barge with my best friend, my girlfriend at the time and his, his girlfriend at the time now wife.

And so we are in Milwaukee a little bit, a little bit about Milwaukee. Milwaukee is a pretty segregated city, actually one of the most segregated cities. And so you have white people living in one part of the city, black people living in another part of the city, Hispanic people, so on and so forth.

One of our popular streets in Milwaukee for those who for those of you who aren't familiar is called water street.

It's just a street full of bars and restaurants. And in the summertime, it gets it gets really busy. It's not very warm there often.

People get excited to go out.

And so in the summer, I don't know if they still do this. I assume they do, but they'll close down water street in the weekends.

But this is something they do all the time. They close down both ends of the street.

Yeah, the weekends, right? And I kind of had seen this before. I honestly didn't think much of it, right?

And it's like other people.

They're keeping the peace. I just assumed if people got arrested, they deserve it.

And so at the end of the, and also keep in mind, I say one walk is one of the more segregated cities is that when you go to water street, the people who are at the bars are predominantly white, right?

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