Trashcan TV presents different recruiting campaigns for the military branches of the US.
Army!
Do you like drinking red line? Do you like hanging out with your buddies all night?
Do you like strapping tube mattresses and jumping off on top of a building to see if you're gonna die or not?
Well, that's why you should join the army, because that's what we do every single day.
Navy!
So, if you like being in really confined spaces and if you really like to go around with your shipmates and your being at sea,
I would recommend being in the Navy, because it's really fun and we just have a good time.
And the food's nice and yeah, I would recommend it.
Marines!
I've never wanted to run your hand through the wall as your mom ever told you.
You probably should pee on medication and you said, you know what, I'm not on any medication.
Join the Marines.
If you ever want to stab somebody, and it be illegal, the Marines are for you.
The Air Force.
Hi, I'm Lieutenant Dan Smith, Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force.
I'm here to talk to you today about great opportunities in the Air Force and why you should join.
The Air Force has always been very, very kind and, you know, you really won't have to work that hard.
The rest of the branches, they think they're all that, but this is really the spot where you can make the money without having to really risk it or do very much.
So, I would recommend you join us and also on our bases it's better.
We actually have Papa Johns and not stuff like Ann.
And last but not least, Space Force.
Well guys, we're new and we have plenty of grant money right now.
And, you know, if you're really, really keen on things and want to go to space and stuff, even though we're not actually doing that right now,
and we're defending things and satellites and stuff, and watching that stay.
If you like monitoring things primarily, then that's what we have.
But we have monsters in the fridge and we've got all the gaming systems you could ever want in the corner.
That's pretty much what we're going to do and that's what we'd like to do.
And, oh, there's a GameStop across the street. We like to go there a lot.
Hi, I'm Chris.
And I'm Michael.
And this is the special Fourth of July edition of the Donut Box Podcast.
Happy Fourth of July to all of our American folks.
If you're listening abroad, it really does not pertain to you, I guess.
Our friends in the UK, I know this is the soggy time for you guys.
A little bit of a sore spot. Just kidding. We love all of our UK people.
Hey, it's okay. You lost, pal. You can deal with it. Just joking. We love our UK folks.
Yeah, we also have listeners in Singapore. We also have people in Germany.
We also have people in Canada, man. Canada is great.
We also have people in Iowa, people in Massachusetts, people in New York, people in Pittsburgh.
We got some listeners in Pittsburgh.
All the areas where the country was founded up in the Northeast, shout out up there.
And shout out to even Georgia. It was part of the 13 colonies, even though it was a prison colony.
There's FY, so Georgia's kind of the Australia of the United States. Think about it.
I was literally just about to say that I was like, Georgia is the Australia of the United States.
But we're going to jump into our first segment, which is the Old Pasadona, which is a story from our past.
Or instead of our story, we're going to do his story, history or her story if you're in all that good stuff.
But we're going to do a couple stories from America's past. These are like some not so well known stories about America.
When I was reading these, I didn't actually know any of these. So you ready to hop in?
Yeah, let's do it. Did you know that there was actually instead of the 13 original colonies, there was actually going to be a 14th original colony before they decided to become a nation?
Did you know that? No, I didn't. What was the 14th colony going to be and where was it going to be?
Well, I misspoke. Not the colony, but it was going to be the almost 14th state. And it was going to be called Franklin.
Franklin was going to be a state and it's actually in the region of East Tennessee now. So in 1784, right after the American Revolution, the newly formed U.S. Congress was deep into a lot of debt.
And then the state of North Carolina voted to give or to sell 29 million acres of land around Tennessee to Mississippi to Congress to ease its financial troubles.
The government had two years to accept responsibility for the area. However, there were a lot of sellers that feared that they would be left to handle the Cherokee Native Americans alone.
And they were also scared that Congress was going to sell the territory off to a foreign entity to help them get out of debt.
So the North Carolinians, I think that's how you say it or what you call them, they said, you know what? No, we're going to take back our offer.
We evaluated the situation. We're going to take it back. We're going to reclaim authority over the land. And this is in the Eastern Tennessee area.
Now, there are a few people that were not happy with North Carolina's decision and a couple of frontiersmen from the region sought to establish their own land as a separate independent state.
And they were going to call it Franklin. So not Franklin, but Franklin.
In August of 1784, the counties from Franklin, they gathered in Jonesboro and elected leaders from their new state.
And they even dropped at a state constitution. They petitioned Congress for statehood in 1785, seven out of 13 existing U.S. states voted in favor, but this was less than the two thirds majority.
Right. The Articles of Confederation said two thirds of the people got agreed. So attempting to try to leverage their situation and get some traction for this new state, Franklin leaders changed the name of the area to Franklin
and attempt to get support from the founding father, Benjamin Franklin. So he said, no, no way.
But apparently Franklin existed for over four years, but it never became a state.
That's really interesting. No, I didn't know that at all. I had no clue. I never knew that. I was like, wow, that could have been the 14th state.
So North, like from Tennessee, parts of Mississippi could have been its own little region there. Yeah, crazy.
So next one that I have is about West Virginia and the Cold Wars. Did you know there was an actual war that happened a little bit after the Civil War?
No, I did not know this. So apparently in the late 1800s, there was a war in West Virginia and it was between coal miners and coal companies who employed them.
So for decades, apparently the West Virginia coal fields, I'm sure everybody's heard, or if you don't know, it was really low wages and, you know, they had really shoddy tools and it was really unsafe.
And unionizing was out of the question at the time. It wasn't until the early 1900s in our country that unions became a thing and was, you know, unionizing back then was definitely not a thing.
So due to strict contracts and things like that, it would just mean for immediate termination if you even tried to unionize things like that.
Have you, I'm sure that some of you have heard about the Hatfields and the McCoys. Have you heard about them, Chris?
Yeah, a lot of people sing about it in old country songs from like the 70s. They were like, Hatfields and the McCoys. People all in the country are all about that.
I mean, this is part of it. So the United Mine Workers Union succumbed to local pressure to organize in the area, in that county where the coal miners were.
And so thousands of the miners joined. And this was in the early 1900s at this point. And evidently, all the miners were fired.
So those who lived in the company owned homes were greeted by private detectives hired by the coal company. And they basically were all evicted.
So I guess at the time, it makes sense, you know, the mines also had owned where you lived pretty much. And so they all got booted.
They tried to bribe the mayor to place machine guns on the roof of the town buildings. And the mayor refused, essentially, because everybody was obviously mad.
I mean, they were getting evicted from their homes and everything like that. So literally, they had to, they wanted to put machine guns on the roof of the town buildings to begin with,
because they knew these people were going to riot once they kicked them out. But they said no.
So essentially, they had to go on with their duty, evicted everybody. And so the town police chief, Sid Hatfield, confronted the group and said,
okay, all of you are under arrest for kicking everybody out. And then a gunfight ultimately ensued where 10 men were killed, including the mayor.
Wow. That's interesting. Very interesting.
And so on the orders of Warren G. Harding, the battle finally came to an end because they sent the military down there and stopped it.
10,000 Union men.
10,000 Union men forever more. Okay. Well, that's a very interesting story. No, I did not know that.
Did you know that we actually technically have had a first female US president? It's not really like recorded on the books, but we have technically had a first female US president.
I don't know if you knew that or not. No, I didn't. What kind of a by association.
So of course, in the early 1900s, President Woodrow Wilson was the president and he lost his first wife, right?
So then he decided that he was going to get remarried again and he married a lady named Edith in 1915.
So right as the World War One was wrapping up, the president went to attend Europe to the Paris Peace Conference and tried to do all that.
Well, apparently after he got back, he had a big stroke and he was paralyzed and bedridden.
And so instead of telling the president that, hey, you probably need to pass this off to the vice president, you need to resign.
His wife, Edith, took on a number of his duties and she basically hit it from the public.
She basically was the acting president from the time of his stroke to the end of his term in 1921.
She was the only connection between the president and the other officials.
And she was so serious about this that when the secretary of state conducted a cabinet meeting without her being there, she had him fired.
She had him removed from office.
And she also refused an opportunity for the president to accept this opportunity from the League of Nations.
So she was basically calling shots.
She analyzed every message delivered to the president, borrowed all of his officials from bringing in business, assisted him in completing any necessary tasks.
And she basically was running the whole country while the man was bedridden.
So she was technically our first female U.S. president and that was just kept very secret from the country.
That's pretty crazy. I didn't know that.
I will say this.
I'm sure there's been other first ladies that have kind of ran the puppet strings in the background at some point as well.
But probably not in that same circumstance.
There hasn't been too many presidents that have been bedridden after stroke.
She was a shock collar. She was doing the things, man. She was doing the things.
Well, speaking of our government, let's talk about, did you know about the time that the government intentionally poisoned alcohol?
Man, I didn't even know that at all. Please enlighten me.
So I'll tell you this much.
Nearly 1900s, if you don't know, here in the United States we had what was called the prohibition of alcohol,
which literally meant that it was prohibited to drink or sell it, anything like that.
So it was a big matter of debate, all that good jazz.
The U.S. entered the First World War and the proponent of prohibition in Congress was outnumbering the opposition, so it ends up winning.
So a new national alcohol ban happens.
1917, it literally passed and they had to empty out all the alcohol everywhere.
And I just remember the textbook seeing the pictures of the big barrels of beer or whatever,
and people taking the axes to it and having to pour it all out and everybody looking ticked off.
The war had concluded in 1919 and the prohibition of alcohol was still gone, or still in place.
It's banning the production and sale of intoxicating liquors, so that's literally, you can't sell it, you can't have it.
So what happened was Americans found creative ways to get around things and essentially there were people called bootleggers
who would take industrial alcohols, like rubbing alcohols for medications or healing purposes or different alcohols like that,
and they would resell them or repackage them as beverages.
And the process became so prevalent that the Treasury Department ordered the manufacturers to poison the industrial alcohols with additives
to essentially kill people who are redistributing that way.
And apparently it crippled up to 100,000 American drinkers and records aren't clear, but about 10,000 people could have been killed.
Dang man, yeah, if the government can't make money off of it, they don't stop anybody that can. I'm telling you.
You know some of my other conspiracies that I feel about that kind of stuff, but yeah, the US has some very...
We have some interesting history, we have some great history, and then we have some really dark history.
It's kind of a big mix, but you know, what country really doesn't?
Yeah, that's just the nature of history, man.
For sure, so we are going to hop into our jelly donut, which is our jail report.
What do you say private pile? Sir, jelly donut, sir! A jelly donut!
Micah, what kind of arrest stories do we got this week?
July 4th, arrest stories. Don't we know that July 4th, celebrating is always fun, and you can only imagine what these people have been arrested for, so let's get started.
A Houston man, shout out to here in Texas, was driving with a lit barbecue pit in the back of his truck,
and he was pulled over and he was intoxicated over the.08 legal limit,
but yeah, he had a lit barbecue pit in the back when he was asked why it was still lit and everything.
He said that he was trying to finish his brisket before he got home.
Wow, that's a... man, that man really was drunk, for sure, for sure. That's crazy.
That's dangerous, dude. That's really dangerous.
It really is. Okay, this one also happened in the Houston area. I don't know why it's Houston-Houston,
but there was a rapper who had lyrics about robbing ATMs on the 4th of July,
and the song was literally called Fireworks, apparently. They actually did rob these ATMs.
They caught them on camera and they found out that the getaway car was rented by Hertz.
They literally went back to the Hertz location, tracked it back, figured out it was this rapper kid and arrested him.
Found all the money on him, too, but they linked it back to...
They found out the location because they were talking about a hideout in the Motel 6 in the song,
and apparently they found the song on social media and tracked it back, Hertz, and that way.
Wow. Number one, why would you go through a rental company?
Because they have to get your credit card, all that stuff. They got all that information on file to rob somewhere.
That's dumb. And number two, why would you put that stuff in a song that anything that could be linked back to you?
That's just sloppy.
Heck yeah. And apparently it was him and four other suspects and they hit five ATMs in the area, about a five mile radius.
That's wild, man.
Alright, so the next one, and this one is a crazy one.
Woman in Oregon allegedly goes to jail because she blew her husband's hands off with fireworks.
Not really sure what happened. Looks like potentially caught cheating situation based on the quotes, and I'll go into why.
But essentially this woman gave fireworks to her husband and apparently put some sort of adhesive substance on the fireworks, so it stuck to his hands.
So when he lit it and went to throw the fireworks, it stuck to his hand.
Then blowing off several fingers and on his left hand blew off the majority of his left hand.
And so the woman responded when police shows up and says, nobody has another woman in my house around my kids.
And he deserves to have his hands blown off.
So she was arrested with a plethora of, but they, I mean, they got her with assault with a deadly weapon, which is crazy too.
I mean, fireworks are an explosive, so number two, my man shouldn't have been cheating, but also, like, that is not warrant anything.
Hail hath no fury like a woman's score.
I'm telling you, man, you cheat on the wrong woman, you're going to end up dead.
You shouldn't be cheating at all, but I'm telling you, dude, some of these women, they are vengeful.
They will slowly poison you.
I'm telling you, don't do it.
Blow your hands off.
Don't do it.
Apparently.
Don't do it.
All right, here's another one.
A passenger on a flight that was leaving Houston Airport causes an emergency landing on the 4th of July because Jesus told her to.
So apparently this lady on a flight to Houston causes emergency landing because she shoved a flight attendant and was upset because it was the 4th of July and she wanted to fly to Ohio.
Not really sure why she wasn't flying to Ohio in the first place, but then the story became, it's the 4th of July and Jesus told me to fly to Ohio.
Well, they were already on the plane, pushed back, all that stuff, so she goes and she reaches for an emergency handle to open the door, and so then they restrained her.
But yeah, she literally tried to get off because Jesus told her to fly to Ohio.
If Jesus told you to fly to Ohio, then get on the right plane and go to Ohio.
I'm telling you, you can't be doing all that, dude.
I don't know if Jesus was really telling you to go to Ohio, but if he was, you ain't on the right plane.
That's a U-Prop.
Okay, this next one is from the great state of Florida.
Shout out Florida.
A man crashes a stolen ambulance into a water burger and then runs into the kitchen.
And this guy enters the wrong into the water burger drive-thru, so he tried to get into the drive-thru after stealing an ambulance and initially hit the little drive-thru lane sign that hangs over and apparently turned and clipped the corner of the building.
So what ends up happening is he backs up and he tried to correct, apparently making it worse.
So what happened, all the employees were out looking and so he tried to walk in the door and said, while I'm here, I might as well get a sandwich.
Bro, that sounds like you're driving on GTA, bro.
That sounds like it for real.
People be playing GTA 2 bus.
They just think they can hit stuff and run over stuff and no consequences are happening.
I'm telling you, man.
I'm just saying I would love to see the footage of this, of this guy hitting the sign and he goes, oh, that sucks.
So he backs up, turns and he probably hits the sign again even worse this time.
Now he hits the building and he goes, oh shoot.
Okay, so then he backs up, then he hits it again.
Now all the employees are outside.
Everybody's got the attention.
So he hops out and he just walks over there and tries to walk past these people.
It's like, you know, I might as well get a burger while I'm here.
The exact line is I might as well get a sandwich while I'm here.
Here's another one.
This one's an interesting one.
So a altercation ensued over a barbecue pit.
It was over between a dad and a son, or stepson.
Sorry, that's important.
And apparently they were having an altercation about how the barbecue should be done.
And for some reason I just want to be like, listen son, coals it.
It's like, no, no, I'm telling you, it's propane, propane.
Sounds like a Hank Hill fight.
It's what it sounds like.
So apparently they're fighting, right?
And so the fight then goes to the ground.
So the dad ends up on top of his stepson and head butts him in the head, ends up killing him apparently.
No way.
And so now he's going to jail for manslaughter.
Dang, that's crazy.
That's the cook out they got.
Well, too wild.
That's wild.
Apparently they were having a Fourth of July party and her boyfriend went behind her back and left the party and went drinking at a bar.
The rest, affidavit says that the woman was confrontational and went to her boyfriend's place or went to the bar and accused him of being unfaithful to her and everything, which he wasn't being.
Apparently he was just there having a beer.
And so she literally dragged him out by his hair.
He had long hair, drug him out of the bar by his hair, ripping somehow apparently and told him to get into the car.
He refused to then get in the car where she then pulls out a kitchen knife from her pants pocket and tells him to get in the car.
He then refuses again.
So she stabs him multiple times and she ends up getting away.
But it's like, dang dude.
He needs to get away from that man.
First of all, she's carrying a kitchen knife in her pocket.
Bro, don't be playing with her.
Don't be playing man.
Uh-uh, no, no, no, no, no.
That's like, that's real crazy.
All right, the last one here.
So a woman sits fire to her boyfriend's house after another woman answers his phone at a, it's another 4th of July party.
Apparently they were having a 4th of July at the boyfriend's house.
His girlfriend, then girlfriend, went home because she was not feeling well.
So whenever, so later on, apparently the girlfriend tries to call the boyfriend back and another woman answers the phone.
And she didn't know this woman from the party at all.
So apparently this upset him so much that she went to his house and let his living room couch on fire.
And then apparently she recorded a video of the couch and flames which she then sent to him.
Apparently they weren't home at the time and apparently she caused about $250,000 worth of damage while the house was on fire.
And then reportedly the text said with the video of the couch on fire, I hope your house is okay.
Happy 4th of July.
Dang dude, I'm telling you these females be warlin' dude.
They be warlin', they be crazy.
Yeah, that's the jail report.
That's crazy stuff, huh?
Happy 4th of July, dude. People get crazy and I don't know if it's the heat, I don't know if it's the alcohol, but people get wild.
It's both.
Please drink responsibly.
If you're going to drink, please drink responsibly.
I can't stress that enough.
Good you arrived too.
Alright, well we're going to jump into the donut hole.
And what do you got for us for the donut hole?
So something that we got to be interesting.
In the United States we love our stupid stories that for some reason people believe and you're sitting here going, oh my gosh, we all know these people, your aunts, your uncles, the people who are spreading these stories on Facebook.
So I have put together the top six or seven stories that literally, the website Snopes, have you heard Snopes before?
It's a fact checking site.
You've never heard of Snopes?
Well it's a fact checking site and essentially if you've seen any fake story on Facebook or whatever and it even seems halfway real, you can go to this website called Snopes and literally look it up and see if it's been.
And this is their top stories from the last few years and then top stories of all time.
So let's start with the first one.
Apparently there was a Facebook story that went around that said, should travelers always keep a bread clip in their wallet?
Apparently a lot of people, this was one of their biggest ads on Facebook or clickbaits on Facebook.
And apparently it's false obviously but the ad claimed, always keep a bread clip in your wallet when traveling, here's why.
But every time you would click on one of these, you know, clickbait about the bread clip, all that would be mentioned is that you can use it as a guitar pick, a tool to scratch lottery tickets.
There was also ones that said you could use it to keep track of your drinks at a party, label keys and keep things organized.
However, it doesn't really offer any like travel tips of why you should keep a bread clip on you at all times.
But apparently that was one that was one of the most shared in 2022 throughout Facebook.
Well that's dumb.
This is a very dumb article.
This next one, I'm sure you've probably heard this one, but it was a Bruce Willis death hoax that went all over Facebook and is still apparently going through Facebook.
This is one of the biggest ones that Bruce Willis had died in mid-November of 2022.
There's been an update of it where they're saying January of 2023.
But yeah, apparently it's a pretty wide death hoax that has been going around on Facebook and a lot of people have been sharing it.
What do you think about these death hoaxes that come about on Facebook?
I think it's really crazy how quickly that stuff spreads.
Yeah, I always try to look it up if I ever see something like that.
And then if I see multiple people like posting it and it's like from a reputable site, then I'm like, oh, okay, cool.
But I always look at the website that it's posted from.
If it's from a place that's like, I am not real.us, it's not real.
Or TMZ.
Don't believe it.
All right, next one.
And you'll think this one is really funny because when we were growing up in the early era of Facebook, right?
When we were growing up in the early era of Facebook and everything, we saw a lot, especially when Barack Obama was president, all sorts of these fake news stories about, oh, he's not really from here.
Or oh, he's turning the country, Muslim and all this other stuff, right?
So apparently there's another one that is going around, right?
That says if President Biden ends up rerunning for the election, that he's going to choose Barack Obama as his running mate as would be his vice president.
And the thing is, it's kind of a gray area in our Constitution of whether or not he could come back, but it is highly unlikely.
The verbiage does say that you, it literally says that no person shall be elected to office of the president more than twice.
And no person who has held the office of president or acted as president could be elected as president once again.
But that does leave that, you know, you could come back for vice president.
Most of the time when you are president, you're kind of retired after that.
Like you don't come back into politics at all.
But I think it's really dumb that it's like, oh, if he gets reelected, oh, Bob was coming back.
Oh, and then they're probably like, well, then it'll be a conspiracy and then they'll kill Biden and do that.
So Barack Obama could come back to the office.
And it's like, and he'll be the dictator all over again. And so yeah, I just, I thought that was funny because I'll tell you, like I said, through all of childhood and everything, it seemed like we saw a million of those.
All right, so this one is Facebook's biggest scam that is going around.
And it's being shared by people left and right.
Amazon is giving away pallets of lost packages.
So essentially here in 2022, there's been a lot of Facebook posts and it's been reshared a bunch that Amazon warehouses are giving away packages of lost or away pallets of lost packages for a dollar each.
The items included pallets that were appliances, iPhones and various kitchen products.
However, none of it was true.
And what it would end up happening is there was a button that said apply now.
So you would apply now and what ends up happening is you would put all your bank information and they would clear out your bank.
Dang, that's a scam. That's a scam. That's a lick for sure.
If anywhere asks for your bank information unless you're actually purchasing something.
Nah, fam.
And then there's other variants of it that did data harvesting such as getting people's social security numbers and also getting access to their social media via getting their credentials through putting, you know, asking, okay, what's your Facebook login and, you know, people putting their Facebook login and stuff like that.
But that was the biggest scam going around Facebook or Facebook and it still is today.
This next one's a little interesting.
Tagline, Bill Gates is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida. Here's the whole story.
Believe it or not, it's a mixture of a true and a false story.
It sounds like one of those like, oh, okay.
So Bill Gates himself is not exactly releasing mosquitoes into the wild.
However, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did award grants to a funded company called Bio, or called, or the biotech company called Ozitech.
So they were developing genetically modified mosquitoes to help reduce the spread of malaria to mosquito-borne diseases and certain locations around the world.
So in 2021, it was announced that they would release 150,000 mosquitoes across locations in Florida.
However, Snopes did a particular project and was looking and found out that it was not actually funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation itself, but a subsidiary foundation.
So it's kind of true, but it's not like Bill Gates is out there releasing mosquitoes.
That man's probably just chilling right now.
He's just trying to make his money. If it says it's going to make money, he's like, shoot, release the mosquitoes. I don't care. It's not going to be me.
But I thought that was kind of interesting, that that was actually kind of true that they're releasing genetically modified mosquitoes.
Alright, so you're ready for this one? I'm sure a lot of people, if you've used Facebook, you know this one.
This is Facebook's number one of all time, and it keeps coming back and apparently just keeps making resurgence.
You want to take a guess, Chris?
I don't know.
The tagline is Facebook will start charging this summer.
Oh, I've never heard of that.
You've never heard of that one?
It keeps going around every few years that Facebook will start charging, that it'll start costing money, that you'll have to pay for a membership,
and pretty much the one that came out was there was a fake Facebook that said Facebook official, and that was the profile title,
and they posted something that said it's official, signed at 1033.
Facebook will start charging this summer.
If you post this on your wall and turn your icon blue, your Facebook will be free for you, but you have to pass this message along.
P.S. this is serious.
You have to turn your icon blue.
I'm assuming they're talking about your profile picture.
Yeah, I think that's what it is.
I think it's the profile picture for sure.
But my thing is, I think it's pretty crazy.
I've seen a lot of that go around where people will share it, or they'll say something about it.
It's like, pass along this message, and you won't have to pay for it.
It's like, why would they do that?
That's really dumb.
So the last one, and this was the number two most looked at fact check, and also one that went around Facebook.
I had never heard it before.
But the Muffin Man, the song, Do You Know the Muffin Man, was actually a warning to kids about a 16th century serial killer.
And basically the article goes on about how you shouldn't let your kids sing it or teach it to your children.
But apparently the nursery rhyme was supposed to be about a 16th century serial killer who was a baker who entices their young victims by pulling a muffin down,
or pulling a muffin down the Coloso streets of Lubbock with, sorry folks from Lubbock, London, with a string.
And a lot of times you had poor kids back then, so they would see something like that and they would kind of die for it in the streets.
And apparently he would lure them back to an alleyway and kill them.
And so the song The Muffin Man is like a cautionary tale of stay away from them.
Well that make, I mean I would believe that, that kind of sounds like, that sounds plausible, so what's the origin actually?
So the origin is unproven and that's actually what it is.
So there was a case at the time that there, his name was Frederick Thomas Linwood, and the song was made to talk about him.
And apparently he was a serial killer, he did kill 15 children and seven rival pastry chefs.
No official records found at the time, it's all word of mouth, so there's nothing actually legitimate, so it's unproven at this point,
but it does appear that that could have possibly been a thing.
That makes logical sense to me because I'm like why do we sing that song?
But now that you've given the story, that makes sense, total sense.
But that was another one that went around Facebook a good bit, and it talked about there's different versions of the song.
You've probably heard of Lives on Drury Lane, apparently there's one that's Dorset Lane, and Dorset Lane was known as the worst street in London,
and that's where a lot of murders happened and that's where Jack the Ripper was a lot as well, so it could be with theory.
But did you know that there's an animated series called Gotham by Gaslight?
It's about Batman going back to the Jack the Ripper times and he's actually trying to catch Jack the Ripper.
No, is it just a cartoon?
Yes, it's a cartoon movie, it's kind of a nice little spin-off.
Alright, well we're going to hop into one of my favorite segments, which is the Mystery Donut, that's the improv segment.
And guess what, Mike and I have a good surprise for you guys, the guys are back at the coffee shop this month, this week, this year, whatever today is.
But it's great, I'm excited for it, because I don't think we've done it, we've maybe done it like once, season two?
Yeah, we haven't done it a ton, and hopefully my voice is good enough for the smoker, I hope I don't have to cough my lungs out for real.
There you go, so I guess I'll start or unless you want to start.
I can start it.
Well, fellas, it's the 4th of July, aren't you glad that we get to be in this great, great American country?
Yep, yep, best country on Earth, best country on Earth, and I why?
Because guess what, they got great at America.
Remember that story in the Bible where Jesus flew over America?
That's the Book of Mormon, that's the Book of Mormon, Jesus flew over America, I think he did.
Remember when he was born in Pennsylvania, that's where he was born, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
I don't know about all that, now listen, if he was from anywhere, it was from Arkansas, don't you know that's where the Ark is too?
They had that Ark over there, that's where Moses and all them were at too, I tell you that much, I'll let you know.
I think the second coming is going to be in the South, South part of the United States, tell you that much.
It's God's gift to the Earth, and he's going to come back to his gift, why would he just leave us behind?
I don't think he's going to do that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, if Jesus was born anywhere, it was in Brooklyn.
I mean, you read that story in the Bible, he flipping over tables, over whipping people, that sounds like my cousin Vinnie from down the street.
Hey, no man, that's not your cousin Vinnie, that's my cousin Jorge, listen down the road, you don't know what they're talking about, okay?
Literally, nobody knows what I'm talking about, back in Mexico, everything is crazy over there, you know what I'm saying?
This Fourth of July stuff, there's no shooting at the guns, there's no nothing, you know, I know fun, you all are up to three in the morning.
Hey man, Juan, listen here buddy, I know they do things a little bit different down in Mexico, but this is America, and I'll tell you this much, at the Fourth of July parade, everybody better be standing, there better be no dealing for the flag.
You know what they say?
I stand for the flag and deal with the crops, you know what I say?
Oh, I tell you this much, you know what I love about Fourth of July, everybody, everybody close down, everybody close down, that means my business is only place in town and open, so your stupid fact behind come to my place and gonna eat tonight, that is what I'm excited about.
Oh, Hans, it's all these stupid American weaklings, you guys are so weak with your chicken nuggets and your weak immune system, that is why Germany is the best.
I don't think Germany is best, I think Russia is best, but I am not the popular figure in the times now with everything that is going on, I wish that I was more widely accepted, but it is not the thing.
Hey, I tell you that World War II will beat both of you guys, it will beat both of you, America is the best, Nagasaki, watch the map, Hiroshima, watch the map, no why? Because we're the best.
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big of brisket for 4th of July have beer and have my neighbors fight on the on the lawn like
red day yeah i gotta go too my wife says i gotta cook brisket too and uh i said why can't we just
go out and go to the golden cave around but she don't she don't want to do that tonight whoa whoa
whoa we choose to be Anthony with your skirt up there you're not gonna be leaving me with the tab
again now i think we need to say the fourth of july prayer don't you think so brother chris
oh lord we come to you today we thank you for the land of the free and the home of the free
and we thank you for the french fries and the american food like pizza and cannoli and pups
and lord jesus we thank you for all these things and we ask jesus that whether the fourth of parade
and we can't help but bounce our eyes on jesus for all the good things that you have created before
us and if we can't love us sorry for it and all god's kids say amen all right well that was our
improv segment so we're gonna move into our last segment which is our positive advice
and our eclair and so my good think it's your turn to go first all right uh my biggest thing
and this is something that's really hard for me right now is don't take things too serious
you could trip on a ton of stuff every single day right and what i mean by that is uh i heard
something the other day and it just kind of epitomizes what what all this means so chris let me ask
you a question man if um if i told you i'm gonna pay you a million dollars for for today's work like
what you did today uh you're gonna be happy about that million dollars oh yeah i'm gonna be super
and what if i said you know what there there's a tax to be paid and so i'm gonna have to take 10
thousand of that are you gonna be upset still that you're gonna get 990 i'll tell you this much
it's the same thing in life about the little things and getting to you there's so much good
that's happening to you right but we always focus on the very small points of uh of you know bad that
go on that we forget about how rich and full our lives really really are and so focus on the fact
that we're getting the 990 thousand and we're only getting to miss out on those 10 thousand when
you know your boss says something to you that you don't really like whenever uh your spouse says
something to you that you don't really like whenever you have things happen in your life
to where you feel like you've been shorted or cheated or something's just not really going
your way or life's not being fair or anything like that there's still a lot to be grateful for
and it's really hard to see it sometimes and it's really easy to let some of those things
really get to you but at the same time uh just just remember it's it's a very small thing don't
let it ruin your day i thought you were gonna go about the ties and offerings that's what my mind
went uh i have to use that i could if you want well there we go uh mine is hey change is coming so
uh change is a good thing and so uh a lot of us don't like change but change could be a good thing
change helps us shake things up helps keep it fresh and so when change does come in you just
got to be willing to roll with the punches there's been a lot of things that have been changing uh
at work and so for me i'm i don't really like it especially whenever i have to change the way that
i do things or change new processes or systems but change is coming and you can either fight it
um and go against the flow and change is eventually gonna happen or you can be flexible um sometimes
change is not a good thing and yes you should uh fight for the things that are important to you but
pick your hill to dial and you know what i mean sometimes you just got to pick your battle so
change is definitely a good thing so when you're when change comes uh the more flexible you are
the easier process it is you may not like it but if you're at least willing to be flexible it's
heck yeah man good good word good word i'm gonna do the plug now so tv trashcan.com that's tv
trashcan.com so ad is something real interesting here lately christa tv trashcan.com kind of an
interesting idea i don't even know if anybody cares about it but um i put a little playlist on there
of all the old music videos that we used to watch rap wise like literally just all the stuff that we
used to think was cool because i was literally watching something the other day and it was late
with it rock with it by the franchise boys and i i literally watched that music video and i was
like i remember watching this music video and thinking oh man that's so cool and i already know
that something that my kids are gonna be like oh y'all thought that was cool that's goofy but it's
like i don't know it's it's kind of cool and nostalgia is really in right now i don't know if
you've seen that like everybody wants to be nostalgic and think back about some of that stuff
so if you grew up in that golden era of rap we got that playlist on there for you of course we
got all our other good streaming stuff um and then we got our youtube spotify however you be listening
you know and of course we got our socials to go follow and like and subscribe and comment and all
that good jazz so i think it's time to take this donut box out to the trash sorry for all of our
foreign listeners that were like man fourth of july doesn't really pertain to us but we hope you
guys have a happy fourth of july hope you have a great life you know all that good stuff so
you're gonna sign off i'm chris and i'm michael and this is the donut box podcast
mBR