But soft. What light, dear, yonder window breaks. Hold on, hold on. I thought you said we were rehearsing for the intro. Why in the heck are you raving Romeo and Juliet? I told you that this is what we were doing. I texted you about it last week and said, remember, for the 100th episode, we're gonna do Shakespeare. Man, I never liked Shakespeare. And let me just digress by saying this is why I should have gotten that phone plan. You know, the unlimited text and unlimited data plan.
I should have did that because, you know, I'm out of text and out of minutes, even though it happens to be 2023. But I will say this, you know, Shakespeare had his tights all way too tight. I mean, that stuff is pansy stuff. I ain't reading that. Well, I'm sorry that you are uncultured and you ruined the intro. But I guess this is the intro. So I guess it is kick off the 100th episode, Chris. Hi, I'm Chris. And I'm Micah. And this is the Dona Box podcast, the 100th episode.
That's right. Anticlimactic. But that's exactly how we like it. It's the 100th episode. Man, we made it to triple digits from here on in. We ain't gonna be in double digits no more or even single digits no more. It's gonna be triple digits from here on in. How you feel about that, man? That's crazy. We've been doing this for 100 weeks in a row. Yeah, it seems like it hasn't been that long. But then when I think about it, I'm like, yeah, it's already 100. And so it's very monumental for us.
That just shows that if you keep persevering, that it'll pay off. Because most podcasts, they stop like before 100 episodes, huh? Shoot, you know, I think statistically most stop within five. Like it's really hard to keep consistent. But, you know, we've really enjoyed every minute of it. It's been pretty crazy. But of course, this is the 100th episode. So we're gonna do things a little different.
But first, we want to shout out to all of our OGs who's been listening all the way since episode one, all the way to right now. Because man, you've made it all the way to 100 episodes. That's pretty crazy. It's great. I actually saw we got a new listener in Barbados, I think, recently. So that's kind of interesting. So if you're listening in Barbados, shout out to you. Welcome aboard the Donut Box podcast. Ahoy, matey. I'll say this. We love everybody all around the world.
Trash can international. We got to give a shout out to folks in Australia, over in Singapore, Brussels, Belgium, all throughout Europe, really. I mean, we got everybody all through the continents. Continent of Africa is blowing up right now, you know, all the way in, you know, North America. Got the United States, of course. What are some of the states within our wonderful home country?
Texas is our home state. Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Maine, all those good places. So heck yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, let's get started. And normally we have a nice format and we say, OK, here's the first donut out of the box. No, no, no, no, no. Here's what we're going to do. Chris and I are going to go back and forth. And what do you want to call this, Chris? I'm just going to say, what do you think we should call it?
I don't know. It's more of a discussion. It's just like we got a couple questions, got a couple topics, where we're just going to be not debating them, but discussing them. We're going to be talking about life nowadays. And should things be certain ways or should they not be certain ways? I guess that's the best way you can describe it. Because a lot of them start with should. I think you got the first one. What do you think? All right.
So the very first one we're going to talk about, should you be able to own an exotic animal as pets? Now, let me give a precursor here in our home country of the United States. Not every state will allow you to own exotic animals like lions, tigers, all sorts of, you know, boa constrictors, cobras, weird crazy stuff, zebras, right? But some states will, like Oklahoma. So, Chris, I'm going to ask your opinion first. Should you be able to own an exotic animal as a pet?
Well, I think it depends on what it is actually. And also, I think, I'm not going to say no, but I also think that you should probably have a license to be able to handle it. And I feel like in order to obtain that license, you need to go through a class or something. Because not every animal should be owned as a pet. So, I'm kind of like, I'm not saying no, but I'm not going to go out and buy a zebra tomorrow. I mean, I guess a zebra would be okay because it's basically a horse.
But like a predatory animal, you know, that's kind of a touchy subject. I still think you need to have some sort of license documentation, because even something like a zebra, even though it may seem like a horse, I mean, do they eat like a horse? I'm, I imagine they do. But I really don't have any idea. So, at least some sort of research that goes into it.
And I feel like there should be some sort of like proof that you at least research how to do this or, you know, at least have some sort of experience, even if it's a small like taking of the test of, you know, here's how to feed them or whatever. I mean, we are talking about having to have a lot of jobs. And I guess that would fall under the USDA or something. I thought the USDA was the people that handled the bee. That's what I thought. They do a lot of stuff with agriculture.
Like they do a lot of, they would be like milk testing, making sure it's not like toxic. They do a lot of weird, crazy stuff. My question is, is do people just want to own exotic pets? Because I'm always like, man, I don't think I would want to own a lion or, I know when we talked about this earlier, you were telling me that story about the guy who owned all those cobras and then they got out and like killed him, basically. Yeah. Well, in fact, he just let him free roam.
Like apparently he was like a snake wrangler by trade. And in his apartment, he just had a bunch of cobras that he just let out and kind of let free roam. And had supposedly had them for months on end, but then didn't show up to his job, you know, the typical story. They bust down the door and find all these cobras, you know, loose and, you know, he'd been, he'd been bit and killed. So it's pretty crazy. I don't know, man. Lions, tigers, big cats.
Heck no. Heck no. You know, that's, first of all, there is, unless you have a massive amount of land, there is no way that you are going to recreate that creature's habitat. And that's not, that's not good. You have people like Carol baskets out there, holding cats. Do we really want that? So my question is, is do like lion tamers and people that do like the shows at the fair, do they have a special license or they just like, they just had, they just had the experience.
They don't have the license, right? Or they don't need a license. That's a good question. I have no clue. I would imagine you'd have to get some sort of professional license or something like that to get hired at one of those things. I don't think you could just, I don't think I can walk up there, no accreditation or no license. Cause like, how else are they going to prove if I walk up to like Bonham and Bailey's not a thing anymore, right?
But. Well, my question is, is there like a certain school that you go to? I mean, obviously people that work in a zoo, they have to have like a, like a degree, but like. I would, I would think that you would because Bonham and Bailey's circus isn't a thing anymore. I don't think right? Like they're not, they're not in business anymore. No, it's the Ringling Brothers. The Ringling Brothers. There you go.
So pretty much, I don't feel like I could walk up to there or really any circus and say, yes, I'm a lion tamer or whatever, right? Or whatever, right? And where's my accreditation? I feel like you have to have some sort of accreditation or some sort of proof that you, you're qualified to do this. I don't feel like you can just say that you've done it. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I think if you're going to own an exotic pet, you need to have it registered. You need to have training.
You need to go through classes. You need to possess a special license. And not just that, but if it's like a, sorry to interrupt. I think if it's like a big animal, you need to have some sort of proof that you actually are going to like provide it a big enough space too. Yeah. And you need like yearly visits or something like so the government can check on that stuff.
I do not like government interfering with stuff, but with stuff like that where that thing could get out and possibly hurt a whole bunch of people. Yeah. It needs to be regulated heavily. Absolutely. Especially you talking about big cats all the way down to, you know, poisonous lizards. I am playing with that. These things are wild. They're not meant to be had as pets. They are meant to be in the wild. One more note I'm going to say on this too.
Why it needs to be regulated by the government is a lot of this stuff take like boa constrictors down in Florida. People release them. They become invasive species and then they become like super predators and then they run the whole ecosystem too. So I feel like you really got to because I mean what happens if a few pairs of lines get out right? And they're able to now suddenly have the US version of the line and maybe they don't have anything above them in the food chain.
Okay. Well now what are we going to do? Yeah, for sure. All right. Next question. Should you have to take a driving test in order to drive a large U-Haul truck or a large moving truck? Yeah, you absolutely should. We know certain people that I know because we essentially had to be the little oversized load driver with the freaking, you know, walkie-talkie walking them through. Now you can merge lanes and everything and his mind was swerving talking to us certain ways but I digress.
Anyways, the thing was, you know, the large Pinsky truck is almost, I mean, it's a long length and then you can rent a trailer on the back of it for, you know, an additional trailer or even for a car. I've seen those things tow cars and you're talking about the almost the length of an 18-wheeler and people with classy driver's licenses can drive them. That's insane. Like that's no, no, no, no.
And here's the thing, bro. You just give your license to the U-Haul and the Pinsky people and they're like, oh, as long as you have insurance, it's okay. We don't really check your driving record. Mind you, that person's not even good at driving on the regular road. Now you give them a 26 foot long weapon that can wipe out a whole bunch of people. Oh, here you go. Yeah, they let anybody drive those things. Yeah, any anybody.
I mean, even if I'm not mistaken, you even for certain like RVs, you have to get a special like endorsement on your driver's license or something. And rightfully so because driving an RV is something special. But I mean, I've driven some of those big Pinsky trucks, moving trucks, you know, U-Haul trucks, man, like you got to be careful. It's a different kind of driving. Like you got to be you got to be on your game a lot more and you got to think about a lot more things.
Also, too, once you load it up with furniture and stuff, you got that weight in the back and then mind you, if you're traveling across the country with one of those U-Hauls or Pinsky trucks and you're traveling up in the mountains or something. And you're traveling and inclement weather. Dude, I'm telling you, it's a game changer. Like they when I worked for the moving company, like they trained us like we didn't have to go get a license, but we had to pass like certain written tests.
We had to pass like all these paperwork things before we could be certified to drive. And so I'm like, I get it because they want it to not be as much liability on the company if you do cause an accident. But that's insurance. Yeah. But at the same time in, it's like if they're taking that much time to train professionals, you need a special license or you need to have a certain class or something before you can just rent one.
You know, and I would also be a little upset if they started doing this. So it's kind of a double-edged thing, but they at least need to sit you in there and have a goofy little video to show you or something. At least give you a little something about, you know, here when you're driving, here's some of the things you need to watch out for. Because you even sometimes have to watch out, especially in those bigger trucks, like bridge clearances and all sorts of stuff.
You think the average person is looking for bridge. Do you remember that one in Augusta? There was like a notorious bridge. They would call it the can peeler because literally it was so low that all the trucks would drive under it and it would peel the top off. Oh yeah, it's still there, my friend. It's still working. It's still doing its thing. I see posts like every six months of about a truck that tried to drive through there and then it either flipped or like the top table.
And those again, these are mostly professional drivers. Think about some grandpa with his Class C driver's license, you know, moving, you know, it's just it's insane. Yes, you absolutely need to take a test or something. I agree. 100%. The next one, should parents of unruly kids, should they in their party be kicked out of whatever establishment they're in? If the kids are unruly and the parents cannot control them? Yes, but I think there is a limit to it.
There's one thing if the parent is trying is actively trying to control their kid. That's one thing. But if your parents, if the parents are just sitting there looking around like nothing's happening, they're letting their kids run a buck. Yeah, bro. Kick them out because I'm telling you, kids should not just be allowed to run. But now if it's somewhere like Chuck E. Cheese or somewhere like Chick-fil-A, that's different.
But if you're like in a sit down restaurant, you're at the Applebee's or Texas Roadhouse or something and you got kids running around and parents aren't doing anything. Yes, kick them out. It reminds me of being at the Red Robin with my wife and her grandparents and the little kids running up. And I mean, parents weren't doing nothing. They started grabbing fries. I'll have fiancee stay or fiancee at the time, but wife's table man. So mad. It's just like you got to be watching your kids.
You got to be watching. And it's not like they weren't sitting right there. They just blatantly doored it. That kind of stuff is just it's because it's spilling over and disrupting the comfort of the other guests. That's what it's doing. So you need to kick them out. I will say, though, like you got to make sure that place has cameras, though, because like you know, people always are like, he said, she said.
But I mean, I think restaurants still technically have the right to refuse service to anybody, right? It within reason. They do. I think what's hard now is, you know, you refuse somebody's service. Now they hop on Google and make a bad review, right? You know, something like that. And it's really easy to get influence negatively really quickly online. So I think people try not to do that as much as possible. Well, I'm saying that's what I'm saying.
You should have cameras so then you can just post the footage and be like, yep, sorry about you. See, these people were acting a straight up fool and have the audio on the cameras to the manager gives them. One warning. And then if they keep letting their kids run amok, then they get kicked out.
I'm telling you, bro, because that like that just fries my donuts when parents are not like in control of their kids, whether that the grocery store, the restaurant, whatever, the kids are just running around. And especially when they're like touching everything or like pushing everything over and making a big mess. And it's like, and the parents don't make them clean it up. Oh, so like it's cleaning it up.
I remember at boot corral kids climbing between all the boots and like using it as like little tunnels and knocking all the boots out. The one that gets me, though, I don't know why and maybe it's because I've had to clean too many glass doors is watching kids like at the door, just like dragging their hands on the clean door and making like hand prints on purpose. Like I understand it. But as a kid, I get it.
But at the same time, a lot of times you'll have parents just like looking and you're going, you know that somebody's going to have to now clean all that. Because your child put their nasty hands all over the like, I don't know why that drives me nuts. Yes, it drives me nuts too. So yes, it is one of the things that fries my donuts. I do think parents should control their kids. All right, next one. This is going to be a controversial topic.
Should old people be held accountable for their actions? Right. And let me clarify something. I'm not talking about the stuff like oops, it was an accident. Like legitimate accident. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the whole like, well, I should be able to because I'm old or like, you know, it's so hard to explain because it's such a fine line, right? Because yes, old people do make mistakes, but then they will ride that wave a lot. You know what I'm saying, Chris?
I'm talking about old people being rude and being entitled and just saying whatever they want and be like, oh yeah, I'm old and nobody even says anything about it. Like old people will make racist remarks or they'll make sexist remarks or they'll just be absolutely rude to waiters and waitresses or other customer service people. No, for sure. I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. I just mean more like, I don't know.
Some old people can be making mistakes as far as like they'll be using terms that they don't necessarily know what they mean for nowadays and stuff like that versus people being actually rude. Like, I don't know. Sometimes old people be saying some things and just like, I don't think you understand what that means and nowadays terms. But I'm talking like exactly what Chris is saying. I'm talking about the racism is what gets me. Like there's a lot of old people that be racist, man.
And you know, I get that it's a part of certain generations and things like that, but it just, it just isn't cool. Or the fact that they think that they can insert different things into your life, like political advice as well, like unwarranted political advice. Or they just like break the rules just because they don't care no more. Like if it says to go one way and they're like, yeah, I'm not doing that.
And then they just go against that one way, like the flow of traffic, like they'll be potentially walking against the flow of traffic. They're like, yeah, I'm old. Get out of my way. I'm old. So you should make room for me. I'm like, yeah, the other kind of yeah. And then on the other front, kind of what I was talking about too, I've seen a lot of old people go, well, oh, it was just an accident. I didn't really mean to go that way, but they actually did.
And they're just kind of covered up for it because they don't want to seem wrong. Seeing that happen a lot too. And it's just like, come on. I think it's like the being rude is what really gets me. It's like they're so demanding and they're like, you need to fill up my drink now. And it's like, or we don't get our food right on time. And it's like, they'll make the biggest think about it. The ones I'm going to call you all out. Some of the boomers can be the worst.
And I'm not saying that some of y'all are old, some of y'all are kind of on the fringe. But I don't know. It's just like, I could see that the ways of my day are dead now because of what you're doing. And the fact that you're not providing this level of service and you're just like, I don't know what you want me to do. It's like, I've got a size 12, not a size 11. I'm so sorry.
Like, and they'll just like, they'll make it sound like, oh man, the whole country's going to hell because you didn't have this in the back. It's like, oh, okay. Don't even get me started on the tipping. Don't even get me started on that. Old people don't tip for nothing, bro. They'll be like, yeah, here's $2. Don't spend it all in one place. And it's like, bro, that person can't live on $2. Oh, I kid you not. I actually knew this woman, right?
She had tipping amounts to the T. She would refuse to tip more than 10%, but she had five, seven and a half and 10, like posting in her wallet of like different dollar amounts. Like if it was 20 bucks, it'd be this and the rest. And she would tip down to the penny of like 5%. I kid you not. And it was because at 1.5% was, I guess, the going rate, right? Of like what should be done. She just never moved on from that. So everybody was like, she would tell you too. She goes, everybody says 10%.
I'm going to do five. Oh, okay. But she would down to the penny. I always hated it because I would always get two bucks. And I was like, oh man, like thanks for the $2. Thanks for the $1. That helped me out a lot. Like, especially the job you're working. And it's like, yeah, I woke up early for that. Serve you some freaking hollandaise and get my $2 tip. All right, man, you ready to move to the next one? All right.
Should we change the military age of like enlistment enrollment to 21 currently in the United States to 18? I think we should change it to 21. You want to know why? Why is that? Because most 18 year olds are knuckleheads, man. You want, you want an 18 year old with a, with the AK-47, bro? I don't think so, man. Or a weapon of any kind, grenades, anything. My thing was when we talked about this, it was like, oh yeah, you can serve in our military, but you can't drink.
And I'm like, I don't think we should lower the drinking age in this country because again, 18 year olds with alcohol, idiots. Absolute idiots. 21s, you're- I mean, heck, even 21 year olds with alcohol. Exactly. How do you feel about it? Man, I think so too. I think so too. It's just, I don't know. I think that how can you, again, how can you, how can you not drink but you can die for your country? Like that's kind of a weird, that doesn't make any sense. Never really has.
And plus, I mean, like Chris was saying, the difference between when I was 18 and 21, as far as my awareness, my knowledge, like seriously, if I was forced to go into battle or do something, you know, military wise, you would have definitely wanted me at 21 versus 18, just from experiences, from the wisdom I gained. I mean, you'd be surprised in those three years what you pick up. Yeah, because at 18, you're like, oh man, I'm away from home. I'm out of my mom and dad's house. I can go crazy.
You make the worst decisions. You're like, oh man, I'm 18. I can drink. I'm going to do all this stuff. I'm going to get married. It's all that. It's wild. I'm not saying that those things don't work out. I'm just saying, when you're 18, you don't have that much life experience. You think you do, but you really don't. Well, and I'll tell you this much from the view of a former military kid. I'll tell you this much. You know, all around military bases are 18 year old traps.
I'll tell you that much. You got all the bars that don't card. So they're already underage drinking. But I think the biggest ones, you have your title pond places. And then you have your cheap car dealerships that stock it full of like chargers and challengers. And they'll charge an exorbitant amount. And they know that these 18 year olds who've just got their signing bonus will come hit town. And, you know, it's such a countless story of, you know, you buy a car at a stupid high interest rate.
They get married to some, you know, anyways, we're not going to go there. And it's like, I don't know, going in at 18, it sounds like a lot of bad decisions. I'm not saying going in at 21 would be a lot better, but I think you would have a lot less of that result. All I have to say is you are never there for me. Even after I came out from Iraq, you were never there for me. Listen, don't maybe fight you in the front yard. Well, I do think they should raise the age.
And again, man, like you're 18 years old, but like from what I heard, like the military, you don't make that much. No, unless you go in as an officer, like, and that's, you have to have a college degree to get there. You really don't make anything. It's pretty low unless it's, unless it's war time and you're going to go into battle, people that go to war make lots of money. But at the same time, you're risking your life. So it's that give and take. That is true. That hazard pay.
They call it combat pay. That's how they make that sound better. All right. This is kind of a controversial one right now. It's a very hot button issue. Should we slow down on AI, artificial intelligence? Should we slow down on it? Hell yeah. Yes, we should. Yes, we should pump the brakes back the truck up. That's all I got to say because so I'm in the IT industry, right? AI is scary. And this is just the AI that we're seeing.
I can already guarantee you that the government's been playing with it for 20, 30 years now. If we're seeing this now, basically we're seeing tip of the iceberg of what's already been discovered. The scary part is the amount of intelligence that could be gathered, the amount of things that it can do, and not just that, but it's going to fall into malicious hands. And think about it. It's self-learning code in some instances, right?
So you're thinking about, yes, there are parameters set, but what happens when you have a proverbial madman, right? The mad scientist character who puts together a really, really in-depth AI platform and, you know, it could do some real damage to a lot of infrastructure because everything is connected nowadays. Everything. So it's a scary thing, man. It's a scary thing. So it reminds me of iRobots, what it reminds me of.
I'm saying is there have been too many movies, too many movies predicting this stuff, and we're like, oh yeah, those were just movies. Nah, they were predicting this stuff. I mean, think about it. The Incredibles, what was that robot? A self-learning robot, and it got stronger and stronger. It would learn humans attacks, and it would counter them and mirror them and use it against them.
And I'm like, sounds like AI, but what's really weird is like, I feel like the past six months or year, it's been really like AI heavy. Like, I hear everything now about AI this, AI that, and my buddy was telling me, because like I said, I work for a church and he works on the announcement videos and he was like, I, you know, with the AI, we could take an announcement person, have the video and then set up the AI so that if they're not there or if they, you know, we need to reshoot something,
we can just queue up the AI and it looks just like them, sounds just like them and everything. And I'm like, boy, that's a dangerous game, man. Dangerous game. It's creepy because there was a lot that used to happen with, like I remember there was a bunch of viral videos that came out. Like there was one about a hawk taking a baby. Do you remember that one? But it ended up being fake, but it was just really good CGI. Now that AI has come into play, it's really freaky.
It's really freaky. So you know that video that's gone really viral and it's Gary Busey and he's talking about buttered sausages and it's like he's rambling on about buttered sausages and you're like, what the heck is he talking about? Have you, have you seen that? No, I haven't seen that one at all.
The whole video is, it's not really him. He never said any of that. It was a whole fake interview that was all AI and it literally conformed his face, made it look like he was talking everything and you couldn't tell the difference. Dude, that's a whole conspiracy there too. Because I mean, think about it, bro. Like you have the president up there. All you have to do is just hit a video. President didn't even have to say that and then you send it out. Is Biden really dead?
He's been dead for six months now. What I'm saying is dude, like you have the, you know, like somebody like, you know, terrorists or something, they want to like start a war and be like, oh yeah, the president said X, Y and Z. They play with that AI. President never said that. Next thing you know, you got a war on your hands. And you want to talk about disinformation galore. I mean, people already believe in stuff that are highly fake that are, you know, really identifiably fake.
Imagine AI gets really powerful. It's going to be really hard to tell real from fake, which is going to be an interesting game, man. It's going to be really interesting. That's why I think we should really slow up. It can be very useful, but you know, with great power also becomes great responsibility as we know in every other sense. So that's why it's like, we got to be responsible and I'll be honest with you with how powerful this thing can be.
I don't think we should trust humans with human nature. I think we should limit it and limit it hard. Exactly, dude. And like on the other side of that, I know that that was part of the writer's strike is they were concerned because people were using AI to write their stuff. And like, I've heard of pastors using chat GBT to write their sermon.
No, I don't agree with that. I, you know, my thing is this goes out in bed, but as a man of the cloth is a man of the clergy Sunday is your prime time, man. That is when you need to be laying it down and that is when you need to be leading your flock. Like that's what you're there for, man. Chat GBT is just lazy. That's just lazy. It is lazy, man. That's what really what it is. It's like, man, but yes, AI is like, like I said, everyone's like, oh, yeah, it's so cool.
It can do this. It can do that. And I'm like, man, like you're taking the human element out of stuff. You're making people lose jobs. Like, let's think about this. It's like the Jurassic Park thing, bro. It's like science. I think Jeff Goldblum said scientists were so focused on if they could create it that they were, they didn't stop and think if they should.
And that's how it is with AI. It's like, bro, we need to pump the brakes on this. I'm telling you right now, but you know what? What do I know? The hard part is the hard truth about there is we'll get too far in it and we'll see the dangers of it and then we'll pull back. It won't be until we have a problem. I think that's enough talking about AI because I can get fired up and I can keep talking about it forever and ever. So the next one's a little bit different. Here's the question.
Should urination in public be legal? And here's the caveat. I'm not talking about for males, you know, whipping it out or for females going and popping a squat in front of everybody and making it a spectacle. I'm talking if you're on a long road trip and the next rest stop is 67 miles away. You pull over on the side of the road and you let it rip. It should that be illegal because currently right now cops can pull you over and take it to you or take you to jail.
I'm saying no. You know why? Because that's just nature. That's just nature. I'm telling you, man. Man, if you got to go, you got to go. As long as you are not exposing yourself to other people, mainly kids or anybody else, I think you're okay. If you're going behind a tree, you're good. As long as you're covered up and it's not in the public site, you're doing it your business in nature. No big deal.
If you're in Lubbock, Texas, behind a car should do as long as you're trying to block it somehow. Exactly. Now, hold on. You didn't add this to it, but we talked about this. In the wind, out of the wind. No, but we didn't talk about that. But should you be penalized for peeing in a public pool? Should you be penalized and ticketed for peeing in a public pool? Oh, yeah. We haven't talked about that. I think it's a bad habit. I think it's really bad.
We were talking about should they have the blue dye to like they had what was that movie grownups or they had to pull with blue dye. Yeah, it's like we find out you're not only are you yanked from the pool, but you get fine. I'm down with that. Either that or you get kicked out of the pool for good. Every pool should have the blue dye. And number two, you should be ticketed if you pee in the pool.
Now, if you're a kid, I don't know how you handle that situation. I guess ticket the parents. I don't know. But at the same time, man, it's like, bro, that's not the place to because that's very unsanitary, dude. Like that's just nasty. Yeah, I've heard a lot of people say like, oh, well, the chlorine kills all the bacteria. And it's like, I don't know, man. It's like you're still peeing in the pool. Like it's nasty. You shouldn't do it like kids.
I'll tell you what, if that's why you have a kiddie pool on the side, right? You know, they're going to pee galore. Let them, you know, have fun in the kiddie pool, but you better not do it in the regular. That's what I'm saying, dude. But yes, I number one, I think you should be able to urinate in public as long as you are closed off behind a tree behind something. If you got to go, you got to go. And you should be ticketed if you pee in a public pool or a hot tub.
And all I'm saying too is that also teaches kids and everybody not to urinate in water spots because I'll tell you this much. Certain places you go swimming in natural lakes and rivers, you don't want to be urinating. I'll just let you know. It's like, you got them, you got them crazy. I mean, most of the time, not in the U.S. But there are some that are just like, yeah, they'll do some damage to you. They'll follow that stream of peace. So don't be doing that.
I think the next one I have is should the job interview process change? Or is there another question before that? There is one, but we can, we can, I can do the one before that after this one. I think, yeah, listen, the job interview format and what I'm talking and what we're talking about with the whole job interview format, I'm talking like the resume submitting. I think resumes are dumb as mess, to be honest with you, because it really, I mean, it's hard to showcase who you are.
But I feel like there is not a standardized format. Like I think resumes would be better if everybody knew how to write them in a standardized format, because certain businesses will be like, oh yeah, this resume is great for me. And then other businesses will be like, oh no, but nowadays here's the hard part.
And why I think one thing that definitely needs to change, speaking of AI and bots, you send your resume to most people or to some people, they will check before it even gets in front of a person. They'll do a preliminary check of keywords in there. And if it doesn't match keywords, then the application won't even see the next step, which is normally a regular person. So you might even have the best thing, you know, you volunteered with old people on the weekends and all this other stuff, right?
And you're the perfect candidate for this job, but because you're missing one requirement that the bot saw that you didn't have, you're not going to get your resume looked at, right? So that's already a hard part getting your foot in the door. So I think that definitely needs to change. But I'll stop there. What do you think, Chris?
Yeah, I think so, because honestly, you can't really tell like someone from a piece of paper, I get you want to do the job interview and that's all that good stuff and a resume is just a kickoff point. But you're right, man, like that person could look great on paper, but that person could be a horrible team player. That person could be just absolutely the worst. And I'm like, yeah, I don't know. And some places are like, yeah, we don't really care about your resume.
So it's always been kind of like, uh, should I send it in? Do I send it in? Do I not? And then there's the whole question about cover letter. You know, it's like, I'll be honest, I've sent cover letter sometimes and it didn't seem to do me a lick at good. So a lot of times I just send the resume over because like, what am I going to cover letter? I'll be honest, cover letters just like brown nose and I'm like, oh, I would love to be a part of your company.
When you, I mean, if we're being honest, I guess, okay, I'm going to go into what fries my donuts a little bit. Nobody, unless you really love the career that you're in, there's absolutely nobody that is actually going in there. And you know, in an interview process and they feel the way that they say, you know, they got to get a job. What are they going to say? They're not going to be like, yeah, I'm here for the check. Yeah, I'm here for the check.
Yeah, I'm here for the check. You know, the whole thing is a big lie. How big can you sell yourself and make yourself look like a butt kisser pretty much? It's like, how much could you be like, oh, I just, I just would love to love to be with this company. You know, it's like, no, you don't care less about this company. You'll be a mile down the road on the next interview if you get denied from this one.
I mean, my question is, is then what would you change? How would you change it for me? The format's a little interesting for me. I think we need to give people a trial if you need to hire, let's say, you know, even on a small batch sort of thing. So you need to hire two employees, you hire four, right, with the expectancy and you tell them the expectancy of, hey, I'm going to, in 90 days, we're going to keep two of you and we're going to let two of you go.
Now, the caveat to that is you make it the best dang place to work you could possibly imagine, right? And so to make them want to stay and make them want to change, create some healthy competition. And I'm not talking about being mean to the people and everything like that. You compensate them well, you make them strive to be like, man, I really want to work here.
I really want to work here. I don't want to be in the thing about it to say you're a part of those two, like, let's say all four great, you still have to let go two of them. And man, you know, you don't want to. Well, who's to say that next hiring round, you not only pick them up again if they're available. But they kind of have a little bit more of a leg up because they've seen what you've done already. I don't know. That's kind of.
So basically what you're telling me is you want like the Hell's Kitchen approach because that's what Hell's Kitchen is. Hell's Kitchen is one big job interview. That's really what it is. Like they're all trying to fight for that job for $250,000. Yeah. And I mean, it's not even just, but at the same time, it's not trying to put them through pressure.
It's also trying to, yes, you have 90 days to do it, but you give them a normal environment of here's the work that I need you to do and see how they perform during that time. And not I'm not trying to be like Gordon Ramsay or anything like that and be like, you're not good enough or whatever. Right. But make it a normal environment and just 90 days comes down the line. We make a decision.
And the thing is, who's to say again, if all four are great, who's to say we don't keep all four and find spots for them if they're really that good? I think more jobs need to, before they hire, they need to like do personality tests and strengths finders test so they can know, okay, this person may be good, but like their personality is not really going to gel mesh with our team or their strengths are not really good for this position.
You know, and I think the hardest part and I've hired some people and you know, had had some stuff like this go on with as manager. It is so hard because you go off the resume, you go off of what they're saying in man, they might talk the best game in town, but then they get in there and it was all a bucket of lies. Right. How are you going to be able to tell from that from a interview or even two interviews?
I've done a phone interview and an in person interview guy fleece me twice fleece my fleece to other people to just made us made us think man, this guy is the bees knees and then they get into the job rolling go man, they lied to us like you wouldn't believe. So it's just hard because that's why I like to try by fire way, you know, it's definitely difficult.
And it would definitely be a difficult way to sustain as a business because you're talking about you're having to hire double essentially to begin with, or even if you don't hire double you're hiring extra so that's that's an extra cost and you're having to make it the best environment possible. The best environment possible costs money. Right. But that's a lot of times when you want the best of the best you got to pay the best of the best. So it's just hard.
But I think that's ideally there's probably some flaws in that way too. But ideally I think that would work that way at least you get an idea of because you know they get a little bit into it and you're giving them the work and it's already kind of that contingency of you might not get this job. You know, they even get a few days into it and you're like man you just not messing with the business. I'm just going to have to let you go make it real easy.
Always. This is a little tip for you folks at home. Always ask what are your expectations of the person in this role and ask what is the vision of this business or this company because that'll tell you real quick. If you're like yeah I can get on board with that or no I can't. Now Walmart they're going to lie to you. Well and you know the crazy thing to me is too if you're ever interviewing somebody to hire somebody asked them adversely what what is the job role that you're applying for.
That's a big one you know why you'd be surprised how many people be like oh I don't know and they don't even know what they've applied for what they're interviewing for like what the title is and you know that you know what that tells you. They didn't even take the time to really read and prepare themselves for I mean even the basic of you know what are you applying what are you interviewing for today. We can move to the next one. So next one pertains to politics.
Politics should there be term limits on all politicians. So some states some entities some different you know parts of our government here in the United States. There are term limits for people and that means you know you can only be in four year terms you know. I think most term limits are twice. Yeah so term limits they should have four. You know most of them are four years I think. I'm sorry terms are four. There's two terms typically and that's normally the term limit.
So should all politicians have term limits. Yes they should because honestly I think right now the president is like the only one that has the term limits. And our federal government. Yes in our state governments it's a little different but yeah in our federal government man what we have the big problem with is these lifelong politicians who have been there since the early ages whenever when they can be minimally wherever whichever branch that
they're in whenever they can be mentally elected you know they've been there since now and now they're you know that freezing up on camera and having to take their dementia medication backstage. So it's one of those things. Yeah we do for sure man and that would help make sure that there was plenty of like fresh young blood it kind of would change things up man because I'm sick of seeing like these 80 year old 70 to 80 year old people that are like they're running our country and they're just
probably are not making the right choices dude I'm telling you and they're the ones that drive the country and so it's like they've been in power for so long that you know they they can pull the puppet strings they have all the connections and stuff and so I'm like yes I think they should have
you should be limited to at least three to four terms in the Senate and the House for sure at least three to four yes senators and representatives Congress should have term limits no more than three or four. I mean I'm fine with that I'm fine with that just yeah it's just insane to me how a lot of these people have held on for so long there are some that are proven corrupt it's just amazing how much funding that they get and how many people still vote for them
because the name cough cough his last name is Cruz. All right so what do you what else do you think about that man you have anything else to add on that. No I just again I think that the system again if we're going to have the president have term limits and I didn't have until FDR. Yeah but that didn't stay in freaking four straight terms which would have been 16 freaking years I would have wanted term limits after that.
So I think the senators and the people that are passing the laws and stuff I think they should have a similar term limits as well. Yes please so I don't have to see Mitch McConnell's non chinned behind up on that stage anymore. Or Nancy Pelosi's old witch bag guys bag things. Yeah or Chuck Schumer's stupid shoe looking face. He looks like a he looks like a man. The dude looks like actually dead like I swear.
Some of them. Some of them do look dead. You know they've been revitalized thanks to AI. Thank you C. Span and AI. Okay yeah I've got I've got one more. Should we have stricter gun control in the U.S. And that's a very controversial one. Here's the problem with that. The thing is no matter how much gun control you have people are still going to get guns like they just are like the people that want to do bad. They're going to they're going to get the guns.
And so it's like if you try to have gun control. People crime is still going to happen. I 100% agree. I'm going to point back to something. We tried something in our country and every time we tried to restrict something in our country. You know something remarkable happens. Take prohibition for instance. Was prohibition something that was a massive success. Absolutely not. It was a massive failure wouldn't you say.
I mean it was. That's how stock car racing got started like NASCAR. I don't know if y'all know this but NASCAR got started because bootleggers started racing their cars. I mean it became a ginormous industry. It's insane but besides that any time there has been more restriction on something the worse it's gotten and the more underground it's gotten and the more underground something gets the worse it gets. I'll put it to this way.
Chicago right now has the most gun legislation per you know of anywhere in the United States pretty much. And you know what they be calling it. They be calling it Chaiwreck because the gun violence is so bad. Like I mean it's one of the worst statistics in the United States too. But what it I feel like what it does is when you restrict something like that it then creates people's people have a need for something right. So people have a need to and they were going to find what they can get.
They're going to feel that need. They're going to feel the need but also to the criminals are going to be like oh now we can capitalize on this. Now we can make money because this is restricted now we can actually make more money for us. We don't have to report it to the government because it's technically illegal. And so then they're like oh yeah and then people get in the squabbles like no this is my territory where I sell. No this is my territory where I sell.
So then you got all the violence even worse and guess what now it's violence with underground weapons. So it's it's not good at all. I think the biggest thing for me if there was anything gun control or gun related that I would change that I've never quite understood. It's something that I've taken advantage of but I still don't understand it is the gun show laws right to where anybody can walk into a gun show and walk out without a gun.
But see here in the United States if you were a convicted felon or anything like that you can't own a gun like that's that's how it is. But if you go to a gun show you can go buy one. I thought I'm pretty sure they do a background check right. I think they do a background check. Not a gun show as they know. I feel like that's maybe changed.
I would I would agree with you but we went to I went to one few months ago and had a buddy buy a gun and it was just hand him the cash get the certificate from it and he bought the gun. Yeah gun control is a tricky topic but at the same time I'm like man I would still I would not want my ability to be a gun. I would not want my ability to be able to own a gun and protect myself be restricted.
Oh no heck no. My thing is you know it's I think we need to have more help for the people because a lot of what's been happening and a lot of our problems is because we got a lot of people with some with some mental issues right and they need help. I think a lot of that needs instead of focusing on that we need to focus on people's mental health and getting people right instead of talking because a gun is just a tool not the not the you know person pulling the trigger.
So it's I don't think it's the guns that we need to restrict I think that it's we need to help those people that need to be helped. Exactly right because the gun a gun in the hands of a bad person to do harm but like the guns in the hand of a police officer or a good police officer can help save somebody's life so then just it just all depends you know people are all conflicted about it all that stuff. Well cool do you have like a bonus question. I got one more.
This one is a really hot button one should high schoolers and college athletes get paid to play sports. It's a very new one. Absolutely not. They should not get paid to play sports. They're there for education. And number two it's not fair to everybody else I feel like because everybody else is busting their hump. They're trying to work for an education.
They're trying to make a way for themselves and I'm sorry bro but I feel like high school and football high school football and college football players they get a lot of stuff in. And then they get paid on top of that and you're an 18 year old kid making like hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oh no no no sir no the highest contracts now are in the millions the highest paid high school I think I think they said something like six million something like that and all of his endorsements.
Yeah it's their kids man they are kids they they're making NFL money they're making NFL money. Yep they should be focusing on school not like yes if you're going to do football as a career you want to be in the NFL totally get that man I totally get that you should work hard for your dream. Totally get that but you need to put in the work go through the education and get through school like the rest of us bro. And so I don't think they should be paid at all.
Here's what I think so high schoolers heck no listen listen you're still in public school man you don't know what to do with it and trust me some of these parents I wouldn't trust with that money neither so we ain't go I just don't think that's good.
After their 18 a.k.a. when they get to when they get to college it's a little bit of a different story but here's what I think personally the biggest problem that NCAA had with the whole you know and you know name and likeness rules and all this other stuff right. I do agree that like if we bring up the example of Tim Tebow right Tim Tebow made the University of Florida like a ton of money because of all the Jersey sales and all this other stuff while he was there.
Tim Tebow didn't see any of it there's a lot of players like Reggie Bush and like a lot of people that get mad at that right universities made a lot of money off of their backs and they didn't get paid I understand that I get that.
Here's what I think if the University instead of instead of having these you in I L deals right these big you know like University of Utah I don't know if you heard about this every player that is on scholarship for the University of Utah their in I L deal now includes a brand new truck that they get to drive the entire time while they're at the university and that's part of the deal
and it's becoming like one of these recruiting packaging deals it's who has the most money or who has the biggest perks or if I go to Utah I get to drive a new truck the entire time like it's insane it'll come back down but what I honestly think needs to happen is more regulation to move it to the center.
I feel like it's swung way over to the other end of the pendulum of like okay we're gonna allow all this money in and he's to come back down what I honestly think would have solved all the problem instead of just letting it all go like they have.
Pretty much hold that money back so say it's Tim Tebow right all those Jersey sales all that stuff that's happened hold that money back until they graduate from college don't give it to them while they're in college and it's a percentage of it I'm not saying you give them all the Jersey sales proceeds right but. Whatever percentage is in there cool but you give it to them after they graduate and the contingency is they graduate.
They're gonna get all the money so they're more inclined they want to graduate right I would think if you get hundreds of thousands of dollars even millions of dollars you don't want to graduate so whether you're going to the NFL or not you're gonna pay out I think that's a better deal I say pay the fine arts kids to. That's what I'm saying give more.
And then we wonder oh wait oh man why did they get arrested oh wait cuz they were think they can just go out and do whatever they want next thing you know they go to the club shoot somebody up well in the part that gets me to is especially in division one schools. A lot of players were like yeah the scholarship money was just not enough but a lot of these schools would get you would get your room and board paid for you would get your food paid for you get everything paid for.
And then you would get a 12 to $1500 stipend every month right like to spend and you know get groceries and do all this other stuff the biggest problem yeah you know why it doesn't go too far why $1200 $1500 don't go too far. It's because you out there living on your own and doing whatever if you were just living the nice they even put you in the nice dorms the sports dorms right.
Like if you just live in the dorms and chill out all your like you can do it for free if you really wanted to but it's because you literally do not have to go get a job but you're like now I gotta go out buy everything and that is why also this ties into the whole military thing this is why we should let 18 year olds in there because they're essentially the same spot without you know. Yeah anyways. All right. But yeah man that's all the topics we had.
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