Welcome to your first job at How Hoagie Sub Shop.
We welcome you as part of our family.
Now as a family, we have a couple of family rules.
Let's take a look at a couple of scenarios so you can learn our way of doing it here
at How Hoagie Sub Shop.
Now I'm Mike, the manager here at How Hoagie Subs and rule number one, if they order a 6
inch or 12 inch, we must take the ruler out and make sure that it is 6 or 12 inches.
Every inch we gain or lose is money and our pockets are out of our pockets and we don't
want that.
Way to go Mike.
We value prices and we value stewarding our resources very good at How Hoagie Sub Shop.
Let's talk about teamwork.
That's number two.
So here at How Hoagie Subs, we're all about team.
There is no I in team, so there definitely better not be an individual in you.
Every member at How Hoagie Subs needs to be cross-traded in every section of the restaurant
because cheap labor is cheap labor.
I mean, pretty much what we need from you is we need you to float around for 7.25 an hour.
So here's what we're going to do.
We need you to be a part of the team.
We need you to be here, there, and everywhere, wherever we tell you to be.
That's right Mike.
Man, I wish I got to work under a great manager like Mike.
He's always making sure that How Hoagie Subs Shop is making us like a family.
Now Mike, before we wrap up, please tell our new employees, I'm sorry, our new family members
the last piece of advice.
So number three, that's every time you're near the cash register.
Sometimes it's okay to make a pocket train's action or slip a five or a ten.
You know, whenever a customer's been a little difficult.
Now hold on Mike, we here at How Hoagie Subs Shop don't steal from family members.
Thank you for watching and we welcome you as part of our How Hoagie Subs Shop family.
Hi, I'm Chris.
Hi, I'm Mike.
And this is the Dona Box Podcast.
Well buddy, have you ever sat through one of those horrible training videos where it's
like overly cheesy and they haven't updated it since 1996?
Too many times.
I'm actually going to throw the city of Lubbock under the bus.
Whenever I was starting at the airport job there, you have to take this class to get
a badge and I'm not sure how true this is, but as of about 10 years ago, they were using
a video from the 80s to train you on how to do things around there and everybody had
the 80s mustaches.
It was great.
That's great, man.
I mean, you got to update the videos.
You got to make them relevant, but I mean, it is what it is.
But hey, welcome back to the Dona Box Podcast.
We welcome all of our listeners and OGs, man.
We are on episode 94 total.
We are on season two, episode 42, but it's been a great ride, man.
And we're slowly creeping up on 100 and we can't wait for that.
But in the meantime, we want to thank our listeners, International from Australia, Ireland,
Singapore, the Middle East, of course, in the UK and Brussels, Belgium.
Where else do we got people listening?
Oh, man.
Did you say Singapore already?
I did say Singapore.
Well, we're going to repeat in Singapore.
I'll tell you what, here in the United States, we got the East Coast, the West Coast, the
North and the South.
I'm just going to throw all y'all in because guess what?
We got listeners pretty much everywhere in all directions.
It is true, but we're ready to have a great show.
It's going to be great.
I'm excited for it.
So let's hop into our old fashioned donut, which is a story from our past.
Now in season one, episode eight, we talk about how I helped Micah.
I was a good friend to him.
He was put in a precarious situation or kind of a sketchy situation with a girl from our
church and I came through and was a good friend for him.
Micah did return the favor.
I said she had the Jezebel spirit.
Anyways.
Yeah.
But Micah returned the favor and he was a good friend to me unintentionally.
Micah ended up being a third wheel on one of my dates.
And this was probably, I think when I was a sophomore or junior in high school and Micah
ended up third wheeling on one of my dates.
It wasn't intentional.
It just kind of happened that way.
So there was this girl in that I liked.
Can I name her?
Can I do the fake name?
We can, do you want to say the fake name?
I thought you were going to say her real name.
No.
You can name her.
Okay.
I was going to call her Dina Calliante.
That's a very interesting choice of names.
But Dina, me and Dina had this thing on again off again since middle school and I don't know
what happened.
It was like literally we would have a flirtatious thing and then by the end of the school you're
just kind of dropped it off.
Most of the time she ghosted me.
Well, this was during that time where it was almost getting towards the end of the year.
So we know old Dina, old faithful was getting ready to ghost me.
But there was this event at my school.
I went to a fine arts school and they were very big about putting on big productions
every two years.
And so they were putting on the rendition of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
And I wanted to go and I asked Dina, I said, Hey, Dina, I said, do you want to go with
me and she was like, Oh, yeah, sure.
But then she backed out.
So I had already bought the tickets.
And I was like, man, I'm not going to just let this money go to waste.
And I was like, Hey, man, I was like, do you want to come see this production at school?
And looking back on it, I was like, Michael was a real friend for being a trooper for
going to see Beauty and the Beast at a fine arts school.
It's OK.
I'm not going to lie.
They put on some good productions.
I watched some other just side track and went to your school a few other times for some
other plays.
And I think there was like Susie Cool, the musical.
I think my favorite was there was a British comedy called Noises Off.
That was really, really funny.
Yeah, that one was pretty funny.
That one was like the storyline of Noises Off.
It's a play within a play and it's pretty funny.
It's a British play.
Now, but yeah, so we were going to go see Beauty and the Beast.
Our school was notorious for like having the best theater program in the state.
So we knew it was going to be a big production and it was going to be good.
And so like literally like two days before we were supposed to go see the show, Dina
is like, hey, I can go see the show with you now.
Like, are we still on?
And I was like, bro, you told me that you are out.
Like, I don't know.
So me being at the time, instead of being like, oh no, sorry, your ticket is being used.
I was like, yeah, sure.
Because what had happened was I bought like tickets close up, but then I had to buy another
ticket.
So that put us like a little bit further back.
And so I just remember sitting there watching it and Micah was just kind of third wheeling
and like, you just kind of hanging out and it got over like not late, but like probably
around nine, 10 o'clock.
What'd you say?
Yeah, yeah, it was definitely after dark and late for late for high schoolers, I guess,
like pushing curfew a little bit.
I was driving at the time and I think I had my Buick.
Yeah, I did.
And it was a junior.
But whose idea was it?
Was it to go to the International House of Pancakes, aka IHOP?
Whose idea was that?
It was Dina Calle and Tay.
Miss Calle and Tay herself.
Okay, you know what?
I'm going to drop the fake name.
Her last name was actually Foyte's.
That's why I think Calle and Tay was Foyte's.
You could say the last name.
Yeah, that's what I said.
That's what I said.
Her last name was Foyte's.
You could say the full name.
So.
But yeah, so Miss Foyte's was like, yeah, let's go to the IHOP.
And listen, I'll just put it to you this way.
In Augusta, Georgia, and especially this IHOP, if you've ever been to this IHOP over in
Richmond County, where is that IHOP?
Would you say?
It's over there on Washington Road.
So it's not like in the sketchy part, but it's like five minutes from downtown.
So there's like a lot of like homeless people and stuff.
It wasn't a sketchy IHOP.
But once it started getting dark, it started getting sketchy.
I just remember being like, oh yeah, because I had to give you a ride home.
And I think I had to give her a ride home.
So I think that's how you came to the IHOP with us.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I was kind of stuck with, I wouldn't say like stuck with you, but you
had to, you know, you had to drop me off.
And I think you had to be either home at a certain time or something.
And so we had to drop her off first.
All I remember is we went to the IHOP and she went on and on and on and on.
But she ordered, she ordered, you know what?
I'll let you say it.
What did she order at the IHOP?
Okay.
So it wasn't an alcoholic drink, but it was like a fruity drink and like the expectation
at this, I guess it was a date that I was going to like pay for it and everything.
The drink was like five bucks, like by itself.
And it's like to a 17 year old kid who doesn't have much money, like, and you're paying for
three people instead of just one person.
I'm like, bro, you got the fruity drink.
Why'd you get, why'd you order a $5 drink?
This was like 2011, 2012, something like that.
So even before that.
And so prices were a lot different.
I'm saying like when he, when he said you ordered them, because I mean, even for three
people, it probably would have been, you know, probably 25, 30 with tip right back in those
days, would you say, so when he's talking about $5 just for a drink, shoot, that was,
that's nuts.
I just remember we went on and on about that.
We were just like, how much would that drink?
And the drink was like not bottomless.
So like, once you drink it, like you're done.
So it's like $5 a pop.
I don't know if she got two of those.
I think she got one for sure.
I remember the one, but I remember like giving a look to Micah and like me and Micah can
look at each other and already know what the other person is thinking without saying anything.
And we both looked at each other.
I was like, okay, but tell them about the sketchy part of why the IHOP started getting
sketchy after dark.
So as, so as the night started going on, we started noticing a bunch of ladies of the
night with a bunch of their guys as well.
And it was like that.
And I don't know, the crowd definitely changed.
It was like, I think we saw a drug deal happen in the parking lot.
We did.
And I remember like a couple of cops started coming in.
It got real crazy.
Like the cops started coming in because I guess they were going to eat.
And I remember them like looking around and they're just being like this real tension
between like the workers of the night and the police officers.
And we were like, yeah, check please.
That's what we were like, check please.
And then we were like, all right, let's book it out of here.
Yeah.
Cause it was real awkward.
And like Chris said, once you, once you got out the door, there's a lot of homeless people
around too.
So it was like, you want to get to your car rather quick.
Cause I mean, all I remember about that IHOP was the parking lot was dark too.
I don't think they had any lights in the parking lot.
Micah was definitely a good friend for tagging along.
I mean, he kind of had no choice, but he still, he was a good sport about it.
And I mean, he got a free meal out of it.
So I guess it wasn't that bad.
Oh yeah.
No, I was free, free meal.
And I got a free show out of the deal.
And I got to make things awkward as third wheels normally do.
And do you, cause my memory is a little fuzzy, but do you remember like her feelings towards
it all?
She was just kind of cool with it.
Or like, I think she was cool with it.
I don't remember.
Oh yeah.
She was cool with it.
I mean, she, we, we just hung out.
I mean, she definitely flirted with you a ton.
And I remember whenever you got to the, got to the house, it was like she let you walk
her up to the door.
Yeah.
She did.
I don't know what it was, man, but you know, sadly, Dina Fuentes is no longer with us.
May she rest in peace.
But you know, it was a great time.
Micah was a champ for it.
I guess I think this was after the truck incident or it might have been around the same time
as the truck incident.
It might have been.
It could have been around the same time.
I mean, I don't know, man.
I'll be honest.
I used to remember that stuff a lot better and all kind of runs together now.
Yeah.
So as much as you guys may want to give Micah crap for being like, Oh, you put your friend
in the back of the truck and made him ride in the freezing cold.
Uh, it all evened out.
So it was all good.
You know, we were friends.
It was, it was a good time.
It was a good memory for me for sure.
But yeah, I just remember being like, Oh yeah, Micah third wheeled and this girl ordered
a $5 drink when let me put this in perspective for you.
Refillable drinks at the time was probably like a dollar, maybe a dollar 25, maybe a
dollar 35.
So now they're like 299.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Don't even get me started on how expensive everything is.
But it was a good time.
So thanks for being a good friend.
Uh, are you ready to hop on to the next segment?
All right.
The next segment is the jelly donut and it that is our jail report.
All right.
So this first one, uh, we have talked a lot on this podcast about people using interesting
things to assault people.
I think we've talked about hot sauce, a lady on our first episode about the lady that
shoved hot sauce down her kids throw.
We talked about the lady who assaulted her husband with butter.
And I think somebody got arrested for shooting somebody in the face with a water gun.
Do you remember that one?
I definitely remember that one.
Yeah.
So this one, uh, this lady got arrested for hitting her boyfriend with a whole rotisserie
chicken.
Okay.
So she took, uh, this lady got really violent.
She was spitting on her boyfriend and hitting him.
And once they got home, she used a whole rotisserie chicken as a weapon and hit him in the back
of the head.
Uh, it was an entire chicken.
It wasn't like a drumstick or anything.
But the grossest part was the boyfriend had chicken residue in his hair when the cops
got there, giving evidence to the fact that he was in fact hit with a chicken.
So I think it was like one of those raw chickens that you buy at the store.
It wasn't already cooked.
You don't think he was already cooked?
You don't think it was one of those that she can cook or that's like pre-cooked and you
know, those things could be kind of juicy and greasy?
Tell you that much.
Yeah.
She like hit him with a whole rotisserie chicken, man.
Like that is, that is like, they say alcohol wasn't involved, but like it might have been
at that point.
You never know.
Like, what about drugs?
I don't know.
Something was involved.
It's just like, listen, maybe either that, either that or you got to go to anger management
lady because hitting people with rotisserie chickens.
I'll tell you, there are some, some people that they are that crazy that like if they
snap man, like they are, they're vindictive.
Like they'd be the ones to be like taking like just one battery out of your remote.
Like they are that petty.
You know what I mean?
Um, all right.
This next one, this lady got angry because her local plow driver for like snow and stuff
had shoveled the sidewalk and the plow driver's defense.
I'm not sure that it was his job to shovel the sidewalk, but maybe she was confused.
I think he was like just kind of cleaned in the street, you know, just plowing the snow.
Um, nevertheless, this lady, sorry, how could he get up on the sidewalk?
I mean, you've seen them snow plows.
It's not like they have like little side booms to where they can clean up the sidewalk too.
You know, I think it's only the street.
I'll see how you can get up on the sidewalk and one of those things, but go ahead.
Yep, exactly.
Um, and so this lady was so mad about it that she reported the yell at the plow driver and
then came out wielding a brass curtain rod and she, uh, she hit him in the head and with
this brass curtain rod.
And so apparently she was in her sixties and this is not the first time that the police
has called, has been called on her.
So I mean, I don't know what's going on there.
It kind of sounds like a Karen situation.
I'm not sure.
I'm just saying people, there's a lot more Karen situations happening, but I'm just saying
a brass curtain rod.
I'll tell you this.
Every time I move, I look at some curtain rods, especially the real thick ones and I'm
like, man, this is a weapon, especially with someone like the little decorative metal things
on the end.
It's like, man, it's like a, like a mace.
Yeah, it's wild, man.
All right.
Just two more.
All right.
This happened in England.
Um, this guy, his name is Wayne.
He successfully evaded authorities for nearly a year after he committed a million dollars
in fraud.
I don't know how he did it.
It doesn't say what happened.
So they were looking for him, but guess how they found him?
How they find him?
They found him.
Apparently he signed up for a dating app and apparently on match.com.
And somehow the police found him on the dating app.
I don't know how they found him on the dating app.
Maybe they like put out a, Hey, this guy is wanted and then somebody that maybe had seen
him on the dating app, you know, uh, reported him.
I don't know, but that's how they found him.
I guess he was kind of feeling lonely and wanted to spend all that money with somebody.
Yeah.
I mean, what's all that money if you can't spend it with somebody, right?
And so he's got to find his special somebody.
And fortunately he found cell block D.
Exactly.
Oh, he's going to find somebody.
He will find somebody in cell block D.
Probably not who he wants.
Yeah.
All right.
So this guy got arrested because he made a human hamster wheel.
It was like a, I guess a hydro pod is what it was called.
And this happened in Florida and this guy tried to, uh, cross the Atlantic ocean on
this contraption and it literally looks like a human hamster wheel.
The coast guard rescued and then arrested him for the stunt.
The reason why they arrested him was apparently when they investigated it, like he had knives
and stuff and was like threatening to like hurt them and stuff.
But this man was trying to cross the Atlantic ocean and his homemade hamster pod.
That's, that's, uh, it's out there.
Um, I was, that's why I was curious of why he got arrested.
I was like, is it illegal to build your own, you know, hamster pod and go across the ocean?
I mean, I figured there's international laws and you'd probably, you know, they'd be mad.
You didn't bring your passport and all sorts of stuff like that.
But I didn't know about arresting, but it makes sense if you roll up on the guy and
he's like, don't come no closer.
I'll stand you.
Yeah.
I mean, like they said that like he had tried to get somewhat far, but he didn't get too
far in the coast guard, picked him up and then he got combated with him.
So that's why he got arrested, uh, for that.
People are crazy, man.
I mean, I would expect no less from a Florida person.
We love you, Florida, but they be, they be wilding out.
Yes, they do.
I don't know if it's the humidity or what I'll tell you this much.
Um, he probably would have, I mean, if they wouldn't have picked him up, people would
have died out there.
Probably.
Yes, he would have.
But yeah, those are, uh, those are our jail reports.
Which one was the most interesting for you?
Definitely, definitely hampster boy going across the good old Atlantic.
Yep.
Exactly.
Well, trying to at least.
I mean, I'm not sure what it is.
Jesus crazy.
All right.
This next one, uh, is, oh, sorry.
That's the last one.
My bad.
We're going to move into our next segment, which is the donor.
Usually you like to play some games, some trivia games.
So I have a trivia game for you.
Um, last week I went to, uh, a Comic Con in Austin, Texas and I got to meet the boy meets
world cast and I've been listening to the podcast and it's inspired me to do a 90s sitcom
TV trivia.
And don't worry, I'm pretty sure you know almost all of the shows that I'm asking you
about.
So, uh, so yeah, are you ready to see your 90s sitcom TV trivia?
Let's do it.
I hope I'm, I hope I'm good at it.
All right.
This one might be a little difficult, but we're going to see what you can do.
All right.
ABC slash Disney made several TV sitcoms in the nineties, which is not one of these sitcoms
that Disney made.
Okay.
A. Full house.
B. Home improvement.
C. Fresh prince of Bel Air or D. Boy Meets World.
It's one of the last two.
How many go with Boy Meets World?
It's actually Fresh Prince.
Full house home improvement and Boy Meets World were all made by AC Disney.
They all kind of have the same look if you kind of watch them.
They do.
Yeah.
I know it was one of the back two for sure.
Because I definitely do the first two ABC products.
That's for sure.
Well, you love Seinfeld.
I know you love that show.
I'm not crazy about it, but myself, but you might get this one.
Which Seinfeld character is based on the creator Larry David?
He's the guy that created Seinfeld with, I guess, the help of Jerry Seinfeld.
Which Seinfeld character was based on its creator Larry David?
A. Kramer.
B. Jerry Seinfeld.
C. George Costanzo or D. Newman.
It was a Kramer, right?
Actually, George Costanzo.
Well, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because Kramer was actually his neighbor in real life, or
they modeled him after a neighbor in real life.
Wow.
I'm over too.
You got to think about the creator, not Jerry Seinfeld.
You got to think about the creator.
All right.
Larry David's pretty, pretty out there.
He's pretty funny though.
All right.
In the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which TV character gets replaced in the middle of the series?
Like they switch actors.
A. Ashley.
B. Jeffrey.
C. Uncle Phil or D. Aunt Viv.
They switch them up on us.
Actually like the first Aunt Viv better than I like the second one.
That's what I was going to ask you.
I was going to ask you which Aunt Viv do you like better?
Do you like the first one or the second one?
See, my thing is, like, if you don't switch actresses in the middle of the series, please,
make them look similar to each other because they've made them look nothing alike.
But my thing is like they switch it like pretty late in the game and I'm like at that point,
why don't you just write the character off?
Like, why don't you just like maybe she gone to Europe or I don't know just maybe they
got a divorce.
I don't know.
Write the write the character off somehow.
Don't replace it.
Divorced or like, I mean, do the classic do the classic move of oh, she died.
Uncle Phil gets remarried.
Which TV sitcom had an original guest character take over and become the star of the entire
series?
A. Family Matters.
B. Home Improvement.
C. Fresh Prince or D. Prince?
Family Matters.
Yeah.
Do you know which character it was?
Steve Urkel.
Yep.
Steve Urkel would just cast to be in one episode and then everybody loved him so much that
he became the star and the show revolved around Steve.
Isn't that pretty crazy because, I mean, you think about that show, that's pretty much
who you think about it.
Steve Urkel and that goofy character.
I will say the first season is like pretty boring.
Like without Steve Urkel, like the series is pretty boring.
Gotta add some spice.
It was just a typical sitcom during that time.
You know, I don't know.
Now I have to ask you this.
Are you team Laura or are you team Myra?
Do you think he should have ended up with Myra or were you happy that he ended up with
Laura?
I don't know, man.
I'm still, he should have ended up with Myra, in my opinion.
But that's just me.
Yeah, bro.
She was down for him.
I know, right?
She was like, she was like, quirky.
She got him.
She appreciated him.
Like she was down for him.
Like he should have ended up with her.
I really think he should.
Yeah, Laura would kind of have.
Anyways.
Yep.
All right.
Which sitcom had the most seasons on TV in the 90s?
So which one I guess ran the longest, I should say.
A. Seinfeld.
B. King of Queens.
C. Everybody loves Raymond or he's friends.
I'm going to go with Friends, the big last one.
They did last longest.
They went 10 seasons in Seinfeld and King of Queens only went 9 seasons.
Man, I'll tell you this much though.
By the end of Friends, like I'm not a big fan of Friends.
I don't know.
Like for me, it's okay, but it's not something that I want to binge watch.
I know a lot of people, a lot of people that want to binge watch it.
We even know somebody that did a Bachelorette party that was Friends themed.
I was like, oh, okay.
Yep.
I've never gotten it.
I've never understood it.
I've never gotten the humor.
I've just never got it.
Yeah.
And so for me, by the time they were done, each character was making so much money.
They were making over a million dollars in episode.
I was like, jeez.
I mean, it was beyond popular.
It's crazy.
What is the last name of the family in the TV show, Roseanne?
A. Taylor.
B. Matthews.
C. Morris.
Or D. Connor.
A. Connor.
The Connor family.
That is correct.
Morris is from Say by the Veil.
Taylor is from Home Improvement.
And Matthews is from Boy Meets World.
Next one.
Which TV sitcom did not replace one of its main characters midway through the series?
Did not.
A. Family Matters.
B. Say by the Veil.
C. Boy Meets World.
Or D. Fresh Prince.
Wasn't it Say by the Veil?
They never replaced a character.
No, they did.
They did.
Never mind.
They did.
They didn't say by the Veil.
Well, they replaced Jessie.
But I guess she wasn't a main character.
No, it's Say by the Veil.
Well, no, she just went away.
She just went away.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
And Jessie just left.
What I mean is like, they switched actors to play the same role.
Yeah, because Family Matters, they replaced the mom.
Fresh Prince, they replaced the mom.
And then Boy Meets World, they replaced the sister.
Like, probably like season two or something.
And this one is like, this is a softball question where you should get this one right.
The Olsen twins got their start on which TV show?
A. Step by step.
B. Family Matters.
C. Step by step again.
Or D. Full House.
Accidentally put Step by step in this one.
It's Full House.
Good.
I would have been like, oh man.
You baited me into Step by step.
I'm putting it on there twice.
No, it was Full House.
Have you ever seen Step by Step?
No, I haven't actually.
I just know the main title goes Step by Step.
Day by day.
All right.
Let me see what we got here.
We got two more.
The character Steve Urkel made a cameo appearance on another TV series.
What was it?
It was Fresh Prince.
B. Full House.
C. Home Improvement.
Or D. Seinfeld.
It was Fresh Prince.
No, it was actually Full House.
Was it?
Yeah, it was actually in Full House, man.
Could you imagine Steve Urkel on Seinfeld, though?
That would be an interesting cameo.
And I think you might get this one, too.
Jerry Stiller, who played Arthur Spooner on King of Queens, played a character in another TV sitcom.
What was it?
A. Boy Meets World.
B. Saved by the Bell.
C. Seinfeld.
Or D. Roseanne.
I was Seinfeld.
It was George Costanza's dad.
Yeah, exactly.
Which do you like better?
Arthur Spooner or Frank Costanza?
Oh, man, they both have their own.
It's Arthur Spooner.
I don't know.
And I'll tell you why.
So Chris and I used to live with my grandfather.
He lived in the same house with us.
And I don't know.
Watching that man, watching the Arthur Spooner character, it reminds me of living with him.
I don't know.
It's pretty spot on of what it's like living with an old guy who's out there.
Is Seinfeld your favorite 90s sitcom?
No.
You know, I used to like Seinfeld a lot.
Now I can't really watch it.
It's kind of just...it's okay.
It kind of, I don't know, it kind of wears on me after a while.
So it's not as great as it used to be, I guess.
I'm trying to think what would be my, like Fresh Prince is up there.
I used to like the Cosby Show before all that stuff happened.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know, man.
Cosby Show was like good, but it was a little slow pace for me.
It was just a little too slow, slow pace for me.
Here's one.
And like it never, like it was always in the house.
The scenes never changed.
It was always in the living room or in the kitchen.
Like it never changed for me.
So I think that's why it was slow pace for me.
Here's my question.
Nobody's ever pointed this out, but is it bad that Bill Cosby's, you know, you know, old Hux the Bull there, he was an OBGYN in the show?
Yeah, I guess no one has really maybe put the pieces together.
It was a setup from the start.
It was a setup.
I'm going to leave it on this last note.
I would say probably my least favorite 90s show is Frasier.
Oh yeah, that's a horrible show.
I forget about that one.
I don't understand why people like that show.
Like if you like that show, okay, but man, it's boring.
Like I know it's supposed to be a spin off from Cheers.
Yeah, it's wild, man.
I guess Teets are mine.
Mine is definitely Boy Meets World, Fresh Prince, Saved by the Bell.
I'm all right with Full House, but I'm not like crazy about it.
I used to really love Home Improvement, but not so much anymore.
It's okay.
Like it's same here.
Like watching it now, I'm kind of just like, okay, it's not as I don't know, it's not as great as it used to be.
We're going to move into our next segment, which is what fries my dough.
Micah, what fries your doughnuts?
People that run their mouth, but don't back it up.
I'm just going to say it right now.
Shut your darn mouth, as Tony would say.
I'm just saying right now, there are so many people on this planet that will flap them gums, but not back it up.
You know what I'm talking about, Chris?
It's a very basic principle.
I'm not even going to dive into it too much because there's plenty of examples of it.
I just want to say what is provoking this?
What is stirring this up?
There's plenty of things, so as a lot of it stems, a lot of things happen in our workplaces.
One of the spots where it's stirring up at is you have these people and now open their mouth and they'll start talking and they'll start ruining things.
For instance, I had this really good thing going.
I had this really good rapport with this certain group of people and everything was going well.
We were working together as long as we keep this other coworker out of it.
I'll tell you why.
There's a group of people that I'm working with.
I don't know.
They demand perfection.
Even if you're not perfect, as long as you sound competent and sound like you know what you're doing, they're okay with it.
This particular person that I'm talking about, she doesn't sound like that.
She also will say things that will just put a foot in the mouth and really just ruin things for the rest of us.
Yeah, so like prime example, today we were on a whole thing with this group of people.
What did she say?
She says, yeah, well, I had three class B misdemeanors when I was 16.
She started talking about how she had misdemeanors when she was 16.
She's like oversharing.
Yeah, extremely oversharing, but a lot of the time it's when she feels like she's not relevant.
Now that's just one example, right?
And it just aggravates me because you're sitting here going, girl, this is not the time nor the place, right?
This is not the time nor the place.
But something else, I'm talking about just generally throughout anything.
I've heard a lot of people speak a lot of change and say, I'm going to change it.
I mean, it can even go up to the largest levels of politics, right?
I mean, pretty much our whole lives, we've been hearing promises of things and new and they'd be running their mouth.
But when they get elected, what actually happens?
You know what I mean?
What actually happens?
What actually is the truth?
What actually do we get from it?
You know, it's a very broad thing that I'm talking about, but I just can't stand it when people will say things
and they can't back it up.
And the whole example about the work thing with that one gal, where she couldn't back it up was
she's also the kind of person that's like trying to teach you how to be a professional on the side.
And I think that's what is bothering me about that certain situation.
If you ever met those kind of people where they're like, in this situation, you need to be like this and that and this and that.
And you're going, I think you need to learn those lessons yourself.
I don't think that you need to be telling me because then we get into meetings and you're talking about how you had misdemeanors.
And it really set us back.
It really set us back because these people contacted me after and go, really?
I mean, why is she talking to us about this during a professional meeting?
That doesn't give us confidence.
They were not happy about it at all.
And so she's not backing up what she's saying because she's always talking about leadership and values and how to do this and that.
But then when it comes time, she just lays an egg.
I mean, it's terrible.
Yeah.
You know what I say?
The loudest in the room is the weakest in the room, man.
If you feel like you've got to talk to puff yourself up.
And I mean, I've said this million times.
The game is sold, not pulled.
And like Donald Trump's, I know I quoted Donald Trump last week.
I promise I'm not like a huge Donald Trump fan.
But you know what he said?
He was like, all talk, no action.
And that's true, man.
I don't like people like that.
All talk, no action.
But you can talk a big game, bro.
But if you're not backing it up or you're not following, practicing what you're preaching, then it's just not good, man.
Like, actions speak louder than words.
All those cliches.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, and it just aggravates me because, you know, like I said, that's just one example.
But we see it all the time.
We see it all the time where people will talk a really big game, like you said.
But then when it comes down to it, they just don't, they don't do anything.
They don't do anything.
I found that the less you talk, the more people, the more that people will listen to you when you do talk.
Because they're like, oh yeah, that guy doesn't say a whole lot.
And he does say stuff like it's actually meaningful and it's actually purposeful and I actually get a lot of what he's saying.
So just make sure that what you're saying is like, has meaning to it.
You know, I'm not saying you have to think about every conversation, but meaning to it.
But at the same time, man, like, you know, don't don't just be yacking them gums, bumping them gums just to bump them.
All right, here we go.
The same thing, Claire, but I'm going to go ahead and say it pretty much.
I've had a lot of experience with this.
I, Chris will tell you, I've actually calmed down a ton.
I used to be a big talker.
Like I used to talk all the time and I wouldn't say I was the loudest in the room, but I definitely was going to be heard, I guess is the best way to put it.
And so for me, I don't know, after a while, you just start realizing like the more you talk, the less you can listen.
And the more that you can listen to other people, the more that you can relate to them.
The better relationships you're going to have overall.
And I mean, it's true.
And so my thing is, you know, whether it's a situation, whether it's relationships, whether it's whatever, you know, it's okay to talk, but at the same time, you want to make sure that you're listening enough to understand the needs of the people around you as well.
That way you can back it up.
What's your what you're saying, you know, you weren't the loudest in the room, but you were in a very, very, very good situation.
You were in, how should I say this, an attention hoe?
Not just me.
But now I get what you mean, man.
Like, if you guys knew Michael when he was a kid and a teenager, like night and day difference, man, like he listens a lot.
Like, Michael still loves to talk and like that's a good thing, you know, but he's like got a healthy balance of that now.
He's not just like being like, oh, everybody look at me or making stuff up.
He used to make stuff up just so people could listen to him. He doesn't do that anymore.
No, man, it's all about, it's all about being an adult.
But, you know, it's all also, I don't know where this is coming going, but it's also about once you mature and once you grow, you realize that you don't have to make things up that people want to listen to you for your interest in your hobbies and your likes.
Because I'll be honest with you, you know, there's a lot of hobbies here recently.
I've had a bunch of friends, you know, I've got to share aviation with them and they've never seen things like that taken by the airport.
And, you know, it kind of blew my mind like, oh man, they actually want to do that.
Why? Because they've heard me talk about it and sound so cool.
And that just kind of mind blows you of like, really, people actually want to see what you're talking about because it's interesting and things.
Absolutely. Absolutely they do. And so I think that's the biggest difference is understanding that, you know, nowadays it's people, people like you for you.
And if they don't, screw.
Exactly, man. Well, we're going to move into our next segment, which is the Mystery Donut and that's our improv segment.
And if I'm correct, I think we're doing the randomizer. Is that right?
The randomizer. Yes, we are. Yes, we are.
So do you want to do three different sections? So how the randomizer works? Is there several different things we can select?
So we can do three random things to select and it'll spit us out an improv scene.
So what do you think, Chris?
Yeah, let's do professions and then whatever other two you want to do.
Let's do professions. So a lecturer is the profession.
A lecturer? We just got done talking about talking.
Okay, we can change it. We can change it.
Let's change it. I promise that was not on purpose.
Okay, we might need to change this one too. I don't know if I want to be a shaman of any kind.
Oh yeah, I don't want to be that either.
Oh God, an HR officer.
Oh yeah, let's do that one. I'm all down for that one, buddy.
Okay, an HR on a plane who is troubled.
Who is what?
Troubled, like he's got the emotion of being troubled.
Oh, he's troubled. Okay.
I guess, I tell you what, do we want to pick characters for the both of us?
Like do you want to be the HR guy who's troubled?
Now we're both going to be HR guys.
You both want to be H?
Yeah.
We both want to be Toby Flindersen who's troubled.
Yeah.
So I could start if you want.
Alright, alright.
Oh man, I got a call from corporate today.
It's not good at all. It's not good at all.
It looks like we're going to have to downsize again.
Oh buddy, I know how it's going. I know it seems tough.
That is just on my plate.
I know we just got back from this HR convention and we're about to go home,
but I just got a phone call that there has been some malfeasance
and apparently there's been some inappropriate superior to employee relations
that I am going to have to deal with.
I just, I can't deal with all this paperwork right now.
Title IX, not Title IX.
Is that bankruptcy?
No, I think Title IX is like sexual stuff.
Anyways.
No, that's bankruptcy.
Title IX back, no, that's Chapter 7.
Alright.
Dude, I'm pretty sure I'm right on the title.
Alright, sorry, we'll continue the scene.
I'll cut that part out.
Sorry.
I'll leave it in if we can talk about Title IX.
Oh man, I'm telling you, I'm telling you,
that's just going to be so much paperwork
and they're going to try to sue us
and they're going to try to get a severance package,
but they're clearly stating in our employee yearbook
that managers cannot have relationships with employees.
Now, I know what you do on your off-time is fine,
but you know what, we can't have that in the workplace.
Now, I just want to get on this plane and go home.
That's all I want to do.
I don't know, man.
It's just beating HR rep.
I just don't like it because, you know,
actually, no, I do like it.
I like rules and regulations,
but I'll tell you this much, these people break them all the time
and it drives me crazy.
All you have to do is follow Section 3,
letter B, that's it.
That's all you have to do.
You don't have to do it in this.
I hear you, buddy.
And speaking of regulations,
I know that there are about five OSHA regulations
that are being violated on this plane right now.
That stewardess should not be standing on that
without a proper ladder.
Now, I know that it's hard to fit one on a plane,
but she should not be reaching overhead
and she should not be extending her arms more than five feet.
They're just lucky.
They're just lucky we don't work for this company
because I'm calling my local arms budsmen
and get them down here
and tell them all about the malfeasances that are going on.
Malfeasance for malfeasances is safe.
And with that, I think I'm just going to put in my air buds
and put on a podcast and listen to NPR.
National Public Radio.
Oh, man.
Every time I listen to that,
it always talks about war and warring tribes.
And I just can't take it.
I just can't take it
because then I think about our company not performing.
And then all of a sudden, now I have to fire everybody.
It's going to be on me.
I'm really sorry to be rude,
but can you shut your mouth
because you're violating my safe space right now?
I'm sorry.
I don't want to be sued.
That was our improv.
They're kind of anxious.
Hey, I love HR people.
They're great, but HR people,
they can be funny duddies sometimes.
But they're needed.
They are needed for sure.
Everybody needs HR because that's how you get paid.
That's how you get paid.
And if you have good HR department,
if you have crap going on at work,
they take care of that for you.
Yeah, I was about to tell a story about bad HR,
but I will save that for another time.
So let's move into something positive.
We're going to move into our last segment,
which is our E-Clair, and that's our positive advice.
And I believe it's your turn to go first.
It is my turn.
Okay.
So my E-Clair, and I know I've said this
in one of the other episodes.
At this point, you know,
it's just really reaffirming some of the points
that we've said before, I feel like.
But, you know, it's okay to let some people go.
Some people are just meant for a season,
not for a lifetime.
You know, there's very few people in life
that are actually meant for the long haul with you.
And so often, and you know, I'm guilty of it too.
So often, we lose contact
or we lose a relationship with somebody,
and we feel really bad, and we go,
oh man, you know, it was so great, you know,
being with that person or hanging out with that person
or being friends with that person,
or whatever capacity it was in.
But then you start thinking about it,
and you think about maybe some of the changes
that that person has made,
or just, you know, sometimes,
they were cool to hang out with at one point in life,
and now they're just not, you know?
That stuff happens, and it's okay.
And it's okay to remember the times of like,
man, we had a good time while it lasted.
However, you know, like I said,
there's very few that actually go the course with you
and are there your entire life.
If you have one or two, you're very lucky.
And so, you know, I'm lucky enough to have Chris,
and I'm lucky enough to have my wife.
I feel like that's my two, you know,
that'll be with me till the end.
And so, you know, everybody else,
as it sounds bad, but a great way to look at it,
is they're just like leaves on a tree, you know?
Trees lose their leaves periodically,
and they need them, and they sustain them
while they're on the tree.
However, when they lose them, you know, it is what it is.
It is what it is.
They're branches, and they're, you know, they stay.
So, yeah, that's the E-Clear for me.
Good stuff.
Be like that girl from Titanic,
and just let Jack go off the boat.
Kick him off. Let him go.
So, my E-Clear is, man,
sometimes you just got to make things right
and know when you mess up,
and we've said that before,
but sometimes I'm saying sorry
when you just say I'm sorry.
Sometimes you got to do a little bit more than that.
Sometimes you have to actually take action steps
to make things right.
Like, it might be you having to earn some trust back.
You might have to face the consequences of your choices,
but whenever you mess up, at least try to make things right,
and just because you made the wrong choice doesn't mean
that you can't go back and fix it.
So, sometimes there are situations where the damage is done
and there's nothing you can do to fix it.
But other than just saying I'm sorry,
just try to, you know, make your mistakes right
and try to do the right thing,
and there's always a second chance to do the right thing,
and a fourth chance and a fifth chance.
And so, you may not be able to have the outcome
that you wanted by, because of your mistake,
and like I said, mistakes have consequences,
but make sure you're just making the right choice
and going back and fixing your mistakes.
But, yeah, man, I didn't even realize that
when this episode drops, it's going to be September 11th.
I don't think we wanted to like have a negative episode,
but, you know, remember September 11th?
Yeah, I mean, remembering all those who lost their lives
and were falling, but we're not going to make it overly negative,
you know, and it's amazing that it's been that long already,
because, yeah, it's incredible.
But something happy, though, one week from when this episode drops,
we're going to have our church rescue animated.
Yeah, heck yeah, it's going to be an animated episode.
It's going to be on TVTrashCan.com.
That's TVTrashCan.com.
You already know where to go and find us.
So, yeah, I can't wait for that to drop, man.
And then there's going to be part two and part three.
So be on the lookout for that, too.
So, yeah, TVTrashCan.com.
Man, I don't know if you can tell, but we're both tired.
It's been a week. It's been a week.
But guess what? We're starting a new week and we're starting it off fantastic.
So, I don't know, man.
You got anything else to add?
Nope. Just be looking for the video when it drops.
I think, are you going to put a countdown on the website?
Yeah, I can put a countdown on there.
That would be great. Why not?
I'm excited for it, man.
But I don't have anything else, so I'm ready to sign off.
All right, man, let's do it.
Oh, well, I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And this has been the Golden Colors Carbines.
Yeah.