Hi, I'm Micah and I'm Chris and this is the Donut Box podcast.
So Chris, we're back for another week.
Back going strong still.
How you doing man?
40 years long, 40 years strong.
Just kidding, we ain't been doing this for 40 years.
But we have been doing this for almost three years and it's always a great time in doing
great.
It's been a great week and I'm excited for this episode.
Yeah, man.
It's another Monday.
I'm excited for this week and what it's got in store.
But we got a whole bunch of good stuff talking to you this podcast.
If you're new here, we appreciate you giving us a try, giving us a listen.
But if you're returning, we got plenty of people returning from all around the world,
man.
We got international listeners.
I know we got some Australia, Singapore out there and kind of this Pacific, I almost
said specific.
Do you ever get caught up saying the word Pacific like the Pacific Ocean?
Yeah, my words run together sometimes.
It happens, bro.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's easy to be like the specific oceans.
Which one is specific?
Are you talking about?
Anyways, so over in the Pacific Ocean, we got them guys, man.
We got a whole bunch of folks in Europe, Africa, all the different continents, man.
How about here, stateside?
Of course, we always have Florida, Virginia, New York, Philadelphia, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois,
Detroit, Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska.
Actually, it's some in New Mexico, some in Arizona, Washington, California, Oregon.
And so, as they say in the song, it's just another manic Monday.
Is that how it goes?
Is that how the song goes?
I think so.
But I guess what else I'm hearing is it could be tropical where you're listening.
It could be the desert where you're listening.
I don't know.
We got a lot of place in between, but we really appreciate you guys for listening.
So we're going to go into our first segment, which is our old fashioned doughnut and crisp.
That is a story from our past.
In this case, you know, we've been talking about some characters, but this is kind of
a character slash.
I would you describe this what we did for a political campaign.
We started our own political campaign.
This is an election year here in the United States.
If you are in the world and different countries, I don't know if it's an election year for
you guys or maybe you don't have elections.
I don't know different strokes for different folks, but so it is an election year for us.
So we, Mike and I, we actually decided to spearhead a campaign, a presidential campaign
for a right in candidate.
Now this was back in 2008 and we were 2000 and late just kidding.
That's that's that's a song, by the way.
And so black eyed peas, the people that were running at the time was Barack Obama and the
president and John McCain.
I think I felt more this way that Mike, Mike, we also, we also have to talk, Chris, about
where it actually like came from, came from.
Because yes, that's who the candidates ended up being.
But when we very first talked about it, remember, it looked like the candidate was going to
be Rudy Giuliani for the Republicans.
It still looked like Obama for the Democrats, but it looked like Rudy Giuliani.
And I remember being like Rudy Giuliani.
And I don't know.
You remember that?
And I remember Rudy Giuliani is just like, yeah, I would have anybody besides Rudy Giuliani.
You know who I remember running to be honest with you that was running for the Republicans?
Who?
It was Mike Huckabee.
Mike Huckabee.
Yeah.
That's a funny, I actually met him and he signed a book.
I don't know where that book is, but yeah, I actually met Mike Huckabee at Herman Kain.
You remember Herman Kain?
Oh yeah.
Isn't he dead now?
I think he is.
John McCain.
He was already pretty old.
And there were, I think Chris Christie was running.
Chris Christie always runs, but Chris Christie like just eventually ends up dropping out.
I don't know what, why he still keeps running.
Wasn't Ron Paul one of them too?
It wasn't like Ron Paul running at one point.
Yeah, Ron Paul always runs.
I think it was him too.
Oh wait, you know who else was running?
Rick Santorum.
Oh yeah, Rick Santorum.
And if you don't know what Santorum means, go ahead and look it up on Urban Dictionary.
You're welcome.
And poor guy, that was his last name.
But anyways, yeah, so this election was going on and needless to say, Chris and I were
kind of up on the election stuff for whatever reason.
I mean, how old were we?
I'm trying to think like middle school, right?
Like middle school, early high school.
Yeah, seventh, eighth grade.
So it's like we were kind of, you know, into it, whatnot.
So it was like, man, really there's nobody out there, right?
And so we need to find our candidate.
And do you remember why we chose this person, Chris?
Like before we say who it is, do you remember why we chose this person?
I don't even remember.
Being a middle school boy, I thought he was cool.
And I think he just had an interesting life.
And I don't know, man.
We would always just talk about different people's lives.
And I think that was just the running joke at the time we had.
We would rotate like different people that was like a running joke.
That sounds really mean, but we would just have like these running jokes with each other.
And nobody understood them except from being Micah.
And it was just, we just had different inside jokes.
And this person was part of our inside joke.
And I guess we thought he would be cool enough to be a presidential candidate.
Well, in part two, explain to, I don't know, Chris and I, humor, most of the time, like
you said, is just not understood by other people.
So like even people in our families and stuff like that, if we told them the same joke,
they'd be like, OK, I don't understand why that's funny.
But just like different quirks about different people, like, I don't know, just different
things are like, OK, yeah, that's kind of funny or like falls into a stereotype or something.
To give you an example of what our kind of humor is, and I know this was definitely what
influenced Family Guy.
We did like Family Guy.
But the more I'm watching like Mel Brooks films, I'm realizing, you know what?
That is my kind of humor, like blazing shadows and Robin Hood men in tights.
And like every time I like, yeah, I'm like, oh, this is definitely my kind of humor.
But it's a weird kind of humor.
But anyway, sorry, that's a rabbit.
It's different.
But yeah, anyways, so we started making this thing, but we decided to make the presidential
candidate of our choice, Uncle Steve.
Chris is Uncle Steve.
Am I right, Chris?
Yes.
I'm serious about this.
We took this and I mean, here's the thing, man.
I don't know why Mike and I were like just bored teenagers, but we always decided to
make our own fun or to create our own ideas.
And so we were like, you know what?
We are going to make a presidential campaign for Uncle Steve.
And I don't think we ever told Uncle Steve.
I think he found out about it, but I don't think we ever told him like, hey, we want
you to run for president or we're going to put your name as a writing candidate idea.
But we, but no, we spread the word though.
We spread the word.
Yeah, we definitely spread the word.
We even had t-shirts made.
Vote for Uncle Steve t-shirts.
A lot of people thought, you know, oh, it was influenced by Napoleon Dynamite and vote
for Pedro.
Not really.
That's what a lot of people thought.
If you remember Chris, I was just like, no, it's more of a, you know, get, get, get
some writing votes and whatnot like that.
And I remember we had talked to our whole youth group and everything and everybody
know who knew like Uncle, you know, vote for Uncle Steve.
There's a lot of people that like walk up to us to be like, vote for Uncle Steve.
It's like, yeah.
And we even started a Facebook group for Vote for Uncle Steve, which is still up to this
day.
It is still up.
I don't know about you, but I think a lot of people at, at my school or at least the
people I talked to, they were like on board with this idea.
Like they liked it.
Like they were like, yeah, heck yeah, I'll vote for Uncle Steve.
I don't know who that is, but I'll vote for Uncle Steve.
Yeah.
And there was, there was even like adults because there was even adults that followed
that page and everything.
What do we get?
Like 50 follows and likes and stuff like that back then?
No, we got way more than that, dude.
We got way more than that.
We got almost 200.
Almost 200.
And for back then that's pretty crazy when social media was pretty brand new.
So brand new.
You know, it makes me wonder, like we'll never be able to find out, but I wonder who, like
if there was anybody that actually wrote in Uncle Steve, because I know a lot of people
that election year were not really happy with either choice.
So I'm wondering if any of those 200 people that we influenced, at least what showed on
social media, there was a lot more we probably, you know, that probably heard it.
I wonder who actually wrote in Uncle Steve.
We made the page, we put, I had a picture of me and my Uncle Steve.
It's going to sound so cheesy.
I had a picture of me and my Uncle Steve.
That was the profile picture.
And I remember Mike and I were admins on the page and we would just post like, like talking
like we were Uncle Steve, like Uncle Steve was talking to the people himself.
Uncle Steve had nothing to do with this.
Real Uncle Steve had nothing to do with it.
He had his social media managers.
He just didn't know.
He just didn't know he had social media managers.
I think he didn't think it was kind of cool though, because let me be honest with you.
At that point in my Uncle Steve's life, he didn't have a lot going for him.
I mean, he had moved back in with my grandparents.
He was going through a divorce.
He was getting his kids every other weekend.
I mean, I think Uncle Steve needed some wins to be honest with you at that point.
You know, what if we carried him through?
I'm not, I'm not saying that, but like, what if we were part of the reason that was just
like, you know what, let's keep going strong for the presidential election.
So, you know, even I remember, um, like after it was over with and he didn't win, I remember
even talking with him, it was just like tough loss.
I was like, I'm sorry.
He did like, we actually expected him to win.
Yeah.
And we were like, yeah, Uncle Steve, 2020 12, that's what we were like, yeah, 2020 12.
He's coming back, baby.
He's coming back.
But even if that, maybe he was just like, Hey, there's at least two people that think
I'm cool.
It's probably what are you doing, right?
He's probably like, yeah, these teenagers think I'm cool.
So I'm going to be cool.
But let me tell you how, how bored, uh, and how delusional Mike and I were.
So there was this theme park that was in, it was technically in North Carolina, but
it was like on the border of Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
It was called Kara wins.
And we were like, we're going to go to the highest roller, we're going to go on the highest
roller coaster and we're going to shout vote for uncle Steve from the rooftop so that three
states can hear the word about uncle Steve.
Again, I don't know how delusional we were, but we did every roller coaster ride.
We would shout vote for uncle Steve.
And we even were uncle Steve t-shirt.
Yes we did.
We, we listen, we, uh, we were some pretty good marketers back then.
I don't know.
That was good stuff.
I know this is kind of like taking, uh, like we've got some time.
This is kind of like taking, taking a tangent thing, but do you remember when we created
the character and it was after our, our main pastor and his last name was Bowen and we
called him the Bowenator.
You know, I still have that t-shirt made for him.
Yes.
I still have that t-shirt actually.
I still have the, why did we come up with that?
Uh, why did we come up with that character?
Okay.
So he was like a superhero.
Yeah.
So again, being really bored in church, right?
And this was our usher phase and you know, if you've heard previous episodes, even just
a few episodes back, we talked about being ushers and what that was like.
Uh, this is when we were like up in the balcony area and kind of not seen.
So we would sit there and do you remember like the top balcony where we would sit was
kind of like this back corner?
I mean, it really wasn't, I don't know how to describe it.
Like it was this kind of like you couldn't really see, you could hear, but you couldn't
really see and in the seat backs of every pew was the little, uh, ties and offering card
where you can fill it out and say, okay, here's what, you know, department I want the money
to go to and everything like that.
So there was those and I just remember one Sunday picking up that little card and, um,
if you remember another story we told about a particular person getting kicked out of
the church.
Um, we, oh, like we, we started making.
Stories about, you know, um, like the ridding of evil kind of thing and like the, and like
the pastor being like the ridding of evil kind of thing.
I don't know how it started, but like it started as him being a superhero.
Then it grew into like a superhero.
He was like a Batman kind of superhero.
So I don't know if you could call him a super like he had power.
It was a vigilante.
Yeah.
For justice.
Yes, he did.
He drove a tank.
Like I remember that was a mainstay.
Like he would ride in a tank.
I don't know if you remember that.
I don't remember that.
That's the problem with Mike and I.
We take, we take people that we know and we turn them into like characters of themselves
characters still to this day.
But I mean, again, we probably missed our calling and writing for TV and movies because, uh,
we take real life characters and turn them into, uh, into funny characters.
Superhero pastors of vigilante justice.
You know, stuff like that.
Um, but yeah, that was, but I still have the T-shirt.
Um, it's still held up to this day and like it's more of a work shirt now.
Like I don't wear it in public, but every time I would go out in public, actually people
would be like, who's the bowinator?
And we'd have to like explain it.
That's crazy.
Ladies and gentlemen, Micah still has clothes from 10 years ago.
It's wild.
Oh man.
10 plus years ago.
In fact, I just got rid of something that was from the seventh grade, I think just, just
for everybody's awareness.
I haven't grown since the seventh grade.
I was already massive in the seventh grade.
Um, and so all the clothes that I had then, um, if it fit, it's one of those things when
you were growing so fast, cause Chris will tell you like, I grew pretty fast in a very
short amount of time.
And so once I got up there, it was kind of one of those things of, I don't know, when
you have clothes that fit, you hold on to it.
And so now, now I'm to the point where, you know, I'm a full blown adult married, you
know, and everything else.
And I still got clothes from seventh grade.
I think your parental units were so tired of buying you clothes every other week that
they were like, okay, we're not buying you any more new clothes because you're all right,
you're this size for a while.
All right, you're good.
You know what?
We're going to go on a small other tangent and guess who got my hand me downs, you know,
Chris and I are not, Chris and I are not blood brothers, but we're, we're pretty much
brothers in any other fast.
It's like my, anything that didn't fit me anymore went to Chris and his brother Matthew.
So like a lot of my clothes.
And I'm the older one.
Yeah, put that in perspective for you.
Yeah, pretty, pretty crazy.
Like I said, I grew fast.
So I was, I was a big kid pretty quick.
It was wild.
Well, sorry, we took a whole little rabbit trail, but back to uncle Steve.
Yes, we did.
So the thing is though, like what, what I didn't know or what I kind of knew, what I didn't
know is like the whole, the whole time we were doing the uncle Steve campaign, Michael
was also campaigning for Obama too.
So it was kind of funny.
He was putting out signs and I think that was more of your parental unit that was like,
yeah, we're going to campaign for Obama and we're just, you're just going along with
it.
Yeah.
You know, that, that should be something else we talk about at another point because
you know, that was actually a very interesting experience campaigning for Obama in the middle
of Georgia.
That was, that was an experience.
Like, yeah, we, we could talk about that some other time.
Chris wasn't there for, for that, but I'm kind of glad he wasn't because some of the
stuff you saw was just like, woof.
It's wild.
And hear me like, I'm not, I'm not bashing Obama.
I'm not doing any of that stuff.
Like it is kind of cool.
Like say what you will about Obama, but it is cool to have like lived through the first
African American president and to like watch that and be able to remember that.
And that is kind of cool to like, you always have that piece of history, which is kind
of cool.
So.
Yeah.
Think about that.
We'll be able to tell our kids and grandkids.
We remembered that and how much hate and everything is like, child, it's your birth
certificate.
And they were telling us to show him his birth certificate and all this other stuff because
they didn't believe he was born in the States and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's always something it's like, it's like Bill Clinton, it's show me the paternity
test, you know, Obama, it's show me the birth certificate, Trump, it's show me the taxes,
tax results, right?
Then Biden, it's show me the election results, you know, this sounds bad, but it's like Biden
show me the CT scan results.
Anyways, sorry.
That's another that's another what fries my donuts about Bush, Bush Jr.
Show me the breathalyzer test results.
Sorry.
Great.
Dude, well, that's another one.
I know we keep on going and we're going to finish this segment, I promise, but that's
another era that was fun to live through was the Bush era.
There was so many things on TV that was just even as a kid, you're going, what did he just
say?
Oh yeah.
And then there was that time he was in, I don't remember what Middle Eastern country
he was in, but somebody like someone stood up and threw a shoe at him.
Yeah, I remember that.
And he ducked and he avoided it and he kind of laughed it off.
Or GIFs, GIFs, whatever, however you say those.
Yeah, GIFs at the time.
But I just remember he kind of like ducked it and smiled or like not really like smile,
but just was like, OK.
And then Secret Service took him out, dang.
Anyways, all right, we move on to our next segment, which is our, sorry, our jelly donut,
which is our jail report.
So Chris, what do you got for us with our jail report this week?
Well, we're actually taking, speaking of former president, we're actually taking a little
bit of a detour and we're going in the words of a famous former president, you're fired.
You're fired.
We're going to talk about people that were fired in ridiculous ways.
Oh man, I love these stories.
Like I don't love these stories, but listen, a lot of times people get fired for some really
stupid stuff and it, yeah.
Anyways, go ahead, Chris.
So this first one, this person says that they were told to wash the red truck in the car
lot before they closed.
They worked at a car dealership.
And the guy said there were no red trucks.
The boss said, the boss had a fit that it didn't get done the next day and that person
was fired.
He said, I guess I was supposed to know that the boss was red slash green color blind.
So the guy, the boss said, Hey, go wash the red trucks in the parking lot.
There were no red trucks and he ended up getting fired.
And I guess the guy thought the green trucks were actually red.
So he got fired because he was color blind.
Wow.
Well, that's a, that's a hard way to lose a job.
And I think in training, somebody should let, let people know that the boss is color blind,
you know, this next one.
This guy says his first job was at a barbecue restaurant.
The owner's daughter was super attractive.
So he asked her out to dinner and a movie.
And he said, he understood that her dad, the owner was a strict Southern Baptist.
So he made sure to ask the father when she was due home.
The daughter said midnight and he got her home by 11pm just to be safe.
Apparently she was supposed to be back by 9pm and that guy was fired the next day.
So he was fired for not getting her home on time, but he didn't know what the curfew
was.
And the daughter said midnight, but, and he got her home by 11pm, but apparently it
was 9pm.
Well, that's why you got to ask the dad because you never know what it's actually going to
be.
Sound like she was trying to be a wild child anyways.
It does.
All right.
Next one.
This one says my boss fired me for quote unquote, trying to do drugs when I asked to go get
a Benadryl.
This person said they had an allergic reaction at work and asked to go to the car to get
their Benadryl.
The boss said he didn't see the reaction and fired this person for quote unquote, trying
to do drugs.
If my throat wasn't swelling shut, I would have told them off.
So they got fired for Bennett for trying to get allergy medicine.
That's crazy.
I don't know, man.
It sounds like there's something else to that story.
Yeah.
That's what I was thinking.
My, my, uh, that didn't pass the smell test as they say.
I was like, eh, I think there was more to that story.
Yeah.
Cause there's, there's some, listen, we've all worked retail.
We talked about boot corral, right?
We've definitely worked with some of those people that will do things over and over and
over.
And then the day that they get fired, they're like, see, they only fired me for this small
reason, but really it was like a compounding deal.
You know, maybe they stepped out of work a lot like every day and it was always something
different than that.
It just like finally like, no, I'm tired of it and it just happened to be something potentially.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Like, uh, like, uh, San Angelo who took a nap in his truck every day and he got fired
for I think the littlest thing.
Anyways, sorry.
Yeah, exactly.
Next one, uh, this person says they were fired for hosting a Christmas party for their
coworkers.
It was a small 40 person company event and nothing was ever done to celebrate, uh, Christmas.
So this person decided to take upon themselves to host a potluck.
Everyone came except the boss.
The boss said she felt it was not appropriate to socialize with quote unquote, the help
and she fired that person the next day.
Okay.
So I do understand the whole like we shouldn't fraternize with, um, subordinates and things
like that.
But honestly, that's more for if they're having a house party, like you don't want to, as
the boss show up to, to a house party or listen, they're all going after work to go get drinks.
You know, like that's a little different.
Right.
Like as their boss, maybe you shouldn't be doing that sort of thing.
But you know, if it's, if it's a Christmas party, I mean, companies have Christmas parties.
Like that's not, and they're put on by the bosses.
Like it's supposed to be something to show like, Hey, we appreciate you guys.
Yeah, that's what I said.
I said, if it was a holiday thing, I was like, I don't see it, but if it was like a regular
party party, then I understand the validity of it.
But yeah, it's anyways.
All right.
This, let the Christmas parties live this last one.
All right.
This person says that they were fired from a bartending job once because they refused
to take shots with the owner's wife, who was also their manager.
They say she got so mad even though.
Is that the owner from country nights?
Yeah, it might be.
They say she got so mad even though I tried several times to tell her that I drove to
work and couldn't drink.
She'd respond with, why don't you like to drink with me?
And then they got fired.
I applaud this bartender because they were like, Hey, I'm not drinking on the job.
And I like, I respect that.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's hard to hold that line, especially when you're talking about the owner's wife.
It sounds like she was definitely kind of belligerent too.
Like it didn't sound like she was being nice about it.
Not at all.
But that's all the you fired stories that we have.
That's crazy though.
I'm telling you, man, some of these people got some nerve.
I'm telling you, they got some nerve firing folks for some really dumb reasons.
Um, I don't know if I ever told you, but I almost got fired from a job and, um, it was
all because of somebody else's fault.
Have you ever had something like that happen where it was like somebody else's fault, but
they basically liked that other person.
And so they needed to scapegoat.
Oh yeah.
Yep.
I've heard that before.
Got to hate those, but glad, uh, you know, it's crazy times out there, man.
Crazy times.
But we'll move to our next segment, which is the donut hole or Chris, it's whatever you
feel like doing.
What's the time we've been doing quizzes?
Are we doing another quiz today?
Oh, yes, we are, buddy.
We are doing a quiz.
How'd you know?
Man, it was a lucky guess.
Lucky guess.
But hey, what's the quiz?
Uh, so it's actually going to be Disney movie trivia.
All right.
Let's see how I do on this one.
Let's see how you do.
Okay.
Uh, this first one, there's only two choices.
Okay.
Uh, the question is which foot did Cinderella lose her slipper?
The left foot or the right?
It was the left foot, right?
Yeah, you are correct.
That is very true.
Yeah.
It is the left foot.
All right.
Question number two out of all the Disney movies, which of the title characters speaks the least?
So like the movie that has their name in the title, which of these characters speak the
least?
A Alice from Wonderland, B Dumbo, C Pinocchio or D Snow White.
Honestly, I thought you were going to say Pocahontas and I would have said that.
Uh, was it Snow White because she was sleeping?
No, it's actually Dumbo.
Dumbo doesn't say anything the whole time.
Oh, that's true.
You think about that.
But yeah, that's true.
Number three, when you wish upon a star, which is the theme song in every intro of a Disney
movie, so you know how they have the, yeah, right, the intro at the beginning.
That song is when you wish upon a star, that song originated from what movie?
A, Cinderella, B, Alice in Wonderland, C, Fantasia or Deep No Pio?
Run through the options again.
Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Fantasia or Pinocchio?
It wasn't Fantasia.
I'm going to go Pinocchio.
Yes, sir.
That is correct.
Yeah.
The one I know it from is Beauty and the Beast.
Okay.
That works too.
That's the one I always think about it with.
Anyways, go ahead.
All right.
Number four, which Disney movie was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture?
A, Aladdin, B, the Little Mermaid, C, Beauty and the Beast or D Tarzan?
Was it Beauty and the Beast?
It was.
That is correct.
Yeah.
They nominated, it was the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture, which
is crazy.
Yeah.
Which Disney princess was the first to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
A, Cinderella, B, Snow White, C, Sleeping Beauty or D, Ariel from the Little Mermaid?
Cinderella.
Actually, Snow White.
Ah, and her seven dwarfs.
I bet they didn't get their recognition, did they?
All right.
Which Disney princess does not marry into royalty?
Ariel, Cinderella, Mulan or Snow White?
What is it Mulan?
It doesn't?
Yeah, it's Mulan.
She marries that warrior guy.
Yeah, the warrior guy.
She don't marry no prince.
Let's get down to business.
Okay.
Next one.
Which movie first featured the toy Barbie as a character?
A, Toy Story 2, B Aladdin, C Beauty and the Beast or TV Incredible?
It's Toy Story 2.
Yes, sir.
It is.
Yeah.
All right.
This one you may not know.
It's kind of a later movie, but not too late.
How many piston cups has Lightning McQueen won?
A, 8, B, 10, C, 12 or D, 7?
Wasn't it 8?
Exactly 7.
I have seen cars and cars too, actually.
It's just been a long time.
Yeah.
Especially the first cars.
I've only seen the first one.
It's hard for me to really remember.
I don't really remember that movie too much.
I think because I was getting older.
Yeah, I wasn't.
I think.
Yeah.
Well, you got to also think too.
We were also kind of watching different things at the time.
But we were kind of older, but I don't know.
For me, cars wasn't, I don't know.
It wasn't a kids movie that I was like, oh yeah, I love this kids movie.
Who composed the music for the Lion King?
A, Bill Collins, B, Billy Joel, C, Elton John or D, Huey Lewis in the news?
I know Phil Collins was Tarzan.
It wouldn't feel Collins again, was it?
No.
What were the other options?
Hold on.
Billy Joel, Elton John or Huey Lewis in the news?
Was it Elton John?
It was Elton John.
Sir Elton John.
Yeah.
So the first words that Mickey Mouse ever said on screen.
A, oh boy, be hot dog, see Yabba Dabba doo or D, oh boy.
Hot dog.
Hot dog, huh?
Oh boy.
Hot dog.
That was okay.
Last one.
Which mythological god is the villain in Hercules?
A, Zeus, B, Hermes, C Poseidon or D, Hades?
It's Hades.
Played by James Woods.
Yeah, James.
James Woods.
So underrated.
Yeah, it's a good movie.
Hercules is a good one.
There's a lot of like good jokes in there that like, and they're not adult jokes, but
they're like historical jokes that are hilarious.
I love Danny DeVito's character in there.
Oh yeah.
But then again, I just like Danny DeVito and most things.
So yeah, I think Meg is my favorite Disney princess.
Not gonna lie, bro.
Oh yeah?
Why you say that?
I plead to this.
Oh, okay.
All right.
You ready to move to the next one?
Yeah, that's all of them, man.
We're gonna move into the next segment, which is, What Fries My Donuts?
Micah, what fries your donuts, buddy?
Man, I cannot stand brown nosers or do-gooders.
You know what I'm talking about, man?
So I'm gonna give you a prime example, and I went through this today.
So I'm gonna spare you the rest of the story, but pretty much we have to make this presentation
for our bosses, bosses, bosses.
It's this really high big deal, right?
And there's this particular manager that, it's not really my boss, but it's somebody
you have to work with.
And again, I'm gonna let you know.
And the environment that I'm in, it's too many chiefs, not enough Native Americans.
You don't understand what I'm saying.
I'm glad you said that politically correct.
Yes, yes.
Anyways, I got corrected for that here lately about, you can't say Indians anymore.
Or another way to say is, what is it, too many cooks in the pot?
Yeah, or yeah, too many, too many cooks, not enough sous chefs, you know?
You need more folks chopping the onions.
Anyways, so we're in this, we've been prepping for this meeting for, I don't know how long.
And it's been a little bit, it's really not that big of a deal, but everybody's been
freaking out about it.
So we get to the actual meeting, and this guy in particular, so the boss's, boss's,
boss is there, and he made it very clear at the beginning of the presentation, okay,
I'm gonna save all of my questions till the end.
I want you to run through this whole entire presentation, like, what, just don't stop,
right?
Okay, and we were short on time because it's a big presentation, so they're like, just
make it quick.
All right, so we're running through the first slide.
The first slide takes 20 minutes, and the reason being is because this dude, good or
goody two shoes, I want to brown note the boss was just like, oh, oh yeah, what, what
do you think about this?
What do you think about this graph?
Oh, oh, doesn't this look good?
Oh, look at our metrics.
Doesn't that look fantastic?
And meanwhile, somebody else is presenting.
This is not the guy who's presenting.
Like this is, he's somebody else.
So like the guy who's presenting is like, and as you can see on this chart, we, we exceeded
this and this and this, and you know, it was going through it like that, and he would pipe
in C, see, look how great we did on this one.
See, isn't that fantastic?
And it was like wanting that instant gratification, and then once we got done with the slide, he
was like, so I want to ask like the guy who is just brown nosing, he was like, I just
want to ask, did we hit it on the money or is it just not up to your liking to the big
boss and like made him explain it.
And again, the boss goes, yeah, I think it looks fine.
I appreciate all the information that was put together and we can move on.
But please just continue, hold all the questions to see it.
I kid you not, that guy did that every single slide, cut you off, cut you off, cut everybody
off and we're just like, so what do you think about this?
Oh, how does this look like?
Isn't that great?
Isn't that fantastic?
And then there was something else at one point, the boss says, oh, well, I need you
to this goody two shoes guy.
I need you to do an extra task for me and all this other stuff.
She's like, sure thing, boss, anything that you would ever want.
I'll just blow it out of the water.
He's one of those guys, right?
And you're just like, dude, just stop.
It's like, why don't you just make out with him already?
Yeah, I know, right?
Why don't y'all just get a room?
Because it's just so bad, man.
And I don't know what's worse, the fact that he does that or the fact that the boss eats
it up.
I don't know what it is.
That's the thing, bro.
Well, I mean, it is kind of, again, there are people that like their ego to just be
boosted up and stroke.
And so when you have people like that, they see that they're like, oh, yeah, that's my
way to promote you.
And see, for me, I'm right the opposite, though.
Like, I am a boss.
If one of my subordinates comes to me, and I've had to ask them to do this.
So a lot of the people that are under me are contractors, right?
And I have to make decisions of, OK, who's going to be hired full time for the company,
right?
And that's a big thing.
And there's only a certain amount of slots that come every so often.
And so a lot of the times what I'll do is I'll say, make me a presentation about yourself,
right?
See, if they have, because normally that's the second interview, right?
The first interview, you do the normal stuff.
The second interview is, present me yourself.
Who are you as a person?
Because that will tell you a lot about, you know, you already kind of know who they are
as an employee, right?
But you also want to know long term investment wise, you know, blah, blah, blah.
We can get into all that.
But pretty much the people that come in there and have made their presentation and their
presentation is very not about themselves, but what they think I wanted to see from themselves.
That's always a red flag for me.
I don't know why it's always a red flag for me.
Just be yourself.
It is a red flag, man, because those are the people that you can trust.
I would rather you like, tell me straight how it is.
Like again, I don't want people to be disrespectful.
And if you have people that are just like, belligerent and disrespectful, like in your
meetings, that's one thing.
But like, I want people to like, be authentic and real because I guarantee you that brown
noser guy, he'll probably be the first one to like, behind closed doors, talk bad about
the boss.
Like I can get him.
He's like the first one to talk bad about the boss when no one's listening.
And so those kind of people, those are snakes in the grass, man.
I don't want in them anywhere near me.
They're also the ones when you're in the trenches having to fight something, right?
Or you're having to really work on something or whatever.
A, they'll be nowhere to be found.
B, if they are anywhere to be around, they don't know what they're doing, right?
And so they're of no use to you.
And three, once you get done with whatever it is, this definitely the kind of guy that
would be like, see how great it is.
Look what we accomplished.
And it's like, you didn't do anything, right?
So I guess all in all, those people just drive me nuts because they're all about their
own recognition, not anybody else's.
And most of the time, you know, on the back end, they didn't do anything to get that recognition
either.
And now they're just brown nosing and their nose, you know, looks like the city of Cleveland.
Just joking.
It's, it's,
Hear me.
I don't, I don't mean this any disrespectful to the military, but they're called, they
call it, what's it called, military busy?
Yeah.
Or you're just making yourself look, look like you're busy or look like you're working,
but in reality, like you're not doing a darn thing.
Yeah.
And in my industry, they call that being on meeting hold.
And what that means is you'll be in a meeting and people know what needs to be done.
Most of the time, people know what needs to be done in the first few seconds of what a
meeting is, right?
Most meetings that you have can be done in the email if people would actually read them,
right?
What you're having the meeting is because people don't do what they're supposed to do
on that front.
And so you're having this meeting, most of the time it could be wrapped up in three minutes.
But what happens is you have these guys like this brown noser guy, he is very much one
to do this, to where they will sit on these meetings and they will just talk, talk, talk,
and they'll pretend like they don't know about what's going on or be like, Oh yeah.
So about this, and you know full well based on previous conversations you have, they have
a full understanding of what's going on and you're sitting here going, you're just wasting
time, you're asking questions to waste time, right?
And nobody's going to tell you, you already know this information, right?
Because if you're asking, you know, everybody's natural response is just going to answer the
question.
And if you meet that with questions and questions before you know it, you're in a meeting for
30 minutes and it's a complete waste of time because everybody knew what they were supposed
to be doing from the first place.
And then when you get all the way down the line, that guy goes, Okay, now I understand
that's great.
I'm going to delegate this and then he delegates it to somebody else and then it doesn't even
matter.
So it's, it's just frustrating, man.
It's frustrating.
Got to love it.
Fried your donuts.
Can't stand those kind of people.
I can't either.
So be real all the time, even at your job.
So you ready to move on to the improv segment?
Let's do it, man.
All right, man.
Our next segment is the mystery donut or our improv segment.
So Chris, we're doing the randomizer today.
So we're going to do profession and a location doing something.
So we're going to put all those three together.
Sound good?
Okay, let's do it.
So the profession, a pirate.
I don't know if pirates are profession.
Oh, yeah, are.
But so a pirate at the courthouse.
Oh, interesting.
Using a typewriter.
Nobody uses, people don't even know what a typewriter is anymore.
Watering plants.
Okay, so a pirate at the courthouse watering plants.
All right, do you want me to start?
Yeah, go for it.
Are you land lovers?
Has anybody seen the old watering can so that I may put moisture on this here plant?
Hey, it's over here.
The baton years are going dry.
Do you see that they dry since three or four night ago when we and my mates we were sailing
the blind seas.
We were looking for buried treasure.
We couldn't find one for we had all the scarlet view.
Are you talking like that?
Sounds like you got the runs.
Maybe why I'm talking like what you say?
I don't understand what you're saying.
It sounds like you're Yoda, but a pirate.
Are hard.
Do you not see me iPad?
That's a big leg I have a pilot.
What are you?
I am just watering the plants are maybe we must do to the death because these here are
my place.
Well, draw your cutlass that are I shall I left me cutlass on me?
Jolly Roger on the flag.
You left the flag.
Um, are you better go get it from the flag?
I may be that might be a little bit hard to do.
Captain said that I must hoist myself up to the crow's nest and there's a little problem.
Your captain is a little scared of heights.
Why are we still pirated and this here day and age of 2024 and watering outside of a
courthouse?
I may be.
Have you seen the inflation prices?
That's not pirated.
I don't know what is.
I it's a racket.
You have to have a part time job and go out to sea.
Yes, maybe we have to go out at work and work and work on the government comes and they
board our boats and they shoot us with the cannon of the IRS and the tax done last week.
I was frisked by the Coast Guard.
They took all the money.
I may be.
I me heard that you like that kind of truth.
We're not talking about that.
That's a different subject.
That's my third job.
Well, maybe I must depart for my sea winches.
I need to go over to the happy pearl and have myself a grog and that was our improv.
I don't know how those two pirates made it out, man, but I like what he said.
It's true.
I mean, you know, the government is you got to have a second and third job with the way
inflation is going and they call me a pirate or you got to have a podcast.
Yeah, they call me a pirate.
But like he said, the IRS, they're the pirates.
Okay, man, so are you ready to move to our next segment?
Let's move.
All right.
It's our Eklah, which is all positive advice.
Chris, what you got?
Careful what you ask for.
And you can ask for things, but I found that when I'm praying, then you got to be specific,
right?
Because here's it.
You do.
You do because here's the thing.
Like you have to be ready for the things when you pray for them or expecting them or
asking for them.
They may not be in the way that you expect it, right?
So recently I was asking God for just more like just to do more of my life and all that
stuff.
And I'm about to enter into a season where he is doing more and putting a lot more on
my plate.
And I know it's not more than I can handle, but it's more than I'm used to handling.
And so it's definitely something that I'm going to need his help.
But just be ready when you pray those prayers, be ready to step into what comes with that.
And that's not a bad thing, but also to remember that you're probably living some of the prayers
and things that you've asked for a couple of years ago.
I'm thinking about it, the prayers that I prayed a couple of years ago and realizing,
hey, I'm kind of walking those out and living in those right now.
So that always helps you keep perspective when things aren't going the way that you
want them to go.
And you're like, man, my life is like not growing the way that I wanted to go.
But just remember, like you're probably walking in some of the prayers that you've already
prayed.
And so, yep, that's my positive advice.
Yeah, sounds good, man.
And you definitely are right.
And one of the ones, I wouldn't say it's a mistake because, you know, no lesson that
you learn is a mistake or anything like that.
But I remember there was one time that I had a season where I was like, God, I want more
wisdom.
Give me more wisdom.
Don't be so arbitrary with things sometimes because, you know what that means, he's like,
oh, I'll give you wisdom.
All right.
He's like, I'll put you through some stuff.
And I mean, it's good, but at the same time, be careful what you ask for.
Definitely be careful what you ask for.
All right.
My positive advice is don't be afraid to fix the problems so many times in life.
It's really, really easy.
And I'm going to use this example, right?
I don't know why.
These small things are really easy to just let go as non-problems.
Okay.
I have the cell phone charger.
Okay.
And the cell phone charger at the end, it kind of split.
And you know, I wouldn't say the wires were exposed, but like the outer shells of the
wires were exposed more than you would want on a cell phone charger, right?
And I'm not going to lie to you.
I would plug in my phone, plug in my phone, plug in my phone and not even think about
it.
Right?
Not even think about it for some odd reason.
When in the other room, I have a box full of other chargers that I could just replace
the cord.
So finally, today I replaced the cord.
And I thought to myself, why the heck did I not replace the cord beforehand?
Well, that's a lot of kind of what happens in life, right?
There are these little problems that go on and you think, oh, well, that's not really
that big of a deal, right?
It still works.
It's just a little different.
And you know that things might collapse on you or, you know, in this case, either, you
know, the best case scenario is the charger would go out, right?
The worst case scenario is some sort of electric shock or starting some fire, right?
That you're not supposed to, you don't want to have.
So the deal is just if you see those little problems, it's easy enough to nip them in
the bud because a lot of times what will happen is later on down the road, there will be a
big blow up or something that will happen.
And then all of a sudden, like what would have happened if it would have zapped my phone,
right?
That's a big lesson.
That's an expensive lesson all because I didn't replace the cord.
So just remember, there are things in life where it's easy enough to replace them at
the time versus having to do the hard lesson, the expensive lesson or, you know, the painful
lesson on the back end.
It's true, man.
You got to take care of those things right away.
Even if you don't want to, I'm the same way, but I hear you, man.
Well, it's been a great show and we had a good time.
It's been great.
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Let's do it, man.
Let's close it out.
I'm ready to sign off.
I'm Chris and I'm Micah and this has been the Dillna Fox podcast.