Hey man, it's been another week. Chris, I'm telling you, I feel very cringe about myself.
Why do you say that?
Man, so I dug into our old content. Like the content from 14 years ago, you know, the
Krispy Kreme show, that sort of thing. And you know, the emphasis of what made, or not
emphasis, or what am I looking for? The inspiration for where this show came from. I watched our
humble beginnings and boy, Chris, were we bad. We were really bad. That was not good.
I watched it the other day. I watched it probably about, I'd say maybe a month ago, if we were
very bad, like thinking as 16 year olds, we were like, oh yeah, this is awesome. But yeah,
the show was just structured really bad. We were rambling. Our skit didn't make sense. It was just a
bunch of inside jokes between us that nobody got. And we wanted people to come tour.
Yeah, we wanted people to come to our quote unquote studio, which was my parents' house. So I don't know
what we were going to have them tour. If somebody actually, and the whole instruction was right on our
Facebook wall, we are on Facebook. And that was a big deal at the time. We are on Facebook, right on
our wall for a chance to win. We were so upset that nobody wrote on our wall. But really and truly,
if somebody wrote on our wall, and we were like, yeah, you get to tour, what would we have taken them
to? Like, yeah, this is my kitchen where there's a fridge. This is my bedroom where I filmed this
behind this desk. Let's be honest. Let's just be honest. We just wanted girls to write on the
Facebook wall. If it would have been a dude, we would have been like, yeah, that's true. But I
could have seen it being like, if someone did write on our wall, it would have been a weirdo
like leather face. Yeah, you and I had the exact same thought on that. But yeah, speaking of,
yeah, you were talking about that. You were talking about that skit being all inside jokes. Yeah,
I'll be, I know we understood them at some point part of it. I didn't even understand. I was like,
I know that that was a joke between us at some point. But there was parts that I didn't even
understand. And then so we watched that video. And I showed this all to my wife's grandfather,
mainly just because it's a good cheap laugh. Let's be real. And then if you haven't seen them,
this is all on our YouTube page. I've shared this all in on the trash can network. So I'm going to
go ahead and plug that right now. But we have different playlist. One of them is MC Productions
old school. And it's got all these videos on there. But one of them, man, dude, you know, we did
all these cops videos where it's like mimicking the TV show cops. Those are actually, you know,
those are actually halfway decent. There was watching them, you know, I just remember how
long it took us to edit those. And we thought like, oh man, that was pretty good. But by today's
standards, like they're not great. But man, like they're not bad either. Yeah, I feel like they held
the test of time. Well, I'm Chris and I'm like, and this is the Dona box podcast. Speaking of
lasting the test of time, this Dona box podcast is lasted the test of time because we are on
officially episode 40 of season three. We only have 12 episodes left in this season. Can you believe it?
Yeah, 12 episodes left. And we're going to keep building this up. But season four here in 12 episodes,
we got something really big coming for you guys. Like this show is going to take on a whole new dimension.
It's going to be great. The one thing I have appreciated about the podcast, I feel like we have
started not only to find our groove, but I just love to see the evolution of it from where we first
started to where we are now and the things we've tried and the things we're like, oh, this worked out
really well. So let's keep that. And so I feel like each season we have added something new or a new
component. And I'm so excited for what we're going to add for season four. If you are a brand new
listener, welcome. If you're a returning listener, thank you for joining in and tuning in to us. And if you're
new, every donut is a different segment. And we'd like to always start the first segment with our old
fashion donut, which is a story from our past. Now, if you've been listening for any length of time,
you know that Mike and I used to work together at a Western War store called Bucarao. We have done
probably, I think, what is it? Eight now? Eight? I think this is what part eight? Yeah, it's kind of
a party. Yeah. But at the same time, or sorry, on the same token, we have so many stories because we have met
so many interesting people. And so it wasn't enough that only have three episodes on Bucarao, but we keep
digging the well and keep finding stories. So, Micah, I'm going to let you kick off this segment. In this
segment, you know, some we've talked about the characters, some we've talked about some of the experiences.
We're going to kind of combine both of those. And, you know, it's not a free flow episode. We are back to our
regular schedule programming, but we might have some kind of free flow style questions in here. So, it's going to be
cool, man. So let's talk about this first person. So this guy was interesting, man. I'm trying to figure out
what to call him. T-Boring. That's what we can call him. No, we're going to call him Trent. Trent. Okay. Yeah.
Gotcha. I feel like that's a good name for him. That works. I was trying to figure out something clever with his
last name, but that's not really working. Anyways, so old Trent, man. This dude was goofy. Like this dude was
goofy. Like beyond goofy, like I feel like there's got to be a bigger word than goofy to describe this man. Is there
another word you would describe him as? It was weird because he was goofy, but he was also kind of cool and
smooth when he needed to be. He was definitely a ladies man. I will give him that. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah. And man, this
guy right here. So I wouldn't say that we all hung out in the same friend group, but I was friends with one of
his good friends as well. And so we would hang out sometimes. And Chris, I don't know if you were here on this
occasion. So I'm just digress. There was, we've talked about this before, but there was a point of Chris and I's
friendship to where, yeah, we weren't hanging out as much and we were kind of hanging out with some different
people. And so Chris has never been one. Understandably so. And he's now a man of the cloth, and he's always
hold very hard on a lot of these standards. But he's just not a drinker. Like he's just not any hasn't been. And I
was kind of going through my more party phase, I guess. And man, this guy, he was one of the, he was one of the
partiers, right? And so I remember being at one of our buddies house and we had this game, right? And basically,
you would slap each other either on the back of the head or like across the chest. And it would just be like
wrestling move style. Like that's what it was supposed to be. And do you remember this, Chris? Were you there?
Because some night I was not there for this. My boy Chris, I will say this, even though he wouldn't partake. A lot of
times he was still a great friend and he would be there to be by designated driver. So sometimes he would be
there, but not partake. So I just didn't know. But anyway, so in this particular occasion, he was not there. And I
remember this guy, he ended up going up to one of our very large friends, Mr. Bishop. And he ended up, and I mean,
Mr. Bishop's a big guy, big black guy, like huge, like he played football, right? Like, I mean, he was a big guy.
And I'll never forget, man, I didn't see exactly what happened. But this guy Trent, having a little bit too much to
drink, he decided to do this wrestling move off of this guy's porch. Like he did like a wrestling move on this
dude, Mr. Bishop, like right off the porch. And like it was kind of wrestling movie. Was it was like a stunner?
Something like, yeah, it was like a stunner. I don't remember, man, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to ask this friend
group. And I know they're probably gonna listen to this episode and be like, man, how did you not remember? That night was
a little fuzzy for anyways. But anyways, so end up what happened was it was a cheap shot. Either way, it was a cheap
shot. And so I remember the rule was our buddy Adrian, he was shout out Adrian, you're listening. But he was like,
right, the only way to make it fair is he's able to get you back. And I think it was a chat. No, it was definitely a
chest shot that he was able to get back to him. And so I remember, dude, Mr. Bishop, he went back and just slapped him
across the chest. And I'm talking like it split his chest open. He started bleeding stuff. Like, he slapped him so
hard that that and man, it was it was such a crazy, like I've never seen somebody had their chest, like it wasn't
something to go to hospital over, but you could tell it hurt, like you could tell it really hurt. And but the kind of guy
he was Trent, he was still smiling and laughing that whole time, like even though he was in pay he was like one of those
goofy guys that still had a smile he could be in just a tremendous amount of pain but he's still be smiling
somehow. Like that's the whole point of that story was he had his chest split open and he's like, yeah, and it wasn't
just because he was, you know, feeling the alcohol. That's just how he was. And think about this. This was probably with
his shirt on the wrestlers that do that every week and they chop each other pretty good. They don't have a shirt on. So I
could imagine that probably hurt pretty good if it if he hit him so hard that his chest split open with still with the
shirt on. That's wild. Yeah, it was it was pretty nuts, man. And so had a few stories like that. And then like Chris said
man, why he was he was a ladies man, like I don't know how he did it, like what kind of charisma, what kind of
Riz as the kids would say nowadays, what what he had, I don't know. But it would be like, there was so many times where
we would come back to work and there would be a young lady a cashier or some sort. And they'd be acting real funny after
a Saturday night. And all Trent would be like, huh, yep, we went out last night. It was like, oh, yep. And bro, he made
his rounds to pretty much everybody at one point that place seemed like it probably just had to be the confidence though,
to be honest with you, it had to be the confidence. I don't but see the thing is what it's hard to say that the man
was like some people can walk through life. And I don't know if it's necessarily confidence, but they're just like, it's
that quiet. How do I put it? How do I put it? Like mysterious, quiet. Yeah, I guess. What it is. Yeah, I guess it's what it is.
It's like it's not a it's not a cocky confidence. But it's just like he's very comfortable with himself and didn't really
care about being anything other than himself, which is very good. But at the same time, it was just it was an interesting experience
always being around him, but he was a really fun guy to work with. Do you have any other fun stories with him? Yeah, I have a funny
story. So this is and you may not know this story, but so I went to Chatters this one time with with your parental unit.
And I just remember the waitress was like super into me like she was very into me and I had a girlfriend at the time, but we
were kind of like going through a rocky patch or whatever. And somehow that waitress like found me like on Facebook, right?
Like she found me on Facebook, added me. And then like I was going to like, like go out with her. But then but then I found out
like right when I was going to like ask her out, I found out that like Trent had gone out with her like a couple days prior.
And I was like, oh, okay. So the pet was all I said, yep. No, I'm good.
And we have in Trent's leftovers. What can I say? But no, it was it was pretty he was he was a really fun guy to work with.
Like some of those, you know, we've talked about so many characters in the previous episodes about the boot corral that made the
job hard and made it, you know, not very easy and not very pleasant. He was one of those guys to where it was it was always pretty
he was, you know, the goofy party animal guy. And you always got to have one of those around working wise to make it a fun time.
I do have another story about Trent.
Real quick. So we talked about how like as we worked in the back room, like if we liked you, we would help you out. And so if a if a salesman was trying to make a really high dollar sale,
like some of the higher end boots, what they would do is they would keep one boot out on the floor and keep the matching boot in the back so it was to eliminate people stealing.
And so if you were trying to make a sale, you would have to go back to the back and find the match so that you could make that sale. Well, sometimes customers would are sorry, salesman would be fighting over their customers
and people would race to the back to try to find the match for the boot. And if we really liked you, we'd help you out. We tell you where it was.
But if we didn't like you, then we would just be like, Oh, yeah, I don't know. I've never seen it. Well, I remember this one time Trent and this other salesman that we really didn't like, like we're beefing and they were trying to get the matching one.
And Trent came back there and he was like, Where's the matching boot? Where is it? Help me. Help me. Help me. And we helped them real quick. And the other salesman came back in and he was like, Where's the matching one?
I said, Oh, I don't know, dude, you're going to have to go find it and we let him spend like a few minutes trying to find the match.
Yeah, he looked and looked and looked. He's like, I think it's gone from the spot. And it's like, you know, Trevor was back or dang it.
I know, you know, Trent was back here just a few minutes ago. He's like, No, he wasn't. Yeah, he was. And then he stormed back out there.
But I think we talked about that dude, the same dude that went back there, the baseball umpire guy. Anyways, um, yeah, I thought it was the crack head from was it cracky from it might have been cracky.
We've been I don't know. It was memory. If memory serves me correctly. I don't know. Anyways, um, okay, so now I'm going to switch it to more of questions here.
Who would you say the weirdest person you worked with at bootcrow?
Probably that person you just named the baseball umpire. He was one of the weird ones. He would just follow you.
And anytime you messed up, he would just look at you and say, Well, I'm still learning this guy did not pick up on social cues.
There was also another coworker that did not pick up on social cues that shall remain nameless.
I should laugh. I should laugh so hard. Who else was really weird? Oh, I'll tell you who was weird. I and they were really weird. I didn't like them.
And I know you didn't like them either. What should we call him? The guy that was basically like, Yeah, I don't have to work here.
Yeah, doing this to get extra. Yeah, he was customers bug guy. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah, bug guy. Yeah.
He was definitely weird to work with and then uh and then saying Angela was kind of just a different character.
But definitely not the weirdest, I would say.
Man, so you didn't get to work with him. He worked very, very limited.
He was only maybe there for a few weeks, but I think the weirdest guy that I ever worked with and his name was he was really, really strange to the point where so he came from working at a store called Buckle that was like in the mall.
I know exactly who you're talking about. You know who I'm talking about? And so he was weird. Yeah, he was really weird.
And so for some reason he always wanted to talk to me like I don't know why he always wanted to talk to me. And the biggest thing that he would always talk to me about was how he had this girlfriend at Pepperdine University, which Pepperdine University is a really prestigious university in California,
like extremely, I think it's a private school too. But basically if you go to Pepperdine and she was supposed to be going to Pepperdine Law School, which is like an extremely big deal like that's it's an really good school.
And so that's that's a really big deal. But this guy was really strange to the point where you're like, I don't believe you have a girlfriend that's going to Pepperdine.
And so as time went on, you know, he oh yeah, you know, I've got this girlfriend, I got this girlfriend, I got this girlfriend.
So one day, like I come in and the store opens and the store would open at 9am. And so come in, open the store. And this guy like doesn't show up.
He shows up late. And then when he does show up, like we couldn't find him, it was just the two salesmen in the morning and I just couldn't find him anywhere.
So I looked in the break room looked everywhere. So where all the boots are for sale, we call them the boot rows for obvious reasons.
He was sitting in the boot rows. Okay, so any workplace right if you're going to have a problem or if you're going to cry or if you're going to be mad, right, you take it to the break room or you take it to the back.
This guy was sitting in the boot rows. I mean, just sobbing, like I'm talking about just crying, crying, crying in front of everybody.
And so I was like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on? And he's like, my girlfriend from Pepperdine broke up with me and all this other stuff and it was just this really, really weird.
I don't know. It was just really odd. And then that same day, this girl comes in, or I shouldn't say girl, probably college age gal comes in and she gets like really weird once she sees this guy, Jordan.
And it's like, okay, what's going on with this and she was my customer. So I just asked her I said, Hey, what's going on? Do you know that guy? And she's like, Yeah, I know him.
And it's like, and he like stalks my friend. I was like, Oh, he does. It's like, yeah, she goes to Pepperdine and she's like in law school.
And I was like, Oh, really? And I was like, he was saying that she like, like she was his girlfriend and everything and like they were going to get engaged and he was like, No, he goes around telling everybody that but she doesn't want anything to do with him and like they've never dated.
I think I've never had anything to do with each other. And he's just like obsessed with her apparently. And it was like, Oh, okay, that's really, really weird. And then not just that this same dude would talk about like what he would go home and look up online.
I'll let you fill up filling the gaps there. And then I remember, you know, he was he didn't last very long, right? But I remember right before he left, I remember being in the manager's office and the manager gets a call.
And it was from him. And this guy was calling into work. And it was on speakerphone. I'll never forget. It was like, Yeah, I can't come in because I'm having a sneeze attack. And I remember the boss literally said a sneeze attack.
Like, what do you mean like a series of sneeze like, Yeah, I can't come in because I'm having a sneeze attack. It's like, What does that have to do with you not being able to come in for an eight hour shift?
It's like, Well, I can't stop sneezing. It's like, Well, we're having this conversation right now. He's like, Well, I can't come in because I'm having a sneezing attack.
It's just like, Okay, I mean, it was just the it was just the weirdest thing, man. That was the oddest guy I ever worked with. Something wasn't right in the head, I think personally, but it was just, just wild.
All right, let's let's do one more. And we will move on to the next segment. What would you say your worst customer experience was?
I don't really remember too many customer experiences just because I tried to block that part out of my life because it was not a good time for me as I've shared in previous episodes.
To be honest, I think it was just people giving you the run around. And I think I had to help one lady with like her kids getting some boots anytime you had to help kids with anything.
Oh my goodness, like it was just a lot because you wouldn't get a lot out of the sale because kids boots weren't that expensive.
But the good news was you could usually sell them a belt or shirt or some pants. But remember them like trying things on and then being like, Oh no, we're not going to, you know, people just wasting your time really and truly.
I don't think I have a single like worse customer experience you are on the sales floor longer than I was. So you probably have a better story than I do.
The one that I have, I've got a few but the one that I have. So there was a dad and his son and they would come in sometimes and I didn't have especially a big problem until I learned how to crease hats.
And then I got the hat bar area and hats is my section as the salesman to clean up and things like that.
And so this father and son would come and the father was probably bid forties and the son was in his teens.
And I don't know which one was worse man the dad or the son and every single time they would come in.
What would happen is they would they would want you to take a open brimmed hat or an open uncreased hat.
And you think about some of you might not have ever seen this but you think about a cowboy hat and it's got all the edges and you know, there are certain cuts different creases everything like that but an unshaped cowboy hat.
It literally just looks like a flat circle on the bottom right with a dome on the top it's just a big circular dome exactly just like a Quakers hat.
So basically, you know, some people like to buy those hats either pre molded to where it's already got the shape in it, or some people like to buy the open hat and then have somebody shape it to their speciality.
And what would always happen is these guys would come in.
They'd want their current hats cleaned pretty much what would happen every single time is you would try to clean their hats.
It wouldn't be up to their standards so they'd be like move out of the way move out of the way and then they would go back there and start doing it and start cleaning up on their own.
And the problem with that was there were so many times that they like use the wrong brushes they use the wrong whatever and all these things are for the employees to use for the customers.
But if you use the wrong brush or use something like that you have to throw that away.
Now I'm getting yelled at by my boss because like how dare you let them use the wrong brushes like I don't know what you want me to do they said move out of the way they grab the brush and start brushing their hat.
Like it's already kind of too late.
There'd be stuff like that but then there was several times where they would come in right before the summertime and say I want a straw hat in this open frame.
But what I'm going to do is I want to make like I want to make a design in the top and I want to do all this stuff right the problem with straw hats is.
However you crease it that first time that's how it's going to stay felt hats you can get it to you can get it you can manipulate them after it's done the first time.
If straw hats basically it's broken into place is what happens you break you break the straw into a shape.
And so bro I remember one time in particular these guys came in and I already had plenty of problems but him and his son both wanted brand new hats.
And we ended long story short we ended up going through three different straw hats that were $120 a piece because they couldn't they didn't know they didn't like they didn't know what style they wanted and they would change their mind up on the fly.
Bro I remember getting cussed out to because of that I remember like they're they wasted all these hats and then they're leaving because that very last hat that I creased they're like yeah we like that one it's like okay.
I walked around the store later.
They had like left it in the jeans and then they had told the manager that I did a horrible job and that they were never going to come back.
And then what happened was they came back a few days later and they were like oh and you screwed up our other hats too.
It was this bro is this whole thing so I ended up having to pay for all those hats that quote unquote I broke even though they're the ones that want to change this designs on the midway through.
And then I had to I had to pay out of my pocket replacement hats for them because they said that the hats that I clean which they cleaned with the wrong materials that I owed them for that so I end up having to pay like four or 500 bucks out of pocket because of that whole or deal.
And then they had the gall to come back and be like yeah we like that guy. He needs to help us and he wanted me they wanted me to help them the whole time I was like yeah I don't think so.
I don't think so buddy.
It was but they were always just extremely rude and I mean it was like I don't think that was the only time they cost me money I feel like there was another time to where they had me like break a hat or something and I had to pay money or some crap.
Like it was not good times I just I just know I could see both of their faces in my mind and if I saw them on the street I think I'd crossover to walk on the other side of the road.
I had stuff still ticks me off.
Anyways, well we are going to move into our next segment and this is a different segment we're going to kind of play a game.
The name of the game is Will it Bible. So if you've ever watched Good Mythical Morning you've seen Will it Hot Pocket. Will it Watermelon.
This is Will it Bible. Now I'm going to read some quotes and you have to tell me true or false. Is this in the Bible or not.
Okay because there are a lot of people who quote things that are not Bible and some people say things that are in the Bible.
So are you ready for this. Yeah let's do it.
All right true or false. God helps those who helps themselves.
Is that actually in the Bible. No I don't believe it's actually in the Bible.
You would be correct that's actually from poor Richard's Almanac and it was famously quoted by Ben Franklin but somehow some way people think that's quote that as a Bible verse.
People think that. Yeah. Yeah I can see it. Well it's because it's it advocates you being selfish right so everybody would love to be selfish.
All right next one. The love of money is the root of all. That one is in the Bible. Yeah.
Yeah but what's often misquoted is people say that money is the root of all.
Which is not true. No it's it's the love of love. It's a love of love. Yeah.
All right next one. As a dog returns to its vomit so a fool returns to its foolishness.
That one's in there too. Yeah. Yes it is. That is improver.
All right next one. God will not give you more than you can handle.
No that one is in Corinthians isn't it. I believe that's in Corinthians.
It's actually false. The verse that it says is that God will not let you be tempted more than you can handle.
But a lot of people think God won't give you more than you can handle. So they often misquote that was I right about the Corinthians bit though for the other.
I don't know. I just know that one's not in the Bible but it's most quoted. OK misquoted. All right. OK. OK.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Yeah that one's in there. That one is in there and it was made more famous by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address.
And so people think Abraham Lincoln said it but it's also in the Bible. All right next one. This too shall pass. That one's not the Bible. No it's not.
It's actually a Persian adage. That's what I heard or something. Yeah it makes sense. Yeah it makes sense.
But a lot of people quote that as being a Bible verse. All right. Next one. Cleanliness is next to Godly. Now I've heard that one so many times but I don't believe that that is in the Bible.
It is not in the Bible. You are correct. It was made famous and a sermon by John Wesley but it's not in the Bible. What people like to quote that.
I've even heard too that it's been attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas as well that he also. I don't know. I don't know how true that one is. I've actually heard about that one. The cleanliness is next to Godliness and I don't know.
The only reason I know St. Thomas Aquinas is because of from the high school teams and from this. So anyways next. Throw your pearls before swine. That one is in there. Right. Yes it is.
That one is in there. Jesus was talking about when you try to witness to someone and they don't want to take it. Don't throw your pearls before swine. I use that one a lot.
All right. Next one. God works in mysterious way works in mysterious ways. I know. Now that one's not in the Bible man. I don't I don't think that one is in there is it.
It is not. You're correct. It's not in there. All right. Next one. We got three more here. God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldier. That one is in there.
It is not. It is not. OK. That one is not in there. But a lot of people quote that as a Bible verse. All right. Two more. If you get tired running with men. How are you going to outrun the horses.
I believe that one is in there. That one is in there. It's in Jeremiah. And last one. Charity begins at home. I believe that one's in there too. That is all. You did pretty good on those. Yeah. It's always funny when people are like that's in the Bible.
It's hard because I think what it is is there are because what is the Bible. A lot of it is bits of virtue that you want to pick up. Right. And I think that a lot of a lot of it is like virtuous quotes that sound like it could be in the Bible but aren't you know.
Because a lot of it again it's kind of confusing because you go that sounds like something I've kind of heard in the Bible before. And so we're going to move next into our donut hole.
We're going to play a little game and Michael you're going to love this. We're going to take it all the way back to Madden 2006. I'm going to ask you questions about Madden 2006 and see if off the top of your head. Yeah. If off the top of your head you can just.
Madden 2006. Yeah. Like rosters and overall ratings. Are we talking like rosters. Yes. Talking about. Now you'll have to think your brain is going to have to think of since Madden 2006. They're like those video games are like a car.
So you're going to think of the roster 2005. Oh man. Just quick question off the top of your head if you don't know. All right. Some choices. Which NFL team had the worst overall ranking in Madden 2000.
I'm going to go with the Detroit Lions. That is not correct. It's actually the San Francisco 49ers. The Detroit Lions had a 78 overall rating. San Francisco 49ers had a 67.
67. Good Lord. That's really bad. The Lions were actually ranked higher than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Well I guess they did have Joey Harrington. I'm trying to think about 2005. This is going to be a little tough.
But I think the best player was the highest ranked player on the Chicago Bears. Chicago Bears. Was it Rex Grossman. I can tell you that much. You want me to give you some. Can you give me. Here. Give me a hit. What was what was his position.
Then you're going to get it. I'll give I'll give you some hints. Was it a Rex Grossman. Was it B Desmond Clark. Was it C Brian Erlacher or was it D Kyle Orr.
I'm going to say Brian Erlacher. You would be correct. Yeah. Good old Brian Erlacher. All baldy. You know I have his Ricky card and I've been waiting for him to get into the Hall of Fame. So hopefully it's worth.
Who was the running back for the Baltimore Raven. What was his name. That's the hard part is remembering people's names. What was his name. I can I can see him right now. Jamal Lewis Jamal Lewis.
That's exactly correct. That's right. Awesome. Awesome. Jerry Blossom. OK. Who was the highest ranked NFL team in Madden 2000. I'm going to go with Indianapolis Colts. It's actually the Patriots. OK. That makes sense.
The New England Patriots. They had a 97 overall rating and then coming in second place was the Philadelphia Eagles. OK. Well I guess it makes sense for the year. Yeah. It makes sense for the year.
I guess it was because if it was yeah. OK. Because that would have been the year that they did that then the year before that would have been the Colts and the Bears and the Super OK.
Who was the highest overall ranked player on the Carolina Panthers. Was it Steve Smith Jake Delhommie Julius Peppers or Thomas Davis. I'm going to say Julius Peppers. That dude was really good.
That would be that would be you know that dude played until like think about this. This is Madden 2006. We're talking about that dude played probably until just a few years ago.
It was that's pretty wild. A couple more questions here. Who was the quarterback for the Detroit Lions. Oh Joey Harrington. Oh no. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
If it's not Joey Harrington was John Kittner. Yes. It was John Kittner. OK. I was like if it wasn't Joey Harrington had to be John Kittner. All right. What's the next one. One of the top cornerbacks for the Baltimore Ravens.
2005. Was it the Angelo Hall. Was it Dion Sanders. Was it Terence McGee. Or was it Nathan Bash. You said for the Ravens. We're going to the choices one more time. I have to go back to them.
Was it the Angelo Hall. Dion Sanders. Terence McGee or Nathan Baster. I don't know that one. I guess Terence McGee. Maybe I forgot he played for them for that year.
I guess. Who was the highest rookie. That was drafted. OK. Highest rookie that was drafted. Was it. So like they were the number one pick that year. Just overall ranking like as far as the score.
In 2006. Was it Braylon Edwards. Was it Keith Miller. Was it Jason Campbell. Or was it Cedric Vince. I'm going to go Cedric Vince. It was actually Braylon Edwards who was also tied with Ronnie Brown.
But they both shared a score of H5. And then neither one of them did a whole lot. So. All right. Two more questions for you. Just two more that are left.
All right. Who was the quarterback for the St. Louis Rams. For the Rams in 06. That was. Mark Bulkner. Yeah. Yes it was. Yes it was. All right. Last question. Who was the highest overall rated quarterback for men.
It's either got to be Tom Brady or Peyton Manning. I'm going to go with Peyton Manning. I believe I think Peyton Manning is probably at 99 that year. It is actually Peyton Manning. Yeah. He was at 99. You know who the second one was Tom Brady. Don't take cold pepper.
Wasn't he with the Vikings still. Yes he was. Good old Dante Cole pepper. Everybody forgets about that guy as much as the 2005 doing the Patriots fried your donuts that year.
What else fries your donuts because we're moving into that. Oh man. This time of year what really fries my don't. Well I this time every four years what really fries my donuts and I'm not going to go too much into politics.
But what really fries my donuts is the amount of sheeple that we have in this country in this great nation. Yes I said sheeple. There's a lot of sheep out there. A lot of people and there are some probably listening to this podcast right now.
You know they take things at face value. They don't validate their sources and both really drive me nuts. I don't know about you Chris industries like especially like the television media industry are very heavily bought.
Even though people know this right you can go to most people on the street and say hey if you watch Fox News you know they're probably going to be biased more and lean more conservatively.
People know this but they don't seem to care. They'll still take the information and spit it back out whether they believe it or not. And it's the same thing with there's all sorts of people out there and it goes way deeper.
You know some of these other sources yeah they spin it a certain type of way but at least it's verified news. Then you got a lot of other people who are out there spreading all this crap on Facebook and believing all this stuff.
What bothers me about it is there's no thought of like does this make any sense. Does it really make sense that Barack Obama is coming back to run for president again and that he's going to make Flint Michigan the brand new home of his Muslim regime.
Does that make any sense to you. Like that that's my thing. No that doesn't make any sense to me. What exactly. But people will buy into this crap and people will spread this rhetoric and be like see I don't know what's going on.
And they will use it to say this is why we need this person in office. But the thing is don't you think that everything that's pointing these people in that direction is being spun that way on purpose and see the dumb part is you can talk to most people and they will have put this together right.
And they will believe these things. They'll go yeah yeah I know what you're talking about. Yeah yeah exactly it's biased and it's probably being put out there and it's probably fake but somehow some way these people still go along with it.
I really don't understand it Christopher. Can you explain it to me. I think people really just want someone to root for it. And I think that's what it is. People love a good old fashioned rivalry.
And we talked about this the other night. And I can guarantee you what's happening in reality is that behind closed doors the Republicans and Democrats are laughing to each other about how much their money they're making off the American people.
It's that typical old like in WW or UFC when they have the press conference and they're about to like throw hands and you know none of it is real. You know they really don't hate each other because they're trying to make money is what they're trying to do to sell a fight.
And that's what I feel like the presidential campaign is they're going to try to talk the most crap. They're going to try to have the most like crazy malarkey going on so that they can distract the American people from what's really going on.
And I friendly believe that you should be involved in your government and you should be involved and care about it. But I think the level that people take it to is like they they are feeding in and they are buying into what the media is putting out for both sides.
And I don't care how ever you feel about it whether you feel liberal or conservative like people who most of the time you that out and are like yeah see what the Democrats are doing or oh see what the Republicans are doing.
You're feeding into what they want you to feed into because really and truly it's like a like Coca Cola and Pepsi right like they're competing with each other and really and truly they want you to make you think there's multiple brands out there.
And really and truly it's just one or two people controlling the purse strings and they want to just get people to spend their money and spend their time and energy and all that stuff.
That's what makes these people in positions of power for so long because people are playing into the game that they're and then I mean that's exactly what you said.
The vision and rivalry makes money like it makes extreme amounts of money and I mean it's a racket and I think the crazy thing to me is yeah the Republicans and the Dems are all sitting back and in you know having their drinks and go and look at what we're doing and stuff like that.
And but at the same time it's causing a real division like we're talking about like a real division and a lot of people and I don't know how true this is and I'm going to also give it a grain of salt because I'm getting older and I thought I'd never be the person to say something like this.
But I don't feel like at least whenever I was a kid or whenever I was growing up and seeing some of these other elections and seeing some of these other times I don't ever remember being so divided though.
Like I do remember there being some common ground and I remember the word bipartisanship coming up at least every now and then how many how many times you heard the word bipartisanship or bipartisan anything in the past five years six years eight years.
I mean, I haven't heard anything bipartisan like the stuff they talk about bipartisan for the stuff they have to get done like oh yeah.
The government's going to shut down because we didn't make it you know I mean like so we have to work together they work real hard.
Oh yeah they have to it's like oh crap we were going to freaking shut down because we've neglected this too long.
So it's it's stuff like that man and then the crazy part is it's like most people don't know and most people aren't putting the time and it goes back to what Chris said it's very important that you pay attention what's going on government.
But what's extremely important and what a lot of people miss.
Yes, you can watch the national stuff and whatnot.
Take it with the grain of salt.
Look into it.
Formulate your own opinions right look at both sides of the aisle and try to find a middle ground that's one thing but to.
I think that is just.
I think it's heresy and I think it's really bad of how we don't promote our local and state governments.
That's the stuff that's important to you.
Those are the elections that really matter.
That's the stuff that is affecting your day to day life.
Most of the time who's president in the United States does it affect things.
Yeah, it does.
And you know there are things that happen but realistically it's your state and local governments that are you know the thing and so a lot of what people are fighting about are things that won't even cause change on their day to day basis.
Right.
So I think for me, you know, to sum it all up, it's just aggravating when people have formulate these opinions without a lot of basis and what they're doing is they're regurgitating what the media wants them to regurgitate.
It's causing a further divide and that divide is making all these people money.
But the people making money aren't realizing this divide is really going to screw us all in the end if it keeps going.
And so it's just frustrating because it's like if people would stop just following what people are saying and open their eyes, then we can all make our formulated opinions and guess what?
It probably wouldn't be a two-party system anymore.
Wait, I got just a little bit, just a couple of comments and one question.
I know this is a rabbit hole, but it's okay.
Now, I think to attribute to all that's going on, I think the 24 Hours News Network and the fact that social media and you get updates and it's constantly just in your face all the time.
I think that is attributed to it.
But my question is because to be honest with you and maybe it's just because I've deleted those people on Facebook and Instagram.
But do you feel like as a younger generation, we're seeing as much of that divide because to be honest, most of the squawking I hear comes from the older generations.
I feel like younger generations, yes, they like post and regurgitate all that stuff or sorry, the younger generations don't post and regurgitate as much of that stuff.
Yes, they care.
And yes, they do post about their opinions and their political beliefs, but I feel like they're not as divisive, but I could be wrong.
I feel like it's the older generations.
Am I wrong?
Man, I think it's a mix.
I really think it's a mix because maybe the social media side of things.
And I think this is going further down the rabbit hole, but really Facebook, Instagram is more millennials post more on there.
I feel like Facebook is the older generation who are primarily talking or posting on Facebook period.
So there's that side of things.
And then I think our generation is pretty opinionated.
And I think that it is pretty divided because man, there's a lot of people that I know that are pro Kamala right now.
And then there's a lot of people that I know that are very pro Trump right now and there's doesn't seem to be a lot of common ground in between there.
But I would say that the older generations are a lot more vocal about that.
That's true.
I guess it's for me like I'm cool if you share your political beliefs, but when you start going into start reposting that stuff, that's like absolute nonsense, whether it's from either side.
Then I either mute you or I kind of delete you because I'm like, you know what, man?
I'm like, my my life is already got enough going on without adding that negativity and just all that like go do that somewhere else.
Well, and it goes further than it goes further than news.
A lot of it is hate spewing is what it is.
It's not really it's more than news.
It's more like just we not only not don't need this person in office, but they're a piece of crap.
And here's why.
And it's just like, oh man.
Yeah, pretty much.
And it's just like they don't have a place in our society.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's just like they're just running for an office here and I'm not saying that, you know, I'm not saying that it's, you know, I'm not saying politicians are great by any stretch of the imagination, but at the same time, they're all human beings.
Right.
So well, on better news, we are going to end this on a lighter note.
We are going to move into our eclair.
So I'll go first. Mine is just simple this week. Just hang in there.
I know sometimes life throws curveballs at you, but just hang in there.
Hold on.
And the season that you're going through will not last forever.
I'm speaking to myself.
So please know I'm not preaching at you.
I'm preaching with you.
And so it's hard when you're going through the storms, but just hang on.
Just hold on.
Things will not be forever.
I don't know how long your rough season is going to last.
I pray that it lasts not that long, but if it is lasting a long time,
I promise it doesn't last forever and that there are better days are coming.
And Mama said there'll be days like this, but you got to just keep holding on.
Like I will be saying there'll be days like this, Mama said.
And I'll tell you this much.
There was a very cringe moment on one of the videos we were watching going back to the very first thing that we were talking about in this episode.
One of the videos I was watching, we did a reddition of moving on up to the east side.
That was kind of cringy.
Anyways, so my E-Clear for this week, it is never too late to start something.
And you know, so I do hang around the personal care home a little too often with the elderly people.
But you know what's very interesting?
One of the biggest things that I hear from them is, oh, I don't want to learn how to do that.
It's too late for me to do something like that.
What's, that's, you know, to me, I can understand where you're coming from.
I understand you're probably on the back end of your life to the point where you want to take a little senioritis, right?
As far as just like in high school, right?
It's like, man, I'm kind of, I've earned this.
I can just not learn how to do this and other people take care of it for me and that sort of thing.
I'm not really talking about a ton of that.
But at the same time, it's not just old people, man.
There's all sorts of, I've talked to middle-aged folks.
I've even talked to people our age and it's like, man, that's going to take me too long to learn that.
Or, oh, man, you know, a lot of, especially our generation going back to our generation and Gen Z or as I could say the same thing.
If it's not going to produce tangible results very quickly, it's dropped very fast.
A lot of times it's not given much of a chance.
And I just want to say it's never too late to start something and that those things are going to take time.
And so even though you might be sitting there, I don't know what age you are, right?
19, you could be 40, you could be 50, you could be 60, you could be in your 80s sitting there listening to me.
But at the same time, it's never too late to start something.
I mean, heck, I'm going to go to Colonel Sanders.
Colonel Sanders was what? 70 something before he started frying chicken?
And look at all KFC now.
So it's all good.
It's like just because you won't see the fruits of your labor doesn't mean that you won't create generational wealth or some sort of legacy for yourself, even in your later times, if that's where you're at.
So the thing is, it's never too late.
And, you know, a lot of people stay out of doing something because it's like, man, I should have started that a few years ago and it would have been here.
If I would have started it five years ago and I wanted to, man, it's never too late to start that because guess what, in five years, it'll be five years like you like you want it to be right now.
So, you know, either way, wherever you're at, it's never too late to start.
I saw a meme that said, you're worried about if you're 28, you start over at school, you're going to be 32 when you finish where you're going to end up being 32 anyway.
So you might as well, like, you know, so.
It's like, because if you don't, then you'll be 32 without schooling anyways.
So it's like, not saying school is everything, you know, but I'm just saying whatever your goal is out there.
Man, it's never too late to start it, but it's been a great episode.
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