March 18, 2026

Bears LOL | Wednesday 03.18.26

Bears LOL | Wednesday 03.18.26
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We start off today talking about yet another term GenZ has changed, this one being LOL.  Next, we see a bear get in the middle of a LA News live shot about bear attacks, why some stupid people think they could win a fight against a bear, and we discuss how expensvie dating is.  

LINKS:

Gen Z and millennials debate the overuse of ‘LOL’ in texting: ‘It’s to soften delivery’

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-wanders-into-ktla-reporters-live-shot-while-covering-monrovia-attack/

Rumble in the jungle: what animals would win in a fight?

'Date-flation' Hits Hard: Average Date Spend Nears $200 - BMO Real Financial Progress Index


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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with

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Trey Trenholm and Rebecca Black coming up on the show today.

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When you're in the middle of doing your job and

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suddenly a bear and we're going to start with gym

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z is rebranding things yet again. They just can't stop,

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won't stop, and they can't stop, won't stop. I'm afraid

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they may get their hands on that and change it

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up to where we have to learn a new language

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just to communicate with these kids. Lol is over. According

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to a new report.

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Generations like us used LOL the show that they were

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laughing in a text conversation laugh out loud right. Gen

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Zers say emojis have made it easier to convey when

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someone's laughing more than texting letters ever could. They're using

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LOL as a social qu to be sarcastic.

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Normally, when I use LOL, it's because like I'm annoyed

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with what you're texting.

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May sarcastically Now like like lool not actually lack laugh

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out loud. It just like LOL, Like, yeah, that's like

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it's it's not funny.

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So the next time someone says LOL to you, if

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they're younger, you better think twice because they may be

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giving you a little bit of shade and thinking you

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don't understand it.

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Is it just me? Or is gen x? How do

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I put this? A bunch of little jerks?

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Yeah? I mean you mean gen Z.

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Sorry, Yes, we're big jerks as gen X. Let me

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rephrase Is it just me? Or is a bunch of

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little jerks?

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Yes? Absolutely, they're the worst.

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It's really starting to feel like they're finding they're trying

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to find different ways, in different angles to make fun

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of the olds.

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Like don't they know LOL walked so that their little

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smiley face laughy face emojibs could run.

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You're welcome.

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I'm a big fan of perspective, and I've always felt

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that in order to appreciate the things you have, you

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need to have started someplace without those things. So in

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order to appreciate the emoji. When we got our first

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cell phones, we had you know, I mean we were

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doing colons, semi colons, hyphens, and parentheses to make our

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own emoticons. And before that, it was calculators typing out boobs.

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So you know, back off, kids. If it wasn't for

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the boobs on the calculator, you wouldn't have LOL to

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use against us sarcastically your little words correct.

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By the way, I'm not even using LOL like as

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a Joe. It's it's just easier, it's faster. I'm very lazy.

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I don't want to have to switch the keyboard over,

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so I'm just gonna type the LLL rather than get

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an emoji.

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Yeah, you're in the habit and I get it.

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What is it?

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Trey?

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I always hated LOL, so I don't mind this one

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at all.

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Oh what what's your hatred of LOL?

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I'm curious, overused, simplistic and and a lot of times

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I always felt it was condescending. So see, now I

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got no problem with this one. I mean, I hate

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gen Z.

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And it's still all in on that. I love it.

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Yeah, but I I if LOL is very boomerish to me.

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I actually I agree with Trey to a extent on

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the LOL. I was anti LOL because I felt like

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so many people, especially men older than me, overused it,

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and I don't know why they over used it. One

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of the great examples is Sean Salisbury. Love Sean Salisbury,

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very talented man on the ESPN until he showed some

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photos to people he shouldn't have, and then he ended

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up on local radio in Dallas and that's where he

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and I met and hung out for a handful of months.

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But he was the worst culprit when it came to

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LOL via text. I'm like, Sean, why are you l

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oling me? All I sent was I'll see you at nine.

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Oh.

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He's like, and he's like cool LOL. I'm like, what's

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stop it?

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No, that's just inappropriate? You see the LOL that? No,

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here's the thing. Boomers just don't even know what it means.

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They don't I don't think they know what it means.

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So they're like, ah, this is what the kids are

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doing LOL.

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And maybe that's what it is. Maybe maybe that's why

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gen z Is is twisting the LOL and trying to

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use it again us older generations, because we have bastardized it.

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What if we just said no, we've been using it

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sarcastically this whole entire time, and then we got them now.

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I don't think we have though, Like you're on record

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just a few minutes ago saying that you loved using lol.

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It's all about spin. It's all about spin, Dan.

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We got to spend it in our favor so that

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they realize how stupid they are for trying to steal

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all of our stuff.

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Okay, that I'm on board with. It's not necessarily what

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you said before. It's that you may have evolved on

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the matter correct, even if it was only two minutes ago.

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Exactly exactly, shows that I'm open to change.

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But going back to what you said, Trey, it's like

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I had seen so many people older or even around

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our age, millennial and Gen X using lol so much

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that I just I just didn't want to use it

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unless it was actually appropriate, because I really felt like

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so many people were doing it when they weren't actually

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experiencing laughter.

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Yeah. No, I think it became especially people a little

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bit older, used it way too much on stuff that

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really wasn't that funny. And that's where you know, sometimes

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I would raretimes I would ever type out lol it

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was kind of of oh yeah that was funny. Uh huh.

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So essentially we've been using it like it's a courtesy laugh,

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is what you're saying.

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Patronizing?

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Yeah, a little bit yeah, and between those two the

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it's kind of gray, like it could go a little

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bit of both ways.

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Yeah.

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So in that regard, maybe we were the pioneers of

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using LOL in this fashion. It's just like you said,

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Rebecca gen Z has run with it.

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No, no, no, no, Rebecca doesn't get off here. She took

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a stand that she absolutely was four loll and she

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used it and was defending it. She needs to know

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you sit down.

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I am agreeing with you, Trey. I am agreeing with you.

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You are one hundred percent correct.

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I said, I don't raise your hands like victory.

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No, no, no, I'm here for the spin job. I

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am here for the spin job.

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Uh uh no, just say, just say you evolved on

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the matter.

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I did. I evolved.

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Now I use it sarcastically, obviously, God lo o L.

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I love that nothing gets Trey.

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Matter is when you immediately flip on something in the

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middle of the show.

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Oh no, no, tray tray tray is an immediate hold

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feet to the fiery guy.

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You took a stand. I admire it. Now you have

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to die on that hill.

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Why I'm learning I am evolving in real time.

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That seems a little rigid, because trust me. There's lots

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of things we used to believe many years ago. That

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that's a hill I do not not only not want

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to die on, I don't want to be anywhere near

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that hill.

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I have I have died on on hills, you know,

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stacked high with your stupidity. So I'm I'm not really

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throwing a stone. I'm just saying, you know.

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I better be willing to just go ahead and fall

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on the sword. Here is what you're saying.

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I guess I'm a little more fluid, not in that way.

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Shut up. What I mean is if there's a hill

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that I've decided that I might die on, if I

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look around and see a bunch of corpses around me,

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I may rethink my position. Yeah, we just got to

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see it with lightning speed out of Rebecca exactly.

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I can't know. I turned very quickly. It was it

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was easy. What can I say? I should be a

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politician or something.

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That's all you gotta do. That, that's that's the ultimate

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political thing. It's like, oh, well you know, oh you

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said this the other day. Well I've evolved done the

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issue in two days.

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Yes I have, Yes, I have seen the error of

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my ways. Lol. Is stupid, and so.

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Is gin Z.

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That's the hill. We can all party on raw Yes.

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Back inside the Treehouse I'm Dan along with Tray and Rebecca.

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What would you do if not this job, but your

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regular job? What would you do if you were at

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your regular job and suddenly a bear showed up?

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Tray, I'd assume he'd want a Vouka Sota.

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And you don't discriminate? What about you, Rebecca? What if

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you're I'm sorry.

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Coming off Texas Bear Round Off weekend in Dallas.

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Yeah, that's I didn't even make that connection. I should have.

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You're right coming off of Texas Texas Bear Round up

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the old tbr.

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TB Are you TB?

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Are you?

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Rebecca? What about you?

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I think I'm quitting. I think I'm done. I think

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the job is over. Goodbye.

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Well, now you're now. Imagine you're a TV reporter at

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kt LA in Los Angeles and you're doing a report

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on a bear attack in a neighborhood, and that's when

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a bear just happens to show up.

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Good morning.

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I'm Aaron Myers in Monrovia. A bear attacked a woman

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walking her dog in this neighborhood, and and now they're

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trying to determine if it is the same bear that

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lives underneath the house here behind me, All those details

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coming up.

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I'm going to back this up for a moment to

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the very beginning of the clip. Look over on the

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right over her shoulder.

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Mm hmm.

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What do you see?

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There's definitely some movement.

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A bear that's not a dog. Good news is that

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people back in the studio, do notice this.

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Myers and Monrovia lives underneath the house here behind me.

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All those details coming up, and yes, we all see

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that bear off to the right side.

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We'll get back it with Aaron in just a moment.

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We all know California.

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Now do you hear that? The voice over, I see

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it now, that's Aaron. When she finally pays attention to

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I'm assuming the little rock that her photographer is pointing

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at when she's doing this shot, She's like, oh, it

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is the bear right there. So they do what you

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should do in television news when you're alive, You go

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back to the reporter who's in peril.

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Let's go back to Aaron Myers. We're going back now, Aaron,

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what are you seeing out there? And be careful?

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Please, Hi you guys, you can see the bear actually

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walking into the trap or.

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So here you got the house in the background behind

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her she's across the street and then in the house

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behind her there's a trailer which is apparently a trap

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for the bear, and that's where the bear was hiding,

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in between the house and between this trailer. So she

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hasn't even seen the full breadth of the bear yet.

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But she's about to.

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No, it was going to do. But now it's walking out.

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We're gonna step back a little bit. We're told by

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the man who lives here that this bear has been

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here for several months and they do believe it has

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a baby. That's all also living in the house. So

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it's walking out this way. We may get back in

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the car, depending on what it does.

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But what do you mean? May that bear is way

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bigger than I thought it was. It comes around the

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back of that trailer. I don't know how she's still standing,

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let alone talking. May get back in No, I'd already

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be in that van. I can be from the.

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Vand yes, I'm like, we can roll the window down,

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crack the window, put the camera lens outside, and stay

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inside the vehicle so we don't lose.

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A limb or two if you want, get the boom

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microphone so you can stick it out and ask the

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bear for comment.

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Correct, Why are we still doing this in news? Why

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are we sending people to a location that is known

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to have a bear sighting?

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This is like for this very reason right that we're watching.

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They want her to be eaten, like we want the

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ratings of her being eaten.

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It's they care.

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They can't officially say they want her to be attacked,

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but they do want the possibility of it.

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Yes, roof of it. Yes, if you took away the

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superfluous live shot out of news, they wouldn't know what

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to do with themselves. They actually have to go go

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find news.

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Would they?

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Though, Like, we got AI now, that can cover this,

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no problem. We can make it look like she is

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about to be attacked by a bear with a green screen.

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There's a number of ways to do this without actually

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endangering this poor woman.

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That is a slippery slope, Rebecca, because if you start

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putting AI reporters in the field, then you don't need

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the regular reporters in the field and they will start

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losing their jobs.

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Well, I meant keep her and then let's do an

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AI background.

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Oh gotchak right now?

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You can see it here in the driveway.

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They say, he usually or she usually comes out a

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couple times a day and just hangs out in this

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neighborhood a lot. And you can see her right there

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going onto the grass and they don't know, I do

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want to say, they don't know if this was the

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bear that attacked the person walking.

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Odds are I don't think that. Yeah, there's that many

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bears in the neighborhood.

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No, that woman did have her dog with her. The

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bear swiped her leg. We're told she's going to be okay.

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But this is like around the seven hundred block of

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Oak Blade Drive, And once again, this bear been here

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for some time. Residents say they have seen it for

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quite a while. And you do see fish and wildlife

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here too. They are out here monitoring the situation.

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That's my favorite part of this, outside of the bear

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coming around the back of the trailer so you see

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how large it is is when she mentions that game

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and wildlife is there monitoring the situation. But you don't

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see a person. No, you just see the truck because

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even they know that it's stupid to be outside the vehicle.

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Like, at the very least, shouldn't the news station have

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sent her out with like a good pair of running

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shoes and maybe I don't know.

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Because that's what you want to do, is run from

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a bear. Like, clearly we haven't done our research on bears.

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Hold on, I'm not finished.

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I know they're very fast, but also with like one

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of those like the dog attack outfits, so that in

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the event she does get mauled, she's got some protection.

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The byte suit.

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Yeah, yeah, the byte suit. That makes an effort here.

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That I'm sorry, but that would actually make for excellent

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television to send Aaron Myers out on location. And would

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you just imagine you're sitting at home having your morning

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coffee and you're like, I'm gonna watch KTLA today. It's

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a good day, love, and they're like, now we're gonna

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go to Aaron Meyers Live. And then when they show

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her on camera, it's full on byte suit. Yes, yes,

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i am. I am locked in all morning. I'll just

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carry that live all day. Maybe a helmet, oh, definitely,

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a helmet.

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Screw the byte suit if you're gonna do that, because

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then it's multipurpose. Put them in a bomb bomb suit, yeah, okay,

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because then they can go to the you know, potential

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bombing targets, and then that's for the.

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Story afterwards, it works for both.

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I agree, that makes sense.

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Uh.

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And then if you just want to really go ridiculous,

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you cut to her and she's in a full like

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medieval night get up. So then that way she can

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go through her shift at medieval times.

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Afterwards with some chain mail.

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With some chain mail, absolutely you got to protect yourself

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from the bear. That would make for good TV. It'd

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be dumb, but that's what I want to watch.

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And clearly LA does as good of a job at

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bear traps as they do at fire prevention.

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Like what Like, I want to know what was in

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that bear trap to entice the bear that the bear

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went up to. It was like nah, and it just

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continued on down the street.

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And had they just put a twink in there, they

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would have got them.

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Could have said twinkie, But you stayed with the Texas

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bear around that breath. Thumbs up, buddy, same okay. So

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if I was to tell you that in a survey

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a few years ago done by you govs so very official,

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that six percent of a Americans think they could beat

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a grizzly bear in a fight, would you believe me? M?

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Six percent? Yeah?

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Six percent? You hang on hang on, I just I

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forgot I have this. Believe it or not. Six percent

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of Americans think they could beat a grizzly bear in

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a fight.

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Yeah, I believe that right.

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The only reason I don't believe it is I just

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think there's a greater chunk of the population that's dumb,

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so I would think the number would be higher.

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Balance.

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That is alarming and it feels right. Uh, Rebecca takes

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this one. Uh, technically correct. Believe it. Six percent of

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Americans think they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight.

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But almost half think they could land a jet.

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Yes, in an emergency. In an emergency, could land a

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commercial jet. To be fair, there are thousands of experts

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that could talk you through landing a commercial jet in

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a crisis. I don't know if there's any quote unquote

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expert that could talk you through a bear mauling.

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Technically, yes, I could probably land a jet, but it's

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also gonna flip and roll at the end.

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It'll reach the ground, Yeah, it'll get there.

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Ye. Safely is questionable.

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If landing is a subjective term, then yeah.

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Absolutely yeah. When you approach the person when you ask

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that in the survey, like if it was me, and

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they're asking, could you land a jet? I would respond back,

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you mean land to jet or air quote land correct.

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So I don't know what's more alarming on this study

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the fact that six percent of Americans think they could

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beat a grizzly bear in a fight, or that only

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sixty one percent of Americans could beat a goose in

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a fight.

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I don't know.

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Geese are mean, man, really, I don't think I could

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beat a goose.

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They're scary. Are you attacked by one?

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I've been attacked by a swan and I live to

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tell the tale. I won that fight sort of sort

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of sort of asterisk sort of it did and I

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ran away, or you.

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Just, you know, just grab it by the neck.

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I don't know if I could do that, though, that

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would make me sad.

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So in the same survey, six percent of Americans think

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they could beat a grizzly bear in a fight. Seventy

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two percent of Americans think they could take a rat.

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I'm assuming that the twenty eight percent that said they

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couldn't are just going to be catatonic or phobic and

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they just wouldn't be able to function.

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I guess right.

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Sixty nine percent feel they could take a house cat. Okay,

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so you know, thirty one percent of people feel like

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they couldn't. Sixty one percent feel they could take on

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a goose. Fortn think they could beat a medium sized dog.

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I think that just depends on the dog. Thir of

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Americans think they could beat an eagle in a fight. Now,

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if we're talking about an actual bird of prey, we're

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talking about the radio station that that numbers should be

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way higher because everybody's beating them.

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What kind of eagle harpy no, probably gonna lose all?

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Is that a really big one that can pick up

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like a dog off the ground.

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Okay, I'm not familiar with the different breeds of eagle.

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The only eagles I know of are the bald eagle

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and I think the golden eagle. So what's a what's

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a harpy eagle?

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It's king of the eagles. It's it's got like a

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I forgot how big. It's like a seven or eight

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foot wingspan that they can they can pick up like

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they're they're at slent hunters.

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That's my thing.

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How much weight can they pick up with their claws?

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Because if it's like I would say even over thirty pounds.

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I'm toast.

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Yeah, are we talking like picking up toddlers?

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Probably Jesus, Yeah.

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I don't want to fight that. I'll just let it be.

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So the one we talked about yesterday Tray was seventeen

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percent of Americans and specifically twenty two percent of men,

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think they could take a chimpanzee, which we know is

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absolute nonsense.

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Ain't no way, but see that that number is in

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line with the number of if you said, you know

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what percentage of people are absolutely a thing stupid twenty percent.

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That's one of me.

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That's why, that's why the bear numbers surprises me.

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You know what, I think. I'm kind of with you there,

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but this one, this one surprises me. The next one.

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So seventeen percent of Americans, twenty two percent of men

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think they could take a chimpanzee. Next up on the

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list the king cobra. No, fifteen percent of Americans think

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they could take a king cobra in a fight, and

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I feel like that number should be higher. I could

481
00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:13.240
take a king cobra in a fight. I think I

482
00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:15.160
feel like I would stand a way better chance at

483
00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:17.880
the king cobra than most of the other animals we've mentioned.

484
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:21.359
What's your tactic. I'm curious because those things are freaking fast.

485
00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.240
They're not I thought they were.

486
00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:28.920
Now here's the thing with cobra's. Whereas cobras don't, like

487
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:32.720
a rattle steak, can strike from feet away, the cobras

488
00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.119
raise up because basically all they can do is fall

489
00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:35.799
over on you.

490
00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:38.240
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought they struck.

491
00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:40.720
At They are fast as far as on the ground,

492
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.519
but as far as their striking ability, okay, it's it's

493
00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:44.319
very different.

494
00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:49.920
And we know this from working in radio. The day

495
00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:52.079
that we decided to bring a cobra to the radio

496
00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:54.759
station to terrorize our program director, it was a great

497
00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:57.480
day for us. It was terrible day for Gavin. But

498
00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:59.759
that's when that's when I learned that, Yeah, cobras don't

499
00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:02.839
act strike, They just kind of fall forward. Of course,

500
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.359
we didn't tell our boss.

501
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:08.319
That, or that had been defanged, didn't tell them that either.

502
00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:14.160
You are so mean pretty much, aren't you glad we

503
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.599
do this show remotely? Rebecca?

504
00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:20.359
Yea, thank you, I'll think, but you.

505
00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:22.240
Can never be too sure.

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Treehouse on Air. Back inside the Treehouse, Dan Trey and

523
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:39.240
Rebecca coming off the Great Animal Debate, which is still

524
00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:42.839
shocking on so many levels. Here's one that is also shocking,

525
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.160
but it's not really a debate. It's just a statistic

526
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:51.720
that is alarming. The average date in America. The average

527
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:56.119
date in America now costs one hundred and eighty nine dollars,

528
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.920
which is up twelve and a half percent year over year.

529
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:08.720
Now that's crazy to me and Rebecca. You and I

530
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:10.799
have been out of the dating pool for a very

531
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.240
long time. I have not been on a first date

532
00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:18.960
since two thousand and nine. Trey, you are in a relationship,

533
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.880
but it is new, which means you've been on a

534
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:25.920
first date in the last year. How do you remember

535
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.000
how much your first date with Brandy cost?

536
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:35.759
First date wasn't that? Here's the big X factor on

537
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:44.519
this whole subject is alcohol. But I that that number

538
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:50.079
doesn't surprise me at all. Like, you go on a date, dinner,

539
00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:53.440
a few drinks, Yeah, you're easily going to be and

540
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.519
you throw in tip, maybe go to a second bar,

541
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.599
have another round of drinks. You're easy at that. You bucks.

542
00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.000
I think the first date I had with Brandy, neither

543
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.559
one of us drank, so it was probably, you know,

544
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.720
still seven eight bucks forty five dollars.

545
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.720
Yeah, okay, because I'm assuming you went to a decent restaurant.

546
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:18.039
I'm sure you get actually to like someplace crazy fancy,

547
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:20.119
but it's not like you took her to Applebee's.

548
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:25.319
Actually we went to this, uh, this great little Mexican

549
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:29.799
joint called the Villa's and but still you get a

550
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:35.599
couple of you know, ordered some caeso and a couple

551
00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:38.680
of entrees you're still looking at and with tip, I

552
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.960
probably close to sixty bucks.

553
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.480
I mean still, that's a lot better than you know,

554
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:44.240
nearly two.

555
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:48.240
Hundred f sixty is more normal than one hundred and eighty.

556
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.400
Like, yeah, but that's no drinks like eighties, like.

557
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.640
Anniversary type date like Milestone, right? Or am I just

558
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.960
that old and cheap?

559
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.200
I think Trey's right. I think it's a combination of age. Yeah,

560
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.480
and that's how long it's been since we've been out

561
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.599
on a early in the relationship date.

562
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:16.359
Think about it, especially if you have drinks, like a

563
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:19.400
drink right now, and this is why restaurants and bars

564
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:22.519
are going under so fast. A drink right now probably

565
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:27.079
averages any place you go. I mean, beer is probably

566
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:29.000
going to be seven eight bucks. A mixed drink is

567
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.279
probably going to be around fourteen. Yeah, so you throw

568
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:37.000
in to a piece, you're now at another sixty bucks

569
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:40.559
and that's just one spot.

570
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.680
Sorry, daters, that sucks.

571
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:49.599
Oh, it's it's yet another reason I love, Yes, yes,

572
00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:52.960
our budget loves being married.

573
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:53.599
Right.

574
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.880
Look, look, if we're being honest, dating's always been expensive.

575
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.720
It's just I think with the times that we're living

576
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.079
in and training. You and I've talked about this a lot,

577
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:11.000
everything's getting more expensive, but wages haven't necessarily kept up,

578
00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:14.480
So everything is more expensive and feels more expensive because

579
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.839
we're not all making the same money we were. So

580
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.400
like when I went last went on a first date

581
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:21.319
in two thousand and nine, Well, no, I was poor

582
00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:22.079
then too, So.

583
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.880
No, what listen, it's it's the biggest thing is after

584
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.119
COVID and all these places got shut down, then everyone

585
00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.000
came back, and you have a combination of people trying

586
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.599
to make their money back from being shut down and inflation.

587
00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.480
At the time, prices skyrocketed. And now they haven't, you know,

588
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.599
as no one thought they would. They haven't come back down.

589
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:51.359
And but yeah, no, it is ridiculously. I spent I

590
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:55.519
got takeout there's from a Mexican place around me that

591
00:31:55.559 --> 00:32:00.559
I hadn't been to before. Ordered some Caeso chicken, flottas

592
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:06.160
and chips and salsa. Okay, I went and picked it up.

593
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:10.200
No delivery, okay, forty five dollars.

594
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:10.559
No.

595
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:12.880
Give me that.

596
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:14.240
Give me that order again.

597
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:17.119
Queso Chicken floutas and.

598
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:23.119
Chips and salsa chips with a fifteen percent tip forty

599
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:24.160
five dollars.

600
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.200
This is where I'm like Costco Costco hot dog dollar

601
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:29.519
fifty with a soda.

602
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.000
Ultimate date, Sam's better hot dog?

603
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.200
Oh, I like Sam's too. Don't get either one either.

604
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.160
Hot dog is delicious for me. I will take either.

605
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:38.440
Oh why aye, ladies, if you want, if you want

606
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:39.920
him to put a ring on it, you go on

607
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:44.680
that first date, go on that first date, and you

608
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:48.559
just let you focus on the chemistry. Yeah, and not worried,

609
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:52.279
not worried about all the other crap. Then that's yeah,

610
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:53.279
what happened to like.

611
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.680
The coffee first date where you're just going and you're

612
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.279
getting coffee and it costs you, like less than twenty

613
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.400
dollars and you get to know each other? What happened

614
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:00.680
to that?

615
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:04.519
So that's where I'm wondering if maybe this study might

616
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.519
be a little off because different people have different ideas

617
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.400
of a first date.

618
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.000
Yeah, So.

619
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:14.039
Is your actual first date when you actually go and

620
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.880
get the cup of coffee or do you consider your

621
00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:20.000
first real date to be the time you go out

622
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.160
after you've had the cup of coffee?

623
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.039
Yeah? I think the coffee is more of a meet

624
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.000
and get to know you, not really a date.

625
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:33.839
That's what dating is like. The coffee the coffee date

626
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:34.880
is sort of a pre date.

627
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:39.880
Yeah, but you got to remember though, most people dating now,

628
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:43.319
if you're thinking about going back to when we were

629
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.279
in our twenties, that was you probably met in a

630
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:49.160
bar and so you actually hadn't met and then you know,

631
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:51.839
maybe yeah, you consider that a first date. Now most

632
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:56.160
of them are meeting online, so the first interaction is

633
00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:58.799
more of a let's go someplace in public and let's

634
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.160
feel each other out. So that's where I think the

635
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:03.640
coffee is. The let's get a cup of coffee comes

636
00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:04.079
into play.

637
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.359
And I wonder if if that and this is kind

638
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.119
of going back to like a gen Z type mindset

639
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:13.039
I'm imagining, actually no any age group, because you meet

640
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:18.079
people these days. You meet people these days more commonly online,

641
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.039
so it's usually through a dating app or whatever. So

642
00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:23.719
a lot of the stuff you might talk about on

643
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.480
a coffee date you're talking about via text through the

644
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:31.719
app or actual text through your phone. So maybe so

645
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:33.639
the first time you meet up, you don't need the

646
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.559
coffee date, so you go straight to dinner in a

647
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.320
movie or whatever for a few hours, so that that

648
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:41.639
could be why the first date. Another reason why the

649
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.519
first date is more expensive because you're skipping over certain

650
00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.920
you know, earlier dates.

651
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:52.519
Chances are a first date if if you like the person,

652
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.400
especially for guys, you're going to try to show off

653
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:58.239
a little bit, take into someplace memorable, and and you

654
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:02.239
have a memorable night. Memory cost is so memorable.

655
00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:04.800
I'm wither Rebecka on that.

656
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:07.119
One, like I would remember that forever.

657
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.159
And honestly, it's like, it doesn't have to be, you know,

658
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:13.880
a Costco or a Sam's hot Dog date night. Oh,

659
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:16.519
but you can find the date that is sort of

660
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:21.360
your red flag green flag date. It's a litmus test date,

661
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:23.760
so it's your standard thing. I'm gonna see if this

662
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:27.119
person is really my person by taking them to what

663
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.440
I think they're either gonna love or hate. If they

664
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.360
hate it, then we both know that there's no reason

665
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:34.719
for date number two. If we both love it, then

666
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.360
green flags all around and everyone eats a hot dog.

667
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:41.360
That was listen the Old Loon. That was my best

668
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:45.159
first date spot because either they girls would turn up

669
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.400
their nose and be like ooh, or if they sit

670
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:49.519
down and enjoy it. They're like, oh, the food's great,

671
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.039
and you know it's a strong drink and a good time.

672
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.480
That was a great litmus test. Those days are long.

673
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:56.199
Gone, I know.

674
00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:59.280
I think it's wild that everybody expects the first date

675
00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:01.960
to be just something ridiculous and insane and spend all

676
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.760
of this money. And I'm like, you're not here for

677
00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.840
the food. You're here to get to know somebody else.

678
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.679
That's what it should be about, not all the other stuff.

679
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:10.400
So what does it matter where you're at.

680
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:10.800
Right.

681
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:15.880
Unless maybe you really are just out for a free meal.

682
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.920
I mean, which I have definitely heard some ladies do that,

683
00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.519
trying to get the most expensive meal they can possibly

684
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:23.519
get and eat free.

685
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:23.760
For a week.

686
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:26.239
So yeah, but you know what, for for every ten

687
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:28.800
of those, there's there's gonna be one guy that's doing

688
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:36.159
the same thing. Haha. Turn the tables on your lady, I.

689
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:39.920
Mean, and it is probably it's probably a good lesson.

690
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:42.800
It is all probably overboard. And if you're a guy,

691
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:47.199
you know, taking them to someplace just normal. Yeah, and

692
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:49.079
again if they turn up their nose at it, then

693
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:50.760
you know, all right, she's gonna be a high maintenance

694
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:52.079
pain in the ass.

695
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.880
Like, Yeah, you could easily do Chili's, Olive Garden, any

696
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:56.840
of the regular eating establishments.

697
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.360
They don't have to be the fanciest of the fancist.

698
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.559
Oh and I'm just thinking about what I might have

699
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:04.639
accomplished if I had taken my wife to Olive Garden

700
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:09.280
on our first date. Oh wait, no, she's given me

701
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:11.320
the scal I forgot she worked there for many, many years.

702
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:12.159
That would have been bad.

703
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.159
I was about to ask if your first date with

704
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:18.719
your wife is it a step up from Olive Garden

705
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.639
or was it a step down from Olive Garden?

706
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:25.719
It was definitely a step up as far as as

707
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:27.519
far as I'm trying to think of the word.

708
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.320
You're trying to think of the word because she's in

709
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:32.639
the room show.

710
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:35.639
Yes, tray is correct.

711
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.760
No, it is not correct.

712
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:39.880
No, Oh, you have to be all careful around the

713
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:40.960
wife right now.

714
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:43.599
No, it's because I can't think of the exact word

715
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:45.320
I want. What I'm trying to say is this, for

716
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.760
our first date, it was better than Olive Garden. It

717
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:53.079
had more pizazz than Olive Garden, but we still it

718
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:54.920
was actually cheaper than Olive Garden.

719
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:57.039
Oh okay, so.

720
00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:59.000
Here's what I was able to do. I had for

721
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:01.079
our first date. I had just started working at one

722
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:03.920
O five to three the Fan. So for our first date,

723
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.239
we went to a Frisco Roughriders game. Oh fun, tickets

724
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:11.519
free from the radio station. That's great and better than

725
00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:14.559
Olive Garden. And the tickets that we got came with

726
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:19.559
a pregame buffet at inside the Diamond Club, which also

727
00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:23.840
included hot dogs. So more pizazz than Olive Garden, yeah,

728
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:25.199
but cheaper.

729
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:27.800
I like it.

730
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.400
Well done, Yeah, well done, Dan, good.

731
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.920
Job, thank you very much. So on you Tree and

732
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:40.639
you know what on YouTube, Rebecca for dog piling whatever,

733
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:41.079
I'll take it.

734
00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:41.760
I don't care.

735
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.000
That that that to me. I think that that was.

736
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:50.480
To me.

737
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:52.280
That's kind of an all time first date because, like

738
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:53.960
I said, you get to have something like a fun,

739
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.239
memorable experience and it didn't cost me an arm and

740
00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:59.599
a leg, which is great because I had just gotten

741
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:02.239
that job. So I mean, I was just coming off

742
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.599
of unemployment. You needed some help, and so it worked out.

743
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.079
Yeah yeah, and then I got choked and then I

744
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:11.599
got choked out by the mascot.

745
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.360
Oh nice on purpose.

746
00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:18.920
Well not on my part, that's what I mean. I

747
00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:21.239
had brought a blanket just in it May. It was

748
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:24.079
May fourth, two thousand and nine, and so I didn't

749
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:25.159
know if it was going to be cold, so I

750
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.280
brought a blanket just in case. And then one of

751
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.119
the mascots came over and then, I guess was making

752
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:31.920
fun of me, picked up the blanket that was sitting

753
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.800
on the seat next to me and put it over

754
00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:35.760
me as if to say, oh, you must be cold,

755
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:36.960
and in doing so.

756
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.480
Was cutting off the circulation into my neck.

757
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:43.880
So technically I got choked out on my first date

758
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.199
with my wife, just you know, not by her.

759
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:47.719
That was the second date.

760
00:39:51.480 --> 00:40:00.440
I knew you'd have something. Hang, I'm curious, Rebecca, what

761
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:01.480
was your first day with your husband?

762
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.000
It technically was like on Valentine's and it was in

763
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.840
the afternoon, early lunch at Louby's.

764
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:09.000
I paid.

765
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.199
By the way, Oh, there need to be there need

766
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:15.320
to be statues in honor of your husband.

767
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.079
He loves loubies. We love lubies.

768
00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:22.480
Well, there's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying the

769
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:27.119
fact that a late lunch at Louby's and you paid

770
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.159
for it, and you guys are married.

771
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:33.639
Yep, we've been married for God it'll be almost in

772
00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:36.039
nineteen years, twenty years.

773
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:42.119
Yeah, yeah, your husband, Oh my god, he is.

774
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:44.000
Well.

775
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.920
I don't think we've yeah, I don't know if we've

776
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:48.320
ever done this inside the Treehouse, but I think it's

777
00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:51.679
time that we goat our first person, and it is

778
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:52.360
mister black.

779
00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:56.599
Oh thank you for saying that. That's not his last name.

780
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:59.239
He hates it when he gets called mister Black.

781
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:06.239
Well, I don't want to piss him off. Because any man,

782
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:08.760
any man that takes a potential, any man that takes

783
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:12.599
a date to Lubies when the sun is up and

784
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:19.599
is not to be messed with. Yeah, wow, what did

785
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.559
you say, Trey and gets her to pay and get

786
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:24.079
her to pay, Yeah, I paid.

787
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:24.800
That's right.

788
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:26.400
It's a player.

789
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.679
He was that day, that day.

790
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:33.519
One time.

791
00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:37.880
Uh huh. That's all it takes, man, One time. All

792
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:41.280
it takes is one ring to forever be known as

793
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:44.599
a champion, and that is your husband. For all things

794
00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:47.559
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795
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796
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797
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799
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:01.440
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800
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