Episode 13 - Island Police Confirm Dan Can't Drive & Alfie Upsets The Homeless

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This is the Treehouse podcast, and
it is episode thirteen. I'm Daniel Malley.

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Also in the Treehouse is of course
Alfie Coy and new new addition to

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their Treehouse, at least to the
podcast. But he's actually in what radio

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terms we referred to as an old
ask retread is Trey Trendholme, because uh,

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Tray was on the radio show up
until when did you leave? Trey

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was at twenty twelve or twenty thirteen. End of twenty twelve. Uh Trey

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left the show, and and if
we're being honest, uh Russ wasn't the

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same after that. So I guess
if anyone was looking to blame anybody for

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his decline, it would be to
you trade. That's true, That's what

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That's what management said for many years
they did because you know, you know,

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they weren't about to take any responsibility. They're really quick to be like,

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oh, let's blame somebody else.
Hey, let's blame Tray. He's

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not here. Who can't defend themselves? Trey? It was Tray the guy.

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It's not in the building. I
can't hear my voice. That is

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under zero contractual obligations, right,
So we were obviously off the air for

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a long time, Tray for much
longer, but I'm glad you're back.

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This is episode thirteen, which at
first, you know, it's like people

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are superstitious about the number thirteen.
We're not that superstitious here. I don't

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think, are you gonna every episode? Dan, We'll eventually stop. But

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I just wanted to include it here
because I wanted to wedge in some superstition

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Thingum well, I guess that makes
sense, yeah, under the guise of

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conversation. So yeah, So this
is episode thirteen. And you know,

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we've been off the radio now for
a while, like I said, Trey

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for longer. But now we're back. We're doing this, we're enjoying it.

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We're having fun and and big things
are actually happening, you know for

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the show, which is great.
And I'm loving this. I'm loving this

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for all of us. But I
did notice it was, like i'd say,

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about a month ago. I don't
know if you guys are aware,

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but I've I've worn't a chain around
my neck since my early twenties, so

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let's say like like twenty years,
I've had this chain around my neck.

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I think I got it at James
Avery. I don't even know if the

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location is still there. It's at
as a Lincoln Center in North Arlington.

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It's kind of by where the Hooters
is. There's a James Avery there.

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And I got this this silver chain
and it's got a four leaf clover on

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it. I got that when I
was like twenty two, twenty three,

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and I've had some pretty good luck
over the years wearing it. Is because

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when just watched like Moondock Saints and
you're like, man, I need something

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irish, vaguely like catholic e And
it was the analysis, Alphie, were

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you planning on getting the very toss
and equitoss across your knuckles. I'm gonna

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put my hands behind my back for
this year. I'm every boy. A

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couple of times before I popped some
dude in the back of the head.

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No, but in all seriousness,
I got that necklace, and you know

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it's I didn't know if it really
I just liked it, and I wasn't

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sure if it had actual luck.
But I've had some good fortune in the

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last twenty years. Not entirely good, but mostly good. I didn't say

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we had a lot of crap.
Yeah, but I think part of the

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reason why that might be is I
took my necklace off for a while.

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Oh yeah, yeah, And so
about a month ago I put it back

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on and some good things started happening. One are the first things that happened

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when I put this necklace back on
was we got Rodney Anderson back on the

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show. Why did you take it
off in the first place? You don't

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want the sun time? I no, I mean, I honestly don't know.

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It was, Oh you know what
it was. It was something really

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dumb and petty. When I get
out of the shower and I take the

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towel and running across my chest,
it would occasionally I don't understand what you're

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saying. Can you say it again? But like slower and like a little

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more. Please, Good job out, But you're totally cracked up, Tray

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and yourself. When I get out
of the shower and I'm drying on what,

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I'm all soaking wet like an otter. At some point, we really

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are going to have to implement a
video function on this show because people need

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to see trays face. We do
need to. We We've discussed video at

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some point, and like many things, it's probably coming down the pipeline eventually.

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Still a work in progress. We're
just happy to get the audio on.

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So anyways, I'm drying off my
otter like chest my necklace. My

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necklace would sometimes get snagged in the
towel, so I got tired of it

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and I took the necklace off,
and then we got fired. I'm sorry,

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lad, Oh is this your doing? Dan? No, it actually

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is and I actually I actually took
it off after we got laid off.

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Okay, I was about to blame
you. That is the god's honest truth.

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I was about to blame you for
only having audio books is my listening

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option for the past six months.
No, that was definitely not my fault.

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That still goes to UH to a
corporate radio structure called radio structure or

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was it? Was it some decision
makers that I don't know that everyone agreed

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with. You know what, you
can't argue with the ratings. You can't

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argue with what What did I say? Anyways, it's episode thirteen. I've

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got my good luck necklace back on. Even though I try to say many

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times over the years, I'm really
not that superstitious, but it turns out

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in my actions I think I actually
am. And one of the reasons I

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put my necklace back on. Was
not because we got laid off that,

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like I said, that happened when
I had the necklace on. That was

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not our vault. In the time
that we were off the air, Not

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everything that happened was good, although
there was a lot of good. I

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know that there was a severe slowdown
of people around us dying once we were

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off the air. That seemed to
help. I think there was a slowdown

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and people we know going to jail, although there might have been a recent

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uptick and that I'm not really sure. It's hard to keep up at this

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point, but there was. There
was a couple of not great things that

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happened in the time that we were
no longer on the radio and before or

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before we got back to doing the
show in the current podcast form. And

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one of those things bad that happened
was I got into a car wreck.

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And right, yeah, I'm fine. It wasn't anything, no, no,

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no, I'm all I got.
I've got all my appendages. There's

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everything works at least as good as
it did before. I mean, I've

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still got brain issues and back problems, but I had those before the car

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wreck. And the thing was,
though, it's like It wasn't really a

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bad car wreck. It was just
one of those things that my my vehicle

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doesn't look as good as it used
to, and that's annoying. And I

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was hoping I could make it a
lot longer, having moved to a new

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place, and have my car look
good for a while, because a lot

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of the vehicles here do not look
good. They're what's referred to as island

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cars. They look like something that
someone was able to jump start and take

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out of a junk yard. Why
because the driving here, the driving here

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is kind of like the Wild West. It's there are I mean, there

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are supposedly traffic laws, but no
one follows any of them. I mean

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they're they're at best at best light
suggestions. What do they not have police?

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Nobody they do. But there are
a lot of the times the ones

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running around running into people, not
all of them, because I got to

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meet one after this wreck. So
let me give you the scenario, which,

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by the way, reck not my
fault. Will be the judge of

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that. Damn it was not my
fault, and I'm sticking to that.

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So here's what. So says mere
exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah,

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it says me, and I'm I'm
I'm good. Incredible. So here's what

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happened. And and Trey got to
witness some of this when he was here,

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you know, a short while ago. When you're when you're on the

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United States Virgin Islands, you drive
on the left side of the road.

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Okay, that's stupid, is this
America or what it is? But they

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they have their own way of doing
things here, and one of those things

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is driving on the left side of
the road. That's it's all that was

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always been. So that causes problems, So keep that in mind. So

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I'm in the left lane doing the
thing. I'm going up a very steep

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hill basically a mountain, uh huh. And there is a cab, one

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of those open air Safari cabs,
in front of me, and he decides

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we get to this haun. Is
this like a party like a party bust

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thingy or you say open air like, yeah, it's basically it's a truck.

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It's exactly, it's a party pickup. It's a it's a pickup.

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And the bed of the truck has
a welded bench, seats and a roof.

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Okay, yeah, so the tourists, the cruise ship people can climb

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into the bed of this truck,
like it's just like their own benches.

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They got public drinking in the Virgin
Islands. Oh yeah, they do,

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like they don't care. No,
they it's actually they they were doing to

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go drinks well before COVID. But
like, is it like New Orleans.

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We can just walk around with yep, just who No one gives a damn.

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There's no brown paper sacks or nothing. No really, nope and no,

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no one seems to really care if
you want to partake in some marijuana.

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Yeah, well right out in the
parking lot. That shocked me.

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I went to Saint Louis a few
years back. That is not part of

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the Virgin Islands. Alphie don't know. I was think in front of it

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points Tulsa, shut up tray.
My point is, is it anytime you

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go to somewhere where it has different
weed laws, it's kind of a shock

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to the system. Like I was
leaving like the Saint Louis Airport. I

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don't know what the hell it is, but I walked outside and there's some

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dude smoking a joint and he's thirty
feet away from a cop. And I

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think this was right after Missouri or
Saint Louis had like legalized weed, and

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it hadn't the law hadn't gone into
effect, Like the law was supposed to

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go into effect September one. This
was like August third or something like that.

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But nobody gave a damn. So
like they they heard about the news,

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but they didn't read all the way
down to the article where it said

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law takes effect September first. They're
like, hey, that's as we can

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do it now exactly. But I
honestly love the freedom of laws like that,

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like the open container laws or you
know, public drinking. I'm smoking,

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well you get what I'm saying.
I went to Baton Rouge one time

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and they have the Daciri places that
where all the daciries are named after,

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like jet fuels you got like octane
three thousand or something like that. They

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drive through daccuirie huts. Yes,
I went to one that you buy the

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dacciri and I think they maybe like
put that. They don't even put the

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tape over the top of the straw
hole. They just put a straw in,

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but leave the top, like leave
the paper top on the straw like

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it's starbought to be covered. But
I asked. I go, so,

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what's the deal. I can just
you know, drink this out in public.

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She goes, Now, I go, I thought they had you know,

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public drinking laws here and easy,
and she goes, nuts, that's

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New Orleans. This is baton rouge. I go, well, what do

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I do with this alcohol in my
car? And she goes, don't get

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pulled over. That is sage.
That is sage advice, like I don't

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care what I don't care what city
or state you're in. That's just good

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advice wherever you are. If I'm
a cop, I'm sitting right outside that

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dakery shop and just racking up bills. You know, look, if if,

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if, if your particular municipality was
constitutionally able to work on a commission

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system, then yeah, I would
do the same thing. And they're not.

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So they don't. They said,
if you're in Louisiana, that's the

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least of your problems. If you're
a police officer, God, no kidding,

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But what was you drinking during this
wreck? Dan? No, I

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was not, and again was not
my fault. So not only was I

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sober, not my fault. So
here's what happened. Driving on the left

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side of the road. There's a
Safari cab in front of me right,

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and as I'm pulling up the mountain, we're on the main road right and

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there's a t intersection, so another
road is coming from my left into our

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road. Okay, okay, So
as I'm approaching this intersection, the cab

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in front of me stops just past
that road and starts reversing at me.

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So then I do, what's that
on a mountain? Yes, And so

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as he starts reversing, I hit
the brakes and I try honking my horn,

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and that didn't seem to work because
he keeps coming. So then I

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check, I put in reverse.
I check my mirror, and the car

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behind me is well behind me.
So I start reversing because I don't want

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this guy to run into to the
front of my vehicle, right huh.

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And when I do that, another
car coming from the ongoing the oncoming traffic

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turned behind me down that road to
my left. Got it, okay,

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So someone turned from my right behind
my vehicle to my left. I stopped

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because I saw him, and then
after that car was gone, I started

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reversing again, and that's when I
ran into the yellow jeep that was apparently

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following right behind that little black Honda
that had just passed behind me. So

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how did you notice the black Honda
but not the giant, bright yellow jeep

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because it was pulling into my blind
spot because I'm checking my left mirror,

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watching the black Honda leave from behind
my vehicle so I can continue reversing.

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And as that was happening, he
was pulling around to my right, my

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back right bumper. So you were
using your mirrors. Yeah, So he

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basically drove. He drove right into
my blind spot, and I ran and

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my back right end ran into his
front right fender. Your back right end

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did not run into his fender.
You Dan ran into his fender? Yeah,

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because he turned behind me when it
was unsafe to do so, Well,

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you were you weren't look you were
going in reverse on a route.

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Yeah, you weren't looking with yours. There was a cab in front of

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me reversing, and I was trying
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Seemed to be a lot of Well, it's this and because of this,

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and because of that, there's one
common factor here. It's Dan. The

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common factor was the cab was reversing
and it shouldn't been. Yeah, you

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were too close to the cab.
You didn't have enough space? No,

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no, no, I had plenty
of room until the cab started reversing.

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Did the cab get into wreckt No, it had enough space because I backed

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up out of its way. Ye, your back shouldn't have you backed up

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somewhere where you weren't looking. You
need to be looking out the rear window.

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You turn around, you put your
arm over the passenger seat, and

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he's got look back. Anything back
there? Any any yellow jeeps back there?

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Now? I was knocking to my
left. I was looking to my

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left. The car left from behind
me, so I continued to my reverse

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and that's when the guy hit me. So you know it's illegal to reverse

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on a street like that, which, yeah, yeah, the jeep or

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the party bus or whatever, they
were illegal in doing it, But that

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doesn't mean that you now have the
right to do the same thing. Right.

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So what I was supposed to do, and I found this out from

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the lovely police officer that showed up
to write up the report, was that

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I was supposed to just let the
cab run into me. Yes, So,

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so what had happened was the guy
that I hit in this bright yellow

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jeep. Turns out he was actually
gone his way to the airport, and

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before the airport, he was going
to drop off his rental jeep. Oh

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rental. Yeah, so it gets
worse. What did he get insurance?

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Actually doesn't matter because it's it's your
fault, not my fault. It's the

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CAB's fault. So anyway, so
we pull over and my back right tail

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light is busted out. I've got
a little bit of damage, and I'm

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I'm pissed. And his car,
which isn't even his cars damaged barely.

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It's got like scratch like on the
on the running board and like a black

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smudge on the door. It's it's
it's almost nothing. Why are you trying

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to minimize damage? What? Why
are you trying to minimize this poor jeep's

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damage because it was minimal. So
he then turns out he's an attorney,

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so he immediately calls the rental place
and they tell him you have to call

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the police, follow report, blah
blah blah. Now we get to sit

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in the side of the road right
for the cop to show up. God

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knows what the cops are doing right
now. I'm gonna be smoking weed in

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the parking lot and now I've just
pulled them out of, you know,

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their enjoyment time. So the cop
shows up, goes through the entire thing

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and says, yeah, okay,
I heard everything heard, you know,

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all the accounts and blah blah blah. So it's your fault. You're not

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supposed to reverse on a road,
blah blah blahs. Like what about the

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calves. He's like, well,
the cave's not here. Yeah. Ultimately,

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I'm with the cop and fine,
I'm like, well, this guy

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turned behind me when it wasn't safe
to do. So she's like, you

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shouldn't have been backing up. I'm
like, come on, this is not

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my fault. Come on, doesn't
hold up in a court of law.

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You can't go your honor. Come
on, it feels good though, it

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feels really good. I bet it
does feel good. Dan shirking all that

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responsibility of yours. It's not shirking
responsibility. This was not my fault.

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I was trying to avoid that vehicle
hitting me, and in doing so,

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the guy that pulled behind me didn't
wait to see if it was safe for

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him to make that turn. I
see, I see he turns into a

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vehicle that may or may not have
been illegally reversing on the road. You

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should have said that earlier. Now
I see, Now, I see what

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the problem is. You can't accept
blame for anything. You can't be wrong,

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Yes I can, I really can't. I admit I'm wrong all the

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time. That's my wife. Okay, are you wrong about this wreck?

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Nope? See I'm not wrong about
this wreck. This is not my fault.

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Come on, look, this is
not my fault. So so then

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I had two worries coming from this
wreck, right and again thinking, am

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I is there a you know,
some sort of superstition here going because I'm

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not wearing my necklace? And so
the police officer comes to the conclusion it's

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my fault. So now I'm worried
about my insurance going up. And now

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it's I hit a corporate rental thing. It's not a local company, it's

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a national change. I'm like,
oh my god, now I've got to

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deal with these people. And I
get a ticket, and I'm worried about

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that so real quick. So after
like a month or so, I finally,

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after it takes a while for the
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I get a call from the whoever
handles this stuff Rex for the rental car

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company. They're like, look,
it's really not that bad. If you

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want, we can just take care
of it over the phone. I'm like,

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yes, please, can we do? That's like okay, that'll be

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about nine hundred dollars. I'm like, oh my god for a smudge.

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Yeah, it's the smudge and you
your inability to accept responsibility for it.

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Remember when we got into the argument
over who had right of way coming off

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of the tollway and Spring Valley,
and yeah it was me. I had

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right away. You cut me off? No, then you flipped me off.

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I did, yes, But yeah, Trey, by the way,

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that's a true story. Yeah I
did cut you off, and I did

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flip you off, but I still
had right of way. In fact,

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we had a licensed peace officer,
Captain Howard come on and say, yes,

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Alphie had right of way. Dan
isn't the wrong. And still to

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this day, that was years ago
and you still can't admit that you were

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wrong. I don't think I was. And honestly, do we really know

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that he's a licensed police officer or
he's just a guy just running around calling

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himself captain to everybody? He got
a gun, So I mean that's half

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of it, so do we.
He gave me a hat that said police

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on it. I've had lots of
people give me those point is anyway,

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the point is wrong. Was not
my fault? Then this was not my

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fault. Now even though this this
this wacky police officer who's apparently in charge

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of the traffic division. So you
backed the blue until it's your fault.

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Yeah, pretty much, that's right. I thought the end the story was

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going to be that the foundation was
now covering Saint Thomas. No, I'm

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not Russ. So so I was
worried about how much, you know,

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the wreck was going to cost me
one an insurance and then they gave me

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the cash option, which I took. So that's nine hundred dollars. But

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then I'm still worried about how much
the fine is going to be. The

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fine or the citation that I got
so insult to my car's injury. This

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police officer writes me a ticket for
negligent driving. Yeah I would. Now

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I'm worried about how much is this
fine going to be. It's not like

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I've got a huge amount of income
right now. I'd really like not to

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be spending money on frivolous citations,
Well, don't do frivolous tricks. Yeah,

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that's on you. How much was
this to be for? I actually

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lost sleep over this because I was
worried. It's like, how much is

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this going to be? Because there's
signs around the island that says fine for

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littering one thousand dollars. That's if
you throw, like, you know,

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a rapper on the ground. I'm
not even sure what it's going to be

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if there's an actual traffic citation where
you caused, you know, a physical

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damage to the property of somebody else. I lost sleepover this. I was

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seriously worried about how much this is
going to be and I may not be

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able to eat for a couple of
days. How much was it? Thirty

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one dollars? Shut the hell up, Dan, shut up? You're playing

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where you go? You're just angry
about being woolware in the treehouse. Switt

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Dan O'Malley and Alfie koy. See, it wasn't all bad. Dad got

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to erect that. The citation is
thirty one dollars. I mean that's kind

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of cool, all right. The
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Of course, the website always works
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Rodney. How are you today,
sir? I'm doing very well. Good

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more Good afternoon, Dan. So
I'm curious about this. So I've moved

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away, so I'm not as in
touch with the North Texas real estate market

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as I used to be. So
I'm curious if someone is listening right now

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and they're like, you know what, I'd really like to jump into that

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market, and you know, and
buy a house, what's something that they

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can expect right now with that real
estate market? And of course, on

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top of it, what are the
interest rates? Like, Yeah, let's

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talk through the real estate market real
quick. A lot of houses are starting

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to come on the market. It's
the spring selling season. So one thing

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that people need to know. There's
still lack of inventory. But the number

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one day to look online at real
estate is Thursdays. Seventy to eighty percent

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of all listening tip of market on
Thursdays. But you have to know what

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you can qualify for, how much
house can you buy, what's the best

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loan product, what's my payment's going
to be? And make sure that you're

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fully create a proved because if you're
up against one or two additional offers,

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are more sellers want to know are
you for real? They want to make

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sure all your ducks in a row? And listing agents are callingists left and

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right to verify what do you have
on your borrower? And when I can

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say, I've got everything on them. They've got excellent credit, excellent assets,

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excellent everything. All he needs a
contract and I'm ready to close.

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The next question they always ask how
fast can you close? And when I

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say ten to fifteen days ago?
Whoa, that's magic to our ears because

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a lot of lenders must lenders are
forty five to sixty days. Wow.

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And then again, those interest rates, you know, they've they've been going

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up. Obviously, there's been a
lot of news about that recently. But

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that shouldn't, you know, dissuade
someone from actually exploring finally buying that house.

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Yeah, So on interest rates,
we're seeing them jump around. They

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go down a little bit, they
go back up, they go down a

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little bit, they go back up. So it's really a sideways market right

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now. One thing that I tell
people, marry the house and date the

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rate. Mean down the road when
rates dropping or so, we'll refinanci and

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it will be a wonderful opportunity.
But what will happen is people sit on

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the sidelines until rates come down,
and then everybody will be in the market,

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and then you'll be against twenty thirty
forty offers again, and then you'll

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be overbidden on houses and may not
even get a home during that period of

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time. Yeah, I believe the
acronym is so ol and you definitely don't

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want to be so well. This
is why you need to call Rodney and

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make sure that you're actually in the right

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position to get that house. And
like he said, you can find that

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house that you love, marry it, and then you just date the rate

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that you get. You can change
it down the line and Rodney can help

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House with Dan O'Malley and Alfie Cord. Help he say it again? Oh

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you said? A homeless guy yelled
at you. Yeah, he started yelling

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at me. Good, what did
you do? You think everything's my fault?

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So what did you do to deserve
getting yelled at by a homeless man?

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I? Okay. So I am
sitting at a left turn light right,

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trying to turn trying to turn left, got the arrow. I'm waiting

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on right, and there's about three
four cars in front of me, and

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I know this intersection. I know
that the sometimes a left turn light can

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be very finicky. Bearn where you
cut me off and flip me off?

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I did cut you off, and
I did flip you off because you deserved

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it and you were wrong and I
had right of way. Anyway, I'm

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waiting for this light to turn green, and there's a homeless guy at the

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front end of this line of cars
talking to the person in the very front

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and the person in the front car
the lead car is not like giving them

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any casts They're just chit chatting,
and all of a sudden, the light

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turns green and wait to beat away
from the wrap up their conversation and get

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going. I'm not a dick about
this. Nothing happens, nobody's moving.

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Wait another beat, still not moving, and I realize, Hey, there

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is now no longer enough time for
everybody in this line of cars to get

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through. I honk, and I'm
not a you. You tell them how

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bad they are. Well, I'm
not a butthole about it. I just

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honk. And now wait, was
it just a beep or did you lay

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on the horn? Neither? It
wasn't like an excuse me honk. It

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was also not a good hello of
the way honk. It was a come

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on, let's go. It was
a pop pop pop that's it? So

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a one two three yeah. See
this goes back to something I've said.

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I've said before. This is why
we need to have options on the honk,

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because you wanted to be able to
convey the thing you're trying to say,

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but through your car horn, Like
if it needs to be hey,

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meat, meat, let's go,
or a how dare you do that?

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It needs to be a big scary
train horn type of thing like there needs

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to be a range of car horns
so people can know what we mean when

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we use it, like a please
take the spot in front of me?

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Honk, is this a little?
That's it? But that's an f you

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and your entire family and eat trash
and die. Yeah, So which one

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did you do? Yes? I
forgot he had that, So this homeless

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guy, that's actually what I need. All right, Trey, come back,

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00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:53.359
come back, come back to town. And then I need you to

407
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.960
be my car horn. I just
stall that around with your new mixer,

408
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:02.640
but I want it to that with
me and go drive around. I start

409
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:07.200
honking. The guy in the lead
car starts moving and cars start getting through

410
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.400
the left turn intersection while we still
got the green arrow. Well, I

411
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:15.680
come to the front and the arrow
is now yellow and has been yellow for

412
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.640
maybe half a second or so.
It's it's enough to where I probably should

413
00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:23.039
be stopping. But you bet your
ass I gunned it through it because so

414
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:30.039
you you too are a dangerous driver, as you've labeled me. No,

415
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:37.759
I'm not a dangerous driver. It
was definitely issues. I did not have

416
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:42.880
any road rage issues. I simply
wanted to remove myself from any potential dangerous

417
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:49.079
situation because as I approached the intersection, the homeless guy started screaming at me,

418
00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:52.160
yelling and flipping me off, And
I didn't know if he was going

419
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:55.880
to throw a bottle at me or
something like that. And I don't want

420
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.400
to be in that sort of situation, so I did the most prudent thing

421
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:06.440
avail, which was to drive quickly
through the intersection remove myself from any potential

422
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:10.599
conflict. So could you tell what
he was yelling at you? Yeah,

423
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:12.839
fu you piece of trash blah blah
blah blah something something like. I don't

424
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:18.440
know. Okay, but but why
why was he yelling at you? Like,

425
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:21.480
like, like what's the context?
What was he mad at you for?

426
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.640
For killing his conversation with the dude
in the lead car. I guess

427
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.279
I think he thought he was going
to get money and he just needed a

428
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.839
few more minutes to close the deal. Okay, Look, dude, this

429
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.720
isn't this isn't boiler room. It's
you either were they either hand you money

430
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.279
or they don't. You don't have
to work the sale that hard. It

431
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:47.559
just a I don't know. Look, I feel for the homeless. I

432
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.119
have all the empathy in the world
for them. I don't trust that everyone

433
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:53.200
out on every street corner is homeless. I think that a lot of them

434
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:56.279
are, you know, scam artists, just looking to make quick cash and

435
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.559
hop back in their Mercedes and drive
home. Yeah, the one that's behind

436
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:06.720
the bush. Yes, oh,
the sorry you reminded me of that lady,

437
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.119
the lady would green bike trade.
Did you ever see the lady with

438
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:17.240
the green bike out by the iHeart
Studios. No, there was a lady

439
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:22.920
who would set up at the corner
of southbound on the tollway at Alpha,

440
00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:29.759
and there's like a transmission tower there, like an electricity transmission tower, line

441
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:33.640
tower there, and some bushes right
at that intersection. This lady would park

442
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:41.359
her green sport bike right behind the
bushes, and not even like a real

443
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.920
quick When you say sport bike,
do you mean sport bicycle like a mongoose

444
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.279
like a BMX type of thing,
or do you mean like a like a

445
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.519
like a like a crot rocket,
Yes, a crost rocket. She would

446
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:59.279
park it right behind this bush that
oftentimes didn't have much foliage on it.

447
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:01.720
It was some time, just some
branches, and you can clearly see this

448
00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:07.880
non green bike or a motorcycle right
behind it, and she's sitting there asking

449
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.359
for money, and I'm like,
get the hell out of here, lady,

450
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:14.279
Like, at least have the decent
seat up to park it behind a

451
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.519
bush, maybe a block away,
and then walk through your spot, park

452
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.599
it behind a concrete wall or something
like. She was so lazy that she

453
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.839
parked it within feet of her and
you could see it through the bushes.

454
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.680
But the point is is, I
don't like giving money to homeless because I

455
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.359
feel like that also contributes to the
problem. I feel like there's good charities

456
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.400
around that you can donate to that
will help with homeless outreach all that stuff,

457
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:42.680
Right, I don't want this guy
also holding me back at an intersection

458
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:47.039
that I know has a short green
arrow, So pardon me for honking my

459
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.759
horn a couple of times to get
the jackass and the lead car to move

460
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:55.279
it. I'm not even mad at
the homeless guy at this point. I'm

461
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:59.119
mad at the guy in the lead
car who won't shut the f up and

462
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.880
move when he has a green light. So I will say you did the

463
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:06.759
smart thing by going ahead and pulling
through that intersection, because I don't otherwise

464
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.079
this. Otherwise you're sitting there next
to the homeless dude who's now cursing you

465
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:13.880
out. Yes, exactly, that's
what I said. I just wanted to

466
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:19.640
remove myself from the situation that could
have turned potentially any number of different ways.

467
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:22.680
It was the prudent thing in that
moment, just to gun it.

468
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:25.759
Did you ever stop to think that
maybe you could have made it better if

469
00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:29.200
you just stopped and gave him some
money. I don't got any cash.

470
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.680
I don't carry cash like Garan Teuf
you tell it's it's cool I got Venmo.

471
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.599
Oh good. Has that happened to
you too, because that the exact

472
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.599
thing has happened to me. That's
happened I used to be back in the

473
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:43.480
good old days. That used to
be my go too. I would tell

474
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.680
somebody, sorry, man, I
don't have any cash, and typically it

475
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.279
was true. I didn't have any
cash. I just always use my debit

476
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:53.240
card. That's happened one day.
One day I go to the grocery store

477
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:57.000
and someone's hit me up for cash. I'm like, I don't have any

478
00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:58.880
cash, and the guy's like,
it's cool, I got Venmo. When

479
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:04.920
he holds up his iPhone, well, I don't leave me alone. That

480
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:08.360
has happened to me with girl Scouts
and like girl Scouts selling cookies and boy

481
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:13.320
scouts selling like their popcorn or whatever. The girl Scouts, man, they

482
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.440
will get you because that same thing
happened to me. There was at our

483
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:22.639
a sort of our home bar.
It was Quinlan's and Carrollton and one of

484
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.559
one of the regular's nieces set up
inside the bar. How brilliant on those

485
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.639
little girl's part. And she would
hit you up as soon as you walked

486
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:31.280
inside. So we walked inside.
It's like, Hi, I'd like to

487
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.079
buy some cookies. I'm a gonam
sorry, and how many cash? And

488
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:38.000
she's like it's okay, we take
venmo PayPal zel. There's a tidal load

489
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:42.480
place across the parking lot. She
knew all of it. It was frightening.

490
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:45.360
Then you gotta drop the facade.
Then you gotta be like, listen,

491
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.039
kid, I don't want your stupid
stuff. Leave me alone. And

492
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.119
the parents get all bad. You
talking about we talked about the other day

493
00:34:53.119 --> 00:35:00.480
about the guy selling banana bread.
Yes, oh yeah, So I told

494
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:02.639
them one day because they came in
and they're, you know, like this

495
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.760
really isn't a good you know,
in the bar, it's not really a

496
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:07.679
good spot to talk about, you
know, your outreach for people with substance

497
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.760
abuse. But I told them,
I said, if you really want to

498
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.599
make money, I said, set
up here at two am, and you

499
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:17.119
will sell all the banana bread you
have. Yeah you will. Yeah,

500
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:21.880
take a lesson from those people that
like like sell tacos and the taco carts

501
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.920
or the hot dog carts or the
barbecue trucks at two am outside of a

502
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:30.679
bar. Absolutely, you were gonna
make bank, Like I don't want to

503
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.360
we'll do that. That seems like
a really viable business option because there was

504
00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:38.480
that one. Dude. Some people
actually do it as a viable business option.

505
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:42.400
They'll they'll get like a little food
truck or cart thing, and they'll

506
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:47.400
set up in a certain area strategically
to capitalize on the bar clientele. Yeah.

507
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:51.440
The problem is, like like the
people Tray are talking about, apparently

508
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:55.639
they only like to proselytize for Jesus
during business hours, So they don't want

509
00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:00.960
to come back at two am and
sell banana bread that jes Is allegedly made

510
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.320
and also make you you know,
switch religions or something. Yeah, they

511
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.599
don't want to do that at two
am they want to do it during happy

512
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.960
hour, ironically, sell street tacos
for Jesus, sell barbecue sandwiches for Jesus,

513
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:16.400
chop brisket sandwiches for the Lord.
I think street tacos would be for

514
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:23.559
hay sous. That feels race like
a little races, doesn't It feels it?

515
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:30.159
It feels like it just a little
bit. Hey, look it's break

516
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:37.920
time. Oh good Youorian Luke Tree
House with Dan O'Malley and Alfie Cord.

517
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:07.440
Youorian Luke Free House with Dan O'Malley
and Alfie Cord. Yes, you absolutely

518
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.360
need to tell Alfie that story.
Trey. I had totally I had totally

519
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.400
forgotten about that. So I was
actually, I think this actually might be

520
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:22.840
worse slash better than than Alfie's homeless
guy story. So I was at the

521
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.320
turning on the side street from Northwest
Highway over there by half Price Books,

522
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:32.079
and there's a it looks like a
homeless guy, but what's different is he

523
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.920
had a book that he was showing
people. All Right, all right,

524
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:43.760
I'll buy it. I rolled down
my window and I'm probably two cars back,

525
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:46.599
and I started talking to him like, hey, you know what are

526
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:50.760
you selling? Because oh you know
I wrote this book. It's my life

527
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.480
story about how I, you know, got out of addiction and everything else

528
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:58.320
and through God. And you know
hecause you want to buy it, you

529
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:02.039
want to donate, Okay, sure, yeah, you know what, you've

530
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:07.079
got something to offer. I'm not
just giving, all right. I pull

531
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.320
out a ten dollar bill, I
hand it to him, and he doesn't

532
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.719
give me the book. He keeps
walking and the right light turns green,

533
00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:17.400
and I got some a hole behind
me, honking, and so I have

534
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:21.199
to go right. So, first
of all, the a hole behind you

535
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:25.920
honking, that was clearly alfie.
Yeah, so he took your ten dollars

536
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.920
and didn't give you the book.
Nope, Sorry, you gotta go.

537
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:37.639
Sorry, traffic class not my fault, by I do like her. If

538
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.679
that sort of gets around the panhandling
stuff, I'm not even sure if that's

539
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:44.159
still a thing in the city of
Dallas like it was at one point.

540
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:45.880
Like panhandling is supposed to be illegal, not that they really did much to

541
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.000
enforce it. But instead of just
begging for money, you got this guy

542
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.880
who's actually well, at least he
says he's selling a book for all you

543
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.079
know, he went into half price
books found something and just it's just making

544
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.000
it up. It's probably not even
there's probably not even an actual story of

545
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:05.599
his in there. It's probably you
know, the punishment for the hobbit.

546
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.519
Yeah. No, I think he
went over like he had a little cardboard

547
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:12.280
box where it looked like he was
pulling copies out. I think you're right.

548
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:14.480
He probably just went to half price
books. But you know, ten

549
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:16.320
books for ten bucks? You oh, you know what. I know exactly

550
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.639
what he did. He didn't buy
those ten books for ten bucks. He

551
00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:22.639
walked into the area and I know
that story well because I've done this where

552
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.199
you take all the books that you
want to sell, and he just saw

553
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.039
the box sitting there that they hadn't
gotten to yet, and he just took

554
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:34.760
the box and ran off. You
didn't make a U turn and come back

555
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:36.760
and go, hey, I'm back
from my book. Can I have it

556
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:37.639
now? Yeah? No, kidding. You should have turned around and got

557
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:44.679
in the book. That's where he's
brilliant at that intersection, because then if

558
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:46.199
you're trying to do it, you
turn, you're stopping right in the middle

559
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:52.239
of the Northwest Highway. Was it
rush hour? I mean, is it

560
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.320
ever not? On Northwest Highway right
there, but it was it was right

561
00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:00.039
around lunch time, which is also
an incredibly busy time. I've made a

562
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:06.360
wrong turn there trying to get somewhere, and that exact intersection making one wrong

563
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:07.159
turn, well, all I had
to do was like make a U turn

564
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:10.119
and then take the other left or
the other right or something like that.

565
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.639
It added ten minutes to my drive. Ten minutes just to make one U

566
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:21.159
turn and go the other direction.
I don't know, man, if if

567
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.960
if it was my ten bucks,
and it's not just the ten dollars,

568
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.119
there's also the principle, you know, in play, I'm turning around and

569
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:35.880
I'm going to get my money,
or at least get my book. I

570
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.679
thought about it, thought about coming
back, but at the end of the

571
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:39.320
day, you know, I almost
had to tip my hat. I was

572
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:45.800
like, you know, that's kind
of next level homeless crap top ten years

573
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:49.360
years ago. Like I still remember
the first time I saw a guy who

574
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:53.920
was who was begging for money,
but his sign said need money for beer,

575
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:59.039
and I loved it because it was
honest. Oh, there used to

576
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.599
be a guy right over here that
had to sign it. The funny thing

577
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.119
he only had one leg but as
signs that helped me get back on my

578
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.719
feet, and I would always give
him a fi. It does work though.

579
00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:12.519
I mean, look, look,
we've all been we've all been scam

580
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.079
we've all had the you know,
the person you know with a sob story

581
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:17.119
or one of my all time favorites
is the guy that's saying, oh I

582
00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.880
was I had to walk. He
has the empty gas can as the prop

583
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:24.480
and he says, oh, I
just ran out of gas up back up

584
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:27.559
the road a little bit. I
just need a few bucks just to fill

585
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:30.159
up my can. Be like,
so, then you try to and that

586
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:32.760
happens at a gas station, And
that's one time that happened for the guy

587
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.880
made the mistake of asking me while
I'm pumping gas at a gas station because

588
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:43.719
he doesn't actually need gas. He
just wants money, right, He's supposed

589
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.920
to be asking that at like a
drive through or somewhere else that doesn't actually

590
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:52.400
have gas readily available. So you
don't do what I did, which is

591
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.639
you need some gas here, just
give me your can. I'll put some

592
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:58.320
in there. Oh no, I
was one of the money You're not even

593
00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:01.840
good at this. The people that
just say, hey, can I have

594
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:08.800
some cash without any sort of like
additional bullcrap story. I respect that more

595
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:15.719
than I do anyone with any sob
story or scam or anything like that.

596
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:24.760
There's but I do feel like a
dumbass though contributing to let's say somebody's drug

597
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:30.360
problem or alcohol problem. There was
one dude that hangs out outside of coffee

598
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.599
shop. But I go to quite
a bit, and this coffee shop sells

599
00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:38.960
tacos. They sell breakfast tacos,
and somebody had bought him some breakfast tacos

600
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.760
because he had the to go box
sitting right next to him with breakfast tacos.

601
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.199
And I walked by, and I've
seen this guy a couple of times.

602
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:51.159
He knows what kind of car I'm
in. I'm thinking better to have

603
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.239
his guy as an ally while I've
got cash on me for the first time

604
00:42:53.280 --> 00:43:00.159
in you know, months, So
I give him five bucks and he disappears

605
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.840
and leaves the frigging breakfast tacos there, and like an hour or two later,

606
00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:12.000
his spot where he normally sits,
there's there's breakfast tacos covered in flies

607
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:21.159
and a mostly drinking forty And I'm
just annoyed now because I'm like this guy

608
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:24.599
could have, you know, spend
it on something else, go by haircut,

609
00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:29.199
choose something. It's just the alcoholism, I think is what pissed me

610
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.840
off more than anything. Well,
to me, it's not so much angering

611
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.559
as as it is just a really
really sad, yeah, emotionally distressing story.

612
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:39.960
I mean, I don't that's one
of the saddest stories I've heard in

613
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:45.480
a long time. Because every breakfast
taco deserves to get eaten, and every

614
00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:47.440
forty deserves to be finished. I
mean, that's just it's so sad,

615
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:54.559
it's wasteful. Mhmm. Thank you
guys. How many flies were on the

616
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:59.400
tacos? At least four? Completely
out of the question them it was,

617
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.599
I would not eating it. There
were at least four. One is too

618
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.480
many flies for me, Dan,
for you. Yes, But I'm the

619
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:08.679
I'm the guy that likes to uh
not waste anything because I remember, I'm

620
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:12.559
the guy that ate nine day old
chicken out of my fridge and got sick.

621
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:16.440
I think I could. I could
swat off a couple of flies off

622
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:20.719
at breakfast taco and define tell you
what, next time I see him there

623
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:24.079
with his breakfast taco sitting in the
sun all day, I'll ask I'll trade

624
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:28.039
him for the cash and I'll ship
him to you. How about that.

625
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.679
I don't know if those will hold. No, you wouldn't care, You're

626
00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:36.400
right, I wouldn't. I tell
you, Like, you can put a

627
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:40.360
breakfast taco in front of my face
right now, I'm like eating it just

628
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:43.639
annoys me. And at one point
I told you about this, Dan,

629
00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.519
I never told Trey. I used
to carry around little bottles of like airplane

630
00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:52.280
liquor, you know, like the
little liquor bottles in my car. This

631
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:55.760
is part of like a emergency kit
or something like that. I would throw

632
00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.360
on like a little bottle of Irish
whiskey or something like that, and emergency

633
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:05.119
alcohol kit. Yeah, in case
you need, Like why didn't I think

634
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:12.039
of that. That's really unfortunate because
up until this point right now, Trey

635
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:16.239
thought he had done everything there was
to do with alcohol. Yeah, well

636
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:19.400
do you know what I mean?
Though? In case you need like a

637
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:23.000
quick shot of liquid courage or something
like that. You're going out to a

638
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.280
party and oh my god, that's
that one chick that I've been you know,

639
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.760
meaning to talk to for a bit. Here, let me have a

640
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:34.599
quick shot and then you know,
handle business. Or if you're really nervous

641
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.239
about getting pulled over by a cop
see Dan. Thank you. Now you're

642
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:51.800
thinking fourth dimensionally, I'm so nervous. Follow all things Treehouse at Treehouse on

643
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.519
Air, for me at the Dan
O'Malley, and for Alfie at Alfie Cooi.

644
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:59.039
And don't forget to light. Follow
a subscribe auto download, and tell

645
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:00.800
a friend that three houses back