EPISODE 35: Radio Fires the Best People with Rebekah Black

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All right, you are in the
Treehouse. Used to be a funny radio

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show, now a funny podcast.
Mostly I'm Dan O'Malley along with Trey Trenholme

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and someone that knows a thing or
two about funny radio and funny podcasts.

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Her Treehouse debut for the very first
time in the confines of this crazy space.

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So she's very, very brave or
very stupid. We'll find out.

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It is the great Rebecca Black formerly
of ninety eight point seven K Love.

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Yes, Hello, Hello, thank
you for having me. You're welcome.

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I think let's see if you're still
grateful and you know, you know about

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forty minutes from now. Oh,
I'm fully prepared. I'm not worried about

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you too. Those are famous last
word for back. It's very fortunate that

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this is remote. Yes, I
get that's probably true. Nobody will get

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hit, so that's a good thing. Yeah, I do say though,

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I never underestimate a woman's ability to
strike. I don't care from what distance

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it can happen. That's a good
point. I will find you if I

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need to hunt you down, you
know those things, those kinds of things.

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So I really am glad to have
you on the show because we had

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a member of the show leave,
and it's like, well, we need

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to kind of turn this into let's
take advantage of this and let's let's have

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some people on that we know that
listeners know, but let's also, you

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know, take the opportunity to try
to get to know some people that we

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don't know but maybe just know of
and in that category or you're the first

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one, Rebecca, I feel honored. Then, thank you very much.

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Unfortunately I did have to say formerly
of kay Love. But you're obviously not

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alone train I've been fired planting round
a little bit. So how long How

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long ago was it that? How
long ago was it that that you were

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blown out at Kay Love? It
will be a year in August, which

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I can't believe, like time has
flown. I can't believe it's already been

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a year. It's like unbelievable to
me. I know the for me,

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September will be will be one year, and it seems weird that that's also

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coming up on one year. But
one year one year, remob are you

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going to celebrate I kind of already
did. I moved to the Caribbean.

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That means that's a good celebration.
I can't. Unfortunately, uh my company

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hadn't pay me enough to be able
to move to the Caribbean. Well does

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that count? No, Yeah,
absolutely it was. I think we had

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planned for a long time and this, the timing of it kind of worked

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out, so we decided, yeah, we'll go ahead on that. Yeah,

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we'll just we'll just take advantage of
the situation that we've already kind of

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set ourselves up, and we'll just
we'll go ahead and pull the trigger.

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So how long How long was it
that you worked at Kay Love. I

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was there on the morning show for
sixteen years. Damn. Oh, yeah,

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long time. Sixteen years. I
literally like graduated college, I moved

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to LA for a hot second,
did radio out there, like production type

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stuff. Came back to Dallas and
lucked into a job on the morning show,

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and I never left. I always
was told, you ever get offered

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a morning show job, take it. That's what I did. And that

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first ten years younger. Oh I'm
ten years younger after I left. Yeah,

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that's yeah, there's a few grays
up in here, but yes,

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I definitely the way of the world
was lifted off my shoulders, even after

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getting fired. As much as I
love it, it is a hard business

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to be in, especially for women. Yes, I was like, I

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don't know if y'all agree with that
or not, but absolutely it was like

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I always felt like I was just
clawing my way up all the time.

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That first morning show that that brought
you on? What morning show was that?

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So here in Dallas it was Jody
Deane in the morning team and it

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was Jody Dean, Mitch car,
Jonathan Hay Bernie mac, Kathy Jones,

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Tammy Edwards, and me. There
were said ben of us. I think

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I know five of them. Yeah. So I worked with Mitch Car at

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Kveil and Car. One of the
absolute best of voices I've ever heard.

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That man. That man, if
it wasn't James Earl Jones doing the voice

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of Vader, it should have been
Mitch Carr. You know, he's the

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voice of Speak and Spell, right, I did not know that. I

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did not know that, you know, the Speakin Spell game that we all

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had when we were kids. So
he did a one time recording for it,

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was paid a lump sum of of
money, and then now today is

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still the voice of Speaking Spell and
gets zero residuals from that zero zero.

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And sometimes you really do need an
agent. A right fun fact there,

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Mitch Carr voices speaking spell Mitch card
took a huge whiff on that play school

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device there, Yes, and he
will tell you that exactly that. So,

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so Mitch Carr, I knew it. He and I worked together at

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Cavey. He probably doesn't remembered.
I was a lowly board up slash promotions

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assistant at that time, and then
he So the other names you mentioned,

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Jody Dean Trey, and I've met
Jody a handful of times. We had

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him on the show back in the
day when we were at CBS. He

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and him and Russ had like this
weird like hate but also respect for one

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another. It was such a weird, weird vibe between those two very much.

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So it was because I was I
feel like there was a crossover with

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Russ Martin one year that I was
at EBS at the time, and I

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remember being at the holiday party and
Russ's band was playing, and I was

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like, Oh my God, like, how what's gonna go down? Because

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I knew the whole beef story behind
with Rutt on Russ's end, and then

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now with Jody being together on stage, and I thought there was going to

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be some drama and then they were
like, we're cool, shake it off.

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I think we were even thinking the
same thing. Yeah, even we

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didn't really know what might happen.
Right, You've heard all these stories for

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like a million years and DFW Radio
about these two dudes who have been like

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at each other's throats and competitors the
entire time. So of course you think

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there's gonna be like some fireworks.
I'm thinking it's gonna be like, I

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don't know, they're gonna brawl out
in the alley, and then there was

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nothing. It was so anti climactic. Well it needed to be anti climactic

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because if there was a brawl,
it would have been very short and Russ

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would have been dead long before he
actually was. Yet, say, would

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have whipped his ass. I agreed
completely, like Jody would have had that

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hands down. And believe me,
Russ knew that. Yeah, he knew

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it. He knew it better.
Yeah, what are the other names you

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mentioned? Wasn't there a palpable tension
between Jonathan Hayes and Jody so they much?

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They probably very much had a relationship
like Russ and Jody did. It

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was like best friends one day,
hate each other the next man. Um.

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But towards the end, Jonathan has
sense passed away, and I think

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towards the end they made up and
you know, rekindled all their original friendships

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from way back in the day and
stuff like that. So I'm glad they

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did because I remember meeting Jonathan a
few times and he was he was he

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was very cool. That was one
of those guys who always had a story

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for something. Um act oh man, absolutely, yeah, I'm like prest

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and peace Jonathan. I was like
super nice guy. Um. But yeah,

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they definitely had their on again,
off again romance situation happening. I

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remember getting some emails from Jonathan and
yeah, it was always when when when

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their bromance was not same here and
he had choice words about Jody's same here.

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It's I guess like it's I don't
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almost like like right, Russ and
Jonathan or our show and Jonathan never dated

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or anything, but it's almost like
it's almost like we did, because then

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he went on to date Jody Dean
and then when he would piss him off,

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then he'd come back crawling back.
Does guess what Judie did? Yeah,

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that sounds that is so Jonathan like
to a t like, nailed it.

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I heard when you said you did
mornings for sixteen years. I was

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I was like, wow, I'm
impressed. Uh. Trey, on the

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other hand, he's impressed, but
the noise he made was, oh my

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god, how did how did you? How did you survive? Because I

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think we did mornings when we when
Trey and I did mornings with Russ when

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we got on the Eagle in twenty
ten, we started on mornings and we

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did it for a little over a
year, and we hated every single second

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of it. And I think it
showed in the ratings because when we first

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started, ratings were great, like, oh my god, the show's back,

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This is awesome. And then like
two three months later, we're all

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bitching about how early it is and
how drunk we still are from the night

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before, and how miserable we are. And turns out no one wants to

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hear that in the morning. No, no, So they have nured everybody

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else's miserable too. They need something
to take their minds off of the misery

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that they're about to head into exactly, but none of us could muster that

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at that Yeah, No, I
don't know I honestly, I look back

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and I'm like, I really don't
know how I did it. But I

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was like, at the end of
the day, this is still what I

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love. I love giving my opinion, I love talking to people, I

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love making This weird fan friendship thing
happened. I just at the end of

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the day, that's really what it
boiled down to. So you, when

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you love what you do, you
will put up with unmentionable things to do

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to continue doing it. I just
I just I just felt that deep deep

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in my chest everything everything you just
said, like, you will put up

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with unspeakable things. Oh yeah,
you will. Really Well his name was

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Russ. Yeah. The thing we
dealt with, it was actually very speakable.

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Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Especially
well, it's probably a little bit

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easier to talk about him now that
he's gone, right, you know what,

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I said the same things when he
was alive. So I feel good

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about that, as you know,
as I was able to tell him,

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I was like near the end,
near the end for him before he eventually

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just stopped showing up all together.
Like for a while, he would show

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up about two thirds of the time, and then it just ended up like

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eight months before he passed away.
He just never showed up again. Wow,

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which anyone on the show at that
time, we weren't surprised. Other

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people acted surprised, even though we
told him it was going to happen,

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but they didn't listen. So whatever. There's so much stuff you put up

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with in radio, and now you've
made the transition. You met you started

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the transition a long time ago over
into digital by doing the podcast Haunted af

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Yeah, that's right. We started
as gosh, it's been almost no actually,

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it's been four years since we started
Haunted DAYF and we've had like a

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lot of really good success with it. And I'm so happy that I have

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that outlet because you know, once
you get fired from radio, you literally

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your whole world shatters. Like my
ego was just shattered, and I didn't

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know what to do with myself and
I found myself like nobody understands what I'm

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going through. I'm like, you
don't understand. I don't have this like

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creative outlet to talk to and all
that kind of stuff. Thank God for

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the podcast because I'm like at his
really probably what has saved me, like

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pulled me out of the depths of
like you're sad radio depression. And of

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course I don't know how I don't
know how great a distance we're telling ghost

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stories and bigfoot stories and alien stories
and some of that stuff can really get

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in your head. But it worked
for me. I'll tell you this,

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and this is funny. The first
time Russ and I had a break up,

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which was two thousand and three,
there was a guy and his name

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was Gary and I cannot think of
his last name, but a longtime radio

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guy who had gotten into concert promotions. Day after I left, he picked

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up his phone and called me and
he said, he goes. I know

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it doesn't feel like it now,
he goes, but there is life after

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radio. And that was a very
prophetic thing to say. I'm still not

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there. Well, I'm still not
You've never you really have never stopped doing

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radio exactly. There's waves though,
right like yeah, it's feeling great about

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life. And then then like,
oh, i'll tell you what ripped the

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like rug out from under me.
One day is like I'm at work and

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I work for a podcast company,
so there are people that like come through

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that no know who you are or
whatever, and somebody recognized me and it

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was like bam, gut punch,
because now I have to tell them,

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yeah, well I'm fired. Yeah, I record podcasts for other people.

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Now, dude, I'm right there
with you. That's that's starting up the

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podcast. Like you said, it
helps you get that creative outlet and you

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really and you you you get to
try to at least utilize some skills that

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you've amassed over a long career.
Right, But you start thinking, well,

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if I end up as a greeter
at Walmart, it's only a matter

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of time before someone says, hey, aren't you And then yeah, I've

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just been punched right in all the
guts. Yes, you feel like you're

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supposed to have a certain job because
otherwise people will look at you differently because

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you don't have that job anymore.
Who was the guy, Oh, it

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was the actor, the guy that
was in the Cosby Show. He was

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one of the daughter's husbands. And
then one day he gets a photo snapped

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of him working at Trader Joe's and
everyone's like, hey, aren't you the

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guy from Cosby Show? And he's
like, oh, I don't think anyone

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wants to be that. No,
of course not. You Like you're you

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know, you're flying high, right, You're at the height of your career

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and then all of a sudden,
everything gets ripped out from under you,

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and people just expect for you to
be able to pick up and go somewhere

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else. And I'm like, in
Dallas radio, it's not that easy.

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It's just not I'm like, nobody's
calling to say, hey, come come

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be on our show. Nobody that
it doesn't happen like you guys the first

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Like, I'm like, hey,
we want you to come hang out with

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us one day, and I'm like, I can't lie. It felt amazing.

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I was like, yeah, somebody
wants my personality. You know,

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we need to do one of these
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a bar, preferably and Pray doesn't
drink anymore, but I'll drink his.

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And we just need to spill all
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because I think that'd be a fun
conversation to have. It would like,

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I really I would love to tell
people about the day I got fired,

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like what the events that previously happened, But I'm not there yet.

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Oh it's easy for me, So
maybe maybe this will be the place that

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I spill this story. Um,
they took all of us out to the

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Ranger game the Sunday before sat in
a sweet free food, free drinks.

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They had corporate people coming in shaking
our hands and like telling us how awesome

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we were, and then they fired
us the next day. God, that

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is that is so radio. It's
it's like the bait and switch, like

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we're gonna take you to this nice, sweet party before we kill you off.

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Wow. That is that that is
that is that is a truly special

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one. So, Rebecca, do
you have I need to know if I'm

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weird on this. I don't have
a physical list, but I do have

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a mental list of people that reached
out after we got laid off. And

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I know who called, and I
know who didn't call. Nope, I

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absolutely do, and I know who
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One hundred percent. Absolutely, there's
a checklist, because I feel like

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there's a there should be a two
day rule, like if you haven't called

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or reached out in those first two
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I feel like you're more hard than
that. True. No, I don't

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like to think about it though.
These are people that I had worked with

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for like sixteen years. So absolutely, I've got a list of who reached

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out and who didn't. I had
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like five days after the fact,
and I was like, no, we're

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done, Like we are done.
I thought we were friends, were done,

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So yeah, two days. I
give it a two day situation here.

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You haven't reached out in two days? You got? That goes for

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fans too. Wow, you just
really need the attention. I'm kidding.

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I'm kidding, but I do love
the people who show up six months later

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and I'm like, I just tuned
into Caleb. Where have y'all been?

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Where have I been? Where have
you been? It's been six months?

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So speaking of catching up, I
think I saw a photo on one of

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your social media. Are you working
for Jeff Curley now, the guy that

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he used to do TV news in
DFW? Yeah, I actually am.

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I'm I'm working at his podcast company, Real News pr Real News Communication Network,

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and I'm actually his personal producer right
now. Oh wow, So I

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film and record and edit and post
all of his shows on social media.

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I don't know if you can truly
see and appreciate the look on Trey's face

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because he knows where I'm going.
Because whenever Jeff Curley's name comes up,

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it's like where First of all,
I feel like I need to say,

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I don't know where you're going with
this, but I'm like, Jeff Curley

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is one of the nicest human beings, without a doubt. Oh here.

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He is an absolute sweetheart. He
is an angel at surprising that his feet

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ever stay on the ground because you
think the wings would make him float away.

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He is a wonderful man. He
is unfortunately, the subject of one

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of the most unfortunate I know where
you're going, one of the most unfortunate

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dildo photo bombings of all time.
It's his claim to fame, as he

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likes to say, I mean,
it's one of those things. That's why

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Trey Smiley because anytime Jeff Curley,
Jeff Curley's name would come up on the

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show, we all knew what was
about to happen, and I was gonna

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be Oh, we're gonna watch,
We're gonna watch that video of Jeff Curley

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doing a live stand up on TV. And as they're emptying the house behind

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him, it was a drug house. Police are bringing out boxes of things

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and then one of the boxes is
the world's largest dildo you have ever seen.

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Yes, I can honestly tell you, within the first two weeks of

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working with Jeff Curley, that video
was very high talked about. Um.

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In fact, actually it is kind
of funny because he had me re edit

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it with him doing commentary on it. Really yeah, and I was like,

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Okay, well, this is an
interesting request. I never thought I

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would get this, you know,
working in a corporate type nine to five

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environment, but here we are,
and like I guess they probably were like,

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you're the radio girl, you can
handle it. So I have seen

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that second yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you for clarifying. You appreciate

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that lightly so lightly saved me there. Uh yeah, So I've seen that

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video I don't know, probably a
thousand times. Well I know Trey hasn't

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seen it a long time. So
Trey, I'm gonna show this to you

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because it's Jenna Walsh. Yeah.
A major drug sweep in Minnesota, Hugh.

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Details are being released, but we
do know that they made one bust

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in Maplewood. That's where Jeff Curley
is standing by right now. Jeff,

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what do you have going on for
us? They're still inside search for evidence.

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I'm told six people have been arrested
and charged with intent to possess and

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deliver cocaine. I'm told as much
as forty four pounds of cocaine. As

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they said they're still inside. They
used a bannering ramp to This is always

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amazing to me how it is he
never sees it that the timing, the

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timing of the oh, the timing
of that dong. The person I always

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wanted to talk to was the agent
who did that, because you could tell

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they're waiting for the live shot.
They cracked the door open. They look

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They're like, huh. If you
slow it down, you can see the

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man with the box has a huge
smirk on his side. Yeah, oh

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yeah, we now we we figured
that out. We figured that out many

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many many years ago. One just
by watching it, like you said,

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you could see the smile on that
guy's face as he's carrying it out into

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the open. But we also now
know enough police officers to know that that

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was absolutely intentional. I mean they
weren't. They kind of in a weird

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way. They sort of warned Jeff
prior to this moment. They were like,

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look where it's is an act of
crime scene, Like you can't you're

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not supposed to be here filming or
whatever, and they're like, well,

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it's the news, we're doing it
anyway. And I think that it was

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like all right, well, if
they're going to film anyway, then let's

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see what we can do with their
camera shot. So they just yeah,

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they just they just look around the
house and it's like there it is,

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like what can we confienscate that will
be hilarious on television? And there you

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have it in all its glory.
I just hope that it actually was a

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piece of evidence and it wasn't something
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What I mean, you know,
I didn't say they had to battery they

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had to use a battering ram to
get in the door, right, That

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would sure break a couple of windows. But if they if they did have

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it like on standby, right,
if they had to pull it out of

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the truck or something like that.
I can understand that because they've probably gone

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into a million different places and it's
like, let's take a token from each

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each house hold that we've been in, right, So that could have been

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a token from somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, very much, it could

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have been. Um. I just
hope that they never stuck it up on

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the rearview mirror. Oh lord,
I feel like that would like ruin your

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alignment on your vehicle. I'm glad
you said vehicle. Yeah, I tried

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to use my words wisely. You're
listening to the Treehouse visitors online, that

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Treehouse on air dot com nine seven
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It's the time of year where the
housing market has a tendency to heat up

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along with the temperatures because people want
to move to try to get into news,

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school districts and things. So I'm
curious right now, are you seeing

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buyers getting a chance at getting under
contract on homes? We actually and houses

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come on the market, but buyers
need to be ready. Some houses have

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a lot of bidding wars on them. Other houses don't have as many bidding

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wars. It really depends on the
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to know, am I fully pre
approved upfront? Because sellers in today's market

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they want pre approval letters from great
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lenders that can close loans fast and
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picking up the phone on almost every
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can you tell me about the client? And when I can say, They've

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got excellent income, they got excellent
assets, they got excellent credit. I'm

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ready to go. All it needs
a contract and I'm ready to go.

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It's music to people's ears. In
fact, just past week, we close

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the client in ten days, start
to finish, and just imagine that whole

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process. They were able to find
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said, you can have my house, and you can get under contract as

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long as you can close quickly,
because they had built another house and they

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were ready to move into their new
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where the sellers like, nah, I

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stupid, We're still not sure,
Rebecca black both, is there anything about

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radio? Is there anything about radio
that you miss, Rebecca or have you

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pretty much just said, you know
what, I did a Viking funeral on

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that thing, and I am I
am, I am good. I've left

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radio behind. Oh, and I
think I miss everything about it. I

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really do am miss giving my opinions
on like people's relationships and how to raise

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children and all that kind of stuff. I have found it in a typical

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nine to five setting situation, as
people are not so receptive to your opinions

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like they are on radio. If
that makes any sense, it does.

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I can't just volunteer opinions around work. Everybody's like shut up. I know.

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It's like instead of people talking about
you at the water cooler, now

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you are at the water cooler and
all of a sudden, now you're kind

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of annoying. Yeah exactly. They're
like, oh my god. Like I

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have one of my friends he's like, you always have like a hard opinion

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on everything, And I was like, yeah, because I was in radio,

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you have to. It got pounded
into you over a long career.

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It's like you better have something to
say, and it better be memorable.

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Yeah. So, now if we're
sitting at the water cooler and somebody's like

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mayonnaise, I'm like, yes,
delicious, ball in right, like,

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and nobody cares about that, And
people are looking at you. Why she's

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so emphatic about that. They're just
I mean, and they're like you say

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that, And then I pop up
out of nowhere and and Miraca whip sucks

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right, Oh it's sweet? Why
would you want sweet stuff? When you're

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sand which it's disgusting. See,
you gotta have a hard opinion about everything.

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So I'm glad that you brought that
up, especially when it comes to

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relationships because in a previous in a
previous show, Trey and I were talking

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about this with our with our friend
and comedian rash Arma. I had heard

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about this thing called a yes weekend, and Trey and Raj are vehemently opposed

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to this. I, however,
think it's a brilliant idea. The yes

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weekend is you take with your significant
other. You take turns, whether it's

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every other week or once a month, whatever it is, you set up,

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whatever your parameters are, right,
you take turns deciding everything you're going

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to do for the weekend, where
to eat, where to go, activities,

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all that stuff, and that's left
up to that one person. And

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then the next person that you know
you take turns basically, and they think

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that's terrible because you're gonna end up, you know, on our side,

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we're gonna end up doing a bunch
of things that we hate. It's like,

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well, yeah, but I just
like taking the decision making out of

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it, because that's where my wife
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So I've got I'm gonna get.
Probably all the ladies are gonna hate me

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for this, But I think the
yes weekend is the stupidest thing on the

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planet. First of all, if
you're having to do a yes weekend,

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I'm like, your relationship is already
in dire trouble just saying two. Let's

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be honest, one of these yes
weekends, only one is going to happen,

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and it'll be the females, and
I'll have my time and I'll get

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all the yeses that I want,
and then the dude is never going to

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get a follow up. Fact that's
going to happen. So if he was

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to come to you the next weekend, if your husband comes you the next

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weekend said all right, it's my
turn, you're gonna be like, hell

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no, Yeah, I'd be like, oh, I'm too tired. Oh

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can we push it to another month, another day, another week, whatever.

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I would absolutely be brushing that thing
off. Plus, I'm like,

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don't you want your spouse to say
yes to something because they want to?

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But hang on, Dan's not really
I think he's kind of skimming around the

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truth here. The truth of matter
is Dan's just looking for a weekend,

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where his weekend he can just say
I'm gonna play Call of Duty, do

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whatever you want? All right.
First of all, shut up track,

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00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:03.119
Yeah, I get, I get
the Second of all, it's less take

408
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:06.319
advantage of this. Second of all, it's less about the video game thing.

409
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.720
It's more about I would just like
to be able to say, let's

410
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.920
do this for dinner, and then
there's and then that's it, because usually

411
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:15.359
like when I, when I say
okay, let's go here, and then

412
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.599
it usually ends up being said,
well, I don't really want to come

413
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:21.000
here, it's like, well,
damn it, so you decide. So

414
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.799
but if I, if I say
that I'm open to anything, that actually

415
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.759
makes it worse, because now every
options on the table, and that makes

416
00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.319
it worse. Yeah. So here's
the thing, ladies know what we don't

417
00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:34.119
want. So you need to keep
throwing out ideas. You throw out one

418
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.319
restaurant, we're gonna shoot it down, throw out another one, shoot it

419
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:38.920
down. Eventually you'll get to one
that sounds good to us. Yeah,

420
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.279
but why why can't you just say
on the front end, I don't want

421
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:48.400
pizza Chinese? And because nine times
out of ten I don't realize that I

422
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:56.000
don't want it until you say it. It makes me nauseous, but I

423
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.880
get it. It makes my head
sped, but yeah, I understand.

424
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.359
I hurry. I just need you
to list off a string of restaurants and

425
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.480
I can tell you which ones I
don't want. I wonder if it would

426
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.640
help if if this is where you
could use artificial intelligence to your advantage.

427
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.640
So what you do is you bring
up an AI bought and it's a feale

428
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:22.279
voice, and then we then would
put in there the suggestions of places and

429
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.240
see if you say yes or no
to the female AI bought. That actually

430
00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.279
might work. I think that's a
solid plan. You should definitely try that

431
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.920
on your next Yes weekend. The
other aspect of that is I feel like

432
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:40.640
once the dude gets his yes weekend, he's going to ask for things that

433
00:29:40.680 --> 00:29:45.160
we already know are off the table
anal yeah, thank you you said it,

434
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.680
not me, or weird stuff like
that. Like I just I think

435
00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:53.160
it's a disaster waiting to happen.
And that's why I get That's why I

436
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.680
get it when you say it's like
you know you'll get yours, but then

437
00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:59.799
when it comes time for your husband's
weekend, you're going to be like absolutely

438
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.640
all know, like, oh I
don't feel good, my head hurts.

439
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:07.039
We have to push us to another
day. Sorry, So I do know

440
00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.359
now now I know how you feel
on the yes weekend. So I'm going

441
00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:14.160
to let that go on from my
personal life. But I did see I've

442
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:18.519
noticed that we had this conversation with
our old producer Jerry, who still works

443
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.599
at iHeart. One of the last
things we were able to do before we

444
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:26.000
left iHeart was able to get him
hired back, and then and then like

445
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.079
a week later, we got shown
the door. And so we were talking

446
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:32.039
to him a couple of weeks ago, and we have this road show that

447
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.240
is coming up Friday, July seventh
at Daddy Rabbits Pub in Lewisville from five

448
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.559
to seven, so be there,
and he couldn't make it. Jerry couldn't

449
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.440
go because he still has a radio
job, which means he gets vacation time.

450
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.720
So he's taken a vacation. But
you just came back from vacation too,

451
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.200
Yeah, I did. I think
you You you people in your jobs

452
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:55.440
just show up and start saying,
Oh, I'm going on vacation. Is

453
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.559
that bad? No, it's good. I'm actually happy you get paid for

454
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.400
vacations you're supposed to supposed to except
when I got it, and I got

455
00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.599
when I got cleaned out, I
still had like a week and a half

456
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.960
left that I didn't get to collect
on. I will say that was my

457
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.359
problem as well. I had four
weeks left and I had I hadn't taken

458
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.160
any of them yet, nor did
I get paid for them. I also

459
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.440
had, if I remember correctly,
I had like thirty three sick days,

460
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:25.640
you know, all told, and
I got I got no competition for any

461
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:29.039
of those, right, they don't
have to give you that. Apparently that's

462
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:30.680
not a thing. It's like,
well, yes it was in your contract,

463
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.200
but we don't actually have to give
you that. Yeah, it would

464
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.759
have been nice, but instead I
got a three month vacation of sitting around

465
00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.880
the house trying to figure out what
I was going to do with my life.

466
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.759
That sounds about right. Yeah,
I did notice. I did notice

467
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:51.079
on Twitter real quick. What are
your your social channels? Oh, you

468
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.640
can find me pretty much everywhere.
At haunt it's Haunted Rebecca and it's I

469
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:59.119
saw my name weird r eb e
kah so Haunted Rebecca. My podcast was

470
00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:02.480
Haunted af So tieing that in now, absolutely you were. I saw on

471
00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.559
Twitter that you said something along the
lines of, how is people at the

472
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:10.240
Airport not a thing? Yeah?
Okay, do you guys remember the website

473
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:15.160
people of Walmart? Definitely people of
Walmart dot com. It was like mind

474
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.480
blowing when it first hit the internet. We were all obsessed with it,

475
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:22.480
still are. Actually, I was
like, how is people of airport dot

476
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.960
com not a thing? Because People
at the Airport is an amazing watch.

477
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:32.839
Like I could sit at an airport
probably all day and just pick apart people

478
00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:38.640
like nobody's business. It really is
fascinating, especially when depending on what time

479
00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:44.960
you're at the airport. So most
recently the times that I've flown, it's

480
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.079
been at least one flight has been
really early in the morning. So there's

481
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:51.559
a group of people that are all
getting there at the same time for the

482
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.279
early ass flight, and we're all
still half asleep. We were excited about

483
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:59.799
where we're going, we just don't
feel like getting there. But then there's

484
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.680
all al least like two or three
people that look like they have been living

485
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.960
at the airport for days, and
they're the ones that are asleep on a

486
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.359
sleep on top of like a USB
charging chair table thing, and just they

487
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.440
just look miserable. You just can't. They probably are waiting on their Spirit

488
00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:20.880
Airline flight to take off and it's
been twelve days past due. I thought

489
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.519
you were going to say they were
just waiting for their Spirit to pass that

490
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:28.759
too, but like you know,
when we got to the airport. So

491
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:31.880
it's a very different situation when you
are headed out on a trip, because

492
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.680
everybody's happy, everybody's excited, everybody's
got like on level ten. And on

493
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:39.759
the other end of things, when
you're coming home on a trip, everybody

494
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:45.759
is sad and depressed and not looking
their best. Right. So we roll

495
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:47.079
up to the airport and we're in
line and we're waiting, and there's i

496
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:53.119
mean a full blown beach version of
Kenny Chesney cowboy hat, puka shell,

497
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.759
necklace, cut off arm sleeves,
cut off shorts or shorts. And I'm

498
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:00.920
like, man, this dude is
about to live his best life on the

499
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.759
beach with his toes in the sand. Yeah, he's basically gonna take every

500
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:09.400
single one of those songs, have
them on repeat while he's at the beach

501
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.559
and he's just doing a twenty four
seven exactly and then then you go to

502
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:20.519
the extreme opposite and people coming home
from vacation and they they're clearly hungover.

503
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:25.800
They haven't brushed their hair in what
looks like days, no makeup or smeared

504
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.840
makeup, their clothes are all disheveled
and wrinkled, and they're just like,

505
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:32.840
I just I've got to get home. It's it's it's one extreme to the

506
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:36.880
next. I'm telling you, the
airport is the best people watching you will

507
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.280
ever see in life. And there's
there's no better airport if you really want

508
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:45.400
to get down to it where you
can see those extremes from a Friday to

509
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:50.519
a Sunday than the Vegas Airport.
That is gosh, yes, Like everyone

510
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.920
comes and rolling in Friday hot,
like done up, ready to just kill

511
00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.000
it. And then by Sunday,
you know if they can't even afford,

512
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:04.239
you know, a drink because they've
lost everything, and they're just haggard and

513
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:08.519
just barely getting on a flight hoping
to survive. Somehow. You get you

514
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:13.960
get roped into sitting next to the
dude who's lost everything. He's got the

515
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:19.719
alcohol sweats and like you can literally
smell alcohol just oozing out of his pores

516
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.639
before he gets onto this flight,
I'm like, oh, and telling you

517
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.760
is there's no greater tragedy. It's
amazing. I really that actually makes me

518
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:31.239
realize that may be why I really
want to go to Vegas. Truth be

519
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.320
told, I've never been to Vegas. Wow. I just want to go

520
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:38.880
to the airport on Sunday and just
watch people come home from Vegas. Yes,

521
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:43.079
like I kind of want. They
would just sell tickets at the TSA

522
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.800
check and be like, look,
I'm not going anywhere. I just want

523
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.400
to get it. I just want
to like see people come off this plane

524
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:51.320
and just set up like a lawn
chair and just enjoy the show. I

525
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:53.360
would pay for that. I would
pay hell of money for that. Seriously,

526
00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:58.840
and hold up the poster did you
win? How did it go?

527
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.880
Well? I'm just gonna do post
interviews off the plane, like as they're

528
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:05.840
getting off, like what happened?
Buddy? You clearly lost it all?

529
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.679
Well, the thing about it and
it's you could the last Southwest flight from

530
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.280
Vegas to love Field is the one. And even if if for the few

531
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.480
people that actually did do well,
you're in such a sea of shame and

532
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:25.239
guilt and regret. Can't you can't
brag about it. Either there might be

533
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:29.719
a mutiny and they just kill you
out of frustration. But you know,

534
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.119
you're just like, oh my gosh, this is so sad. It is

535
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.800
sad. It's really sad. And
when there's a plane full of sadness,

536
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.480
I want to be there to witness. I do love the thought of,

537
00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:44.480
like if you actually did really well
in Vegas and you want some money,

538
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.079
you had a great time, you
saw every show you wanted to see,

539
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:51.119
maybe they comped your bottle service at
the pool or something, and you get

540
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.360
on the plane when you have a
huge smile and then you see everyone that

541
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:58.199
looks like they're on their way,
you know, to death, and then

542
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:01.280
you immediately just go, I'm not
happier, Like, don't wear it,

543
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:05.360
just try to fit in, like
you just dishovel yourself a little bit,

544
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.960
like I didn't win anything while I
was there. Yeah, because otherwise it's

545
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.440
going to be like a Lord of
the Flies turned Vegas situation. They're gonna

546
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:15.719
tear you apart, yep, because
because there's always the three or four people

547
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:21.079
that you can tell, you know, they contemplated selling a kidney to try

548
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:29.639
to they're looking down there, counting
ribs and like do I need I might

549
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:31.960
be able to do with that?
Put these three on black, let it

550
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:50.800
run. You're in the visit us
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551
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.960
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552
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three cook df W is their phone
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553
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the website cookfw dot com. Obviously, Daniel, lots of storms in North

554
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Texas recently, and that means lots
of calls to the insurance company, and

555
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that means lots of homeowners dreading having
to pay that thousands of dollars deductible.

556
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Are you seeing people that call you? Are you seeing them try to cut

557
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corners and try to save money because
they know they're gonna have to pay that

558
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huge deductible. Yeah, Dan,
them going out finding multiple estimates from roofing

559
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companies and they're trying to find the
cheapest way of putting a roof on their

560
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home. And unfortunately, that's a
gamble that you do not want to have

561
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to take because a lot of times
when you buy something cheap, it's there.

562
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It's cheap for a reason. And
then you know, we've seen many

563
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cases where a roof starts to fall
in a year or two and that people

564
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say, yeah, I tried to
call the guy that put it on last

565
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and his numbers disconnected. Are he
answered and he's in Georgia? Are you

566
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.920
know? I can't find anybody to
help me because I thought I had a

567
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warranty on it, but I don't
anymore. So that's exactly what happens when

568
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people start cutting corners. If you
could get a better roof for two thousand

569
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dollars more and no leaks, are
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570
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573
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the website COOKDFW dot com Business online
at Treehouse OnAir dot com. Let's welcome

574
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.599
into the treehouse. Jaqueline from Brooks
Plumbing their phone number two one, four,

575
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:30.960
three six eight thirty eight thirty eight
the website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com.

576
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:35.119
I know in the plumbing industry you
deal with lots of emergency type situations.

577
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.000
Is there something tragic that happened at
Brooks Plumbing this week? I had

578
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:43.119
a nice lady whose house we went
out to on behalf of her insurance company

579
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:47.039
to do an investigation. She had
had a leak that had negatively affected her

580
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:52.880
kitchen cabinets and her hardwood floors,
and we ultimately found that a handyman had

581
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.679
been there before us and he had
tried to repair a water leak on her

582
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.719
copper water lines with PBC fitting in. The two just did not quite marry

583
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:06.360
together, and ultimately the leak got
smaller, but just kept persisting, and

584
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.280
she waited a really long time to
file her claim, and her claim was

585
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:14.159
ultimately denied because it wasn't considered quote
unquote sudden because she had it fixed,

586
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.039
but the issue kept ongoing. She
had been price shopping, and I understand

587
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.920
sometimes less is better, but sometimes
less is just cheap work. And so

588
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.760
you got to find that healthy balance
between good work at a good price,

589
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.239
and typically with a license contractor is
the best way to go. And you

590
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add Brooks Plumbing, all your guys
are licensed. It's a good service at

591
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a good price, and that's why
you're in the treehouse, and that's why

592
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we recommend you to everybody else in
the treehouse. So you have a plumbing

593
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want? Do you have a plumbing
need called Jacqueline and Brooks Plumbing two one

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four three six eight thirty eight thirty
eight. Two one four three six eight

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thirty eight thirty eight, or of
course that website Brooks Plumbing Texas dot com.

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You're listening to the treehouse visitors online
that treehouse dot com. This segment

597
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.440
of the Treehouse is brought to you
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Texas dot Com. Their phone number
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599
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thirty eight. Two one four three
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and all of your plumbing needs called
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Brooks Plumbing, Cooked f W and
of course Rodney Anderson and our our new

602
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:32.679
friend Rebecca formerly of k Love,
currently of Haunted AF the podcast yep,

603
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:37.840
so you guys at on the podcast
Haunted A. If you guys are on

604
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:39.280
a break right now, when is
the show coming back? Because I'm I'm

605
00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:44.880
Jones And for some new Haunted AF
so well, we're currently doing Patreon right

606
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.840
now. It's five bucks a month
or whatever it is. Um, that's

607
00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:50.719
kind of where we're holding at this
point. We're waiting to try to get

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some sponsorships, but it looks like
October is when we're going to be back

609
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.039
for a full season. Sounds like
a good timing. Yeah, of course,

610
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.960
Well October is the spooky season,
of course, and it's the best

611
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:05.280
season for hauntidy F for sure,
So that was kind of the goal.

612
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:07.559
I guess, you know how it
is. It's like you have to take

613
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.639
some time away to sort of figure
out how to revamp and make it new

614
00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:13.679
and make it better. And that's
sort of what we're doing right now.

615
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.800
We're just sort of taking a break, trying to figure out where we go

616
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:21.599
from here. What is the premise
behind hanaday F. I mean, is

617
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.440
it haunted houses, Haunted stories,
haunted stories? So we we say,

618
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:29.880
real ghost stories told by real people. And it's when we first started it,

619
00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:32.119
of course, the only people that
were actually guests on our show were

620
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.800
people we knew and trusted right that
had real ghost stories and real encounters with

621
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.599
paranormal activity and stuff like that.
And then from there we opened it up

622
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:45.800
to like the audience for them to
email us stories or send us audio,

623
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:49.880
or if it's a really good story
and we think it deserves an interview,

624
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.719
will call and chat and have them
tell the story to us personally. And

625
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.559
then from there it just kind of
grew and grew and grew, and it's

626
00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.199
branched out into this sort of thing
of its own. But we do it's

627
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.119
not just ghost stories. By the
way, we do Bigfoot stories. We

628
00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:07.880
do alien stories. You have stories
about our old program director, Don Davis.

629
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:13.599
I cannot say that we have gotten
a Don Davis story yet. Well,

630
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:15.000
if you got Bigfoot stories, that
means you've got Don Davis stories.

631
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:20.679
I like that. Okay, Well
you'll have to share. If a if

632
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:22.880
a program director grunts in the woods, does it? Does it make a

633
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:28.800
sound if no one's around to hear
it, that's fantastic. Yeah. He

634
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:31.840
I don't know if he really enjoyed
all that much being referred to as Bigfoot

635
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.960
on the show. But it's you
know, it's like, well, it's

636
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:37.119
kind of comes with looking like Harry
from Harry and the Henderson. I was

637
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:42.199
going to say, was he like
an actual Harry Dude? I don't know

638
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:45.320
how Harry he was. We made
a lot of assumptions about the body hair,

639
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.320
but he is. He was a
massive man. He was like twelve

640
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:53.199
feet tall. Yeah, okay,
well and the only person that could compete

641
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:59.800
with him in stomping up and down
the hallways was Trey and that was because

642
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:02.400
war cowboy boots in those days.
Nice. Nice. So he was just

643
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.920
a big burly dude that was stomping
all over the place like a sad sack

644
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:12.679
and begging us, begging us to
read liners. Sorry, don that's that's

645
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.760
not what we do on this year, or begging us so like, please

646
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.400
tell us to promote something. He's
not going to do it, man,

647
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.599
He's just not. No, it's
not gonna happen. So the Haunt Today

648
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.440
f podcast you get you said earlier, you guys have been doing that for

649
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:28.880
like four years, right, yeah, we've done it for four years.

650
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:31.599
We've again like we got to uh, we've done some really cool stuff with

651
00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:36.039
it. We were actually on you
know Chris Jericho, the wrestler. Yeah,

652
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:38.039
yeah, so he had us on
his show. We did an entire

653
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.679
episode with him and it was so
much fun and he's like the nicest guy.

654
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.800
Um, And then we got to
be on the Kelly Clarkson Show.

655
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:50.480
So we've had like some we've had
some really big successful moments. Um.

656
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:52.000
Like I said, we're just looking
for that next jump, Like where do

657
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.840
we take it from here? And
when you find that next big jump,

658
00:44:54.880 --> 00:45:00.039
would you mind dragging us along too, because we're still babies at this of

659
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.000
course, we're still so young at
this. We have no problem begging at

660
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.960
least I don't. I don't know. I don't want to speak portray we

661
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.880
don't have problem begging either, But
I will tell you that is one thing

662
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:13.159
I really do love about the podcast
community is everybody is so willing to help

663
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:16.320
each other out. It's been really
great, Like we have met so many

664
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:20.199
people along the way that are like, oh, we love your podcast,

665
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.079
like maybe we can cross over stuff
like that, um or the people that

666
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:28.320
they're everybody's willing to give advice on
how to make things better, and it's

667
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:31.440
been just a really awesome experience.
Yeah, we're starting to, uh,

668
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:35.639
we're on our end. We're starting
to receive a little bit of that as

669
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:39.079
well. And and you know,
being able to connect with you and Julie

670
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:43.280
from hunt to day is a big
deal for us as well. One because

671
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:45.639
I don't want you to think I'm
just blowing smoke up your ass or anything.

672
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:47.480
Because this part, the next part
I'm going to say, is true.

673
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.280
I've respected what you and Julie have
done, not just on the podcasting

674
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:53.239
side, but what you guys,
you know we're able to do on the

675
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:58.920
radio side of things. I've always
been sort of a student of the industry,

676
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:00.559
whichever industry I'm in, and there's
only two at this point, it's

677
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.280
radio and podcasting, and you guys, you guys do it really well.

678
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:08.119
So good on you. Thank you. I appreciate that. That means,

679
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:12.159
that really does mean the world to
us because it's just the two of us.

680
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:16.360
We literally don't have any other help, and I will and I'm like

681
00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:21.880
a fourth of the two of us
because Julie literally she just has taken it

682
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.360
all and run with it, doing
like the social media website stuff like she's

683
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.360
she's phenomenal at what she does.
And that's that's pretty much the boat that

684
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.639
Trey and Trey and I are in
now, and so it's great being able

685
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:37.760
to have that extra resource and to
help one another they're out. So with

686
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:39.840
all that being said, that's too
much nice and normal stuff. Now let's

687
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.679
jump into something really stupid, because
that's where we That's where we really,

688
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:47.920
you know, feel at home.
It's our sweet spot. It is stupid

689
00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:51.920
is our sweet spot. Thank you, Trey. So to that end,

690
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.639
I want to throw something at you, both Trey and Rebecca. Okay,

691
00:46:54.800 --> 00:47:00.559
I've seen this on social media,
probably for I don't know three four months.

692
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:02.800
I'm calling it the red pill blue
Pill challenge. It's just an internet

693
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.280
meme and it just says red pill. It's got two hands. It got

694
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:08.840
a red pill in one hand and
a blue pill in the other one,

695
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:14.199
and underneath red pill, it says, restart your life at six years of

696
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:19.360
age with all the knowledge you have
now, or take the blue pill.

697
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.599
You get ten million dollars in cash. Which would you do? That's an

698
00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:27.480
easy answer for me. I'm like, I want the easy answer, the

699
00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:29.840
ten million in cash. Give it
to me now. I can make that

700
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.280
last. Yes, I am absolutely
with you. And my reasoning for it,

701
00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.800
I think is I really want to
try to dig deeper and think that

702
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:42.320
there's more than this. But really
I just kind of stopped because the thought

703
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:46.039
of starting over at six years old
with my brain, I don't want to

704
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:51.119
have to do all that goddamn homework. No same I won't remember half the

705
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:52.559
stuffs that I know now. I
can't remember it from a day to day

706
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:54.679
basis. Why on earth do I
think I can go back at six and

707
00:47:54.800 --> 00:48:00.920
remember? Definitely not, And I'd
much rather. I'd much rather take that

708
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.320
easy way to give me the ten
million gas, because you're right, I

709
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:05.880
can make ten million last I can
turn it into something. I mean,

710
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:07.360
in all honesty, I can let
that sit in the bank and make like

711
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:12.920
it'll make money on its own right. There's no thought there in that for

712
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.519
me, like, which is what
I need? That's what I need?

713
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:17.679
No thought? What about you trend
home? I would go with the red

714
00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:22.280
pill at a boy, of course. So you're just trying to prove it

715
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:24.599
you're smarter than all of us.
Well, no, it doesn't take much

716
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:34.039
time to prove that. It's I
don't think you don't get to a point

717
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.039
of being a recovering alcoholic without a
lot of regret. And so yeah,

718
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:40.800
there, I if I could go
back and just fix a lot of things

719
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:45.800
and tell eighteen year old me,
you know, don't uh so it's not

720
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:51.119
so much I make you just want
to live out the entire plot of quantum

721
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:57.280
Leap. Well that and I honestly, especially knowing what I know now,

722
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.199
I could make ten million dollars,
I have no doubt about it. But

723
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:05.360
I could make a lot better decisions
along the way. Okay, better decisions

724
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.800
are not but like, would you
would really want to go back and undo

725
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:13.719
all the weird, crazy things that
you did because they've made you the person

726
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.920
that you are today. I'm still
stupid, so I know I'm gonna make

727
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:22.719
a lot of mistakes, just you
know, mainly uh when uh, probably

728
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.360
in my mid twenties, when I
started drinking every night. Then I'd be

729
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.159
like, hey, stop it,
and you know, yeah, but not

730
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:34.519
for you to get to the to
the mid twenties part where you're telling yourself

731
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.079
to stop it, you then have
to do everything that you did from age

732
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:43.800
six two twenty five, which includes
high school, middle school. You're gonna

733
00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:47.960
have to hit puberty for a second
time. Yeah, that's rough. You

734
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:52.039
have to do over again. And
for me, I'm gonna have to do

735
00:49:52.199 --> 00:50:00.599
missus missus Chrysler's ap English class again
and I don't want that. You know,

736
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:07.559
school is easy. I've that smart. You see the puberty thing,

737
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.480
that's awful. Nobody wants to read
you that twice yeah, the only time,

738
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:14.719
really, the only middle school was
always just the Miserable Years. I

739
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:19.760
mean everyone's just so awkward and braces
and everything else. But yeah, I

740
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:22.599
like to had the TV show The
Wonder Years, when it absolutely should have

741
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.119
been called The Miserable Years. Absolutely
because it's the worst time of your life.

742
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:29.280
Junior haih sucks for literally everyone,
and you would be willing to just

743
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:34.079
go back and do all of that
over again. Yes, wow, Oh,

744
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.320
I forgot to mention to you.
You're a better human than I.

745
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:38.039
No, it's not so much that, Rebecca. He just really is a

746
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:43.559
glutton for punishment. You must be
in order to be interested in that.

747
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:45.679
I was like, man, I
got called fat so much from like fourth

748
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.119
grade to sixth grade. I would
never want to endure that again. Same

749
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:53.719
kids are mean. If you had
the knowledge you don't now, you could

750
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:59.760
just absolutely you could twist that mean
kids and you could make them cry.

751
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:02.199
No, I was already really good
at that. Anyway, when you're a

752
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.840
chubby kid, you have to learn
how to self defense, and I would

753
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.800
cut people with my words. So
that's probably why I made it in radio,

754
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:12.719
because I didn't have a problem with
telling people what I really thought.

755
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.559
You know. I was very good
at finding that one thing that somebody was

756
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:21.159
insecure about and then like twisting the
knife. All right, I need an

757
00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:23.440
example. Okay, so this actually
I have one that's not even it's not

758
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:27.400
even fat related, but like I
was not a cool kid. I wasn't

759
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:30.079
and I don't care I was.
I was like, I'm not getting nobody's

760
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:31.039
telling me what to do. I'm
doing my own thing. I'm going to

761
00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:34.800
be my own person. And that's
how I was. And I remember this

762
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.480
in like maybe six or seventh grade, and the cool kid was like,

763
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:44.320
ha ha, watch this. I'm
gonna ask Rebecca Black out to the dance

764
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:46.760
or whatever it was our junior high
middle school dance. And I'm like,

765
00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:50.719
I'm knowing full well, like you're
not going to pull one over on me,

766
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:53.559
Like I know you're doing this because
it'll be hilarious when she says yes,

767
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:59.880
and then you'll be like yessum.
And I remember him asking me,

768
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.920
and I was like, why would
I want to go with you? And

769
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:06.880
so I like insult him first,
turned him down, and he was like

770
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.800
damn. He walked away like that
did not play out how I had it

771
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.320
playing out. He was such a
little douche too, and I was like,

772
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:17.199
I knew. I knew That's what
he wanted, was for me to

773
00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:21.360
just be like, oh god,
I cannot believe the hottest guy school asked

774
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:22.440
me out. And I was like, I don't play that way, No

775
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.280
thanks. How did he end up? That's a great question. I have

776
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.639
no idea, because my theory is
how much I don't care. I have

777
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:32.679
no idea where any of those people
are now today, and I don't care.

778
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.719
My assumption is is that he's probably
not doing great, only because my

779
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.639
theory is if you peaked in high
school, you can carry that into college

780
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.960
maybe, but it doesn't typically last. But if you peeked in middle school,

781
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:51.800
your life is probably a hot dumpster
fire as by the time you're in

782
00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:54.280
your twenties. I can't imagine it
any other way. Honestly, I assume

783
00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:59.239
he. I mean, he's probably
married to some sad girl that puts up

784
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:01.559
with that kind of guard bitch.
And you know, honestly, I really

785
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:07.480
haven't thought about that guy until we
just mentioned that there is a guy.

786
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:09.320
I He was a year ahead of
me. I went to school with and

787
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:14.960
in seventh and eighth grade he was
the king of the hill. He was

788
00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:17.320
like at that point, I mean
I think he was. He was like

789
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:22.920
five eight five six five eight,
And the problem is he literally peaked.

790
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:29.199
He never grew anymore anything else.
But so he is fifty now and he's

791
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:35.800
still anytime you see him will want
to talk about you know, high school.

792
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:38.480
You know, who do we keep
up with? Who do we talk

793
00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:40.960
to? You know, how's the
high school football team doing? And he

794
00:53:42.039 --> 00:53:46.039
will somehow mention you know something he
did. It's like that's just a horrible

795
00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:49.559
exist. So he's like he's like, he's like Al Bundy from Married with

796
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:52.559
Children, Right, he wants to
talk about his his his his four touchdown

797
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:59.840
game. Right, Isn't that sad? That makes me sad? It does,

798
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.719
like you never moved on. It
makes me sad on one hand,

799
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.440
But if I was, if I
was ever on the receiving end of someone

800
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:09.159
like that, I can't help it. I have it. I have a

801
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:14.320
dark revenge streak in me, and
I love it when people get there get

802
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:19.039
their comeuppance. So but isn't I
mean, really the best revenge though,

803
00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.719
is that like I went on and
had a I've had a great life,

804
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:25.920
Like I've had a very successful career. You know, I'm not like,

805
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:31.000
I'm out here living my best life
literally not giving two thoughts about that guy.

806
00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:34.360
And I do wonder if sometimes maybe
he thinks about, man, that

807
00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.199
was really horrible of me to do
that, and I'd be like, that's

808
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.880
all I need. I'm doing well. Yeah, No, you're right,

809
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:44.840
because that is something that's an adult
I've I've come to embrace, which is

810
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:49.599
the whole The best revenge is living
a great life. Yeah. Absolutely,

811
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:52.480
I'm like, why should I let
someone else's like pain and suffering and misery

812
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:55.800
bring me down? Right, I'm
not going to seek out to see what

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happened to you. But if I
happen to be watching Good Day and I

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see that you went headlong into a
dart train, I'm not gonna I'm not

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gonna whatever. At least they don't
have an answer as to how he ended

816
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up. Like I said, I'm
not even searching for an answer. I'm

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just like, whatever, wherever you're
at, good for you, buddy.

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It sucks to be flat. Rebecca
Black, thank you so much for hanging

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out with us in the treehouse today. Absolutely, thank you for inviting me.

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I've had fun. If if if
if if you would ever consider it.

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The invitation is open. If you'd
ever like to come back, Oh

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yeah, absolutely anytime. Just holler
if I'm available, I will come back.

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Sure, and uh do us a
favor and tell Jeff Curley we said,

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hey, I totally will. I
will absolutely all right, Rebecca Black,

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00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:50.519
thank you so much. Be sure
to follow any and all things Treehouse

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at Treehouse on Air, Treehouse OnAir
dot com. For me, it's at

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the Daniel Malley. For Trey,
it's at Trey trend Holme one. For

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Rebecca Black. What's your social Haunted, Rebecca, Haunted, Rebecca. We'll

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see you next time in the Treehouse. See you