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Hi, I'm Christopher. And I'm Micah. And this is the Donut Box Podcast. Well, buddy, it is another great episode. We're slowly, slowly creeping up on episode 100. We're getting there. Almost there, man. It's incredible that we have been doing it over a year and a half now. And just a few episodes after 100 will be our two year and then starting of season three. So that's pretty crazy. Yeah, but we want to shout out to all of our listeners. I know summer, everyone is traveling, but it's August.
So welcome back. We want to shout out all of our listeners in Canada, up in the Northeast, on our Midwestern states, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Georgia, Florida, New York. Where else are people listening? Internationally, Singapore is great. Love Singapore. And then, of course, Brussels, Belgium, all across Europe. We have more people. Sydney, Australia. I'm not even going to try that because, you know, my Australian accent is worse than Chris, I think. The witchety girl.
I think I got a pretty good Australian accent. Yeah, you're definitely getting better. You're definitely getting better at it for sure. But yeah. What are you saying? I was bad before? Oh, absolutely. Oh, OK. Not to call you out or anything. But yeah, back to our intro. So yeah, we're really happy to have you guys with us. It's been really fun and really fun to this point. So shall we get started? Yeah, good stuff.
I was actually pulling off the tent the other day because I was going to use it in decoration for some of my kids' stuff. And it made me think of this story that we're about to tell in our old-fashioned doughnut, which is a story from our past. Now, this has been about almost coming up on two years since this story happened. But Mike and I decided to go camping. We haven't been camping in a long time. And camping in West Texas is kind of hard because it's just dirt.
There's not a lot of water around. But fortunately, there was this place about an hour away. And so Mike and I were like, hey, let's go take a camping trip. We'll camp overnight, camp for a couple days. And yeah. Unfortunately, the weather in West Texas is also very, very, very unpredictable. So when we went was in October. And we thought, OK, October, right? October should be fall and should have good weather. I'll tell you what it did. It had good weather the week before and the week after.
The weekend we went, not so much. Yeah, it was really, really hot. And so we pulled up to our campsite, which was like in this remote location. We sat everything up. And it was on this cliff. And so getting the tent stake down was kind of hard because it was like staking the stakes into solid rock. It was really hard to get that tent up. Yeah, we bent a few stakes trying to get it into the ground. We had to move the tent a couple of spots to try to figure out a soft enough place.
Because when I say that you couldn't get these tent stakes into the ground, I'm not really sure. You know, it wasn't like we had the cheap tent stakes. We had kind of like the mid-range tent stakes. So you wouldn't think they would be that bad. And these suckers weren't even going. I mean, they would make a little divot in the ground. But that was about it. It was extremely hard. And so we decided to go fishing at night. We thought, hey, that would be a good idea.
And it was fine, except for the gnats. The gnats were really, really, really bad. And so for this camping trip, I decided, because you know, Chris and I have been camping lots of times in our life. But I don't think, was that the first time we went camping as like true adults? I think it was. Yeah, I think so. You know, we were like, we got money now and everything. We even went to the store and bought, you know, some things.
And one of the things that we bought was little headlamps, like the little LED headlamps. And I'll tell you this much, it sounds great in theory, because yes, it's very dark. And I'll put it to you this way off the edge of that cliff all the way down, because it's in a canyon and you had to get down there for the water. It was about a half mile to a mile hike. It took us like, what would you say, probably 20 minutes to get down there and 20 minutes to get back up?
Yeah. It was a really cool path, so like you kind of just had to feel around and you're grabbing all your stuff, right? Like your chair, your fishing pole, your tackle box, like all the stuff, your backpack, the snacks. And so like you got to, you know, so you're not, it's just not you, but you're like trying to figure out, okay, and you're also trying to remember like, okay, where, where does the path back up? Because it's starting to get nighttime.
But so we got down there and so we're fishing and everything and we turn on the LED headlamps and like the nests just swarmed dude, like just swarming, swarming and it was still hot. So it was just nasty. It was a nasty time. Yeah, it was terrible. And you know, if, where we were at fishing at night, you're fishing for catfish and you know, we, we really didn't get anything. We weren't getting any bites, anything like that. So we, we said, you know what, let's pack it in, let's go back up.
And yeah, I think, of course, heat rises. So it was even hotter once we got back up to the, the top of the canyon. It was, it was pretty bad, but I don't think anything could have really prepared us for what happened the next day. Yeah. So the next day, like we grab all of our stuff, right? Grabbing like the chairs, fishing poles, all that good stuff and we're fishing and like when you're sitting out there, you don't know, notice how warm it starts getting.
So you're like just hanging out, having a good time and like it got to be a lunchtime and we were like, Hey, do you want to go eat more like, nah, we'll wait a couple hours. And it started getting like super hot. We're like, yeah, it's probably time to go back up right now. Yeah. Cause it was about one, one o'clock, one 30, something like that. If I remember it, and it was just any, if you know the region around West Texas or the Lubbock area, it's primarily gets really hot.
Like two, three, four o'clock is just the really peak heat times. And so we said, yeah, let's go back up and, you know, we can push, come to shove, you know, we had a cooler in the, in the back of the car. It's like we can, you know, get some ice water and stuff if we need to stuff like that. And you know, so we make the hike back up the, back up the canyon there. And by the time we got up there, I mean, it was like, we were, we were trying our best to stay cool, but we had to get into the car.
Like it was just because the, the main problem is it's flat on top of this canyon. There's no trees. There's no nothing. There's nothing to cover you. So it is straight sun right on you and since you're higher up on that canyon, it's just direct sunlight, you know, and even more intense than when you were down. So it was really, really bad. It was really hot. Yeah. So, uh, I think looking back, I think Micah got heat poisoning or heat exhaustion or something.
It also didn't help that you had been drinking some beers, uh, during the time while you're fishing. And so I think you got a little dehydrated. Yeah. You know, and I was drinking some water, but when you're out in that kind of heat, you know, you really have to be drinking water, water, water, like all the time. And so yeah, pretty much what happened was we got back up there and I started feeling just really, really ill and, uh, it was just, it was a really, really weird time.
And so you have to think too, because we had to make these trips up and down this canyon, we decided to leave because there's nobody else really on the lake and this was a pretty remote area. So we left all of our stuff down there, all of our fishing stuff so that we could go there and back without having to tow everything there and back.
And so pretty much what happened was, and shout out to Chris, because this was a really, this was a really tough time, but it was like, man, I started getting really, really sick. And he was like, I think we're going to have to, like I'm going to have to go down there and get all the stuff. And man, I felt so bad because I was like, he's going to have to go all the way down there and the heat and get everything. But it was one of those things. It was like, we need to get back to town.
This is not getting very good. And yeah, so it like kept getting worse because I decided, okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to help and take the tent down. That made it worse. I should have just stayed in the car, but it was one of those things you want to help out your friends. Like I want to get out of here quicker too. So, you know, and also where the tent was, there was like a vantage point down there.
So it's like, if something happens to Chris or something, like I have a visual of what's going on and that just made it 10 times worse. And so yeah, I'll be the first one to say on here. It's really, really fun to say. But yeah, I got so sick that I went and took a dump off the side of a canyon. That was great. I'm sure that was majestic for all the wildlife around. I got to see. Yeah, he was like, I really got to go to the bathroom. I was like, because he's feeling sick.
And I was like, man, do you think you just need to go to the bathroom? Like what? And you were just like, OK, I'm going to take a dump off the cliff. And I think it got so hot, you started hallucinating. Birds were starting to talk to you. And you were just like, it's so hot, so hot. I was like, all right, bro, like we're going to get you back and everything. I felt like Samwise Gamgee and Lord of the Rings carried all that stuff up Mordor. And so, but it was good, man.
Like you got home, you rested. I think you just got heat exhaustion. You got dehydrated. I'm telling you, well, lesson learned, if you're going to be in a ravine where you have to hike there and back, don't drink so many beers. It's not like I had that many. But at the same time, when you don't drink a lot of water, things happen. So cautionary tale, if you're going to drink beer, drink water with it, especially when it's hot. And then we might tell this story another time.
But the second time we went camping, like it was almost like in this park area, like there was fishing and stuff, and like we were trying to figure out how to pay like for a camping spot. And there was like no one at the booze. Like we went on a Thursday. We left on a Saturday. And like we just basically slept in a park for free, I guess. Find out next episode how we did it for free. No, I'm joking. Yeah, there you go. We'll just preface that for next episode.
We could just bring that one up next time. Well, we're going to move into the next segment and it's not the jelly donut. It's the Taiyo Shoes, Cause You Trippin'. It's all about people that have been on bad first dates or people who got caught cheating or messing up in relationships. So Taiyo Shoes, Cause You Trippin'. You ready for that? Oh man, I love this one. This one's good. All right. First, Taiyo Shoes, Cause You Trippin'. All right.
So this lady and her husband, you know, we're hanging out and everything. And of course it comes to be laundry time. Most women, whenever they do laundry, they go through the pockets because they want to make sure that nothing is going to happen to the washing machine. They want to make sure there's no loose change. You know, I don't know about you. I forget to empty my pockets. If I'm doing laundry, I just throw the sucker in and whatever comes out comes out. Is that true? All the time.
I mean, just this laundry batch here, I got fussed at because there was a Smarties pack that was in my pocket that kind of exploded. Hey man, it happens, dude. But women, they like to go through the pockets. And so this lady, she went through her husband's pockets and she found, how should I, this is a family friendly show. What should I say? Contraceptives of the rubber kind, which was not a bad thing except the husband. Trojan horses. Yeah. Except the husband had had a vasectomy.
So she was wondering why did he need those rubber, you know, contraceptives if he had had a vasectomy? Well, that turns out that the husband was cheating on his wife. And I don't remember how exactly she found out, but that's what, was it to prevent against like STIs or something? Like to, I think that's what it was. It was probably like to make sure that you didn't transmit any diseases or infections. But I mean, it was, it's what tipped her off. So yeah, tell your shoes, could you trip it?
You better hide it better than that. Yeah, cheating is not cool. All right, this next one. This husband, he decided that he was going to help out his mistress. Instead of giving her cash, he gave her a credit card. But the thing was that he forgot to change the address. So the credit card for his mistress got delivered to the house and the wife found it in the mail, but she immediately thought, Hey, this is just the wrong name. You put the wrong name on here. This is definitely a mistake.
They thought that they were a victim of fraud. She contacted the credit card company and they assured her that there was no mistake, that her husband was the one who ordered the credit card. And then that's how she found out that her husband was cheating. So I tell you all shoes, could you trip it? Messed up. Found out by saying deep at the Bank of America, that's got to be a heck of a way to find out. But here's the thing too. I bet you that's going to jack up both of their credit scores.
You know, like if he got his mistress a credit card, like in her name, or is it like a different, maybe it just goes on her account. But I don't know. I don't think so. I think if he's ordering it, it's got to be at least a joint account, you would think. But oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm reading here. It says that it was a credit card on his account. So like, I guess the wife and husband had separate accounts, but still, let's go mess up your credit.
Or the wife just didn't look at the accounts and just swiped away some, some situations are like that where it's like, just swipe and it'll be there. I'll tell you how she was cause you tripped and that's messed up. I hope your credit's a 200. I'm just kidding. All right. Next one. This lady says that her sister works in a lingerie boutique and a man came in, came in for Valentine's Day and he bought two pieces of lingerie. They were both identical.
He asked for them to be packed separately with two Valentine's Day cards. One was for his wife and the other was for his mistress. And the lady thought that he was joking, but the outfits were not the same size. You know what tie dollar sign says? He says bottom both the same red bottoms and the same fragrance. Yeah, he did. He did say that and he, and there was two of them in the club and they don't even know about each other. Yeah. tell your shoes cause you tripped. You bet you they found out.
The story would have been great if the plot thickened and it's like the wife came in and is like, I'm here to return this and it's like, wait, which one? Yeah. The thing is though, like we don't know if the wife found out. So I mean, he bought them the same. But it's like, why, why would it matter? You know what I mean? Like if they didn't know about each other, why does that matter? They're not the same size. Yeah. I don't even know, man. Crazy stuff. Tile shoes.
Maybe it's because like if the husband had his mistress over and like she saw the same stuff, right? She'd be like, oh, that's mine. But then again, I don't know. There's no tellings, man. Cause when she goes to watch it, then she'll realize there's two. So there's, there's no tellings, man. I mean, some dudes who be in affairs just don't be thinking. I'm not going to say what I was thinking. All right, next one. All right. This lady, she got all four of her boyfriends to buy her the same purse.
She had four boyfriends. None of them knew of each other. So they bought three of, or sorry, four of the same identical purses. And so she sold the other three for money and she kept one of them. So that way, you know, they see her with the purse and they're like, oh yeah, that's the purse that I bought you. That lady's a hustler. Tile shoes cause you tripping. She is a hustler and I'm going to take this moment to say, I did it. But that's pretty crazy, man. But why, why four of the same?
Like why four of the same? Because she was probably like, oh, it's a Valentine's gift or a birthday gift. And they were, she was probably like, Hey, you can buy me this for my birthday. And it's like, oh yeah, and they all four buy her the same thing. So they all think, yeah, that I gave her that bag. Yeah. And she was like, I'm going to get the money off the other three Louis Vuitton's or whatever. Exactly. She's like, I can just sell the rest and get the cash for it.
Dang. Those dudes, hopefully they've, they realized they were getting played. I hope so. That stuff has a way of coming out. All right. I think this report was in the UK, but apparently this guy had recently split from his wife. They had just been married and they had their first child. So they had like a honeymoon baby. Unfortunately for their marriage, the child turned out Asian, but both the husband and the wife were Caucasian. So when the wife gave birth, the child came out Asian.
It didn't discover until the child was born that a, that his wife committed to an act of desperation on the floor of an Asian restaurant with one of the staff during her bachelorette party the night before her wedding. So apparently this guy was injured because he got into a fight because one of his coworkers made a joke about it four months later. And so he got in a fight and just didn't turn out to be good. That's pretty messed up.
Your wife cheated on you the night before your wedding and the baby turned out to be Asian. With the dude at the Asian restaurant. That's crazy. There's so many directions I could go with that. And I'm not going to go on any of them, but that's, that's pretty nuts.
I've heard of stuff like that happening, but I've also heard, I don't know if you've heard about this, the spontaneous generation babies to where it's, you know, it could be two Caucasian folks, but the child comes out African American. Have you ever heard about that? And it's like, because several generations back. Oh, like they had a, they had an African American in their bloodline. And then all of a sudden it came out. Yeah, pretty much. That's the best way to say it.
So, but yeah, it's pretty crazy how that worked. But in this case, it don't sound like that was the case. Last one. This lady was dating this guy and she ends up pregnant and she has the baby, right? But during the delivery, there were a few complications and she ends up meeting a C-section. The baby daddy refuses to gown up and be with her in the delivery room because turns out he needed to be able to go across the hallway to his other girlfriend that was also in labor at the same time.
This dude got two girls pregnant and they were both going into labor at the exact same time in the exact same hospital. They were just across the hall. I got two of my baby mamas in the club and they don't even earn the hospital more like it and they don't even know about each other. That's crazy, dude, man. Like, I'm telling you, people are wild. That's nuts. It's just like, honey, I'll be right back. I'm going to go get you some ice chips. I see that fool running down the hallway.
It's just like, honey, I made it. I made it. We here. And he goes back and forth. I should laugh. That's terrible. But that's like some sitcom type stuff. It really is. It really is. All we need is a good sitcom actor and we can make that into a good show. All right. Well, we are going to move into our donut hole, which is our free stuff. And I got another game for you, another trivia. All right. Did you toughen up the office trivia? No. I did toughen up Star Wars trivia, though.
So this is going to be Star Wars trivia part two. And I asked some more difficult questions. Let's see if you know. Now, are we going to preface this? Is this just the first six episodes or is it the Disney stuff? Yes. This is just episodes one through six. None of the spin-off shows, none of the new shows. I kept it because I know that you haven't seen any of the spin-off shows except for Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think that's the only spin-off you've seen.
Yeah. And then I saw the, I guess, the technical seventh movie. Oh, The Force Awakens? Yeah. We don't, we don't, we don't. That's good. That's good. All right. All right. First question. C3PO is fluent in over how many languages? A, 100,000, B, 1 million, C, 6 million, or D, 6 billion? Ooh. That's a really good one. I'm going to go with A. 100,000. Yeah. It is false. It is 6 million because it goes, hi, I'm C3PO, human-cyborg relations. I am fluent in over 6 billion languages.
Or forms of communication. That's what it says. I was, I was trying to think of that scene because I was sitting here, I just couldn't remember what he said. What are Han Solo's last words in The Empire Strikes Back? A, I love you too. B, I know. C, chewy. Or D, you slimy son of a. Maybe not D or C. What was A and B? A, I love you too. Or B, I know. I'm trying to think because they're at the celebration and it's to Leia, right? Or it's Empire Strikes Back. Oh, hold on. Empire Strikes Back.
It's number five. That's the one with Lando in the Cloud City. That's number five. Then I'm going to go, I know. That is correct because Leia says, I love you. And he goes, I know. Good job. All right. Next one, you're going to have to think on this one. In episodes one through six, how many arms does Obi-Wan Kenobi cut off from episodes one to six? How many arms does he cut off? A, two, B, four, C, five, or D, three. Okay. So, so there's two in the first one. You said just arms, right?
Not limbs? Arms. Okay. Human arms. So, I always don't count. Okay. So, yeah, I couldn't count all the droids who cut off the arms up. So there's Darth Maul. So that was two. He didn't chop off Dooku's arm. Grievous. Ooh. I'm going to go back and watch three, apparently. So I'm trying to think, did he cut Grievous's arms? No, he did. He did because he, so that would have been four. And so there's six there. And Anakin's two. So what does that make? That's seven? Seven? Seven. Hold on.
What were the choices again? Two, four, five, or three? So it's got to be the biggest number five. It is actually five. So he actually didn't cut Darth Maul's arms off. He just cut his body in half. And episode two, Attack of the Clones, that lady that's following them at the beginning, he cuts her arm off. So that's one. And then in episode three, he cuts General Grievous's arm, two arms off. So that's three total. And he cuts Anakin's one arm off at the end. So that's four.
And then in episode four, he cuts off that other guy's arm at the bar. So that's five. Oh, the weird looking dude. Yeah, the pig looking dude. So I was totally wrong. I was wrong on most of that. I just happened to be close to the number. All right. All right. I got to go back and watch, apparently. Which character has appeared in all six Star Wars movies? A, R2-D2. B, Master Yoda. C, The Emperor, slash Chancellor Palpatine. Or D, Chewbacca. It's not Chewbacca.
It's not Palpatine. No, I'm thinking it's got to be R2-D2. It is R2-D2. There you go. All right. Number five. What was Count Dooku's Sith name? A, Darth Plagueis. B, Darth Wren. C, Darth Tyrannus. Or D, Darth Maw. Darth Tyrannus. That is correct. All right. Which actor had something inscribed on his lightsaber hilt? A, Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker. B, Samuel L. Jackson, who played Mace Windu. C, Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Or D, Liam Neeson, who played Qui-Gon Jinn. I want to say it's Samuel L. Jackson. It is Samuel L. Jackson. You know what he had inscribed on his lightsaber hilt? Dad, mother, effort. That's great. And yeah, I love, if you've never seen the video of Samuel L. Jackson talking about getting his purple lightsaber to George Lucas, it's pretty fun. Yes, it is. All right. Next one. Revenge of the Sith has the most lightsaber battles of all the movies.
How many lightsaber battles are in Revenge of the Sith? A, six, B, four, C, seven, or D, five. Okay, I'm going to try to count these out again and see if we do good. So the very first one was against Dooku on the spaceship. At first when they were having the big space battle there. So did that. Then it was General Grievous. Then it was, oh boy, trying to think.
Then it was, I'll think about, I don't know if it skips this far, lightsaber battle-wise, but all I can think about is Anakin and the Younglings, if you count that one. Then we have, when they're on Mustafar, when Obi-Wan and him fight was one of the choices five. It is five. You had the first two correct. There was Dooku and Obi-Wan and Anakin. Then there was General Grievous and Obi-Wan. Then there was Mace Windy and Darth Sidious. Oh, yeah, yeah, I want to forget the name of this.
There was Anakin and Obi-Wan, and then there was Master Yoda and- That's right. I don't know why I forgot the Samuel L. Jackson scene, because that one's one of the most funny. It's not supposed to be funny, but just for some reason, whenever Palpatine's like, now, now, you have lost. It's just funny. I don't know. All right, three more questions. There's been a famous debate of a famous shootout speculating who shot first. Who was involved in the shootout?
A, Han and Luke, B, Han and Greedo, C, Leia and Han, or D, Leia and Greedo. Han and Greedo, right? There's been a lot of speculation of who shot first. Who do you think shot first? I honestly think it was Han that shot first, but I could see where it could have been Greedo too. It was- In the original, it was Han that shot first. So, yep. All right, two more. All right, what was Luke's aunt's name? So his uncle's name was Owen, and then what was her- what was his aunt's name?
I could already tell you, you don't have to- All right, what was- what was her name? Baru. I don't- that always sounded like an Australian name to me. At Baru, I don't know why. Maybe. All right, last one. Han Solo made the Kessel Run in less than what? A, 10 parsecs, B11 parsecs, C12 parsecs, or D9 parsecs? D12 parsecs. That is correct, buddy. You got those right. You're pretty good at your Star Wars trivia. Yeah, except for my lightsaber battles, apparently.
Yeah, I tried to make them pretty- pretty hard, because a lot of the ones I looked online, it was like, what planet was Luke born on? Had to we- It's like, we got that. Who killed Qui-Gon Jinn? Darth Maul. We all know. See, and for some reason, it's like, this should tell you how long it's been. I can remember the scenes, but like in the event of Darth Maul and Obi-Wan cutting him in half.
I remember he got cut in half, but for some reason I could just visualize his arms getting cut off because when he's tumbling down the thing, I don't know. I just visualized him with no arms. So, you know, you remember things a little different if you haven't watched it a little bit weirdly. Yeah, I actually just watched the Phantom Menace. Me and my wife are going to watch them all the way through. So we just watched Phantom Menace. I think that's the one I know the most.
I can quote that one the most, like from beginning to end, but my favorite is Revenge of the Sith. You know which one I can quote the most is Clone Wars, the second one, even though that's not one of my favorites and not a lot of people's favorites. Mainly because it's slow. There's not a ton of action, you know. There is some, but it's not- but I just remember that was one of the first DVDs we ever got. And so, wore that thing out. True. We fell in love with Natalie Portman as did most of us.
Oh yes. Oh yes. All right. Well, we're going to move into our next segment, which is what fries my donuts. Micah, what fries your donuts? Oh, so we're going to do a deep dive on something, but we're going to start off with one thing. What I've been having to watch here lately, or not having to watch, but you know, we're kind of in this sports dead zone and at least here in the United States where we're waiting on things to happen and you know, American football is starting to kick up.
At least the NFL is having their training camps. So it's just kind of them training and getting their stuff together for the upcoming season. So yes, I am that bored to watch that. But what I can't stand, what I really can't stand is the fact that people, they shouldn't use terms like this. There's this guy, right? And he's okay. He's a commentator on there, but he tries to use terms to, how do I put this? Stay up with the youth, I guess.
And some people just have no business saying certain things. I'll just say that first and foremost. The first thing that I'm talking about, when somebody says, you know, he provided for the rest of the team. The rest of the team ate or the team is eating because of him, but you are a 75 year old man, like don't be doing all that.
Like I'm sorry the network's probably making you say that, but that makes you look real foolish when it's just like, oh yeah, because of his efforts, the rest of the teams ate last year. It's like, why can't you just say that they had good production because of the other work that he did? He ain't got to go into all that and be like, oh yeah, they ate or he's eaten. Like don't be saying all that. But that's not what I'm going on about. What I'm going on about is the lack of team.
You know, I'm watching these NFL training camps and you know what I see? I see a bunch of people who are individuals. I don't really see a lot of team atmosphere. Now you do with like O-line and stuff like that, but yeah, you know, they're not, they're not an individual group. They have to be a group, you know? But the individuals, it's like, what are they showing? It's like, oh, he's got gold cleats. Oh, he's got these mouthpiece.
It's like when he breathes, it's got a spinner on the mouthpiece and the spinner is made of diamonds. And it's like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Call me old fashioned. Call me old fashioned. But a uniform is a uniform. The mouthpiece is going to be a color. The shoes are going to be a color. I don't mind if you wear a chain or earrings or some other accessory that's not a part of the uniform. But when you put wearing a uniform, what does uniform mean?
It means you look the same as everybody else on your team. So my problem is when somebody goes out there and they've got this gold visor and these gold shoes and it's just like, oh, look at me. You know what that shows me? That shows me that you aren't about the team. That shows me that you are an individual who's looking for everybody's attention of like, oh, look at me. You know what I got to say to that? Do what you're supposed to do and you don't have to be showy.
You can let your work show for itself. But I'll tell you this much. That's what I'm seeing a lot. I'm seeing a lot of me and not a lot of team. And sports is a good example and it's always a direct reflective because, again, nowadays what are we looking at? It used to be I like the Dallas Cowboys. You would talk about the team, right? A lot of times people will say, I like Dat Prescott or I like Patrick Mahomes.
Not the team. If Patrick Mahomes got traded from Kansas City, I think the entire city of Lubbock would be whoever's fan at that point. It's just amazing to me that it used to be and this carries over into anything in life. And that's what really fries my donuts. It's not just sports, right? Sports is indicative of our society and how it's running. And unfortunately, we have a lot of people who are look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at what I'm doing.
They'll post on Instagram, oh, I'm working so hard. Oh, I'm doing this. Oh, I'm doing that. It's all a show. It's all a show. If you were doing what you would need it to do, people would notice on their own. Yeah. how do you feel about whenever they build a team around a player like what they've been doing with LeBron James?
And I will say this, if you want to root for individuals, watch UFC or watch pro wrestling because you can cheer for your favorite character, cheer for your favorite wrestler. No big deal. Like what they do doesn't really matter to the company as a whole. Yes, it does. But I'm sitting here like, bro, like why are we going to build a team around a player? To me, that's setting yourself up for failure, I think. Well, even a few years back, right?
You're sitting over here and you know, there's probably a lot of people that would disagree with this, but you talk about Tom Brady when he was going to leave the Patriots, right? And they held on to Tom Brady a few years, even though him and Bill Belichick, their coach, was really clashing heads and really clashing heads. And it was because the owner liked Tom Brady. And of course you liked Tom Brady.
He brought you all these Super Bowls and everything, but you also have to look at the other thing. What is going to be best for the team? The guy's in his 40s, maybe he has a few years left. You're talking about a legendary coach versus a legendary player. One has a shelf life, one doesn't, right? And so a lot of the times these decisions are being made not thinking about those things. Not thinking, you know, it ended up working out for them, but it almost didn't.
You know, if the owner of the Patriots would have kept on and kept on and kept on, they probably would have lost that on Bill Belichick, the greatest coach ever who doesn't really have a shelf life until he dies, which, you know, he still seems like he's got life left in him. So I don't, you know, I don't know, man. It's just there's a lot of, I don't like it when they build, to answer your question, I don't like when they build teams around a player.
Because again, players have shelf lives, players have thresholds, players have certain levels of tolerance. Players are, you know, they could be fantastic. They can tear their ACL tomorrow and never be the same, right? Well, it's also to, whenever you have that one person, you're putting the whole brand on their shoulders. You're having them carry the whole brand. So if so and so decides, you know what? I'm going to go get arrested or I'm going to go murder someone.
Then you've got the whole brand that looks bad because they always associate, okay, like for example, not that he would do it. I don't know. He might, I don't know the guy. But if LeBron James decided that he wanted to go out and shoot someone and kill someone, what's the, what's the association going to be with the Lakers now? Like people are going to be like, oh crap, we can't like the Lakers.
Or even the Cavaliers from back in the day, because he's from Cleveland and a lot of people still associate him Cleveland Cavaliers, you know, that sort of thing. But you know, there was actually something very similar happened to that in the NBA. There's a young star. I don't know if you've heard of him.
His name is John Morant and he plays for Memphis and his biggest thing this year has been exactly not murdering anybody, but he makes those classic, you know, almost gang style videos where he's holding up a gun and it's just like, you come around my hood and this will happen and stuff like that. Right. And so he's gotten in trouble twice for that. But the city of Memphis is already not a great place. A lot of people know it for being very violent, right. And very, especially gun violent.
And so it makes it look that much worse and not just that, but it makes you as an organization as a team. What does that make you think about the Memphis Grizzlies? You know, and it's bad to say, but you sit here and go, if that's their leader, they're a bunch of thugs. And that's a bad way to think about it, but it casts that perception over, even though that's probably the furthest thing from the truth. It's crazy, man.
And I also like, I'm going to go the church route with this because that's my business, right? You put like a person up on a pedestal, like, you're like, Oh yeah, I'm here because of pastor so-and-so. And it's like, bro, that's taking away whole message. If you put one person up on a pedestal, they're going to let you down. I don't care if it's sports. I don't care if it's wrestling. I don't care if it's whatever.
Whenever you put the brand on the shoulders of one person, that person is fallible and they're going to mess up. And so you're, you're almost setting them up to fail because when that failure does come, then everybody's like, Oh yeah, I'm not going to like McDonald's anymore because LeBron James shot somebody and he's the face of McDonald's. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, exactly. It's, it's crazy.
And a lot of people don't understand that pressure either that a lot of these people are under, but it's just, it's just crazy to me, man. It's just crazy that a lot of it has become so individual focused. And like I said, I really think that's indicative of our society of you have to think about yourself, you have to self promote and you have to, you know, you have to do a lot of things on your own, which is very true. But you know, we can't forget the team aspect of things.
What I get mad about, and I'm sure you do too, is when people post their goodness on social media and it's like, Oh, look at me. Look what I'm doing. Oh, I got my Bible out. I'm doing my quiet time. I'm so good. I'm so great. Oh, look at me. I'm giving money to a homeless person. Oh, look at me. And see, that's exactly just like on the sports room, like what I was talking about too. Same thing. It's, you'll have Odell Beckham out there taking videos of him running routes.
It's like, bro, that's your job. You're a professional football player. I would hope you out there on the field during the off season running routes. I really do. Like, but you're, you're out here showing off for the camera. Are you really doing it to get yourself prepared?
Are you showing off like, Hey, because Instagram, I'll tell you this much, Instagram, all your socials are very mystical place where a guy can run a few routes and everybody's like, wow, he works really hard, but you don't really see what all he's doing. He might not be doing exactly. You don't know what's happening when the camera goes off. And so when I see people post these videos, even if it's something negative, like, Oh, yeah, this person was rude to me or they were rude to this.
I was like, well, what happened before the camera went off and after the camera went off? That's what I want to know. There's so many, there's so many times where I watch a video and I'm like, man, I want to know the full story because this is only half of the story because people can be wild and crazy about people's reactions, even though they're in the wrong, but you don't see that. It's really easy.
It's just like, and we're diving in even more here, but it's just like our big mainstream media, right? Your MSNBCs, your Fox News, your CNNs, all of those, you could take a snippet of things that's 10 seconds long. Heck, you can even put this in a religious stance too. You could take snippets of the Bible and put them and make them into practices that aren't really true. What does it say before and what does it say after that?
For the media sense, it's what did that person say before that sentence and what did that person say after that sentence because context is really, really key. Yep. Context is key. That's all I got to say. You hit the nail on the head. That's all I got to say. Context is key, but yeah. You know what I found out, man? Like if you do the work in private, it's going to come out on public. Whether you post it on Insta or what, and then they're going to be like, oh yeah, where was this guy?
This guy came out of nowhere and it's like, no, he was just doing the work beforehand and all of a sudden, you know, he got his moment. See, that's the kind of folks, and I'm not saying that, you know, these football players and stuff can't keep up with social media and stuff. That's not what I'm saying, but it's when you're trying to show that you're doing something, right? Whether you have somebody, never post on social media that they're doing anything, right?
Not show nothing, not even show their football side, but be holding up an MVP trophy at the end of the year or whatever, right? You know, that's the kind of, you know, a lot of people aspire to be that, but they're not putting in that work and they'll try to show like they are, but they really aren't. It's just crazy. I agree, man. Well, we're going to move into our next segment. We're going to start with mystery donut. That's our improv segment.
So we got some free improv for you, and we're going to make it a little interesting. We're both going to choose each other's accents, and then we're going to choose a scenario. So you want me to choose your accent for you? Sure. What are we going to do? I'm going to choose for you, Danny Evans. You're going to have to do the whole improv and Danny Evans. All right. All right. You can choose mine. All right.
So for you, screw it, since we've been doing the Australian bit the entire time, Australian accent it up. Oh, you're going to choose my mediocre Australian accent? Should I match it up with something else? I don't care, bro. You chose it, so I'll do it. Let's do it. All right. What's our scenario going to be? Oh, that's a good one. I got a good one. Going hunting. Go for it. Hunting season. Oh, God. I'll let you start. All right. Hi. I mean, sorry. Hi. Is this where we go? Hey, you wanker.
I don't know why you're over here, blabbing around like a big old dingo baby. You're going to scare off all the dig. So Danny, he, and that's me, by the way. I'm Danny. And what I got to say is I'm just new to this hunting thing. I don't know if it's really my thing or not. I just knew that there was going to be guns and guys and camo and stuff like that. First of all, mate, I don't even know how you winded up on this trip because you're just annoying. You're annoying.
If you talk one more word, I'm going to shove the barrel of this 12-gauge shotgun in your face and you're going to be looking at your last leg. You got it? Oh, no. I don't want none of that. I don't want violence or anything like that. I'll tell you this much. I just want to, you know, I think Pete camo is really my color. I'll say that much right now. I think I look really good. I think Paula Deen would be really proud because doesn't she go deer hunting with her family?
Paula Deen ain't nobody heard about Paula Deen in like two years. She's the one that made all them racist comments. You over here talking about Paula Deen when we should be out shooting some deer. Did you know that deers are just jacked up kangaroos or anorexic kangaroos? Deers are just jacked up deer. Now that's offensive because anorexia is nothing to play around with and I just, I don't like it when you tell them jokes but I'll tell you this much. It's just fun to be here.
I'm telling you, mate. You ever looked at a kangaroo? It looks like a deer been going to the gym but doing them bench presses and them squats. It looked like he went to prison. Did some climbing the yard. Can you say dingo baby for me? Why? Because you're Australian and you know, I don't know. It's so funny when y'all say things like that. So now who's being offensive? Talking about me being offensive. Yo, we're here stereotyping me. What do you think?
I'm going to be crocodile freaking Dundee and pull out a big knife and say, aha! Good day mate. I'm the crocodile hunter. Well you should be because you're on my show. This is the Danny Evans show. I don't know who you think you are. But I'm asking the questions. I'm telling what's going on. The camera's here for me. It's not here for you. First of all mate. There's no cameras. There's no microphones. We're on a show called... Sure there is.
We're on a show called reality and I suggest you get back here mate. Sure it is. It's the Danny Evans show. And every day is a new episode. There's a deal over there. I think I'm going to shoot it. Don't! Alright, well that was our improv segment. I don't know what's going on with Danny Evans. What a character man. I don't know. We literally just, I'll be honest. It's just, you say Danny Evans and we just let it go. I really don't know. It's just improv. Maybe I sound weird.
I don't know if you ever do this but are you like ever in the car by yourself and you're driving and you're like, I just want to try out a character. I just want you to start talking like that character in the car. You just start talking like I'm trying some things out. Oh yeah. You want to do that? Oh yeah. And then I catch myself and I'm going man the people in traffic must be like that dude is straight up talking to himself. I want to get away from him. So you know, maybe it's not so weird.
I'm always trying out new characters and you're like, oh how does this sound? I'm like nah nah nah nah. So and so wouldn't say that. So and so wouldn't say that. But yeah man. Dango baby. Yeah. Dango babies. Yep. All right. Well we're going to move into our final segment which is Art Claire which is our positive advice. And mine is make peace with people man. Like you know, you don't always have to reconcile with people but forgiveness is a big thing, right?
So a lot of people mistake forgiveness with reconciliation. That's just not true. People think oh if I forgive somebody I have to be their very best friend. And that's not true. So forgiving someone is a big deal man. You just got to. You just got to. That's awesome man. So mine, this might sound a little weird coming from me but not the E-Claire but the example I'm going to use. So take risks, have a good time.
If it sounds like it's a little scary go ahead and do it because it's probably going to be a good time. What I mean by that. So I like to fly planes. I'm not too big on helicopters. Reason being a plane if the engine goes out I can glide and you have a shot. Helicopters, something happens. You're kind of done, right? I mean there's nothing you can really do.
Well you know there's been this helicopter ride that a few of my friends wanted to do and I've been curious and the fear is not that much to where it's like it's going to keep me from doing it. But boy I'll tell you this much. Right beforehand you're sitting here and the biggest part about fear I think is your mind goes through about 90 scenarios of what could happen, what this could be, did I check this out.
You know my mind was even going I should check the safety rating of this kind of helicopter on Google. No, no it's fine. 99.99999999% of life is going to go fine. It's not going to be a big deal at all. So take those risks because you know what the helicopter ride was really fun. Yeah for sure man and I will tell you this. Google is like the best thing but it's also the worst thing too especially when it comes to medical stuff.
You're like Google in your senses like oh my gosh I have mesotheliomia and it's like nah you just probably have a heartburn bro. So yeah don't let your mind go into that because fear stops you from doing things that are great right. I'm sure a lot of people who've done some great things like yeah I'm sure they were scared but if they would have let the fear stop them then you know we wouldn't have the things that we have today.
And speaking of that I'm going to caveat over into TVTrashCan.com that's TVTrashCan.com speaking of that helicopter video. If you want to see me face my fears well you won't see me in the video but if you want to see me face my fears and fly around in a helicopter for a few minutes I'll post that video on there. So you can see that there along with our other videos, our other content and some streaming stuff for some goofy and fun TV shows.
Be sure to check out Bibleman and you got to always love our court TV show Eye for an Eye. But anyways I'll just let you know. We're there TVTrashCan.com go visit us and of course follow us on the socials man. So you got anything else? Yeah be looking out man we're working on some stuff for you guys and that's coming up soon. Super secret. Super secret. It'll be great. Super secret. Some content for you guys.
It's not serious like an airplane video or a helicopter video so hopefully it'll, hopefully some fun. Hopefully give you some chuckles. Give you some laughs. There won't be Danny Evans I'll tell you that much. No there won't. But yeah I think that's it. I think it's time to take this donut box to the trash. Alright man well I'm Micah. And I'm Chris. And this has been the Donut Box Podcast. See you on the flippity flip. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.