Can You Make An AI Girlfriend Crazy? | Thursday 01.29.26

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com slash at Treehouse on air. It is time to leave your warriors outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey Trenholm, Raz Sharma and Jerry called Well. Speaking of outside, we are all pretty hardcore gen xers here inside the Treehouse, and we've done our fair share piling on to the younger generations for their lack of going outside. At this point, I think it's pertinent for me to apologize and say that they were right they should stay inside because doing a quick scroll of the DFW news sites, with all the death and injuries related to the ice storm over the last handful of days, I think it might be best if we keep the kids inside. In addition to all lanes of I thirty partially reopened after a multi hour closure overnight due to icy conditions, we also have three brothers dying after falling through ice into a frozen pond when they told mom they were going to sled on boxes a ponder. High school seniors in critical condition after a sledding accident on Monday.

1:30 M hmmm. You had two teenage girls who were sledding on the back of a jeep and crashed into a tree and died. And then another tragedy the guy and I believe it was Ponder who decided to go out and try some ice fishing and he fell in the and he fell in and I believe died. So maybe it's best if we all just stay inside. My thinking on it is this goes back to the lady I took the task on social media the other day saying, I don't know why all these Texans and the Dallas people are making a big deal out of you know, I've been in the Midwest with snow drifting none that, and it's not like she was the only one. She eventually deleted that post.

2:13 It's a reminder because, in addition to the ones I just said that, we're North Texas related overall. I just saw it on CNN there are now thirty winter storm related deaths across the US. So I would like for everyone to take their snow superiority and gently shove it. And I want it to be a reminder to people who think they have this cold superiority. Oh these people just don't know how to act in winter weather. Oh God, get off it. This is actual dangerous stuff we're talking about. Well, it's also yeah, like I was talking to my stepmom who's from Rochester, New York. So when they're you know, during the winter, they're ponds and lakes freeze over to a level you can ice skate on them. That's how hockey was invented, you know. But it's it's because there's a much longer gradual cold the ice as much sticker everything else. People down here don't understand that. So they think see ice on water and they're like.

3:14 Oh, hey, you know, we'll go out there. And unfortunately, and it's also you know, kids being kids, you know, they want to try funds that they think it's going to be fun. They don't realize that there's danger behind it. And this right here and that right there, Raj is the reason why I wanted to bring this up has nothing to do with trying to make light of it, Trey. It has to do with this serves a very important situation that needs to be addressed. We've made fun of public service announcements our entire careers because some of them were funny, some are just outright ridiculous. But at the end of the day, we need them. And some things that seem obvious, like turn around, don't don't drown, Like don't drive into high water when you don't know how deep it is seems obvious. We need people to understand and know don't do that. This, I think is a similar situation to where kids need to be told. Adults need to be reminded that we don't live in a cold environment south of the Mason Dixon that can you know, hold your weight standing on something frozen that was completely liquid the day before. They actually need people don't like this word, but this is where it comes in handy.

4:37 We need the government to step in and create and promote and air some public service announcements for people to understand that these situations and these conditions are in fact dangerous and like like you know, the boys that drowned in that pond, I don't know if they even knew they were on a pond or not. They had told mom they were going sledding with the cardboard box. I don't know if the hill sled down and they ended up in the pond or they were trying some ice skating stuff. That's also that's also mom's fault. No mom, Mom, had told them don't go in and go near the pond. They lived in Bonham, Texas. It's okay. Well, then then again it goes back to kids being kids.

5:21 You know it was, but this is I understand the accidents are going to happen. And I'm not trying to say we can fix every single accent. That's not possible, but there needs to be some general awareness out there. That's why I'm bringing this up is to say we need to help each other out. We need people that know to educate and help people that don't know so this doesn't happen. Well, I think now, if you want to go to a greater issue, it goes to the fact that our parents. We eventually learned that our parents might know something. After you got shocked, zapped, burned enough, after them morning you don't do something. Yeah, we've baby prooved.

6:01 Everything where they don't have that you know outcome. Uh, there's a layer of learning that hasn't happened with generations after us, and I think you may be onto something a little bit tray. It's like like you can do certain proofing, you can do some baby proofing, some toddler proofing, you can make things safe ish, but you don't need to make them completely consequence free. Every kid should have to deal with an electric fence, like just the time you type, you find on farms, whatever, just you get told don't touch it, don't mess with it, don't touch it. Eventually you do, you get zap and you go ow that hurts.

6:47 Don't touch the wire. You have just described a big chunk of my childhood because not only did we have a fence that was partially electrified, it's also barbed wire because wanted to keep the cows in their pasture and not onto our land kind of a thing. So imagine the hellscape of my front yard had backyard, the portions that didn't have rocks had some grass, but then it was similar to a prison yard with barbed wire and the electric line right in the middle of it. So that way, if a cow got a little too clothes like, okay, I'm not going near that anymore. And you're right, Trey. I learned, And even in urban settings, I still remember my dad telling me on a couple of occasions, don't touch that it's hot, or don't touch that as sharp. And I did anyway, and I learned because it was hot and it was sharp, and then I didn't touch those things again.

7:49 I remember as a kid, I think I was three four years old, and my mom was making pancakes and I was reached. I just reached up into the skillet and she just looked right. And my mother was a nurse, so she just looked right at me, like go ahead, buddy, and I just grabbed that pancake out of the skillet and my hand ran across the skillet and it burnt tips of my fingers and I just kind of ran off and cried, and she's like, who wants pancakes? I didn't. I didn't need an electric fence. I just needed to keep going, buddy.

8:34 As kids, we all have our kryptonite, you know. It's like I also had the hot pan. I also had the hot iron. I had the hot drawing a blink on on what it's called, probably because of all the electrical shocks and burns I had in my childhood. The old fashioned space heater that glowed orange like it would melt you if you stood near it long enough. That was in my great uncle's feed story were I still remember. It was just behind the cashier. Did you leave the Green Acres look every time you talk about this childhood, I'm like, Green Acres just always comes to mind for me. I mean it's not entirely far off of it. I mean my great uncle's feed store. Yes, yes, Raj. My great uncle had a feed store. He was a cattle rancher and he also had a feed store in town back by the training tracks. And his brother, my grandfather, retired from Corporate America from Phillip sixty six to then go into cattle ranching as a retiree. Wow, fifty something.

9:41 That generation built different greatest generation. Oh yeah, I don't argue it one outs because it's absolutely true. My grandfather went off did the navy thing and a support vessel during WW two, came back to work from the oil Philip sixty six, and he retired and said, you know what, I'm I'm tired of this cushy corporate job. I'm going to retire and go work with cattle seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, like his brother did. And then eventually his brother opens up the feed store back by the train tracks, and that's where the space heater is. On one day and we're in there and my dad says, as I'm reaching my hand out to touch, don't touch that. It's hot. And I was like, okay, dad, and I looked back over it and immediately touched it with my left finger and burned and cried like crazy.

10:26 Yeah. I ironed my shirt while it was on because my dad. My dad would iron his shirts, and I still love to iron until this day. I ironed my shirt while it was on. Unfortunately it was a short sleeve shirt, so I just ironed my forearm, big, big giant scar still there. I feel like you need to be more careful in general. You are clearly prone to medical mishaps. I don't know if I'm prone to medical mishap apps, but I yeah. I mean, I can't help a blood infection, I can't help the flu, but I don't. I don't get hurt that often. I am very careful because I have.

11:13 I was hurt a lot as a kid, just because you know, kids being kids. That's what we're going to, right, I just did. I didn't do anything like jump off the roof with a plastic bag thinking it's a parachute. I was smarter than that. I feel intact. I didn't put a towel around my neck thinking it was a cape. That's the second attack. I did none of that. I was far smarter than that. But yeah, I mean trips and falls and falling off a bike. Those things happen, you know, and these kids doing you know what, unfortunately cost them their lives. God bless their families. But you know, just it's kids being kids.

11:59 You want to do fun stuff. You're stuck in the house, it's days on end. You get bored and you're like, you know what, let's go do this. Let's you know, right on the back of a cheap or whatever. Yeah, you don't realize the outcome. And that's why. And that's where it goes back to what Trey was saying and what we started the conversation being, it's like, there just needs to be a little more awareness. It's like, yeah, if you have you know, some kids that aren't used to playing outside, they're not used to some of the dangers that are out there, So it makes sense to let them learn a little bit in a safe ish environment as opposed to, you know, just something where it's it's almost like a run a uck situation.

12:39 Like Trey you were saying, it's like, you know, you you kid proof and baby proof maybe too much. And you know, kids, some of these kids these days sound like a super old man didn't grow up with some of those burns and cuts and scrapes and shocks that were small enough to learn from as a pose to nothing or having too much of protection, and then you're unleashed, and then you don't really know, you know, boundaries. I never saw until my cousin was born in the mid eighties baby proof in the house.

13:21 I never saw it. And then I saw like the little plug covers and like how to like you know, they would do the little things for the drawers so you can't pull them open. Yeah, before that, that didn't happen for us. If you wanted a hatchet, you could get a hatchet. If you needed a fort to stab yourself with, you could get it. It was easy. I still remember a time my sister was on my grandfather's three wheeler and tumped it upside down backwards. Wow. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. It was a big motor.

14:02 Well, that's the other thing where there's just no there's no common sense. You have kids doing shit in the streets that you would normally do, like if you were on a farm in a wide open field and you're you know, getting towed by a jeep in the ice. You're gonna you might flip over, you might do some other things, but you're not gonna hit anything or do anything like that. Then they're you know, not enough common sense to go okay in the middle of a residential street with trees, poles and everything else as obstacles. Not a good idea. Yeah, and that's why I go back to we need some good old fashioned public service announcements, especially to run in front of these storms right before they happen. So it's kind of a you know, top of mind. And I hope that the next storm that happens, the news reports and reminds us of some of these tragedies that happened in the previous one. So hopefully we don't peat some of these. And again, some tragedies are going to happen no matter what. You can't prevent everything, sure, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

15:10 You know, I used to have to tell my mom exactly and my dad exactly what I was doing and where I was going. I'm going with so and so to so and so to do this. Yeah, uh, and it was a yes or no, no, you can't do that, so stay here. So if I went to my you know, and you know, God love these kids that that passed away. But if I went to my mom and I'm like, hey, I'm gonna go on the back of this jeep and go sliding down the street, my mom would be like, are you insane? Go do math homework? Like like, that's what it would have been. And I wouldn't feel it. But not you know, no, she knew. She knew the lesson that was about to be learned. She saw it coming.

15:54 Plus it's a nurse, she probably had a first aid get ready to go. Oh yeah, yeah, she'll let you learn the lesson, feel little bit and then she'll heal you. Oh yeah, for sure. Every since then she'll lord it over you for years. Oh and make fun of it for I mean, every every family party that we had. You see how stupid this kid is? So dumb? You see, that's the double edged sword of a gen X child is not only did you learn things in a very difficult and sometimes painful way, but then, but then your parents would make fun of you or lord it over you for the rest of your life. Oh no, I have the bandage, like I remember, like the bandage on my fingers from grabbing the pancakes, and you know, people coming over for like family dinners or whatever, like you know, so what happened. And I was like, Oh I don't. My mom's like, he's stupid. That's what happened. Jesus, He's dumb.

16:48 One of those times I'd like to point out that just because we're kind of proud to be gen X, there's a lot of trauma in here that we still haven't unpacked yet. While we're talking about consequences can be good, the pendula has also swung back the other way too far, and a bunch of he. Won't do it again, promise you'll want to see another bandage on his hand, and never happened again. Much like Raj said, you had to tell your parents where you were going and what you were doing. And God forbid if they came and checked on you and you weren't where you were supposed to be doing what you said you were doing, ass whippons would be had. Yes, oh yeah, in front of your friends, yes, oh yeah. And there's out there there's gonna make you feel better about that.

17:30 I remember my like Rosalinda was the lady that lived next door. Was aj was my best friend. Rosalind was his mom. She could whoop my ass before my parents got home, and then she would tell my mom like, this. Is what these kids did today. And so I got whooped by her and then my mom. Oh, Alan's the Coles both where I grow up, reciprocal ass whippons just every parent had carte blanche. You were stuck like a corporal punishment. Pong oh it was, I mean, and Roseland had the nails like before it was like fashionable, like the really long fingernails, and she would, I mean, when she slapped you, it would scrape your face as well, and my mom's like, what happened? Why is your face like that? And Rose would walk over and go, this is what they did today, and she's like, okay, I'll take care of it.

18:22 Inside. Yeah. For me, it was getting if on the rare occasion I got paddled at school. As I'm getting paddled at school, I remember thinking, well, they're gonna tell my mom. It means she's gonna do it again when I get home. Trey, I believe, had like three levels of corporal punishment. Though yeah, yeah, like like what was it assistant principal coach and then dad. Oh no teacher, yeah, principal uh coach? Oh dad? God? Four levels? Well, I mean you're an alcoholic recovery recover. You're listening to the Treehouse.

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22:07 I know that a couple of the school districts have closed again because while some of this stuff thought out a little bit yesterday or might again though out today, it's just gonna refreeze. So schools are, you know, taking all the precautions as well. How bad has it been? Well, like yesterday, I didn't leave the house for three days. Like yesterday was the first day. I'm sorry, Tuesday was the first day I got out and. During the day I got and it was middle of the day, you know, one two o'clock. I finally got out and went to see my mom at the Austin's place. And the roads were okay in spots like the roads aren't clear, but there was at least one lane on major thorough on major roads.

22:51 Side streets were icy as hell. Right, yeah, but you can get today. And but it's like when I got there, the ask me, you know, hey, how are the roads. I'm like, they're okay right now. You can get get to and from everywhere if you take it easy. But I said, tonight they're gonna refreeze and it's going to be dangerous as hell. And sure enough you had pile ups on thirty and everything else because I guess everyone forgot about how you know, black eyes you can't see it and on the roads and you just go skidding into everywhere. But you know, they should be should be fine by today. Uh yeah, this should be the last day of it. But evidently people forgot that once you know, shit refreezes.

23:34 Yeah, and it's tricky because it'll look fine because you'll see the road. Well you know what I and this is it's I was thinking about this, Why was this different? Because this was the. First nice ice storm we've had in a long time, Like in twenty twenty one. It was so bitterly cold. But one of the things that made it so bad was the wind. There wasn't a lot of wind with this one. After the initial sleet and snow. It was sunny out. It was cold, but it wasn't even that bad outside. It was kind of pretty and on top of all the ice there was a nice layer of snow.

24:15 Kids were having fun everything else. Yeah. Uh, and so I think everyone kind of got lulled into this. Oh it's nice, everything's gonna be okay, and it's like still slick of shit. Yeah, it's not the winter wonderland that you think it is. No, it looks like it. It's pretty and it looks good in a in you know, on a Snapchat filter or an Instagram photo. But don't go doing crazy stuff on it. Why is the ice got to be black? Guys? What's up? You're not black? There's no brown eyes. You would notice. There is brown eyes if I drive over black eyes fast enough, those are brown pants. No, it'll be a lot.

25:01 It'll get to the ice it's gonna be nasty. Uh, And I I I don't. I don't miss it at all. And I do remember driving around in various other ice storms, especially the one in twenty twenty one, because I remember driving back and forth a couple of times between our house which lost power, to the Hampton Inn in Addison where we stayed, because that was we stayed there for a few days because that was one place we could take our our dogs, because we weren't leaving the pets inside the house because the house had no power. We're like, we're not leaving them there, cruise No, Well, we took them.

25:43 With and who, by the way, came back what they said he didn't? We did. We did mention that the other day. We said that, we did clarify in fact check it like she did leave. His people said he did leave, but it was all part of a regularly scheduled work trip. But he came back before the storm and he did as far as we know, he came back and stayed. Sure point, I'm still curious to see On February second, I want to know if you know if if ted' SE's his shadow or not, so we find out if we're getting six weeks more of this. Phil he is the Texas groundhog.

26:26 I've seen that on social media a few times in a few places, including Klein from Pausing the City, and it's like, Yep, that's absolutely true. Because I was saying, yeah, Ted cruise is our winter or is our winter weather warning system, and then other people are calling him like PUCKSACONI or whatever, Ted or whatever. Yeah, it makes sense. At least you can't do it. I like flood cruise. That's my favorite cruise. That's yeah. Well. One are the things that did make me laugh though, and people just don't understand how city and county governments work is the fact that Klay Jenkins took off and the county commissioner for you, Judge Clay Jenkins, county head of the County Commissioner's Court, and Fox did a uh Fox fod did a story on it, and the people in the comments were like, who cares, It's just a county judge. But I go clearly understated, he's the most powerful guy pretty much in the city, in the Dallas County, and which Dallas County controls a lot of this stuff.

27:22 If you're gonna bust cruises balls, be fair Jenkins deserves it too. And I have the feeling I think Jenkins would enjoy it more some reason. He just looks like a guy that if you put that, if you put his balls and advice, he's gonna enjoy some of it. Yeah, and then you figure out figure out how he took over Brian Longkar's practice. If you would, thanks, you know, well that helped well, you know, you know, greug Abbott stayed uh, you know, because the ramps were icy. Leave him. I envisioned us to in which in which like the the political jet is about to take off out of Texas ahead of ice storms, Ted Cruise is saying, come on, everybody, let's go, and Judge Jenkins is already on the plane like poor and Mimosa's and and then and then it's poor Governor Abbot at the top of the Capitol stairs going hey, like.

28:24 Looks like Steve Martin and dirty rotten scoundrels. There's our d I higher. Oh god, all right, speaking of outside and of over corrections, this one threw me a little bit, And I want to see if this throws you guys as well. Would you date artificial intelligence? Can you date artificial intelligence? Oh? Yes, yes, you can. With loneliness levels at an all time high, millions of online daters are open to romantic relationships with artificial intelligence blurring the line between comfort, connection and risk. New findings from the Norton Insights Report Artificial Intimacy suggest the idea is now mainstream, with seventy seven percent of current online daters saying they would consider dating an AI and fifty nine percent believing it is possible to develop romantic feelings for one After all, who wouldn't be drawn to a perfect partner designed to be attentive, affirming, and always available.

29:47 I couldn't do it. One of my love languages is touch. Well, that's where the bot technology is going to catch up, you know, like the physical form will catch up with the coding. Like I saw a thing the other day where they're working on science scientists are working on a hand, a robotic hand that will detach from the robot arm and be able to go places and do things just like the thing does in Adam's family. Uh. And they said as part of their report, it'll be able to go places and do things that a larger, you know, robot wouldn't, like going into tighter spaces and be able to grab things and retrieve things. But if we're being honest, we know what that hand is going to end up doing. Right, We've all seen these movies, right, and so Jerry to answer your question once once. I've seen some of these videos on social media, and the AI technology is so good at looking real. Eventually the physical technology will catch up and those AI girlfriend bots that you see online are eventually going to be silicone models that you can go to the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas and take one home with you.

31:04 I mean, until the day comes I can put a brawl on my head and Kelly LeBrock pops out of the closet. Mm hmm, I'm out when that happens. I'm in. Does your current real girlfriend know this? Yeah? Is it cheating if you're if you have an AI, a real girlfriend and an A girlfriend. Is that is that? That depends on the definition of cheating. Some people think that giving some of that emotional availability to someone else qualifies as cheating. Yeah, it would be. To note here, it's important to note here it doesn't matter what other people's idea of cheating is. If you're in a relationship, the only person's opinion on cheating. That matters is the person you're in an actual relationship with, right, So then then you don't get to do it.

31:54 I think my girlfriend would laugh her ass off at me, like, especially if she walked in. Yeah, I mean if she's like, what are you doing and I'm like, oh, this is my AI girl, Like, she would giggle her ass off. She's like, you're such an idiot, and you. Would tell her that's the reason I have the AI girlfriend. She only says nice things to me. No, my AI girlfriend would also call me an asshole. She's gonna keep it real, You're gonna make sure is correct. Yeah, I want to keep it a hundred, you know, I mean on on on both sides. So yeah, I just can't even imagine. That just sounds like, first of all, that's just too much trouble.

32:34 I am. I'm happy with the girl that I have and that's enough for it. I don't need uh AI on top of this, like funk I gotta I gotta please you too. Well, that's that That's where Trey's uh not wanting to keep it a hundred. He's wanting to keep it at whatever percentage keeps things copasetic and enjoyable, and I and I get that, like with the weird science thing, like you don't like raz you're talking about having like two full on relationships like relationships, but you're you're equating your and this is all hypothetical, so whatever, You're equating your AI bought girlfriend to your human girlfriend, and they're going to be on the same mental wavelength. So for you, it's going to feel like having two human girlfriends. Yes, Whereas I think most guys would go the trade route like the ones I'm saying here. According to the survey where what was it, seventy seven percent of online daters would consider dating an AI bought They're looking for the easy this, you know, the the no drama, the do as I say but and be cute about it kind of a thing.

33:46 No I have. Listen, we just spent four days hold up together, didn't even get on each other's nerves. I nice. I couldn't be happier. And I also know there's a good chance if I had an AI girlfriend that ultimately she's gonna end up opening the car door and jumping out on the Information super Highway because I made her crazy. So you will graduate from driving actual human girlfriend's crazy to then driving an actual AI bot crazy, you are next level. My friend's nothing if not consistent.

34:30 She just blocks her email. The server gets up, walks out of the room, throws itself in the middle of six thirty five. Yeah, I just don't need another Like I love my girlfriend, she's fantastic. That same thing, Like we don't get on each other's nerves. We don't really argue, we don't. We just talk everything out. Can't imagine like bringing in something that is smarter than the two of us combined and then trying to have an argument with that and then losing to that and be like, I can't even fucking delete you.

35:15 There was the other day there was a guy who had gone online and he had a chat bought girlfriend, and he posted screenshots from their messages back and forth. Trey and I talked about this a little bit, and and it dumped him. The AI bought girlfriend dumped the dude's hard. That's hard to come back from. It really really is happened with. Your last relationship. She automated dump me, the. Coldest out of office reply you've ever heard. That's gonna happen, And then there's gonna be a run on blow up dolls, and everyone's gonna go old school.

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36:40 You're in the treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on Air dot com. Yeah, you start thinking about that song differently. It's not just Mike Reno and a woman, but it's Mike Reno at a robot girlfriend. Yeah. Uh raju uh we we we we kind of touched on it, ever so briefly. And I want to bring this up now because I have a booger to pick with you. Okay, I think it was last night or a couple of days ago. I forget which because it's how traumatized I was by your post you posted on social media a photo of the thing that they pulled out of your skull, which looks like the biggest, ugliest, nastiest mega booger I have ever seen. It looks like the dead rat you that was coughed up by a dead python. Uh yeah, for like a few.

37:35 I can breathe, so you and I can taste and it's wonderful. Well, that helps to taste things when you no longer have a dead rat inside your sinuses. Trade did you see it? I did not. Don't go looking, and I have a strong stomach. I'm going to point that out. Guy, I said, if you're squeamish, don't look at the photo. And this is why I have a booger to pick with you, Raj, because you did it poorly. You put a disclaimer on something and still had the photo visible. Mm hmm. So when I was happening to be scrolling on threads and I see it, I see it, and then I see your tiny text on top of it. Still a disclaimer if you're a squeamishs just after the fact, you know how like like on like news outlets when they'll post something uh like hey, distressing content, it's a black screen with the text distressing content.

38:27 If you don't want to see it, don't keep watching. Instead, you show the distressing content and then you show the disclaimer. That's not how you do it. Well you it wouldn't let me. It wouldn't let me post it as sensitive. Yeah. Gross, it wouldn't let me post it as sensitive photo because it didn't recognize. What it was. So but yeah, it was, I mean beautiful, like just when like the release. Of it, h did you pull that hot or did the did a doctor a doctor? Okay? He went to med school and and later told people you wouldn't believe the things that pulled out of this dude's head to day E and T.

39:09 And he just went, uh, yeah, that was in your skull. And I was like correct, He's like, well you're I mean it was two seconds we were in and out. So it wasn't like because they know me now and they're like, what's going on. I'm like, there's something here. Was it like a total recall? I'll get it out? Uh no? I mean he just I was like, there's something right there and I can't get to it. I can kind of feel it, and I'm trying to he's like, well don't. It'll cause an infection if you scrape or scratch then something goes wrong. He's like, and let me just grab my tweezers real quick. And he pulled and it there's a little pop noise and I was like, oh, no, we're about to start bleeding again. Yeah, and we didn't.

39:58 And he checked, you know, they caught he's my nostril. So he was checking the scar tissue there and everything's good. And then when he pulled it out and put it on the wet napkin, uh not paper towel, He's like, that was it was that that was in your nose. Uh. He's like, let's just He's like, let's just wait like five minutes and see. How it goes comes back to life. Uh. Stefan I wraps his legs and runs across the floor. And I had to ask. I was like, can I take a picture of this? And he's like do you really want to? I was like, oh, I'm posting. This is going on my social media. And he's like, there's something wrong with you. Like I get that that that thing was living inside you. You and it were one for a while. You were its host for a few weeks, symbiotic relationship with that booger.

40:45 Uh it was. Blood and uh scar tissue is what was surrounding was what made that. That little piece. That little piece looks like something that they pulled out of the upside down. I don't know what that means. I know you don't, but if you ever watch Stranger Things, you would and you would know it was gross and slimy. Yeah it was. It was pretty nasty. Did you just go Are you trying to look it up to see it? Yeah? I can't find it. Oh. I think I took it down because there's enough people that were like, please take that down. It's gross. I'll send you a. Picture of it, could you? Could you send me one? Sure, send it in the group chat rash go ahead.

41:29 My phone is behind me, but I will do it in the break. But yeah, it looks it legitimately looks like a dead rat. I got it. Mm hm oh okay, it's still up on thread So if you took it down on the gram, I'll I'll. Take it old threads as well. But it looks like a dead rat, right, it looks like a dead bouncer. No, it absolutely does. There's there's no doubt. Yeah, and I'm not gonna put this on the screen. So if you are a Treehouse, no, you should plus super Plus Ultimate Plus subscriber and you get this video of the show on Patreon. I'm not putting it on the screen.

42:14 I'm just gonna send it to the guy so they can see it. Oh, put it on the screen. It doesn't gross me out. Oh, that really does look like a dead rat. And it really does like it's got a tail on the left head. It looks like feet on the bottom. Is disgusting. Yeah, what looks like the face is actually the the imprint of my nostril. O holy, Jerry got the text, Jerry, there's nothing holy about that. That is from the depths of hell that came up my nose. That is actually from a depth of hell farther down than which Dante was willing to write about my man.

43:05 I know, but the upside is, you know, I didn't want, like I ate but nothing. I couldn't taste anything, I couldn't smell anything, So nothing was appetizing. And now like I went had Indian. Food yesterday, I went uh at Street Tacos. I was like, this is the best day ever. Like I was running through the ice like skipping. That had to have been a huge relief getting that out. Oh yeah, I told you. There was like a little pop. And because it was so close to my sinuses, that like created a vacuum mm hmm. And so when he pulled it out like it was.

43:46 It was like a spacecraft. You just started inhaling the whole ring. Yeah, but I mean like it just like he it was like a little like that noise and then he just effortlessly just put it down on the paper time and he's like that that's been in your nose for the last couple of weeks. Did did the doctor the ear nose and throat doctor did did he make any sort of did he have any sort of reaction visceral or otherwise? Just very matter of fact, He's like, I've seen this before, Well is he? If he's seen it before, then how the hell did it get inside your nose? Uh? To me, this looks like a living, dangerous thing that would lived inside you for a while and now it's going to find a new host.

44:32 You don't ever watch like pipple popping videos. Do you me? I love those? Oh? Yeah, no, I have, I have, because if. You go down if you if you go down that road enough, you'll see the videos of them pulling stuff like that out of out of sinuses. Yeah, that one. It's hard to get an idea on the size because there's nothing next to it or in front of it whatever to show perspective. So it's like you show that to someone, they would probably think it looks like a partially I jested rat that a snake spit up, Yes, because that's what it really does look like. What is that about? Thumbnails? What's that? What is that about the size of your thumbnail? It was about the size like half of my pinky, like it was. It was still sizable, damn. But yeah, it was one of those like he's like, I've seen this before. I've never seen anything quite uh this dark in color because of the infection that it was causing.

45:35 Because I was just getting a little because everything I was spitting up was green, and I'm like, God, there's. Got to be that. This has to be this yeah, and he's like, that's absolutely what it is. They gave me some antibiotics in and out to probably ten minutes, fifteen minutes. He made me wait five just so we make sure that I'm not bleeding again. And then he checked. The uh the cutterization that they did, and he's like, you're good to go. Uh, I don't even think they admin me, like I don't. I just want to. They're like, Raj, we know who you are. Come on, what's going on now? We're still bleeding. I'm like, no, but there's a thing. Come on back to the champagne room. But when he took the little little flashlight that he had and went up into my nose, He's like, oh, yeah, we we got this cupboard.

46:23 And he this is like this was his moment, like this is why he went to school. He's like, I fucking got this. This is this is the discovery I've been waiting a lifetime for. All he had to have said is like, talk to me, Goose's. I have a feeling this thing would talk back. This was his Maverick moment. Uh that's what look like. Yeah, that's what Goose's brains looked like inside the helmet. Man. So, Raj, when this thing got pulled out of your skull by the doctor, was your girlfriend there? No? Smart, I just went in real quick. It's right down the street, So I just uh, I just went in real quick.

47:05 And my buddy John is over there and I've known him for years, and I'm like, can I just see the E N T guy? Real quick? And he's like, let me see if he's available. And he wasn't doing anything. He was eating lunch. Uh and yeah. Lunch after that, Uh, he went back to his lunch. I almost thought he was going to walk in with his sandwich, but he put it down and then and it's like, let me see what's going on. I guess you got to maintain some level of you know, professionalist. Yeah, but no, it was real quick. But she was not there. I showed her the picture. Oh why oh, because she's a g She's like, what is that? I was like, that was in my nose. She's like, it's not there now, is it? And I was like, no, I mean that.

47:50 Was it's on, but it's been there with you. Yeah, and she's like, that's quote pretty fucking awesome. Well do yourself, do not show it to your AI girlfriend? No, she'll delete me. And rightfully. So, yeah, that was a I couldn't believe it when they when it when it popped out, that was Uh. I didn't know I had that much space. It needs a name, Steve, can we name it something other than after my dad? Rush? There it is, that'll work.

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