Man, what a wild week it has been over here on this end.
How has your week been?
Oh, it's been good.
I've been on vacation.
I've had a staycation where you just sit at home and not do anything.
So I've been watching a lot of TV.
You've been watching a lot of TV, a lot of movies, things like that, which sounds great.
Have you been watching any sports or anything crazy?
Man, let me ask you this.
Did you happen to see old LeBron and his son are united on the same team?
Brani got drafted onto the Lakers?
Yes, I saw that.
I saw that Brani got drafted on the Lakers.
And I'm like, oh, you know, they had to be doing that as a favorite of LeBron.
And they were also like, oh, yeah, like, we're going to get a whole bunch of money out of
this.
So you know that was a smart business decision on their end.
Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure.
So that was that was a little interesting.
And then as we're recording this tonight, you know, it's not going to drop until Monday,
but when we're recording this, the old presidential debate here in the United States is on for
international listeners.
And man, it's it's been interesting so far.
Has it not?
I would just like to equate it to two fourth graders fighting each other.
That's that's basically what it's like.
Have you ever seen two fourth graders fight with with the exception of they're not talking
bad about each other's moms?
But it's like, no, you're a horrible person.
No, you're a horrible person.
You're like, no, you're a liar.
No, you're a liar.
And that's pretty much how it's going.
I could sum it up in a nutshell.
Well, that's politics for you.
Always acting like two fourth graders fighting.
Well, anyways, I'm Micah.
And I'm Chris.
This is the Donut Box podcast.
So Christopher, another episode, another week, we're back to our regular scheduled program
after the free flow.
How are you feeling, man?
It's been great.
And I know that we haven't done this in a while and we referenced it last week about
how we're now being listened to in six continents out of the seven.
And I just wanted to shout out some of our international listeners like in Brazil, Ecuador,
Honduras, France, Belgium, Switzerland, all in Europe, of course, over in the Philippines
and Australia, Canada.
And then, of course, we have a whole bunch of states, stateside.
Yeah, man.
I'm just like, it blows my mind that we've been our voices have been heard all over
the world.
And yeah, I'm super grateful for it, man.
It's interesting.
I'm excited for it to keep growing.
And it's interesting always seeing a new dot on the map because some of these places,
I've never heard of before.
And it's, you know, give me a little insight and I've learned about some places just just
from the listens we've gotten.
So it's been awesome.
As soon as you were saying that we are the world, we are the children.
And I just had the had the music video of them all singing in the studio and bobbing
their heads to the song.
I don't know why that popped into my head.
My favorite part is Bob Dylan's goofy behind and that thing.
I don't know why.
Yeah.
My favorite part is Lionel Richie.
Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson.
Yeah.
Because they're just so into it.
Oh yeah.
Well, I think that's what's funny about it is you watch like the group stuff and Bob Dylan
is, I don't know.
I wouldn't call him awkward, but you know, he's kind of not into, I wouldn't say he's
not into it.
He's into it, but he's just Bob Dylan.
So it's kind of just funny to watch.
But anyways, so it is another week.
We appreciate our listeners.
And guess what, we're starting off our first segment, which is the old fashioned done it.
We got a oldie but a goodie story.
We actually told this one in season one and we're looping back to it because we're all
the way midway through season three.
And Chris, man, this is a story that's near and dear to your heart.
Is it not?
Yes, it is.
This is one of my favorite stories to tell just because it's like, I don't know, some
TV sitcom stuff that would happen to us.
So this is when I was a senior, I had already graduated and I was done with school and we
were on the way to moving to Texas and Michael was, Michael's family was going to move.
And at that time, my mentality was not a good mentality.
It was like, oh yeah, all these people have wronged me and I'm going to get even with them.
I'm going to get my revenge, so to speak.
I remember us just sitting around and we were like, yeah, I don't like this person.
I don't like this person.
How are we going to get even with them before we leave for Texas?
We got to go out with a bang, Micah and Chris style.
We got to do something big that's going to get people talking because a few months earlier,
that's when Micah had pepper sprayed me in the church parking lot and that was like,
oh yeah, a level.
But I was like, we got to top that.
We got to top that.
And there was even some people that you were upset with from that pepper spray event that
were a little, had some dumb responses.
We'll just say that.
So there was some of that and then there were some other people who, I mean, let's be real,
they were rude people.
They just didn't treat people right.
And so we decided, I think it was something that happened in my high school at one point
was X-Lax Brownies had been given out in the lunchroom.
And so we came up with this idea and we said, you know what, we should get the materials
for X-Lax Brownies, right?
We should give it to these people, like make a list of all the people that we should give
it to.
You know, we should just give these out and let X-Lax take its course.
And for those of you who don't know X-Lax, it's a, it's a laxative.
It helps you go number two very, very well.
And so yeah, we were going to do that.
We kind of determined that plan wasn't going to work, huh, Chris?
No, because we were like, oh yeah, it'd be a little sketchy if we just only offered those
people from our list of brownie and then we knew it could easily be traced back to us.
And we were, we were dumb at that age, but we weren't that dumb.
We were like, oh yeah, how can we get away with this?
And not just that, but there would have been other people there too, probably with some
of these people that would have been like, why can't I have a brownie?
And what are you going to be like?
No, no, no, you can't have one.
And then all of a sudden they get sick and then it's very, very obvious too.
But yeah, go ahead, Chris.
Well, so we decided, okay, this is what we're going to do.
We kind of like, I don't know, we, we bounce some ideas around and then we decided, you
know what, right before church, they have what's called the choir room where all the
choir people hang out.
And of course it's typical for them to have snacks and all that stuff, right?
And we're like, so what if we just put the X-Lax brownies in the choir room for the choir
to enjoy?
They're not going to know it's X-Lax brownies.
And then we could sit in service and see our work unfold as all the choir people would
be squirming.
Once the X-Lax brownies hit their stomachs.
Because we had planned it perfect where it was going to be delivered right when they
were performing their first service, right?
They're doing that whole thing and it would have been delivered right by the time they
were coming off of the stage.
They would have enjoyed it a little bit and according to the instructions, it should be
hitting right as they entered stage and started singing once again.
So it was one of those things.
And so Chris and I, we embarked, we went to Walmart, good old Walmart, and we got all
the ingredients and don't get me wrong.
Like, I remember we got some decent ingredients and the only thing that I remember is we didn't
skimp out on the X-Lax.
I remember it was extra strength too.
It wasn't just regular X-Lax.
Not only did we got X-Lax, we got, because the X-Lax came in like the chocolate bars.
So we baked those in, but then we also got milk and magnesium.
That's right.
And that's what we used as part of the, yeah, that's right.
We did do that.
And so it was going to be very potent.
Like it was going to be very, very potent.
And so we went back to my house and we, we baked up the brownies and we hid the pan under
the bed.
But we kind of, yeah, in my, in my room, why did I say it myself in the third person?
I'm not sure.
But didn't quite work out because we kind of left some evidence behind.
Chris, you want to talk about that?
Yeah.
So it was great.
We had it all planned out.
We, you know, even while we made them, we were trying to clean up, we were like, okay,
like clean all this out, throw all this away.
And so we put them in the pan, put them underneath the, underneath Micah's bed, the Saturday
night.
So Sunday morning, we're getting up, getting ready for church.
And all I know is as we're getting ready and we're about to leave, because the friend
that was going to deliver them fell through.
So we were going to have to deliver them ourselves.
Which was going to be difficult because the path to get back there, it was only, there
was only a handful of ways you can get back there.
And being seen was going, especially with this pan of brownies, because again, these
people are going to eat this.
They're going to be tracing this stuff back.
We can't be seen.
And there's also cameras too.
So there was a certain way we were going to have to go to avoid cameras.
It was this whole thing.
Yeah.
With that friend dropping out, it was a bad deal.
Yeah.
So we're getting ready.
We're almost ready to head out the door at all.
I know is Micah's paternal unit, his father is like, boys, come down here.
And we're like, what?
He was like, is there something you want to tell me?
And I was like, no.
And anytime he said something like that, I knew he knew what was up.
He was like, so you boys been doing a little baking lately?
And I was like, what do you mean?
And he was like, where's the brownies?
And we're like, what brownies?
What are you talking about?
So you don't know what you're talking about.
Listen, prison rules, man.
It's like, don't know what you're talking about.
It's like, I found the receipt and the eggs in the fridge.
And I had all the ingredients and he just pulled out the receipt that had all the ingredients
on the receipt, like the egg slacks, the eggs, the brownies.
And that was the one thing that we forgot.
And I'm going to take responsibility because I feel like I forgot to take the eggs and
the receipt and throw them away.
So I left the eggs and the receipt is evident.
So I messed up.
So I'm going to take full responsibility.
I think we both did.
But you know what I also remember?
I remember we denied, denied, denied so much to the point where it was like, I don't even
remember how it got to this point, but it was just like, okay.
It was like, okay, where's the brownies itself?
Because if you didn't bake it.
I think we said like, we didn't actually bake the eggs.
Like, in there, we just made brownies and he was just like, okay, you want to eat the
brownies or just like, yeah, I don't think so.
It's like, okay, yeah, we did.
We didn't put the eggs in there.
And so the jig was up and we got a good talking to and we had to throw them away and all this
other stuff.
It was of the thing of after all this church is done for you and all you boys and this
and that, this is how you're going to leave on your last Sunday.
We were just like, well, at that point I didn't care.
But it was like, after all this church is done for you and I was just like, I'm never
coming back.
Yeah.
And especially, you know, we were going to leave and whatnot.
So it's just like, why not go out with a little bang, a little entertainment and then, you
know, we knew the whole thing would blow over and especially out of sight, out of mind.
They wouldn't have thought it was us.
Yeah, but it was a good thing that we didn't because our senior pastor had stomach issues.
Yeah, he had surgery on his intestines.
I could have killed them kind of stuff if he had things like that.
And then there were some other people that if they would have eaten it, there could have
been some innocent bystanders that definitely could have had some.
Yeah.
Because you never know what physical issues people have and then come to find out like
you accidentally kill somebody because you made the brownies.
And I mean, it's a good thing that we probably got caught.
So we didn't like hurt somebody or kill someone, you know.
Yeah.
But at the same time too, I really am curious.
I'm glad we didn't, you know, try it or anything like that.
But I am curious that was extra strength, man.
I mean, milk of magnesium and the extra strength X-Lax chocolate bars baked in.
Yeah.
That would have been quite a bit, quite a bit.
Yeah.
I just want to go to an alternate universe where that actually did happen and see what
would have become of myself.
It's just like we're still in a penitentiary.
Yeah.
Serving time in a Georgia state correctional facility.
I wouldn't have last, we probably would have been getting out just now.
You know what I mean?
They probably would have given us like 10 years.
Yeah.
Think about that.
We wouldn't have lived anyways.
Anyways.
Yeah.
Who knows, man?
Who knows?
But I'll tell you what, man, you ready for the next segment?
Yes, I am.
Well, our next segment is the jelly donut or the jail report.
Chris, what are you doing, man?
What's going on?
Well, we haven't done this in a while, but it's called tie your shoes because you're
tripping.
Oh, man.
I love this one.
This is about people that have either been on horrible first dates or they found out
their partner or somebody was cheating in a unique way.
So this is the cheating kind.
The one about cheaters who got caught.
I love it.
Yeah.
Gotta love this kind of stuff.
Gotta love like cheaters too.
All right.
So this first one, this guy says he used to work for a vacuum cleaner company and he
heard a story about these people coming in angry that their vacuum, it just wouldn't
work.
It wouldn't suck up the dirt or anything.
So the salesman grabbed a coat hanger to unblock the hose because I guess the hose
was jammed out.
And he proceeded to pull out five to 10 use condoms.
The wife gasped and the husband said, well, I don't use those, do I?
And he stormed out of the shop.
So it was the wife that was cheating with another man because the husband was like,
yeah, I don't use those.
And yeah, found out she was cheating because the vacuum cleaner got clogged up.
Duh-duh-duh.
Can't vacuum up condoms, lady.
That's how you get caught.
Tie your shoes because you're tripping.
Obviously, it was over a long period of time because he found out five to 10.
Exactly.
I'm just saying it happened quite a bit.
Oh man, tie your shoes.
That's terrible, dude.
This next one, this guy says a friend of mine was suspicious of her husband cheating
as he went to quote unquote play soccer with friends way too often.
He always came home and he jumped in the shower as soon as possible because he would quote
unquote sweat while playing.
So one day she sewed his soccer socks together and when he came back and he showered, she
saw the socks were still sewed so he wasn't playing soccer at all.
So I guess he was evidently cheating.
Yeah, that's wild.
So she, man, she had a foolproof way.
She probably talked to her mama.
How can I tell?
It's like there's an old fashioned method you can tell.
Tie socks together and see what happens.
Yeah, or I'm not advocating, but or the guy was like, oh, these are sewn together.
I'm not going to use these socks.
But the fact that he would play soccer a whole bunch and then come home and directly get
in the shower.
Yeah, that kind of tells you something.
For sure, man.
It's pretty nuts.
All right.
This next one, we are not advocating for or against this, but this is just the facts
of the case.
So this lady says that her ex-husband and his family smoked a lot of weed and his sister,
kids and nanny were visiting from out of state for a few weeks.
When it was time to fly home, they left their stash of weed at her mother-in-law's house
because they didn't want to take it on the plane, obviously.
Her husband asked if she would pick it up because she was nearby and she agreed.
She doesn't smoke, but she was willing to carry it in the car for him.
To her surprise, she found a note from the nanny to her husband saying she was in love
with him and she was so happy for the time they had together.
Obviously she thought that then she thought he would get the weed instead of the wife.
So yeah, the nanny wrote a wrote a letter and the wife, why found it through the weed,
bro?
Because you trippin', shouldn't have been messing around like that.
That's why you never have it in writing.
Stupid.
Yeah, definitely not, man.
And again, if you are keeping any kind of notes, anything in your jeans pocket and you're
trying to cheat, your lady is going to find it.
I promise you.
It's like if you do it, yeah, it's like if you're doing wrong, you better hide it.
You better hide it really bad because I mean, I don't know, man, ladies have that radar.
I've never cheated like that, but I'll tell you this much.
It's like I've been accused of cheating and they'd be looking at every little thing.
So it's like if I had been, you know, they would have caught you.
This guy was dating his girlfriend.
They were both in college.
Well, she actually became his fiance.
And so they were engaged to be married and she went to go study abroad in Belgium.
First read flag.
About two weeks before his fiance was supposed to return, he stopped into a nearby coffee
house that he had noticed down the block.
To his surprise, he found an old childhood friend, Claire, who was a waitress there.
They hadn't seen each other since high school, so they caught up.
And so Claire told this guy that she was engaged as well to a man named Ben, who was completing
his course of study by working on an internship in Belgium.
He couldn't believe the coincidence.
And so he told her about his fiance, Meg, and that, man, if he's, if she's over there
in Belgium and he's over there in Belgium, they have to know each other, right?
Like they didn't think nothing of it.
So a couple of days later, he stopped in for a cup of coffee at this place and the waitress,
Claire, looked extremely upset.
She told him that she had just gotten a call from her aunt Sue the day before and aunt
Sue had just returned from Czechoslovakia and that something very strange had happened.
While they were touring Prague, Sue and her travel group had stayed in a local hotel and
the next morning she had run into Claire's fiance, Ben, in the lobby with a female companion
by the name of Meg.
She said that he introduced her as a student from America and that they worked together,
but it was very awkward and they both looked very scared.
Claire said that she immediately called Ben and after several tries over the course of
a day or so, she got him on the phone.
She asked him about the chance encounter and he said he had been kind of expecting her
call and ended up admitting that he had been seeing Meg pretty much the entire time they
were in Europe, spending weekends and holidays traveling around with each other.
So wow, like, man, small, small world, dude.
Dang, yeah, that is small world.
That's also something else too.
If you're going to be going out with these people, you, but you know, you got to be careful
going out in public, but dang, that's best nuts.
Here's the thing, like in college and you have a relationship.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is, it is a lot of work and it takes special people
to make it work and it also makes special people to make it a work if they're going
to study abroad because you're, you're like in college, you're wanting to have fun, like
you're in a new country and you know, you're going to be like, well, my fiance or my girlfriend
or boyfriend will never know.
And then that's when bad things happen.
Oh, yep.
That's when it always happened.
That's what happened to my boy Travis.
Oh yeah.
That's what happened to that's what happened to tea.
Oh, yeah.
They weren't like, they weren't official, but they were heavily talking and like they
were about to make it official.
And then she went to Spain and then of course, like she said, Oh yeah, like, you know, I'm
going to keep in contact with you.
Did it up.
But then she ended up meeting this guy and then she broke my boy Travis's heart.
Crazy stuff.
All right.
Last one.
This one is pretty messed up.
I feel kind of bad for this lady.
So this lady was pregnant with her.
I don't know if it was her fiance or husband or boyfriend's kid.
She went to the ultrasound to determine the gender of the child.
And the guy was the guy was late, right?
To the appointment.
So her boyfriend and partner, whatever was late.
So she was just on Facebook waiting to be called and waiting for him.
He was tagged in some photos in her newsfeed from a gig he'd been at on the previous weekend.
There was a random girl who was all in the photos of him and they were all over each
other.
And so they were making out in the background of one photo.
He turned up after the lady was called in for the ultrasound.
And while the technician was printing the images, she told them that she knew all about
it.
He went off and on about how she was making it up and that he'd never do that.
Obviously, he accused her of lying to compensate for cheating on him.
And so on.
When I pointed out that there were photos, he stormed out and left me there.
By now, ex-husband demanded constant access to all my social media and cell phone messages.
It was constantly accusing me of cheating, even though he had no reason to think I would
do that.
I had nothing to hide.
So yeah, that is wild.
Tell your shoes because you trippin.
Geez, Alu.
Some of these stories, man, I'm telling you.
That's just wild.
Yeah, it's it's it's it's wild, man.
It's it's just sad.
But I ain't in the dating world no more, man, shoe some of this stuff.
You know what Chris Brown said?
I'm Jose loyal.
Jose loyal.
That's what he said.
Yeah, we already know.
This is kind of a rabbit hole.
But have you seen have you seen like the people that have been like breaking up over the Chris
Brown meet and greets because he'd be like taken like, are their girl be like taking
like kind of intimate raunchy photos with Chris Brown at the meet and greet?
Yeah, I don't be surprised though.
And he probably be taking some of them girls getting in that hurt that Chris Brown hurt
same her be gave over that over Rihanna gave him.
Mr. Steele girl.
It was just the girl give me that hurt.
Anyways, that's all for that one.
Oh, man, that's a crazy segment.
Well, let's move on into our next one, man.
And that is our donut hole.
So man, do you have a quiz for me or what's going on?
Yes, you know, I have a quiz.
You know, that's my man.
Let's let's do it.
What's going on?
It's a 90s trivia quiz.
So just just pretty pretty much general 90s.
Yes, general 90s trivia.
All right, sounds good, man.
I'm ready for it.
Which 90s girl group is the best selling girl groups of all time?
A. Destiny's Child.
B. The Dixie Chicks.
C. The Spice Girls or DTLC.
I'm gonna say Spice Girls.
That is correct.
Spice Girls.
Do you know for life of me, I don't even know who's in the Spice Girls.
Ginger Spice.
Posh Spice.
I don't remember.
Wasn't that Lady from America's Got Talent, the Melanie, whatever.
She was a Spice Girl.
I don't know.
Anyways, yeah.
All right.
Which celebrity is not one of the celebrities that passed away between March through August
of 1997?
A. Tupac, B. Biggie, C. Gianni Versace or D. Princess Diana.
Hold on.
You said the Wedge Time period?
Between March through August of 1997.
March through August of 1997.
Three of these celebrities all passed away within five months of each other.
I'm gonna say Versace.
Versace was.
It's actually Tupac.
So Biggie, Gianni Versace and Princess Diana all passed away within five months of each
other.
Dang.
That's pretty wild.
All right.
Which child star became the first to be paid a million dollars for their role in a movie?
A. Jonathan Taylor Thomas, B. McCulloch Culkin, C. Mary Kate Nassley Olson or D. Amanda Bines.
I'm gonna go with Mary Kate Nassley.
Olson.
The Olson Twins.
It was actually McCulloch Culkin and I'm sure you're thinking, oh, it was home alone.
Actually, it was my girl that he got paid a million dollars for.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, okay.
Wow.
Okay.
I mean, that boy had to get stung by all them bees.
I guess so, but I guess.
You think that's worth a million, I guess?
I guess.
Yeah, bro.
You got stung by all the bees.
That was sad.
I'm not gonna lie, that was a sad part of that movie.
It is.
All right.
How old was Tiger Woods when he won his first Masters Championship in 1997?
A. 19, B. 20, C. 21 or D. 25?
He was 19, wasn't he?
He was 21.
Oh, he's 21.
I know he was young.
It was like, that's what everybody was impressed with, was he was, wasn't he like one of the
youngest to ever do it?
Yeah.
I guess that man won a Masters Championship by 21 and I'm almost 30 and like, you just
be like, look at my line.
Did you ever play Go?
I never.
Ever.
All right.
When Nirvana broke up in 1994, what new band was formed by one of the former band members?
A. Smashing Pumpkins, B. Foo Fighters, C. Corn or D. Asking Alexandria.
Wasn't it Foo Fighters?
Yes, sir.
It was Foo Fighters.
Now, as much as, and I know I'm going to get hateful, I'm not that big of a fan of Nirvana.
I mean, it's definitely a style, man.
Are you a fan of kind of the, that style?
Grunge, no.
Oh, there you go.
I mean, it's kind of, I've never met anybody that's like grunge is okay.
It's either, it's kind of like you like it or you don't.
I don't know.
It's definitely, it's definitely an interesting, wasn't it David Grohl that went over there?
Isn't that the band member?
Yeah.
He's a popular one.
When was the first QR code invented?
A. 1991, 1994, 1997 or 1999?
I'm going to say 97.
It is 94.
94, okay.
I know they're all messing around with barcodes a lot in the late 80s and early 90s, but QR codes, it makes sense.
Yeah, it was actually a Japanese company that invented them.
Yeah, it just, it's amazing.
It just took a long time to catch on.
In 1996, which animal was cloned?
A cow, a horse, a dog or a sheep?
There's a sheep.
Yeah, Dolly the sheep.
I remember that was like a big thing.
I heard, I had to, yeah, I had to do a whole study on that thing for, I don't remember what it was.
It was, I think it was a college paper or something where they were talking about, is it right to clone things and you had to form an opinion.
It's a very interesting, it's kind of a weird paradox because in some ways it's good, but if you've,
have you ever seen the movie, The Island with Ewan McGregor where basically, yeah, that's a pretty good one to watch.
It's basically there's a bunch of clones and that's their whole purpose is if you have a problem like you need an organ transplant or something like that,
they just kill your clone and take it from them essentially.
But then the clones fight back.
It's a whole, it's a pretty good movie.
Interesting.
All right, how many championships did the Chicago Bulls win during the 1990s?
A6, B5, C7 or D4?
It was six.
Yes, sir.
It was Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordan.
Oh, Michael Jordan playing basketball and baseball.
You know that man had to have, well, he didn't play both at the same time, but there were some people like Dion Sanders and then Bo Jackson who literally played them at the same time.
They would have to fly to one city to play for a baseball game and then fly to another to play in the NFL the next day.
That had to be wild, man.
It's nuts.
I don't think that's allowed anymore.
I don't think you're allowed to do that anymore.
I don't think so.
In 1992, which state had the largest mall?
Philadelphia, Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota.
Sorry, that meant to say Pennsylvania.
Sorry.
In 1992, which state had the largest mall?
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York.
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, or Minnesota?
It's Minnesota because it's Mall of America, isn't it?
Yeah, that thing is massive and it's kind of an indoor roller coaster in the mall.
It is wild.
Did you know that actually WCW filmed a couple wrestling shows there?
Like in the Mall of America?
Yeah, like in the mall because they were trying to get business so they were like, okay, we're going to put this event on.
So we need like crowd numbers and they couldn't sell any tickets.
So like let's put it in the mall and then we'll get a crowd naturally for taping.
And it's a huge mall.
It's massive.
It's huge.
So I'm sure they did get the numbers.
All right.
Last one.
Which video game was the first to be played in outer space?
Pong, Frogger, Tetris, or Super Mario?
It's kind of interesting.
Isn't it Tetris?
Yes, sir.
It is Tetris.
Yeah, it did pretty good on that quiz actually.
Yes, you did.
What was your favorite part about the 1990s?
Man, there's a lot of nostalgic stuff.
I do miss and this kind of makes me sound like an old fogey.
I feel like the customer service in the late 1990s and early 2000s was definitely different.
I don't know.
I just remember it.
Maybe it's just because you were a kid, but I feel like people were nicer.
Like they would, I remember going to different places and getting like free samples and like people being nice and I don't know.
I just don't feel like that.
I miss the old school Nickelodeon.
I feel like Nickelodeon with the green slime and everything, that's like typical nine.
Yeah, they try to do that green slime now, but it's different.
I mean, it's kind of different.
Yeah, it ain't the same.
It ain't the same.
There was just a vibe.
There was an aesthetic to the like when you had shows like the Amanda show, all that.
All the good shows.
Yeah, exactly, man.
I also miss, I miss some of the musical things that were going on.
I don't know.
90s had such a typical music with or like different music.
I feel like they were playing around with the flutes a lot and then like bongo drums and some of the weird, you know, I'm talking about like one of the big ones.
If you're watching shorts or reels or, you know, if you're on TikTok or whatever, there's kind of like a 90s nostalgia song with its like it's synth sounds and things like that.
It's like, I don't know, 90s.
It just feels like there was a lot of kind of different sounds going around music wise too.
Well, that concludes that and that's a great segue into what fries my donuts and Mike, what fries your donuts, buddy?
I can't stand when people just give up so quickly and don't research or look into things and I'll give you a few examples.
So I can't stand it.
So sometimes, you know, I'm a manager, so I have to be on call.
It's once a month.
I have to be on call for a weekend.
And pretty much that's only for emergency use only.
And I kid you not, sometimes I will get calls from people in the middle of the night and it's like, hey, I'm having this problem, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it'll be normal stuff, normal parts of their job.
They haven't looked up how to do it.
There's like clear guides.
There's clear ways to do this clear, clearly defined processes.
They've been through training.
They've done this.
I don't know how many times, but they don't even look.
They don't even look for, okay, maybe, and there's plenty of ways that you can look at, okay, here's how the process went.
You can even look at past ways that it's gone.
They have ways to do that.
They won't look at anything.
They'll just call you and say, hey, I'm having this problem.
Tell me what to do.
And it's like, why don't you can just look around or they have a coworker who's literally on the clock with them.
Why don't you ask them, hey, what is this?
Hey, what have you done in this situation?
Why are we calling the on call person who's supposed to be there for emergencies in the middle of the night for something because it not even look it up.
You know what I mean?
That would be for somebody like me.
That's my last resort.
That's if I looked up a whole bunch of stuff, couldn't find it, couldn't find it, couldn't find it.
It's like, hey, man, I'm sorry, I couldn't find it.
So I need the answer, but it's not like that.
It's as long, you know, all you have to do is look.
And then another example.
So I'm helping somebody watch a house while it's being sold.
And so there are some different things going on.
But I got a call and it was like, yeah, the realtors at the house and they can't show the house because the AC isn't turning on.
And it was like, okay, so I go over to the house and the realtor says, yeah, I couldn't show the house because the AC is not working.
And I walk up to the thermostat and all I did was hit their big arrow that said, you know, the big down arrow a few times and the AC kicked on.
And I was sitting here and they were like, yeah, we couldn't figure out how to work it.
It's like, did we try to hit the big arrow that's right here?
I feel like we didn't try to do anything.
I feel like we just looked at the thing and because they kept getting hung up because it said no Wi-Fi.
You could hook it up to the Wi-Fi, but it works without it.
All you have to do is hit the button and it's like, you didn't try to play around with it.
You didn't look at all the, you know, everything's labeled.
I don't understand why people, you know, why do people just not try?
Why do people just like give up and just like, oh, well, I'm calling it.
I'm giving the white flag.
I need somebody else to figure this out.
Why are people like that?
Because, Michael, we live in a world where if we want the answers, it doesn't take any, any effort for us to find it.
It's just given to us.
You go into Google, you ask how tall is the tallest man?
You don't have to do any work.
All you have to do is just type it in, bro.
We are living in a world where we don't have to do any work to figure it out or we can just pay people to figure it out for us.
Or, you know, I've, my thing is like, at least try to like YouTube it at first.
You know what I mean?
Like try to YouTube something and then, but people have gotten so lazy because the answer is always just given to them.
They don't have to work for them.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's what's interesting is, you know, in the case of the gal at work who calls all the time or the people who call it work all the time.
A lot of times it's right there in front of them.
It's two clicks away.
You didn't have to, it probably took more effort to dial my number and call me and ask for this then to take the two clicks and read it.
I don't, it's just people, people just decided, but you know, you're absolutely right.
They expect the answer and they expect the answer now because they can get it that way every other.
But we're seeing byproducts like this where people aren't critically thanking anymore and aren't even giving really effort anymore to, you know, try to problem solve.
I heard someone say, um, the greatest tool I have is my cell phone because I can call anybody I need to come fix anything for me.
And you know, that is, it's a blessing to be able to have that, but I think there's a balance, right?
You don't want to lean on that too hard.
Yeah.
I think there's an accomplishment when you do figure out how to do something like, yeah, the other day I had Google how to fix something like on my toilet.
But like I watched a YouTube video on it and then I did it and it's like, okay, now I know for next time, right?
Like there's nothing wrong with learning how to do something, but you got to actually try it.
Like now it would have been one thing if I were like, oh, I'm not going to figure it out.
I'm just going to call the plumber.
You know what I mean?
Like, I mean, technically, and we've talked about this for, technically it's my apartment complex is responsibility to fix it.
They were not getting back to be at a reasonable time.
And this was a serious issue that is affecting my water bill.
So steps how to be taken.
It's like, got to do what you got to do.
Yeah, you got to do what you got to do to make sure, you know, because not like they got to reimburse you the extra money.
It's costing you either.
But yeah, I know you're right.
People just need to put in more work to find the answer.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's a mentality thing.
It's a it's an attitude thing.
And, you know, people just being lazy, man, and fries me up.
But I think that's why a lot of people are frustrated in life because they aren't putting in too much effort.
They aren't putting in the work or the time or the effort to figure out why they're frustrated in life.
And so then they just give up and they're like, well, my circumstances are going to change or how I'm feeling about this isn't going to change.
Or this is just the way I am.
They're not figuring out why or they want just someone to just tell them.
It's like, no, you got to do the work.
Yeah, exactly.
But, and man, you know, not a lot of people are willing to do the work, but oh, well, it's their their problem.
Not ours, I guess.
They can come work these hands if they want to.
They got a problem.
Yeah, these hands are rated E for everybody.
Come get you some.
All right, man.
Well, I tell you what, we can get into our next segment, which is our mystery daughter or our improv segment.
Chris, we're just doing a bunch of favorites today, I think, because we're going to do one of our favorites.
And that is our black preacher voice.
I love it.
Well, let me think of a scenario.
Oh, I think I got one.
I got one.
Are you ready?
Yeah, you got one.
We can having to get a tire change at a tire shop.
Having to get a tire change at a tire shop.
OK, all righty.
Do you want to start or you want me to start?
You can start.
Oh, brother, I've come before you today because I have a flat tire.
I was out in the street and the next thing I knew, I was driving and just like Ezekiel in the land of the dry poles, I had to pull over and get out in the heat because a nail was in my tire.
And young man, I need your help because me and my friend here, we're here and we're on our way to a conference and we need to get over there and oh Jesus.
Tell him, tell him, brother.
Oh, let me tell you, brother, we were driving and this nail got in our tire and it's not on the middle of the wall.
It's on the outside, which means we got to get a new whole tire.
But there shouldn't be no nails in my tire because there's already nails in his hands and his feet in the cross.
Can I get somebody to testify for me today?
Amen. All right. And just like my brother said, just like there has been nails in his hands and his feet, there shouldn't be nails in the tire.
So I need you to put it on the rack, put it on high, just like you would put the name of the Lord on high.
Because I know you, sir, you are a righteous man and you're going to put that vehicle on the rack and you're going to take that tire off and you're going to put the new tire on.
You're not going to charge us nothing because we've mended the cloth. Can I get an amen?
Amen. Just like my brother said, you got to put it on the rack. You got to elevate.
Just like you elevate the name of Jesus. See, some of you can't figure out what the problem is until you elevate.
I said elevate your problem, your situation, unto the name of Jesus.
Some of you still trying to identify what the problem is through earthly means here on the ground.
But it isn't until you take your situation and you put it on the rack that you can identify that problem.
And the Lord can take that nail out of your tire. See, that nail might be a bad relationship.
That nail might be an overeating problem.
That nail might be the dicking board who won't let me approve.
Dad will want to park on church grounds coming to somebody. But you got to take that nail out your time.
Some of y'all, I can look in this room right now and I can tell you that you've been flat, flatter than that tire over there.
Because you've been out of air. You've been out of the air because only God can fill you up with the air of life.
And you've been out of that air for too long. And you've been riding on rim.
And you've been saying, I don't know how I'm going to make it. Am I going to bend my rim today?
Am I going to stretch it even further? And you say, oh Lord, can I make it another mile?
And he tells you, child, if you could act better, you wouldn't have this problem.
And you could be riding on all fours. And it wouldn't be just a regular tire. It would be the alter rain tire.
It would be the deep groove tire. And it would take anything, any rock, any mud, any sort of weather that it would take.
And it would be able to drive right through it. But instead, you choose to drive with the nail in your tire.
And you choose to be half full, half empty. And let me ask you, does anybody, you know how the Lord feels about being half in, half out of something.
Amen. Amen.
Why were here at the spiritual tire shop of picking us on a spiritual healing journey?
Why were in here? Some of you need a tune up. Some of you need a wheel of life.
Because you've been bearing to the left in those waters of Tinder. You've been bearing into the right, into that alcohol and the weed smoking.
But you need Jesus. I said Jesus. Come on in and get your tire aligned.
And when you start walking with him, it doesn't matter which way the steering wheel goes.
The Lord shall direct your path. It says, let your word be a lamp to my feet and a light unto my path.
And some of y'all are living in here about to have a spiritual blowout because you ain't got your tires in alignment.
Can I get a name?
Can I just have your tires in alignment? You've driven on flats and just like he said, a lamp unto his feet, a light unto his path.
Guess what? You ain't got your headlights on because that's the way you're trying to live.
You know what? I think it's time for a prayer as they finish up our tire at the tire shop.
What do you think of closing prayer?
I think so. All right. I'm going to start us off.
Today, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Lord Jesus, we ask that you would take the spiritual name out of our tire as Lord God.
That you would take the spiritual nails of Beacon Brother Elder Williams, who is trying to block the plans of God by not allowing me to build a water park on your property.
You said, pace and see that the Lord is good and Lord, we try to enjoy your creation with the water park, Lord.
But we got this little nail in the tire loader. And I pray that you wouldn't just give us a patch, but that you would give us a full tire alignment. Can I get a name?
And I pray for all the people in here who want to live with the headlights and tires and misalignment, that you would see the ways, that you would see what we look like as an example.
That we could be the lamp to your feet and a light to your path as long as you come to Mount Zion Baptist Church over on Fifth Avenue on Sunday morning.
Because I'll tell you this much, brother and sister, everybody in this room is welcome because all of you are sinners.
I've been sitting here for this long while he's getting this tire patched up. And you know what the Lord told me for each one?
You're all driving with nails in your tires. You're all driving in all four nails in your tires. You're all flat and you're riding rims.
So I expect to see each and every one of you on Sunday. You're sinners. And you know what? You shall be forgiven.
And the nail shall be removed in your tires in the name of Jesus.
I have one while we were doing that. I was like, it's like, brother, you know I like my feet.
And my top let back. You see me right? 24. I was like, can I get an A B?
Yeah, just start doing rap lyrics and that format.
It'd be like that one preacher where you saw him where he was, what was it? He was doing that Michael Jackson song.
Michael Jackson song, yeah.
Yeah, but he was like, devil you have been defeated. I think it was smooth criminal. Yeah, he was making up the songs as smooth criminal.
But he was like putting Jesus lyrics to it. It was funny.
Oh, he's done some other ones too. I've seen some other ones pop up. He's done some like, speaking of Tupac. I think he did a Tupac song too.
He's done a few different things.
But anyways, man, it's always fun doing that voice. I always love doing that for improv.
But hey, man, we've almost come to the end of another episode.
And you know what that means? We always got to finish off with the E Clare donut.
And that is our positive advice for the week. I don't remember who went two weeks ago. So I'll go ahead and start it off.
You know, it's hard to remember these things. And you know, it's really hard to when you have a really long list of things to do or you have big goals in mind.
It's really easy to get caught up in the fact of, oh man, I'm not doing enough because it doesn't seem like I'm moving forward enough.
A lot of times in life, you know, growth isn't linear. And what I mean by that is it's not a straight line.
You know, it takes ups and downs. It's like a, you know, it's it's peaks and valleys. It's a roller coaster.
And just because you're putting in a lot of effort in your inner valley and it doesn't look like it's doing anything.
That doesn't mean that it's not about to shoot up there. And the next step is it's just about to explode.
So don't think that your small steps are not working for you. And because, you know, success, again, is not a clear A to B process.
It is ups and downs. And so if it's in a down point, it only got to go up, right?
So just keep holding the faith and trust the process because, you know, good things always happen, but it always starts with those baby steps.
Mine is definitely like you want to make sure that you check in on those check engine lights, you know, kind of not to go back to preaching about the tire analogy.
But you know, we're just going to do do preaching on full car analogy.
I mean, there is some, you know, what what the preachers were saying and the improv, but you definitely want to sometimes check in on that check engine light, you know, especially with your emotions.
I know as guys, sometimes it's easy for us just to put those things away and not really pay attention to them.
But I promise you, if you don't pay attention to them, they will come back and you're going to have to deal with it later on.
So it's a, do you want to fix a $200 problem now or do you want to fix a three grand problem down the road?
So just make sure you're checking in with yourself. Make sure you have people that you can share those things with that you can be accountable to.
And just say, Hey, man, like, this is really what's going on with me. And I got to be honest with you.
And those people don't have to fix it. But, you know, for them just to be there to listen to you or just for them to give you advice and be like, Hey, like, this is my perspective from a third party, like an unbiased person.
So it's a good to check in on yourself. I think June is also like men's mental health awareness, but it kind of gets overshadowed by some of the other stuff in June.
Everything else for sure. Yeah. No, that's real good. Of course.
You know, we've had a great episode of the Dona Bucks podcast once again.
We're over at the trash can network and over at the aviator society over on Instagram, if you're interested in all the flying stuff.
I've even got we've even got some space news, the Boeing Starliner, all that good jazz and how the crew is stuck up there, at least as of Thursday here when I'm recording this.
And it doesn't seem like a ton of people are talking about they're like, Oh, it's just a test flight. But you know what, these people are stuck on the International Space Station because of problems.
So that's pretty fun. We got a video up about that. And of course, we've been posting nonstop just aviation videos, some other things.
Orgina Sangs, that sort of thing. You ever wonder where given somebody the cold shoulder or where close but no cigars come from? Yeah.
Well, you can find out on our channel over there. We got a whole playlist over it. So yeah, trash can network. There's all sorts of things.
By the way, Chris, did you know that coconuts actually kill more people? You're like falling coconuts killed more people a year than sharks.
We talked about that a few weeks ago, but we got videos on that too.
What about where does the origin of these come from? These nuts.
And on that, oh man, listen, I was hoping you'd fall into my trap. You know, I know what you're playing at. I know what you're playing at.
I've known you too long to fall into those traps, sir. But anyways, I guess it's a good time to sign off here.
I'm Micah. I'm Chris. And we're taking this donut box out to the trash.
Thank you.