Dallas Mavericks & Stars ABANDON Downtown Dallas?! + Woman Sues Firefighters Who Saved Her | The Treehouse Show

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on air. It is time time to leave your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Mallley along with Trey Trenholm and Jerry called Well. Coming up on today's show, why did a drunk man tear down his own house? Also for those four students left dangling on a roller coaster at the Pleasure Peer in Galveston, there has been a plot twist we'll tell you about, as if dangling from a roller coaster at the precipice of demise isn't horrible enough. Also birthdays and in some of the biggest North Texas news that is need news that is neither surprising nor depressing for me. The Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Stars are fleeing the comfy confines of the American Airlines Center near downtown Dallas and they're heading north.

1:18 Stars are heading to the Willow Bend area in Plano, and the Stars, I'm sorry, and the Mavericks are headed to the now defunct Valley View Mall area in North Dallas off of six point thirty five. Really, yes, they are again, I am neither surprised nor depressed. I I'm still I'm look I will admit I'm still butt hurt about the Hole Luca thing. I am. I am no longer in MFFL, which I guess would mean I wasn't in the first place. I don't like the new ownership and the things that they have done since they've been here, so it doesn't matter to me where the MAVs go.

2:01 I'm not going. The Stars, on the other hand, they are also moving, and I think probably the biggest wake up call that may happen with these two franchises is realizing that they were stronger together than they are apart. And they gonna find out. It's not even gonna really matter to the franchises. It's the city. I mean, Plano has absolutely lost their mind. Because what is Plano doing to attract the Stars. Oh, they're giving them huge tax incentives to move there. And the problem is, you look at Victory as a development. It has been there now for twenty five years. It is just in the last couple of years you've had a few tenants that have finally survived and are doing well.

2:51 You still you go back and look at the places around American Airlines Center. They're completely dependent upon activity at the AAC. So you know, Stars play forty one home games, Maps play forty one home games, you have preseason, you have playoffs, you have concerts, which keep that in mind, they're not going to immediately just shutter the AAC, so it'll still be holding concerts and stuff like that. But total, you have about probably one hundred and twenty nights a year that brings stuff down to there. And that still has not been enough for the majority of twenty five years to keep businesses in place. And again, like you said, they're better together than a part. So now, especially in Plano, the notion that one of these franchises can carry an entire development is a joke. The MAVs are simply betting on the fact that that they will get a casino. That's the whole play there, especially after the thea Tita Brothers in Houston. They just bought a casino.

3:55 I forgot which one, but you know, everyone's trying to get in, you know, first in place, first place to be at the development for a casino in Texas. But the Stars have lost their mind because if you look at it from a centralized point of view. You're not going to get the same draw Dallas. People are not going to drive a lot of them. Am not going to go sit in traffic because when you're coming from plane to Dallas at let's say six point thirty, you're going kind of against traffic. You're right in the thick of things. If you're trying to go from Dallas to Plano. And I think someone I forgot his name of WFA put it deal. It's like, right now it's forty five minutes to get from American Airlines Center to will have been.

4:42 So it's going to change a lot of things, and it's a real boneheaded. Move an he deals with dark that we know about. Dart's just trying to survive let alone. I think five years into the future. Have you not looked at the different referendum on suburbs for Dart. They're canceling Dart. Yeah, Dart Again. The statistic you always need to know about Dark is Dart is they could go by every one of their writers like a used Toyota Corolla and be better off financially than they are operating. Try that. I think that's worth a shot. I think it's worth looking into do a little test phase with it, have a little beta group that's like, you know, let's find one hundred people, give them a Toda Corolla and just see how it goes. They may like it better. Look, the Double Ac I was the twenty five years ago.

5:38 I mean the Double Ac opened up in two thousand and one July of two thousand and one, and I was kind of surprised that it was able to happen because Dallas was having such a hard time trying to keep things in Dallas and the fact that it happened. Look, I I give all that credit to Mark Cuban. And now twenty five years later, you know, the Cowboys wanted to go to Dallas. They wanted to revitalize the Cotton Bowl area around that. That is absolutely false. The Cowboys didn't want that. No, that was how Laura Miller killed the deal. No, no, no, I know that she screwed that up. But my my understanding of the Cowboys situation was that they were maybe it wasn't their idea, but they were certainly open to going to Dallas and they going back to the Cotton Bowl. But no, it was.

6:38 Never no, it was always they wanted to be over basically in the Trinity area because there's there's a lot. Of land they could have developed. Okay, on the that southern part of downtown Dallas. Then maybe I've got the area confused, and my memory is, of course. No, Laura Miller threw that in because she knew that Fair Park is a state park and so you would have to have the state legislature approve that, and that was going to be another They were off on and off year, so it was going to be another like eighteen months to get that to go through, and Jerry wasn't. Gonna wait, gotcha, now that part I remember. What I'm saying is maybe I misremembered was thinking that the Cowboys were at the very least open to moving into Dallas proper.

7:29 Maybe yeah, they were, and that they actually wanted to move into Dallas. But obviously we all knew Jerry Jones is going to do whatever was the best deal financially for him. Arlington backed up the subsidy truck to Jerry Jones, so they went to Arlington and Arlington now and now you got the Stars doing the same thing with the city of Plano. Well. Totally, I mean, a real different deal, but and ay, it has worked great for Arlington. Arlington, I think they're five years ahead on their bonds. So and you look at what's now they have that what Arlington has is what Dallas should have had, and that goes to Dallas's first big mistake is not getting the Rangers. But you have a whole development over there between Globe Life and AT and T Stadium. Texas Live does great and so they've developed a nice entertainment district. But mind you, you have two franchises in the same vicinity. One has eighty one games home games a year, not including preseason or playoffs.

8:39 That's one of the big things baseball people don't realize. It's just the sure number of games that you're going to bring at least ten to fifteen thousand people in. And then you have the number one sport in the United States that at anytime they open their doors for anything, people flood it. But the Stars, that's the one I really I'm surprised because you just look at the numbers on hockey. It's although the Stars do do just fine when they're at American Airlines Center, but it's not Their revenue is the lowest of the Big four and It'll be very very interesting to see if if Plano has and you know, Dallas is a lot bigger than Plano, to see if Plano has the numbers to support that.

9:25 Yeah, I will say the Dallas Stars did such a great job when they first came into the area integrating hockey into you know, football country. They had all the little Doctors, all the Doctor Peppers star centers set up. I don't even know how many of those are still around it. There's at least a couple. But you know, hockey is still an uphill battle when it comes to North Texas. So that takes me back to the Stars and the MAVs parting ways going into their own developments. Man, that's going to be tough. And like with the MAVs moving into the Valley View area, it's again based on recent decisions that the MAVs have made as a franchise.

10:09 I would just prefer them opening up an Orange Julius at the old Valley View site. I'd go back for that. Maybe even the Folies. That's going to be a bigger draw to me than the Mavericks. I just I really thought that they would have stood a better chance together. But obviously they're doing what they want to do on their own. Well, they've been in a lawsuit I mean for the last couple of years that the Mavericks just won as far as just for control of American Airline Center. But this is also another one of those things. The City of Dallas, you knew this coming. Arenas have a thirty year. Lifespan these days.

10:49 At most Dallas should have been preparing for this starting five years ago and with a proposal to keep them together and do something, and said, you got this last minute crap of it was either gonna be city Hall, Value View or the suburbs. I guess for Dallas at least they kept him in Dallas. Yeah, and I know that they've been They people, developers whatever, have been wanting to do something with that old Value View site for years. Yeah, everything is everything they've plan's fallen through. So because it's not that desirable. Of an area, it's not. And six thirty five already sucks, And what little traffic you're going to get with that new development with MAVs Games is going to make six thirty five even worse.

11:38 Oh what little what little traffic? Don't you know? If they make a casino there. That's permanent traffic. You are going to have to have, you know different, They're gonna have to rebuild ramps and do all sorts of other things to accommodate set traffic. Now, that is the difference. If the Addleson's and Patrick Dumont from the Mavericks can finally railroad a casino into that development, then they win, and they can make their own new highway leading directly to it that can Bypass six thirty five. Just call it Casino Drive or cash Money Lane whatever, and that'll be fine until then, I mean, nothing's happening immediately. The MAVs and the Stars lease both expire from the Double AC in twenty thirty one, so we've got five years until the Double AC can unfurl the world's largest spirit Halloween banner and we all can have something exciting to go to downtown.

12:41 Well, but the sad thing is is that sorry, no, no, no, you're good. Oh, I mean the. Sad thing is all the businesses that have invested a lot of money to be down there and have long term plans just basically got a. Notice that they're gonna have to close up. Shop, yeah, or severely alter their business models. On the flip side, if you live around the Victory area, the good news is you can finally get some food delivered to you on game nights. So I mean there are some benefits. Now. It's like, now I wouldn't be so bad because if you live down there, it's it's kind of like like growing up in Arlington like I did in high school, always keeping the Rangers schedule in the car, so I knew which way to get Brandon out of Arlington, whether or not the team was in town or not.

13:39 People that live in that area of Dallas are like, Okay, you really need to pay attention because you may not be able to get home very easily, or get out very easily, or get things, you know, dropped off. So it's it's and you said it earlier trade that whole area was already To me, it was kind of a mystery. Maybe you've got a handle on it. I thought that that development, the Victory, Yeah, the Victory Park development was going to be a success because you had both the MAVs and the Stars, this new arena, all this stuff that was going to be built up around it in an area that there was really nothing before. I thought it was going to be great and then nothing for like twenty years. Things struggled to survive in that area.

14:27 No, it's not a shocker. And because you still everything comes down when you were stuff like that urban density. How many people do you have and it's you look at the number of high rises that have gone up that are still going up. They have struggled, but. It's still and this is something downtown has struggled my whole life with anything thriving downtown, right, and it all comes back to urban density. You need it because whereas if you're in New York City you have no place to go, but in an urban area, you're going to be in a high rise of mid rise whatever here because we have so much land.

15:09 It's the whole thing. We grow out and family, especially if you're a family with kids, most of them don't want to be downtown. They want to be you know, in a house with a yard everything else. And that's why they just struggle. And now I mean you look at because not only you're losing the stars, you're losing the mouth. You also you're losing AT and T as you know a their corporate headquarters. Yeah, now you have I think gold and sacks building a huge complex down there, but. And the whole y'all street thing. Which which may help, but it's still this is going to be a huge blow.

15:50 Uh. Fox four caught up with Candy Evans, who runs candies dirt dot com. Part of the reason I bring up is I just wanted to see Trey's face when I said her name. Uh. And she regularly follows real estate in DFW. On the post with Lord Improvable, she says the city must promote its downtown in a way that continues to attract residents in the wake of the MAVs and the Stars leaving. She says, and that quote everybody watched Trey's face. If you're watching this, pat for you too. If we would draw on the authenticity of downtown Dallas, that's it. That's as far as I could get in the quote. The authenticity of Dallas. Okay, downtown, I don't know. The authenticity of downe Dallas is covered in piss or you know, the.

16:35 Blood of a president. I mean, that's that's the problem. There is very little downtown offers. It never has, right, I mean, Jesus, I'm born and raised in Dallas. I still struggle to drive around downtown Dallas. It's poorly planned out. Uh. You have crime problems galore. Uh uh. And just look that's on the The AAC is on the north side of Downtown Dallas. Go look on the south side with you know, south side on Lamar everything else. Everything has struggled down there. And now.

17:16 With AT and T going everything else, you just kind of got the middle too. Hey, maybe the West n will come back. That's what we need. We need. We need a good Dallas alley. We need that chocolate factory. Uh yeah, what was it spaghetti warehouse that was down there back in the day. Bring all that stuff back. I'm sure it'll come roaring back. You know what it needs. We need to bring back playing at Hollywood because that did well for everybody. Good arcade. Yeah, actually I would go to a downtown arcade. That might be fun. I like your idea. You're in the Treehouse. Visit us online, not Treehouse on air dot com.

18:02 I got it. Downtown Dallas is an extension of GTA six, but in real life. Now you gotta winner. Time now to talk to Daniel Cook from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration. A man of many talents, not only is he the Tarzan of roofing. He's also a master contractor. He can change your ugly kitchen into a beautiful one. And he's also a bit of a word smith. If you have not checked it out yet, you need to check out the Know Your Home Show from COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration hosted by Yours Trules that's me and Daniel. Check it out on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at Know Your Home. It's been a lot of fun doing that show, hasn't it.

18:44 Dan. That has been a fantastic time. I look forward to every episode and it really is focused on homeowners knowing their home and that's that was the baseline, and that's what we're sticking with. We've had some really great guests that have been very informative, and I look forward to getting some feed back and having more people listen to that show and hopefully it really helps understand and know your home better. And it really is an approach where there are no dumb questions. We want this to be sort of homeownership one oh one because most of us don't deal with these certain things every day the way that people like Daniel and the other experts we've had on the show do so they are imparting their knowledge upon us the homeowner, so we can know our homes. So check it out today on YouTube. It's no your Home the directurlutube dot com slash at symbol know your Home, and it's also there on the website cookdfw dot com. You're listening to the Treehouse, visit us online at treehouseonair dot com. This segment of the Treehouse is brought to you by cookdf W Roofing and Restoration. To get your free roof inspection and property review. Called Daniel Cook right now to get that schedule eight three three Cook DFW. That's eight three three Cook DFW or the website cook dfw dot com.

20:08 Back inside the Treehouse, I'm Dan along with Trey and Jerry. Today is hang on. What is today? Wednesday? Kysday almost said January Wednesday, June third, twenty twenty six. Let's celebrate today with some birthdays. And there's a really good one to end birthdays, so hang with me. We will start with Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper of CNN and sixty Minutes fame. He is fifty nine years old today. He's also famous for all the wrong reasons on New Year's Eve when he and Andy Cohen hosts for some reason CNN or is it Bravos whatever thing. Basically, it's the the annual Anderson Cooper drunk thing. Andy Cohen. I don't watch it, but it's usually good for a couple of clips the next morning. Doctor Jill Biden, former First Lady. She is seventy five. Today Susie Quatro is all is seventy six today Susie Quatro seventy six?

21:05 Who is that? Honest to god, I was hoping you would know, because I know that name. I just don't know. I'm like, is it a singer? Actress? Let me check here? Susie quatrom come on. She is an American born rock singer, bassis, songwriter, and actress. I was right trailblazer of nineteen seventies glam rock. She became the first female bass player to achieve major international stardom, influencing generations of women in rock music. She is also the pleasure Seekers, The pleasure Seekers, Thank You, Jerry. She was probably best known as Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days.

21:48 That's how I know. That's how I know, all right, That's how I know. It also tennis great Rafiel and the doll turns forty today. I think I have this correct. So it's Nadal and Roger Federer that are the two big guys for many media years going head to head. I think it's Djokovic two, but I think Nadal has an edged. I think Federer has beaten a doll more. Again, I may have this backwards, but I think Federer has beaten a doll more. But Nadal owns Federer on clay. Yeah, everyone, Nadal owned everyone on clay, I believe. Yeah, look at that, eh, All this random crap in my head is not just movies. Speaking of movies, the greatest birthday of today, without a doubt, is actress i'm a Jim Poots. She is thirty seven today. Now I know what you're thinking. A. Is that name real? Yes?

22:59 It is? I checked, and B could it get any worse? And the answer is yes. Because her middle name is gay. I don't mean her middle name is homosexual. I don't mean her middle name is the alternate slang for gay stupid. I mean her middle name is actually gay. Her full name is I'm a Jen Gay Poots. Happy birthday to her. She is thirty seven Today was famously twenty eight weeks later. I really look it up to see if that was real. I was like, there's no way that's really don't. I don't believe it. The prep services is testing me. It's some sort of weird April Fool's Day. But no, unless the entire Internet is conspiring, that is a real person in a real name.

23:47 That was your big tease. Yes, okay, I'm a Jen Poots. Okay, shut up, Trey imaging Gay Poots. Come on, you own this one. I'm not saying I don't. I'm just saying, change the name. I mean, there are certain names of people of a certain notoriety or it's like, you know what, I think I may change this, Like celebrities will change their names all the time. I forget what Tom Cruise is is, but it's something kind of weird slash random. But it was a normal name and he just went with you know, Tom Cruise. I'm just saying. And then I think it was a it was a basketball player or football player, Rudy Gay. Not if there's anything wrong with that, but I might have been tempted to change it. You're just let me sit at it. That I don't. I don't like you too. All right, let's get to the most important story of the day, the claim Actually, hang on, did you guys see the viral story? Well, actually try I believe you sent me the video a few days ago of the stranded roller coaster writers at pleasure here in Galveston.

25:16 M I sent it to you, and I hoped it would give you nightmares. And it did, thank you very much. But then you followed it up by sending that Asian woman going to town on some pig testicles that had just been roasted, and that that supplanted the roller coaster nightmare. But a viral, a further viral story has come out of that roller that dangling roller coaster nightmare, and the internet is furious over a woman supposedly suing firefighters after they rescued her from that roller coaster. But there's one tiny problem. The viral story claimed a woman sued firefighters because they touched inappropriately while saving her from the roller coaster stuck nearly one hundred feet in the air, which, of course sounds outrageous.

26:07 But according to fact checkers and snopes dot com, because I check these things, there is zero evidence that this lawsuit exists or is even intended to be filed. The claim appears to of course, started on social media, spread like wildfire without any credible reporting to back it up. So while we love stupid here inside the Treehouse, we also like to have some shred of credibility, the tiniest amount possible of journalistic integrity. So on the show and even online on social media, if we're talking about something, we believe it to be real. We're not ever going to fake you out just for clicks and views and downloads and things, although many other people don't have that same mentality. But we also we're a little disappointed because that would have been a really good story. So yeah, a bunch of people just spent the last few days arguing over a lawsuit that doesn't even exist, just like my six pack by track. You know, don't you feel good knowing that we're right up there with sixty minutes When it comes to journalistic integrity, it's them and us.

27:35 Maybe we should send a note to Scott Pelley saying we're hiring for a news guy. There you go, you're listening to the tree House. Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. Do you feel restless and anxious, feel like something's missing in your life. Maybe you just need a little more Treehouse senate. Go to patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air and check out all the bonus features of subscription offers, including bonus shows, behind the scenes content, special subscriber only live shows, and so much more. That's Patreon dot com slash Treehouse on Air. That's p a t r e o in dot com slash Treehouse on Airs.

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29:14 A bit? What's that? A bitch? And you're giving me a hard time about that? I'm a jin Poots lady, Yes, trail woman. It was over a woman. The headline actually reads drunk husband takes messy break up with wife to the next level with home demolition. Wow. And I said, I said bitch for a very specific reason, because a drunk guy doing that, that is the only thing he's thinking of. That bitch made me mad for some reason. I yeah, tear it all down. So let's see who With as much information that we can glean from this new story, let's ask the question and then try to answer it. Was he right or do you get it? Was this an overreaction any one of these things. Let's let's see. Let's see if this was an overreaction or if we feel like, you know what, I kind of get it.

30:20 All right. A marital dispute in Pennsylvania took an extreme turn, resulting in the destruction of a large chunk of their house. According to report's forty eight year old Eric Perswa, Here's yeah, Eric Piers what used an excavator to rip apart the rear of his family home after a big night of drinking prompted an argument with his wife. The damage was so severe that investigators believe it has compromised the entire building's structural integrity. According to CBS News, the incident unfolded when his wife reportedly told him their marriage was over, to which he responded by saying, if it's over, I'll tear the house down. And then he tore the house down with an excavator. Yes, I would like to read more.

31:14 Local authorities alleged that Eric climbed into the heavy machinery and began tearing into the house while his wife and two daughters were still inside. We don't know how closed because he started in the back. We don't know where they were. The sound of the excavator tearing it through the walls could reportedly be heard during his wife's frantic nine to one one call. Jerry Makon note it m'd be a good time to bring back. Then, after the destruction stopped, investigators say Eric went back inside, grabbed the gym bag, and went into town before eventually being located and taken in by police. He was arrested and is now facing several charges, including causing a catastrophe. That's a good one reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. Court records also show his wife planning to seek a protection from abuseh order following the incident. Probably a good idea. Neighbors who spoke with the local news said they are struggling to understand how the situation escalated so quickly. So are we we need more information. One neighbor joked in an interview that he'd like to know what she said to him, because I'll make sure I don't say it. Forty two years I've been married, but I've never threatened to tear down the house. That's according to one neighbor. Users flocked to social media to weigh in on the incident, with many questioning how someone can be arrested for damaging their own home. Well, I'll give you one piece of information.

32:43 When there's people inside of it, that's right. If there's no one inside of your house, and you're not drunkenly operating heavy machinery, you can probably just tear down your own house if you want. I mean, you may have an issue with like city code enforcement. I don't necessarily going to a rise to a criminal problem, but with the alcohol and the people, that's yeah, How come. No one's asked the simple question of why did he just have an excavator on hand? There are many questions we have about this story, right what does he do for a living? But I understand you know exactly what his thought process was.

33:24 Please please dread light this. If I can't have it, you aren't either. Oh we're getting a divorce and you want the house? Huh Okay, yeah, I don't see that. Yeah. One person questioned, how does he get arrested for tearing down his one house? I feel like we've answered that. Another one poked fun by saying, well, no one ever accused him of not following through on his word. True, there many others made light of it, but at the end of the day, we still don't know, other than the wife saying the marriage is over, why he actually decided to tear down the house. So we're having to make some suppositions. Tray im with you. It's I think it's logical to assume that when she said I want a divorce, I'm going to take the house and the kids, he said, hold my beer, and then he went and jumped in the excavator that for some reason, is on property, and he tore down half the house. I'm assuming the have that he would be willing to give her in the divorce.

34:36 Hey listen, he's not looking at the flip side. At least she told him they were breaking up. That's that's true. Yeah, that's true. She did him the courtesy of saying I'm out, as opposed to just yeah into the wind. Last half full, my guy. House, half empty for all things Treehouse, Treehouse on air, dot com, and do us a solid. Send the show to a friend today that could use a laugh, Hit that chare button from your favorite listening platform, and together, let's grow the Treehouse Show. We'll see you next time right here inside the Treehouse