Creatures from the Moist Forest | Episode 74, Tuesday February 6, 2024

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Welcome inside the Treehouse. This is
day two, Day two of five days

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in a row inside the Treehouse.
This is the super stupid week inside the

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Treehouse. Welcome. I'm Daniel Malley
along with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma.

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My butterflies are still still there a
little bit, but not as much as

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yesterday. But they're still there,
still excited. So it's that combination of

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anxious and excited all at the same
time. Trey, how are you feeling

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you good to go? Yeah,
feeling good? Awesome? Raj, how

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about you? Solid? But just
uh, I'm sorry a little distracted.

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Uh. You guys are following the
Michigan trial, right the mom who's on

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trial by now for the school shooting
thing. Uh No, I have not

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been following that. What's going on
Her son was the Michigan school shooter.

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Who I might have to stop you
there. This is a really sad thing

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I'm about to say, but it
needs to be said. Which one is

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that? Uh, he's a fifteen
year old that shot up to school?

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I believe it was. Again,
I have to ask which one is that

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he's Uh, the kid's name is
it's A Really, it's a it's a

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if this was a British TV show
that you would That's what it was.

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Ethan Crumbly is his name? Oh
okay, gotcha? Yeah. Yeah,

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so the Crumblies are on Sorry just
just saying the Crumbley's are on trial,

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but the mom is on valve because
she they were aware. I think Trey,

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you might know a little bit about
this. I think something about his

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kid is the one where they gave
him a nine millimeter but for like his

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birthday, but they were aware he
had he had he was having mental issues.

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Yeah, he lived in crazy town. They lived in Pontiac, Michigan.

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Yeah, and for his birthday they
decided to give him a They decided

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to give him a firearm four days
before he shot up the school. How

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old is he or how old was
he at the time? I should say

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I believe fifteen. Oh yeah,
she's going to jail. Yeah yeah what

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uh? I mean that's the that
was the birthday present. Yeah. You

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know what I got to say.
If that kids seventeen or eighteen, then

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mama might skate. But at fifty
team. Yeah, and you said that

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he it's known that he has mental
health issues. Yeah. The only skating

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she's going to be doing is in
prison. Yeah, they brought got him

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out of his mental health clinic a
couple of times leading up to this,

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and then four days before the actual
shooting was his birthday, and happy birthday,

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crazy kid, here's a pistol with
bullets? Okay, hang on?

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Was was the handgun a birthday present
or a you just got out of the

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nuthouse gift, you know what?
Or are the parents cheap and they it's

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a little from column A little from
column B. Only we're so proud of

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you for getting out of the nuthouse. But it's also your birthday. Here's

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here's you a pew pew. It's
like if you were born on the twenty

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sixth of December. It's like,
here's a Christmas present and your birthday president.

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Yeah. So yeah, you know, the most moms pack lunches for

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their kids. Yeah, this one
was packing eat So thank you for picking

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up what I was throwing down.
Good job. We were firing on all

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cylinders, all firing. This is
all. This is all a really poor

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taste. Yeah. I just thought, like I don't I'm I'm an Indian

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kid. My parents' immigrants from India. Like nobody got who gives a kid

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a firearm, Like, who does
this move? Like? I don't.

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I mean lots of parents do for
fifteen year olds. Like I got a

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Superman cake once and I was like, and they had like an actual like

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figure eating like a little action figure
of Superman on it. And I was

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like, oh my god, greatest
day ever. This came with an action

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figure. Well that's the difference,
Raj, between regular Mesquite kids and immigrant

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Mesquite kids. You got a Superman
action figure, whereas other Mesquite kids got

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double action things. Yeah. I
guess I don't know. That's weird to

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me. I don't know the answer
to this question, but I have a

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really strong gut feeling on this.
Okaya, Raj, are you ready?

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Yeah? I think I know someone
that probably experienced this firearm gift type exchange

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from their parents. Trey. I. I did not receive a firearm as

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a gift. My dad had no
faith in me to be trust me enough

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to do that. But but what
he where he was brilliant, And because

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and I didn't want one, he
had a excuse me, Oh yeah,

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clear that throat just like a clear
out a dead round. Sorry, I

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said, clear out your throat the
way you clear out a jam. He

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had a soft off Mossburg twelve gage. Oh yeah you did. And I

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don't know if you know anything about
Mosburg's. They kicked like a mule sawt

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off shotgun. It even kicks worse. And I, you know, just

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thought that was the coolest thing ever. And so he didn't give me any

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instruction or anything. So first time
I shot it, you know, I'm

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not I don't know how I'm holding
it away from my shoulder. Oh no,

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oh yeah. He took me down
here. We had a creek there

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and through and so you know,
just shooting into the bank of the creek.

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This is better and better. Not
only am I surprised that you still

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have an arm, but your dad
was so brilliant that he took you down

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to the creek so in case there
was blood, he could throw you in

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the water immediately, so your mom
would be none the wiser. Yeah,

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this is the whitest story. Oh
yeah, no, he took me out

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there, gotta you know, good
distance. It's like, all right,

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there you go, put one shell
in it, so you know there was

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not gonna be any problems. Yeah, pulled the trigger. That thing kicked

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back. It knocked me ten feet
back. Oh, I literally, and

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I was probably I don't know,
I was probably about fifteen, and uh,

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I cried, Oh lord, I
scared me and I cried. So

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it's interesting, Raj. So what
happened to Trey was I initially was thinking

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that he would he would have had
the right of passage that so many sons

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had with their fathers, and that
was the gifting of a firearm. Instead,

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it was the other version of a
right of passage between father and son,

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and that was the firearm joke.
Yeah, where I'm not giving this

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to you, but I'm going to
use you as my own live version of

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jackass. Take this soot off twelve
gage and go shoot it out the creek

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and I'm going to stand behind you
about twenty thirty yards and laugh my old

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ass off and a very good lesson. And guns do a lot of damage,

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so as fun as they look on
TV. Yeah, Raj, you've

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ever heard the term, uh,
spray and pray? Yes, it is

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that with the the isn't that mostly
with machine guns? Like it just kind

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of yeah, yeah, typically that's
what you'd use in terms of in reference

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to an automatic weapon. You're just
holding down the trigger and you're just moving

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left to right, spraying and praying, letting, letting the thing do what's

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worth. You're not even aiming,
hence the praying with a sowd Off twelve

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gage. You're spraying, but you
don't have to pray because it's gonna hit

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it and it's and it's going to
be ugly. So when you when you

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actually fired, when you actually fired
the the the joke from your father.

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Did you actually have it up near
your shoulder or did you go or did

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you go rambo style? And did
you shoot it from the hip or rifleman

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style? Shoot it from the hip? No, No, no, I

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I I had it up like you
know you should as far as up where

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it had I just pushed it back
it would have been against my shoulder,

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but no, it was facing forward
to get maximum thrust back into my shoulder

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where yeah, it felt like it
broke it. And so at no point

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did he go, that's not how
you do that. No, he wanted,

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he wanted, he knew what was
going to happen. He wanted.

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He wanted to break me of any
desires I had at the time to have

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a gun other than you know,
I had a twenty two and a four

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ten that you know, to go
shoot snakes with. But my dad was

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not a big gun for I mean, he had that gun for protection,

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he wouldn't hunt or anything like that. And so he just really wanted to

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break me of and he teach me
a lesson about guns and it worked.

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He wanted he wanted to scare the
curiosity out of you that he knew that

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you would have. Ye, it's
similar to sort of like Trey when your

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dad taught you to swim. Was
his method, like so many other dads,

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just are you in and see if
you make it? Yeah? Oh

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okay? Is there another way?
According to psychiatrists, yes, I had

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the opposite situation. So I was
in a very white fraternity in college and

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they were all hunters. They were
all from various parts of southeast and West

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Texas. And they went to the
gun range one day and I went with

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and I had never fired a gun
before, and I got to do the

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same thing I had. There was
a twenty two, there was an chi

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and K I believe it was a
forty four, and then there was a

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desert eagle. Oh yeah yeah.
And so the first time I shot the

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H and K. That was my
first time at the target at the target

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thing that's in the back at the
end of the range, not the closes

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range. It was an outdoor range, so there was like the targets and

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then like the big hill of sand. So if you miss, and I

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fired it three times, and not
to brag, I didn't know this was

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a thing. But you could cover
it with a quarter. My three shots

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and really at what distance I don't
remember it was so probably I have no

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idea. It's those outdoor ranges.
I don't know how far they go,

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but you could cover it with a
quarter. And my buddy Richie, my

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turning brother, goes give me the
gun, and he goes, you don't

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need to own a firearm. And
I said why He goes, the joy

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on your face right now, tells
me you don't need this because Okay,

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So I want to make sure that
I want to make sure that I understand

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all of this properly in context.
Okay, yeah, So I'm trying to

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think of your very first form,
the very first time you fired a handgun.

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It's not just a pea shooter.
It's a forty four. It's a

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forty h and K forty four.
It's a forty four and three shots,

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and your grouping was so good it
could be covered with a quarter at distance.

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Yes, And I didn't know that
was a thing, And and you

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derived much pleasure from this, so
much so that all there was three of

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us. It was me, Richie, Bobby, and Hank, all three

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turny brothers, and they all were
like, you need to sit out now,

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like, no more you ever owning
a gun, because so it turns

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you are the Indian deadpool. No, but here's here's when I and then

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they were right, that was that
was a beginner's luck fluke thing. Because

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Richie then gives me the Desert Eagle, and I do remember this very vividly.

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There was a bird that was on
the target at one point. The

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birds, you know, flying around
everywhere, purchase on the target that I'm

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aiming at, and I have the
Desert Eagle, and he's like, you

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gotta lock your arms because of the
kick and all that stuff. I didn't

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know that was the thing. So
I locked my arms and I'm like,

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yeah, man, I'm gonna show
these guys. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit

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dead center of the three shots that
I just fired, and I blew the

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ship out of that bird. Just
blew him up. Just uh there were

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his claws were still on the target. Oh my god, I just fired

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Desert eg only comes in two models, A forty four, and it was

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beautiful. I know that it was
gold and it had an ivory handle,

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and I was like, wow,
this is really cool. They weigh they

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weighed like six pounds. So not
so not only are you the Indian Deadpool,

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but you're also the Indian Randy Johnson. There are now two men that

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that that are on record as having
made birds disappear. Yeah, and then

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their own hands. And then the
Hindu guilt settled in when I saw the

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explosion of the bird, because it
was just instantaneous and it was just feathers

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and then the feet were still there. The clause was and I was like,

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I'm sorry, I I kind of
feel badly for that bird. But

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the picture in my mind is just
Chef's kissing and it's I feel like,

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I feel like we need an artist
depiction. I'm going to see if I

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can commission our buddy Aaron Ariumpoor to
draw this very momentous benchmark in your life,

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Raj. Yeah, and then that's
the last time I ever fired a

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weapon because I was like, I
felt so bad for killing the bird,

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like I can't, I can't let
They're like, and that's when even Richie

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was like, hey, now you
look sad. That's how you should feel

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something like that, because you had
scared him so badly, like because you

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the brownskinned guy was a good shot, and so they were like, you

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what is the scariest bug, pest, critter, whatever that you or

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one of your guys has discovered in
or under or around a house. Mice

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definitely a thing. Rats are a
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It's like we injured the twilight zone
of watermeters a couple of years ago,

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and every time a watermeter got opened
a city meter, not by us,

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but by our guys and other companies
that were friends with There were snakes in

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it, and it was like three
years ago. Every time we opened a

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watermeanor there was a snake in it. And it wasn't like somebody's family snake

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that they were like, be free, my friend. It was just like

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legitimate. I think there were rattlesnakes. I'm not a snake expert. You

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know, you learn when you're little. The diamond head you stay away from

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it. The oval head you're probably
okay. But it just everywhere on social

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media. Every plumber I knew found
this snake, found this snake. It

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was insane. So we started telling
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a step back and take a second. It was just not worth it.

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Yeah, I think. I think
it's one of those things that if you're

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going to advise people, especially children, when you discover a snake or a

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creepy crawley of any kind and they're
unfamiliar with it, it might be cool

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to be brave and look cool,
but in the end it's fun to run.

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Oh oh yeah, I'd be the
first one out of there, and

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I'd like the old saying goes,
I'll push somebody down to get away first.

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I'm not afraid to admit that I
don't have to the fastest runner.

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I just have to be faster than
you, well said. So make sure

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you get the best in plumbing service, although maybe not the best uh at

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Plumbing Texas dot com. Rajer,
I thought it was actually pretty interesting how

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you mentioned after destroying that feathered creature
living peace for me. Yes, it

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did on top of a gun range
target, which, if we're being honest,

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kind of the bird's fault. They're
not yours. That's that's that was

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their justification, like, hey,
he shouldn't have been there, or it

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should have been there in the first
place. Uh. And I was like,

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I still, like, I remember
going to the convenience store afterwards,

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and I was like, I still
feel really bad about the bird, as

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like I can on a pistol.
I appreciate what you call it. You're

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a Hindu guilt. Hindu guilt,
yes, so part of the Hindu belief

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system is reincarnation, right, Yes, So that's what I immediately got me

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thinking about my own problems, Like
how many of us do we take someone

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that someone we take something that someone
says and immediately make it about ourselves.

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So that's what I did. Yeah, you're worried about your destruction of a

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feathered of a peaceful feathered creature,
Yes, possibly causing you to return in

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the next life as some sort of
insect dung beetle. That's my fear,

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dung beetle. Okay, I'm glad. I'm glad to know where your head

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is on this because this this involves
me now, because I think you guys

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have seen and I've told you about
how uh we have a pest issue,

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not a major one, but on
occasion we have seen we have seen some

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creepy Crawley's at our new house on
Saint John that that we are renting,

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and and a couple of times there
has been a scorpion in the house.

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The first time it was alive,
and then I tried to kill it,

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put it in a cup outside and
never saw it again. So for all

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I know, it's still out there, just really angry. No, I

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say it came back into shed.
Yeah, that's the same one therein lies

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the second Yeah, and still pissed
off. The second siding was a scorpion

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on my sleep shorts, the shorts
that I sleep in very soft, very

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comfy, and I had just taken
them off put them over the headboard while

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as I was changing clothes into my
active wear shorts and I notice five minutes

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after changing clothes. There's a scorpion
attached to my sleep shorts. Scoop it

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in a cup, take it outside, take it about a half mile down

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the road, and I try to
fling it out of the fuzzies cup and

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instead of it flinging the way something
with weight is supposed to, it instead

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kind of fluttered like a leaf to
the ground, which led me to google

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do scorpions shed, and in fact
they do, which brings up trace that

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this is the first scorpion I tried
to kill. It came back, came

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inside. Shit, it's smaller scorpion
exoskeleton and is now bigger, faster,

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stronger and waiting for me. Yeah, and it laid a bunch of eggs

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and yeah, which a big thank
you for our treehouse insiders who sent me

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all sorts of photos and videos of
of of mama scorpions shedding baby scorpions,

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because I'm familiar with that in the
spider world, because I know that mama's

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you know, they got the spiders
on their back or in the sack,

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and then if you squorsh them,
then all the little spider lings run out

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right. Apparently it's since scorpions are
also arachnid. It's very similar. And

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I now know that thanks to our
Dickhead Treehouse insiders for sending me all these

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things. I mean, I love
you guys. Thank you. So the

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other night on a walk, we're
walking our Chiuaha Bella and where I live

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on Saint John. It's up on
a place called Bordeaux Mountain. It's the

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highest point of Saint John in the
US Virgin Islands. I'm not saying that

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to brag. I'm just saying just
to give you the pink the picture.

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Okay, there are no street lamps
on our road. When I say it's

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pitch black, I am not exaggerating. It is pitch black. You have

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to have a really good ass flashlight
to see where you're going, otherwise you

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will trip over something and into the
gut and roll down the mountain and die.

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So we're walking Bella. We've got
our fifteen thousand lumens flashlight, and

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the flashlight is shining on the road
on the ground to see where we're going.

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And that's when I see it.
I see the scariest insect, the

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most frightening, beguiling, murderous beetle
I have ever seen in my life.

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Wow. And it's not a normal
sized beetle. Oh no, this is

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not a june bug. This is
not a this is not even a roach.

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This isn't even one of those hissing
cockroaches. This is hand to God

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as big as your hand. Fucking
bug. Wow. Okay, this is

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the kind of bug that I had
only seen, not just in movies,

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but the kind of bug that they
show in movies when they're trying to depict

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life on other planets. Wow,
this was a Star Wars style beetle.

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This was a beetle that Spock would
have inspected meticulously on Star Trek. This

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is not a creature of this Earth, and it's on my road. M

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hm. So I did what I
normally do in these situations, I go

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to the Internet for answers. And
so what I did was I googled scary

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ass beetle. Mm hmm. I'm
not making this up. I'm going to

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show you. See if you can
see on my phone, you see the

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text there? Can you read that? It says on the Google search scary

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ass beetle? Right, yep,
you know what you want to see?

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What the first The first image that
popped up was Ringo Herbie you know,

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those are two really good answers.
See why I tell you guys. You

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guys do much better on the fly. I would like to thank Trey and

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Raj for this impromptu version of wrong
Answers Only, which will which we will

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be playing on a planned scale this
week inside the Treehouse. Wrong Answers Only.

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But uh in this case the scary
ass beetle. The first thing that

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pops up was in fact my scary
ass beetle. So I'm not the only

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person who have ever googled this,
let alone get the correct image response this,

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gentleman, is my scary ass beetle? Oh no, uh uh,

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that's not That's not a thing.
Who's the person holding it? Is that?

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That's not? Okay, that's the
Google search I thought. No,

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that is not my hand. No, that's I am not picking that thing

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up. I'm not going to be
anywhere close enough to even touch it or

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smell it. I didn't like seeing
it. Isn't if I'm isn't that the

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titan beetle? Is that what they're
called the world's largest beetle? Not that

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is correct? That is, in
fact the titan beetle. Underneath the heading

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of insects slash scary animals. This
thing is truly terrifying. This is the

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spawn of Satan. It has to
be because they're indigenous to Central America,

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I believe. So I don't know
what it's doing. Well, they apparently

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know how to operate boats because they
found their way here. I think that

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was found on SETI Alpha five.
See this. This is the type of

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thing that NASA doesn't realize. This
is the type of stuff that Hollywood has

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been trying to tell NASA and Tesla
and Space explores the world over. Just

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because you find life on other planets
doesn't mean it's the life you want to

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find, right, Because if it's
this guy, yeah, my theory is

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you're a scorpion that you tried to
murder, Like that's its cousin that lived

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in Central America. And he's like, hey man, this dick keeps trying

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to kill me. And the Titan
beatle will like, hey, did you

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leave him a message? Like I
put my skin on the shorts and he'd

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tried to kill that too, and
he's like, I need you to come

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up here, and he's like,
dude, deal, where do they walk

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at night? Yeah? And then
I think you may be onto something rang

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and you said, you said Central
America. Yeah, so so that means

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that this bug lives in places like
Columbia, which which then, if you

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can follow my train of thought,
means that not only is this beetle huge

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and terrifying, but it's also on
cocaine. And now we have a sequel

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to cocaine bear. Yes, cocaine
beetle, cocaine beetle, which was all

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because this this beetle. You know
how like if you were to run over

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a june bug, it would just
you know, squorsh it. Yeah,

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this is you could You could be
in a Ford f three point fifty king

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ranch with a six inch lift glass
pass running uh step rails all of it,

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and you run over this titan beetle. That's a that's a speed bump.

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Yeah, I think it's not gonna
give. And if you notice,

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if you notice on this beetle,
it has what appears to be antenna right

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on this big ass bug. That's
not antenna. Those are antlers. Antlers

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I thought they were. I thought
they had like the because the scorpion,

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I thought I had the pincers as
well. Well. It has those two

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that's its mouth parts. The little
mandibles that are terrifying. It has those

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and those are scary, and coming
off of those are the loci style antlers.

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Right, so, and this is
next to your house, now,

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like how far? How far into
the walk did you get? Not far

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enough. I'm just wondering if it
was trying to find your house, like

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if it was walking up, like, hey, do you know where the

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o'maleys are and you're like, oh, no, Titan Beetle, we sure

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don't, And he's like, cool, I'll just keep walking and see where

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you guys are at. So I
don't know if, like tomorrow you wake

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up and there's him on your shorts. Yeah, it's funny that you mentioned

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that, Raj, because that's exactly
what happened. And then it tried to

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sell you an eight ball. It
did, and we bought it, and

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because we didn't want it, and
because we didn't want it to know where

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we lived, we just kept walking. And since we had split an eight

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ball, we never stopped walking.
I'm not even on the island anymore doing

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this show. I am actually,
I am actually in Dallas. We never

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stopped walking. That's so good of
a product that this Titan Beetle produces.

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He has got one customer and it's
you, guys. But that's also to

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show you how committed we are to
making sure this bug doesn't know where we

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actually you got. You got huge
balls, buddy, because I don't know

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when you move like you've got scorpions
and now you've got titan beetles at some

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Well, let me tell you about
the bats. Okay, oh all right,

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because it's not all it's not all
fun in the sun here, which

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that does exist, and Tray can
attest he came here. He came here

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last year and enjoyed himself. But
where we live, in the jungle ish

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area of the moist forest of Bordeaux
Mountain on Saint John, there are different

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it's a different life up here.
It's not just you know, the sun,

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the sand and the sea. It's
these creatures, including bats. So

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in the in the little gap between
the wood decking of the house and the

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galvanized roof. Okay, somehow,
in the tiny gap between those two,

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a little family of bats lives so
and they chirp at six am and six

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pm on the button. It's like
you guys, like Tray, you went

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to college in Austin, raj You
went to college at San Marcus. So

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you guys are very familiar with the
bats and how like clockwork they will come

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out from underneath the Congress bridge.
Right, Yep, same thing here.

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We have a tiny little coven of
bats. They go whoa out into the

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jungle to eat mosquitos, which is
great. That's why I like them.

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But they're very chirpy. And because
they're chirpy, they wake us up at

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six am. At six am,
they start chirping. And I don't even

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know how they do it because all
my experiences with bats have been on TV

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and movies. Right, I wouldn't
think that that little gap between the roof

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and the wood decking of the house
would be enough for a bat to enjoy

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a home, but I guess it
is. But it also brings me to

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the repulsion of said bats. So
Tara got on Amazon and said, I'm

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going to get rid of these bats, and she found a device on Amazon

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that is supposed to repel the bats. Yeah. I believe it's like if

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you played Call of Duty. It
looks like a field suppression mine. Uh,

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it's kind of round, kind of
it looks like it looks like a

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like a device shaped like mount killiman
jarro It's a plateau, if you will.

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So it's three different examples of what
this thing looks like. I can't

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give you any better descriptions than those
three. If you don't know, then

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look it up on Amazon. Bat
repeller. And so she bought one and

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it came in the mail the other
day and she deployed it, and instead

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of it repelling the bats, it
seems to have emboldened them. Because have

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you ever seen the little video of
bats upside down? So, like you

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know how bats hang out upside down? Well, have you ever seen the

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image the video of them flipped up
so it looks like the upright? Yeah?

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Yeah, you can find it on
YouTube. It's called hanging bats filmed

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upside down look like a goth night
club. That's the greatest thing I've seen

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all day. That bat was doing
an eight ball in the bathroom. So

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I believe this has found footage of
our roof. We have instead of repelling

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the bats, we have turned it
into a bat goth nightclub. Two shows

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per day, six pm and six
am. Well, Daniel, if there

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was ever an animal that was going
to continue to terrorize you, it's only

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fitting. Well fucking played, Thank
you slow clap, sir. That's good

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stuff. That is. Oh man. Yeah, if this were an eighties

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movie, you just won the Girl
and the eight ball. That's it.

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True eighties, true eighties field.
All right, thanks for hanging out with

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us for day two inside the Treehouse
of five days super Stupid Week in the

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Treehouse. We'll see you back here
tomorrow for day three of super Stupid Week,

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right here in the treehouse. Fucking
bats.