So have you ever just fallen down a YouTube rabbit hole and you're just like how did I fall down this rabbit hole?
Oh, yeah, man. So here recently I've actually been
really falling down the rabbit hole starting with the Cat Williams interview with Shannon Sharp and then going to
Monique's interview with Shannon Sharp and just kind of digging back
With some of the stuff that they were saying bro, it's wild and then you look at some previous interviews on YouTube
It's just insane because a lot of it was truth and I didn't even know it. Yeah, it's wild
I fell down that rabbit hole too
But what I also fell down the rabbit hole of is because we we've been talking about planning this cruise
With all of us, right? And so I was just researching like okay, what ship are we gonna be on?
Okay, now I need to watch a YouTube video about what the ship's gonna look like okay now
I need to do a YouTube video about what to do on the cruise and now I need a YouTube
And then it just kept going and going going and I kept hitting on different YouTube
Videos I was like it is 10 o'clock at night and me and my wife are watching
YouTube videos about cruise drink package deals like who are we?
You know what man 29 going on 85. What can I say? What can I say man?
But you know that it's not a bad rabbit hole to go down. There's all sorts of rabbit holes on YouTube
There's like extremely may sometimes I get on these vice kicks
Like I don't know if you've ever watched vice on YouTube or like especially some of the older ones
Like when when the founder of vice goes to North Korea and stuff like that
And I find some of that you can go on so many rabbit holes heck
You can even learn a lot on YouTube if you wanted to just passively. Oh, yeah, it's true. Well, hi, I'm Chris
And I'm like and this is the Pock's podcast
Well man another episode another week
I want to first start off the episode by saying
We are sorry for your loss, right?
Like I had a loss of a family member and we want to dedicate dedicate this episode to her
And so we're so sorry for your loss and I'll pray for you guys as y'all are going through that. Yeah, thanks so much
Thanks so much
It's been a tough time, but we're making it, you know death is never easy, but at the same time
It's it's sometimes it is the chance for some new beginnings, which is a really cool thing
So it's hoping for the best and planning for all of it, but appreciate the condolences
Thank you trash cad nation for all your support and we really appreciate it man
We'll pour one out for Momo. That's what we'll do. We'll pour a 40 out for
Some of y'all don't even know what that is. There we go. There we go
Got a poor poor drink for the homies, you know, I mean, you know, I don't know
So
All right, man. Well, I tell you what I was looking at
RSS feed man and you know our hotspots have been booming. We've we've had quite a bit of movement and everything like that
I'm still psyched about the continent of Africa and get into the continent of Africa
We've had it for a little bit now, but still looking at it on the map. It's incredible
To see us across Europe into Africa now
In the North America Australia still really pop in Oceana
Which I
You know, it used to be Australia and Oceania
Do you know they consider Oceania like all the islands of the Pacific a continent now?
I heard that somewhere and I was like, I didn't know I thought they just looped that in with Australia
But anyways, it's like we started to have some island folks listening to us
Even down into the Caribbean like Trinidad and Tobago like man, it's it's incredible to watch
You know starting this thing and
I'll you know get off this thing but starting this thing. I never thought our voices would be heard
Across the country like it is across our country the United States much less around the world and so it's really
I don't know. It's it's really a heartwarming thing and
It's really really cool. I never thought that we would be in this spot. Yeah, for sure. Well, if you are a brand new or
Returning listener welcome back the way this works is each donut is a different segment
And we always love to start off with the old-fashioned donut, which is a story from our past now
This happened probably. Oh wow. Is this 2021? This happened almost three years ago, dude
That's incredible to think about man. It's been that that blew away, but this is the week from hell
This was a really really bad week man. And so
I'm gonna start off. I will say it was more of a bad week for you for me. It was okay
But it was definitely a bad week for you. Yeah, well, we'll get to how it was a bad time for you here in here in a little bit
Okay, so to start off. I had this car and
This
Speaking of the person who passed away it happens to be my wife's grandmother. May she rest in peace
We actually wanted to come down to San Antonio when we were living in Lubbock and visit the city
We would come down periodically. Well the car that I had
Just days before broke down like the car broke down and so
Have you ever had one of those times Christopher where your your car breaks down and
It's like, okay. Well while I'm at it. I might as well. There was some other routine maintenance items
If I'm gonna spend the money
I might as well just spend all the money
At one time and try to get it all taken care of and I'm gonna try to get it all taken care of
At one time and try to get it all taken care of at one go
Even if it's just regular routine maintenance like oil change changing the brakes, whatever, right?
You just try to get that all done in one go. So to try to get down there
Um, the problem I was having with the car was I had a radio like the radiator was out
And so the car kept overheating and I know you've had some fun times with that. Have you not Christopher?
Yes, I have and to go back to your point
I I actually had that
Happened where the car was overheating and I was 30 minutes away from home and I took it to the mechanic because I was like, hey
I'm taking a trip in a couple weeks
This is what I'm worried about. I'm worried about it overheating. Is it gonna be okay for me to take on this trip?
They said yes, and it overheated and it basically almost died
In houston and so I was pretty mad that they told me that it would make it but anyways back to your story. Yeah, heck yeah
um now
radiator
Is no fun overheating car is one of the worst things that you can ever experience
Not just because it's if you've never had it happen consider yourself lucky
um
But it's it's not just the fact that it's uh piece of your car going out and your car is not running like it should
I mean your car is literally overheating so you smell burning
You you like it's and there's smoke billowing a lot of the time you open that hood and all this smoke be pouring out
It's not a fun time. We tried to fix the problem
um
At first we thought it was some hoses right we saw one hose was busted and so
You know I I like to work on my own vehicles and so I thought I could fix it
So I said, you know what let me try to replace these hoses
So I did replace the hoses and I mean it was a pain in the rear end man
It was a pain in the rear end and then I also replaced the serpentine belt because it really needed to be replaced and um
If you've ever replaced a serpentine belt, it's really really hard sometimes because you have to release the tension and all this other stuff
I won't go into that
But essentially it took me I ordered a certain serpentine belt and you can't drive a car without one on your vehicle
And I bought a wrong size online
um
Because if not for whatever reason this car
um
I had to get the it's either you buy the part online or I had to go to the dealership to get it
Like it was not a regular part that just auto zone carried, right? So
um, I ordered it online come to find out order a size too small
so I couldn't get it on there to save my life and
So I had to order another one long story short
It took a matter of three days to get all this maintenance done to get all the radiator parts done
To get all the hoses replaced to get the serpentine belt done and then I also changed the oil and changed the brakes
So pretty much man
It's like oh man this trip is not or this car is not only ready for this trip
You know it's extremely ready for this trip. You would think right?
and so
Anyways call her grandparents and say yeah, we'll be down there this weekend. This was like a thursday when we get done
And so we're gonna leave the next day
We left on friday morning really early and this was in the summertime in texas and
Just just for reference going from Lubbock down to san Antonio
The heat is different in both places and when you're in the between it's kind of odd too because Lubbock is a very dry place
San Antonio, I wouldn't say is
Like where we grew up in georgia. It wasn't as like swampy and
Super high humidity like that, but it is really hot like I mean it feels like an oven outside
It's like going into an oven. It's like somebody opened an oven and you're standing in front
That's what it feels you know, we'll talk about my wedding and those poor people had to stand outside in san Antonio in june
And that's what it was still semi-mild and it was still
um
Hot anyways, um, so coming down there
You know, it's it's midday and we're about midway through this journey and we've taken this journey
many many times so we're very familiar with the route and
You know, we've had all these problems with the car, right and
So all of a sudden we start here in this tapping noise
well, um
Right a few weeks beforehand
One of the other problems I had with the car was the license plate holder in the front
Broke and for whatever reason it and so instead of getting a replacement for it. What I did was I just
I I'll be honest I did a little bit of a jank job and I zipped hide the gotta love zip ties
I zipped hide it to the front
I've seen several people do that and by the way in texas
It it is required by law for you to have a license plate on the back of your
Car and in front of your car and they will pull you over very fast if you don't or even like I've had a vehicle before
In fact, it was that vehicle
um
I tried to put it in the mirror like the the front window and I get still got pulled over
They said it wasn't displayed properly in the front window like it has to be on the front front of the vehicle
anyways, um, so
I thought that the bottom of the license plate like maybe
um
The zip tie or something had come loose and it was tapping
And like really hard onto the front of the vehicle and that's what the flapping noise was
So I thought you know no big deal. We're going 70 miles down the road
The biggest concern I had was it's going to flap so hard that it's going to fly off and it's going to damage my car somewhere
Or it's going to fly off and go into the or whatever
So we were getting we're about 15 miles away from another town
And so I said you know what like well once we get to that next town I'll pull into a gas station and I'll fix it
So we're going down the road and the tapping gets stronger and stronger and stronger until finally
It starts getting really rapid and then finally to the point where it went cut pink and I heard like a big sound
And I what I thought was it sounded so strong
It sounded like the license plate had broke off at the front of the car went underneath the car
Hit a bunch underneath the car
And went back so I'm looking back down the road behind me thinking that my license plate is bent all out of shape back here somewhere
Right and I'm going to stop
I keep looking and nothing has happened
And by this point the car is not running like the engine has shut off
All the all the lights pop on and we're just rolling
And I'm going up and that's not the license plate. That's something bigger
And what was we were on this curve and I'm sure you know exactly what curve I'm talking about
There's a big curve in the road and you have to take a right right there to go to Ballinger, Texas
And there's this big curve and we pulled over on the curve
And when I say this is the middle of nowhere like there's no houses for miles
It is farmers fields like there is nothing out there at all
and
It's super hot and we have a dog in the back of the car and you know can't run the car. So no ac
luckily
Luckily I had
Through my insurance. I had paid for roadside assistance. So I said, okay, no big deal
I'll just call my insurance company and get the roadside assistance
And they said, all right, no problem. So
They sent a guy out it took him two hours to get out there
So that was a little bit like two hours doesn't sound like a long time
But when you're in the Texas sun in a vehicle that and you can't get out because
What's on the right hand side here is a farmers field, right? And what's on the left hand side is a
Um, it's a highway in the middle of nowhere. Yes, but it's not like you want to go walking around on the highway
Right, there's truckers and everything else going and that's part of the reason you also don't want to get out either
You know these trucks going 70 miles an hour fling stuff up and you know, it could be dangerous
There's all sorts of stuff, right that could happen. So it's just like stay in the vehicle
We try to you know, have as much water as possible
Finally the tow truck driver gets out there. It drives us into town by this time
It's about five o'clock in the afternoon and if you know anything about Texas like four or five in the afternoon is like heat of the day
that's when it gets that's it's been cooking all day
and the it doesn't start going getting cooler until the sun goes down and
We get to we get to the the town and we get to the mechanic shop
they get the car in there and
you know
I just remember they didn't have a lobby
So like imagine
It was so nice to get into this tow truck because it's like oh man, you got a c so nice
It's you know my my wife who is my girlfriend at the time and then you know our dog and we're like oh man
This is so nice
Then we get back into town and then we had to sit back outside in the heat again going okay
And then so right when we get there they like fill out we had to fill all this paperwork all this good jazz
Then they say okay, we're going
They all start packing up to go home
And it's like oh, yeah, it's it's five o'clock
And I'm going oh man. So like what are we going to do?
And this is a very very small town
And so I told I told my wife I said
What we need to do is they're on the other side of town is a it was a
Rat hole motel like I mean it was a really really bad motel
And I said the best thing that I can say we need to cool off
I'm sure that they would
Accept dogs if you know, we paid the extra fee or whatever
Like let's just get a night there call you call your dad and
You know have him come down here and help us because he was only about three hours away from where we were at
and so
We call her dad and luckily enough the mechanic was really nice and took us over like it wasn't a far walk
But you're talking we'd been in the heat all day right like it's
It was a terrible time. So he was nice enough to take us over there
We got a room and I'll never been
And have you ever been through one of those hard experiences where you're like we were in a rat hole motel
Sitting there watching the first 48 and I thought maybe I had like died and gone to heaven
Like I looked at my wife and it's just like did we die from the heat? Is this really like true?
Because it just feels like after all this like terrible time just being in the ac is like man
This is so nice. This is so nice just to and to kind of have that safety feeling anyways her dad came down and
um
We went up to his house
And we were figuring things out the mechanic shop gets back to me and says yeah
You literally shot a piston into the oil pan, which is
Just about as bad as it sounds if you don't know anything about cars piston into an oil pan
Basically, you need a whole new engine
Is what's gonna happen and I'll be honest this car was not one that I felt was worth that and so
Um, I talked to the guy and he said you know, I'll buy it for you from scrap and he gave me a price
And so I said all right
So I called my good buddy Christopher because I knew his days off or Monday
And I needed to get this taken care of and so I said hey buddy
Not like that one girl with the voicemail, but hey buddy, um, how would you like to go down?
and um
You know, we can finalize this deal and sell this car
So he was a great friend said yeah, no problem. Let's let's make this a road trip. We left real early
We get down to the small town. Luckily it's like the courthouse and the dfv was like right there
So we just signed all the paperwork over he gave me the cash and we're rolling back up to Lubbock now
This is where the fun part for chris starts coming in. I'll let you tell this part. Oh, yeah, so again, uh
this this
Town was three hours away right get down there and sign it. Well, all great, right?
We're in Lubbock and we're almost to Micah's house, right?
We are literally 10 minutes away from his house
And we're driving in the most left hand lane
Okay, because we're trying to get home. We're already like all right. Let's go home
I get Micah home and let me enjoy the rest of my day
And I don't know what happened, but the lady that was in the lane lane to the right of us
I don't know if she saw us or what but she just like
Swirves and it's like coming into our lane like at 70 miles an hour
I guess we were in her blind spot and so me. I was like, holy crap. I'm not gonna let this lady like hit us
So what do I do? My natural reaction is to avoid her. So I
swerve so she doesn't hit Micah
Um, and I we hit the barrier like that's dividing the middle of the road, right?
So we got into an accident and it was boom airbags go off and again
We hit the barrier at 70 miles an hour not full on. Thank god. It was just part of the car
Um, but I remember the nurse coming up and being like, hey, are you guys okay?
We just saw what happened. She was trying to like she called the ambulance everything
And we were just like holy crap whatever whatever this and the person that made us have the accident
They pull off like 10
My like maybe I'd say 30 feet away and they're just sitting there waiting, right?
And I'm like, okay, they're gonna we're gonna at least get all the information
I would I would say it was probably about a hundred and
It was probably about a hundred feet because
There was an exit right there and they were like on the other side of like the exit ramp
And we were on the left hand side like before the exit and so they were way up here
And they had pulled off with their hazards on
Um, and it was it was enough distance to where I don't think we could have seen the license plate from where we were sitting at
Like I couldn't see it from there. It was that far away, but we could still see the car pretty real well
Yeah, we couldn't see it and the nurse was like, uh, the lady that was behind us
She was like, we're just I'm just gonna stay with you till the police get here
Uh, the police get there the ambulance get there. They're asking Micah all these questions like okay, are you okay?
Like they're asking making sure he doesn't have a concussion
And right as the ambulance and police pull up then the people that hit us like
Darn off and we're just like, hey, we're trying to tell the police. I was like, hey, that's the person that got like did this
They tried to go find them, but they didn't actually hit our car. So they couldn't really look for any
Uh, like markings or anything like that. And so, um, they're like, hey, do you need to go to the hospital and Micah's like, yeah
I probably need to go to the hospital
Micah's uh
girlfriend and they they kind of can they kind of convince me because
Like my back was really really hurting right, but it was hard to tell we we hit a barrier going 65, right?
so it's like it's hard to tell and
It's hard because it's like is this just my back hurting and I'm sore because of like maybe some whiplash because whiplash
they can't do anything for you really and so
I was sitting here going I really don't know if I should go and I remember like the
The ambulance guy was like really impatient
it was like well if you need to make the decision like right now and he's like I would go
Because you might be having internal bleeding and you know, even if it just hurts like you might bleed to death
Like internally like we don't know what's going on and so I was like, all right fine like take me
And so like they'd take me in the ambulance. And by the way ambulance rides are terrible
That is a metal box going down the road and when your back's hurting like that is the least place that you want to be anyways
so we get to the hospital
and I get there by ambulance and everything and um
Bro that hospital that is there in Lubbock is the worst
when it comes to
ER visits I've had other experiences, but this one was really really bad and you know, I came in
On an ambulance, you know from a car accident and they wheel me in
immediately they're like, okay, we're gonna get your vitals and we're gonna
Um, we're gonna have you do x-rays. Well, they bring me in on a wheelchair, right?
And you got to think I just got into a car accident and also just went in an ambulance ride my back is really hurting
And they're like, yeah, we need you to stand up for the scan
and
I was like, yeah that like that's fine
But can I have like something to hold on to or something because like it was hurting real bad, you know
And they're like nope you have to stand straight
And and all this and like they wouldn't give you nothing and I was like I understand that but at the same time
Like they were just real rude about it, right?
And so finally they were like, all right
Well sit in this wheelchair and don't move your head because you could have some sort of like neck paralysis or something like that, right?
So by this time
You know my wife
Chris and now Chris's wife. That was the first time that I had met her was actually in the ER
um, we're now here
and
We sat there
for we sat there and sat there and like we got I got in there at four o'clock
and we
We like I just to keep the story short
At midnight because I remember telling my wife. I said at midnight
We're gonna go up there and I'm gonna like 4 p.m. We got there at 4 p.m.
And by the time it was midnight I said I'm sick of this if I was gonna die or I had internal bleeding like I would have been
Dead by now. So like I think we're fine. I'm gonna go home and take some Advil and go to bed
you know and so
12 o'clock rolled around and they were all huffy about it. They're like, oh, you're leaving. It's like, yeah, man
Like we're leaving. I'm I'm tired of this. We had to sign all this paperwork and they were all upset about it
and
also another note
They played Hannibal Lecter over and over in the ER and I couldn't turn my head
So that was a nice few hours of watching Hannibal Lecter over and over too. It was wild man. It was crazy. Uh, yeah, uh
Uh, I we got a check out of the thing a little check from uh, since you had to go to the hospital
you got a little check, um
From the insurance company and I only had to and we spread the only had to pay a
$500 deductible and
Yeah, it was all good. It all worked out. Yeah, it all worked out man
But that was a that all happened within the matter of a few days
That was probably one of the worst weeks I've ever had in my life
Just mainly because there were so many highs and lows you get that car fixed all for it to go out
Spend hundreds of dollars to do that and you know all this stuff happens
But you know what it all worked out. Well, and we could laugh about it. Yeah, we can all laugh about it
Well, I'm going to skip the next segment. I'm gonna head right into the donut hole dude. Do it. What's up?
Well, you know, we like to play games and on the lost episode of last week the one we originally recorded
We recorded we played a game
And it was trivia about how well Micah knows me
But I can't give him the same questions now because I mean
We already we already did that one. So my wife and I we tried we started we haven't finished
Or a little over halfway through we watched Alpenheimer, which is uh,
The movie about the guy that made the atomic bomb. Yeah, so I thought it would be cool not World War two trivia
But just American history trivia in general. We've done it a couple of times, but uh, this is all different than the quizzes that we've had before
So we'll see how well, you know, you're American history. It sounds good. I love history. So hopefully hopefully I know somebody's all right
Number one who was the first us president to appear on tv?
a harry truman b. Herbert Hoover c
FDR or d jfk
It's not Hoover because Hoover was way too early for television. I'm gonna say Truman. It's actually fd. Yeah
FDR that makes sense. That makes sense. He was very, um
I mean heck he had four terms. So and he was very
Um big on media with his little five-side chats and such. Yeah
Frickin old Oslo cobble pot looking dude. Okay. All right number two
What was the first war that the u.s. Officially declared war on another nation?
a the revolutionary war
Be the war of 1812 see the french and indian war or be the civil war
And you said the first official one that they declared against the nation
Yeah, that the u.s. Officially declared war on another nation. I feel like there's a lot of technicalities with this question. Um
I'm gonna say the war of 1812
That is correct. I thought the revolutionary war might trick you up
But the u.s. Wasn't the u.s. It was just the colony. It was just the colonies. Yeah, that's why I was that's why I was thinking
I was like there's some technicality with this question. Um, we had the war of 1812
Wasn't one one more thing about it. Wasn't the war of 1812 wasn't it mostly in the like
Notical wasn't it mostly sea warfare like there wasn't a ton of
Ground troop fighting. I don't think I think it was a lot like ocean wise
Which of the u.s. Colonies was first to become a state to officially
Declare to become a state a
Pennsylvania be Georgia see New York or D Delaware. It's not Georgia
um
Pennsylvania want to say Pennsylvania
Delaware Delaware, I should have known it was gonna be Delaware because
Nothing else happens in Delaware. What did wait? I gotta choose a joke for you. What did Delaware say what now?
What did Delaware? I got a joke for you. What did Delaware a new jersey?
Yeah, yep
That was
hilariously cheesy number four. Who was the first
U.s. President to be given an official codename by the Secret Service
A. Harry Truman b. Grover Cleveland c. Teddy Roosevelt or d. Jfk
I'm gonna say jfk. It was actually Harry Truman. His nickname was the general
Harry Truman the general, huh?
Oh gap gap and McGee go gap to Truman number five in what year did apple release the first ipop?
a 1999 b
2001 c 2003 or d 2005 i'm gonna say
2001
In which city was christmas banned from 1659 to 1681?
I knew York b. Charleston c. Philadelphia or d boston. That's a good one. I I don't know. I'm gonna guess new york
It's actually boston. It's actually boston. Well, I didn't know that
I didn't know that christmas was actually banned from 1659 to 1681
I don't know why it was but I was like I wonder if there was a reason for that that is very interesting
all right
Number seven the revolutionary war ended in which city
a boston b yorktown c. Philadelphia or d savannah it was yorktown, right?
When was the last time the liberty fell wrong?
1846 1860 1839 or 1865 1860 no it's 60 right
No, it's 1846 1846
you know
I don't that's something I never understood why that was such a big deal. It's a bell with a crack in it
I mean, I I I get it but
Same time it's america's bell. Micah. That's why
I understand that but there's plenty of bells on a ship like how to understand why this one got a crack in it
We find it so special
But who was the first woman in the u.s to become a millionaire?
Oprah Winfrey Amelia Earhart madam cj. Walker or d. Ella Fitzgerald. I'm gonna say Amelia Earhart
Pretty early on it's actually madam cj. Walker. Oh, okay. It's also uh
It's also black history too as well
Um, all right very nice. Who was the first american to win a nobel peace prize?
A. Nikolai tesla b. Martin Luther King jr. C. Thomas Edison or d. Teddy Roosevelt was teddy Roosevelt, wasn't it?
Yes, it was it was good old theodore himself. Yeah. Oh, teddy did a lot of good stuff, man
um
He man, he was he was kind of a crazy dude too read about him. He got some
Crazy toms. Yes, he was well. That was american history trivia. You did fairly well. You did very good
Man, there were some hard ones in there. You threw me some uh, you threw me some curve balls in there
Had to make it hard man had to make it hard for sure
Well, we are gonna move into our next segment, which is what fries my donuts
What fries your donuts this week, buddy? And I'm gonna try to make this short people who just talk and never present solutions
so you know what man
I had something happen this week
and um
I don't know about you. So I I work virtually at this point
Which is a blessing but it could also be quite agitating because you're trying to get your work done and some of these meetings go
a little bit interesting so
first and foremost
The meeting doesn't start on time and it rarely ever does most of the time they'll wait five minutes in but this particular meeting
We wait five minutes. Okay. We're gonna wait for stragglers
And the first five minutes of that meeting is where people are talking and that's where you hear all the stuff that you don't want to hear
The people are sitting there talking about yep, and it's like the year 2020. I spit $1,300 on kady krish
And it's just like, okay. Why are you telling us this? But anyways, so you get through the five minutes
And I kid you not. This is what happened after the five minutes. Okay. Let's take a vote to see if we should get started now or not
This meeting happened at one o'clock so now we're at
108 when we finally agree via vote that we can now start this meeting
So now we're at 108 and by the way, this is a 30 minute meeting and the whole point of this meeting is supposed to be
To discuss big major problems
This is where you have three of the major bosses there to where you can get some of these problems out there
They can give you what they think about it and you can kind of go from there, right? Kind of a sounding board thing
And we only have this once a month. So it's a very precious 30 minutes worth of time
And so
They said okay
Now that we voted to get started. Let's get started
What's the what's the first thing somebody wants to bring up? And so guy raised his hand his name and he's like, yeah, you know, we
We're having this problem
Because we have this big push having people come back to work into the office three days a week
And we're having problems with our agents and their lunch is getting stolen from the break room
I kid you not, bro. This is a full real life conversation
and so
The first they they like somebody chimes in and says oh, okay. Well, here's what we should do
We need to have a system where it's
Where it's a sign-in system where there's a clipboard at the very front of the office
very front of the door to the break room
And you know, you have to sign in and sign out that way we can see who's been in and who hasn't been there
And so that suggestion goes out there and I'm like, well, that's kind of dumb
Why is that dumb because there is a camera that is literally in the corner of the room that faces the two fridges
To where you can see everything that's going on. So I go off of mute and say, hey, you know, why don't we just check the camera footage?
We have access to do that. Why don't we check the camera footage? We could see who's been stealing food and then we reprimand them for it
It goes quiet for a minute
And then they pick up with another idea. Here's the next idea
Here's what we'll do
We will have the sticky note system with a name and we'll have a lunch sign-out system
And basically what's going to happen is you'll have a sticky note with a number on it
And the sticky note with the number will coincide with a list that we have so we'll know if you're like no
I'll be number 76 and you know, we'll put that sticky note on there and it'll say 76
So we'll know, you know, that's so-and-so's lunch based on the list
And if we see it out on the floor, then we could say, oh, that's not your lunch because that's not your sticky note
Then they go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, that's not gonna work
Then they go to this and this was the the one that took the cake for me Christopher that really just got me going
they said
Our main man over here who's been working on innovation
Um, he has been working on this barcode system and Christopher as a man who used to be in the grocery industry
Please tell me something because I think
And maybe I'm wrong, but I think
Barcodes have been around for quite a bit. This is not a new bit of technology, correct?
In fact, I think I remember being at Fort discovered the little science center and being able to scan barcodes back then
And that was in the early 2000s. I even remember it late in the early
Or in the late 90s when Walmart still had smiley faces in and uh, you know smiley face stickers and whatnot
But I digress so we're sitting there and let's have this barcode system and basically what we'll do is we'll have a
we'll need to get a tablet in there or something and
Basically, we'll have these barcodes. They'll be the agent will be able to print this barcode
It'll be attached to them and then whenever they take their lunch out. We'll have a scanner in there
They'll scan the barcode. It'll go back to the tablet reader and it will say
Okay, so and so checked out their lunch that way we can keep account for it
Mind you, this is 30 minute meeting
We have gotten all the way to this point. It is now
127
Finally the boss chimes in and says, you know what? I think I like the idea about the camera the best
Let's just pull up the camera footage and watch the camera footage so 27 minutes
And we just went to one of the very original points about the camera footage and all this stuff
That because that really fries my donuts man because you know what the next thing was
A colleague who's also a very good friend of mine. He says yes, I you know because they said, okay
We have two minutes left
You know does anybody have something else to say and he had a very serious budgetary question that really needed in depth conversation
And they had two minutes and now he's got to wait a whole month
To get their attention again because we talked about
lunches being stolen and
cock-bull
stories about oh your theories about oh, let's do sticky notes and barcodes and all this other it don't make sense man
That's what fries my donuts people are just wasting time. I don't know if it's on purpose or not
But it that's just that's some garbage. I know it was a long story
But this is it blew my mind that this is what's happening in real life that we took 30 minutes to talk about something like this
Yeah, it's it's wild dude. It's always funny whenever like
We have stuff to do because whether it's moving or
Doing anything and I'm like if it has anything to pertain to me
I honestly just go do it on my own because I'm like I know what's gonna happen
There's gonna be about six of you that are just gonna stand around and discuss for 20 minutes about how we're gonna do this thing
Like I hate that crap. I'm like, let's just do it, bro. Like we're just gonna do I'm not gonna discuss
Like 20 minutes. I'm big stuff. Yes, but like on little stuff like that
Yeah, I hate that little stuff. It just it's time eaters. It's time wasters. It's like, why am I even in this?
Like, you know, I don't deny that it's a problem and I don't deny that there's you know,
There's some frustration there. I can understand. I've had my lunch stolen Chris's had his lunch stolen before it's not fun
Experience and it makes you very mad. So I understand why it's a problem. But you know, again, it's time and place
It's time and place. These are things that we can solve very easily outside of this meeting. Yeah, that could have been sent in an email
For sure. Yeah, it could have been done in the email chain. We could have figured it all out
But anyways, man, that's the stuff that fries me up and a lot of the times
You know and a lot of times these
Companies and a lot of these places that I've worked for that, you know, have these things go on they wonder why
It's like, why are we not as productive as we could be? I can tell you why it's for your things like that. And so
And again, it's always when you have
A ton of stuff to do is when these things come about and you're going I don't have time for this
I don't have time for 30 minutes about pontificating about this stuff. But anyways, man, that that's what fries my donuts and
BM and that's what fries my donuts. Yeah, well, let's move into the next segment
Which is the mystery donut and that's our improv segment. So Michael, what do we have on the books for today?
Man, we have bad
Presentation so Chris and I are gonna come up with ways to our topics
To present to you
So I'm gonna come up with ways to present
To present but in a bad way the worst the better. I'll choose yours first. Okay. All right. You have to present to me a
Record player, okay
Wait, never mind. Nobody knows what that is. Hold on scratch that you have to present to me a
A sofa a sofa
Well, if you see here the cushions the cushions are the best part of this sofa if you lay down on this sofa
It feels like a bed of nails. Why because it is a bed of nails lay down on it
We'll see if physics is really true or if it impales your back. You know what? I'll tell you what
Nothing's better after a long day than sitting on a bed of nails and saying oh, let's just rub that in because I'll tell you what
Don't you just want to pile up?
With your butt. I mean and look we'll even provide
The bed of that. You know what what's better than a two by four
Pillow with nails embedded in it
And we'll give those to you for free. You know what we'll stack those there and you know what if you act right now
Oh, this is the best deal of all
We will give you we will give
We will give you a free mattress of nails. That's right. You know what?
It's gonna be a pullout sofa and we will make it a bed of nails for you
You know what? It will be guaranteed to give you gangrene and
Anything else that we decide to put on the end of them nails man them rusty nails and I'll get you covered
Well, that's what I was gonna ask you is are you selling one of those pullout couch beds?
Because I used to think those things were cool when I was a kid
But after having moved a ton of those
They're heavy and they're not comfortable at all
Bro, have you ever had the ones with the bar in the middle of them too?
Like the the fold out bar and then you're like stuck with the bar and you're back all night. Yeah, it's no fun
No fun at all. That's you might as well lay on a bed of nails be about as comfortable. I bet. Yep. Exactly
Give me a bad presentation. Do people know what a telephone is anymore? No people don't know what that is
Give me a bad pitch to donate to a charity a bad
Uh a bad presentation about donating to a charity
We want you to donate to this charity now. I know what you're wondering
You may be asking where does all the money go and I'm here to answer those questions to be frankly honest with you
95% of your charitable donations goes to our CEO
You know that new Jaguar that he just bought you bought it. You know that new wristwatch on his arm
You bought it. You know his wife's plastic surgery the bbl
You bought it. That's where all of your money goes about only 5% goes to the starving kids in Africa
So please please please donate money so that our CEO can live a great life and be happy because if he's happy
That means I get to keep my job. Thank you
And if you give more right now
We might lower the percentage to 3% instead of 5 that go to the kids in Africa
So please give our CEO that 97%
98% that we and if you give right now, we will give you this bookmark that you'll probably never use
courtesy of pee pee and I'm joking um
All right, man, what you got for me? This will be the last one sell me
On a trip to seaworld our trip to amusement park. It doesn't have to be seaworld. Well, no, no, no, I
I just had to um, I had a really bad one right off the bat. Um
Come on down to seaworld. You know what come see shambu. They'll thank your family. I'll tell you what man
You and your wife
Would love to come to seaworld
Ride down the big waterslide and pay us a thousand dollars for an entry fee
Do you know why because it's seaworld?
We don't have shambu anymore, but we have themes for every bit of the year. You know what?
We have an easter theme coming up and since you're a pastor
What's going to be better than coming down here for easter now?
We really don't have too much to go off that we put one
crucifix one at the beginning of our park and that's really what we're going to do for easter, but you know what?
Since it's a special easter program
We're charging everybody else two grand and we're going to make everybody stand up not give anybody any chairs or anything like that
We're going to do nothing about Jesus except have this crucifix out front, but you know what? It's going to be for you
Pastors are welcome and actually
2500 2500 do I hear three do I hear four four five six seven seven thousand seven thousand is the admission price
I was like are you selling me on seaworld? Are you selling me on a big mega church?
Okay
All right last one. What's my last one a bad corporate numbers presentation
You know how they stand up there and
And I have to do this all the time where I have to present the numbers to a client do that in a poor presentation
Oh like us like a sales report. I know what you may be saying thinking to yourself
How are our numbers?
How are sales house productivity to be honest with you?
I read the email five minutes ago
And what I really want to talk about is how we can keep people from stealing lunches in the break room. Thank you
There you go. There you go. That's a great bad bow. I circle back there
It's a great presentation. Well, man, that that was great. You ready to move on to our next segment
Let's do it. All right, man
Our next segment is the eclair donut or our positive advice for the week and I'll go first man
So I've said this before and it's really been true, especially because of the loss that we've had and things like that
It's been really hard
I'll be honest
It's been hard the last couple weeks to keep up with things like the podcast and last week in aviation
And some of the other things that Chris and I are working on plus doing the job stuff
It's hard to keep up with all that man, but you know what I tell you
You know that you're on to something
Whenever it gets really really tough whenever it gets to the point where it's like man, I can easily quit
It's that test that's going on and I'm going to relate it to flying
So whenever you're flying and whenever you're in a plane
Planes always take off going against the wind and the higher the wind that's facing you
The higher the climb is going to be and the easier it'll be to take off
So just remember the hardest things that are going on in life, you know, I'm not sitting here calling
We'll just push through and it'll be fine. It's not just that just remember that all that wind that's going across there
is
there to help you and if it's
It might not seem like it right now, but whatever you're going through
Will get you to where you need to go and it'll get you to take off cool deal, man for sure
Mine is uh, and I don't know why but I feel like I feel like this one
I need like some preaching music because uh, I'm gonna preach for a little bit
Oh, you mean you need to put some chords on here. I need I need some keys
I need some feet we'll put some keys on the background, but my positive advice
Is don't confuse a detour with your destination
I'ma say it again put people on the back
Don't confuse your detour
With your destination. No seriously on a serious point
a lot of times you're
Amy
There's sometimes there are a lot of things that happen in our life and there's speed bumps in the road
And we can think that that's our destination
But really it's just a detour man, and I'm I'm sitting here the other day
I was thinking about where my life was at five years ago, man, and to be honest it was in one of the worst
parts of
My life man. It was in it was in a bad season and a bad year. It just
Not good, but I I'm thinking about how
How good god has been in the in the past five years just to bring me at to where I'm at now
Um, and that's not I'm not bragging on me man. I'm bragging on god because it's it's for sure
Uh like all god, but like in that moment
I was like man, this is gonna be my life forever
And things weren't going out the way that I wanted them to and it was just a hard
Thing but I didn't realize that that was just a detour and that wasn't my destination and sometimes
You have to take detours in order to appreciate the destination. Oh, I'm gonna say that again
Sometimes you've got to take detours to appreciate your destination and for real when you get there
Um, you'll appreciate the detours that took you there because it'll make you appreciate
The things you have so so yeah, yeah, man. You appreciate the times
You don't realize it at the time
But you'll appreciate the time when that wind was blowing against you real hard
And it didn't seem like you're gonna make it but you appreciate it because of how high you ascend afterwards
It's it's an amazing experience and you know, we're all going through that to a certain extent
Whether you're on the low end whether you're on the high end whether you're in the between point
We all going through it. Can I get an amen?
Come on somebody
See even in your the even when you're in the interval I said the interval
Between the between the starting point and your destination
It's in the interval
Where you see god work
And god's telling you today
That he's gonna have that permanent plan and while you in the interim
He's gonna teach you how to receive the blessings
That you will receive the rest of your life
See the interval is just temporary
But we don't live
In the temporary we live
In the everlasting. Can I get an amen?
Come on somebody. I better we better stop boy. You better stop before I get the prison telling you we didn't start a church anyways
me and mica do
No, we do not
Me bro me and mica we will just sometimes do that like it is it is a game for us and we've talked about
Bad sermons, but we will take like little objects or topics and you'd be like, all right give me a sermon about this
And we'll just go up preaching. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. Yeah, man. I I gotta I gotta brag on my boy chris
He he did one the other day where we were it was about dog food and he brought up
Smelling like alpoham purina and I was bent over laughing for about five minutes
I think we both were it. I mean it was laughing to the point where it hurts
So I mean good stuff, man, but I tell you what it's time to rep all the stuff trash can nation
Hit us up on trash can network man trash can network over on instagram facebook
And you know, we got it over on youtube as well. However, you're listening. We really really appreciate it
Of course, I'm gonna plug last week in aviation is doing real well if you like
Aviation news we got that 10 minutes or less video over there. So check that out
but man, we got a lot of stuff cooking and
Really enjoy the episodes
It's it's hard not to uh, it's hard not to expand these episodes man. It keeps uh, it seems like every week
We keep creeping up there to where it's almost an hour long
So it's like yeah, man for sure and uh, again, you guys go check out last week in aviation for sure
Uh, you know, I'm I'm not an aviation person
But but Micah knows a lot and knows what's going on and so like please go check that out
He's put a lot of hard work into it. Uh, but yeah, man
I I feel like it's time that we we wrapped the donut box up with uh that jefferson starship before before we get to preaching again
Yeah, heck yeah, man, and don't make me start preaching about jefferson starship
We will make a sermon about it. We will make a sermon about we built this city
It's like and the word said that he built this
We ain't gonna do that. All right
All right, all right, I'm chris. I'm Micah and this is the donut box
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