Hi, this is Mike Good and this is what is happening in the world.
I'm sitting next to Christopher and I've got a question for you.
What's happening in the world?
Well, there's a bunch of stuff happening in the world.
I'm actually surprised that the world is still here considering the freaking solar beams
met and the sun almost crashed on Monday.
I'm just kidding.
See all those conspiracy theories about how the world was going to end?
Oh yeah man.
It was pretty crazy.
If something happens celestially, everybody goes nuts.
Oh yeah, this is what it means.
Did anything happen?
No, not really.
The buck of revolution, the sun is turning blood red.
I'm like no, no, no.
Y'all just re-readed this too much into it.
There was something else about, I don't even remember what it was, it was like the time
of day at a certain city where it was going to pass over, revealed the six.
And there was all these very loose basis things where it totaled up to 666.
And it's like see, see, all these things coming together is the sign of the devil.
So that means that this is like man, they get so out of hand.
It's like maybe grasping at straws is pretty crazy.
Well hi, I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And you're listening to the Dona Box Podcast.
Man what's going on?
How you been man?
It's been a crazy week.
It's been a long time.
Now it has been, but with the eclipse and stuff, it was pretty cool.
I know that down in central Texas you had a lot of people coming that way to look at
the eclipse.
Did you look at the eclipse?
Well, I looked at it with the appropriate dollar 95 glasses that I found somewhere,
you know, that are totally safe and I'm convinced of that.
But yeah, we saw a little bit of it.
It was mostly overcast, but it was pretty cool.
There's actually a time lapse on our trash can network YouTube page if you want to see
it.
It's only like 40 seconds.
So check it out.
It's pretty cool.
It got really dark and all the dogs in the neighborhood went nuts.
So that was pretty cool.
Crazy.
Well, welcome to the Dona Box Podcast.
We want to thank all of our listeners nationally and internationally.
If you're brand new to the Dona Box Podcast, how it works is each donut is a different
segment.
And sometimes we switch it up.
Sometimes we just talk for however long we want to talk, but we are back to our regularly
scheduled programming.
So our first donut out of the box is the old fashioned donut, which is a story from our
past.
Now, Michael, what do we got on the old fashioned donut today?
Well, we've talked before about our trip out to Lubbock one summer where we spent it with
my grandparents and we toured Texas Tech University.
And that was your senior year, right?
And then that was my junior year of high school.
So we go out there.
It was the summer of my senior year.
Like going into your senior year.
And it was the summer of me going into my junior year, correct?
That is correct.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we were doing that and we flew out to Texas.
We've already talked about going and touring Tech.
We did a whole bunch of other crazy things while we were there.
I don't know.
Lubbock is a different place, man.
And especially when you're visiting from a place like Georgia, it's stark different.
Georgia's green and lush and Lubbock is brown for the most part.
Also too, the skies are so open and you can see miles.
That song like miles and miles of Texas.
Oh, yeah.
It's talking about West Texas because you can just see it for miles and miles and miles
keeps going on.
I'm telling you, you know what the joke is, right?
The joke is you can watch your dog running away for three days.
If you stand on a penny, it's four days.
So that should tell you how that's the most old man joke I've ever heard.
Hey, man, you live out there.
You hear some jokes, especially when you're working for Boot Corral and you have plenty
of old farmers coming to talk to you.
Anyways, so we go out there that summer and I don't know, man.
It's kind of just a collection of interesting things that happens.
I remember we went to Roses and we thought that was the greatest thing that sits sliced
bread and Roses is like a fast food Mexican food place over there.
We don't, do you want to leave your family stuff out of this?
Oh, no, we're getting to that.
We're just talking about the basics first.
Oh, yeah.
You know, that was really cool.
We went to this Italian restaurant.
It's not an Italian restaurant.
It's more like a pizza place called One Guy.
And this should tell you how poor of quality the food was in Georgia.
Like we thought these places were amazing.
Like we thought we died and got in the heaven because it just was like, oh man.
Now I'm just kind of like, oh, these places that are just kind of been okay.
So that should tell you how bad the food quality was at Georgia.
Yeah, man.
I don't know what it was.
I don't know what it was, but maybe lack of authenticity.
But anyways, there was a lot of places that we went, but we also hung out with certain
family members of mine.
And you know what, Chris?
I'm going to throw it over to you.
What do you want to start?
Because that's the hard place for me is I don't know where to start.
So your grant, we were staying with your grandparents because they lived out there.
And that was kind of the whole reason why I was like, man, I'm going to go to our tech.
But Micah's also like, well, while we're there, we might as well just stay with my grandparents
and just make it a whole visit.
So they picked us up from the airport.
And I don't know, I guess word got around that you were coming to town because all
of a sudden your aunt and uncle showed up.
And I just remember like we had gotten there early in the morning, kind of like around 10
o'clock and I just remember being like, man, I'm really hungry.
But it was kind of one of those things I could tell your grandparents were like, hmm, I don't
want to say that we're about to have lunch because I know that I'm going to have to feed
these people.
And I think they kind of showed up unexpectedly.
Yeah, like real unexpected.
And to give some perspective, they only lived like, I think, no, that was when they lived
across town already.
So I was going to say there was a certain point where they were kind of a couple doors
down.
They kind of showed up unexpectedly and yeah, they didn't they didn't exactly want to have
to feed all those people.
And because they're not just like, oh, we're going to get a meal off of you.
Like these, I'll just say a side story.
Was this the time you were there too?
I don't know if it was, but like they were leaving like that whole family and there's
like four kids.
And basically what will happen is they would ask my grandmother, they would, you know,
most kids ask grandmothers for things, right?
No, these kids would be like, go through her pantry and be like, oh, you have Oreos.
Like can I have those?
Sure.
And by the time they're done, they would have like shopping bags worth of stuff.
Like they would basically raid the pantry.
And then at the end, they would be like, oh, can I get 50 bucks?
Or they would ask for like a certain amount of cash.
And so it was kind of one of those things to where I think, I think my grandparents kind
of were trying to shut everything up.
That wasn't, you know, nail everything down.
If that makes sense.
They were trying to hurry everybody along.
And so I just remember the only thing I remember is there were three kids and they started
fighting the, I think the middle sister and the youngest brother they were fighting.
I remember is he said at the time, he was like, well, at least I'm not scared of Dr.
Johnson.
I'm like, what's the deal with Dr. Johnson?
Why is he scary?
I don't know.
But then I remember we went to go hang out with your other aunt and uncle who lived across
town and we had to hang out with your cousin pretty much all week that you didn't like.
Oh yeah.
That was, that was terrible.
And man, see, I don't understand.
There's a lot of people still today that's like, oh, do you talk to her?
No, man.
This, I don't know what it was about her.
Especially because she was annoying, but to how do I describe her?
Like there's got to be a concise bit of words to describe her.
It's annoying.
That's what it is.
Like she, like she just won't shut up, like always in your face and like very clingy and
just like, just like, hey, why don't you want to hang out with me and it's like, hey, like
I need your space.
Like just again, teenagers are not socially aware, but at the same time she was just like
never, never socially aware.
There was that and then I think the other bits of it too, like she hijacked a birthday
trip one time, but I didn't have any control over somehow and was just like, yeah, remember
we had to like take her to the pool and all sorts of stuff and like we basically were
like her babysitters and all sorts of stuff.
There's a whole bunch of stuff there, but anyways, I remember we had to hang out with
her and I don't know.
That wasn't, that wasn't too fun.
And she kind of stank, so that was a cool, I don't know.
It kind of cramped our style back in the day, but I do remember we looked at like, like
sneaking out and whatnot.
Do you remember that?
We tried sneaking out, but they had like little magnetic sensors on the windows so you couldn't
open the windows up for whatever reason.
Oh yeah, I remember that.
And I remember we like somehow we got, and this was probably another day.
This is how we get to this part of the story, but I think we were like, oh man, like we
got to ditch the cousin.
We'll name her Michelle.
We're like, we got to ditch Michelle.
And I remember somehow we did and like we ended up in the garage just like kind of hiding
out, hanging out and somehow she found us.
I don't know how she did.
Yeah, she freaking cornered us.
Anyways, so what ends up happening?
It was kind of evening time.
And what do you do as board teenagers?
Well, my grandmother had a walker in there.
She didn't particularly use and she used to smoke cigarettes, right?
And so I remember finding a cigarette.
Did I find like a hair net or something else too?
I don't remember what else it was.
And like, so I sit, no, you found a cigarette.
But I was like imitating her and all I know is like, I like pushed off with that with
the walker and the driveway went downhill.
And all I remember is like, I felt like busted like my back end kind of and broke the walker.
I do remember that.
And then I had to, and I remember like I tried lying to her.
I was like, yeah, no, it wasn't us.
It's just like, well, why is my walker broken?
It wasn't, it wasn't us.
Did we have it on camera for a bit?
Like on film, whatever happened to that?
I asked myself a lot.
We lost the footage.
There's so much footage that we lost Christopher.
Why did we lose so many, so many footage?
We stayed for that.
We stayed, sorry, stayed with them for a whole week.
And every night they would make us have family type.
Now hear me.
I am a man of the cloth.
I work for a church.
But every night they would make us like go into the living room together and we had to
do Bible study.
And like that, I know that doesn't sound bad, but it was an hour, like hours long Bible
study.
And you know how...
And if it went less, it was like, it's like, can you not carry it with me?
One hour.
That was the whole freaking thing.
So we had to make it at least one hour.
And it was Bible study and prayer.
You can't forget the prayer part because the whole, it was like a few minutes of Bible
study and mostly...
Oh yeah, exactly.
But you know, your grandfather really liked to talk, but yeah, and he really liked to
pray and he would pray for a long time.
And I just remember that we had to pray for like Texas and we had to pray for the governor
and everything.
And I'm like, I'm cool if we did that once or twice, but we had to do it every single
night.
And it was hours, like a couple of hours.
And I was just like, oh man, bro.
And I was like, how are we going to get a Bible study tonight?
Oh, and not to mention, you know, it was like sometimes if he wasn't satisfied with your
prayer, he would like tack on some things.
It's like, now let's pray for our government again or something like that.
We would have to like pray for things and repeat.
My grandmother was the only one that got out of that.
Don't think I didn't notice that.
But the thing I do remember, Christopher, is apparently my grandfather found your prayers
to be somewhat boring.
I don't know, because he fell asleep a few times mid prayer on here.
No, it just means that I prayed and my voice was peaceful.
That's what it was.
My voice was soothing.
That's what it was.
Bro, I remember calling him out because he was full on snoring.
And it was just like, did you fall asleep?
He would never admit it.
He'd be like, no, no, no.
I was, I was, you know, I was being reverent with the Lord.
He's like, yeah, uh-huh.
It's like he was snoring over there.
And yeah, bro.
Wasn't that also the time that he made us clean out the back of his van, like his work
van?
Like we were, we were there.
And he was just like, he's like, I need you to help clean out this.
And he just had like this mess, bro.
It was, we basically organized his van because his van, he just like threw all the tools
in there and didn't have anything put into place.
Now that I think back about this, it's like, did we have a fun time that summer?
All I remember that was fun was going to town.
Yeah.
Most of it was like, oh, free labor.
The boys are your up free labor.
So you're going to have to do it, which is fine.
You know, it's like, you've got to earn your keep, right?
Like you're staying with them.
So and they're, and they're cooking your meals.
So you can't really, you know, some kids had summer camp.
This was actually during spring break.
No, it was during the summer.
It was during the summer.
It was during summer.
Yeah.
It was like, it was like June.
Yeah.
It was spring break that I worked so I could earn the money to go during the summer.
And I remember we did go to tech and like we bought all, you know, tech gear and memorabilia
and all that stuff.
We did buy like some Texas shirts and stuff.
And I remember going to the open house like of my senior year and I remember wearing my
Texas shirt and the mom or no, it wasn't the mom.
It was the grandma of this kid was like, Texas, what's so good about Texas?
And she was like, she was, I've been in Texas and I lived there and I hated Texas.
And I was just like, well, like, okay.
I was like, then don't live in Texas.
That's all I said.
And I was just like, dude, I would take that stuff personally though.
If anybody, I still kind of take that personally.
Like if anybody talks bad about Texas, like those are fight words, man.
For me, like it still is like, it really wasn't a lot at that age.
It's kind of mellowed out now, but like I'm still that way.
I'm like, don't, don't say anything bad about Texas.
It depends on what they say and it depends on how stupid they are.
Is it worth it?
Is it worth punching their lights out?
That's the question.
No other state except for maybe the state of Florida in California has an outline of
their state and you can automatically tell what it is.
Yeah, Texas, everybody knows Florida.
I know just because I love Florida.
I'm an old man like that.
Anyways, all right, man, you ready to move to our next step?
I am, man.
And it's not the jelly doughnut.
This has kind of been our free for all.
It's kind of turned into the donut hole 2.0.
Yeah.
It's been whatever the heck we want it to be.
So what's going on, man?
Well, since you have made me sit through a couple of aviation things.
Oh, okay.
What is that supposed to mean?
I'm going to share a wrestling story, a blast from the past.
He did some math!
What the rock is cooking!
Okay.
Now, I know your mind is probably going to go to the gutter, but it's not what you think.
Have you ever heard of the Montreal Screwjob?
No, I have not.
It is one of the most infamous events in wrestling history because as a lot of people love to
point out whenever I tell them, I love to watch wrestling, you know what they always
say?
Wrestling's fake.
You know it's fake, right?
And it's like, yes, I know.
Number one, it's not fake.
It's scripted.
There's a difference.
They're still doing the actual moves.
They're just not trying to kill each other every night.
Now the reason why the Montreal Screwjob is so big is because it was very controversial
and it actually wasn't part of the script and it was for real and it made a lot of people
mad.
So, I'm sure you've heard these names.
So Brett the Hitman Hart, right?
You've heard of that guy?
And you've heard of Shawn Michaels?
Yeah.
Yeah, part of them.
So, the way that this started out was it was in 1997 and Brett Hart was, he was a 14-year-old
veteran, right?
And so, there was a rival company that Ted Turner owned on TBS.
It was called WCW, right?
And so, a lot of talent were jumping ship and going to WCW because they had what was
called the Monday Night War.
So, they had two shows competing at the same time and WCW was actually doing better and
WWF was actually kind of almost financially tanking.
They almost went bankrupt.
And so, Brett Hart's contract was coming up and he got a $9 million offer from WCW.
But WWF offered him a 20-year deal and Brett Hart got to be in control of his creative.
He was going to get paid the most money that he ever wanted to get paid.
So, it was a lot.
So, then a couple months later, Vince McMahon goes to Brett Hart and says, hey, I'm sorry.
Like, I can't pay you what I told you.
Like, if you want to go to WCW, you can go there.
If you're going to make more money, no hard feelings, right?
Now, there was a problem with this.
You know what the problem was?
The problem was that Brett Hart was the current WWF champion.
So, if you're a champion in one company, you can't go to another company and still have
the old company's championship belt, right?
Like, that doesn't make sense.
So, Vince McMahon said, okay, well, we need to figure out how you're going to lose the
belt.
And the number two guy at the time was Shawn Michaels.
And they wanted Brett to get or to lose the match.
Of course, you know, it's all scripted, lose the match to Shawn Michaels.
Well, Brett Hart and Shawn Michaels had some history.
They got into some fights backstage and all that stuff.
So they hated each other, did not like each other.
And Brett Hart said, you know what, I absolutely refuse to lose to Shawn.
And Brett's last match was going to be in Montreal, Canada, which Brett's Canadian.
So he didn't want to lose in front of his hometown.
He said, I'm not dropping the title.
I'm not going to do it.
So that kind of causes a problem for Vince McMahon.
So Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels come up with a plan.
They're like, okay, we're going to make Brett drop the title.
So the last match was that Survivor Series of 1997.
Okay.
So it was going to be Brett Hart versus Shawn.
And Shawn was supposed to win the match.
But Brett Hart said, there's no way I'm going to let Shawn win the match.
Okay.
Even though this is scripted, Brett said, I'm not going to do what they tell me to do.
So they got the referee in on it.
And they said, when we give you the cue, you're going to ring the bell.
Okay.
And you're going to screw Brett out of the title.
So Shawn Michaels and Brett Hart are having the match in front of his hometown in Canada.
And all the Canadians love Brett and they hate Shawn.
And basically Shawn puts Brett's finishing move on him, right?
So he uses a sharp shooter on Brett, which is kind of like a big middle finger of the
face.
And they say that Brett didn't tap out.
Brett didn't tap out at all, but they still rung the bell.
And they told everybody, yeah, Brett tapped out.
So he lost the championship.
Well, Brett Hart was fuming mad.
He was absolutely upset, so mad that he spit in Vince McMahon's face, wrote WCW backwards,
and then at the end of the match, when everybody's going back to the locker room, Brett's going
to, you know, shower and change.
And of course, he's pissed off.
And Vince McMahon comes into the shower locker rooms.
And Brett Hart said, dude, like you just screwed me.
What the heck were you doing?
And Vince was like, sorry, man, I got to do what's best for business.
And Brett said, you better not be here when I get out of the shower.
Because if so, then I'm going to punch you in the face.
And Vince McMahon stuck around and then Brett Hart punched.
And then the next night he showed up on the rival company.
So what do you think about all that?
I mean, rightfully so.
I mean, it is a business thing, but he definitely got screwed.
I mean, I don't blame him.
I mean, come on.
Plus, he gave him a warning like, hey, I get out of the shower.
You better be gone or else I'm going to punch you in the face.
But yeah, I mean, it's no surprise that he moved to the rival company.
I mean, but didn't he ultimately come back?
He eventually did come back.
But that was like, I don't know, 12 years later because him and Sean still had like
bad blood and he didn't come back until like, I don't know,
2009 or so maybe.
I don't remember.
And they squashed their beef and they finally made up.
But the problem was that WCW had no idea how to use Brett.
And so they just kind of wasted his talent.
But do you think that Vince McMahon did the right thing for his business?
It's always hard to say.
I mean, obviously didn't hurt it long term, right?
I mean, for what the brand became and everything like that, even from there,
when it transitioned WWE and then how big it became.
Because I mean, WWF, it was already really big, but I don't know.
I think if you had a look from the success point of view, then yeah,
it probably was a good business move.
Let me let me give it to you this way.
Say that you have a quarterback from the Denver Broncos, right?
You know that he's about to go to the New York Jets and you tell him to hand over
the play his playbook, but he absolutely refuses to hand over his Denver Bronco
playbook, right?
He can't show up to the New York Jets with the Denver Broncos playbook.
He can't do that.
So you got to get it off of him.
So in a different point of view, I think it's also like, if he takes the playbook
over to the other side, we have to just make something better.
We're just going to have to perfect something and make it better than what they have or
what they know that we have this point.
Like, if that's what's going to happen.
But you know, I get what you're saying.
I think it's just kind of an interesting situation, but I think that it's, I think
it's really messed up.
I think Bret Hart really got screwed out of it a lot on that deal.
And when they asked Vince McMahon about it, they said, did you screw Bret?
And he used famous words where I didn't screw Bret Hart.
Bret Hart screwed Bret Hart.
And then that became the genesis of the famous Mr. McMahon character that was the evil boss.
And so it played out to the company's advantage.
But yeah, Bret, Bret feels like he got screwed.
All that good stuff.
Is that the, is that the phase of Vince McMahon where he was just wild?
Like the stuff he was just saying was just, I do rag Vince McMahon.
Yeah.
Kind of.
And so I'm the big bad evil boss because at that time nobody knew that Vince McMahon
was the boss of everything.
They just thought he was a commentator.
So then it comes out, hey, Vince McMahon does own the company and he's this big bad evil
boss character.
So they kind of blurred the lines between real life and what was scripted.
So that's where the character, that character and all, you see, probably see all the crazy
stuff with him and Stone Cold and him going off the handle and that character was created
because of the Montreal screw job.
Oh, I get you.
That's crazy.
So there's a little wrestling history for you if you, if you probably cared less to know,
but there you go.
Hey, it's very interesting.
It's crazy though.
Sometimes in business, it's like ethics get really blurred on that deal.
It's interesting that these guys hated each other so much, Brett and Sean hated each other
so much, but they put on some of the greatest matches.
So they were able to put aside their personal differences to go make money, you know.
Yeah.
Heck yeah.
We're going to move into the actual donut hole.
And we're normally, we've been playing a quiz, quiz game.
So we're going to play a quiz game again.
Oh, okay.
What are we, what are you quizzing me on?
Let's see what I can know or not know.
You're wrestling.
No, I'm just kidding.
It's not wrestling.
It's a Bible quiz 2.0.
Oh Lord.
Let's see how good or bad I am with my biblical stories, ladies and gentlemen.
Which woman is the only female judge mentioned in the book of Judges?
A. Sarah.
B. Deborah.
C. Merriam.
Or D. Naum.
What's it, Sarah?
It is Deborah.
Oh, thanks.
See, I didn't know that one.
All right.
Which one of these was not one of David's sons?
A. Absalom.
B. Solomon.
C. Nathan.
Or D. Jesse.
It was Jesse.
There was no Jesse.
Yep, because Jesse was his dad.
There you go.
I was like, I had a really pulled deep for that one.
All right.
Couple more.
The good news is a couple more of these are just the hard ones and then we get to the
easy part.
All right.
So number three, who was Boaz's mom?
A. Sarah.
B. Rahab.
The prostitute.
C. Merri.
Or D. Jezebeth.
It was Rahab, right?
Yes, sir.
Crazy that she was the prostitute.
She ended up having a good kid like Boaz.
Yep.
There were some young guys in the Bible who made fun of the prophet Elisha because of
why.
A. Because he was bald.
D. Because he was old.
C. Because he smelled bad.
Or D. Because he walked.
It's because he was old, right?
It was actually because he was bald.
They called him Baldi Baldi and then a bear came out and attacked.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't remember.
I don't remember that part.
Number five, what animal did the demons that possessed the man ask Jesus permission to
go into?
So the demons asked.
Oh, I could already answer this one.
Yeah.
It was pigs into the swine.
Which Bible character beat people up with the jawbone of a donkey?
A. Gideon.
B. David.
C. Samson.
Or D. Noah.
Oh, Samson.
Oh, yeah.
It's crazy.
Read your Bible folks because this stuff is not made up.
Yeah, it was thousands of men with the jawbone of a donkey.
Number seven, which judge in the book of Judges stabbed a 600 pound man with his left hand?
A. E. Hood.
B. Gideon.
C. Samson.
Or D. David.
Stabbed him left handed.
What was, give me all the choices one more time.
E. Hood.
Gideon.
Samson.
Or David.
I was E. Hood.
Yeah.
Stabbed a 600 pound man while he was on the toilet with his left hand.
I think, I think E. Hood's like the name because he's the name.
Yeah, but I also like the story that the Bat King is sitting on the toilet taking a dump
and then E. Hood shows up in there in that mug with a dagger.
It stabs him with the left hand.
Yup.
He was so fat that his fat engulfed the dag.
It's crazy.
The intestines came out.
I would be graphic.
What was Jesus' first public miracle?
A. Casting out a demon.
B. Feeding the 5,000.
C. Calming the storm.
Or D. Turning water into wine.
It was turning the water into wine at the wedding of Gale.
It was, wasn't it Canaan of Gale?
Yeah, Cate in Canaan.
In Canaan, yeah.
Which prophet was told by God to marry a prostitute?
A. Isaiah.
B. Hosea.
C. Jeremiah.
Or D. Name.
It was Jeremiah, right?
It was Hosea.
It was Hosea?
Oh, I got that one.
What was Adam and Eve's son's name that was born after Canaan Abel?
A. Enoch.
B. Noah.
C. Abraham.
Or D. Seth.
It was Seth.
That's one of your favorite people, huh?
Canaan Abel and Seth.
Yeah, sure.
Some like that.
Well, I got a lot of them right.
Bro, you dug deep on some of these.
There were some specific ones in there.
I was like, hey.
Yeah, I didn't want to be like, what was, who died on the cross?
Jesus.
What was Jesus's mother's name?
Mary.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
I got to do some more brushing up apparently.
Yeah, I asked some kind of deeper ones, kind of some more obscure ones.
So there, I mean, you know, don't feel bad because they're like, there's some obscure Bible stories in the Bible.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I had to think about David's sons.
Like there was a few of them that I was like, man, it's right on the top of my head.
I had to go through them all.
Well, we're going to move into our next segment, which is what fries my doughnut.
Micah, what fries your doughnuts?
I am sick and tired of the stupid behind marketing schemes that are on our commercials today, man.
I'm sick and tired of commercials.
Like there are some out there that are okay, but the large majority of them are not.
What happened to commercials is my question.
The biggest thing that I've noticed today is a lot of them are out for attention.
They'll say things and you'll go, okay, you got my attention and it'll be like, what did that have to do with the, and it's all about just getting your attention.
It doesn't matter how it doesn't matter if the quality is good.
It doesn't matter if the commercials actually good.
It doesn't matter if the storyline is good.
Most of the time you walk away from commercials, you know, mentally and you're talking to people in the rest of the room like, that was the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen.
What did that have to do with the car?
Or what did that have to do with, you know, whatever, right?
What did that have to do with car insurance?
A lot of the car insurance commercials are like that too.
It's like, what does that have to do with anything?
And you know what?
Here's what else I'm sick and tired of.
You're sitting there eating and let's be honest, eating since probably what the 50s, 60s has been in front of a TV.
It hasn't changed.
I sit and eat in front of the TV a lot.
You know what?
What is there?
There's commercials about women's periods, people taking craps on TV, like on commercials and everything else.
And it's, they love to put it right at dinner time too.
Or be saying some nasty behind stuff on some commercials.
And you're just like, why do we need to talk about this?
It's like, why do I need to look at somebody who's on the john while I'm sitting here eating?
Like that doesn't make any sense to me.
I just, I don't know, man, it fries my donuts.
What happened to the quality of some of these commercials?
You know, I remember a day when people look forward to Super Bowl commercials and then they had a show after the Super Bowl that would count down the best Super Bowl commercials.
They don't have that show anymore.
You know why?
Because the quality has gone down that much to where nobody cares about the Super Bowl commercials because they're all garbage.
To be honest, man, we're living in a world where people pay for ad-free stuff.
So, and nobody really watches like regular TV anymore.
So I think a lot of marketing departments have kind of cut the commercial budget and they've just moved it all to social media.
Which is, which is probably really fair.
But I think on the most part it's just, it's just frustrating because watching a lot of these commercials, there used to be a lot more thought and ingenuity or, you know, even humor built in.
And there are some that are kind of funny, but then there's others that you're just like, man, like Liberty Mutual had that one commercial.
It doesn't, it's not on no more, but for the longest time about the dude selling wet teddy bears, like what did that have to do with anything?
It'll be stuff like that where you'll be sitting here going, why in the heck, what am I watching right now?
What kind of fever dream?
Oh yeah, Liberty Mutual has the worst marketing department.
I hate the guy that's like, that's messing up his laundry.
He's like, Liberty, BibiD.
And like now they brought that full bag like to take over for Limu and Emu or whoever the heck those dudes are.
I'm like, I kind of halfway like these guys, but you're bringing in this weird Jacob from Twilight looking dude.
I'm like, nah, man, like he's not funny.
Like people thought, oh, they probably thought, oh, this was funny.
And I'm like, not funny.
I'm not a fan of the new Jake from State Farm and it has nothing to do with the fact that, you know, it's cool that he's, it's just like, it just doesn't fit the, the whole point in what was funny about Jake from State Farm.
The first time was, it was like the wife was, thought he was cheating on him, but it was him talking to his State Farm agent in the middle of the night and the dude looked like a State Farm agent.
Like he looked like some insurance guy.
It's like Jake from State Farm now is he too, like good looking to be an insurance agent.
Like, you know what I mean?
I don't know.
It's just like, there was some authenticity with it.
It kind of made it funny because it's just like, uh, khakis.
You know, you're talking to the dude in the middle of the night.
I don't know.
It's just, it's, it's all changed, man.
It's all changed.
And it's like, it's, it's just not as appealing.
I don't know.
There's a lot of times where it's just like, man, you really don't make me want to go out there and buy your product based on your.
I will tell you which mascot, and again, mascots for, for restaurants and things are kind of dying.
But I will tell you one that I'm growing fond of that I kind of like is the Buffalo Wild Wings Buffalo.
I like that dude.
He's kind of funny.
I don't like this.
Why?
Cause he's goofy.
Yeah.
Cause he's goofy.
I'm like, Oh, are you also know who I like?
The Sam Adams guy.
Your cousin from Boston.
We need to, we need to see more of that guy.
That's who I want to see more of the same Adam.
We haven't, oh, you know what else I was thinking about?
Cause I was even thinking about, you know, Bud Light used to have some funny ones back in the day, but I was like, I remember some of the last like, why funny Bud Light commercials were.
Remember the whole Dilly Dilly commercials when they were doing that whole thing and it was like medieval.
Those were pretty funny.
But then I started thinking about it.
I was like, bro, that was 10 years ago.
That was 2014 commercials were coming out.
It's pretty crazy.
Pretty crazy.
But yeah, man, it's just, I think, I think some of these marketing departments, it could be funnier.
It could be more engaging.
You don't have to get people's attention.
Like there are some of them that I don't even mind if you get my attention, but make it clever.
Like there's one that's on TV right now that it literally said our country's never been more divided.
And then it's like, do you like licorice or not?
And it's like licorice.com.
They start talking about licorice and it's like, okay, that's, that's pretty clever.
Right.
Like, because they get your attention like, oh shoot, what are they talking about?
And then it's like, oh no licorice.
It's like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's that kind of stuff is clever versus just having a really stupid commercial and it doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's just a creative side of me, but sometimes I'll see stuff like that.
And I'm like, man, they really missed it.
Like at SeaWorld, I saw it was on the exit sign and it was like, it was a SeaWorld sign and it said vacationing with a purpose.
And I said, man, they missed opportunity.
They should have said vacationing with a purpose.
Right.
It was, it's a pun on that like a purpose.
And I'm like, man, they missed that one boy.
I've always seen little stuff like that.
And I'm like, man, y'all missed the opportunity to cash in on that.
It's all about the marketing.
But Jim, are you ready to move on to our next segment?
Man, our next segment is the improv segment or the mystery donut in Chris.
You know, we actually have a new game this week.
Yes, we do.
So it's, we are going to talk out a story as if it's happened to us, but it actually is a movie.
And we can see how long it's going to take the other person to guess what movie we're talking about.
Chris, I got, yeah, we're going to like tell, like tell it in story fashion, like as this is happening to us.
But it's actually a movie storyline.
Yep.
And we'll guess what story, what movie it is.
So we'll see what it is.
I've, I've got a few.
Let me think of, let me think of two good movies.
I've already thought of a couple.
You want me to start off?
All right, you go for it.
You go for it.
Okay.
So me and my wife, we live in this house in Connecticut, right?
We had this house and we were building this little miniature set of the town that we lived in.
And we had to go to town to get some, you know, little hobby parts from the store.
And when we came back, there was this dog that was on a bridge and we were swerved to miss it, but we ended up going in, you know, off the bridge into the water.
And we, then all of a sudden we're at home.
Didn't know how we got home somehow.
And there was this book on the table talking about, you know, hey, you're recently dead.
And it was this whole handbook about how you're recently dead.
And so then we were asking each other like, wait, did we die?
Like what in the heck happened in things like that?
Well, what ends up happening?
I guess we are dead.
And then this family moves in.
Is this Beetlejuice?
Yeah.
Okay.
I didn't think about the plot from Beetlejuice for half a second.
I was like, what kind of thing is that?
Yeah, it was Beetlejuice.
Okay, so me and my friends are getting ready for, for my uncle's birthday and we're really
getting ready and we see a friend that we haven't seen in a really, really, really, really long
time.
And then my relative tells me that he's going on a big trip, but that I need to keep something
for him.
And I'm like, okay, I'll keep something.
So then that guy that we haven't seen in a really long time tells me, hey, like, this is pretty
important and we need to go to this place to figure out what it is.
So originally I'm going to go by myself, but then my best friend decides that he wants to
tag along.
Then his friends, Jack, no, then his friends decide that they want to tag along.
So we get there and then we show up at this hotel and my friend says, Hey, I'm going to
meet you later.
Like that guy that we had seen a long time.
He says, Hey, I'm going to meet you later.
So we end up at this hotel and, uh, you know, we're drinking and having a good time.
And is this the hangover?
Nope.
And there's this weird mysterious guy that's sitting in the corner and he's just kind of
looking at me and I'm like, Oh, I don't like that.
And then I finally put on, uh, this item and I disappear and, um, everyone makes a big deal.
Well, it turns out that there is a whole world plot to try to find this item and people are
going to try to kill me.
Have you figured this Harry Potter?
No, it's freaking the fellowship of the ring.
Oh, okay.
That makes sense.
All right.
Your turn.
Here I am thinking this.
Um, all right.
Okay.
So pretty much, uh, I'm not, you know what, I'm, I have this job.
I'm not really good at it.
Okay.
I'll just tell you that straight up right now had this job.
Not really good at it, but I'm good at finding things, particularly, um, in the state of Florida.
I'm really good at that.
And so pretty much my landlord, you know, he's been up behind because I'm, you know,
late on rate and whatnot, but I know if I just cracked that one case and everything,
he's been to her.
Yeah.
I was trying to, I was trying to say animal because the moment I said animal, it's like
it's over with.
Uh, I feel like that was an easy one though.
I'll let you, I'll let you off easy on that one.
We'll do the last one.
All right.
So, uh, I'm hanging out with my dad and he's showing me the business and you know, one
day I'm going to take over this business and he shows the Godfather.
No.
Oh, okay.
He's showing me, he's showing me this business and I'm going to take over it one day, but
my uncle really doesn't like my dad.
Really really doesn't like my dad.
So my dad told me that I can go anywhere in this business except for this one department.
And he said, that's where the bad people are.
So me and my friend, that's a girl, we go to this place that we're not supposed to go
to and these bad guys show up and they're going to kill us, but right as they're about
to kill us, my dad shows up and beats them all up and they run away scared.
Then I'm going to find out that I'm hanging out with my dad and him and my uncle are going
to go look over this ledge and, uh, you know, my, my, uh, well, it's really this cliff.
And so then, uh, there's this big stampede of wildebeest and I'm caught up in the middle
of it.
And, uh, my dad's trying to, is this a Lion King?
Yes it is.
I was thinking all these cop movies and everything else mob movies.
It's a freaking Lion King.
It's great.
Well, there you go, man.
We, um, I was pretty good.
Um, I feel like you gave me more of a run for my money.
I'll have to improve on, on this game a little bit.
There you go, man.
Well, we're going to move into our last segment, which is already clear.
And that's our positive advice.
And Micah, what do you got for it?
I just want to remind everybody out there that success is not linear.
You know, it's always a really hard process and everybody thinks, Oh, you know, you look
at a graph and everything's all straight lines and, you know, straight up into it.
It'll work like that.
You know, sometimes you have to take three steps back to take two steps forward or, you
know, whatever the case is, sometimes you take a lot of steps forward and all of a sudden
you have to take a few steps back to, you know, get to the next step.
It happens.
And so it's, each day is different.
And just because it's like, Oh, everything was trending in the right direction.
And now it's not, don't get discouraged.
It goes up and down.
That is so true.
And then the next thing that comes to mind is, you know, things in life sometimes have
to come to an end their seasons, but, and sometimes they can be bittersweet, but every
season that comes to an end is an opportunity for you or for someone else.
And, you know, I'm entering in a season where some things are coming to an end, but it's
an opportunity for me and for other people.
And yeah, it's, it's bittersweet because, you know, you don't want that previous season
change has to happen and it's good and it's an opportunity for people.
So look for the opportunities and yeah, just keep your eyes focused on those, keep it focused
on the positive.
And it, because it's so easy to go back and be like, Oh yeah, I mean, like that season,
you know, remember when it was like this and that, and if you stay that way, then you're
never growing involved.
So it's always good to, you know, look for it.
So yeah, that's my positive advice.
Yeah, that sounds great, especially after a few segments ago, I'm like, I remember back
in the day with the commercials were all the same.
I'm joking.
I get what you're saying though.
But yeah, man.
So trash can network at trash can network, go find us on social media on YouTube, all
that good jazz, man, you know, we still got all the wonderful aviation things that are
being pumped out on our YouTube and some other things in the works as you know.
So come check it out over there.
We do appreciate y'all, especially if you're, if you're new and especially if you're returning,
we appreciate y'all.
It's time to sign off.
I'm Chris and I'm like, this is all.
So, I'll do.
Yeah.