Episode 18 - Are We On Strike?

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Welcome back inside the Treehouse. I'm
Dan, O'Malley. Trey Trenholme has rejoined

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the program after a bit of a
hiatus from when he left the radio show

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back in twenty twelve. Very excited
to have you back in the Treehouse,

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my friend, thank you, and
um Alphie. Are are you supposed to

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be here? Not supposed to be
here? Is it? Is there supposed

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to be some sort of thing you're
you're you're supposed to be doing or doing

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in spirits? Are you? Are
you allowed to talk? How does this

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work? Are you really trying this? Dan? You're really trying to get

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me a thought? Yes? I
thought I talked to you before the show,

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Dan, I don't know. I
don't know if I feel comfortable doing

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this. What are you worried about? Do you feel like you talking on

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a semi obscure podcast is going to
get you in trouble with the Writer's Guild

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of America that I didn't know you
were a part of until about five minutes

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ago. I'm not But my point
is is I'm not going to get called

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no scab for being entertaining somewhere.
Do you really think they're going to accuse

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you of crossing a picket line for
being on a podcast, yes for union

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that you're not even a part of
the around dude, a podcast that you

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you co host, You're not just
a writer for What my point is is,

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I don't want to get called a
scab because they will mark you a

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scab and then you get blacklisted for
the rest of your life and you are

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never able to join the w G. A dude, that is not true.

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Look how kind they've been to Mel
Gibson over and over and over again,

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despite all his best efforts to prove
other one. He's not a writer.

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Actually is he is a writer.
He's not a good writer. I

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think he had a hand in writing
Braveheart. My point is, I don't

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I will only do the show if
none of us are entertaining. That went

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two different directions with you with your
punchlines, not need to get at the

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same time. The WGA won't let
you in at all. Maybe that's what

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we'll do. Alphae. You just
play it safe and uh, I'll go

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one way, Trey goes the other. That way, either everybody's mad or

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nobody's mad. They can just choose. Listen, I'll be on the show,

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but I don't want to talk about
anything mildly at all interesting, Like

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if we just discuss, you know, boring stuff. I'm all right with

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that. So are you saying you? And going back to ninety seven?

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One? Wait? Was that too
funny? One? I want to give

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that they're going to think that it
was entertaining. Sorry that that joke was

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too two on the nose there art
forms or something. Actually, we did

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our taxes, or at least our
our tax guy did our taxes. Finally,

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that's all I got on taxes.
Yeah, you can't expand on that,

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because then it might be entertaining,
Dan, I know it accidentally might

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be. Yeah. So, so
are you a part of the Writer's Guild

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of America or is this one of
those things that because of what you do

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as one of your side hustles.
Uh, you're a voice actor or you're

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a voiceover artist. I'm assuming that
that there are writers in the Writer's Union

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that is currently on strike that right
for the shows that you voice. Uh,

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yeah, I mean it's all kind
of interconnected. At one point,

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I was Sage, which is hilarious
to say out loud. Huh, don't

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you guys wish you were Sage?
See what happens when the writers go on

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strike. SAG eligible is what they
call it. But uh, it's all

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interconnected. And like I said,
the union left und Yeah, SAG eligible,

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isn't that pretty much everyone that goes
to seven to eleven on a Friday

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night? Uh, tray laft,
tray laft. We just we just see

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we're scabs. Now. I didn't
understand the joke. So that's okay,

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traded. Don't come after me.
Wga, if you're SAGE, why don't

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you just become SAG because I live
in Texas and that would kill so many

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job opportunities because we're a non union
state. We're a right to work state,

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and so many of the jobs that
are in Texas are non union.

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The second you join SAG, you
are no longer eligible to take all those

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non union jobs. So that's there's
so many like seminars. Oh you you

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guys want to discuss seminars. We
can do seminars. Seminars aren't necessarily entertaining.

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Please God, No, as soon
as you call something a seminar,

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everyone just kind of does a micro
yawn and starts thinking how long until we

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can make a run for the bar
and the hotel lobby. But yeah,

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there's all these seminars that actors will
go through in terms of like when should

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I join SAG blah blah blah blah
blah, that kind of thing. See,

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it's that type of stuff. I
think it's part of the reason why

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so many celebrities get scammed and have
their money stolen by business managers is because

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someone comes in that says, you
know what, you have more important things

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to worry about. Let me worry
about the minutia of the business side,

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because that's what I do. I
know how to do this, and you

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go you go act or you go
be famous and you know whatever, and

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then I'll handle all your money like
okay, cool, I don't have to

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worry about anymore. I found this
wonderful person who's super trustworthy, and then

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that super trust with your person takes
all their money and runs off somewhere to

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never be seen or heard from again. Yeah, there's all sorts of unscrupulous

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folks that you got to watch out
for, as in any business, you

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know what I mean. But the
unions, they especially the WGA, because

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the last time they did a strike
was what fifteen years ago? Yeah,

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I think it was two thousand and
eight. Yeah, they don't f around

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when it comes to scabs. Anyone
and everyone that approached any studio that was

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on like the No No list and
did any work for them, you're blacklisted

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and you are never eligible then to
join the WGA. So there, you

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know, there might be some scabs
out there right now going and today's my

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time to go get in there and
get my script. Scene by everyone?

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And are you purposely trying to sound
like Ben Shapiro He is a failed screenwriter,

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you know, That's why I made
That's why I made the connection.

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No, no, no, no, that's just my general there. It

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may sound stupid, but I'm up
to date on all sorts of good information.

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That's that's my general geek voice.
But once you say, you say,

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they get blacklisted. But at the
end of the day, if someone

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comes up because I think there was
someone who ended up writing a hit,

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I mean, doesn't that get overlooked
if you know you're bringing in money and

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you have something people want. Yes, and no, there might be some

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exception for somebody that has like the
mega hit of mega hits, But for

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the most part, unless you're you
know, pumping down a new star wars

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or something like that and bye.
And I'll say this, you can tell

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the writers have a lot of power
because I believe SAG and everyone else.

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I mean, they've halted production on
everything, like they're not even attempting to

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try to go forward. No,
because that's kind of what happened in two

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thousand and eight. I remember,
I've been seeing all this week on my

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timelines on social media various things and
how they and how the writers strike back

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then affected things, and one of
one of one of them was because this

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was back when Conan O'Brien's had his
late night show before he basically stopped doing

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it and in support of the writer's
strike, he still did his job when

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on the show, but they told
no jokes did it, nothing that was

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written by someone or that was you
know, scabbing or anything like that.

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So one of the things that he
would do almost every night during the writer's

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strike was take off his wedding band
and spin it on his desk to see

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if he could set a new record
from the night before. And on one

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hand, you're like, oh my
god, that sounds absolutely terrible, but

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it was Conan O'Brien and he actually
kind of made it entertaining and you cared

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about it. But the other thing
that it did, and I think a

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lot of people didn't recognize this,
We recognize it because we get stuff.

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It actually in a somewhat entertaining way, put a spotlight on the fact that

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there's a writer's strike. This is
happening, and this is kind of what

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happens in the middle of it,
and we're kind of dealing with it as

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as we go, which is something
we all know about. Yeah, the

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writers strike is responsible for such things
as Quantum of Solace, one of the

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worst James Bond movies ever made.
Because oh yeah, so I wonder,

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Alfie, I wonder if you read
the same article I did earlier this week.

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I mean, that's something that I'm
a big James Bond fan, and

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you watch all the Daniel Craig James
Bond movies, there's kind of there's kind

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of some gaps in terms of quality
there. And I like Quantum of Solace,

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but it is probably the weakest one
of the Daniel Craig films. And

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it's because I think it was in
two thousand and eight or whenever when they

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were producing it, they got in
a like draft shooting script to the studios

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minutes before the strike started, and
they started filming and the strike lasted what

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like months then it was like six
seven months or something. It was like

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one hundred days or something. Okay, not that bad, but that's months.

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Daniel Craig and the other executive producer
were the only ones that were allowed

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to make changes to the script.
So that's exactly what they did, is

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they took the draft of the script
they had and they went in these two

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guys and they pounded out whatever changes
they wanted to make and started shooting because

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they're they're on a timeline, they've
got a release date, they've got a

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hit next year, and there's no
other option but to start shooting. And

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what you ended up with was just
painfully awful James Bond stuff that just ripped

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off from other old sixteens James Bond
movies. It's is bad, is real

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bad. Like the hot chick in
that movie, the one that he screws

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and then eventually dies, that's in
every James Bond movie. Her name was

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I think Strawberry Fields, and she
dies in the exact same way that the

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Lady and goal fingered Eyes drowned in
paint versus oil, but different but the

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same same thing. That's what happens. We ain't got writers there. I

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have an idea, let's do what
they did in the previous movie, but

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just changed the color and the substance. Yeah. It is interesting though,

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because there was a I saw what
is his name? Is it? I

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think it's Adam, the guy from
Adam Ruins Everything. You see it online

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everywhere, but it's also I think
it's on True TV. He said.

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I think he's an actor's stand up
comedian, but he's also in the Writer's

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Guild of America. Alphy. I'm
not sure if you saw this. I

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sent you a link to it if
you want to play this. So earlier

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this week, Adam from Adam Ruins
Everything goes on CNN to sort of share

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with whoever the CNN anchor as it
didn't recognize her, maybe she's non limited

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replacement or something, and he was
just sort of telling people, Okay,

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this is the reason for the writers
strike. Here's our side of it.

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Because he's on the writer's side,
and he brings up a pretty interesting point

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in response to some of the network
executives and heads saying, oh, we

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just don't have them all this money
that you guys are asking for run this

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industry. Say, Look, times
are changing. We are not making as

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much money as we once did.
This is not the golden era of television.

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Although some of us would argue the
shows are great, what do you

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say to them? So I'd point
out the fact that David Zaslov, the

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CEO of Warner Brothers Discovery, which
is the parent company of the network I'm

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talking to you on right now,
was paid two hundred and fifty million dollars

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last year, a quarter of a
billion dollars. That's about the same level

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as what ten thousand writers are asking
him to pay all of us collectively.

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All Right, So I would say, if you're being paid two hundred and

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fifty million dollars, Ted Sarandos made
about fifty million last year. These companies

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are making enormous amounts of money.
Their profits are going up. It's ridiculous

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for them to plead poverty when the
writers who are making their shows, some

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of them, are not able to
pay their rent or their mortgages. I

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literally know writers who have had to
go on assistance because they have not been

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able to make their year. The
if you if you look at these companies.

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They're making more money than ever.
It's the people who make the shows

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for them that are making less.
Adam Coniver, thank you so much for

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coming on, because you ruin everything. You may have just ruined my career,

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but I don't mind. I appreciate
you coming on. Larious. Yeah,

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funny anchor joke. Look at me. I could be a writer too,

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couldn't i? Adam, Yes,
you certainly could. Uh so.

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I mean I don't want to wait
into any of the political stuff on this

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because everything these days, every everything
these days gets twisted into right left,

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uh you know, blue red,
whatever nonsense, and this doesn't necessarily have

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to be about that people we're going
to frame it that way. I don't

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think it's to me, it's more
about it's more about all the rich guys

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have all this money and they want
to claim that they don't have enough money

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to pay you, which is something
that the three of us have heard time

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and time and time again in our
radio careers, and not just radio careers.

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We've heard it in any other job
or any other industry that we've ever

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been in, or have friends that
have ever been in, or are in

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family that have been in or are
in. They always get taught you know

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what, it's just not in the
budget. And then when the CEO says,

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sorry, it's just not in the
budget, he hops in his plane,

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flies across the country and charges the
company for him flying his own plane.

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It's a dumb business idea too,
to just waste waste so much towards

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one salary. It's idiotic. If
you, as a company can get away

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with paying your CEO less, why
don't you. It tells me that your

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company is not operating in the best
interests of its shareholders, of its employees,

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which they never do, but still
shod the shareholders would disagree with you.

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Yes they will shareholders if their stock
prices going up. They they're more

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than happy to pay that CEO whatever
they want because they don't care. All

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they're caring about is their bottom line. With the great irony to me is

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there all They like to throw out
the word shareholders, when in reality it's

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the shareholders that have the most money, because there are lots of people that

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are shareholders in the companies for which
they work, but they don't have a

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voice because they don't have enough money
at the table to be heard. And

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so one of the great problems with
money is greed. I forget exactly you

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know, the exact details on it. But there was a research study that

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some you know, biologists did,
I think with chimpanzees where they introduced into

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their little society money and they immediately
became greedy. They're also they also created

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you know, sex for money while
they were at it. But at the

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at the end of the day,
it was still about greed. And you

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know, I'm not saying that the
rich shouldn't be rich or anything like that.

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By God, if you want to
get it, get your money and

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absolutely enjoy it to a certain degree, you've earned it. But it also

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becomes a sickness where it's like I
have this, but I want even more.

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There was even another study done recently. It said they ask people at

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different income levels what would it take
to make you happier? And at every

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income level they said they wanted more. And that include people that we're making

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a million dollars a year, they
wanted more. At people that made ten

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million dollars a year, they wanted
more. And it's almost like it becomes

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a mental sickness type of a thing. Well, ultimately, when you are

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willing to pay a CEO or a
board of directors or whomever a ridiculous amount

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of money as long as your stock
price keeps going up. What you're doing

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is you're focusing on short term gains. It's all about that next quarterly report,

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all about like you know, the
next call where you can say,

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oh my god, we did so
great in our stock prices up, We're

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going to do a buyback and all
this crap, and your stock price is

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going to go up even more blah
blah blah, as opposed to long term

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health of the company. Yeah,
because you know what was not mentioned in

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any of that, and the things
that are typically not heard in some of

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those sales calls with you know CEOs
and the CFOs where they talk about the

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big where they talk about the stock
prices going up, the revenue is up

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a bita and all of these things
you don't typically hear about. Is the

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product good? Yeah exactly, Yeah, they don't is what your company built

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on good? And that's something that
seems to get lost a lot of time.

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Instead, it's more about not just
the bottom line, but what's the

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stock price today? Well, but
there is, I mean, especially right

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now, if you're at the CEO
of an entertainment company, you are dealing

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with an incredibly changing landscape. And
one of the biggest things is, and

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if you follow sports, it's gonna
come home and slap you in the face

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real quick. Is that all you
know, the local sports networks, they're

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now you know, Balleies, they
were Fox Sports whatever. If you're reading

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the papers, they've all gone bankrupt. And one of the big things that's

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fueling the bankruptcy is this ever changing
landscape of you know, one of the

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things that most of these entertainment companies
made their money off of was cable subscribership,

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and that the cable companies paid them
a subscription fee to carry their network.

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Well, now that so many people
are cutting the cord and going with

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you know, apps and different that
the economics of it are changing. And

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there are some CEOs that, yes, make way too much. A two

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hundred and fifty million is ridiculous,
But then you know, you take I

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mean, look at what happened with
Disney when they brought Bob eigerback. You

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know, one of the things that
makes cecos if they're really good is the

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fact that they're looking not just the
next quarter, but they're looking five years

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down the road and see you know
what's coming up next. And honestly,

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and that's why I said, I'm
not against CEO's making a lot of money.

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I'm not against anybody making a lot
of money if you're good at what

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you do. But what I'm tired
of is seeing you know, you know,

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high level or even mid level executives
making an ass ton of money and

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in a lot of cases they don't
seem to know what they're doing, and

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there was no guarantee that they knew
what they were doing going in, but

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they were still pulling seven, eight
nine figures. That to me is what

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is is astounding. If you're if
you're making the company money and you're doing

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well, and you know what,
if the product is good and the company

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meaning all the employees inside of it
seem pretty good, then by god,

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that's a you've earned it, absolutely
As opposed to just running a business where

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your sole focus is your stock price, then that, like Alfie, like

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you said, that's not thinking long
term success. That's just short term nonsense.

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And in all this, I hope
that I hope that the that the

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WJ is successful. I hope that
they get theirs and that they stick it

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to companies that are otherwise hiding cash, going oh, we can't pay you

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up, because ultimately, what you're
going to get a better product. Overall,

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the more writers in a room,
the better ideas get filtered through,

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and you end up with more quality
entertainment and you get higher painfully business exactly.

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And I think that in solidarity with
the WGA, we should absolutely have

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zero punchline to end this segment.
Okay, I'll here's one for you.

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There's a company that really watches what
they pay their CEO. In fact,

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they only pay them four hundred and
fifty thousand a year, and the last

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two have been absolute crap. You
know what that is our country? You're

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the new one ready to go,
good to go, like like a NASCAR

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windshield, Like a Nascar windshield.
Hell, yes, is that how they

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work in Nascar? Yeah, they
have pull offs, So every time they

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come into pit, literally they just
grab the corner and they rip it off

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and it's like a new windshield.
Why don't they do that with the tires

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and they can go like four tires
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don't have to ever really change them. They just rip off the bad ones

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and keep on going or just let
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sort of like Mario Kart by the
way, either you guys into F one.

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Yeah, what'd you say, I
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F one? Oh? Sorry,
when you say F I thought usually you

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mean the F word. Yeah,
usually that's the case. It just seems

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like everybody I know is getting into
F one and I don't want to be

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left behind. No pun. Yeah, I've gotten to enjoy it. It's

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you know, it's like any ray
seeing. There's some races are better than

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others, but it's good. I'll
tell you there are two sports that I

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have come to really enjoy for a
very simple reason, and that is soccer

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and F one, And it's basically
because you're in it for two hours.

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That's basically it. Now, it's
occasionally something happens, might go over,

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but in general two hours, when
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all you have to do is commit
two hours and you're done guaranteed two

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hours. They F one literally,
so F one is different from other racing

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and that they have a hard clock, and I think the total clock time

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is three or three and a half
hours. That is from and typically they

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start races at three pm local time
wherever you are. And if there's a

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problem or anything else, like if
it it doesn't matter if you know they

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had rain and then they actually had
run rain. Tigh, So they can

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drive in the rain unless it's really
bad. But if something happened, like

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if they're midway through the race,
if it was late, when that time

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comes, whoever is in the lead
when you know time expires, that's who

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wins. So it's not we're running
five hundred laps, it's whoever gets the

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most laps in in this time.
Well, yeah, I mean typically they're

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gonna run most of those f one
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laps, and but yeah, it's
a hard time limit, and a lot

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of that has to do with the
fact, you know, you have to

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remember these things, the operations,
because it's not like NASCAR, where you're

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in one continent and you're just kind
of you load everything in an eighteen wheeler

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and go from one to the other. These things, you know, they

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have big transports that they have to
load these cars in, and you know

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they fly in. You know,
they're all over the world, so in

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any if there's a delay, it
screws everything up. So that's why there

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is a very hard time limit on
them. I think one of the big

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things that helps any sort of spoil
to emerge is accessibility, and the two

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you just mentioned, trey F one
and soccer are pretty accessible. Part of

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the reason basketball is so much more
popular than baseball is because of accessibility.

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When you're a kid, it's a
lot easier to find a basketball to play

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with than it is all the stuff
you need for baseball or even football,

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and so soccer that's pretty much the
same thing. Do you have a ball,

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do you have a foot, then
you can play soccer. Same well,

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maybe not exactly the same, but
F one is fairly accessible. You

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get good enough driving your ass off
on the bush every day, maybe one

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day you end up on a you
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Man. There's a new movie coming
out that is kind of exactly based on

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this. It's called Grand Tresmo.
It's produced by Sony. It's pace by

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PlayStation, and it's based on the
PlayStation game Grand Tresmo. And the whole

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bit is young kid plays Grandreismo online
a whole lot. It's got the whole

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setup with like the racing wheel and
the chair and all that stuff, and

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he wins some crazy big Grand Resmo
tournament and they're like, all right,

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you're an F one driver, now, kid, let's go. And during

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the pandemic. That's what a lot
of I think NASCAR and F one drivers

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did is racing sims have gotten so
good. I guess that a lot of

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them just got online and streamed on
Twitch, and if I remember it correctly,

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they got a little too good at
it and a little too comfortable.

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Because one NASCAR driver dropped the in
word in the middle of a stream.

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Yeah, yeah, you know,
that probably wasn't his first time saying that.

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Oh, they they've actually been doing
that for a while. I remember

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what dropping the in word in stock
cars? Yeah, we all knew that.

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Yeah, surprise. There's a reason
why I've never seen the brown eminem

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on the hood of the car.
But no, I remember the only reason

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how if he's not laughing is because
he's still on strike. Yeah, they

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didn't. It was like Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson and daale Or and Art

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Junior, and they showed their their
racing setups, and this was over a

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decade ago, and I mean it
looked like they had the full arcade thing

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in their house. But I mean
they had like three big screens and actual

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driver's chair and everything, and that's
a lot of them. What they did

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in their off time is you know, they were still racing, just E

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racing. I guess, well,
I think there's a whole I believe there's

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an E racing league, both F
one and NASCAR now yep. But the

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whole idea of you being so good
at at a game that you can all

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of a sudden do it in real
life. I mean that is how like

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the US military has been thinking for
the past twenty thirty years or so.

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I swear to god, I was
just thinking the same thing. And it's

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it's like, you feel really cool
if you can truly own everyone in your

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call of duty league, but you
want to be careful not to be so

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good that you actually end up in
the military. Yeah, exactly, because

406
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:02.799
contacts you they're like, yeah,
exact, don't for you? Uh huh.

407
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:04.480
Yeah. You don't want to be
running around the desert in a you

408
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:08.400
know, in some you know,
ft up call of duty league hoodies skin

409
00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:15.359
or running around looking like a fox
with a bazooka like in Fortnite. So

410
00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.720
should I get into F one Trey? Absolutely? Who's your who's your guy?

411
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.720
Is it? The Lewis Hamilton's Um, I do like Lewis Hamilton,

412
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:30.559
Max Ver Stopping, you know,
I mean Max or Stapping is the best

413
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:37.200
there is right now. Uh,
but he's just he's even a little prickish

414
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.759
for me and that that's saying something. But he's he's very good. I

415
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.920
mean that's they're all F one drivers
are the twenty best drivers in the world.

416
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.200
No, you know, there is
no second place, really is it?

417
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.440
So is it like those twenty drivers
and then that kid that played the

418
00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:00.279
video game crashing hand of the walls
into a ball of fire. Yeah,

419
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:02.960
I mean there's F three, there's
F two, and there's F one,

420
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.599
and they're basically considered the best drivers
in the world. And if you ever

421
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:10.240
doubt it, see what happens when
I mean, hell, there are there's

422
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:15.079
there's one American driver maybe I get
now he's Canadian. I mean it's but

423
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:19.079
it's also it's one of those sports
don't counts, like you would basically have

424
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.839
to be born wealthy in order to
be an F one driver. It's or

425
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.200
hell, any race car driver.
It's not like, yeah, it's not

426
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.319
cheap. By the way, Trey, if you want to uh unlock the

427
00:31:30.400 --> 00:31:34.039
cheek code on how to get Alphie
interested in something, truly interested in something,

428
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.119
find him a hot chick to follow
into it. Yeah that is how.

429
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.680
That is how Alphie has gotten into
any of his major hobbies. Yeah

430
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.119
anything, get into ballroom dancing because
he had a crush on someone who was

431
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.920
into ballroom dancing. What else was
it, Alphie, Rather help you,

432
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:56.519
I'm on strike. He got his
certified weather spot or certification because he had

433
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.960
the hots for a meteorologist. Quit
acting like this, this is uncommon or

434
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.759
this is unique to me. Everything
that anyone has ever done throughout all of

435
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.160
human history has been too impressive.
Woman. That is true, and I'm

436
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:12.160
not saying that that is that that
is a unique thing to you. However,

437
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.240
where you make it unique is you
take it to another level that most

438
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.920
guys don't. Most guys get bored
after a little bit. You're like,

439
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.759
I don't like weather that much.
She's not into me. I'm no longer

440
00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:27.759
into weather. Instead, Alfie doubles
down. Alphie, You're like, I'm

441
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.799
gonna know everything about weather. Now. It's in a skill point. Now

442
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.839
it's a new like a skill tree
where you're like, all right, same

443
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:37.559
thing with the same thing with ballroom
dancing. There was there was a chick

444
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.720
who he really had the hots for
that was into ballroom dancing and it didn't

445
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.920
work out between the two of them. But Alphie's like, I'm a pretty

446
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.599
good dancing there. I'm gonna I'm
gonna keep dancing my ass off. Who's

447
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:51.519
your who's your your your team or
your company or whatever it's called. Tredy,

448
00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:55.440
you got the Honda either, you
have the Mercedes McLaren Mercedes? Okay?

449
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:00.359
Makes sense? Is that the Lewis
Hamilton guy? Yes? Okay?

450
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:06.920
Should we be in Danna? You
went on this too? No? I

451
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.480
think I'm good. I'll tell you
if you really And it's actually it's fascinating,

452
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:14.440
especially now that if you go back. But I mean, one of

453
00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:20.160
the things that has led to F
one's surge in popularity is the Netflix series

454
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.079
Drive to Survive, And if you
haven't watched it, it's fascinating, and

455
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:29.400
especially if you watch it from so
I think it's now and it's fifth season,

456
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.160
but fourth or fifth season, and
you watch the start of it,

457
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:37.880
and it's fascinating because there's a guy
named Daniel Ricardo who at the time when

458
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:43.599
they started was probably the hottest driver
young up and coming driver and there was

459
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.799
basically he moved from Team Red Bull, which then they elevated Max Verstappen.

460
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.880
And now you go five seasons later, Daniel Ricardo didn't even have a ride

461
00:33:52.880 --> 00:34:00.319
and Max Verstappin is considered the best
in the world. But but yeah,

462
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:04.079
and Alfie, if you're on it, like you watch these F one races

463
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.679
and just the pre and post race
and you just look it is. It

464
00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:12.239
is where all the most beautiful people
in the world hang out. Oh yeah,

465
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:15.480
I believe me. On Monaco and
and the French Riviera and all this

466
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:22.039
stuff in Austin, Texas. It's
in Miami. This weekend, I was

467
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.440
actually at the I remember one Sunday. I think it was a Sunday or

468
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:30.480
Monday. Um, it was the
day after an F one race happened in

469
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.159
Miami. We were actually at the
Miami Airport and the people walking around with

470
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:38.920
all the jackets, Oh my god, the logos lit Monaco, Miami,

471
00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:49.360
Luxembourg, Flugerville. Were they really
in Flugerville? Isn't that where the track

472
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.760
is or is in Round Rock?
No, it's it's south of Austin.

473
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.719
It's it's uh, it's where Bergstrom
used to be based. I mean,

474
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.159
oh okay, yeah, I got
you. But h I can't remember the

475
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:06.239
actual city that it's in, but
it's a little more south but technically it's

476
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:15.239
something like that. Yes, come
on, who's the best driver right now?

477
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.400
Max for stapping, Okay, thanks
for stapping. The Ferrari team Carlos

478
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:25.199
signs and uh I just drove a
blank on the other guy's name. Um

479
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:32.280
like Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari
are although McLarens having a very good year

480
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:40.119
in there, No Toyota in there. No uh Chevrolet in there. Uh

481
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:45.280
no, none of them. I
think I think Chevrolet. Chele Ford is

482
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:50.239
getting back into F one starting next
year. Cool, but uh, Honda

483
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.679
does make engines, but they're not
really competitive. Well no it's not.

484
00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:58.840
Mowers aren't competitive in F one.
They don't really have the team sponsorship.

485
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:02.639
They're just the engine builders. They're
not like Mercedes and Dameler who actually build

486
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:07.639
engines. But yeah, it's McLaren
Ferrari. And then you have the poor

487
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.480
HOSS team, which is the one
that's basically Canadian American owned, and uh,

488
00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.800
everyone treats them really nicely. You
guys are doing great. They suck.

489
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:22.039
We just liked your ear. They're
the Jamaican bobsled team of F one.

490
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.760
Yeah, I mean it's you know, Hosses owns. You know,

491
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:31.079
it's Stewart Hoss Racing and NASCAR And
I forgot the guy's first name, but

492
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:37.159
hot, I mean eight pours millions
into these things, and he just they

493
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.239
can't find the right driver. Like
every time it looks like they're making progress

494
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:44.199
that they just absolutely shoot themselves in
the foot. And that's got to make

495
00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:49.000
them absolutely sick to their stomachs to
see that they're successful in stock car,

496
00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:52.239
which is basically boxy vehicles, but
once it comes down to having to shave

497
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.280
the thing to look more aerodynamic,
they can't seem to figure it out.

498
00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:00.679
That's and the funniest thing is they're
they're the head of their racing as this

499
00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.760
chairman guy, I think his name
is Gunther and uh, and he's quite

500
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:08.880
the potty mouth and he gets really
pissed off at his drivers. But then

501
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:13.639
at the I just can't think of
a guy hass's first name, but you

502
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.480
know, and he just looks so
defeated at the end of races where they

503
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:20.599
just absolutely sucker that he's just like, oh, it's Geen geene haws because

504
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.880
I have to call Jean. He's
going to hate this. And then there's

505
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:28.719
some expletives in there. Who do
you think win, Trey? Who do

506
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:31.880
you think we would win in a
race? Max Verstappin or Verstapping or um

507
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:39.039
Dale, Earnhardt Senior? What are
they driving? A car F one or

508
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:45.159
a NASCAR Uh huh A pair of
you goes, Oh, yeah, that's

509
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.760
what I want to see. You
want to get me into racing. Let

510
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.360
me see something more accessible, Like
we were saying, get the best racers

511
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:54.440
in the world and put them in
like a go cart, and let's see

512
00:37:54.679 --> 00:38:00.079
true skill that they're doing the the
days of thunder Cold Trickle and the the

513
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:05.079
guy from Guardians the Galaxy, they're
doing the rental Chevy Malibus. Yes,

514
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.719
exactly, that's what I want.
That's what Yeah, I loved that I

515
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:13.159
want. I want could trickle and
up against rowdy in rental avises. If

516
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:15.079
if if, if they're you know, if we're going with the rubbing is

517
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:21.840
racing philosophy, I'll go with Earnhardt. Uh technical driving skills. If it

518
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:27.039
was just actually on a course,
I'll go with for Stapping. But it's

519
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:30.679
all say though, because because F
one it's more of a challenging course because

520
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:34.679
there's twists and turns and it's more
unexpected word, you know, NASCAR it's

521
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:37.920
just like okay, oval pretty much. I mean, they run a couple

522
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.840
of road courses, but they only
turn left. And it's like like there

523
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.719
is F one drivers. When they
can't come to the States, they'll end

524
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:51.239
up doing something and driving a NASCAR
They did it last year somewhere, and

525
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.320
all F one drivers are like those
cars have no brakes, but you know

526
00:38:54.400 --> 00:39:00.000
they're used to very very light cars
that I mean, but F one drivers

527
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.760
for everything NASCAR does in the pit, like track bar and all these other

528
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:08.679
things that helped the steering and suspension, the F one drivers they're doing that

529
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:14.800
real time on their steering wheel along
with shifting and everything else. And you

530
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.599
know, it's just it's so technical
and it's why, you know, it's

531
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:22.239
why an F one car costs about
twenty five million and why a NASCAR cost

532
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.760
about five hundred thousand. So do
they have to basically memorize each course before

533
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:29.199
they go or on the steering wheel
like the rest of us. Do they

534
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.280
have like the Google Maps lady telling
them which way to turn? Up up

535
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:35.760
ahead. Now they do like the
old map Quest print out and they just

536
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:39.880
tape it to the dash and so
they're going one hundred and like two hundred

537
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:45.480
and fifty miles an hour, and
it's like veer right ye, rerouting,

538
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.880
rerouting, just stopped at a red
light. I don't know where to go.

539
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:58.039
I say, Alfie, go for
it, and Trey, if you

540
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.840
really want to get Alfie into it
with you find him a girl to follow

541
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:07.360
into it or just a really hot
euro dude that could go both ways.

542
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:12.440
That's half of the F one drivers
do they do? They do squats?

543
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:21.519
Oh yeah, all I could do. You're in Luke tree House if Dan

544
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:42.119
O'Malley and Alfie cord time not a
welcome Jacqueline from Brooks Plumbing into the treehouse.

545
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:45.039
That is Brooks Plumbing Texas dot Com
for all of your plumbing needs.

546
00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:49.079
The phone number two one, four, three six eight thirty eight thirty eight.

547
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:51.519
Good afternoon, Jacqueline, Hey boss, how are you doing today?

548
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.760
Doing great? Thank you? So
I was wondering if we could today Let's

549
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.199
start with something that you told me
a while back that sets you apart from

550
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.079
the big guys, That is your
value. So could you give me an

551
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:06.400
example of a time, let's say
recently, that you helped a customer save

552
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.480
some money as opposed to what would
have what they would have spent going with

553
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:14.800
a different company. Yeah. Absolutely, so, I mean, let's talk

554
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:17.639
about water heaters just for a split
second, because most every house should have

555
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.320
a water heater, and if they
don't call me, I can fix that

556
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:24.119
for you. But when it comes
down to water heaters, you actually need

557
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:28.320
to get a permit to install a
water heater, especially a gas water heater.

558
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.119
And the reason is is because anytime
you have gas, you have combustion

559
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:35.800
air, you have the possibility of
carbon monoxide poisoning, and the cities won't

560
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.440
that you live in want to make
sure that it's installed correctly and that there

561
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:43.679
is no issue with the venting.
Now to that point, there are tons

562
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:45.880
of companies who up charge on the
permit. So for example, the city

563
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:50.000
of Garland charges eighty eight dollars for
a permit. The city of Dallas charges

564
00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.639
one hundred and twenty five dollars for
a permit, no matter what kind of

565
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.360
work that you're doing as far as
plumbing goes. But there are companies who

566
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:59.320
will mark those permits up to four
hundred dollars each. It literally costs you

567
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:01.760
no money if you if you build
it directly to the homeowner one hundred and

568
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:05.840
twenty five dollars in Dallas. Why
are you marking it up to four hundred?

569
00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.000
Are you that selfish? Are you
that greedy? Is that you just

570
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:10.639
need that much of a profit margin? And I think I think it goes

571
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:14.920
back to being a scam. How
you mark things up for people. That

572
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.400
just doesn't make any sense. So
that's a that's a really good one.

573
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:22.199
It's pretty specific, and I appreciate
that, and I know everyone in the

574
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.880
treehouse does as well, because you
know, different industries don't have the greatest

575
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:29.039
reputations, and a lot of those
are contractors that come into your home and

576
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:30.679
they tell you things that you don't
know about and then end up running off

577
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.360
with a bunch of your money.
That is not what is going to happen

578
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.440
when you call Brooks Plumbing at two
one four three six eight thirty eight thirty

579
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.519
eight two one four, three six
eight thirty eight thirty eight or the website,

580
00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:45.599
of course is Brooks Plumbing Texas dot
com again for all your plumbing needs

581
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:51.159
and at a fraction of the price
of the big guys. Brooks Plumbing Texas

582
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.239
dot Com. Thank you so much, Jacqueline, thank you. It's the

583
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treehouse. Here in the treehouse.
Even though we make our living in the

584
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stupid we take our homes and our
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585
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Again, I don't want to jump back

611
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.199
into the political stuff on it really
at all. But I'm still kind of

612
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:15.960
intrigued by this writer strike that we
were talking about before Alpha. You seem

613
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.039
to have perked up, so I
feel like maybe you're not as worried about

614
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:22.239
being called a scab by the people
on strike. I'm still not gonna be

615
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.960
entertaining. In fact, I'm prepared
with a list of topics to talk about

616
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.119
that are purposefully unentertaining. Really,
Yes, would you like to know about

617
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:40.320
Scandinavian designer Jorg Jensen and his growing
up in mid century modern art world?

618
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.000
Now? I guess not? You
sure? Pretty sure? Pretty sure?

619
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.000
Yeah? You don't want to know
about the short history of his Danish design

620
00:45:52.039 --> 00:46:00.679
company? How short one to three, four, five, six, seven,

621
00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.360
eight, nine, ten, twelve, fourteen, fourteen forty pages?

622
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.679
What is it? From? Forty
pages on a on a on a Danish

623
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.559
mid century modern designer? Yeah?
Do you know that Jorgensen's Father's name was

624
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:24.639
Jorgan? I guess so? And
that he was a grinder at the local

625
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:31.119
knife cutlery cutlery factory. Was that
the job he always dreamed of having?

626
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:37.360
Yes? You know that his father
Jorgan? In nineteen twenty six described the

627
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.519
harsh conditions of the factory, but
also expressed his love for the beautiful countryside

628
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:47.639
surrounding Ravad, which I guess is
somewhere in Denmark. How do you have

629
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.239
this information, let alone forty pages
of it? I mean, you don't

630
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.679
keep this sort of thing around,
Dan, No, I was prepared for

631
00:46:55.719 --> 00:47:05.280
the writer's strike. Now what else? Oh well, Trey, thank you

632
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:09.239
for asking. Were you aware that
in eighteen eighty the Jensen family moved to

633
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:15.239
Copenhagen and your Gensen started an apprenticeship
with the goldsmith A. R. Anderson,

634
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:21.320
which you completed in eighteen eighty six. So is do you just have

635
00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:29.360
one subject of you know, obscure
flatwear designers? I mean that's my first

636
00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:31.079
go to on the pile. I
also could talk to you guys about,

637
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:36.039
let's say, proper ironing technique.
Would you guys like to know about that?

638
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.920
Oh no, no, Alphie,
you're the one that told me years

639
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:44.760
ago just to get a steamer that
way, don't have to iron ever again,

640
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.599
I know, which is why steaming
is far too entertaining, Dan,

641
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:52.320
which is why we're talking about ironing
here. Sorry, thanks for thanks for

642
00:47:52.360 --> 00:48:00.159
bringing me back on topic. Would
you guys like to know about, um,

643
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:07.760
how to remove moss from your patio
power washer. Yeah, that's pretty

644
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:13.360
much it, guys, right,
I feel like it's a really boring game.

645
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:22.719
Perhaps you'd care to know about different
varietals of kale. Definitely, definitely

646
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:28.679
not. And this is a reason
why I really hope that the Writer's Guild

647
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:34.239
of America gets what For the most
part, they want to be able to

648
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.960
get back to work and writing things
so we're all entertained again as opposed to

649
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:40.079
being left up to our own devices. Because you see, hear what happens.

650
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.199
I could read you instructions on how
to build ikea flat pack furniture m

651
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.039
I'd rather I would right now.
I don't want to hear you do it,

652
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:57.400
but I would pay to watch you
do it. I'm actually not that

653
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.199
horrible at it. It's just you
gotta you gotta have like five times the

654
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.639
amount of space that the item is
going to take up, and you've got

655
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:08.880
to have every tool imaginable at your
disposal, and you need to make sure

656
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:14.760
that the flooring color is the opposite
of any sort of the pieces and parts

657
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.960
and tools that come in said fox. You lay down like a neon Matt.

658
00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:23.320
That way you can find the inevitable
thirty screws you're gonna lose. You'll

659
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:27.840
need a regular white light, you'll
need a kneon light. A black light

660
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.599
as well will also help to find
the little pieces that run away. And

661
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:36.239
also if you have any pets,
just locked them in a different room because

662
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:38.920
the cat will sit on the instructions
and the chihuahua will run off with the

663
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:46.360
Alan Rinch. I am definitely speaking
from experience there. Yeah, where is

664
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:53.039
that Alan Rinch? Get back here? Would you guys like me to read

665
00:49:53.320 --> 00:50:01.760
selected excerpts from the Writer's Manual,
The elements of style by stroke, what

666
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:09.920
type of writing all of it?
Definitely not, although I really do I

667
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:19.360
appreciate something that Trey contributed as the
Writer's Guild of America strike continued the jokes,

668
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.119
they're not on late night television right
now because all the writers are on

669
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:28.119
the picket lines. So on Tuesday, I guess, is when the strikes

670
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:36.480
started. And what do people do
when they strike? They typically hit the

671
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:39.840
picket line, right they have their
their their sign saying we're protesting. But

672
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:44.039
these are all a bunch of writers
in Hollywood, so I mean they all

673
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:46.159
I mean, the pressure is kind
of high. You think they'd have some

674
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:50.119
good signs, right, and yeah, they actually do well. They got

675
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:55.880
burned during the last strike because I
remember seeing some anecdote from a writer that

676
00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.079
was protesting in New York City and
an NYPD comes up and he goes,

677
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.719
Hey, who are you guys,
And they're like, we're the w GA.

678
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:06.519
We're protesting, you know, because
we're writers and we're on strike now.

679
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:07.320
And he goes, oh, you're
right, is huh, Well,

680
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:14.119
why don't you signs better? And
now they now they know to come prepared

681
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:20.440
with just loads of sign ammunition.
Did they immediately hire that police officer to

682
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.559
be in a writer's room? Because
they did. They really should just hire

683
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:29.599
him right away for one of the
cop shows. But Trey did find this.

684
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:34.159
I guess it was on MPR.
There's like everyone's collecting online and posting

685
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:38.639
on social media all the writers Guild
strike signs because it says on the top

686
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.519
of a lot of them writers Guild
on strike. And then it's like a

687
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.920
white blank space on the bottom half
of the sign so they can write in

688
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.480
their own things. Yeah, it
looks like a name It looks like a

689
00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:53.559
name tag on a on a with
a pickt. Yeah. And one of

690
00:51:53.559 --> 00:52:01.119
the things that that's sort of at
the core of this negotiation and or strike

691
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:09.880
is the writers are worried about the
onslaught of artificial intelligence replacing them and and

692
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.400
them basically be losing out to you
know, you know, chat GPT taking

693
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:23.320
taking their jobs. And it seems
like that's a legitimate concern if you look

694
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:28.079
at I mean, I guess technically
we're in the infancy of AI and it's

695
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:32.079
already doing stuff, you know,
whether it's mimicking hit songs you know from

696
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.280
artists that you don't know if it's
Drake or not or what, or faking

697
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:44.960
kidnapping. M that sounds like the
sounds like the premise of the next Rambo

698
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:51.119
movie. Did you did y'all see
that story? So there was some woman,

699
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:54.880
I don't remember what state, but
she got a call and you know,

700
00:52:54.960 --> 00:53:00.400
it was her daughter screaming I've been
kidnapped. I've been kidnap, you

701
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:05.960
know, and them wanting, you
know, saying you know why, or

702
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:10.199
transfer ten thousand dollars or whatever.
And it turns out it was a big

703
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:15.079
hoax. The daughter was fine,
and you know, daughter came home,

704
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.639
you know, mother was freaking out
and police are around and it's like what's

705
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.440
going on And turns out, yeah, someone had just hijacked her number and

706
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.880
or just not her number, but
her voice. They said, you know,

707
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.920
just if you have a voice voice
recording, like your outgoing voicemail,

708
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:34.920
they can take that, plug it
in and then you know, get you

709
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:37.480
to say anything. And it was
all a hoax. Okay, that actually

710
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:40.440
makes me feel a little bit better. I thought you were saying that an

711
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:45.320
AI like chat GPD bot actually kidnapped
a woman and was holding her for ransom.

712
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.480
That's probably two years away, but
it's coming sky Nut. Yeah.

713
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:57.000
It's kind of like cats, like
as soon as chat GPT gets thumbs were

714
00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.920
all screwed. Yeah. Well,
actually one of these lines on the on

715
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:10.440
the picket lines and Writers Guild on
Strike wrote chat GPT this, uh success

716
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.199
no writer is just the what I
got it. It took a second.

717
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:22.199
Well, uh, succession without writers
is just the apprentice and look how that

718
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:32.519
worked out. Uh. On another
sign, chat GPT doesn't have childhood drama.

719
00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:39.079
That's a good one. Our therapists
keeps saying, we have to stand

720
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:47.880
up for ourselves. So here we
are. Sorry, I'm mad as hell

721
00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.719
and I'm not going to take it
anymore. Was not written by a producer.

722
00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:00.400
You're going to be the villains in
the limited series about this. That's

723
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:07.840
true, very true, studio execs
when you demand fair compensation and it's a

724
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:15.239
picture of a Pikachu looking distraught.
Writer, I have a family to feed.

725
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:22.920
Studios who told you to have a
family? Yeah? Uh, this

726
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.559
this one, This one's one of
my favorites. I like your offer as

727
00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:32.519
much as you like an angry female
lead and dre what was your favorite?

728
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:49.360
My favorite was you came up with
Quimby not us, oh, which I

729
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:53.880
guess for those who don't know,
Quimby was a very short lived network that

730
00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:59.960
was a show like ten minute highlights
of shows like all the funny part.

731
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:04.960
They just convinced it down to like
ten minutes a piece or something and a

732
00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:07.599
bunch of people sake money into it, and I think it lasted six months

733
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:10.480
before it went belly up, ironically, about as long as the standard could

734
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:17.800
be video. Yeah, that's I
guess. My question though, aren't there

735
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:22.880
writers striking at the wrong time,
because technically, if we're going into the

736
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:25.239
summer, so all the ship,
you know, late night shows aren't live.

737
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:30.480
I think all the season finales have
probably already been filmed. Yeah,

738
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:36.320
the season finales are about to start
airing doing make sweeps. Yeah. Yeah,

739
00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:40.239
the timing is definitely not ideal,
but that's kind of I guess that's

740
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:45.679
just the situation that they're in.
I guess it would have been interesting to

741
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:51.039
see if they could have somehow found
a way to strike, you know,

742
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:55.920
at the beginning of when shooting production
happens, going into the fall, for

743
00:56:57.039 --> 00:57:00.280
all those all those news shows that
are coming out and everything, that's probably

744
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:04.679
would have been the best time.
And oh eight it was smack dab in

745
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:08.320
the middle. I mean it was
noticeable that the writers went on strike because

746
00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.039
like I don't remember when it was. It was either in the fall or

747
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.239
the beginning of the year, but
you know, it made a different There

748
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:21.000
were life shows just shut off,
and everyone noticed. I don't know if

749
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:25.199
anyone's going to notice that much right
now, but you know, when you

750
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:29.599
get an onslaught of bad reality shows, I guess people will literally catch on.

751
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:31.440
And that's kind of what happened.
I mean it was after it was

752
00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:37.000
in that time frame where more reality
shows became a thing because you didn't really

753
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:44.079
need as many writers on that.
Yeah, you don't. I mean that's

754
00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:49.960
the secret of reality TV is basically, I mean it's Discovery and all the

755
00:57:50.079 --> 00:57:53.079
you know those other networks that they
figured it out. You know, all

756
00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:58.199
you have to do is unique camera
equipment and some people to shoot. And

757
00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:04.320
you know, there's your big production
cost because in general, and especially in

758
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:08.360
the beginning, you're not paying any
of the people. Crap, did either

759
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:14.800
of y'all write to write your own
writer? Strike signs for this bit?

760
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:23.960
No, no solid where he exactly
we are standing in solidarity with the writers?

761
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:30.480
Is it? Is it guild or
is it guys of America? We're

762
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:34.800
all getting in after this guy's We're
all getting in. My mom's gonna be

763
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:40.079
so proud. I just got accepted
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764
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765
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