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Pat
I found a kid who swings a.
Mike
Golf club like a dream. I'd like to try to qualify him for the US Amateurs coming to Apple tv. Plus, what's your name?
Gene
I'm not into older guys, but I'm.
Mike
Flatter a new comedy series.
Pat
Stick, I don't want to go on this trip.
Gene
Your mouth's saying one thing, but those eyes are saying something else.
Mike
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Gene
This game takes and it takes. The game's finally giving me something back.
Mike
Stick.
Gene
You know, Arnold Palmer iced tea lemonade makes it. I'm missing a nap for this.
Mike
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Gene
I've got a commercial opportunity for you.
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Gene
Yo, what's the deal?
Mike
Welcome to crash dummies episode 199. Make sure you guys subscribe to the Patreon to Duh. Patreon. Yeah, Duh. Y' all heard that, right?
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Make sure y' all make sure. Bruh. Y' all need to. First of all, we got a lot of listeners out there. That's not that smart. Make sure y' all start doing research about different things before y' all come in the comments because y' all have Google, you know that. Like, we saying this on the fly. Like somebody said something in the comments that also wasn't right. So I wasn't right about the. And then I looked it up and neither was you, and you had Google, so pipe down.
Mike
Well, Anyway, make sure you guys are here. Subscribe to Patreon. We got Pat here, got Jean here. We got Marty with the toupee here. Oh. First of all. First of all, happy birthday, Jean. Today's Jean's birthday, y' all. Yeah, Happy birthday, Jean with a. Jean.
Gene
With a J. Insane party he threw last night. That was, like, one of the best parties I've been to in. In years.
Mike
I think it's a good. A good party when you own a physical space, like a. A retail space, and you can invite people to create your own vibe.
Gene
Yes. There was not one person there that was unlikable.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
I was very specific about that.
Pat
I ain't gonna lie.
Gene
Yes. To a regular person, but to me, you know, I'm gonna find somebody. It was a dude there with a brimless hat. Don't wear that no more, bro.
Mike
A what?
Gene
It was a brimless hat. Like, it was a hat that had the hole in the back, but it didn't have a brim to it. And then he kept talking during. He kept ad libbing everybody.
Mike
Oh, yeah, yeah. They told him to shut the up in a nice way.
Gene
No, you look like the dude that shot Malcolm X, bro.
Mike
No, I'm not gonna lie. There was a point that he kind of was worrying me. We're in the K. That he just, like, kind of walked in, he had a little. A trenchy on, and he put his hand in his pocket, so I'm looking like, huh? And then he walked back out.
Gene
Yeah. He was like, get your hand out my pocket. It's probably the only person, actually, who was not supposed to be there.
Mike
Oh, really?
Gene
Yeah, because I. I know everybody knowing somebody don't belong, bro, I hope you listen to the podcast. You know, you don't belong there. That's like lakeith Stanford.
Mike
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gene
Look, he sell nothing. Volcano salesman dressing.
Mike
Oh, yeah. Shout out to all my Swedish listeners. I'm going to be in Sweden in May, so let me know. Hit me up on ig.
Gene
I might be there, too.
Mike
Yeah, Pat might be there in Sweden.
Gene
I might slide. But if I don't go to Sweden, I'm going to Puerto Rico. So I see y' all in Puerto Rico.
Mike
All right, this is a random conversation, but so make sure when I ask you this question, this is not a. A meeting. This is from a conversation I overheard that gave me the thought of it. Okay.
Gene
I'm just gonna assume it's you.
Mike
Okay. Is it weird to have naked pictures of just yourself in your phone? Nah, I think it is of just yourself. I got not. Because if you're sending pictures to a person. Right.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
First of all, you shouldn't be sending pictures. But if you do do that, you choose to do that.
Gene
Do what you want.
Mike
You can do what you want. But you should be careful.
Gene
Don't let a like this.
Mike
Yeah but if you do that, you usually should delete it from your phone. Like why do you still have your meat picture?
Gene
Right? Are you saying. You saying that but in general, some people take it as progress. Pick if I'm losing weight and. Yeah.
Mike
No, don't. You shouldn't be taking naked progress. P. Why not? Nah. You a naked progress.
Gene
I've literally gained 2 inches. Bro.
Mike
Bro your stopped growing when you're like what.
Gene
Should have been the Same size since 14. Told you not to drink that coffee.
Mike
Remember that?
Gene
It was just making up.
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Gene
Drinking coffee stunts your growth. Like that was lifting weights too early. Just making up.
Mike
I think it can affect your growth.
Gene
Plates everything but the real thing. That stunt your girl being black in America. They tell us that though. Don't drink that coffee though.
Mike
Now they had us thinking a lot of things like the Remember the got milk ads? Now everybody don't even drink regular milk anymore.
Gene
That's one thing I will judge because it's like milk is just barely under cigarettes for me. Really Saying hell yeah.
Mike
No, that's your. That's extreme.
Gene
It's cigarettes and whole milk. Nah, I can't with that whole milk. Nothing reduced. Nothing.
Mike
No almond milk, no skin.
Gene
100% all milk lasts like four days. God damn. Before it go bad. Butter and man. Bro.
Mike
Is it whole milk that bad?
Gene
Whole milk is bad, bro.
Mike
Well can you put like what. Why is whole milk bad for you? I just want to understand what's actually bad. I know it's not the greatest for you because it does have a lot of sugars and stuff like that in it. I just think or overly processed.
Gene
Yeah. I don't know what's going on, but I just know it's bad every time I smell it. It smell bad. You know when something go back. Like the thing that makes some food nasty to me is like at when it expires how it looks and the fact that whole milk looks like that when it's. When it expires. Like it just like the the literally say best used by March 17th. I hate when it's.
Mike
I hate the best used word too.
Gene
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's kind of confusing it me up.
Mike
Is it like best used if I like if is it, like, at optimal taste on the 25th of this month.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
Or is it saying, don't try this to drink this.
Gene
Let that steak sit a little bit. But so they'll put so on something like the. Like, certain things. Like, okay, if you got salsa in the fridge, right?
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
And it said, is it. It expires 317, and on 318, you pop it to open the salsa. You like, damn, this shit's still good. As soon as they say milk go bad, the look like cottage cheese.
Mike
What they say is bad about milk? It says that the whole milk has higher saturated fat content, which can raise your bad cholesterol. Yeah, Cholesterol, man. Cholesterol is one of those. I like, I get. I hear all the time. But if I'll be lying if I say I fully understand what cholesterol.
Gene
The one you got to eat. Cheerios.
Mike
You know, you hear certain words like, I know I don't have high cholesterol. Right. But. But I'm like, how would I feel if I had high cholesterol? Like, what's like, the symptoms?
Gene
And I had so many box of Cheerios that should have had me so brainwashed. What you got for dinner, bro? My cholesterol up. Cheerios is funny because Cheerios literally got to sell the same thing for, like, 20 years.
Mike
Yeah. Yes.
Gene
Like, they came out with the Honey Nut Cheerios to shut the little kids up.
Mike
Frosted Cheerios.
Gene
I don't remember no Frosted.
Mike
They have frosted Cheerios, did they? I think so.
Gene
The Bootleg Boys.
Mike
They did have Frog. Yeah. Come on, man.
Gene
He had Tony the Panther on his.
Mike
Fist. Like this Black Panther.
Gene
Tony the Panther.
Mike
No, that'd be crazy. They had for February, for Black History Month. Tony's a tiger. Turns into a Panther.
Gene
No, that's crazy. I just always wonder. So I think, like, a lot of stuff that people do in the marketing world, when they try to take risk, some of the stuff can be deemed as racist. And you see an ad that probably either never makes it to the forefront or ad that, like, when it comes out, it's just like, oh, that's racist. But what happens if you have a black CEO.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
I mean, and they put out something.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
You know what I'm saying?
Mike
Yeah. I always wonder how some of these commercials even get out. Like when somebody saw the Kendall Jenner one when she gave, like, the. Everybody was rioting, and then they handed he. She handed somebody a Pepsi, and it, like, everybody, like, calmed down and like that, and everybody was like, togetherness. So it Was basically like Kendra Jenner giving somebody Pepsi. And I think this was during the height of like all the riots and stuff going on too.
Gene
I would have been offended too.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
But I'm just somebody like Kendall Jenner will stop me from throwing this brick through this window. Yeah. I'm offended.
Mike
But it's one of those things too, where it's like, do you think people in those positions where they like, see something that at work. Because I think sometimes I'm that type of person where if you see something bad about to happen, sometimes you're like, that's none of my business.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
You know what I'm saying? So it's like I work. I work in the marketing department, but if I stop you from doing this, it's not going to make me make more money, get me a promotion or anything. So let it fly. Like, whatever. I'm gonna get paid the same regardless, you know what I'm saying?
Gene
There's a lot of that. There's a lot of that. I saw some. The thing that pissed me off is when somebody going faster than me on the road and I can see is like some grumpy old dude and he just like roll raging and he go past a cop.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
He don't get pulled over. Boy, that make me so mad.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
I'm like, you don't pull this pickup truck over because that was me with these tanner windows. Yeah, I'd be. Just because it wasn't me. I asked my guy, let him sl just going 92 in a 50, bro.
Mike
Nah. People I hate sometimes, like the Karen does come out, come out. Sometimes when I see people going, oh, I hate. I don't mind speeding on the highway. Right. I hate when people speed in, like residential areas.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
It just seems so unnecessary.
Gene
You're not going nowhere.
Mike
Yeah. It's like you're already in. Like you're either leaving to get on the highway or you. You arrived here. Like, you don't need to be going 60 and a 20 in your Nissan. You're tinted out Nissan.
Gene
No, no, no. Sometimes I correct the traffic myself. I feel like it's an erratic driver. I feel like it's my responsibility to slow him down.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Now come with me.
Mike
You gotta break.
Gene
Check with me to lane. Don't come with me to the left lane. Let me show you how we gonna let everybody pass us. Let me teach you a little lesson.
Mike
Sometimes people's. Sometimes people's pass bys, like, seem aggressive. Sometimes, like the way they overtake you, it's like, bro, I'm going 10 miles over.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
And you just, like, overtake me. Going like, 20 over to get past me.
Gene
Yeah, there's a. I think. Yeah, I think there's a good way to overtake somebody is like, to show them your. They. Oh, you showed me your speed. I still didn't get over. You have to go around. And you didn't cut directly in front of me to, like, make me slow down a little bit. Yeah, I ran into any of those. Those squeezers. I don't know if that's what they call them. Dudes would be cutting up in traffic, like, squeezing through the smallest. I seen that. Yeah. That's a whole YouTube channel.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Squeeze your life went in around with me, man. What.
Mike
What was. What was squeeze your life?
Gene
Huh?
Mike
What was squeeze your life?
Gene
I said a squeezer's life within.
Mike
What's the squeezers? I don't know.
Gene
That's what they call. It's just like, he's squeezing through traffic. That was the real name of it. I just made it up. It's a new slang.
Mike
Squeezers.
Gene
No, I don't know what they're called, though. Let me see my swerve in the corner.
Mike
Squeeze.
Gene
Squeezers or tweakers.
Mike
Jello might have another one.
Gene
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He definitely.
Mike
He performed at Rolling Loud. He seemed a lot more confident in his, like, his rap. Yeah. Because at the NBA all star Game, he. It was like. He just felt. It looked uncomfortable. He looked like an athlete rapping. He didn't have, like, the rapper hands.
Gene
Yeah, he had no. I think with him also, he's in, like, a weird spot that a lot of people are. Because this is what makes Dababy so good, is that he can kind of wrap that hardcore stuff and kind of have theatrics behind it.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Because, you know, Kendrick is more like a soulful artist, so he can have different things that match his song. But when you rap super hardcore, it's like, what do you put in the background besides women dancing?
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Gene
And then, like, after the women dance, like, what are you doing? Are you going to do some choreography? Are you going to move around and stuff like that? So it was a very. Like, when's the last time somebody, like, unperformative had, like, a hot song where they were performing it everywhere?
Mike
I think this is, like, also, like, his first time being able to perform the song, like, in front of a crowd that actually, like, was hype with him because I do get it. The NBA all star Game, they're not there to see Jello performer So it was kind of like an awkward situation and stuff like that. But I think it's like, now he had that crowd. I mean, the dude was just on stage. He was getting turned and like that. So it was interesting.
Gene
No, that was lit. I always find it weird, like, the. Some of the rap entourage that you got people. The Hype Man. But sometimes the Hype man be like. Especially on that. That stage. That stage is so big. Sometimes the Hype man be all the way on the right, pumping up the crowd.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
And then, like, if you look at it through a different lens, it's like y' all letting these regular dudes perform their boy song the other side of the stage. Like, man, get y' all ass.
Mike
Nah, being a rapper is so tough, bro. Especially, like, being, like, a newer rapper, especially going on tour and you're opening up for an artist, it's like, people aren't there to see you, and they want you to be done as quick as possible so they can see who you. So it's like, your job to entertain people who don't want to be entertained by. So it's already 10 times harder. So you have to have, like, hits on hits on hits.
Gene
I mean, we went through the same thing with the little Uzi stuff.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
The people on stage did not want to see us.
Mike
Yeah. They booed us when we started talking about voting.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
That's what the event was for.
Gene
That's for the event. Hey, man, they literally should have locked everybody that was in. In there and just, like, exterminate everybody. Because, like, that right there is, like. Because nobody voted there. I could tell you. That's one thing I can tell you. We did a Rock to Vote campaign, and everybody did rocks instead of vot.
Mike
They got mad at us, too, because we. We let some artists on stage because we're trying to, like.
Gene
Oh, yeah, we let Big Frank perform.
Mike
Yeah. Because the. The little Uzi, obviously, who's taking a bit to get to the event. And people were like, all right, how many times are these dudes gonna come up to the Hype the crowd, up the hype the crowd and this. That's what I'm saying. It's hard to be an opening dj, too, because it's like, what songs are you actually playing? I'm just getting turned to Chief Keefe at a different type of concert.
Gene
Not playing Fiend in that crowd.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Was a cheat hole. I mean, it's probably easier for a DJ than, like. I think it's way easier. Yeah, we. We definitely had the hardest job There.
Mike
Yeah, for sure.
Gene
Wave had a hard job, too.
Mike
Yeah. Yeah. Being open the act.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
Uzi.
Gene
Yeah, that. That's definitely a tough job. Oh, March Madness. We talk about March Madness. I feel like every year March Madness come up with, like, a new human mascot. And it's like this. The ball boy, towel boy manager, Amir Khan. Amir Khan, Yeah. Like, he been doing all this rapping stuff. Like, you know, it's tough, I guess. I'm not hating. I just. That just.
Mike
No, I think it is.
Gene
It sounds like 100k nil, dude. Yeah.
Mike
Yeah, it's cool. But then it almost seems sometimes with those type of situations where we're. We're laughing at him rather than with him because almost like it seems. Make a wishy kind of thing.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
In a sense, there's like.
Gene
Like, we just. America loves changing people's lives overnight. Yeah, you. That's why America is the land of opportunity. Because somebody like him just like.
Mike
Because the. The thing that is, the thing that makes him popular is just because his dynamic, he looks like a. A quote unquote nerdy kid that doesn't, like, has never touched a basketball in his life.
Gene
Right.
Mike
But he kind of has a charisma, the same charisma as the people around him. Him, which is, you know, black basketball players, right. So he, you know, they put him in the chains. You have them doing the little. The Shador stuff like that.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
That dynamic of it not being such an ordinary thing makes it interesting. It makes it funny in a sense.
Gene
I mean, that's like. That's literally America you got.
Mike
Sister Gene was one.
Gene
You got a miracle. I don't know what. What he is, which I don't know what he is, but whatever he is, whatever race he is. Yeah, you got that.
Mike
Khan is very common Indian name.
Gene
America, you got.
Mike
Sister Gene was one.
Gene
You got a mere Khan. I don't know what. What he is, which I don't know what he is, but whatever he is, whatever race he is. Yeah, you got that.
Mike
Khan is very common Indian name.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
I don't want to. Yeah, sounds Mongolian to me, maybe.
Mike
I know a lot of Indian cons we already diving. But it's funny that his name is Amir Khan. There's a famous American, the boxer.
Gene
Yeah. But. Yeah, so you got somebody like him. And then, right, like you say, he's portraying the hip hop culture and just America just like, yeah, we're about to. About to give you a bunch of money. Yeah, there you go, little bro. But you got that.
Mike
Never hear about him again.
Gene
So he is hired by Will Wade at McNeese. And Will Wade just took the job at NC State, which is another.
Mike
I don't know who.
Gene
Will Wade is the coach for McNie's. So what I was saying is just like, it's also funny because me and you went through this. Well, I went through this for sure. You went through this for sure. Where the coach actually told them that he took another job before the NCAA tournament started. Like he was letting his team know.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
And then like, they was able to play through it. And like nobody, everybody was bragging online, like, oh, the players don't even look like that was affecting them. They was playing hard. And people don't understand. It's just like, like, duh. That's the best way to do it is to tell your team, tell the people around you that you're about to take a different job, even if you got more tasks of a field. Because my head football coach left right after his last game. He was your coach too.
Mike
Okay.
Gene
And he left right after his last game. And if he would have told us he was leaving, I believe we would have won like a champion. But it was just a fact. You know what I mean?
Mike
Or I think the part that was annoying about that one because he left to the team. Team that we lost to that last game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gene
That's why he didn't say.
Mike
Yeah, he definitely thought. He definitely. It felt. It felt very snaky at the end. I was happy that he's gone, though. You already know me.
Gene
Yeah. Yeah.
Mike
I wasn't the. The person that actually liked him.
Gene
No. I wish he would have told me so I would have took that year off so I could go with the new coaches.
Mike
There's a thing. So you know how Uber kind of lets you pick your pre. Where you want people to talk or not to talk? Like conversation, right?
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
I feel like every time I pick, like no conversation, they still talk to me. And I feel like Uber drivers don't really respect that. It's like, nah, we're. I'm gonna make the rules in this car. It's my car. I can make the rules.
Gene
Yeah, but I get that, though.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
If it's my car, like, I should be able to talk to you. And if that passes the time by, like, if I'm silent in this car, this 19 minutes about to feel like like a 40 minute drive for you though.
Mike
Because sometimes I just have my headphones on them. I'm watching my YouTube video or listening to something. It's your job to drive.
Gene
Okay, how about I pull over and beat your ass?
Mike
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Gene
How about that? You don't want to talk to me.
Mike
That'd be crazy.
Gene
First thing I would say as soon as they hop in the car, boy. So I had a radio up and I turned it down. I'd just be like, like, yeah, that. No talking dead in here.
Mike
You can either get out or tell me how your day was.
Gene
How you get that scar on your knee, bro, Tell me the host. No, no, no, no, no, no. From the beginning.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
How was you born?
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Do you remember the doctor how you get your day? Who named you?
Mike
Nah, People.
Gene
Origin of you People.
Mike
That people. People be remembering what day they were born on. I don't no people.
Gene
Yes. I remember one time there's this lady online, like there was like this story of her brother being pushed off. Basically her family members claimed that she pushed her brother off the ledge when she was three and he was one. I'm just like, bro, we got two babies on the ledge. Let's talk about the people that need to be talking, but the people that try to remember, like, oh, I remember when I was one and a half. What are you talking about? I can't even remember one and a half minutes ago. Like, what are you talking about, brother? You're lying.
Mike
I do have like a weird dream that I don't like know the origin of. So it had to be when I was in Nigeria. So I knew I had to be at least four years or younger when this dream happened. But I just had a dream about my eight years, my eight year old selves taking a shower. Like it's just such a random. I. I don't know why I have this like memory just stuck. Like I knew What I was gonna look like when I was eight.
Gene
No. Being that musty and having got God gotta send you a sign down, take a shower. I gotta go through his dreams.
Mike
But I was in America, though, huh? I. I was in America.
Gene
That Gotta do what? You're being busted.
Mike
No, I'm just saying I was in Nigeria already having, like, a vision. That was in America. Oh. But I didn't understand the concept, like, even when I was coming to America.
Gene
Yeah.
Mike
I didn't understand the concept that I was leaving Nigeria to come. I was still too young to really, like, oh, I'm going to a whole nother country to where I'm not from and this and that. Because everything was like. It just seemed normal to me.
Gene
No, the dumbest thing I ever did was I had a dream that I got lost in the store and I got in trouble by my mom.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
And we went to the store that day and I was playing with the toy. Like, you know, you stop by the toy section and then you see your mom shopping a little bit. Like, all right, let me run over to the toy section. So I played now, like, got down the aisle and I'm like, oh, damn, I'm lost. I got in trouble that day for getting lost in the store. And I was just sitting back after getting a spanking, you know, and I'm like, damn, bro. Like, this is this what deja vu is that? Just live the same day twice, bro.
Mike
Getting lost in this store had to be the worst feeling because you. When you look up and you already know, especially when they tell you you don't get lost, make sure you're following me and stuff like that. And then you look up and you don't see your mom or dad, because now you're like, damn, I gotta use my brain power to go find them and I'm going to look for an ass whooping. You're basically looking. You already know what's gonna happen when you get home. Now it's like, I'm about to get my ass whooped. Not to look for this ass whooping.
Gene
No, the. The most up part is like being super aware that you could be kidnapped. So you like, damn, I want to go up to this person, but they looking like, yeah, like, you take. Yeah, I'm not.
Mike
The worst part is my brother, my little brother broke the cardner's sin because he was by himself. He was younger. He went to a store associate to. To. To find my parents. Nah, me, I already know.
Gene
You guys gotta whoop you just off the picture. You gotta Beat the up.
Mike
Now, your parents hearing their name over at intercom. Yeah, miss. Mr. Eobu, we have your son.
Gene
Your son describes you as a 6 foot black male with a white T shirt on. Please come to the front. Have everybody stare at you.
Mike
And this is the worst part, is that especially if your parents weren't or you weren't done shopping yet. So now you're halfway done shopping and now you got lost, they call your dad on intercom. You come get picked up. Now you guys got to go back into the store. Everybody looking at you like, oh, that's the kid.
Gene
Kid.
Mike
That's the parent. They can't keep an eye on this, his kid. The inappropriate kid. The unresponsible parent.
Gene
Yeah, look at him. Bad as hell.
Mike
The worst thing is knowing you're gonna get an acid whooping. It's like you can't really.
Gene
It makes you delay once. Yeah, let's get it.
Mike
Exactly.
Gene
Don't tell me I'm getting the ass whooping in 12 hours.
Mike
Yeah, because it makes you not enjoy your day. Because you could be like going to the zoo as a kid or some shit, or about to go to a basketball game or something like that. That you truly can't enjoy those things because, you know, like, this, this joy is not gonna last forever. Oh, yeah.
Gene
I mean, that's a joy. That's like everything.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Have you ever been an adult and had some shit like that happen? Like you having a good time at work? Like, oh, shit, my car got towed this morning. Fuck am I laughing so hard, bro? Like, why am I enjoying myself?
Mike
What they describe it like to me was like when you, when you hanging with a girl and you know this is the last time you're ever gonna see her. Now that is true, though. Like, you have these, like, you know, you go on a date or just like an interaction with some, even a group of friends or a girl you're dating.
Gene
Look at everybody.
Mike
Disengaged. I hear what you're saying.
Gene
I get what you said, bro. Everybody like, yeah, go ahead. I've been there before, though. I've been there before.
Mike
Yeah, there was those moments, though.
Gene
No, I feel like there's always, like, I've been on dates before.
Mike
Like, you know, this is not going to pan out.
Gene
I'm talking about before. Before they ask if we want water or not. I know. I don't know if I want water, but I know I don't want her.
Mike
And it'd be like the little. It be the pettiest thing that might like just throw you off a little bit. Like, they say still. They like to say still are sparkling. Just say sparkling waters, like, all right, bro.
Gene
Yeah. Or just like, bro, like, why are you wearing that? I don't know if, like, a lot of men didn't grow up around women, I grew up around women. So, like. Like, sometimes, like, the way outfits are put together, like, will really piss me off for, like, no reason. Like, there's no reason for you to have a skirt on with some bread. 11. I just don't believe that you should be doing that. Why are we doing this? Why are you dressed like that? Why do you mat. Why does everything the same color?
Mike
There's no mannequin dressers.
Gene
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, please don't. You got a dunks on and a romper. Like, what are we doing?
Mike
Do you think it's like, you shouldn't. Like, the cardinal rule should be, like, you shouldn't put on exactly what the mannequin has on. Do you think that you're not allowed to do that?
Gene
I feel like that's unfair because the same people that's dressing in, like, with fashion would tell you to be yourself.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
And, like, go, what makes you feel comfortable? And some people jet, like, that's what makes them feel.
Mike
Yeah. The whole mannequin fit.
Gene
It's okay. Yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
That's the reason that's. That's just. That's the reason that it's on the mannequin is because it's a fit, you know? Yeah.
Mike
Not the exact same fit. You gotta throw a twist.
Gene
Maybe you shouldn't.
Mike
But I think you got. You gotta throw a twist to it. You gotta get creative.
Gene
That's where the styling comes in. You know what I'm saying?
Mike
Like, I can't. I can't. I can't let the czar employee put together my whole fit. Come on. I think I got a suit on.
Gene
It's crazy because I never knew that they would. Like, when you go to those places, if you ask them to help put an outfit together, they'll try to do it.
Mike
Oh, really?
Gene
Yeah, Like, h m and stuff. When they. I never knew that until I, like, I heard someone, like, a couple years ago, like, ask for that.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
I was like, h m. Yeah. And I was browsing around and just like, yeah, I'm just looking for something for a wedding. What do you think about that? And the person literally shocked. And I was like, oh. So when they come over and ask, like, do you need help?
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
They actually being serious.
Mike
I've seen you. I've Seen you had a store and you needed a fit because it was like, you know, some designer, too. So you're asking a store associate to put together a fit for you and Oscar. I kept walking by, you know, you kind of walk by, keep looking around, looking at the fizz. I was like, damn, I hope Pat doesn't say yes to any of these fits.
Gene
It's like. It's like the first time, I was.
Mike
Like, you didn't even ask her for the fit to get put together.
Gene
I didn't ask.
Mike
You're just unsure what to even get.
Gene
I said, I want something like this. And then he went and started putting these fists together. And I said, God damn, this brother's on the road, bro. Like, I've never seen anybody put together five bad outfits in a row with unlimited resources. It was actually very impressive. I was like, damn, keep going.
Mike
I was just. I was like, pat, please don't say yes. Please don't say.
Gene
I was just like, you know, you got to kind of be.
Mike
Because I didn't want to see them. I didn't want to seem like the hater when you kind of, like, asked me because you're like, hey, what you think about this, bro? I'd be like, I'm too truthful in those situations.
Gene
Yeah, yeah. No. I don't know why I get offended when somebody tries to sell me, like, an unfinished legacy piece. I don't think I saw this.
Mike
No, that is about.
Gene
Oh, I got a shirt with some butterflies on it. Get your ass.
Mike
I've gotten. There's been associated, like, this week. We shop at Hype Boy sometime. They carry unfinished legacy. One of the associates didn't know I was part of the brand, and he was like. Like, hey, I got this shirt, and for you and stuff like that. Show me the outfit. I kind of went along with it, though, because I was like, whatever. Let me see how they let me market research at that point.
Gene
Back in the face. You tell these boys, meet me in the parking lot. This ass.
Mike
It wasn't because I want. It could be. It could be like, I don't really with this brand like that, but we carry it and all right. We never gonna put this in the store again.
Gene
Oh, yeah. Trying to see what that really is.
Mike
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Pat
Thanks for having me.
Mike
All right, I got a question for you. What's something that the other gender has or gets to do that makes you low key? Jealous?
Pat
Low key? Man, it's these studs. I just hate how studs can equip a new loadout depending on the occasion. And I'm stoked with what I got that. It's just like. I don't know, it just gets to me, man.
Mike
All right, all right, all right.
Gene
What's.
Mike
Yeah, go ahead.
Gene
Okay. Defy loadout.
Pat
I'm just, I'm just saying, bro, like, every, every stud has quick draw. They bring a briefcase and they got, they got four, they got six, they got curved, they got upward curve. It's just like I don't have, bro, you know, you can attach the silence, a silencer to it and that goes from six to eight. I can't do that. It's just, it's almost. It's just insane to me, man.
Gene
How do you have so much strap knowledge?
Pat
Yo, it's a competition, bro. Like, it's just. I can't, I can't compete, man. It's just, it's frustrating.
Mike
But don't you think that it shouldn't even matter because the women that are attracted to studs aren't attracted to you?
Pat
I never think about it like that.
Mike
Okay?
Gene
They really just. I mean, no way. He changed.
Mike
No way.
Gene
You caught in the podcast and learned some.
Pat
No. Okay, all right, but listen, but listen, right? So if hypothetically, I'm chasing a girl and the studs chasing the same girl, and this girl's by, right? And the stud's like, okay, I'm dealing with a, a close range menace, right? Because let's say I don't have the, the, the loadout for a long range battle. And she's like, okay, watch this. And she goes into her loadout, goes from, from, from 6 to 10. What am I supposed to do? Like, I lose the girl. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, I just can't compete with studs, bro.
Gene
How's it, how's the stud in the, the scouting report on your dick, though?
Pat
Game is game.
Mike
How's. I hate that being an answer to a lot of questions. Game is game. Like, it works, though.
Gene
But no, bro, you gotta, you gotta stop doing that because she. Probably not. I don't know if you would ever be competing with. Have you ever Done this before? Are you just making up scenarios?
Pat
Name is game.
Mike
All right, man. You have a good one, bro.
Pat
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yo, can I. So I'm kind of broke, but I want to subscribe to the Patreon. Y' all bring some. Some of those cheap plans back.
Gene
We get. We give you a month for free, bro.
Mike
Yeah, I give you a month for free.
Gene
You're the first person.
Pat
I appreciate you.
Gene
Only this is like a marketing thing for Patreon. Go get your Patreon. We gave away our one month free person. This is the winner right here. Ding, ding, ding, ding.
Pat
Is this one going to be on the Patreon? Because I'm tired of being inferior, man. It's just like being an audio listener and hearing you rip on audio listeners, man, just breaks my heart because I know I'm not broke like that, but I just don't got it right now.
Mike
Yeah, we got you.
Gene
You ain't got to tell us you broke, bro.
Mike
We got you. We just said we're about to send you a.
Gene
We can just tell by how your brain set up. You ain't had that much money in the beginning.
Pat
Has to pop the studs.
Mike
All right, bro.
Pat
What's good?
Mike
Yo, yo.
Pat
What'S up? How y' all doing?
Gene
What up, what up? What up? Straight to the question. I could tell you a little lacking in personality. I got you lacking of personalities. What do you say? Did he repeat me?
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Gene
But say what original word? What original word?
Pat
I got, man.
Gene
I ain't got. I'll be honest.
Pat
I ain't got for you guys.
Mike
No way.
Gene
He repeated me still.
Mike
All right.
Gene
What'S something.
Pat
You asked the question.
Mike
It's always that slight delay. Hold on. Don't say, come on, ask the question. He gonna stop. He's gonna talk and interrupt you.
Gene
I don't.
Pat
I don't know what y' all doing. Right?
Gene
That dude so awkward, bro. All right, what's. What's something that deserves more hate?
Pat
Something I think deserves more hate when.
Gene
People be posting their, like, fits and.
Pat
On the stories for no goddamn reason. Like, if it's a big day, you know, like. Like this is like, oh, like it's your wedding day or, you know, like.
Gene
Like, big day something for you then.
Pat
Okay, fine. But people love to just post their fish. And it's always a mid ass fit, too.
Gene
Yeah. How tall are you?
Pat
5 10?
Gene
Oh, oh, okay. Okay. Wait.
Pat
What the I gotta do with.
Gene
Sound like you got helium in your throat. Hey, can you say something for me real quick?
Pat
Can I yes. What do you want me to say, bro? What you. What you want me to say? I'll say anything for you.
Gene
Whoa. Say, and what's up, Doc?
Pat
And what's up, doc? Bugs, buddy, I'm walking around my school cafeteria right now. You guys got me sounding like an idiot.
Gene
You black people.
Mike
Look.
Pat
No, I'm not black.
Gene
I'm Latino. Latinos. Where are you from? What state you from? My dad was still military, so I'm from all over.
Pat
I say Utah, though. That's where I live.
Gene
Like, a lot starting to make sense.
Pat
Yeah.
Mike
Yeah.
Pat
You're trying. You start. You starting to see. You're like, where the hell this dude from?
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Nobody.
Pat
Nobody wants my ass.
Mike
I know.
Gene
The question is. Here it is.
Mike
Oh, my God.
Gene
Do you wear glasses?
Pat
No, I don't.
Gene
Who you vote for?
Mike
All right, brother. Have a good one, bro.
Pat
Hi.
Mike
On the Crash Enemies podcast.
Pat
Sounds good to be back.
Mike
Oh, you're back. Oh, first of all. Go ahead, Pat. I don't yell.
Gene
You. First of all. First of all. Appreciate that. We'll get to you after this.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Happy, happy International woman's mom.
Pat
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you very much. It feels really nice to hear that from men.
Gene
Nice, nice.
Mike
Anyway, I got a question for you. What's. What's something that deserves more hate?
Gene
How do I sound when I said it? That was my voice too deep. Oh.
Pat
What?
Gene
Nothing.
Pat
Men saying that they don't want a relationship and then ghosting you and doing just that, getting in a relationship. What sense does that make? But maybe it hurts even worse when that looks kind of like you.
Gene
No, don't. Don't tell her. Don't tell her. I feel like, Like. Do you want us to, like. Okay, what type of. What type of problem is this? Do you want us to, like, gas you up, like, yeah, yeah, girl, them, them. Or do you want us to give you, like, hardcore truth? Because if you come on here, it's like, if you want to get gassed up, like, yeah, them, girl. Yeah. Yeah.
Pat
This has only happened twice. That's, like, not. I'm just every single person.
Gene
Do you want to tell you the truth?
Pat
Yeah.
Gene
The hard truth. Okay. I mean, I think he made a decision. I feel like you saw the decision that he made. You know what I mean? You saw it.
Pat
True, but true. But at the same time, I kind of didn't want a relationship with him. Like, everybody knew him, if you know what I mean? Like, it would have been kind of embarrassing to be with him. And plus, he's a serial cheater. So I kind of dodged a bullet there.
Gene
Are you.
Pat
But I only wanted that relationship because the dick was good.
Gene
Are you convincing us? Are you talking to yourself? I think you having. You called us to have a conversation with yourself. Are you giving yourself advice right now?
Pat
I just like to hear myself talk.
Gene
Yeah, I could tell. Oh, boy. Sound like he dodgeability too. First of all. First of all, Happy International Women's Month, though. Don't forget.
Pat
Thank you. See? And my present from y' all should be me getting to listen to myself.
Mike
Okay. You got it. You made it.
Gene
Just him. He should have told you. Slut.
Pat
Thank you.
Gene
Him. Let's all.
Mike
You dodged a bullet.
Gene
Let's. Let's all, like. Let's all wish bad on him at the same time. One, two, three. Whoa.
Mike
You black.
Pat
Him. What's that one sexy red song where she's like, don't trust the nigga for, you know.
Gene
You got 15 seconds left.
Mike
Go ahead.
Pat
No, I'm not singing.
Gene
First of all. First of all.
Mike
Okay. All right. You have a good one.
Pat
All right. Buy handsome.
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Mike
She was talking to Gene.
Gene
She sensed the aura. Like aura farming.
Mike
Yo, what's the word?
Pat
Who is it, Michael?
Mike
Pat. Oh, it's Pat.
Pat
What's the word?
Mike
My boy? Hating on, you know.
Pat
Yeah, that's all you can do, bro.
Gene
Yeah, what's up, bro? Shout out to all your listeners out there. You sit outside of who audio listeners. It's Mike. What's up, bro?
Pat
What's up, Mike? I was gonna talk, bro, but I'm.
Gene
I'm 50.
Pat
50, bro.
Gene
I just watch out on YouTube today, so I. I can't really be in the same little lane, man. I'm from.
Mike
What you do for a living? What you do for a living? I work at this starter company right.
Pat
Now, bro, but I'm in school.
Mike
Sounds broke to me. Don't say that now.
Gene
Don't say that. That's immature. Did you know that I recovered from my Achilles injury already? Because I'm not jury.
Mike
Oh, man. Yo.
Gene
Yo, we definitely lost a fan. This is how to listen to calls.
Mike
Yo, wait, what was this question?
Gene
Now you gotta call him back.
Pat
Yo, what's up?
Mike
What up, what up? What up?
Pat
How's it going?
Mike
Pretty good, Pretty good, man. How you doing?
Pat
Good, good.
Mike
All right, man, I got a question for you. What's something that deserves more hate?
Pat
Nonchalant flexors. Like, damn, I got a lot. That should be mad annoying.
Mike
What's an example of a nonchalant flexer?
Pat
I have an example. Like, I have a friend. So, like, in between my friend group, we used to, like, tease each other about the shit we would wear. So, like, when he got into high school, he started buying, like, very flashy. So, like, let's say he got his shoes dirty. They made like 300 shoes. He'd be like. He'd be like, ah, I stay my 300 shoes, my Jordan. My mom's gonna beat my ass. This and that.
Mike
That.
Pat
He would just like, flex for the of it. Nobody would ask him nothing whatsoever. Literally nothing. And he would just be like, oh, yeah, this cost me this much. Like, ain't nobody give a.
Gene
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Like, usually. So sometimes, like, when I zone out and I'm not paying attention, I pray to God the caller not good. Was it good? Was it good? Did I miss something?
Mike
No, I'm serious.
Gene
Did I miss something? I'm asking both of y' all that.
Mike
You've been on the POD before, right?
Pat
No, no, this is my first time.
Mike
Really? Your voice sounds familiar. Your. Your voice sounds familiar.
Gene
It sound like that dude that got his hat to. Yeah, that ain't me.
Pat
No, this is my first time.
Gene
Nah, that was you that got your hat took, bro.
Pat
That wasn't me. I'm a YouTube listener.
Gene
No, no, he was a YouTube listener too. He was a little just like you. How tall is you?
Pat
Me? I'm five seven.
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Gene
You five, seven, 160, ain't you?
Pat
Nah, I ain't one. Actually, I am 160, but it ain't me, I swear.
Gene
Get your hat back. You get your hat back, man.
Pat
Pay you. Man.
Mike
Why you let them take your hat, though?
Pat
No, that wasn't me. I mean, that ass, bro. I'm. My daughter.
Gene
That wasn't me.
Mike
You think you got a daughter?
Gene
How old are you?
Pat
Yeah, me, I'm 21.
Mike
Damn.
Gene
Five six, one. Six, 21.
Mike
When you have a kid?
Pat
When I was 18. She was born two days after my graduation.
Mike
You. You are you Hispanic?
Pat
Yeah, I am Hispanic.
Mike
Yeah. Y' all be having. Y' all be having kids early. Hispanics. Hispanics be getting in. 18 is not wrong.
Pat
No, he ain't wrong.
Mike
No, y' all be getting it in.
Gene
That's your regular. How many more kids? How many more kids you gonna have?
Pat
Four. Two more, but nine till I'm settled.
Gene
I thought he said nine. Oh, so you're not okay?
Pat
No, that's too much, Max. Five. That's pushing it now.
Gene
I feel you, bro. Get your together before you pop out another one, though. Do the world some justice.
Pat
I will, bro.
Mike
You have a good one, man.
Pat
You too.
Gene
So last week, my cousin got a new Mercedes Benz, and I was like, damn, bro, that's dope. What's the car payment on it? He said a little light. 1300. 1300. Hope you sleeping in that motherfucker.
Mike
Yeah, 1300 is crazy. But if you don't want to pay 30 APR, you got to hit up our boy Miguel who does credit repair. Miguel? Absolutely, man. Hit me up for any guys.
Pat
Credit repair services, bankruptcies, collections, evictions, even child support.
Mike
Everything that you need off your credit.
Pat
Report that's negatively affecting you. I could definitely get that removed for you.
Mike
Child support.
Gene
Child support is crazy. No, you gotta have your kid. If he remove you of child support, you gotta bring your. Your kid to Miguel and Sean like, yo, I take care of my kid. You're not removing no deadbeat child support. Keep your on there.
Mike
I Actually use Miguel, and he actually helped my score goal. I'm not gonna tell you what my score was before. My score went up like, 100, like, 50 points. So you pretty much tell.
Gene
Yeah, that like 900 now my 950, you know.
Pat
Definitely follow me on IG.
Mike
At Miguel Rore credit on IG. You have all the info on all the information that you need to definitely get your credit repair. Hey, how y' all pretty good yourself?
Pat
I'm good.
Mike
Hold on. Pat. Pat has something to say to you. Go ahead. He just. Whoa, do the thing.
Gene
No, you go ahead, bro.
Mike
No, do the thing.
Gene
I don't even know her. I don't even know if I should be wishing her yet. She got a.
Mike
That's n. I just.
Gene
Fine. First of all. First, all. First of all, Happy International Woman's Month.
Pat
Oh. Didn't even know it was that month. Thank you.
Gene
I told you.
Mike
Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I got a question for you.
Pat
Okay.
Mike
What's something that deserves more Hate them little dick.
Pat
All right, y' all gotta start sending pictures of that first. Y' all be advertising. They be the tall. Y' all gotta start sending pictures first. You better start putting the petition out for y' all.
Mike
Is this a something that happens a lot for you?
Pat
Oh, no, no, no. I've been in a relationship for, like, how am I six years?
Gene
What's this gotta do with you?
Mike
So you're in a current relationship right now?
Pat
Yeah, I'm talking about back. Back in the day, but I still just. Y' all them up things. Don't say y' all just saying men in general, whoever got a small dick, y' all gotta start sending that first because that be up when we meet, y' all.
Gene
Is this something. Is this something that your friends doing, like friends saying to you? No, this happened with me personally, but that's six years.
Mike
This is a go.
Pat
It don't matter. I'm still upset.
Gene
How old are you?
Pat
26. Nah, nah.
Gene
Not just saying, like, what's. What's going on.
Pat
Sad. Who have small dicks.
Mike
You say something that has nothing to do with you. Right?
Gene
Yeah, you like, if you happy in your relationship. Unless you're trying to send us. Are you trying to send a subliminal to your. To your current boyfriend?
Pat
Hell, no. I want to be with that. His dick was small crazy. And I got two kids out here, man. Me.
Gene
Okay, okay. Let me. Okay, let me just say it to you straight up.
Pat
Okay.
Gene
You got a man, but you talking to us about other man's dick.
Pat
I'm just saying that should be a thing that we should start hating.
Gene
She said what? She said y' all bad.
Pat
With the small ones. No, that's why I hate them now. Them. Them.
Gene
F you. She not coming off that topic. I with her.
Mike
She said this.
Gene
This gotta be said.
Mike
Yo, yo.
Pat
Going on.
Gene
Welcome to Crash Podcast. What's good, bro?
Pat
What's going on, bro? I'm chilling. How about y' all? Y' all doing good?
Gene
Yeah, Good, man.
Mike
Pretty good. Pretty good, bro. I got. I got a question for you. Yeah, all right. What's something. All right. What's something that women do? That lowkey makes you jealous.
Pat
I hate how they're, like, kind of there for each other a lot. Hold on, give me a second. I'm getting some coffee. Yeah, all right. I got apple pay for you. Yeah.
Mike
I swear, these don't respect us, bro. No, they definitely think we have.
Gene
Yeah. I mean, I feel like I gotta smoke again, bro.
Pat
No, man, for sure. Like, women just be there for each other. And it's not that I'm hating, but I kind of am, though. Like, with guys, like, they're kind of looked down upon to, like, getting your feelings with your boy. And, you know, it's just like, we're not really good at being there for each other either. It'll be like, yo, bro, like, my granny died. And he'd be like, oh, shoot, my bad, bro. But are you making a slasher or a two way on two pedo? Or, like, I'll be having some, like, you know, I'm like, hey, man, I'm going through school right now. I have some imposter syndrome. He'd be like, hey, you're him. And then start sending me reels and I'm like. And then, like, I'm guilty.
Gene
I'm not gonna lie. One time Mike was down in the dumps, I was like, damn, maybe six more reels a day. A hell, double the reels.
Pat
In the middle.
Gene
Yeah. Yeah, man.
Mike
So what do you got to say to your guy friends then? Because obviously you. You feel like you're lacking that in your life, so what do you got to say to your guy friends that you feel like you want to be.
Pat
More emotional with, you know, like, all my guy friends out there. It's all the men out there, you know, it's. You know, be there for your boy, but don't be getting, like, too physical, you know, I don't need you hugging up on me, bro. I'm straight.
Mike
Oh, there we go. Now you're the problem. This is why.
Gene
Now you can't be the gatekeeper, bro.
Pat
I mean, I mean, be honest, like, if Mike started crying right in front of you, you gonna hung up on him or what?
Gene
Hug up on him is so crazy. That's like a weird thing. But up on him is like, almost like the person doesn't want to be hugged or hug up on them.
Pat
Exactly. So you're also the problem, but you're choosing uncomfortable hugging yourself.
Gene
No, no, no, but that's you're scenario with me. You say you're saying you don't want to be hugged on. You're saying that you say you don't want to hug, so you wouldn't even hug someone, one of your friends, if you were crying over something.
Pat
But, like, what if I just want them to hug me so tight that I have no choice? You know what I mean? Hello? Hey, where key at?
Gene
Not you trolling, bro.
Mike
What? Why is that everybody's default thing when they say something crazy? They say, where keys at?
Gene
Like, what?
Mike
All right, bro, you have a good one.
Pat
He's the most rational. All right. Hey, I love the party, y' all. I love everything you're doing. You guys get me through a really rough shifts at work, but you guys are the ship.
Gene
Where you work at? Where you work at? Where you work at?
Pat
PetSmart.
Gene
Oh, pet smart. Oh, yeah. Look, I know you.
Pat
Yeah. Hey, nah, real, real quick.
Gene
I know you guys. I know you got a stench to you that is just like. It's hard to get off. I know, boy. Smell like hamster bed.
Mike
All right, you have a good one.
Gene
I just dropped my.
Mike
All right, bro. Peace. Thank you.
Gene
Yo, what's the deal? Good, bro. How you doing?
Pat
How y' all doing?
Gene
Good.
Mike
Pretty good.
Pat
Oh, man.
Mike
All right. I got a question.
Gene
You good?
Pat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gene
All right, now you nervous, bro.
Mike
What's something that women get to do? I got a question for you. What's something that women do that low key makes you jealous?
Pat
Dick.
Gene
Huh?
Pat
Dick. Penis. No.
Mike
That makes you jealous. Why are you jealous of it?
Pat
Like, the. The sensation, like, we'll never get it. I'll never feel the feeling that they feel, you know? No.
Gene
Okay, Come on. Key not there.
Mike
Why is that people's default?
Gene
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So. All right, so do you like women or men?
Pat
No, I. I have a girlfriend.
Gene
You didn't answer my question, brother.
Pat
I like women.
Gene
Do you like men?
Pat
No.
Gene
Then why is that your answer?
Pat
Because, like, it's a different feeling than we. Then we, you know?
Gene
How do you know it's a different feel?
Pat
Because it can't feel the same.
Mike
How do you know?
Gene
Because.
Pat
Because it takes long. What.
Gene
What do you. Wait, what do you mean by that?
Pat
Like, it takes longer for, like, the build up is probably, like, way better.
Mike
The build up? What are you talking about? What build up? Like.
Pat
The orgasm part.
Mike
You know guys get orgasms, right?
Pat
Well, yeah, but it's too quick. Like, the build up, you know? Right, Pat?
Mike
Right past crazy.
Gene
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Pat
Come on.
Gene
Nah, bro, you. You need to tell you, I feel bad for your girlfriend, though. It sounds like you're it. Like, you might be. You might be a little confused, and you might be holding some secrets back from her that you need to tell her.
Pat
No, ain't no secret I'm not allowed to keep secret.
Mike
Are you. Have you had this conversation with your girlfriend, then?
Pat
Yeah. She knows.
Gene
What does she know?
Mike
And how did you bring it up to her, please?
Pat
Well, we. We were talking about it, and I was like, I'm jealous of you because I'll never get to feel my gorilla strokes.
Mike
Bro. I hate on my. Oh, my.
Gene
All right, bro.
Mike
All right, man.
Pat
Like, think about the strokes that you give.
Mike
Come on, now. Definitely trying to go to him. Nah, he trying to go viral, bro.
Gene
No, he might.
Mike
At first, it sounded like he was reaching, even though I still think he was reaching still.
Gene
He. But he was. He was. He was warming up, bro.
Mike
Yeah.
Pat
Yo, what's up, dummies?
Gene
What up?
Mike
What up? What up?
Gene
What up? I don't like that for. That should rub me the wrong way. Like, I know it's like a play off Crash Dummies, but, like, calling me dummies when you sound stupid as hell.
Mike
Oh, my God, bro.
Pat
So many people already called you dummies, and you're losing. Like, what's up? Something else.
Mike
I don't know.
Pat
You.
Gene
What, you black?
Pat
Yeah. Yeah, I'm from Minnesota.
Mike
I'm from Minnesota.
Pat
So.
Mike
What'S the song you made to get your ex back?
Pat
Okay, I can. I can pull it up, or.
Mike
I don't know what song sound better, but.
Gene
Bro, just play the.
Pat
Okay, my girlfriend's pulling it up right now.
Mike
Hold on. This is the.
Gene
This is the.
Mike
This the one you got back? Back?
Pat
No, this is a different girl.
Gene
Oh, no.
Mike
All right, hold on.
Pat
Let me put it on speaker so it sounds.
Gene
How long ago was this?
Pat
This is like a year ago.
Gene
Hey, girl. He's still not healed.
Mike
Oh, my God.
Pat
Don't try and tell her that. Okay.
Mike
I was feeling so lonely.
Gene
I come back to my room, Everything.
Pat
Is up, but I Couldn't be mad at you.
Gene
Can't you see I want to be a better person for you? I know I love you, so I.
Mike
Couldn'T be mad at you.
Gene
Oh, that's a video. No, I honestly, honestly didn't think you could the beat up that.
Mike
Okay, you guys liked it?
Pat
All right, good.
Gene
No, that was pretty impressive. Like, that was Here.
Mike
Real quick, I want you to scroll.
Gene
Up, and I'm such a dumb.
Pat
I want y' all to go to the end.
Mike
There's, like, a little message that I.
Pat
Want y' all to just react to.
Gene
Okay. Appreciate it, man.
Pat
Yeah, we're done. And I'm being 100 serious.
Mike
I'm grabbing lady and hazel, and I'm coming over to grab my shit. So if you could call me back, let me know that you're home.
Pat
Yeah, I'm. I'm done. She called me, like, 40 times, bro.
Mike
I was not picking up. I refused. Can I talk to your current girlfriend real quick?
Pat
Oh, gosh. I'm about to say goodbye to my relationship, but okay. Yeah.
Gene
Hello?
Mike
All right.
Pat
Hello.
Mike
Hello. How's it going?
Pat
It's going well. How are you?
Mike
Good, good, good. I got a question for you.
Gene
It's not his girlfriend. It's not. It's not his girlfriend. Why you trying to play it off, Mike? You didn't hear that?
Mike
No.
Gene
Not his girlfriend.
Mike
Hello?
Gene
There's no girl there.
Pat
Hello?
Gene
This is not a girl.
Pat
Yeah, it is.
Gene
First of all, first of all.
Mike
Wait, I can hear. All right, y' all both say something at the same time.
Gene
Hello?
Mike
Yeah.
Pat
I can get a girlfriend. It's not that hard.
Gene
No, no, no. I say two different things.
Pat
What?
Gene
Say two different things at the same time.
Mike
Wait, us?
Pat
At the same time?
Mike
We're not like that one. All right, we got. I got a question for you, then. Were you aware of this video before y' all started dating?
Pat
Aware of it, kind of.
Mike
So you saw this video before y' all, like, decided to, like, like, make it official?
Pat
I didn't see the video, but he played it for me.
Mike
And it didn't give you any. It didn't make you feel any type of way?
Pat
I think, certainly. But I. Or, well, I think.
Gene
Oh, yeah. She cheat, too. Like, don't worry about me. I'm doing him just as bad. I am Good. We got you, baby girl. Judging.
Mike
First of all, first of all, first.
Gene
Of all, first of all, Happy International Women's Month to you.
Pat
Thank you.
Mike
And run. All right. You have a good one.
Gene
Not for. He might have changed, though.
Mike
Nah.
Gene
Here. Go, bro. To Me. Okay. The best feeling in the world is when your fart or burp actually works.
Mike
Like, what do you mean by working?
Gene
Like, you ever had, like, a stomach ache and you're just like, man, I don't know what's going on. And then you, like, release and you're like, oh, that was it.
Mike
Oh, okay.
Gene
You know what I mean? Or you got, like, something in your stomach and you feel real groggy and then. Because when you do those things and it don't work like, oh, my stomach really up. Like, you ever had a headache and took some medicine? Still have a. A headache. This it ain't it. Yeah, bro, I took Ty. I still got a headache. I just want to make sure that you. You in my will, bro. You get everything.
Mike
I haven't taken the Tyle all in a while. Or hyprofen. What a title. Tylenol. See, that's how I.
Gene
Or a high buprofen.
Mike
That's what my. My Nigerian accent kind of comes out when I can't say, like, those type of words, right.
Gene
Yeah, yeah.
Mike
How do you say it?
Gene
Ibuprofen.
Mike
High buprofen.
Gene
Ibuprofen.
Mike
Ibuprofen.
Gene
I. Ibuprofen.
Mike
Ibuprofen, yeah, Ibuprofen. Yeah, yeah, Ibuprofen.
Gene
Yeah. Like you used to say in high school, I be queefing.
Mike
Who told you that I have creed? Like, Patrick be saying anything, bro.
Gene
The Ashen hall dude. The Ashen hall.
Mike
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The big buff dude.
Gene
That. That brand. That water brand is going pretty viral, right?
Mike
It's funny that he's been viral for a while. Like, I've been seeing his videos for a while.
Gene
Yeah, I've seen him.
Mike
It's funny that it just takes, like, one thing on Twitter to kind of like, that video. I think I saw, it was like 200, like, 50 million views.
Gene
Look at true.
Mike
Yeah. Yeah. Drew came back. He posted the. Him. The juice.
Gene
He never went nowhere, but he backed back, though.
Mike
Yeah, he posted the juice me when he came out of prison. He's like, demon home.
Gene
Yeah, that boy back like, he got when. You know you going crazy when you have quoted tweets or like, yeah. Reposts of your stuff going viral.
Mike
It's funny that, like, the Ashton hall is the guy that does that soaks his face in the. In the cold water and stuff like that.
Gene
Wipe his face with a banana peel.
Mike
I think that type of content is like. Like, meant to be that way. Like, it's. It's meant to get. The reaction is getting right now. Like the. Him jumping in the pool and it taking like five minutes the time because he. He post a timestamp. So like him jumping in the pool was like, like 6, 7:40 and by the time he landed it was like 7:46 type of thing. So it's like those type of little, those little things get, get comments on the Internet and have people talking. So it's all strategy. And he's an online fitness coach.
Gene
Yeah, those videos are, are way too, too detailed to. For them not to know what the joke is.
Mike
Yeah, exactly.
Gene
They know what the jokes are gonna be and they push you, bro. He literally shot a fade away jumper. They didn't show the ball leaving it. Yeah, they just showed the ball swishing. He then turned around to a woman because he never shows the woman anything. Then turns around to the hand of a woman that gave him. Him a quarter of a watermelon after shooting a jump shot. Like you know that. And then he's wiping his face with a banana peel.
Mike
Like there was one that he had a green. A bottle of water. Right? And then the beginning, it was a green one. And then it drops to the floor and obviously there's an angle of it smashing on the floor at the, at the, on the floor.
Gene
Real quick.
Mike
What?
Gene
Could you do your water bottle like this?
Mike
What happened?
Gene
Oh my God.
Mike
What is it? What is wrong with this?
Gene
Do your water bottle thing. You move your left hand out, out like this.
Mike
Go. Babe.
Gene
You literally went the water bottle.
Mike
The water bottle like the water bottle. Because that's how. If I was holding. I would hold it like this. It's a big water bottle. It's like it has a fat bit. No, no, it's because the water bottle has like a bigger base. So. Yeah, and then it has a smaller, like the, the. The. It is smaller at the.
Gene
Bro.
Mike
I would just pretend I was holding the bottle. I'm not gonna hold it like this with one hand.
Gene
So you're not gonna squeeze this.
Mike
Come on, man. Like holding a water bottle. That's a barbarians. I'm holding like this. I'm trying. I don't want the bottle to break.
Gene
A boy is a pleaser.
Mike
No, I'm not trying to have the bottle break, bro.
Gene
Oh my God.
Mike
I saw, I saw this clip on the Internet Instagram and of how to hate. Hate.
Gene
How to hate?
Mike
Yes.
Gene
Okay.
Mike
Three ways to hate on a number one. One upper. Say if a came to you and.
Gene
Says, bro, bro, I just did this.
Mike
Isn't that.
Gene
Even if it's not true, say that you did the Same thing, but it's a little bit better. Say, bro, I just hit 10, 000 views on YouTube.
Mike
Even if you don't have a YouTube.
Gene
Channel, your next response is Brian 15K. Make sure it's every change, little boy. That's how you pay on a nigga.
Mike
Number two, that's good for you.
Gene
Let's just say a excited to tell you some news.
Mike
For example, he got a new girlfriend, right? He shows you a picture of this.
Gene
Girl, your response is, that's good for you, bro.
Mike
That's good for you. It's such a top tier hating phrase. He's not saying that it's good. He's saying it's good for A on your level.
Gene
That's top tier hating, bro.
Mike
That's free game number one.
Gene
The best way to hate on A is bringing up statistics.
Pat
Let's just say one of your homies.
Mike
Or A coming up to you talking about he wants to go to the NBA. Your response is, Bro, you only know 1% of athletes go D1 and 1%.
Gene
Of those go to the NBA. Just hate on dreams.
Mike
There are some people that, that I feel like I have that behaving like that that I know. Especially the, the one upper one. I hate when people. And this is the part, the one I see people trying to up one one up on people is death in the family.
Gene
Yes.
Mike
Is one that I see a lot.
Gene
It's trauma.
Mike
Yeah, yeah, trauma.
Gene
Yeah, trauma. Or trying to like almost make someone's situation die down a little bit by putting like, like, oh, damn, her grandpa died. Talking about the one that's the one she don't see, right?
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
She don't see that grandpa that much. What the.
Mike
Real cousin.
Gene
It was blood. They wasn't blood. They were just acting like cousins. Okay. I ain't gonna say or like, like.
Mike
Say it's like somebody's grandma passes away, right? Somebody would say like how, like when their grandparent fell away, how they dealt with the grief.
Gene
Grief, man, your grandma ain't know you.
Mike
Or, or you know what I'm saying? Just like everybody grieves differently, right? So it's just like, you know, I just rather just get the condolences, like thinking of you, bro, this and that. Don't tell me how you dealt with because you don't know my relationship with this family member. But then you might not been close to your family members.
Gene
And also like, exactly. You don't know like what's gonna happen. I do say, like, there's certain things that shouldn't happen. I ain't gonna speak on a name, but I did see someone lose their child.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Then they were like showing on video, turning up.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Like the next day.
Mike
Yeah, yeah.
Gene
It's just like some.
Mike
That Casey Anthony.
Gene
No.
Mike
Oh, Casey Anthony. That happened with her. Do you know there's something that's happening with her right now too.
Gene
She like came out and spoke about something and then I bought Nancy back out because, you know, but no, I.
Mike
Think she's like up running for something. She tried to bring back like an online, online presence and like she put up a couple tick tocks and then everybody was like, nah, you're not coming back. Yeah, Casey Anthony. That's just like, that's like the first case. Do you know the Casey Anthony taste? So it was about a woman. It's about a woman named Casey Anthony. Her daughter passed away and she was seen like partying the next day or the next, the same day that her daughter supposedly passed away. And then basically she was saying she had no idea like what happened to her daughter, how she passed away. She ended up was innocent in the quarter, in the court. It's kind of like an old joke. It's like a OJ Case in a sense where people kind of know she did it, but they couldn't prove that she did it.
Gene
Yeah, the court couldn't prove that. Yeah, it don't sound like she did it.
Mike
No, I'm doing, I'm doing, I'm doing a disservice to explaining this very big disservice.
Gene
But she did that, she did that.
Mike
Like some of the evidence, what happened. So Casey Anthony, basically the case became known when her two year old daughter Kaylee passed away and she disappeared in June of 08. But she didn't report her missing until July of 08. And then she tried to say that she was kidnapped by the nanny, so. Yeah, exactly.
Gene
They found, they found like evidence of her daughter's blood inside her trunk. I don't think they ever found the baby. Did they ever find.
Mike
I think, yeah, they found the body. They found the remains in December of 08 in the woods near the Anthony family home in Orlando, Florida. And so her daughter was missing that long and, and she was just out living life like a normal. It's like, all right, now like, you.
Gene
Know what happened, you know what I'm saying?
Mike
So it's one of those things you're.
Gene
Not gonna make no more online presence. But I see like we people can't officially get rid of Kanye. So I don't know.
Mike
I think Kanye holds a Little more weight than Casey Anthony.
Gene
Casey Anthony. How many Grammys is it even.
Mike
Now? Kanye is just. I feel like the Kanye stuff is just like a whole other, like, I don't know what's, like, his. His deal.
Gene
He's dead. Like we say on every pie. Like, there's just something mentally going on, going wrong there. So it just. It just.
Mike
It was like, just one of those things you can't even really, like, fully talk about in a. In a. I feel like, in an articulate way to, like, even, like, say what's wrong with him. Like, it's just, like. It's just redundant to kind of. Just the same side cycle.
Gene
Yeah. For anybody that's trying to, like, either justify or re. Into deeper to what's going on other than, like, a total mental breakdown.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
Just wasting their time.
Mike
Oh, man.
Gene
Anyway, anyways, let's wrap this up, brother. I'm done yapping.
Mike
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Tickets are gonna be live to eventually. Somewhere in the bio or something to Pat's comedy show, the LA Last Chance.
Gene
Because we really bought the market hard.
Mike
Yeah. Yeah.
Gene
These next couple days.
Mike
So, yeah, by the time you listen to this, hopefully there's still tickets left. Yeah. But hopefully there's still some tickets left. So. Yeah. Let us know what else we got for them. That's it. G, you got anything to shout out? Happy birthday, bro.
Gene
Happy birthday, brother. Shout out to. To y' all. That's it.
Mike
Oh, my goodness.
Gene
Shot, man. Shout out. Marty. With. With the info. With the real info and the fake hair. We with it. Y' all keep liking subscribing more content. Coming soon. We gotta get y' all. We'll get y' all vlog. What month is it? We'll get y' all vlog in April for sure.
Mike
On YouTube.
Gene
No, no, no, no, no. A vlog for Patreon.
Mike
Yeah.
Gene
These were the Patreon people. You should join the Patreon. That's why you should join the Patreon. There's like, two more. There's two extra episodes a month in there. I don't even know if y' all know this. It's two extra episodes a month in there, plus some content that y' all have never seen before. So if y' all.
Mike
We got Jim Vlog in there.
Gene
Yeah, we got Jim Vlog. So it's a lot of y' all that probably be on, like, you know, Spotify or Apple, and y' all listening to us right now, and y' all don't know that it's like 40 or 50 episodes that y' all haven't even heard before. Listener callers all along there. So go check that out.
Mike
All right, y' all. Peace.
Crash Dummies Podcast with Pat and Mike
Episode: Multiple Loadouts - Episode 199
Release Date: March 26, 2025
In Episode 199 of the Crash Dummies Podcast, hosts Patrick Johnson (Pat) and Michael Esiobu (Mike), along with guest Gene, delve into a myriad of engaging topics ranging from personal relationships and social dynamics to the intricacies of marketing and the challenges within the music industry. This episode, aptly titled "Multiple Loadouts," offers listeners a blend of humor, insightful discussions, and relatable anecdotes.
Pat expresses his frustrations and feelings of inadequacy when comparing himself to "studs" who seem effortlessly successful in attracting women.
Pat (33:06):
"What's something that the other gender has or gets to do that makes you low key jealous?"
Pat (35:02):
"How do you have so much strap knowledge?"
The conversation shifts to the emotional support systems among men versus women, highlighting a perceived lack of emotional openness among male friendships.
Pat (53:54):
"I hate how they're, like, kind of there for each other a lot."
Gene (55:05):
"I'm not gonna lie. One time Mike was down in the dumps, I was like, damn, maybe six more reels a day."
The hosts discuss the importance of emotional support among male friends, contrasting it with the more evident support systems among women.
Pat (55:30):
"More emotional with, you know, like, all my guy friends out there."
Gene (56:26):
"Not you trolling, bro."
A significant portion of the episode critiques various marketing tactics, especially those that border on being intrusive or insensitive.
Gene (09:29):
"I always wonder how some of these commercials even get out."
Mike (10:25):
"But it's one of those things too, where it's like, do you think people in those positions where they like, see something that at work."
The hosts briefly touch upon the effectiveness of LinkedIn ads in reaching the right audience, emphasizing the struggle of marketing professionals feeling like they're "speaking into the void."
Gene (01:30):
"Yo, what's the deal?"
Mike (22:31):
"Does it ever feel like you're a marketing professional just speaking into the void?"
Pat and Gene engage in a lively debate about the health implications of consuming whole milk, touching upon its saturated fat content and its effects on cholesterol levels.
Gene (06:25):
"No, no, no. Sometimes I correct the traffic myself."
Mike (06:41):
"Whole milk has higher saturated fat content, which can raise your bad cholesterol."
The hosts discuss the common misconceptions surrounding cholesterol and its actual impact on health.
Gene (08:23):
"The one you got to eat. Cheerios."
Mike (08:37):
"But if I'll be lying if I say I fully understand what cholesterol."
The episode delves into the difficulties faced by emerging rappers, particularly when performing in front of audiences unfamiliar with their style.
Gene (14:50):
"When's the last time somebody, like, unperformative had, like, a hot song where they were performing it everywhere?"
Mike (15:38):
"It's hard to be an opening DJ, too, because it's like, what songs are you actually playing?"
Pat and Gene compare the performances of different artists, highlighting the balance between hardcore rap and engaging stage presence.
Gene (13:44):
"He had no. I think with him also, he's in, like, a weird spot that a lot of people are."
Mike (14:00):
"Because what makes DaBaby so good is that he can kind of wrap that hardcore stuff and kind of have theatrics behind it."
The hosts share personal stories about their childhood experiences, such as getting lost in stores and vivid dreams from their youth.
Gene (24:27):
"That's my story of getting lost in the store and getting spanked."
Mike (23:47):
"I do have like a weird dream that I don't like know the origin of."
Pat and Gene provide listeners with strategies on how to critique others without coming off as malicious, emphasizing authenticity over superficial responses.
Gene (71:07):
"Three ways to hate on a number one. One upper."
Mike (71:27):
"That's top tier hating, bro."
The hosts analyze how Ashton Hall, an online fitness coach, leverages viral moments through strategic content creation, discussing the fine line between humor and intentional engagement.
Gene (68:03):
"He never went nowhere, but he backed back, though."
Mike (68:14):
"He holds a little more weight than Casey Anthony."
In the concluding segments, Pat, Mike, and Gene share light-hearted banter, promote upcoming events like Pat's comedy show, and encourage listeners to join their Patreon for exclusive content. They also touch upon the importance of community support and celebrating milestones like International Women's Month.
Gene (77:35):
"We got Jim Vlog in there."
Mike (52:08):
"You have a good one, man."
Pat (35:02):
"How do you have so much strap knowledge?"
Gene (09:29):
"I always wonder how some of these commercials even get out."
Mike (14:00):
"Because what makes DaBaby so good is that he can kind of wrap that hardcore stuff and kind of have theatrics behind it."
Gene (71:07):
"Three ways to hate on a number one. One upper."
Episode 199 of the Crash Dummies Podcast offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and insightful discussions on various topics. From dissecting relationship dynamics and marketing strategies to analyzing the challenges within the music industry, Pat, Mike, and Gene provide listeners with an engaging and entertaining experience. Their candid conversations and relatable anecdotes make this episode a must-listen for both regular followers and newcomers alike.
For more exclusive content, behind-the-scenes insights, and to support the podcast, consider subscribing to their Patreon.
Note: Advertisements and promotional segments have been omitted to focus on the core content of the episode.