Trash can presents the random guy who makes random references that nobody gets.
Oh hi Bill.
Oh how's it going Jay?
Oh not too bad.
Oh I'm squirrelier than a cage in a nutshell.
Uh I grew up in the south but I don't think I'm familiar with that.
What does that even mean?
Oh man you're so funny.
You know exactly what that means.
I'll tell you what it's something like being stuck in a popcorn shell that hasn't popped
on the roof of a tin roof with a garden donkey on top.
You know what I'm saying?
No I literally have no idea what you're saying.
First of all donkeys and popcorn and a tin roof in a garden.
I what does that even mean?
All I'm saying is writing checks, endorsing them on the back, take it to the bank.
That's all I'm saying man.
Like I don't understand how you don't get that.
That's not even like a southern colloquialism.
That's just a process of going to the bank.
That's just what you do.
That's not even like an obscure reference.
Just what you do.
Man you're being coo-kier than Ray Davis right now.
The great Ray Davis but he was coo-kier.
Okay?
You're being coo-kier than him right now.
Dude I think I need to get some new friends because uh yeah you're squirrelier than a
squirrel on Groundhog Day.
See now you're getting it.
Hi I'm Chris.
And I'm Michael.
This is the Donut Box Podcast.
Hello man.
How's it been going?
We've been the second week into this new year and man it's been fast and furious for me.
How about you?
It has been fast and furious.
The week has felt so long and it's like man like I had a short week this week but I just
had so much to do but uh I'm actually in Orlando Florida when this podcast dropped so kind of
cool for work but yeah we want to shout out to all of our listeners.
Hey we got some listeners in South Carolina and Australia.
Over in the UK has been pretty pretty big.
Ireland of course.
France.
Spain.
England.
All those great places.
Also two over in the Middle East we got some listeners over there so uh yeah what about
stateside?
Man you already said South Carolina.
We could talk about the neighbors from South Carolina that we have listeners in.
Did I say South Carolina?
I meant South America.
You said South America.
Yeah no that's great.
South America.
I was like I was like South Carolina is cool too.
We love the people there.
We got Georgia and North Carolina and their neighbors as well.
Virginia has been huge.
Uh really up and down the eastern seaboard you look at the map even on the west coast
Oregon California Washington man it's been really just uh it's been great and then uh
the great heartland where they called the bread basket of America and I don't I guess
because of the wheat right but hey Iowa, Kansas we really appreciate you guys.
Ohio's been huge over in the Ohio Valley region.
We really appreciate all across America we really appreciate all around the world.
Thanks a bunch guys.
It's been great and we have a great show for you if you're new to the Donut Box Podcast
each segment is a different donut and we have different topics that we're going to talk
about but we always start with the oldie but a goodie that's old fashioned donut which
is a story from our past and lately we have been talking about people from our past particularly
um a at the old church that we used to go to uh I don't remember oh we called it few
hope that's what I called it few hope uh huh.
Yeah yeah yeah and so we got some interesting characters to talk about because uh uh we
just like the boot corral um there are people that you just see and you're like man I understand
why TV shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Seinfeld they based uh some of the characters
off these people real life people and I'm like yep we had a TV show there's some of
these people but uh Micah who are we talking about today?
Well the first person this is a younger person somebody that was our age and is our age um
so what should we call her Chris I'm trying to find Jaila you said Gail?
No Jaila.
Oh Jaila okay yeah we could call her that Jaila so this gal we're going to start with
her because man she was something else so I'll just say this she played the piano for a little
bit there uh in our youth group that was part of it but uh bro she was a straight up um
what's a kind word for what I'm looking for Chris?
A witch?
Yeah a witch and uh we're not going to talk about what that rhymes with so the deal is
she was something else bro and I'll tell you who she was something else to she was something
else to her parents I ain't never seen somebody act that way towards uh somebody's parents
what would you know we could start there and keep on going but what what are you going
to say about her?
First of all for all of our OGs that have been listening about when I got in trouble
for pulling out my pocket knife she was the one that snitched on me.
Number two she also snitched on me and uh a couple other guys actually what's funny
is we were all named Chris so there was three Chris's um this was before Micah actually
got there and she said that we were being mean to this girl but we really weren't but anyways
I digress but she used to not be that way and she actually had been there before um before
I had gotten there so she's been at that church or was at that church for a very long time.
An OG event church.
She used to be nice like she was really nice like really was like you know what I'm a Christian
but I love everybody I'm going to welcome everybody um I don't know what happened whenever
she got into her teenage years but yes she was always whining and um you remember Veruca
Salt from uh Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory?
Yeah oh yeah that's a that's a great great impression.
The only problem was like her parents are really cool people and I ain't got nothing
wrong with her parents but they weren't Veruca Salt kind of money people so that kind of
created some problems.
Yep so what would you do you remember any particular stories about how she was a jerk
face to you?
Oh man so where do I start?
So I remember we went uh to this church retreat we would always do this leadership retreat
which I kind of didn't understand I guess they were also trying to get leaders of the
future to come to this leadership retreat anyways so it was called the frozen chosen
and we always went to Myrtle Beach South Carolina and so we go out to Myrtle Beach South Carolina
and old J. LaGose and her parents come too her parents were very involved in the youth
group and all this other stuff so they came chaperoned it was a good time whatever.
I remember she was uh she was a little older than me she was Chris's age Chris is about
a year older than I am um so she was I was about 15 she was 15 going on 16 I think and
I just remember because it was always in this condo and a condo just like typical beach
condos have a bottom layer where people park their cars and stuff like that.
I just remember her being like daddy I want to drive the car I want to drive the car because
we were all going to go somewhere I think it was to the outlet mall or something and
she's like I want to drive the car and Myrtle Beach was not exactly especially on the beach
like that whatever road it is next to the beach it's it's not a take walk man I mean
it's pretty pretty hairy stuff like there everybody was almost getting the accents and
that's where it thing.
I just remember her dad being like no it's just not safe and she full on had this temper tantrum
she was just like daddy I want to drive the car you're gonna let me drive the car and
he's like no like I'm not gonna let you drive the car and I mean just in front of everybody
just like stomping her feet and just like getting real mad like a toddler dude I remember
she just got so mad and finally like her dad just got in the car and started driving but
like he stayed calm the whole time but bro she was just going off on images and she was
just saying like you never let me do anything you never you're not a fair dad you always
say that you're fair and you're not fair at all and I mean she just went on this whole
thing bro it was something else all over her her wanting to drive the car and I think she
just had her learners permit like not even her driver's license and she said I want an
oopa-loopa now knows like bro like you need to yeah exactly she played the keyboard for
the church and she was an all right keyboard player singing why oh boy yeah it was not
good at all she was very flat and what I mean by that is like musically flat like she could
not hit a note to save her life and I just remember like when we would be back there
running sound certain songs bro well we'd be back there running sound there was a feature
where you could like put on your headphones and you could solo out like in your headphones
not on the play not in the room where everybody else could hear it but you could solo it in
your headphones to where you're like okay where's the problem so I can know where to
fix it and almost every time the problem we'd hit that solo and be like oh yeah just the
problem oh yeah man but you know what was bad she would always sing with somebody that was
um no actually you know what I think she was too sharp and there was another girl that
was too flat and so whenever they sang it was just not a good thing yeah it was it was
old pit old pit was too flat she was flat as all get out like and the thing was at the
time you got to think I don't know if how popular it is now but a lot of the songs that
we were singing in that youth group like and I think maybe it was because the standard before
we're getting into something completely different I'll get off in this second the band they had
before it got to this point was a lot better musically like they were good singers very
good musicians and let's be honest it kind of turned into a bunch of 16 year old kids
versus adults with some experience and so I think the same songs remained but the musical
talent wasn't exactly there so I bro I remember did you ever bring friends and you're just
like I hope to God we're not singing one of these songs tonight because it's just painful
and even you know watching some of the friend you know could you talk this place up like
oh man come to my church it's cool and you get there and you know it was just terrible
yeah it was bad but anyways we are gonna we'll segue into the next people that we're gonna
talk about we'll call her Jana that's what we'll call her and she was actually the senior
pastor's daughter-in-law she was married to one of the pastor's sons who was actually
a pastor and he had tried to start his own church in north august but I think it failed
and they eventually came back to our church oh but Micah has a beef with Jana he did not
like Jana for some reason and I don't know why but he did so first and foremost what
happened was there was kind of an in-between period in like the way that the previous
children's pastor was ousted was pretty pretty bad I wouldn't say like he wasn't necessarily
ousted I guess the way he left wasn't very good right he left in the church split yeah
in a church split so it was kind of nasty there and I remember in the interim so there were
several people in the interim but you got to think I was just kind of old enough to
not be in that children's church realm but old enough to kind of help out at that point
you know give give kids some leadership role they you know I loved it I thought it was great
right even if it was just small stuff but they had me doing all sorts of stuff right
a lot of it was tech related items right because the previous pastor children's pastor like
his kids ran all the tech stuff like you're not running the tech stuff his kids are running
it well those positions became open once they left so it was like okay I want to run tech
I want to do all this stuff so long story short this lady comes in first of all Christopher
would you say she was a nice woman like I'm gonna give I'm gonna give the benefit of the
doubt and leave it open maybe I just had a bad experience was she a nice woman to you
um I think she she was I didn't really have any particular ill feelings I think part of
your issues is I think your paternal unit kind of projected some of his bitterness at getting
shot shafted for the role onto you and I think you are like oh yeah so you were upset and
so then you were kind of like yeah she's mean I don't know so there's part that and then
I also think there was part I don't know what all happened behind closed doors but she also
kind of treated me pretty funny like I wouldn't say bad like she wouldn't be like no you can't
help her whatever but she would kind of relegate me to a singular role and almost I don't know
the way she talked to me was kind of different than most other people and you got to think
so the person who had left before that um was like a former drama director too so like
I was very involved with drama so her and I had a really it was actually her sister-in-law
yeah it was actually her sister-in-law and there were some things that went down there
and so pretty much um we had a good rapport and I think maybe that was the biggest problem
was we had a good rapport um she really liked me she was very very nice you know and was
just like man just thanks for for um you know helping out stuff like that and when this new
lady came in I think honestly it was more like you know when somebody's annoyed at somebody
or anointed their kid or whatever she always kind of had that exacerbating like yeah I
guess you can help help be crowd control right and it was always kind of like oh I really
don't want you here um kind of feeling and that kind of sucked I think that's more of
what it was if we're being 100 honest you know but you kind of you kind of have some
sort of feeling about it but you're probably right I haven't really thought about that
aspect because um what Chris is talking about that children's past a role um my paternal
unit filled that role kind of interim between people sometimes and I always got snubbed
for that so I think there was part there but I also think there was something who knows
what happened behind closed doors between old what do we call her?
Yeah I think also too I was friends with her uh her middle son so we were kind of friends
and I hung out with him and uh the music or the worship pastor son a good bit um when
I was in youth for a while and so I think she was also nicer to me uh maybe because of
that but the only thing I really remember about Jana is that's what that's when I started
serving on the tech team as well but I also remember um this was like the first time instead
of like children's church we had like one a whole huge party and I just remember the
party being themed uh Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory theme and like to her credit
like the environment and everything it was like a pretty cool party that's all I really
remember I don't remember what the tie-in was for it but it was a pretty killer party um
again I was like a seventh grader and I was helping our sixth grader and I was helping
out um but um her oldest daughter and we've talked about this and kind of referenced this
in a couple episodes but she actually got one of the other uh youth kids kicked out
of the church because she lied about him completely yeah yep she lied about him coming
on to him he said that uh well what had happened is they were both uh I guess alone in the
game room which they shouldn't have been alone in the game room we don't know the full details
of what happened but she um she claimed that that kid had um actually I guess done some
things and kind of came forced himself on to her which uh was not true and so it was
a rumor and a lie and he actually was told to leave the church he got kicked out um the
police I don't think were ever involved as far as we know but we did find out later that
that uh that it was just a rumor um and she pretty much ruined that guy's life and so
much so that he had to move up north to get a better life because he would work at jobs
and there would be like congregation members who would go up to his employer and they would
spread the rumor and this was like two three years after it happened and it was oh yeah
no he was even longer than that man like even longer than that so something else too with
that guy I had a class with his sister like I was and you gotta think like I we grew up
with his sister too right like she was kind of closer to our age and so like I would hear
things from her and stuff like that and I would ask how he was doing and bro it was
constant it was a constant thing for him like that stigma never left him until he left the
state and that is so sad for that dude because he was actually a really cool guy yeah he
was a really good guy really stand up guy I mean he was like you know it was hard for
him because I know he was like big in the baseball and like he was playing for one of
the schools and they had to leave the church and we and we love that family like my I don't
know about your family but my family and my mom kind of still stayed close with them after
they yeah same here I mean yeah it was it was pretty crazy man that whole thing went
down so fast it was it was like he was there and all of a sudden it's like he wasn't and
it was just like what what the heck happened and he was very involved so it was very obvious
one day he just wasn't there like his his dad was our Sunday school teacher for a little
bit or at least with my Sunday school teacher yeah he was my Sunday school teacher for a
little bit too awesome awesome family awesome family it's sad it's sad man stuff like that
happens but I'll tell you this much weirdly enough I've been watching a lot of documentaries
about cults and I'm not saying this is a full on cult or anything but there are some qualities
bro oh I have been to you have been to well I'll just say this in this particular instance
it's just very very interesting how a lot of things went down and how kind of some of
the hierarchies were and what you were trying to strive to get to and a lot of these facets
and you know I think about the the guy we're talking about they got kicked out and I think
about his family and you know they kind of they kind of work their way into the ranks
of that church if I'm not mistaken wasn't wasn't the mom like a teacher over there too
yeah she was a teacher at the Christian school so like they were they were really really
heavily involved it was just it's crazy because even watching a lot of these cult things here
you know it's it's amazing what kind of lies and rumors that are spread to protect certain
things that are found out and stuff like that and again we don't know the full story right
a lot of it is pieced together and what we know and what we know about the people and
stuff like that but it's still just amazing how it all went down and how some of that
stuff was really hush hush like like happens in cult you know it was for sure well we're
gonna move into our next segment and normally we do the jelly donut but this week it's you
fired you're fired stories about how people got fired right some not funny stories but
interesting stories are you ready for these yeah let's hear about how people got fired
this one is kind of sad so this guy missed a whole week of work because he had to be
tested for cancer he didn't have cancer but it was an autoimmune disease that he did end
up having he said but the manager at the store said that this guy was quote unquote unreliable
and quote unquote distracted and the guy says well yeah I was being tested for cancer I
mean that's fair right but I don't know man you know it's pretty crazy lots of employers
would be like oh he's a liability because he's gonna be out for treatment and it could be
something as stupid as that I hope you suit him yeah it's crazy how the a lot of these
companies they try to make anytime where they try to make work your whole life or be like
you know what work your family and it's like no your family is your family like you know
what I mean no company is loyal to you trust trust on that unless it is a like deep run
family business where you know the family and you know they trust you and they really
you know all that good jazz but in most cases companies not understand.
Alright this guy worked for Mickey D's he says that he was the guy that was responsible
for cooking the fries he says that one evening this guy comes in orders him orders himself
a burger and fries they serve him accordingly the next morning the same guy comes in and
he's screaming about how the fries he ordered the night before were soggy and demanded to
speak to the guy who's writing this by the state of him in his face he had clearly been
drinking the night before the guy goes up to him and this customer is belligerent and
so the guy starts apologizing he says he said and the guy said do you think I'm lying just
to get a refund I just had the fries before coming here and they were soggy apparently
the guy had was drunk got out of his car left the bag of burgers and fries in his in his
car and overnight and then when he got in the car in the morning he was mad because the
fries weren't crispy so the guy kicked him out of the restaurant and two hours later
the owner of that franchise comes in and fires that guy for kicking quote unquote his nephew
out of the place all the other staff members were on his side but he threatened to fire
them as well if they had a problem with his decision the place closed down because they
couldn't find people to work there as the owner kept firing people for petty reasons
so that guy was that owner's nephew and dang that's wild yeah that's pretty nuts yeah
I don't know man that's pretty nuts but I mean there's a reason it closed down right
and can't be running a business like that especially yeah sounds like there was a lot
more to it alright this person was working on a cash as a cashier during at a grocery
store and she missed a case of water underneath someone's car and turns out that that person
was a secret shopper or something this lady had a couple days off and she came back to
look at the schedule and she was told that she was fired for missing a case of water
man dang for a missing case of water my thing is if it's a missing case of water they know
she didn't steal it why why fire like even if it's like that much of an issue can't
you just supplement it with part of your check or something yeah or maybe she's had that
problem before maybe she was on her last like but still I have a I have a quick story so
I was working as a an assistant manager for the grocery chain that I used to work for
and one of the big wig guys from corporate I mean this guy's like a big wig guy and the
story I was working at it was known for like a lot of like the president of that company
would would shop there right and so this guy he was bagging his own groceries and I went
up to him and I was like hey like I can bag these for you but and he was like no he was
like he's like I got it and I asked like three times he was like no no I got it so I like
left it like I said okay all right and I left him alone well apparently after he left he
called my boss and told the boss that no one had bagged his groceries and he had to carry
out his own groceries and I was like this this dude and my and my boss told me he was like
well you should have gotten one of the sackers to bag it for him and he didn't ask you because
you're a manager and I was like doesn't matter this dude was lying on me bro I remember when
you told me that messed up you know people yeah people be messed up man three more this
lady was a waitress at a small restaurant in a small college town she got fired when
she finally confronted the owner because he kept withholding people's tips which is super
illegal for BS reasons like they were late or other things and she said I kept telling
people and that some of them some of the workers were immigrants and it could barely speak English
and she told them their rights and so he got mad at me and he fired her because she was
confronting him about withholding tips that's illegal yeah that is illegal and especially
because they're not getting paid that much in the first place all right this last one
sorry I thought we had two more this is the last one this is gonna remind you of boot
growl I'm pretty sure all right so this person and this is very serious and so this is not
a lot of matter this person was sexually and violently assaulted by a fellow employee on
a night out and when she reported it to the manager and told him that she was gonna report
it to the police the manager fired her because the person who did it sold more units per
month than she did and keeping him happy was more important than how I felt safe working
alongside him again so she was so the manager was like well he outsells you so uh I'm gonna
fire you and I was like bro that is a boot growl move yeah definitely definitely that's
that's messed up though that's really messed up um trust me it's probably a good thing
it's probably a good thing you got fired you don't want to work oh I hope she sued though
yeah I hope she sued though because it's like I reported a crime that happened and my manager
fired me oh I hope she got an unemployment sued them out the yin yang I hope so man I hope so
because that's that's terrible that's that's yeah that's terrible and I hope if any of you were
going out there like that quit if that's what's happening it is crazy well that's all I got for
the uh fired stories I'm good to move on to the donut hole turn as well so what we doing uh I
don't have a crit let me start that over I don't have a quiz but uh we'll we'll resume the quiz in
two weeks um but I do have two movie reviews because I saw some movies over the holiday break
and I'm here to review them because I haven't done a movie review in a while yeah let's do it so the
first one is called the iron claw which is a wrestling movie it's actually about the von
eric family who was a family in Texas uh in the 70s they wrestled they were big like in the late
70s 80s and the 80s era um and there was actually five of them and it's kind of a tragic story because
all of the kids except for one died um and so not like in a fire it's like they all died off one by
one um and the main uh guy Kevin von eric who is the only remaining brother that's left was played
by Zach Efron and he actually did a really good job now I know what you're thinking I'm not that
into wrestling there's not a lot about wrestling it's more about their family um and so it was it
was a really good movie um I will say they did actually um leave out one of the brothers um from
that was actually in real life they did not put him in the movie I don't know why there's some money
issue there I don't know I don't know man um but I mean it was like really good I mean of course
it's the sad story but Zach Efron man he was like phenomenal like he did really good in the wrestling
scenes and like you know he he got jacked for the movie and everything I will say though the guy that
played Ric Flair was absolutely horrible dude like he did not act like Ric Flair he didn't talk like
Ric Flair I think he kind of similarly looked like Ric Flair from that era but he was a bad Ric Flair
but the movie was pretty good I saw commercials for it it does look pretty it looks very interesting
actually so you say it's mostly about the family and it's actually pretty not a ton about the actual
wrestling bit but it's about either drama yeah it's mostly about the family I mean like yeah but
of course the family you know is into wrestling so it's about them and the business and like
all that good stuff and so um it's pretty good and if you don't know anything about wrestling like
and you're interested just in history stuff like it's a cool movie to watch you don't really have
to know too much um and that's they pretty much kind of spell it out for you um but I mean it's
it was a pretty good movie and then the second one I want to review is the Wonka movie that came
out it's the pretty cool too Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory yeah it was actually really good
it was a very family friendly movie it was a musical um the guy that played Willy Wonka Timothy
Chamele is that how you say his name Chalamet is that how you say his name I think he did he did an
excellent job um the only thing was he was not as uh corky as Gene Wilder but what I did like is they
took um both uh Charlie and the chocolate factory with Johnny Depp and the Gene Wilder version and
they kind of uh blended the two together to make that Wonka and so I thought it was like pretty good
I mean it was making some nods at the original and it was a good prequel story of kind of how
Willy Wonka got started I wish they would make another movie um kind of on that prequel wise
because they left some things unanswered like how in the heck all the grandparents got in the same
dang bed all them years ago well that's well that's Charlie's uh that's Charlie's uh issue this is
mostly focusing on or actually only focused on Wonka and how he got started in the chocolate
making and kind of his backstory and where he came from and all that good stuff I guess that's true
I guess that's true I will say this though and Gene Wilder's uh Willy Wonka in the chocolate
factory you know what I'm telling you that grandpa Joe he is a shikes there bro he is that new scamming
people he's scamming people for real he's he claiming that he ain't been out of that bed in 20 years
but then all of a sudden he wants to do a little tap dance number tap and jig he ain't been working
for 20 years that's what I'm saying man they be spending all that's what I'm saying they be spending
uh any money that he can on uh tobacco and then and then he's all like yeah Charlie I got this uh
this Wonka bar for you and nobody else knows on your birthday how'd he go to the store to get it
that's what I want yeah and how does nobody else know who the hell picked it up for him if they
don't know yeah I get you grandpa Joe you know here's my question did you like the older one
or the newer one with Johnny Depp oh the older one for sure I mean Gene Wilder's version is like
I don't know it's it's really hard to be don't get me wrong the the newer ones it's a typical Johnny
Depp and uh what's his face movie Tim Burton yeah but uh but yeah what I didn't understand about that
movie is why did they make the whole little uh side story about his dad being a dentist and and him
being like uh having flashbacks and nightmares about uh his dad the dentist I will say I feel like
uh Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory the gene wilder version I feel like it leaves out some of
the stuff that's in the book um a little bit but then also to Johnny Depp's version leaves out some
stuff in the book too um but in the gene wilder version when they're all like well why doesn't
Charlie get the prize and I was like well he stole the drink and he you know he he did you know go
up to the ceiling so y'all just trying to ignore that he broke the rules but it was a good movie
Wonka was a good movie you should go see it yeah I totally get you I totally get you well we got
into some side notes about uh you know Willie Wonka that we didn't necessarily you know so
unanswered questions maybe that uh they can listen to and make some sequels based off of that as well
yes sir uh I want them to make a a sequel about what happened to Charlie after you were in the
chocolate factory um which would be interesting but anyways we're gonna move into our next segment
which is what fries my donuts what fries your donuts buddy before I get into that just I'm
gonna say one more thing you know it's like Charlie gets in there's an economic downturn
sales are down it's like I want to see how Charlie's reacting at this point anyways all right so
what fries my donuts man so this is for uh for all those sports people out there especially
college football fans and if you're not a college football fan I understand I'll do a brief explanation
of what I'm talking about but bowl season is terrible and that is just a part it's the tip of
the iceberg but let's talk about the iceberg of the problem bowl season has been terrible this year
besides the two playoff games because most of the games don't have people like they're starting
lineups in there they're missing 20 to 30 of the people who are on their teams now we're
gonna talk about the whole iceberg reason being is because of the transfer portal and the NFL now
the NFL has been there and you know people have gone but it's a lot more acceptable now to train
for the NFL and say okay I'm not gonna play in the um San Diego County credit union whatever bowl
right like we're not gonna do that and understand there here's what I don't understand we're living
in a day and age um where if you don't start you transfer if you don't like the coach you transfer
if you know you don't like the dorm that is sharing a bathroom but you heard that you Todd has a
dorm that doesn't transfer you know we're living in a day where everybody transfers they don't want
to just stick around and try to fight it out what's what's what's wrong with people you know they
just want to hop ships so darn quick you know let's be honest what I find so much in college football
is people are hopping around why because they think they're all that in the bag of chips and
they're not even the grease on the side of the bag that's one thing but it's really ruining things
man because we can't really get decent bowl games because what happens is if you're they're not going
to the playoffs or don't have a chance at the national championship all these guys they can
say I'm transferring at any point right but they're saying oh I'm going to transfer they
announce it right as the season in heck there was a you know and I follow Texas Tech there was a
Texas Tech player he got injured lost his starting job due to injury and he's like oh I'm going to
transfer mid-year right like he knew he's not even going to be on the team mid-year like bye I'm
transferring and I'll tell you how different it is so I've got a video game in the other room here
one of my favorites and they haven't made another one since they're coming out with another one next
year and a lot of it was because name and likeness and all this other stuff but NCAA football the
video game right the last edition that came out was in 2014 or it's it's NCAA 14 but that comes
out the year before that that's how sports games work so 2013's when it came out I'll put it to
this way you can play as a coach and at the end of the year you get your transfer request you know
am I going to accept this guy or reject this guy I'll put it to this way even the best of teams
at that point had won maybe two guys coming from a different team somewhere else now you're having
a 30 to 40 flip of your roster every year like think about that that's insane right what are we
doing you know and it makes it terrible because who's suffering on the other end who for me personally
at the end of the year do I even really want to watch my team because it was it was yeah the
starting quarterback but we were missing this guy we're missing a receiver we're missing an
offense alignment the other team is missing a bunch of people we're watching back up to play
backups man you know who wants to watch that and that's the culture we've created it's it's insane
and I can't stand it it's a Gen Z mindset I will say that with the younger generation of oh if I'm
not on the winning team or oh I don't get the success without putting in the work then I I'm
not going to do I'm going to go somewhere else where success is easy people don't want to do
hard things man people don't want to do the work to become successful they just want it instantly
or they we have told the lie so much that oh you're special oh you're going to do amazing things and
it's like yeah you can do that but you've also forgotten that you got to do hard work right
and sometimes it takes years to see that being achieved right what really legacy are you leaving
if you're up and leaving every every year or every couple years you're not really creating a legacy
man I feel like you're just kind of hopping around trying to chase a high that you're never going to
chase right you're chasing the proverbial dog tail right you're just going in circles and you
keep going and bouncing from place to place and you're like oh yeah well it's this place over
and you'll make up excuses and you're like oh yeah well this part this they didn't let me do this or
oh I couldn't get along with this person it's like man ultimately at the end of the day you got to
stop and think like am I the problem because you just got to get settled long enough to grow and to
you know produce fruit right and honestly I think just like you're saying moving around and a lot of
these guys do move around every year like we got to the point where you're watching a broadcast
and it's like oh man this player is so great he was at Utah this year he was early and then last
year was at Oregon year before that he was at Alabama but he was injured that year and then
you know they talk about his whole past you know that's something that we only used to see in the
NFL and you know and this is a 22 year old kid probably 21 year old kid bro some of you think
it's funny but some of it like especially where we're at now the COVID year right so 2020 even
if you played college football that year they didn't count that year of eligibility so you have these
people there was a guy on there the other day it was his last game senior you know senior year
he had been playing college football for eight stinking years he had graduated four years ago
how is he still playing college football how he was kept alive is because his first two year or his
first year he was redshirted which means that you like you can have an additional year and basically
you're just going to sit on the bench and watch what happened so he's redshirted that year the
next two years he was injured but he was still on a college football team this senior year he like
his technical fourth senior year right he played you can if you had redshirted that first year
you can get a fifth year by going to graduate school right homie went all the way and got his
doctorate all on scholarship because he had he had the years of eligibility so so we've got we've
got guys who are sitting here who have played in college football for eight darn years which is just
that's just mind blowing to me um you know and don't even get me started about we're kind of in
the wild west of this but you heard me talk about the name and likeness thing and I'll get off of
this in just a second because I could feel a whole podcast with this but we've gotten into the whole
name and likeness thing where the ncda it used to be a very big thing uh reggie bush was a big
example they I mean they took his heisman trophy away because he was signing autographs and things
like that's a big no no you would if you're a college kid you don't make the money but the
problem is who is it was primarily the college and it would go back to the ncda and the kid was
cut out of it completely so basically just making the money off the back of the kid so I understand
and get the money you know the kid you know the player needs money as well um beyond scholarship
and I get that but where we're at right now is basically it's like okay you can make money however
it's just been exploited the last two or three years what happens when there's no regulation right
it just goes haywire we've got these kids in high school making hundreds of thousands of
dollars in endorsements and they're not even in college yet we've got colleges offering people
five six million dollars to come transfer here or come to our school and we'll have it in in i l deals
and really what it's becoming beforehand it was a lot about the money and the big money would rise
to the top but now what we're creating is you know what's the most money you can get me to get to
that school and so the people with the most money are going to have the best players period so they're
gonna have to fix that I mean even nick sabin was saying the average phone call with their recruits
nowadays the first thing that comes out of their mouth used to be oh you know what's the scheme
who's the quarterback gonna be you know they ask a bunch of questions now it's a coach let's talk
business first how much money can I get from getting there that's the first question that's
being asked nowadays in college football and I think that's ridiculous it's pretty it's pretty
crazy time I'm not opposed to people getting money but it's become a crap show but becoming
millionaires while the rest of the general college kids are struggling or they're they're working their
butts off just to make it through school and then they end up with debt out there eyeballs a dollar
student debt yeah that makes me sick yeah it's it's pretty it's pretty crazy all because you can
throw or catch a ball you know I love the sport but what it's becoming is you know it's becoming a
very nasty nasty business and they're gonna have to do something about it well like I said I could
fill a whole podcast with that so we'll get off of that and move on to our improv section if you're
gonna yeah yeah we're gonna move into improv we're gonna play a game fortunately unfortunately
let's just do two scenarios and we can go off of that do you have any ideas for what scenarios
yeah let's do the first one because I've experienced this last week in the emergency room okay I'll start
fortunately we got to the emergency room just in time unfortunately you haven't paid your deduct
or you haven't met your deductible so it's gonna cost you out of time fortunately there's not a long
list so uh we'll probably get seen pretty quick unfortunately there was a whole entire bus that
went off the side of the hill and they're all coming in ahead of you on the ambulance uh fortunately
it's a miracle that those people survived because they would probably uh be dead unfortunately you're
right but there's only one doctor on staff to take care of the 37 people fortunately the neighborhood
clinic is still open and I'm gonna go unfortunately that burned down last week fortunately I don't
live in podunk usa and there's multiple clinics around town unfortunately the other clinic's not
24 hours fortunately it's okay it's not that bad it's just a flesh wound unfortunately it becomes
infected instantly somehow fortunately I my wife bought essential oil so I'm good essential oil okay I'm done
bro that's a scam that's a racking in of itself I was about to say what essential oils are we
talking about time or essential oil young living that's what I'm talking about those young living
essential oils uh anyways all right uh I got into the scenario how about going to the movies okay
sounds good I'll start that one fortunately they had my favorite movie playing this week
unfortunately we're gonna have to sit through 25 minutes of commercial fortunately most of the
movies I actually want to see unfortunately they're gonna have a couple of those commercials that were
made by students at different colleges and they're not very good fortunately the popcorn
prices actually went down unfortunately they only serve Pepsi products here fortunately I don't mind
Pepsi products for some reason unfortunately Pepsi products are more likely to put holes in your
teeth and reduce your sperm count I just want to know is that actually true or did that something
use me to uh it's true about mountain dew oh yeah mountain dew uh the nectar of the south anyways
fortunately I don't tweak mountain dew in particular so it's not a problem unfortunately
that's all they have here fortunately I don't know I don't have another one the mountain dew got me
yep mountain I think I don't know have you ever had like the um I guess it's like with the original
label I don't know if it's the same formula but like with the original label mountain dew maybe a
long time ago I'll be honest with you I think I've only had mountain dew a handful of times I mean
it tastes okay but I'm just not huge on it you know what actually turned me off of it and I'm
going to make this incredibly quick um if you ever you've seen Futurama right I don't think you're
a fan of it though yeah I've seen the bits and pieces there's a particular episode where it's
kind of making fun of mountain dew but basically where it came from was like a worm that's like
crapping it out in the cans and it's like the green it was like a green nasty looking worm
never since then I don't know I just can't get that out of my mind of like I know it's dumb but
I read multiple reports that it puts holes in your teeth and reduces your uh I mean it also
to probably does but mountain dew does it quicker and uh you know definitely reduces uh the count
and so yeah um I do like mellow yellow every now and then that's pretty good I haven't seen a mellow
yellow in a long time yeah I do like um I do like regular Pepsi though like Pepsi is not a big like
for me I don't know why most people are like oh you can definitely taste the difference between
Coke and Pepsi I'm like the mean I don't really care I don't like fall into one camp or the other
I'll drink both I do anyways we gotta move um uh we're gonna segue into our eclair which is our
positive advice and I gotta let you go all right so this is coming from a place of ah this sucks because
I uh I lost a dog this week and that was pretty that's pretty hard um but you know sometimes we're
in situations and predicaments and you can make a million excuses of why you shouldn't take it easy
or why you shouldn't go through things right because so many people tell you oh you lost a dog just
keep yourself busy there is something to that and I'm not saying that that's wrong but at the same
time you also need to give yourself a chance to think about things and also go through it because
if you don't uh it's just repressed and guess what it will come out later and it'll come out probably
tenfold so the thing is it's like you know go through it as much as you need to go through it
and you know once you get to capacity yeah it's okay to distract yourself but I feel like it's a
good balance so if you're going through something you know take the time to actually go through it
because if you don't it'll come back and bite you later on and we want to um you know shout out to
to our thoughts and prayers or work my guy your family because I know to some people they're like
oh it's just a dog but it's like man like he and I knew the dog like he was really sweet
he was like you couldn't ask for a more perfect dog and so he had been part of their family for
ten plus years and so it was you know it was hard because but you know he it was something that needed
to happen because he needed to go out peacefully and you know but you know it's still hard and it
sucks and so uh which shout out to Chris he's putting together a uh slideshow for his forum so
that's pretty that's pretty awesome too so appreciate you for that bro yeah I'm almost done
actually probably by the time we drop this podcast I'll be done but uh anyways uh my uh my positive
advice is just be faithful with the small things a lot of people want the spotlight kind of like
we were talking about you know earlier everybody wants that um defining moment or that you know
viral moment where they uh you know they just want the spotlight firsthand bro and it's like
you can't handle the spotlight until you know how to handle the little things building responsibility
right I heard this thing that said uh talent will get you there but character will keep you there
right and so it's cool to be in that spot and be in those places but if you don't have the character
to stay in there and to handle it I will tell you you will fall fast right because all it takes is
um you get in that in that spotlight in that job where you're making millions of dollars and then
you know you can easily blow that not be responsible with it and then you know I'll just do reckless
things with it but just be faithful in the small things and I've found that when you're faithful
in the small things those big opportunities uh tend to present themselves the more that you're
faithful with what you got so you can't have more until you're you got uh you're good with what you
got so that's my positive yeah yeah man good stuff good stuff all right man we gotta plug the stuff
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