Trashcan presents buying a car at a used car lot.
Hey, how you doing?
I, I, I welcome looking at used cars.
I saw you looking at that mercury out there.
You, uh, you interested?
Look buddy, I'm gonna be right up front with you.
I don't like salespeople and I'm just here to get a car.
I know what I want.
$3,000.
That's all I'm spending today.
$3,000.
Well, you're in luck.
We got plenty of good options out here.
You know, that mercury out there, that, I'll be honest with you.
100% honest with you.
That is no good.
I'll tell you what I do have.
I got to be a dog-dram 1500 now.
It is an 80 second with 400,000 miles on it.
But I'll tell you this, it's all highway miles and it was all by an old man.
That's all it was for.
Just by 100.
That's it.
So, and that thing, it's right on, right on par.
$3,000.
Not a penny more.
And you know what?
Who knows?
We can see what we can work out and see if we can get you maybe a warranty of some kind.
I don't know.
Look, buddy.
That's a lot of miles for me, man.
I'm really looking at this Saturn, this 2018 Saturn.
What do you think about that?
I'll tell you what, that Saturn right there, that one right there is $42,000.
So, that's a little out of your range.
But I'll tell you what I'll do.
Oh, oh, oh.
I'm sorry, sir.
I gave you the wrong idea.
I'm putting $3,000 down.
I'm not.
Oh, my gosh.
All right.
Okay.
You gotta understand, most of my clientele over here, they're no credit bag credit kind
of thing.
I didn't know you were one of them kind of people, Richie Rich.
All right.
So, let's talk about the fixed $3,000.
I'm thinking like 155% interest, something like that.
I think it should be 2% interest and I want you to throw in a free car wash and free oil
changes.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go back there to my manager.
We're going to go talk.
And then there's coffee and chips in the break room.
If you're just so inclined to go over there and get some coffee and chips while I'm out
there, I'm going to go talk to the manager.
We're going to see what we can do.
But I'll tell you what, in the meantime, I'm going to run you credit.
Hi, I'm Micah.
And I'm Chris.
And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
I'm telling you, that's how dealerships be going, man.
I don't like going to the dealership.
I don't either, man.
And they're like leeches, bro.
As soon as somebody pulls up, swarming around them, swarming around them.
But hey, man, we're back for another great episode.
I think it's episode 39 of season two.
So we're chugging right along.
91 overall.
So we almost do 100, man.
So we want to thank all y'all for them all across the United States and around the world.
Where in the United States have been really big?
Oh, man.
Up in the Northeast has been great.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Massachusetts.
Maine has been a good one.
Texas, Florida.
Of course, Iowa, Nebraska, California, Seattle, Washington, Oregon.
Got to love all those places.
East Coast got a shout out Virginia, of course.
And I think you set up into New Jersey and all that good jazz.
But yeah, man, all around the world, we got Brussels, Belgium, Singapore, down in Australia.
It's great.
You know, we really do appreciate all of it.
And so, man, are we ready to get started with this episode and the old fashioned donut?
I'm ready.
Okay, don't leave that in, I guess, maybe.
Anyways, for our old fashioned donut today, which is a story from our past, we're going
to talk about some, and you know, football season is starting, American football.
So if you're not really interested in it, I understand.
But we're going to talk about some memorable occasions when we first moved to Lubbock,
Texas, and went to our first series of tech games that first year in the 2013-2014.
Can you believe that it's been 10 years ago?
Yeah, 10 years ago.
And I'm just going to preface this by saying I have blocked a lot of that two year span
out of my life.
And so I don't really remember it that much.
I remember a little bit of it, but I don't remember it that much.
That's okay.
I've retained those good, good memories of me going berserk in the stands.
So we can talk about it.
And the first one, I guess we have to really start with the first game that we went to.
Now, the first game that we went to, let me talk about the hype that was going on at the
time.
There was a man, and his name was, well, I mean, he's still around, but there was a
man named Cliff Kingsbury.
And he was the first year head coach.
We had had this whole thing, you know, as a tech football team, this guy named Tommy
Tuberville.
We didn't like Tommy Tuberville, and he left very abruptly, which was good, good riddance
to Tommy Tuberville was the drizzling craps.
What he was, he was, we had the opportunity to key his car.
We should have anyways, I digress.
So you know, we'll tell the Tommy Tuberville story some other time, but pretty much what
happened was Cliff comes into place and he was the youngest coach in the entire college
football league there.
And how old was he was like 30 something like he had just gotten out of the NFL and been
coaching a few years and he was like in his 30s, late 30s, but he was single.
I remember all the ladies were all over him.
And the biggest stick and the biggest thing, you know, all the t-shirt said is our coach
is hotter than yours.
I even remember the billboard on the big garage there in Lubbock across from the stadium
said our coach is hotter than yours with like the Cliff Kingsbury glasses.
He wore kind of like a special style of glasses.
So all the single moms wanted him, man.
All the single moms from age probably 25 to 55 wanted Cliff Kingsbury.
And I'll talk to you about this too.
I mean, like the hysteria, I don't know.
Like I've heard about like Elvis hysteria in no way was Cliff Kingsbury like Elvis hysteria.
But what I mean is, you know, watching, we would go to the games and there would literally
be women in wedding gowns with, you know, marry me Cliff signs.
Do you remember that?
Like literally, I mean, there was ladies in wedding dresses like Mary.
I remember that man.
But you know what?
I hate to bust some people's bubbles, but there were rumors that he did swing for the
other team.
So I don't know.
But I don't know if that's sure or not.
I remember that was that was the thing and a lot of single moms when they found that
out or found out the rumor, I should say, because this is all rumoring into your window.
They were a little disappointed.
They were a little sad.
But anyway, sorry, side note.
Love it's a gossip town, man.
It's funny.
It's it's like a, you know, it's like a medium sized, you know, small town.
Everybody talks.
Everybody talks and rumors go around.
It's funny.
It's messed.
So and I remember going to our first game and if you've never been to Lubbock, the stadium
is called Jones AT&T Stadium and we'd been outside of the stadium.
We'd actually been in the stadium when it was empty.
Just, you know, as tourists, I guess, and we.
So this was our first game atmosphere.
And I remember going through Raider Alley with all the people and of course the cheerleaders
and the food and stuff like that.
At the time, I really wanted to go to tech.
Like that's where I wanted to go to school.
So I was sitting there like, man, you know, this is this is where it's going to be here
in a few years.
And hindsight, I was excited at the time, but now being at this age, I'm like, oh boy,
I'm glad I didn't go there because I would have gotten in a lot of trouble.
But that's, you know, different, different story.
Let me put this into perspective for you.
And again, my memory is starting to come back.
Starting to clarify.
Micah loved Texas Tech so much.
Let me let me strike that.
He loved Texas Tech football so much that he took a worship song that we sang in church
and he replaced it with Jones AT&T Stadium.
And the song goes, no place I'd rather be, no place I'd rather be than here in your
love.
Tell my Jesus, but he replaced it with no place I'd rather be than here in the Jones,
here in the Jones.
I also, and I'm going to drag you into this as well.
We also painted our chess with the double T. If you remember that.
We nothing, we nothing, you, you, I never, we nothing, you.
Someone say I was pretty crazy.
You know, I've toned down a good bit.
You know, I even went to tech games years later and wasn't, wasn't that crazy.
But I'll tell you, the first experience we ever had, you know, it was against central
Arkansas.
No, it wasn't central.
It was a FCS school.
No, it was like Sam P. Stephen at Boston.
Right.
That's what it was.
And so, yeah, we played them.
And I remember that year it was like the, the song they had going in the stadium was
all the lights by Kanye.
You remember that, it was like that's, that was like the song that they played all the
day and time.
And they had like a specific intro.
It was, it was pretty cool.
But like just seeing the traditions in person, because I had watched it on TV for years,
right?
And you know, there's the mass writer and you know, the players go out and it's a whole
big thing and to go fight Winsong and stuff like that.
Man.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Please don't tell me that you're about to skip over the, the tradition that you don't
want to talk about.
Tell me, tell them about it.
Tell them what the, what, tell them what the student section brings.
I'll let you tell them.
Tech fans are crazy, aka probably why Michael painted his chest with a double T on it.
I probably at the time Michael probably would have got a Texas Tech tattoo like right on
his neck.
Oh, I was thinking about it.
I don't know about neck.
I, you know, I've never wanted a neck tattoo, but I definitely thought about getting a.
He would have got it on his chest on, on the left side, right near his heart.
That's what he would have done.
I could have saw that, but all right, sorry.
I don't know why this is, I'm just providing color commentary for this, for this episode
because I don't really remember much.
So I'm just here for comedic purposes, but the student section is so crazy that the students
bring in tortillas and sometimes batteries and they take the tortillas and they throw
them at the other team's players.
So if you're playing Texas Longhorns, they take the tortillas and they throw them on
in the field.
They throw them at the Texas Longhorns players.
I knew you weren't about to glass over that little detail.
They do it every game, but it's kickoff wise.
Every time there's a, you know, the opening kickoff or whatever they'll throw tortillas.
But yeah, they're pretty ruthless to, because I mean the student section is right behind
the opposing teams bench.
So the moment they run out and everything, you know, you're getting booed by 65,000 and
a bunch of, you know, fans in the student section there.
So there's a bunch of crazy stuff that happens.
Like, you know, we experienced that and of course, you know, Tech 1 and whatnot.
And so it was pretty exciting.
And at that point, they had already had one game.
So you know, we knew they were going to be kind of decent.
You didn't really, you know, we didn't think anything about that.
We only missed one game that year and that was due to Boot Corral.
If you remember, he's talking about that.
But besides the first game, I'll tell you what else I remember TCU that year because
they were ranked and we weren't ranked.
And if you don't know the college football system, there's ranking system.
And basically if you're in the top 25, that means, you know, you're the top 25 out of
over a hundred schools.
So that's pretty good.
So we actually beat them and it was at night.
I remember it was a night game and there's something really, really special about football
in that stadium at night with 65,000 people.
It's pretty nice.
Yes, it was.
I got a confession to tell you, bro.
I'm going to do it right here on this podcast, right here, right now.
Do you remember when I was working and I was a waiter at the time and I told you guys,
I was like, Hey, y'all going to have to pick me up from the restaurant because I have to
work an extra late shift because of the game.
You guys remember that?
I was just going to hang out with my girlfriend.
I wasn't really working late.
I never told you this, but I'm telling you here on the podcast, it doesn't surprise me,
but it's all good.
Order under the bridge, sir.
Order under the bridge.
But the other thing that we have to talk about with this tech experience as well is the people
that sat in front of us.
So we had season tickets that year, that first year.
And I'll tell you the people that sat in front of us, I guess you could call them legacy
techers, right?
Basically the whole family, there was like a grandpa and like the kids and grandkids.
And the grandkids like currently went to tech.
So it was like a three generation like they all went to the school.
But I guess the grandfather played there or something.
I'm not really sure who he was, but you got to think when you're season ticket holders
with these people, you see them every game, even though there's only six or seven of them,
you see them every game.
But man, they would be tailgating out there and they would always come in, you know, right
when after the game would start and they would only stay until what like mid second quarter.
But it was because especially the grandfather, he would always get just so mad.
He'd be like, come on writers, this is the worst I've ever seen.
And he would just get really mad.
And then he would leave and he'd be like, all right, that's it.
I can't take them or and he would leave.
You remember that guy?
I mean, in his defense though, tech was sucking pretty bad.
Compared to 2008, tech has been bad, man.
Oh, for sure.
But watching beyond the come out this year.
So I'll just tell you that much.
Just watch.
But what we'll do is, yeah, that was that was some fun memories, man.
Do you have any other times that you can remember?
No, just that one.
I will tell you this, man, since last year, Rick Flair got partnered with the gorilla,
was one of the big lawyers here, and he showed up at a couple of games.
And I guess like Rick Flair is like so connected to Lubbock now that at Red Raider Outfitter,
they started selling his shirts like with Rick Flair on it.
And he has a WWE belt and it has Texas Tech logos on the WWE belt.
And it's like 100 years of Texas Tech and Rick Flair.
And it's like, whoa.
And I was like, never in my life would I have thought that Rick Flair would have been on
a Texas Tech shirt.
But you know, he had to make them Malamoney payments.
Got to keep the liquor flowing.
Oh yeah.
And one more thing I'll say on it is there's a study done about universities and their athletic
department is what they call their front porch to the university.
And it's a proven fact that their athletics is primarily football and basketball.
If you're a good football and basketball school, or at least if you have a big following, you'll
always get a lot of students just because of that.
So I'm sure they're trying to promote it as much as possible because, bro, it's hard
to, you know, who to be honest, if I'm from the rest of Texas, who wants to go out to
the desert, bro?
Like who wants to go out to Lubbock?
Tech football is the only thing sports wise that sucks about tech.
Everything else is good.
Basketball is good.
Baseball is good.
Oh, their track team is incredible.
Their track teams like national champions every year.
Yep.
Golf team, tennis team, cheerleading team.
Like they are like everything except for the football is good.
But that's what's getting all the money.
Yep, because that's where all the money is and the rest of the college athletics world.
But anyways, man, so if we're good with that, we can go ahead and move on to our next segment
if you if you get to roll.
Let's roll.
Roll out.
All right, man, we're going to do the jelly donut next, which is our jail reports.
Oh man, we got some interesting ones.
Here's where we're going to start off with.
So this is a real life jail report, not just an arrest story, but a jail report.
So this man, his name is Mr. Ham, is what we'll call him.
He got a little taste of freedom when he escaped the jail.
But you know what he did?
Had himself a good time.
And then he returned the same night, about seven hours later, actually.
So he had been initially in jail for theft of property, burglary and or burglary of a
motor vehicle and failure to pay child support.
So the Sheriff's Office says that Ham escaped about 10 p.m. and returned to the jail around
three a.m. after having a night at the bar and boosts Phil fun and apparently went and
saw his wife.
So it wasn't clear how he escaped custody and he never let them know apparently how he
escaped custody.
But apparently he's likely to face additional charges, even though he did come back.
Now, Chris, do you think he should be charged extra for his one night of freedom there?
I think he should be charged extra.
I think so, man.
It's like you got to give him reason to not break the law.
You got to give him reason to not want to come back, right?
So if it's like, oh yeah, crap, I was out.
And then it's like, crap, now I'm back again, man.
I'm going to learn.
Everybody says they're going to learn their lesson.
Everybody says it, but like to actually learn your lesson.
You know what I was going to say at the beginning when you were like, this is the jelly donut,
the jail report.
What if we were like the jelly donut, the jail report, a story from my past?
Just kidding.
But sorry, back, sorry, back.
My mind is like, like the matter had it right now, down a rabbit hole.
But I do think that he should be charged because, man, you got to make jail and prison like
a reason not to come back, man.
Like, I know the system is broken, but you got to make it a reason to not want to break
the law.
Yeah, it's real broke right now.
All right, man.
Well, the next one, now this is a really viral video and maybe some of you have seen it.
I don't know if you've seen it, but it also makes for a good story.
So there was a Lantanail Salon robber that was ignored and unfazed by patrons and leaves
empty-handed.
Have you seen that video?
I'm very confused on what the video is about.
I don't understand.
So a nail salon robber, so a dude's coming in robbing a nail salon, gets ignored by the
patrons in the store.
Like he runs in there, pulls his gun out and says, everybody on the ground demanding everybody's
money and they all just look at him and they don't do anything.
So he just turns around and leaves.
Oh, that's funny, bro.
That's hilarious.
They were like, oh, you little smart time robber.
Oh, big bill was here last week.
Right?
Well, and the funny part is, so there are some patrons sitting there and then there's, you
can kind of see in the video some of the shop texts that are working there, you know, the
nail texts there.
And then there's somebody at the cash register, like the little Asian man at the cash register,
and he's like on the phone with somebody and he just kind of, you know, the person comes
in, you know, hard charges in with a gun and demands everybody's money, kind of goes to
the left of the screen and the little Asian guy on the phone just kind of peeks around
the corner like, what is that guy doing?
And just stays on the phone, keeps talking.
Everybody just keeps talking.
There's two ladies on a couch.
He walks right up to them, demands some money and they just look at him like they don't
understand what he's talking about.
And he just kind of turns around like, what the heck do I do now?
And he walks out the door.
He must not have been intimidating enough, bro, because it doesn't matter what language
you're speaking.
You can tell somebody's like, if they got a gun and they're like forcibly doing it,
man, that must have hurt his ego though.
Oh, I bet, man.
I bet because I mean, could you imagine going in there full floors with a gun, you know,
that I'm sure that takes a lot of ramp up, you know, I mean, that you're breaking the
law, you're putting yourself at risk and losing your freedom for a while and, you know, over
some money and stuff like that.
And you go in there and they're just like, bro, don't even stop yourself.
Oh, oh, oh.
So this is not jelly donut related, but it is kind of a crime that what happened.
You hear about the Michael Orr stuff, man.
Oh, yeah, about something about that he really wasn't adopted and that the movie was not true
about the blind side was not true or something.
Basically the two parents, quote unquote, they were they said that they adopted him,
but they just signed a conservatorship, which basically just means that you're a legal guardian
and you can basically take all their their money.
All right.
So let me let me pause the situation right here because that movie came out in like what
2008 and now we're just hearing about this.
Did he age out of his conservatism?
Well, like I don't understand what the whole is like.
Oh, yeah, we're just now hearing about this.
Like this movie came out in 2008.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, man.
I mean, I don't know the full details on the story.
I just know that I was just like, dang man, like, but apparently they've been siphoning
that money and a lot of that movie deal went directly to the parents or at least the proceeds
and the funds and a lot of a lot of it didn't go to him.
And apparently he was OK with it because he thought, you know, he was taking care of him.
But apparently they had a falling out and he found out that they had never actually
adopted him.
That is what I'm reading.
OK, I don't know, man.
Something don't pass my sniff test.
So I don't know.
I'm not saying it's true.
I'm not saying it's not.
But I don't know.
There's two.
Sorry.
There's three sides to every story.
So we'll see what happens.
Crazy stuff, man.
All right.
So next back to and I guess that was civil jail report.
That doesn't make sense.
But you know, you get what I'm saying.
Civil court stuff.
All right.
So a Georgia murder suspect is tracked down after leaving his phone behind at a Dine and
Dash scene.
So there was a Georgia man and just as it sounded, he was busted after he left his phone
with a photo of his face on the lock screen at the restaurant where he and his friends
did a Dine and Dash and they ran up about a hundred and fifty dollar tab, which prompted
them to call the police.
So the police got the phone, saw the picture of who it was, which was a selfie of himself
and so they went and tracked him down and then saw that he was wanted on a murder charge
and boom.
I heard you the first time, but just for comedic purposes, where was this at?
Atlanta, Georgia.
That tells you all you need to know right there.
You know what the place of the restaurant was?
The restaurant was called?
Waffle House.
The Juicy Juicy Crab is what it was called.
If you got juicy in your gang, bro, I don't care what it is.
If you call yourself juicy, anything, I ain't going to go into your restaurant, bro.
And then you call yourself Juicy Juicy.
I know, man.
I saw the name of that place.
It was like the Juicy Juicy Crab.
What the heck?
All right, man.
All right, we got a couple more here.
All right, so a man was busted for smuggling dozens of live birds in large hair curlers
at JFK airport.
I've actually read that story.
I've heard of that story before.
You've heard about that one?
So apparently, you know, long story short, these birds were endangered.
He was smuggling them from Guyana, which is in South America, and US Customs and Border
Protection's found them.
He wasn't criminally charged and only had to pay $300.
But yeah, it was the hair.
Looking at the pictures of it, you know, they have the seized pictures of the hair curlers
and how he did it and whatnot.
Like, dang, man.
Pretty elaborate, pretty crazy.
But if I was looking at that, I'd be like, yeah, what the heck is this?
What is this?
I don't know.
I'm always amazed at human ingenuity, man.
But I'll tell you this much, man.
Apparently there's a massive industry for selling endangered birds, birds, eggs, stuff
like that.
Like it's a big block market business.
You make lots of money off of it.
Yes, sir.
And some types of dogs, too.
Yeah, that makes sense.
People are crazy for animals.
All right, man.
Last one.
So this lady, she gets 15 years for robbing a bank to finance a plastic surgery.
So she had already had, okay, so here's this woman and she's from Alabama.
I don't know how you pronounce her name, Fassie.
That tells you everything you need to know right there, ladies and gentlemen.
She was found guilty this week on two counts of arm robbery for holding up a Mississippi
Bank that she allegedly committed to fund her plastic surgery.
Apparently she pled guilty to it and she's going to get 15 years.
Oh, it was down at Gulfport.
So, but yeah, apparently she did a full heist style and she had actually pulled it off,
but they alerted to her by a hidden alarm and so they went and caught her.
Apparently she handed the clerk a note that says you have one minute to give the money
and don't be wrong or you die.
That's wild.
Bro, life is not a video game.
I'm telling you.
What I've never understood is just kind of interesting to me.
Bank robberies nowadays are so much less, you know, it's not running there with a gun
and I'm sure it's because there's so many security mechanisms, right?
But every bank robbery you hear about nowadays seems like, oh, they passed them a note.
It's like, oh, here you go.
I mean, my thing is, at this point, if you would tell her, if they're passing you a
note, I'm already pushing the button.
I'm like, oh yeah, okay.
Don't be passing me no notes now.
That's 101 in banking school.
101.
Don't be taking no notes.
All right.
So yeah, man, that's our jail report, our jelly donut.
And so we're ready to move into our next one, I think.
Which is the donut hole, tell them what you got, buddy.
Man, so we're going to go back to American football.
Oh, man.
Okay.
So this time we're talking about the NFL, the national football league or the professionals.
So we're going to do a little mixed bag, man.
I'm going to ask you a few trivia questions about the NFL, see how much you know and no
pressure.
Some of these are kind of hard.
And some of these are just like, really?
I didn't know that.
And then we're going to talk about, so last year we did some picks, which didn't quite
go well.
So what we're going to do is we're going to make less picks this year.
But we're going to make it short sweet to the point, have four main picks.
That's it.
And I'll explain that later.
So you're ready to do it?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right, man.
So the first thing in the trivia, who was the NFL player who has the most Super Bowl
rings or most Super Bowl wins in NFL history?
Is it a Charles Haley?
Is it B Joe Montana?
Is it C Tom Brady?
Or is it D Adam Vinitieri?
Man, that's wild.
I feel like Adam Vinitieri has been on some teams.
I don't know.
I'm just going to go with Tom Brady.
Yeah, you're correct.
Tom Brady has seven.
Vinitieri has five.
Actually, the rest of them on that list that I listed was five.
All right.
So who, and this one's going to be a hard one, who has the most NFC championship
wins?
So in the playoffs, the game that gets you to the Super Bowl, NFC championship wins.
Which team has the most all time in NFL history?
Is it the Vikings?
Is it the Dallas Cowboys?
Is it the Los Angeles Rams?
Or is it the San Francisco 49ers?
Well, I'm going to go with the 49ers.
Man, you're correct.
It's 15.
They've won 15 NFC championships.
The rest have won 13 or less.
I was about to say, they're pretty good.
They're at least in it almost every year.
You know what I mean?
They're at least a contender.
So that's what I thought.
Yeah, San Francisco's, even on their down years, they're not terrible.
It's never like they've had stupid horrible seasons.
I mean, sometimes they do, but not consistently.
All right.
So on the adverse, who has the most NFC championship wins?
So the other side there.
Is it the Steelers from Pittsburgh?
Or is it B, the Miami Dolphins?
Is it C, the New England Patriots?
Or is it D, the Denver Broncos?
Oh, come on, bro.
It's the Pats.
Yeah, you already know.
The New England Patriots have the most AFC championships all time with 11.
This one's going to be an interesting one.
So you're three and oh so far.
Here's the next one.
Who is the team with the most Hall of Famers?
Is it A, the Chicago Bears?
Is it B, San Francisco?
Is it C, Dallas, the Cowboys?
Or is it D, the Seattle Seahawks?
Thanks.
Between the Bears and Cowboys.
We're going to go with Mike Dicka and the Chicago Bears.
Man, you're correct.
That's A, the Chicago Bears.
They had 30 Hall of Famers.
They do have 30 Hall of Famers as of right now, which is the most.
All right, last trivia question.
Are we going to make it a clean sweep here?
Let's see what happens.
Which NFL stadium has the largest capacity as far as people can hold at the same time?
All right, is it A, SoFi Stadium, the one that the Los Angeles Rams play at over in
LA?
Is it B, AT&T Stadium, Jerry's World there in Dallas?
Is it C, Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City?
Or is it D, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, even though the New York teams
play there?
Oh man, I want to say it's between SoFi and Dallas.
Man, I want to say SoFi, but I'm going with Dallas.
You are actually incorrect.
It is neither one of them.
It is D, MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey with 86,000.
Well, there it goes.
Yeah, I was kind of shocked with that one too.
I was like MetLife Stadium really?
I didn't know they had the biggest capacity.
Now bonus question.
See if you get this one.
Which stadium has the smallest capacity?
And I will give you a hint.
It is a historic stadium.
So it's one of the really old historic teams.
What is it?
I don't know.
Give me some options.
All right.
So historic teams, Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, Green Bay Packers with Lambeau Field.
Let's see, where's some other historic ones with historic fields?
Well it's not those two because I think it's the Chicago Bears.
You're right.
It's Soldier Field and it's got the smallest capacity of any NFL stadium.
But it's also one of the oldest as well.
It's funny.
I've heard Green Bay with Lambeau Field.
It's such an iconic place and I kind of wanted to go watch a football game there because
it's really iconic but I've heard it's really uncomfortable and stupid cold.
So it's like, yeah, I'm okay.
I'll watch it from TV.
It's okay.
All right, man.
So here we go.
We're going to make our picks now and we don't really have to explain it if we don't want
to.
But the first thing we are going to pick is who will be in the NFC championship playing
against each other.
So the game right before the Super Bowl, who has made it through the playoffs and they're
the teams in there.
Oh, let's see.
I'm going to bet definitely not the Cowboys.
I'm going to go.
And if you need me to go through the NFC teams, we can.
The 49ers are in NFC, right?
So 49ers and the 49ers and the Vikings.
And the Vikings.
I don't know.
I don't know why I picked the Vikings.
Hey, listen, that's part of the reason I like asking you because like I'm up on it,
you know, and so it'll be interesting because it's like, will the educated picks come through
or will the random picks come through?
Like, you know, what's going to happen?
But you know what I have?
I have something similar.
I actually have the 49ers in as well.
And I have the 49ers in the.
I hate the Eagles with the fiery passion, but what I can't deny is the fact that they have
a really good roster again this year.
And they made some really good draft picks as well.
And they, I think they'll be a little scary this year.
So we'll see.
So 49ers and Eagles is what I have.
And Chris has the Vikings and the Niners playing.
So hey, Niners are in both of ours.
All right, so now to the AFC championship.
And just to give you a preface, mine is the Chiefs in the Bengals.
You know what I'm going to say, man?
I'm going to say the Chiefs.
And you know what?
I'm picking the dark horse this year, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Oh, you're going to do Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
You know, that's actually, uh, it's not a bad pick.
We'll see what happens with that.
Jacksonville was on the up and up last year.
So we'll see what happens with, uh, with old Duval.
Um, so let's see what happens there.
All right.
So the next thing.
So as we know, based on what we said, um, who would be in the Super Bowl based on the
NFC championship picks and the AFC championship picks that we just did, I'm picking for my
NFC side.
Um, I have the Niners going to the Super Bowl.
Realistically, I think the Super Bowl is going to be the 49ers and the Chiefs.
Realistically.
Now, what I really want 49ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, you just want to see Jacksonville
a team that's sucked historically do well.
So all right.
So your picks are the 49ers and the Chiefs.
Mine, um, are going to be, I mean, it's actually the same thing.
The Niners and the Chiefs, uh, is what we're going to do.
So Chris and I are kind of on the same accord of who's going to do what.
We'll see if that actually works out.
So now the next thing, uh, we're going to do our dark horse teams.
Now let me explain the dark horse side of it.
It's not going to the Super Bowl, obviously, but it is teams that did not make the playoffs
last year that will this year.
My picks, the Broncos and the Lions, the Lions actually are going to make the playoffs
this year.
That's my picks.
All right.
I'm going to go ahead and just say it.
The, I don't know who made it, who didn't make it, whatever.
Uh, I'm going to go with the chargers.
I'm going to go with the Raiders.
I'm going to go with the Rams and I'm going with the Buffalo Bills, even though I know
they made it last year.
That's what I'm going with.
The only two teams that he listed that did not make it last year were the Raiders and
there was one other one in there that you listed because the bills were definitely in
it.
Um, let's see the Rams, um, the Rams missed, but that was, they had a lot of injuries.
So you want to do Raiders Rams because we're going to pick two.
Yep.
That's what we're doing.
All right.
Raiders Rams.
All right.
There you have it.
So just to summarize before we move on to what fries my donuts, Christopher and I's pick
for this year for the NFC championship game.
We're going to have the Niners and Eagles and for Chris's pick, we're going to have
the 49ers and Vikings, AFC championship game for myself.
It's going to be the chiefs and the Bengals for Chris's, the chiefs and Jacksonville and
our Super Bowl picks are exactly the same, the 49ers and the chiefs.
And for me personally, I think the Niners would actually win this year if they did that.
Who do you think I didn't ask you that?
He's going to win the Super Bowl.
Who's going to go all the way to Jacksonville, Jack Wars.
Do you really want me to put that?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
Fine.
I'm changing yours.
I want to say, I want to say remember when I said that?
It's fine.
Remember when I said it?
So you do you remember that when I said it on that podcast episode?
You remember that?
So Christopher's updated picks are now the 49ers and you know, the 49ers and Jacksonville
and Jacksonville will win.
All right.
So and then our dark horse teams that did not make the playoffs last year and will this
year, the Broncos, the Lions for myself and for Chris, it is the Raiders and the Rams.
All right, man.
So we got them locked in.
We'll see what happens and move a report back to you at the end of the season.
All right.
So our next segment that we're going to get into is our improv segment, which is our mystery
donut.
And Chris, we have something kind of new today, man.
Okay.
What is it?
We have something kind of new.
It's called the randomizer.
So pretty much what we've been doing is we will put, you know, a scenario and an accent
or something in a hat and we choose them both and then we go for it.
Now we're using technology, the randomizer to give us different locations, scenarios,
professions, relationships on how things are working.
And guess what? it's going to give us what we have to act out.
So Chris, are you excited for the randomizer and what it may bring?
Let's do it.
And just so you guys know what the professions we're taking that character, it doesn't matter
what accent they have.
They're just going to come out.
They're just going to be a character.
Yep.
Pretty much we're going to let it flow.
That's true improv, baby.
Anyways.
All right.
So what we are going to do, let's go.
I think we should hit professions first.
What do you think?
I think we should.
So, professions.
So a computer programmer.
All right.
What location do we have?
At a country club.
So programmers at a country club.
Do we want to throw another one on top of it like we could do an emotion or an action
that's going on?
Um, programmers at a country club.
Yeah, let's do like a, I don't know, let's do an emotion or something.
Sad.
So we have.
Oh, that's great.
Sad programmers at a country club.
All right, man.
So you ready to get started with sad programmers at a country club?
All right.
I'll start us off.
Man, another freaking country club.
Why in the heck do we even bother?
I mean, that's, that's my thing.
Well, I'll tell you this, Jimmy.
As per my last email, I sent it out, making sure that the code was up to date at this
country club and making sure that they installed Windows 25.
But all I'm getting is calls about why is my computer running slow?
Why is my password changed?
Well, you know what I'm saying, if you would have read the freaking email, you would have
totally heard me.
You know, what, what, what I, what I never understand about you is I've hung out with
you outside of work and I know you have a normal voice.
I know that's not the same voice that you use outside of work.
Why would I work?
Do you sound like you have a stick up your ass?
Well, listen here, Jimmy.
Maybe it was because I was bullied and dirt-grade.
And when I use this voice, this voice gives me a sense of confidence.
It would, you would use this voice too if you've been laughed out of meetings, got a
wedgie, got your head stuck in the toilet, people through, through papers at you.
At least with this voice, I'm owning my role because everyone knows that I'm a nerd.
And I'm at least a nerd who knows what he's talking about.
So if this voice gives me a little self-confidence, I'm sorry.
Well, maybe we should all do that.
I mean, my thing is, you know, I don't even know why I'm a part of this stupid country
club.
Like, why are you a part of this stupid country club?
That's, that's really, that's really my question.
I was working on Python last week for, you know, Topgolf and they were like, you know,
are you a part of a country club?
And I said, yeah, but who the heck cares?
I mean, it's, you know, you pay a freaking thousand dollars a month.
What did they think were made of money?
Just because I make 225K as a full stack developer doesn't mean that I'm, you know, have a ton
of money and afford an expensive lifestyle.
And, you know, I can only get a Porsche.
It's not like I can get Lamborghinis.
You know what I'm saying?
Listen to hear, Jimmy, just because you don't have a choice in this, because your wife is
the mistress of the president, Jack Perry, and she's sleeping with him so that you can
get a free country club.
Listen here, buddy, some of us don't have that luxury.
Some of us have to work five jobs just to put food on our table.
And if we want to do something nice for ourselves, what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
You should choose this as a privilege.
Not a right.
You're taking it for granted.
You're peeing where you sleep.
And you know, what really hurts me in our conversation here is I just, I don't understand
why you have to bring up my wife's only fans with the president.
I mean, yes, it's making us some money, but again, no Lamborghini.
Just Porsche.
Listen here, Jimmy, you are depressing.
You are just absolutely depressing.
And my therapist said I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.
So I'm going to go over there where the happy people are.
And if you want to just sit here and rain on everybody's parade, you let it rain by yourself,
buddy.
Sounds good.
I'll just sit here and think about where I made my mistakes and the code that I did
earlier and in the rest of my life.
And that was our improv.
I think I was a little more angry than I was sad, but you had to have that.
You had to bring out the sadness.
Yeah.
That's what I was doing.
You had to bring out your sadness.
It was a great time.
So yeah, you know, that was that was pretty fun.
I like the randomizer.
Randomizer is pretty cool.
Um, it adds a little bit of couple different dimensions, you know, and imagine if we threw
some accents on top of that.
Yeah, pretty crazy.
So we'll definitely bring back the randomizer, I think.
But yeah, man, so we're on to our last segment, which is the E-Clear Donut.
I think that I went last for the time before our 90th episode first.
So I'll let you take it away.
My positive advice is no one to ask for help.
And a lot of us, we don't like to ask for help, especially us Godfearing, Texas.
We think we can do everything ourselves, God.
And the thing is, man, we need, we all need help.
There are things that we can't do on our own.
And if you try to do it on your own, you're going to be spinning your wheels and you're
going to wind up exhausted and you're going to wind up just totally out and empty and
not be able to be any use to anyone.
So it's okay to ask for help.
And as men, it's hard for us to ask for help because if we ask for help, people view us
as, oh, he's not a man.
He can't handle his business.
But the truth is we all need help sometimes.
And it's okay to ask for help and it's okay to receive help.
Everybody goes through those seasons.
But I'm of the mindset like, man, I got to help everybody else.
And that's just a detriment to me because I just be doing that so many times that I
forget to take care of my own self.
And so you just know when to ask for help.
And I'm speaking to myself.
Yeah, it could be, it could be definitely hard for sure.
And for what a lot of people don't know, a lot of these E-Clear donuts, we're talking
to ourselves a lot of the times and hopefully it's helping other people because sometimes
I don't know, man, some about the human nature.
You can talk to yourself about things or have good insights for yourself and you could pick
yourself up sometimes.
I mean, it's all in how you talk to yourself too sometimes.
All right, man, my E-Clear is, you know, a lot of people get really wrapped up and man,
I'm not doing anything to push forward.
Man I've been at this job for this long.
Man I've been a volunteer for this for two, three years and you know, they're not recognizing
me and we're not moving, I'm not moving forward anywhere, you know, things like that.
And there's two things that I want to say with that.
Sometimes there's a time for action and sometimes there's a time to be where you are.
You know, there are sometimes in life where you do want to take action and create your
own opportunities or even, you know, beseech opportunities and then there's sometimes where
you just got to grind it out and be where you're at in that moment.
And you know, sometimes it takes longer than others but you know, sometimes you're in a
season of doing and you might not be tangibly progressing, right, where you're like, man,
I got that new job with the raise or I got the promotion that I was looking for or I
got, you know, the volunteer role stepped up for me or you know, I'm now the lead in the
PTA or whatever the case may be, right.
You know, you can get that stuff but you know, it hurts when that's your goal and it doesn't
seem like you're going anywhere or getting close to it.
But like I said, sometimes it's being where you are and building up the experience because,
you know, sometimes we aren't ready for things.
Sometimes we have to build the experience first and being certain settings and environments
for a while.
You know, some people don't know it might take a year or two years might even take 10.
It's all about how you persevere and it's about how you view opportunities and it's
taking those opportunities when they come about.
But sometimes it's just about being in the moment and learning those lessons along the
way.
I think we all go back to, you know, the theme of this podcast is balance.
And so also too, it's like, if you're not getting appreciated and it's been like 10
years is like, bro, maybe it's time for you to like, peace out.
Sometimes you just throw your pearls before a swine.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Man.
Well, man, it's been a good episode.
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Well, we can go ahead and peace out.
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