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A History of Donuts
Once upon a time in his parents' basement, Mickey C, Dustin, theerik, and a
guy named Chris Powers (aka, Straza, BlueStraza, Chris of Legend, or whatever
he's going by these days) decided to spend an entire month doing nothing but
playing WoW. One day, Dustin discovered a link to wcradio.com on the World
of Warcraft official website.
"Hey guys," said Dustin, "Check out this website I found. It's
a radio station devoted to WoW." A few days later, they noticed WoW
Radio was looking for more staff.
"We should host a radio show!" said Dustin.
"What the hell would we talk about?" pondered Mickey C. "We've
only been playing for like two weeks, we don't know jack about this game."
The group thought about that for a few days. Then, Mickey had an epiphany.
"We could do a radio play!"
He drew upon his friends, as well as other typical beginning players, and the
traits he'd imagined their in-game characters to have to create the characters
for the original pilot episode, and from there, wrote a script. That night,
the four gathered 'round a $5.00 microphone they'd purchased earlier in the
day at the local Wal-Mart and recorded the entire episode in one take. Mickey
voiced Jason, Tickelbur, and the as yet unnamed Mysterious Dwarven Warrior,
theerik was the voice behind the Narrator and Sampson, Chris took care of Flix,
and Dustin sat around waiting until it was his turn to speak when Raven appeared.
They sent the episode in to Athalus, the Station Owner of WoW Radio at
the time, and waited.
Three weeks later, Athalus got back to them. "You guys aren't awful,"
he said, "How'd you like to do a weekly segment on my show?" Thus,
The Chalice of Silvermoon was born. Under the name Oblivious Chaos, the
four began their legacy. Mickey wrote Episode 2, and theerik wrote a pilot
for a Horde Edition of the show. One week after the debut of the pilot
on Saturday Night's with Athalus, August 15, 2005, Episode 2 aired. The
following week, the God-awful pilot for the Horde Edition aired.
After that abysmal failure, theerik, Dustin, and Chris all gave up on the project.
Erik claims he didn't have the time necessary to devote to it, but Dustin
and Chris will not hesitate to admit that they bailed on Mickey. Three
weeks later, Mickey decided he wasn't ready to quit. He continued the
story following the original alliance characters, voicing them all himself.
Later, he would re-record Episodes 1 and 2 himself, for the sake of continuity.
After 11 episodes (and finding himself on Academic Probation at USC), Mickey
realized he'd been devoting a little too much time to Chalice, WoW Radio, and
video games in general. He went back to Erik prepared to beg him to return
to the project and take over for the second half of the first season with the
abandoned Horde Edition. Surprisingly, Erik didn't need to be begged.
He was all too eager to return with an all new Horde Edition, far superior
to the original. Dustin had continued to mingle with the WoW Radio crowd
as Mickey carried the show forward by himself, and had been asking for some
time to be given back the role of Raven. Mickey, unwilling to make another
change in the cast, was still happy to have Dustin involved again, and Erik
wrote Churok, a character Dustin was born to play.
It was with the debut of the new Horde Edition that Mickey and Dustin began
hosting their first talk show, Happy Hour Tavern, on WoW Radio, which became
the new home to Chalice. As Season One drew to a close, the Tavern closed
its doors, and as Oblivious Chaos became The Donut Boys, Season Two landed on
Vendor Trash with Slanik. Half way through the second season, Dustin returned
to host Learn2Play with theerik. Feeling that Vendor Trash was a more
suitable place for new episodes, Learn2Play became a source of syndication (aka,
reruns). When Season Two ended, Mickey and theerik came up with a grand
scheme for a third season to finish the story. Alas, life interfered.
Learn2Play ended its short run, and the debut of Season Three was delayed
by a full year.
By the time Season Three was ready, Slanik had followed in Athalus's footsteps
and left the airwaves. Looking to the lineup of WoW Radio shows, The Donut
Boys wondered which would be the most suitable to give their favorite creation.
Finally realizing they'd missed being able to speak directly to the public,
all three came back to the Tavern once more. After a 24 Hour on-air Chalice
marathon hosted by The Donut Boys on its three year anniversary, Season Three
debuted. The Donut Boys had come back home.
Shortly after their return, however, the Donuts ran into some hard times in
the RLz. Production on Season Three hit a brick wall, and Happy Hour (which,
oddly enough, was now lasting two hours) started veering away from its intended
World of Warcraft basis, and the Tavern had to close its doors for good. It
wasn't long, though, before the three pastry partners decided they couldn't
stay away from the realm of internet radio. They made a triumphant return
with their best talk show yet: The Donut Shop. Stuffed with a filling
of rich community-based content, The Donut Shop is the first show these three
have hosted that officially has nothing to do with WoW. Gaming, Television,
Film, Technology, and Entertainment are just some of the flavors available at
the Shop.
Along with their return to the airwaves, the Boys have big plans to put into
other projects. Most of these are pretty well-guarded secrets for now,
but others will be arriving at a donutboys.net near you shortly.
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