April 11, 2026

S2 E30 | The Full Signal: Everything We Said — And the Stories That Prove It

S2 E30 | The Full Signal: Everything We Said — And the Stories That Prove It
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S2 E30 | The Full Signal: Everything We Said This Week — And the Stories That Prove It

If you've ever wondered whether the tools you put in your business actually matter when it counts, this episode is your answer.

This week we went short and sharp — five episodes, five spotlights on what DCCI does and why it matters. Tonight we bring it all home. The long form. The full signal.

On this episode:

  • Hot Takes That Hit: Chris reacts to two violent crimes caught on dashcam — the Calvin Crew attack on Uber driver and mother-of-four Christina Spicuzza, and the FedEx fleet camera footage that cracked the Athena Strand case — and what both stories prove about accountability you can see.

  • The Week in Review: A look back at all five short episodes — the DCCI Difference, two-way radios, PoC, telematics, and the e-commerce launch — and why they all point to the same thing: your business needs a communication ecosystem, not just gear.

  • The Backbone of America: Chris breaks down the numbers behind family businesses in the U.S. — 54% of GDP, 88 million jobs, 35% of the Fortune 500 — and what the Core Four of Purpose, Agility, Long-Term Capital, and Reputation look like inside DCCI.

  • The Camera Doesn't Lie: A deep dive into both sides of the dashcam conversation — the cases where footage convicted evil and the cases where it saved the innocent — and why truth doesn't pick sides.

  • The Family Behind the Frequency: How Chris, his wife, Skyler, and his youngest son are building something the statistics say most family businesses never reach — and why that's the whole point of this show.

Links & Resources:
The Home Base: thefamboss.com | Connect Your Fleet: dccipro.com

Listener Line: Call 855-4-PODCAST (855-476-3227). Has a dashcam or GPS system ever saved your business — or do you wish you'd had one when you needed it?

Hit play, think about every vehicle your team drove this week without a camera, and then go build a business you don't have to defend from memory.


Unknown Speaker (0:12): This is a fan What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Fan Boss Frequency. My name is Chris. I'm your host. And, man, it is great to be here all over again.

Chris (0:46): And I always enjoy getting to spend time with my favorite folks in the world. So anybody who will take time out of their busy day to come visit me and hang out, by all means, I'm gonna bring the good today. I'm gonna give you what you're looking for, and we're gonna have a blast. So this week was all about products and kind of what the business was all about. And I had some fun kind of introducing some of those concepts.

Unknown Speaker (1:05): So today we're going to introduce a new segment called Hot Takes. And it's basically, you know, things that kinda get on my nerves and why they get on my nerves, but it's all kind of centered around the same thing. And then we're gonna delve into the power of the family business. And then I'm gonna get a little personal with you and pull back the curtain on on the last segment. And we're gonna discuss a little bit about when you're in a funk, how how do you get out of that?

Chris (1:29): Because look, that's part of life. We talked about it before the business doesn't wait for you to show up. It's there whether you're there or not. So when you want to bring your best to the table, by all means, let's make sure we're knocking that out. So make sure you visit our website, thefanboss.com.

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Chris (2:03): And, you know, tell us what you like, what you don't like, what you'd love to see on the show, or just leave me a message about your experience with something we've discussed here today. So looking forward to the show. So let's get started, ladies and gentlemen. It's the Famboss Frequency. Welcome back to Hot Takes.

Chris (2:38): This is our new segment here on the Fan Boss Frequency. And Hot Takes is kind of some news and things that have happened in the or some things that have happened in the news this week. And I'm gonna give you my take on them. And this week, we did a lot of product spotlights and we learned a lot about different things and what DCCI has to offer. And that professional consulting space that I operate under.

Chris (2:58): No, I just want to kind of share what it is that we do and really why it works. So the first and it's kind of set me off a little bit. You know, dashcams are convicting evil. I've got two of these stories, well actually more than that, but two of these that actually posted on my Facebook this week and it just makes you go, you know, deep in your mind like what makes people do this? What makes them think it's a great idea?

Chris (3:19): So the first story is Christina Spacuza, I believe I'm saying her name correctly, but she was a mother of four and an Uber driver trying to feed her kids with the doggone family car out there, know, driving folks around. And, you know, a lot of folks do that. And so Calvin Crew booked an Uber using his girlfriend's phone to hide himself for what reason, but who knows. So eighteen minutes into the ride, he grabbed her ponytail, pressed a gun in the back of her head. She pleaded, I've got four kids.

Chris (3:47): I'm begging you and her dash cams recording every second. Once he realized it was a dash camera involved, he ripped it off the window and ripped it off the the windshield and threw it out the window. And he thought it was gone. So police were able to recover the footage and he was able to be they were able to get a conviction based on the footage. He was sentenced to life in prison in May 2025.

Chris (4:08): Now that dashcam that her fiance bought her to protect her, it didn't stop what happened. But it made damn sure Calvin Crewe will never do it to another family. That's what it's all about. I'm very passionate about this side of the business because I know that, you know, it's different when you say well, this is what happened or we we can only, you know, think and paint you a picture based on what we think we know. But when you're playing that footage for the jury in an open court, and people see what actually happened, and they don't have to imagine because your imagination is different from mine.

Chris (4:43): It takes to a whole new level. So the images that were shared with the story that were just horrific. And those are the images that that wasn't the actual dashcam footage. But with dashcam footage in that situation, you were able to to really be there in the moment. Now, the next story I'm going to share with you, this is kind of still developing and as of the recording of this podcast, there hasn't been an end to this.

Chris (5:12): But back in December 2025, FedEx driver delivering Christmas presents to seven year old Athena Strand's home essentially put her on the truck and murdered her. And when the camera inside the FedEx truck captured him loading her into the vehicle, there's a chilling picture of her standing upright. He's driving the truck. It appears he's whistling in this photo. I don't know if he is or not, but that's what it appears to be.

Chris (5:43): And moments later, the camera was covered by the driver, and the audio was captured of her murder in the back of a FedEx truck. The interior footage led investigators directly to Horner and ultimately to finding Athena's body. This week, body cam footage shows him flipping between his personalities calling himself zero. He did plead guilty, and juries are now deciding whether it's the death penalty or life without parole. So the flee camera inside that truck is the reason this family had any justice at all.

Chris (6:19): It's not a coincidence. That's accountability. That FedEx truck was equipped with a dash camera to ensure that in the event of a crash or an incident, that they were able to prove or disprove their case one way or the other. Never thought I'm sure that one of their drivers would kidnap a kid. And there's a lot of things that go along with the story.

Chris (6:38): But the fact that he was able to abduct this child and murder this child, and there's dashcam video and audio to go with it, according to the story. That's chilling. That's no longer painting a picture for a jury. That's experiencing the last moments of that seven year old little girl's life on this earth. And that is powerful.

Chris (7:00): So when it comes to dash cams, you know, doing their job, sometimes they work way better than intended. So the next story I've got, this just proves how stupid criminals can be. But two men from Pennsylvania drove to Manhattan with homemade bombs with the intention of killing 60 people or so at a protest. Their dashcam was running the entire time. Hours of footage.

Chris (7:26): They discussed the plan, targets, method, all captured on their own footage. I just want to start terror, bro. That's a quote from from their own dashcam. They didn't even realize they were recording themselves confessing on their own cameras. So three days of dashcam footage was evidence.

Chris (7:48): Their own camera put them away. Think about that the next time someone says dashcams are a privacy invasion. Turns out bad guys forget they have cameras too apparently. So it's kinda crazy. Now, there is some good news when it comes to the dashcam world.

Chris (8:07): It's not all bad. So this is the side that rarely gets talked about, but I'm gonna share it with you anyway. A Colorado woman was accused by police of stealing a package. They said it was a lock 100% done and done. See you.

Chris (8:23): Bye. She used her Rivian's dashcam footage and GPS data to prove she was at her tailor, not at the crime scene. Charges were dropped. The person running from the camera wasn't even in a truck. Looked nothing like her.

Chris (8:39): A trucker's dashcam saved him from an lying driver who changes change lanes into him the judge throughout the entire case. So accountability works both ways. And dash cam doesn't care who it helps. It just tells the truth. And sometimes the truth saves an innocent person from a system that got it wrong.

Chris (8:58): So in the case for the woman with the the Rivian and the dash camera, that's great technology. That's what you want. You want to ensure that you have, you know, the upside when you're doing you're doing the right thing. And of course, I got into the dash camera business because I knew that juries are a lot more sympathetic to things they can see, touch, feel, hold. And while you can't recreate a crime, if you've got evidence, if you can prove innocence or guilt for that matter with video, juries believe video.

Chris (9:31): Bottom line, it's hard to argue with. You know, you can get get a security guard to drive around for people to be witness every day. But then what's their intent? You got to feed them. So maybe they show up late, maybe they have an attitude, maybe they don't.

Chris (9:41): But the technology is such that it allows for businesses to, you know, keep an eye on their employees, protect their employees most importantly, and protect their business at the end and try to keep costs low. Because let me tell you, man, a lawsuit and nothing about a lawsuit cheap. And at the end of the day, all people really want is to do their job and go home and be protected. So that's my hot take this week. I hope you enjoyed that.

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Chris (10:52): Might even play it on the show one day. So we just wrapped up a busy week as we'll call it the weekend review. We posted five episodes this week that really kind of delve into who we are and what we do. I wanted to kind of do a quick recap. If you would like to go back and listen to each episode individually, absolutely, by all means, please do.

Chris (11:12): A lot of good information there. And hopefully it's good stuff for you to hear. But Monday, we covered the DCCI difference. And it's more than just a slogan. It's really a culture we built here.

Chris (11:24): I watched a movie years ago with the the late Steve Jobs. And one of the things that he was maniacal about was processes, presentations, and all the things in between. What was the end user getting? And that's something I've always kind of been a fan of because anybody can sell anything. Anybody can do every anything that they've put their mind to, but are they doing with the spirit of excellence?

Chris (11:45): Are they doing it in such a way that makes sense to the end user? And what kind of experience are they giving the customer on the end? On the end of their their product and service? What are what are they getting? What are they expecting?

Chris (11:59): So the integrity, durability relationships, and all that fun, those are all things that are important to us and then we're built to last. We have vendors that we, you know, solidify partnerships with and when things change, they and don't meet our minimum standards, and we know they're not going to be, you know, a good fit for our clientele. That's why we are consultants. When things change and the market changes, we change and pivot with the market. And sometimes we have to help our clients offload from an old provider to something new.

Chris (12:27): And that's what we're here for. It can cost us time, money and resources. But at the end of the day, we've built that relationship with our clientele. So we think that's important. So that kind of talked about the the DCCI difference and how we do business and how we see things.

Chris (12:42): Tuesday is a little bit more fun. Was about walkie talkies and you know, the two way radios and the building building communications. I've said it before, I'll say it again, you can walk yourself to death in most places trying to find people, period. And if it's a large like a school campus or university or a hospital, someone has lots of rooms, multiple floors, things of that nature, Two way radios are an absolute necessity because you can 1000% run yourself to death. Even a place as simple as a restaurant that has a front of the house, a back of the house and you know, some parking lot space.

Chris (13:13): Radios are an incredible tool for those places to coordinate everybody to keep everybody on the same page. Period. Exclamation point. We love that. And then Wednesday, we took it on to the POC, push to talk over cellular POC, not to POC, but POC, push to talk over cellular POC.

Chris (13:33): These are the radios that work off of the network. You can use them on your Wi Fi, cellular, you know, all you gotta do is get to the Internet, it'll get to the server and back. And these little devices, man, they are a game changer. It puts everybody on the same page. And these are very versatile pieces of equipment.

Chris (13:51): You can have a thousand of them, you know, distributed through, you know, 10 plants and, you know, lots of departments and 100 groups and you know, all the crazy things we can develop all that and develop it for your business and make it work for your business. That's the whole point. So it's great for anyone who has crews that don't work in an office, HVAC, electricians, security companies, schools, school buses, there's a lot of opportunity there when it comes to building out the communications piece with those devices. And you know what's so great about that is when you press the button that one time and you key it up for the first time, you're gonna get a situation where everyone is informed.

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Unknown Speaker (15:09): Welcome back, everybody. I'm Chris, your host. And, man, oh, man, let me tell you. It's been a busy week for us around here, and, nothing like wrapping up the week with an awesome podcast. So that's what we're here for today.

Chris (15:22): We're here to wrap it up, send you off on your way and this will be the one for the weekend. So that's my paper stacking. We come prepared right around here just figuring this stuff out of top of our head. So before we kind of go any further, want to talk about something that does not get enough credit in the business media, not just regular media, social media fill in the blank, in the media just in general. Every week, you hear about startup.

Unknown Speaker (16:21): Welcome back to the fan boss frequency. This is Chris again. I'm gonna line up for another one here. So I tell you what, one thing that's really been on my mind lately. I go through these bouts of you know, there's a little bit of stress here and some of these things there and I'm gonna I'm gonna kinda I wanna share something kind of personal with you in the segment.

Chris (16:40): I had lunch with my pastor yesterday and I had a couple of revelations and I wanna share some of these things and maybe this is something that you run into yourself. I'm not sure. But my 2026 start off with a bang. My brother passed away January 2, quite unexpectedly, I might add, and it threw us all into a tailspin for sure. It was a very difficult time for my mother for a lot of reasons.

Chris (17:07): Alex was special needs. I always used to joke. He's like a big seven year old. You know what I mean? He just we we always had a blast.

Chris (17:14): I loved hanging out with him and spending time with him and, you know, for somebody who, you know, could barely, you know, read and, you know, he struggled with writing a little bit. He could text. Tell you what. But we kind of struggled with his loss. It was like I said, it was out of completely out of left field.

Chris (17:32): We had no idea what's coming. It just really kind of threw us off for a loop. And what's ironic was I lost a mentor last summer, unexpectedly very much the same way that was a phone call, you know, Tommy's passed away and that that just floored me. So getting over that still, and then, you know, the loss of my brother was was a lot. It's a lot to to really take on.

Chris (17:57): And so right after all that, I went to my cardiologist, I'd done, you know, some nuclear stress test and echocardiogram, know, stuff we do. We're gonna try to take you off some medicines and so on and so forth. That's cool, whatever. Didn't get the report that I was looking for during that. So I essentially I had to go for another heart cath to kind of see what was going on.

Chris (18:28): And so it kinda when I left that appointment, it was very much a doom and gloom situation, because I'd worked so hard, I thought to do better. And the reality was, after I left there, I felt terrible. Like, I'm I'm on death's door. And that's how I was made to feel when I was there. It was just, you know, giving me the information and the facts as as they were.

Chris (18:50): And so after that, I guess it was the Friday after I got the the bad news, I like to call it. You know, I just started kind of praying a lot. And, you know, I've lost my brother. I've, you know, now I want this health scare. You know, I'm not scared to die.

Chris (19:10): I'm afraid of what I'm leaving behind. Because I've got a wife and two kids. And you know, one of them's mostly wrong and the other one he's getting there. So the point I'm driving at was, you know, my fear was if something happens to me, then fill in the blank. So I started manifesting things in my life that were very negative.

Chris (19:32): And I slowed down kind of going to church. Now I want you to understand when I went to church when I started going back to church, I went to my son was going to a youth program at a local church. And he enjoyed it. And his girlfriend at the time was going, so my god, that's that's the rub. Okay, I got it.

Chris (19:51): I get it now. Okay, that that's what's going on. They broke up and he still went. And he leaned in a little closer, and then he started playing guitar. And they went from playing guitar to I want to be baptized.

Chris (20:04): So we, you know, we went to the church to check it out and see what's what and, you know, I passed by this church a thousand times in my lifetime. Seriously. I mean, was I used to have it used to be seven minutes door to door from my old house. Drove past it all the time. Morning, noon, and night.

Chris (20:20): Never never once I watched it, you know, I watched them build this church, literally build this church, and I've never been in. So now I'm walking in for the first time. And then we go in and we visit and I'm like, wow, I love this place. And so going on Sundays wasn't enough anymore. So then I started going to we had a men's Bible study on Tuesday morning.

Chris (20:43): So then I started going to that. I'm like, alright, cool. And then they're like, hey, would you like to play with the youth on Wednesday night, play drums? I'm like, yeah, that'd cool. So then I kinda got my feet wet with, you know, praise and worship, you know, with the the youth group.

Chris (20:55): And, you know, was playing drums and kinda learning how that worked. And then I was invited to, hey, would you like to play on a Sunday? I like, yeah, sure. You know, that'd be great. I didn't understand at the time we only had one drummer.

Chris (21:05): And, you know, that's a lot. It's a lot of work to learn five songs. And remember, I was learning two songs a week, and this was music I had never heard before I started going to church. And I don't know who Chris Tomlin is. I don't know who Maverick City and all, I had no idea.

Chris (21:22): So I really immersed myself in the music and every week when I would, you know, we have new songs at church, I put them on playlist and that's how I learned the music and that's all I listened to for a solid year. And then so that went from I'd never went to church to now I'm going Sundays, going to Tuesday morning Bible study, Wednesday night with the, you know, with the youth group and getting that was a blast, by the way. The first time my son ever stood on stage and prayed over the youth, I was 10 feet away from him. That's powerful. And when you look at what God has done in my life, it's amazing.

Chris (22:03): And then you turn around and now I'm going Thursday night for rehearsals to play, you know, on Sundays and of course, Sunday, the weeks I play, I get to enjoy the service twice. You know what I mean? So it was just such an amazing thing. Went from nothing to, you know, I'm at the church five nights a week, or five days out of the week. And that was just never on my radar.

Chris (22:24): So, you know, last summer with with the business being busy and on all the things that have been kind of jumping off, I played a lot on Sundays, which I loved. And I made the decision to, you know, step back from, you know, working with the youth. And they were able to recruit drummers and so forth. And that's the whole point of the youth program is to have, you know, it's for for the youth, you know, you want, you know, a youth praise and worship team, you know, the youth to kind of run it and do their own thing and have a blast and put their own spin on things. But when I tell you that our youth program is phenomenal, it's like Sunday, but it's Wednesday night for the kids.

Chris (23:03): They have an activity, they praise and worship like we do on Sundays. And then of course, you know, there's a message and then small group. It's amazing. And so I stepped back from that so they could kind of, you know, start building out a little bit, which they've done. They've done an amazing job of building that praise and worship team for the youth.

Chris (23:19): And then our book club kind of changed a little bit. The structure changed a scoach. And so I said, you know, I really appreciate it guys. I mean, thirty is that's I'm out. I can't do that.

Chris (23:32): With my schedule being what it is and my all the things that I'm required to do, I step back. And so now that's two days out of the week. So now I'm down to, you know, and at the time, like I said, I was, you know, doing a lot of praise and worship team on Sunday. So and loving having a blast with it. And I think I sewed together several months in a row and I just I loved it.

Chris (23:55): But it was a lot. And again, I'm still learning it's easier because I've learned more songs now, but now I'm learning new on top of that I'm still building my, you know, my library. So that was that was awesome. And then I kind of went all this stuff happened with my brother kind of step back a little bit. And, you know, kind of to regroup.

Chris (24:13): And then with the health stuff, I'm like, I'm gonna step back a little more. And so then I went from never missing a week at church, and being there five days a week to I had a couple of months this year, and then we're only in April. But I had a couple of months where I just didn't go. And I go watch it online. And I didn't.

Chris (24:37): And so I started having a lot of difficulty in my personal life and in my business. And all of these things that weren't problems six months ago are now problems. I have a new set of problems every day it seems like. And I was talking to my pastor yesterday, said, do you see I asked him, is there a correlation between my distance from the church and the struggles that I'm having? You know, I'm really struggling with grief right now.

Chris (25:05): I'm struggling with surviving some days, you know, like I said, I've got great news now with my new cardiologist. And I mean, I'll find out Monday where we're at, but, you know, so far so good. And I feel better, but I manifested all these negative things in my life. And when I got the good news that I, you know, were not were thinking that you're gonna have to have another heart cath, I'll do one if you want. But, you know, you don't I don't think you need that.

Chris (25:31): Let's do this testing just to make sure, you know, that you're good. And so I've gone through all the testing. So I said all that to kind of say this, I manifest a lot of negativity and the weeks after the bad news I got from the doctor because I was I knew in my heart, well, this is gonna be a problem or I'm gonna have to worry about this and that and you get where I'm going with this. It was always just something just negative. And I built a lot of that up in my mind like, oh, this is it, know, what this is the end.

Chris (25:57): And you know, it's a stark, you know, reversal from where I came back from when I came home from the hospital. For whatever time I got left, I'm gonna give it a 110% every single day and that's it bottom line. I don't sit here and worry about what's gonna come down the pike. I mean, God's got me covered. I know that.

Chris (26:14): I believe that God has a plan for my life. And if he didn't, I'd have been dead back when I was 40. Four and a half years ago, I had my heart attack. I survived a widowmaker. That's powerful.

Chris (26:26): But beyond surviving the widowmaker, I knew there was an opportunity left. There was something that God wanted me to do. I went from not being a member of a church to having one of the best church families I could have ever asked for. I've met so many amazing people at this church, people that are in my community, people that I've probably run into just, you know, in passing, but would have never met otherwise. So one of the other things that it's kind of brought to me, I've made friends with people that I would have never thought I would have been friends with, because I didn't know who they were.

Chris (27:01): And once you get to know people, and you remove the intimidation, and then you get to know who they are and what's in their heart. And by the way, we all want the same things. We want what's best for the world. We wanna bring people to Jesus. We want people to know that there's a purpose for their life, and we wanna live in community with others.

Chris (27:22): And we want to do what it is God wants us to do. We want to advance the kingdom of God. That's the whole point of what we do. And when you realize that you're put on this earth for a purpose, that God has a plan for you, it's amazing. It's something that's it's bigger than anything I could have ever imagined.

Chris (27:42): If you'd have told me ten years ago, hey, you're gonna be back in the church, you're be doing that. I don't need all that. I just don't. I've been to churches. It's it's whatever.

Chris (27:51): I can read the Bible. I understand. But it's something that we need. And I can tell you since I've kind of stepped back, I can see a difference in my life. And I've got to put back the things that are important in play in my life.

Chris (28:07): And instead of saying, well, I don't have time for this, I need to do that. No, I need to make time for that. I need to make time to sit down and read my Bible. I need to make time to study something from the kingdom of God that's going to make me better every day. I need to do something today that my future self will thank me for and stop making excuses.

Chris (28:30): And if I'm talking to you right now, you know I'm right. Everything we do is a choice. It's easy to sit there and watch another episode of fill in the blank on Paramount plus. It's easy to, you know, start scrolling through the the videos on your phone. It's real easy to not do what you're supposed to do.

Chris (28:52): Because that requires work and effort. There's some days I wake up in the morning, my man, I feel terrible. My body hurts this and that. I mean, just I got all the excuses under the sun. But I know there's somebody out there that doesn't have two working legs and two arms.

Chris (29:05): And I got it a thousand times better than they do. 1000%. So, you know, when I used to listen to Rick and Bubba, say who's got it better than us. And it's funny I adopted that because it's true. I remember a couple of weeks ago, I guess it was last week and actually, I said, gonna ahead and put yacht rock on the old such and such like, oh, hate it.

Chris (29:27): My kids are kind of making funny about it. Christopher specifically. And I'm like, man, I am glad I had built a life for my kids where Yacht Rock is just that is the end all be I that's what that's the hill I'm willing to die on. Because that means we have overcome hunger, starvation, mumps, homelessness, we've accomplished a lot of, you know, a lot of things if that's the thing you're just willing to die on. You know what I mean?

Chris (29:52): So say that kind of tongue in cheek, but we have really built and grown an incredible life. And it's not that we have done it. God has blessed us. And so who am I to know I got that to give him his time? It's not about putting money in the plate on Sundays.

Chris (30:11): It's not about, you know, being seen, shall we say. A lot of people talk the talk, do you walk the walk? And there's a lot of things in my life that I'm grateful for. Second chance for sure. I look at things a lot differently now.

Chris (30:26): And one of the things that I've learned going to this church, and we've discussed it at length yesterday is meeting people where they're at. You can't expect people just to come to you. You have to go to them. It's very simple. And I've and it's not just in the biblical world, or in life and that's really, I guess, you would say life in general.

Chris (30:47): I've got a couple of clients who we've been working with and they've having some difficulty with certain aspects of business, shall we say, and, you paying their bill on time is kind of in a struggle and no matter what we do, seems to, you know, why do the same thing and get the unexpected result. That's insanity. So I'm like, what can we do to make this work? Or how can we better accommodate fill in the blank? And it's funny how when you ask someone, you know, someone who's angry, talk to me about why you're angry.

Chris (31:16): And you get a better understanding. Same thing. You know, I'm trying to judge less and give more and understand what those people are going through and those different, you know, different aspects of my life. So instead of getting frustrated with somebody because they pay their bill late, or instead of getting frustrated with somebody because they cut me off in traffic, or instead of getting irritated because the lady at the restaurant brought me, you know, the incorrect drink or whatever, you know, I try to understand like, maybe they're having a bad day. What can I do to make their day better?

Chris (31:50): I like to talk to people, which is obvious. But I think what I get out of that the most is how can I make someone's day better? Because you never know what people are going through. It's a tough world we live in. I mean, just the things we talked about in the first segment, you know, I mean, it ain't all bad, but it's a tough world we live in.

Chris (32:10): So my advice to you is that if things in your life have been complicated, if you've been struggling for any reason, ask yourself, is it because I have distanced myself from God? And if you have, that's okay. One thing that's important to note, when you're going through tough times, God is right there by your side. When you're going through good times, it's right there by your side too. It's always with you.

Chris (32:43): But you gotta ask. That's that was my big takeaway. So if you feel like your life is kind of spiraling out of control, there probably is. If you wake up every day feeling terrible, like, ugh, you know, speak positive things into your life. When I found out the good news, instantly I felt better.

Chris (33:08): You know, I started to see I'm gonna do this and I'm do one of the reasons I started this podcast was because I'm like, well, for whatever time I have left on this earth, I want to share my experience with those who may be able to get something from it. And if I can help one person, it's time well spent. By the way, I spent a lot of time on these podcasts, but I enjoy it. And I hope that I'm helping others. It's part of my, you know, help others thing.

Chris (33:26): But the point I'm driving at is with all of this work that we do with this, it's not anything out of it other than help somebody else. So speak good things in your life, be positive throughout the day when things in your life are kind of meh, you know, they're not great. You know, just kind of like, start thinking about something positive, you know, man, this isn't where I want to be right now. Okay, well, let's let's figure out where you want to be just stops. Alright, Lord.

Unknown Speaker (33:53): Let's hit the reset button on this because this ain't it. So anyway, stick around. We're gonna close it out here in just a moment. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to thank you once again for spending your time with me. I had a blast.

Chris (34:42): I hope you had fun too. Hope you learned a few things. And before we leave, I just wanna remind you, visit the fanboss.com for everything pertaining to the podcast show. You can also leave a message at 855 the number four podcast. That's 855 the number four podcast.

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