This week on the Dona box podcast, we talk about how we became friends all those years
ago.
Yeah, find out why Micah's Jack Sparrow impersonation really got under my skin and how I could
not stand him for a little bit, but we'll talk about that in a little bit.
Also a lady uses a frozen turkey to fend defend herself from an attacker who tried to hijack
her car.
And yeah, frozen turkey.
It was, it was fully frozen.
You'll hear all about it on the jelly donut, man.
It's going to be a great time.
And do you think that cheesecake should be part of the Thanksgiving lineup?
I know I do.
Micah, we'll hear about what you think coming up.
Yeah, we got to talk about all this Thanksgiving stuff.
And you know what else we got to talk about?
Those Thanksgiving travel woes that happen in the airport.
I don't know.
People tend to lose their mind in the airport.
You're going to figure out where prize my donuts about it when we get to that segment.
Yeah, people are crazy in the airport.
You know, what else is crazy, the mystery donut, because there's crazy scenario, crazy
characters, crazy accents.
They all come out.
Yeah.
What, what do they say?
The actions come out once the clock strikes past 11.
It's not that.
You know, what it is, what it is.
All right.
Don't look at me like that.
Man.
Listen, it's been, it's been a great time.
It's been a long week, but I think we need to roll the info.
Hi, I'm Micah.
And I'm Chris.
And we've been friends for over 20 years.
Surprisingly, we haven't killed each other yet.
Years ago, we decided to make a variety show of our own and it's suck.
And then a few years later in the adult, we decided, Hey, let's make a variety show again
and came up with the donut box podcast.
You know, Mama always said life is like a box of donuts.
You never know what's good.
You're going to get.
I thought it was a box of chocolates.
Oh, yeah.
Well, donuts, chocolate, same thing, same, same deal.
Yeah.
Let's just start the show.
This is the donut box podcast.
All right, man.
Well, it is season four.
And as you can tell, we got a little bit something different going, man.
You could see our faces.
What was the John Cena thing?
You already know you can't see me.
Yeah.
You couldn't see us for three seasons, but you know what season four, now you can see
us.
And so we're super excited about that, man.
That's one of the major changes we've had in this new season.
But how do you feel that we all camera over here?
Man, it's great.
I know they got to look at your ugly mug.
They got to look at my ugly mug.
I mean, we're alone, along for the ride.
I'm down for it.
Hey, it is what it is, man.
I mean, you're going to have to suffer season four and possibly further.
So it is what it is.
But you know what?
We got plenty of excellent content per usual.
And if you've been a Doughnut Box OG to this point, we really want to thank you guys.
You guys have been awesome.
I mean, we've been through three seasons.
How many episodes total?
I should have counted that.
It's 156 total.
Yeah.
I just did the math in my head.
That's right.
Yeah.
156.
Because three seasons.
Yeah.
And you know what?
It's been consecutive weeks.
And so that's the beautiful part about the Doughnut Box podcast.
It's every Monday.
And we're going to keep it rolling consecutive every Monday morning.
So that's fantastic.
But we have our regular flow.
Chris, you want to tell them about our flow and kind of what's going on?
Yeah.
If you aren't a regularly scheduled listener or now watcher, now that you can see our faces
if you're watching on YouTube, how this works is each segment of our podcast is a different
Doughnut.
So our first segment is the old fashioned Doughnut, which is always a story from our
past and I forgot to mention this is our Thanksgiving episode, which is your favorite
time of year.
Yeah.
Thanksgiving is definitely my time of year.
I love Thanksgiving.
You get to stuff yourself a little bit.
What a great American holiday.
I don't know what it is.
You get to eat a ton and have a good time.
Watch a little bit of football, which is great and always tends to be relaxing.
And you know what?
I'll say this.
Every time this year or this time of year comes and I'm sitting here and I don't have
to work on Thanksgiving or Black Friday.
I am very grateful, but I do want to give a shout out to our, uh, all the workers who
have to be doing it, particularly the retail workers, because man, we have been there.
We know what kind of nightmare that could have been.
So shout out to you guys because, uh, Thanksgiving and especially Black Friday can be absolutely
nuts if we do.
Yeah.
It's nuts, man.
It's a good thing that we're all out.
We'll help you out.
And I know for one, I'm not going shopping on either day.
So I'm staying in the house, bro.
I am staying in the house in my pajama.
I mean, I'll go to like families, but like, we would have a really, we would have a really
long drive a whole, we were like, Oh my gosh, we talked about the old fashioned Dota that
we're sitting here talking about Thanksgiving.
Hey, listen, Thanksgiving related.
What can I say, man?
We're sitting here.
I'm looking at myself on camera.
I'm like, man, I really like to talk.
And I really like to watch myself talk.
Apparently, not necessarily, but, um, yeah, apparently that's a thing.
Now, um, but, you know, Thanksgiving is just an awesome time of year.
It's cool.
Uh, when you get to having with family, it's also cool when you can just like chill with
some friends and, you know, a lot of people do the friends giving thing, which is cool.
And I've done that a few times, um, which is cool.
It's, you know, we'll talk about a little later about the food because there's some
interesting stuff out there, but anyways, we'll get back on track.
So all fashion doughnut, which is the story from our past, we're going to talk about how
we became friends.
And so this happened 20 plus years ago.
And I'll, which is kind of easy.
I think it's going to be coming up on, oh my goodness.
It's going to be coming up on 22 years.
Like in, I think it was around January or February.
Dude, it's going to be 22 years.
Yeah.
22 years.
Well, I don't know about you and I've heard a lot of other, uh, cause we're both millennials
and, uh, love is the greatest, whatever.
But you know, I've heard a lot of people talk about, um, just some anyways, we won't get
on that.
I was about to go on a whole nother rabbit hole.
Where were you going with that?
Here, we're, it was a whole nother rabbit hole.
We're not going to do that.
We're going to talk about how we became friends.
So anyways, we became friends.
You don't have to have that.
I'm already, I'm already cracking you up here.
Um, you know, I, you know, I know how to get sidetracked.
Anyways, so we became friends.
Um, I had moved from Germany.
My family and I were in the military.
And so we spent from the time I was four years old to the time I was about eight in
Germany and so ended up moving back, um, and while moving to Georgia for the first time,
I'd never lived in Georgia.
That was my first time ever.
And so get there, started going to this church and Chris and his family already went to this
church and so naturally six months prior, like we had not been going there for that
long.
I would still, I would say probably new work, pretty like six months.
Yeah.
I think we pretty knew what the deal and so, um, we met in Sunday school naturally.
We were both in third grade.
And so we met in Sunday school class and really cool Sunday school teacher and whatnot, but
we did not really care for each other at first.
I think Chris had more of a disdain for me than I did for him, but it was one of those
things to where I didn't, uh, I do this kid did like me for sure.
Do you want to, you want to delve into a little bit of why, why maybe you didn't care for
me so much?
Well, so part of it was your fault, but part of it was also my fault as well.
Okay.
Because here I was just, um, I wouldn't say a sheltered homeschool kid, but I was a sheltered
homeschool kid without ever being homeschooled.
Like I was, I would say not super sheltered, but I was, I was, I was, I was a no at all.
I was, I was a, uh, I don't know how you would describe me like a not Jimmy Neutron.
No, you were definitely like the, uh, the gifted, the gifted autistic child.
I'm just kidding.
No, like, um, you kind of reminded me like if, I think if STEM programs were a thing
back when we, I could probably have seen you and doing like a STEM program or something
like that.
Um, yeah, but I was very, uh, judgmental.
I guess you would say like that and then my church up bringing very judgmental.
Right.
So anyways, so I was pretty like no nonsense type kid, like didn't really have a sense
of humor and like part of that, not to get too personal.
Like there was some stuff that had been going on in my childhood at the time.
Um, and so I think that's what's thinking back on it.
That caused me to kind of like be so serious, but anyways, so Micah,
why is the series Micah?
See, this is what I'm talking about, bro.
Like this is why I didn't like him at first cause he was just making jokes and everything.
So he comes and I'm like, it's like, Hey, we got this new kid.
His name's Micah.
And um, so I don't know why, but you thought it, you, you just to fit in as kids do, you
told the joke, you did a Jack Sparrow impression.
You weren't like listening to the Sunday school teacher and I was just like, dude, like, what
is this kid's problem?
Like just listen.
And so you were, you were kind of spazzing.
You were spazzing a little bit.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So one, I'm an only child.
So there was that.
Two, it was like, I came from a really big military background.
Now, don't get me wrong.
There was a lot of people that went to this church and kids that went to this church too
that came from military background, but it was a little different.
And you know, to say this, Chris and I, we met like right pretty much when I moved there,
like you said, January, February, um, of Oh three and pretty much it was like, was it
Oh three or Oh four?
Yeah, I was Oh three.
Oh three.
And, um, it's like, I'm having to make sure I get my Tom is right.
Um, but it was, we met pretty quick and I remember part of the Caribbean was huge.
Like I remember watching it on the plane.
Um, and the, the dumb part and for whatever reason, I did not think that people knew about
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Like I thought it was like a B rated movie.
Like I pretty much the only person that I knew was Garrett Knightley.
Well, and Orlando, because he was in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Right.
And I was like, Johnny Depp had been in a ton of stuff.
But anyways, personally, I didn't, I didn't know Johnny Depp.
You know, for me, it's not like I was watching Edward, Susan, and not that.
Her, uh, you know, sweetie tot or anything, but so I didn't know Johnny Depp at the time.
So here I was, I'm sitting here thinking, you know, this is like a B rated movie.
Let's, let's tell this joke.
And what's the first way to any, you know, to make friends is tell a joke.
And I remember which, which one it was.
And it wasn't even really a joke.
That's the dumb part.
I remember it was the scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean where like, I don't even
remember the dialogue, but like, she was like standing on top of the ledge and like here
and I like fell off and then like jumped in after like she like passed out or something.
And I don't know why, but I basically just like reenacted this thing.
Like in front of the Sunday school class.
And yeah, that was where Chris was like, I drive the wine at that guy.
Yeah.
So I just said, I was like, man, I don't, I don't like that kid.
This and that.
So then, um, we were taking like not taking care of, but like at our old church, we were
still friends with them because we kind of left like abruptly.
So it was a little like, it was a little weird for me to leave, but we were still friends
with, um, these people at our church and the mom like had drug addiction and alcohol and
like the dad's struggle with alcoholism too.
So like my mom and dad took their kids to like watch them and just kind of help be kind
of help them out while they were going through a tough time.
And so I remember, uh, her name was Amanda and her, she had a sister and they spent the
night at my house.
And so then we brought them to church, right?
So, uh, so I remember like an Amanda, like, like at the time, like she's cool now, but
like at the time she was like a big liar.
She was like a proposal liar.
Like it was, it's kind of funny, like thinking about her then, like she was maybe two times
worse than the eight year old version of Micah, like the kid version.
The female version of kid Micah, right?
And so we bring her to church and I don't know what she said, but she was mean to Micah.
Like she was really, really, really mean.
What did she say to you?
Do you remember?
So I don't remember exactly what she said, but, um, I think it was more what she did,
man, because I had broken my leg.
And so what had happened was broken your leg at that point.
Yeah.
I had broken my leg.
So pretty much I had climbed a tree and there was a fork in this tree and, um, I got my foot
caught and I was trying to get my foot unstuck and somehow like I lost balance and let go.
And when I did, like I broke my, I broke my ankle and like my leg pretty darn bad.
Like to the point where I had a cast and you know, it's funny.
I've never seen people with cast this big nowadays.
Have you ever seen anybody with a cast like I had back then?
Like I haven't seen it like as long as it went all the way because it went all the way to
like the upper leg, like thigh all the way down, like, and then it like had my knee at
a certain position and it went all the way down and it was a full blown cast.
Um, and so it was, it was kind of hard to maneuver and I don't remember what she said,
but I think she like kicked a crotch out from under or something.
It was like, it was like, it was, yeah, it was like some sort of action.
It was like, or I was like, gonna try to sit down or and she was like rude about it.
Like what's the doubt?
And there was like something.
It was something where I was like, okay, that's where I draw the line.
Like, Hey, like, I don't like this guy, but you know what?
You're being really mean.
Like if, if I already didn't like you and she was being really mean, she must have been
like really, really, really mean.
So I felt bad for you, dude.
Like I felt, I just remember you be like, Oh dude, I'm so sorry, bro.
Her mom's on drugs.
It might've got put in her cereal bowl.
She might be on drugs.
Bro, just get out.
I mean, she did.
She was like, she was really spazzy.
Like just, it might be in her rice, crispy tree.
Yeah.
No, I, yeah, no.
But no, I remember coming over and being like, yeah, I'm sorry about what's going on.
Like you can sit over here.
Cause it was like the same day.
Like it was just a few minutes later and he was like, yeah, like I'm sorry about all
that.
You can come sit over here.
And, and after that, I remember being like, okay, this guy's pretty cool.
Like, I mean, anytime, especially as a kid, like they got third graders, third graders,
especially like, I don't know, bro, third graders, they don't care.
They have no chill.
They don't have no filter.
And if like most of the time they're not the kind to apologize and think about those things
in depth like that.
They just typically don't.
So for that, that happened to say, oh man, it's pretty cool.
And so shortly thereafter, I don't remember how we arranged it.
And I think it was probably one of those deals where I was like, you know, right after church,
like, Hey, I want to go hang out with Chris or something like that.
And I remember like hanging out with, I think I hang like hung out with you at your house
first.
Really?
I remember frankly, no, I remember, no, I remember going to your house first.
Like I remember you, that was like one of the first times we hung out because your parental
units had just gotten you like the lights and the speakers.
I remember being like, whoa, like this is a pretty cool place.
But see, I thought maybe we'll remember it differently or something.
Maybe maybe so.
Because the only reason I thought so was because I thought we hung out and it was, I had to
like delve into stuff that we only know on the podcast, but like I thought it was during
the time, like we went to Chuck E. Cheese and like all that stuff.
And I thought that that was like still like four maybe it was my fourth grade the first
time because like I remember so I went to four.
That was one of the first times we did.
Yeah, we did hang out.
So maybe that, I feel like we hung out at your house before then, but, but maybe because
it was definitely before, I think it was definitely after I went to your birthday party because
I think that was the first birthday party was the first time we hung out like a show
boaty phase. Yeah, yeah, that's a whole another podcast right there.
That's a whole podcast.
Like that's not just a segment.
But anyways, so yeah, we started hanging out and yeah, man, it's hard to believe it's been
22 years.
I feel kind of old because, but yeah, so you were eight years old too, right?
Yeah, I was eight because we're like a year or like 10 months.
Yeah, 10 months because you're November.
My dog.
Yeah, so 10 months.
So yeah.
Yeah.
And then we're friends all these years later and I mean, that's just the intro.
Yeah.
And we started the podcast because yeah, we're a vice of variety man.
And when I started variety show, just like you said in the intro.
Great times.
Every time I do this, like these segments are told these stories.
There's sometimes where I'm like, man, like I don't like you'll remember things that
I didn't know.
I'd be like, Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that.
So yeah, that's what's that's what's cool.
And then there'll be some times when you're saying something, I'll be like, man, I don't
remember that at all, but okay.
And makes me feel kind of weird.
Like man, my memory used to be so sharp.
Now it's like we've been having to work and do too many things in our life, but that's
the way it goes.
But all right, man, you ready to boot this next segment?
Yeah, let's do it.
Our next segment is the jelly donut or the jail report.
Why do you say private pile?
Sir, jelly donut sir.
Jelly donut.
Christopher, you got the jail report this week.
Um, man, what do we got?
Well, so it's kind of a combo.
It's a mixture between Thanksgiving arrest stories and then just like really bad Thanksgiving
dinner meals with family.
Right?
Like, I know that you, we have all been part of those uncomfortable and somehow I don't
know what it is at the holidays, but it's like Thanksgiving.
Everyone decides they want to bring up politics or just the most controversial issues.
It's like, can we talk about something else other than, uh, this and since it being here
in America, it's an election year or we just had a recent election.
I feel like that's going to be like a really big hot button issue now.
It's like, dude, you know, my, you know, my little brother, he intentionally just stir
up people.
Yeah.
It's just to stir him up at Thanksgiving.
So, uh, these first two, and this first one, it's kind of dark.
It's about a murder on Thanksgiving day of 1991.
Okay.
A murder.
Thank you.
Murder.
Now I have to preface this and say murder is never okay.
But the reason why she murdered him, I can kind of understand it.
So a little bit justifiable, but I think it's one of those cases where she just like snapped
and then, uh, yeah, but anyways, I'll get into it.
Okay.
So on Thanksgiving day in 1991, uh, this, there was this fashion model who is from Egypt.
Her name was Mrs. Nelson and she repeatedly plunged a pair of scissors into the chest
and stomach of Mr. Bill Nelson, who was her 56 year old pilot husband.
So there was obviously a big age gap.
Not the pilot.
Oh man.
Not the pilot.
Dang.
That's the worst part of this story so far.
Yeah.
There was a 43 year age gap between them.
Golly.
Yeah.
Golly must have been sent to retirement.
So she stabbed him with the scissors and then she put him to death with an iron, like a
hot iron, um, but she like hit him with it.
And then if that didn't make matters worse, uh, Mrs. Nelson unleashed her furry, furry
hip, furry, her, uh, she went to his body on the kitchen floor.
She then boiled his hands and oil to remove fingerprints and stuck his head in the freezer
so she can later break out his teeth.
And then she also castrated him as well.
No.
What do you think about that?
Because there's a second half to this story.
I still, she cut off his jet bridge.
I don't know how to, I mean, come on man.
She cut off his jet bridge.
I mean, that man, anyways, anyways, that man ain't never fine again.
Anyways, so.
All right.
Let me tell you why she did that.
Yeah.
I had, why, why?
Let me keep this in the most PG because this is a fan.
I'm trying to get PG too.
So, um, apparently he was abusing her and she was being pimped out, uh, to old creeps
in exchange for rent cash or in one case a car.
So she was being pimped out by her husband to do these things that she did not want to
do.
And so I think she just got fed up with it.
And then one day she just like snapped and then.
Yeah, beyond fed up.
I mean, I think he goes without saying like this, dismembering anybody.
Listen, if you take the time to dismember somebody, like you, you mad, like you, you're
bad, like that's not a, I, okay.
So this is going to make me sound like, oh, like, you know about it.
No, but I've, I watched enough forensic files with my wife to know that to dismember
a body and to do that stuff, it takes a lot of work.
It takes a lot of work.
So yeah, yeah, you fed up.
Now this is a little bit of a rabbit trail, but do you think that crimes like this to
where she was being tortured and all that.
And then now she finally stopped in Howard revenge.
Do you think that she should be let off or she should just get like, unless her charge,
do you think she should be tried versus some or receive the same punishment versus someone
who like didn't have a reason they intentionally dismembered someone.
What do you think now this is going to go into a very large rabbit hole about how our
penal system in this country is not very great.
But I'll, yes, I did.
But I will say this in a, in a perfect world, I think really where a person like that goes,
it's not necessarily prison, but more, you know, they have like medical prisons or mental
prisons or whatever.
And I'm not necessarily saying that, but obviously this person went through a lot of
mental like, what were those two twins that had the documentary to the, what happened?
Yeah.
And then there's stuff like that.
It's hard because yeah, it's justifiable.
It's still against the law, but it's that weird kind of gray area.
I do think that these people at least need to be detained as long as they can be to make
sure that, Hey, like they're getting the help that they need.
But see, I think that's where our justice system goes wrong is there's not enough of
those places out there.
And really and truly a lot of it is for people with more money, you get those slots a lot
of quicker, but you know, not trying to get into all that, but in a perfect world, I think
that it's like not necessarily let go, but more into like a rehabilitation center that's
not a prison.
And you know, as long as they're showing you how, yeah, you know, and as long as they're
not showing signs of danger to themselves or others, and it was just that one instance
of like, Hey, I'm just trying to get out of this situation.
And yeah, absolutely.
Let them go.
But at the same time, I think there should be some sort of supervision for a little bit.
And you kind of, you know, I mean, I think, I think that's definitely what should happen.
But again, I don't, we don't put enough funding in that sort of thing.
So.
All right.
I think we talked about this on one of our Thanksgiving episodes.
So if we have, oh, geez, please forgive me, but this happened in North Carolina, but this
lady was getting her Thanksgiving groceries in her car when an assailant threw her to
the ground.
So a horrified bystander grabbed the frozen turkey that Miss Bailey had purchased and hit
the man over the head with it.
The man, Mr. Irvin was still able to take her car.
This is the assailant, not the good Samaritan, but officers later captured him.
They found him suffering from a serious head wound and took him to the hospital.
It's like, yeah, like that's some street justice.
You're like, yeah, he got what was coming to him.
Assaulted with a butter ball.
That's that's a nothing, a nothing better than that on Thanksgiving.
And that's all the vibe with the butter ball for some sweet justice.
I feel like that's like the most Southern story though.
Like if that would have happened, right?
And the backwoods of Alabama, I'd be like, yeah, like, I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, justice.
Yeah, so the justice is like, listen, man, don't you don't you mess with the down here.
We're going to start to with the turkey.
I'll tell you that and come around here.
Try to rub our car, try to steal our car, see what happens.
Yeah.
All right.
This next these next couple are about Thanksgiving dinners that have gone bad.
So they're not arrest.
Oh, man.
But this person says that they remember when they were about nine years old, they said
a week before Thanksgiving, their dad threw a plate of food against the wall because their
mom burned the dinner.
Well, in the middle of things, living in front of a ton of people, this person threw their
plate and shattered with food everywhere because they were like, Oh yeah, I saw my dad do it.
So I thought that's just what you do.
Like when you're upset, like, could you imagine just some like dressing and stuffing flying
against the wall?
Like father likes son and clean it up.
It's not I will say there were a couple of schnitzels that your maternal unit made that
I wanted to throw up against the wall and they probably would have backed.
Throw up against the wall.
Are you talking about this throughout period?
I'll just throw in the guard, like throw out the window because it was like it was bad.
Well, yeah, but but Christopher, it was the altitude anyways.
So wait, hold on.
I've got to pause you.
We need to stop telling lies because apparently that's not what happened according to some
people.
Apparently that's not what happened and we need to stop telling lies.
But that's that's in my Christopher.
Look, look, look, look me in the mind.
Look at me about.
Don't be I'm lying right now.
Hey, you know that schnitzel was messed up.
You knew it was.
All right.
Oh yeah.
All right.
So this was Thanksgiving and I love the names that they give to these people because it
sounds like something me, you do.
It's Thanksgiving.
I said that my aunt, which we'll call her jailbird just got out of jail for serious criminal
offenses involving gun trafficking.
Her and my other aunt will call her moon pie, which was also her favorite snack and also
fitting because she's round like a moon pie too.
Got into an argument over who bought my sister a gift, which she had since, which she had
since she was four years old.
Jailbird was only 14 when the gift was given to my sister, making it literally impossible
that it was from her.
And so after my grandma said enough is enough, they moped around for a few hours, but peace
was made or so we all believe.
So they all sit down to sit down at dinner.
It's going well until moon pie thought it'd be a good idea for her to carve the turkey,
which my grandma seeing no issues with that idea letter jailbird was stabbed in the leg
with the carving fork by my aunt, moon pie.
And that's when all hail broke loose.
My sister and I were told to go to our room.
So, uh, so we left and then we left her some screaming, some glass breaking.
And when me and my sister came out to see what was happening, well, it turned into an
all out brawl.
My parents and the other ants were just trying to keep jailbird and moon pie away from each
other and not having much success.
Grandma was just sitting there drinking her box wine and smoking like nothing was happening
while everything else was going on around her.
Any who long story short, I called the cops and jailbird and moon pie now have both spent
some time in jail on Thanksgiving.
I love that story.
That's a great story.
It sounds a lot like a few holidays that I've had.
Um, yeah, it has had a few brawls on the front lawn myself.
But hey, you had to break up.
It's crazy to be that a 15 year old kid had to break up two grown adults who are about
to fight each other.
That's one.
It's like, it's like, who's the adult in this situation?
Okay.
All right.
Last one and then we'll move on to the next one.
All right.
So, uh, apparently, um, usually this person said that normally they would have a Thanksgiving
and they would have, they had a big house.
So probably usually 20 to 30 people, friends and family would come over to their house,
and eventually like people would stay at that place.
Like it was a hotel, right?
So eventually it says my parents got divorced, the economy tanked.
We kept downsizing houses and pretty soon it was just my mom, my brother and I am pretty
small house.
She still made dinner, but maybe just a friend or even two would, would be there with us.
One year she just got fed up, sick of cooking all day for one meal just for us, tired of
working on things, not getting better than just all the blives hardships.
So on Thanksgiving, four or so years ago, she popped, she plopped a plate of raw meat
on the table and a fondue pot filled with oil and said, effing cook it, do it yourself.
I'm not cooking no more.
She lived, bro, that sounds like some mom guilt right there, bro.
It's like, you know what?
Like I'm tired.
Here you go.
You know what?
Here's the oil.
You know what?
If you think you can do it better, you're cooking it this year.
You know, yeah, that's what that energy is right there, boy.
She fed up, man.
She was like, this is your year for it.
You know, she was planning that too.
She planned that at the grocery store.
She planned that.
That is a premeditated deal right there.
That was right here.
Well, the funny part is, is the guy said that like him, his brother and his friend is like,
okay, and they just made their own fondue.
Like it was no big deal.
And it's like, now that's a part of our tradition.
We just make fondue on Thanksgiving.
Yeah, the plan kind of backfired, so she was just like, oh, I thought they were going to
be like, oh, I'm so sorry.
No, they were just like, okay, we'll go get pizza or something's like, you know what,
you know what, you know, heat up the fondue pot.
This is, this is the new thing.
This is the new thing.
She said we could do it.
I've been waiting for years to crack out this fondue pot and make it work.
Well, speaking of fondue being on Thanksgiving, that leads us into our next segment, which
is the donut hole and no, we're not going to play a game.
This is more of like Micah's opinion and the segment is called will it Thanksgiving.
So I'm going to name some food.
Oh, some of them are maybe some more common foods that you have on Thanksgiving.
Some of them are like totally out of left field.
But I know you're pretty particular when it comes to your like Thanksgiving spread.
Like you're, you're, you're like, you're kind of like, okay, maybe I'll try it and have
no buffoonery.
Yeah.
Can't have no buffoonery.
I've been, I'll just preface this by saying this.
I'm not a snob.
You know, you got to put my hand up.
I'm not a snob, but I've been to plenty of potlucks.
I grew up in the South.
I know, I know some good fattening food, especially often from Thanksgiving.
And I know some people know how to mess that up, but we'll get into that.
All right.
This first one is called frog eye salad.
Now there's not actual frog.
All right.
See, I already messing up.
See, this is where you already messed up, but I don't even know what it is.
It's one of those like a Jellos.
It's got tiny pasta pearls, pineapple chunks, mandarin oranges and marshmallows all
enveloped in a creamy custard like dressing.
Yeah.
It's like, so, so hold on.
We got some pasta with some pineapples, mandarin oranges and oranges and marshmallows all
in a gelatinous state.
Well, it's not a, have you ever had like the, they call it like, I don't know if they call
it water day dessert, like the green stuff, like the pistachio.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
I know what you're talking about.
You know when I had that, if you listen, I'm going to look you, I'm going to look this
camera now.
Where's this camera?
I'm going to look this camera now.
If you ever find the camera, I can't even find the camera.
I'm going to do it.
If you've ever been to West Texas and used to go to the first, I know exactly what you're
talking about.
You get through the dessert line.
There was a little bit of that over at the first.
It was disgusting as a mess and I hate it.
But anyway, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
So I'm assuming the answer is no.
Will it Thanksgiving?
Yeah.
That's a, it's a family friendly show.
So I can't say what's going on in my head, but it's a firm no.
Okay.
All right.
This next one, this is at a lot of thanksgivings.
Like creamy green bean casserole, like the green beans with the cream of mushroom soup,
the crispy fried onions, right?
Like is that will it Thanksgiving?
You know, I don't, yeah, I don't mind that.
Here's where people go wrong.
It's the walnuts.
You put walnuts in that crap.
I'm done.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah, this toasted, this toasted nut crap.
Yeah.
I ain't, I ain't about all that stuff.
And then I've also seen stuff like, yeah, toasted nuts.
Yeah.
Toasted nuts.
These nuts ain't supposed to be.
That's freaking.
Nah, man, but like, you know what I'm talking about.
And then I've seen them also put like raisins in there.
Heck no.
Yeah.
Have you ever seen that where they put raisins in the green bean casserole?
It's like, no, no, no, no.
You're doing too much.
You messed it up.
Like I'm okay.
I'm okay with some.
I'm okay with it being basic.
Are you describing?
Basic.
Yeah.
Just like, just like you described it.
I'm fine with that.
Right.
And you describe it like I don't like it like too mushy or whatever, but like, I think
if it's made right, yeah.
Yeah.
If somebody knows how to put it all together and work that out and properly, like it's all
good, you know what I mean?
But it sometimes you got to make all the moons alive for somebody, people to make it right.
Okay.
I think I know what your answer is going to be on this one.
I've never heard of this, but I know what your answer is going to be on this one probably.
All right.
This is called warm Dr. Pepper to life.
Okay.
So here's the catch.
Warm Dr. Pepper infused with a hint of lemon.
Yeah.
It's just warm Dr. Pepper with lemon.
Apparently.
Like I do.
Dr. Pepper.
Warm.
So this is supposed to be a Thanksgiving thing.
People do like a almost like a kind of like apple cider.
Like like, yeah, but it's warm.
Like you shouldn't be drinking a Dr. Pepper.
Yeah.
That's cold.
My thing is Dr. Pepper warm is disgusting.
Like I've never had a Dr. Pepper even lukewarm.
That's not been disgusting.
So I'm going to pass on that.
I'm a hard pass on that.
I don't think that Thanksgiving is worth nothing.
If you bring me a warm Dr. Pepper, I will spew it out of my mouth.
Like the Lord said, don't be lukewarm.
Okay.
All right.
Don't be lukewarm.
All right.
Now here's here's where some people put a twist on this and this is a Thanksgiving
deal.
Sweet potatoes, but with marshmallows on top.
Yes or no.
Will it Thanksgiving?
Yeah, for me.
Nah, man.
The marshmallows, the marshmallows on top is what gets me because most of the time
so.
Boom.
Okay.
Believe it or not.
Used to be when I was a kid, I did not like sweet potatoes either.
Like I can do sweet potatoes, but here's what's got to be a little bit of butter, maybe a
little bit of brown sugar, but don't do it on.
Like I feel like so many people, what they'll do is if you watch them, they'll have all
this stuff.
They'll put a layer of the sweet potato and then they just dump like whatever that syrup
is.
What is that syrup?
You know what I'm talking about?
They'll put that all that syrup on there and then they'll just dump it with brown sugar
and then they'll put the marshmallows on top and call it good.
And it's like, bro, that is way too much.
So this next one, how do you feel about adding this to the dessert repertoire?
Do you like how I use that word repertoire of Thanksgiving desserts?
You're using your SAT vocabulary over here.
Look at you.
No, yeah, repertoire.
Sorry.
What was?
Boston cream cake.
Like how would you feel about adding Boston cream cake to the dessert repertoire of Thanksgiving?
I think it's okay.
I'm okay with that.
Yeah, I'm okay with that.
There's worse things out there.
I don't think it's bad.
What do you think?
I think it's fine.
I'm not like, and y'all are going to crucify me.
I already know I'm not a big sweet potato or pumpkin pie guy at all.
So Boston cream cake is better.
What about cheesecake?
Yes or no?
Oh, cheesecake all the way.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Cheesecakes are probably my favorite.
I mean, cheesecake, that was where we had for our wedding too.
So like I love cheesecake, man.
I'm great with it.
Cheesecake you can have anytime, any day.
All right.
Next time of year.
Next one, cranberry with horseradish sauce.
Do you even like cranberry sauce or no?
Not really, man.
I'm not a big like cranberry guy.
Even cranberry juice, like I'm not big on cranberry juice either.
Like I'm just not a big.
I'm not a big cranberry guy, which Oh, rabbit trail.
I just found this out because you know, they're doing the harvesting the cranberries up northeast
right now and they're doing like the box.
You know how they keep like pests and like insects at bay that eat the cranberries and
stuff.
No, they intentionally set out.
They intentionally set out a ton of spiders and basically the spiders are all throughout
the box.
And so they were talking about when you walk through there, like you just get a ton of
spiders on you because by the time the seasons, they'll have cultivated a ton.
And I was like, man, I don't know about all that.
I don't like spiders.
So anyways, but I thought that was kind of interesting.
I didn't know about that.
All right.
This next one, and we're both from the South.
So I don't know how you feel, but mac and cheese and mac and cheese be part of the Thanksgiving
lab.
Oh yeah.
It's gotta be.
Oh, I'm not coming to the old Thanksgiving.
And now.
I mean, people be messing it up this one talking about though, people be messing up the mac
and cheese.
They be doing some stupid stuff.
Like, I don't know how many times, how many times have you been somewhere and they've
been like, oh yeah, oh, I was at a freaking Thanksgiving thing for work yesterday.
And they had a caterer and they were like, Oh, we have this special age white cheddar
with bacon bits.
And I was just like the bacon was soggy as mess.
The age white cheddar.
It was disgusted.
I was just like, bro, one is hard to mess up mac and cheese.
But I'm just like, you'd be doing the most.
It's like, at this point, I would have taken some crap.
I'm telling you how to take us a freaking crap over what you, what you serve me this
age white cheddar.
Like I'm sure that there are some people that can make a good age white cheddar with, you
know, whatever and make a really nice fancy, whatever.
They just did not.
And I see that too often where people be trying to overdo the mac and cheese and it's just
like, just keep it simple.
Keep it simple with the mac and cheese.
Don't be going all crazy now.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
If you ain't got mac and cheese at your Thanksgiving, I'm not coming.
And on top of that, if I can't trust you to make the mac and cheese, no, no, no, I'm very
I'm, I'll take my mac and cheese real serious, real serious, real serious.
Next one.
I think you're going to say yes to this, but dressing and stuffing.
Yes.
I have one caveat and people are going to probably crucify me for this.
Too many people be putting eggs in this stuffing.
I don't like that.
I like stuffing.
Don't get like the way it is, but so many people will put like deviled eggs or something
in there like hard boiled eggs.
It's like, I'm like, bro, don't be putting no eggs in there.
Like, come on.
And to me, it's not necessarily a tasting.
It's a texture thing because like stuffing, stuffing, something I've already got to get
past with stuffing is the fact that it's mushy.
I don't like things that are mushy pretty much.
And so I like stuffing, especially those people that like leaving any of it a little
longer to where it's got like kind of that crunch on top, but it's still a little soft.
But like sometimes they be putting down, right?
You don't like that kind of stuff.
It's going to be like bread.
You know what I mean?
Like bread.
It's got to be like a bread consistency.
Right.
And I've had it kind of both into the spectrum.
I've had it like super dry and I've had it like super, super just swampy.
And anyways, so for me, I feel like, you know, you, I'm already having to get the texture
thing.
So you add like a hard boiled egg or like kind of that soft, like eggy texture.
Yeah.
I don't think so, man.
It just, it just messes with me.
Like, I don't think so.
All right.
And the last one.
I think we're going to say yes because we're Texas, Texans, Texas.
We're not, we aren't Texas.
We're Texans.
Uh, brisket.
Should brisket be part of the Thanksgiving lineup?
I say, you know, I say, yeah, why not?
You know, a lot of people fight for Turkey.
I like Turkey.
Don't get me wrong.
Okay.
So we say yes to brisket.
What are your non-negotiables?
Like what are your non-negotiables?
Like, Hey, I'm going to Thanksgiving.
Do you have any non-negotiables?
Like what, what you got to got?
What you have to have?
I mean, if I have to have it, like, and it's not really Thanksgiving food anymore, because
like me stuffing, I can take it or leave it.
Turkey, I can take it or leave it.
Ham, okay.
Brisket.
Yeah.
Mac and cheese.
Yeah.
Sweet potatoes.
Okay.
Green bean casserole.
Yeah.
Do I got to have the Parker house rolls?
Yep.
So, uh, I don't know.
Those are kind of my non-negotiables.
What are your non-negotiables?
Like, I have to have this.
Used to be turkey.
Used to be like, oh man, I got to have a turkey at least.
Um, I think you're going to, you're going to laugh.
It's got to be some sort of good potato.
Like I'm a sides guy.
I don't know.
Like I don't get me wrong.
I like the turkey and I like the main dish, but I like some good sides.
And so my thing is I've always got to have, so like we were talking about the mac and
cheese, we got to have like a good mac and cheese and we got to have like a good potato
dish.
Like what I'm not potatoes or scallop, like scallop potatoes.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Or, um, you know, for lack of a better term, because everybody likes to call it like people
was like, do you know what potatoes are like?
Oh yeah.
Cattle casserole.
Like I could do something like that too.
Um, you know, some, you got to have something along those lines.
I've, for me, it's not necessarily the big items, um, that make you feel like Thanksgiving.
Sometimes it's like the, sometimes the variety, like, yeah, even sometimes I'll make mac potatoes
and then I'll make some scallop potatoes and you make some other stuff too.
And I mean, if you want to eat your bunch of starch, it's Thanksgiving, man.
Why not?
Right?
Why not?
Big out on some sides.
Um, yeah, for me, definitely like mac and cheese.
Definitely.
Um, well my wife does, she does Spanish rice, like some of that, like Spanish rice, which
is pretty good.
We did have that.
I remember us having that a couple of times when we spent Thanksgiving with y'all.
And I'm cool.
Like, I mean, last year we had a pot roast and then I think when we, wow, there was one
Thanksgiving we got together.
I don't remember, I think Spanish rice was in there.
I don't remember what we had, but it was something that I was like, yeah.
And, and even, even some years what we've done, and this is incredibly excellent of
us is, um, we've done the whole like chilies and tamales deal.
Like, yeah, that's, I mean, I really love that.
I really love chilies and tamales.
So I have no problem with that.
I can eat a good dozen tamales on my own.
I'm good, but that's where it thinks.
Yeah.
I know you're very particular about, uh, Thanksgiving food.
And I know something else that you're very particular about happens to be in our next
segment, which is what fries my donuts.
And Micah, you kind of hinted at it about airports and travel and all that stuff.
So what's got you fried up, man?
Well, man, if you're a Donut Box, OG, or you just know your boy Micah here, you
know that I like planes and you know I love aviation, but a lot I do not love is how people
be interacting at the airport.
I don't know, man.
People lose their absolute mind.
It doesn't matter from when you start.
It's like when you drive into the parking lot, people's minds are gone already.
Like their minds are just gone.
It's already in the parking lot.
Like you, you know, you didn't even get in the building and they just gone.
Like it doesn't matter if it's a big airport, a small airport, wherever.
When people, they don't read the signs, they don't read nothing.
So you got all these people who kind of go on every which way, no guidance, no direction.
And there's of course never enough airport boys to show all these people what's going
on.
Nor will these people ask enough questions or help airport boys.
Oh, I thought that was what you said.
Airport boys.
What?
Okay.
Sorry.
Continue.
No, like airport boys.
So I'd show you what's going on and like, you know, and nor should there be really,
there's enough signs.
I mean, early when you're in the airport, if we're being real, they make it pretty idiot
for them.
I mean, you look at a lot of the signs and stuff.
I don't get me wrong.
Sometimes they'll do some really dumb stuff, especially like TSA and things like that.
They'll do some really dumb stuff, but I'll get to that too.
But people will lose their minds to the point where you will almost get hit.
I don't know how many times before you even get into the building, then you get into the
building.
People are now trying to navigate the ticketing lines and they're trying to do this self, the
self checking chaos.
And the thing is, I like to self checking chaos because most of the time I try to travel
as wide as possible and I like to do all this stuff.
But you have all these people who are trying to use the self checking chaos, who don't
know how to use the checking self checking chaos.
And again, is there enough employees or like gate people or like ticketing people?
No, there ain't enough of them.
But meanwhile, the rest of them are being taken up because you've got a bunch of other
people yelling and screaming because their bag's over the 50 pound limit and they're
getting charged a bunch extra and there's all sorts of stuff.
So like you already get in the building, it's already chaotic as all get out on that front
too.
But so you get your tickets, which we've talked about this before, kind of a side note.
I always make sure to get my paper tickets in case the computer in the system goes down.
Like make sure we just going to go old fashioned way just in case, just in case.
So anyways, you get your tickets and everything.
And then of course, everybody knows the gripe about TSA and why TSA is always an experience.
And so you go through, you know, the whole experience and you just want to tell them
like, uh-huh, yo, yeah, you real fed.
You want to tell them, you want to tell them all that, but you just don't because you ain't
trying to get detained in the airport.
And so you go through that whole process, you get to the other side.
Now everybody's braggled ticked off because they've been shuffled.
They've had to take off their shoes and they're, because listen, I go through TSA precheck.
I got that money unless you want to pay the donut box podcast and trash cans to be able
to travel.
They said money, boy.
If we can afford that TSA precheck, we'll take it.
But as of right now, I'm having to go through the regular security and so, but you get out
to the other side, man, and it's like everybody is, is upset.
And so not just that, but you go to a major airport like Atlanta or Dallas or anything
like that.
You get to the other side of security.
You now have to figure out where in this airport you are going to go.
And so people who are well traveled tend to know other people who are not, I don't know
how many times Chris, maybe, maybe this has happened to you too, where you've gone through
security.
You get to the other side.
You get your belt, you get everything else done.
And you start walking and you know where you're going, but you have about a dozen people in
front of you who are holding up everything because they have no clue where they're going.
They've looked at the board like 30 times.
They have no clue where they're going.
They're, yeah, they just, you know, looking, looking all around.
They have no idea and, you know, but they'll get in your way.
And I don't know if people don't know this, but common courtesy is just like driving.
If you're on the right hand side of the road, you know, you're going a certain direction.
And the thing is, if your gates on the left hand side, it's the same thing.
There's a flow of traffic.
You better wait to turn left and do all this stuff.
Something that I can't stand.
And I've talked to people about this too.
Once you're in that airport environment, have you noticed it's like they'll start pre-boarding
people and people will all stand up and start crowd.
And they'll all be in the middle of this thing.
So you're trying to get to your gate and how they got all these people crowded up in the
middle of the aisle where their gate is because they call pre-board.
They ain't even till group six.
Yeah.
You're like, what group are you on?
I'm a group 10.
While you're standing up, you may go get on a plane no faster.
It's like sit down.
And that always, that always happens too.
And that always what fries my donuts about that.
And even when you on the plane and you get off the plane, everybody stands up like the
moment it stopped, they turn that fast and seatbelt sign off.
You're in the back of the plane, boy.
And everybody's standing up, you're like, bro, stand up.
We got a minute.
You know, I don't even take my seatbelt off just yet.
We got a second.
You know what I mean?
You play around on your phone.
You text who you need to text from.
You there.
You're going to sit there for a minute.
So I don't know, man, from the moment you get in there.
And then, you know, the destination, you have to deal with all that.
You have to figure out how to get out of this thing.
And then of course parking and all that stuff on the back end.
So it can be, it can be a pain of an experience.
I like flying, but people really lose their mind.
Last note that I have on that's really changed after COVID.
I mean, COVID's really changed that.
I feel like at least before COVID, everybody was a lot more mindful of other people.
And I feel like unfortunately after COVID, and I think a large part of it is because
people thought about themselves a ton and naturally will have to everybody stay home.
Stay focused on your health, focus on your family, that sort of thing.
But you start thinking about yourself so much to where even when we're in an environment
where there's a ton of people, you know, people do a whole bunch of stuff with no conscious
awareness that there's other people around me at all.
And so it's really, it's really interesting.
But man, that really fives my donuts.
Hey, it really, it really grinds my keys.
Yeah.
It's the whole experience.
Anytime when you're in a herd mentality or you're being heard like on cruise, like you
just like, I'd be like, Oh, we're not doing this.
We're not standing with the herd like much to be to my own drum.
Yeah, man.
That's why we need to make enough money on the donut box podcast, apply price.
And we don't have no these problems.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I think you covered that really well.
I don't have anything to add to that.
Because those are all the things that I get frustrated with for sure.
Yeah.
And so for all of you who are traveling, you know, good luck and Godspeed.
Hopefully there's no, be mindful of other people.
Please just be nice.
Be courteous.
Like that's how you're doing.
Very, very mindful.
I'm joking.
But yeah, man.
So we're going to move into our next segment, which is our mystery donut and Chris is our
improv segment.
And this is going to take kind of a whole new meaning because we're on camera now.
So we're actually going to get to show them the hat.
Oh, I should have brought the cowboy hat.
All right.
So what we're going to do is we're going to pick a scenario out of the hat.
Okay.
So got the hat here.
What logo do we got on the hat today?
Hold it up.
We have, we haven't done this one in a minute.
We have the coffee shop.
Oh man.
So we got just kind of a, so the coffee shop for those of you who are new, it's a wide
variety of whatever accents we can throw in there.
Man, that face, that's a little creepy.
I think I want to, but hey, you never know what voices are going to come out.
I mean, there's all sorts of characters and yeah, man, it's going to be interesting on
camera.
I don't know.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Yeah, I say, let's go.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
All right.
Here we go.
I'll start.
Hey, see you boy out of here, you guys turned into freaking cockroaches.
Turn on the lights.
Y'all spread away.
I ain't seen you since the last Thanksgiving.
Hey, what did you try to say, man?
Last time I was here, I paid the tab and then the next thing you know, you're not even
around to pay the tab the next time and then nobody wants to meet up anymore.
Oh, you talk about how you don't want to meet up anymore.
How come you don't ever want to come visit me at my shop?
I give you good deal.
Oh, man, I tell you this month, Mr. Farn, your shop is a rip off.
Every time I go over there, every time I go over there, your wife tells me no 25% discount.
I tell him, listen, you told me 25% discount.
You're holding something 25% discount last time and he don't honor it.
He don't honor it down there.
I'm just so busy.
I'm so busy.
Hey, what are you doing for Thanksgiving?
I found a big turkey, smoked turkey.
Wait a second.
You celebrate Thanksgiving?
Oh, yeah.
I love America.
I celebrate Thanksgiving, have marshmallow, all of the stuff.
You celebrate Easter, too?
Oh, yeah.
I celebrate and worship the death and burial of Korean Jesus coming back from the dead.
You're Korean?
Yeah, I'm Korean.
South, South, no, no, no, no, no, South, South.
Oh, okay.
Well, I wasn't quite sure.
You never know with, you know, the whole get up there.
But let me ask you a question.
And isn't it whoever?
I'm not talking to Mr. Farn no more.
It isn't to whoever.
Why haven't we met up in so long?
I mean, we had to wait until season freaking four until we had our face on the camera.
Now we're joining that and now we're coming back to coffee shops on all stuff.
You guys not meeting up with me.
I've been on social security disability.
I had to go to the doctor the other day.
Get my diver take your lighters checked out and he had to give me two more oxygen tank
refills because Medicare part A and part B won't cover them guys been calling me all
this time waiting to talk to me about Medicare part A part B.
Hey, you know what?
You're starting to sound like you should be followed up by a medical commercial over
here.
I don't know what the heck is your freaking problem.
You're over here always complaining.
You and your freaking stoma like what's hot in you and your freaking stoma.
Who even invited you?
Smoke of McGee over here.
She even I don't even know what you're here for your medical party.
But you know what?
I need to be that's what I think you need to stop.
Dear.
No, it's not a guy with a buzzer.
It's a guy who is about to put you in a headlock.
That happens to be a buzzer boy that was WWE wrestler or something.
That sounds like John Wayne.
It does sound like John Wayne.
Circle the wagon.
Yeah, man.
Let me tell you something.
Last time last time we were here, we were talking legitimate business and now we're sitting
over here like a bunch of fools.
We're talking about nothing.
At least that one guy didn't show up.
He knows who I'm talking about.
Oh, praise the Lord, brother.
It's your brother, Pastor Troy.
I know I got a rap album that came out, but I'm just here to tell you, brothers, this
is the season and Jesus is the reason to be thankful.
Can I get a name?
And I know you didn't want to invite me, but you need some things given in your life.
Can I get a name?
Hi.
It's Danny.
So let me tell you this.
I wasn't invited and I'm never invited because, you know, look at me.
I'm just too fabulous to be invited anywhere we go.
So, you know, here we are at the coffee shop.
And like I said, my name's Danny.
And we're just going to talk about feelings and things.
We just enjoy talking.
We enjoy talking.
We enjoy just shooting the crap that we've always.
Well, brother, I got a feeling that I need to go, but can I pray us out so we can have
a good Thanksgiving?
Yeah, because this fricking Danny guy back again, I'm sick and tired of that guy and
pray us out.
Let's all bow our heads and close our eyes.
Lord, we thank you today that we get to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Lord, we thank you for the turkey.
We thank you for the dressing.
We thank you for the hand with the mac and cheese.
I feel the whole spirit of this one.
I pray today as we go in the highways and the byways and go to our houses or our boxes
or our mansions like past the toilet over here because of our generous donors at Mount
Zion Tabernacle Baptist Church who have given to the Lord.
We ask Holy Spirit that you would give us a good Thanksgiving and all God's people said
a maybe and that was our segment.
Some new characters always show up, bro.
Yeah, they do.
And then some old ones.
The, you know, it's funny.
I have characters that I don't even like when they show up and Danny Evans is one of them.
But it's one of those things.
The deal is, I don't know why we do the coffee shop.
I feel like it's got to happen.
But I think it's time to transition into our eclair unless you got something else.
I was just going to say before we do that, I had a theater class at one point that I
had to take.
And I remember I had to do a model log where I was Santa Claus and I did the exact voice.
It was a Santa Claus.
Danny Evans voice as Santa Claus?
Yeah, I did.
Well, it was because the teacher, he liked just kind of crazy outlandish stuff and the
whole monologue was talking about how Santa hated kids.
Like he was like, it was like the anti character.
Basically it was like Santa hated kids and he was sick and tired of making toys.
So I did this whole monologue and I was just like, every year they want PSPs, they want
playstations, they want everything.
I just had enough.
I just went on this whole thing bro as as freaking Danny Evans Santa.
Yeah, it was it was a whole thing.
I got a hundred for it and yeah, past that class pretty well.
But yeah, I don't know.
Every time I do that voice, I'd be thinking about doing Danny Evans Santa.
Anyways, very positive.
Very positive.
And our last segment is always our positive advice.
And so I'll start this this week.
I know it's the typical.
What do you think before going around?
Be thankful, but be thankful for the things that didn't happen.
Like the president didn't get answered.
Be thankful for the hard times when they come because they're truly what would make you
who you are.
We talked about this last episode.
So you should go check it out, but be thankful for the failures because sometimes that's
how you learn and how you grow.
And really true success comes from failure sometimes.
So be thankful for the prayers that didn't get answered because you never know what God
might have been saving you from or protecting you from or whatever it is.
And so there are a lot of times in my life, I look back and I'll be like, God, thank you
that you didn't answer my prayer about this because you know way better than I do.
Right.
And so just be thankful again.
You know, it's a typical stereotypical thing to be thankful, but just be thankful every
day.
Like wake up and think of one thing every day you can be thankful for.
And that sounds super cliche, but a lot of us who wait till Thanksgiving, we wait till
Christmas or we wait till someone passes away to be thankful, but we need to be thankful
every single day because we have so much to be grateful for.
Yeah, absolutely.
And mine this week is a little, little cliche as well.
They're always cliche.
You know, it's got a lot of positive advice.
It's always, it's always a little cliche, but mine this week, whenever you're, I'm going
to go back to aviation again and you got to love it.
But anytime you're flying, I don't know if, you know, some people know this, some people
don't, but whenever you're taking off in a plane, you always are going against the wind
and then always takes every bit of engine power to get you off the ground.
And so there's a lot of adversity in life, but, and, you know, a lot of times there's
a lot of uncontrollable things that happen and present you with challenges that might
push you back otherwise, unless you were full throttle and I'm not sitting here saying,
Hey, you got to be full throttle all the time.
But you know, a lot of people out there have been full throttle for a long time and don't
have any insight and don't know when it's going to stop.
But just remember that the strongest headwinds are always the biggest takeoffs and those are
always the, anytime you're in, you know, as long as you could be at an airport where you
can take off unfettered man and you got a good headwind and everything like that, the
takeoffs are great.
So, you know, the thing is, you know, the stronger the headwind, the stronger the adversity,
the stronger you're going to take off.
And so that's all coming.
And we believe in you at the Dona Box podcast.
You've raised me up so I can stay the man.
Nineties cheese there for you.
Well, tell them where they can go to find all the great stuff.
And that's where you're watching this.
Hopefully.
Yeah.
Good old YouTube.
And so we rebranded a little bit of stuff for our OGs.
We've got the trash can network.
And then what was the trash can network?
We went over and did trash can travel.
So there's that over there.
And so we've got a lot of aviation stuff over there.
And then what was the aviator society on Instagram is also turned into trash can travel.
So we've kind of made that an all inclusive deal and you got to love branding and whatnot.
We're always kind of changing it up, as you can tell with us being on camera as well.
So if you're into all the aviation stuff, trash can got you covered on this.
But at the same time, we also have our YouTube channel for the Dona Box podcast in particular.
So you get to find us there.
We've got our stuff over on Facebook, which is the trash can network.
So at the trash can network.
And so go find us over there.
And then also, like Chris said, over on YouTube, at the trash can network as well.
So, you know, man, we've got a lot of great things going on.
Season four is going to be fantastic.
We've already gotten, you know, had a fantastic start to it.
It's hard to believe that we're this far into it, but here we are.
We're showing our faces.
We're showing our faces and it's going well.
But yeah, man, that's pretty much all I have.
Like I said, I'm just staring at myself talking even more.
Well, I like to hear myself talk.
I think it's time for the Starship to take us out.
I'm Chris.
And I'm Michael.
And this has been the DonaBox Podcast.
And I give one contribution to this great program.
It'll be up here, certainly.
Thanks all of you.
Baby, we commit!