Aug. 27, 2026

Corporate PR Stunts, Bad Decisions & Saying Goodbye to Dolly Parton and Tim Curry

Corporate PR Stunts, Bad Decisions & Saying Goodbye to Dolly Parton and Tim Curry

Are corporations really making terrible decisions, or have they figured out that making everyone angry is just free publicity?

On today’s The Treehouse Show, we look at three companies taking heat this week: Good Good Golf, Callaway, and Target. Were these legitimate corporate screwups, calculated PR stunts designed to get people talking, or are the people in charge really making decisions this bad? Target may have already answered that question for us.

Then the show takes a more serious turn as we say goodbye to two entertainment legends. We remember Dolly Parton, her incredible career and what made her truly one of a kind, and then pay tribute to Tim Curry and some of his unforgettable roles.

Finally, because this is still The Treehouse Show, things get weird. We learn an important lesson about why you should never play Russian roulette with a friend with benefits, and an Australian man suffers a devastating loss: his beloved beer fridge.

Corporate disasters, celebrity tributes, questionable relationships, Australian beer emergencies and plenty of laughs — it’s all on The Treehouse Show.

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Trey Trenholm and Jerry Caldwell. The end of our week

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here in just a little bit. Coming up inside the

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Treehouse today. We will say goodbye and honor the icon

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that is Dolly Parton. We will also possibly get to

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a meta-apology, bedroom gunplay, and one man's most dedicated appliance.

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And even more things we could possibly get to, depending

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on how long all those things take. But we are

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going to start today with corporate apologies, because there were

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two big ones this week. that we want to talk about.

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The first of which is the ad that Callaway and

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Good Good put out and got immediate backlash for. Callaway

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is the golf company. They make golf clubs and clothing

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and things. And Good Good is, I hadn't really heard

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of it until this story. Is it a golf clothing company, Trey?

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To my knowledge, yeah, it's a fairly new one.

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The ad that went viral this week because of the

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backlash showed, let me make sure I get this correct,

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because it showed the CEO of GoodGood pushing over female

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golfer Alexis Mastowski after she attempted to use his new

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Callaway driver. And then he stands over her and warns

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her not to touch her. his driver. So in case

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you haven't seen the ad because of the backlash, they've

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pulled it from all the platforms.

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I haven't.

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So I'm going to show it to you now, in

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case you have not seen it. This is the violence

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in question when it comes to the Callaway Good Good

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Golf ad, Violence Against Women. Shows the driver. Shows a

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woman going near the bag with a hand to grab it.

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The man runs at her, knocks her over like a

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blindsided linebacker. Do not touch my new driver. And that's

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pretty much the end of the ad because then they

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go on and just kind of play some golf and

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then there's some text. So you get the idea there.

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So woman reaches for man's driver. He runs over, blindsides her,

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knocks her to the ground. don't touch my driver and

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immediate backlash. It's not good. This is one of those

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things where just a little bit of foresight could have

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told you that there's going to be some people that

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don't like this.

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Can't define a woman, but we're going to have outrage

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over a woman getting paid to make believe knocked over.

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Got it.

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Is that really a thing? I think that's a blown

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up thing. not define a woman. People know a woman is.

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Really, Dan?

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Yes. A human born with a vagina. There you go.

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And then if they say later on that they're not,

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then fine. Call him Steve.

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Whatever.

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I don't care.

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There.

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I've settled the whole debate.

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I mean, you have some people that you really need

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to talk to. Because the head of the WNBA can't

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do that.

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Those are adults. They can say whatever they want about

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their own bodies. I don't care. If I want to

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call myself a hobbit living in the Shire and that's

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how I live out my life, then by God, respect it.

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The way I look at it is this.

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Adults, you're absolutely correct.

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My name is Daniel. I prefer you call me Dan.

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Don't call me Danny. And Trey... Jerry, you guys have

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always respected that, and I appreciate it. To me, it's

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the same damn thing. I know it's not, but it's

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the same thing as far as your response to it, right?

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Your response to it, it's the same thing. Physically, obviously,

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it's different, but your response to it is the same.

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If I identify as a monkey fairy, then, you know,

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please respect that. Is that really any skin off your ass? No.

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Hey, you know, for adults, I couldn't agree with you more.

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I forgot the woman who said that, but if you

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want to identify a lamp, I'll shove a bubble up

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your ass.

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Great. As long as there's consent, by God, let's go

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to town. Sure. So that's why I say, to me,

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that whole argument is dumb. Like when people say, okay,

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I want you to define a woman. Oh my God,

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here we go. Like to me, that's like Senate confirming theatrics.

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Well, no, Dan, it's not because, you know, people say

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just because you're born with a vagina, that doesn't make

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you a woman. Just because you're born with testicles, that

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doesn't make you a man. Just because you have XX

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or XY, that doesn't define you.

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I don't know why some people have such a difficult

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time answering that question. Biologically, it does. What you identify

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as or what you physically change later is a different thing.

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Because then it blows up the whole argument. To answer

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the question, you lose the argument if you're one side.

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And I wish they would answer it that way. It's

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not hard. I don't know why they make it more

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difficult than it needs to be. You're worried about a

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tiny fraction of the population and backlash. It's like just,

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you open the book, there it is. You're biological, you

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got this, you that. If you change it later, then asterisk, fine, whatever.

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I don't care. Now let's move on and talk about

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whether or not the person that's being asked a question

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can actually sit on the Supreme Court or be elected

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to a public office. When confirmations for the Supreme Court,

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they were asking that question of Justice Jackson during her confirmation.

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What's a woman? What's a woman? Everyone's asking, what's a woman?

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And she's like, can we just talk about the law

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and stuff? Just answer the question. It's not that hard. Anyway,

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let's get back to the golf ad because I feel

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like I've settled the debate as far as we're concerned.

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You're born with that. You are that. And then if

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you change it later, you can knock yourself out.

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Common sense. You're absolutely correct.

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So when you knock a woman over for putting her

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hand on your driver in your golf bag, you should

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expect blowback for that. And the fact that you don't

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or you don't care, that's a problem.

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Also, to me, the poor production value of the beginning

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of that commercial just kind of seems like that was

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an add-on. Like, somebody was like, oh, you know, it'd

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be funny if we just tacked on to the front

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of this commercial real quick. Oh, it's kind of like

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they had an idea for a commercial, and then they

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decided to do a bit at the beginning of it.

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Yeah, and it's not even well done. It's... that's the

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thing about commercial. That's kind of besides the, the overall topic,

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but that's sort of the thing now these days is

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cheap production because then you can just run it on

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social media. You don't have to spend tens of thousands

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or a million dollars to make a cinematic looking ad.

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You can shoot it on a shitty filter. Sorry for

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the language on your phone and then still go with it.

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It's kind of like all the Tang luck ads I

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see lately with AI dudes saying, bro, what do you

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do on your breaks? You just kind of accept it

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and move on. Uh, Jerry, you seem to understand, or

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at least on your side, you're like, yeah, that's not

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a good idea to knock a woman over for reaching

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for the driver. Trey, you seem to be a little

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more like, it's not that bad.

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Would we be outraged if it was a guy?

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You should, because violence is always wrong.

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But I bet it wouldn't be.

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But here's the catch on that. And I understand what

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you're saying, because do you want equality or not? but

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but here's here's the rub on that they but they

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didn't shoot that they chose specifically to knock over a

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woman instead of a man why that choice.

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I thought women wanted to be equal i thought we.

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But why did the men choose let's do this bit

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let's not knock over a dude let's knock over a girl.

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Because we're talking still talking about it. That's why they

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chose it.

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You think it was intentional?

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Absolutely.

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This is one of the ultimate debates.

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That I have. I play golf. I didn't know what

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good good was.

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Noah Calloway was. Yeah, yeah. This is one of the

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ultimate debates I have in my brain, which is, and

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this is a struggle. Is it ignorance or malice? And

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I used to expect out of, interestingly enough, elected officials, CEOs,

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people that are supposed to be in power positions. I

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used to think they were all really, really smart. And

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then I got older and had to deal with some

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of them. And then I realized most of them have

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no idea what they're doing either. So I struggle with,

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was something like this intentional, which is very possible, or

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are they just stupid and narrow-sighted not to think that

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there's going to be pushback?

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Well, there is a chasm between intentional and malicious.

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Right.

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This is called Hanlon's Razor. Hanlon's Razor is never a

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tribute to malice, what can be easily explained away with stupidity.

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That's how I lived at iHeartRadio for the last five years.

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I disagree. I just totally disagree with that premise, Jerry,

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because I don't think it's stupidity. Again, everyone's still talking

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about it.

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The additional apologies that had to be issued because you

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got the initial apology that was corporate, you know, Callaway

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and good, good.

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Let me point something out.

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All right.

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No apologies had to be issued. It is not going

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to affect Callaway sales one single bit. Go ask any

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of the golf scandals. Go ask Nike about Tiger Woods.

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It's not going to affect golf one bit. You think

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any guy who plays golf gives a flying rat's ass

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about this? They don't.

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I think you're right on the sales front. On the

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stock price this week, it did take a 2% hit.

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They'll be fine. But there is some financial backlash, at

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least initially. But, I mean, 2% is really, it's just like...

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So you had the... Go ahead, Jerry. I don't disagree with.

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Trey on the fact that the choice made it so

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that we're still talking about it. Because we still live

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in an age where any publicity is good publicity to

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a point.

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I just.

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There's a myriad of other ways that, that, that could

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have been done with a little more creativity as opposed

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to let's just blindside this woman and, you know, see

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what happens.

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The ultimate thing is, is it okay to do the,

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you know, the violence against women thing to sell golf

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clubs and whether or not it's intentional. And the initial

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corporate apologies that happened. Then you've got... Let's also.

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I promise you, no one had ever heard of this

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female golfer before. Now they know her name. And she

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got paid for it. Throw that out there.

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You've got... Hang on, where did it go? Trying to

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find it, trying to find it. The Callaway CEO statement.

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Based on what he says, do you think still that

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it was intentional that they knew that there would be

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blowback and then just didn't care? Okay, so here it is.

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The Callaway CEO, Chip Brewer, released a late night statement

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acknowledging that while Good Good produced the video, Callaway actively

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approved it. He says that approval should never have happened.

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Mistakes were made and we are taking the matter very seriously. Um,

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and then of course, adding that, uh, they're unequivocally against

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domestic violence. So he's basically saying like, well, look, good,

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good produced it. Yeah, we approved it, but they did it.

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Change anything.

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We don't condone violence of any sort, especially against women.

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To me, it's a slippery slope. Uh, Because at the

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end of the day, it is a stupid bit on

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a commercial. And if you treat it as more than that,

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then it's almost like you're giving it too much power

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and you're really actually just giving it more attention than

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it probably needed. Because if you don't shine a light

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on certain things, then they don't see the light of day, right?

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It's kind of like with a fire. If you don't

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blow on it, it's not going to, you know, erupt

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into a huge huge thing so don't fan the flames

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basically if you if you see something that's and that's

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what i mean by a slippery slope it's like okay

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when you see something do you say something about it

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because it is bad or egregious or is it your

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own sensitivities in other words how like is it bad

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enough that it requires comment or you shining a light

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on is it that bad Or do you say nothing,

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and then perhaps that behavior continues, and then it just

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kind of exacerbates the overall problem?

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Well, again, you're acting like he then took the club

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and wailed on her.

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Honestly, that might have made the ad really, really dark,

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but at a certain point, it would have made it

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really hysterical, if you want to go a super dark way.

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It's like, well, that's an overreaction.

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I mean, the whole thing is like someone's going to,

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even guys, I mean, no one's going to go sit

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there and, you know, knock someone over because they thought

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they were reaching for their driver. I mean, again, you're

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talking about a business that plays to 1% of the population,

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maybe two. And Already, stock price is back almost to

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where it was. Again, we're talking about a golf company

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that no one had heard about. Callaway can issue all

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the statements, everything else. No one is not going to

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go buy a Callaway. If they want a Callaway club,

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they're not going to go.

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Purchase something else. I can't buy this because that dude

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knocked that lady over.

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No one on the PGA is going to drop their

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Callaway sponsorship.

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So had he had he pushed her over, grabbed the

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driver and used it to send her long and straight

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down the fairway. See, I mean, there's there might be

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a way to go with that where you can make

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it kind of funny. And ultimately, look, is there is

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there is there a twinge of sexism to it? Yeah,

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because they didn't shoot it with a guy. They did

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it with a girl intentionally. And the reason why they

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all probably mainly did it with the girl is because

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she's an influencer. She's a girl that plays golf, and

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that gets attention from guys that play golf.

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And gets her attention. Again, how many more people, if

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she's an influencer, I want to know what her follower

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account has done in the last week.

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I would also like to know what has she said

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about it.

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Probably nothing. She's making bank. She got paid to do it,

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and again, she's probably had a huge increase in followers

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and exposure. Who in reality was harmed by this? Nobody.

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The comment section, that's who. Yeah. All right, now let's

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jump into controversy number two. Target stepped in it Al

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Jolson style. Oh, boy. Yeah.

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Now this is stupid.

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Oh, Manny. Oh, Jerry. Oh, good for you, buddy.

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Yeah. If you said that on accident, wow.

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No, that was not on accident. I think he knows.

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Okay.

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So here is the new offensive Halloween costume that Target

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is apologizing for. using a black child model for a

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clown Halloween costume that when some saw it online, they

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thought that looks a lot like a kid in blackface.

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And Trey, based on your visual reaction right now, and

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based on Trey, based on Jerry's obvious knowledge of the story,

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I'm assuming you guys see it.

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Oh yeah. I have, who at target didn't see before

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this got put on their website, who saw this and went, Oh,

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this is a good idea.

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Yeah, that's all right.

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Cool.

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Now, if we have gotten to the point that they

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don't see racism and stuff like this, and this is,

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restricted to our generation that we see this as racist

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and they don't, maybe we have taken a step forward

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as society, but somebody over 40 had to look at

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this and go, oh, no, no, no. This is a

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bad idea.

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Yeah. Wow. That is a rough one right there, let

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me tell you.

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What is that supposed to be?

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It's supposed to be like a clown. I don't know

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if it's supposed to be like a freaky clown because

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the smile is so big and wide, kind of like

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a joker. Whether it's supposed to be or not, it is. Yeah, well,

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it's scary for one reason versus another, I guess. Wow. I.

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I am absolutely like, again, who didn't see someone from

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the photographer on who saw the, who, how many people

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saw this and didn't say anything. And if I'm target,

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I'm firing all of them.

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That whole department is getting cleaned out. Yeah.

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I mean, some of the crap with target and the

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boycotts and everything else is, uh, I won't even get into,

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but Target has been under fire for a while now.

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This wasn't the thing. They should have heightened sensitivity at

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this point.

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Target pulled their clown Halloween costume after backlash and says,

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we got this wrong in an apology note. You think? Yeah.

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They removed the Halloween costume after it was criticized for

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resembling blackface and racist minstrel show imagery. The franchise also

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issued an apology on Monday, the 24th. The costume featured

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a black child model in a pose linked to Jim

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Crow era stereotype, sparking widespread backlash. Yeah. So they actually

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posted in good corporate, you know, PR strategy here, an

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apology from us. We removed an offensive Halloween costume that

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should never have been part of our assortment. It is

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no longer for sale as a company. We got this

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wrong and we are deeply sorry. We know this is

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especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members, and partners.

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Removing the costume is an important first step, and we

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are looking closely at how this happened and what needs

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to change to ensure this won't happen again. In other words,

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like Trey said, anyone that saw this photograph before it

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got published is getting effing fired.

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Yeah. Whoever's in the digital media department, heads, I'm sure,

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have rolled.

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Tell me you didn't see Disney's Song of the South

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without telling me you didn't see Disney's Song of the South.

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Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration

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into the treehouse. 833-COOK-DFW is the phone number to get

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your free roof inspection and property review scheduled. The website, cookdfw.com.

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I'm going to say some scary words, Daniel. Super El Nino.

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And the effect that is going to have on weather,

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especially in the North Texas area. You know, you're right.

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We just are officially in going into the Super El Nino.

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The reason why is because it's warmer than a regular

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El Nino. And it does prelude that we will have

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a wetter higher rain percentage than a normal year, or

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shall we say on El Nino.

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So there are some differences, speculations. Nothing is set in stone.

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This is not a guarantee that we're going to have

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a deluge of water for the next year. I mean,

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that's just not what it means. Scientific data says, hey,

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we might have a wetter than normal.

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We could have more storms. It could be just a

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lot of rain. We all need to go out and

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build arcs. I don't know. But, I mean... Be prepared.

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The moral of the story is every day you live

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in North Texas, especially in North Texas, be prepared. Know

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how your home is sitting. Know how your roof looks.

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Know how your windows are working. Know if your doors

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have holes in them. I mean, just know your home.

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Know your home.

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Call us out.

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We want to educate you.

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We will come around, walk you around, show you things

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that you should know, and then we can help you

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with getting them taken care of.

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And no pressure, all education. And Daniel and his fine

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team at Cook DFW will take care of you, the homeowner.

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With very, very gentle hands. I know because I've been

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in them. 833-COOK-DFW. That sound bad? Sounded bad. 833-COOK-DFW. Get

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that scheduled today. The website, cookdfw.com. All right, let's switch gears.

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Let's jump into some birthdays. Today is Thursday, August 27th, 2026.

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Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. And we'll do so

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quickly because we want to get to our Dolly Parton tribute.

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Aaron Paul is 47, best known as Jesse Pinkman on

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Breaking Bad. He's also a BoJack Horseman, and he's also

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in Need for Speed. Yeah, Aaron Paul, 47 from Breaking Bad.

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Paul Rubens. This is my annual mention of Paul Rubens. where,

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as most people remember him and love him as Pee-wee Herman,

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as I did as a child, because I was of

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that age where Pee-wee's Playhouse was a big part of

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my Saturday mornings.

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That explains a lot. What do you mean?

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Take it for what it is. There is nothing wrong

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with Pee-wee's Playhouse. There's not a huge leap to be

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made as a kid in Pee-wee's Playhouse to an adult

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in this treehouse.

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I just, there was no, there's nothing wrong with Pee-wee's Playhouse.

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Thank you. Now, the movie house, which became the Playhouse,

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that's a different thing. After that, though, as an adult,

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I got older, and then he did the Buffy the

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Vampire Slayer movie opposite, why do I always brain fart

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her name right here?

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Sarah Michelle Gellar?

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That was the TV series.

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Oh, Christy Swanson.

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Christy Swanson, thank you. Then when he plays a vampire

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in Christy Swanson's movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

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this is why I love mentioning Paul Reuben's birthday. Even

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though he's passed away, I love mentioning his birthday because

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it gives me an excuse to bring up what I

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think is one of the best and silliest death scenes

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in movie history. If you have not seen Buffy the

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Vampire Slayer, the movie starring Christy Swanson, It also stars

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Luke Perry, and Paul Reubens is in there as one

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of the vampires. And if I remember correctly, a little

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guy by the name of Rutger Hauer plays Dracula. So

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Paul Reubens is killed.

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I believe that was fairly controversial, because I believe that

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was his first role after Theater Incident.

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It was. It was a great comeback.

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It's the first one. Really, I think that's one of

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the first ones I can remember in my lifetime of

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big PR rehabs that all of a sudden he was

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loved again. Yeah.

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It took a little while, but yeah. So when his

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first project back was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and he

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was unrecognizable because we just remembered him as Pee Wee Herman.

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In this, he's got a beard, super long hair, looks

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nothing like Pee Wee. He's not wearing a red bow

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tie and a gray suit, but he gets killed, stake

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in the heart, and he's not immediately dead. He draws

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out the death scene so beautifully. It's one of my

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favorite things in cinema because it takes you on a

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huge journey because he gets the stake in the heart.

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You're like, oh, okay, he's dead. And then he's like,

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then he's not dead. And then he takes you on

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this emotional journey through his death that you almost start

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to feel sorry for him. And then it's just uncontrollable

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laughter about how ridiculous it is. To me, the only,

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to me, I don't know this to be true, but

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the non-death scene in Deadpool 2 where Ryan Reynolds as

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Deadpool blows up like him dying in Deadpool 2, I

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think is an homage to Paul Reuben's death in Buffy

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the Vampire Slayer because he just won't die. Anyway, happy birthday.

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When you take your jaunt to the coast, you'll have time.

469
00:28:52.410 --> 00:28:53.029
You can practice.

470
00:28:53.049 --> 00:29:00.299
Yeah, but that is true. From Scrubs, Sarah Chalk is 50.

471
00:29:00.299 --> 00:29:04.079
Shut up. Chandra Wilson is 57. She is Dr. Miranda

472
00:29:04.099 --> 00:29:08.980
Bailey on Grey's Anatomy. Patrick J. Adams is 45, played

473
00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:14.829
Mike Ross on Suits. Interestingly enough, before we started the

474
00:29:14.869 --> 00:29:17.289
show today, in an interview, one of the guys from Suits,

475
00:29:19.269 --> 00:29:23.990
the main guy, Gabriel Macht, he was on a show

476
00:29:24.009 --> 00:29:27.109
with an actual attorney, and an attorney was saying, just FYI,

477
00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:30.599
Suits is one of the most accurate depictions of attorneys

478
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:31.460
in television.

479
00:29:31.700 --> 00:29:36.369
It is a great show. Uh, last season, but otherwise

480
00:29:36.710 --> 00:29:37.369
fantastic show.

481
00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:42.859
Co-founder and guitarist of Rush, Alex, Alex Lifeson is 73.

482
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:46.640
As much as I've tried, I cannot like Rush.

483
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:47.819
I'm with you.

484
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:51.700
I understand why people do. It's just, it's just not my,

485
00:29:52.380 --> 00:29:55.039
not my cup of tea. Uh, we mentioned him the

486
00:29:55.099 --> 00:29:59.299
other day, bassist and songwriter for no doubt. Tony Canale

487
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.740
is 56 and the subject of one of no doubt's

488
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.039
most successful albums.

489
00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.059
Yeah.

490
00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:08.640
Look it on the chin from Gwen Stefani for an

491
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.440
entire tour. And for years since he is the ultimate

492
00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:15.049
team player.

493
00:30:18.650 --> 00:30:20.529
Yeah. I mean, he got, at least he got paid

494
00:30:20.569 --> 00:30:22.650
for his heart. Actually, I think he dumped her. So

495
00:30:23.009 --> 00:30:27.190
he just had to take the beating perpetually.

496
00:30:28.009 --> 00:30:31.970
And he took it right to the bank. So good

497
00:30:32.029 --> 00:30:38.750
on him, ultimately. And Baseball Hall of Famer, 612 career

498
00:30:38.789 --> 00:30:42.670
home runs and one of the oddball batting stances of

499
00:30:42.769 --> 00:30:50.089
all time, Jim Tomey, 56. I don't remember his batting stance.

500
00:30:50.670 --> 00:30:53.529
It was kind of like Bagwell's. It was like a

501
00:30:53.549 --> 00:30:56.960
really wide stance. It was one of those, like, Based

502
00:30:57.019 --> 00:31:03.009
on his stance, he was inviting the up-and-in fastball, but

503
00:31:03.230 --> 00:31:05.230
that was a trick because that's the one he wanted

504
00:31:05.250 --> 00:31:08.089
the most, and he would park it up in right field.

505
00:31:11.190 --> 00:31:17.500
The great Khali, 7'1, former WWE champion, is 54, and

506
00:31:17.579 --> 00:31:25.329
another WWE Hall of Famer, the one and only Sergeant Slaughter,

507
00:31:25.509 --> 00:31:29.119
is 78. was one of my favorite G.I. Joe characters.

508
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:29.619
Yes.

509
00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:35.180
You talk about weird transitions from, you know, like, from

510
00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:39.789
sort of one thing to another in entertainment, like Tracy

511
00:31:39.829 --> 00:31:43.269
Lord's going from porn into mainstream, Sasha Gray doing the

512
00:31:43.309 --> 00:31:50.170
same thing. Transitions like wrestling into movies and things is

513
00:31:50.349 --> 00:31:56.690
almost common now. But going from wrestler to director Full-on G.I.

514
00:31:56.750 --> 00:31:59.210
Joe character. That's one of those I don't know if

515
00:31:59.289 --> 00:32:05.069
anyone ever saw coming. But I loved it. Who was

516
00:32:05.089 --> 00:32:06.769
your favorite wrestler as a kid?

517
00:32:11.910 --> 00:32:16.099
As a kid, the Von Eriks would be, I guess

518
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:22.400
it was Kerry. Then Hogan. Then as an adult, it

519
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:23.400
was Stone Cold.

520
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.980
Fair enough. I think for me, I think the one

521
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.609
that I got most excited about, there were two. Or

522
00:32:30.349 --> 00:32:32.269
there were like three. All right, I'll force myself to

523
00:32:32.289 --> 00:32:35.089
pick one. Jake the Snake was one of my favorites.

524
00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.269
I loved whenever he came out because he brought the

525
00:32:37.289 --> 00:32:39.049
bag with him and we brought the snake out. Maybe

526
00:32:39.069 --> 00:32:40.630
it's because I don't like snakes and I don't want

527
00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:43.319
one crawling on me. But it's like after you get

528
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:45.799
yourself knocked out in the ring and then he has

529
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:49.559
his snake basically hump you until the commercial break.

530
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.579
That's pretty funny. I think probably as a kid, mine

531
00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:55.539
was Roddy Roddy Piper.

532
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.950
So many good ones, man. Until The Undertaker showed up.

533
00:33:02.460 --> 00:33:05.740
By the way, someone in the chat said Rush might

534
00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:08.569
be Radiohead 1.0. No, Rush plays their hits.

535
00:33:09.869 --> 00:33:10.369
Goddamn.

536
00:33:11.230 --> 00:33:11.390
Ow.

537
00:33:12.089 --> 00:33:14.410
Trade not wrong on that, by the way. That's fired.

538
00:33:17.890 --> 00:33:20.599
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539
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541
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542
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543
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That's patreon.com slash treehouseonair. That's p-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com slash treehouseonair.

544
00:33:42.730 --> 00:33:45.150
All right, let's do this. We need to say goodbye

545
00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:51.700
to an absolute icon. Dolly Parton passing away at the

546
00:33:51.809 --> 00:33:58.470
age of 80. And we mentioned transcending things. Best known

547
00:33:58.509 --> 00:34:02.930
as a country singer, but by the time she left

548
00:34:03.009 --> 00:34:07.349
this world, it was as a human icon, not just

549
00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:11.670
a entertainer, but also a mega philanthropist.

550
00:34:13.190 --> 00:34:15.769
And I mean, great actress.

551
00:34:16.389 --> 00:34:17.130
Great actress.

552
00:34:17.170 --> 00:34:20.170
Steel Magnolias will be all... One of my favorite movies.

553
00:34:20.750 --> 00:34:23.750
She makes it. The movie that's not getting any mentions

554
00:34:23.809 --> 00:34:25.250
is Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

555
00:34:25.730 --> 00:34:32.710
Wonderful movie. But that's also awesome. Unclench, people. It's a

556
00:34:32.769 --> 00:34:33.389
great show.

557
00:34:33.829 --> 00:34:35.559
Well, and I think they just don't want to.

558
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:41.000
Some people probably would still take offense to just the title.

559
00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:41.940
Right.

560
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:46.840
The thing is, everything you said, and probably after Betty White,

561
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:52.400
probably the most transcendent person. Like, everyone loved Dolly. No

562
00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:54.360
one's ever really said anything bad about Dolly. There were

563
00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:59.699
no scandals, no nothing. But what a businesswoman. And the thing,

564
00:34:59.739 --> 00:35:03.550
the story I heard yesterday that I was just floored by,

565
00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:08.230
when she wrote I Will Always Love You, she wanted

566
00:35:08.349 --> 00:35:14.440
Elvis to sing it. And they were friends. They almost...

567
00:35:14.829 --> 00:35:17.769
had a deal, but Elvis wanted 50% of the rights

568
00:35:17.829 --> 00:35:20.210
to the song. And she told him to fuck off.

569
00:35:22.530 --> 00:35:25.969
Like you do. Yeah. And you know, swing, swing your

570
00:35:26.010 --> 00:35:27.610
hips somewhere else or there.

571
00:35:27.909 --> 00:35:31.760
Hang on at the time. That's a, that's a ballsy

572
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.099
move because she was popular, but she wasn't Elvis. But then,

573
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.500
you know, it goes back. And then I think they

574
00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:42.960
said after Whitney Houston and everything else, she made over

575
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.699
$ 10 million on the song. So, Good on her.

576
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:52.800
Yeah. And as we're talking about the passing of Dolly Parton,

577
00:35:53.130 --> 00:35:57.849
the philanthropy, like you mentioned, it's time and again donating

578
00:35:57.969 --> 00:36:02.469
to numerous causes, local, national. I mean, it didn't matter.

579
00:36:03.010 --> 00:36:06.820
She was even a radio station owner in Tennessee. She

580
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.699
had a couple of radio stations that she owned.

581
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:10.059
And.

582
00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:14.159
She was among the first to have a radio station

583
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:18.280
website in the 90s. That was not a common thing.

584
00:36:19.260 --> 00:36:24.170
Radio's been real slow to embrace technology throughout the years

585
00:36:24.789 --> 00:36:28.889
as far as new technology. But she saw the advantage

586
00:36:28.929 --> 00:36:30.690
to it. She was one of the first station owners

587
00:36:30.730 --> 00:36:33.389
in the country to have a website. Just really weird,

588
00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:38.570
interesting stuff like that. Eminem posted a heartfelt... note on

589
00:36:38.670 --> 00:36:42.570
social media because after a performance, Dolly Parton sent him

590
00:36:42.610 --> 00:36:46.389
a handwritten, uh, or sent him a letter that she

591
00:36:46.409 --> 00:36:51.210
had signed and he, he posted it on social media

592
00:36:51.230 --> 00:36:53.349
and was like, she, she's like, I never met her.

593
00:36:53.449 --> 00:36:55.610
I never had the opportunity to meet her, but she

594
00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:58.460
sent me this amazing note. And he's like, you know,

595
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:00.960
I'm a rapper and I really wasn't into country music,

596
00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:04.260
but I still, I knew who Dolly Parton was. And

597
00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:06.639
she took the time to send me this letter and

598
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:11.590
it was just amazing. I mean, you talk about, you know,

599
00:37:11.949 --> 00:37:14.929
genre crossing and all sorts of things. I mean, it's

600
00:37:14.989 --> 00:37:17.690
amazing what a good human she was. And that's a

601
00:37:17.710 --> 00:37:18.489
hell of a legacy.

602
00:37:19.050 --> 00:37:23.110
And the amount, and truly the sign of what a

603
00:37:23.130 --> 00:37:25.929
good human she was is so much of her giving

604
00:37:26.090 --> 00:37:29.940
was never, she never sought publicity for anything else. It

605
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:30.760
was done quietly.

606
00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:32.780
You barely know about it. Yeah.

607
00:37:33.280 --> 00:37:35.920
And, you know, just because she wanted to help people. Yeah.

608
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:42.889
It really is amazing. She's a great, she's sort of

609
00:37:42.909 --> 00:37:45.730
like two heads of a coin, right? Because on one hand,

610
00:37:45.889 --> 00:37:48.809
she's an entertainer, she's a performer, she even had her

611
00:37:49.050 --> 00:37:51.590
own theme park called Dollywood. Right.

612
00:37:52.210 --> 00:37:53.269
Quite popular.

613
00:37:53.510 --> 00:37:56.500
Yeah, quite popular. But on the flip side, she was

614
00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:00.960
also a quite philanthropist, like philanthropist, sending out money to

615
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:04.489
all these causes and people without seeking any attention for it.

616
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:06.320
So it's so weird to be able to do both.

617
00:38:06.590 --> 00:38:09.099
And Dan, just because it's So, you know what a

618
00:38:09.139 --> 00:38:11.880
pussy you are. You know, one of the things that

619
00:38:13.059 --> 00:38:14.800
kind of tip people off that she might have something

620
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.559
might have been wrong is they were opening a new

621
00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:20.659
roller coaster at Dollywood and she missed because she usually

622
00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:23.829
would ride the roller coasters when they opened up. So

623
00:38:25.730 --> 00:38:26.710
she had bigger balls than you.

624
00:38:28.949 --> 00:38:34.329
Oh, I have no doubts about that. I will I

625
00:38:34.369 --> 00:38:38.260
will tip my hat to her sackage. And as as

626
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.360
as we're doing the show right now, we're looking in

627
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:43.699
the chat and apparently the news alert just came in.

628
00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:46.840
Twenty twenty six has claimed another celebrity.

629
00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:48.969
Tim Curry.

630
00:38:49.710 --> 00:38:54.909
Tim Curry has passed away. Talk about that doesn't surprise me, though.

631
00:38:54.929 --> 00:38:56.119
I saw him a picture of.

632
00:38:56.150 --> 00:39:01.360
Yeah. That's a hell of a that's a hell of

633
00:39:01.619 --> 00:39:04.639
a life lived as well as an actor. You're talking

634
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.300
about a guy that has done a little bit of

635
00:39:07.460 --> 00:39:11.900
everything in acting. He was the first Pennywise we ever

636
00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:18.070
saw in Stephen King's It. He is Frank Converter.

637
00:39:19.889 --> 00:39:25.130
The demon on Tom Cruise's first movie.

638
00:39:25.670 --> 00:39:30.780
Tim Curry will go down as the best looking devil

639
00:39:31.179 --> 00:39:35.119
in movie history yes in the movie legend starring tom

640
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:40.550
legend yeah yeah that is the freakiest looking demon in

641
00:39:40.610 --> 00:39:43.389
movie history and he played it's him in that stuff

642
00:39:43.929 --> 00:39:46.889
the big horns the muscles all that tim curry a

643
00:39:46.969 --> 00:39:49.630
phenomenal actor and one of my favorite roles of his

644
00:39:49.710 --> 00:39:51.969
even though it was probably just a whatever for him

645
00:39:52.909 --> 00:39:57.050
was in home alone 2 as as the hotel manager

646
00:39:57.349 --> 00:40:02.550
i loved him in home alone 2 and clue oh

647
00:40:02.670 --> 00:40:06.929
god that's a that's a classic that may be his

648
00:40:06.969 --> 00:40:11.710
best clue is a phenomenal movie so a heartfelt RIP

649
00:40:11.730 --> 00:40:16.409
to Tim Curry and obviously to Dolly Parton, a huge

650
00:40:17.429 --> 00:40:20.460
human icon gone at the age of 80. And I

651
00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:23.940
know 2026 ain't done yet. And I think Bruce Willis

652
00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:27.340
is not much longer. Apparently a bunch of his family

653
00:40:27.420 --> 00:40:31.059
is given their, some of their official goodbyes based on

654
00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:33.570
a report I saw the other day. That one's going

655
00:40:33.590 --> 00:40:34.969
to hurt me too. Yep.

656
00:40:35.630 --> 00:40:38.369
He was just at his daughter's wedding, but I mean,

657
00:40:38.389 --> 00:40:41.050
he had, His dementia is really bad.

658
00:40:42.570 --> 00:40:44.969
Mentally, he's probably already gone. I don't know if there's

659
00:40:45.010 --> 00:40:49.550
anything much left in there, but my feeling is that

660
00:40:49.550 --> 00:40:54.070
2026 will claim him before it's done. This year has

661
00:40:54.110 --> 00:40:57.309
been absolutely brutal for the celebrity deaths, and it's not

662
00:40:57.329 --> 00:40:59.289
going to get any easier. As my wife said yesterday

663
00:40:59.369 --> 00:41:02.309
after hearing about the news of Dolly Parton, the older

664
00:41:02.389 --> 00:41:05.199
we all get, the more personal some of these become

665
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.579
because we've grown up with and gotten older with a

666
00:41:07.619 --> 00:41:08.500
number of these people.

667
00:41:12.309 --> 00:41:15.469
Harrison Ford will be the one that absolutely... Oh.

668
00:41:17.309 --> 00:41:21.570
That may demolish me. Yeah. The only good thing that

669
00:41:21.610 --> 00:41:25.349
I'll take out of an eventual Harrison Ford death is

670
00:41:27.510 --> 00:41:30.320
that he is already so old. He's already been a

671
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.099
beautiful gift to me and my lifetime of entertainment. And

672
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.360
we're also talking about a guy that has skirted death

673
00:41:37.579 --> 00:41:40.599
more than once just because flying.

674
00:41:41.329 --> 00:41:43.110
And generally stays stoned.

675
00:41:48.630 --> 00:41:50.469
I'll be sad when he goes, but he'll be at

676
00:41:50.510 --> 00:41:51.949
an age where I'll be like, man, we got a

677
00:41:51.989 --> 00:41:55.329
lot out of that guy. So I'll be grateful and

678
00:41:55.389 --> 00:42:02.059
not as sad, I guess, for that. Before we leave today,

679
00:42:02.099 --> 00:42:04.079
there are a few other stories that we need to

680
00:42:04.139 --> 00:42:08.940
touch on here inside the treehouse. The first of which

681
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:17.179
is Let me do a professional intro here. We've all

682
00:42:17.219 --> 00:42:20.639
heard that having unprotected sex is like playing Russian roulette, right?

683
00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:23.199
Yeah.

684
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.300
Well, so is literally playing Russian roulette while having sex,

685
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:33.079
because that's exactly what happened in Virginia. A 19-year-old Virginia

686
00:42:33.119 --> 00:42:37.340
Beach woman is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge after a

687
00:42:37.389 --> 00:42:41.570
sexual encounter with a man, and he was fatally shot.

688
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:46.719
Her name is Ember Rose McSpadden. His name was Shane Brooks.

689
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:52.039
This is not simply a gun accidentally going off in

690
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:54.900
the middle of, you know, some bad dramatics. According to

691
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:58.559
testimony at her preliminary hearing, she told investigators that she

692
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:02.030
and Brooks were friends with benefits who incorporated guns and

693
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:07.909
knives into their rough sexual foreplay. On the night of

694
00:43:07.929 --> 00:43:14.449
the shooting, investigators say he He handed her a handgun

695
00:43:14.510 --> 00:43:20.429
containing one live round. She then pulled the trigger three

696
00:43:20.510 --> 00:43:25.659
times while counting the clicks. She actually thought she could

697
00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:29.000
determine when the live round would come up. She pulled

698
00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:33.440
the trigger three times and was clearly wrong. A judge

699
00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:36.679
nevertheless ruled there was enough evidence for involuntary manslaughter in

700
00:43:37.489 --> 00:43:40.429
to proceed to a grand jury. So that's what's happening now.

701
00:43:40.489 --> 00:43:45.349
Her next scheduled court appearance is October 21st. Don't do that.

702
00:43:46.409 --> 00:43:48.929
She handed him the gun and he pulled the trigger

703
00:43:48.949 --> 00:43:49.949
because Russian Roulette is.

704
00:43:50.659 --> 00:43:51.420
He handed her.

705
00:43:52.460 --> 00:43:55.500
And she pulled it three times and nothing happened. So

706
00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:56.679
why is he dead?

707
00:43:56.699 --> 00:43:57.079
No, it did.

708
00:43:57.099 --> 00:43:57.719
The third time.

709
00:43:58.380 --> 00:43:59.820
The third time was pretty definitive.

710
00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:01.159
Was the charm, as it were.

711
00:44:01.699 --> 00:44:04.840
I see. So she pulled the trigger. Okay, that's not

712
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.429
Russian Roulette. The rules are very clear.

713
00:44:07.449 --> 00:44:13.269
I love how in the middle of a Russian roulette

714
00:44:14.090 --> 00:44:22.079
bedroom antics thing, you're pulling out the rule book. I

715
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.179
bet you're so much fun to play Monopoly with. Oh, absolutely.

716
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:29.510
You're right. The idea of Russian roulette is you take turns.

717
00:44:29.550 --> 00:44:31.570
You go back and forth. Well, in this one, it

718
00:44:31.610 --> 00:44:34.389
was really, you know what? Actually, Jerry, they needed you.

719
00:44:34.739 --> 00:44:36.960
had you pulled out the rule book, he might still

720
00:44:36.980 --> 00:44:40.739
be alive. One of them would definitely be still dead.

721
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:52.079
But yes, then that's... She had something to do with it,

722
00:44:52.110 --> 00:44:52.469
so yeah.

723
00:44:54.550 --> 00:44:59.170
Well, that's the debate that I think has opened up

724
00:44:59.230 --> 00:45:04.440
here with this story. Evidence is one thing, but... if

725
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:09.420
you load the gun and you hand it to her.

726
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:13.659
And you spin the chamber.

727
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.429
And she shoots you dead, I mean, obviously there needs

728
00:45:20.469 --> 00:45:22.869
to be some culpability on his part. Why is she,

729
00:45:23.070 --> 00:45:25.530
you know, the one that's, you know, taking all the

730
00:45:25.650 --> 00:45:28.289
legal hits here? She probably would have been taking the

731
00:45:28.329 --> 00:45:30.449
same legal hit. He's dead. So you can't bring him

732
00:45:30.489 --> 00:45:33.349
to court. I mean, I guess you could, but, um,

733
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:35.880
If he.

734
00:45:35.780 --> 00:45:38.199
Handed a gun with a bullet in it to a woman,

735
00:45:38.219 --> 00:45:42.320
he got everything he deserved.

736
00:45:44.099 --> 00:45:46.179
And that's my point, which is if that happened and

737
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:48.480
there's evidence to support it, then why is she even

738
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:49.239
in court at all?

739
00:45:52.570 --> 00:45:53.429
They got to blame somebody.

740
00:45:55.590 --> 00:46:01.489
I look at it this way. His comeuppance or his

741
00:46:01.550 --> 00:46:02.909
consequences were immediate.

742
00:46:04.929 --> 00:46:09.989
I mean, that would be a downfall. Yeah, that's true.

743
00:46:11.510 --> 00:46:16.090
Hers are just a little more drawn out, unfortunately. But yeah, ultimately,

744
00:46:16.150 --> 00:46:20.489
if someone hands you a gun when you're hooking up,

745
00:46:21.469 --> 00:46:22.250
maybe don't do that.

746
00:46:23.110 --> 00:46:23.269
Yeah.

747
00:46:24.269 --> 00:46:33.889
Ever. And finally, a man's fridge died. It's one of

748
00:46:33.909 --> 00:46:36.190
the saddest stories I've heard all week.

749
00:46:38.469 --> 00:46:38.909
Hang on here.

750
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:42.719
We need to pour one out for this man's fridge.

751
00:46:42.780 --> 00:46:45.440
An Australian man named Craig went viral after sending a

752
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:52.539
dramatic text message to his wife when his 36-year-old garage

753
00:46:52.579 --> 00:46:57.909
refrigerator finally stopped working. But brand new in 1990, it

754
00:46:58.630 --> 00:47:03.219
ran until its compressor died in 2026. It outlasted, according

755
00:47:03.260 --> 00:47:06.719
to his text message, it outlasted three trucks and two

756
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:12.130
marriages without needing a single repair. Estimated to have kept

757
00:47:12.309 --> 00:47:17.349
around 10,000 beers cold over its lifetime. He even told

758
00:47:17.389 --> 00:47:20.909
his family the appliance went out quiet like a cowboy.

759
00:47:23.429 --> 00:47:26.820
He even joked about giving his long-serving garage companion a

760
00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:34.840
proper funeral. And honestly, I understand all of this. I

761
00:47:34.929 --> 00:47:40.969
totally get it. His most loyal companion. The beer fridge.

762
00:47:41.510 --> 00:47:45.769
The beer fridge. Three trucks and two wives.

763
00:47:45.789 --> 00:47:49.030
That kind of puts it all in perspective.

764
00:47:49.449 --> 00:47:58.219
It really does. Trey's searching. I can see it. I've...

765
00:47:59.730 --> 00:48:01.730
Or you realize that your life is empty because you

766
00:48:01.769 --> 00:48:02.750
don't have a garage.

767
00:48:02.769 --> 00:48:05.949
Yeah, no, you know, I've never had a beer fridge,

768
00:48:05.989 --> 00:48:10.769
and now I never will. And I never have two

769
00:48:10.789 --> 00:48:11.469
wives either, so.

770
00:48:14.989 --> 00:48:16.130
You know what, though? Got one up on me.

771
00:48:17.909 --> 00:48:20.650
On the other hand, you don't have two ex-wives, so.

772
00:48:20.630 --> 00:48:24.489
It's not all bad. I just wanted one.

773
00:48:25.949 --> 00:48:27.489
One ex-wife or one wife?

774
00:48:28.190 --> 00:48:28.409
You know.

775
00:48:29.139 --> 00:48:41.510
I've got one. You're better off with a beer fridge. Also,

776
00:48:41.530 --> 00:48:46.889
the beer fridge won't ever ghost you. For all things Treehouse, treehouseonair.com.

777
00:48:46.949 --> 00:48:48.530
It'll just die. That's far easier.

778
00:48:51.829 --> 00:48:53.929
And you can salute it on the way out. And

779
00:48:53.969 --> 00:48:58.550
you can call OPT services to haul it away for you. Right, Trey?

780
00:48:59.590 --> 00:49:02.280
See what I did?

781
00:49:02.300 --> 00:49:03.360
A little plug there?

782
00:49:03.380 --> 00:49:04.239
A little plug action?

783
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:04.739
Yeah.

784
00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:09.639
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786
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787
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