Nov. 25, 2025

A Golden Turd? | Tuesday November 25, 2025

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On today's show, we discuss the ShamWow guy running for congress in Texas, DOGE is done, and the most expensive turd in history.

LINKS:

'ShamWow' guy running for Congress in Texas as a Republican

Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/

A $39,000 Turd: Fossilized Viking Poo Is World’s Most Valuable Excrement
https://explorersweb.com/fossilized-viking-poo-worlds-most-valuable-excrement/

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Trade Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Today inside the Treehouse, something

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big is in a museum that you're not going to believe.

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Remember the Apple Dumpling Gang back in the day, that

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that old movie.

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What don Knotts Classic?

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Don Knotts Classic. That's right, Well, there's an updated version

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to that that we'll share with you inside the Treehouse today.

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But first we will start with.

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In case you didn't already know, twenty twenty five slaps

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and the hits just keep on coming. The latest example,

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the sham Wow guy is running for Congress. We live

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in an amazing time. Can we all just take a

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moment and appreciate that If being arrested in two thousand

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and nine after a physical fight with a prostitute in

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Miami Beach floor does not sound like the beginning of

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a career in politics, then you have not been following

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the news for a very long time. Vince Offer born

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Vince Shlomy, also known as the sham Wow Guy just

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filed to run for Congress in Texas. He's officially entered

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the Republican primary in District thirty one, a rural area

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north of Austin. He joins a crowded field, challenging longtime

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Representative John Carter, and his early messaging includes parody videos

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and anty woke branding. It's one of the most unexpected

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additions to the twenty twenty six Texas races so far.

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Welcome the sham Wow Guy to congressional election politics.

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When when did the sham Wow Guy move to Texas?

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It's I'm guessing around the same time, like Eon and

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Rogan and all those tech guys and the podcast guys,

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along with everybuddy tone who seems to be an unwitting

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neighbor to a.

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Lot of them. Yeah.

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I haven't had a chance to look up the actual

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district map for thirty one, but I do wonder is

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that the area that I'm wondering? Is it the area

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where our buddy lives. Is it that area where Elon

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has bought a bunch of stuff? Is that where Rogan's

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studios are? Sort of in that North Austin rural bastrop area.

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I don't know.

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I'm not that familiar with central Texas because even though

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we're all from Texas, it's big state and most of

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us don't leave our bubble very often. I also like

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how he changed his name from Vince Shlomi to Vince Offer,

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very fitting of a pitch man of his tature.

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District thirty one is Georgetown, Kalleen, Temple, Oh interested in Ville,

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a little bit around Rock.

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Yeah. I had car trouble that started in that area.

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It was right around Temple, right around Temple, and somehow

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managed to roll into Austin just enough power with no

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air conditioning on, windows down and just using good old

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fashioned up and down and just kind of rolling in

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momentum into Austin. That was a fun road trip, let

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me tell you.

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Mm hmm. Yeah.

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I used to go into sam Marcus and driving back

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home from a Mesquite to sam Marcus and Sat Marcus

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Mesquite pass through that all the time. And I mean,

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I don't know, I don't know what his So it's

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anti woke stuff, I don't know. I know it's a

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super conservative area.

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Yeah, but and it is a Republican primary, so it's

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him along with the incumbent John Carter and a few

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other people throwing throwing their rags into the race.

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You mean there's sham wows.

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No, he's the sham wow guy. The rest of them

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just got rags.

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I wonder if he's gonna do that like for his campaign,

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Like he's going to pass out sham wows with like

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his campaign slogan on it.

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Absolutely going to wipe out the debt.

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Oh that's a good one.

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I'm going to soak up your liberal ty and leave

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behind zero streaks. I mean, I can understand I haven't

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even had a chance yet because this news is so fresh.

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I have not had a chance yet to look at

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all his messaging and his political ads, if he has

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any or if this is all just social media based

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whatever it is. But I mean, yeah, a lot of

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it writes itself. I mean, being a pitchman from the

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two thousands, being known for the sham Wow as well

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as the slap Chop. And I'm also pretty sure that

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he was the pitchman for Scrub Daddy, which was the

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smiley faced little sponge of which now there's a scrub Mommy.

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I wonder if that's too woke for him.

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Was the slap Chop a product or was that what

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he did to the hooker?

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The slap Shop actually describes this scenario in and of itself,

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because he chopped off his tongue with her teeth and

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then he hit her a bunch, hence the slap chop.

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I actually have the slap chop and it works really well.

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It's it's really that's one of the.

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Products that I had to buy.

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I saw it, I was like, you know what, I

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really don't like cutting up my own vegetables, so let

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me see how it works.

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And it's great.

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But yeah, I would like to be like every single

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one of the people that are running against him. I

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just want to see what their ads look like, Like

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you know, you know, so and so Vince Offer is

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running for Congress. Don't let him speak for you because

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half his tongue is missing.

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Like you, I mean, this is this is local politics stuff.

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It's Republican primary and very as you said, Raj in

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very conservative minded area of Texas. So I imagine most of

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the other candidate's messaging is going to be America first,

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or patriotic, we believe in God fit, you know, faith

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and family type of stuff. Lots of you know, photos

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and videos with them doing family things with the kids. Meanwhile,

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Vin's offered is doing his thing. And now, granted that

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incident happened all the way back in two thousand and nine,

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he may have turned over a new leaf. He may

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himself be throwing out some of this type of conservative messaging.

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I don't know, but I think he kind of have

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to lean into the angle that everyone knows him for.

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Otherwise you just erase any sort of an advantage you

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have over everybody else.

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Right, and Trey, I.

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Think you bring up a great point, Like the slap chop,

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is that the product or the thing that happened between

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him and the prostitute. Therefore, I think this brings up

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the age old question what came first, the chicken or

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the egg, or in this scenario, the actual slap chop

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or the incident? Like did one inspire the like? Which

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one inspired the other? Like the incident happened with the hooker,

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and that gave him the idea for slap chop.

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Yeah, I haven't turned it over, but I'll look and

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see if it's, like in the shape of her teeth.

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A proprietary design. And if they ever find her decomposing

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in the woods, there'll be two ways to identify her.

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One if there's any teeth left, and two the slap chop.

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I mean, he can say, I mean, like, if the

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hooker thing comes up, he can be like, hey, but listen,

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I hired local. You know, I'm making you know what

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I mean, like I put into the economy.

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You know what.

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As far as I know, I think it was an

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American work sex worker that he had hired in February

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two thousand and nine after a physical fight with a

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prostitute in my Me Beach, Florida. Vince Offer born Vince

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shlow Me, also known as the sham Wow Guy. According

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to the police report and an arrest affid David Offer,

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this is called the ShamWow Guy. The sham Wow Guy

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met a woman identified as Sasha Harris in some reports.

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So let me put on my ice agent mask for

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a brief moment. If in this police report I see

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the victim is Sasha Harris or the sex worker in

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this case of Sasha Harris, I'm assuming she's not an illegal.

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So you're right, Raj, he hired American made. Yeah, which

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you know, you know it's not good to be caught,

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you know, smacking a hooker but at least it wasn't

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an illegal He paid her one thousand dollars for straight

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sex in his hotel room. That's an interesting phrase because

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they use it in quotations straight sex, but it's still

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kind of open ended, like is it straight sex like

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non gay or just straight sex? Like just sex and

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nothing else?

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See you means more more Yeah, no weird fetish type thing, right,

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Like are we talking?

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Yeah? Yeah, mm hmm. I like.

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I like how Charlie Sheen phrased it. He's like, I

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don't I don't pay for sex. I paid them to leave.

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Uh so uh because that yeah, so the straight sex,

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So that's good. I mean, but then you're you're having

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straight sex, nothing weird and half your tongue gets bitten off.

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Splain yeah.

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A physical fight erupted when the sham Wow guy reportedly

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you know what, actually for this story, you're right trade

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that the slap chop guy is more suited. A physical

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fight erupted when the slap chop guy reportedly tried to

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kiss her and she bit his tongue, refusing to let go. Ooh,

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I wonder if this is the pretty woman scenarios him

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no kissing and he's like she bit down to him,

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not unless you're Richard Gear.

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It was Richard Gear, wouldn't be straight sex.

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The slap Chop guy then punched her several times in

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the face, causing lacerations and fractures. Slap Chop ran to

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the lobby for help with a bloodied tongue. Both individuals

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were arrested. Slap Chop was charged with felony aggravated battery.

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Are you ready for the case resolution?

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M HM.

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Prosecutors later declined to file forward. Prosecutors later declined to

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file formal charges against either person, so the case did

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not result in a conviction. Slap Chop later said that

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the arrest probably saved my life, though he has not

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publicly elaborated on the circumstances leading to that sentiment.

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I believe meth was involved.

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Yes, I think there was like drugs and alcohol involved

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in that.

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But here's my question. We're guys.

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Uh, if you are kissing a girl and she bites

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down on your tongue, wouldn't you start punching.

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To how hard is she biting?

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Like? Not a good way?

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Well then I won't hit her in a bad way.

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dot com. I'm not sure if any of us expected this,

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but rip the DOGE. DOGE is no more the Department

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of Government Efficiency has been shut down by the federal

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government and what some are calling a friendly fire incident

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because it allegedly turned into just another bureaucratic entity that

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it was set out to destroy in the first place.

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I love a good irony story, and this kind of

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seems like it. It is no longer a centralized entity.

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That is according to the first public comments from Trump's

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administration at the end of DOGE. This came from the

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Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor. He said that

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doesn't exist at least not anymore eight months early, Trey,

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is this a good thing? Is this sort of like

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a well they did their job and now they're done

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or was this just more of a sounds like the

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idea fizzled.

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Well, their charter was only I mean, they're basically shutting

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down eight months early. It was not something that was

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set up to be a permanent fixture. I mean didn't

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come close to what it's it's stated goals were I'm

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gonna guess at the end of the day, probably net

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neutral cut some waste, but probably wasted some money.

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That sounds like a perfect government department. I mean, honestly,

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that's on paper what most departments are like at the

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federal level.

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Well, when you're most of them just piss away money.

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Yeah, given enough time, it probably would have as well.

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But I mean when you have when one of the

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main guys that they brought on board as an ecstasy

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and ketamine addiction, I can't imagine it functioning well.

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Was that the guy was that the one whose handle

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was Harry Balls with Z.

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No it's Elon Musk. He talked about it.

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Yeah, we carred a whole thing around with him that

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had next to see in Kennymine.

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Well, forget him for a moment, but like one of

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the guys that was actually saddled with going through and

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trying to discover and find all this waste. I think

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he was like a nineteen or twenty year old employee

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of Musks and like his handle online was something like

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Harry Balls or monkey Balls or something.

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Yes, you're gonna send him an email, sir, your.

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Handle violates federal HR policies. KED can you at least

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change it to Harry and just take off the balls.

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He's like, cool, now I means just Harry's sixty nine.

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You're like, oh man, God, we.

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Should have just should have let him keep the balls.

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They made him worse.

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That email. Can you go back to balls? Please?

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Changed a lot more people, honest to God, call call

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yourself whatever you want. If you can find some honest

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to God legitimate waste in this government and do something

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about it, Please God, make it happen. I don't care

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what your what your you know, Reddit handle is.

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It is funny though, because side note, uh girlfriend works

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in HR and the.

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Girlfriend does uh huh, oh no you remember here?

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Yeah, but you like you've heard about it for ages

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and and I kind of figured it. People had wised up,

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you know. It's like, hey, when you become an adult,

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drop you know the you know, gamer boy sixty nine

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handle from your email and like get a professional one

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and she gets it all the time of the resumes

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of people with you know, like gamer boy sixty nine

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for their email addresses. It's like, how do you want

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to be taken seriously?

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Do they think that doesn't show up?

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They use it?

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It's like you know, get another email addressed, dude.

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Get a burner.

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Yeah, like, you don't have to. If you love, if

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you love your gamer tag or your first email address

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so much that you want to hang on to top

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Brony sixty nine, then fine. But yeah, at least go

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to Gmail and pick up a more professional sounding one,

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something that you know allows you to allows you to

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lead a different life, a professional life, and whatever else

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you're in.

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Two on the side.

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Fine, there was something in there. There was something else

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in there, hr related in your girlfriend Trey. Now I'm

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blinking on what it was. I guess I was just

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so distracted by the fact that people still use their

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idiotic email handles in a professional sense. AT's my god,

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it was wrong with people. Oh, I remember what it was.

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We should we shouldn't be all that surprised having the

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sham Wow guy running for Congress when we had a

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guy in the gun going by hairy Balls with a

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Z working for the Office of Personal Management. I love

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twenty twenty five. I think the time we're living in

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right now really is a special, special era.

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Can you imagine just sitting in that waiting room and

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somebody goes, mister balls will see you now.

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Plate, but the plate is also fuzzy, Like everyone made

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a big deal in the movie Idiocracy, because everything that's

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happening in our lives in real life feels like it's

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a plot or a subplot or a sequel to the

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movie Idiocracy. And in that movie, the popular shoes that

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everyone wore were crocs. The popular shoes that everyone now

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wears in real life are crocs. I feel like we're

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only a small step away from wearing crocs for shoes.

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We're eventually going to get some sort of soft, rubber,

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silicone headwear to protect what little brain matter we.

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Have left, let's hope not.

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You don't want to be a crockhead.

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I I really think you go against Darwinism if you

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if you start putting helmets on people.

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This country's founded.

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Stilling the herd well exactly.

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That's why you can't have helmets like that's yeah, I.

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Mean you can have them, but it has to be

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your own choice, I.

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Mean now, yeah, especially like if you believe in time blindness,

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please you are not allowed to wear a helmet.

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Mm hmm. Yeah. Do you guys own do you Dan?

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Do you own a pair of crocs? No?

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I used to have some for yard shoes. But I don't, really,

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I don't.

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I lost them.

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I don't know what happened to them.

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Trey you have I at one point someone had gotten

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me a pair, and granted they were comfortable, and I'd

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wear them to like just go outside and.

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Walk dazy or whatever.

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But no, not on a date, no long going, not

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on your job interview with Harry Balls sixty nine.

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I think that a mandatory wouldn't do that.

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You know, you get the job when they hand you

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a pair of fuzzy crocks to wear around the office.

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