Trashcan TV presents Spouse Switch.
On tonight's episode of Spouse Switch, two wives will be swapped with each other and
going into different worlds.
Our first spouse comes from Houston, Texas.
Katie Williams is a mother of three and along with being a mother of three, they're also
clowns.
Katie believes that all of her kids should express how they feel and how they should
be.
Well, how I personally feel is I feel that my kids should be examples in this society
that you can look however you want to make a living and you can do what you want to make
a living.
That's what I tell them every day.
You live your dream, you live your life and that's the biggest thing.
She'll be swapping with another spouse, Genevieve Martin, who is from New York, New York.
Genevieve believes that kids should be seen and not heard and also believes that facial
expressions are not allowed in her household.
She doesn't believe in smiling or any other type of makeup or face paint.
Listen now, if my kids get out of line, I'll tell you this much.
They get locked in the dungeon.
You hear me?
The dungeon.
I have my own dungeon in my basement and I'm just saying kids, they need to be in line.
They need to be in their uniforms by 5 a.m. sharp.
They need to have their crease made beds.
And I mean that inch fold.
If I don't have the inch fold, we will have a problem.
I'm just saying the best regiment is the military regiment.
That's what I'm saying.
That's how you raise kids.
Can these two spouses live in each other's world and survive?
Tune in to SpouseSwitch to find out.
Hi, I'm Chris.
And I'm Micah.
And this is the DonaBox Podcast.
Chris, I used to love that show.
I mean there was Wipeswap, Bow Swap, whichever one it was.
I used to love that show.
Yeah, there is always that stereotypical southern person on their weather.
And usually most of the time the southern person is like very strict from what I remember.
They typically are or they're extremely lenient.
I mean if you remember that King Curtis character, I love that character.
But like his household was extremely lenient.
They let him eat chicken nuggets and bacon all the time.
If you have not seen King Curtis Wipeswap, YouTube it my friends because it is comedy
gold.
But that show was good.
It was very typical 2000s.
But hey, it's episode 24 man.
What you thinking?
Man, I'm thinking right now.
I should see if we can get that on the website.
Maybe a few seasons of Wipeswap or something on there.
Great stuff.
Well, we are welcoming all those that are listening.
We thank you for listening to us.
Hey, we have people in Hawaii.
We have people in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, California, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Where else do we have some listeners?
Ohio.
Definitely.
We got Florida.
We got our mainstays, Georgia, Texas.
This is our big one.
You already said New Mexico, right?
I think so.
I said Albuquerque.
Yeah, Washington, Oregon.
All those are...
I mean, we got a bunch of folks.
Brussels, Belgium especially.
I think we got another listener in the Middle East area.
It looked like in the Jordan or Israeli area.
So that's cool.
Yeah, heck yeah.
Well, and something else too.
We can't leave out Singapore.
Singapore has been red hot here lately.
They've been listening a lot.
Yeah, they're probably listening while they're working.
But yeah, welcome to all of those that are returning.
If you're new, welcome.
The way this works is each donut is a different segment.
We like to start off with our first one, which is our old fashioned donut, which is a story
from our past.
And if you guys have been listening for a while, you will know that Mike and I moved
from Georgia to Texas.
It's been almost 10 years, man.
Almost 10 years.
It's weird to think about that it's been almost 10 years.
But yeah, we almost, we went out there and you probably heard a little bit about the
stories from when we first got there, some of the things that we did.
We're just going to talk about some of the things that we did in Lubbock, just kind of
the side piece stuff that we kind of explored and some of the stuff that we did early on.
Kind of give them a recap of that first year, I think while we were here.
Because we have a lot of interesting stories from that first year that we lived here.
Yeah.
We literally started that job boot corral.
So if you listened before and heard about us working there, that's when we started that
job.
So it's within that first year that and actually Chris had a couple of jobs that first year.
I only had one.
I bought, well, yeah, I only had one starting off.
So whenever I first got to Lubbock, we got there on a, I think Sunday and I got a job
on Thursday.
So I got a job like in four days.
So I was a wait or actually started off as a bus boy at a restaurant and I just worked
there through the summer.
And then I really wanted to work at boot corral with Micah.
And so Micah somehow got me hard on.
I kind of like kick, kick down the door to get in there.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
It took a little for desert, but hey, we got them in there and it was, it was really
fun.
And some of the, like, you know, we've talked about this before Chris, but some of the funnest
times we did have was in the back room of that boot corral and some of the people that
we met over there, we've talked about some of these characters, but it was, it was kind
of that love hate relationship.
You know, it was fun back there, but I don't miss that work.
You know what I mean?
I don't miss it either.
But one of the funniest things that I guess we had to learn about Lubbock was Lubbock is
full of dust storms and what they call their dust storms out here is Haboogs.
And I'm telling you, these dust storms are so bad that it'll make the sky pitch black,
like dust just covering everything.
Like you almost get blown away literally.
And so at the end of the day at boot corral, we would have to throw our trash in the dumpster
and the dumpster pickup would only be like maybe once a week.
So once it started getting full, we had to get creative on how to fit all that trash
in the dumpster.
We would have to jump on the trash and squish it down.
Yeah.
And luckily we all, you know, we had this dumpster to our own.
So it was only like boxes, but still we would jump up and down on the trash.
But I remember there were several times where, you know, the winds kicking up, we're out
there in the dust and that, you know, all that stuff.
And I really don't know why.
I think it was just because this was us or this was me at age 18, I know for sure.
But you know, this whole thing has happened and there's customers walking in the store
and this is like, you know, on the side of the store.
For some reason we thought it would be funny to yell at them, go, Oh boo, get inside.
It's dangerous.
It would be yelling at them and all sorts of stuff.
Just like goofing off.
But yeah, it was weird though.
I will say this, something about boot corral was they would literally, the worst weather,
people would love to come shop.
I have no clue why.
Like in the middle of those, those Haboos, those dust storms, if you think about it,
I remember a lot of people pulling up during that thing.
Well, you know why people do that, right?
It's because they don't have to go to work.
So they're like, Oh yeah, I got the day off.
Let's go.
Oh, it was especially the worst when those cotton farmers, whenever it rained a whole
bunch because they especially like they couldn't do anything or especially like planting season
and stuff.
Oh, they would just come in there and you know, if you've listened to the show a lot
here as well, you know, we'll do, we'll do the coffee shop bit.
You know, during our improv segment and it's a lot like that.
You know, these old farmers would just come in there and be like, Yep, yep.
Can't put it in the ground.
Nope.
Can't put the seed in the ground.
But they would just come in there to look because they got nothing else going on.
That and when it snowed, I used to hate it when it was snow and ice.
Like you would barely get there.
You'd be passing like eight car pileups and all sorts of stuff and bam, you know, there
would be a store full of people waiting on you and you would expect there would be nobody
around.
But we also attended church and there not at boot corral, but we attended church in
Lubbock.
And so when we first got there, it was very interesting because we met a whole bunch of
weird and interesting people.
Some of them should not be named, but we met, we met different people at the college group
and one guy was named Mikey G. Shout out to Mikey G. If you are listening, I'm still friends
with him right, right to this day.
But do you remember that time that because Michael was a year younger than me.
And so Michael was a senior in high school and I was already out of high school.
And so we, Michael would go to youth and I would volunteer in youth and Michael was
still a youth leader.
But so afterwards they, all the youth leaders were like, Hey, we're all going to go out
to eat.
And Michael was like, OK, cool.
Like I'll tag along.
Like where y'all, where are you guys going?
And I was like, man, I don't know.
Let me go find out.
And I remember going to ask and they like pulled me aside.
They were like, yeah, Michael can't go because he's a senior in high school and he's still,
he's still in high school.
So he can't go with us.
And I remember being like, well, shoot, if he's not going, I'm not going.
So you guys have fun by yourself.
I was like, I wasn't going to leave my friend.
Yeah.
Chris is always a standup guy.
He's a, he's a, he always be doing stuff like that.
Anyways, see, I didn't even know that happened until years later.
We were on a camping trip and you told me that I was like, I didn't even know that happened.
I didn't even remember that.
To be honest.
Yeah.
I'm probably you were, I'm probably sure that you were just like, yeah, like, why aren't
you going out to eat?
And I was like, oh, there goes some more labor.
I don't know.
I didn't want to tell you because that's kind of like, I don't know.
I didn't want you to feel like you were holding me back or like he's not going because of
me and this and that.
So I probably would have been like, oh, these, these people.
A little bit sharper words than that, but do you remember that time?
Do you remember that time that it got really bad icy in a snowstorm and we were hanging
out with Zacharoni and cheese and we were like, you know, we're just sitting around
and you're like, you know what would be cool?
If we went to Target and got some lightsabers and we had a lightsaber fight on the playground.
Yes we did.
And I will say this, Lubbock had this playground at the time and it's been torn down now and
I've heard there's plans to rebuild it, but I don't know, man.
Like in Georgia, they didn't have playgrounds like this, but they had, it was called Legacy
Play Park and it was a, it was a dope place.
They had these like rope bridges.
Man, if I was a kid, I would have loved that place.
Shoot.
When I was a teenager, I thought that place was dope.
When I was 19, I thought it was dope.
You remember I, well, Micah and I, I think you've heard, you guys have heard this before,
but Micah and I, when we first got there, we also had to share a room.
Uh, because his grandpa lived, took the other room while he was living with us and man,
weren't those some interesting times?
Yeah, those are some interesting times, especially because some of us would get home extremely
late.
Like it kind of took turns and uh, it, it just wasn't a good situation.
Like I love my boy, Chris, but sharing a room for a few nights, that's okay, but sharing
a room full time, two dudes need their space.
I don't care who they are.
I also remember that we would sneak out to go get Burger King because at any time we
tried to leave anywhere, the people that we lived with, aka Micah's donors would be like,
be like, Oh, where are you going?
Where are you going?
And we were like, we're just going out to go to Burger King and they were like at nine
o'clock at night.
And I was like, well, I'm hungry.
Like what's wrong with that?
I'm spending my own money.
Oh, just to talk best for a minute.
Do you remember?
So they wouldn't buy us the stuff that we wanted to eat.
Now that I think back about it, it was, it was like all stuff that I wouldn't, I think
I'm burnt out on now, like ramen noodles and, uh, like it, different stuff like that.
But I remember they wouldn't like buy that for us.
So we went out and bought our own groceries one time and it just all was in the pantry
and over they mad.
They were like, Oh, you just go buy your own groceries.
And it's like, yep.
Well, they never had any snacks there, man.
Like they'd never had.
So like anytime you got hungry in the middle of the night, that's why we went to Burger
King because we were like, man, we're hungry.
Heck yeah.
Oh, and also shout out, Miss Debbie.
You kept us alive during those first few months there by sending us those care packages with
all those candies and all the, I remember there was fudge in one of them.
It was great.
I was like, I was like, Oh, your mom sent a package.
It's like, heck yeah.
Yeah.
It was a two teenage boys living their best life.
You got any other stories from that time that kind of stick out to you?
All I remember man is we went to roses a little too much.
Rose is like a, it's like a cafe place.
It's like a Tex-Mex cafe place.
Yeah.
Tex-Mex cafe.
It's way better than Taco Bell, but has, and there was always Taco Tuesday.
There was Taco Tuesday, but it's like, you know, it's, it's pretty much a, like, would
you classify this fast food pretty much is, but it's not, it is, it is, but it's like
upper echelon fast food, if that makes sense.
Like it's not, it's got to drive through, but it's not like bad food.
So, but yeah, we love the Mexican food.
We first got there, but that's what, that's what I remember man was the dust storms getting
used to all that.
It rained mud a couple of times.
Yeah.
It was interesting, interesting times, but yeah, love it.
You also can't forget about all the Texas tech football games that we went to.
And that is true.
We learned that the student section there, they are a bit of a fan base.
And so they like to throw tortillas at the opposing team and sometimes batteries.
Yeah.
And other things.
I remember there was one time they dumped trash all over the field.
That was great.
I remember you painted your body like all red one time, like you like showed up and it was
kind of like chilly and everything, but like you were all decked out.
Face was painted red.
Arms were painted red.
I remember that.
Yeah.
I used to go all out for that stuff, man.
I'm a little bit more low key now.
It's nice to just enjoy it instead of being crazy about it.
Yeah.
It was cool.
It was when Texas tech was fairly decent and so they had some good games.
It was fun.
I just remember, I think the first game that we went to, it was against Texas Christian.
And I just remember the T-shirt, it was red or red grilling up the frog because that's
TCU's mascot.
It was like tastes like chicken.
That's what it, that's what they said.
That was a good game because they were in the top 25 and ended up beating them.
It was a fun year to go.
I remember we had to miss a game though because of certain people at all boot corral and us
having to work, but you know, is what it is.
I remember sitting back there and listening to the game online or through the radio.
Yeah.
But hopefully, hopefully tech will be good this year.
That's what I'll say to that.
But yeah, that's pretty much all I got on when we first got to Lubbock in that first
year.
Well, that's all I got too.
So I guess we're jumping into the jelly donut, which is our jail report.
Who used that private pile?
Sir, jelly donut, sir.
A jelly donut.
All right.
I got some good stories for us today.
Yeah.
Let's get the jail report.
What's going on?
All right.
Well, this first one, this happened actually a long time ago.
And when I say long time ago, like seven years ago, but this man got arrested for riding
on the side, riding on the sidewalk with chalk.
Sorry.
That's kind of a tongue twister.
Riding on the sidewalk with chalk.
What did he say?
Apparently he just wrote some stuff about the police.
He did not have some good things to say about police.
And this happened in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And so he was writing stuff about, I guess, maybe F the police or what, but he got arrested
for it.
Well, that's, that's interesting.
I'd be interested to see exactly what he wrote, but police, if you make a mad, they'll
arrest you for anything.
Well, they threw it out because obviously it infringes on the First Amendment right
at freedom of speech.
So they threw it out.
And I guess they passed the law.
This was before a law was passed about, you know, getting arrested for riding stuff on
the sidewalk, but he got, it got dismissed.
Well, at least it got dismissed because that's pretty stupid.
All right.
This next one.
All right.
This guy was in high school and he had a, I guess, quote unquote rock star day at school
where they could dress up like rock stars.
So all of his friends dressed up like members of the band Kiss.
And so this guy had to run a few errands before school, including a trip to the bank.
Apparently the bank manager didn't take too kindly to a Gene Simmons lookalike sitting
in front of his bank before it opened.
He called in a robbery in progress and he looked up for meeting his breakfast sandwich
to see 20 cup cars swarming around and guns drawn and screaming at him to get out of the
car and to get on the ground.
They handcuffed him and made him stand outside the bank until they verified the story and
then realized that he wasn't robbing the bank.
He said, lesson learned, don't go to the bank dressed as Gene Simmons.
So this guy got arrested just for looking suspicious.
I guess don't, don't go to the bank looking any type of way, man.
You know, I've even heard like, don't go in there with hats on with sunglasses on, like
looking can speak you like, you know, looking weird at all because they'll be on D. So I've
heard all that stuff, but yeah, that's pretty crazy.
I mean, I can understand from the bank manager's perspective, he's sitting there and you know,
you're waiting for the bank to open and you see this dude in a Gene Simmons costume and
you know, most people know KISS, but you know, the black and white face paint and KISS is
pretty, you know, depending on the outfit, they're, it's pretty outlandish looking.
So and people who rob the bank normally are in disguise like that.
So.
All right.
This one happened in England or the UK.
And this was right around the time that Princess Diana died.
And so she got buried.
And so this lady was walking home from the bar and she was like walking past the grave
and she accidentally dropped something in the flowers on the grave.
This was 3am in the morning.
The lady was trying to find it and some cops came along and arrested her because they thought
that they were trying or this lady was trying to, I guess, steal Princess Diana's gear or
something.
She got escorted away and she never retrieved what she had lost.
But the police were like, put her in handcuffs and were like, Hey, you need to get out of
here because they thought she was a grave robber or something.
It is just a side note, but I've never understood like the royal family and all this other stuff
because if that was somebody else's grave, they wouldn't care, right?
They probably wouldn't have cared if somebody was just rummaging through it.
You're saying you don't know why people are so obsessed with it?
Yeah, I'm not sure why these people are so special.
I mean, they come from a long lineage of so-called royalty, but what does that really make them,
right?
I mean, should we really be arresting people for dropping stuff on their, you know, their
grade side by accident?
Yeah, people are just weird like that.
But all right, here's this next one.
So this kid shared a story for, I guess not a kid anymore.
He's an adult and he shared a story.
He said, when I was 13, I got suspended from my school for graffiti encouraged by this
success.
He decided to take his graffiti skills to the streets and was immediately caught and
arrested to make matters worse.
He was arrested on the night before his final Latin exam.
The cops called my mom to inform her that her son was a juvenile delinquent who is currently
handcuffed to a table down at the local police precinct.
And without skipping a beat, she responded, well, does he have his Latin textbook with
him?
He has an exam tomorrow.
So the mom was like more worried about her son failing her Latin, failing the Latin exam
rather than being arrested.
She was like, well, I guess while you got him down there might as well be studying.
Yeah, moms are weird sometimes, especially, yeah, I don't know.
Some moms be like that though, to where they're like, well, he better be studying at least
to be down there.
Exactly.
It sounds like a Latina mom.
No lie though.
That sounds like a song a Latina mom would say.
All right.
This next one, four students at a university stole the Ronald McDonald statue from the
local McDonald's.
They're currently in jail waiting arraignment for their charges of felony theft and waiting
an expulsion from the college.
Needless to say, these people were freshmen.
So a little bit of context for you guys that don't know in McDonald's and in the Walmart
set had McDonald's, they used to have Ronald McDonald statues and a bench and you could
sit down next to Ronald McDonald and take a picture or just chill.
That was something that was kind of big in the 2000s.
Well, apparently these four freshmen stole the Ronald McDonald.
I don't know how they did that.
It sounds like a fraternity rush prank or something like that, like to get into a fraternity,
something like that.
I mean, I think it's weird, but I think it would be kind of cool if they had gotten away
with it and stolen it and be like, hey, we stole that McDonald's.
I think that's kind of cool if they would have been able to pull it off.
They go into this frat house and there's just this bench with Ronald McDonald there.
Yeah.
Come to think of it, that was a really big thing and you really don't see.
I mean, I see it once every now and then kind of, but like you really don't see the benches
with Ronald McDonald sitting there.
I think the United States is a little more scared of clowns.
That makes sense.
I think people don't like clowns as much as they used to.
Well, I also know that McDonald's are not really in Walmart anymore.
I guess they took them out.
There's one in town here that still has a McDonald's, but McDonald's used to be in Walmart's
everywhere.
It used to be a big thing.
It seems like it's a lot of subways.
Well, even if it's a subway now, there's not even restaurants in there.
I always thought that was kind of weird, I guess.
Do your shopping and then I guess go eat at Subway.
Yeah.
I never really got, maybe that's why it's not there anymore, but I never really got
my food in Walmart like that.
Yeah.
I've gotten them a couple times.
I got a couple of McChickens while I was doing some shopping in Walmart, but anyways,
we're going to move on to our next segment and that's the donut hole.
And Micah, I don't have a quiz for you.
I don't have a movie review for you.
Oh.
I'm going to kind of change it up a little bit, but you're going to get to be part of
this donut hole.
So are you ready?
Okay.
Yeah.
What's up?
Well, we are going to review some of our favorite theme park rides.
Micah and I have both been to different theme parks all over the US and I thought we could
give our audience some takes.
That way we could give them some suggestions so when they go, you know, so how does that
sound?
It sounds good to me.
You know, I think all the amusement parks that I've been to, you've been to as well.
I think, I don't think there's any that I've been to that, you've definitely been to some
that I haven't, but I think everyone that I've been to you have as well.
So I'll kick it off.
Micah, first pick.
What's one of your all time favorite theme park or amusement park rides?
I'm going to have to go with Titan at Six Flags Over Texas, the one in Arlington.
It's, you know, essentially I could have said Goliath or Titan because I feel like they're
kind of the same thing.
And when I say Goliath, Goliath is the same version of it essentially, but it's in Six
Flags Over Georgia.
So but I mean, same color scheme, same, I think the tracks are just a little different.
You just can't beat that first drop.
I don't know what it is.
You just can't beat that.
Yeah.
What else about it do you like?
Do you love?
So I love, so if we're talking about the Goliath version of it, I think, I don't think that
Titan has this one.
I don't know the Goliath version.
I like the corkscrew part of it.
You know, when it's, and for those of you who don't know, it's literally like a corkscrew
to where it turns and the whole car like kind of turns sideways and you have all those
G forces on there and it kind of goes down.
But yeah, no, I love that part about it.
I also know when the camera is coming.
So for some reason I was like to try to lift up my shirt by the time the camera gets there.
I don't know why that's a thing, but yeah.
I, one of my favorites and Titan is definitely one of my favorites at Six Flags.
You know, and I, as we talked about last episode, just came back from Universal Studios, but
I think my all time favorite is Hagrid's motorbike adventure.
It's really fun.
I told Mike about this and essentially how the car is set up is it's two, two cars.
So one part is the motorcycle part and one part is the sidecar.
If you can definitely get on the motorcycle part, that part is cool.
And so you're riding on the track and you're going through Hagrid's world from Harry Potter
and you're seeing all these cool things and the bike is literally going at like 60 miles
an hour.
And you know, there are some parts where it kind of stops on amusement park rides, but
this just keeps going and it keeps shooting you out.
And if you're on the motorbike, it actually feels like you're riding a motorcycle and
the wind is going crazy.
And then like there's this like surprise drop that you just don't expect that's coming.
And so it's really cool to get to do that.
The animatronics are great.
Like it is probably the most popular ride at Universal Studios, but I definitely recommend
that one.
Are there any others that you recommend at Six Flags or any other theme parks that you've
been?
Heck yeah.
So Six Flags wise, I definitely would say you got to do Mr. Freeze at Six Flags over
Texas.
That one's really fun.
That's one of those to where it shoots you out.
I don't know, extremely fast.
You do the whole entire thing.
It seems like it only takes 30 seconds.
Seems like the whole thing's like 30 seconds long, but it's...
Well, they shoot you out backwards, right?
So they shoot you.
That's how you start off and you get shot out backwards and then you get to a point
and then you do the whole coaster forwards again.
So you're getting to do it twice.
You literally go through the whole track and then it backs up all the way up this track.
So you're looking down the track and then you go back through the track, which I think
is really, really fun.
There's a lot of them at Six Flags over Texas, but just highlighting the really, really good
ones.
Superman, Six Flags over Georgia.
I really like that one.
That's a lay down coaster.
Literally you get to fly like Superman.
For some reason I really like the parts where it goes super low to the ground.
I don't know why.
You're literally on your stomach, like, because you sit on the thing like a normal roller
coaster thing, but then it inverts to where once you started going, it's like you're
literally flying like Superman and you're on your stomach.
And that part is pretty, pretty fun.
What did you think about the Joker at Six Flags over Texas, Arlington?
How did you feel about that one?
I felt like it was kind of the same as the Riddler over there.
I liked it.
It's got a lot of loops, man.
It's got a lot of loops.
And don't wear a hat, don't have it in your pockets.
I'll tell you that much.
Yeah.
I think another one that I enjoyed at Six Flags over Georgia is Monster Plantation.
I don't think they have it anymore.
But essentially you go on this ride right after lunch because it's like one of those
floating animatronic rides where you just go through and then you kind of have like
a small little baby drop.
I don't know why, maybe it's just for the nostalgia.
I think it was the nostalgia because it was kind of in the kiddie part of the park and
you'd always eat.
And I don't know, one time we just decided like, man, it really sucks when you get right
on a roller coaster right after you eat.
So maybe let's find something.
So there was Monster Plantation and you ride this boat through the whole thing and it's,
I don't know, it looks like a scene out of a Tim Burton film.
They've got all these weird characters and it's supposed to be like a Southern swamp
and whatnot.
And you know, you're on a set track and they're having like this weird celebration and all
of a sudden, you know, the sheriff's like, oh, don't go on the marsh, don't go on the
marsh.
And you know, you're going in the marsh.
And I don't know, there was also something fun about most of the time there was kids on
the boat with you.
So you could be like, no, let's not go on the marsh.
I don't want to go on the marsh.
And you can freak them out.
And that was always pretty fun.
Yeah, I think another one that I enjoy at Universal Studios is the Spider-Man ride.
That one's really cool because half of it is 3D and then half of it is like live.
So like when you're like going through some of like the smoke and stuff, like there's
actually mist in there.
And then when like the hobgoblin throws like the fireballs at you through the 3D, it like
the car shifts and then there's actual like fire in your face, which is pretty cool.
And then another one that's really cool is Revenge of the Mummy because it starts off
like that water ride where it's like, oh yeah, don't go, we're supposed to go this way.
Oh, but we're going to go the other way.
And then it's a roller coaster straight in the dark.
Like you don't know where you're going and it's great.
It's a great time.
Are there any rides that you would say, you know what, if you're here, don't go to this
ride.
Like this is going to be horrible.
The one, the one that just immediately comes to mind.
I don't know what they call it now.
I think you said you went to Six Flags over Georgia and it was named different, but they
used to call it the Ninja.
Oh man.
And the whole joke was there was never a line.
First of all, I think it freaked people out because to get to the roller coaster, you
had to walk out on this.
It wasn't like rickety, but it was kind of this like wooden walkway that went over this
really nasty water.
It was like retention water.
And there's these fish in this water, but anyways, I don't think people wanted to, it
just didn't look great.
Then you get there and I don't know.
It really hurt.
Like that roller coaster always hurt really, really bad.
And the whole joke was always like, yep, I'm going to get my ass whooped.
And then you go on the ride and it's like, yep, I got my ass whooped by the Ninja because
it was really bad.
Those padding, like the padding that was on either side, I don't know.
I guess it was weathered and like really hard.
You know, the like Styrofoam when it gets like really weathered, it gets super hard.
Like I felt like that's what had happened over time with that thing.
Also the Georgia Cyclone, any of the wooden roller coasters, if you're younger, you can
take it.
But the older that we get, like it just jacks my back up really, really bad.
The Great American Scream Machine, I do not think that's a big wooden roller coaster and
used to we would sit in the very back car because it would kind of lift up and slam down
and all sorts of stuff.
I couldn't do that now.
I tell you that much.
I tell you one that I want to go to that I have not been to.
And I know you're the same way.
But it's the Six Flags New Jersey and it's a roller coaster called King-de-Ca.
And that thing looks amazing.
It's one of the biggest roller coasters in the whole entire world.
So as far as drops and speed and all that good stuff.
Well, and it's one of those.
I think we have a theme here, but it shoots you out.
You know, it literally starts you off and you just accelerate up the hill.
And then so, you know, before you know it, you're up this hill and I don't know.
That's a lot better for me personally.
And this just a side note.
I'm okay with heights, but Chris will tell you things like tightening stuff.
When I get close to the top, I'm not looking.
I'm not looking at all until we get pretty much going over the edge.
I don't know, man.
It just kind of freaks me out.
So if you shoot me over that hill, we're good.
Yeah, that's how I feel.
I hate whenever you're just waiting and it goes click, click, click, click, click, click,
click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click.
And you're just waiting to get there.
But I like when it just shoots you in.
Yeah.
The one I will say not to ride at Universal Studios.
And just because it's lame, it's the fast and furious one.
They just put you all in a party bus and there's really nothing to it and it's stupid.
But real quick, and this will be the last thing, tell them the formula or do you want
to keep that secret?
You want to keep the formula secret to theme parks of how we figured out how to do them?
Hey, why?
We could tell it now.
And when we go big, we might regret it, right?
But hey, for our OGs, we'll definitely tell it.
So what we always try to do, a lot of times they will open up the back of the park.
You know, they have an opening time where they open the front gate and they'll have
a few rides open in the front.
But you want to just skip all those because everybody's going to be in line for those,
right?
So say the gates open at 9.30, you know the back of the park is probably going to open
at 10.
So you go over there and you wait for 10.
And when they open those ropes, man, the whole back of the park is yours.
Everybody's still stuck at the front because they're all going for the rides that were
open.
You ride as much as you want in the back.
That initial wave of people.
I don't know what it is about amusement parks, but at least what I've noticed is you have
that first initial wave of people that'll get there when it opens.
Then you kind of have a lull for a while.
And then so basically during that lull where everybody that was in the front of the park
has moved to the back of the park, then you move to the front of the park and you ride
the crap out of the stuff in the front.
And hey, now you've rode everything that you want to ride and it's probably, you know,
noon or one o'clock.
And you've rode everything you want to ride two, three times.
And now you can pick and choose what you want to do from there then on in, because, you
know, from then on, you're probably going to have lines wherever you go.
But again, you've already rode everything you want to ride.
You can pick and choose and say, okay, I want to ride this again.
And I'll wait in line for that.
I will say on top of that, pick what you picked your favorite ride to ride very first.
Like go ahead and get it out of the way once you get the park open and then head to the
back of the park, unless your favorite ride is in the back of the park.
And also with water rides, don't wait until the heat of the day to go ride them.
Ride them like immediately because everybody is trying to cool off and everybody will be
trying to ride those water rides at the heat of the day.
Yeah, you bet.
And you do not want to.
We've been in those situations so many times where you wait two and a half, three hours
for a water ride for a, I mean, we've waited two hours for a dinky log drop just to get
splashed for a little bit.
I mean, the thing is a lot of these amusement parks will have like misters or areas to cool
off in.
I would say take the free stuff and don't, you know, don't wait in the long line just
to go get splashed for a little bit.
We stood in those misters for how long, Chris?
That cooled us off instantly.
Cool deal.
Well, those are some theme park tips if you ever go to the theme parks and we love those.
But hey, we're going to move into what fries my donuts and body.
That's got you all fried up today.
And this is just kind of a general thing and you're going to be like, this is oddly specific.
But when one task turns into 50.
Oh yeah, that sucks.
And that's been like the theme of my life here lately.
It's like, okay, we're going to do something incredibly simple.
For instance, the other day I was going to go hang up a picture and I had the frame.
I had the picture.
So you think, okay, you put the picture in the frame, you go and you know, whatever.
What is that prompt though?
Okay, I put the picture in the thing and now it's in the frame.
Now let's go get a hammer and nails, right?
You go over here and then you realize either you've misplaced your hammer or somebody else
has misplaced your hammer.
So now you're looking around for your hammer.
In the process of looking around for your hammer, something else happens.
In my case, the dog vomited.
So now you're cleaning up the vomit from your dog and then you have to go back into your
task and go, okay, what was I looking for?
Oh, yes, yes, the hammer.
We're looking for the hammer.
So you go all around and then you look for the hammer.
Then you go, okay, well, this kind of doesn't do anything without nails.
So then you look for nails.
In the meantime, work calls you and it's like, hold on.
And then you have to come back to it.
And before you know it, something that was extremely small of a task like hanging up
a picture on the wall has now taken about an hour and a half of your time because either
stuff has taken you away from it or you couldn't find the necessary things that you needed
to do it.
And it's supposed to be the easiest thing that would take two seconds.
When something's missing some hardware or the holes are not pre-drilled right.
And then you're like, oh, I'm missing some hardware.
So I got to go make sure, do I have the right hardware for it?
If not, I got to go to the store and go get the...
I got to go to the store.
And then you sometimes, if you're like me, you'd be like, oh, this was not the right
size.
Now I got to go back.
So it's, yeah, I get them and it's frustrating because you're just like, this should have
taken me five minutes and now it's two hours.
Yeah, heck yeah.
And I don't know why that's been seemingly to happen to me quite a bit here lately where
it's like, man.
And I think it honestly happens when you have a lot to do.
It seems like that's when it tends to happen a lot is there's all this stuff that'll take
you off of your main missions or sidetrack the mess out of you.
And it's really frustrating because you just want to get what you want done.
Just another example.
I don't know why it always happens when I'm trying to eat.
It always happens too when I'm trying to eat and stuff always be popping off when I'm trying
to eat.
And a lot of the times it's not even like, it's like I sat down, the plate steam it and
I'm like, oh yeah, I got my food.
I'm ready to dig into this bug.
And it's like the moment you're ready to dig in.
So it's like, oh, can you do this right quick?
Or oh, can this happen?
And literally it won't be the only thing, right?
Like literally you'll get up and you'll go, okay, fine.
But then you realize, okay, this wasn't done and this needs to be taken care of before
I sit down.
And then it's like, I don't know.
One thing just tends to multiply and it's like, man, I just want to eat or I just want
to hang up a picture or I just want to, you know, at work it happens like that too.
And it's like, I just want to do this one thing.
I'm not trying to get into 40 other things on the back end.
Like I just want to do this one thing.
That's it.
And that would happen to me all the time when I was a manager.
It would literally be right when I sit down to eat.
And when you're your manager, like you got to sit and eat in the back office sometimes.
And then somebody like, hey, like you have to go deal with this problem.
And you're like, oh crap.
And then as soon as like you're out there, everybody is like, oh, there's the manager.
So then all the problems pile up and it takes you like 30 minutes just to finally get back
to your seat where you go eat.
I get that.
Oh yeah, you got to, you got to beat people off of the stick.
I don't know why.
Like you literally, it's like all the questions from the entire world.
And that's, that's something else that fries my donuts America and the world internationally.
All I'm saying is for my employees, most of the time we have a weekly meeting and we have
a daily meeting where you could say whatever you want, air out your grievances, any problems
that you have, they will wait and they won't say anything during these, these times.
Then they'll get me off on the side again when I'm trying to eat or when I'm trying to do
something.
And that's when they try to be like, oh, well, you know, I'm having this problem.
And it's like, man, we should have handled this anyways.
That's something else that fries my donuts.
But have you ever noticed like before you go to eat, everything is quiet and calm and
nothing is like happening and you're like, okay, this is a good time to go eat right
now.
I'm going to go take a break.
And especially when you a busy manager.
Oh heck yeah.
It's like you got to take the time when you can.
If it lolls, you got to take it.
You got to go.
And so yeah, exactly.
It's like, oh, it gets real calm.
Everything's fine.
Enough time for you to make your food.
But by the time you sit down and eat, there it is.
I get that man.
That's tough.
It's frustrating.
But yeah, that's what fries my donuts, man.
You know how it goes.
Yeah, I know how it goes, man.
Well, we're going to go to our next segment, which is the hip-hop segment.
That's our mystery donut.
So I think we're playing the story game, right?
Yeah.
So I'm going to create a sentence.
You're going to create a sentence and we're going to fill this story in.
Do we have like a theme or anything?
Uh, I mean, we got the trusty hat with situations and accents.
I mean, we can always do it as a situation or something.
There you go.
Well, let's pull out the hat.
Fishing on a river.
All right, I'll let you start.
All right.
Well, there I was, looking down at the big mouth of a big bass.
I get swallowed two of my minnows earlier and I finally got him on the hook.
He kept running from me.
So I kept reeling the men and then what I told him when I got him to the boat, you're
buying now.
Then all of a sudden the boat flipped over.
I lost the fish and my pole.
I don't know what happened.
Next thing I know, everything's going down the river.
Down later that the cause of the boat being flipped over was a sea gold that drunk too
much beer from some other fisherman right into the boat.
Next thing you know, I called Game Warden and said, who the hell is feeding beard?
There ain't no sea gold around here.
And the Game Warden told me it was some guy from Louisiana.
I said Louisiana.
Who the heck's from Louisiana from around here feeding beard to sea gold?
And then I also found out that Game Warden had just graduated college, so he wasn't much
help to me at all.
And I told that guy, you're just a whipper snapper.
I don't know what you're doing out here.
You didn't even qualify.
Who got you this job?
You're dead it.
Then turns out the Game Warden's dad was actually the sheriff of the county that I live in.
So I got put in handcuffs.
Next thing you know, old Darrell's in his cell and playing his harmonica.
They said that I would get one phone call, but when I tried to call my wife, I just got
the answer to shoot.
Well, guess I'm gonna stay in here and annoy these guys.
My wife finally came to bail me out after I got beat up for annoying them.
I told her in joke.
She didn't appreciate it.
I said, you here for a conjugal visit?
Duh it.
Hey, you know middle-aged dudes like that.
It's like literally they're in a bad situation.
Their wife could be there to pick them up.
It's just like, hey, you here for a conjugal visit?
It's like, no, I'm here to pick your dumb ass up.
Crazy stuff.
I don't know why everything that we try to do are stories that always ends up in jail
or something.
I don't know why that always happened.
We have we have interesting minds that were worked by family guy and lock up on MSNBC.
Well we're going to move into our positive advice, which is our hate care.
And I'll go ahead and go first.
Just kind of remind yourself that success doesn't happen overnight and the things that
you want to happen doesn't happen overnight.
So don't get so antsy or get impatient with it.
I know a lot of times we live in a society where things are instant and things go viral
within minutes and people get their 15 minutes of fame.
But just know that whatever you're working on, things that are worth having and waiting
for, you know, they're worth the hard work.
And so just know that success is not overnight.
Don't let the media and society fool you into thinking that because most of the things that
you get that 15 minutes of fame, they don't last.
But whenever you wait, put in the effort and stuff, the success and the good things will
last.
So yeah, success doesn't happen overnight.
And that kind of leads into mine.
Mine is take things slow.
In fact, one at a time or you'll miss stuff.
That's something else I've been going through the last few weeks.
And I think kind of going back to what fries my donuts, you know, when those one tasks
turned into 50, and you feel like that list is never going to end, it's really, really
easy to try to knock those things off the list.
And if you're anything like me, I don't know, I tend to think about, okay, I'm going to
get this, this and this done.
And then once I get this done, I'm a planner.
I like to think ahead.
I like to be efficient at things.
But sometimes you could be so efficient and you could literally look into things so hard
and try to go into them too fast without a formulated plan to where you might think it's
efficient, but it really isn't because what ends up happening is you miss stuff along
the way.
And it might be small stuff.
It may be big stuff.
You know, prime example, I was going to, I was going to, I guess, a hunting lodge with
my father-in-law, future father-in-law, and I was headed up there and I was so eager to
leave town and I had this list and everything.
And I thought I had tackled everything on the list.
And I kid you not.
I was halfway down there and I'm looking through my car and I realized, oh man, I forgot my
sleeping bag.
Oh man, I forgot my pillow.
Oh man, I forgot.
And the reason was I didn't stop at the storage unit, right?
And that seems like such a stupid thing to do, but at the same time it was one thing on
the list.
And when you think about, okay, I got to do this, this, this, this and this, sometimes
you can inadvertently check some of those things off the list and say, yep, I already
did that.
Yep, I already did that.
And it's like, all right, it's time to head out of town.
Yeah, you're right.
Let's get out of town.
Let's go.
But in reality, you're not actually checking with yourself like what's actually happening
and you just rush into it.
And that's, like I said, that's a small example, but it can really have big effects in life
if you let it.
Yeah, that's really good.
I know for me, I have the tendency to like try to do three things at one time and I like
bounce between the three just because that's how my mind works when my work so fast.
And I get distracted very easily, but it is good to take one thing at a time.
Like Snoop said, Snoop said, I'm going to take my time.
I'm not going to finish the rest of the song, but he said I'm going to take my time.
So yeah, it's been a great show.
Tell them where they can go to find all the stuff.
tvtrashcan.com, tvtrashcan.com.
Hopefully by the time you're listening to this, maybe y'all have found Wifeswomp to put
on the website.
Oh, dude, I totally dropped the ball today.
We're recording and you know what?
I forgot to say, may the fourth be with you.
And you're supposed to say and also with you for all of our Catholic friends.
There you go.
Well, I'll pay my penance if I ever have to sit through another rosary.
So you know what you can do to pay your penance.
You can just watch episodes seven, eight, nine.
There you go.
Pay your penance.
Can I just go to the rosary?
All right, well, whatever floats your boat.
You know the rest, YouTube, Facebook, all that good jazz.
But yeah, man, I think we're about ready to take this donut box out of the trash.
All right, well, sign us off, man.
I'm Michael and I'm Chris and this has been the donut box podcast.