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Now I've been out here for three straight weeks busting my butt every single week.
Because you know with Cowboy Chris Carter, you ain't gonna get no slack.
I'm gonna work hard. I'm gonna put in my time.
I've been the champ here. I'm the best there ever is. The best there ever was.
And you know what? I need to address something.
When Billy Zaniak came back and hit me with a steel chair last week, that was a jerk move.
He was acting like a little lady. And you know what? I don't deal with that.
I'm gonna turn you out on the street like the hoe you are.
Billy Zaniak, get out here.
Oh, he called out the Zanesters. He thinks that the Zanesters was out of bounds.
Well, I'll tell you what. I wasn't out of bounds. He was out of bounds.
The way he talked about my mother in the last round, the way he talked about my sister who
was in the crowd, we all saw. We all saw the eyesore that Cowboy Chris was.
He didn't live by a Cowboy code that night.
Now let me tell you something. Your mom, Don, I lived up to my code.
I made sure that I put it up right. And let me tell you, Cowboy Chris Carter is a gentleman.
Don't worry. I'll call her. Buy her some flowers. Even take her on a nice date.
Heck, I'll even pay. But this is a respect that I get.
You're gonna hit your new stepdaddy over the head with steel chair.
I'm gonna have to take you out to the wood shed and give you the whipping that you deserve, boy.
I will never call you stepdaddy. You will never be with my mother.
And you will never be with a single woman in this crowd. Isn't that right?
I don't even know who taught you how to cut your promos because you freaking suck.
You're worse than a wet blanket. I could talk to that wall and give a better promo than you.
But I'll see you next week at SummerSlam. I leave my talking to my fists and my 360 slams.
I'll see you next week. Hi, I'm Chris. And I'm Michael. And this is Don't Know Box Podcast.
Can you believe we're already at 22? Episode 22. Please don't sing the Taylor Swift song
about being clean. No, no, Lord, no. I'll tell you this much. Everybody that went to that Taylor
Swift concert in Dallas, like I knew so many people that went to that daggum thing. I was like,
I didn't think y'all liked it that much. Y'all spent that much on tickets. Geez.
Here's the thing, man. And I guess maybe it's because I've never been somewhere that I've
just been. I understand getting excited. I understand whatever it is that you're into,
whether it's football, a concert, wrestling, whatever. I'm a wrestling fan myself. I understand
getting excited. But crying at a concert, man, I don't understand that. And then what's her face
broke up with her boyfriend and then people are all sad and stuff. This isn't what fries my doughnuts.
But I'm saying it's a little ridiculous. Yeah, I totally agree. It's pretty, pretty crazy. But
yeah, we're excited. Everybody's here for our 22nd episode here and want to give a shout out to all
of our faithful listeners, our A1 since day ones, and then also our folks who have been
picking up here lately. We've been really gaining some steam, haven't we, lately, Chris?
Yeah, we have. And I know that we'll probably talk about it at the end. But next week will be our
75th episode of us doing this. That just blows my mind that we've been doing 75 of these and
we're only 25 away from 100, which is a big deal. It's like already. It's like, man, that was quick.
Time just be going by real, real fast. I'm just saying. You know what they say, kind of
pleasant when you're having fun. But speaking of fun, I think we're ready to jump into the show.
So our first segment is the old fashioned doughnut. And that's a story from our past.
And Micah, I'm going to let you introduce it. So yeah, we were, we're going to talk this week
about our fun times working in church. So we had talked in previous episodes about being ushers and
also some of the other things that we had to do around the church. But we never really talked
about being a part of the tech team. Now, being a part of the tech team was, I would say that was
probably the highlights of going to church for myself, probably because it was a lot of hanging
out with Chris. And yeah, it was, it was pretty fun. The main thing that we did was we put the
broadcast out for the church. And this was a pretty state of the art thing at the time.
It was, we had five different cameras around the whole sanctuary and literally we would put out,
you know, a live stream essentially on our website. Before the whole YouTube live stream
became a thing and all this, I mean, we're talking 10, 15 years ago, we were doing this.
And so we were, and this is just one aspect we'll talk about, but this is just the first one here.
So it was in this little room in the back. And it was kind of behind the actual
the actual sanctuary and everything. And I remember how I got into it personally
was my good buddy Chris had been doing it for a while. And he had been by himself because the
guy who was running the thing, we had talked about him in previous episodes, what we call him?
Timbo Slice. We call him Timbo Slice. I just want to make sure. So yeah,
Timbo Slice was running the thing. But I remember he was like out of town for a few weeks or something
like that. So there was, you know, it was just going to be Chris. And you got to think my boy
here was what, what was it? You were probably what 13, 14 or you're a little older than that?
It was probably around 15 that I started doing it. And so it was, so I was about 14.
And so Chris was like, yeah, come back here with me. And I remember my first reaction was like,
well, I get trouble. It's like, nah. And next thing you know, I just started going back there
and started volunteering and doing that and started filming the service. And I tell you
this much, I learned a lot about technical skills and really sharpened kind of our senses together.
What do you think of it, Chris? Oh yeah, it was great. I mean, it was a great time just to hang
out. Well, we were actually working and like Micah said, we were doing live stream before
live stream was actually a thing now every church in America has a live stream pretty much.
But let's get to the fun stuff. Part of the perks of being on the live stream team in the back
was during the sermon, you got to get crowd shots and during worship, you got to see what the
crowd was doing. So you were basically the eye in the sky. And I don't know, as a 15 year old,
it was kind of cool because you got to spy on people, nothing like gross or perverse or anything
like that. It was just out of curiosity. You know, they're already in public, right? So it's one of
those things to where it was already something we had to do because when the preacher was talking,
you know, just like any good telecast or anything you see of like preaching and stuff,
you always have good crowd shots of somebody writing something down or when he says something
major, you know, they clap or something like that. So you always have to get these shots like
ahead of time. So we're always looking for these things. You would find the most crazy things
that would happen in the background or around the person that you're looking, I don't know that.
And then also people you would know, you'd be like, Oh, what are they doing? What are they? What are
they doing right now? Oh, they paying attention. Oh, I let me give you the first guy. Now this guy
will call him Luke. And during worship time, Luke liked to and he was an older man. He was probably
45. And during Luke, during worship, Luke liked to play the air drums. And he would literally start
banging the air with his hands to the beat of the worship song. He was playing the air.
Horribly off rhythm. Horribly off rhythm. Like it wasn't to the two. It wasn't like if he was
sitting behind the drums, he'd be banging the drums right. You know what I mean? Yeah. He just
wanted to play the air drums and it wasn't like he was doing it to look cooler to be funny. He
legitimately was just feeling himself. And so we would always get shots. We would never put the
shots like you could preview the shots, but we would never put the shot like lie or anything.
It was just for our own entertainment. So there were five cameras, four of them manually. You
could have them operated. And then there was one that was like on the outside that you actually
had a person. So we could control four of them. So we would always have one on Luke and just kind
of watch how he was doing it worship. I also, I think I remember seeing a couple of like you
could tell when couples have been fighting and they were in church, but they were like silently
fighting and you could tell people would be mad or they would just be like talking to each other
and you could tell they were really mad. So that was kind of fun to see sometimes. I think the craziest
time that I remember seeing, at least from that instance, is we had zoomed into somebody on the
balcony. And if you remember from previous episodes, we had like a two-tiered balcony,
essentially, in this church. So we had zoomed into somebody on the balcony and they were writing
notes or something. And it was these two ladies behind them that caught our attention. And it
was because they started, like at first they were kind of sitting there just kind of goofing off.
And the next thing you know, they started bringing out like baby toys. And they started
bringing out like these baby toys and we're going what the heck is going on? Because, you know,
our church has a nursery. We didn't see any babies around, but we're trying to zoom in to see,
okay, is there a baby in the seat? Is there a baby somewhere in there? And then we come to
find out. Nah, it just appeared like these two ladies are just playing with baby toys. Like
they were just in their own hands. And I mean, they were kind of just messing around with these
baby toys in the middle of a church service. I would sometimes, I would pan the crowd. And if
there was like a certain girl that I like, I would see if she was there. I'd be like, oh yeah,
this is where she's sitting. So I need to know when I need to leave back here so I can go talk to her
after church. Like nothing weird or crazy. It was just like, oh yeah, so and so Jennifer's here
this week and I'm going to go talk to Jennifer. I know where she's sitting. I'm like, oh, and then
you could see like also two people would pick their nose at the worst times. People would just do the
weirdest stuff. And it was interesting always to see. And then two, it was interesting because the
camera, one of the cameras that we showed had, it was like right above the pulpit so we could see
the pastor's notes and we could zoom in on him and be like, oh yeah, where's he at in the sermon?
Okay, he's almost done. He's almost done. He's about to wrap it up. I don't know if you could
tell. I'm sure if you were sitting there and knew what to look for, you'd probably see that big boom
camera going down, looking down towards that. But no, we had, we had some good times.
They probably shouldn't have let us back there by ourselves for the most part. But
hey, it is what it is. I think one of the coolest things that happened was,
so you could technically run it with one person, right? But there was a station,
I'll call them stations, but there was two different spots you can be at. One was,
it was a little joystick and it had the different cameras that you could select.
And essentially you can move the cameras based on that joystick and it had a little zoom control
and all this other stuff. On the other end, it was a fader. So if you ever know what a fader is,
it's changing shots, right? So technically you can do all in one, but it is extremely hard to do
both at the same time to where you're changing the shots because you could be fading and panning
at the same time, which I'll put it to this way as two 15 year olds screwing around at this stuff.
We tried all sorts of crazy shots. I remember we cried all sorts of stuff. We were like,
I saw this at TV the other day, maybe we should try this. I remember there was one where we like
zoomed in rolling right, but we were zooming out at the same time. And you know, we were doing all
this. It was crazy. We would try some really crazy stuff. The only, and I'll close with this,
I know that's the number one lie that a pastor tells to you is I'll close with this,
but I'm serious. So I remember that there at the end of the service one Sunday, it was, we lived,
or went to more of, I guess, a Pentecostal church and it was a little bit more free.
So I remember at the end of the service, they were having like this big worship like
celebration song and everything. And I remember Timbo Slyce being like, yeah,
change out some of the graphics that you put on there. I remember that like, there were these
balloons that you could show like coming down to wipe to the next shot. And I remember I tried
those balloons and like confetti and stuff. It was very cheesy looking, but we thought it was
cool at the time. I mean, this was like 2008, 2009. So cheesy was great. These were like the
beginnings of filters and things like that. So we were like, ooh, that looks nice. And this was
like extremely expensive technology at the time. Like this was, they spent a lot of money on that
at the time. But yeah, that was pretty fun. Fun times. Yeah, it was, it was fun times. I mean,
they basically gave us the keys to the church without giving us the keys. They just let us do,
oh yeah, y'all can do whatever. It was like, we were pretty much almost staff kids without being
staff kids. Pretty much. We had the run of the mill. We did, I mean, I think it's one of those
trade-offs. It's like, we make y'all do pretty much everything else. We should give you access to
everything pretty much. But yeah, man. So you, you're ready to move on to our next segment,
which is our jelly donut. Yeah, man. I got some interesting stories for you guys today. So are
you ready for the first one? Yeah, what's up? All right. This one comes from your favorite city in
Texas, Austin, Texas. Oh boy. All right. So a man posed as a campaign volunteer in order to break
into a house. Oh boy. I could see that in Austin happening. So in Austin, a man posed as a Beto
O'Rourke, and if you don't know who Beto O'Rourke is, he was a guy that tried to run for governor
in the state of Texas. He, and then for president, yeah, he posed, a man posed as a Beto O'Rourke
campaign volunteer in order to break into a house, and he stole a popsicle. The news reports
that a neighbor questioned James, who was 28, and when she saw the man loitering on the porch.
James was wearing a black Beto O'Rourke t-shirt and applied that he was campaigning for Beto
for president. A few minutes later, another woman arrived home to find James in her kitchen,
holding the wrapper of a frozen treat he had just gotten from the freezer. James was charged with
burglary, also admitted to rifling through a wallet and attempting to hack an iPad. Those are the
most random things that he tried to do, so he just kind of gave up and was like, I guess popsicle or
what? He's probably just hungry. He's probably stone. Probably was like, oh, I want some, uh,
some popsicles. There are some crazy drugs in Austin. Crazy stuff. Little, little Cali.
Anyways. All right. This didn't end in an arrest, but it is a story from a police officer, uh, and
it's kind of funny. So a pair of hikers called 911 to report that an animal had been following
and growling at them. So they had taken refuge by climbing a tree. A park police officer arrived,
uh, and they, he found the couple flinching at the source of the threatening noise. So turns out
they did an investigation and the noise was the sound of cars passing over rumble strips on a nearby
road. The lost hikers were reassured by the officer that the unknown can be scary. So, man,
they called 911 and thought, and they thought it was an animal, but turns out it was just a, uh,
just cars passing by. I guess they just put these rumble strips in because wouldn't you be used to
that if you had, uh, heard that a lot before? I guess so, but I also think maybe these people
weren't too bright either. All right. This next one, this happened in Georgia. All right. A 28-year-old
wanted to rob a golden pantry, which I think is like a golden corral. And while he waited to be
alone with the cashier, he filled out a job application. The problem was he wrote down his
real information on the application, including his uncle's number. Needless to say, it didn't
take long to find him after he robbed the place. So he literally filled out a job application
and then robbed the place. Yeah. And, you know, this sounds similar to the one we had said a few,
uh, one, a few episodes back where somebody had robbed the place and then went back and was like,
can I fill out a job application? My thing is don't try to get a job the place you just robbed.
Like how dumb can you be? You know, like just you, you stay away from there as far away as you
possibly can, you know? Yeah, that's exactly true. All right. This next one, it's not funny,
but it kind of is funny. So, uh, a two guys tried to rob an Amish couple. So two young guys were
in a pickup truck on a back road and they stopped a Amish couple who were on a date. They stopped
them. They were in a buggy like horse and carriage and everything. And they told the couple, they
said, give me all your money. Uh, the Amish didn't have any money. So, but they did have a good memory
and they told the cops the license plate number. So, man, could you imagine they tried to rob old
Jedidiah on a date and he said, I ain't got no cash, man. I ain't got no money on me. It's like,
literally, I was going to, you know, take her to the neighbor's field for dinner. Like, man,
that's crazy. All right. Two more. Um, so this guy said that his friend was studying law and one
of our cases was a guy who shoplifted about $500 worth of clothes from North Face. On the day of
his trial, the guy came into his trial wearing nothing but North Face products. How dumb can
you be? You know, you might as well just plead guilty, guilty, guilty and just be done with
the, you know, all right. I'm pretty sure you've heard of this one. This comes from our favorite
state Florida. Yep. So police arrested a homeless woman for dancing in a vulgar manner in front
of a school bus with children. Apparently she was twerking and they arrested her for disorderly
conduct and she was yelling profanities at the school bus. The incident occurred only a month
after police arrested another person for twerking outside of an Orlando bar. So it's like, ooh,
that's nasty. Ain't nobody want to see that. Jerry, Jerry, it's like some of the stuff you see on
Jerry spring. It's like, I want to see that. Nobody wants to see that. What possessed her to
start twerking in front of a school bus? Well, could you imagine if your kid came home after
riding the bus and then said that some lady was twerking in front of the bus? Yeah, I don't know.
It's just like, I feel, I don't know. That would be a crazy story to come home with. Yeah. I go
volunteer at the school for lunch duty and sometimes the kids tell me the funniest stuff
and this kid was like, I want to ride the bus. And I was like, oh yeah. I was like, how do you feel
about that? He was like, well, I'm going to start next week. And I was like, really? And he was like,
yeah, I hope I get up, get into a fight on the bus. I was like, dude. And then he tells me like,
he tells me he's like, yeah, I train and do MMA and I was like, well, save your fighting for your
MMA class. I was like, don't get into any fights on the bus, dude. Like, don't get into any fights.
As a side note, that was actually so when I was in elementary school, there was like, I looked
really close to the elementary school, so I didn't really need to ride the bus. But all my friends
were like, oh, you should ride the bus because the bus driver is really cool. And that was one of the
things was she would let some of the kids fight and throw down and she wouldn't do nothing. And
but I never wanted to actually like get into a fight. It was just funny watching the fights.
But that's hilarious that the kid was like, I just want to get into a fight. I mean, honestly,
man, like third graders, how much damage are they going to do to each other? Probably not.
It's probably just going to be a little shoving match, maybe a couple punches. Like,
I don't I mean, I'm like, sometimes you got to let the kids fight it out. I'm old school that way.
But I know. And that was how my bus driver was too. She was an old she was an old lady. Her name
was Miss Tina. And she'd just be like, she would let them duke it out for a few minutes,
and then wait till they tired it out. And which was like 30 seconds, you know, it'd be like 30
seconds, they tire out. And she's like, all right, now give back to y'all seats. And, you know,
because even elementary schoolers, even if you fight in one minute, they're going to be friends.
But yeah, that's all the jail report stories I got for you, man. Cool stuff, man. It's always
interesting that segment. So I think we got the next segment, which is the donut hole.
Yeah, the donut hole. What you got for the donut hole, my man? It's your week.
Uh oh. Don't worry, buddy. I'm not going to make you play a game or get you back for the geography.
Are you going to talk about Mario? Yeah, man, I'm going to talk about Mario. Mario,
if you don't have kids or you do have kids, you probably heard of it. It's the hottest movie out
right now, to be honest with you. And I'm going to review it. And if you haven't seen it yet,
you should definitely take your kids to go see it because it's really, really good.
Did you know that there was an original live action Mario like in 1993 or something? It was
horrible. I didn't know there was, yeah, I didn't know about it. So it probably was horrible.
Just like the live action Flintstones was terrible, but continue. Yeah, it was horrible. But man,
this one was really, really good. So basically the storyline and premises is that Bowser is taking
over these worlds and he's finally got the coveted star and he's got the star and he's coming to
invade Peach's homeland and he wants to marry her because he's in love with Peach's. Mario and Luigi
are actually in Brooklyn, New York. They're actually in New York and they talk with like New York
accents. And it's funny because they, they have quit their jobs and they're trying to start their
own plumbing business. And part of the way that they do that is they make a commercial and they
have the Italian Italian voices. So they go like, it's a me, a Mario. Like they do it as a way to
like poke fun at the gimmick. And so they're trying really hard, but their family doesn't even believe
in them. And they kind of think that Mario is just kind of like this failure. And then Mario and
Luigi go to like, I think fix like the city's plumbing or something. And they get sucked into
a warp pipe and Mario and Luigi actually end up getting split up. And then Mario gets to Peach's
world. Apparently there's like six different worlds or something like that. And they're all
connected. And so Mario's trying to find his brother and Peach is just trying to stop Bowser from
overtaking her kingdom. But it was really good, man, because they like tied in all the Mario
video games together. It was like really, really cool. Like they made references to Luigi's mansion,
Super Mario Odyssey, Smash Bros, Mario Kart. I mean, there's like a whole scene like the basically
the whole Donkey Kong world is a whole Mario Kart where they just make carts and it was cool. They
referenced the Donkey Kong game game. Man, it was really, really good. Normally with kids movies,
there's always like some kind of agenda or political agenda they're trying to force down your
throat. This time there wasn't man, like it was just a good feel good movie. It was a normal kids
movie. Mario Kart was always my favorite. So they had references to Mario Kart. And I'm sure
they probably did some Mario Kart, maybe not like racing, but like driving around Mario Kart wise.
Oh yeah, because like when they're trying to battle, when they're trying to battle Bowser's army,
they're like driving around and trying to escape. And they eventually hit Rainbow Road. And so that's
kind of where they tie that in that they didn't make any really, they made a little bit of a
reference to Yoshi. There was no Wario or Waluigi or Daisy in it, but I think they're going to make
a second one. That's what I was going to say. Do you think they're just keeping that open so that
they can make sequels and then bring them all in at a certain point? Yeah, they opened it up for a
sequel for sure, man. And Jack Black was great as Bowser. I mean, Jack Black is Jack Black and he
was perfect for that role. Chris Pratt was good in his role. So I mean, it was really just a good
movie from beginning to end. It's funny. The funny part about it is Mario actually hates mushrooms,
like, which is kind of funny, like in real life, like he's like, oh, mushrooms, like take those off
my plate. But then he has to eat mushrooms to like power up. That's funny. That's funny is mess.
Yeah, man. They it was so they make little jokes like that. And then didn't you say
been from New York? They kind of, you know, they kind of bust each other's chops.
Yeah. So like one of the scenes is like they're going home after work. And it's like the traditional
Italian family where they're all sitting together and eating like the spaghetti and the pasta and
like the dad's there, the grandpa's there. And they're all bust in Mario's like, Hey, Mario, did
you do your plum business again? And there it's like a typical New York family. It's funny to
hear Mario with the New York accent. It's really funny, man. I love people from New York. People
from New York are great. They're just so colorful, man. They are so colorful. But yeah, if you have
not gone to seen the Mario movie yet, or you haven't taken your kids, man, take your kids,
I'm sure they've been begging you. They planned out the release of this movie perfectly because
they're not competing with any other movie right now. Yeah, there's really nothing else going on
movie wise right now. They beat John Wick chapter four. But I mean, there really wasn't too much.
I mean, the only thing really that's coming out in the next few months is the Guardians of the
Galaxy movie, which is like the big one. And then there's a couple Disney kid movies coming
out during the summer. But other than that, they released it at the perfect time. Yeah,
breaking all the cash money. Got that right. Yeah, I would go see it again for sure. So
go go check it out. Yeah, and might actually be one that I go see. Yeah, I know you'll probably
wait till it comes out like on Peacock or yeah, we'll see what happens. I'm trying to get out more,
but I don't know. We'll try theaters, but we'll see what happens. Well, we're going to move into
our next segment, which is what fries my donuts and buddy, what fries your donuts. People harassing
people in customer service roles. I've seen this too much lately. Now, I will say this,
since the pandemic customer service has kind of taken a nosedive when it comes to people,
I feel like there's definitely people that had to work during the pandemic. And when I mean by
that didn't get the luxury of working from home. I think that they definitely have a chip on their
shoulder and a little bit more frustrated. So the customer service has lacked a little bit.
However, all that being said, these people are in extremely difficult roles, especially customer
service now is probably some of the absolute hardest things that you have to go through,
especially you think about like restaurants. You know, when I worked in the restaurant industry,
there wasn't anything like Uber Eats or anything like that. So literally, all you had to worry about
is we had a drive through and we had, you know, our customers that were dying in. So you had two
avenues to work on. But now you have to literally get, you know, you're taking orders from not only
the drive through the dying in, but also from, you know, orders that are coming in. Trust me,
I've seen other Uber drivers, Chris correct me if I'm wrong. Some of these Uber drivers are really
rude. They won't say nothing to these people. They'll just kind of shove a phone in their face.
And, you know, you have to, you know, the person has to read the name. It's kind of a rude experience.
I don't know, man. I just feel like there's a lot of people and especially I've seen a lot of
videos and this is, of course, you know, I like planes and stuff like that. But a lot of the
times these customer service folks that work for the airlines, I feel the most sorry for them because,
you know, in the event that weather happens or something goes on, that's like out of their
control, they're getting yelled at. I'm talking like they're getting chewed out. They're getting
caring to the max for something that is way out of their control. Like they, you know, they didn't
get up there with the weather attendant and go, Oh, it's going to be thunderstorm today. And we're
going to cancel all your flights. And let me tell you this too, most people in customer service roles,
even if you haven't worked one, I'll just let you know this, people are not there because
they're like, Oh, I dream of being an airline customer service representative. I guarantee you
that literally they are there because they have to make a paycheck for their family to eat. That's
literally what it's for. So don't be a jerk. They're trying their best. They're trying to work. And,
you know, if they're rude, it's because they've got a line of 45 people behind them that are angry
that they're not getting to their final destination tonight. And that's just one example. But that's
all I'm saying. It's just people harass people that are in customer service all the time. And it
drives me nuts because it's like these people are just trying to do their jobs. There's a reason
that they're upset. Even if they're not being 100% fantastic to you, you know, understand the position
that they're in as well. They're just human. Yeah, I know how it is. And you know how it is. But when
someone is like goes off on you and is rude to you and customer service, man, that really does
affect you. Like I've seen people like, you know, it just ruins the person in customer services day,
like they're trying their best, especially if they're short staff. And we've gotten to the age
where we think that we are kings and queens. And if it doesn't happen on our time, we have the power
to shut everything down. I mean, we literally have everything at the access of our fingertips. Like we
live better than most kings do. Or it even did back in the day. And we act like everybody is our
servant. And I think that is like one negative thing that came out of the pandemic is everybody is
so self centered. Everybody is so self focused. And man, they think that, oh, if I'm not happy,
I should get a refund. Everybody's so entitled to they think, oh, if this thing can go right,
I should get a refund kind of a thing. And we live in that culture of entitlement.
And you've seen the videos too of like people throwing food at the McDonald's employees,
throwing drinks back into the drive through window because they got the order wrong. You know,
my thing is you see all this stuff and these people still have to work the rest of the day
covered in sprite. It's not like the boss is going to tell them to go home. You know what I mean?
I've worked in those roles. They don't tell you to go home. They say, oh, well, that sucks. And
you got to keep working through that. They got to be nasty and sticky for the rest of the shift
because you got the wrong drink and decided you want to take it out on them. And the thing is,
is a lot of the times you they have to take it. And I think that's what people know. People know
that they have to take it because as soon as a customer service or food worker, whoever it is,
pops off or pops back, that person gets fired for popping, just retaliating back or being in
defense of themselves back. And so I've seen it so many times, man, where people are just so rude.
But if you're rude back to them, then they're like, oh, well, that person needs to get fired.
And it's like, you wouldn't even talk to your own family members that way. Like if somebody did that
to your family member, you'd be fighting. And it's like, that's somebody's family family member.
That's somebody's, that's somebody's daughter, that's somebody's son, that's somebody's grandkids,
you know, that's somebody's, you know, even in some of the cases where somebody's, you know,
in some cases, it could be your mom or your grandmother. That's, I mean, I've been through
the McDonald's window and it's like, dang, that's that lady's like my grandma's age. You know what
I mean? And so it's just one of those things of all these people have lives, all these people
have things going on. And, you know, really, it's trivial to be getting mad over something so small.
And most of the time it is super small. I mean, you hear about, we talked about some of these
general reports, people calling the police on, you know, Burger King and stuff, because they got
the order wrong. Is it really that big of a deal? Seriously? Is it that big of a deal? Even if they
don't make it right, just don't go back. Exactly, man. I heard one guy say this and it kind of,
it kind of irritated me. He was like, man, he was like, I wouldn't want to be one of those people
working at the gas station or at McDonald's. But I'm sure glad that they're there when I have to
go at 10 o'clock at night. And I'm like, that's kind of a bad attitude, dad. It's like, those people
are not below you. Those people are not, those people, those people have lives and they're just
trying their best to make a living, man. And I think that's what I got so frustrated about. And
anytime I'm at a, whether, you know, you mentioned Uber Eats, like me and you used to
do Uber Eats and pick up or whether I'm like getting something at a restaurant, fast food
restaurant, I always try to say like, thank you, I appreciate you. Like I appreciate what you're
doing. I appreciate it. Kind of a thing that's like, that goes a long way. And they don't hear it that
much. I'll tell you that much. People in customer service don't hear that that much. Most of the
time it's negative stuff if they hear anything, sort of feedback wise. Exactly. So be kind,
be kind to people when you're going out. You don't know what's going on in their lives. They may
have just found out that their mom had cancer or they might have just found out that their husband's
leaving and now they got to work a second job just to put food on the table. Like you never know
what's going on in these people's lives. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, man, that's what fries my
donuts. I just don't like it when people harass, you know, people in customer service, largely
because, you know, most of it is out of their control. Even if the person in customer service
is rude, like Chris is saying, there could be other outside factors. Now if they go after you
at something else, but most of the time, you know, even if they're a little rude, something's probably
going on with them, you know. So but onto our next segment, which is more happy stuff. It's our
mystery donut, which is improv segment. So Chris, we have a game this week. We're going to be playing
Who's game? Fortunately, unfortunately. Oh, my favorite game. Yeah, that's my favorite too.
All right, man. So the first one, let's let's do the first one. Add a fast food restaurant.
Oh, okay. How fitting. Yeah, how fitting. I'll start it.
Fortunately, I got everything off the dollar menu so I didn't break the bank. Unfortunately,
they are all out of hamburgers and you came to a hamburger spot. Fortunately, I'm okay with just
eating chicken nuggets and ice cream for dinner. Unfortunately, the chicken nuggets have been
left out a little bit too long. So they've gotten Ebola and Salmonella. Fortunately, I was able to
prove that in court. So now I get to sue them. Unfortunately, you get a ban from that fast
food restaurant so you can never eat there ever again because you sued them. Fortunately,
since I got Ebola from them, I didn't want to eat there in the first place. Unfortunately, you are
going to lose a lot of that money due to legal fees. Fortunately, there's a secondary lawsuit
in place that will get all that money back. Unfortunately, this just seems like a revolving
door at this point because you're still going to have to pay legal fees. Fortunately, I'm still
coming out on the good end and all my medical bills are paid and I got a little chunk of change
out the deal. Unfortunately, you didn't take Dave Ramsey so you don't know how to manage your money
right. Fortunately, a man doesn't need to go through Dave Ramsey to understand money. That man
doesn't understand money himself. Unfortunately, unless you do, you'll be ostracized by a lot of
the evangelical conf… Fortunately, I don't give a two crap about what people think about me.
Unfortunately, that's your problem. You don't give enough crap about what people think about you.
Okay, I have no clue where to go from there. So we can go to the next one.
Alright, next one at the mechanic shop. Alright, at the mechanic shop. Go for it.
Fortunately, I have the warranty so this shouldn't break my bank.
Unfortunately, the warranty expired three months ago.
Fortunately, it's just a battery issue so it's not that expensive.
Unfortunately, they found a deeper electrical issue and so it will cost more money.
Fortunately, because I took Dave Ramsey, I built up my emergency fund.
Unfortunately, since his ideals are 20 years old, it didn't really matter in this day and age and
you're still broke as a joke. Fortunately, I had a little nest egg that nobody knew about.
Unfortunately, you found out that your ex-wife blew it.
Fortunately, I took… Ah, dang it. You stumped me on that one. Stumped me on that one.
Alright, so you ready for the last one?
Uh, yes, I am.
Alright, for this scenario, I'm thinking out of gun range.
Fortunately, the safety was on so when I pulled the trigger, nothing happened.
Unfortunately, you didn't bring hearing protection so your hearing's gonna be really messed up.
Fortunately, I didn't have any hearing in the first place so no hearing to lose.
Unfortunately, your lack of hearing is a danger to everybody around you at this gun range.
Fortunately, being disabled in this country is not a bad thing,
thanks to the equal opportunities act.
Unfortunately, it is a bad thing because you might kill all of us because of your negligence.
Fortunately, my eyes are double better since I don't have good hearing and so my eyes
compensate and I am actually safe.
Unfortunately, that logic doesn't hold up because you just said that you pulled the trigger
and luckily the safety was on, thank god.
Fortunately, people are allowed to make mistakes.
Unfortunately, playing with somebody's life in guns is not a mistake, it's a liability.
Fortunately in the south, it is fine.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if you're the south of the north or whatever,
my life being in jeopardy does not make it okay.
Fortunately, I only had three beers so I'm seeing pretty straight at this point.
Unfortunately, you're about to lose a friend because he's about to go home because he's
not going to be around your negligent and in danger.
Fortunately, would you like a beer?
Unfortunately, we're not friends anymore because I can't trust you to be around guns.
Well, there's nothing fortunate about losing that as a friendship so I guess it's over.
It's all good, it's all good.
All right, man, we're going to move into our Eclare which is our positive advice and I'll kick
us off. Man, one thing that I'm kind of learning is learning how to delegate and that's really,
really hard for me because I'm like, man, I want to be a hard worker, I want to do things.
It's hard for me to let things go but when you delegate stuff to people, it frees you up to
do things only that you can do well, right? So there may be things on your plate that you need
to pass off to somebody else in order to free you up to do other things. So everything you say
yes to, you're saying no to something else. So are the things in your life that you're saying yes to,
the things that you want to be doing or the things that you're good at? And so this is something
that I'm learning really, really, it's hard for me to give up and to delegate right now but I'm
learning how to delegate and to pass things off. And when you pass things off, you're helping build
more leaders and you're not just adding but you're multiplying. Yeah, heck yeah. It is hard.
It is hard to delegate especially when you know that you're the person that can get it done the
best in your mind. I don't trust anybody like I trust myself as bad as that is to say but it's
true especially when it comes to work. My eclair for this week is the importance of not doing things
in a frantic state of mind and what I mean by that is when you get really tired and when you get
really overworked it's really easy to get overwhelmed by the tasks that are on your list. Right? There's
a lot of tasks and there will always be tasks on your list. There will always be things that need
to be done and I don't know, your eyes can get weary right? You can literally get to the point where
all you see is the things on the list and go I just got to get to the next thing. I just got to
get to the next thing. I just got to get to the next thing but you miss steps during the things
that you're trying to work on in the present and so the importance that I'm trying to push here
is fresh eyes after rest. Rest is really really really important in those times. It's really
important to identify when you are over your limit or when you are over your edge of okay here's my
threshold and man I'm in a frantic state of mind and I need to really slow down at least even if
it's for a few minutes. I'm not talking about going and taking a full on nap. I'm talking about
sometimes I'll give you an example. I've been having and I work in IT so this is incredibly
frustrating for me. I had an instance where my laptop has been really giving me some problems
and it's been this particular file. I won't go into this big thing but it's been a two-week
ordeal and it's really been frustrating for me and you know today I was working on it and every
time I've been working on it I've been really really tired and I've already been in a pretty bad
state of mind. I've already been kind of exhausted and tired and when I started working on it today
I said no I'm not in the right state of mind. I need to stop. I need to literally rest and then
come back at it with some fresh eyes and I kid you not when I did that it took me five minutes
and I was able to see clearly what needed to be done in order to fix it. It's because every other
time that I tried to fix it it was just a task on the list and it got buried in the amount of
overwhelm that I was in at the moment. So all that to say this, come at things with the fresh mind.
If you're in that frantic state try to grasp that and try to understand that. Try to rest through it
so that you can see clearly on the other side. I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
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