So if you could have any actor realistically play you in a movie, who do you think would
play you?
I don't know man, there's only one me out there.
It's hard, it's hard.
I hate to do this but put you on the spot.
Who would you think?
Like from the outside looking in because I have no clue to be honest.
Realistically that probably looks the most like me, probably Andy Sandberg or Adam Sandler.
I guess it's fair.
You would give it to Adam Sandler to play you.
I'm really trying to think because what actors look like me?
Dwight Schrute.
Or like you think I could just get Rayne Wilson as my friggin...
Yeah, because I think he's a good enough actor to where he doesn't have to just be Dwight.
He can be you.
The only aspect about it is these people are kind of older, right?
So it's like they're trying to pull off myself and I'm only 30.
So it's like I think at one point it would have been good but like maybe I don't know.
I know that makeup and things are good.
Oh, I know who can play you and I don't really know like what his name is but he's been in
like some stuff and I think he was in...
What was that movie with Demiro and Leonardo DiCaprio?
Killers of the Flower Move.
He was like the sheriff.
Remember when they were trying to hide everything and he was the sheriff?
He's kind of got like some smaller roles but if you look him up I think...
I'm trying to think of who that was because I know who you're talking about.
I think it's like Jesse Clemens or something.
I'm looking it up right now.
I'm looking it up.
Jesse Clemens, okay.
Yep, that's his name.
Jesse Clemens.
I gotta see this.
We're looking it up right now.
Let's see.
You think that guy, the one that looks like Matt Damon but they put the iron on his face
too long?
Yeah, but like he doesn't...
I mean he doesn't have to look like exactly like you, right?
But like...
Well, yeah, I guess that's true.
I guess that's true.
They could probably make him look somewhat like me too.
I don't know.
It's hard.
Do you think I have a...
Would you say that I have a unique face?
I think I would say you just look a lot like that.
Quite true.
Okay, well there you go.
Well, I'm Micah.
And I'm Chris.
And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
All right, man.
Well, we are on another week and we back to our regular schedule programming.
We're not on our free flow episode.
We are back to the structured format.
So Chris, how you doing, man?
Great.
And did you know that this is episode 38?
38.
You know, we are gaining and we're getting closer to season four.
I'm excited for season four.
We got big things coming in season four.
You know, I'm excited for the rest of the season but I'm really excited for season
four.
But you know what I'm excited for right now?
I'm excited for this episode right now because we got some great stuff coming up.
So Chris, do you want to start with our first segment here?
Yeah, our first segment is the Old Fashioned Donut, which is a story from our past.
Now we kind of alluded to it and gave you a teaser last episode but we're going to
talk about how Micah came down last...or actually it was this year, back in April.
Yeah, I was like last year.
It feels like forever ago.
I know it felt like a long time ago because we've had so much stuff happen between now
and then but it was actually this year, just a few months ago.
Yeah.
How Micah came down and helped me for Easter because set the stage for you.
The church that I worked for.
Normally in the past, we have had to do like five or six services just to accommodate the
people that attend our church.
And this year we were wondering how can we accommodate the people that are in our church
because we have grown so much since I first started.
And we were like, we're going to have to do like seven services.
Nobody really wanted to do that.
So we rented out the local performing arts theater called the Buddy Holly Hall.
And when we were looking at it, they took us to tour it.
And of course, at first they were going to be like, yeah, no kids, program, anything.
They're just going to go into service with their families well.
I guess they had talked and they were like, we don't want that.
We want something for kids.
So we went and toured the Buddy Holly place and a couple of rooms they were going to put
us in this very large room.
And I was like, this is not going to work for 300 kids.
And they were like, well, we have a smaller theater.
It's called the Crickets Theater.
And it was basically like a small performing arts theater.
And I was like, oh yeah, this is going to work perfectly.
This is going to be great.
So they were like, well, you figure it out.
And I was like, OK, so I basically had to write, come up with the Easter production
from scratch.
And I was doing some research and just ideas and prayer and the Lord.
And we come up with this theme.
And it was actually a VBS theme from a curriculum.
I was called Start the Party.
And I took that theme and I was like, OK, now we're going to write a show out of it.
So I was starting to write the show.
And I was like, I want this to be fun, engaging, something different than we've ever done before.
So I wrote the script and I wrote it to where I was going to be myself.
But then I was going to have this co-host character.
And this character would be a DJ character.
And he was basically the one that was going to help get the party started.
But every time he tried to get the party started, something would happen and the lights would
go out.
So he was kind of more of the comedic character.
So I wrote the script and I sent it to Micah.
And Micah read over it and he said, I know what you need.
He said, this part was written for me.
He was like, I'll help you co-host this.
Because at the time I was looking for some co-hosts and I couldn't find a good fit.
And Micah was graciously offered his services and he was going to come up to Lubbock and
be the part of DJ Flake.
Yeah.
And it was quite interesting because like he said, he called me up and we were just talking
about it.
He's like, man, I've run through some lines with some of these guys because, you know,
read through the script and everything and didn't really think about going up there initially.
But it was whenever he said, yeah, I read through the lines with some folks.
And you know, when I first read it, I was like, man, if I was there, this would be great
for me.
And then once he's like, yeah, it's just not really working.
I also understand how big Easter is.
You got to think for a man of the cloth like Christopher, there's one of two days, man,
that are big days.
That's Easter and Christmas.
And Easter is a big deal.
And when you're talking about whether we're going to have it at Lubbock, that was a big
performing arts center.
Like he said, expecting 300 plus kids.
That's no small feat over several services.
So it's like, man, that's no small feat either.
And so, yeah, once I heard that, it's like, listen, the part was for me, it's obvious
that it's got to be me because I know that he's not going to be comfortable on stage.
You know, like we're able, just like in this podcast, we're able to really work well off
of each other and play well off of each other.
And so we knew that that was going to work.
And so got online, looked up some flights and it was like, man, wouldn't you know what they're
running the sale?
And Chris and his wife were actually going to come down to San Antonio right afterwards.
So it was like, oh, great, I'll just buy one way.
I'll fly up there and then we'll drive back.
So it ended up working real well.
But so that's ended up what happened.
And I flew out there and man, that first night it was, it was pretty chill.
We went and checked in to the hotel and this was quite interesting.
I've stayed in this hotel a few times, but this time they bumped me up to a quote unquote
sweet and I just want to say, I don't know what really made it a sweet besides it had
two TVs in it.
Like it had a front sitting room and then it had like the bedroom back there.
But what did you think of that, Chris?
It was kind of an interesting layout.
I thought sweet just means there's a couch in your, in your sitting.
Is that all that it means?
Yeah, that's all that really is.
That's all you're paying for?
Well, at like a regular, now if you're going to like a nicer upscale hotel, the sweet is
definitely bigger.
But in a little like hotel, but not that the hotel is little, but like in a like a holiday
in or whatever it is.
I think that's just one of the regular chain hotels.
Yeah.
Okay.
So anyways, so get there.
You know, we, we decided to go to Cracker Brail that night to eat and yeah, it was, it was
fine.
So I thought and that night, man, I got really, really sick and it was kind of scary because
the next day was supposed to be the rehearsal and then the following day was Easter.
And so we only had one day in the facility to be able to, to practice in a limited time
window, so it's like, not only am I sick, but I'm also having to figure out how, you
know, to be okay enough to run through the lines, make sure that we're good and get the
cues right with the technical guys.
Cause that was the thing.
Cause we hadn't done that before cause we had to have the space.
And so we had a lot of, I wouldn't say a lot of different cues, but we did have several
big cues like Chris was saying in the show where, you know, there's a few times where
the DJ is trying to start the party and, you know, either he did the wires wrong or something
happened or he unplugged something he wasn't supposed to do.
And so it's like the lights would dim.
It was actually really cool, but the thing was there was all that timing, right?
So we had to practice that.
And yeah, so it was, it was a little nerve wracking being that sick and I was up really,
really late.
In fact, my boy, he had to get up real early that morning cause he had to help set up over
there and whatnot.
And I remember he was, he was awesome cause I, you know, I had texted him, it was like
four in the morning when I texted you and was like, yeah, man, I got real sick.
And he ended up like, I like six ended up coming to my hotel and I was like five, wasn't
it?
It was like really early.
Yeah, I was five cause we couldn't get into the building till six.
And that was another thing too is like during this whole planning process, we only had one
day to look at the space, then one day to like go and measure everything.
And then basically within, and it granted when we decided that we were going to do this
at the performing arts center, this was the middle of January.
Okay.
Easter is at the end of March.
So we have like about two months to execute this.
It was less than, yeah, it was less than 90 days.
It was less than 90 days.
Yeah.
To execute this, make this happen.
And then we also had to order things and all that stuff.
And we couldn't get in the building to set up.
And basically we were having to do church in a box.
So that Thursday we had to load up the moving trucks.
And then, and then Saturday they weren't going to let us in the building till six a.m.
So I drove over there and I gave Micah Gatorade and then I had to go to the Buddy Holly
place and unload the truck, set everything up, get the stage designed, go, hopefully
go over the, set up the lighting cues and the sound effects prior before.
Now granted, we did have a lot of rehearsals before then like me and Micah rehearsed every
week via video call.
And then there was a part of the show where during the gospel presentation, so like the
Easter story of Jesus dying on the cross, we were going to do that with the glow in
the dark suits and with actors.
And so I was rehearsing with them like for like, I think I did four rehearsals with them
to go over the choreography and stuff, but we couldn't go over like the final choreography
until we were on the stage so we could see it all play out.
So Micah's feeling sick and I felt horrible because I was like, my friend came up here
to help me and now he's sick.
And so I, so finally we get everything set up.
Thank God I started going over the lighting cues.
There were some hangups with the set up and the stage design, but I'm not going to go
into that because that's a sore subject.
That's a whole sore subject that'll take a whole rabbit hole right there.
I'm over it now.
But so we have to go and we get, so rehearsal is supposed to start at one because, and
we were under time constraints because all the volunteers that were going to help on
Sunday morning, we had to have a volunteer meeting with them at 4.30.
So we only have three hours to run a rehearsal for the show and get everything perfect, right?
So I picked Micah up and we're, we've got to get him changed and everything.
So we do like, and of course he's feeling horrible.
So we do the first, the first rehearsal run through and Grants and Micah's wearing this
heavy jacket.
It's reflective.
He's got all his costume on and there's the lights.
Well, and not, yeah.
And a bucket hat in this bucket hat.
Like it was a cool bucket hat, but don't give me, there was no, like some bucket hats
have holes in them, like at least three or something for breathe.
This thing did not breathe at all.
Like, and the jacket on the inside, it was a nice jacket, but it wasn't lined or it
didn't have anything.
So it was reflective and it just kept all that heat in.
And then I had a shirt on underneath that.
So it was, I mean, yeah, it was.
And there was a part of the show with your entrance where you kind of had to run it.
So we do the first part, and Micah makes it through pretty good.
He's kind of like, he's kind of struggling a little bit, but I could tell he was making
it through.
So we make it through the first rehearsal and then I'm like, okay, we got to run this
again.
So we take a break.
We run it again.
And that second time, I think just with the lights and everything, Micah was starting
to feel it.
Yeah, I felt really, really bad.
I felt really bad.
Like, I, it was one of those moments.
Have you ever had like one of those cold sweat moments, even though you're really hot, like
all of a sudden it's just like you start cold sweat and then you almost feel like, all right,
I might pass out all of a sudden.
And you have like that feeling.
And that's definitely what happened.
It was just like, and it was probably the lights and everything else, you know, and
I just really didn't get a lot of sleep the night before and just still dealing with some
of the effects.
And so yeah, I was really worried about that at that point because it was, it's not that
I wasn't worried about the show.
I was more worried about like, man, am I going to be able to do this tomorrow?
Like am I going to be able to ride this out?
You know, and at least in that moment, my mind was like, listen, we got to make sure
that we're good for tomorrow.
Like that's the main prerogative.
But yeah, it was pretty scary on my end because I was like, man.
So we let Micah go back to the dressing room and like I'm going to run through the, the
rival story skit a few times.
And in my mind, I'm like, oh man, like number one, I feel bad because he's feeling bad.
Number two, I'm like, if he can't do it tomorrow, I'm like, I'm going to have to adjust this
show and we'll have to have a backup plan in the back pocket in case something, I was
like, if anything, maybe DJ Flame will make it through half the show tomorrow.
I don't know because we have two services.
So got all that and then take Micah back to the hotel, all that good stuff.
And so then the Sunday morning comes and it's like show time and the first, the first show,
it went okay.
The kids were very rowdy.
They were in a new space.
They didn't know what was going on.
But I would say the first show went pretty good.
All things considered, Michael was feeling great.
He got some rest, got some sleep.
He was feeling good.
And then we were like, okay, dude, like as soon as like as much as you can, if you can
take the jacket off when you're backstage, like take it off, get some room to breathe
so you can like cool down all that good stuff because we don't want to get you overheated.
And then the second, the second show was probably the most ideal show.
It's the way that I ran it like in my mind.
And so it was, it was a good show.
It was great.
The kids loved it.
And of course we gave the gospel message and gave them a chance to receive Jesus as their
Lord and Savior and lead them in the end.
So it was great.
We had, I think just 300 plus elementary kids and I think 63 of them like gave their lives
to Christ, which is really cool.
Really, really cool.
And Micah at the end of each show, he went out and while the parents were picking them
up, he kind of gave them high fives and you want to tell them a little bit about that?
Yeah, it was pretty great.
I do want to take one step back to the show though.
So the first show, yeah, Chris was saying he was really rowdy, but that the second show
man, they were super engaged.
And one of the things that he also did that he hasn't talked about a part of his show
was he did an object lesson.
And this object lesson was basically he was talking about your sins and he had food coloring
and would put the food coloring or the food dye in this bucket of water.
And you know, you know, he would say several things that you did like, you know, say you
talk back to your mom, say you did, you know, said a curse word, whatever it would put it
on there.
And then he had a cross.
It was made on PVC, but on the backside of it, what is that solution called?
Sodium diosulfate.
And so I'm revealing my, I'm revealing my,
Sodium diosulfate.
Yeah.
I know I shouldn't have done that.
The magician never reveals this trick, but what was, what was really cool and I guess
the first service, like some of the kids really got it, but the second service, they were
super engaged because I was backstage watching, of course.
And so the second service, what was cool was, so he sticks the cross and the water that's
got, you know, all the, that's red, about this point, like really dark red.
And he starts mixing it around and, you know, says with the cross, you know, your sins are
cleared and it clears up the water.
And man, the whole crowd just erupted, what?
Whoa.
And they were all freaking out, man.
They were all freaking out like, how in the heck did that happen?
It really worked out really well.
And but it was, it was super fun.
Like it was super fun, but standing out, out, out back with them or I mean, like out in
the atrium as they were coming out there, they all really enjoyed it.
But some of the comments were just something else.
Like they really believe the show.
They really believe that DJ flame, they really believe the show out the lights when it was
just like turned out the light.
Like there was even one kid that came out and was like, yeah, you know, next time, because
I, you know, I was ad lipping a lot of that's the one thing about it.
The show that's great is Chris and I, like we can get a general script, but there's a
bunch of ad lipped moments that happened.
And so one of the moments that was happening was I was supposed to be fixing this light
box and rewiring the thing.
And you know, I had made up something about like, oh yeah, I'm doing the red wire, the
blue wire and the green wire.
Anyways, the power went out again in the show.
Hypothetically, right?
And so this kid tries to tell me he's like, next time it's the yellow wire, the red,
and he starts like telling me the different wires was like, oh, so like, you know a lot
of electrolytes, like, yeah, he's like, that's why you made the power go out.
It's like, okay.
And, and he was like, and then there was one kid who's like, did you really electrocute
yourself?
It's like, it's like, yes, yes, I did.
It's like, I don't feel right lying in church, but hey, you got to do it for the show.
But they really enjoyed it.
And then the other thing too, that I noticed was a lot of them are really tired.
And that's how you know you did a good job.
The kids are leaving like half asleep and half of them are in their parents arms because
they're worn out.
You did a good show.
It was great.
We talked about it on the, so we had it, of course, we had to clean everything up and
all that stuff.
And we did and got out of there fairly quickly, I'd say.
And then we, yeah, then of course, Micah came over to my, my in-laws house, ate some food
and all that good stuff.
And then we headed back to San Antonio.
Oh, my bad.
Sorry.
I'm cutting that part out.
We headed back to where Micah lived.
So, because we were headed down that way to, to go on vacation anyway.
So I thought it was a great show.
Honestly, probably, I would say it's, if not my top one, definitely in my top two moments
of doing ministry, because I got to do it with my best friend.
It was fun.
We had a good time and I got to do what I love with my best friend.
So it was great.
I appreciate Micah who, who helped out.
He may be reappearing as DJ Flame in the near future.
You never know.
Yeah.
Actually with making music.
Like actually having music, not just being a Spotify DJ, like actually having something.
Now it was really, really fun.
I know you think me, but it's funny because a lot of time, and I'm going to rabbit hole,
so many times in life.
How have you been in this moment where, you know, like when I was sick, right?
You were saying that you felt bad for me.
I was sitting here feeling bad that I'm sick and like might have a problem in making you
adjust, right?
And it's like, we're having the same feeling.
Nobody's actually mad at each other or should feel bad, but it's what's going on.
And then it's just interesting how that works.
So there's a story how Micah helped me out with Easter.
It was kind of like, I felt like it was a full circle moment for us, like eight year
old us.
It was like a full circle moment from being kids in church and hearing and seeing all the
goofy stuff to now doing it to where it was like, it was fun, but it wasn't too cheesy.
Yeah.
Now it was, and that was the biggest thing is we've done other productions, but the,
I guess the hard part about DJ Flame and what really kind of stretched me with that
character is he had to be the cool guy, but still humorous.
And I'm used to being the, like the goofy guy that kind of stumbles around and has more
that how would you put it?
Slapstick comedy kind of thing, right?
Where it's kind of like cheap blast or like the dumb character or, you know, the dumb
sidekick kind of thing.
And so we, I really, and that's what we talked about.
Like when adjusting the lines, we really tried to make it to where like we were, we would
joke with each other, but we would never really insult each other like that, or like be like,
Oh, if you say this, then this is going to make this character.
We really got to put our creativity into the characters.
And so it was, it was really.
And I'll say this too, one last thing on, I think that a lot of what we tried to do
was a lot of it was lines that we, because we talked about our childhood and kind of
the insults that we would throw at each other.
The ones that like weren't really insulting, but you know how kids kind of talk mess to
each other.
And you know, I mean, we've all been the dumb kids like, yeah, your mom.
And I'm not saying that's the jokes that we were telling, but a lot of the stuff it's
like, Oh yeah, well, remember when you were back on the bus and you ate all those worms
on that one, you know, and it's like, that's the kind of stuff that kids be talking mess
on each other on, but it doesn't really hurt anything.
So it worked out really well.
And I think directing the lines that way was really relatable.
Like I know a lot of the kids, that's why it was believable.
I feel like, well, we're going to move into the next segment, which is the jelly donut.
Do we have a jelly donut or is it something different this week?
Yes, we do.
We have jelly donut.
We have jail report stories, some funny arrest stories.
So these are all different ones.
You ready for the first one?
Let's do it.
So this one is entitled the disco fever incident on August the 14th of 2020.
Mr. Thompson celebrated a promotion by going through the drive-through lane of his local
McDonald's in Greenwood, Indiana.
And it turned into a dance party as this guy blared the music from his car stereo and
danced on top of his vehicle.
Now a crowd grew and a bunch of the cars backed up and the restaurant manager asked him to
please step down and move out of the drive-through because people were leaving, which he responded,
no, we're having a party and I'm going to party until my food gets here.
And so what ended up happening was they told him that they were going to call the police
and they weren't going to make his food.
And so he decided to continue dancing on the roof.
So that when officers arrived, they found him still dancing with a crowd of onlookers
in the parking lot and he was arrested for disturbing the peace and obstructing traffic.
Wow.
That's interesting.
And I don't know how strict, I'm assuming they were still strict because it's from 2020.
So COVID, I don't know how strict the state of Indiana was, but I also feel like too,
that might have had a factor of why the guy was like dancing.
I think he was just trying to spread some cheer.
Maybe that's what he was trying to do, but it was kind of misdirect.
It would be one thing if he started off in the parking lot, but holding up the drive-through
line and I know how drive-through lines are, right?
Like, yeah, if it's taking too long or if something's going on.
And I'm pretty sure the employees, he was probably made in a spectacle, right?
And it was probably backing up the rest of the restaurant because they're not, listen,
I've been, I've worked at food industry places where it's like something's going on in the
parking lot.
Nobody's really focused on work.
They're focused on what's going on in the parking lot.
So I don't know.
It probably was, but it would have been different if he wasn't in the drive-through blocking
traffic.
So the next one, this happened in 2018.
Mr. Jenkins attempted to rob the first national bank in Idaho with a toy gun and he was wearing
a bright orange ski mask with a clown wig.
Now he attempted to put the toy gun in his jacket, but somehow it was still exposed.
So I guess they still saw that it was a toy gun in there somehow.
And so the bank employees found his ethics amusing and then the man again threatened,
you know, to shoot them if he didn't get the money.
So they quietly called the police.
So when officers arrive, they still describe this man as standing there, trying to negotiate
his robbery terms with the teller and then he was arrested promptly.
And so apparently it went viral as the clown robber.
That's what people like the footage was called, the clown robber.
And but yeah, apparently he just stood there still talking about his robbery terms.
They're just like, yeah, yeah, we're getting the money and just waiting for the cops to
show up.
Wow, that's so sad.
That is so sad.
With a toy gun tip.
This next one, the karaoke king on April the 12th of 2021, Mr. Dawson took his karaoke
machine to Central Park in New York and started performing very loudly near the Bethesda terrace
with Bethesda terrace.
There you go.
His ran.
And it was his rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Oh gosh.
That's a long song.
And apparently it drew a very large crowd, but it also annoyed authored nearby residents.
So when NYPD arrived to address the complaint, they still found this man still singing along
passionately.
He was on the third time of singing this song.
So apparently he just had it on repeat.
He was arrested for violating the city's noise ordinance.
And the local, the story made the local news under the headline, the karaoke king causes
park.
Dude, that's like the third time.
Okay.
One time.
All right.
But the third time.
Yeah, I'd call the police too, because that's a very long switch.
Switch the song up.
If you're going to do songs like that, go to from like Bohemian Rhapsody to Journey or
something.
I don't know.
I don't stop believing or something.
I don't know.
Okay.
So the next one on, in February, 2022, Mr. Lewis was evading arrest and he was trying
to evade arrest by hiding in a freezer at a local grocery store in Denver, Colorado.
So this happened after a foot chase through a store, several stores.
So then officers found this guy shivering amongst frozen goods.
He told the police that he was quote, just chilling as he was arrested promptly.
So that was the only reason for the story.
I thought that was quite amusing.
Just because of the dad joke, because of the punchline at the end.
Just chilling.
Hey, at least he was cool about getting arrested.
Some people are not cool about getting arrested, but he was definitely, you know, he was cool
about it.
But okay.
Um, the gnome banded.
Apparently.
Oh gosh.
So September, 2020, again, pandemic.
Mr. Robinson was caught in the act of stealing garden gnomes, various lawns in the neighborhood
of Portland, Oregon.
Apparently this guy had a collection of garden gnomes in his van and was attempting to sell
them on the street.
And that's when police caught him.
He was probably showing his one of a kind magical creatures.
So then he was arrested for theft.
Only in Portland, Oregon, would people be stealing garden gnomes.
Only important.
And calling them one of a kind magical creatures.
Um, you know, maybe there are some drugs involved as well.
Okay.
Two more.
That's what I was going to say.
Mushrooms gotta be involved.
Yeah.
Some sort of psychedelic.
All right.
Um, the next one here, March and March of 2023.
So this was just last year.
Mr. Davis broke into a house in Sarasota, Florida, but instead of stealing anything,
he made himself at home with the resident's cat.
When the homeowners returned, they found this guy lounging on the couch with the cat and
he claimed that he was just hanging out with Mr. Whiskers.
He was arrested for breaking an entry.
He shouldn't have broken an entry, but at least he, uh, didn't really do anything that
bad, but he shouldn't have broken into their house.
I think he must have been on drugs too.
Why would you break an enter to somebody's house and like hang out with the cat?
You know what I mean?
Maybe he really likes cats.
Maybe he really likes cats, but I don't know.
Anyways.
All right.
So this would happen in Austin.
Of course you gotta love Austin, Texas.
Um, in December of 2021, uh, Mr. Young stole a car and decided to stop and take a selfie
with it.
And then he posted the photo on social media tag in the location.
The police, which had the station three blocks away, was able to see, um, the tagged photo
and were able to track him down quickly.
So he was arrested for theft of a vehicle.
Dummy, dummy.
That's, that's never good.
Never good at all.
Why would you tag the location?
Like, uh, I, it's one thing to take a picture and post it, but tag in the location.
That's an extra level of stupid.
Yeah.
People don't think.
All right, man.
And so we're going to move on to our next segment, which is the donut hole.
And man, we've been doing quizzes and I'm going to put you to the test today.
Oh, what's the topic?
The topic is college locations for D one schools.
So do you know where like, so you're going to name the, or name the university name the
university and then where, and then where it's at.
Now some of them are going to be phrased differently.
Like some of them are going to be like, where's the university located and then other ones
will be like, which location or which university is located in this town.
Okay.
All right.
I could, I might be able to do somewhat okay with this.
All right.
You ready for this one?
Alrighty.
Which division one NCAA university is located in Los Angeles, California?
Is it a the university of Southern California or USC B the university of California, Berkeley
C Stanford university or D the university of Washington?
It's either A or C. We're going to go with Stanford.
Stanford is actually a little bit further north.
It's A the university of Southern California USC.
Oh, I should have went with my gut.
Dude, I don't know what Southern Cal and Northern Cal.
That's like a whole thing.
People are like, oh, they're so, so Cal.
Yeah.
There's a whole thing, bro.
I don't know.
I guess you got to be from California or no more about it.
All right.
So that city is home to the university of Michigan.
Is it A Ann Arbor, Michigan B Detroit, Michigan C Lansing, Michigan or D Grand Rapids, Michigan?
I want to go with Grand Rapids.
It's actually Ann Arbor.
Well, I'm not doing so hot America.
Well, you'll probably get this next one.
Which university is located in Austin, Texas?
Is it A the university of Texas?
Is it B, Texas A&M, C, Baylor or D the university of Houston?
Oh, it's Texas.
It's the university of Texas.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
There, there in Austin.
All right.
You'll probably get this one as well or you might know this one.
Where is the university of Florida located?
Is it A, Gainesville, B Orlando, C Miami or D Tampa?
It's Gainesville.
Yes, it is Gainesville.
I only know that because I was briefly a Florida Gators fan.
Wow.
I was really just for temp t-bow.
Yeah, just for temp t-bow.
All right.
Next one.
Which division one team or not team but school?
I want to say team.
It's situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Is it A, Tulane, B Louisiana State University or LSU, C the university of Louisiana at Lafayette
or D Louisiana Tech?
It's going to be LSU.
Yes, it is.
LSU is in Baton Rouge.
I had a friend that lived in Baton Rouge so that's the only reason why I know that.
Not too much else there.
All right.
Question six.
What city is home to Ohio State University?
Is it A, Columbus, Ohio, B Cleveland, Ohio, C Cincinnati, Ohio or D Toledo, Ohio?
Oh my goodness.
I'm going to go with Toledo.
It's actually Columbus.
It's Columbus, Ohio.
Oh, I'm sorry, Ohio State.
It's all good.
We don't like them anyways.
All right.
Which university is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
Is it A, Auburn, B University of Alabama?
Do you see the University of South Alabama or D Troy University?
The University of Alabama.
Yes, it is.
Roll a pie.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm going to hate those people.
Where is the university of Notre Dame located?
Is it A, South Bend, Indiana, B, Indianapolis, Indiana, C, Bloomington, Indiana or D, Fort
Wayne, Indiana?
Man, I just knew it was in Indiana.
Oh, let's go with Fort Wayne.
It's actually South Bend, South Bend, Indiana.
I just knew it was in Indiana.
That's all I knew.
All I know is this, man, Notre Dame and I'm going to catch a lot of flak for this.
It's like a Catholic cult school.
It's like if you're Catholic, you have to be a Notre Dame fan.
It's like a thing.
Kind of like how BYU is.
Yeah, with the Mormons.
Yep, pretty much.
Which Division I school is based in State College, Pennsylvania?
So the town of State College, Pennsylvania.
Is it A, the University of Pittsburgh?
B, Penn State University?
C, Temple University?
Or D, the University of Pennsylvania?
Is it Jerry Sandusky at Penn State?
Yes, it is Jerry Sandusky at Penn State.
Even though, do you know that man is still, I saw an article not too long ago, he's still
like, I don't understand why I'm in prison.
Like I didn't do anything.
This man is still trying to plead his innocence from jail.
I'm just like, this man, anyways.
All right, last question.
Which university is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina?
Is it A, the University, sorry, North Carolina State University?
B, Duke University?
C, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or D, Wake Forest University?
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?
That's in Chapel Hill.
That was kind of a...
Yes, it is.
Where's Wake Forest?
Kind of made it easy there, didn't it?
Oh, okay, that's what it is.
Yeah, there you go.
Wake Forest is in Winston Salem.
And then, what's interesting is, I don't understand why it's not, there is a Wake Forest, North
Carolina.
I never understood why it wasn't in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Because it's like a few miles up the road.
It's not a few miles up the road from Winston Salem, but it's pretty close.
I always wanted to go to Fun Little Fact.
When I was looking at Texas schools, I was heavily considering, before I officially got
accepted in Texas, I was really considering Texas State in San Marcos and also San Houston.
You were looking at Texas State?
Texas State was pretty good.
Like, it's a pretty good school.
Yeah, I was seriously looking at Texas State.
I think you would have liked it because it's a pretty small area.
At least back then when we were going to school, it was a smaller town.
There's a river that runs through town, so you can go swimming and tubing in the river
anytime you want, pretty much.
And the river runs through campus.
It's kind of like how your school was with the Augusta Canal, except it was a nice river
that ran through campus.
Well, maybe I'll get to check that out very soon.
Yes, maybe you will.
And maybe if you ask your buddy to get the inner tubes out, we can definitely check it.
Yeah, but we got to go soon before it starts getting cold.
All right, man.
Well, we're going to move to our next segment, which is, what fries my donuts?
Christopher, what's got you fired up this week?
This is not what I'm going to talk about.
This is not the main point.
This is just a little precursor.
And we've talked about this before.
People, I know ladies, you probably don't know this, but men, gentlemen, when you go
into the bathroom, that is the inner sanctum.
There is no talking in the bathroom.
Do not be talking to me at the urinal.
Do not be talking to me.
Who's talking to you at the urinal?
Nobody was talking to me, but people were talking to each other.
While they were standing next to each other using the bathroom at the urinal.
And I'm like, uh-uh, there shouldn't be any talking.
You want to talk when we go outside?
I don't care if we use the bathroom next to each other at the urinals.
Wash our hands together at the same time.
Once we exit the bathroom, that is now your time to talk.
That is your time to talk to me.
Don't talk to me while I'm washing my hands at the sink.
Don't talk to me while I'm in the bathroom at all.
That is a place of inner peace.
And I feel like, am I the only one?
I feel like that is a rule.
Is that just a non-spoken rule?
Is that common courtesy?
What you're talking about, Christopher, and again, ladies, unfortunately, you're not
going to know what we're talking about.
But there is an unwritten, there should be a book, but it's a book of man rules of what
you should and should not do.
There's a relationship section and what happens if your friend dumps this girl, but now she's
coming onto you.
There's a whole list of unwritten rules.
In the bathroom, it's one of them.
My thing is, maybe some of these people don't know.
Maybe some of these people don't know.
Maybe they weren't taught, but at the same time, it's like, you're not supposed to say
nothing.
You don't say, and this was something, I don't know about you, but this was something that
was taught to me by my father.
Like, listen, you don't say nothing to nobody in the bathroom.
And maybe it was a protective measure, but at the same time, it's like, listen, don't
say nothing to nobody.
And I've even been in the work settings to where it's like, I don't know, it happens
to me a lot at work where you go to the bathroom and people will still want to talk to you
about business.
Like they'll be walking with you, right?
And it's like, well, I'm going to go to the bathroom.
They'll be like, oh, with you, they'll go in there and they'll be like, yeah, so about
this account and this whatever.
And you're just like, I don't know.
I don't know.
I get what you're saying, no.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
This is actually what surprised my donuts and what I want to talk to us about today,
hopefully, it really frustrates me and really fries my donuts when and I hear me, I'm not
trying to be mean.
Okay.
I'm really not trying to be mean or make myself sound better than I am.
But when low capacity people just complain about how things are hard, like this is the
coolest thing.
They're like, oh, this is so hard.
Oh, we have to work eight hours today.
We have to work 40 hours and we, oh, I'm just working so hard when in reality, they're
just doing the bare minimum.
They're just doing the normal functions.
They're like, oh, yeah, this place is so hard to work at.
This and that.
I'm like, bro, like you're just barely doing the bare minimum.
You want to talk about hard, bro.
You don't even know what hard is.
Am I wrong?
It's because these people, they don't want to do nothing.
They want to be lazy.
It's like they'll complain if they're doing anything.
Like they just don't want to work is what it is.
Well, it's not that.
It's not that they don't want to work.
It's just these people can't handle a lot of pressure and they can't handle a lot of
like high functioning.
And I guess that's what, like, I understand when I say low capacity people that sounds
like I'm being arrogant and being a jerk.
And I don't mean that.
It just means these people are crying about how their life is so hard when in reality,
it's just like kind of normal things that everybody goes through.
Does that make sense?
No, it definitely does.
But again, to me, at least the people I've seen in that capacity, maybe I'm reading it
differently.
But like I've noticed a lot of those people, yeah, they're quote unquote low capacity people,
but it's like we've gotten to a point in our society to where we kind of, some people
pick up on the fact that, okay, if I, if I set the bar low, then people are not going
to expect a lot from me.
And I'm not going to, you know, they're, you know, they're not going to give me a lot.
But then at the same time, they're complaining about that because they don't want to do anything
period.
Like, you know, maybe these are just some specific people, but I've seen a lot of people
to where they try to set their lives up to do very little.
And then they complain so much to where they, you know, to where people get so annoyed to
where they take more off of them.
And then now they're not doing anything.
And they're saying the memes and stuff that it's like, you have the one person who like
hardly ever does anything and then no one ever says something.
But if that one high functioning, high capacity person even misses one day of work, everybody
loses their minds or even if they slack off for like an hour, they're getting chewed out.
And I'm like, oh my goodness, dude, like, why is it that way at place?
Yeah, I don't, I don't get it.
And I mean, it happens in my work too.
I mean, there was a, and I could talk about it now because she's gone, but there was a
gal who she was full on stealing time.
Like, I mean, she was stealing time egregiously and everybody knew.
And it was one of those things to where what value did she provide?
Didn't really know.
But she was one of these kind of people that would complain about whatever.
And I'm talking about, she would complain and use excuses about why she wouldn't do
her work and things like that, or like, and how much she hated her job.
And it wouldn't even be things that we could control.
She'd be like, oh yeah, well, my vape ran out this morning and I don't, and it's like,
so now I'm aggravated because I don't have the nicotine that I need.
And so that's why, and like, she would try to like get out of work and all this other
stuff and, you know, but the deal was everybody just kind of was like, well, that's just her.
They can't put a lot on her because then it's too much pressure on her.
It's like, is that really what it is?
Or is it just the fact that she don't want to work and she's just going to give a bunch
of excuses until you take it all off of her and actually getting paid to do nothing?
You know, it's like, and that's ended up what happened is they end up taking all these responsibilities
off of her.
But then again, it bit her in the behind because I mean, after a while, when you, you know,
it's all good when the money's good, but then when the money in the company starts going
south and they start looking to make cutbacks, it's like, what does this person really do?
Oh, nothing.
Okay.
Then you fired, but it's like, I don't know, bro.
I see that stuff happen all the time, but if somebody like myself, you know, did anything
like that, it's like, oh, HR right up.
And it's just like, don't do that again, or you might get fired and like, they be threatening
you.
And it's like, people like that, they can just be doing that kind of stuff.
And I don't know how they hold on, but they do.
I think I was more fired up about the whole bathroom situation though, because it's like,
don't park in the inner sanctum.
Don't do that.
It's a place of peace.
Everybody is there to do their business.
Go out.
This is not a social time.
If you want to do that, go to the women's, no, no, don't go to the women's restroom because
then that causes a whole another part.
But I'm like, that's what they do in the women's restroom in the men's restroom.
We don't talk, we don't say nothing.
We're in there to do our business and get out.
Okay.
So, we're going to do it.
No chatting time.
You could be chatting after we get out of the bathroom, but not while we're there.
There you go.
We're going to move into our next segment, which is the mystery donut.
And that's the improv segment.
So, Micah, do you want to tell them what we got on the mystery donut today?
So we're going to try a new game and bear with us because we are, you know, we are all
being brave and trying a brand new game.
And you know, something that we don't necessarily talk about is how hard improv can be because
a lot of what makes us funny, I feel like, is our expressions and our reactions to things.
And so, doing this just via audio can be a little bit more difficult.
So bear with us.
And hopefully this first time is good, but it's a game and we might choose a better name
for it in the future.
We're going to call it swap.
And basically we're going to have a setting and we're going to choose characters for each
other initially.
And we're going to start the dialogue.
And whenever one of us says swap, we have to swap characters in the middle of the scenario.
I think the scenario should be working an overnight shift.
So just working overnight shift.
Working an overnight shift.
A new character is a New York computer program.
A New York computer program.
Okay.
Yours is going to be a Southern tire salesman.
You love the freaking tire salesman, don't you?
You just freaking love the tire shop.
Listen, listen, I just love sales.
I don't know what it is.
And not just that, but I just had to drop almost $600 on new wheels.
So I was in the tire shop not too long ago.
Well, uh, you want to go first?
I mean the tire shop.
You're right though.
Hey, next time just prepare for something at the tire shop because you know that's what
it's going to be.
Anyways, um, yeah, I can, I can go first.
Listen, I'm over here with the freaking Python.
Okay.
And you're over here saying I need JavaScript.
What kind of stupid thing is that?
Java's been out for how long now?
Geez, I need some freaking coffee.
This is going to be a long night.
Well, man, I don't know why we got over here at the tire shop.
We got to take inventory.
I told Billy Bob that we only have five sets of tires.
Five times five is 22.
It's not that hard.
Just put the thing in the math, do that.
But we're going to be here all night because some genius decided that he didn't want to
write down the inventory.
This is why we have a freaking database.
How many times have I told you and Billy Bob how the freaking do this thing?
And how to put it all into our database here?
I've told you to log on to Spiros, right?
And how to do that.
And then I've told you how to, uh, you know, because I've set this whole thing up and all
you have to do, it's Samo, it's single sign on.
All you have to do is go in there and you just one after the other, say, who bought a tire?
What tires out?
It'll remove it from the inventory.
You don't even have to do anything.
I don't understand why we always have this conversation.
Hey, I don't know why we have this conversation over here.
You read next from down there down south.
You guys don't know how to count.
All you guys know how to do is freaking eat your freaking stuff your mouth with, with
a linguine, with spaghetti, with, uh, what, what are they?
What do they call them?
Those little cornmeal grits.
I don't even know what the heck a grid is.
Listen, man, I don't appreciate your tone and I don't appreciate you talking about my
region of the country like this.
We know how to count a plenty up to like 12.
And guess what?
I'll tell you this much.
We're darn good tire people too.
Okay.
We get so many tires out that daggum door.
It's hard to keep track.
And you know, you keep telling me with this computer stuff.
You're always out here with your computer stuff.
Last week you were over here telling me, oh yeah, I sent you up all this blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, all I heard was a bunch of gobbly goop.
That's what I heard.
And you know, I'm over here and you know what you're sounding like?
You're sounding like Joe Biden on stage.
You can't even understand you half the time.
Swap.
Yeah, man.
We can't even understand you guys with your frickin fancy suits.
I bet you ain't ever done a hard day's work in your life.
And I'll bet that on my mommy.
You can take that down to the bank.
Hard days work.
Like you haven't drove from Brooklyn over to Manhattan and back over in the same frickin
day every single day.
Do you even know the commute is?
Fat boy?
I don't think you understand anything about what's going on.
Swap.
Now I'll tell you what now.
I'm sick and tired of everything that's been going on.
I'm sick and tired of being the butt of every joke.
The South is not what everybody thinks it is.
Yo, yo, yo, you know what?
I'll tell you what.
You don't think you know what the South is.
Well, let me tell you something, you gobone.
We won the war.
We won the frickin war.
You guys are still saying the South shall rise again.
You know what?
I'll see you rise.
Your body, when I throw you in the river, you sleep with the fishes.
Last one.
Now the only, okay.
Now I think the only thing that we can agree on is because Donald Trump's a New Yorker.
So I can appreciate that.
And I think you fat people down there, you have an appreciation for him too.
So I think we might have a, you know, some sort of similarity there.
Besides the tires, that's the only thing, you know, where we collect our paycheck.
Well, Grease Stain, there's a reason why you're down here working in the tire shop with us.
Cause your hair's about as greasy as these tires put on right there.
But you know what?
I'm going to mind my business.
You're going to mind your business.
We're going to frickin get this inventory done and we're going to go on, go home a part
of our safe way.
My hands greasy.
Listen, your wife, your wife's been eating grease straight from the frickin jar.
We can tell.
That was our improv.
Well, we have had an awesome show.
We're going to wrap up with our E. Claren.
That's our positive advice.
So Michael, what positive advice do you have for us this week?
It's really amazing how much you can do over time and how much you can get done if you
build something into your routine.
My positive advice for this week is if you want to get something done and you want to
complete a goal, I'm, you know, whether it's a big goal, a small goal, just something every
single day.
I don't care if it's big.
I don't care if it's small.
I don't care if it's, it could be something as small as I want to start a new career and
you actively look on Google of, okay, what is it going to take for it?
That's a small thing, right?
But in reality, it's getting you set up and getting a foundation for maybe what the next
steps are going to be.
So, you know, I encourage you, write your goals down and find something tangible to do
every single day, something small.
And before you know it, you'll either be making progress or even on those small goals, right?
Sometimes you have these smaller goals, but they're still maybe tedious or maybe they
involve things that you don't necessarily want to do to get to that goal.
It's like, you know, if you can split it up into chunks every single day before you know
what it's done, right?
And if you're anything like me, what ends up happening is if you make these tangible
goals and say, okay, here's what I'm going to do today to try to get this done and my
deadline is on Friday or whatever, I end up looking at that list and get through that
list and end up going, you know what?
I can tack a few other ones on from tomorrow.
And I actually end up getting done early because I'm not looking at the whole thing.
I'm just looking at the small bits and taking it one day at a time and completing those
goals.
Got to do it.
I know we said this before, but take the high road.
And I know it's so, so hard to take the high road, especially when everybody else is taking
the low road and you know, you could get even with those people or you could really just
do the thing that seems easy and just kind of burn everything down.
But you got to take the high road because even though it's really, really hard, I promise
you, it's better off in the end because it really shows your character.
And when you can walk away and take the high road, even when everyone else is stooping
low and they're throwing mud and all that stuff, you can walk away with your head held
high and say, you know what?
Even if they try to say something bad about me, they ain't got nothing on me because anything
that they say bad about me is going to be lies anyway because I took the high road.
And I know that's a really, really difficult road to walk, but I promise at the end of
it, it's going to be worth it.
And so take the high road, even when no one else is and continue to just have character,
have integrity and to do the right thing, still put forth the effort because you're
not doing it for them.
You're doing it to just for your character.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Good stuff, man.
Well, I'm going to plug all the stuff.
That is the trash can network at the trash can network over on Facebook, over on Instagram,
and it's the aviator society also on Instagram.
It is trash can network over on YouTube.
Man, we've got all sorts of, we've pretty much been having stuff come out pretty much
every day.
So it's, you know, some aviation stuff, some other random stuff.
I don't know, man.
I kind of alluded to it before.
I thought about just throwing some of this random music that I've been making out there
and see what the heck happens.
Why why not?
I need to figure out a DJ name because DJ Flame is already taken professionally.
So we got to figure, got to figure that out, but it's all good, man.
What about DJ Kool-Aid?
I was thinking DJ Trashy pants.
No, I'm joking.
What are you, five?
Yeah, pretty much.
What about DJ Trash Can?
DJ Trash Can.
I don't know.
Maybe I could see.
I don't know.
We'll figure it out.
There's got to be something good out there.
And that way, even if the music's bad, it'll be fine because it's got Trash in the name
so people kind of expect it.
All right.
So, but that's pretty much all I got, man.
You ready to take this donut box out to the Trash?
Are you really asking me, am I ready to cut the weekly promo on my cousin Steven until
he pays my mom back?
In fact, I think you forgot to do it last week or did you do it last week?
I did it.
I just didn't leave it in the episode.
Oh, okay.
I was like, I'll listen back to it.
And I was like, well, maybe he didn't.
I'm Micah and I'm crazy and this is the Donut Box Podcast.