Trashcan presents that one guy that peaked in high school.
Hey man, it's so good to see you. Is that you, Chris?
Hey man, I haven't seen you since high school. What's it been? You know, 10, 20 years dude? What are you up to now?
Yeah, something like that. Something like that.
Nothing much man, just working this part-time job, you know, still living with my mom and the cats.
But oh bro, bro, have you been by Wallace High School lately? Have you been around there?
Dude, I have not been back there since I graduated. Never have been back.
Bro, Mr. Kistler's still there. And dude, we got him so good last week with his shaving cream prank bro.
It was so cool. Like, I mean, the senior class, it was fantastic. It was a great prank bro. You should have been there.
Wait, so you're telling me you went back last week and pulled a prank with the senior class last week?
Yeah dude, dude, I haven't missed a football game, a pep rally, nothing bro.
Sometimes they even let me lead the pep rally dog. Like, I'm telling you, like, it's so great. It's so freaking great.
It's just like being back there bro. It's so, dude, you should come sometime. Like, it's so awesome.
Yeah man, I think I'm good. I mean, we're 40 year old guys and I just, I don't know, it's a little weird going back to hang out at your old high school
unless you got kids there and I don't got kids there. Do you have kids there? I guess.
No man, man, you know, my wife left me a long time. It's not even that big of a deal.
But what is really cool man is the wrestling team went to state this year bro.
And I was asking for like this Letterman jacket because like I was kind of like a coach and stuff like that.
Like, I mean, not really officially. Like I just kind of showed up and told him when to run and stuff like that.
But I figured I should get like a Letterman, don't you?
Yeah, I don't know man. Hey, actually, I gotta go bro. My wife, my wife expected me home like five minutes ago.
So yeah, I gotta go buddy.
Bro, you should come hang out sometime. Like you should come hang out sometime. Like I'm telling you like there's this big party tonight.
You should come out.
Yeah, yeah. No, I think I'm good man. I think I'm good.
Definitely, definitely do not want to be hanging out with a bunch of teenagers from high school.
Yeah, definitely not.
I'll catch you later though. It's good to see you man.
I'm Michael. Hi, I'm Chris.
And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
Well, buddy, we're in the season three already and episode three and it's the Christmas season.
Tiss the season. It's the holidays, bro.
Yeah, yeah. So be checking yourself. Don't be getting sick. Ain't nobody got time for that. It's the holidays.
Yeah man. So we want to shout out all those listeners that have been listening from internationally down in Singapore over in Australia in the Middle East.
We appreciate you guys. Our European folks have always been A1 since day one in France and the UK and Ireland, Italy. Where else have people been listening from?
Man, here's stateside. We got to shout out to our home state, the Lone Star State.
And all the way up into the Midwest as well. Iowa, even into the Ohio River Valley, Ohio, all that good jazz man. Illinois, Indiana up in there as well.
Even up in the Northeast we're gaining listeners and down in the Southeast Georgia, Florida.
And man, even out West, up in Washington, Oregon, California, it's really just been growing, dude, all over the freaking place. It's great.
Yeah, I got to love it, man. Well, we are so excited that you guys are here listening to us on your Monday morning or whatever day of the week you choose to listen to.
But we're going to go ahead and get started with our old fashioned donut, which is a story from our past.
And last week we started a kind of a new series about people from our past, people from the church that we used to go to.
And we named the church, for you, Hope. Last week we talked about Crazy Jeremy, Bernard, and Mr. Ken, and it was great.
But this week we have some other characters that we want to talk about. So Mike, I'm going to let you take the lead on this.
All right. Well, the very first person we could talk about, I think everybody has kind of a quintessential church do-gooder kind of guy.
And I'm going to talk to you about what should we call him, man? HH. We call him HH.
Oh, yeah. We can call him Herman. That's what we can call him. Herman.
Herman. Yeah, there we go. So Herman was the typical, I guess, like I said, kind of that church do-gooder.
Like, I mean, he was really into everything. He was kind of a middle-aged guy. But what was really, really off, and, you know, we just did that whole bit about, you know,
Dude Can't Get Out of the Past and whatnot. Not saying that was him. But the crazy thing was, is he would talk to everybody,
whether it was, you know, teed-agers all the way up to the oldest person. He would, like, go across a, and this wasn't a small church,
but he would go, like, across the atrium, across the floor, you're just a shake your hand and be like, oh, it's good to be in the presence of the Lord today.
You remember that?
Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with people like that. I think what Micah is saying is, like, it was almost like, it was, he was so nice that it was almost phony.
And, like, I swear that fool never stopped smiling, bro. Like, it was almost like he had a perpetual smile on his face.
And that's what kind of made it a little weird is because he was just, he would smile and you would never see him with, like, a regular face.
And he was just perpetually smiling the whole time. But during the time, this is pre-COVID, they don't really do this anymore.
But churches used to have the part where it's like, hey, turn around and greet your neighbor, shake everybody's hand.
And that's what Micah was talking about. Like, during that time, if he saw you, if you made eye contact with him, if you locked eyes with him,
it doesn't matter if you were up in the balcony and he was down on the main floor. If he out liked eyes with you, he would walk all the way up to the balcony just to shake your hand.
Speedwalk.
Speedwalk, too.
Speedwalk.
It's like, you were his target, bro. He be-lined it for you. And he had that smile on his face the whole time.
Well, and I think the main thing, too, is he over-talked. I think that was my biggest problem with him is, uh, it's not necessarily, you know, coming up, shaking my hand and, you know, that sort of thing.
Cool. That's fine. But like, Homie would just keep on going and going and going. It's like, okay, this conversation was over like 10 minutes ago, because most of the time it was really about nothing.
So I think that was my main thing. And you got to understand, folks, I am not a morning person. So I'd be showing up to church, right?
I see my buddy Chris like, hey, Chris is here. That's great. Did what happens? Then I got this guy coming up to me, talking to me a little close.
He always had coffee bread, too. You remember that? Homie always had coffee bread.
Here's the thing, and people that always have coffee bread, they're always close talkers. I don't know what that is. That's like the...
I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know why.
It's like the cardinal rule. Like, if you have coffee bread, you are automatically a close talker, like, in your space. And that's what, uh, I almost said his real name.
That's what Herman was like, man. But he was just interesting.
But a funny thing about Herman, this guy was so nice. Well, this was in the days that churches were getting shot up.
Like, people just walk into churches and shoot the congregation and everything.
I remember one time the pastor did a message, and we didn't know that Herman was part of the message, part of the object lesson.
But like, in the middle of pastor preaching, Herman just like walks up to the front and he goes, Pastor Bo, Pastor Bo, and da, da, da, da, da.
And he was like interrupting a sermon. And dude, like, apparently pastor had not told the security team that this was gonna happen.
So you got this guy, like, be lining it to the front. And they were ready to take him down. They were ready to take him out.
But luckily they didn't. But it just caught everybody off guard because we were like, is this part of the show? Like, what is this?
Well, and let's be honest. So a couple of things, too. So let's break this down. He was also a very nice and friendly guy.
I've got to think about the guy we're talking about. Close talker, very nice and friendly. Over talker, overly friendly.
As bad as it is to say, watching him rush down to the front, I was going, oh yeah, it makes sense it'd be him.
You know, I mean, as bad as it is, it's like, oh, yeah, he snapped.
He finally does snap.
They snubbed him for a spot, you know, a volunteer spot or something. And he finally just snapped. I don't know.
But so the security team was also the usher team. So it was also, you know, the people that collected the cash money.
And I remember we were, you know, we've talked about this before. I guess at that point we were more like casual ushers.
Like whenever we could hide out and get away from them, we wouldn't be ushers, but then sometimes we would be.
So we would still be a part of their meetings. And one of the meetings right before that was talking about, okay, I mean, it was like a week or so before that.
It was like, okay, if this happens and we went through the whole plan, if there was an active shooter situation and all that other stuff.
And then here comes, oh boy, what the package right up the main aisle the next Sunday.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say he had a package in his hand that he was bringing to the front.
So that's also another cause everybody that was like, holy crap, like, is this part of the show?
Like, and it was a little scary, but.
And he was shouting too. It wasn't, you know, it wasn't like, oh, you know, it was, you know, like, like he was saying, it was an awesome show.
Like he was saying it was an object lesson to where it was supposed to be. Okay, you know, God's delivered a package, whatever the heck it was supposed to be about.
But still, you know, he full on got taken down. Like they like, they didn't take him down full on, but they like grabbed them, you know, and the pastor had to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a part of the.
Could have told us next time.
One more side story about Mr. Herman. I almost said his name again.
So if you remember, we talked last week about my mother being on a prayer team and whatnot.
Pretty much what happened one time is they went up and Mr. Herman said, pray for me because I have hemorrhoids.
And yeah, so guess who decided to put that in an email and blast it to everybody like didn't put it in discretion or anything. It's just like prayer warriors pray for pray for Mr. Herman and his hemorrhoids.
So the whole like a lot of the people in the church knew that he had hemorrhoids.
That was a typical maternal unit.
We're glad in everybody's business.
That's messed up. I'm telling you, that's like the number. That's like prayer team 101, bro.
Like somebody tells you unless they're like about to do something illegal or they have done something illegal or they're going to hurt themselves or others, you're supposed to keep that confidential.
Yeah, you email the other people like you can email a bunch of people like pray for so and so, you know, but like be discreet.
Don't say what it is unless they give you permission to do so.
The next one we're going to talk about is Pastor Brad. Pastor Brad was our missions pastor.
He was also over the whole, I guess you would call it AVL team now, but the whole tech team.
And he was actually the head pastor's son and we loved Pastor Brad.
Now, he did do some things that were not not great.
I mean, that would be considered, I guess the term is moral failures by the church community.
I mean, that's a term for it.
But without putting all of his business out there, but we love Pastor Brad. He was kind of fun.
As bad as it is, there are a few people in life to where you're like, there are some things that they've done at the side and it's a little shady, but you're like, it's Pastor Brad.
It's all good. It's Pastor Brad.
You know, that sounds bad, but it's just like, you don't really know the details.
Now, I'm going to start off with Pastor.
So like Chris said, he was our missions pastor and I went on a missions trip to Brazil with him.
We were not told until midway through the flight down to Brazil that we were carrying more than what was it.
It was like, I think $5,000 worth of goods in with us.
So basically if, and he was like a repeat offender bringing stuff down there and like not paying taxes on it or something, I don't even remember.
And next thing you know, it was just like, I mean, and I understand like if it's over a certain weight amount, like it was a really expensive amount of money.
And so a lot of times it was, you know, like drum cages or things that they couldn't get down there or it was like really expensive to get down there.
And it was like really, it was a lot cheaper to get in the States and to ship it.
We were like bringing, oh, we brought like a whole bunch of stuff down there.
Basically, he told it, he's like, yeah, so they're still looking for me from last time.
So it's like, we're going to give each person, like that's your luggage, right?
So mine was a drum cage. That's the reason I can remember it's because mine was a drum cage, big old drum cage still in the box and everything big massive thing.
And like one of my first experiences getting there, you know, because you have to fill out paperwork, you have to fill out this paperwork saying, okay, you know, how much goods are you bringing in the country?
It's like, yeah, we're going to lie on that.
We put like a way lesser amount.
And, you know, we pull in there, bro.
And I'm all nervous because he also told me, of course, like they could be problems from before.
So like we could get detained and but it's like a catch and release thing.
He's like, don't worry about it.
Like if we get detained, like we'll get released pretty quick.
It's not a big deal.
I'll just pay the money.
So he basically told you, you may or may not be going to customs jail to jail pretty much.
Yeah.
And so what ended up happening and scared the bejesus out of me because of course the big drum cage had to be checked, right?
It had to go under the plane.
And so I had to wait off in a certain area.
They told us to wait and, you know, to get these big items.
And here comes two guys, right?
Carrying this big old drum cage and they sit it down and they don't speak in English.
They only speak Portuguese and they're like yelling about this drum cage.
Like pointing at it and yelling at this point, you know, like what the heck is going on?
You know, luckily we already had a translator there and she was talking with them and she was like, oh, they're saying it was really heavy.
I was like, oh man, that's good.
Because at first, you know, you're expecting, okay, we might have some problems.
Mine's the heaviest, biggest item, right?
That probably would tip people off of, hey, by the way, this is probably over the certain dollar amount.
But now we walk straight out the airport with all of that stuff, including a big old drum cage and everything.
And customs didn't do nothing there or on the way back.
Thank God.
So, but that was one of the things I remember, Pat was just like, oh, by the way, we might get detained when we get there.
Don't worry about it.
I'll just pay the cash and we'll be good to go.
I love how he was just like, yeah, I'm going to be, I'm basically a fugitive.
So I hope they don't catch me.
The one thing about Pastor Brad, he had one white, one of his eyes, it was all white eyelash.
Like his whole eyelash was just white.
And I just remember he also was pretty cool to hang out with.
And he did really good King of the Hill impressions and, and Seinfeld impressions.
Some people, it's like some people don't like Seinfeld, but he could do some really good Seinfeld impressions too.
Like, I think he did a really good George Costanza.
I remember that.
Yeah.
And I think the thing that we was like, oh man, because like a lot of the shows that would be considered bad, like Seinfeld and King of the Hill.
They would, other people would kind of look down upon them in the church because they're like, oh yeah, you should be watching that because it's got bad stuff in it.
But I was like, hey, this is Pastor Brad.
Like he's cool.
Like he's doing these impressions.
Like he felt like your buddy.
Like he felt like you could just, you know, talk to him about, you know, anything and everything.
Again, some, some moral fair failures came out about Pastor Brad way down the line.
And so it was kind of sad to see that.
But like he was cool though.
He was, he was a real cool.
But let's be honest.
He was the typical, like I hate to say this, but like from that area, he was definitely the preacher's kid, right?
Who had always kind of been up in the church and doing his own thing.
But at the same time, still kind of doing his own stuff on the side.
But like he was still really cool, but he was also like, I think the reason I liked him is like you were talking, but he was a little edgy.
Like he was edgy.
A lot of other people would just, oh, I say, and he was just kind of that edgy.
I mean, he was even, I remember going even back in the days when we used to have a choir with like choir robes.
I remember he would get on stage.
You know, everybody else would be in suits.
He would get on stage and jeans and a t-shirt back then even, you know, and that was way different.
Like when we first started going there, because I remember my folks had a cow about that.
Well, yeah, man.
We'll save the other ones for another day, bro.
Oh, the whole family is great.
Yeah, the whole family is great.
All right.
So let's talk about the next one.
This one is kind of an off character, but close with Pastor Brad.
And we'll call him Mr. Clark.
And Mr. Clark, he lived over in Atlanta.
And you got to think this was a two and a half hour drive.
This is what I remember about Mr. Clark.
But he would drive every single Sunday over to our church just to do some technical aspects.
Literally, we would record the services and, you know, put them online.
He would do a bunch of video editing between early service, late service, get the best copy out there and put it online.
Like he would literally render it, put it online.
He would come to Augusta every Sunday just to do that.
And he always wore a suit.
Always wore.
It was like the same suit.
Yeah, it was.
He was also kind of one of those guys that like he didn't really say much.
But like, I felt like once you got to know him, he had like a kind of a different sense of humor.
He just, yeah, very, very sense of humor.
Yeah.
The only thing I really remember about Mr. Clark was I just remember we were trying to hide from the children's pastor one time.
Because every, anytime we saw this children's pastor, he would always be like, hey, can you guys go do this?
Hey, can you go do that?
And that's not an option, by the way.
That's not a hey, can you do that?
It's hey, you're going to do that pretty much.
Yeah.
So we were like, oh crap, pastor Ed is coming.
We got to, we got to avoid him.
We heard him coming down the hall and it's like if we see him, he's going to make us do some work.
So we just darted into the, the, I guess the streaming room.
And so we darted in there and like we darted to hide under the table and I remember like Mr. Clark was in there and he just kind of peeked and just looked at us.
And he didn't say anything and then he just went back to work.
Yeah, he didn't even care.
He was just like, whatever, I don't even want to know.
I don't know how true this was.
I heard that he was like on staff at a really big university in Atlanta.
And like he was a professor and did an old bunch of like in the audio video related.
I mean, obviously that's what he was doing, right?
But he was one of those guys, nobody really do a lot about him.
I just heard a lot of rumors, right?
Like I also heard the rumor that he lived with his mom in Atlanta.
I don't think that was true, man.
I think he probably lived by himself.
He was, he was a pretty cool guy.
But yeah, I think he was just, I'm pretty sure the church paid him to come down from Atlanta.
Oh, I would imagine so.
He was really good at what he did.
I mean, those recordings were really crisp and clean.
And like I said, you know, he would take both services and, you know, take whatever from each one that was the best and would splice two together.
And that's not easy to do, especially in that day and age.
You know, we have a lot of technology that makes it really easy now.
That was an all day process back then.
Like he was there all sninking day, like into the evening.
Yes, he was.
Well, cool deal, man.
Well, it was great talking about those guys and we will move on to our next segment.
What's our next segment, Micah?
Our next segment is the jelly dutiful.
But today we're talking about instead of criminal crime, we're going to talk about some civil stuff and some crazy lawsuits in which people actually won.
So do you want to go through Chris and we're going to talk about some of these crazy lawsuits?
First one, a Massachusetts woman filed a lawsuit against the Boston Red Sox, the baseball team, and team owner John Henry claiming that they were negligent in 2014 when a batted ball struck her in the crowd.
The player had failed to inform her that he might try to throw baseballs into the stand and as a result suffered injuries, including facial fractures and neurological damage.
And apparently she ended up winning and got $6.4 million from that.
Are you serious, bro?
How did you get that?
Because like literally, that's the expected risk.
That's the nature of baseball.
But shoot, man, I didn't realize we could go to a baseball game and hopefully we get struck by a foul ball.
We might be able to have the option to sue.
I don't know.
I'm sure since then they put in some, what do you call it, some disclaimers?
Yeah, when you buy your ticket or something.
Percautions or something like that.
And that's something else, kids. If you ever see something on the wall of do not do this or do not do that as silly as it may sound, it's because a lawsuit happened about it at some point.
A judge in Missouri ordered a club chain to pay $6 million to an exotic dancer who says she was a victim of discrimination and retaliation.
So the woman said that she sued this company saying that they were forced to share tips with management.
And she wanted to keep all of her tips. However, talking about what happened on stage in behind closed doors was against management policies because they couldn't adequately account for all the money that was going in and out.
At least is what they were saying.
But she ended up winning $6 million because apparently she was forced to share tips over a long period of time.
And they said somehow with all the damages and the discrimination, $6 million is adequate.
See that one I kind of agree with while I do not support and condone the business in which this lady is in.
Like the tips is what she lives off of, right? Like that's how she gets her money.
And so the fact that she has to share them with management, management gets paid like a base salary.
They get paid a set wage.
Most of the people that work in that industry, they're working off of tips. They don't get, they don't have like, they're not getting paid by hour, I don't think.
Unless I, unless I'm wrong.
Or it's a small amount like waiters and waitresses, but I don't think it is like that.
Yeah. So I mean, I get why she had to sue.
But I mean, you know, now maybe she can quit her job.
Different one or, you know, a better one.
So, but, you know, what really tips it off for me was that this company was saying that what happens on stage behind closed doors, like we can't account for all that.
You know, that's all horse hockey. You can tell how much money is going in and out.
That's just them trying to say we want to keep our cut and we know that we're wrong for it pretty much.
That's what it says in my mind.
All right. So the next one in 2005, an elderly woman was rushed to the hospital due to a severe knee infection.
She'd never met her doctor, but he operated on her knee.
And in 2007, she took him to court over negligence because she couldn't remember anything about the doctor.
The jury awarded her $7 million because she didn't know anything about the doctor and that's against patient rights, apparently.
Oh man. I wonder how she, I mean, I guess they're, we've talked about this.
They're lawyers that they sit around and try to find these lawsuits, but I'm like, wow, that's wild that like you, you just get $7 million off of that fact.
Like, I'm like, what, what can I get paid for? You know what I mean?
There's got to be something that we missed during life.
The ironic part about this one though is the doctor filed for bankruptcy very soon after.
So they actually, she, the lady actually got nothing because he filed for bankruptcy.
Wow. Well, that sucks.
This lady sued her 12 year old nephew for breaking her wrist with hugging him at a birthday party and jury awarded her damages of just over a million dollars because the hug.
So how is that 12 year old going to pay that money? Like, what, what, what, what?
Okay. First of all, why is that lady so suing a 12 year old?
Number two, like how, how is she going to get her money?
Like, what is he going to have to pay reparations?
Like, what the heck?
I feel like there's got to be a family beef or something, right?
It's, it's not just about her nephew. It's got to be like, you know, whoever that family member is, they don't like each other and she was trying to get that money out of him.
I don't know, but it seems like there's a lot more to the story than just, but see, my thing is, how does the 12 year old break her wrist?
Like, it also sounds like one of those things of she broke her wrist after the fact or something trying to get that money.
Yeah, I don't know, man. People, people do some crazy stuff.
Yeah, I don't even know, man.
All right, so this next one in May of 2014, this person was a Canadian radio host was accused of assaulting three women and the women alleged that the guy slapped them in the street as a part of some prank for this radio show.
And apparently the lawsuit won for a grand total of 55 million split between the three.
But he was claiming he was innocent because it's all for entertainment purposes and that they had signed paperwork over the matter by contracts.
And, but there was no paperwork to be had that they could be shown in court.
So homie just said, you know, let's go slap some people in the street.
Dude, there are some radio shows where like, they, they, they were like, Oh yeah, this person is like either cheating on me or blah, blah, blah.
And radio show, they'll call into a radio show and the radio show host will call their partner and then pretend to like be someone from the bank or pretend to be somebody else.
And I'm like, how do they not get sued over that?
Because if you called me and you said, I'm from the bank and I saw these charges on your thing that I can you explain this.
And it's like, dude, and you pretended you were from my bank, dude, I would sue you in a heartbeat.
Like, I, some of those things, I'm like, they take it a little too far.
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
And I mean, especially in the day and age now, like tick tock and stuff like that.
I mean, people go around smacking people and doing all sorts of crazy stuff to people in public and all sorts of crazy crap.
So, you know, rightfully so, you know, 55 million is pretty steep, but at the same time, you know, I don't think you should be going out slapping people in the street, especially ladies.
All right.
So the next one.
This person was eating dinner at this nice Italian restaurant called the Olive Garden apparently tripped on a loose carpet near a stairway during his table.
I'm sorry, I stared near his table.
You know how it kind of steps up and down some of those restaurants broke his leg and he sued Olive Garden for negligence.
And he got 580,000.
Now that's not too crazy.
Right.
We've heard people trip it and following it, you know, Olive Garden and, you know, things like that are even at Subways in front of Subway.
Oh yeah, dude, I'm telling you, dude, if you fall in front of Sue Sue, get your money, boy.
Especially when you're talking about, you know, loose carpet stuff like that.
And, you know, in fact, if it actually caused that, like, oh yeah, you know, that's that's on them.
It's on them.
They should be paying your medical bills.
All right.
Just a few more.
So this next person in 2009, this person worked as a clerk at a submit mixing plant when she fell into one of their submit mixers and broke her leg.
And she claimed of compensation like workman's comp on her injury and also sued the company and won over $300,000.
Oh, well good for her.
My question is there's wish there was more, you know, they showed more to the story here because that sounds kind of like negligence to me.
Like how are you going to fall into a submit mixer?
It doesn't sound like it's an easy thing to do.
So this next guy here ordered a roast beef sandwich from a very popular chain that likes to serve roast beef.
However, instead of giving him roast beef, they served him a pastrami sandwich as well.
As a result, he sued because he said he experienced severe stomach aches because he was allergic to pastrami and also got a doctor's note to collaborate that.
So he got a million dollars for his stomach aches because of the pastrami.
Wow, that's crazy.
Maybe I should just be going up in places and ordering stuff that I know more.
In 2005, this lady sued UPS when one of their delivery men left a package under her front door and then knocked over a barrier and ran down her steps.
As it turns out, I'm trying to read to make sense of it.
So she sued UPS because the delivery man left the package in the front door, then knocked over her barrier and ran down the steps.
And then as it turned out, she ran out the door and twisted her ankle as a result.
Okay, just kind of didn't say very clearly what happened.
Then apparently the jury awarded her a $1.5 million from UPS because I don't know why she just took off running after him or something.
I'm just like, what did he do?
I guess he turned around and knocked over something on her porch or something.
I don't know.
Yeah, and so she ran after him and so she twisted the ankle and she sued him because he was quote unquote the cause of it.
I'm like, yeah.
I don't know. You didn't have to run out after him.
I don't think that deserves a million bucks, but whatever.
The mailman, they got to be running after or they have dogs running after him and Karen's running after him.
What is he supposed to expect?
All right, so you ready to go to the next segment, Chris?
All right, man.
So this next segment is the donut hole.
And that's my week to do it.
So you know what we're going to talk about?
We haven't talked about planes and aviation in a while.
So I've got a few weird airlines to talk about here.
All right, so very first one.
There was one in 1974.
Did you know about one?
It was called Free Landia.
I wonder why.
And it was a not-for-profit airline that served organic food and had water beds as all of their seats.
Only, you know, it only lasted for about a year though.
I can only imagine why.
But yeah, apparently it was a big party.
It was a hippy style party.
Vegetarian meal, cheeses, homemade suits.
Yeah, wines, beers.
It was a party plane.
All right.
Have you ever heard about the North Korean airline, Chris?
They're really fascinating to me.
But have you heard about the North Korean airline?
Oh, that's the name of it?
No, no, no.
The name of the airline is Air Corio.
Oh, no, I've never heard of it.
And so, you know, they've got so many sanctions on them.
They fly all these really, really, really old Soviet-era planes.
But they keep them like pristine condition.
But they're the only world's one-star airline because, I mean,
you're going to North Korea if you're going on there.
And they're banned from the UK and also the United States,
citing maintenance and safety concerns.
And they only operate just a few flights going back and forth to China and Russia.
But they're still pretty cool, man.
I wouldn't want to fly on them.
But every year they have a big air show.
I mean, you got to think, these are planes that are from one of them's from the 40s.
So you got to think, it's anything from the 40s all the way up to modern day,
what the Soviets are putting out, I mean, the Russians.
Pretty crazy stuff.
And they just keep them just flying history.
It's pretty crazy.
Like I said, I would never want to go, but those air shows look like they'd be pretty cool.
All right, so just a few more here.
Have you ever heard about Janet Airlines?
No, I've not.
Janet Airlines is one of the most highly classified airlines.
And it goes out of Las Vegas, Nevada.
And it goes from Las Vegas to a bunch of other sites, but primarily it goes out to Area 51.
And so pretty much it's a white plane with a red stripe down the middle of it.
That's all it is.
And Janet is an acronym, government acronym for just another non-existent terminal.
So pretty much it's for people going back and forth to these really top secret bases.
And it goes straight out of, you know, they go right out of Las Vegas.
Just, you know, just in and out of Vegas.
Wow.
So they basically just be telling us there's top secret stuff right there.
I don't know, dude.
I don't trust it.
And like I said, man, the plane is white with just a red stripe down the middle of it.
Like it looks very US government and very secretive.
All right, so here's the last one.
So, you know, we stand with Israel.
We don't want to talk about this too much.
But did you know that their airline, LL is considered one of the most secure airlines and they don't have too many planes because they have to go through a two and a half year testing cycle.
And they also have to do a bunch of equipment, but they have all these defense mechanisms on their plane.
They literally have a thermal camera and a laser that would shoot rockets out of the sky.
This is passenger planes, right?
So all their planes have to have this on there.
They have anti-defense missile systems on there and they're going to cover air marshal on every flight.
They don't mess around, man.
Yeah, they don't play, bro.
Have you seen the Israeli military, bro?
They don't be playing, dude.
These are these are the same dudes that like, I think it was like in the 70s or 80s, like the six day war.
Did you ever hear about that?
Boy, yeah, they killed that.
They cleared them jokers out in six days telling you when you got God on your side.
Yeah, bro.
They don't be playing.
They don't mess around.
But yeah, man, their airline is very, very strict and even to get on one of their flights on LL is a little,
they go through very stringent background checks, things like that.
They don't even want hijackings to happen.
So I mean, they they're very about their stuff and understandably so, man.
You think about it, bro.
They're dealing with people that want to kill them every single day.
So they got to make sure their stuff is locked down.
Yeah, heck yeah, bro.
Definitely.
But yeah, man, those are some weird airlines.
I don't know if you've ever heard any of them.
Nope, never heard of them.
Well, they're pretty cool to look into.
Like I said, they're kind of smaller, but some pretty cool national ones.
North Korean ones really, really interesting.
But speaking of North Korea and all their rage and aggression,
let's go into our next segment, which is full of rage and aggression.
And that's what fries my donuts.
So, Chris, you know what fries my donuts and I'm going to keep I'll keep this brief.
But have you ever had those people that like you barely talk to them?
You're kind of like maybe acquaintances with them.
You don't really know them that well.
You haven't talked to them in a while.
Then all of a sudden they hit you up one day and then they're trying to make
small talk with you and you're just kind of like, hey, like what's going on?
Like what do you want?
And then like they finally like, hey, how's the kids?
How's the wife?
Like how's life going?
And it's like good.
And like in the back of your mind, you're like, what do you want from me?
And then they're just like, you know, my life's going good too.
Like it's great.
And then you entertain the small talk for a while.
And then it's like, hey, I work for this life insurance company.
Do you want some life insurance?
And it's like, bro, why didn't you just come out straight from the gate?
Like I know that you're trying to also like different professions or different and stuff.
But like, bro, I had that happen to me and I'm like, dude, we never really talked.
We were never really that close.
And then out of the blue, you just send me a message.
You ask me how things are going, how I'm enjoying this and that.
And I'm kind of like, what do you want?
Like is there something you need?
Like are you having a tough time?
Like what's going on?
And then all of a sudden you hit me with a bam.
I sell this if you're ever interested.
It's like, dude, why you beat around the bush?
And to that or I've had, I've had people do pyramid schemes, right?
Like, oh, you know, join this thing, especially when that real big craze
where all the drinks were coming out like the powdered drinks, you know, I'm talking about.
I don't even remember.
Oh, the spark.
You remember that?
Spark.
Oh God.
Yeah.
I hated that crowd.
You know who was, you know who was big into that?
He was one of the assistant managers at Boot Corral and his wife sold them.
And I remember that was like a big thing and I was like, yeah, they use that thing religiously too.
It was, it was pretty bad.
But yeah, no, I can't stand that stuff too.
And especially when it's like, like, I don't, again, yeah, I don't mind when you're trying to different things
and trying different professions and yeah, everybody's got to get their start.
And yeah, you got to reach out to people you vaguely know and stuff like that and cold call.
And you know, why not try it and whatnot.
But yeah, man, don't be around the bush be like, Hey, we haven't talked in a while, but here's what I'm trying to do.
To me, I've got a lot more respect for you and there's a small likelihood, but most of the time it's a no.
Just because I don't know, especially when you vaguely know somebody, you really don't know that person no more.
And especially like, like Chris said, when you did know me really didn't.
And so do you really trust them with like life insurance or something like that over a bona fide agent that you would know a little better?
I don't know.
I get what you're saying, man.
And then the other one that I've gotten a few times is people like, Oh, yeah, like I could show you how to invest crypto and make a lot of money or 4x and make a lot of money.
And I'm like, man, I don't trust you with none of that.
Exactly. I'm telling you, dude, it's wild, man.
But yeah, like I said, that's what kind of fries my doughnuts.
And I'm just like, dude, like we never really talk like why are you all of a sudden caring about how and it's like, oh, you're pretending to care like how my life is going.
So you can try to sell me stuff.
And I'm like, I don't like that at all.
No, I totally get that man.
That's pretty that's pretty nuts.
But jamming.
Did you want to move on to next segment?
Yeah, let's move on.
That's all I really got to say about that.
And the words of force go.
It's frustrating though, man.
I don't like it when people when people act like that.
We plan around just to like, I get it, but same time.
All right, so we're going to move to our next segment, which is the mystery donut or improv segment.
And this week we are going to do the randomizer.
So Chris, let's do what would you think about an object, a location and an emotion, maybe an object and a location and emotion.
The object is well, maybe not object.
Let's try.
Sorry.
Because I just realized object might not come out very good.
So let's do professions and locations and.
Oh, yeah.
And actions.
Let's let's just randomize it.
Yeah, I can actually just randomize it.
An architect.
We've already got we've done an architect before.
Let's do a different one.
A window cleaner and a active volcano.
Okay.
Working, working overtime.
Okay.
All right.
Working overtime.
That's great.
Working OT.
All right.
I can start it.
All right.
Go for it.
Man, they got us working these stupid hours on this stupid hot.
You know, it smells, it smells like brimstone and that smells like crap.
I know what you say at pony.
I've been watching these windows for over 20 hours.
I'm getting 20 hours over time and I'm just doing it so I can buy Christmas presents for the little ones.
But I'm telling you, man, if that volcano keeps rumbling like that, we ain't going to have to be watching these windows for long.
They ain't going to be no window.
You know, it's, you know, we've been having to do this in the hot smeltering.
You know, it was, it was a heat wave all this year, all this year.
And then they send us out to this dang volcano and say, oh, yeah, let's do the building on the base of the volcano.
Yeah, let's do that.
That's that makes a lot of sense.
Telling you, why did they send Sally out here?
Sally's been sitting his butt in the office all week.
Think, what do you think? Sally's too good to clean windows or something?
And Salvatore ever wanted to do anything?
I'm just saying, I'm saying is we're out here.
We're literally out here watching these windows or halfway up these buildings.
You know, I know, all I know is this.
The other reason I took this job is because my dad was a window cleaner too.
And I thought, oh, yeah, it's going to be a great gig going halfway up buildings and washing windows.
And oh, it's going to be fantastic.
And then next thing you know, you know, all this cleaning, pitching crap off of things.
That's what it is.
You know what, you know, it really, really gets my goat.
What really fries my doughnuts.
I'm sitting over here working 20, 30 hours of overtime just to buy my kids Christmas presents.
And you know who gets all the credit?
Freaking Santa Claus.
Santa Claus only works one night a week, one night a year.
I'm over here working seven days a week, 365 fat man.
And you get the credit for my overtime.
No, man, miss me with it.
Well, and then my wife tries to tell me, oh, oh, yeah, and we're going to make Santa into a spirit.
That's in everyone's hearts.
And it's more, you know, it's more of a spiritual thing.
And that's how he's able to go from Christmas to Christmas.
Here I am busting my hub halfway up a dang volcano cleaning freaking windows.
And you're going to tell me you're going to brainwash my family.
I've been doing 20, 30 hours.
I can't even, I can't even bear this.
Yeah.
Yeah, Tony, we better get out of here.
I started to see that magma starting to come up there.
And it looks like it's going to rumble.
So we probably better get out of here before we're toast and we don't even get to spend Christmas.
The only thing that I wanted to ask is, I wonder how fast those little carts that they're in, like the little baskets, how fast do they go up and down?
That's my question.
I feel like they go up and down pretty quickly.
I feel like they go up at a decent, I don't think they're slow.
I think they can go up pretty quick.
Here's my question.
And you know, if we have any window cleaners out there, you let us know, do they start from up top?
Like, I know that they have to put the basket up top, but do they start cleaning from up top and work their way down?
Or do they lure the basket all the way down to the ground?
And do they start from the bottom and go up?
Work their way up?
I don't know.
I think I'd want to start all from all the way up top and then go down.
I think it would be kind of a little nerve wracking when you all the way up and you're just like, ooh, but it's like, oh, I'm lowering it down.
I feel a little bit closer to the ground.
That's just me though.
That's nerve wracking period.
That thing, you know, I've seen those things really shaking around and whatnot.
Anyways, anyways, it's been a great episode, man.
It's always a good episode.
You know, it is when we're just rambling by the end of it.
So, we can move into our last segment, which is our Eclare or positive advice.
And Chris, I think I went first last week, so I'll let you take it away.
Well, my advice is to be courageous and sometimes courage is the opposite of what you want to naturally do, right?
So for some people, the courageous thing to do is to just be quiet, right?
Because maybe you're naturally, you just shoot off at the mouth and, you know, you say whatever you feel like, you say whatever's popping in your brain.
But maybe the courageous thing for you to do is just to be quiet and just to be like, you know what, I'm going to let this go.
I'm not going to go in guns a blazing.
Or on the opposite side, maybe the courageous thing for you to do is just to sit back and not have confrontation.
Sorry, strike that reverse.
Maybe the natural thing for you to do is just to sit back and not have confrontation.
But the courageous thing for you to do is to step out and to rock the boat and be like, you know what, I'm not just going to sweep this under the rug.
So, be courageous and whatever that looks like for you, for me, that's like sometimes I have to speak up about things because I'll let things go a little bit too often.
And yeah, so don't be afraid to take courage and do the courageous thing.
Yeah, no, I totally agree. And mine kind of piggybacks off of that.
And just don't ever downplay the importance of listening.
Because, you know, even what Chris was saying, right?
I've been in so many situations where I've been talking and talking and talking and saying something, not even for, you know, bad purpose or, you know, whatever, it's just just talking.
Maybe it was for attention or maybe it was for whatever and I miss some of the things that I, you know, passed me by because I just wasn't listening at the time.
And so, you know, don't ever downplay that we had this job interview with this guy.
And I tell you what, man, like he was a very bright, bright guy had plenty of credentials, you know, to have the job and everything.
But you know what the biggest thing that I'd noticed and we passed on him for? He would not listen to the questions that we were asking him.
Like he just would not listen and you could just tell that he was just in La La Land and he thought that he was going to get the job and he just didn't listen.
He didn't listen. He didn't pick it up. And so, you know, you could have all the credentials in the world, you could look the best, but if you ain't going to listen, you're not worth anything.
You know, especially, you know, business sense, relationship sense, like you got to listen, got to listen. And that's a hard one, especially when you're a talker like I am.
Huh? What'd you say? No, I'm just going to get, uh, again, again, I say this all the time.
God gave us two years and one mouth. So that means you need to listen more than you talk.
Just kidding. My dad always said that. And I'd be like, Dad, stop it.
Little things. But yeah, man, uh, tv trash can dot com. That's tv trash can dot com where, uh, yeah, we're cooking on some things.
So be on the lookout for that. But it's the holidays. We also going to be taking it easy as well.
So we enjoyed our time. But man, you got anything to add?
No, just, uh, again, be safe out there during the holiday season, man. People drive crazy and people are rushing, rushing, rushing to where they are trying to go.
And you can get overwhelmed with, uh, holiday parties and all that stuff. So just, just be safe and be careful out there. Okay.
Yeah. And don't get too wrapped up in the gifts. Get wrapped up in the time you're spending with family. That's what it's all about. You know, I know what you wanted to say.
I know what you wanted to say. What was I going to say? You wanted to say, you wanted to say, don't get wrapped up in gifts.
You need to get wrapped up in birth crash. Birth of Jesus. That's what it's about. Yeah, I could go on that. You know, I could, you know, these people, they don't even know.
They don't even know what I could break out with that for like a 30 minute rant, but we could have, you know, bogged them with all that.
So anyways, I guess it's time to sign off. I'm Michael and I'm Chris and this has been the Donut Box podcast.
Yeah.