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It is time to leave your warriors outside and laugh
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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with
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Trey Trenholm, Raz Sharma and Jerry called Well. Speaking of outside,
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we are all pretty hardcore gen xers here inside the Treehouse,
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and we've done our fair share piling on to the
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younger generations for their lack of going outside. At this point,
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I think it's pertinent for me to apologize and say
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that they were right they should stay inside because doing
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a quick scroll of the DFW news sites, with all
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the death and injuries related to the ice storm over
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the last handful of days, I think it might be
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best if we keep the kids inside. In addition to
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all lanes of I thirty partially reopened after a multi
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hour closure overnight due to icy conditions, we also have
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three brothers dying after falling through ice into a frozen
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pond when they told mom they were going to sled
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on boxes a ponder. High school seniors in critical condition
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after a sledding accident on Monday.
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M hmmm.
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You had two teenage girls who were sledding on the
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back of a jeep and crashed into a tree and died.
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And then another tragedy the guy and I believe it
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was Ponder who decided to go out and try some
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ice fishing and he fell in the and he fell
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in and I believe died. So maybe it's best if
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we all just stay inside. My thinking on it is
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this goes back to the lady I took the task
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on social media the other day saying, I don't know
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why all these Texans and the Dallas people are making
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a big deal out of you know, I've been in
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the Midwest with snow drifting none that, and it's not
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like she was the only one. She eventually deleted that post.
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It's a reminder because, in addition to the ones I
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just said that, we're North Texas related overall. I just
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saw it on CNN there are now thirty winter storm
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related deaths across the US. So I would like for
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everyone to take their snow superiority and gently shove it.
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And I want it to be a reminder to people
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who think they have this cold superiority. Oh these people
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just don't know how to act in winter weather. Oh God,
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get off it. This is actual dangerous stuff we're talking about.
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Well, it's also yeah, like I was talking to my
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stepmom who's from Rochester, New York. So when they're you know,
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during the winter, they're ponds and lakes freeze over to
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a level you can ice skate on them. That's how
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hockey was invented, you know. But it's it's because there's
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a much longer gradual cold the ice as much sticker
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everything else. People down here don't understand that. So they
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think see ice on water and they're like.
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Oh, hey, you know, we'll go out there.
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And unfortunately, and it's also you know, kids being kids,
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you know, they want to try funds that they think
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it's going to be fun.
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They don't realize that there's danger behind it.
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And this right here and that right there, Raj is
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the reason why I wanted to bring this up has
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nothing to do with trying to make light of it, Trey.
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It has to do with this serves a very important
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situation that needs to be addressed. We've made fun of
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public service announcements our entire careers because some of them
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were funny, some are just outright ridiculous. But at the
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end of the day, we need them. And some things
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that seem obvious, like turn around, don't don't drown, Like
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don't drive into high water when you don't know how
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deep it is seems obvious. We need people to understand
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and know don't do that. This, I think is a
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similar situation to where kids need to be told. Adults
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need to be reminded that we don't live in a
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cold environment south of the Mason Dixon that can you know,
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hold your weight standing on something frozen that was completely
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liquid the day before. They actually need people don't like
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this word, but this is where it comes in handy.
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We need the government to step in and create and
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promote and air some public service announcements for people to
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understand that these situations and these conditions are in fact
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dangerous and like like you know, the boys that drowned
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in that pond, I don't know if they even knew
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they were on a pond or not. They had told
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mom they were going sledding with the cardboard box. I
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don't know if the hill sled down and they ended
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up in the pond or they were trying some ice
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skating stuff.
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That's also that's also mom's fault.
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No mom, Mom, had told them don't go in and
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go near the pond.
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They lived in Bonham, Texas. It's okay. Well, then then
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again it goes back to kids being kids.
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You know it was, but this is I understand the
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accidents are going to happen. And I'm not trying to
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say we can fix every single accent. That's not possible,
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but there needs to be some general awareness out there.
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That's why I'm bringing this up is to say we
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need to help each other out. We need people that
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know to educate and help people that don't know so
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this doesn't happen.
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Well, I think now, if you want to go to
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a greater issue, it goes to the fact that our parents.
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We eventually learned that our parents might know something. After
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you got shocked, zapped, burned enough, after them morning you
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don't do something.
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Yeah, we've baby prooved.
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Everything where they don't have that you know outcome.
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Uh, there's a layer of learning that hasn't happened with
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generations after us, and I think you may be onto
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something a little bit tray. It's like like you can
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do certain proofing, you can do some baby proofing, some
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toddler proofing, you can make things safe ish, but you
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don't need to make them completely consequence free.
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Every kid should have to deal with an electric fence,
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like just the time you type, you find on farms, whatever,
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just you get told don't touch it, don't mess with it,
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don't touch it. Eventually you do, you get zap and
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you go ow that hurts.
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Don't touch the wire.
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You have just described a big chunk of my childhood
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because not only did we have a fence that was
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partially electrified, it's also barbed wire because wanted to keep
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the cows in their pasture and not onto our land
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kind of a thing. So imagine the hellscape of my
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front yard had backyard, the portions that didn't have rocks
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had some grass, but then it was similar to a
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prison yard with barbed wire and the electric line right
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in the middle of it. So that way, if a
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cow got a little too clothes like, okay, I'm not
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going near that anymore. And you're right, Trey. I learned,
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And even in urban settings, I still remember my dad
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telling me on a couple of occasions, don't touch that
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it's hot, or don't touch that as sharp. And I
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did anyway, and I learned because it was hot and
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it was sharp, and then I didn't touch those things again.
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I remember as a kid, I think I was three
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four years old, and my mom was making pancakes and
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I was reached.
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I just reached up into the skillet and she just
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looked right.
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And my mother was a nurse, so she just looked
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right at me, like go ahead, buddy, and I just
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grabbed that pancake out of the skillet and my hand
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ran across the skillet and it burnt tips of my
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fingers and I just kind of ran off and cried,
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and she's like, who wants pancakes?
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I didn't.
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I didn't need an electric fence. I just needed to
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keep going, buddy.
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As kids, we all have our kryptonite, you know. It's
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like I also had the hot pan. I also had
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the hot iron. I had the hot drawing a blink
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on on what it's called, probably because of all the
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electrical shocks and burns I had in my childhood. The
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old fashioned space heater that glowed orange like it would
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melt you if you stood near it long enough. That
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was in my great uncle's feed story were I still remember.
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It was just behind the cashier.
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Did you leave the Green Acres look every time you
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talk about this childhood, I'm like, Green Acres just always
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comes to mind for me.
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I mean it's not entirely far off of it. I
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mean my great uncle's feed store. Yes, yes, Raj. My
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great uncle had a feed store. He was a cattle
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rancher and he also had a feed store in town
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back by the training tracks. And his brother, my grandfather,
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retired from Corporate America from Phillip sixty six to then
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go into cattle ranching as a retiree. Wow, fifty something.
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That generation built different greatest generation. Oh yeah, I don't
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argue it one outs because it's absolutely true. My grandfather
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went off did the navy thing and a support vessel
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during WW two, came back to work from the oil
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Philip sixty six, and he retired and said, you know what,
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I'm I'm tired of this cushy corporate job. I'm going
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to retire and go work with cattle seven days a week,
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three hundred and sixty five days a year, like his
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brother did. And then eventually his brother opens up the
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feed store back by the train tracks, and that's where
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the space heater is. On one day and we're in
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there and my dad says, as I'm reaching my hand
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out to touch, don't touch that. It's hot. And I
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was like, okay, dad, and I looked back over it
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and immediately touched it with my left finger and burned
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and cried like crazy.
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Yeah. I ironed my shirt while it was on because
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my dad.
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My dad would iron his shirts, and I still love
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to iron until this day. I ironed my shirt while
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it was on. Unfortunately it was a short sleeve shirt,
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so I just ironed my forearm, big, big giant scar
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still there.
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I feel like you need to be more careful in general.
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You are clearly prone to medical mishaps.
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I don't know if I'm prone to medical mishap apps,
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but I yeah. I mean, I can't help a blood infection,
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I can't help the flu, but I don't. I don't
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get hurt that often. I am very careful because I have.
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I was hurt a lot as a kid, just because
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you know, kids being kids. That's what we're going to, right,
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I just did. I didn't do anything like jump off
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the roof with a plastic bag thinking it's a parachute.
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I was smarter than that.
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I feel intact.
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I didn't put a towel around my neck thinking it
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was a cape.
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That's the second attack.
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I did none of that. I was far smarter than that.
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But yeah, I mean trips and falls and falling off
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a bike. Those things happen, you know, and these kids
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doing you know what, unfortunately cost them their lives. God
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bless their families. But you know, just it's kids being kids.
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You want to do fun stuff. You're stuck in the house,
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it's days on end. You get bored and you're like,
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you know what, let's go do this. Let's you know,
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right on the back of a cheap or whatever. Yeah,
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you don't realize the outcome.
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And that's why. And that's where it goes back to
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what Trey was saying and what we started the conversation being,
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it's like, there just needs to be a little more awareness.
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It's like, yeah, if you have you know, some kids
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that aren't used to playing outside, they're not used to
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some of the dangers that are out there, So it
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makes sense to let them learn a little bit in
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a safe ish environment as opposed to, you know, just
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something where it's it's almost like a run a uck situation.
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Like Trey you were saying, it's like, you know, you
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you kid proof and baby proof maybe too much. And
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you know, kids, some of these kids these days sound
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like a super old man didn't grow up with some
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of those burns and cuts and scrapes and shocks that
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were small enough to learn from as a pose to
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nothing or having too much of protection, and then you're unleashed,
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and then you don't really know, you know, boundaries.
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I never saw until my cousin was born in the
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mid eighties baby proof in the house.
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I never saw it.
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And then I saw like the little plug covers and
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like how to like you know, they would do the
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little things for the drawers so you can't pull them open. Yeah,
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before that, that didn't happen for us. If you wanted
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a hatchet, you could get a hatchet. If you needed
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a fort to stab yourself with, you could get it.