Dan vs The Board | It's Friday!!! #42

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It is time to leave your worries
outside and laugh with us inside the treehouse.

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Today is Friday, June one,
t first, Yeah, twenty twenty

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four. Very excited on a Friday. Fridays are always a good feeling day

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for everybody, honestly. And this
is true because since I no longer work

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Monday through Friday, my schedule now
is just all of it. It's seven

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days a week, or it's whatever
day. I just you know, we

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end up doing stuff. Friday still
feels good. I don't care. Maybe

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it's just from you know, two
and a half decades of of knowing that

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Friday was Friday and that it meant
something. Now that I don't work a

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traditional schedule, I still appreciate Friday, even if I got to work on

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Saturday. I mean, everybody's working
for the weekend. Like they had a

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song for us back then, Oh
lover boy, I know in a soft

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a soft spot in the treehouse for
that band, yep, but yeah,

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I mean they had a song for
it, like you uh, you knew

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like it was that was a big
deal, happy like you know, and

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it was like then they then they
implemented uh, casual Fridays or you could

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wear like a jeans and that was
supposed to be like, oh progressive.

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It was interesting too because the ironic
thing was for the radio side of Stuff

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with with Us is actual Friday.
When that started in the eighties was when

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dudes started dressing like radio DJs jeans
and a Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, we

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still had to do jeans, button
down tie. See to me, that

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always looks like college professor, teacher
or something. Yeah, I felt like

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I was teaching like inner city youth
math like I mean started in real estate.

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Yeah, you had to wear a
suit every day and then and so

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then by the late nineties it kind
of casual Friday became a thing. And

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even then it was you know,
maybe khakis and a button down you still

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uh and then yeah, slowly then
jeans and a button down. But and

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then the early two thousands it moved
into cargoes in a in alo. Now

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I saw the progression, right,
so when we when we implement, because

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I was telling my parents, I'm
like, hey, you know, the

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other people are doing this casual Friday, and they're like, oh, okay,

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I guess we can. And it
was about everybody saw us to have

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a dresser and tie. So we
all looked like the you know, the

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teacher on Saved by the Bell or
you know, not otun we all look

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like gil on. And then it's
like, hey, you know, but

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you know they don't have to wear
times. Okay, well we'll talk it

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over. And then the tie was
gone. And then we got staff like

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company polos. So we had the
logo for the company on the polo and

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we had multiple colors of those.
And then the the button downs and it

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was a little more you know,
you felt like, hey, this is

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kind of the weekend's coming up,
Like I don't have to wear the monkey

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suit. Uh and then uh so
I saw the progression and then like when

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when all those uh you know,
Google and Amazon and Microsoft were like,

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where what you want? We have
a pool table in here, we got

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ping pong tables and do your office
however you want to do it. My

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parents were like, we gave you
polos, that's enough bringing in TVs and

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pool tables. Yeah. This,
I mean, casual Friday is now digressed,

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the point where your employers are just
begging you to come in. They're

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very casual about coming in. Yeah, and if we're being honest, that

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that to me is the ideal work
environment, yeah, is if you don't

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have to come into the office,
then by god, why would you because

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because honestly, it's I mean,
there are certain there are certain jobs,

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certain industries. You're just gonna have
to You're gonna have to bite it and

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you're gonna have to go in,
or maybe you go in then you buy

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it, whatever the case. But
I'm I'm a firm work from home believer.

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If you don't have to be in
the office, yeah, then then

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you you shouldn't have to. You
shouldn't be forced to. Yeah. But

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like you know, if you work
like you know in it, like I

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don't think you need to come in. But I don't want my cardiologist on

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a zoom meeting, you know what
I mean. Yeah, I want to

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go to my physical I want my
doctor to physically touch me. It's very

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it's very awkward when you do the
turn and cough with your own hand.

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It's just the same. Yeah,
in a zoom meeting, I feel like

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I'm I feel like it's an only
fans at that point, and the money

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is going the wrong way. Yeah, you know, there's a problem if

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he starts throwing one dollar bills at
his screen. Doc doc Hello, Hello,

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I'm in the other tab. Oh
sorry, I was on my cam

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soda. Yeah, but yeah,
if you don't have to go into an

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like, imagine how much money corporations
could save. It's like, hey,

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everybody worked them up. I know
there's the social aspect of it because I

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had friends during coked like it COVID
in La like really screwed people up,

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like I saw it, Like I
saw people like literally suffering through like massive

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depression because they didn't have anybody to
talk to anymore. And I'm like,

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well, you're still having your like
company meetings and stuff like that, but

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like yeah, but there was no
like water cooler talk, and there was

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no you know, going by somebody's
office and swinging in and chatting for a

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few minutes before do you want back
to your desk? So it really fed

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them up, Like getn't messed with
their brains. So people need that social

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interaction. I'm of the type where
I don't need to have that, yes,

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And that type of stuff ends up
being more of a distraction, and

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so I'd rather just eliminate all that
and be efficient. But the other and

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this keeps coming back, but this
is the problem, you know, the

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companies are having Now is hard enough
getting gen Z on time, doing things

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on time on a schedule in the
office. And now what employers are found

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is, especially with gen Z working
from home, then they're just like,

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oh, I'll get it to you
when I get it to you. Yes,

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And it doesn't work that way.
Man, you have such a heart

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on for gen Z. My goodness. Yeah, I mean I don't walking

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around smacking them in the head with
it and everything. Maybe they don't want

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to come to the office and I
have to go to sensitivity training. Yeah,

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because you'veen hitting them in the face
all heart. It's got to be

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sensitive. And speaking of that real
quick coming up in today's show, if

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you are large enough to be beating
people with with that, perhaps you've won

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the genetic lottery. We'll be talking
about genetic lottery. We'll be talking about

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genetic lottery winners and Arson gone awry, plus birthdays all in today's episode of

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The Treehouse. Back to the work
from home and the gen Z type angle

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of it. The way I see
it is, if the job is fine

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to be filled work from home,
go for it, and then if the

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employee sucks, get rid of they
don't do it. Right and whatever.

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On the other hand, from an
age standpoint, if I, as good

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employee number one, can proficiently do
my work from wherever the hell I'm allowed,

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you know, anywhere on the planet, unless you're you know, geographically

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limitted do to licensing or something,
then by god, do it if you've

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if you've earned it type of thing. And if you suck at it,

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then you don't get to do it
anymore. Yeah. My ex wife Millennial,

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right, so ten years younger than
me. She when COVID hit,

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She's out of the office. But
her thing was she would get out of

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the house and go for a walk
and that's when she would call because it

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was usually during lunch time, maybe
take an extended lunch. She'd call people

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that were in the office that used
to work and they'd take the lunch at

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the same time, so they have
that interaction. And she was fine with

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that, and me, I'm like, I don't have to talk to anybody

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and I can just sit here and
watch like we still have TV, right,

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we still have Netflix. That didn't
go away, right, Like no,

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no, no, that's all staying. I'm like, okay, so

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what's the hiccup? Like I can
see like I understand like for some people,

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like they took day drinking became a
problem. Day drinking extended in the

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night drinking, and then then became
morning drinking. And I saw that too,

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Well what's the song? How does
it go? You call it a

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drinking problem. I call it a
solution. Yeah, But I did see

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that, Like I saw people like
start like, hey, you know,

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it's two o'clock and I have you
know, offices closed cocktail time and I'm

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like, okay, well that'll spill
over in the noon, and that'll spill

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back down to eleven and then now
you've got a problem. Now you're in

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an AA meeting well on zoom.
But no, I was like I would

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at least go, you know what, it's six o'clock, Okay, now

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we can have you know, well, you know, we'll start making dinner,

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we can have some drinks whatever,
and that kind of like I understood

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that aspect. And we would do
a happy hour with the Dallas Comics.

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We'd get on Zoom and everybody would
pour themselves a drink and we would just

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bs about what was going on and
you know whatever, and so we had

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that interaction. But I mean,
I saw, I understand the work from

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home, but some people need that
weird, yes, And to me those

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people there needs to be a home
base for those people to come in and

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do that. If you if you're
good at doing your job remotely, then

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then by god, let me do
that, especially when and this is what

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I can't stand, and I'll get
off my high horse on and then we'll

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jump over into me asking you guys
how fermifest was since I got stuck in

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effing Florida. Is when the CEOs
say this doesn't working, everyone's got to

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come back to work, blah blah
blah blah blah. And they released that

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via their jet and it's like,
how often are you in the office,

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mister ceo? How often are you
at your desk doing an actual job type

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stuff? I'm I said, in
the jet, not flying it. But

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that to me is a big I'm
just big anti hypocrisy. If if you're

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a company and you're a CEO that's
demanding your employees being the office, then

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so should you. Yes, I
agree with that. You know what I

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I I just just dawned on me. I missed the day. So you're

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just slapping millennials around for just being
whiny bitches. Those are the good old

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days. Yeah, but in hindsight
now, I mean they're not. They

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don't seem so whiny now, No, Like you know, you know,

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here's that they grew up and they
realized that, you know, the world

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is different than they thought. Yes, I got other of Yeah. There

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was a millennial friend of mine and
we had this She was bitching about this

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and that and how the worlds were, and I go, wait till you

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start paying taxes, wait till you
really understand that, and then then come

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back and talk to me. And
you know, about five years later,

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she's like, yeah, you're right. That text thing. It really does

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put a different perspective on things like
sure does. I'd like to do a

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quick point out here that Trey referencing
the good old days of slapping around millennials

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will be a out of context promo
for the show. I'm okay with that.

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Yeah, yeah, all right.
So now now that we've covered that,

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we've covered our work from home bases, as we all work from home

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here on the show, which is
one of the things I love. That's

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to me, it's the ideal.
It's to do what I do that I

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feel that I do well and It's
what I love and do it from wherever

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I want to be, wherever I
want to and we are able to do

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that here in the Trios, and
I'm very grateful for it. And because

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of the show, we have forged
excellent relationships with various entities in North Texas,

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one of which is Pause in the
city. And last weekend was Vermafest

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twenty twenty four. I wasn't going
to go. Then airfare looked really,

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really good. I was like,
all right, let's go, especially because

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we had a couple of other work
things in there that we could do while

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I was in town, in addition
to Vermafest, you know, with Drowning

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pull and everything at the studio with
the factory. I was like, all

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right, let's do it. I'm
gonna I'm gonna come to town. We'll

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do this, We'll have some fun. Then I got stuck in Florida because

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of weather and airlines being incompetent,
So how to go? How was it?

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Was it fun? I saw the
photo of you guys were drowning pool,

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and I felt attacked. If I
can steal a gen z uh triggered,

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I was. I was extremely triggered
by your photo. With drowning pool.

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It was loud, Dan, it
was very loud, very loud.

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That is that is absolutely a gen
X answer, raj Uh. Let's couple

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that with your additional old man uh
barometer by which you judge events. How

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is the parking? Uh? I
we got very lucky. H Trey and

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I were pulling. We were looking
at sponsor and I'm like, I bet

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you they have parking for us at
the venue. They didn't. Oh,

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not a whole lot of big picture
thinkers there no, not at all.

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And as we're like, let's call
and find out if there is parking,

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as we were finding out there sure
isn't. Uh. This there was a

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there was like I guess an art
fest or something was happening, like a

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street fair was happening, and some
people it was a June team festival.

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This is what it was. Oh, okay, I'm sorry, I mean

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a street festival that's every weekend in
Deep Elm. Yeah. And so the

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car that was right I mean just
caddy corner from the venue, I mean

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maybe fifteen yards to the backstage door. There was a couple that moved their

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car and it was right there.
So we parked right. We just got

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very lucky, and so you didn't
have to make two laps and they can

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go home. No, no,
no, yeah, I told you,

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I'll give you two laps and then
I'm not coming. I remember, That's

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why I asked, Yep, two
laps and then I'm going home. The

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first event at Three Nations Brewery very
hot. They did have misters, which

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I think are a great idea if
they actually get to you. But they

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also had like big giant fans that
were blowing them in every other direction except

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for where people were. They have
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have an inside air conditioning place,
they have kind of a covered patio,

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then they have a big outside area. They even have the old one of

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the old big carousels from Sandy Lake
Park they put on the patio and that's

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like they're one of the outdoor covers
type of things. But but I will

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say this, uh concert, it
was good. The the Mad Mexicans my

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new favorite band. They are awesome. Imagine beastie boys, rage against the

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machine, yeah and cypress along with
a border dispute mixed in funny and and

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they put on like they are high
energy. They are, you know,

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all all over the stage and then
I was talking to one of the guys

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afterwards and I was like, I
said, what do you all? How

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often do y'all play? I said, y'all are awesome? He goes,

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He goes, we only do like
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old. I I feel your brother. I think I looked at I think

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I looked at Trey at one point
and I go, I can feel my

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hair move. Yeah, that's uh. And then I mean we you know,

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we're old. Like when when they
started doing sound check Tray and I

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walked over to Scott, his friend
who was bartending on, like, we

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need earplugs. That is a level
of old that is very unfortunate. It's

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one of those levels of old that
you're glad your younger self never had to

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witness. And that is asking them
at the sound check to turn down the

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volume. We we turned down the
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And I remember going to concerts back
in the day and yeah, I

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didn't have ear plugs. But that
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This was great, Like we got
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fun, we could talk back and
forth. It was good. Everybody from

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top to Bottom from Earworm War hoog
vein all those sanctioned to Drowning Pool,

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Mad Mexicans, everybody put on a
great show and there and there was a

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lot of love for Verma and then
so that was it was definitely you know,

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a truth to matter is some of
those bands from what I gathered a

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kind of semi retired and they all
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him and wanted to do it.
So sanction sanction, Like Verma walked into

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Lone Star. He was that happened
to be at Uh you could tand liquid

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stand back in the day and walk
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this band and he became their manager
and that's why they performed that night.

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I don't I think they still you
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couple of shows a year maybe,
but he managed them for years and years

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and years. So that was like
legitimately his band that was on stage.

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So that was pretty cool because I
was like, because I was, you

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know, train now we're going back
and forth like how do you want us

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to bring you up? Like what
do you want us to say for you?

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And the guy from Santion's like we
were Mark Verma's band, and I

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was like, no, I got
you. We're all in this together,

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buddy, and he's like, no, no, he was our manager.

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I'm like, oh, okay,
my bad. I thought we were like

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like a unity thing and they're like, no, he managed us, and

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I thought that was really cool.
And then drowning pool just blew the roof

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off the place. So it went. It went really really well. I'm

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glad to hear it. I was
sad to miss it. Uh, but

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it was a lot better than than
the alternative, Yeah, which which was

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sitting in Florida. Yes, yeah, because I believe I'd still because I'm

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actually still technically waiting on my call
back from Spirit customer service. Yeah.

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Yeah, I'm still waiting on mine
from when I was going to Reno from

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Delta. So uh, there's they're
still in the process of issuing me a

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refund. They told me that every
day. See I at least got mine,

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Yeah, oh I did, so
not exactly, so I didn't get

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an actual refund because this is this
is the sad, terrible part. In

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addition to Spirit canceling my trip mid
trip, yeah, I had them because

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they couldn't rebook me on the flight
the very next morning because they had given

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it to everybody else already, even
though the flight that I was on originally

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that was supposed to be the make
good flight and they didn't give it to

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me, but whatever. So the
make good flight for me wasn't going to

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get in until late Saturday afternoon,
which would not have worked for the Vermafest

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event. And by the way,
that flight was going to take me through

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New York. So I said,
can you just send me home on the

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next flight. They said, yes, we can do that. Well,

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because I did that, customer service
started telling Tara, because Tara is part

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Pitbull, and she went after Spirit
Airlines the next day and was like,

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hey, you owe us money.
Like no, he he. They tried

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saying that, well, no,
he made the flight. He's back home.

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You're like, no, no,
we paid for four flights and he

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took two. They were trying to
say, well, he left home and

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he's back home, so that counts. And no. Also, somewhere in

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the middle of all of that they
actually said and they said this to me

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as well on the text. When
I said, hey, my flight,

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I cancel blah blah blah. The
response back was actually showing here that it's

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boarding. I'm like, the it
is. Yeah, So somewhere in the

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customer service system they were showing my
flight is boarding, even though the actual

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flight was obviously canceled to everybody on
the ground. So there's a series disconnected

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with the customer service. And then
when TERA's trying to get at them,

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they said, well, in our
system, it says that the flight left.

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And she's like, it doesn't matter, he wasn't on it. And

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then they said, well, since
he wasn't on that flight, he changed

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his itinerary back to this. It's
like no, that was the only options

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that were presented to him. Long
story short, they didn't want to refund

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two of the flights that I had. Two of the additions I was supposed

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to take four flights took two.
They didn't want to completely refund those.

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So now we just got a credit
with have to use within a year.

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Okay, so you can use that
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Yes, there we haven't that we
haven't yet mentioned. Oh okay,

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hypothetical live event. Now, I'll
tell you about it here. Visit us

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online at freehouse on air dot com. Eight three three Cook df W that's

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the phone number you need to call
for your free roof inspection. The website

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COOKDFW dot com. The free roof
inspection is extremely important, especially as we're

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starting to make the shift from super
heavy spring storm season in North Texas into

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super hot summer. But we still
get storms that pop up, so you

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need to have Daniel and his team
come out check your roof to see how

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it failed through the heavy storm season
and if it's ready for the next one,

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right Daniel, Yeah, Dan,
we're starting to see a ton of

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calls coming in from leaks that people
had no idea they had. So now

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you know, we we have a
few about a week now, dry weather,

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it's starting to get hot. They're
cranking it up here. We go

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into summer officially today that we're doing
this recording, it is the longest day

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of the year summer sultice. So
we're gonna have a long hot day to

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day and many more after this.
But yeah, we need to get up

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here on these roofs check them out. You know, there's a lot of

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issues that we're finding from shingles being
missing in areas that you can't see from

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the ground, flashings that have got
blown up, from the high winds.

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You know, parts of the roof
that got tore off. So these are

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things that are super important. Don't
be on the other side of that problem

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when you find out, you know, maybe in a week or two,

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when we get up draft thunder storm, all of a sudden you find that

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you have a leak that you had
no idea, that you knew it was

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coming. Get Daniel and his team
out to your home now to check to

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see if a small problem can be
addressed before it becomes a major one eight

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three three Cook DFW eight three three
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You're listening to the Treehouse. Visit
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com. This segment of the Treehouse
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Restoration for your free roof inspection property
walk about and to get on the cook

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list. You have our friends at
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number eight three three Cook DFW eight
three three Cook dfw the website cookdfw dot

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com. I'm actually glad you spilled
the beans on that raj because we need

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to go ahead and announce it anyway, and oh wait, let me get

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some music. We get some announcement
music. Hang on, Okay, that's

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like yoga music. Hang on about
this. Oh, that's not intro,

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although maybe we do that at the
live event. It will be a pool

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party after all. There we go. That's not bad. Oh that's traffic

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music though. Okay, yeah,
we can't play all that. Plus that's

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old. Now, that seems kind
of lame. Hang on, all right,

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that's not really exciting fun. That's
more of an ending, not a

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beginning. Same thing. That's not
bad. Are you ready to have the

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scared out of you? Still?
Not quite announcement stuff, not just Raj

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being scared at a haunted house,
unsolved mysteries theme. That'll work, game

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show. Yeah, all right,
here we go. It is announcement time

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inside the Treehouse on Saturday, July
twenty seventh. Barring any other flight issues

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or weather interruptions, or general incompetence
on either our part or the venue of

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the event, we will be doing
the Treehouse Pool Party twenty twenty four.

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Yeah, laying there. Treehouse Pool
Party twenty twenty four. Yeah, yeah,

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suck at this anyway. The Treehouse
Pool Party twenty twenty four is probably

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happening at the Fraternal Order of Eagles
Pool in Dallas. Not everyone in North

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Texas is aware of this hidden gym, but if you've lived in Dallas proper

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for more than one summer, you
may have heard of it, especially if

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where you lived did not have a
pool, because it obviously gets hot in

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Texas and sometimes you can't sneak in
to condo communities or apartment complexes into their

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pools because of guards and gates and
things, so sometimes you have to find

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a pool to hang out at.
And that is where the Fraternal Order of

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Eagles in Dallas comes to save the
day. The Foe Pool. Oh many,

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many, many wonderful times, and
now we're going to have one ourselves.

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The Treehouse Podcast Pool Party twenty twenty
four will be happening at the Fraternal

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Order of Eagles Pool in Dallas,
also just you know, colloquially known as

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the Foe. So yeah, we'll
have a Treehouse pool party. That'll be

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Saturday, July twenty seventh, the
day after Trey's birthday. So it'll be

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a few different things all rolled into
one. It'll be a pool party,

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it'll be a celebration of Trey's birthday, which, if I'm not mistaken,

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we'll make fifty. So what better
way than to celebrate being ushered into the

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age of aarp than by hanging out
at a pool with a bunch of twenty

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thirty and forty somethings. Yeah,
and I didn't know what this place was,

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and you guys told me what I
think you The last time you were

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in town, you and Tara had
gone to this place. I had never

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heard about it. I was having
lunch a dinner at oakd and my buddy

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Barton, who was a bartender there, I said, have you heard of

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this place called the Fraternado? Is
like the Foe, It's the greatest place

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in the world. Yes. I
went the following weekend, saw one of

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my old old friends who happens to
be one of the members there. And

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just for the listening public, you
should go. That's the best poor drinks

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for the least amount of money.
Yes, and that's that's why if you

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talked you mentioned pretty much anyone in
the service industry. Yes, they are

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familiar with it. And Monday's are
there the service industry day there and and

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a wonderful ship show to behold.
It is it is can I can I

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say epic and not sound like I
like just pulling that out of my ass.

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It's an epic play like that.
When I got my bill, I

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kind of giggled and I was like, well, this can't be right.

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Uh. And my buddy Eric,
who is a member there, just kind

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of leaned over my shoulders like what
do you got. I was like,

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this can't be right, and he's
like, oh, it is. And

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I was like, how do you
become a member here? And there's a

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lot, there's a whole process to
become a member. I don't have that

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much time to donate that much time
to community service hours is how you get

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in. But I will contribute my
few bucks at the door to get in

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to spend the day. And it
is to everybody listening go by and check

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it out. And they have actually
they have made some really nice improvements to

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it. Oh yeah, for sure. So they always they each year they

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add to it. So they open
the pool up to the public in the

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summertime. And like Trey said,
I mean they're open seven days a week

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barring any sort of interruption for whatever
other reason. But they're open seven days

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a week with that pool all summer
long. And on Saturday July twenty seventh,

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we will be infiltrating the Foe Pool
in Dallas. We will be inside

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by the pool. We will start
our event around one and yes, there

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will be an entry fee. You
can pay cash at the door. There's

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card reader that they do there at
the door. Is well, that's what

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everyone including us pays to get into
the pool for the public access. And

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once you're in, you've got lounge
chairs, you've got grass area for towels

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and things. You've got a massive
pool, you've got one two bars outside,

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a third bar on the inside,
concessions for food as well. It's

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a great setup for any day of
the summer to hang out at a pool,

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but especially Saturday July twenty seventh with
us in the treehouse. So one

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cabanas they can rent too. I
think there are cabanas that you can rent.

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You can rent those cabanas which are
cool because it's shaded. But it's

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a great thing. It'll be a
great fun time for all of us,

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and we will of course for every
road show that we do, we will

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be pushing for donations to the Listeners
Foundation and hopefully have some merch to sell

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as well. On site some treehouse
merch and have a good time in front

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of you, and it'll be a
live taping. So yeah, we'll get

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there, do the show, record
it, and then that'll drop, you

408
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:11.240
know, a few days later for
everyone to experience slash Witness. So there

409
00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.720
you have it. Foequal in Dallas, Saturday, July twenty seventh. The

410
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.680
gate opens at noon. We'll start
our stuff around one o'clock. We'll be

411
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.759
there for the afternoon, hanging out
with you, doing the show a little

412
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:26.440
bit and having a good old,
a good old treehouse time. Mm hmm.

413
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.119
See what what joy this will bring. Look at what my little f

414
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.079
up did by me accidentally mentioning this. It's going to bring so much joy.

415
00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:36.039
All the listeners will hear that and
be like, hey, we got

416
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.039
to get our we gotta get there
because it's a there's only a couple of

417
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.359
hundred people that can that can come, So it's I mean, yeah,

418
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:47.519
there is there is an eventual you
know, occupancy limit. Yeah. The

419
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:51.359
good news is the place doesn't really
get kicking with the general public till after

420
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.720
three o'clock, so the early crowd
is going to be mostly us, So

421
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.039
we'll have h we'll have a good
run of the place. When when it's

422
00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.759
when it opens up Saturday, July
twenty seven, The doors open at noon.

423
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:05.079
We will start our stuff around one
o'clock. Treehouse Podcast roadshow at the

424
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:14.839
Foweek in Dallas. Yeah, since
it is Friday, wrong song? Do

425
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:19.720
you not have? No? I
can't label them. I can't like,

426
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:23.880
I can't change the screen label because
there's different banks, so the bank changes.

427
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.240
And I can't label the buttons because
there's different banks on the screen.

428
00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:34.000
So like I might have a fart
on Bank two, but that same button

429
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.880
on Bank three is going to be
you scared at the Haunted House? Gotcha?

430
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:45.839
Okay? So, unfortunately, my
machine relies on my least least operable

431
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:52.640
uh body part, and that's my
brain. Yes, it relies on my

432
00:32:52.720 --> 00:33:00.359
memory to operate at one hundred percent. And that hasn't happened in the high

433
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:06.240
school. So no, because that's
when I started having my severe head injuries.

434
00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:09.880
Now, actually no, my first
my first severe head trauma was probably

435
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:14.240
when I was five. Oh gotcha? I told you guys about that,

436
00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:16.599
didn't I. No, All right, I'll tell you this really quickly.

437
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:20.839
So the kindergarten, it was either
it was either pre k or kindergarten.

438
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:22.119
I forget which, but it was. I was four or five, Little

439
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:25.160
Dandy, four or five. This
is when I had my big pencil.

440
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.400
I didn't have my big pencil in
hand for this though, because it was

441
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:31.319
recess time. But it was one
of those. It was like at a

442
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:36.519
church or something. So the class
the way the school was set up was

443
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:40.799
very odd. I've never seen anything
like it since the middle of the area.

444
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.000
Think of it like a track at
a high school. You've got the

445
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.599
football field in the middle, and
the track goes around the outside, right,

446
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:51.799
right, Yeah, that's kind of
the way this school slash church area

447
00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:57.000
was set up. You had where
the football field would go was just an

448
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:01.920
open carpeted flat area rectangle. I
think maybe they did basketball or something in

449
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:06.680
that area, but that was our
recess area. If it was bad weather

450
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.039
outside, it was in that biggital
carpeted area, right. And then on

451
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:15.000
the perimeter around the carpeted area where
the individual classrooms set up with dividers.

452
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:22.159
Okay, so I was on one
side of the field and there was a

453
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:28.039
large wooden playground thing in the middle
of it. Okay, this wooden thing

454
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:34.360
was open on two sides, so
it was a pass through on one side

455
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:38.519
and then on the other side it
had wooden bars up and down. I

456
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.599
have no idea how you're supposed to
play with this thing, but that's what

457
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.480
it was. It was a wood
box with bars on two sides and open

458
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.840
pass through on the other two.
So my game that day was going to

459
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:54.159
be to just run full speed through
the open pass through side through the other

460
00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.800
side. No idea why, but
that's the memory in my head. Unfortunately,

461
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:04.000
the last time I had played that
game, I was shorter and I

462
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:09.960
didn't realize it. Oh, so
when it came time to play this run

463
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.239
through the wood box game, I
had grown a little bit since the last

464
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.800
time I played it, and I
found out the hard way because little Danny

465
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:27.920
Ram's smack forehead first into the two
by six that was across the and And

466
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:34.000
maybe that explains a lot, because
your your vivid memories of this setup is

467
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.000
but the best memory recalls I've seen
out of you. So maybe that was

468
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:49.719
the line of demarcation of what you
couldn't see it coming towards. You couldn't

469
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:53.159
gauge your own head, like,
hey man, that looks like that might

470
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:58.599
be a little too, boo.
That's in my head. That's how I

471
00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:00.599
was, like, you're running,
this is gonna be fun. I think

472
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:05.960
I'm a little too. That's a
downside of the game where I was just

473
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.480
once I realized I was too tall
to play the game, it was too

474
00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:13.039
late. Yeah, that's why I
could never be I could never be a

475
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.639
teacher because I would have seen that. I would have kissed my pants laughing,

476
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.400
because one of your favorite things is
seeing people hurt themselves. But I

477
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.199
just love the ambition of you running
like I got this, and like just

478
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.639
running full speed as I mean,
just as fast as you can, and

479
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:37.360
then it just stops, like,
oh, I would have paid money to

480
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.599
see that. Yeah, and so
and I and I think honestly, and

481
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:45.440
this was. This was before obviously
TikTok, before YouTube. This was this

482
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.559
was even before America's Funniest Home Videos, which you would have won, had

483
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.840
I would have won, had there
been security footage of this four or five

484
00:36:53.920 --> 00:37:00.679
year old boy running full speed thinking
he's going to run through the open sides

485
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.280
of this wooden piece of playground equipment
and not realize that since the last time

486
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:07.679
he played the game, he had
grown a couple of inches and just full

487
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:13.440
speed head first into that two by
six. But you didn't see it.

488
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.719
I think you saw it. It
was just too late, that's what I'm

489
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:21.079
saying, because once I realized I
had grown, it was too late,

490
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:24.519
oh full speed, Like, yeah
you didn't. Were you too young to

491
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:29.960
know how to hit the brakes on
yourself phone? Like just dig your feet

492
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.679
into the like digging your heels into
the ground and take the l like just

493
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:39.079
fall, fall backwards and take the
loss instead of just fucking just as hard

494
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:45.639
as you can and then start suffering
CTE from the age of five or honestly,

495
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:52.239
honestly, RAJ, just just duck. So here's what I'm thinking.

496
00:37:53.519 --> 00:38:00.440
Here's my theory. So I tried
to run through, yes, the open

497
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:09.119
wooden piece of playground equipment, and
I didn't make it because I had grown,

498
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:19.639
and so I ran headfirst into this
two byst I was clearly a moron

499
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:25.320
at the age that this occurred.
You had pencil, that's right, That's

500
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.519
why I had the big pencil with
my name on it, so I know

501
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.199
it was mine, big red picture. Did Danny the day of that event?

502
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:36.159
Normal pencil? Right? Uh?
No, No, No, the

503
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:37.519
day of the event, I had
the big pencil. I think what happened

504
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:45.280
was I was a horrific moron from
birth to incident. So I think what

505
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.800
happened was like how the Flash got
hit by lightning and he gets his powers,

506
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:59.199
or Batman's parents get murdered in front
of him. That blow to my

507
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:07.199
head is what turned the light on, ironically to becoming a smarter individual.

508
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.440
You hit that and you could use
a regular pencil the next day. That's

509
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.880
exactly what it was. After that, it was a regular number two.

510
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:22.159
I was speaking complete sentences and I
was the best reader in class. He

511
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:25.880
was beating Indian kids. It was
that day you learned to not trust to

512
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:35.800
actme Box. I like how you
were the road Runner and Wiley Coyote the

513
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:44.880
same person. You were just tricking
yourself into getting hurt. I felt like

514
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:45.960
this. I feel like this needs
to be some sort of book. I

515
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:51.199
write, like the day I got
smart, It's like, just imagine what

516
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:57.320
Forrest Gump's life would have been like
had he done the same thing. The

517
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:01.880
day Danny got good. I really
was like the next day I was using

518
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:06.639
a normal number two pencil and I
started going by Dan. He wasn't using

519
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:13.039
he wasn't using crayons. He went
straight to Matt Pencils, a protractor.

520
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:21.199
He went to Daniel and to add
Entrey to the memory recall and the detail

521
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:27.840
of the story. Uh, the
carpet that Iran across was gray. It

522
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:32.480
didn't turn red with the river of
blood from your well. A few spots

523
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.719
did, but for the most part
the rest was gray. Okay, so

524
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:49.440
when this happened, didn't knock you
out. I just see a five year

525
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:54.000
old knocked out. I don't know
what you guys are picturing. I love

526
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:58.599
that you're envisioning a five year old
knocked out cold in a pool of its

527
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:01.960
own blood, and you're laughing.
I just see your head like what I'm

528
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:08.760
looking at on a five year old
body. It just kiss smack right into

529
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.840
what did you? Did you pass
out? Did you? I don't think

530
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.400
so. I don't think I did. I think I think I stayed conscious

531
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:24.119
through the entire process. And did
people come running over to I think they

532
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:31.280
were all looking around, like what
was that noise? That was the first

533
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:35.599
call of nine one one for a
drive by? Like somebody's shooting at us,

534
00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:47.920
your son's head? So you smack
into Kennedy moment it kind of was.

535
00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:54.760
It wasn't back into the left,
Yeah, there was. You're listening

536
00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:07.360
to the Treehouse. Visit is online
that Treehouse on air. Let's get Jacqueline

537
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.039
from Brooks Plumbing into the Treehouse now
to one four, three six eight thirty

538
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:14.960
eight thirty eight. That's the number
to call for any and all of those

539
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:21.239
plumbing wants and needs. The website
Brooks Plumbingtexas dot com. Jacqueline, you

540
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:27.880
are wonderful with your customer relations.
You help every client in their own special

541
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.559
way. Is there a recent example
where you thought, hy, look at

542
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:32.960
me, I did a really good
job for this person. He called me

543
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.800
out of the blue. It was
nighttime. He was, hey, you

544
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.679
guys were at my house a couple
of years ago and you were here for

545
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:43.719
insurance and you found XYZ. But
because it ended up hurting all the floors

546
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:46.119
in the house, we ended up
using a general contractor to replace everything,

547
00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:50.920
including the plumbing leak. And they
said, we've just found out that it

548
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.960
wasn't done right now, it wasn't
done to code, and now my new

549
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.119
hardwood floors from two years ago are
buckling and we have to do it again.

550
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:00.079
And he said, you know how
far can you get here, and

551
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.239
do you have a remediation team?
And while we don't do remediation, which

552
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:07.519
is that water removal, I said, I absolutely have a couple teams that

553
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:13.639
are open twenty four to seven that'll
be there, and we determined that we're

554
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.400
actually able to save the hardwood floors
because the remediation team got there fast enough.

555
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:22.199
Now we just have to tackle the
plumbing problem. And so always just

556
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.920
knowing that if you have a question
and it's home related, even if I

557
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:28.760
can't fix it, I can at
least steer you in the right direction.

558
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.159
And that's a huge deal for him, and that's a huge deal to you

559
00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:35.960
to know that. So that means
when you have a concern around the house

560
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.480
like that, you can call Jacqueline
from Brooks Plumbing and she will, as

561
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:40.760
she said, steer you in the
right direction and help you take care.

562
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:45.760
Two one fourth three six eight thirty
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563
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.079
eight thirty eight thirty eight. And
again that website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com.

564
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:02.320
You're in the Treehouse visits on line
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565
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:07.360
This segment of the Treehouse is brought
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566
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.920
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567
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thirty eight thirty eight. That's two
one four three six eight thirty eight thirty

568
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:21.159
eight. The website Brooks Plumbing Texas
dot com. Uh Raj is still recuperating

569
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:25.199
from my head hitting the wooden thing
when I was four or five. I

570
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:31.360
have to be serious, now,
okay, I'm with you, Roj.

571
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:35.000
I really wish there were security footage
of that that I that I could have

572
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.000
even witness for myself. Yeah,
that was traumatic, and you know it

573
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:40.159
would have even been better if you're
like, no, I was sixteen.

574
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:47.280
Now at sixteen, Uh, I
did one of the dumber things I did

575
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:52.400
in football, and that was I
I had butted one of my teammates.

576
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:59.239
The problem was he was wearing a
helmet and that wasn't I just don't know

577
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.239
what. We may just have to
dedicate an entire episode to all my head

578
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:05.840
injuries because I'll fill an hour easy. Yeah, I just want I just

579
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.039
want to bring in a neurologist,
uh, and not one from the island

580
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:14.000
that you're on, because clearly I
did the neurology exam last year. They

581
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:17.079
said it was fine. Is it
an island doctor who also it was in

582
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.800
Dallas? Oh gotcha. Okay,
we're gonna, We're gonna get was the

583
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:28.039
Indian no neurologist. He said,
I was fine. I went to a

584
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:32.880
different specialist, he said, I
was fine. I'm fine. My wife

585
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.360
had me tested. Okay, we're
gonna, we're gonna. We're gonna get

586
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:40.199
you to a buddy of mine who's
a good neurologist out here. Here's an

587
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:45.079
Indian guy. That's that's who you
need to go to. Uh, we

588
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.760
are getting body scans. Uh,
well, we'll come to town next month.

589
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.840
We're body scans just because you know, healthy, we're getting older.

590
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:52.760
It's good. I just get your
body scan. Check it, look,

591
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:57.519
look at all your guts and make
sure there's nothing pre going on that you

592
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.559
won't find out about until it's too
late. Yeah, and where do you

593
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:06.840
do that at? I'll send you
a link to a place. Okay.

594
00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:09.599
Cool. We're going to get to
birthdays and news here in just a moment,

595
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:14.840
but I'm going to share a quick
gripe with you about the body scan

596
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:17.519
place. Okay, okay. We
were looking at two possible places to do

597
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:28.360
it, and one place said I'm
sorry, but we can't approve this unless

598
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.559
there's medical necessity for it. Oh
that's weird. Yeah. The other place

599
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:37.880
is like, we'll take your money
and the medical necessity place. My wife's

600
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:39.920
on the phone with him, and
she says, so, my husband,

601
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.559
that's me. He's adopted, so
he doesn't have any sort of medical history.

602
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:51.079
So they were saying, if there's
a current issue that needs to be

603
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:55.280
checked, or if there's a concern
with family history, then we can do

604
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:59.760
the scan. Otherwise we can't do
it. And she says, well,

605
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.920
my husband's adopted, so he doesn't
know his medical history, which would then

606
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:09.760
seem necessary to have the scan so
I could then know if something's happening,

607
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:14.639
because otherwise I wouldn't know because I
don't have a family medical history. When

608
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:16.800
that section on the form pops up, you know what I put there with

609
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:22.760
family history and medical issues in a
yeah, because I don't know. So

610
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:27.119
this one scan place said well,
sorry, this, you know, we

611
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:31.159
have to have a current issue or
family history of a family illness that we

612
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:34.480
can scan for this, you like, And we're like, okay, we're

613
00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:37.320
gonna go to the other place now. Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's

614
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:42.280
kind of bs. Yeah, and
you could put w A and then just

615
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:47.079
im put this goes was adopted?
Okay, Yeah, I could also put

616
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:54.320
on their hh AC hit head as
child. I was gonna say, like

617
00:47:54.760 --> 00:48:04.239
medical history known before the age of
five, big pencil? All right,

618
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.880
birthdays today? Today is fred Day? June twenty first, two, Thy

619
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:15.039
twenty four? Where did I put
him? One moment? All right?

620
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:20.559
Today? Birthdays Rebecca Black, the
Friday singer. She's twenty seven. She

621
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.960
was big on YouTube before YouTube was
even as big as it is now.

622
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:30.079
Also birthday today, Prince William he
is forty two today. He will of

623
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:35.440
course become king once King Charles kicks
it, which I'm not sure what his

624
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.039
current diagnosis is, but I don't
think he's going to live as long as

625
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:44.639
Mama did. It's still cancer,
yeah, which someone asked me recently,

626
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:50.119
Raj, because you have the conspiracy
theory that no US president has you know,

627
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.519
died of cancer. And they said, well, does this, you

628
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:55.840
know, go against Raj's conspiracy.
So I ask you, right, no

629
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:01.000
sitting president, no sitting president has
contracted or died of cancer. What you

630
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:06.920
sitting president has ever died of a
terminal illness? Gotcha? Which I was

631
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:10.679
wrong by one because ages ago you
mentioned someone who had died from the flu,

632
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:14.079
and I walked into this and I
said, well, the flu's not

633
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:19.840
terminal, to which Dan responded,
unless it kills you. I believe that

634
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:24.519
was the promo for the week.
That's a good moment, and I walked

635
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:30.000
right into it. Flu's not terminal, is if it kills you. But

636
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:35.840
that was one of those few moments
where I could actually see Raj's soul leave

637
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:37.360
his body. Yes, I was
like, God, damn it. I

638
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:43.400
walked into that. It was a
proud moment for me. Other birthdays today,

639
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:50.199
we've got Chris Pratt from Guardians of
the Galaxy the Terminal List on Amazon

640
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:54.960
Prime, Lego Superstar. He is
forty five today. Chris Pratt forty five.

641
00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:59.559
One of my current favorite actors.
He was also in the New Jurassic

642
00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:01.920
World, the first of which was
a lot of fun. I enjoyed it.

643
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:07.280
The ones that came after that,
Oh we found another movie you didn't

644
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:12.760
like? Yeah, that's the File
of four. Yes, yeah, I'm

645
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:15.199
in the middle of I'm in the
middle of Monkey Man right now. I'll

646
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:16.920
let you know how that ends.
It's it's I'm gonna watch that today.

647
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:21.000
I heard it. It's this is
all my buddy tried to put it towards

648
00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:22.920
to me. He goes, it's
like John Wick but Indian dude. I'm

649
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.199
like, okay, that's you didn't
have to say all that just said.

650
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.800
It's like an Indian version of John
Wick. But he's like, Indian dude,

651
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.360
watch it. I'm like, appreciate
it, buddy. What was the

652
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.360
movie rog was supposed to watch that? We were American Ninja? No,

653
00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:42.679
no, that that in the in
the Terminator No no, no, sorry,

654
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:47.039
Predator, Predator too. Yeah,
we're gonna watch Predator two and American

655
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:53.239
Ninja. Get on that. I
will. I will do that and hopefully

656
00:50:53.480 --> 00:51:00.679
not kill myself after American. I
just I feel like I'm contributing to their

657
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:04.880
royalties. He's gonna get a check
in the mail for like six cents and

658
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:07.920
like somebody watched it, so you
know what show. I went back and

659
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:17.679
started watching just to see if it
held up at all. Airwolf Ooh yeah,

660
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:23.960
I don't think that held up.
It actually surprisingly acting questionable, But

661
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:30.000
you know, the helicopter's still cool. It's actually it's okay, you're trying

662
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.280
to tell me, was it Ernest
borgnine who was like the right hand man,

663
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.679
you're trying to tell me. An
eighty show about a super advanced helicopter

664
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.840
where Ernest borgnine is the expert of
the equipment was believable, as opposed to

665
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:49.239
the Talking Car with David hassel Off. Okay, we went believable. Okay,

666
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.599
if you actually go back and watch
the beginning, he's fumbling through it.

667
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:55.039
He really doesn't know what he's doing. So yeah, yeah, I

668
00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:59.320
love the eighties. Was the willing
suspension of disbelief. I mean, yeah,

669
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:01.719
yeah, the whole decade we was
just suspension of disbelief for everybody.

670
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:06.679
I mean the overplay party, you
know, Jan Michael Vincent playing the cello

671
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:14.079
on the on the boat dock.
Uh that yeah yeah, uh go back

672
00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:22.079
and watch that. We'll add that
to my revisit list. That and as

673
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:27.000
the usual suspects. Still a good
movie. Oh yeah, that'll always hold

674
00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:35.159
up. I was lucky enough many
many years ago at the improv, it

675
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:38.840
was, uh, I just brain
farted on his name. Now he's in

676
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:44.960
it. Does all the voices you
two got findled by Kevin Spacey. No,

677
00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:47.800
no, but uh he's a comic, does all the voices. It's

678
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.800
an impressionist. Why am I losing
his name now? Kevin Pollack? Kevin

679
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:54.719
Pollack And it was very cool,
Like he was at the Improv and I

680
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:58.000
think it was the only time he's
ever been to the Improv, but he

681
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:00.960
was at the Addison Club and I
went up there and they're like, do

682
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:04.000
you want to meet him? I'm
like, yeah, So I went back

683
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.360
there and we started talking to tell
him about a big fan of a few

684
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.239
good men, usual suspect he goes, and he said about the usual suspect

685
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:13.159
he goes, It was the best
script I've ever read till this day.

686
00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:15.280
And then he's like, do you
want to watch True Lies? Because I'm

687
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.440
working on my impression of Arnold And
I just got to sit there and watch

688
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:23.360
him literally work out the impression right
there, and it was incredible. That

689
00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:28.400
same trip that he was in town
at the Improv was when he came into

690
00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:31.360
the radio show Oh Okay and he
sat with us for about an hour,

691
00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:35.559
which was awesome. It was one
of the few times that I was really

692
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.880
excited to meet a celebrity that was
on the show, because most of the

693
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:42.400
time I wasn't very starstruck. But
there were a handful of guests we had

694
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.519
where I was really excited because I
was a genuine fan of what they did.

695
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:49.079
Kevin Pollack was one of them,
and I got to witness some of

696
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:53.280
the finest acting I have ever seen, and it came from Kevin Pollack because

697
00:53:53.320 --> 00:54:00.519
in that hour, he had the
entire studio convinced, especially Russ, that

698
00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:05.880
they became friends. He even let
Russ hold him like a baby for a

699
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:13.199
photo right before he left. And
then for six months after that meeting,

700
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:24.039
he didn't respond to a single text
that Russ said. Ah, poor guy.

701
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.480
I'm not saying it's Kevin Pollock's fault
that he drank himself to death.

702
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:37.960
I'm just saying it didn't help what
a few good men was on the TV.

703
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:50.199
Just pause on Pollock's face. All
right, a couple of quick news

704
00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:55.559
stories and we'll get on with our
weekend here. So earlier I mentioned hitting

705
00:54:55.599 --> 00:55:00.599
the genetic lottery, right, So, there was a survey done recently.

706
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:07.039
Someone asked did you hit the or
did you win the genetic lottery? And

707
00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:12.960
people started giving examples of how they
feel they had hit the genetic lottery.

708
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:16.360
Some of the examples that people had
mentioned online were someone said, no one

709
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:22.119
in their family had gone bald.
Someone said their teeth were nearly perfect naturally.

710
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:28.280
Some people said they had better than
twenty twenty vision. Yeah, I've

711
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:30.800
heard that one before. When my
friend in La, She's like, I

712
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:32.960
have better than twenty twenty vision.
I'm like, really, then you should

713
00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:36.800
see the future. What are you
talking about? Like that makes no sense?

714
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:38.920
Is it going to rain next week? What do you see? I

715
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:45.960
had twenty ten vision until I was
forty two. I at one point had

716
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.840
twenty ten. I think I'm in
that. I still don't have glasses,

717
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:52.639
knock on wood. I'm just counting
down to the days until I inevitably do,

718
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:54.920
but so far I don't. So
when it comes to eyes and hair,

719
00:55:55.039 --> 00:56:00.800
I feel like I've won the genetic
lottery, but not everywhere because I'm

720
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:07.679
five nine, so I didn't hit
the genetic height lottery. But I do

721
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:17.360
know that people misunderstand the difference between
achievement and being fortunate, right, Like,

722
00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:22.079
if you hit the genetic lottery,
being six foot two is not an

723
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:27.719
achievement. It's not something you did
to get there. It just happened,

724
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.480
right. It's like I've had I've
had friends, you know. I had

725
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:34.360
a guy friend one time, he's
like, I got a big beamers and

726
00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:37.079
he's bragging about it. It's like, dude, it's not an achievement.

727
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:39.159
It's not something that you worked out
for a long time and boom, it

728
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:45.440
grew four inches type of thing.
I mean, different people have different things

729
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:47.360
that they hit the genetic lottery,
but it's not an achievement. Like there

730
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:52.440
was there was a speech given by
a supermodel and she was, I believe,

731
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:57.719
speaking as a valedictorian of her graduating
class for college, or it was

732
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:02.840
some type of situation, valedictorian thesis, whatever it was. She's giving a

733
00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:07.840
speech talking about how she hit the
genetic lottery physically, but everywhere else she's

734
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.960
had to work for all these things. It opened doors for her because she

735
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.440
was gorgeous, but she's still had
to work at all these other things.

736
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:19.280
And she didn't let that be the
only thing that, you know, she

737
00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:23.039
was defined by. And I appreciate
when someone can recognize the difference between an

738
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:29.239
achievement and something that you're just blessed
with. Yeah, the Hymnsworth Brothers,

739
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.920
that's the genetic lottery. Goddamn right, my god, that's just not fair.

740
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:38.800
Yes, Like the way I see
things. I think things Nature's supposed

741
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:43.599
to come with balance, right,
kind of like Star Wars. So in

742
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:49.039
my mind, the Hymnsworth brothers are
ridiculously good looking and they're ripped and stuff,

743
00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:51.639
and sure they work at it a
little bit to get extra ripped.

744
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:53.880
But if those dudes never worked out
again, they still look amazing. So

745
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:58.239
in my mind, nature needs to
balance it out in some way, like

746
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:00.039
maybe one of them got like a
bit of a tail or, maybe they

747
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.920
got a micro penis something to balance
it out right, just to make it

748
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:07.719
fair to everybody else, because it's
not fair if Chris Hymsworth is running around

749
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:12.679
with nine inches you know, yeah, true, he might be, But

750
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.519
then again, maybe he's got a
tail or a vestigial twin on the tip

751
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:19.280
of it. I don't know.
But then you look at like Ryan Reynolds

752
00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:21.519
and then you see his brothers and
you're like, oh, he wins,

753
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.440
yeah, because they did not,
And you know it's got to make those

754
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:28.719
brothers mad. Yeah, but I'm
sure they cry themselves to sleep and all

755
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:34.000
the gifts that he's bought him so
and they're deadpool jammis that they were gifted,

756
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.800
but like the most most a gin
most of the Baldwins are again like

757
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:44.400
very very good looking. I mean, if you look at them back in

758
00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:46.480
the day. I'm not saying they
age gracefully. I'm just saying back in

759
00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:50.079
the day, there was a time
when it's like, Jesus, are they

760
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:52.320
all that good looking? And then
there was one. It was like,

761
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:55.519
Okay, that's the that's the guy
who's in all the b movies. We

762
00:58:55.639 --> 00:58:59.840
get it. There had to be
one. That had to be one guy

763
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.360
didn't have a blockbuster. Yeah,
and you mentioned like, uh uh,

764
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:07.320
there's I believe there's a third Hymnsworth
brother that doesn't look like the two other

765
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:12.559
ones. Uh, you guys know
the property brothers. Yes, the twins.

766
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.639
Yes, there's a third brother.
He's not a twin, and he's

767
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.559
he's everything that those two guys are
not. I think he's a he is

768
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:21.920
he the dentist. I think he's
like a dentist or something like that,

769
00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:25.280
Like he has a regular, like
normal job. But then his the twin

770
00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:30.880
brothers, who are now billionaires by
the way, that's amazing. Yeah.

771
00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:32.559
But yeah, so there's always like
you look at you know, I mean,

772
00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:37.039
there's always somebody in that in the
family that you're like, okay,

773
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.599
well, then that poor guy,
Like if like in the Bible it said

774
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:43.679
Jesus had brothers, would you really
want to be Like that's that's the first

775
00:59:43.719 --> 00:59:45.519
question everybody. Yeah, so hunts
your brother Jesus. Oh, you know

776
00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:50.000
what, I did some stuff too. I built a cabinet, you know,

777
00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:54.880
yeah, he actually kept up with
the family business. You don't want

778
00:59:54.880 --> 01:00:00.119
to be Steve Christ, Like you
know what I mean, I'm josh for

779
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:07.519
Christ. What did you do today, cadmetry he fixed her vision? Like,

780
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:09.760
oh, okay, well that's not
fair. I don't know if I've

781
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:14.920
ever I don't know if I've ever
truly realized the irony that Jesus was a

782
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:19.800
carpenter and he died on two slabs
of wood that you've never never thought about

783
01:00:19.800 --> 01:00:22.519
that, I'm like, how insulting
is that? And then when people like

784
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:24.920
I see people in like neighborhoods and
that, like they are devout Christians and

785
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:30.360
that's fine, but they'll have like
a cross in the front yard right especially

786
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:31.719
during Eastern I'm like, do you
think that's what he wants to come back

787
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:34.800
to? Like, hey, by
the way, that's what they killed me

788
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:37.639
on. That's kind of uncool,
man, Can we take that? Can

789
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:40.000
we take that out of the lawn? I appreciate that it's the symbol.

790
01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:49.840
It's the symbol that he died for
nds Oh no, Jesus, three alleys

791
01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:52.679
on this one. That's gotta yeah. That would I wouldn't want to come

792
01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.519
back to that if that was like
and I died in a car accident.

793
01:00:57.559 --> 01:00:59.800
I come back down and they're like, hey, there's the car you died

794
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:06.599
in. You're an asshole somewhere.
It's a little it's a little traumatic.

795
01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:12.480
Still, it's a little it's a
little too close to homebody, Let's leave

796
01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:15.679
that alone. It's like ray j
has always got to feel like I'm the

797
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:22.000
one who gave her the dick exactly. Yeah, but she ran with it.

798
01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:39.559
Christian ran rand the retirement. And
this story is for Trey. An

799
01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:45.800
arsonist caught himself on fire in his
attempt to burn down his ex girlfriend's house.

800
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:52.639
That's when you see Trey like,
oh, stopping, it's like his

801
01:01:52.719 --> 01:02:00.320
hands bandaged up. I don't think
that necessarily Trey would be the arsenal in

802
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:04.280
this type of scenario. I imagine
Trey has plenty of ex girlfriends that have

803
01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:09.239
wanted to burn down his home they
wanted to burn down. He's got a

804
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:15.960
lovely home and he and he's a
he's a charming fellow. Oh now,

805
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:21.599
okay, And honestly, Trey's been
charming to me the entire time I've known

806
01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:23.039
him. But again, i've you
know, Tray and I never dated.

807
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:27.159
Yeah. Yeah, but then he's
got the he's got the crazy women,

808
01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:32.519
uh history, yes, of the
crazies. Yeah, so there there there

809
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:37.960
could be more than one person that
would want to That's why he doesn't want

810
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:40.559
Now, that's why. That's why
you don't want to know? Why where

811
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:45.480
you don't want anybody to know where
you live? Oh yeah, that definitely

812
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:50.599
has something to do with it,
because yeah, there's there's a few I've

813
01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:52.599
always said, you know, there's
a list of people that they should hope

814
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:58.199
and pray that I never get a
terminal disease because I'm gonna do bad things.

815
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:01.840
But there's a group of x's that
I hope they don't ever get a

816
01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:07.559
terminal disease because I very well may
go up and smoke. But what was

817
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:09.320
that story? We got to look
it up. There was a guy who

818
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:14.760
was diagnosed with terminal cancer and so
he I think it's like he killed,

819
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:21.119
like the he killed somebody or whatever
it was to for revenge because he's like,

820
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:27.079
I'm leaving and he was misdiagnosed and
so that was the So that was

821
01:03:27.119 --> 01:03:30.920
the defense was well, he thought
he was dying, like that would be

822
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:35.599
my luck. Sorry, man,
but before you go on on a crime

823
01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:42.960
spree, you should at least get
a second and depending on the level of

824
01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:49.960
your crimes, maybe a third and
a fourth. If you're going to get

825
01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:54.760
the death penalty either way, then
let's be sure about it. Yeah,

826
01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:59.360
I've got to look up that story. But yeah, he committed like he

827
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:00.880
got revenge on somebody that was just
absolutely awful to him. And I was

828
01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:06.599
like, that's I've got this diagnosis, I'm months away from dying and did

829
01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:10.000
it and they arrested him. He's
like, you can do whatever you want

830
01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.760
to. I'm going to die.
And then they're like, oops, we

831
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.400
got the wrong file. How bad
is your doctor is? How bad is

832
01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:21.840
your doctor? When you go to
prison, the prison doctor says that you're

833
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:32.320
fine, I'll live a long,
long life. But I do imagine there's

834
01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:34.840
more to the story. I don't
think we have time to get into it.

835
01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:39.760
About the arsonist who caught himself on
fire in his attempt to burn down

836
01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:45.320
his ex girlfriend's house. But I
did. I immediately immediately thought of you,

837
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:50.880
Trey. And I also thought that
Trey would think about it in a

838
01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:57.639
moment and he'd say, you know
what, it's an awful, awful story,

839
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:10.320
but what did she do? It
is an awful story, but I

840
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:18.239
can guess what she did, all
right. Thanks for hanging out with us

841
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:24.079
Inside the Treehouse Episode one oh one. We'll see you next time. Thanks

842
01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:27.159
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01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:31.199
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01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:38.679
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