Trashcan presents Nightline News.
I'm your host, Dan Crosby.
We all here in America put our faith and our trust in our congressmen and women.
We trust them to steward our votes correctly to get our bills passed.
But can we trust them with our beloved cartoon characters?
From South Carolina, Ted Robinson is now in a lot of trouble after reportedly going
to Disney World and trying to solicit Minnie Mouse for a lap dance.
Apparently the congressman had tried three times prior to solicit Minnie Mouse for the
lap dance and after being denied he then quoted the Bible verse that says, Man has dominion
over beast of the earth.
Ted Robinson is here with us tonight to explain his actions.
Ted, welcome on the show.
Hey, thanks for having me.
Now Ted, you are in some trouble right now because of these allegations of with Minnie
Mouse.
Do you care to explain what went on?
Now I know everything looks really bad right now.
I just want to say that and I just want to thank the Fifth District for all their support
and their love during this time.
They have sent me great amount of letters and they said, Ted, we still believe in you.
The Lord still believes in you and he believes in the work that you're doing.
Now congressman Robinson, I have to ask, we're all thinking this.
Why would you solicit Minnie Mouse, a beloved cartoon character for the ages, for a lap
dance?
Don't you think that's a little inappropriate?
Now I just want to clear some things up.
The media has really skewed this story.
I tell you this much.
Minnie Mouse, she's not as innocent as she leads on.
First of all, I just let you know that.
Second of all, you should ask her about the cocaine that night.
That's second.
And third, the Fifth District knows what happened.
They're still behind me.
America's still behind me.
I'm thinking about running for president.
But why the Bible verse, congressman Robinson, why the need to use the Bible verse?
It is vital that God stays the centerpiece of our daily lives.
We trust in his word, regardless of the situation and what's going on.
He loves us all.
And we just got to be reminded each and every day of his goodness.
Amen.
Congressman Robinson, is there anything that you would like to say to Minnie Mouse or Mickey
Mouse or the general public because you are on national TV?
Don't let me catch you in the street.
Neither one of you.
And for the rest of the general population, I would love to just say right now I'm announcing
my candidacy to the Republican Party and we're going to win and sweep this whole entire
nation clean all the dirty wrongdoing and bad stuff.
And I know this might have made me look a little, but people are trying to out to get
me.
And it's the media and I'm telling you, if you vote for me, we'll be A-OK.
I don't have a slogan yet because I just announced presidency that I'm running.
All right.
This has been Dan Crosby for Nightline Nightly News.
We'll see you next time.
Hi, I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
Well, buddy, it's another week, another great episode that we got planned up our sleeves.
Guess what?
We got a new listener, not in a new state, but in a new country.
So, okay, Canada, we appreciate the support.
I would sing it if I knew the lyrics, but all I know is it says, oh, Canada, and I kind
of know the tune.
But yeah, awesome.
Canada.
Also, shout out to our overseas listeners, Belgium.
And I mean, we got so many, Ireland's been on there too, a good bit.
I mean, we got a ton of overseas listeners out of country listeners, but we also thank
our country, or our in-country listeners here in the United States appreciate it, especially
in our home state of Texas and Virginia, Oregon, Washington state's been really big too.
Iowa, man, we got so many listeners.
It's Ohio.
We can keep on going.
I think you were trying to channel your Congressman Ted Robinson there for a minute.
But anyways, we are going to jump into our old-fashioned donut, which is a story from
our past.
And Micah, what do you got for us this week?
We got an interesting story.
So, we used to have yard sales.
I'm pretty sure if I could say show of hands, how many of y'all had a yard sale when y'all
were a kid or a garage sale or whatever, an estate sale if you're fancy.
I'm sure everybody would be like, yeah, we had at least one or we knew somebody had
one.
So, we had this yard sale.
And I don't really remember too many specifics about this yard sale, do you?
I don't remember at all.
And prior to this yard sale, I had never had a yard sale at my house.
Our family never had a yard sale.
So, the only time I had yard sales was whenever you guys decided to have a yard sale.
But do you remember why we had a yard sale?
I don't remember.
I don't remember either.
I just remember it was like, okay, we're going to get rid of a bunch of stuff, yard sale,
and you'd have to get up really early, like five in the morning.
And I actually do remember one part that I didn't remember before going into this.
I remember we had to put out little flyers on the windows because my father was a little
ee-ee about things.
And so, we had to literally go put flyers on these cars at this grocery store.
And I remember somebody came out and said, you can't do that or something.
And he still made us do it.
He's like, you got to let some little pipsqueak tell you not to put things.
Well, I mean, it kind of works for the business.
I think the exact quote was, are you going to let some little buggy pusher push you
around?
I think that's what the quote was.
Yeah, I think that's what it was.
I think you're right.
But anyways, so we had to do all this stuff and then we had to put out signs at like five
in the morning, put all the crap out.
And I mean, for those of you who haven't been to a yard sale or know about yard sale, some
people take it really serious.
I mean, we had a lady out there, like 5.30.
We barely had stuff out in the yard and she's out there with flashlights going through it.
It was insane.
But anyways, the only reason this yard sale really stood out was one.
So my father at the time had a motorcycle and it was in the backyard and Chris, come
on buddy, tell him about this guy.
Well, this guy just walked up and he didn't say anything.
Didn't say, Hey, how are you doing?
Hey, how's it going?
Nothing.
He literally, the first thing he walked up and was like, all I hear is, ooh, nice pipes.
And I'm like, well, that was a little sexual, I think.
And he was like, he was like, and he had a very feminine nature about him.
I'm not trying to try to talk mess, but he was just like, so how much is your motorcycle
for sale?
And I just remember he was very interested in your dad's pipes.
Your dad might have known him from somewhere.
Yeah.
I mean, wine did dine.
Anyways, what I'm thinking.
I mean, that was, that was, I don't know why for the longest time, it was like, ooh, nice
pipes.
It would just stuck forever.
But the other thing that showed up, or the other person that showed up that was a little
weird, there was a fake Elvis that showed up.
So, but it wasn't, it wasn't like a very good fake Elvis though.
Do you remember, I remember it was like this guy showed up.
He kind of had Elvis hair and like sideburns, nothing really else.
He was like an Elvis impersonator, but he wasn't working.
And I think he just wanted to show up to the yard sale and he was like trying to impersonate
Elvis, but he was just in normal clothes and you were like, what the heck is going on?
But he looked like Elvis.
And I remember we took a picture with him because we're like, oh, that's cool.
But I don't know why we decided to take a picture with him.
Yeah, I don't know.
I do remember that the pitcher has like the neighbor kid in it as well.
He like jumped in the pitcher.
So I don't remember neighbor kid's name.
So that's interesting.
But so that was a weird yard sale.
You know, I didn't like those yard sales, but on a similar note, I'll lead into this
one as well.
We used to go to this auction and Chris, talk a little bit about what this auction was like.
It was pretty unique.
I don't know if you've ever been to a bingo house before, but a bingo house is like a
whole bunch of people smoking and it's very smoky.
So this was just like this auction was in a barn and it's like a typical auction, but
there was just like cigarette smoke everywhere.
You could like buy snacks and stuff.
And I remember like we brought a couple of things to the auction to sell, but I remember
it's like a typical auction.
I remember I guess your parents at the time are really big into like American pickers and
auctions and deals.
And so they thought it was a good deal.
No pun intended, a good thing to go to.
So we would go there like every Saturday and we would see what was there and see if we
could get a good deal.
And it was not about like buying stuff.
It was about getting the best deal that you could.
It didn't matter what it was.
And I think that was the whole high for them.
So Christopher, myself, went a couple of times with Micah and there was a certain lady that
worked the snack bar.
And I got to know her a little bit over the period of time.
And I thought she was a pretty good looking gal.
And I was 16, 17 at the time.
I was like, there's no way she's over 18.
And she was an elementary school teacher, wasn't she?
Well, she was a pre-school, she was a pre-K teacher.
So I remember I like got the nerve to like ask her out.
I was like, I'm going to ask her out.
I'm going to ask if I could get her phone number.
Because I thought she was 18 at least.
I was like, no way.
She's older than that.
And I went up to her and I was like, hey, so can I have your number?
And she was like, oh, that's so sweet.
She was like, but I think I'm a little too old for you.
And I was like, well, how old is too old?
And she was like, well, I'm like 23 or 24 or something like that.
She was like, maybe seven years older than me.
And so I was like, oh, well, that's not a problem.
And she was like, yeah, that's kind of a problem.
Because I was underage.
So I got denied by a preschool teacher.
Kind of hurt.
Yeah.
I remember that they had great hamburgers there, though.
And they had the bull peanuts and all sorts of stuff.
It was an interesting place.
But I remember we would go and we would sell stuff.
Auction would take like 10% of the cut of whatever you would make.
And I don't know.
Sometimes you'd be able to get good deals.
Sometimes it was just kind of nothing.
Because what it would start off as,
it would start off as people would just bring a bunch of their stuff
that they want to sell.
And so it's just a bunch of individuals items.
It's like live eBay, essentially.
And then after a while, then they bring in businesses.
And the businesses would sell their goods.
But I don't know about you, Chris.
All I remember about the business stuff, when they started selling theirs,
it was like, pardon my language, but cheap Chinese crap.
It wasn't anything very good.
Or it would be like boxes of M&M's.
It wasn't good at all.
It would be like, who wants 30 boxes of M&M's or something like that?
Oh, yeah.
It was like bulk stuff, huh?
Yeah, that's nuts.
I just remember not liking the auctions or the yard sales.
You know why?
Because we would always have to do all the work.
We didn't have to be all the heavy muscle.
And then we would get maybe $15 for the whole day.
When we were kids, slave flavor was a common thing for us.
Yeah, they would literally be like, oh, yeah.
You're two strapping young kids.
You can do this.
And we just said, yeah, because that's what we were used to doing.
But now, you've got to at least pay for my lunch kind of a thing.
Yeah, it gets old after a while.
But it was an interesting time.
We saw some interesting things.
One other thing that I'm going to say about the auction,
I think one of the weirdest buys that I've ever seen was Joan of Barks.
Do you remember that?
It sat on our back porch for forever.
Oh, yeah.
Tell them what Joan of Barks was.
For those of you who are familiar with the history,
Joan of Barks, if you don't know, or go look her up on Google.
But essentially, this local artist
decided that he was going to make this statue.
And Joan of Barks was burned at the stake.
Essentially, it was her burnt, but it was made out of tree bark.
And so she was in this kind of arms raised and tied up feet.
Like she got burned.
But it was like tree bark that was outside of this foam.
And yeah, they just sold it.
And it was really, really, really random.
And I really don't remember why we had it or why we bought it.
Because it's not like it could go in the house.
I think your dad thought it was cool.
And if I remember right, she was kind of like,
the forum was kind of like naked, I think.
I think I remember that.
And your dad got his jollies off of Joan of Barks.
So well, we are going to move into our next segment.
And we're not going to do the jelly donut today.
We're going to do the strawberry donut.
And it's just a little bit different.
So instead of doing jail reports,
we are going to do the funniest and weirdest ways
that people got fired.
So a lot of people have gotten fired over some dumb stuff.
Man, I know that people bosses sometimes are tripping.
So are you ready to hear why people got fired?
Yep, especially Texas, because it's a right to work state that
can fire you for no reason.
I know other states are like that.
So I'm interested to hear some of these.
All right.
So a CEO from Las Vegas was apparently
uncomfortable with the reelection of President Obama
whenever he got reelected in 2012.
So he's only known as David.
And we don't know what company he works for.
But he decided to terminate the position of 22 of his employees
because Barack Obama got reelected,
declaring that elections have consequences.
And that he needs to quote unquote, survive.
He says, I had to lay off 22 people
to make sure that my business is going to thrive.
And I'm going to be around for years to come.
And I have to build up that nest egg now for the taxes
and regulations that are coming my way.
Dude, that's really messed up.
Like I get being paranoid about the changes and all that stuff.
But that's no reason to fire people.
That's not a really good leadership either.
I'm just going to say that.
Because you adjust for the times.
You adjust while the times happen.
Yeah, and you can have some of that forethought.
But my thing is, if he was talking about like Obamacare
and having to have everybody have health care
and provide health care to everybody that's full time,
there also weighs around that to where it doesn't really
affect your business.
So dumb stuff, especially 22 people.
That's a lot of people.
It's kind of put in the cart for the horse.
But anyways, on to the next one.
So a hotel maid got fired because she wanted an autograph.
So apparently, Jennifer Lopez was at this luxury hotel
where she was going to stay in Germany.
Like any other fan would do, the hotel maid
decided to approach the singer when she knocked on her door
for an autograph but was turned away by two assistants.
The hotel maid would then receive some tragic news
after she had a phone call and told that she was fired.
She was just fired for asking for an autograph.
I mean, I would do the same thing.
I would ask for an autograph.
Yeah, I mean, I'd totally get it.
Whenever I had an airport position
where we were doing private jets,
and that was like the first thing that they told us
is you will see celebrities and like don't go up to them.
You have to treat them like they're a normal person.
Like you can't ask for their autograph
or take pictures with them or anything like that.
And it's frustrating because you're like, man, especially
in this day and age, it's like, you know,
picture didn't happen, right?
If I tell Chris, like, hey, I saw Jennifer Lopez today,
he's gonna be like, yeah, where's the picture with her?
Or, you know, are I, you know what I mean?
So it's super hard.
I get it.
Exactly.
But then on the, I get why they do that,
but then on the flip side, like there have been people,
especially with wrestling WWE,
they literally find out the wrestlers like flight arrivals
and stuff and they wait at the airport for them
just to get an autograph.
They're like leeches, bro.
And I'm like, yeah, if I was a wrestler or a celebrity
just getting off the plane and I have people shoving
pens and autograph stuff in my face,
I'd tell them, yeah, get lost.
I heard that happened to Ray Mysterio.
Like, and he got pretty.
That did happen to Ray Mysterio because these people,
they don't just want an autograph for like themselves,
they want it so that they can go sell it on eBay.
They can resell it, yeah.
And cause I saw a video with him
where he was getting pretty upset and it's like,
listen, I already signed one for you.
Like one's all you're gonna get.
I couldn't imagine like flying through the airport,
and getting swarmed by people that you know are,
just out for profit kind of thing.
But.
All right, so this next one,
this guy got fired for being a good Samaritan.
Mr. Juan was working at a Thai food restaurant
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
when he ended up being involved in a situation
he would never forget.
While he was at work,
Juan decided to help a woman who was being car jack
outside of the restaurant.
So he took down the suspect who had a knife
and held him down until the police came.
Apparently he was fired for all the attention
he brought to the restaurant.
And I'm like, man, like, that's really messed up.
Either something sketchy was going on at that restaurant
or what, but I'm like, the dude tried to do the right thing.
And he got penalized for it.
Man, if they gonna do that to you,
you don't wanna work there anyways.
Some, yeah, something's going on with that.
You know, I never understood stuff like that.
You know, we kind of talked about this.
Working at Papa John's as a pizza delivery guy at one point,
you know, carrying a certain amount of bank on you.
If you were carrying more than $100 on you
and you like how to go cash it,
you would have to go cash it in periodically
in case you got robbed.
If you had over $100,
which is really easy to do,
some people will pay you $100 bills.
And so it's like, you got over $100 in one pop.
If somebody robbed you, they will fire you for it.
So like imagine getting robbed
and then you get fired all of one go.
Like I just don't understand that stuff.
I don't understand that either.
All right, a couple more.
So this older guy was preparing to retire
and he had been with the company for 30 plus years.
So he was training this guy to take over his job.
And he was training this guy for seven months.
And until he felt like, hey,
this guy's ready to take over, I can retire.
So the boss was afraid to lose 30 plus years
of experience and he fired the trainee
to keep the old guy for a little longer.
That's crazy, man.
Like he was like, oh yeah, I'm not gonna lose you.
So I'm gonna fire this new guy.
Like that's messed up.
Yeah, and it really is messed up for the,
you know, the guy that was trying to get in there
because he really didn't do anything wrong.
He was just kind of caught in the middle in that deal.
Yeah. A lot of these wrongful terminations,
people have said that they have sued and then they won.
And so they got money for it.
All right, last one.
So this lady, she worked as a hostess
and got along with all of her coworkers.
She regularly got told how great she was at multitasking
and keeping the wait time down
and managing the weekend wait list.
And she was told that she was the best hostess
they had in a while.
She got fired after about six months
because a guy who regularly came in
with his giant party of a family,
usually 10 to 13 people on Sundays after church
during peak wait time thought that
she didn't smile at him enough.
So she got fired because he complained
and was like, hey, she's not smiling at me enough.
That's really messed up, man.
Yeah, no, that's really messed up.
That's super messed up.
And I'll say this too, folks after church,
y'all need to be watching yourselves
because y'all be some of the worst.
I don't, I really don't know.
Every time I was in customer service and things like that,
it was always right after church.
I mean, people would come straight from church
and they would just be acting a fool.
I don't know what it is.
It's like that.
Oh, I checked my moral box for the day.
Now I can do whatever I want.
But yeah, those are some of the crazy reasons
why people got fired.
But yeah, so we are going to segue into our donut hole.
And it's my week.
And guess what, Michael, you're off the hook.
We're not going to play a game this week.
Oh, we're not playing a game?
I was all geared up and ready for it.
Oh, man, well, I haven't done a movie review in a while,
mostly because there haven't been any good movies to go review.
But I finally got one to review for us.
So you ready?
OK.
Yeah, what's up?
Now, wait to hear the review before I say it, OK?
I'm going to review Creed 3.
And I know you're going to be like, oh, another Rocky movie,
another Rocky movie.
Creed 3 was amazing.
And I'll tell you why.
Number one, Sylvester Stallone was not in it at all.
Rocky was not involved at all.
Number two, this movie, it didn't feel like a Rocky movie.
It felt like it was his own thing.
Now, it made nods to Apollo Creed being his dad and stuff
like that.
But it didn't make a nod to any of the old movies.
So if you guys don't know, in Creed 1 and 2,
Creed is about the illegitimate son of Apollo
Creed from the Rocky movie.
So Apollo Creed had an affair on his wife
and has this illegitimate son that they find out is there.
And he's got all this anger and stuff.
And then he decides that he wants to become a boxer.
He pairs up with Rocky Balboa.
Rocky trains him.
And he becomes the greatest guy in the world.
Now, not Rocky, Creed 3 is now he's at the peak of his career.
And he decides that he finally wants to retire.
But Creed, Donis Creed, who was played by Michael B. Jordan,
he has had a rough past.
And apparently he was involved in this big,
I wouldn't say murder, but it was this big crime
with one of his childhood friends.
Creed got away, but his childhood friend did not get away.
And he got locked up for 18 years.
Now, during the time of this story,
his friend is just fresh out of prison, right?
And he wanted to be the heavyweight champion of the world.
So he's got this big chip on his shoulder.
And he's kind of like, you know what?
You owe me for all of this.
You owe me because I got locked up and you didn't.
So Creed's trying to help out.
But the guy is just reckless.
And he's like, you know what?
I'm coming for everything that you have.
And Creed has to come out of retirement
because he's basically the only one that
could stop his friend from just hurting people.
Because this guy is legitimately hurting people on purpose
because he's got this chip on his shoulder.
And I thought it was really a good movie
because it was its own original movie.
It made some references to the other Rocky movies
and to Apollo Creed.
But just enough, it wasn't like, oh, we're
trying to do a reboot or a continuation of the Rocky
story.
It was its own thing.
Also, it was also cool because in the movie,
his daughter is deaf.
And so it was cool to see them use sign language
for half of the movie.
So anytime they interacted, they were using sign language
with the daughter.
I think that stuff is really cool.
It was good storytelling, good casting.
It was a boxing movie, but it wasn't like a typical boxing
movie.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
It had more of a storyline than just the boxing
or the sports aspect to it.
Yeah.
And it's not like this thing of it's all about boxing
and it didn't have a cheesy montage.
Like it did have a montage of them training.
But it was more about Creed's life than his boxing.
Like the boxing kind of took like a secondary.
But it was more about Creed having
to deal with his past and having to reconcile that
with his current thing right now.
And then I'll tell you, the lady that played his wife,
I think her name's Tessa Thompson, dude,
she was amazing in it.
Because I love that balance when it's
like you have a strong female lead,
but they're not like men suck.
And I'm going to kick everybody's butt.
But she was like super strong.
And so it was a good balance of that.
And so I thought it was really a good movie to go worth seeing.
Yeah.
And it sounds cool because it's, like you said,
it's differentiating.
Because you know my biggest thing about, I don't know,
you know my biggest thing about sequels and sequels
and the force and the fists and the, you know,
so it's cool that it is separate.
And it gives nods to the past, but it's not quite,
you know, it's its own storyline.
Yeah, it's its own story.
It was actually better than Creed II.
And Creed II I expected to be really good because basically
the storyline about that is that it's Ivan Drago from Rocky IV,
the big Russian dude that killed Apollo Creed.
Well, Creed's son is fighting Drago's son.
And so like they got that Rocky IV rivalry going on.
And it was like kind of falling flat for me.
I fell asleep during it.
But Creed III was amazing.
Go check it out.
If you haven't yet, it's definitely worth watching.
Michael B. Jordan is like, he's great in anything that he's in.
Wasn't he also, he was also Black Panther, right?
Or in the Black Panther movie?
He was in Black Panther the first one.
He was the villain in that one.
But enough about that.
Let's go ahead and see what fries my donuts.
And Michael, what's frying your donuts, buddy?
You know, and I absolutely can't stand.
And we've already done something similar to this,
but not on the same lines.
Construction while driving.
Oh yeah, I hate that.
Here's my thing.
Or like road construction drives me mad.
I just don't understand a lot of it.
And tell me this, Chris.
I know where you live.
It's the same way.
We have stretches of road that have been under construction
for at least 10 years now.
And I don't see a construction worker out there.
I don't see.
And when I do, they're all sitting around gabbing
and eating their sandwiches.
And I'm sitting here going, when is this going to get done?
When are we going to?
And meanwhile, I'm sitting in traffic going two miles an hour
past them, watching their stupid behinds,
eating all this stuff, chilling, having a good old time,
all my taxpayer dollars are paying for them to quote unquote
fix this road.
It just drives me nuts.
And then when you talk about going on a long distance trip,
oh, Lord, you're going to hit at least three or four patches
of really bad traffic, really bad construction.
And you might see people out there.
You might not.
You might see them actually working.
You might not.
It's a crap shoot.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
And especially whenever I go down to visit down
in the central Texas area, I have that one stretch of road
where it's literally the road is a one lane highway.
And you have to sit at that light and wait for it.
And that's been going on for over a year and a half.
And you're sitting here like, dude, when
are you all going to finish this?
And you're like, I either see them just sitting around
or I see one person working and all the rest just
standing around.
I'm telling you, man, it really gets under my skin.
And it's like, why do we have to wait on this construction
to take so long?
And here's my thing.
I don't think the road's that bad to even begin with.
Like the road, the stretch of road that they're working on,
you're like, why did this need to be fixed?
I don't think this needed to be expanded.
Like what's going on here?
No.
And I'll say this, the stretch of road he's talking about,
one, it's in the middle of nowhere.
Like I'm talking, it's on a stretch of road
and there's just nothing around it at all.
And there's a light, which I've never seen before.
Normally they'll have like a flagger out there, right?
They'll have the one guy on one end
and they'll have the other guy on the other end.
They'll tell you, OK, you can go or you can go.
I've even seen like the truck where they'll have a truck
and it's like you follow the truck and whatever.
But this one has an actual traffic light.
But this sucker is like three and a half miles long.
So if it turns red and it turns green on the other end,
you've got to wait for them to drive three and a half miles
on that one lane to get to where you are
and that whole line of people to get there.
And it stacks up because of how long it took the other side
to do it.
Then when it turns green, then you have three and a half miles
to go and you're dictated by the people in front of you.
Hopefully you're the first person in line.
But it's just it's a pain in the rear.
And every time I'm at that light, I'll tell you this much.
I always get stuck behind a trucker.
And nothing against truckers, I know
they have a hard time getting up to speed.
But my goodness, it'll be one of those things.
It takes even longer to go that three and a half miles
because you're only going 25, 30 miles an hour.
Yeah.
And then after that, you don't have a passing lane
for another five miles.
So you're sitting there just stuck and you're like, oh my gosh.
And I think I don't know if we talked about this before.
But where I lived, the city planning was so dumb
because I live in a college town.
And Texas Tech is big football, big football season, right?
So they had all summer to work on this stretch of road that
was the main road by the campus.
And they could have started as soon as school let out.
But they didn't start until the first week
in August, right before school started.
And they closed this road down to one lane.
And they did it, the construction,
all during football season, backing up all of the traffic,
making it hard for people to get into the stadium
to get around campus.
And I'm sitting here going, like, who planned this?
Like, who thought it was a good idea
to start on this construction at the very beginning
of the fall semester?
Heck, do it at the spring semester
because there's not even that much going on either.
That's what I'm saying.
Something like that happened where
I was living in San Marcos.
It's a college town as well.
And they were going to build a bridge.
And literally, they had all summer to do it.
When did they start?
Right when fall semester started.
And literally, it's the main way to get in and out of there.
It was just ridiculous.
But my big thing, too, especially in the state of Texas
where we live, this makes perfect sense to me.
I don't know why they don't enact this further.
Why don't road crews work at night?
Like, that's my big question.
They come out there middle of the day, right,
where the most amount of traffic is.
They'll start in the morning.
And I remember living in Austin.
It was the absolute worst.
They would get started at 6, 7 in the morning
right when rush hour starts.
So you have rush hour on top of construction traffic.
It makes everything so bad.
But think about this.
If you're working and you get started at 9, 10 o'clock
at night and you go until 3 or 4 in the morning,
there's not going to be a lot of people out.
Even if you do get a lot of a bit of traffic,
it's not going to be much because there's not
a lot of people going to be around.
That's what I was thinking, too.
And I was wondering, is it the temperature?
Is it the fact that they can't find people to work overnight?
Like, they can bring in those lighting trucks.
And they can bring in lighting for them to have ample lighting.
But that's what I've thought, too.
It's like, why don't y'all do the work overnight whenever
no one's there?
And you can get more done.
And you can get it done quicker.
And yeah, man.
And most of the time, whenever they're
quote unquote working on the road,
I feel like they don't even be doing that much at all.
But the little stretches of road that they're working on.
Not for days at a time.
But then there will be that one day that you'll pass it.
And you'll go, oh, man, y'all are doing everything today.
I don't know if you've seen that before, too.
It'll seem like they're just chilling, chilling, chilling.
And they might be doing something.
You might have a couple of the workers scraping or doing something.
Half the time, it's like they're doing something with a tool.
And it's like, what are you even doing right now?
I'm not even really sure what you're doing.
And then one day you'll pass.
They'll have all the equipment out there.
They'll have the big roller.
They'll have the big bulldozers.
They'll have everything.
And they'll have 18 people working on it.
And they'll all be smoothing it out.
They'll be doing all this stuff.
And you go, oh, dang.
They really kicked it in the high gear.
But the days surrounding that is a whole lot of nothing.
Yeah.
I hate road construction.
I hate how people are driving road construction.
I just hate that people can't drive in it.
And I'm sick of it.
Yeah.
I hate it, too.
I just hate how it drags on.
I just can't stand how not just how people drive in it,
but also how police officers act in it.
As bad as it is, police officers use
construction zones as extra chiching.
And so you got to be extra careful because you'll
get pulled over in a heartbeat, too.
I mean, doing any little thing.
I mean, it's not even speeding.
If you failure to maintain the lane,
they will pull you over in a heartbeat for that
in a construction zone.
They love those double fines.
I just hate it.
I don't get it whenever it says end road work.
And then literally a mile, then it says begin road work.
Is it just another project that they're working on?
Or what?
Because I'm like, why did you say end road work or end
construction zone?
And then it lets me know, hey, I can break the speed limit.
And then I have to slow down in another mile or so.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't know.
I know definitely some areas, especially in the South,
they'll set up bogus construction zones to like that
as speed traps, essentially, to where
it'll be like, OK, I'm out of this construction zone.
Let me floor it and get back up to regular speed limit.
And then a mile later, it's really easy to miss those signs.
And if you miss the sign, then all of a sudden a cop's
waiting on the other end of it.
You got any more to say about construction zones?
Oh, I got plenty.
I wish there's been a lot of times.
And they probably are like, what the heck.
But I have rolled down my windows a few times
and been like, what the heck are y'all doing?
Just sitting around.
Yeah, I've let some frustrations out
of the construction guys on the road there.
Have they said anything back to you?
No, they just stare at me.
I've done it twice.
And both times, they just kind of like stared at me like,
what did he say?
I couldn't really tell what he said.
Well, we're going to hop into our next segment, which
is the Mystery Donut.
And that's our air prop segment.
So guess what?
I think the coffee shop guys are back, right?
All of them.
Well, not all of them.
We got so many characters at the coffee shop now,
I don't even know if I can remember all the voices we've
done to this point.
I can't either.
I think just whoever shows up shows up.
It's always random.
But actually, a funny story, because we talk about those old
guys that sit at the coffee shop all the time.
My pastor was talking about how at his old church,
there was these guys that would always sit at the McDonald's
and talk and gab.
But what they would do is, like the first couple hours
in the morning, they would go to the church and like help out
and do whatever it was and then go to the McDonald's
and get their coffee.
And they called themselves the Hawks, helpful old guys.
That's what they called themselves.
I was like, oh yeah, that's definitely an old guy group.
Man, that just falls right into that stereotype
of what we're going for.
Well, let's kick off the coffee shop.
Back again.
See, all my friends at the coffee shop,
we're going to talk some mess.
And so first and foremost, who thinks
it's going to win this week?
What do you mean?
Who's going to win this week?
It's going to be the Dallas Cowboys.
You know that they're going to win all the time.
You know that's God's team.
That's why they have them retractable roofs because
God's always smiling on the Cowboys.
All I'm saying is the Cowboys haven't quite been good.
I don't know.
Been probably, oh, what's it been about 20, 25 years?
Yeah, Hans, I love the Dallas Cowboys, man.
I love that Daks Prescott guy, man.
He always be throwing the football, the time,
to all that guy.
He better than Patrick Holmes, man.
It's Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott.
That's what I say, Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott.
D-A-K.
Dak.
I don't know why you guys always argue over football.
You know the San Francisco 49ers are the best.
Listen, Mr. Quown, ain't nobody like the 49ers,
but yourself.
One time, my mom took me to a Chief's game.
And Patrick Mahomes, he signed my football.
Last week, I had to clean up my stoma.
And I stumbled upon a piece in a newspaper
about Patrick Mahomes.
And he could have thrown a lot of ball throws,
I'll tell you that.
Now, John, didn't you say that you cut down from 10 packs a day
to five packs?
Yeah, but I'm back up to seven.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, you guys haven't said nothing to me all week.
We all know it's about the Patriots,
the New England Patriots.
They're the Bee's Knees.
Tom Brady is my nephew from down the road.
You see?
I knew him back from Bean Town, you know?
Tom Brady.
That guy ain't nothing but a washed up pack.
You know who the best quarterback all the time is,
don't you?
You know who that is?
Roger Starback.
He got 10 times in the Mellon County.
Tom Brady, hey.
Tom Brady.
Couldn't even last.
Roger Starback, throw him like a football.
Had I known you'd say something about it.
Roger Starback.
I was Roger Starback, but you.
Roger Starback, Roger Starback.
That's all you, that's your haircut?
That's your life.
If you had it, you'd name one of your kids.
It's going to be the kids named Roger.
All right, now we need to stop doing all the jiver-jiver
and putting each other down.
This is a group.
I thought this was the type of group
where we lift each other up and we talk about other stuff.
All you guys want to talk about is football and all,
joking around with each other.
Too much joke.
Now I'll tell you this much, Danny Evans in the house.
Oh hell, I'm going to get out of here.
I ain't going to be here with no rainbow twinkle toes, Danny Evans.
Hey, welcome here.
Oh, Lord, I can't believe he done came in this place today.
He ain't welcome here.
Hey, Hans, you guys aren't going to run out on the tab.
I won't have to feed my seven kids.
No, you just leave it to Mr. Kwan.
That's what happens.
Stick in with the tag.
Ain't bad.
All right.
And that was our improv segment.
Pretty good.
I always loved that bit of improv because it
challenges me to think outside the box.
But we're going to move into our E-Claire, which
is our positive advice.
And Micah, I think you're up, buddy.
I just want to have a little reminder today.
Communication is really, really important.
And it's really, really hard sometimes, especially when
you're going through really hard times.
But remember, the people around you don't know what they
don't know.
And I mildly plan this, but not really.
Just like in driving, if you don't put on your blinker,
the person in the lane next to you doesn't know that you
want to come over.
And so the thing is, a lot of the times, it's really easy not
to communicate.
And it's really easy to not tell other people your
intentions and just assume that they understand and they
know.
And then what happens?
You swerve into their lane, and then they flip you off.
And you're like, wait, why'd you flip me off?
It's because they weren't expecting that.
And that was a bomb dropped on them.
And so the thing is, it's important to communicate and
let other people know what's going on.
Even if you feel like it's minor, it could be very
important to them understanding and being able to help you.
Oh, yeah.
That's definitely true.
I had to do that today, actually, because sometimes
people just genuinely don't know that they either hurt
your feelings or did something wrong.
And it might be something minor to them, or you think
that's minor.
But it can be a big deal, because sometimes those
little things can build animosity and build bitterness.
But my eclair is more of a leadership advice thing.
And it's kind of more of a sports reference.
But build your depth chart.
And what I mean by that is always have people that you
are training to be in the spots.
And we always used to say this at a job that I worked with.
It's always train your replacement, because you
never know.
Someone might call in sick, or God forbid that you go
through a health crisis, or you have a family emergency
that you have to attend to.
But if you have that strong depth chart of people that
know how to do your job, that know how to do the things
that you do, then whenever you do have those things pop up,
those people can hop into those spots.
And two, you can take a vacation.
And you can take time off and not worry about what
things are being taken care of.
So always train your replacement.
Build your depth chart so you can have those people in
position to take over so that eventually you can be promoted
and you're not stuck in one place.
Yeah, it's good stuff.
It's really important.
And also to add to that, also it's important to document
things that you do.
And this is primarily for job wise.
But document things that you do all the time so that, again,
once that replacement happens, you can hand them
documentation as well that gives them step by step on how
to do it as well.
That helps.
You don't want to be like that guy that had 30 plus years
of experience and then the trainee got fired because they
couldn't afford to lose them.
All right, well, I think we're about done.
About to take this tonal box out to the trash.
But hey, we got to tell you all about our stuff.
And we got to plug it.
So you know how that goes.
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And we really appreciate you all listening to us.
But we've had fun.
I always enjoyed doing these podcasts, man.
It's always real cool.
So we're going to take this tonal box out to the trash.
I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
I'm Chris.
Bye.
Thank you.