Buying Spirit Airlines?! 😂 George Clooney & Brad Pitt Drama + Wild News Stories | Comedy Podcast

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1:10 Now since our first show this week where Trey and I lamented our dearly beloved Spirit Airlines, where look, we were a fan of the Bear Fair, we were a fan of being royalty on Spirit Royalty versus versus cargo on Delta. Rebecca, have you ever flown Spirit Airlines? Yes, I have, and I am a firm believer in everybody loves Spirit Airlines until they have a bad experience. So that means that neither of you have ever had a bad experience on Spirit Airlines? Not true? What? Not true? I've had bad experiences with Spirit Airlines. But when you set the bar so freaking low, that's a good point. You're like, well, I'm getting what I pay for, you know. But truth be told. The reason why my wife and I started, you know, flying Spirit Airlines mainly from Texas to the Virgin Islands because that's the one route that we trusted Spirit more than anybody anywhere else. Flying around the States, Spirit was kind of like with everybody else, it's gonna be fifty to fifty, but overall had a pretty good experience flying Spirit. Other airlines look, cell phone provider, cable company, airline. These are all places to where the companies that run the shows are mostly not loved. No, and everyone's got bad experience

2:45 on just about every airline. There are very few exceptions. Same thing with you know, satellite TV providers, cell phone providers, all that kind of stuff, like you love t Mobile right now because you hated Verizon, or you're okay with the Verizon right now out because AT and D did something to piss you'all. Yeah, but I had told Trey a while back that when you fly Spirit Airlines, you can buy one of those big front seats mm hmm, and you will feel like royalty on Spirit Airlines for about the same price, sometimes less, maybe just a little bit more than the cheap economy on all the mainstream airlines.

3:28 And at least with Spirit, I always knew what I was gonna get. Like, if you want Wi Fi, You're gonna pay for it, that's the way most sure. Now, if I want to watch a movie, I'm gonna have to watch that from my phone that I've already downloaded right on American sometimes they'll have the little screen in front that you can plug in and watch their stuff. Dude, that's money when you get one of those. But that's the problems, that's luck. Yeah, you're right on every. Spirit plan, there is no question you will not have a screen in front of you, so you can accordingly right. Correct, You are correct. My issue though, with Spirit is that it's literally always late I never left on time ever, so for me, it was worth paying like the you know, two hundred extra bucks just to get to my destination on time, because I don't like wasting time on vacation and sitting at.

4:15 The airport for eight hours, that's wasting time. I get that. I never I think I had one flight on Spirit that was late. Yeah, and and and and it wasn't. As is, most of the time, as much as we love to bitch about the airlines, most delays are a subject most of the time are subject of weather. Oh, I was gonna I was really hoping you were going to say, people, well, I've been through late flight on stairs is because as slow as people are taking their time getting on the plane. Well, the other thing, no one realizes that flight crews have x amount of time they can operate right, delay or not, it doesn't matter. And so once you have one delay, you kick in a series of events which a lot of times, let's say two legs later, where normally that crew would go on for the final leg, they have to switch out because they've reached their maximum amount of time. And so as much as we love to bitch about airlines, like I said, most of the time, not their fault, but I guess Spirit was one of them.

5:24 You knew, like you said, you knew exactly what you were getting, and it's kind of like you could be the big fish in the little pond. You pay for the big comfany front seat. You know, it's like a I would say, like a business class seat, and so you have plenty of room, leg room, arm room, whatever you got. If you were in that first two or three roads where you had the big seats, you got, you got good service, yeah, uh, whatever you want. You're the big dog on the plane exactly. And if you were a extra cash yeah, and if you were a good boy, sometimes a pilot will let you fly on his left.

6:05 Did he give you some wings to wear too? You shared it. So since the demise of Spirit Airlines, there's been a lot of chatter about it. Obviously some people waxing poetic. I guess like us about you know, no, goodbye to the Spirit. But the biggest, the biggest viral response to Spirit Airlines going out of business is a YouTuber who has come up with a grand idea to buy the airline. Genius idea. Spirit Airlines just from bankrupt right, I'm the guy that flew Spirit Airlines for twenty four hours straight. There's more than two hundred and fifteen million individuals over the age of eighteen in the United States. Now, if we took only twenty percent of them and paid basically the average fare of a Spirit Airlines flight, which is somewhere around thirty to forty dollars, we could buy Spirit Airlines.

6:58 This is a genius idea. Nationalized Spirit Airlines owned by the people. Airlines going, we make a new airthing. Let's buy an airline. I should make it that enough for this, I would like to first ask which leg that Spirit Airlines flew that was only thirty or forty dollars for the ticket? Yeah, I never I never got that route. Now, there were times I flew to Vegas, like round trip. It was I mean a little more than that, but seventy seventy five dollars, okay, because it was about one fifty round trip. I remember, Yeah, I remember seeing on a back in the day, the Southwest Airline like the fair sales saying like forty nine or fifty dollars one way. I'm like to where nowhere I want to go?

7:47 It's Houston. It's literally Houston every freaking time. No. No, So that's part one. So that's part one of this YouTuber named Hunter. I forget his full profile stuff, but I'm sure it's in here somewhere of him saying, hey, let's buy an airline. We can do this, Let's nationalize Spirit Airlines. Genius are stupid, Let's crowdfund Spirit Airlines, Trey. I'm going to let you go last because I have a feeling I know what your answer is going to be. Rebecca is the X factor here. Rebecca, Genius are stupid, Let's crowdfund Spirit Airlines. Yeah. I think it's stupid. I don't think it's a good idea, but you know what, go ahead, YouTube guy, do your you do your worst there, you go ahead, buy Spirit Airlines.

8:31 You don't want to save Spirit Airlines. I don't, I really don't. I'm the one who's had the bad experiences on Spirit Airlines. Yeah, well I won't fly it anymore. You're okay to be the fan helsing to the Spirit Airlines and you'll drive the stake right through. It's heard, that is correct. I will gladly pay the extra money to fly on American where I've had the majority of good experiences. And that's sad in and of itself. It is it is you have to go with the least of the evils for yourself, and mine would be American. Flying in America is just like voting in America. You're choosing among the lesser of evils. You truly, you are. Absolutely Trey genius, are stupid? Let's crowdfund an airline.

9:15 Tell me you don't understand business. Without telling me you don't understand business, that's about to. Be, Like, Trey, how much money are you gonna put on this? Send them a check for one thousand dollars. Right now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the official tree House Trey Trenholme sound effect. I've had that sound effect that is a default sound effect on this roadcaster for like five years and it finally hit home. Give us your reasons why owning an airline is not the best business. That idea a bunch of people, just random people trying owning an airline. No, let's you know, just start there. Uh number two, I'm the rules. Never mind the rules, never.

9:57 Mind, Let's have a Patreon for a spirit. Yeah, uh, you know what, what are the guy raised like? Potentially what like eighty million or something. I think the last number I saw was eighty eight to ninety somewhere. I mean, it's a lot of money's let's be honest, that they have pledged so far. But you're talking about an airline that it's creditors valued at just the equipment at like one point three billion. Well so no one knew for sure, but I believe Spirit had about one hundred and fifty aircraft, so each aircraft used whatever it's still they mainly did airbus. You're probably looking at forty fifty million in aircraft, like you said, you know, they're their equipment of the creditors valued around over a billion dollars.

10:54 So so close, guys, we're so close you. Can get there. Come on and if you and if you pledged twenty five, we will give you this crowdfunded Spirit Airlines coffee bag. As listen, I was a fan of Spirit. But here here's where this really But Spirit had it, let's say, a unique customer base. Now I say this coming from the bar business, do you mean. Like redneck white trash people. Okay, look, Spirit Airlines, if we're being honest, was the R and R of airlines? Redneck and Ratchet. Absolutely so. But one of the you know, banes of every bartender's existence is the phrase I know the owner, you really want to do that with them? Airline?

11:44 Well, hang on, Treck, Just just to play devil's advocate here, a large number of people owning a very profitable, profitable entity has worked before I submit to you the Green Bay pack. I mean technically, yes, you're right, but I don't know that they have any say and what actually happens with the Green Bay Packers. They just have a little ticket that they get to frame at home. Yeah, and himself is pretty smart, but yeah, that's that's the only thing I got trade. I'm just yeah, it's then, and but it also it has a separate management group. And yes, you you own a piece of the Packers, which basically means you own some seats. And but yeah, you don't get you're not making the They don't crowd source and vote on the who's the first round draft pick or who should be traded or anything else. So we we that ownership base stays out of operations. Yeah, exactly, how is this deal going to be structured?

12:47 All right, So let's get back to the spirit crowdfunding thing. That that that no one inside the tree has seems to be on board with for various reasons. Uh so, Trey pick up where you left off. So you know, when when people want to torque the aisle and you, you know, say hey, please sit down, and they're like, hey, I own this bitch. I could see that being a paradoxical problem. Yes, a very big one. I mean, we could make it a reality show. I would watch that right when. I mean, if we're being on a spared airlines, it already. Is right, right, So let's make it a reality show.

13:29 Let's show the crowd funded ownership now and how this all plays out. That's an enjoyable experience. And and and when said crowdfunding funded ownership is in a big hurry, and so then they tell the pilot and the ground crew and screw all those inspections. Let's get this bitch up up out of here. Yeah, you know, so you ultimately that reality show, you need to have some you know, some of the cameras and some of the recording devices in black boxes, because that's where it's gonna end. Now, let's go to part two of the genius or stupid idea of crowdfunding Spirit Airlines. This is from the same Oh actually hang on the same guy who is a YouTuber. His name is Hunter. He did a couple of videos. He did a couple of video updates on this, trying to tell people that hey, this is a good idea I have. Let's all work together, you know, to make this happen. So here we go. So if I can get here part two, it won't do it. Hang on, ladies and gentlemen, we are back.

14:42 Let's buy spirit air. Dot com because the main domain totally messed up, so we just got a new one. We're back, We're live. Let's do this. You me, a bunch of our friends. Let's buy Spirit Air. And as a reminder, all of you reaching out, we're not taking money. This is non binding pledges to show interest to everyone else that we're serious. Also, stop using my dad headshots in like articles. And I'm not talking to anyone on TV or anything like that now. If you want to hear from me, it will be on social until I talk to my lawyers. Have a good Sunday. Ladies and gentlemen, We. Are Aaron dot com.

15:24 Thank you Hunter from Thank you Hunter from YouTube who wants to be the new CEO of Spirit Airlines and wants to crowdfund him, which I have to give credit to his look here because he's channeling clearly two of his role models in Steve Jobs and that throwback photo of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. All Oh my god, Yeah, he's missing the gold chain for that. Yeah. I mean he's got the necklace, it's just not gold. So it really does look like this is the love child of Dwayne the Rock Johnson's throwback photo and Apple's Steve Jobs. Okay, what I really loved about this second update video was they haven't even bought the airline yet and they've already messed up.

16:06 They didn't get the website right. This just like is showing exactly what is to come if they buy it. It's very very possible. And keep in mind, you know this right here is why legitimacy matters to me, and in whatever you do. It's like to me, you don't have a legitimate business if you don't have a functioning website that looks professional. Same thing with like a social media kind of if you don't have the if you can't get that stuff right, if you can't get your business card right, then I'm not going to trust you to do anything that you claim to do on it. Yeah, and let's just the fact that it's just pledges.

16:53 Yeah, it's not real money's yet. Yeah that is Uh, you're just as ssking for people to get drunk and go, oh yeah, I'm in for a thousand and then yeah, uh, let's and then when it comes on, it's like if you know you've ever been to a charity, they just silent auction. It's like, oh, yeah, someone build you know, did two thousand call? But no, that wasn't me. Uh, that was a joke. Bid, I don't really have that. Yeah, I mean I thought we were guessing the price. No, if he was at least realistic and goes, we would need to at least raise one point five billion dollars because the shareholders, you know, the government offered five hundred million for nine so and they turned it down knowing that if they liquidated the airlines they would get more money than that. Right, So you're gonna at least need and and and and there's this little thing called operating capital, so you got to pay people and be able to buy the fuel and everything else. So yeah, let's uh, sometime like the same thing with evolution and some animals just go extinct. It was spirits time, and let's not uh.

18:17 It had a good run, you know, it really did. And look, it's a nice thought to crowdfund an entire airline and maybe, maybe, just maybe, is it mean? Hang on, let me finish my thought, Trindholm, it's a nice thought. It's a nice gesture to want to save the down trodden business. Winning the lottery is a nice thought. Yes it is. Yeah, both both can be true at the same time. Trade. By the way, if if we all won the lottery enough money, then maybe we could also waste a bunch of money on an airline. But what I'm trying to say is it's a nice thought to crowdfund and get this airline off the ground literally and back to flying. Problem is, though, is when the coin slots pop out of the seats in order for you to have enough money to actually make it to your destination. Because that may be a legitimate thing, it's like, everybody, we got it off the ground, ooh, we forgot to pay the flight attendant, the pilot, the co pilot, the grounds crew, the baggage guys. To mess up your stuff.

19:21 The maintenance. Dude, if anyone wants any delivery, you gotta pay for the solution. No, no, no, let me stop you right there. Okay, here's where this this derails. It's like the scene from Airplane when the guy comes up to the pilot's window and hands him the old credit card slip after getting passed up. Is he's gonna have the pilot's gonna have to turn to the crowd, go hey, everybody, time to kick in. It's like, don't make me turn this plane around. You want to get to Miami, you gotta cough up the money. Yeah, And that's what it was gonna be like. So now let's explore part three of this adventure of crowdfunding Spirit Airlines from our buddy Hunter who is who is the chief executive officer? Want to be?

20:05 From YouTube Paterson, potential future CEO of Spirit Airlines insane News. Okay, I just got off two calls, one with one of the largest law firms in the world that specialize in mergers and acquisitions, aviation, the stress assets in debt and they basically said, this is doable, we can do this. I also got off. A call with someone that represents high net worth individuals who may be interested in just basically giving us some money to just burn. To figure out the legality of this, because in less than a week's time they are going to auction off the operation certificate for Spirit. We don't have a ton of time, and I need to figure out a way not to raise money. I can't take any money from anyone, but I can take on angel investment from high networth individuals. So Mark Cuban, what's up, man, get in my DMS right now, or any high networth individual who's still like, yeah, I've got half.

21:00 A million or three quarters of a million dollars, just burn. You want to burn, you want to try and save this airline? Get them my I DMS. Let's make this out. And to be so so clear, if we take on this money, they don't have any more voting right than anyone else. I'm going to be so clear of you're doing this to burn money, yes, to prove it can happen. I will not take a single cent if someone wants to, in some way, shape or form. Put control over this, not not having this. We're doing this because we're doing something different. If someone's gonna get involved that it's really, really wealthy. It's because they see the vision. See the value and want to be a partner. That's it. Okay, bye, No, it's a note for me on Shark take.

21:44 Number one. I love the fact that he got off the phone with one of the largest aviation You know, companies specialize in M and A and what are they of course they're interested. What are they charge per hour? Probably fifteen hundred two thousand dollars an hour. They would love to explore this idea with you. Yeah, that's until you have no money. Absolutely, yeah. And of course they said it's doable. Anything doable. If you have enough money, they will say that, like sure, you bring you bring money to this table, we will make it happen. Bro. Yeah. Absolutely, And keep. In mind, while Mark Cuban is insanely wealthy, he is not buy all of Spirit Airlines by himself necessarily wealthy. Now, if Elon feels like wasting more billions of his money, I feel like a couple of billion for Spirit Airlines might have been better spent than forty four on Twitter.

22:35 But that's just my thought on it. The interesting side of what this guy said, and I think it was in his first video that we didn't get all of was everyone would then pledge money to buy Spirit Airlines, but everyone gets the same number of votes. You pledge a dollar, you get one vote. You pledge one hundred million dollars, you get one vote. The difference would be on the investment is on the back end. His proposal would be, while everyone has the same voting rights, your percentage would then depend on how much money you invested should the airline turn any sort of a profit. But didn't he just say in the last video that if you were going to come in and try to like.

23:16 Make decisions and suggestions that he did not want you. Well, now that's just it. He's like, you can you can throw you know, one hundred million dollars at this to help us explore this as a possibility. But you get the same vote as Tracy in Topeka does for having thrown in five bucks. Yeah, and he also it's just careless the future CEO. Yeah, yeah, which at least I tell you. Please tell me your qualifications, because at this point I would rather dig up herb kellerher to run Spirit than have him do it. I would absolutely throw one hundred dollars at zombie herb Keller her to run Spirit Airlines before a YouTuber who flew Spirit for twenty four hours for views.

23:59 Yeah, because at least you know, with HERB they'll be serving wild turkey and you know Marboroughs. Sorry, at least we won't die with Herb. Probably YouTube guy good So True. You're listening to The Treehouse, visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com. Time now to talk to Daniel Cook from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration. A man of many talents. Not only is he the Tarzan of roofing, he's also a master contractor. He can change your ugly kitchen into a beautiful one and he's also a bit of a word smith. If you have not checked it out yet, you need to check out the Know Your Home Show from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration, hosted by Yours Truly's that's me and Daniel.

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26:55 We're going to start with a dead celebrity today. Yeah, Orson Wells. If he were still alive, he would be one hundred and eleven years old, but he's not. He's passed away. Considered to be one of Hollywood's finest directors, having made what many believed to be is Hollywood's finest film in Citizen Kane, yet most of us have not seen it, nor do we want to. I've seen it. I hated it. I've actually seen it. I had to see it for my movie watching Slash Theater four class in high school. Mine was in collegere you have you witnessed Citizen Kane? Do you know the origins the meaning of Rosebud? Can I spoil it for you?

27:35 Please? It's a stupid sled. It's a stupid effing sled. It's it's not just a shut up. It's sled. It's stupid. It's so stupid. It's what the sled represents, its childhood, and Citizen's lost. The sled is Rosebud. That's it. The fact that he could become this media magnet and still and have all still love that stupid sled money in the world, but it couldn't buy him Rosebud back. Stupid, stupid movie. Still bitter about it, clearly. So there you go, Trey. If if you ever want to do a Treehouse review of Citizen King, obviously Rebecca will not.

28:19 Be Oh I'll join. We will not allow Rebecca to be there. You go, smarter, move there. Other birthdays today, baseball legend Willie May's ninety five. Now my service here doesn't say whether or not he is actually deceased, so I mean he is still alive, which I don't think that's right. I don't think he is either. Are we all googling it now? But if he is, he is ninety five years old today. No, he died in twenty twenty four. Oh so close, I mean still, I mean so close.

29:00 He made it to like, you know, ninety three, Yeah, pretty good. So a happy deceased birthday to Willie Maes now for some living birthdays. If this is accurate, Former Prime Minister of England Tony Blair is seventy three today. Actress. I think she's still acting. I'm not sure. Gabori cd Bay is forty three. She was the one that broke onto the scene in the Precious movie that Oprah put out, and then she did a couple of smaller films or smaller roles in other films after that than. An American horror story, a couple of seasons. Okay, she is forty three today, and probably the big name birthday today is George Clooney. George Clooney is sixty five years old, also sometimes known as mister Amal that's his wife. Anyway, George is sixty five today. It's funny because I saw I think it was on Facebook. There was a video from the screen rant account where he was doing an interview talking about him and Brad Pitt coming in and growing up in Hollywood kind of around the same time. I think he was around earlier than Brad, but they were both up for that role in Thelma and Louise that Brad Pitt eventually got.

30:15 Oh. Really, George Clooney's telling the story about how he didn't watch Thelmlan Louise for years because he was so butt hurt about losing that role to Brad Pitt. Huh, And then he said, and then once he eventually watched the movie, he saw how perfect Brad Pitt was for it, and he couldn't be mad any longer. And it kind of worked out the way it was supposed to for everybody. It ended up being a springboard thing for Brad Pitt. George Clooney, his role in Roseanne wasn't exactly the springboard role he had maybe hoped it was going to be, but then he you know, then then he's in the yar and things kind of worked out for both of them. But I'm always fascinated to hear about success stories and people just think that sometimes people were just overnight successes when in reality, man, they were struggling for a long time.

31:07 There's a few examples of that that I know of, and there's tons of them overall, but there's a few I know of that stick in my brain. George Clooney's a really good because he had a little bit of success in TV early with Roseanne, and then nothing for a while. Then he lands er and then he becomes pretty big, right. Yeah. Jeremy Renner is one of my favorite examples. So I don't think he was necessarily a child star, at least not to me. But he was in one of the National Lampoons movies, High School Trip, I think is what it was. So he was the star in that movie, which I love. That movie. By the way, have either of you seen it?

31:48 I don't think I have. I don't even think I've heard of it until you just now mentioned. So it's a high school trip. I think they're supposed to be going to Washington, d C. Do you remember Max Headroom? Yes? Okay, So the actor that played Max Headroom is an actor named Matt Frewer. He was in it as like the principal or one of the chaperones of this trip. So it's Jeremy Renters in this, one of the guys from Kids in the Hall. It's gonna sound really weird to hear me out. He has lost him His character is he has lost himself thinking he is Captain Kirk from the Starship Enterprise and he's taking his oh her a blow up doll with him chasing this high school bus trip across the country. This may need to be on our list of films to watch, Trey, it.

32:43 Sounds really bad. Anyway, the point of the story is Jeremy Render thought he hit paydirt in National Lampoon's high school trip didn't really pan out. Then he goes on and he's doing like kind of like Harrison Ford did, which is a great example as well, doing construction work, like like Jeremy Owner is like helping like with his family construction business or something as a contractor. And then he ends up in hurt Locker, ends up in hurt Locker, and then that throws him straight into the Marvel universe after that. So anyway, I'm always fascinated by really cool, you know, come up stories in Hollywood. So happy birthday, George Clooney, he's sixty five. What is it, Trey? I know that. Look, your your knowledge of crappy movies is just it's second to none. Yeah.

33:33 I thought I was like a movie person, and then I met Dan who is level one thousand movie buff. You know all of the obscure ones, bad ones, Okay, bad ones. It just especially the bad ones. I had a rough childhood and what is no doubt Trey's favorite story of the day. What happens in South Africa when you need to retrieve human remains from a crocodile tummy, Well, what you do, apparently what you do is you get yourself a police officer and a helicopter and then you take that police officer and you tie to align attached to the helicopter and you dangle that officer into crocodile infested waters.

34:34 And that's how you get crocodile fishing. And he pulls said crocodile up he did. If there weren't video for this, I would absolutely, you know, go all right, this is complete BS. And here it is. This is straight from the South African Police Service. An office ser is hoisted into crocodile infested waters to recover human remains. And you can see the line dangling from the helicopter. This looks like like AI. At the very bottom of the line, you have a crocodile dangling by its neck, and in between the crocodile and the helicopter it's the officer just kind of hanging out with it. I mean, what do you have to do to be the officer that gets selected to be dangled into crocodile infested waters from a helicopter.

35:33 You're the new guy, just hired, fresh out of the academy. But also. Why that's my thing? Why? Well, my other question is how did they know it was this crocodile? Valid point. I am glad you asked, Trey. I can give you some of those answers that you seek. First off, had a septum piercing. Actually, no authorities believe the remains found in the animals and testines belonged to a fifty nine year old businessman, Gabriel Batista, who went missing in the area. He was swept away by raging floodwaters. They're still waiting on DNA analysis to confirm the identity. However, there are some clues here and reasons why they did this. First of all, this was not a new officer. This was not an officer that drew the short straw. This is Captain Johann Puttgeiter.

36:40 He carried out the highly dangerous and complex operation at the Kamadi River in South Africa. He was lowered by rope from a helicopter to secure and retrieve the animals suspected of consuming the remains of a missing person. Defeat that was captured by footage and shared by police. This is where it gets kind of gruesome. When authorities eventually sliced up and the crocodile's grotesquely swollen belly. That's how trey, that's how they knew this was probably the crocodile. What they said was that they were in this crocodile infested waters downstream of where the man that had gone missing they suspected of being. And when the helicopter started lowering the officer down, this was the only crocodile that did not immediately slip into the river and try to go away.

37:27 This one was so swollen and so full it didn't bother to move. That's where they were like, we think this might be our culprit. I feel like this is body shaming to the alligator. I mean, what if he's just lazy and a little chunky and overweight and slow and then they kill him and he's got nothing inside. Come on, that's rude. Well, while I appreciate your angle and your thought that it's not fair to stereotype this swolden bell, but the fact that they found a finger with the missing man's ring attached to it, along with part of a torso, an arm, and a couple of feet. They're pretty sure they found the culprit. Also, also in the belly of this crocodile were six other pairs of shoes that did not belong to the missing man.

38:22 I was about to say, you know, was there a pair of sketchers in there or something? These are my riverwalkers. Dude has been after it. I'm kind of impressed. I mean, and obviously he got it. He got a taste for it. If he's got of unrelated shoes in addition to the guy, I mean, that's just that's just damn terrifying prose. There wasn't a shoelace hanging out the alligator's ass. I think I think that might have been the other clue. Sherlocked listening to Treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com.

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39:56 That's it. That's very simple. Back inside the Treehouse, Dan Trey and Rebecca Rebecca, are you familiar with the lurid wild story of twenty twenty six that involves two Chase Bank employees in a very troubling harassment case? Oh no, I am not aware. Oh goodie. So over the weekend a story broke about how one male Chase executive former accused another Chase executive that he claimed was his boss of sexual harassment, retaliation, threatening his job, forcing him into lurid sex acts, and in one part of his complaint alleged that she told him, I bet your Asian fish head wife doesn't have these canons as she you know, touched herself.

40:53 That's very informative. That's actually kind of the softer portion of that complaint, believe it or not. Wow. Yeah. So, Now, when this story came out, the guy who was making the complaint was described as John Doe, which is kind of how his standard when someone's making these types of claims, you get to remain anonymous. And it named the other Chase executive that he said was threatening him and forcing him to do all these things. I'm now referring to her as Sally, which is not her name, because Chase did an internal review, came back and realized this is all bull. This guy made all of this up. It appears his attorneys that filed it pulled it, they said, for clarification in their filing, and then eventually just deleted the thing. Chase tried verifying all of this stuff, and the guy who made the initial complaint wouldn't even participate in the in his own investigation.

41:55 So based on their internal investigation, they realized this is all crap and we're not going forward with any of this. Meanwhile, this poor female executive life is pretty much ruined, and this guy had left already to go to some other financial institution. Eh. There, here's another little piece of the story. Three months prior to this suit and him leaving, he claimed that his father died, so he was on a bereavement leave for three months, which kudos to Chase for giving someone three months. And then the New York Post reached out and actually talked to his father, who is not in fact dead.

42:41 Wow, I bet it was. Well as if all of that isn't juicy enough already, wait, if I may quote Matt Lillard in Scream, But wait, there's more. There's more. Former JP Morgan banker Chara you Raina files new wild claims against the executive, including a lured threesome invitation. Just days after going viral with fabricated sex slave allegations. He doubled down. He'd he really did. He has filed what he claims his new evidence against He has filed what he claims is new evidence supporting his sex abuse allegations against Chase executive Sally, including one anonymous friend who claimed he was invited over for a threesome. He word there, anonymous anonymous.

43:35 H and actually not more than friend a cousin. Oh see it just every reason into the place here for this guy. Yeah. The anonymous cousin witness statements contained details from quotes and describe a lleged encounters with Sally. In September twenty four, the lawsuit, which J. P. Morgan insists is entirely fabricated, suddenly reappeared in Manhattan Supreme Court docket on Monday after it was filed and then quickly pulled last week. The lawsuit quickly rose to viral infamy due to lurid claims against Sally, who was accused of turning Raina into a sex slave. They've hit back hard against those claims. Multiple sources told The Post of JP Morgan's internal probe, which reviewed emails, records and devices, found zero evidence wrong doing. Sally cooperated fully while Raina did not.

44:27 M Post also reported Monday that Raina apparently lied to the bank about his father dying Thank You Trey, so he could collect paid leave and apparently use the time off to prepare the bombshell lawsuit against Sally and his employer, despite sources saying he used time off for bereavement. The Post found his father alive and well on Sunday. In the new filing. One alleged witness, who appears to be a cousin of Raina's, says he was staying at an apartment while visiting New York City and was woken up Sally's drunken antics in the middle of the night. He attempted to go back to sleep, but a completely naked, Sally woll come on. She sat on the couch he was sleeping on, lit a cigarette and began begging him to join them in the bedroom. Despite refusing several times, the mystery witness claims Sally told him, you know I own that guy Raina, so you'd better come join. After she returned to the bedroom, the anonymous witness claims he could hear Raina pleading no, no, no, you have to leave.

45:33 I'm not going to do this. Please do Then Sally, according to this, left the apartment later that night, and a stunned Raina emerged, sharing his story of how Sally constantly harassed him and forced him to engage in sexual behavior with her on a number of occasions. He allegedly recalled that she threatened him with trouble if he didn't comply, and reiterated his concern that miss Sally was blackmailing. And this also came the affirmation all So claims witnessing Sally to be handsy with rain at a concert for DJ Kigo at the Barkley Center earlier that month. The other anonymous affirmation, seemingly from the owner of the apartment where the family friend was saying claims he saw Sally kissing Raina's neck on the street sometime during the summer of twenty four, and in September twenty four she overheard them entering her apartment building, recalling that Sally had said something that sounded like I own you, brownie.

46:33 These are very specific details, yes, in these allegations, but JP Morgan and Sally rightfully say this is all bullshit, Like. I appreciate the link that he went to with all the details and such, but you put your efforts in the wrong places, Like if you're gonna say you have a dead dad, make sure he's dead. You know what I mean? Say Yeah, if you say you have a witness, you can't leave the witness be it can't be anonymous and related to you. Again, I feel like we're getting I feel like we're getting the C C level of I'm Larry. This is my cousin Darryl, my other cousin Darryl. They they all were attacked by this JP Morgan Chase executive named Sally, and the things that she forced them to do to her are just unspeakable.

47:32 Or you're getting Hey, I want to buy an airline, and. That's how we got JP Morgan Spait Airlines. Thank you for that big beautiful yellow bow. Trey appreciate that. If you enjoyed this show, share it with a friend and well everybody you know and your cousins. Get that share button from your favorite listening place form incentive to the mall. You can also check out all things treeos at Treehouse on Air dot com. Give us a follow on the socials at Treehouse on Air. For me, it's at the Daniel Mallley. For Trey at Trey Trenholm one in. For Rebecca Black, it is at Hunted Rebecca check her and Julie out on the Hunted af podcast for all things spooky, including maybe a reanimated her killer her. We will see you next time right here inside the tree House