Sept. 18, 2025

4 Inches Is Too Big | Thursday September 18, 2025

4 Inches Is Too Big | Thursday September 18, 2025
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We start off today discussing a huge cheating scandal in rock skimming and why 3 inches is just right, then we discuss why turning old malls into GenX retirement homes is a good idea, and how long could you survive in the quietest place on Earth?

LINKS:

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/world-stone-skimming-championships-cheaters-outed-by-suspiciously-circular-stones-3251302/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/orfield-labs-quiet-chamber

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It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with

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us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey

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Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Jerry cauld will be along shortly.

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I have to admit something that's fairly embarrassing. My brain

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tricked me today, trick me good and hard.

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How's that.

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I read a headline and I tricked myself into thinking

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it was something other than it was. Okay, so I'm

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going to read this headline to you, and then I'll

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tell you how I misinterpreted it. A cheating scandal has

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rocked the World Stone Skimming Championships. That headline tricked me

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because I thought it meant a cheating scandal between contestants,

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like they were cheating on their spouses with one another

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and in collusion to fix the World Rock Skimming Championships.

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I was wrong.

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It was less nefarious as far as personal matters, more

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of a competitive cheating scandal because some of the competitives.

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Some of the competitors were found to be using suspiciously

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circular stones, and you're supposed to use natural ones. None

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of this has anything to do with anybody's spouses. As

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far as I know, This is how social media algorithms

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can mess with your brain. It's been showing me too

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much relationship ye stuff, and I've I started looking too

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deep into a matter.

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And it tricked me. So that's where I am.

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And how long have white people been doing this sport?

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It's an excellent question. I didn't even know the answer

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to that one.

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And further record, that's not white bashing.

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You're not saying it's bad that, you're not saying it's dumb.

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And honestly, it's just stereotyping, good old fashioned stereotyping.

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That's okay, you know.

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Honestly, is it white?

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Because it doesn't seem stupid enough to be just a

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white only sport.

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Oh, it's white skydiving, it's white.

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Mountain climbing.

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Mountain climbing is white skydiving. I think is kind of

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if you don't have a fear of heights. I think

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it's kind of open to everybody.

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Yeah, but have you seen some of the videos where

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they take like a trampoline up between yes, two hot

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air balloons. You know, I I've that just reeks of

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of Anglo.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's

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ever been a black guy idea.

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Yeah, it's like they had a TV show on called

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Extreme Ironing. It was on for one season. I don't

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know if you ever saw it, and it's people like

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that would iron like on the side of a speedboat,

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and I was like every episode, I'm like, here's the

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whitest people in the world.

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Sometimes, though, you can get that wrong, because if I

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told you that there is a competitive bed making championship,

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would you assume.

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That's white people? Nope? Who would you assume that is?

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I would go Former Housekeeping, like fifteen year to twenty

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year veteran, Hispanic male, Ok, maybe Hispanic female.

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They might have a few, so they might have a

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few competitors. I don't know, but the Competitive bed Making

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Championships was loaded with Asian.

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Asian Oh Asian people too.

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Yeah, yeah, I can see that as well. And I

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tell you what, man, you want to see how to

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make a fricking bed? My god?

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Yeah, and that includes putting the comforter in the duvet

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cover with the buttons.

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Oh wow, I was I've seen a lot of.

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Things online that will blow my mind, but seeing someone

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fill a duvet cover with a down comforter in seconds

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every single time mind blown.

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Yeah, when they when they do the when housekeeping comes

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in here and they do my bed, it takes I

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mean all of about three minutes and they're done, like

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it's fantastic, Like it takes it takes them longer to

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do like the bathroom stuff. Yeah, and it does for

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the bet because they have that. It's down to a science.

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And I've stood there, just just stood there with the

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dog and just watch. I was like, look, I touched

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my dog. I was like, you need to watch this.

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This is a ma. You're trying to tell your puppy

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you don't know how good you have it.

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That's exactly right.

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So anyway, the World Stone Skimming Championships were recently rocked

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by a cheating scandal. Not cheating spouses that were competitors

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or anything like that, now, just the actual rocks they

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were using. Some competitors were found to be using suspiciously

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circular stones. Here in the States, we typically refer to

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it as stone skipping, but I guess across the pond

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they call it stone Skimming Championships. According to the competition's rules,

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stones must come from naturally occurring island slate and fit

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through a device called the ring.

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Of Truth.

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To ensure they are the right size.

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I'll tell you right now, it's pretty impressive that a

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predominantly white sport would be brave enough to have any

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item called the Ring of Truth to ensure they're the

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right size. By the way, the Ring of Truth allows

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for stones no bigger than three inches in diameter. So

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maybe another reason why this is such a popular sport

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among the whites.

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I don't want to know how they measured the wrongs

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with stones to find someone with four inches four inches.

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I mean, but imagine the trash talking would just be legendary.

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I skip with the stones from stone Hinge.

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Their performance enhancing rocks.

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Yes, sorry, it was a competition hosted by the Rock.

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That would be amazing. That's a beautiful branding opportunity.

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The Rock Skimming Championships organizer said that when the offenders

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were caught, they held their hands up and ultimately apologized.

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They were eventually disqualified. He did say there was a

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little bit of stone doctoring. They shaped it so that

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it was perfectly circular and fitted our three inch measurer.

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The problem was we didn't just notice at the time

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that they were using suspiciously circular The event was held

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in Scotland. It was actually eventually won by an American

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Yay Go America named Jonathan Jennings. He managed to skip

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his stones for a total of how many feet do

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you think? How many feet do you think? American Jonathan

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Jennings skipped a rock to become the world champion in

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World rock skimming.

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So he said, how many skips?

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How many feet?

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How many feet? Here eighty.

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Raj?

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And he guesses, op, he is so stunned. He locked up,

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just like me the other day, Raj, What is your guess?

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How many feet do you think? American World Rock Skimming Championship,

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World rock Skimming Champion Jonathan Jennings skipped a stone to win?

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How many feet?

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How many feet?

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Six and a half?

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All right, Trey's guess was eighty eighty feet? You are

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both way way low this.

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This guy skipped a rock five hundred and eighty feet

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roughly two football fields. Think about the longest skip you

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ever got out of a stone. And now watch this

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guy just a literated yes, because my number is zero.

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You've never done it?

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No, you never?

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Or is it because you tried and failed or you

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just never even tried.

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I've never seen the the reason to try to skip

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a stone across water. Oh, my dad's never like, son,

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let's let's go out by the pond and you know,

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reminisce about things in the and then skip stone like

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we didn't do that.

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It was commercial.

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He didn't take you around the shoulders and pull you

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in and say, today's son, I'm going to show you

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some things. I'm going to show you some things that

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every father shows his son.

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He did.

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And then it was like math books and physics books

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and calculator from.

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T I and you weren't allowed to skip any of those.

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No.

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No, Yeah, I'm incredible.

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I am absolutely stuck five hundred and eighty feet for

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shooting a rock across the surface of a body of water.

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That is stunning to me. Yeah.

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How big is that arm just one side? It's massive?

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Or is he an ambidextrious skipper? I don't know how

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that works. I don't know the categories. Is it like

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you know, number of skips or length of y like

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you're saying, is there purely?

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It's purely how far can it go?

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Okay, that's why Maybe it's that's why it called skimming,

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because it's skimming off the top. They don't care how

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many times it bounces.

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Yeah, honestly because if if you're really thinking about it, though,

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at five hundred and eighty feet, I don't think you'd

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be able to physically count how many skips that stone makes,

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Like you'd have to do it by computer or something.

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Yeah, well, what's the what's the prize like for something

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like that?

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I don't know.

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I was just more concerned about the uh, the cheating scandal. Okay,

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it says here the competition does not involve millions in winnings.

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It's held annually to raise money for local causes, including

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several community projects and charities. So uh, basically bragging rights. Yeah,

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it's a charity event.

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So not near as scandalous as the bass fishing you know,

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tournament cheating that went on.

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No, because that was serious money involved, as we know

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from years ago.

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Yeah, that involved stuff in weights down our.

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Mouth, plus the stuff with the fish.

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Yeah, you're in the Treehouse.

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Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com.

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into the Treehouse, where we've spent a fair amount of

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time Recentlyannel on the show discussing various animals and their

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nasty afflictions. It wasn't that long ago we were talking

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about the tentacle bunnies, the Frankenstein bunnies, and recently we've

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heard about the zombies squirrels. These are the ones with

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pus filled wart sores on their heads, terrorizing backyards in

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North America.

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And I'm wondering, as.

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A roofing guy, have you seen any zombie squirrels, any

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any tentacle bunnies, any other creature that you've seen that

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we need to let people know about, any any roof demons.

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Actually, I'm been very fortunate. I have not seen anything

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in person like that, but I did. I looked all

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of those up. The pictures are kind of scary. I mean,

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I'd be honest with you, if I saw one of

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those bunnies or squirrels in my yard, I'd be like,

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what the hell?

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So maybe, well, just imagine the homeowner when you get

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down from that free roof inspection. You got to tell them, all, right, look,

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the good news is your roof is good. The bad

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news is you got zombie squirrels.

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You got zombie squirrels. How about that? That would almost

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be like a new spin off of the company. We

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could be like the zombie squirrel exterminators. That'd be awesome,

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but that is very common. You get squirrels in times

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of roofs all the time. People don't understand how, but

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they can chew and they can claw through that wood

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trim that's around their corners of your homes. And that's

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very very common, especially in that older Plino Original Allen

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Original McKinney area, all that old you know wood homes,

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late eighties, early nineties, that those roads.

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We had that issue with our house in Carlton. The

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house was built in the firement. It was built in

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the early eighties and we had to have some soffit

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repair because squirrels had found away into those areas And

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we're running rampant in our in our in our attic and.

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That happens a lot. But how terrifying you'd be laying

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in bed at night and you could hear the zombie

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squirrels walking around up there going nuts, nuts, brains whatever.

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I don't know.

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So if you want to check your roof for any

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damage whatsoever, including zombie squirrel damage, you called Daniel and

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his team at COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration for free eight

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All Right, now that we've I've embarrassed myself enough about

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misunderstanding a headline in the news very important, I'd like

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to back that up with something really, really awesome. This

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is a really great idea that I want to share

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with you guys. Not my idea, just want not to

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sall online, but I want to make sure we're all

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aware of this. That's all great of an idea I

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think it is. We've all dealt with aging throughout our lives.

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We are all.

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Getting to an age to where we're thinking about, you know,

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how we're going to live out our golden years partly

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because we've seen it with our own eyes our grandparents. Perhaps,

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if we were lucky enough to see great grandparents in

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nursing homes and such, we might be dealing with putting

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a parent in a nursing home soon, if not already

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dealing with that type of scenario. And what to do

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in the golden years is something that's kind of now

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at the forefront of our minds, dealing with it with

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family and thinking about the same time, what are we

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going to do with ourselves? Right, And we've talked before

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about how you know, nursing home retirement home for gen

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X is probably gonna be fun because we're gonna have

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some fun stuff in there. We'll probably have a bar,

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We'll probably have some other types of activities. We'll probably

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have video game video games setups and things like that.

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So I'm not entirely not looking forward to retirement home living.

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But I saw a great idea the other day that

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I think should catch on, and that is turning abandoned

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malls into retirement homes. Three floors of pure nostalgia, food court, arcade,

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Orange Julius Smoothies, and a movie theater showing classics on

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repeat and all.

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The women live in Forever twenty one.

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Sure reclaires.

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I can finally, I can finally get my piercing I've

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been putting off. I don't know why this popped up,

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but I have seen a couple of times. I think

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it's all torn down now, But the old Colin Creek

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Mall and Plano.

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There's a video.

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There's like an account called Abandoned Malls or something like that,

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and it showed the abandoned Colin Creek Mall. Then when

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I saw the picture of this guy just holding a

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sign saying abandoned mall should be turned into retiring into

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retirement homes. Three floors of nostalgias like.

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That would be awesome.

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You get to reuse some real estate and we get

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a cool environment in which to live out our golden years. Anyway,

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I just thought that's a fantastic idea. No one's gonna

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do it, but I wish they would. All the camember

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all the people can hang out of things.

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Remember it's the only store that's empty.

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Why did I come in here?

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You never have to stock new merchandise.

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You don't, especially when you go in, especially when you

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go into things remembered and you want to get something personalized,

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which means you have to come back next week to

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pick it up. You're just gotta have a wall full

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of stuff with people's names on it that they never

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pick up. It's going to be like those coke bottles

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with someone's name, like Dimitria, just to have some of

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the residents run it. That'll never even get engraved. Yeah,

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but you can through all the time.

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Man.

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But like the food court could be run by the

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residents too, Like that'd be hilarious because if they just

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forget your order, they're just going to keep making so

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you just gotta pay one time.

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Basically, the Orange Julius machine is just going to be

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left open and it's just a matter of running a

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cup underneath it every few seconds.

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Yeah, that would be Yeah. But like I like the

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idea of a bar in a nursing home. The only

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thing I saw that was close to that is when

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I first moved back from LA I was just doing

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quick like Uber Eats thing or Postmates, and I delivered

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to a nursing home that was across from Valley View Mall,

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across the highway, and I delivered from Specs and it

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was a hefty order and I was like, what is

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going on? And they're like, oh, we have happy hour

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every Friday, and I was like really lately, yeah, like

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from five to seven thirty it's open bar and they

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get the requests with what they like to drink, and.

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Because not everyone in gen X is all about drinking,

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because our generation was the first to be like drug,

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let's do them. Next to the bar might be an

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actual cannabis bar, like a microdosing mushroom stand or something.

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And there's all sorts of possibilities that I feel.

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Like gen X is going to embrace when it comes

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to the nursing home lifestyle. But again, I just I

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like the idea of doing an old an old mall

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because we grew up in malls.

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Oh yeah, malls were fun.

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What better place to be stuck in until you die

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than a place that you enjoyed as a child, because

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it's sure as hell isn't gonna be Chucky cheese That

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was not fun because for most of us, you grow

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up then eventually, I like, even if you liked chuck

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e cheese or showbiz pizza as a kid, then you

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grew up, you had kids, and then you had to

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take them to those places and you don't want anything

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to do with them anymore.

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The mall is still I think it's still in play trade.

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There's a reason.

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There's a reason that Chucky Cheese now serves beer.

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Yes, I think it always has.

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Oh, I didn't know that interesting?

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Yeah, they knew from the Yeah.

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And also, did you guys see the video of Chucky

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Cheese getting arrested?

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Yes, yes, amazing. Did we not talk about that on

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the show?

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I had that on my list, And that's one of

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the things I can ever remember, if we all, if

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we talk about certain things I had that was it

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happened in Florida.

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I think it was in.

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Tampa, and it was Chucky Cheese being arrested for credit

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card front Yeah.

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But it wasn't the real Chucky Cheese, just the guy

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put the Chuck E Cheese outfit on just to try

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to fool the cops.

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Yeah. Yeah, that shows you how stupid he was. He

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tried to He should have tried to crawl inside the animatronic.

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He should have gone in the ballpit that too, That's

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a better.

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Spot to hide.

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He's gonna come out with some sort of fungal disease.

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You don't want to be in the ballpit they did like.

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Better than the other ballpit. He's going to Yeah.

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But my favorite part of that video, and it just

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makes me laugh, is when they're just like literally telling

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Chuck e Cheese to stop resisting.

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I was like, that is hilarious to me. He's not trying,

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he's not resisting. He can't get his He's.

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Never worn the cost before, so he doesn't know how

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to get his arms around comfortably.

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It turns out the costumes a little more restrictive than

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I guess he was planning. The thing I like to

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think about is that's Florida. So it probably was not

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the first Chucky Cheese they arrested, nor will it be

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the last, Nor will it be the last. So Trey,

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you look kind of skeptical. Are you not on board

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with the retirement malls?

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I mean, you know you could.

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I mean, ice skating rink is going to be a morgue. Yeah,

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I mean, and I guess you have different levels because

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at a certain point, some people won't be able to

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get to the second level, and.

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Then some people, as you pointed out, should not be

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allowed on the ice skating rink.

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Oh, I think by that point the majority of people

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yo broken hips of.

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Yeah, or is that just where they throw you when

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it's your time because it's already cold storage.

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You know that's I mean multiple uses.

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Sorry, sorry, sorry, Jerry, it's time. It's time to go

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to the ice drink.

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No, I still feel fine.

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Oh that's a that's a great idea for a horror movie.

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The ice rink.

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Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure.

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And one of the five or six final destinations, I'm

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certain they've done at least one scene at an ice drink.

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If not, then that's just opportunity.

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Yeah, this could be like the nursing home version of

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the Purge.

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Once a year, they just let them go after each other.

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I think. I think that's why they wear diapers.

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That's a different urge.

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There's a lot of things I would consider doing for

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a million dollars. But there's one thing that I don't

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know if it's even an official competition or if it's

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just you know, hyperbole. But are you guys familiar with

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an anachoic chamber?

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I am not.

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No, so.

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For one million dollars, could you stay in the world's

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quietest room for one night? The catches The room is

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an anachoic chamber. The room is minus twenty four point

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nine decibels, and that is so low that you'd be

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able to hear your own body's internal sounds, heartbeat, breathing,

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even blood moving through your veins.

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That's going to be a note for me.

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Supposedly, the longest that someone has been able to last

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in one of these rooms is about an hour. I

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initially saw this story because it's said, for one million dollars,

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could you stay a night in this room? And no

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one's been able to stay beyond an hour. And that's

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even an extreme example. Most people can't make it fifteen

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twenty minutes.

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How big is the room?

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Uh, let me see if I can get you a

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decent answer.

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An anacoic chamber is a specialized room designed to absorb

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nearly all sound and electromagnetic waves, creating a nearly echo

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free environment. These chambers are characterized by their sound absorbing

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materials like foam or fiberglass wedges on the walls and ceiling.

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They're used to conduct precise measurements of sound emitting devices

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and electronic equipment by eliminating unwanted reflections. Visitors often find

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their resulting silence disorienting, as they can hear their own

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internal body sounds, but they're also used for research and

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testing in fields ranging from acoustics to electronics. The room

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that I have seen is in Minnesota. It's ore Field

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Laboratories in South Minneapolis, and it has been confirmed by

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the Guinness World Records as the quietest place on Earth.

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It absorbs ninety nine point ninety nine percent of sound

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based on the size. I'd say the size of a

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good sized master closet or bathroom. And I don't know,

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and I don't know if there's a light on when

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you're in.

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There, that's an even bigger no.

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By comparison, a typical quiet bedroom at night measures about

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thirty decibels. This measure this chamber measures at minus twenty.

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It's made of three point three foot thick fiberglass acoustic

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wedges and double walls of insulated steel and foot thick concrete.

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My god, this sounds like a nightmare. According to the

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place that runs the room orfield, they say, in the

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anacoic chamber, you become the sound. One reporter lasted up

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to forty five minutes, and most people leave after half

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that time, tortured by the eerie sounds of their own body.

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Ugh, I do not want to be left alone with

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my own head for that long. That's from the sound

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of it, no pun intended.

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I don't think you would really be able to hear

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your own thoughts over the noise of your own body.

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They say, the only stay in the room for an

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extended period of time is to sit down. A person's

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orientation is largely secured by the sounds made when walking

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or standing, and as those sound cues are taken away,

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perception becomes skewed and balance and movement become almost impossible.

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Feats.

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Ugh, I get in my mind, I just assumed you

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laid down in it to begin with.

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That would make sense, But yeah, the fact that no

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one's been able to make it past an hour just

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just sounds so. I mean, because it's one thing like

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if you like you kind of feel your heartbeat, but

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really being able to hear it is one thing.

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I don't like.

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Mouth noises at a normal room volume, like people slurping

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and smacking and stuff that drives me off the wall.

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I can't imagine. I don't think I would last five

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minutes in this room because I don't like hearing moist

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wet noises.

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That's all you are is a big ball of moist

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wet noise. That's right.

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The room is minus twenty four point nine decibels. The

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only things lower than the decibels in this room are

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the Eagles' latest ratings. If you're wondering, yes, that is

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the reason why I wanted to read this story.

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Huzzah.

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And no one can stay there for my very much

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time either.

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Time spent listening way down. Well, your long game is

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certainly better than theirs.

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For all things tree House, Treehouse on Air, dot com,

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social media at Treehouse on Air.

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For me, it's at the Daniel Mallley.

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For Trey, it's at Tree Turndholme one, and for Jerry

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it's at that Jerry guy.

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We will see you next week right here inside the Treehouse.

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