I've kind of realized you know how we were talking last week about how it's kind of hard to be a kid now
I was real realizing this when I went over to my friend's house yesterday
It really is hard to be a kid now because you can't even play Ding Dong ditch anymore. Everybody has a ring cam
Yeah, I guess that's true. Well, unless maybe older people maybe older people don't like the old lady down the block
She might not have a ring, but he was telling us about how like his his son's friends came over and they were all like
Yeah, we're gonna go out and he told them not to go Ding Dong ditching
Well, he got a I guess a Facebook notification in his
Neighborhoods group and they were like who are these kids playing Ding Dong ditch and this and that and they were out of picture
Of them on the ring camera and I was like man if we would have had ring cameras back then we would have been done
We would have been really really bad. Did you ever so you played Ding Dong ditch?
Did you ever play the other game where?
like maybe it was on a dare or something like that but I
I hate even saying this on the podcast, but we're already into it. Have you ever you remember it being like, okay?
You're gonna walk up to the door knock on it
Moon them and run away or something like that. Have you like have you ever done something like that? Oh, I've never done that
I've never done the flaming poop. I didn't do that one. I didn't do that one
It was always like stupid stuff
It was always like go up to the door stick your tongue out make a stupid face and run or something like that
I think the worst was like mooning or
Yeah, it was just let's be honest. Did you ever moon one of your neighbors? Did you ever?
Yes, I did you want to know which one it was and this is like this it was squirrel man. That's who oh my goodness
That's why why do you think that why do you think that dude had such a problem with kids? I don't
We wondered why at the time but
And then yeah, there was another neighbor as well. There was there was two. I don't I don't know why that was a thing
But yeah, we thought we were funny, but we lived in a cul-de-sac so everybody saw everybody knew who we were
So I don't know why we chose our own neighborhood, but maybe that's where it's hard to get away with stuff nowadays
Ladies and gentlemen, it's all recorded. Well, I'm Chris and I'm Micah and this is the donut box
Podcast welcome back to another wonderful episode of the donut box podcast. We are so glad that you are here
It's September man. It's cooling off at least where I live is it cooling off down there for you guys? Yeah, man
It is actually in the low 90s and I know for everybody else that's in the country. They're like load 90s
That's cool enough. It's like yes
Typically this time of year we're still in the hundreds so it's like being in the load 90s. It feels like fall outside
Praise God. Well, we are here with another episode. We wanted to do another free flow episode
We are so glad that you guys are here and this is just gonna be us
Asking each other questions now. I do have to ask you a follow-up question
This wasn't on my list of questions, but can you please explain to the listeners?
Why you had a neighbor called squirrel man? Why did you call him squirrel man? You have to you have to explain that
I have no idea why we called him a squirrel man. So when I moved to the neighborhood, he was already kind of the
How do I put this so he lived on a cul-de-sac and it was
We've talked about this on other episodes
It was the only cul-de-sac that I ever remembered that actually had this big grass like circle in the middle of the cul-de-sac
Where the road went around like it wasn't just the big concrete circles had like a grass bit to it
And so it was kind of spread out a little bit more
But there was all these townhomes and he kind of lived for down from us and kind of on this corner and
I remember I think it was because he was kind of crotchety, right?
and it was like him and his daughter that lived there and like he had a bunch of cats and
The biggest thing that he was known for is if you kicked a ball in his yard or if you got too close to his car
Like he was notorious for looking out the window and he would come outside and yell at you
Well as bored kids we would try to provoke him a lot
But the reason he was called squirrel man. I really don't know it was just I moved to the neighborhood and
Mr. I don't know mr. H or
Benji we can call him I guess he
He was telling me about like everybody in the neighborhood. I remember like he pointed like everybody's house
He's like that so and so's house that's so and so's house and you just like that squirrel man's house
He's like you don't want to throw the ball at squirrel man's house. It's like oh, okay
And that was just a thing. I and we just called him squirrel man until he moved out
So I don't I don't know I remember you telling me about squirrel man, and I never saw him
But in my mind he was always like this short stocky man probably middle-aged
He had a goatee and he was like balding but on the back of his head
He had one of those pony tails, you know
Like a rat tail like a rat tail
But like no like a long like pony tail the rest of his head was bald
And I don't know why I thought he was an Asian man for some reason, but I never saw him
But that's how I pictured him in my mind
I tell you exactly who he looked like him Lubbock. I told know who I'm talking about
What's his name not Ron Roberts the he's the meteorologist a really tall lanky one with the like mustache like a mustache
Yeah, oh John. I think his name is John Roberts John Roberts. There you go
he
He looks exactly like that guy like he was tall lanky with like one of those like pepper
Salt and pepper mustaches salt and pepper hair like he drove a Lexus like he kind of he wasn't wouldn't say he was put together
But every time he left the house he was kind of dressed well
So I have no clue what he did or anything like that, but yeah, he was uh, I
Mean he did yell at the kids though
I mean he would yell at you if you even came close to his yard like you don't even have to be in his yard
And he would yell at you so I don't know what the deal was with that
That's awesome. Well, I guess that was my follow-up question
Do you have a question you want to ask because if not I have another one? Yeah, go ahead
We won't count that first one
You just had to ask you had to clarify to the listeners of who's grow man was yes
All right, so on a scale of one to ten
How nerdy would you rate yourself because I know both of us we would probably admit that we are nerds and again nerd is
Kind of a gen nerds have become more popular or meant more mainstream. It's not an insult anymore
But on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate yourself? I also feel like it's also how do you put this? I also feel like it's
um
How do you define nerd because I feel like it's become a lot more of a general term like for myself
Um, I would consider myself
Um, of course of a plain nerd, but at the same time
Um, like a football nerd for sure
There are those things. I mean
I
What would you consider a nerd? I guess for me it's anybody that's really really intent on something to the point where they like
They almost study it or they do study it. You know what I mean?
Like I guess that's my definition of it. Everyone has those things they're obsessed with but when I talk about being a nerd
There's different flavors of nerds. So there's like the anime nerds. There's the marvel nerds
There's the star wars words. There's a sci-fi nerd. I feel like the rest there's wrestling nerd like
Just kind of defined to me how you would so for me. Yeah, that's that's for me
I I think that I mean almost studying the thing football aviation and then
Um, if you want to talk about shows and things like that, um, I mean, I do like sci-fi is all the stargate series
I was pretty pretty in on
Um, which is really dirty stuff
Um, I I you know, I did watch some battles card galactica because I mean I do kind of look like Dwight shrewd
I figured, you know, might as well watch some battles are galactica while I'm at it
And I wasn't huge on it. Um, like there are some it's all about the storyline
You know what I mean? And there's something about me and chrysal attest to this. I don't know something about certain shows
If it's made to be outlandish and I know it's going to be outlandish I can prep for that
But if you're going for realism
And you can poke holes through it. I don't really like that if that makes sense
I like more realism on that but to answer your question
I would say on a scale of one to ten
Probably six seven like I'm definitely not
I'm I'm not going to a comic con to see some of these people or I'm not going to a sports convention to go get somebody's autograph or anything like that
Um, but at the same time like yeah
Do I research this stuff online and yet do I keep up with it?
Pretty pretty heavily. Absolutely. What would you say is the nerdiest thing you've either watched or the nerdiest thing you've ever done?
I think I got to go back to to stargate good old stuff
I think I got to go back to to stargate good old stargate universe. It's one of them
They never finished the show and like I still so sometimes I do be reading like fan fiction of how they think it would end if they kept going
If like the show kept going so that's that's a pretty nerdy thing. I would say that's probably the nerdiest thing
um
Because I don't know it's kind of like and then even
I wouldn't necessarily call this nerdy
But like, you know, even like the ending of the sopranos like reading online like okay
How do you think that would end that sort of thing? So just kind of like fan fiction stuff sometimes
Okay, then shifting gears to
The aviation thing and I know you could go on a whole long rant about it
But what is the nerdiest like plain?
Nerd thing that you've done that you would say oh man that guy is a plain nerd
Definitely one and you can find these on at the trash kid network and aviator society has a few of the videos too, but
When I went up to Denver and took the metro liner out to mccook, Nebraska just for some context
mccook, Nebraska is in the middle of nowhere
I think the population was like 10,000 or less. It's just it's in the middle of nowhere and so you take
A plane and it's they're very it's the last passenger version of this plane
Um, and I mean it's loud. It's clunky everything like that and
So of course, it's one of those things to where there's only two crew. It's the pilots
That's the only people who are on the plane and so they help you get on the plane to help you get off the plane
So naturally they're gonna see you get on the plane and get off the plane
They were very very confused when they saw me walk off the plane and then they saw me go into that little terminal building
Turn right back around and walk right back and they're like are you are you coming back?
It's like yep. I'm here just for the plane
And they thought that was very very odd
But wasn't that like one of the last
Voyages they were gonna retire that plane and that's why you went in a few years probably but now they're they're gonna continue
Doing it for for a while at least the passenger version of it
There was rumor that they were going to like get rid of the passenger side of it and make it into a cargo route
but that hasn't happened just yet, but
um
It's just one of those things to where it's like it's still an opportunity to do the last one before they retire it so
But now they they thought that was quite weird
They were in there like do you do this kind of stuff often and I was just like if I had more money, yeah
If I had more money to do it you bet
But I don't yeah, I don't have money to be flying all over the place and doing those little little hops like that
As as the kids say I love that for you and I'm not saying that sarcastically
I genuinely love that you have like that thing. I think everyone should have something that they are obsessed with
Or they're they can just nerd out about and I love asking people that question
Like what's one thing you can just nerd out about for me?
I would maybe probably rank myself a seven or a eight. I did go to a comic con and I did dress up
For the comic con so that is a little bit more nerdy
um, and of course I love Lord of the Rings. I
I I just finished season one of rings of power and like I kind of nerded out about that
Like I love when little cameos and things tie together
so, uh, but I like for me I go to more comic cons to meet the wrestlers not necessarily like
Oh, yeah, so and so from this tv show is there
This and that but um, I have played pretty nerdy board games like
I haven't played dungeons and dragons, but it is something that I do want to play at some point
Uh, would you would you play dungeons and dragons? Are you like no, that's not my I try it
I don't understand like I would have to really
I mean go by the rulebook and stuff like that because I think there's
I mean you have to like set up your kingdom and stuff like that, right?
Like there's different cards for drawing to man
And if you are dungeon and dragons players and I'm screwing this up
They don't even listen to me right now. It's all imaginative
But like you just say you have your dungeon master and he's like you develop your character and you say a wizard
Uh this and that you guys are on your quest and you're trying to do this
Roll to see if you success
But you were like making up the game as you go and you roll to see what the outcome of that decision is
So it's a lot of like imaginative
style
So you might like that. I don't know. Yeah, I'll be willing to try it. I don't know where I got the other idea from
But
Yeah, I mean there's different variations. Maybe you're thinking of magic the gathering. I don't know maybe maybe that's true. Maybe that's true
Um, all right. You ready for my first question for you. Yeah, sorry. That was a nerd rabbit hole
And I didn't mean to go down. No worries. And we didn't even get on football
I could talk to you about X's and O's
About that crap and that's nerdy is messed too. Um, what is the craziest conspiracy theory that you believe in?
So is there a conspiracy theory out there that like some people think outlandish that you're like, you know what?
I think that that might be tangible probable or you know, mighty
Is totally a thing. Yeah, so we kind of talked about this the last episode but about like the bohemian grove and like the mason's with
construction of like the declaration of independence and everything
um
And so like I I firmly believe a lot of like kind of what the not that there's a map
Treasure map on the back of the declaration of independence, but I do believe there's a lot of those
Societies that do have so much
Uh control over the society
I do believe like if you study bohemian grove and all that stuff they like they're the ones that pick quote unquote the president
um
Before hand and so I I really do believe like that's like that's a big thing
Um, obviously the connections and the similarities between the linkin assassination and the jfk
assassination like if you want to
delve into all that like a lot of it is there's too many similarities. There's too many like
Uh coincidences like all that stuff and so again, I believe a lot of that is like, uh, just kind of controlled
But maybe that's the consp- I don't believe like in the jet stream things
You know what you know what that conspiracy theory is go into it. I think I do but go into it basically like when they're
When planes are releasing like the jet fuel and stuff. Oh, you talking about the jet trails that are in the sky like
Yeah, all that like it's secretly releasing mind control serum or something in the air or whatever. Yes
I don't believe that. No. No. I think that stuff is totally outlandish. Um, what would you what would you think though about?
What are what do you think about like 9 11? I know we're getting into touchy subject
But do you think a lot of that just I think that's I guess where I'm going with it is that's where I feel
My most conspiracy theories come out of is because there's too much about 9 11 that doesn't add up at least to me
Um, as far as what what happened and whatnot. There's all sorts of conspiracy theories
um
talking about like accounting and paying for uh the upcoming war that that was gonna have and a lot of things that were
Happening in the world trade center. So if you destroy the world trade center, it not only gives you
Leverage to want to start the war and then all of a sudden the accounting for it goes away as well
Um, there's all sorts of conspiracies out there, but I don't know
I'm not going to delve too far into the 9 11 conspiracies, but I think that's probably my most outlandish one
I don't know man. I I do think that
um
I guess the other one that I you're probably going to be like this is totally outlandish because I already know how you
Feel about this. I do believe that there are aliens and aliens are among us
I really think that there are advanced races that have made it out here and are just like, you know what?
Earth's pretty nice. We're just gonna settle in but I think it's races like everybody thinks. Oh, it's alien people
Why can't they just be humans from other planets, right? And they come here and
You know, maybe they had
You know, they have more technology
um, my basis for that is I feel like
40s 50s and yes, everybody says it's the outcome of war the cold war all this other stuff
But we had so many advancements and technology think about where we were at in the 1800s mid 1800s late 1800s
We were in black powder rifles and we went from that all the way to automatic assault weapons and you look back
Even in history before that before the black powder weapons. I mean it took a while for it to get there everything had to
take a while progression and
Yeah, it's like, okay, you can perfect these things for over 100 years
But it's like that and then all of a sudden aviation you even take that the Wright brothers would they were flying
You know, they flew a few feet everybody thinks. Oh, they flew for this long distance. They flew for like 20 feet
It wasn't even that big of a deal like they just lifted up and sat back down
um, you go from that in 1903 to full-on airliners
40 50 years later jet airliners 40 50 years later that are controlled controlled air spaces all this other stuff
And then you talk about the internet and all this other stuff that's happened
like think about how much of a
Exponential growth that has to be in order for you to get from those levels of technology to where we were at
late 1800s early 1900s to now
But we've had a ton of aliens
or UFO sightings right and all this other stuff and battle of Los Angeles if you've ever seen that sort of stuff
But I don't know that's where my conspiracy stuff goes off is like, I don't know man
I think that there's potential that that could be a thing
I think everyone should have some kind of conspiracy quote-unquote conspiracy theory that they believe in because that just shows that you're trying to think outside the box and
There's nothing wrong with that. It's always good to question things. Yes. So for this next question
I kind of need to go down a little bit of a rabbit hole and then once you answer the question
We can circle back to the rabbit hole if that makes sense. So
My good I end the history of our friendship
We've always had a history of like a rotating third friend, right? Like we always call them like our third gesture
That's what we call them because pretty much there are there are entertainment
My guess that kind of sounds yeah
It sounds it sounds bad, but hey
Yeah, it sounds it sounds bad, but hey
It is so and we can go through if you want to go through like the different phases of the third friends
We've had but if we had a celebrity to be
That third friend in our group
Who would you want it to be that you're like man like all three of us could hang out?
We could have a good time. I think March on Lynch would be funny as mess thing
I would I think you'd be a good. Yeah, bro. He's funny. He's funny as mess. He just I don't know
I know I know cat Williams would also be fun to hang out with we've talked about that before
Would you want to hang out with Adam Sandler or do you think he's a little too weird?
Or do you think his humor is like a little too? No, I'd play bad. Listen, I would play basketball with Adam Sandler
He's really good. He's got to be on my team though. He'd probably kick my I like
Yeah, he's he's really good at that. I would do Adam Sandler and then you know if Kevin James hadn't lost all that weight
maybe him
I know that sounds bad, but like sometimes people when they are heavier like they're funnier
I don't I don't know what it is and with him and maybe that was that was his whole shtick. I don't know but like
It was like once he once he kind of skinny doubt he
Doesn't seem that funny and kind of seemed like a jerk actually
I know who you would pick though if if they were both still alive
one
Frank Barone, you would want Frank Barone from everybody loves rain. Oh, yeah, I would hang out with him
Maybe like in small doses, but also Jerry Stiller from king of queens. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
He'd be a burning man to hang out with to talk about his kids
Oh lord, like can I get invited to Bernie's poker game like if we
I think that would be pretty fun. It's like it's funny. A lot of our choices are just like sit-com people
And Adam Sandler which store and this could be department store. This could be
Whatever which store is probably your least favorite like listen if somebody says we're going and shopping here
Or we're going to or we can even open it up to a restaurant. Is there one that comes to the top of your head? That's like
Heck no
We're gonna Jericho march around this thing because it needs to come down like um, it's not one that I'm like
Oh, uh, like I'll go in the bathroom body works with my wife
But I'm not I'm not
Like I'm on my phone the whole like she's having a great time
She and she's like because she's like here smell this. What do you think of this?
And I'm like it smells like the other one you just get she's like no
It's a different scent. I'm like but doesn't doesn't that just smell like the one you already have
She is like no, this is their fall scent. I'm like, okay
So she loves that store and and I'll go in there with her and I don't have a problem going in there with her
Um, I would probably say like
Spencers like we're gonna Jericho march around Spencers
Dude like I like I don't know what it is
But I just get like bad like juju when I
Bad juju from Spencers?
It bought like it just bothers my spirit for some reason. I don't know what like hot topic doesn't like I could go in a hot topic
No problem, but Spencers hot topics changed a lot though. Like I feel like hot topic like hot topic used to be
Uh very emo dark goth
You know that sort of thing and yeah, it's it's changed a lot
I'm trying to think of like far as a restaurant
Oh, if I have to go and my wife loves panda express, but if I have to go to panda express
I'm not crazy about it. Like they've kind of changed after
COVID I feel like it's not
Good
Um, I'm trying to think what other restaurants that I'm like, oh man like I gotta go here like I'm I love
Japanese food like like a hibachi or whatever, but I'm not crazy about Chinese buffets
So somebody was like oh going to and I know that the name changed so I could say this
We're going to Lin's Chinese buffet. It's just like you're like, oh man. I'm not feeling it. Yeah, not feeling it
Also, I'm glad how do you feel about like a golden corral? I'm okay with golden corral
But I hated furs. I hated furs and I know you like furs. I hated it
I'm glad it closed. Yeah. No, I didn't I didn't like furs furs was like one of those
How do I put this nostalgia spots like I always went there after church on
Sunday, you know what I mean? And it was just like okay furs, but um, and that was something else too
I don't know why my high school did this but my high school
Like before football games. They took us the furs
and
Like had us pig out and wondered why we were sick midway through the game
I don't I really don't know why they did that probably because it was cheap
What about you? Where's somewhere you're like? Oh, I hate going to this store or oh man. We got to go to this restaurant man
I'll tell you this much. It's not so much anymore. And I think probably because it's changed but used to be
I hated going to Dollar Tree and I don't know why
Um, it was two things one like Dollar Tree has a smell to it
Like every Dollar Tree smells the same way like and you could just walk in there and be like, yep
I'm at the Dollar Tree. I can tell you
um, but two I think it's because like I had too many crackhead experiences at the Dollar Tree
You know what I mean? And um, so pretty much Dollar Tree or Dollar General Dollar General
I hadn't had too many problems with see mine's the opposite. Here's the opposite really
Yeah, and you know, maybe it's different places to where it's different, but um, yeah
At least from the way I've had it. It's just like Dollar Tree. Um, I had
like
One one instance I had this methhead lady like following me around and like acting like a store employee
And she was just like do you need any help? I'm just like, uh, no
I'm okay and just kind of I guess general uncomfortable things happen or like there was one time there was this lady
who had a small
What was it? It was like a
I don't remember it was an obscure pet of some kind
And I was just like what the heck is that I'm trying to remember what it was
um
Something about the size of it. No, it was a ferret. That's what it was the ferret and she had this thing on a leash
like but in the
Like the shopping buggy
And I was just like what the heck bro. Like I don't know you just be seeing some
I you just see some things at the Dollar Tree and it's just one of those things
It's like man. I'm just trying to get my stuff and get out. Um, but it's not as bad as it used to be
um
The other thing that I used to really really really
Hate was um, I used to hate going to Target
I'll admit it. I used to hate going to Target
Uh, especially with my ex-girlfriend back in the day. Um,
I don't know man. It's one thing going to Target on your own
It's another thing going to Target with the ladies because everything is a stop and everything is worth a look
and
To me not everything is worth a look
To be everything don't warrant to ooh in and off, but for some reason that's how it be
And the whole thing through Target, it's like we started the little bull
Bull's-eye zone, you know, you walk in where it smells like popcorn and a fart
And you stand right there and you go through the little Dealey and it's like, okay, it's a bunch of
$2 trinkets that they try to have that clearance. Yeah, that clearance section right up at the front. Yeah
They call it like the bull's-eye zone or whatever and so you got to go through that and then like the first thing that they do
It's like the ladies clothes is always on the left
And so then all of a sudden it's like you got to go through all the freaking clothes and then you take a right and then it's like
Oh now it's the guys clothes. It's like, well, let's look at shirts for you and I'm just like man
I'm not looking do any
We were here for something
I'm looking for little timmy a lego set to buy for his birthday so that we can go to this dang party
You know what I mean? Like I'm not trying to do all this crap
Um, and so I used to not like that
But I think that was more it wasn't because of Target. It was more because the time commitment
It's like Target ain't a
A two minute deal. It's not a run-in run out. It's like if you go on a target
It's gonna be a little I I do go in a target probably once a week only because they have really good like
Action figures and sometimes that's the only place you can get them. They have like limited
Exclusive ones that are really good. Um, but yeah, no, I feel you I understand now
I I feel like and maybe I'm wrong and you can correct me if I'm wrong
But I feel like for you like you absolutely hate clothes shopping
I don't know what it was. Maybe as a kid
Something was crazy about clothes shopping, but I feel for you like going to shop for clothes
Like that's the worst thing
I could do is take you to go shop for clothes like you would hate that. Yeah. Yeah, so
What's uh, what's delving to some trauma? Shall we right here on the throw-down box pocket? No, I'm joking. So pretty
So pretty much where that comes from is uh, so I'm a big guy and I was a big guy for a while not horizontal
Not horizontally vertically. So I've always been very very freaking tall and the deal is
Um, therefore a little bit
I would probably say from third grade to sixth grade
I mean, I was having gross spurts left and right like I do feel bad for my parents for having to spend that much money during the time
But at the same time
They also gave me a lot of crap for it of like you're growing again. Oh my gosh, whatever right so clothes shopping
was always really tough because um
One is always uncomfortable and two like my parents insisted on like being in the dressing room with me and being like
No, try that one on now try that one on and you're like all uncomfortable because you're getting undressed in front of them
Right and then not just that but like they're like, oh that looks terrible on you. I'm like I actually like it
It's like no no no that's not gonna work and then it's like this whole fight
It's this whole thing and so like it's just it was just kind of difficult and so
Um, I think that's the primary reason it's like man. I don't I don't typically do clothes shopping
Especially like trying on the clothes. I hate that whole process like
Something I still get like I don't know why I get like he be jibby's just like going back to a thing and like
Hey, I want to try these on and they're like, yeah, take this little number and go to the little thing
I don't know why I hate that whole thing. I'll do it because I've gotten the wrong size way too many times
But like doesn't mean that I'm I enjoy the process at all. Yeah, I totally understand. So there was like a uh, like there's
Again, not trauma but like bad memories associated with clothes shopping of feeling bad because
Your parents are having to spend money again
But then also too like everything you tried on was you you're basically being criticized and
All that stuff. Well, I'm leaving a lot out but pretty much. Yeah
Well, uh, you can you can skip over this question and this question may tie into the last question
So if you're like, hey, I really don't want to delve into that that is okay. Please tell me but
This question popped up. What is one album or artist that like
Got you through your childhood or you're like, man
This is reminiscent of my childhood and you're like, man, they had a big impact on
Had a big impact on man young GZ
I hate saying that but I remember Soul Survivor being one that was like real big
um
and then like
I don't know. It was always that
How do you put it like I always felt real hard listening to that sort of thing? So it was like
You always felt like whatever you were going through is like, well, I'm a I'm a G and help boost your confidence
You're like, man, I can go. Yeah. I'm a I'm a G and a thug just like
Just like young GZ even though I knew what none of that meant. Um
In fact, funny side story. I remember going for the summer and visiting my grandparents and um
I was listening to music and back then, you know, this is right when skull candy earbuds came out, right?
And they were the cheap ones. You remember when they were like the cheapest on the market
They were like pretty good, but they were really cheap
I think you're gonna have to explain to people what skull candy what skull candies were so
before the days of having bluetooth headphones, um, when
Coarded earphones like over the earphones. That was really the only thing that you had an option to have
And so they started coming out with ear buds the little ones that you put in your ear
But they were corded right like so it went all the way to your phone and was corded and uh, there's a brand called skull candy
They're still around. Um, but used to be
They had like a little five ten dollar set that you could buy that were actually really good
Had good bass to it and all that other stuff, right?
But the only problem about skull candies was you you turn the louder you turn it up
You can definitely hear outside like it. There was no buffer everybody else is hearing what you're listening to like that
just how it is and
So I remember my grandfather hearing I was listening to party like a rock star by shop boys
And he was like, do you even know what that means? And I was just like, yeah
He's like explained to me how to party like a rock star and I think I gave him some bs
I was like, yeah, go drink beer or something. He's just like, yeah, you don't have a clue
I remember he told me he's like, you don't have a clue what what you're listening to
And I thought to my I was like, yeah, dude, I know exactly what I'm listening. It's like I had no idea
I did not I did not know he was he was very right about that. He was like, yeah, you have no idea what they're talking about
um, but yeah, a lot of that music it was just kind of that, um
I guess the best way I could put it was like a false bravado of like, oh, yeah, you a tough guy
like I don't know it kind of it kind of helped me through of like
I don't know because there was a lot of stuff that probably would have made me fold
But it was just like a lot of that sort of thing was just like
Well, they're going through a hard time or have gone through a hard time and they made it through so it's fine
And who said rap music wasn't good for the kids? I think for me and of course, you know, la cray was
La cray has always been like, I don't know what it's been but like
Each album like as I've grown up through the years like it's just
Resonated with me with whatever I was going through. So uh la cray
I he doesn't consider himself a christian artist like now because he's like, I don't want the label of people thinking
I'm only gonna just make christian music. I love just making music
But back then he was definitely like, hey, like you like rap
You're gonna listen to la cray if you love jesus, right? Like so, um, so it was again, like you said it was like
Hey, like I'm confident. I can I can live for the lord. I could be one of those soldiers for the lord like, you know
And so you're listening to it as a sixth grader little white kid from georgia
And a lot of it did sound a lot like what was being played like in the mainstream
I mean there were different stuff, but I would say that and then
Bone thugs and harmony that music video I tried like anytime I was going through it
I'd be watching it and I'd be like yeah every time I go through it now though. I still listen to that song
I got me through a few breakups
That song got me through a few breakups. That song gets me through when I'm having a hard time right now sometimes
I'll be listening to that song. I'll be like, yeah, like he knows I was like, yeah, I've never done dirty 30, but uh
But I know what he's talking about. All I know is I'm like bone thugs and I I guess it's especially I try you just be
Feeling that song like it's like, you know that all of them don't went through it
It's like you feel it
That's that's great. Oh man
uh
My next question out of all of the times that we had out of all of our stories
Uh, if somebody asked you what was the craziest thing that we did collectively, what would you tell me pepper spraying each other in the parking lot?
um, I would also probably say
Swim this one is kind of underrated one when we swam across the lake
Um that one time on our boogie boards like that was pretty dangerous and we got really bad sunburn
Like really bad like we were in the middle of the lake and boats could have just came and
Uh, just hit us in the face
Uh, yeah the pepper spray one
I would say riding the bulls together that that one was pretty like adventurous. That was probably listen for me
That was probably the craziest like telling telling people it's like, yeah
We used to we used to rodeo together like that. Like yeah, X lax brownies bacon X lax brownie
That was pretty like adventurous. I would say but like that got stopped. So we could have we could have probably faced like some
Some serious repercussions from that
Um, if things would have went south, I'm trying. I think that's really it like that's probably maybe the craziest
Thing I would say would you kind of say the same thing? I definitely think dry gracing in parking lot
That was we did I mean, I know we did that quite a bit, but I know that was
Fairly dangerous too, but it's some pretty dumb ones. I remember racing
that truck that really bad truck of mine
um
against
Uh, and if jay me and ridae if you listening
Sorry, I against their salara. I remember old j. Rizzle. He was like, he's like, I bet you this car could beat that truck
And I was just like, I bet it can't it did because that truck sucked, but I was willing to race it
um
And I just remember doing that up and down the parking lot. It's like really and truly you could have hit somebody but follow-up question
So, you know, we talked about a little bit of the rodeo stuff. Did you ever think about maybe pursuing that further? Like, okay, maybe I could do this
More or you know, we kind of talked about that like hey
We're gonna go out to tech and we're gonna be part of the texas tech rodeo team when we had only rode a
Bull like twice no just once in our life. And so I I thought about I was like man like
Probably junior or senior. I was like man, like maybe I could go do this for real
It'd be part of the rodeo team
But I I didn't really think too much of it. I was just kind of like, yeah, maybe this will be my way
Uh, we we also had the idea like we're gonna just go work on a cattle ranch
Uh, when we move out there without knowing anybody and you know
I now you kind of really have to know someone to work on a cattle ranch
But yeah, we were just like, yeah, we're gonna go to school and we're gonna be ranchers on the part time and
All that stuff and yeah, that was kind of like a fantasy
Dream because that was also going to be one of my questions was was there a goal or like a dream that we had together that was kind of like
Unrealistic or we just failed or that was kind of outlandish. I mean being on the rodeo team. Yeah, because
thinking about the tech rodeo team folks, I mean
for those of you who don't know about the rodeo realm and you know, a lot of what that entails man
A lot of these kids have been doing it since they were
Little toddlers. They've been practicing, you know
um
Heck, we didn't even do the little sheep thing as kids, you know, where it was like the sheep ride or whatever
Mutt and bustin it's like we didn't even do that when we were kids. So it's like we were we were definitely behind the curve
um
Because I mean again these kids
Whether I mean the only thing that I think we could have maybe excelled at if we practiced was uh
Like saddle bronc riding
um
or
You know, I think we probably could have done bull riding if we like practice consistently and did that but at the same time
With where we were at at the time like there's no way you could have joined a collegiate team
We might have been able to join the south planes team, but at the same time, I know they were pretty good, too
so
Uh, I think that was pretty dang outlandish to think like oh, yeah, we'll just go out there and
Be able to potentially do that. Uh, I remember one of the other pipe dreams
And I think this is more my idea at the time and you'll be like, yeah
Do you remember when we were talking about um, it's like, oh, yeah, I heard that they pay
12 dollars a pound for or they paid 12 dollars for I don't remember what it was. It was like per something
for uh rattlesnake skin
And it's just like oh in west texas is full. Yeah, that was your idea
It's like west texas is full of them. So it's like all we got to do is just glove up
We'll we'll get us a bunch of rattlesnakes and we'll kill them all we'll skin them and make money
It's like, yeah, right dude because like my my thing is sure but do you know, you've lived in Lubbock for
You know this whole entire time since we moved there
Um, and I've lived in various parts of texas. I have not met one like supplier or anything that's like
Yeah, I'm looking for rattlesnake skin
I have not met anybody or heard of a demand of that at all
personally so no, I haven't either. So it's like I definitely think that that was uh
Uh a pipe dream there
But I think the main bit was thinking it was definitely the grass is greener on the other side of like
Oh, when we get to texas, there's just going to be all these money making opportunities
All right, there's going to be all these things around that we can just go make money. I mean there is but there
It's different or there was it was it's just different. Yeah, it's just it was definitely different
Um, one thing I will say man was it was hard to find a job in georgia
It's like if you come to texas and can't find a job, that's that's only you it's like there's always somebody hiring in texas
I think one of our pipe dreams
was when we talked about this on the podcast is thinking that our uncle steve riding candidate see was gonna make it
Oh, yeah, I was actually gonna do something 12 year old 13 year old uh thinking. Oh, yeah
Like it's gonna do something and we have t-shirts made but we were bro. We were ready to spread the word
We were ready to spread the word about uncle steve
We did get a pretty good following though on the facebook page. I think the facebook page
We got like 90 people 90 100 people. Yeah. Yeah, that was a that was a huge deal and I think the page is still up to
um
But anyways, uh, we we should bring you know, I don't know if we should do your uncle steve as the candidate
But we need to bring another candidate back as a right in for this year. That's what we need to do
We need to find somebody else who's who's gonna be
Is there a particular fishing experience that you remember like maybe you caught a big fish or like uh,
You were catching lots of fish uh that you remember
Or is there when we when I went anything like that?
Uh deep sea fishing with my with my dad and my brother and my uncle like that's probably the one where I just
Caught the most fish and that was a fun experience
But also probably when we went to go fishing at lake alan henry
Um right before a covet. Oh, yeah
And we were I was catching like a good bit like the fish were biting that day
But since being in texas it's been really hard
For like me to catch fish. It's been really hard
I don't remember. Did we ever really catch that many fish at the lock and dam?
I don't remember catching it. No, we caught one
I remember catching a small striper bass, but I mean it was small to the point where I don't even think it was a pound
So it was like, yeah, it wasn't anything that was good
But you know, I think we were also kind of dumb back then because I remember going like don't get me wrong
The lock and dam was a very nice place
But I think the reason that nobody else was out there fishing is because they had the the locks open
And we thought like, oh that means fish will be you know, kind of right there
I don't think they could have stayed as far up as we were trying to fish, you know
I mean like that was a strong current
I just remember the it would take our lure downstream so fast that we had to reel in pretty quick
Yeah, that's the only time I really remember catching a good amount of fish and then
I haven't caught one since Thanksgiving like I caught that one and that was really it
So I gotta I got follow-up questions here. So
something that I've always wanted to do and this is random, but
Um, I've always wanted to go bow fishing in the swamp. Would you want to do that? I would try it?
I'm I'm not crazy about the swamp. I'll just be honest with you. I'm not crazy about it
But I would try bow fish. Yeah, I I don't know why I've just always thought that it would be
Uh, it'd be pretty cool to go and bow fish
And then something else I've always wanted to try to do is I wanted to do more saltwater fishing
Um, I I do enjoy that when I went down to Florida last year did did some
Shoreline fishing and I mean it was it was really fun
And so I've never floundered before like gone around and
Went for flounder, but uh, I want to do that too. So
So, but yeah, I'm
You know, we can go to the swamp anytime chris. I know where there's a big one
I know where there's plenty of places to go bow fishing down there. So no, I was I was just curious
I don't know why that's always been something I've wanted to do is uh go bow fishing, but it's like well
You know, maybe maybe we can do it. All right. This next one. Is there a
A fashion trend that you did that you're like, oh my gosh, why did I do that? I hated that like or you're like embarrassed by
So going back to the young jizzy thing
um, the first one that comes to mind was uh, I can't use that word on the podcast. Um
Where I was trying to be
African-american when I was not
I think the term you're uh trying to use is a wankster
Wankster there there you go. We can use that wankster for you that don't know is a white gangster
I want to be gangster and almost
If you were like a country boy like camo wearing you didn't have that face
but if you were like
grew up in in one of those south southern states and that wasn't your thing
almost every white boy had a uh had a face. I remember I had the uh the little silver
uh chain chain, you know, I mean and then um, do you remember the dollar sign chain I had at one point?
Which somebody broke um anyways, um
But I just remember it was like jorts
which
Jorts are jean shorts, but they were like three quarter length like you remember they're like really long jorts and
um
You had to sag a little bit which that was like a big deal not to like man
I remember the school. It was like the school my parents like everybody was like, uh, uh, don't don't be doing that and then
and then I remember the uh
The shirts were always like it was like looney tunes characters or like cartoon characters
cartoon characters or something like that and they were always
Super long and baggy was long and baggy was the style
And so having that and then having some cool kicks and then having um
Which I was never really big into the shoes believe it or not
Like I kind of surprised because thinking back at that time was like I'm surprised. I didn't really wasn't really big
I guess probably because my parents were not going to spend that kind of money on the shoes. So
Um, maybe that's why it was but and then the 5950 hat
I was like, yep that that completed the look and I thought I looked so cool
And then the other one that I'm just like, oh my gosh was the pack sun skateboarder era with the frosted tips
I knew you were gonna say that frosted tips. Yeah, I'm so embarrassed about that
This dude I said what well and it started if you remember it started off is uh,
Like really blonde like I like dyed my hair blonde blonde and this is before like joe burrow and
And all this was popular the only person who had cody rose is like the only person who had done this to this point
Uh was m&m. So like everybody I remember that was most people's reaction. Most of it was negative
but um
Most everybody's reaction was like who you trying to beat m&m like no
um, but actually it was blonder than it was supposed to be because uh,
I remember so I had never dyed my hair was like in the fourth grade, right?
You never dyed my hair and so I remember my mom was helping me and she was supposed to like keep the timer or whatever
and
She like forgot about it and if you don't know it was literally bleached blonde your hair and
um,
I remember
It got to my scalp. I guess and my scalp was just on fire like I'm talking about it was just like on fire
And we had to wash it out real quick, but whenever it got done man
It was so blonde that it was almost white like it was like blonde blonde and it was it was real crazy
And then as my hair grew out and I kept getting haircuts then it became blonde tips. That's true
I did have the uh, the the wankster phase that was probably more so in like six or seventh grade because I was really trying
I was really trying to fit in with that crowd because like
When I went to my new middle school like the white people didn't want to hang out with me and the african-american community welcomed me
With open arms and like yeah, you gonna sit with us. We're gonna be your friend and I was like man
So I wanted to be like them and I remember some teachers like after I came out of that phase
They were kind of like we're really glad that you came out of that phase and like we know that you wanted to hang around with
That crowd and like being the hip hop crowd
But we're glad that you kind of found your own and I was just like, okay
Thanks, and then
I would say probably the one I'm also embarrassed of and I had these forever were the sideburns
Oh man, those are like my glory like I was like, oh, yeah
I got these great sideburns because that was kind of the trend in Georgia like you got to have these nice sideburns
at the time and uh, come on bro like
My thing is I know that might embarrass you now
But the deal was at the time
Because even watching back some of our other videos about like like the christmas video and stuff
I was just like i'm glad we were dumb and naive because
Those sideburns would have pulled you some chicks in Georgia like more than you were getting
If we weren't dumb and naive and actually had game to spit like I mean
I had those things forever and then I never
I never shaved them off. I just grew a beard and so that's
That was the end of that era. Was there ever a fashion trend that I had or I did that you were like, oh man
I'm embarrassed that I wouldn't say embarrassed, but I was just like bro
What are you doing because like you didn't tell me that you were going to do the marine thing and shave off your hair
and so oh, I forgot about that
like
I just remember you came to church and he just had like this buzz cut and I was like bro. What happened to you
because uh, typically he's got kind of like I mean regular hair
But it's kind of a little bit thicker kind of curly hair and then you came in and I mean he was like a buzz buzz cut
I was like what and uh, you he was like, yeah
Like I want to go into marines and all this other stuff and I'm like, but why'd you cut your hair off though?
I still don't understand that part. Oh, yeah, bro
I buzzed my hair and I I kept it like and especially during my cop phase too
Like I had the I really had the shave head for a long time
It was probably from like when I was 16 until after I graduated high school and then I started growing my hair back again
That was oh, yeah, you're right on that. That was horrible. That was good
I mean, especially that first buzz that you had like that one was like bad, but like I mean it was to the point where
um, like sometimes you have buzz, but it's like, okay the follicles
How do I put this like it's you can still tell the color of the follicles. I mean it was like so buzzed. It was almost
I mean it was like
Almost bald like you knew his hair was gonna grow back
But it was just like god I'll leave like you cut your hair off like all of it
you know
It was crazy, but um, I think that was the only one that I really was like, uh, man, whatever
I gotta ask you this. What was your reaction? So
I started doing western wear and the whole thing that started with that was um, I remember it was my freshman year
And I went to high school and when I went to high school
Like it was all about the fashion stuff, right? And that was kind of it's funny. Chris and I've talked about this before but
The the fashion trends that you followed was also the group that you were in
And so like if you were dressing a certain type of way like that was the group that you fell under and if not like
Don't dress that way and they would be particular to say things like that. Well
So when I first went into high school, um, so like my style in middle school is kind of like my style now
It's like shorts t-shirt or shorts and like, you know a shirt or whatever
um
Well, this
Like going into high school. I thought well like I'm going into high school
Like I want to step up my game a little bit and so I remember like
I'm talking to my folks and was like can I get like some polo short or like polo shirts and like I was trying to go
Real evans if you know folks from Augusta know what I'm talking about
I was trying to go real evans with it and where I was going to high school
And so like I had them buy me not like regular shorts, but preppy shorts like
Like khaki shorts, you know, I'm talking about like how the prep style was. Yeah, there you go
Um, the only thing I was missing was like coast of sunglasses and I want to fit, you know in with that stereotype
And I remember like just going through school for a little bit and just not fitting it anywhere because the people
There's a lot of people. I didn't like that group of people
That were my friends in middle school, but now they don't want nothing to do with these because they're like, oh
You're trying to be a preppy. Well, the preppies didn't like me. So I was like, okay. Well, you kind of don't have a group
It's funny. You were talking about the african-american community accepting you they accepted me too
That's where I was sitting at the lunch table the majority of the time and whatnot
but after a while I remember I went the pbr the
the bull riding folks came to town and um
When they came to town it was like
I mean, what do you do when you go to a rodeo you get your best Western wear on you go
And I remember like looking at myself in the mirror and I was like, you know what I look pretty darn good in this stuff
I'm just like, you know, and like I had never felt confident clothing like that before
And so I was just like, you know what like I look pretty pretty darn good like this
Um, you know, and I really like the lifestyle and everything like that and of course at the time
You know, we thought we were going to Texas going to Texas tech going to be ranchers and do all this other stuff, right?
so it's like, okay
Maybe western wears it
And it's just funny because thinking about the first
styles of western wear that started off with compared to
What it was it was like didn't really know what we were doing very rudimentary
But like I just remember telling you like yeah, this is how I'm going to dress from here on in
What was your thoughts when that happened?
My thoughts were because again, you know that I love Texas for some reason I've always just like man
I love Texas and thought Texas was cool and like I always like secretly wanted to wear the cowboy hats and all that stuff
Like that's just something I love and when you did that I like I was I kind of like
Respected you a lot more because I was like man like and I almost kind of like felt bad for me because I was like man
I wish I had the courage to have done that sooner, you know
And I was like man like and it wasn't that I was like, oh, yeah, he's doing it. So I'm gonna do it
I'm like man. I really like wearing western wear stuff too. Like I love the cowboy hats and the boots and I love Texas
So that's where I'm gonna do it too. And so I didn't never think like man. That's weird or why is he doing that?
I was like, you know what like I I think I respected you a lot more for it
Well, it's interesting is your style and my style was totally different like my style at the very in that time
So the best way I can describe your style at the time was
Walker Texas Ranger because that's what I wanted man. I wanted to be
Ranger that's all it was
90s. It's like it's like he had the he had the black
There you go
Had the black hat. It was always the black pants with the yeah, man. It was it was crazy
Funny stuff, man. It all sorts of air is right. I mean
You go throw some yeah, I still wear my boots and I'll still wear my cowboy hat like on a really really nice
Occasion, but it's maybe once or twice a year like
I would rather I will still wear my cowboy boots like in the fall all the time
But I'll wear a baseball hat and a vest and a nice shirt versus a cowboy hat. I'll wear a cowboy hat sometimes
I mean every year we go to the rodeo. So like I'll wear it then and then
Um, so my company has I don't know why every time they
Well, I do know why every time they entertain somebody from up north or the northeast or whatever that somewhere
That's not Texas. They always want me to
I have this one particular suit and I have
like
dressier cowboy stuff like I've got my dress boots. I've got this suit and
And I've got this really nice hat and they always want me to come out in that
And they always order barbecue and do all this other stuff. They just try to put on a Texas show, I guess, you know
And so it's like sometimes I'll have to try to hang kill you from that episode
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly
Now that's exactly what they do and um, oh trust me. I know how to play the part
I uh, I sold it boot corral before. No, I don't think I haven't sold in western wear before
It's just a little different of a venue. Okay. Uh, this is kind of a more lighthearted question
If we were in a buddy cop movie, which one of us do you think would be the good cop?
And who do you think would be the bad? Oh man, I think that what's hard is uh, I think that would alternate time by time because like I'm
There are some times where I'm like, okay, listen
I'm on your side on this one
And I you know, I want to do that whole thing and I could see you'd be like you're gonna tell me the answer right now
I could totally see that and then I could also see the reverse. It's like and listen, you know, and like I could see you
In it being right the opposite. So
I I don't know man. I think you would alternate like knowing our friendship
It would probably be like we're about to go into it's like, okay, you good cop. I'm back. Okay, good
If we just figured out right beforehand and just screw with them. I don't know
That's like the interesting thing about our friendship is like over
Over time it has been that because there have been times where like I'm ready to like go in guns of blazing
You're like, hey, hey, hey like cool down, bro
Like it's okay and I'm like what like what I've seen you pop off like at the mouth like off the handle before
Why are you not like ready to go in guns of blazing?
It's always like uh
Again, there'd be times where it's like a like we we
Let's let's cool down a little bit and then the other times it'll flip. So that's an interesting question
Yeah, I think I would agree. I think it would be funny though. You want to talk about like this is why we could never be in this
in one of those jobs or
b cops or anything like together or anything like that because
um, no doubt in my mind, we would get bored and screw with people
I have no doubt in my mind
um
Or maybe that's the teenage mind of myself
I'm thinking about I I don't know if you're in that position and
Have that much responsibility who knows but at the same time
I'm just like I I think I would have a little bit too much fun going into an interrogation room being like
All right, I'm the bad cop this time. All right, perfect
And not about the anyways
My next question here
Is there something that you haven't done just yet that you're like, you know what?
2025
Is going to be the year for that. I know there were some things in 2024
You had goals, but have you thought about any goals for 2025 of like, you know what I haven't done that
Yes, skydiving is definitely one of those ones that I'm serious about. I think
um
2024 that was going to be the thing but then
We decided we were going to go on the cruise and then it was just
This again the beginning of the year what I if I knew now what I
Knew at the beginning of the year. No, no, no if I knew at the beginning of the year what I know now
Yeah, strike that reverse it
I think I would have planned the year a whole lot different because this year has just been an
Unexpected year to be honest. I think for both of us of like, oh, I didn't know that was going to happen
Oh, I did not foresee that coming like I didn't know this was going to be a thing
And so I I think if I would have known
Like nothing bad or tragic or anything, but I think if I would have known
Like how this year was going to turn out. I would have been like, oh, yeah, like I definitely would have done skydiving probably this year
Um, and again, I don't regret how this year is turning out by no means
I'm still going I've planned the things and it's been it's turned into a really great year
But I think 2025 is like for sure like I want to do that
um
Like for real skydiving there
There is a thing and again with like family dynamics. You can't just go out and like
spend
frivolously, right? But I do
Hope that one day I do get to sit like
And the first row at a wwe show, but that's like 600 bucks a seat
And so that's kind of one that's like, okay, you're gonna have to save up for that. Um
I do want 2025 though. I'm gonna say it right now
um for us
And again, we don't know what next year holds, but 2025 I want to for sure for sure for sure
Me you and our wives all go on a vacation together like
That's that is something I'm like, yeah 2025 that's that's the goal is like for all four of us to go on a vacation together
Um
But other than that nothing crazy. What about you man? I want to I want to try to take a trip of some sort
Um, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what but same with you. Definitely want to take a trip together
But I want to take a trip with with my wife too. I just don't know what or where
Um
I think the biggest thing for me
is um
I don't know. I'm like here. I don't know if it's next year, but I want to go to Europe
Like I don't know. That's one of my biggest things just
Like and even if that's the uk
I'm okay with that, but same time. It's just
You know anyway, like we'll find somewhere in Europe to go to I think and make that happen
Potentially next year. If not, like I'm trying to get this stuff in before uh before we have kids
That's how I feel. It's like I'm trying to get this done before we because once you have kids like your whole
Priorities changing you're like yep those trips that you wanted to go on like
Gotta be like even if you have the money to do it. It's like okay now. We've got to think about the time like right
And it's like you gotta gotta think about the time and you know, when are they off from school?
Like could we drop them off with grandma and grandpa? Like how's that all gonna work out? So it's yeah for sure
Yeah, for sure next question. What is a viral meme or a youtube video that you just like
Enjoy and you constantly go back to it and watch it and every time you watch it it still makes you laugh
man, I've got a I've got a a few they're all videos actually so
No, no memes really but all videos one of them we share and I already know this it's the I'm not gay no more
I am delivered video. Yep
I'll be watching that one and that's one that like I revisit every now and then it's weird. It's like, you know what?
I'm gonna watch that video today
um
There's another one out there and I really don't know why but it's called techno Viking
I don't know if you've ever seen that but it's it's from the early 2000s
it was a one of the very early viral videos and
There's nothing much to it, but I I don't know why I it's because there's so much stuff happening in the scene
um
But it's pretty much all these people like, you know, there's they're having a street party essentially and
And pretty much it doesn't look like anything's happening
Then one guy kind of runs into this gal like kind of stumbles into her and then this big
Like Viking looking fellow grabs him like points and points to like to
The truck or whatever that's forward and sits down and he became a meme for a while because they like
It would say like techno Viking wants you to whatever and it's like but
It would be like him pointing but that whole entire video
Like he pointed told that guy to sit down and then like the truck or whatever that's playing the music starts going forward
And then this rando like if you're watching the video, you're like, where the heck did this guy come from this random guy walks up to the Viking fellow
And just like hands him a bottle of water upside down the guy
Drinking like the Viking guy drinks the water hands it back to him and just starts like
dancing like crazy
I don't know. It's like I don't know why I like that video
But it's just like so much happened in such a little amount of time
You're like what the heck and you're like still no matter how many times I'll watch that video
I'm still trying to piece together like where did that water bottle guy come from and I guess he knew the Viking fellow because like
He just like handed him a water didn't pay for it or anything. Just like handed the water back to him
So I guess he knew him and then like I don't know there's like
I don't know if you have any of those videos where you just like watch it sometime and you're just like I'm kind of
I want to know the context and I don't know the context, but it's just kind of odd
I guess I don't know. I'm not sure for me. It's the it's the I'm not getting no more. I'm delivered
That one makes me laugh
They're certain like vines that I go back to that make me laugh
Uh the king Curtis one from wife swap. That's like uh, that's a pretty that's a pretty legendary one for me
um
I don't know. I don't think there's really any other ones that I'm like
Can we get king Curtis on the podcast like adult king Curtis on the podcast? I don't know how he is
Maybe he's like mellowed out. I don't know. Maybe we can
Yeah, king Curtis if you're listening we'll watch you on the podcast. Yeah, come on the podcast
Tell us if you still want uh chicken nuggets
You still like your chicken nuggets and if they're still if bacon's still been good to you all these years
um
but yeah, um
my next question
And this one's kind of random
like all of them have been but
Would you rather
Hike mount everest to like with a team of people you're not by yourself. Of course, you got your chirpas and all this other stuff
Like full danger could die all this other stuff or would you navigate across the Atlantic ocean?
Uh in a boat like you have to navigate the boat across the Atlantic. I think I would probably pick navigating the
uh, Atlantic because again mount everest like there's a there's a pretty good chance that you're gonna die
Like most people don't make it climbing up there and to me like I'm okay if I don't climb mount everest like
I'm not okay
But if I'm in a boat and I have like supplies and stuff like that would be cool like of course
You know my wife and you guys came like that'd be cool to just navigate but
Other than that. Yeah. No mount everest is not like I don't care about it
Or you're not near not quite a mountain climber kind of like what about, you know, people go and climb like Mount Rainier and
Washington things like that. I know you like hiking. Would you ever want to climb a mountain say?
It's not as dangerous as like everest or you know, but still a sizable mountain, right?
Yeah, I would try it for sure. I think that would be an adventure to try for sure. Yeah, absolutely
Okay. Yeah, I was just curious because it's like, um, you know, I've always had a weird thing of like climbing mount everest
But at the same time I yeah, I don't want to do the risk and of course
There's only like a three week window to where you can actually climb it
Where the weather is actually permissible and it's still kind of not
um, so
Yeah, I don't know if I would do that but see it the Atlantic makes me wonder or worry because of being man storms
In the ocean can be pretty gnarly too. So I got two more questions last two for me
Uh, this one is again a more fun question. If me and you were to host a game show, what game show would we host?
Do you think I don't know why my mind would you want to family feud? I don't know why I don't know why family feud would be
Would be good. That's what I was thinking. I was like family feud
I don't know. Can I replace pat sage act now that he's
Willow fortune. I was like, you know, it's funny about pat sage act man
If you actually watch him back and like listen to him. He's kind of yeah, well, he kind of low
He talks crap about people like to their face. He does. He's a jerk and he's a pervert. I'm telling you
I've been saying that for years. He's a pervert. Yeah, it's just like man
Because you'll be watching it. Yeah, he just be he just be ripping some people. It's it's and so I could definitely do that job
um, one other one that I
I don't I could I could do it, but it's not like my top choice would be prices, right?
I could probably do prices, right? Yeah, I could probably do prices, right?
I'm not crazy about that one either though. The only thing that I would not like as a host is
Prices, right? You I mean pretty much any game show you always have to be really high energy and things
But prices, right? I feel like it's even more and not just that but you know
You call people down they screaming and then it's like, okay
Whoever wins the you know the deal to come on stage now. They're running up there screaming and hugging you and they're screaming in your ear
And now you're having a talk in front of America still while she's like screaming in your ear. It's like, yeah
I don't know if I would enjoy that too much like I I think I that would get pretty old
After all, I think me and you could do a great job of hosting
Like marie even though that's not a game show
Or hosting like one of those divorce court shows bro
Like we could be the two judges up there like I would be serious and I would be roasting the people that are like come on now
Like you stepping out like come on now and you ain't seeing that I would oh, yeah me too
I guess I could see it be stuff like that. Um, and then I think we should you know
We have a few game show ideas of our own that maybe trash can'll put out one of these days
um secret secret
All right, um
All right, here's my next question. So we wanted to go to tech, right? Um
Um, where is there really any other colleges that you were like, yeah, I know that ended up doing like south plains for a little bit
I know back in august that there was possibility, but was there really any other schools that were out there for you?
I told you this. I think it was the last one or maybe the time before but
Texas state was a serious option for me
And sam houston state was yeah, you did was also a serious option for me
Just because I wanted to go into criminal justice and in texas and that was like a serious one for me
I looked into a and m. I looked into the University of texas
um, I looked into a couple others, but those were just kind of meh and so
Just a little backstory the girl I was dating at the time
Uh, again, you're a senior. So this is my first real girlfriend and I thought like yeah, we're gonna be in love
And so she was a year younger than me
So she was going to be a senior while I was going to go to college and again, I thought we were going to be together forever
Right. So during that time I was like, you know, if I move to texas, maybe I need to stay in Georgia
And I remember like I started settling like kept going down the list and was like, okay
Well, maybe I go to you know, University of Georgia. That's not so bad or maybe I go to Georgia southern
Like that's only a couple hours away. That's not so bad
And then I was like, well, maybe I go to Georgia state in Atlanta like that's not so bad either
But then I was like, well, maybe I should just stay in the same town and I'll just leave with my parents and
I remember having a conversation with my dad about being like, hey dad like
Maybe I should just stay and go to Augusta state the community college and I remember my dad supporting me and just
Asking me why and I gave him some reason that wasn't my girlfriend
But I was just like, okay, like, you know
That's okay. And he said, okay, like, you know, I'll support you
You want to go to Augusta state? And I remember getting into Augusta state
But then I remember that girlfriend breaking up with me and that's when like that really put me in drive
And I was like, you know what like I'm gonna go move to Texas
I'm gonna do what I said I was gonna do like I'm gonna go to Texas tech and I'm gonna live a
Good life and I'm gonna find me a nice Texas girl and I'm gonna show her and so I
accepted I got accepted into tech and I almost missed the deadline, but
Praise god, I made it. Yeah heck yeah
Um, well since we kind of we talked about that a little bit last week
So I'm gonna do a bonus question. This has nothing to do with anything
Would you rather take a million dollars right now or 25,000 dollars a month for the rest of your life?
Obviously 25,000 dollars a month for the rest of my life. I think there's I think there's merit to both
Like I to me
I don't know it'd be hard for me not to take the million now because in my mind and maybe I'm too optimistic
But I'm like I feel like I could take that money and multiply it
I mean you can take the 25 and multiply it too, but I'm like a million
It would take how many months, you know with 25,000 to get to that million. It's like or I can get that million now and
Double it triple it and have all of that. So I don't know man. There's some merit to me
I'd be I'd be a serious thing that I'd be having to think about real hard
I don't trust myself to not spend the million dollars. So I I know it would be better for me to
Have that and 25,000 dollar increments and that's definitely something I could like look forward to right?
I'd be like, oh, like I'm gonna get another 25,000. How am I going to use this 25,000 this month?
Am I going to save it? Am I going to invest it? So for me that would maybe be a little bit more
Beneficial, but if you're like, hey, I take the million like you know yourself better. So different strokes for different
Yeah, like I said, I don't know if I'm just hopelessly optimistic
It's like take the money. I'll multiply it and then all of a sudden you spin it. Oh, I don't know
They could be that cool. And this is my last question and we've kind of talked about this off the podcast
But for our podcast listeners, how do you you see our friendship or what would you like our friendship to be like when we're 80 years old?
The first thing that came to my mind is talking mess about people
I mean kind of already do but what I'm saying is uh
Like older people what's great is you can say more things and get away with it. And so like I'm I'm good with being
like
Two old guys that like we're fun to be around but we'll also roast you too
and then um
It's just like but
I know you get this sometimes but something
That's going to be interesting about us is I get told all the time. It's like man. You're only you're only 29 years old and you've lived
already
crazy life with all sorts of stuff that's happened and you know
um
Which is very true and it's just like by the time we get to be 80
The both of us are going to have some pretty crazy outlander stuff and some twists and turns and so
Whether it be other people whether it be our family like kids grandkids, whatever
um, you know, it's going to be one of those things like
Uh, for instance, what's what's interesting is can you can you believe this? We're going to be the guys, right?
It's like when your grandpa or your great grandpa was in Georgia. He went to a former school that was
uh segregated school like columbia middle school, you know, it's like that
Not while he was going there, but it used to be segregated like 20 years before he went there
And it's just like really wow and then there's like a bunch of things that we're going to be coming across
It's going to be like it's going to be like how we look at their generation and go wow you you live through that
Wow, you had some sort of connection with that. I can't believe that that's and that was just a part of your life
And we're going to have a lot of those tales. So I think that's going to yeah, I think definitely telling the worst stories
I think that'd be great. I I hope that both of us are at that age in good mobility
and we're able to
Just go fishing when we want just being able to do what we want
But I really also hope that maybe we could
Find some some friends or maybe some guys that are a little bit younger and kind of like share our knowledge and wisdom
And impart that into them and it's like hey look like we've been
Friends for this amount of years and I know you're going through this and so let me help you out
So I hope my prayer for at least me is that I can be that guy where they're like man
Like how'd you get through this and I can help other
people
Just kind of tell my war stories again, like you said talking mess and just getting to be able to enjoy life and
Not have to really have too many responsibilities and
Just enjoy
Being alive or time commitments. Not too many time commitments. Hopefully so that'd be good
But yeah, man, that was I was pretty good. I don't have any more. Yeah, so you guys go check us out
I I'm not gonna like fully pull back the whole curtain, but I do want to say Micah has been working on some music and
Man, it's been great. It's been turning out really good. And so I'm excited for whenever
You're ready to share that with the world, but man you've been cooking and it's it's good
I'm excited for when you do get to share that if you do. Yeah, man
I'm just like we got to get some copyright stuff and make sure I know none of y'all steal it out that no, I'm joking
Um, no, it's it's been turning out really good. I didn't I didn't realize beats making might be a hidden talent of mine
I'm not I didn't know that but you know, it's what you try as a hobby. You never know what'll come out of it. So
um
Yeah, tv or not tv trash can good grief trash can network at the trash can network
Um, go like us follow us subscribe man. We got the aviator society over on instagram too
Um, but yeah, man trash can network has been really taken off. You know, we're we're up to uh, almost 300 subscribers at this point
Which doesn't sound like much but at the same time
Um, it's growing exponentially. I think three months ago. We were at 150 now. We're up to 300 over there. So it's like
Consistently growing which you always love to see and so we we appreciate you guys and that's a testament to you man
You've been the one pumping out the content put making the videos and stuff
You've been working really hard on that so credit to where credit is due and so uh, so man
I'm excited about it. It's awesome anything to promote the trash can brand. That's all I have to say on that but
Um, but I appreciate I appreciate your support
Um, and I appreciate all you guys too
For all of you who have subscribed and who I've been watching the content. I really do appreciate it
I do it for you guys
And do it for your enjoyment whatnot and so yeah, man
I mean, we've even been pumping out them nature videos man
And so some of those are really good if you're having a hard day
You can go look at some sloths and dolphins and it talks about some of their quirky mannerisms
There's even one about giraffes on there about how man giraffes are they're kind of wild. I'm not going to lie to you
They're pretty crazy. Um, but yeah, man. Go check it out trash can network. But that's all I got man. We can take this
All right starship send this home. I'm chris and I like it to see the donabox podcast
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