Did you know this Prison Break Trival

Did you know that a majority of the first season of 'Prison Break' was filmed on location in and around Chicago?

Did you know that Joliet Prison was closed down in 2002? It also became the set of Prison Break in 2005, standing in as Fox River State Penitentiary on screen.

Did you know that the scenes set in Lincoln's cell, the infirmary and the prison yard were all shot on location at the prison?

Did you know that Lincoln's cell is the same one in which John Wayne Gacy was incarcerated?

Did you know that most of the production crew refused to enter the cell, thinking that it was haunted?

Did you know that the exterior scenes were filmed in areas around Chicago, Woodstock, and Joliet in Illinois. Other locations included O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Toronto, Ontario in Canada?

Did you know that Prison Break spent $2 million per episode in the state of Illinois, which cost them a total of $24 million in 2005?[6]

Did you know that each episode takes eight days to film and approximately $1.4 million goes to the local economy per episode?[14]

Did you know that the third season was shot in Texas and had a budget of $3 million per episode?

Did you know the fourth season is being filmed in Los Angeles, California?

Did you Know who Robert Dyrdek is?

Robert "Rob" Dyrdek is know to many as "Rob" from the hit show Rob & Big. Rob was born June 28, 1974 in Kettering, Ohio). Robert Dyrdek and started when he was 15 winning his first competition 24 days later.[2] The same year, Dyrdek became the youngest member of the G&S skateboard team. He turned professional at the age of 16, joining the Ohio-based Alien Workshop team, forgoing his senior year of high school. He reached fourth place at the 1991 World Championships, the and first contest he competed in as a professional.
As a professional, Rob Dyrdek attracted a growing number of sponsors, appeared in skate movies, on magazine covers, signature skateboards, and other merchandise. One of his best known sponsorship deals developed after he befriended the founders of the Droors Clothing line. He not only began promoting their clothing, but was given the opportunity to design a signature line of the first athletic skate shoe. The nearly 30 shoes designed by Dyrdek helped establish what became DC Shoes. This exposure to the business side of skateboarding inspired him to venture into other projects such as the world-famous skateboarding training facility in San Diego and the now defunct hip hop label, P-Jays Records.

At the age of 25, Dyrdek rededicated himself to street skateboarding. He began competing for the first time since his early professional years and received a multitude of awards and international recognition. The success and accolades renewed his desire to give back to the sport. He quickly identified the niche that needed to be filled in order to advance the sport – tackling the struggle that skaters faced in finding legal street skating sites in the United States. As Dyrdek experienced firsthand, street skateboarders are often ticketed, arrested and harassed by overly aggressive security guards and police. Dyrdek realized that many cities were open to compromise but were not qualified to follow through on their end of the agreement and they built poorly constructed parks that do not meet street skating requirements. He decided to task himself with providing street skaters with legitimate, safe and challenging street skating venues.
The formation of the Rob Dyrdek/DC Shoes Skate Plaza Foundation resulted in the Kettering Skate Plaza in his hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Working with the Site Design Group, Dyrdek designed the skate park by educating himself in design and drafting techniques. He used photos of his favorite skate spots to assemble an illustrated book of tricks and obstacles for the plaza. The 40,000 square foot Kettering Skate Plaza opened in June 2005, as a legal place for street skaters to hone their skills.[3]The Kettering Skate Plaza received rave reviews from the skateboarding community and won the Modernism Award from Dwell magazine.[4] Filmmaker Kirk Dianda documented the design process in the film Groundbreaking, which also serves as a reference for youngsters to lobby for skate plazas in their cities.
While building the Skate Plaza, Dyrdek's long time dream of making a movie about skateboarding came to fruition. Dyrdek’s foray into the film business manifested itself in the writing, financing, casting, producing and starring in his feature film, Street Dreams. The story is about a young skater from the Midwest who is suddenly faced with national exposure and personal adversity, reminiscent of Dyrdek's own rise to fame.

In 2006, Dyrdek became a reality TV star due to the success of MTV's Rob & Big. The three-season series was picked up by MTV after a skit written by Dyrdek in The DC Video became an underground sensation. The series ended in April of 2008 with Boykin moving out and, thus, ending the production of the show due to the birth of his first child. Dyrdek is coming out with a new show on MTV called Fantasy Factory. MTV wants it to come out in the 4th quarter so its expected to be released in late November or early December.
Dyrdek says, "I’ll actually start filming a new show that I call “Fantasy Factory” next month, which will be more about my skating, friends, business ventures, and adventures that I’m going to be getting into over the next year or so."

Adding to his acting repertoire, Dyrdek has been cast in the Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro film Righteous Kill.[5]
Current Dyrdek involvement includes: endorsements including Spy Optics, Alien Workshop and Monster Energy drinks; co-owner of Rogue Status, a clothing company with his business partner, former Blink 182 and current Plus 44 drummer Travis Barker; involvement with his own companies, Reflex Bearings and Silver Trucks; feature character in Skate, a video game from EA Sports; promoter of SafeSpot, an urban renewal program that seeks to take unused donated land and build safe skating grounds for street skateboarders; also a playable character in the game MTV Sports: Skateboarding released in 2000


is an American professional skateboarder, actor, entrepreneur, and star of his own reality TV series entitled Rob & Big with then personal bodyguard and best friend Christopher "Big Black" Boykin.[1] He currently resides in North Hollywood, California.
Rob was the first skater signed with DC shoes, he met big black through DC shoes and hired him to prevent security guards and others from stopping him from skating where he wanted. THey instantly became friends and the rest is history.




There are many questions about the show since Big moved out, Will their be a season 4? That hasn't been confirmed. But, sources say, "Yes," since Christopher "Big Black" Boykin has a baby daughter, now. But hopefully in the future, there will be a "reunion" episode where they meet again. MTV would probably get the most views in history that day, because who doesn't like "Rob and Big.".

Did you know who Christopher " Big Black " Boykins died May 9, 2017?

Did you know that Christopher "Big Black" Boykin was born January 26, 1972 in Wiggins, Mississippi?

Did you know that Big Black was an ex professional bodyguard, but is best known for his role on MTV's television show Rob & Big which followed him and his co-host/best friend Rob Dyrdek?

Did you know that Big Black (Christopher Boykin) . was 375-pound, and he was 6-foot-6-inch?


Did you  know that Chris "Big Black" Boykin first linked up with skateboard pro Rob Dyrdek and DC Shoes for a supporting role in a segment in the 2003 skateboarding video, "The DC Video?."

Did you know that "Big Black" was not only a body guard, he also had his own signature hat collection with New Era, sporting the slogan, "Got Big Black?"

Did you Big Black was a U.S. Navy veteran, where he was a chef?


Did you know that Big Black worked as an executive protection specialist until he met Dyrdek in 2003?

Did you know Big Black and Dyrdek From November 2006 to April 2008, starred in the reality television series Rob & Big on MTV?

Did you know that Big Black also set a Guinness world records for peeling and eating three bananas in 1 minute?

Did you know that Big Black also set another   Guinness world records for the most powdered doughnuts eaten in less than 3 minutes (5 donuts in 2 minutes, 45 seconds)?^[4]

Did you know that Rob & Big features Dyrdek and Boykin the series ended when Boykin left to attend to family matters. In 2011?

Did you know that Big Black rekindled his relationship with Dyrdek and took a main role in Dyrdek's show Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory?

Did you know that Big Black also appeared on three episodes of Dyrdek's other show Ridiculousness as well as MTV Guy Code and MTV Snack Off?^[5]
 
Did you know that Big Black also was a member of the hip-hop group "The Chunky Boys", The group consists of four members: Big Black, Bam Bam, Zeus, and Steve OG?



Did you know that Big Black was married to Shannon Turley in 2008^[6] until they divorced in 2009.^[7]

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Did you know that Big Black died from a suffered from a heart attack On May 9, 2017,  he was 45?

Did you know that Together they had one daughter named Isis?

Did you know before his death, Boykin was hospitalized a week prior in Plano, Texas to monitor his heart, already having a defibrillator and previous heart issues?

Did you know that the cast of Ridiculousness did a tribute to Big Black and he and the cast were devastated from his passing?https://youtu.be/kzOeXmij8MY

Did you know a black man was lynched in Texas?

A racially divided town’s worse fears are brewing, as evidence shows two White men might have picked up and then mutilated and dismembered a 24-year-old Black man in Paris, Texas. The victim’s body was discovered in the middle of a busy road last month. Law enforcement officials had first declared Brandon Clelland’s death a hit and run by an unidentified driver. However, forensics performed by the Texas Rangers found blood from Mr. McClelland and other DNA evidence on the undercarriage of the truck, which has the victim’s family calling the death a “Jasper-style” lynching. The term refers to the murder of a Black man in Jasper, Texas, in 1998. “They tied my son to that truck and dragged him until his body parts were detached,” said Jacqueline McClelland, the victim’s mother in an interview with The Final Call. “His body was so destroyed that it could not even be embalmed by the funeral home. This is a hate crime.” The Lamar County District Attorney disputes that race was a factor in McClelland’s death because he was friends with alleged assailants Shannon Finley and Charles Ryan Crostley. Both men are 27-years-old. However, angry family members and community activists are demanding a thorough investigation into a possible hate crime they say parallels the lynching of James Byrd Jr., in Jasper, Texas, which is several hours south of Paris.

The fact that this happen 2 weeks ago should let the world know that when ever those good ole boys want to get out and kick up some dirt, they will. Where is Hannity, Limbaugh, Salvage or any of the conservative talk show host who are always concerned about Obama playing the quote un quote "race card"... Although this happened this kind of thing happened, why is it burried on page 4 of most news papers? How many of you never even heard of the story? The greatest joy happened for the world when that we elected a black president... Although 2 weeks before we Eleceted our first Black President, a black man was lynched... Is this really the change that we all have been waitng for?

Did you know what goes around comes around?

One day a man saw an old lady stranded on the side of the road. Even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still sputtering when he approached her.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and
hungry.

He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear can put in you.

He said, 'I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.'

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in
need and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, 'And think of me..'

He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy
looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase.

The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never
let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan .

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be, then she noticed something written on the napkin.

There were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: 'You don't owe me anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way
I'm helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.'

Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the
waitress made it through another day. That night when she got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With
the baby due next month, it was going to be hard....

She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, 'Everything's going to be all right. I
love you, Bryan Anderson.'

There is an old saying 'What goes around comes around.' Today I sent you this story, and I'm asking you to pass it on. Let this light shine.

Don't delete it, don't return it. Simply, pass this on to a friend

Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.




WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND





~GOD BLESS!~

Did you know these Garth Brooks facts?

Did you know that Memphis infant mortality is the...

Did you know that the infant mortality is the highest in the United States? For every 1,000 births in ZIP code 38108 31 deaths occur in the city. Memphis infant death rate rivals Third World countries like Vietnam, El Salvador and Iran.
One in four teen girls here gives birth each year.