What do you say Private Pile?
Sir Jelly Donuts, sir!
Uh, Jelly Donuts!
Hi, welcome back to our radio show.
Make over my money with your host Dave Scamsey.
Let's go over to Dave's to see how he's gonna help people get out of their mess this month.
Hi, I'm Dave Scamsey. We're gonna go to the phones.
Alright, let's go to the phone first, Colin.
Uh, yeah, I have ended up in $400,000 in debt.
I may or may not have gone to-
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
$400,000!
Let's talk about that a little bit.
What's your financial situation?
And, uh, how did we get into this debt?
Yeah, see, I was hustling a guy in a game of pool
and I may or may not have run into a loan shark
that may or may not have worked for the mob
and he said that if, uh, I get a couple of jobs for him,
you know what I'm saying? He would help bring down the debt,
but, uh, it's about $400,000.
I understand. How many points are we talking?
Is it- does it have a growing interest?
Yeah, it's at about a, uh, 500% interest,
so, uh, the rate, the loan rate is not too good.
There's only a few things I have to say for you, sir.
One, you're going to die.
Okay, go ahead and terminate the call. Next caller.
Yeah, I'm just calling because I'm really freaked out
because I'm like, I think just $100 in debt.
Um, I normally pay off my credit cards,
but I just couldn't pay it off this month
and I'm just $100 in debt.
I just need some help to know how to pay off that debt.
Okay, okay, okay, okay. And what was your name again?
My name is Dale Evans.
Do you see the inside of restaurants a lot?
I do. Me and my wife actually like to go out
to a lot of restaurants and eat.
Well, you better get used to it
because you're going to need a second and a third job.
That's what I have to say for you.
Hundred and- oh my goodness.
You shouldn't have been in it in the first place.
Where'd you get that $100?
I know it wasn't a credit card.
If you followed in my programs,
you wouldn't have a credit card at all.
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
My 20 year old outdated practice has tell me
that that's not what happens.
Well, most hotels need a credit card,
so that's why I did.
Thanks for listening to Make Over My Money
with your host, Dave Scamsey.
Hi, I'm Chris.
And I'm my good.
And this is the Donut Box podcast.
Well, buddy, it's October and it's episode 98 for us.
Two more away from 100.
It's crazy to think, but I'm excited.
Me too. I am too.
And man, I can't believe we're creeping towards 100.
It's incredible.
We're almost there.
We got some big things planned for that,
but that's in a couple of weeks.
Super excited for it.
But man, super excited for everybody
that's listening from here and around the world.
Where are some of the places they're listening from, man?
Well, we actually have people listening in Africa,
Australia, over there, and France,
in the UK, in England, in Ireland, in Belgium.
Man, we've been really big in Canada lately.
Our Canadian listeners have been growing more and more.
We're actually big in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia,
New York, Virginia is always a big one.
Where else?
I'll tell you what's really, really weird.
Going back to Canada right quick,
I'd be getting some Canadian humor,
so maybe they'd be getting us.
I don't know. Who knows?
But anyways, so of course we got our home state of Texas,
down south, Georgia, we got Florida, New Mexico,
man, we even got the West Coast, California.
You already said Oregon, Washington, but yeah,
we appreciate it, man.
We appreciate all over the place.
Well, let's hop into our first segment,
which is the Old Fashioned Donut,
which is a story from our past.
Now, if you've been listening for any length of time,
you'll know that me and Micah grew up in church.
And we used to have this thing once we got
into middle school.
They're called small groups now
that meet in people's homes,
but back then they called them cell groups.
This was when that idea was first coming about.
Basically what it is is like,
of course you go to church on Sunday mornings,
but then you would meet in people's houses
throughout the week to get more Bible study.
And so we would have youth, I think, on Wednesday nights,
and then we would have a small group that we went to.
And we were actually part of the first ever small groups
that were launched at our church.
Now, I will say this,
Chris was a part of it a little bit more before I was.
So, okay, here's the story.
I failed the fourth grade,
so there was fourth grade the first time,
and the second time, maybe I've said this before.
So anyways, Chris got to go one year before me
because it started in middle school.
So he got a year's worth of experience.
I did, I did.
And our first small group leader, his name was Tony.
We actually followed him through a small group
until we got to seniors in high school.
And so tell him a little bit about small group time
at Tony's house that you remember.
Cause did you, you first started at Tony's, and then you went
to the other leader that started his cell group, right?
He that shall not be named.
Well, not like it's a bad thing,
but it's a source subject, I guess, but not really.
But anyways, so started over at Tony's,
and it was a pretty cool time, man.
It was a time where, I guess it was my first experience
getting to hang out with people from different schools.
Like he kind of did with church, but not really.
Like I feel like a lot of our friend group,
like yeah, you went to a different school,
but I feel like a lot of them either went to a private school
or Christian school, or like I felt like they weren't
necessarily different school as in like public school,
same county kind of thing, right?
Would you say?
I guess, I don't know.
I just know it was always me and you hanging out.
There were, there were rotating friends that came in
and out of our friend group, but yeah.
I do, what I do know is that we would have pizza
every single Thursday night, and he would get little Caesars,
but he would charge us, was it a dollar a slice
or was it like two bucks a slice?
It was a dollar a slice.
Two, I wouldn't, yeah, two would have been too much,
but it was a dollar a slice.
And the pizza itself cost five bucks.
So my man was making capital money on that.
He really was, he was making a profit off of the,
but you also have to think not everybody would bring
a dollar, but they would still eat pizza anyway.
And so I was like, hey, you can't eat pizza.
Yeah, you gotta pay for their share.
You gotta pay for their share.
I remember a few of them little punks
paying for their share anyways.
But you know, it was interesting because sometimes,
you know, we were all pretty good friends,
I would say at some point, but you would do things together.
Like we would go, sometimes we would go play football
out in like a field or something, go play basketball.
I remember there was like a bunch of people
that were into archery and weirdly enough,
we went behind the guy's house
and he had a archery range back there.
But he like lived in this little town house.
So it was kind of, it was kind of weird.
Yeah, it was like, maybe he just like assumed that air.
I mean, nobody was really back there, but still anyways.
So, you know, we would do cool stuff like that.
But of course there was the Christian aspect to it.
It was essentially like a Bible study.
And come to think of it, do you find it weird at all that?
Cause do you remember the philosophy
of what they were talking about with cell groups
and things like that?
It was almost like a pyramid scheme sounding.
Like they were talking about all the different cells
flowing upwards and then,
cause our leaders had a cell group with like other leadership
and it kind of flowed upwards all the way to the top
and almost like in, you keep branching out
and that's how you keep gaining members.
Do you remember they talked about that whole deal?
But I mean, it's like with anything,
it's growth is good, right?
Like, so I think the whole concept was like,
you go from the biblical teaching about like
making disciples, right?
Cause Jesus made disciples that made disciples
that made disciples.
So it's like, that's, I didn't find it too weird.
It's not that weird to me.
It wasn't like, oh, you have to be part of our church
to go to heaven.
That's when it gets culty.
But I do remember that,
and now having been an adult and having had hosted
a group of middle school boys in my house, man,
like props off to them.
I know the way that they did keep us in line
is Tony would have a towel and he would pop us with a towel
if anybody got out of line.
And so we usually stayed in line pretty good.
But then there was another one of the adult leaders
that wanted to start a group of middle school boys
that wanted to start his own middle school cell group.
Like, let's say, let's say he was kind of like the assistant
for in Tony's group for there for a while.
Yeah, he decided he was going to start his own.
Him and Tony were good friends.
And they were like, yeah, we're looking for new people
to go to that group.
And what did me and Micah look at that as?
As an opportunity to goof off.
Cause we were like, ooh, if we're in this cell group,
he's not going to care as much.
So we get to basically do whatever we want.
And that's pretty much what happened.
We were right.
That's exactly what happened.
We goofed off so much in that small group.
I mean, I'm telling you, do you want
to tell them about the stories about some of the stuff
that you would do in that small group?
So one, we played all sorts of video games.
And I'll just say this, it wasn't like they
were extremely bad video games.
But they were just video games we didn't necessarily
have access to.
Like Guitar Hero was one of them.
The other one was a game called Pain.
Do you remember that game?
Yes.
Pain is basically a human slingshot.
So you are slingshotting this human being in this city.
And you're trying to get him to hit as many objects
or as many people as possible or break as many bones as possible.
It was actually a pretty fun game.
Like we would aim for like this subway place.
And we would take out this grandma that was like walking
with a walker.
And so we were just like, yeah, we loved this game, Pain.
But we would just goof around.
We really wouldn't listen in small group.
We would wrestle.
Like I remember there was a whole thing.
We would definitely wrestle.
Those were also the times where we decided
to act out my uncle's divorce with a stuffed bear
and the small group leader's dog.
And we would just reenact some scenes
that I knew about my uncle's divorce and we dramatize it.
I don't know why, but our other small group members
sounded very entertaining.
And they joined in on it.
And they wanted to be different roles in the story
of my uncle's divorce.
Was it because we were just that bored?
Like I think because, you know, I don't know.
So what ended up happening?
It's not like the dude was a bad guy or anything.
What happened was he had a very demanding job at the time.
So he took on this role of being a youth leader.
And I don't think he realized how much that entailed,
especially since it was, I mean, it was once a week,
but it was still like he would come,
he would basically come home and be like,
do whatever you want.
Tired.
He would just like chill out.
Yeah.
He would just like, all right, let's just hang out.
We didn't really do a lot of small group stuff.
And there were times where we would go to the old small group
Tonys because they lived just right across the street
from each other.
And we would go over there and we would combine small groups
sometimes.
I think those were the nights where he was especially tired.
I know this is bad, but I would always be kind of
disappointed to be like, dang it, we're actually doing stuff
tonight.
But we enjoyed it.
We enjoyed that because we were like, yeah,
we get to just hang out, get to do whatever we want.
I mean, Mike and I have such creative minds.
And we had no filter.
And so we were like, yeah, we're just
going to do whatever we want.
And I want to segue one more second here.
I remember got in trouble because do you remember
that jib jab video?
Yes, that's exactly what I was just about to say.
You read my mom.
You were just talking about the jib jab video.
Great minds think alike.
But there was a website.
It's still an existence.
I just don't think it's as big.
But basically, you could put your face
into different scenes and stuff.
Or on celebrities' bodies.
So it would be like President Bush or like,
at the time, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama doing something.
Or it would be like a famous celebrity music video.
And so put your face on it.
Yeah.
And so we got a hold of Snoop Dogg's video
called Essentials Seduction.
And we just put our faces on there.
So we were in the music video.
If you've never seen it, it's like a retro 80s.
Like it wasn't from the 80s, but it was like a retro 80s.
We put our faces on it.
And we watched it over there.
And I remember this particular leader just
scolded us for that.
He was like, this is a very bad song.
A good bit.
You fellows should not be listening to it.
It's like, yeah, we're 13.
We probably shouldn't be listening to it.
And we didn't even really understand what they were
talking about.
But we're like, hey, I put my face on top of Snoop Dogg's body.
And I'm doing what Snoop Dogg is doing right now.
Pretty much.
It was a good time.
But I do know that I guess he got tired of it.
And so that small group dissolved.
And it ended up being Tony's small group again.
I don't remember how long this.
I think the small group lasted a year.
It had to have lasted only a year.
Yeah, it wasn't too long.
But it was a good time while it lasted.
But yeah, we went back to Tony's.
And it was good reuniting with some old friends.
And by that point, it was interesting about that cell
group.
As we went on, we kind of became the OGs of it.
Because a lot of people dropped off or stopped going.
Or even graduated, went to college,
went off into the world a little bit.
We were with that small group for a long time.
And then somehow, I don't know what happened.
But they stopped meeting in people's houses.
And then they started meeting back at the church.
I guess it was just too hard for people to go to other people's
houses.
Or maybe it was a liability issue.
I don't know what it was.
But everybody started meeting back at the church.
And so when they started doing that, it wasn't as fun.
As weird as it may sound.
And a lot of people are probably like, oh, man,
you meet in people's houses.
That's kind of weird.
But it had a real personal feeling to it.
And I mean, once we started gathering back at the church,
I started feeling, I don't know,
it wasn't as good.
I don't feel like the camaraderie was as good.
Yeah.
I go to a small group, an adult small group, at church now.
And we meet in somebody's home.
And it is more personal because people bake goods.
Or people will have potlucks, which everybody brings stuff.
And it does feel more like you're getting to know those people
on a deeper level.
And so I do prefer meeting in people's homes,
as opposed to just meeting at the church.
But for those of y'all that aren't even involved with the church,
well, y'all probably like, well, this is why did y'all decide
to talk about this?
But this is part of our lives.
It was a fun time.
My favorite part of the small group
was when Micah would set an alarm on his phone
to make it look like people were calling him.
And no one was really calling him.
But he was like, OK, guys, I got to take this.
And it would be literally in the middle of us,
or somebody teaching or something.
Ladies and gentlemen of America and around the world,
I'll be the first to say it.
I was in a tension.
Oh, I wanted attention.
And yeah, it was pretty dumb, pretty silly stuff.
Tell you that much.
It was a good time.
Like I said, my favorite part was reenacting my uncle's divorce
with this stuff bear.
And I still like, as I could just chalk it up to, man,
we were kids pretty much.
But at the same time, I was like, why the heck did we do that?
I don't even know.
We were bored.
We had creative minds.
There had to be some kind of creative outlet for us.
That's true.
It's not like the TV was on.
It's just like, do whatever you want.
It's just like, well.
And most of the time, it's like, well,
we've already wrestled for like 15 minutes.
We're pretty tired.
Well, we're going to move into the next segment, which
is the jelly donut.
And that's our jail report.
Who do you say private pile?
Sir, jelly donut, sir.
A jelly donut.
All right, so this first one, this is about a shark heist.
Have you heard about this?
This happened probably, I think, when I say 2018, actually.
And this happened not too far.
It's kind of in your neck of the woods, kind of like in the big
San Antonio area.
Oh, was that the sea world?
No, it actually wasn't at the sea world.
It was at the aquarium.
So there was a shark heist.
So apparently, someone actually took a shark.
It was like a big shark.
It was a 16-inch female horn shark that
was taken during a heist that aquarium officials said
was no spur of the moment.
The suspects staked out the pool for more than an hour
to wait for the right moment.
So they looked at the cameras.
And apparently, there was a guy and a girl
who had a baby stroller.
And then there was this other guy that came up to the tank.
And he just grabbed it.
They put it in the baby stroller,
like wrapped it up everything to make it look like a baby.
They put it in the truck.
They also caused a distraction because while that guy was
grabbing the shark in the other tank or the other like,
you know how they have like tanks or pools
where you can like pet the animals or whatever?
Well, in another one, they literally took some bleach
and they dumped it in that other tank.
So all the employees were focusing
on trying to get all the other animals to safety
on that one tank.
So it was easy for the guy to grab it.
And so they went and looked through the videos.
And they saw the guy take the shark.
And they actually confronted him in the parking lot.
And he said, oh, no, that's my baby.
It's in the truck.
But like, they didn't have any proof.
So they kind of had to let him go.
But they dialed 911.
And they called the police.
And they got the license plate.
And so they followed these people to a home.
And apparently this guy had like a whole like aquarium tank
in his garage.
And like, he was like taking other animals.
And he was like, I think either trading them or selling them
like on the black market or something.
And so they got the aquarium lady there.
And she actually said that she hadn't encountered him before
because he pretended to be from some saltwater company
and was like trying to check their saltwater level.
So I'm pretty sure that's how he was like scoping it out.
And she got like a really bad feeling from him.
And so she was like, oh, I don't know.
But then two weeks later, they had the shark heist.
That's pretty crazy.
I mean, the shark, one, the shark must not
have been incredibly big to be able to get swiped
and then put into a baby stroller.
But at the same time, I hear that illicit trade
for animals and things could be pretty lucrative.
I hear it could be a lot of money in it.
Yeah.
Well, they said the shark was in one of those petting tanks
and so the shark was used to getting pet.
And so it was easy for someone to just grab them.
But yeah, it wasn't even two feet long.
So it was pretty easy.
But they identified her and got her back to the aquarium
and it all worked out.
So that's wild that people wanted to have a shark heist.
That's pretty crazy.
All right, this next one.
This happened in Palm Beach County.
The rest of these happened in Florida,
just so you know, the rest of these are Florida man stories,
which you got to love.
All right.
So this suspect stole a black vehicle,
which was left with its engine running around 4AM
from a gas station in Palm Beach near the Palm Beach Airport.
And apparently this person realized
that there was a baby in the car.
So the hijacker went to another gas station,
dropped the baby off with the clerk,
and then proceeded to again, steal the car and like book it.
So this person kind of had a conscience.
They were like, oh, crap, there's a baby in the car.
I'm stealing this car.
So I need to return this baby.
I mean, good, but dang.
Yeah, I know.
So the clerk immediately dialed 911.
They did.
They did get apprehended the suspect.
So but I mean, like good for him, but he stole a car.
Like, but at least he had enough of a conscience to not.
Also, FYI kids stealing a car never really gets you anywhere.
Them suckers get tracked down too easy.
Just FYI.
I don't care what Grant theft auto tells you.
I don't care what it tells you.
All right, this next one, the holidays
are a time to reconnect with old friends.
But breaking into a jail may not be the best way to do that.
In Indian River County, Florida, they
arrested a man after he allegedly
tried to break into the county jail by ramming his car
into the front door and then try to climb a fence.
The guy was taken into custody and treated for minor injuries.
The police said that the guy told him
that he was high on a synthetic drug, blocka,
and he just wanted to visit his friends who were in jail.
They said the damage was at least $5,000.
But they said even if the guy had managed to climb the fence,
he would have had to scale another fence
and then get through a locked door at the building
where his friends were at house.
So I've never heard of someone trying to break into jail.
Well, I mean, the good thing is he probably
got to see his friends once he got arrested.
So there you go.
But that was my whole thing whenever
he drove through the front door, I
was sitting here going, what kind of drugs are you all?
There's no way he did that.
He was on blocka, blocka, flock of lane.
OK, last one.
A Florida man was arrested after allegedly kicking swans
at a park and he was doing karate practice.
Kicking swans.
Yeah, he claimed that he was practicing karate
and he was kicking swans in the head.
This happened in Orlando and this guy was from Jacksonville
and he was reported to have kicked some swans in the head.
Why do I feel like this is like an anime kid or something?
I looked at a picture.
I mean, the guy was probably on drugs.
Like he didn't look like an anime kid.
Again, I'm sorry.
Animal cruelty is not funny, but like the story is funny.
So they said that.
Kicking swans.
He's over here by the lake.
Anyways, Bruce Lee and some swans.
Said witnesses told the police that he kicked two swans
in the head and another in its butt as hard as possible.
Said that the man kicked a swan in the face.
Looked at the witness and laughed while he was doing it.
Attack other animals.
So he was just doing this in front of other people.
Like he was just going around just like walloping geese
in the head with his foot and then just.
What's bad is like I could just see him like practice.
Like like you said, being an anime kid and like doing
the karate kid moves and like crane kicking a swan in the face.
Like he'd be taking that karate way too serious.
If you ever see a guy in the park kicking some swans
or even some geese walk away kids walk away.
Again, animal cruelty is not funny,
but it's just like the image of him kicking swans
is what's funny to me.
Oh man.
Okay, let's move on to another subject.
All right, we're going to move into our donor hole.
And I have a quiz for you, but it's not like a get the right
ones, right?
This is more of a like get to know you kind of quiz.
Oh, get to know you.
It's like a would you rather type quiz.
All right.
So first question, who would you rather be roommates with?
Slap.
No, I'm just kidding.
No.
All right.
This first question in all seriousness,
would you rather retire early and live a short life
or retire later in life, but live a super long life?
So but the time frames of living after retirement,
like the years are kind of the same.
Maybe like you retire later than most people,
but you live like longer than a lot most people,
if that makes sense.
Then I would do that one.
Yeah, I would work a little longer, but be retired and have
longer to spend it.
You wouldn't want to retire early?
I mean, I do want to retire early,
but if it means that I'm shorter time to spend it,
what's all the use of working it?
Yeah, that's true.
OK, this one's not a would you rather one.
But if you could eat at only one restaurant for the rest
of your life, what would it be?
My first thought would be like, full of a chow.
But I'll tell you what, I couldn't
have the meat sweats every day like that.
Oh, man, that's hard.
You don't have like a certain restaurant.
Would you want to eat at Firehouse only for the rest
of your life?
Well, you can't really.
The only other ones that come to mind,
I would probably get tired of pretty fast.
Because the first one was like, oh, what a burger.
But at the same time, I'm going to get tired of greasy food
pretty quick.
So man, I don't know, I guess.
I picked this local joint.
It's a little Mexican cafe.
How about that?
I could do that every day.
If you could meet any famous person dead or alive,
who would you want it to be?
And I want to go to cliche.
You got all of minor presidents, of course,
from George Washington Action.
I just want to hear, OK, we've heard the stories about crossing
the Delaware.
What was that actually like in real life?
Cold is a mess, I imagine.
But what else was it like?
Just say one.
Just say a couple.
Name a couple.
Lincoln, that must have been hard.
Talk about experiences.
And I mean, even his road to getting elected is pretty crazy.
So we could just leave it at those two.
Would you rather have telekinesis, which
is moving things with your mind or telepathy,
reading people's thoughts?
Oh, telepathy.
Let me know what you're thinking.
Yeah, we kind of already do that.
I know.
I would rather have telekinesis.
I'd rather move stuff with my mind.
I don't really care to know what other people's thoughts.
Like I do.
That sounds really bad.
I really do care what other people are thinking,
but I don't want to have to know what everybody's thinking.
But Chris is also lazy.
You know what he wants to do?
He wants to be able to sit in bed and go chips
and do a little motion with his head
and have the chips come to him.
That's what I'm not going to say.
That'll get me in trouble.
OK, would you rather work a weekend overtime shift
with your annoying boss or spend a full day with your most
disliked person or the person you dislike the most?
Oh, man, overtime with the boss.
Oh, yeah, the person I'm thinking about,
I couldn't deal with more than about two hours.
Listen, I can't deal with them like an hour virtually
over a team's meeting without wanting to choke the mess out
of them.
OK, well, there you go.
All right, would you rather have a pause button or a rewind
button on your life?
I don't really want rewind, to be honest.
So I guess pause because it's always
good to have the moment, like live the moments while you're
in them because there would be times that I want to extend more.
But I mean, there are some things that
would be cool to go back to, but not one
to where I'd want to have that exclusively, I don't think.
There you go.
Minds me of that movie, Click, which is a sad movie.
It's kind of sad.
Yeah, it is.
You fast forward your whole life.
Two more.
Would you rather travel the world for free for a year
or have 50 grand to spend on whatever you want?
It's a tough one.
At this point in life, so here's the hard part.
The free spirit in me was to go take the 50,000 or not.
Don't take the I'm sorry, not take the 50.
Go traveling and do whatever you want, right?
And then the other part of me is like, no, no, no.
The real answer, what you would actually do
is you take the 50 grand and down payment for housing.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
You travel the world.
Those are experiences.
You're never going to forget those.
That stuff, like that's.
Yeah, like it's just there.
I mean, that's true.
Like the I feel like you have the experience.
The other thing too is the I'm I'm
think make so much money, make so much boo-coo's of money
to where you still do that and have your cake and eat it
to it just might take some time.
But you only have 50 grand to spend.
All I'm saying is 50 grand could get you some stuff.
At least get some check blocks on some goals, maybe even
do a facilitator career change.
All right, last one.
Would you rather work at your job, your current job right now,
but you make double for a year?
You can't take any vacations though.
Or you have the year off and you are just
earning your current salary.
Oh, you're off current salary.
That's what I'm saying, bro.
Because I'm like, you think about it's like, yeah,
I could take that double salary and then take a vacation
after the year is up.
But like, that's a long time to grind without a vacation.
Oh, yeah.
And especially because you know what will happen is you'll go
and say you're going, OK, I got this.
I got this.
And like all the stuff that will have never
hit the fan before at that place will hit the fan.
Like, you know it will.
And it'll test you every step of the way.
Yeah, it's like you still get the normal days off,
like your normal two days off.
You just don't get to take like vacation or anything.
Yeah, it's still be time.
Thanks for playing the little game.
We're going to transition into what fries my donuts.
I've heard that you got a lot that's frying you up this week.
Yeah, so you know what I'm sick and tired of hearing?
I'm sick and tired of hearing about Travis
Kelsey and Taylor Swift.
Shut up.
That's all I got to say, Chris, on that one.
That really fries me up.
You know what fries me up about it?
You can't even watch football anymore.
Like, I remember.
OK, I do remember there were other celebrity couples.
One that I can remember very probably
was Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson.
You remember this one?
I do.
And yeah, they showed Jessica Simpson at the game.
But I kid you not, it's like every chief's touchdown,
when the game starts, it's like, oh, Taylor Swift's here.
And then it's like, you come back from a commercial break.
This is what Taylor Swift was doing with Patrick Mahomes'
wife.
And it's like, oh, are we watching E news about what
Taylor Swift is doing up in the press box?
Or are we watching an actual game?
It's almost like it's taking a backseat to this whole thing.
And not just that.
But then the commentators, it does sound like E news.
I don't know who this is.
Joan Rivers or whatnot.
But they sitting over here talking about this is the relationship
America needs right now.
No, no, no.
You know what America needs right now?
You to pin that camera back down to the field where it belongs.
That's what I got to say.
I think what the problem is is that our culture is so
obsessed with entertainment and being entertained.
That simply watching a football game or a sports event,
now they think it's quote unquote boring.
So now they have to have something to get ratings.
And it's all a business now because we have to get ratings.
And it's like, Taylor Swift is bringing ratings
or bringing new eyes on the product that no one else has seen.
And I'm like, yeah, but like who cares, bro?
Like, honestly, I'm going to go out and say it.
I don't see the hype about Taylor Swift.
I think we should cancel Taylor Swift.
I don't think she's that good.
I don't think she's that talented.
There is nothing that I'm like, oh, crap, like, holy crap.
Taylor Swift is like, freaking awesome.
But now you got all these basic people that are just like, oh,
my gosh, I love Taylor.
And I don't know what I don't know what that's about.
I don't either.
I just, for me, I don't care that a football player is
dating or I don't care.
That's fine.
You can mention it.
But a mention is one thing.
Making the whole dang game about it.
But to your point, I will say this too,
it was the Atlanta Falcons.
You know what they did at one of their games here lately?
They had.
They did the Toy Story thing.
Well, yeah.
I saw the Toy Story thing.
They did the Toy Story thing, which to be honest,
that was pretty dumb.
But I get it.
But at the same time, I didn't really like it.
The other thing, so the Atlanta Falcons in their stadium,
while the game was going on, had wrestling actually.
Had an amateur wrestling.
They set up a ring and all this.
But the game was ongoing while this wrestling was happening.
They had one of their, because up in Atlanta,
in their new stadium now, they kind of have a ring up top.
And that's like, it's kind of a jumbletron all the way around.
Some of the screens were to the wrestling.
Some were to the football game.
And you're sitting here going, and there's even been others,
like in LA, in LA's new stadium.
They've played like the professional video game guys.
Like, they're streamed while the game's going on.
And I'm sitting here going, what's amazing is,
these people paid good money to be there
to watch a football game, you would think.
Yeah, I don't know what the deal is going on with that.
It's very annoying.
But my deal is like, they made it that big of a deal
about Travis Kelsey's other girlfriends.
Like, I don't think they have.
Like, I honestly didn't know.
No, I don't know who he's dating.
Yeah, I don't know who he is.
Like, I know the name.
And I'm not even that connected to football,
but I know the name.
But then I was like, oh, like, I don't
think they made that big of a deal about his other girlfriends,
but because it's freaking Taylor Swift.
And my thing is, like, is she just dating him
to get the attention?
Or is he dating her so that the NFL can get attention?
Like, to me, I'm like, yeah.
I don't know, man, because it's just, it's kind of like WWE.
The storyline has been coming for a while
because Travis Kelsey said some stuff of, like,
I don't even remember.
Something about, like, getting a telephone number
or some crap like that.
And then it was just like, oh, they're flirting back and forth.
And then Taylor Swift was like, oh,
I might take you up on your offer to come to a game
or something.
And I was like, oh, they're dating.
And then she showed up to one.
They're like, oh, it's all confirmed.
It's like, oh, my gosh.
Here's the thing about WWE is their job is to entertain.
So if you get another celebrity in there, in the mix,
you try to get a Logan Paul, whatever, I get that.
Because you are trying to entertain an audience.
And you're trying to get a new audience.
Sports, unless the game has changed,
you are literally just, you're sports.
It's sports.
You're just playing the game.
You're enjoying it.
Like, you're not, I mean, yeah, there's
some aspect of entertaining about it.
But it's like, I just want to watch football.
That's exactly what I'm mad about.
But the NFL's trying to capitalize primarily
on a lot of these newfound fans.
Because historically, if we're being 100% honest,
it's male dominated, right?
And the female partners typically
may not be into football.
Some are, but a lot aren't, right?
But now they kind of can be.
They might not have to know anything about football.
But all they know is that Taylor Swift is dating that guy.
And all of a sudden, now they have something to like.
Now all of a sudden, the ratings are up.
So now they're going to beat this horse till, I mean,
it's a bloody pulp.
And it's just, it's sickening because it's just,
it's not even, it's worth a mention, sure, of like, oh,
look, he's dating Taylor Swift.
But that's not what it's about.
I'm going to say it one last time.
I'm going to officially say it and be unapologetic.
Taylor Swift is as boring as watching Pete try.
Boring.
There's nothing exciting.
There is nothing exciting about her.
Yeah, she might have some good songs.
Every artist has some good songs.
That's not hard to do.
You give me somebody like Bruno Mars or like a Beyonce
or Rihanna like that person.
I'm like, okay, that person is like revolutionized music.
You give me somebody like a Michael Jackson.
That person's revolutionized music.
Taylor Swift.
No, Blaine, just like her fans.
It's a stage presence thing.
Basin.
To me, just like her fans.
To me, everybody's like, oh, she has great stage presence.
But I mean, you see what she kind of does.
She has the same moves and same maneuvers.
I don't know.
It's just if you're going to pay all that much money
to go to a big old stadium and be packed out, I mean,
go ahead and if you're a fan of it, that's cool.
But at the same time, it's just like, I don't know.
It ain't that great.
She says basic as her fans.
And I'm going to say it.
I don't care.
I don't like Taylor Swift.
Dude, I know that this is like totally going down a rabbit hole.
And I promise we'll go to the improv segment.
But did you know that there is a genre?
I found out this week there is a genre called divorced mom music
and divorced dad music.
Have you heard about this?
Is it supposed to be music with a sad twinge to it or what?
No, that's not even it at all.
Basically, what I found out is it's just millennials' favorite
songs.
Now, divorced dad music is just like punk rock
from Breaking Benjamin and Lincoln Park and Creed.
That's apparently divorced dad music.
Divorced mom music is like Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Rihanna,
some of the jams that we like to bump, like rap jams.
That's divorced mom music, apparently.
And I was like, that's just millennials' songs
that they had growing up.
Like Missy Elliott, one, two step was on there.
And I was just like, are you serious?
Was this on Spotify or what?
Yeah, but somebody asked me about it.
They were like, are you listening to divorced dad music?
And I was like, what is that even mean?
I was like, and I asked, I said, why
does this music, why is this music associated with divorced
dads?
And they couldn't give me an answer.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
We live in strange times.
I think it's just something Gen Z came up with.
We live in strange times where things are called weird stuff.
I don't know, man.
But hey, we get to make up our own stuff in this next segment.
And that's our improv segment, which is our mystery donut.
So I like that transition.
Thanks.
I tried.
All right, so I'm thinking we do fortunately,
unfortunately.
What do you think?
I feel up.
All right, so I could just do we want a scenario?
Or I could just start with something.
We can just go with it.
Let's do a scenario.
OK.
At the garbage dump.
That's oddly specific.
OK.
I'm always oddly specific.
I don't know why you're always surprised about this.
Let's go.
You're starting.
Fortunately, I'm at the garbage dump
and don't have to hear about Taylor Swift and Travis
Kelsey anymore.
Unfortunately, this whole place reminds you
of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey because they are adult.
You know, I did set you up for that one.
Fortunately, you see, like, how do I even come back from that?
Fortunately.
Just make a statement.
Isn't that the first part of that statement?
All right.
Fortunately, the rats aren't as big as they were yesterday.
Unfortunately, they're a lot bigger than they were last week.
Fortunately, that homeless guy from down the block
has been cooking a micro-artillery chickens.
So we're good.
Unfortunately, it's going to take us forever
to find that bookshelf that your wife said to not throw away.
Fortunately, I hope she's forgotten about that
so that it's not even a problem.
Unfortunately, your wife has the memory of an elephant
and she's not going to forget.
Fortunately, you're right.
But we're not going to say anything.
So it's still going to work out.
Unfortunately, you not saying anything
is the problem of your marriage.
Fortunately, you don't know the problems of my marriage.
So f off.
Unfortunately, I do know the problems of your marriage
because your wife told me.
Dang, well, I'm going to have to confront her then.
I got a scenario.
All right, let's do it.
Halloween.
OK, let's do it.
Fortunately, I don't have to take the kids
to trick or treating this year.
Unfortunately, they're bored at the house
and driving you crazy.
Fortunately, I'm just going to put them to bed early
so that they can just be quiet.
Unfortunately, the next door neighbors
are running the haunted house and they looked out the window
and got scared.
Unfortunately, well, we have the lights off.
So nobody are sorry.
Fortunately, it's yeah, it is fortunate.
Fortunately, we have the lights off.
So no one's going to come to our house tonight.
Unfortunately, they take that as a sign of no candy
and the egg and toilet paper.
Fortunately, that's OK because my kids will just
clean it up in the morning.
Unfortunately, all your kids are sick with 103 degree fever.
Fortunately, I have great insurance.
So I'm going to take over the doctor and get the medicine.
Unfortunately, all the eggs are starting to rot
and smell really bad.
Fortunately, this is a great service project
for my community group to help me with at church.
Unfortunately, your kids gave them all this illness.
Fortunately, I'm just going to pray
and they're going to be all better.
I'm not going to go where I was going to go there.
So we can move on.
Let's do the last scenario.
I think we've done this in another one.
But hey, we're almost to 100 episodes.
We can repeat scenarios even with some games.
But at a car dealership.
OK, you go first.
Fortunately, my credit is good.
So I should have low payment.
Unfortunately, you're going to have
to put down a $5,000 down payment still.
Fortunately, I have $10,000 to put down because I plan to court.
Unfortunately, I forgot to tell you.
I took $5,000 out of your bank account
because I needed some cash.
Fortunately, I knew you were going to do that
because you've done that in the past.
So I have another $5,000
cashed away in another account.
Unfortunately, that account is frozen
because I took some cash out that your accounts were locked
because it was fraud.
Fortunately, there's a bank account in the Caymans
that nobody has any clue about that has millions.
Yeah, millions.
Unfortunately, the feds do know about that bank account,
my friend.
If the feds are listening, what money?
They don't know about anything.
And even if they do, they can't get in the Caymans.
So fortunately, it's in the Caymans, so we good.
Unfortunately, you're going to have your ear
talked off by all these salesmen today.
Fortunately, at least that gives me a free vacation
since I have to sit through the timeshare seminar.
Unfortunately, I don't understand
how we ended up at a timeshare when we were supposed
to be buying a car today.
Things transition when things happen, fortunately.
Unfortunately, your logic makes zero sense to me.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to make sense
because I've got millions in the Caymans.
Unfortunately, I'm leaving this conversation.
Boo.
All right.
We're going to move into our last segment, which
is the E-Claire, and that's our positive advice.
And I think it's my turn to go first.
I don't remember.
But I'll go first.
Sometimes it's good to just evaluate things
and evaluate how things are going and make little tweaks.
It doesn't mean that things are going absolutely horrible.
But you always want to be growing.
You always want to be changing whether that's work,
whether that's personal, professional, whatever.
But you just need to sometimes stop and just evaluate.
Say, hey, how is this going?
Has this been going good?
What have we been doing good?
What is an opportunity for us to change things
and then make those necessary adjustments?
You might be like, you know what?
I just need to make a little change here
or a little change there or stop doing this or start doing
this.
And it's just no big deal.
But when you make those little changes,
it shows growth and progression.
And so make changes.
But stop and evaluate.
But when you stop and evaluate, also celebrate your wins
because that's a good thing too.
It's hard to do that in a moment.
Mine kind of piggybacks off of that.
And mine for this week was just because you
don't see any tangible results in what you're doing
doesn't mean that you're moving forward.
Sometimes it takes preliminary steps.
And even if you're looking at it in a progression,
sometimes in life it's not from step one to step two.
There's step one A. There's step one B.
And those are always the most frustrating types
because you have to check all the blocks before you
get to the next step.
But just because it doesn't seem like it's moving forward
doesn't mean that it's not moving forward.
As long as you put an effort forth,
it's going to keep moving forward.
Don't give up.
That's good, man.
That's good stuff.
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