Plain Donuts

We're excited to be back with news and new technology and new stories to tell! Join us for these hot, hot takes.

Steve tells the saga of his forthcoming baby and Alicia tells the saga of her dramatic eclipse trip! Then, of course, producer Otto gets chased off by dogs.

Steve and Alicia talk about fancy cappuccino machines, starting a cult, and all sorts of conspiracy theories that they can't get down with.

This week our co-hosts chat about the past two weeks and the Pioneer Day holiday. Alicia rants for several minutes about a terrible book she read, Steve comes up with a great story idea, and they both discuss the best Vegas shows ever and The Wood Year.

Steve and Alicia go on a meandering discussion about their weeks, personalities, and tweets before answering audience questions about movies. Listen in to find out their favorite underappreciated movies, and which movie worlds they would live in! Also, for the rest of the summer (until September), PD will be on an every-other-week schedule. You can hear more details in the middle section!

Steve and Alicia try to talk about their weeks, but instead they talk about the worst mutant powers and treating celebrities badly. They then answer questions about work and have a couple of exciting rants!

Steve and Alicia are live from Fyrecon with a surprisingly large audience! They discuss conventions, teeth, and drugs!

Steve and Alicia are joined by author, fellow FyreCon Presenter, and host of the Dungeon Crawlers podcast Daniel Swenson. They talk about their experiences of FyreCon and Steve reviews Wonder Woman, a movie he liked a lot and about which he is angry, before diving into audience questions. You can find Daniel's book, The Shadow Above the Flames here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Above-Flames-Daniel-Swenson-ebook And check out the Dungeon Crawlers podcast here: http://www.dungeoncrawlersradio.com/  

Steve and Alicia have a guest! It's Chris Hill, brother-in-law to Steve and US Navyman. They chat about Disneyland and Dad Stuff. And, in case you were wondering, the song is Darude - Sandstorrm.

In spite of suffering through Steve's actual, disgusting pink eye our cohosts verge on the edge of safe-for-work (#notmykink) before taking on a slightly more serious tone to talk about impactful life events and life paths.

Steve and Alicia discuss Alicia's crazy up and down week!

Alicia is on vacation in Europe AGAIN, so Steve slaved away to bring you a brief recap of some of our favorite guest moments. They are as follows: Kola gets followed by one of her many celebrity crushes: 019 - Social Centaur - http://yourplaindonuts.com/post/156371153094/019-social-centaur The many personalities of Nightghost49: 023 - Stream Train - http://yourplaindonuts.com/post/157567375589/023-stream-train Going from nothing to published with Caryn Larrinaga: http://yourplaindonuts.com/post/158147928249/025-authors-be-writing "Your adventure doesn't end where the road does" with Friday: 026 - Taking Back Friday - http://yourplaindonuts.com/post/158431641334/026-taking-back-friday The perks of a voice and nearly exposing Tall Chicken's real name with Brandon Garlik: 029 - He Came From the Spacestation  - http://yourplaindonuts.com/post/159224194464/029-he-came-from-the-spacestation

Our co-hosts do a free for all AMA, which results in being asked questions about movies, desert islands, and scariest moments.

After a long series of tangents, Steve and Alicia get into the good, bad, and embarrassing memories of high school, and read several captivating listener confessions.

With Alicia on vacation, Steve and guest co-host Aldo Gomez (twitter.com/SteamboatTaco) take on a myriad of subjects: some of April's strange holidays like International Blaze It Day (4/20), video games, films, many other media, and a bunch of possible crossovers. Steve gets in some of his usual angry ranting, and Aldo has a sweet callback!

Steve and Alicia take questions about relationships this week, and navigate the world of family conflicts, awkward make out moments, and hilarious and heartwarming confessions.

Steve and Alicia interview local boy and Shonduras's Spacestation crew member, Brandon Garlik! They chat all things YouTube, and Brandon shared wisdom and warnings about shooting darts. Shonduras on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoK5NOxkZBLfI_5eqf8Es4Q Spacestation Stuff on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmLpukyN1nfdEqvg1I97poQ Brandon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/garlik_b  

Steve and Alicia take questions and embarrassing stories and amp up the awkward this episode, before pumping out bad wisdom and terrible moments from their pasts.

Steve and Alicia are seeing green as they chat about what they will do for St. Patrick's Day 2018, and talk about hosting Guy Fieri and Chris Hemsworth.

In a rare moment of staying on topic, Alicia and Steve interview moto-vlogging YouTuber, Friday's The Bomb, a guy who rides a motorcycle through the Arizona deserts and tells awesome stories. You can find his stuff on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DatumDood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fridays_88/

This week, Steve and Alicia have a special guest, author of the novel Donn's Hill, Caryn Larrinaga! They tangent off as usual before chatting with Caryn about writing, publishing, and lemon bars. More info about Caryn, and links to Donn's hill and other writing on her website: http://carynlarrinaga.com We mentioned a way that your local independent book store could order the paperback if you want to buy it from them, that is http://www.indiebound.org/

This week, things get a bit more controversial than normal - Steve is quite the bad one and decides to rant and rave before announcing that he's 1/16th Native American. Things calm down after that, and we and chat about weird historical events before diving into Oscar drama (including some discussion around past allegations of Casey Affleck committing sexual assault).

Steve and Alicia have Jacob (Nightghost49) as a guest on the show! He's a dad, a husband, a streamer, a YouTuber, and an all-around great guy with a rad voice! During a live stream and recording, they discuss the life of a man with essentially three jobs. Unsurprisingly, eventually things get weird. This is Plain Donuts, after all. You can find Jacob at: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/nightghost49 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nightghost49 Twitter: https://twitter.com/nightghost49

This week, Steve and Alicia ask Siri some weird and personal questions before talking about presidents, books, and presidential books.

Steve and Alicia chat about the frustration with a football type game, and take questions about Valentine's Day before finally brainstorming ideas for the suburban super hero, Chalky Laser-Eyes.

In this episode, Steve and Alicia doggedly pursue humor in pets in spite of the world's ever-increasing cattiness. This episode is about pets. Sorry for the pugs... er... puns.

This week, Steve and Alicia welcome their first remote guest, Kola: Social media maven extraordinaire! They spend time chatting/lamenting about Instagram and Facebook, creativity, fandoms, and answer some social questions from the audience before things get weird. You can find Kola online in these places: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rudeandnotgingr/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rudeandnotgingr RudeAndNotGingr.com - http://rudeandnotgingr.com/

This episode, Steve gets in a Twitter beef with Flat Earthers, Alicia talks about her visit to the ER, and they both get down with the sickness. They also try to come up with a name for the faithful Plain Donuts followers.

Steve and Alicia have a guest! Sarah Hanisko, a doctor! She's a doctor specializing in conflict resolution, so our hosts and their guest take audience questions all around conflict (and some games and some Batman). Steve also yells about the Flat Earth theory. You can find Sarah's work at: The Geek Parenting Podcast: https://geekparentingpodcast.com/ Geeks for Justice: https://geeks4justice.com/

Alicia and Steve discuss their holidays, and go over some of their faves of 2016. Then they answer some audience questions! 2106 Bests:   Mantis Double Fisting Bees - https://youtu.be/x-SaoS_iORM Lizard Runs Away - https://youtu.be/B3OjfK0t1XM Guy on a Buffalo - https://youtu.be/iJ4T9CQA0UM Pen Pineapple Apple Pen - https://youtu.be/d9TpRfDdyU0 Sia - Satisfied - https://open.spotify.com/album/7mdlorW25vJP1FmjzLzPR6 The Weeknd - Starboy - https://youtu.be/34Na4j8AVgA "Delete Your Account" - https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/740973710593654784 Kanye / Kim / Taylor - http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/heres-the-full-transcript-of-that-taylor-swift-kanye-phone-call-w429579   

Through 14 episodes, we've had some pretty great moments! This episode is chock full of 'em! Creepy Craig - 001 - Justin Leonardo Craig Beat up a girl for money - 002 - Sky Wars - Live Long and Punch Her Bad Sponsor Ideas / Utah's Mollie's Nipples - 012 - Gridlock Mixtape Sushi off a naked body - 003 - Beef Sushi Spotted Dick / Alicia's Serial Killer - 005 - Spotted Politic Steve Lettered in Drama - 009 - Drama with JackNDiane A sex tape for a podcast / Snapchat - 010 - Celebrity Sex Tape

This week our hosts take questions from the audience. Steve has a cold and laments his many sniffles before finally understanding spicy Latin lovers. Alicia talks about an unfortunate incident in the snow and has a cuter Christmas morning than Steve.

In this episode, Steve and Alicia answer as many questions as they can from listeners. But don't worry! They still get very distracted

Steve and Alicia play an audience-driven game of "Would You Rather," then discuss bad options for sponsors.

This week, Steve and Alicia answer your questions, from favorite books, to nightmare Christmas stories, to their favorite garbage foods from childhood. For this episode, we have our first ever disclaimer! To the void we go!

Steve and Alicia discuss relationship boundaries. Steve pulls his mind out of the (unrelated) emotional ashes of his day. Meanwhile, Alicia can't get her own mind out of the gutter.

Our co-hosts lament about mistakes from the past, JackNDiane have relationship problems, and we crown Steve with the letter D, for taking the most Drama credits in high school.

Steve and Alicia go all-in on this week's indescribable Presidential election.

This week, Steve and Alicia dive into even more accents, now with genealogy! Science! Here's looking at you, Hugh!

Audience questions and confessions abound. Steve overheats a couple of times, but Alicia keeps her cool, even in a political discussion!

Steve can barely contain his apologies after he gets a little mad about politics. Alicia recounts her brush with a would-be serial killer.

Steve and Alicia take questions from the audience. They discuss the origin of the "Plain Donuts" name, then delve into strange bodily functions before turning a critical eye on some Amazon reviews.

Steve and Alicia introduce themselves. They discuss their respective histories, and then talk about crappy cars and crappy sushi.

Steve finds himself on the spectrum, Alicia recounts getting mauled in the street for twenty dollars, and we discuss the confusing trilogy of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Dancing with the Stars.

In this episode, Plain Donuts legitimize themselves on social media; Steve waxes nostalgic about Justin Timberlake's snare drum, and Alicia laments that she wasn't old enough to "do anything to him" when he broke off from *NSYNC; then our cohosts bring out their psychoanalysis armchairs to diagnose Creepy Craig of Elimidate fame.