Trash Camp presents the United States Postal Service Boot Camp. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. You've been listed in the US PS and we don't have any BS. You hear what I'm saying? So those earrings gone. All those things that you've been having your worldly possession gone. You're behind now belongs to the US PS. Do you hear what I'm telling you? Sir, yes sir. You're gonna learn how to take the mail. You're gonna learn how to dodge the dogs.
You're gonna learn how to work in rain. Cause that's who we are. Have you heard the motto? Sir, yes sir. Rain, sleep. None of it. None of it's gonna stop us. It's not gonna stop you. Is it pit squeak? Sir, no sir. I don't know. You look pretty soft to me. You look like a bag of balls. That's how you look like. Are you sure you're not gonna blow away in the first big win? Ha! Sir, no sir. I don't know. I don't know. You and your buddy here. He looks like, oh man. He looks like he could be...
I don't know. He looks like he could be the old slick on I-15. What's your name? Sir, Leonard, sir. Oh man, you don't even know your name. You don't even know your name. What made you think that you could take mail? Sir, because my dad was a US PS worker, sir. Oh, so your dad was in here. Oh, look everyone. We have a legacy US PS, sir. You think that's gonna get you somewhere? Sir, no sir. Is he the postmaster general? Sir, yes sir. Oh, well carry on then. What about you? What's your name?
Sir, Tom, sir. Oh, Tom. Tom from where? Tom from Missouri, sir. Tom from Missouri. Well, I'll tell you this much. What you should aspire to be, Tom from Missouri, is you should be this guy's dad. The postmaster general. It's the highest position you can get. I'm just telling you right now. All of you look like you might flunk. So let's get day one started. Hi, I'm Michael. And I'm Chris. And this is the Donut Box Podcast.
We're on episode number nine and season three. We've almost hit double digits in season three. Times moving fast. I like it, but I don't like it, man. I don't know. It's going a little too quick. Tell me what you think. Yeah, next thing you know, you'll be in season four. I feel like season three, it's always like that's when you really start delving into the story, right? Like season one, you got the intro. Season two, it's like, okay, yeah, we're kind of continuing from season one.
But season three is when you get start doing the deep dive. You know who the real OGs are. And we're thankful that all you guys have stuck with us a once in the day one. And we'll remember all you guys, especially when it started with the international guys, everybody overseas over in Germany, you guys have been fantastic. Brussels, Belgium over into Australia, you guys have been really heating up as well over in Singapore as well.
And we've had some good hits over in Russia, even South America now. You know, we got some folks down in South America. Where else we got folks here in the United States? Definitely Virginia, Florida, and the Northeast has been a big one. Kind of the Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland area. The Midwest has still been going strong. Kansas, Nebraska, of course, Michigan, Iowa, Florida, Georgia, Texas, California, Seattle, Washington. And if I get in shelter state out, I'm sorry, I apologize.
There's a lot of them. We got a lot of listeners. So it is what it is. But we appreciate every one of you guys. Yes, we do. We appreciate every one of you. We thank you for viewers like you. Thank you. Anyway, all right, man. Well, are you ready to go into our first segment, which is the old fashioned donut or story from past today? We're going to learn a little bit more about Chris, actually, and one of his crappy jobs that he's had. We've all had crappy jobs, right?
Well, Chris, what crappy job did you have and how did you overcome that crappy job? Well, you guys have heard the story about how I used to work for Chuck E. Cheese. And I actually was talking about that earlier this week, and I was like, yes, I used to work for Charles Entertainment Cheese. And everyone just started laughing. They were like, oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. I was like, that's really his name.
It's in the handbook. They were like, really? And I was like, yes, I'm not making that up. They were like, oh, it was still funny, though. I think it was the delivery. And I was like, okay, I'm not talking about Chuck E. Cheese because I've talked about it a good bit. I'm going to talk about the first job that I got when I came to Texas, and I was at that job. Honestly, it was probably just for a summer. I think it's the least amount of time that I spent at a job.
I think I only stayed there for four months. Yeah, it was four months. I started in June and I left in September, and it was my first job in the restaurant business. I had never worked fast food. Originally, I had gotten a job at Wendy's, and then my dad got me a grocery store job at the store that he worked at because he did not want me working in fast food. But this was different.
And let's pause. That Wendy's was also quite the sketchy, and it was going to be for the late shift, too. So let's add that on there, too. So I got my job at this place called the Egg and I. They are still there, but the name has changed. And it was a franchise restaurant, and this place was a breakfast place. So they were only open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. And I started out as a busboy. Now, being a busboy, that's really not that hard.
To be honest with you, you just bust the tables, clean them off. You just got to keep up with cleaning tables. And then I remember the dishwasher was very lazy, so sometimes you had to help wash dishes. But you always had to fill the rack and get the rack prepped so that he could just run the dishes through the dishwasher. And so that's where I started out. But I think I worked too hard and too good, and they were like, we see potential in you.
We're going to move you up to Wagerter. And I was like, oh boy, here we go. Yeah, and I would come home and it was good because I would get paid in tips. I enjoyed that very much. And I remember coming home and it was whenever we first moved to Texas, and me and Micah shared a room. And I remember I'd come in every day with wads of cash and Micah would just be like, bro, what are you doing?
Yeah, I was just like, dang, because he would come in and even on slow days, it was still probably over 80 to 100 bucks. Even on a slow day. But I remember there was one day, I think it was a Saturday, like a holiday Saturday or something. I don't remember what it was. Maybe it was July 4th. I don't remember what it was for. But you came home and it was like 4 or 500 bucks in cash.
I was just like, God, yeah. And I was still looking for a job at the time. This is before I got the job boot chorale. So watching him come home with all that cash, it was like, dang, man, I want some of that cash. It probably wasn't the best because there's a line in Napoleon Dynamite where Uncle Rico says, while you're out there playing patacake with your friend Pedro, your Uncle Rico make 120 bucks. And I would always say that almost every day.
Yep. Yep. Because Michael would just be chilling like it was the summer. I think you had, I don't think football workouts had started yet. So you were just like chilling, like playing video games. And I was like, while you're over here on your Xbox, your Uncle Rico make it 120 bucks. And I would always like wave the water of cash in his face. It was nice to pay in cash. Like I enjoyed carrying cash on me all the time.
Like I still enjoy carrying cash on me. I just feel like, I don't know, there's something about paying with cash that just, I don't know. It's different. I don't know. It also makes you feel, it also helps me be more responsible. Like it's easy to swipe a card, but when you look how much cash is coming out, it hurts. You're like, that hurts. That hurts. I don't know if I want to spend too much more. Again, it was, it was, I definitely had some embarrassing moments.
I think I've told you guys about this on the podcast, but I, it was, I think it was close to a holiday weekend. And it was like kind of around lunchtime. And I accidentally knocked this ladies glass of orange juice over and it spilled on her white pants. And oh boy. Yeah, I felt so bad about that. I did not enjoy it because of course on the weekends, it would get really busy. And so you'd be getting like triple sat, like because the hostesses wouldn't do their job.
So they would just sit you one table after another. And which they weren't supposed to do that. But so then you had to keep up with it. And it was just a lot. But I remember my, I had a signature. Do you remember what like what my signature thing was that I did while I was a waiter? I don't remind me. I don't. So I would always write Bible verses on their receipt. That's right. On the receipt. That is right. I do remember that.
And I, and I remember the owner calling me in when they was like, you're writing Bible verses on receipts. And I was like, yeah. And she was just like, keep it up. Good job. And I was like, oh, okay, cool deal. I thought I was going to get reprimanded, but okay. Yeah, it was crazy because you got to experience like the stuff, like the drama that happened in the kitchen. Apparently there was there was beef between this one kitchen dude.
Oh, I remember this. I remember you telling me this because I came and ate there. I think that morning, like that same morning or something happened in anyways, go ahead. Yeah, it was wild. So one of them was a line cook and one of them was like a, like he was kind of like on the grill and everything, but he was dating one of the girls that was there. And so our sorry, the guy that was working on the grill was, and I guess the line cook guy had like said something sideways to that girl.
And like the, the grill guy was off, but I guess the girlfriend had texted him and he came up to like the restaurant like while they were working and stuff. And he just like deck that guy in the face and like they had a fight in the kitchen and it got so bad that like he had backed the guy up and like the line cook guy accidentally put his hand on the like on the stove because like he was trying to like catch his balance and he like burned his hand. Pretty good.
But what's crazy is the, the manager of the restaurant, like he had a big heart for like employing ex cons and stuff. And like he really wanted to help give them a job and help them kind of get back into society. And so we had a lot of ex cons working back there as you do in any restaurant. But yeah, it was wild. You saw a lot of stuff there. Dude, I hated it because what I hated too was that we would have to share our tips with the hostess. Yeah. And I didn't like that.
Especially when they're doing their jobs, man, especially when they're not doing their job. And I remember they started implementing a thing on Saturdays. It was called expoing. So like there's one person that's like at the plate place where they started the food and they're like checking it for quality, making sure that all the ingredients are on there. Making sure that orders go out together. And I remember we all had to be like on a rotation.
So like one Saturday, like a month or something, we had to, we had to do the expoing, but we would get like a share of the tips from the servers. But I don't know. I made pretty good friends there. It was, it was a good time. I enjoyed it again. Did I tell this? Have I told the story on the podcast about Ken Paxton's little campaign brunch? I don't think you have. No.
There was this guy that was running for, was it, was it attorney general of Texas? Was that because he got elected? What was his position? I believe it was attorney general. Yeah. So he was the attorney general running for attorney general of Texas. And his name was Ken Paxton. And the guys in like he got moved from office and I think he's like facing some criminal charges or he's in jail. I don't know. Yeah. He's, he's a straight up criminal. He's, he's not a great guy.
Anyways. Yeah. So I, even before I knew who this guy was, I had a personal beef with him because he had a campaign breakfast at the egg and I, and he like had all these people come in and it was me and one other person that we're like serving. And I'm, I'm talking about like 25 to like 35 people. It's just two people. So we're like serving them, getting their breakfast, all that stuff.
And I guess there was some kind of miscommunication because the people that were there were under the impression that the breakfast was already paid for or it was going to be paid for by the campaign people. But then the campaign people were like, no, we're not covering their breakfast. And everybody like skipped out and like we had to comp a good bit of it because like nobody paid for it. And we only got tipped $8 between the two of us. So we got tipped $4 a piece for working all that time.
Dude, it was, it was horrible. So I vowed in my heart that I would never vote for Ken Paxton because. Yeah. And my thing is, dude, if I remember correctly, it was like, it's not a big restaurant. So they basically shut the place down for that time. Oh yeah, they did for sure. Crazy stuff, man. Well, I bet you're glad you're not having to work there anymore. No, I'm not. It was nice because I would be off by like two or two 30. And so I could have the rest of my day to do like whatever.
So I'd go home, take a nap and then I had the evenings free. And so that was like pretty cool. But then I was like, I don't know. I think it's because Mike got the job at bootcoural and I was like, man, I want to job at bootcoural. That's so cool. And so I kept like begging and begging and begging for the job. Like I would call, like to the point where I was annoying and I would call like every week after my application. And so I actually got a job at Toys R Us.
Like I applied and I got the job at Toys R Us to work there. And then I was going to take it. And then the same day they got the manager from bootcoural called me and was like, Hey, well, for good job. Crazy stuff. One of these other days, I should talk about how I got hired out at bootcoural and what happened there. I mean, it's kind of a short story, but we'll move on to our next segment, which is the jelly donut. Or today is going to be Taiyo Shoes because you tripping.
So Chris, what you got for us? Taiyo Shoes because you tripping. These stories are about worse first dates or how people got caught cheating. So there's always great stories on the internet. You got to love it. So we say Taiyo Shoes because you tripping because either one people or sorry, one person or both people were acting a fool. So you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. These first three are about bad first dates.
So this lady says that for her first date, she went over to this guy's place to watch a movie. And she says that as we were making out, he reached over and gave me a wedgie not once, but three times. The girl left before the movie was over on a different first date. What? So he just decided, whoop, I'm going to pull them up. I don't know what it was, bro. Maybe it was unintentional. Maybe it was. I don't know. You got to. Yeah, we need more context to know.
But at the same time, it's like, already to have some like weird fetish. I don't know. Maybe he was like, I was bullied in middle school, so now it's my chance to give somebody. I guess so. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know who knows, man. Who knows? People are crazy. And then she, she also said on a different first date, the guy she was went out with, they were at a restaurant and the conversation was going well until the guy said, yeah, I don't really believe in happiness. It just all seems fake to me.
And it was like, all right. So I'm going to just say this right now. I don't know much about this young lady's dating life. We've only heard two instances, but she might want to pick her man better. Anyways, I'm just saying that because it sounds like she'd be picking some that are kind of out there. Anyways, exactly. All right. This one is about somebody's Tinderella. Have you ever heard of what they're called? Tinderella's? Yeah. Yeah, I heard.
I've heard, you know, you're always going to find a great person on. I don't know. I've heard a couple of people said that they got married because they met on Tinder. You know, I met somebody there's people I used to work with. They were a couple and they met on Tinder and they ended up getting married. So I guess it does happen. So this person met up with a guy from Tinder at a brewery and the guy was already clearly intoxicated. He showed up on a street bike with a broken leg and a full cast.
The lady asked what happened and he told me that his baby mama ran it over after he bashed all the windows out of her car because she was cheating. And she said that she left 10 seconds. I mean, I can only imagine how he pulls up there and you know, broken leg. He's already clearly intoxicated. Been driving in a street bike, which is basically a crotch rocket and gets there. And like, yeah, you know, I broke it because I was, you know, tells her the story. I'd be out of there too.
Be like, all right, this dude's clearly, yeah, I don't want no part of that. Wow. This one was a, so this was in the days of MySpace. You got to love MySpace. Oh, good on MySpace. For those of you that are younger than 30 or actually 28, you probably won't remember MySpace. But MySpace was the OG. And the person said, so there was a feature where you were able to put like quizzes on MySpace. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah, or even surveys or whatever.
Yeah. So this one guy was looking at his girlfriend's profile and she had a quiz question on her profile. And the quiz question was, who was the last person you kissed or was intimate with? And the person that she listed was not his name. So we were all together and we found out through MySpace that she was cheating on him. Yeah. Through, through a MySpace quiz. That's great.
I remember you could find out a whole bunch of stuff from these like MySpace quiz questions or like surveys you go through there. And they would be having some pretty like, risque questions and people would be answering them. I remember that. I'll tell you what the equivalent of that is now. And it's like, I know that there's features to it, but we were actually talking about this. Venmo, you could tell out a whole lot about somebody from their Venmo, bro.
Like they got too many details on there. I'm like, I ain't trying to see what everybody's seeing why I sent money for. Like, come on now. And who and why? And I mean, it lists everything. And what day? And it's like, bro, Venmo be wild. I wouldn't be surprised. There was a few people it's like, oh yeah, I found out my girl was cheating on me. But like we talked about that too. But oh yeah, my girl was cheating on me or something like that. You didn't find out because of Venmo.
Yeah, there actually was a person that found that out because she saw the number, I guess, on his phone. And she tried putting it on Facebook and nothing popped up. And then she put it in Venmo. And so then Venmo brought the name up. So then she was able to put the name in Facebook and then found out who it was. Oh, I do remember that. I do remember that story. Yeah, I think that was on another jail report we did. All right. This next one.
This guy had a first date with a girl who told him, actually I'm engaged, but I'm not 100% sure if my fiance is the right one. So I'm going to go out on a few dates to see if I changed my mind. And he got the check. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa. So pretty much it's like, you know, he proposed to me. I said, yeah, I'm not 100% sure. So I figured I'd take a few dates and see if I'm just certain. That story. Yeah, that is the story. Man, people are wild. I'll just put it to you this way.
If if somebody's asking you the question, I know in a lot of situations we put, especially females into a lot of pressure situations, like, you know, getting down on one knee in front of a whole arena, like I understand why you have to say yes in that moment. But for the most part, girl, you gotta say yes. Well, if you're talking about, but you know, that gets into a whole nother thing and it will fry as my donuts, but that's safety of marriage just is it. They will fry as my dough.
This next one, you will really appreciate this one on how do you say it? Qatar? Qatar? How do you say it? Qatar. Yeah, Qatar, the country. So on Qatar Airways flight from Qatar to Bali, Indonesia, a woman accessed her husband's phone and discovered that the man was cheating on her. She reportedly used her husband's own fingerprint while he was sleeping. And the article also reported that the woman was a knee, knee, created and causing outbursts when she discovered her husband's infidelity.
She caused such a scene that the plane had to make an emergency landing in Chennai, India and the entire family, including the husband and their child were kicked off the flight. And after the family was removed, the flight resumed its course to Bali. Man, oh man, you know, I tell you what, there's a lot of outbursts and crazy things that happen on planes. I don't know what it is, man.
I feel bad for those flight attendants because think about it, they're the ones that got to deal with that directly. They ain't paid enough to be referees. I haven't said this the whole time, but Taiyo Shoes because you tripped. Yeah, why have we said that Taiyo Shoes because you tripped. How in the world, my thing is you better wait until you get off a plane. I've never understood why people want to cause problems on a plane.
Or you know, you understand that you're going from one place to another. That's got a bunch of basically a private army on both sides, right? Like, especially if you go into the United States, in this case, they're going to Singapore, but every security, you know, you know that you're going to have to go to the United States. You know that you're going to have to go through immigration and all this other crap. If you've been causing problems, they'll just take you off and take you to jail.
No problem. You know, I mean, I don't understand why people want to cause problems. All right. This next one involves someone from the military. What? I thought military people were so faithful. Yeah, I thought they were perfect. All right. So this guy, he was in the military. He came home off of a deployment. He had been gone for a year and he noticed that his ex-wife was acting weird.
He said about three days after he returned, he had a notice from his unit stating that his vehicle had had three like tickets, like violations at another base. That was a few hours away in the past few months. When he went in to find out what the deal was, why he had the tickets, all three of the tickets had photos attached to them for speeding through a checkpoint.
All three were of his wife and some other guy. And in the third picture, she was kissing him and the guy was driving that guy's car. So the other guy was driving the military guy's car. So he was... Yeah, I can imagine so. And another taste for Jag there. Yeah, apparently it's really easy to get divorced in the military. So very quick process if you go through Jag. Anyways, that's crazy, man. One last one. This one I appreciate very much. I very much appreciated this story.
So this girl, her and her boyfriend went to Mass together and her boyfriend starts crying during Mass and he just ran out. So they were attending Mass to become parishioners so that they would be able to get married at that specific church. And Mass only had 10 minutes left so she stayed the last 10 minutes to give him time to collect himself. When she met him in the car, he told her that he had been seeing someone else for the last two years and was cheating on her.
And they had been together for like six years. So the last two years of their relationship, he was cheating. And he said that he felt so convicted and so guilty when he was in church that he had to tell her and he had to be honest. So my man got convicted by the Holy Spirit during Mass and he had to tell his girlfriend that he was cheating on her. At least he did the right thing by admitting it. What he did was wrong.
That's hard to do. That's hard to do. Mad props to him but I'll tell you this much. Were they still together? Have to say? Probably not. I mean, it was like a two-year relationship. I'm sure if it had been like a one night deal, they probably could have got. Or even a few weeks or something like that. They probably could have got through it. I don't know. Maybe they did get through it. Maybe she was forgiving. I don't know what their life was like.
But all right, man, are you ready to move into the donut hole? Yeah, man. Let's do it. So next segment is the donut hole or whatever the heck we feel like talking about or quizzing about or whatever. So Chris, what you got, man? I got a quiz for you and you're going to very much enjoy this quiz. It is about the TV show Gunsmoke. Oh, okay. Micah is a self-proclaimed gunsmoke aficionado. I feel like he... I don't know about all that. I feel like you've seen a lot of gunsmokes.
Okay, I have seen a lot of gunsmoke but I feel like, okay, who knows? We'll see how we are when we get there. If you don't know what gunsmoke is, gunsmoke is aired in the 50s. It's a western show about a marshal and their antics and all that good stuff. And, you know, it's one of those shows that your grandpa watches but Micah finds that to be a comfort show for him. Yeah, I'm a grandpa at heart. I don't know what to say.
Did you know it actually was on the air for like 20 years? So it started in the 50s and ended in the 70s? I mean, shoot, the guy who played Matt Dillon had gray hair by the time it was over with him. Good stuff. Are you ready for the quiz? We'll see how well you know you're gunsmoke. Yeah, yeah, let's see it. Which movie star was originally offered the lead role of Marshal Matt Dillon? A. D. Martin. B. Clint Eastwood. C. John Wayne or D. Michael Landon.
Wasn't John Wayne that they weren't human-played initially? Yes, that is correct. And he did the intro on the first episode or something. I don't know. I haven't seen that one. I don't know if I've seen the first episode, to be honest with you. I'll say this. All the gunsmoke that I've seen has been whatever reruns were on TV. Just a lot of TV work. In what year did gunsmoke first air on TV? A. 1950. B. 1955. C. 1957 or D. 1959. I'm gonna say 55.
That is correct. You are correct, sir. Two for two. Yeah. Alright, this next one. It's a softball question. I know that you'll get it. In which city does gunsmoke take place? Kansas City, Carson City, Virginia City or Dodge City? I think it's Virginia City. No, I'm joking. It's Dodge City, Kansas. Good old Virginia City. Wasn't that Bonanza? Yeah, that's the other TV western. That's the other TV western. Anyways, we talked about this too. Have you noticed nobody likes the Cartwrights or Bonanza?
Anyways, we can talk about that later. What was the doc's name in Gunsmoke? Doc Holliday, Doc Adams, Doc House or Doc Williams? Doc Adams was his name. And he was kind of a jerk, man. He would be making fun of people. How many years did gunsmoke air on TV? I think you kind of said it earlier. A. 10 years, B. 15 years, C. 20 years or D. 25? I'm gonna say 20. Yeah, it went from 1955 to 1975. That's wild. It's like one of the longest running shows ever on TV.
TV shows ever? Yeah, it's pretty crazy to think about. And the characters stayed mostly the same, like Matt Dillon was the same, the person who played Kitty who was the local saloon. A lot of the characters stayed the same. Didn't change too much. Right. Apparently there is a character in there called Chester. Is that right? Is there a character named Chester in there? Yeah, yeah. So you remember Festus, right? Like the Sierra sidekick?
Don't say anything. Because I'm asking you a question about Chester. What was true about Chester? He was divorced. He had one eye. He was also the undertaker or he walked with a limb? Oh, he walked with a limb. I'm pretty sure. That is correct. Yeah, he was kind of bow-legged and he was like, if you haven't seen the show, which I'm sure most people actually haven't, so it's like a sheriff and his sheriff's deputy.
And I don't know why, but all the shows at the time, including like Andy Griffith where there was a sheriff and a sheriff's deputy, the deputy was always kind of stupid or kind of came across stupid. And so Chester and Festus were kind of, they were good at what they did, but they came across really dumb. They were the comedic relief. Is that what it was?
Yeah, I guess they were the comedic relief, but then sometimes they would also get them into predicaments and it's just like, dang it. It's like, if you weren't an idiot, we wouldn't have been in this. But anyways, go ahead. Number seven, besides being a deputy, what other job does newly O'Brien have? A, Gunsmith, B, Blacksmith, C, Undertaker, or D, Banker? He was the Gunsmith. That is correct. Dang, bro, you really know your Gunsmith. Okay, you got three more left. Apparently I do.
What was the name of the saloon? A, Salty Star, B, Dusty Dirt, C, Long Branch, or D, Bootkill? It was Long Branch. Which place is actually never seen in Gunsmith? The Hotel, the Jail, the Barber Shop, or the Haberdasher? Oh, that's a good question. You said it was go through the options again? The Hotel, the Jail, the Barber Shop, or the Haberdasher? They showed the hotel before. I guess the Haberdasher? Yeah, you could do an Haberdasher. You could do an Haberdasher, huh?
Hey, good old Kovosso's. All right, last one. Let's see if you can go 10 for 10. Perfect score. No pressure. What was Chester's brother's name? A, Magnus, B, Marshall, C, Matt, or D, Ben? Wasn't it Ben? Ben was Chester's brother? It's actually Magnus. I don't know where I got Ben from, but hey, nine for 10 is pretty good. I'll take a one-off of not knowing who Chester's brother is. He was a very short character, actually. Like, he was only on for a few years, and then it was festive.
Well, most of the trivia quizzes I looked at, that was like one of the questions on everyone was like, what was Chester's brother's name? And it was like, oh, Magnus. Actually, no kid named Magnus. So maybe he was named after the show. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? But yeah, great quiz. I didn't know I'd knew that much. It's one of those shows where you watch it a ton, or I've watched it a ton, but like, you know, if I had to answer trivia, I don't know. But yeah, actually, that wasn't too bad.
I'm going to put you on blast. You want to tell them about the story about when we traveled to Dallas and we watched Gunsmoke in the hotel? You want to tell them about that? Sure. So we were sitting there in a hotel in Arlington, and we were flipping through the TV. And I think we got to what? Like TV land or something where they'd be showing westerns during the daytime. It was during the week. So it was just kind of daytime television.
And it was the intro. And if you've ever seen Gunsmoke, it's literally, you see Matt Dillon, the sheriff from behind, like you see his back and everything. And he's in a standoff and he shoots the guy that it shows him. And I remember Chris asking like, wait, what is this? And I was just like, oh, it's Gunsmoke. I could tell that's Matt Dillon's ass anywhere. And he just turned to me real slow. He goes, that was the gayest thing I think you've ever said to me.
And I realized, yeah, that probably was the gayest thing I've ever said to him. It was a funny moment. And you were like, you're like, all the things I've said, you're like, that one's the gayest that I've ever said to you. And I was like, yep, that is the gayest thing you ever said to me. It was funny. It was a funny moment. Good stuff, man. Yeah, you really know your Gunsmoke again. Gunsmoke's one of those shows that you can just put on the background.
It is a little slow, but like, I mean, the stories are pretty good. I mean, it's classic American television. When it's on TV, it's about an hour long episode apiece. So it's, I mean, they're full on stories. I mean, like developing stories for a while. So anyways, they have some good storylines. I mean, but and then there's some of them that are just kind of... For sure. All right, man, well, we're going to move into our next segment, which is what fries my donuts? What fries your donuts?
Man, this is incredibly specific and it's really not going to be much of a segment. It's more of a statement. I cannot stand people pointing out when you're sleeping or when you're dozing off. Like, why do people do that? Like, I'm tired. I got stuff going on, but I don't know. It's almost like, I don't know about you, Chris, but it's almost like an embarrassment thing. And so many times I'll be sitting there half asleep in my chair or something, and you'll be around family or, you know,
somebody that'll be like, oh, look at him. He's half asleep. And you can hear them talking about you and you go, why the heck are you pointing this out? We all sleep. We sleep every night. Sometimes during the day, like I'm doing right now. It's a normal bodily function. Like I'm tired. I don't understand why people like to point that out or be like, oh, look, he's sleeping. He must be tired. Like it becomes like a topic of conversation. Have you noticed that, Chris?
Yeah, I have noticed that for sure. I do think that maybe it used to be like considered rude that if you would like fall asleep on somebody, and I think that's where the tradition like comes from. But at the same time to, I hate when people do that, when people talk about how you're like either not eating or like, look at him. He didn't eat anything. He hardly ate anything. It's like, maybe I was just too tired to eat or maybe it's just like, you know what, like, I'm not hungry.
Maybe I'm just not feeling it. Maybe you're cooking is awful, Cheryl. Maybe I don't even want to be here right now. No, it just, I don't know. It just kind of aggravates me because I feel like on a funnier note, even the older generation, and maybe this is where it comes from primarily, but even members of the older generation, it was such like a shameful thing to where if you catch them sleeping, like I remember a certain grandfather of mine who would be like,
you know, he'd say, oh, you fell asleep. No, no, no, no, I did. No, I did. And it was like a fight. It was always like, no, I just had my eyes shut. And they'll try to convince you and convince you like, no, I wasn't sleeping. Like, honestly, what's wrong with you sleeping right now? Like, nothing's going on. You're in your chair. Who the heck cares? Right? I don't know. It's almost like a point of shame. I don't know. Yeah, I'm like, nope. Just resting my eye.
Yeah, I don't know. It just. That's what I always say. Yeah, that's what a lot of people's. For me, I don't know. It just, it's just agitating because you're trying to rest. And it's like, there's a lot of people that are, you know, taking notice. And I feel like it should be one of those things that just kind of drifts off into the background so you can, you can take your nap without everybody talking.
Yeah, I feel like it should be a thing or, but I do feel like bad whenever you are like entertaining or you're like going to visit family and you, you know, you're like, I feel bad for taking a nap because I'm like, well, I need to be with them, spend time with them, you know, and it's like, no, like, you could go take a nap. Like, it's okay. I ain't nobody going to think anything less of you. But yeah, that's what fries my donuts. Like I said, it's incredibly specific, but there you go.
Oh yeah, buddy. Well, we are going to move into our mystery donut, which is our new product segment. Yeah, my god, what do we got on the segment today? Well, we have kind of a mix. Remember, for those OGs who've been with us for a long time, when we did improv, sometimes we would pull out scenarios or accents from a hat.
And then we kind of went to the improviser. Well, we're going to kind of do a mixture of both where we're going to pull an accent from the hat, and then we are going to have the randomizer give us an action or a scene or a situation. So Chris, you ready to do that? Yeah, I missed the hat. All right, so I'm going to let you pull the accent from the hat. So go ahead. Let me see. Let me get it all mixed up there. Pretty good. Oh, I feel like we haven't done this one in a while. A country accent.
Oh man. Perfect. All right. And then let's see what the randomizer has to say when it comes to... It's kind of specific, but we can make this work. Restarting a computer, or I guess working on a computer. Oh, okay. That works. You want to start or you want me to start? I can start. I can start. What a hack's wrong with this thing. I come in here. Next thing you know, it's blue screen on me and says, uh-oh, we ran into a problem.
Yep. Yep, Jimmy Bob. I tried calling them IT guys to help me when I said, hey, my screen's black. They told me something about pushing a button or something. I said, well, what the heck do I pay you for? Can't you just log on to your little computer on your end and turn it on for me? What the heck am I calling you for? Well, and my question is, you know, I couldn't understand what they were saying.
You know, I just wanted to say, listen here, Sanjay Gupta, you're going to tell me with your doctor powers and your skills how to do this. You're going to win your magic IT one. It's going to be done. You understand what I'm telling you? I paid too much money for this machine and I need it to turn on because I got certain things I got to do. Well, this is the problem with America right here. Unless you can fix it with DD-40 and some duct tape, it ain't worth the thing, my friend.
That's why we get all this stuff from China. I'm telling you, American made. American made. We don't even need computers. Computers are dead. I'm telling you, we need to go back to the old ways where we're just telling the ground by hand. We don't need this technology stuff. It just breaks down on us. Amen. Amen. Whatever happened to pen and paper, we used to think pen and paper all the time. Now we can't even do that. We can't even, pen and paper, people don't even know how to write.
You know, you know, Jimmy Cooley down the road, he was talking to me about school. You know, they don't even teach him how to write cursive. Yep. That's the problem with America. You know what? We'd have a lot more patriots if people learn how to write cursive. I said, hey, you know what? We don't even need this technology stuff. When am I going to need stuff on an iPad? When am I going to need to pay my bills online? You know what? I don't even like it that way.
I like to give them a check down at the water plan so that they know. Cheryl knows me up front. She already knows. She already knows. Bill about you came in, you paid your check on Friday. Now it's Monday and they call me and they tell me that they ain't got my payment. Nope. She knows. Cheryl's there. That's what I'm saying. You go down to Power Company. I used to talk to Bill Jean over there and she knew me.
Then I go down to Cheryl just like you're talking about. Then I went over down to the lumber store and, you know, in the feed lot and they just, they know where to expect me. Then I start showing up and it says, we don't take checks. You got to pay online. What do you mean I got to pay online? Who am I going to hit on while I'm there delivering my check? I can't work with a computer, especially one that ain't turning on.
Yep. Then my genius of a son, he says to me, dad, he says, you need to learn how to take typing class. I said, boy, I've been working with my hands my whole life. I don't need no typing classes. I got two point of fingers right here. I'll let my point of fingers do the work right there. Clickety clack, clickety clack, clickety clack. I don't need no typing. No typing class. I know how to type. Try to tell me I don't know how to take typing class, boy.
What you need to do is take a class in manners because boy, I'm about to work with you. I'll tell you this much. I'll be honest with you, Billy Bob, that boy years, he always been soft. He needs class on how to be a man straight up. He's still living in your house. He's what, 25? That boy needs to be straightened up. And then he's going to come in here and say, you need type class? Uh-uh. Uh-uh. That's problems.
I tell you this, you didn't hear this from me, but I got a paternity test and that boy ain't mine. So I knew, I knew as soon as he mouth off and I say, yep, that ain't my son. That ain't my boy. I can stop playing child support, but I do it out of kindness in my heart. Good Lord tell him. You know what? That makes total sense. Whenever I saw that boy the first time you said, that's my son.
I said, there's too much sense in there to be Billy Bob's son. That's what I said in my mind, but I ain't going to be me. But it makes sense. It makes sense. Well, Jimmy Dean, I'm going to figure out this computer stuff later. My, my, my wife, she got us a reservation crack bail. We're late. I don't want to miss. I don't want to miss the chicken and dumplings night. I'll just say this, you know what I'm about ready for? We're going down to the Golden K-Ral, I mean the Corral.
I keep going to call it the K-Ral, but you know, go down to the Golden Corral and get there early before all them other old people try to get there since it's 4.30. You know what I mean? I'm going to try to get down there myself and we'll try to figure out this computer crack some other time. Yep. That'll be perfect. Then you can go straight to your AA meeting right in the next, right in the next one.
Shoot. I done, I done quit that. You know I done quit that. I'm just there for the sound birthday. I'm sorry. I am proud. Man, you gotta, you gotta love Southern people. If you're an international listener, we make fun of the South, but I mean, I'm telling you, unless you live there, there's so many nuances and there's just so many things, but it's a good time. It's a feeling. Like it's a, as the kids nowadays would say, it's a vibe. It's a vibe. Except it's not a, anyways.
Yeah. Alright. Well man, are you ready to go into our final segment, which is our Eclair segment? Alright man, so our Eclair segment, which is our positive advice. So Chris, I think I went first last week, so go ahead and... Oh yeah. This is a, this is more of a leadership positive advice, but always find someone that you can like multiply yourself.
So what I mean by that is like in leadership, you have things that you're doing, but the way to be effective in leadership and in business is to find someone that you can pass that along to and you're essentially multiplying yourself.
So when you teach that person how to do what you're doing and how to lead and all that stuff, you then can give them stuff that you've already been doing and it frees you up so that you can pursue opportunities that you want to pursue, whether that's you want to learn more of a different skill or you want to lean into a certain area of your business, whatever that has you.
But if you're just only trying to be the only one that is doing the work or the leadership and you think that it solely runs on you, your company, your legacy, your leadership, whatever that is, it won't last because it'll die with you. So whenever you multiply yourself and you can pass that on, then that's what makes for a healthy legacy. Now what Chris is trying to lead into is we have a wonderful business opportunity, including credit card readers.
Now, Chris and I have recruited five ourselves, we're going to have those five multiplied to 25 and those 25 are going to multiply from there. So if you want to be on the ground level, I'm joking. Anyways, no great advice Chris. My EECLAR is sometimes in life you have to assess where you're at now and maybe the original plan is not where you're at and maybe that's not the goal anymore. It's okay, life changes and goals change and goals change very rapidly.
One year could be one thing, one year could be the next, it could even be down to a few months, things can change. But just be open to reevaluating and seeing where you're at because you can always keep elements of what you're doing that is working. The other stuff that maybe is not working or maybe, you know, it's like I don't want to continue those habits or I don't want to keep going good or bad.
You know, you can always assess, cut out some of those bad things and move forward and or even sometimes there are any bad things. Maybe it's just not something you want to do anymore. So Chris, I think that successfully leads us into the next topic of conversation that we're going to have with our OGs. Do you think we should start that? I think we should man, we should let them know what's up. So this is a fireside chat with Chris and Micah on the status of Trashcan Nation.
No, we're not quitting. No, we're not quitting. No, we're very much alive and strong. Anyways, what we're going to do, so no more website. Normally at this point in the podcast, we plug tvtrashcan.com and make it a whole thing. You know what, Chris and I, we talked about it a lot. And we're creating some goals on the side, you know, and things like that, some different things that we want to do, not only for the podcast, but for the YouTube channel, for the social media channel.
So there's more to come on that. But for now, we're going to reallocate everything that was on the website to YouTube. So just FY, there, no more, no more website, no more tvtrashcan. But at the same time, it's, I think it's the best move for us. Some of the landscapes have changed. Man, I feel like being honest. Should we tell them what the original goal was and what's changed?
I mean, if you want to, you can. I mean, I don't care either way just because I'm like, they probably didn't really know what the original goal was, but it's all good, bro. Like, you want to tell them I'm down. Why not? The original goal and what we talked about with Trashcan TV was we wanted to be a streaming service a lot like what's out there now, like freebie, 2B, what's, what's some of the other ones, Chris, I'm trying to think.
Pluto TV is another one, you know, where we had our deliciously trashy shows like Maury, Jerry Spring or all that stuff free on tap and access plenty and things like that. We found a way to do that through YouTube and things like that and try to get some licensing. But, you know, I think we had the idea as well as everybody else. And so Chris and I were talking about it and, you know, I don't think this direction, we don't think this direction, we want to go.
We want to continue with our content. We love the podcast. And we want to grow and continue that. So I think it's more the moves are more to grow and continue the podcast and what we have and some of the other content we have coming out and not so much making it a platform or streaming service in the future. So that was the original goal. That's what's kind of changed.
That's why we kind of moved away from the website and things like that. But hey, we're still available on all your favorite socials on YouTube. So yeah, come like, subscribe, follow. We appreciate that. Thanks for taking a little extra time. That way we can tell you our little side note there. We really appreciate you guys. And again, we love all of our fans, all of our listeners, even our haters, because y'all make us stronger.
That's what I'm saying. I hate or can't do nothing. But hey, you know, stop this podcast. Alright, so but Jim, man, that's pretty much all I got. Yeah.