Trash Camp presents Backwoods Bachelor. Last week on Backwoods Bachelor,
Cletus narrowed it down from 20 girls to 15 girls. With Charlotte winning the
tractor race, she is now in buying for first position. Let's take a look. I'm
going to take her on a steak dinner date to the buffet. You know, they got that
for the 9.99 so we're going there this weekend and I don't want y'all fighting
about it now. Listen here, Darrell. I tell you something, you better not be going and
thinking that you're his number one just because you want some steak and
tractor race. He gonna come home with me and that trucking company, that's all mine.
You better take your little grabby hands off of it. Well sister, I don't know who
the heck you think you are. I'll tell you something. Listen, that's my man. If
anybody don't have me smoke eight barbaros days, it's gonna be with him. Well,
Cletus, you have five buckets of KFC to give to the first five girls that you
feel like should get a secure spot for next week. These five girls will not
have to compete in the challenge this week. Who are you giving your five buckets
of KFC to? Oh my, it's a hard decision. Can I tell you what? I have some of this. I just, you know, I'm looking at this chicken going. I hope there's more in the back because I really want something for myself. I really don't want to be giving out of this chicken way but
I'll tell you what. You, you, you and Darla I guess and then Charlene because she's a, oh man,
all right. Yeah, you come up here get this chicken. See which five girls make it to
the next round on Backwoods Bachelor. Who's gonna get married to me? Hi, I'm Chris and
I'm Michael and this is the Donut Box podcast.
Well, we're back for another wonderful week, man. We are rolling right along. We
are almost into September. Praise the Lord. That means fall is right around the
corner. A little bit of a confession, man. People have been drinking pumpkin spice
lattes that's already been rolling out. My wife came home with a bag of those.
They're almost like candy corn but those pumpkins, those candy pumpkins and I was
like, what are you doing? It's August and it's Texas so it's still over a hundred
degrees outside so it's not fall by any stretch of the imagination. I'll just let
you know that right now. It's still a scorcher down here. Yes, it is. Well, we
hope that every bullen is doing well. We're so excited for you guys to be here
with us and we got a great episode but before that we want to thank our
listeners from all around the country. Where do we got some good listeners? We're
gonna start in the Midwest because I was starting the East Coast, West Coast or
South, whatever. So we're gonna talk about South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri.
Listen, we've also got, so I will kick it out to the West Coast. You know, we've got
California, Oregon, Washington which are all great, New Mexico, Texas and then
even down further South you go all the way to the other corner. We got
Florida, Georgia up into Mississippi all the way, I mean all the way up into the
Northeast too. I'm telling you, we got them all over the place. What about
internationally, Chris? We can't forget our friends in Canada. We also can't
forget our friends in the UK, Brussels, Belgium, Frankfurt, Germany and Ireland,
England. We love all of you guys as well as our people in the Middle East and also
our people in Australia. We appreciate you guys. Really sorry for your horrible
impressions of your accent but hey, it's fun. Exactly. We got a great episode for
you guys today and we're gonna kick it off with the old-fashioned donut which is
a story from our past and if you've been listening for a while you know that Mike
and I used to work at the boot corral and we have great stories. We worked there.
We only worked there, at least I only worked there for like a year and a half
but we met so many interesting characters and so today we're gonna do
some more boot corral part eight. I think we're on part eight of it.
We've just been making it all the way through. We're just doing the expose on
almost everybody. So you know, let's start off with a former manager of ours
and we're going to call him. What would you like to call him? We'll call him Brian.
That's what we'll call him. Brian. Okay, Brian the manager and he was kind of
the, how do I put this? There was the main general manager, then there was three
assistant managers. He was kind of the low man on the totem pole, mainly because
he was an idiot. You know what I call him? You know what John Tappert calls
these people? A stupor visor because he was dumb and he was just a
supervisor. He really wasn't a manager. He was just there to make sure that the
store didn't burn down. He was a dumb dumb. I mean I remember there was a lot of
times. So actually my first and only write-up that I ever got at the boot
crowd was because of him. Actually it was because of another guy that we had
talked about before. I don't remember what we called him, but it was the guy
with the yellow truck that worked in the back with us. You know who I'm talking
about. Oh, San Angelo? Yeah, exactly. Anyways, he basically wrote us up
because this guy had mis-tagged a bunch of jeans. Basically, you know, we were in
the back putting all the price tags on and he said, oh no, I know how to put them
on correctly and you had to match them up to the styles. I'll put it to this
way. Once you've done it for a while, you can eyeball it and say, okay, that's what
this style is and that's what this style is. But he was brand new. So he just went
to tagging and so he tags all this stuff wrong. Well, I mean this is
over a hundred pairs of jeans. So we had to pull all this off and not to mention
this was when he mis-tagged it was like 830 at night and we closed at 9. And what
they like to do is they like to count the till and be out by 915, right?
Something like that. And so we had to stay till like 10, you know, and basically
we got written up for taking store hours even though it was technically this
guy's fault for putting this guy in charge of tagging. I don't know what
he was thinking. Yeah. The only thing I really remember about Brian, I almost said
his real name. The only thing I remember about Brian is I remember somebody
said something. He was like, oh yeah, well my fiance calls me Sautrita Grande,
which means big sausage in Spanish. And I just remember thinking like, what the
heck? But here's the thing about Brian, right? Brian seemed like he was having a
stable life. Seemed like things were kind of going his way. Had a fiance that
seemed to be nice, right? But as we all know in retail stores and stuff, there is
a lot of workplace romance that are going on and people are having a lot of
affairs. Well, Brian was having an affair with one of the cashiers and it really
puzzled me because this cashier was like way out of his league. Way out of his
league. And I was like, you're choosing to have an affair with this guy? And yeah,
it was pretty bad. It was pretty bad. It was terrible. I didn't really
understand. And eventually they got found out and his fiance broke up with him.
Oh Brian there. The other thing that I remember about old Brian is we, of course,
this is when Chris and I both worked in the back doing the stocking and the
shelving and the like the jazz, getting all the things in order. You would always
cringe. And I still cringe sometimes when I hear the air brakes of an 18-wheeler
because when an 18-wheeler would pull out to the backside of that building, that
means you got a big order coming. And you never knew when these things happened.
The corporate office would just send it out there to us. And so we got, I don't
even remember how much it was. It was like 120 boxes of jeans and it was just
jeans. And it was the stock up for the holiday season. And it was a massive pile.
I mean we had the whole stock room just full of boxes. And it was so
high to get some of these boxes down. We had this big wooden stick. We
had to go and kind of lift it down and whatnot. Well we couldn't get this top
box. It could kind of have fallen and gotten cock-eyed. So old Brian decides,
give me that stick. Almost a hold my beer kind of moment. And he, you know,
chucks this stick like a spear up into the, you know, up to this box. And you
got to think, he also, it's the part that I'm leaving out, he also asked me to
stand underneath it to catch the box when it comes down. And that was my
idiot mistake for being like, yeah sure. So first the stick comes and hits me in
the face. Second, the entire pile of boxes came on top of me. You remember
that? Yeah, I remember that. And it was also hard because there wasn't that much
room in the back room. And whenever that truck would show up, it almost would be
on a Friday, like right when you were done. And you're like, oh yeah, we're done.
And whenever that truck showed up, you were guaranteed to work the weekend. You
could build a fort with the amount of boxes that came out of that truck. But
yeah, I remember that. I just remember being like, yeah, that probably wasn't the
smartest move. And I was like, how did you become a supervisor? But what I,
what I thought was great about that moment is he told me right after I got
walloped in the face, and of course they lift all the boxes off of me. I remember
Chris was super concerned like, oh my gosh, are you okay? And I was fine. Like it
was, it was no big deal. Like I didn't even have any scratches, nothing. It was
just more of a crazy experience to have an avalanche of boxes on top of you. And
he was just like, yeah, well, I hope you know, if you tell anybody you were already
fired, and he tried to do this whole like state law says that pretty much if it's
your negligence, then you're fired on the spot. And because you were staying, he
was trying to cover himself, but it was yeah, he, he was not too bright. And then
I think he either got fired or he quit. But then he tried to pretend that he was
a sales rep for a boot company. And then whenever we were a very high caliber boot
company that makes like really expensive boots, like if you can get on as a rep
for one of them, you know, that's a, that's a big deal. I'll just say that. Yeah,
but then we, then that story got uncovered when we were at boot camp and we
were like, hey, is Brian working for you guys? And they were like, who never heard
of one last story about Brian. And we screw we can spend as much time as we
want on this. It's our show. So Brian shows up one time and he's bragged about
how he had won this rodeo at one point bull riding in particular. And knowing
Brian, he was for lack of a better term, he was a B. S. Or you know, he, he really
would tell some tall tales. And so we were like, yeah, sure. And so he goes, no,
no, no, I have the buckle to prove it. And we're like, okay, we'll bring in the
buckle so we can see it. So he brings in this buckle. And ladies and gentlemen,
I'm just going to tell you something. There are buckles that you can buy at
places like the boot corral, things like that. They're nice. They're, you know,
100, 125 bucks. And you can put an engraving on them and things like that. But
real, true live events are customized, like really customized, different.
They're not going to look like the ones you just picked up from the store, if
that makes sense. And so he comes with like one that you could pick up from
the store. And it looked like he engraved it. I mean, it was a bad engraving
too. Like it wasn't even because the letter wrapping, if it's kind of in that
circular motion, you know, if it makes sense, like a half circle, like a
banner looking thing. And it looks like he took a small rotary tool or
something with a very fine in and tried to sketch it in there. But I mean, the
lettering was all off and it was like champion. And his name on the bottom,
but it didn't say what a champion it was a year, a location, anything like
that. It just had, you know, the like the little bull rider emblem on there. And
I remember we just, we called upon it was like, yeah, but he was just like, no,
I won the event. We could never get him to tell us where it was or anything
like that. Yep. That was Brian. Let's move on to our next person that we're
gonna share about. Okay. So next person's gonna be, and I'm gonna be brief on this
person. We're gonna call him Jaylin. And I don't know. This guy was a little
interesting. He, how would you, how would you describe him? Like, I know you
didn't really know him, but like, what were, how would you describe him?
Imagine if a homeschooler kid who had never had any freedom before.
No, no, no, a homeschooler that was raised by his grandparents, like who'd never
had freedom entered into the real world. But when I say real world, like working
world, right? Like didn't go to college with nothing wrong with that. Experimented
with a few drugs and here's where he's at life now. Would you, would you say that's
what that's where he is? All right. So, and there was this other person and, you
know, we don't really talk about her because she wasn't a, you know, didn't
really do anything character wise. I have a name for her, but we're not gonna call
her that. We'll call her Marilyn. All right, Marilyn, there you go. All right, so we
all decide there's a lake outside of town and it's about an hour drive and we
all decide, you know, it's Friday night. Let's go down to the lake and, you know,
pack the cool and full beer, go down to the lake and have a good time. So it was me,
Jaylin and Marilyn and we took my truck, drove down there and, you know, had a
few beers, had a good time. You know, I'm not gonna lie, I like Marilyn, but I'll
be honest. Jaylin was like infatuated with her and so we're out there fishing and
whatnot and I mean we're not catching anything and I mean we're like late into
the night. It's like one or two in the morning and you got to think this lake
is in a canyon and so it's extremely dark and where the dock is sometimes it's
50, 60 foot down and so we're sitting on the dock just kind of talking and this
dude just starts stripping his clothes off. Just straight starts stripping his
clothes off and we're going, what in the heck are you doing? And he's like, you
know, why don't y'all come with me and we're gonna go skinny dipping. It's like,
yeah, heck no. Not gonna do that in the, you know, dark canyon nasty water that is
this place and so he proceeds to jump in and I want, you know, he had had quite a
bit to drink obviously and you know, he dives in there and it just terrified me
because it's, like I said, it's pitch black water. You can't see him at all and
he goes down and bubbles are coming up but he's not coming up and so I, there
for a split second you're sitting here going, man, I'm gonna have to dive in
after him and try to find him like what, you know, what's going on. Finally he
comes up, he's calling me to come in here. You know, meanwhile, Maryland just
mortified because this dude was not a, he was a very dumb and nasty dude. Like
he's not a, I don't know. He wasn't a good looking guy at all. At all. So
shortly thereafter she's like, yeah, I'm ready to go home and I was like, yeah, I
totally get you. So we drove back and I just remember they both fell asleep on
me and around like about an hour out and man it was a such a hard drive. The other
dumb part before we move on from Jalen is there was this girl and I kid you not,
this girl will call her anyways. So he actually got her name tattooed on him.
Wasn't dating her or anything. Do you remember that? No, I don't remember that
at all. Literally she signed her signature somewhere. He was trying to get with her
and she signed her signature somewhere. He's like, oh my gosh, it's so beautiful.
Like I'm gonna get that tattooed on me and she thought it was a joke and he
literally took her to a tattoo parlor, had her do one of the little tattoo sheets
with her signature and got a tattooed on his chest. That's wild, bro. Crazy.
He was dumb. Alright, we'll speed through the other thing. Yeah, just real quick
because there's only a couple of stories. We can use Sam's name. I don't think
he'll mind. So our boy Sam, we got to talk about him. Man, he was a big
swole dude. Super fun to be around but no particular stories with him besides the
fact that he would do things like, you know, he would like fart in his cowboy hat
and like, you know, put it down by his back and fart in it. Then he would scoop it
and put it in people's face. It was pretty great. And then there was
like some other things. He was a big wrestling fan so he'd be trying to
wrestle in moves on and stuff but he would hide. There was like this little
cove area where the belts were and you kind of hide back there and so he would
wait till you're walking by there and he would smack the mess out of your chest.
If he knew it was you, he would just smack the mess out of your chest. He would
always let you get him back though, like at a certain point, but it was always
it was always real fun. And then yeah, he was just a fun dude, man. I enjoyed
hanging out with him. He made, he was one of those dudes that made work fun, you know.
And he was actually like a real cowboy. Oh yeah, he did a lot of that stuff. I mean,
after he left, he went and ranched again for a while. So, but I know he got a lot
of injuries doing some of that stuff. But yeah, that's our boy Sam. So, if you
listening, shout out. Alright, last one. We could probably use his name too because
he don't know we're talking about him because I know he's listening. Oh yeah.
He's a Donut Box OG. Yes, he is. And we know that shortly after posting this, he's
probably listening to it. So, Mr. Zack, you know, all what I'm gonna say is our
boy Zack, we used to work in the back together and super hard worker. He's from,
he's from this little, little town. We used to give him grief about that. But I'll
tell you this much. This man, we used to love some Genghis grill. I don't know what
it was about Genghis grill. Like, to me, it was pretty good. It was okay. But this
man was like, we're gonna go to Genghis grill. I think we went for a week straight
one time. And it was after we got back from a boot camp too. Because we would
always go to Genghis grill on a boot camp, I feel like. And so I think he went,
he was like, this place is great. Found out there was one there in town. So man,
we just tore that place out. The waitresses knew us by name. And I think
they got a little annoyed at us coming in so often. But hey, it was, it was real
fun. That place closed down now. So, yes it did. Yes it did. But yeah, he's a cool
dude. So we know you're listening. Shout out to you, my friend. Hope you're doing
well out there. BMN, that's part eight. Good stuff, pal. Great stuff. See, we could,
we could talk about that forever. I'm just sitting over here like, dang, we already
had 20, 20 minutes. That felt like nothing. Sir, yep, it's good. So I think we're gonna
segue into our next segment, which is the jelly doughnut. And that's our jail
report. This jelly doughnut, it's all about cookie
cops. All about cops that got arrested for doing bad stuff. I've been watching the
show called Betraying the Badge. And it's all about dirty cops. And so I think it
would be interesting to see it from the other side of the tracks, right? Not all
cops are dirty, but you know, there's a couple of bad apples on the wrong side of
the badge. This one, these two guys, they, in the 80s and 90s, they actually worked
for the mafia as hit men for the mob. And this was in New York. And these two
officers, Stephen and Lewis, they committed at least eight murders for the
Lucacee crime family, accepting 375,000 to leak information and to take out mob
enemies. So they actually worked for the NYPD's organized crime homicide unit in
Brooklyn. So which is actually kind of funny because they were doing the
opposite of what their job entailed. But apparently Lewis was related to several
prominent crime family members, but he never mentioned it on his application. So
while working for the Lucacee family's boss, Anthony, both of them tracked down
and murdered prominent members of rival families. But their spree wasn't limited
to just mobsters. They also killed a diamond dealer, a painter's union leader,
and a man suspected of leaking mob secrets to law enforcement. But here's where
they got caught. In the mid 90s, they made a mistake when Stephen was asked to
hunt down one of Anthony's enemies, a man named Nicholas Guido, and he pulled the
address of a different innocent Nicholas Guido and he killed the wrong Nicholas
Guido. Wrong Guido. Yep. In the mid 90s, massive crackdowns led to arrests in
every major New York crime family. And these guys moved to Las Vegas, claiming
they were tired from mob activity while actually dealing drugs and
unsuccessfully playing the murders of former mobsters to protect their past.
Apparently in the end though, Anthony, the crime family boss, he snitched on both
the cops and that's how they got caught. It's pretty crazy, but I will say this.
It doesn't surprise me, you know, there's got to be a way that these
families keep operating and that's to keep people in law enforcement. Yep. You
got to keep them in your pocket. All right, this next one. This guy is
called, his name is Rafael Perez and he's the dirty cop who stole $800,000 worth
of cocaine and he's actually the inspiration for the movie Training Day.
So Denzel Washington and the writers modeled this character after this guy.
So in 1995, Rafael Perez quickly earned a reputation for being an aggressive
officer who kept his ear to the ground as a member of LAPD's Crash, which is
Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums. It was an anti-gang task force.
Man, you got to love the dang acronyms. I don't know. So he was working primarily
at night with minimal supervision and he had absolute power and authority and
apparently him and his partner actually shot and framed an unarmed 19-year-old
gang member named Javier that left him paralyzed from the waist down. So do you
remember in the movie the Snoop Dogg character that was in the wheelchair?
Well, that's who that guy is based off of, right? So there was also rumors that
the LAPD were working with Death Row Records who was owned by Sug Knight. So
yeah, apparently they thought that there was security. Apparently Perez stole six
pounds of cocaine from an evidence room on March 27th in 98. Detective's
attention turned on him. In May of that year, the LAPD created an internal
investigation that was focused on prosecuting Perez. The task force
investigators arrested Perez on August 25th, 1998 and the first thing Perez said
was, is this about the bank robbery? Apparently there was a bank robbery that
happened earlier that year where three men stole $722,000 from the Los Angeles
branch of America, a Bank of America and so they found that he was guilty of it.
So yeah, man, that's where that character comes from from inspiration from
training day. Getting a bunch of side money apparently. Yeah, man, it's crazy.
I actually liked that movie and I'm like, even though Denzel Washington is like a
bad guy in them, I really like his performance in it, but I think it's a
good movie. It's one of my favorites. Listen, Denzel's a great actor. Did you know
they're making the Equalizer 3? I think that's gonna be his final one and then,
not his final movie, but his final Equalizer and yeah, so it's gonna be
interesting to see him in that. I'll tell you what, we're on a Denzel thing, but I think
Book of Eli was really, really good too. That was a good movie. Very good. Alright,
I will save the other stories for next time, but yeah, Crooked Cops, man, it's
always crazy when you hear those stories. It's interesting to hear, right? Oh,
heck yeah, because you always, you know, I was here about cops arresting people, but
you know they'd be doing bad, so it's always nice to hear a little bit of
justice coming at you. But yeah, man, you ready to move on to the next segment? Yeah,
man, and I think you're gonna like this because we are doing an office trivia
part too, and I made the questions even harder. Oh man, let's do this thing. For
those of y'all that have not listened to that episode, Michael went 10 for 10 on
the office trivia, and so I decided this time I'm gonna beef up the questions and
see if I can get him to not get one. Man, this is gonna be interesting. Alright, are
you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Let's do it. Alright, question number one. What did
Kelly give out at her America's Got Talent Watch party as gifts? A, sweaters, B,
coffee mugs, C iPods, or D mini TVs? B, coffee mugs with people's faces on it.
That is absolutely correct. There you go. Alright, next one. Who got banned for life
from Chili's? A, Todd Packer, B, Meredith, C, Michael Scott, or D Pam? D Pam, she had
too much good time at the Dundee's. Dang, I thought I was gonna stop, stump you with
that one. Alright, let's see if this heats up. Number three. Which Harry Potter book
did Dwight say he would bring on a deserted island? A, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone? B, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? C, Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban? Or D, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? So he changed his answer, but I'm
pretty sure it was C, Azkaban, because he started off with Sorcerer's Stone, then he
sent Azkaban. Yup, that is exactly right. Man, I don't know how much harder I can bake
this, or you're just a... I'm seeing this too much apparently. You should go to those
office trivia nights, man. I think you would win some money for sure. Is that a thing?
That's a legit thing. Can you win money? Yeah, I think you can win money if you win it all
the way. Alright, number four. What is Dwight's all-time favorite movie? A, Schindler's List?
B, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back? C, The Crow or D, Lord of the Rings? C, The Crow.
Hang man, I didn't think you would get that one. Alright, number five. What does Dwight
say is the scariest animal? A, a lemur? B, a jellyfish? C, Prang Mantis or Diaz Sloth?
Oh man, I actually don't know this one, I don't think. I'm gonna say Diaz Sloth, but
I think it's wrong. That's false, it's actually a box jellyfish that he said was the scariest
animal. So I did get one wrong. You got me on one of them here. Yup, I don't know if
you'll get this next one though. This one is kinda, I think it's in season seven, so
I'm not sure. In one of the episodes, the cast, or sorry, the cast of the office shows
up to Andy's performance in a musical. Which musical did Andy star in? A, Sweeney Todd?
B, Grease? C, Sound of Music or D, Cats? It's Sweeney Todd. It is Sweeney Todd. Good
job. I didn't think he'd get that one. Cause Michael didn't get a part. Set number seven.
What is not one of the impressions that Michael Scott does in the office series? What is not
one of the impressions that he does? A, Chris Rock? B, Michael Jackson? C, Eddie Murphy?
Or D, Richard Pryor? It's gotta be Eddie Murphy, cause he did Richard Pryor I'm pretty sure.
It's actually Richard Pryor, he did do Eddie Murphy, cause he be like Shred, I'm a dokey
shrek? That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Cause I definitely know
he did, he definitely did the Chris routine. We definitely know that. I actually watched
that episode last week. It was kind of funny. Diversity date. That's one of my favorites.
I actually liked the Dundee's one too. I think that one's one of my favorite, like
the first Dundee's. Which, which are the first Dundee's? The one that, the one that
Pam gets really drunk at? What is Dwight's favorite TV show? A, 24, B,
Battlestar Galactica? C, Heroes or D, Stargate Enterprise? Battlestar Galactica. Yes sir.
Which I've never, I've never seen it. I've never seen it. When Michael goes to New York
to interview for the corporate job, which celebrity does he see? Does he not see that
walks by? Okay. Do you understand the question? I can, I can tell you before you ask this.
Who is it? Conan O'Brien. Yes sir. Okay.
He thought he saw Tina Fey. He thought he did. That was going to be one of the choices
out there. Alright. Number 10. And what subject is Meredith PhD? A, school psychology, B, physics,
C, family studies or D, teaching? It was physics, right? Nope. It's school psychology. And that's
ironic because her son's terrible. Yep. Exactly. Well, that was pretty good. You only got two
wrong man. You really do know your office stuff. I mean, those two are like very bizarre.
Well, and I think found out about Meredith PhD like in the later seasons, right? Because
I'll be honest, I'm really good office stuff, but up until about Michael leaves in a little
bit after that. Yeah, we won't talk about that. That's a whole thing. It's not what
fries my doughnuts. That's next, but it's not about the office. Well, that's a great segue
into what fries my doughnuts. So Michael, what fries your doughnuts? Oh, people trying
to impose their will, even though you tell them straight up here's what I want to do.
There's a listen, I've already said this a few times. I'm pretty sure I probably have
gone on this right before. But this time, I'm just going to let you know, it is okay
for people to not want to celebrate holidays or personal holidays or things like that.
It is okay for that or birthdays or birthdays. That's what I mean by personal holidays. We'll
just we'll just bust into this thing, right? So I'll be honest, I had a birthday not too
long ago. Some years are okay. And what I mean by that, some years are like, Yeah, I
want to celebrate through something nice. This was one of those years to where I don't
know, it's busy. There's a lot going on. I just really didn't want to do anything. It's
just another day of the week. Don't feel anything special. So let's just, you know, great, let's
move on, right? Oh, man. When you tell people that, it's like, you get the opposite effect.
I kid you not, I had people coming out the woodwork. Oh, happy birthday, happy birthday,
happy birthday. I intentionally did not tell my office, right? Like everybody at work didn't
tell them nothing. And I had to go up there. And wouldn't you know it, man? Somebody saw
that it was going to be it on the calendar. And it's like, Why didn't you tell us? Why
didn't you tell us we were going to have a party then when you tell them like, Hey, it's
not that big of a deal. I just didn't want it to be a big deal. You know, I just it's
just another day of the week, man, they're just like, That's so sad. That's so sad. And
then all of a sudden it's like, Next thing you know, it's like, he's depressed. It sucked
it's rock with him. It's like, Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, what I'm telling you is some days
and some years, yeah, go all out. But you know, this year was a Friday where I'm turning
the new age. It wasn't a big of a deal. Like I don't know. And it's just a lot of times
it's tradition for tradition's sake. And I'm not going to go after Christmas or kind
of, but that's part of what I don't like about Christmas. Christmas is become such a corporate
holiday. It's really not what it's supposed to be about. Like say right now, most people
if I say, you know, my family is not exchanging gifts for Christmas, everybody's like, Oh,
my gosh, that's so sad. That's it's man, you don't necessarily have to do that. Now, it's
very nice to do that. But people get so bent out of shape when it's not that perfect mold
of what it's supposed to be in their mind. And you know, especially like a birthday,
it's supposed to be this big thing for me. Birthdays aren't that big of a deal. You know,
the people in my life, I'll be 100% honest with you, the people in my life that give
me, you know, the best, I got to have the best relationships with, I guess, the best way
I can put it. They celebrate me 365 days a year, not just one day of the year, you know,
one of the best things I ever did was I took my birthday off of Facebook, right? Because
it really shows how many people really do know. And the thing is, it doesn't really
matter when it comes really down to it. Most people don't know it's your birthday. Most
people don't know. And that's okay. And for me, that's where I was at this year was just
like, Listen, I want it to be low key. I don't want anything to happen. But to get back to
what fries my donuts, you know, I was taken to a dinner where I was promised because like
I told everybody, Listen, I don't want a party. I don't want to celebration. I, you know,
if we're going to go to dinner, you know, it's that we made it through the work week.
Let's just celebrate the fact that we made it through the work week. And you know, that's
about it. Boy, birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday, birthday, what man, you know, let's
give you your gifts. Let's do this. It's like, man, what I tell y'all, what I tell y'all,
I don't know that really, that really fires me up because it's like, it's a very simple
ask. I totally get it, man, because it's like, you asked me what I want for my birthday.
And I told you, I don't want it to be a big deal. That's what I want. Or when people,
when people are like, how can you go to the movies by yourself? How can you go to dinner
by yourself? That's so sad. That's so depressing. And you're like, not really not for me. Maybe
that's depressing for you. Maybe it's depressing for you to not celebrate on your birthday.
But it's like, for me, totally cool with it, man, totally cool with it. But that's the
thing. People are like, they want, it's like they're almost living vicariously through
you. It's like, they want what they want. They don't really care about what you want.
And it's like, when you tell them what you want, they're like, no, you don't want that.
But I just told you what I want. I don't get it.
And you know, they try to make it out. Like a lot of what made it out is just like, listen,
you don't know, and this is for your own good that we're going to do this. And it's like,
is it really for my own good or is it just making me mad at you? I mean, what it really
is what it really boils down to is it's about them because they want to make themselves
feel better because they feel like if they don't do something for your birthday, then
they're an awful person. Right. So it's more about them than it is about you.
Which it is sad, but it's just, it's real, it's real simple. And I'll just, you know,
I'll just shout out the rude ones in my life. Whenever I told them and Chris is one of them,
my lovely wife is another. But you know, when I told them, hey, listen, you know, this
year ain't the year. We're going to do something else next year. You know, Chris sent me a
gift and he sent me a text on the day just like, I hope you enjoy the day. That's perfect,
man. Can't ask for any more or any less than that. You acknowledged it. But at the same
time, you didn't make this big old deal about it. You know, I had people literally called
me multiple times and then they were upset with me. It's like, man, why didn't you answer
my call? It's like, because I told you, I don't, when I say I don't want a big deal.
I don't want the calls with the singing and all the other stuff. You know what I mean?
Anyways, I didn't get off. Yeah, I totally get that. And that's why I didn't make a post
on Facebook. I didn't do that. I didn't shout it out on the podcast because I was like,
man, I know he doesn't want that. Like he doesn't want that attention. And that's totally
cool, man. Like if you don't want that, that's like totally cool. Some people are different.
But you got to respect what people ask for. You got to respect their boundaries. And just
because it's not your cup of tea, doesn't mean that you have to push and impose your
will. Or that anything is wrong with the person. I think that was the biggest thing too was,
you know, it was the assumption of like, oh, something must be wrong with him. No, nothing's
wrong with me. It's just the, just the way I feel. Everybody's got their own feelings.
But anyways, man, that's what fries my donuts. And I'm ready to move to something more fun,
like improv. Let's do it, man. And I'm just going to be straight out honest with you guys.
We're not picking nothing out of the hat. We're not doing a randomizer. We're just doing
this. We haven't rehearsed this. We know what accent we want to do. And we know the location,
what location we want to do. And it's been as Christopher pointed, it's been stirring
in our spew. No, the word I use was I said, it's been marinating in my spirit. That's
what I said. It's been stewing. It's been cooking for a good minute. And so the location
first is the casino. Gotta love the casino and it's our wonderful preacher of voices.
What do you think, Chris? I'm excited for this. I think it's great. I think it's going
to be good. I'm ready. Are you ready? Oh, I'm ready. Okay, I'll start. Oh, oh, past
the judge. We're here today at the Lucky Stripes Casino. And I'm feeling a boss spirit. That
the Lord wants to bless me today. It says in Proverbs that the man may cast the dice,
but the Lord chooses where they fall. And I'm going to cast them dice and he's going
to make it fall on a seven or he's going to make it fall on a 11. Can I get an amen?
Amen, brother. And I'll tell you this in Proverbs two, it says the blessing of the Lord brings
wealth without the painful toil. And so what I'm going to tell you is when I'm at the blackjack
table, I'm going to be asking the Lord to return the ace and return the 10 so that I
can reap my reward without the toil. Can I get an amen on that one? Let me get an amen.
I might be going over to them slot machines and I'm filling in my spirit. Then I'm going
to get three fruits and I'm not talking about the fruit of the spirit, but I'm talking about
those three little red cherries. I'm going to make that ding, ding sound and it's going
to be a good day. Oh, oh, pastor chambers. It's been, oh, it's been really marinating
on my soul. I got to talk about what's in numbers and I'm not talking about the numbers
on the big key no board. I'm going to talk about what happens in numbers. It says that
the Lord is pleased with us. Oh, sweet Jesus, that he shall bring us into the land and give
it to us. A land that flows of milk and honey. Say it again, milk and honey. And you know
what else he said? He said in Matthew, for where you, for where the treasure is, your
heart will be there also. And last time I checked my heart, the rest of my body is here
today. So that means the treasure is mine. The treasure is mine. Say it to the Lord.
And it says that with the devil, God can turn for good. And the devil might make to give
me a three and it might give me a 10. But the Lord's going to turn that into a 21 black
check. Can I get an A-B? Amen. I tell you this much. One more thing. Just as Solomon had
the wives and the cocky binds, what I have to tell you right now is I've been very impressed
with the women that I've seen in the casino today. But you know, it's not good to toss
the line of love into a pool that is sewage. But I'll tell you this much. I'm taking applications
for wives and cocky binds. But Brother Demrease is picky. So don't expect anything. I'm telling
you, brother, I gotta get this set. Or I gotta get this 11. Because I need some money. Because
I might have an alimony paper. I might have a Ferrarian paper. I might have an Air Force
One paper. And I need the Lord to provide that. And a from the casino machine. So that I can
make those papers. Oh, I feel you, brother. I feel like we need to pray and pray it through
right now. You ready to start? Let's go. Dear God, we come here today at the Lucky Stripes
Casino. Lord, we come to you. We ask for favor. We ask for favor at the horse track. We ask
for favor at the Blackjack table. We ask for favor at the slot machines, Lord God. I pray
that you would not just give us the proof of the spirit, but that you would give us
the proof of them little red cherries so that I can make my alipony payment this week. And
Lord, just as you said, you will provide a manna from heaven. You provide even though
I just took out the last $200 that this minister has. I guarantee that the Lord will multiply
because he knows his humble servant has given the tithes and the offerings. So I pray the
blessings of the Lord as I crisp this $200 in my hand. And we're going to go to the highways
and the bowways if we have to. And we're going to gamble at the different casinos. And we're
going to switch it up. It don't have to be the Lucky Stripes. It could be the triple
seven down the road. It could be the monarch casino and result. It could be anywhere on
the street. But I tell you this much, Lord, I guarantee because all I feel it in my bones
that you're going to give us a bussing tonight. Blessings in manna. Amen. Oh, God. People say
hey. And that was our improv segment. Hey, we're not being blasphemous or making fun
of preachers that we grew up with. Man, I grew up with people that were like that.
It was just like, man, your theology is way off. You're using God's name for some bad
stuff. Yeah. Basically, they would be able to apply it. The biggest part of that joke
to, especially with like the scriptures and stuff like that is they would take these little
snippets of a scripture and like apply it to something that they're doing that's just
terrible. And you're sitting here called. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not what it's
supposed to be. But anyways, yeah, so we're going to move on to our last segment, which
is our E. Clair. E. Claire segment. That's our positive advice. And so, buddy, what do
you got for us when starting a change? And you know, there's a lot of times in life where
you like man, any change something, whether that be a routine, whether it be something
big like a career, whether it be housing, whatever it may be relationships, it's easy
to go all in and say, I'm going to change everything. I'm going to literally strip out
all the old go in with the new make a complete change. It's important to remember if you're
going to change anything in your life, see what you already have set up. A lot of the
times you've already done work in some area of your life there. So the biggest thing is
see what pieces you have in place and what you can, you know, nothing's wrong with that.
Like taking, for example, the routine, right? Daily routines can be hard, and especially
to get in them and then to stay consistent. A lot of the times, you know, sometimes you'll
try one, it doesn't necessarily work, you know, you need to make a change. Well, the
biggest thing is maybe there are some aspects of that schedule that you were saying, man,
you know, that actually worked pretty well. I liked getting up at this time. I liked making
breakfast for myself and doing this. And then you find the areas where it didn't quite work
and that's where you make the change. But a lot of the times are biggest, I guess, instinct
is to go, well, that didn't work. Let's just trash the entire thing and start over. And
I'm here to tell you, you don't have to start over a lot of the times. Most of the time,
if you've tried something, you've already done the work or at least accomplished a little
bit of something than what you're looking for. So just just see what you already have
and try to make those pieces work. Yeah, for sure, man. Mine is, I know it's
not Thanksgiving, but man, we got to stop and be thankful and look at our life and
count our blessings and see all the things that we have. Because a lot of times we go
through life and we're like, oh, man, my life sucks. Or we look on social media and we're
like so and so has a better life than me, right? But when you stop and actually think
about it, think about, man, I got food. I got a car. I got clothes. Like I have more
than, you know, one pair of shoes. Like think about all the stuff you have and like you're
like, I'm in good health. You know, I have family. I have friends. And when you start
thinking about all that stuff, you can really see that your glass really is a lot poorer
than you thought it was. And I used to always hate when I was having a bad day when people
were like, well, someone else is having it worse than you. But it's like, it's really
true. And I know that doesn't help all the time. But when you're thankful, you start
to look at the glasses more full instead of looking at it as empty. So just remember
to count your blessings and be thankful and you realize that your life is a lot cooler
than you think it is. Yeah, heck yeah. And I mean, even in those hard days, sometimes
it's even good to look at personal growth in whatever facet because listen, you're a
better person than you were just just a few weeks ago, just a few years ago. So, you know,
it's good to look back and say, man, you know what, we've we've come a good, good portion
of a way. Even if you've regressed in some departments, definitely have learned some
lessons along the way that you can relish in. But yeah, man, so let's talk about the
exciting stuff. We're going to talk about the website. We're going to talk about some
other things. But what else are we going to talk about, man? Oh, you want to tell them
about the new thing that we just finished working on? Oh, man. So we have an animated
show that we literally just got a first part done with. And we want to set a date on one
that's going to go live, Chris. Yeah, man. Tell them when it's going to go live. Oh,
I'm sorry. Okay. Here it is. Be looking for it on September. Should we do it on September
11? No, that's kind of bad. That's kind of bad. September 18, September 18, that Monday,
that Monday. So we can do it on that Monday. I'll put a countdown timer on TV trash can
dot com, our website there. And so we'll have that counting down. Let's give a preface
of what it is. And for those of you who have seen the show and Chris kind of made it alluded
to it a little earlier, John Taffer and bar rescue. This isn't the same thing, but it
is. It's our concept of a show in an animated form called church rescue. And it talks about
a church that is going under in the first part of how it will get rescued. Don Churchill,
watch it. It's going to be great. It's our first animated video. Of course, we have the
more parts coming out soon. So be looking for that. Church rescue part one, September
18th. Look for that. And we'll drop the other two parts after that. So be looking forward
to that. Man, it's going to be great. Super excited about that stuff. But yeah, TV trash
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