EP 141 | He Took His Shirt Off

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I actually feel like I should be texting my group more. And I want to, can I be real with y'all? This is quick take. So I got a couple of things to jump into before LaVille joins the show and we get into.

Quite embarrassing topic. Anyway, you're going to want to stick around for that one. But just a couple of things before we get into that. This text community, right?

I'm just, can I be real with y'all? Just a couple of things. I do struggle. I just want to be honest.

Since today, this is my humble pie episode. You know what I'm saying? I'm just, I'm just, let y'all know. I struggle man because, like, I, all right.

Just follow me. Don't judge me please. I won't judge you. But like, everything we do nowadays is about like, relinquishing all of your privacy and like constantly being on the screen, constantly being in front of people.

It's constant. It's not a stop. You know what I mean? And it's like, if I'm being real, it just doesn't feel normal to me.

Like, and again, maybe it's just, you know, I guess I feel like I'm a part of that older millennial group. You know, the group between 35 and 40 to me, we like the last generation that got the opportunity to experience life without social media and smartphones. But like, you know, we were young enough to adopt them as well. You know what I mean?

And so I'm not against all that stuff. I'm on it. But at the same time, it's just a struggle for me to like completely like, I just don't think this stuff is normal. Like, I don't, I think we accept some stuff as normal.

And it's like, yo, should we just have a camera in our face all the time? You know what I'm saying? Like, I got, and look, this is no shade for real, but I got like friends or family. It's like, I know when I go around them, it's like, man, they about to have this phone in my face.

And don't let it be like an event, like a birthday party or whatever, or get together. And people have to do that. And it's just, man, again, no shade to nobody else. It's just not normal to me.

So I struggle with like, I wanna, I wanna connect with you all more. I wanna, you know, take this podcast, the video. I wanna welcome people in. But at the same time, I still wanna have a life that y'all don't know about, unless you know me.

And it's kinda like, I think for me, is because I still value real relationships. And real relationships take effort that a lot of the digital stuff doesn't take. Like, it doesn't take a lot of effort for you to watch my Instagram story. You know what I mean?

So if I'm giving, you know, it's about access to me. So it's kinda like, if you think about, you know, a bank, you know, every random worker doesn't have access to the vault. There's still something more valuable in that bank that you need a certain clearance for, or think about people who work for the government, they have different clearances and top secret information. And, you know, it's just like these days, everybody think they, you know, G14 classified, as Shaq would say.

You know, everybody think they just got that special access card. And I'm still a person that's like, no, I'm like, yeah, I still got a vault. That's reserved for people who really, like, like who put in an effort to know me to build relationships. And it's not even like, look, if somebody, if somebody signed up for the text community at the same time, right, that's a person that's going an extra mile.

So for those of y'all who signed up for the text community, maybe that's reason enough that I should like open more, to that group and share more. So anyway, I'm just being honest about my internal struggles. I do struggle with that. Cause I just, like I said, it just, it don't feel normal that the extent that we go to bringing people in our lives, like I'm just being real, which are like, you know, people don't know everything about like, you don't know where I work.

You don't know kind of car drive, you know, like, if I'm rich or poor, middle-class, like, I don't know, it's just like, man, I feel like though, but I'm saying this respectfully, it's kind of like, you're saving some stuff for a real friendship or a real relationship. It's kind of like somebody who saves themselves for marriage. It's like you're saving something for a relationship that goes deeper. And so with me, I feel like, you know, I try to like, reserve certain things to where like, if you got to know me, right, if we cross paths, there's still more layers for you to peel back.

And it might be like, yo, this dope, like I listen to the podcast or whatever, but I met them and hear a real person and it's like, you know, and that could be good or bad or in between. You know, maybe you'll think it's bad after you hear the rest of this show today. But anyway, that's just a quick take. Let's move on from that, you know what I'm saying?

That's the beautiful thing about quick takes. I can go down a rabbit hole of a conversation and we don't have to go too far, too deep, we don't have to have no solution, resolution. I just express myself to y'all. You know what I'm saying?

Can I pour my heart out today? Anyway, let's move on to the next topic. Opportunities versus handouts. Now, I actually think I might have maybe talked about this before on the podcast, not 100% sure, but this was a note in my phone that I read today.

And I was probably from a couple months ago, oh, May 8th. It looks like I put this in here May 8th. So I'm just sharing a note from my phone that I thought was interesting. Man, I got so I put opportunity versus handouts.

And the reason I, you know, that I like this topic today is because I think sometimes we struggle to understand, like, you know, when things are like, when it's a thin line, you feel me? And sometimes in life, it's a thin line between things. And so on the surface, the opportunity in the handout could look exactly the same. You feel me?

But the difference between the opportunity and the handout is that the opportunity is earned. The opportunity is earned. All right. So I got this example.

And again, if I said this in a podcast back in May, this is just a quick refresher, but I thought it was worth repeating. All right. The example I have in my notes is like, let's say apparently some, you know, a child, a million dollars, right? The response to the investment determines whether it's an opportunity or handout.

Ooh. So it's not so much as from the, from the end of the person who's giving, but it's up to the receiver through their actions to determine if this is a handout or if this is an opportunity. Now, here's what I have for handout. This person isn't equipped to leverage and grow the wealth accumulated.

So they just spend it. So if your parents leave you a million dollars and you have an equipped yourself to be able to know what to do with a million dollars. So you do the only thing you know how to do before you had a million dollars, which is just spend it, which is all you're doing is making a million dollar estate less and less valuable over time. Handout.

If God blesses you with something and you don't equip yourself for it, you just took a handout. But here's an opportunity. This person takes the wealth left and invests and grows it to greater. This now creates an opportunity for them to pass down more than their parents originally left behind, leveraging the wealth for more than spending on superficial things.

The key word for a person who sees an opportunity is leverage. Opportunities are something that you take and you leverage to make something greater. You have a mentality to add to. A person with a mentality that just wants handouts, their entire goal is to take away by accumulating things that they want.

Now, you got to ask yourself, am I a person looking for an opportunity or am I looking for a handout? Because an opportunity takes work. It takes effort. It takes you being willing to prepare yourself for what you want.

And a handout just says, you know what? Nah, I'm not going to prepare myself at all. Actually, I'm going to be the same me. You want the same thing that I was doing before you gave me whatever you gave me.

And then I'm going to take it and I'm going to decrease its value over time. And opportunities. And opportunities. I can talk and opportunity this.

You know what? That's my signal to shut up and then go ahead and just look, this is how crazy this is. I had to call the valet work today. We had this interview earlier today.

Actually, I've very this interview happened today. I called him at work. I actually called him. I think we talked about it.

So you know what? I'm going to shut up. Let's just get into this. Hit me up.

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All it's like, I'm talking to y'all every week. You, I'm, what more do you want? You just want to know everything. I'm just a normal person.

Ain't normal person. I'm just a normal person. Hey, okay. Let me stop.

You know what? But all just aside, that is what it is. It's like, look man, I just, people build you up to tear you down. I watch a lot of people go crazy through fame and popularity and they lose themselves.

And I'm just like, you know what? I'm just regular. I'm out here chilling. You know what I'm saying?

You might catch me a Walmart looking toasted. That's just how I am. So don't believe the hype. Anyway, let's move on.

I'm just a regular person. Hey, I'm just a regular person. I'm just a regular. All right, let me stop.

What's going on, man? What's going on, man? How you feeling today, brother? Hey, I made you stay.

I feel good. I feel good. Keep making mistakes. You still, you still, I work right.

You ain't gonna find out. I hope not. We'll find out if we do it or be live on there, guys. Well, I can only pray that it turns out in our favor.

Um, all right. So I'm gonna jump right into this because we don't got a lot of time because I'm calling you at work. Um, like I told you when I hit you up and get you a little. I told you earlier, like, I'm like, man, I should have been recording because I was about to, I called you to tell you what happened.

Right before I'm like, yo, this, this got to go on the show, man. So I appreciate you for taking some time off work, which I'm sure you won't complain about. Um, not at all, until I send this to your boss. So, you know, um, well, let me first say this.

Okay. I'm scared. I don't know what's about to happen right now. So you were about to tell me that you wanted to do it on the show.

So I'm just letting everybody know I'm afraid right now. Yeah. You know what? And I feel that these are the type of stories that is no, you don't know how to enter.

Like, I don't know how to tell somebody this other than just tell them, but this literally just happened to me about two hours ago. Okay. All right. So I'm at work and speaking of being fired.

Uh, I can tell you confidently. No, I wouldn't have got fired. I don't think, but, uh, could have ruined my career. Um, so, uh, dang, it's like, all right, where do you start?

Um, today was one of those days, like, you know, I've been trying lately, you know, I've literally been on like over a thousand zoom calls in the past year and I was counting and I'm like, yeah, literally, like, you know, I'm, you know, someday seven, eight calls a day, even if I'm on five calls, 25, 30 a week. I mean, just, you know, you're literally a zoomologist. Yeah, literally. I could, you know, teach you a lot, even though that could be, um, argued or debated after the day.

Um, so, you know, I've been on a thousand zoom calls literally, I'm in the past year and a half. Um, probably more than a thousand. I'm not going to say about far, but I've at least been on a thousand. Okay.

And, um, yeah, you know, um, all day, every day that's the thing. But so like this year, I kind of came into it, like, not this year, really in the last couple of months, my bad. I kind of started thinking like, man, I have to try to find a way to get out because I'd be in my office all day, you know, um, I've traveled just a little bit and they put all these pro travel protocols on you, you know, depending on all this other stuff. So long story short, I'm like, all right, sometimes I get up and go get a smoothie.

Um, you know, I got like, sometimes I try to work out or whatever, but most of the time on my calls, I'm doing a presenting or I'm leaving or I have to talk on the calls. You feel me? Yeah, sir. So today was unique in that fact that like, I didn't, I wasn't leading this call.

I didn't have to talk or anything. So I'm like, you know what? I'm a workout while I'm on the zoom call, right? Okay.

And so, you know, I work out cool, cool. And really had just kind of like finished my workout. And, um, I had just looked at the screen and we was good. You know, you always check to make sure you mute it, make sure the camera ain't on all that.

Cool. No worries there, right? Right. So I take my shirt off or whatever it may be.

Um, again, I just got done working out. So I take my shirt off with that's, that's as graphic as we get in. So no, no problem. Okay.

Thank God. But I look up and I'm on the screen. Wow. In a meeting at work, bare chested.

Wow. Fortune 50 company. Um, I'm the manager on this call. So the, the context of the people on this call was my team and then my, my peer who's a manager and another, um, over another function in the organization or she manages a different channel than I do.

Um, but me and her, you know, we peers or whatever. So it was art, the call was art two teams were on the call. Okay. So I look up now.

Here's the bad part. I'm gonna be real with y'all. I don't know. And this is gonna sound crazy.

Cause I can black out sometimes when I mean black out, let me, let me, let me, you know, people might be scared. Like, all right, if I'm tired or I'm like, I'm doing a lot of work when I black out, that means I'm no longer thinking and I'm just doing what I'm used to doing. So if I'm driving sometimes I can pass my exit cause I'm just driving, like, I know what I'm driving. I'm paying attention, but I might for a second black out and forget like, oh, what am I doing?

So I don't know if potentially, because again, I've been on a thousand zone calls, usually I'm on camera, all those things. I usually don't even do a zoom call while I'm doing something else for real, but I've been trying to like be more like active and just not sit at a desk all day and all that. So I don't know if I potentially blacked out for a second and just I'm so used to hitting start video that I hit start video before I take my shirt off. But I'll, I remember as I looked at it and I wasn't on camera and I was like, all right, I was consciously off video and I look back up and it was on video.

I don't know how long it was on video. I know I wasn't with my shirt off alone because I saw my, I looked and saw myself and you know how you had that moment of like, oh my God. So I'll pause there. There's a little more to it, but I'll pause there and see what your thoughts are.

I never thought it would be me. I'll say that much, but. Well, my thoughts are I'm glad it was you and not me. Of course.

Wow, that is, I think we all do that though. Not the button naked on our zoom calls for work. I think we all have that blackout moment. It's been times I'm thinking about something and pass my exit as well.

You know, so, but yeah, that was um, that was, that was interesting. I just put it that way. I don't know how to respond to be honest. So, okay, so let me tell you the rest of the rest is like, all right.

So at that moment, right? Obviously my heart drops, right? I mean, again, I'm. So did anybody say anything?

So this is what happened. Okay, we'll get into that. Okay. So instantly when this happens, first I'm having that thought and this, I guess you'd be realizing some thoughts you don't have that much in life and you can't, like simulate these thoughts or feelings.

It's that feeling when you do something and you know it's bad, but it's too late to undo it. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, I literally cannot believe this just happened and there's nothing I can do.

That just happened, right? But I immediately, so my immediate reaction was to stop the video, but then look at everybody faces. Right. Yeah.

Nobody reacted. So I'm like, hmm. So then I start texting people. So, you know, I started with, you know, the people on my team.

I started texting them individually though. Like I'm like, hey, please tell me you didn't just see me. On the call and the first girl was like, no, no, what happened? So question at that point, would you tell me what happened or you wouldn't?

I probably would not. I did. Every person. So I reached out to everybody individually except one person.

So 10, 11 people on the call. Nobody saw it. Wow. When I tell you, mother, mother, mother.

So for the last 30 minutes, I just been walking around the house seeing you like, oh, songs just randomly like that. So it's like, what's wrong? I'm like, if I'm being honest, that is literally how I feel. Father, Father.

I cannot believe in the thing is I believe them because I looked at their faces and they didn't respond. There's no way that you don't respond to that. Number one. Right.

And then I'm texting each person and everybody's original reaction was like, huh, like what happened? And so I told them, so I told them, I'm like, well, the thing is I was just on that call. Working out with my shirt off. So there is a guy, anybody who doesn't believe in miracles.

Ah, there is a guy. Wow. Wow. I was hoping this story went another way.

I'm sorry, man. I was just, but uh, yeah, that, that, that, that, that. I mean, so now we're in this age now where, you know, these zone calls are happening. Like you said, you're always on a zone call.

So I can imagine it gets very routine for you. And you can just kind of, you know, absentmindedly do things because it's so familiar. Literally. It's just, it's just, it's second nature.

You're just doing it. You know, many of us, you know, most of us don't count our breaths, you know, you're just breathing. You know, you're not sitting there down because it gets in change, you know. So my thought that kind of just talked to my head is how careful we have to be in our spiritual eyes, where we're not just so routine, so comfortable with God that we begin to do things absentmindedly.

Man, no, that's that, that makes a lot of, and I didn't, like, again, I didn't know you would go there, but that make a lot of sense. Like from the standpoint of like you said, even like when we all of us have that moment, and again, the only thing I could think of is I had to maybe blackout or something, because I know the camera was off the start. I know that, but then I don't know what, I don't know if there was a glitch and I don't know what happened. All I know is I looked up and saw myself naked at the top.

And my point, I guess with that is like, based on what you just said, the reason that it's important not to be spiritually routine or redundant like that is sometimes you won't know how you got somewhere and you just look up and you caught naked. Like what, like, what is this? Like where am I at? All right, so a couple more things and I'm gonna let you go because I know you're at work, so we don't have a lot of time.

Um, I don't know if you had anything else to add to that because I actually think that was a good point. So not just not to skate past that if you had something else to add to like that spiritual routine, like not, you know, I don't know if there's anything else to unpack there, so I don't want to go past it too quick if it is. Yeah, I was trying to look up the sorcerer in the book of acts, I believe it was. Let's see, Acts chapter eight.

Let me go here real quick. I just want to, it is just popped in my own even though there's got anything to do with anything. If it doesn't just edit. No, we don't leave it in there.

And they're gonna see how much of a false teacher you are. Right. Ah, right. Okay, so here it is.

Verse nine. So it's Acts chapter eight, verse nine. There was a certain man called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery, be whiching the people of Samirah given out that himself was some great one. They all gave heed to him, skipping down a little, um, they had regard for him because he had be whiched with sorceries.

Verse 12, but when they believed Philip preaching and things concerning God, they were baptized, both men and women and they became Christians. Verse 13, this time in himself believed also and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and wondered, be holding the miracles and signs. Going down a little bit, then the apostles ended up coming and he was kind of following them around. Verse 17 says, then they laid their hands on the people and the people received Holy Ghost.

Verse 18, when Simon saw that through laying on the, of the apostles hands, the Holy Ghost was given. He offered them money saying, give me also this power, whoever I lay my hands on, they received the Holy Ghost. But Peter said, your money pairs with thee because you thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. So this guy was a sorcerer.

He was doing things, you know, the wrong way and he ends up becoming a Christian. All right. Now he's a Christian for a while. We're presuming then he starts to fall back into his old ways.

He took a shirt off. Wow. He took a shirt off. So like, I get it.

Like, so you have the situation where you was doing wrong, you get your life to Christ, right? You check, like, okay, I'm good. It's on mute. The video is off.

It's somewhere along the way, things happen and you just revert back to you take your shirt off. Like, what you doing? Put your shirt, but the thing is you revert back to what you, your old ways. And I think we actually see this a lot in the church, right?

Because what happens is people fall in love with their gifts and elevate that over their calling. And what I mean by that is like, so you will have somebody who used to sing in the world, right? And what we make the mistake of is before we assimilate them into the into the family of Christ, into Christianity and teach them what it means to be saved and they learn and whatever that is, we instantly try to make them do in the church what they were doing in the world. Wow.

In his case, he was basically looking like, yo, okay, that is familiar with what I used to do in the world. So let me go back to that. That's what like, yo, give me the, and it's crazy that he was saved. Like, give me this power.

I'll give you money. Wow. Man, take a shirt off. That is on my.

Oh my gosh. No, that's dope. That's dope. All right, a couple more things.

And we, I guess it's kind of quick, but I want to make sure I get you out of here. We, you working and I guess this is going to be like, this is going to be your first time on a quick take episode. This is a quick take. That's what a quick is.

Quick. Um, so, so we don't have to go super into it, but a couple more things. So this, this reminded me of when we were in DC, me and Tiff went to DC like a month ago, I guess. And when we were in DC, we went to this, um, I went to this marshals.

I was just walking and I was actually looking, it got hot in the mug outside. And so I needed like a little towel or something like that. Mm hmm. It was hot.

And so I'm like, yeah, I need a little towel. So I went to inside the marshals. And the thing was, you know, when you're out of time, like, it's different. This marshals was in this huge building and it looked like other stuff was in the building, but I wasn't sure.

Okay. So when I walked in marshals, it was like a, he wasn't a security guy, but I guess he was like, you know how you go to stores and they got a person that be at the front door of one of the people. I don't know if he's checking receipts or whatever like that. Okay.

This guy works there though. He works in marshals and he, I'm like, okay, cool. He's like, oh, what you looking for is downstairs. I'm like, okay, cool.

Appreciate it. And so I was like, hey, can you tell me like, are there other stores in this building or something like that? And he was like, oh, I'm not sure. You're here.

You work here. You come here. My point with that is when we talk about black and out, like we talk about not being present. Like you hear, but you're not really here.

And sometimes that's how some of us could be in Christianity and with the Lord. It's like you hear, you had church, you save, but you ain't really receiving. You ain't really receiving a word. You're not really hearing what God is saying in your life.

And that could happen outside of the four walls of the church. That's just an example. But yeah, I thought that was crazy with him. Like you work here, but you're not sure what else is happening in this building.

Yeah. Yeah. His focus was just on what he was. They trained us at my job to, you know, we have to show empathy toward all of our guests, right?

No matter what's happening, you know, you know, the building I work in is huge. And it's not just a company I work for. There are at least 100 other companies in here. And I'm probably under shooting that by far.

But I don't know everything about this building, but I don't just say when somebody walks up, hey, where's someone's up? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know.

There are ways to find out, you know, so we do have to sometimes step outside of our comfort zone. Thank you. And do things that we may not normally have done. But the good thing is you're going to learn something from it.

I didn't know, you know, there was one time I just came up and I didn't know that the Japanese consulate is in this building. I had no idea. I don't know what that is. Yeah.

Right. You know, it sounds like the guy that Jackie Chan meets with on the rush hour. And I don't mean it disrespectfully. Like, I'm literally exactly what it is.

So like the console, like the US consulate, if you're in wherever Arabia or Japan or whatever, you get to the US consulate, then it's like being on US ground. Oh, it's like the embassy. Yes. Yeah.

So I didn't know it was the Japanese consulate in here. But someone asked me one time, is there a guy? Oh, you know where the Japanese consulate in? I could have very easily be like, oh, I have no idea.

I walked away. But I say, I don't know, but let's find out. And we walked around, found some security people, whatever, and inquired of it. Saying all that to say that, you know, I had to step outside of my comfort zone.

But once I did it, then I got some knowledge that I never had before. And I think one of the problems with us sometimes as the church is, we just want that surface understanding of the body. Yeah. We don't want to dig in.

You know, the Bible tells us to study, to show yourself approved, right? But many of us just want to read to show ourselves approved. And always say this, man, you're talking about a book that was written over 2000 years ago on three different continents in three different languages than we speak. And you can't just take that and read it at face value.

And think that you're going to understand it. No, you have to study the Bible. You have to study the word of God, dig in deep. And when you do, you will be rewarded.

You're going to get some knowledge. You're going to get some understanding and your spiritual life is going to be strengthened as a result. No, man, that's very well said. And it's, I guess it's crazy.

Like there's one, like you said, like, basically not doing what's convenient. I feel like people do what's convenient because the convenient thing is the easy thing. And like you said, something like, you know, we have to be willing to do something that we don't normally do. And if I'm being real though, I don't think most people are willing to do that.

Like just like I was thinking about like banking and we've talked about banking before through the years because I was telling you about online banking when I first learned about it. And it ain't about like online banking or whatever. It really was, I think the point of the conversation was a couple years ago, I came across this account, I mean, this website called depositaccounts.com. And depositaccounts.com allows you to look up basically any type of bank in the country.

Like I don't know who's behind this website or whatever, but they got all the interest rates, all the different types of accounts you can have. And I started looking at the interest rates and they even have a calculator. And you could be like, all right, if I put $5,000 in the bank for this long, long story short, I'm like, oh, the traditional brick and mortar banks, that's easy. That's up and down the street.

You get nothing. Oh, they get $5,000. Okay. Here's a penny after a year.

Right. And I'm like, yo, well, these online banks, some of them are giving up to close to 2%, 1.5%, right? This is pretty pandemic. I might have changed.

But my point is when you really think about it, most people aren't going to do that because it's just harder. It's not convenient. Right. It's easy to do what you've always done.

So for some people, it's easy to just say, no, I've worked here for 20 years. No, it's not in here. I don't know. I've never had that.

I've never had to figure that out before. Right. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. I've talked several times about Dave Ramsey program I went through. But I know one of the things he says is get an account like a money market account or something like that, where it's not easy for you to get the money. The easier it is for you to get the money out, the better chances that you're going to get it out, even for things that you don't really, really need it for.

And I think we do that a lot. We put it somewhere like you say, where it's very convenient, very easy for me to get it out. Not no work involved, you know, just grabbing it with it out. But if you do put it in some type of an account where it's not as easy, it may take a little longer, there's some extra steps you have to do that you won't be so inclined to do it.

Do that to get it out. You really think like, hey, you know what, do I really need this? Yeah. And that's such a good point.

That's excellent advice actually, man. Like learning how to put your finances somewhere that's not so accessible. Because I think what happens with most of us is again, the convenient thing to do, at least when you come from where we come from, I can't speak for everybody. It might be some wealthy people listening to this show.

We attract all type of people. So maybe some people say, Hey, I was born wealthy guy. What is that? I don't know what you mean.

And if you are, feel free to donate and support this show. There you go. I don't. Hey, look guys, I wasn't going to ask for any money, but you're wealthy.

No, I'm just saying. But here's the thing in all seriousness is like, what ends up happening is when you're in this is, you know, again, and I'm not saying this to, you know, offend nobody, take it, take it on the chin or whatever, if I hurt a little bit, sometimes things got to hurt. But like, you know, sometimes there's no like living check to check, right? And I again, I've been here, we used to not check to check.

And what happens is sometimes you don't realize, but the simple thing is the easy thing to do. And I'm specifically putting time seeing the poverty in the regard of like the convenient thing to do is it's like, yo, live and check the check. When that's all you really have ever did. That will take a lot of effort.

You get a check, and man, what can last for six days? All right, I know if I do ABMB, cool, we good. But when you have to start being like, okay, wait a minute, I'll put that $200 in an account that it take four days to get it out. You can't just get it, but that's to protect you too, so that you don't so easily spend it and see it.

So yeah, it's um, you know that that that that thing that hurts us is typically easy. Yeah. Wow. What's easy calling you today?

It feels simple. You know, what do you think about it? Like, let's just say if I would have tried to call like, you know, Will Smith, it would have been tough. It would have been, I can't just easily get in touch with Will, you know what I'm saying?

You know, it's convenient, simple. It makes sense. All right. Defense when you call it the first time I didn't answer.

Whoo. All right. All right. Well, all right.

I'll be good. I'll be good. Hey, just let me get used to advice before we go. We got this phone.

Don't take your shirt off. You still like work. Don't take your shirt off. Yeah.

Now, let me say this before we go. Like, that's what's funny though about the difference between zoom and real life. The one thing I was going to say is like, I kind of was like, as I was calling the people, I was happy that they didn't see it. But some of the stuff we talking about, I'm like, dang, you know what?

That's just proof that you're not paying attention. Like, yo, like, yo, so I got, I got on a call and took my shirt off. And none of y'all saw it? Wow.

So, so how easily can something be right? Like, even even something good? Imagine how many opportunities was right in front of you and you never even opened your eyes or you were distracted or you were doing something else is like, he took his shirt off. Like, I never saw it.

I literally am talking to people who was there, but they didn't see it. Didn't see it. Wow. All right, man.

Got anything to say? My question would be how could you not see all those birds flying on? How would they miss that? I don't know, man, but I'm happy they ain't see the birds.

Did you ever end up talking to the other person that wasn't on your team or did you just let it go after that? No, no, I mean, it was, it was like nine, 10 people on the call. I reached out to all, like, I reached out to nine of them. The one dude who wasn't on my team, he was the guy presenting it.

So, like, you know, part of it, too, is like, I'm like, okay, you know, certain people got their zoom set up differently. Some people got it on speaker view. So they only see the speaker. Some people got it like, we're smaller.

You only see in the first four people. I was later on the call because again, I didn't really have to join this call. That's the crazy thing I call myself doing. I call myself like, no, I'm gonna support my team.

I'm gonna get on here. I'm gonna, you know, learn whatever with them and that backfire. But I can't tell you each person that I called or text as I confirmed that they didn't see it. Yeah, it was just like a burden lifted.

But that last lady, I didn't reach out to her. That's still possible. To be continued. Oh my goodness, man.

I appreciate you taking some time off work, bro. You got anything to tell us before you go, man, the bird is back in the cage. Somebody take my shirt off. What else you got?

That's it. And just in case my boss is listening, I never stopped working. I'm actually working as we're talking. I just want to put that disclaimer out there.

He's working, but he took his shirt off. No, I'm gonna tell you this. I say this before we go. Now I have a confession to make.

This was about this was 11th or 12th grade. Y'all know I was a class clown in high school and my high school was so strict during lunch that you couldn't even have on a hat. They would not let you put on a hat. We had a guy, a former military guy, Sarge, I guess he was the ROTC guy.

And he also was a lunchroom like person to make sure you was attended, I guess, but we had a military guy in the lunchroom in uniform. And so our lunchroom was so strict you had to sit on, you couldn't have on a hat, whatever. You know, I was like, okay, watch this, y'all. I literally put a hat on, took my shirt off and have the picture to prove it and had somebody take a picture.

And guess what? Sarge never saw it. I never got in trouble. So this is the second time I just thought about this is the second time I've been in the room for that was a room for about 100 people and had my shirt off with a hat on and nobody well people saw it because I had somebody take a picture and never saw it.

So this is what I do, man. I take my shirt off, bro. I appreciate you going ahead and get back to work before you get fired and I get promoted. Hey, if I get fired, I'm taking my shirt off.

Please do it. That's anybody out there your last day at work, just just this is the absolute worst advice we've ever given the show. But if you do it, please send us the picture. You can email me at gmail.com.

You at work quitting with your shirt off. Don't do that. Please don't do it. I love y'all.

God bless y'all. We tolerate you. I'm sorry. I have a good rest of the day, man.

Thanks, bro.