Well, Christopher, did you hear about the wonderful news about Bastrop, Texas?
No, I have not.
What's the wonderful news about Bastrop, Texas?
Another Californian's coming to ruin it.
Elon Musk is moving X, you know, formerly Twitter, and its headquarters is going to
be in Bastrop right outside of Austin.
So there went that little town.
In Bastrop, really?
Wow.
In Bastrop, Texas.
Seriously.
All I got to say is I'm sick of these Californians moving to Texas for the cheapness and then
ruining it with their crap.
Bastrop was a great city, but now, not anymore.
I guarantee you it's not going to be a place you want to visit.
Oh.
It's going to be Elonville.
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be a place you want to visit at all, either.
Good night, man.
That's, yeah, I don't like what Californians are like.
Yeah, like, let's come to Texas and ruin it.
It's okay.
You can stay.
This is where I want to bring this up, too.
Not that this is the what fries my donuts episode, but you know what really fries my
donuts?
When we were living in Georgia, when we were around there, so many people were like, oh
yeah, Texas, what's so special about that?
How many people do you know that we're living in Georgia that now live in Texas?
There's a lot of my, my, there's a lot of people that live in Texas now.
A lot.
And I got made want to move for moving to Texas.
But now here y'all come.
Y'all wanted to follow.
Everybody wants the state tax breaks and everybody wants all the cheap real estate prices and
it drives it up for the rest of us.
And I'll tell you this much.
Just don't, if you, if you're a regular Texan, you just might as well not go to the Austin
area.
Bastrop included now.
It's becoming the mini Silicon Valley.
But anyways, the rest of Texas is lovely.
Just don't move here.
That's how we feel native Texan wise.
Well, I'm Chris and I'm like, and this is the donut box.
Podcast.
Well, Michael, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming.
We are excited to just go in with another episode.
So how's your week been?
My week has been pretty darn wild.
I just got back from a little trip, trippy doodaw down to Flowrida.
And it was pretty nice, pretty nice.
Got a little well deserved break in there for a few days.
That's pretty good.
But other than that, been pretty good.
How about yourself?
How has your week been?
Oh, you know, man, I get old here and get old West Texas where it don't rain.
And it's always fake fall.
You know, fake fall was like two weeks ago where I was like, oh yeah, falls coming.
Oh yeah.
70 degrees.
Yeah.
And then, no, hit right back up to almost 100.
Yeah.
It's back in the 90s, almost to 100.
I'll tell you this much too, man.
You guys are about to go into cotton season, aren't you, where they're harvesting the
cotton?
I don't envy you there.
I really don't.
The allergies are wild.
But welcome back to another episode of the Donut Box podcast.
If you are brand new, welcome.
The way this works is each segment is a different donut.
And our first segment is always the old fashioned donut, which is a story from our past.
And in this case, we're picking up part two of where we were two weeks ago with the three
musketeers.
Now, two weeks ago, we talked about the different third friends that would try to be in our
friend group.
And so we talked about Tyrone Peewee.
We talked about Petty Ice.
And we left it off at Tay Tay.
And there were several others after that.
So this is part two of them.
So I think the next person was Jay Rizzle.
Wasn't Jay Rizzle after Tay Tay?
Yes.
That is the person who was on my list next.
It was in fact Jay Rizzle.
What do we say about this guy?
Jay Rizzle was probably the longest third musketeer.
I would say that much.
The longest tenured musketeer.
But I think there were parts of it that's like, why do we let this guy hang around us?
Though, too, there was a little element of that from time to time.
But what were some of your funny Jay Rizzle moments?
Jay Rizzle was funny when he wanted to be.
And I think that's what made him a candidate on our list.
And we sought him out.
But I don't know what happened.
He just began, I think maybe with schedules and everything.
He just kind of was, he was always around, but he hung around us a lot more.
And I don't know why I particularly remind, I'm reminded of this, but this was kind of
like the determining factor of whether we were going to let him in.
Because for a while, Michael wanted to be like, no, we're not letting Jay Rizzle into
our friend group.
Do you want to explain why?
Okay.
So when he was cool, he was cool.
When he was not cool, he was, oh man, it was pretty bad.
He was kind of a jerk.
Yeah, he was kind of a jerk.
And then he had done some other things.
So we had talked about, this was during the era, if you've heard other parts of the pod
or other podcasts where we've talked about this, where we've done the cops videos.
This was also the era where part of that we were doing cops videos and things.
And he was also one of these guys that wanted to be like, listen, it was Chris and I's show.
But he wanted to butt his way in.
And so there's even several of them that you can find on YouTube where you will find Jay
Rizzle off to the crowd or off to the side there and like, it's like, listen, this is
supposed to be cops.
What are you doing walking there?
But he would kind of do these things on purpose.
And then there was, I remember there was one, we even had to scrap it, I think, if you remember,
we did a cops video.
We had to scrap it because we had made Jay Rizzle the camera guy and he was like asking
the people questions and we're like, you're the camera guy, shut up.
You're not asking any questions.
And like he would like be asking people questions and you're like, what are you doing?
Like seriously, have you seen cops before?
You were the camera guy.
You shut up and you film.
So I think there was kind of things like that of, but he would still kind of do his own thing.
And I'm not really sure.
Where was the camping trip with Arnold?
Where was that at?
Yeah, that was like way late.
That was like tour.
Would you say that was way later?
Yeah, that was way later.
This was after Jay Rizzle was already in our, already the third musketeer.
I guess that's fair.
The only reason I was thinking about that is because of like a good example of some of
the stuff he would do is like ring the, you know, the walkie talkie bell all the time
and get us caught.
He was the one that got us caught, man, because it's like Jay Rizzle, just chill out, bro.
Yeah.
Maybe that's what it was.
And then while he was kind of spazzy and then like you would tell him to do something and
it was a crap shoot if he would actually, if he would actually fall along.
So I remember this one particular time where we were trying to decide if Jay Rizzle was
going to be in our friend group.
I remember we were sitting in the church gym and we were sitting at this table and Mike
and I had just bought, bought, bought.
Your Balfour is showing.
Mike and I had just bought a 12 pack party pack of tacos and back then you could get
them for like cheap, cheap, 12 bucks or no, it was 10 bucks.
It was, it was the taco 12 pack.
It was the taco 12 back for 10 bucks.
So I remember Mike and I went hamsies on one and we came in to the church and we were like,
we were like, yeah, we were eating them.
And Jay Rizzle was like, Hey, can I have a taco?
And I felt really bad.
And I was like, should we give him a taco?
And Mike, I was like, he needs to pass our test.
He was like, I was like, I want you to give me your best roast of this particular person.
We'll call him JJ.
So I give me your best roast of JJ.
And you were like, okay, that was pretty good.
Like that was pretty good.
And so we were just sitting around the table just roasting people.
And so I think it was, it was, we had known that he had tried to roast people at the,
at the roast a couple of years ago.
But yeah, in the backyard.
Cause we said, bro, if you want to hang with us, you got to be able to roast people.
Like you can't just be doing some lame roast.
You got to be able to roast people.
Listen, he did need some work because there were some times that he'd be roasting people
and you'd be like, what are you talking about?
Like that made no sense at all.
But you know, I think that was it.
There was, there was the potential that he could be cool.
Right?
Like there was that potential always there.
And then there would be some times where he would say something.
Um, I, you know, and I wish I had more examples, but there would be times where he would say
something and you'd just be like, Oh yeah, that was pretty good.
Or he would say something to somebody's face that like, again, he would do our dirty work.
Like maybe we'd be talking crap about this person.
And then all of a sudden, you know, that person come around and he'd be like, yeah, you're
a piece of crap because of this.
And we're just like, we didn't even have to ask him.
He just did it.
He just went out there and started talking to the mess.
It's like, all right.
We're like, we like that kid.
You're taking an issue.
Good job, kid.
Yeah.
It's just like, yeah, that's great.
And so he provides some entertainment for a while.
The only other story I remember about Jay result and we have, we have talked about this on
the podcast, but when we did the, the house party dance competition and we were, we were
like at your house trying to like come up with a dance routine or whatever, but he came
late and so that's why we didn't get as much work done as we needed to get done.
And so that's why like the day, the day of, we came to the church early and we finished
the dance routine and it was horrible.
I'm glad that video has been deleted.
There's no video evidence of that dance routine nowhere.
Thank God.
That was terrible.
That was, you know, there's always like really, really cringey things that maybe you found
on your Facebook or whatever from the early internet days.
That was one of ours.
It was like, man, I hope that never sees a lot of day and thank God it's gone.
It's bad.
Do you have any other Jay Rizzle story?
I've got one.
It's somewhat family friendly, but not, but it just tells of who he was.
So this is one of his good roasts.
I remember there was a particular person, like there was two band members that were
dating each other and one of the guys, we didn't like very much at all.
He was a, he was a jerk and a half.
And so we were all, you know, just like roasting them.
And, um, and there was this rumor that had gone around that maybe they had been a little
bit more intimate than everybody thought they should have been.
And so I just remember Jay Rizzle being like, yeah, I know what happened.
It's just like he, he was trying some things and she said, um, what are you going to do?
Are you going to make it happen?
Are you going to just give me a lap dance all night?
I remember that.
That was a pretty good one.
I tried to keep that as G as possible, but you did good.
That was a pretty family friendly version of that.
When he said, I remember that one.
That was a great roast.
That was, that's one that I still remember today.
That earned him a taco.
That earned him a taco at the table.
Jay Rizzle, I would say Jay Rizzle probably lasted maybe about two years, uh, to three
years.
And he, I mean, he was still around, but not, he, we kind of like phased him out once he
started like definitely after the camping trip with Arnold after he got his busted.
We're like, okay, you're done.
Like he can't be the third musketeer no more.
Yeah.
He was one of those guys to where like, if you were going to start something or like,
even if it was something low key, don't include him on any low key plans.
Cause even, even him that night that we were doing the pepper spray thing, I think he was
part of the reason that everybody found out cause he's like, here you everybody, they're
going to pepper spray each other.
Like if you're going to do something covert, don't do it around Jay Rizzle.
And I think that's why we kind of, kind of went away from him.
Then somehow, I think maybe just by happenstance, and this was primarily during my senior year
of high school, right before we left Texas, we had our friend Taylor.
So there was Tay-Tay, but then there was Taylor.
Yeah.
And I think largely he was, he was our friend just because he lived two doors like he moved
two doors down from me.
And I'll be honest with you.
I don't know if you knew this, but I had a huge crush on his sister.
That was part of it.
Oh yeah.
I know.
Yeah.
I was like, yeah, I'm sure you did.
She had a kid and everything.
And I would have, I would have played baby daddy.
I wouldn't have cared.
Anyways, but no.
So he, he moved over there and he and I were on, went, of course, went to the same school
because we lived just a couple of doors down and we played football together.
And it was, believe it or not, it was actually our parents that hit it off first.
Like I remember like, I remember like my female parental unit being like, yeah, like there's
this kid next door and he's going to be playing football next year.
Like you should probably meet him.
And that's how we met was like kind of a forced meetup thing and met him.
Pretty cool guy.
So he started coming over to our, like my house because he didn't really have any friends
when he first moved here.
Or I say here, like we still live there, but when we first moved over there.
And so started really, we were just like playing video games.
I was like primarily what we did.
Yeah.
I remember playing video games with him a lot.
He was kind of that first friend that bring other video games over or like we would swap
video games.
And so he was the one that showed me Saints Row.
Now remember, we were very, I wouldn't say, you know, strict upbringing, but like Saints
Row was not a game we were allowed to play as Pentecostal kids, like at all.
Not allowed him bringing that over.
I mean, I remember playing that a good bit.
And I remember one of his main lines, like, I guess what made him funny more than anything,
we all kind of roasted each other.
Right.
Like he was cool with getting roasted.
He would also roast us back.
And so I just remember one of the main things that he would say, I'd be like, yeah, I really
want to get this car, whatever.
And he'd be like, well, maybe if you played the missions, you could afford the car.
And it was always like, well, maybe if you, maybe if you played the missions, maybe Taylor
roasted Micah, because Micah be like, no, I just want to do the free world stuff.
Like I don't want to do the missions.
And it's like, but then he'd be like, I don't have any money.
And it's like, maybe you can play the missions, you know what to do, or maybe you can play
the missions.
We could get weapons so that we can go do the free world stuff.
Yeah.
And it would be, it'd be stuff like that.
And then, um, like I remember there was, he was going to be our main proponent in the
X-Lax Brownies actually until he dropped, I understand why he did, but we were going
to have him like be the guy that dropped it off.
That way it was, you know, not us that was linked to it.
It was some rando that had never been there before.
He was probably smart, dude.
He was probably like, I'm not going to be the fall guy for this.
Like he was like, yeah, he's like, I'm an African-American male.
I ain't about the police.
I know that he played basketball a good bit with us.
Um, when we, when we played.
Yes.
He did.
The other thing too, he was like my first technical, I don't know, how do I put this?
Like he helped sell my flea market table.
Like I remember it like he was the first person that like I was like, yeah, like 10% you could
sell at my table.
No, you charged 25% dude.
Don't be low ball and like that.
You charged me and Taylor 25%.
Okay.
25%.
Maybe I was a bad friend.
We don't have to, we don't have to expose that.
Anyways.
I'm joking.
No, but yeah, it was 25%.
But he was the first guy that was like, yeah, I want to sell some of my stuff.
I'm like, cool 25% you could sell up on my table.
And I remember going out there a few times with them.
Who was funny was his, was his family members.
Right.
And so, um, did you ever meet his grandma?
Do you ever meet his grandma?
No, I never met any of his family.
Bro, his grandma was like that typical old black grandma.
Right.
Like she.
Like one of her favorite terms I'll never forget was I'll beat your A. Like that's literally
what she would say all the time.
She'd be like, she'd be like, don't play with me.
I'll beat you.
And she would.
And we were out back one time and like he had this fire pit out in his backyard and
we were out, you know, next to this fire pit and, um, Taylor for whatever reason, I don't
know why, but he was like screwing around and took a blog like dipped it in the fire
and started like swinging it around.
His grandma came out from, from all the way outside or like inside all the way outside,
grabbed him by the ear, made him like drop it.
It was like, was like, it was like, it was like, you're lucky I don't come out here and
take that.
And like she was talking about like taking her belt off and like whooping them.
And she's like, she's like, for playing with sticks, I ought to get you switches for Christmas.
I mean, she was going off and like it was, it was so great.
And, um, so she goes inside and this will tell you just how Taylor was.
And he'd be like, he said, he said that old bitty.
She did.
And like, I swear that was the only words that left his mouth.
She was like that old bitty.
And she turned back around boy and she came out there and she started smacking him upside
down.
She started, she's like, what'd you call me?
To the point where her wig came off.
And she's like, she's like, you got me so messed up.
My wig came off.
And then she started, I'm trying not to say the dad's name on there because it's such
a unique name.
But I just remember her being like, Hey, it's like your son, come get your son for I beat
his hay.
It was so funny.
Like, dude, I don't know why I love black grannies.
They're so funny.
And like, I used to dress all cowboy and she's, she loved me.
She's like, she's like, I like you.
You look like John Wayne.
That's funny.
It was great.
The only other story I remember about Taylor and again, we shared this on the podcast is
when those girls wanted to fight his sister.
And I remember, I remember I just got dropped off like, or I just got to Micah's house.
No, I didn't get dropped off.
I was driving at that point.
And I just pulled up and I remember there was some promotion going on and I was like,
bro, what's going on?
I remember just like watching and they were like, yeah, we're coming back for you.
We coming back to this house tonight and me and Michael were like, well, this is an excuse
for us to go to the gas station and get some snacks and some energy drinks and stay up
all night.
And we're going to do a classic steak out a steak out, make sure, make sure the family's
safe.
We really, we knew that they weren't going to come back, but it was just an excuse to
be like, you know what?
We can screw around, stay up all night.
But yeah, yeah, that was, that was pretty crazy.
And I just remember like you, you were just about to pull up and again, my female parental
unit, she was looking out the front window and she was like, there's a bunch of prostitutes
on the street.
And I was like prostitutes and I look out there and I was like, they may prostitutes.
Those are people I go to school with.
And it was like a bunch of girls I went to school with.
I was like, they're not prostitutes.
What's wrong with you?
But yeah, that was, that was pretty wild.
All right.
So the next one, do you want to save the other two?
For next time?
We can save the other two.
Yeah.
That's fine.
Let's save the other two for next time.
Since we got so much other fun stuff to talk about on this wonderful podcast, we are going
to move into our next segment, which is the normally it's the jelly donut, but this segment
is a little bit different.
So for this segment, Micah and I beforehand, we both picked movies for each other to watch
that the, that the other one had not seen.
So Micah, what was the movie that I picked for you?
You picked for me, Shutter Island.
With Leonardo DiCaprio.
And the movie that got picked for me was Annihilation with Natalie Portman.
So I guess we could share just overall thoughts, what we thought about it, and then maybe a
grade if you were to grade the movie.
Okay.
Yeah.
Do you want me to start with Shutter Island first?
Yeah.
Go for it.
If you've never seen it, it's, you know, an insane asylum and basically a Marshall Leonardo
DiCaprio goes there with his partner to investigate somebody who has come up missing.
Now it's a whole thriller that I'm going to share the whole or save you the whole story,
but I am going to spoil some of the parts.
Man, it was a pretty wild movie.
When he goes to investigate this lady who has disappeared, you know, they find that
note that was talking about the power of four.
And then the note also said, who's 67?
Who is 67?
And it's like, what the heck does that mean?
And I knew pretty early on whenever he, because Leonardo DiCaprio found out over time, like,
yeah, there's 66 patients.
So that must be where the 67 comes from.
He was already showing some signs of like some kind of psychosis or like maybe he was
going a little crazy.
So I already knew at that point, like, yeah, he's the 67th.
Like he's got to be the 67th person.
Really?
You figured it out that early?
Like, I thought that it was like, that's what I told my wife.
I was like, I think Leonardo DiCaprio is the 67th person just because he was already kind
of showing some, and like a lot of, there were some things that made sense, but other
things that did not make sense with it.
Like the fact that the lady's name was, that was missing was Rachel, right?
Rachel Solando.
And obviously the person that they, like she disappeared, but then she came back and the
person they had him interview was obviously like coached and whatnot.
Then later on, he meets the real Rachel Solando, quote unquote, who used to be a doctor, was
then was committed and hit out on the corner of this island and was, you know, talking
about basically at the lighthouse, they do lobotomies and things like that.
And you know, tells, tells them like, don't believe in anything that's going on.
But meanwhile he's having visions of his wife telling him different things, right?
And so it's like, he's, to me, I was already like, whenever he took the pill, because there
was a point where the, I know I'm jumping all over the place.
And if you haven't seen this movie, I'm really sorry, go see it.
So you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I already knew as well, they had given them cigarettes, they had given them pills.
The biggest thing for me was pills.
Like I was like, they had already given him something for a migraine.
It was like, I already knew, don't take the pills.
Like do not take the pills.
And you know, cigarettes too, and had been eating there and all that other stuff.
So I knew that they were probably pumping him.
And the sign that I already had was when he went and visited his, not his buddy in the
cell, but like the dude, he got quote unquote, or like he sit there to scope it out to find
the dude who burned down his wife, like the wife's apartment or whatever, whatever that
other story was.
There's, I know I'm being very confusing with everything that I'm saying.
So at the end, it was like they framed it out like, okay, no, remember, you're the one in
psychosis, you're crazy.
I'm still not convinced of that.
Some line, regardless of what the storyline is, I'm not convinced that they're not, they
didn't convince him he was crazy and he actually was not.
Like that whole story about his wife drowning the kids, him actually killing his wife and
have been there for two years.
He's actually not a US Marshal.
And you know, they were just kind of letting him play it out and see what happens.
I don't believe that.
Like I think that he was actually a Marshal.
They sent him there.
They committed him like he was crazy.
They read all these stories just like the real Rachel Solando who was in the cave said
that they would, like they're going to spin it to everybody that you're crazy and you're
never going to get off this island.
And I think that was part of the drugs that they were giving them and everything else.
And they basically sold the story.
When I first watched it, I was like, man, when I watch a movie, I'm like just invested
in the story.
So it threw me for a loop.
But overall, did you like the movie?
I'd, yeah, if I had to give a grade A plus for sure, it was really good.
Leonardo DiCaprio was really good in it too.
And really all the characters were really good.
The Lorden played a, he played a really good role too.
Like really all the acting and it was really good.
And then the storyline was very well.
And for some reason for all these years, I thought it was a horror movie.
It really was not.
I mean, there was a few like, no, it was a thriller.
Pop ups, pop ups, but it's pretty much.
Yeah, for sure.
But no, I really liked it.
If you haven't seen shutter island, go see it would leave to Caprio.
It wasn't too long either.
That was for Martin Scorsese film, it wasn't that long, which is good.
Mine was Annihilation with Natalie Portman.
And I will say, off the bat, I know why you recommended that movie.
It felt like a very Micah movie for sure.
But for me, I did not enjoy the movie.
It was, yeah, I didn't enjoy it mostly because I couldn't figure out what the heck was going
on.
It was, I don't know, it was kind of all over the place.
So Natalie Portman, she, her husband, she thinks he's been dead for a year, but he shows
up unexpectedly and then she's like, what the heck?
Like, where were you at?
And then apparently there's this other dimension called the shimmer.
And so her and a team of gals are trying to figure out what's going on in the shimmer.
And they're finding all these weird things, basically like different creatures and people
mutating.
It gave me like a very I am legend feel, maybe.
It's like that post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic world.
So I was like, I can see why Micah probably liked this movie or recommended this movie
because you really do like movies like that.
But for me, there was just too much that was like, okay, I'm not really understanding what's
going on.
They're not really explaining what's going on too much.
And the ending was like horrible.
Like I was like, what the heck was this?
I found myself going like, what the heck?
So I would probably give it a C minus.
It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it was definitely, it was very hard to stay
engaged and they made like when the characters died, like I didn't really care because I
really wasn't invested in them like that.
So it was just kind of weird for me.
For me, why I liked that movie, I guess, let's talk more about the ending when they get to
the lighthouse because the whole thing is this shimmer started from this lighthouse
and has been encapsulating a national park that's got like swamp and all this other stuff
and then it goes to a coast where there's lighthouse is, but it starts at this lighthouse
and the whole mission that these gals are trying to do, they had sent a bunch of military
folks and including Natalie Portman's husband to try to get to the lighthouse, figure out
what is going on at the lighthouse and what's happening with the shimmer.
But basically anybody that they sent to the shimmer besides Natalie Portman's husband
hasn't come back out and Natalie Portman's husband when she came out or when he came
out was like pretty much on death's doorstep.
Like he was conscious for a little bit and then basically like all of his organs were
failing.
They went in there and you know, they get picked off one by one, but then at the end, so it's
a lot of symbolism.
It is a lot of symbolism.
Each person takes it a little differently, do you have any thoughts of what any of that
symbolism was?
I know that some of it was probably confusing, but when they get to the lighthouse basically
like there's a dead person up against the wall who's been exploded in like a video camera
and she watches the video camera, it was her husband there.
He says basically I'm tired of this, went crazy, blew himself up with a grenade and
there's kind of like this hole that's in the side over here.
It looks like the portal to hell almost, right?
Like crawl down this hole to hell kind of thing.
And she goes down there and one of the people who had, who was leading the expedition and
kind of took off was there and was like, yeah, I found what's in the lighthouse.
It's in me.
And I will agree that part was kind of goofy when her mouth opened and it started shooting
out at her.
It's like, okay, that's kind of dumb.
Yeah.
I said, okay.
I said, what are we watching here, bro?
But like to me, I didn't put together like the symbol, symbolism because it, the movie
didn't communicate it in a way that it was symbolism.
And so I guess, I guess for me, once, once, you know, this thing comes out, it's kind
of like this rotating orb.
She looks into it.
She's got a little bit of blood.
Blood goes into it.
And then it comes almost into this like alien creature form that like mimics her, but is
not exactly mimicking her.
Like it's mimicking her, but like whenever she attacks it, it won't attack her in the
same way.
Like it attacks her a moment later and whatnot, but it mimics her.
And really and truly for me, I think the mind screwing that it does for me is it's that
symbolism that that is your, it's almost like Paul saying, you know, I die daily.
I bury myself daily.
It's the same thing.
It's her fighting with her actual self and it's all of us fighting our actual self, that
wall and that barrier.
Because what ended up happening and why everything was getting mutated was it was making everything
a prism, including cells.
So it was refracting all this light and it was screwing everything up, which was making
it seemingly beautiful, but it was actually destructive as mess.
And a lot of times things in life are the same exact way, right?
We think that they're beautiful and they project themselves as beautiful, but really it starts
slowly eating away at what it actually was and that barrier represents it destroying
who you are and it keeps expanding and expanding and expanding.
And Natalie Portman's character was also the study of cancers, right?
And every person, dead person that they saw are different things.
They had like almost like a mold fungus growing that was like a cancer tumor pretty much,
right?
And so it's all the worst parts in us.
And so that creature that was mimicking her, but also like attacking her and things, it's
her fighting with herself and like the worst parts of herself.
Everybody else that fought with the worst part of themselves couldn't handle it.
Like that one girl with nuts, right?
And the only thing that took her out was the bear.
It was like pretty much everybody else went nuts.
That one girl just walked into a field and where the heck did she go, right?
Like it was, they all pretty much gave up, right?
They said, okay, I'm committed to being the worst version of myself.
I give up.
And she even alluded to it.
It's because they had no purpose and no drive.
Her drive was to get back to her husband, figure out what this was and save him.
And so that was the drive.
And so I think the whole moral is with that drive and everything, you're able to break
free of the lowest forms of yourself that would be cancers and that would take you down.
And that would be seemingly beautiful, but incredibly destructive, if that makes sense.
Yeah, bro.
I'm so like, that's like, when you make it explain that way, like, yeah, like I'm all
for that, but they did not do a good job of explaining that symbolism or even alluding
to that or nothing at all.
And it was like, it felt like an indie film.
That's what it felt like.
And I'm not crazy about those.
And it was like, oh yeah, here's this objective, constructive art.
And it's like, I would have never got any of that symbolism.
I'm watching this and I'm like, y'all aren't, y'all aren't making me feel any emotion for
these characters.
And I'm not picking up on any of this symbolism.
So yeah, it was, it was definitely weird.
I would give it a C minus for sure.
And the ending was very weird.
Like they're just hugging in the, in the room.
And that's how it ends.
And it's weird.
So I think I've thought more of it as like a literal, hey, this is what's happening versus
like a, hey, this is all supposed to be symbolic.
Yeah.
There's, there's a lot of symbolism.
And even like the ending where you're talking about like Natalie Portman and the husband
hugging, what did she just say?
She's like, you're not actually him.
And he goes, I don't think so.
And the whole thing was because he grenade himself, I don't believe his true form came
back out.
You know, it was whatever had, whatever the other creature was that took a hold of him,
you know what I mean?
And he didn't come back out right.
But he recognized her, but yeah, it was a whole thing.
So yeah, it's definitely a thinker movie, at least for me.
And I do enjoy those because it's like, I don't know, maybe it's me.
It's like what I enjoyed about it is the suspense of what happens for a lack of a better term,
what happens when you go past the fortnight barrier into this thing.
But again, like I said, it was really hard for me to stay engaged.
So I mean, hats off to you.
That's your movie.
And I, and I saw the movie and I was like, yeah, I can see why Micah really likes this
movie for sure.
Cause it is that, that post apocalyptic and maybe if it would have taken place in a different
context, maybe I would have been more engaged, but post apocalyptic movies aren't really my
jam.
But I, I love that, that you enjoyed that movie for sure.
As, as you would say, I just love that.
I just love that for you.
Well, speaking of that, we're going to move into our donut hole.
And we have a game on this donut hole and it's a round slang word.
Okay.
So I'm going to give you a slang term and you're going to have to decide which generation
it belongs to.
Now there are currently five different generations that are active.
The silent generation is mostly died off, but I'll give you the time frames of the generation.
So the baby boomers.
So those are people born from 1946 to 1964.
These are your people that are between 60 years old and 80 years old.
And X, which is 1965 and 1980, so these are your 44 year olds to kind of 59 year olds.
Our parents.
Millennials, which is our generation.
So born from 1981 to 1996.
So these are 28 year olds to 43 year olds.
And then Gen Z is from 1997 to 2020, or sorry, 2012, which is basically seventh graders to
27 year olds.
And last but not least, there is Gen Alpha, which is 2013 to present.
So that's kind of birth through sixth grade.
Right now, the cutoff for Gen Alpha is actually this year.
So I'm going to give you a phrase and you're going to have to guess, is it baby boomers
that use this Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z or Gen Alpha?
Does that make sense?
Are you ready?
All right.
The first one.
All right.
Let's try it.
Yeet.
It's actually a Gen Alpha.
Yeet is, do you know what yeet means?
It means, well, I know some of the context, it means to like throw something or like,
you got yeeted.
So it got thrown or it got chucked pretty much.
Correct.
But it is actually a Gen Alpha term.
Gen Alpha, that makes sense.
It makes sense.
It's weird.
The Gen Z and Gen Alpha terms, it's a little hard to define.
Yeah.
All right.
Bummer.
I feel like there's a millennial term.
It's actually a baby boomers term.
Bummer?
Really?
Well, that one, that one lasts a long time because there's, you know, I feel like there
was a lot of people middle school, high school that would say bummer too.
Fat, P-H-A-T.
Okay.
Millennial.
That was the 90s thing.
That was definitely a 90s thing.
Surprisingly enough, that's a Gen X term.
They're the ones that came up with that.
With fat, really?
It must have, it must have like really come back later on then because I remember the
90s being fat was really good.
Like that was a really cool term.
You called me overweight.
All right.
You called me overweight.
All right.
To go someone.
Oh, to go somebody.
I know I said millennial last few, but I feel like maybe that started with us.
That is Gen Z, but I'm going to say millennial.
Yeah.
That is a millennial term.
We're the ones that started ghosting people, I guess.
Yeah.
Ghost people.
All right.
Don't even give me my call back.
I'm going to play.
Oh, that's a Gen Z term.
That is.
Do you know what that means?
It just means like, it's kind of a general thing, but I've heard a lot of people just
be like, that's good.
That's good for you kind of thing.
Or you know, that's overall just that's a good thing.
Yeah.
Like you're killing it or yeah.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
All right.
Chill.
Oh, I feel like it's a Gen X.
Yeah, I want to say millennial, but I feel like Gen X.
Okay.
It is a Gen X.
All right.
Low key.
Low key?
Oh, man.
That's either millennial or Gen Z.
I'm going to say, I'm going to say millennial.
Yeah.
It is millennial.
Do you know what that means?
Oh yeah.
For sure.
All right.
Next one.
Bruh.
See, I want to say millennial again, but I don't think.
I'm going to say that's mostly Gen Z.
It's actually a Gen Alpha term.
Oh, is it?
Bruh?
Yeah.
I guess it makes sense.
They're the ones that use that one a lot and it kind of originated with them.
All right.
Bogus.
Oh, man.
That would, I'm thinking, I'm like, maybe that would be early millennial because that's
like an 80s term.
Like I think Bogus came.
No.
I'm going to say Gen X.
Gen X.
Yeah, it is Gen X.
Next one.
And we're halfway through.
Cool beat.
The silent generation.
I didn't put any of those in there.
I'm going to say that's a Boomer term.
I'm going to say it's a Boomer term.
That is a Boomer term.
And that's one that's kind of lasted because I use that one.
Yeah.
There's a lot of people that still use that one, but I feel like that one, I could definitely
see that one being a Boomer term.
I feel like that one kind of made a pop back up with the millennial generation because
I used to text that.
And I still text people that all the time.
Yeah, for sure.
And I feel like the only reason I know it was from back then is I feel like I saw them
like leave it to Beaver or something.
One point where they were saying cool beans.
I don't know.
Anyways.
The tea.
Like spilling the tea.
Oh, man.
I know a lot of millennials use that.
So I'm going to go with millennial.
It's actually Gen Z.
Gen Z was kind of the one.
Gen Z, it makes sense.
Yeah.
Gen Z was the one that originated.
All right.
Next one.
Bustin.
Bustin?
Oh, man.
See, I know we use it too.
I'm going to say Gen Alpha because that is kind of a Gen Alpha term.
It is Gen Alpha.
Do you know what Bustin means?
There's a few different meanings, but Bustin means, again, it's like cool or whatnot, but
then I've also heard like certain assets on the lady.
Be Bustin.
Yeah, kind of, but yeah, but it's like the way they use it is like that was fire or like
man, not chili but Bustin.
Or that's, are you probably never mind, I'll say, you might say that in a minute.
So I'll leave it.
Next one, Bay.
Oh, I feel like that's a millennial thing.
I feel like that was us.
That is a millennial.
Yeah.
Bay and boom.
That was definitely us.
That was texting Lingo's where that came from.
I feel like.
Dig it.
Like I dig it.
I'm going to say Gen X.
That's actually a baby boomers term.
Oh man.
You know what?
That makes sense.
I dig it.
Yep.
All right.
Uh, shook.
Oh, that got me shook.
Uh, I'm going to say Gen Z.
That is a Gen Z.
All right.
I got five more for you.
Uh, all right.
And I have to say it like they say it.
Yass.
I'm going to say a Gen Alpha on that one.
That's actually a millennials.
We are the actually the ones that came.
I think it's a younger.
Yeah, I think it's a younger millennials that came up with that.
All right.
Uh, snack.
Like you're a snack.
That's got to be a Gen Alpha term.
I don't know if I've heard that one.
You know what that means?
I'm guessing that means you're hot.
Yeah, that means like, oh, like you're so good.
Like you a snack.
You look like a snack right now.
Yeah.
Man, whenever I we're going to be having kids and they're going to be saying something.
I'm going to go, what are you talking about?
I might cut edit this out.
I'll determine whether to keep it in.
But I told my wife, I said, I say, you looking like a snack.
And I was like, you know, I got a snack problem.
That was my pick of one.
All right.
Just three more.
Homie.
Oh man.
I'm going to say that's hard.
But is that early millennial?
No.
I'm going to say Gen X.
Yeah.
Gen X used homies.
I thought it was, I thought it was millennials, but it was definitely Gen X.
See, I would have thought like early millennials, like 80s, you know, because I mean, late
80s hip hop was getting real big, you know, but it makes sense.
All right.
Two more.
Catch you on the flip side.
Oh, I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm going to say that's a boomer term.
That is a boomer term.
Yep.
That is a boomer term.
You know, when you start thinking about it, you can kind of start catching like, okay,
I could see older people like boomer saying that.
If you think about it, if you've never heard that, explain to them what that means, Micah.
Catch you on the flip side.
That just means like I'll see you next time when I see you or I'll see you when I see you
next time, you know, like I just, I'll catch you.
I'll catch you next time.
Records used to have two sides.
So they would have an A side and a B side.
So when they would flip it, they would, that's what they say, catch you on the flip side.
So all right.
Last one.
A glizzy.
Oh man.
That's got to be a gen alpha term because I have no clue what the heck that is.
Do you know what that means?
No, I have no clue.
What in the heck is glizzy mean?
So they referred to hot dogs as glizzies and therefore other things as glizzies.
So hold on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on.
We talking about like Oscar Meyer hot dogs?
We talking about something else.
Yeah.
Like Oscar Meyer hot dogs.
Okay.
Glizzies?
Yeah.
Where did that come from?
Like how does that even correlate?
I don't know, dude.
I guess social media, I guess.
I don't know how they got that, but yeah, that was all of them.
That makes me not think of, that makes me not think about hot dogs at all.
Anyways, that's like, I don't, I would not have thought of that.
That would have been my last guess out of the whole freaking thing right there.
That's wild.
Well, cool deal, man.
Were there any of those other things, glizzy that kind of caught you off guard?
I mean, you did pretty well.
Like it was pretty easy to kind of.
Yeah.
No, it was pretty easy.
Like you could definitely tell, I think like you said, Gen Z and Gen Alpha really kind of
blend because I feel like they're kind of interchangeable and they'd be, they'd be saying some of the
same things.
One that I was expecting to be on the list that was not was slaps.
Like that's slaps.
Oh yeah.
I'm not sure if that's a Gen Z or Gen Alpha.
I'm assuming it's a Gen Alpha.
I think that is a Gen Alpha thing.
Hearing all the other ones, Gen Alpha's done.
I'm like, yeah, I think that's a Gen Alpha term.
So yeah.
Or they say sus, like that suspect.
You know, I did hear that like whenever I was in high school with like the freshmen,
they would say like, oh, that's us.
So like I'm, I'm, I would think that's probably Gen Z.
I would think that that might be Gen Z.
Cool deal, man.
Well, we're going to move into the next segment, which is what fries my donuts and Michael,
what's that you fired up this week?
Man, I know this is going to be something specific and in particular, but I, what fries
my donuts, ladies and gentlemen, is when protesters go too far.
Now I don't mind people protesting.
Okay.
Especially in our great country, you have a nice freedom of speech.
It's wonderful.
But here's where you go against the line.
When you get violent, when you start doing things that just make you look stupid.
And here I've got some examples.
For me, there was this past week, a whole campaign where a group of individuals went
and painted on a big oil company's building, like they took big things of not like spray
paint, but like paint and we're just like spraying the crap out of this thing.
And then there was a few people that broke onto a tarmac and like started spraying down
planes, including Taylor Swiss plane, things like that, which here's my thing, right?
There's a lot of people, and then there's also ongoing protests that are going all over
because of the situation that is going on in Gaza, which I'm not going to comment on
any of that.
Here's what I will comment on.
Like these guys, if you've ever seen the interviews, especially the folks that are in the Western
States, sorry to call you out, Washington, Oregon and California, but there was an interview
with these students and some of them got arrested because they took over a student union building.
Like they like smashed the windows and literally took it over and they were mad.
They were like, this is our freedom of speech.
This is our right.
And these people are bad because they broke onto a tarmac and sprayed these planes down
and they're mad they're getting arrested over this stuff or, you know, or they're vandalizing
different things and getting mad.
Again, I'm all for you protesting.
You're more than welcome to protest freedom of speech and things like that.
But for God's sakes, aren't you as bad as the people you're trying to fight if you're
breaking into these places and spraying their stuff down?
Because I can almost guarantee you this.
You think Taylor Swift cares?
She doesn't.
You know who did care?
The poor schmuck who was out there having to clean the paint off the plane before she
took off in a few hours.
Like that nobody really cares.
You go to jail, nothing happens.
And then the thing is, I heard somebody relate these people.
It's like, yeah, all this stuff is going on, but it's like they want to call it terrorism
and they want to call it this, but it's really just like the people like our founding fathers
with the Boston Tea Party.
It's like, no, no, that's different.
It's like Britain was taxing the crap out of us, right?
They were taxing the absolute mess out of us and was quartering and people's like,
we don't have soldiers coming up in our house and staying in our house and things like that.
And guess what they did?
They did a nonviolent act of sneaking onto a boat and dumping tea into the ocean.
That's not even close to being the same as breaking into buildings and smashing windows
and things like that.
That is totally different in my book.
I feel like, I don't know why, man.
Maybe I'm off base, but it's like I'm all good if you protest, but isn't our efforts
more because in my opinion, you're killing your cause.
If you break into a building, if you smash windows, if you paint all over something, you're
just going to get taken to jail and people are going to go, they're crazy activists versus
you could join a group, start lobbying for things.
And I'm not saying that that changes everything and always works, but I feel like that's a
better plan than going out there and being stupid about it.
What are your thoughts?
Yeah.
It says in the constitution, you have the right to peacefully assemble, right?
Peacefully.
So if you're going in breaking stuff and being violent, like you're not being peace.
And what are you trying to, like, what are you good?
Is that going to do?
Like that's not going to get people to listen to you.
Like if I, if you want me to say something to you, if I'm going up to you and screaming
in your face, you're not going to hear me, I'm not going to hear you cause you're yelling
at me like I'm not going to listen to that.
But like, I don't know, like you should take action when action is needed, but breaking
in and being destructive and being violent.
I mean, you hit the nail on the head.
Like it's not going to affect Taylor Swift.
It affects the poor guy that has to clean that up.
Like, come on, man.
Like, and again, it's like these people that are protesting or these extremists, it's like
they are more passionate about it and care more about it than the people it's actually
affecting.
Do you know what I mean?
Like they're like, oh yeah, there's this social injustice and it's like, bro, like y'all
get offended at the littlest stuff.
Like these are the people you cannot have conversations with to even make change.
About anything.
Right.
About anything.
It was the same thing a few years ago about the whole Washington Redskins debacle.
My thing is I've spoken with a lot of Native American people.
I'm even a part of a tribe myself and you talk to a lot of them.
The Redskins, that wasn't offensive.
It's a source of pride that we're actually being represented and actually as a nation's
capital, that's actually a source of honor.
I mean, think about it.
Our nation's capital had a Native American as the face of it.
Not anymore.
And guess who was the biggest people who were fighting it?
It was the white people who were fighting it.
And I'm not saying that that's always the case, but at the same time, a lot of times
you're right, Chris.
A lot of people who are fighting these causes, they're fighting the cause, but it's almost
like they're in love with the fight more than they're in love with the cause sometimes.
It's like they love to fight and they're there to be the fight.
It doesn't really matter what it's about.
Because I guarantee you if you sat down with these people and were like, hey, we won't give
you everything, but we will try to make these changes.
We're not going to be happy until they're causing chaos.
Yeah, they won't be happy with anything.
And see, my thing is the whole, so part of these was it's the whole free oil campaign.
It's like they shouldn't be collecting so much oil.
It's like, bro, whether you like it or not, this whole planet runs off oil right now.
I mean, you painting a plane is not going to make everybody change their ways.
You painting their building is not going to make them change their ways.
Again, if you want to have steady change and things like that, put your focus, if these
people would put their energy and focusing on like renewable energies and things like
that and even joining some of these places to be lobbyists, things like that.
Again, I'm not saying that these would work because the oil companies are very powerful
and have lots of money.
And again, most of the world runs on oil right now, but at the same time, you might be able
to start that trend of change and people will actually take you seriously because you'd
be an expert in your field versus some crazy person who's stuck onto a tarmac, right?
I mean, it's just wild to me.
But again, like we said, these people really aren't truly in it for the cause.
It's to cause the chaos.
So it's just that stuff fries my donuts, man.
When I see that stuff, I'm like, man, there's no need for that at all.
Do what the Gen X are saying.
Take a chill pill, buddy.
We're going to move into our last segment, which is our positive advice.
We're going to end on a happy note.
And so my positive advice for this week is, and I know that Micah said it before, but
now it's my turn to say is just value your support system and have those people there
that can help you through that tough time, but also have those people there that can
kind of push back and just say, hey, dude, like you're kind of screwing up or, hey,
like we're noticing this bad behavior with you.
And so I'm thankful that I have my wife and my best friend Micah that will challenge me
and push me and tell me what I not always what I want to hear, but what I need to hear.
And I have that support system to kind of just help me through tough times because this
past season has been probably I'd say the past two, three months has just been a tough
season.
And I'm thankful that I have people there to tell me truth, to tell me what's right.
And yeah, so just cherish your support system.
And you need to have this support system and not to go back to what fries my donuts, but
I saw this post that was like, yeah, a person who doesn't have that many friends or has
their circle is has that has that pioneer mentality and they don't need anybody.
I'm like, that's the biggest bunch of crap I've ever heard because you know what, when
a when a wolf tries to pick off some sheep, they're not going to pick off the ones that
are in the herd, they're going to pick off the ones that are off by themselves.
And so if you think, hey, I don't need anybody, dude, you're setting yourself up for some
some bad failure ahead.
Mike Claire this week is stay open to opportunities.
You never know what doors it can open.
You know, there's so many opportunities out there and it's very easy.
And a lot of why I'm saying this is because there's a few people in my life and no, I'm
not talking about Christopher.
There's a few people in my life who are in the job market, right, that we know of.
There's this one person in particular, family member of mine, whatnot, and she's trying
to look for this job.
She's gotten callbacks.
She's gotten interviews.
She's gotten all sorts of this stuff, right?
She complains about not having a job, but at the same time, she's like, it just doesn't
interest me.
She's not looking at the opportunities that are presented before.
So there's a lot of things that she's like, that doesn't interest me.
And yes, it's very important in a job.
There's that.
But at the same time, you look at these things and go, it's not interesting, but this is what
you asked and wanted to do.
So if it doesn't interest you, you either need to find something else or you need to
look for something.
But at the same time, if this is what she wants to do, any one of these places, no, it
might not be what you want immediately.
But there's always an opportunity to have that grow.
And if you don't give something a chance, you don't know what the opportunity is.
And a lot of the things that are happening, she's just not even getting a chance.
So the thing is, be open to opportunities.
Even if it's something a little different that maybe is outside of your norm, there's
a lot of things that you can handle that it seems like maybe not.
I don't know why this is coming up, but there's some of you out there.
And I know it because I've been there too, are on the job market right now or looking
around.
And there's a few jobs out there that you're like, no, I'm not going to send my resume
over to them because I'm not qualified.
Don't believe any of that.
You might as well shoot it out there, man.
You might as well shoot your shot and see what happens.
Because I hear a lot of people out there that's like, nah, it's out of my qualifications.
A lot of these job postings put way too many qualifications than what they're actually
looking for.
So give that a shot.
Yeah, man, just keep open to the opportunities, whether they look like you want them to or
not.
Some of them might pay off way better than you can imagine.
Yeah.
And a lot of job opportunities, like when the last person left, like their weaknesses
is kind of what they're trying to look for in the next person, right?
They're like, oh yeah, Johnny wasn't great at this.
So the next person should be able to be good at this, right?
It's a revolving door.
So yeah, you're right about that.
Well, we are so grateful that you have joined us on this journey.
Tell them about the Aviator Society and the Trash Can Network.
As Christopher just said, the Aviator Society, and I'm going to sound really nerdy right
now and push up my glasses, is over on Instagram if you want to listen to the Aviator Society
and watch all my fun plane stuff over there.
No, I'm just kidding.
But yeah, if you-
Oh wow, I can watch all the cool plane stuff?
Or bull.
We're over 100 posts over there with just pure plane stuff.
So it's great.
But now we do have some wonderful, some wonderful Aviator activity over there.
One thing over on the Trash Can Network, over on YouTube.
There's also some other content that's over on the Trash Can Network, including some of
Chris and I's cop videos and some of the more embarrassing works from our younger days.
No, I'm just kidding.
They're comedy gold.
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Go give us a holler.
We really appreciate you.
And we appreciate all of our fans all around the world.
It's time for us to sign off.
I'm Chris.
And I'm Michael.
And this is the Zona Parkеш.
And in here beside you
Won't so much to give you this love
In my heart that I'm feeling for you
Let them see we're crazy
I don't care about that
Put your hands in my hand baby
Don't ever look back
Let the wound around us
Just fall apart
Baby we can make it in
We're heart to heart